Weekend Happenings...

This past Thursday and Friday, I posted a schedule for Ben to follow, wished him luck and ditched out on life. I attended Women's conference at BYU and let me tell you, it was amazing! I went with my good friend Sonia and it was just SO great! I needed the spiritual reminders to be a better wife, Mommy, friend, sister, and to do better in my calling. After the weekend I've had, my feet were pretty sad though...a couple times the contractions (I think braxton hicks, but whatever) started up. I had to sit and rest for a little bit. It was totally worth it!



A big shout out to my honey who came through with flying colors! He is appreciative of what I do during the day though, which isn't bad :)

2 hours after I arrived home from women's conference, we had 13 giggly girls over to our house for a Pajama Birthday party!! Princess was SO excited! We started out with a couple games while Ben made homemade pizzas. Then we ate some grub, opened presents, decorated draw string bags with glitter paint and foam stickers and had cake and ice cream! It was really fun and Princess felt very special...


Princess and her friend R

Opening presents

The next day (Saturday) Princess was baptized. It was truly amazing to see my little girl so grown up and ready to take that step in her life. It was such a crazy day, my mom took tons of pictures, so I'll post some once I get some from her.

After the baptism, we had a brunch and had mine and his family over for Crepes and muffins. It was rainy outside so it made it a bit crowded, but there was tons of food to go around!


Just my crazy brothers Jake and James


Sweet aunt Emily


Aunt Janette and Grandpa Al


Grandma Suzie and aunt Jenny

After the brunch, we went to see my sister Becca get her endowments out at the temple. It was so great to see her partake of those blessings. It's only less than a month until she is married!!


Love ya sis!


David, Becca, and me

Sunday, we had a bridal shower for Becca and it was fun to see all my cousins, aunts, and uncles. David's family came too and I think some of them were a little overwhelmed with the sheer numbers and craziness that is my extended family.

Whew! I'm tired typing out everything that we did!

Today, I crash :)

A walk down memory lane...

Becca and I were going through MILLIONS of pictures that my Mom has organized into photo albums, and I came across these pictures.

Setting the scene, Ben and I started dating in the first part of September 1999. By Halloween, we were REALLY serious, as you can tell! We were bored, it was a couple days before Halloween and we raided the costume box. These were my little brother's costumes from when they were three! Ben had to really squeeze to get into it! Ben's glasses were my Dad's from college...ENJOY!







After taking funny pictures at my house, we went over to Ben's house. I'm thinking his parents must have thought..."Who is this crazy girl, and what has she done to our respectable, quiet son!"

We had so much fun together. We were engaged less than a month later! Our kids got a huge kick out these silly pictures!

Catch up!

The funnest news ever! My cutie pie sister Becca got engaged a couple weeks ago. He is awesome and actually the brother of my brother's wife...confused? My brother Jake married a girl named Emily. Becca started dating David, Emily's brother, and now they are engaged. Still need more? We've known Emily and David's family forever. Our parents went to dental school together! Crazy huh? They are the cutest couple and he is really sneaky and really surprised her! We were all in on the secret...you'll need to ask her for the full story!



Ikey has figured out how to get out of his crib!! So he likes to sneak into bed with G-man. G-man is so loving and kind, he doesn't mind having someone to snuggle with. I snuck in last night and took this picture. Cute huh?



Speaking of Ikey he is full of it. Anyone who's around him knows that his little mind and body are going all the time....this is a cute picture that we took about a month ago. He was eating chocolate cake and INSISTED that he wear these glasses. He wears them all the time. Silly boy! I love his guts!



Last weekend, I hosted a few, yes only a few, of my cute cousins at my house while the boys were at the Priesthood session of Conference. Aren't we all so hot? We had delicious food and the kidlets played and watched Nemo while we chatted it up! It was so much fun!! I'm grateful I have such a great family.



Last but not least, we seriously have a really retarded cat. He is so sweet but he isn't very bright. I don't know how, but he got himself stuck on the roof. Duh. Get down how you got up stupid cat. I had to take out a screen on the top level and he climbed in that way....whatever!

Drum roll please!!.........

We had our 20 week ultrasound today. Princess came with Ben and I into the ultrasound in hopes that she would be told she was having a baby sister......the ultrasound tech said, Oh, look at that...

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BOY!!!!!

We are happy and excited! Princess will be the only princess in this house for now! He is healthy and measuring exactly on for his age.

We couldn't be happier!

I'm not going crazy!

Today I lost my keys. Not an uncommon occurrence. I am a space cadet and often *carry and drop* things that are in my hands.

Lately Ikey has taken an interest in driving me crazy and in so doing loves to take things that he shouldn't and then laugh at me.

So this morning I had BIG plans. I was getting Princess off to school and trying to get everyone ready so I could meet up with some friends at the old Bean Museum on BYU campus. It was going to be great! Dead animals and the Creamery. What could be better than that? 

Stroller packed? check. Diaper bag stocked? check. Shoes on? check. With my keys in hand.....keys? Where are the keys? Crap. I knew it wasn't me this time! I had already hit my quota this week for loosing them. They were on the hook.....oh crap! The stool is under the hook. IKKKKEEEEYYYYY! Where's mommy's keys? He starts to laugh. Not funny.

A half an hour later, I am still looking everywhere. I had to call my friends and bail out. Sigh. I was so looking forward to getting out!

So after a whole day of finagling the schedule and a good brisk walk to get the carpool from school (they all LOVED that!) I finally made it home.

Here's where it gets weird. Ben is a genius. He really is, but his mind is a little crazy. After looking in the usual hiding spots, he pulls out the screw driver. Honey? What are you unscrewing?

HONEY, I FOUND YOUR KEYS!!

You're all dying to know where, right? Oh, the sub woofer. You know, the speaker that men worship? Yes folks. Underneath our TV in a closet door is said sub woofer and Ikey found little tiny holes and has been stashing away toys (and my keys) for a rainy day.

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Now the big question. WHY would Ben think to look in there. You see, a long, long time ago when our oldest nephew, James was a toddler he lost Ben's keys when Ben was in High school. The keys were lost for a very long time. James just turned 15 this last week.  Ikey was just following his cousin's example. Thanks James!

This and That

Some people have asked since I've been talking a lot about my pregnant belly for a picture....here I am in all my glory at a mere 18 weeks. ENJOY!

In other good news, I have been baking bread a little bit this year. The bad news, I can't make them beautiful. They taste good so I guess that's all that matters. This loaf I made this morning is a little lopsided.

The lopsided-ness is only made worse by G-man taking a huge bite out of the hot bread..gotta love it! Hey, it's what I would want to do!

Can I just say...

It's bad when I went to church yesterday and 4 people say "Wow, when are you due?" Uggh! Am I really that big?? I do feel bigger this time around than I did with Ikey, but Geez! If I have to hear that every week from now until August, I'm going to scream!! :)

(Pregnant hormonal vent over)