May

 

Seems like May we didn’t have a lot going on. We just did Family stuff I guess.

Love this blanket I made. It is so long it can wrap around him 3 times. He won’t be able to break the burrito for a LONG time.

I made some things for the craft blog. (still haven’t posted anything there yet either!) Andrew helped me take pictures. I think he might be mocking me.

Made pirate band for the boys. I love the pirate face from Gavin!

Love sleeping babies!

Grandpa horsey. They have so much fun with grandpa. Sadly, This was probably the last time they get to do this. Grandpas back is hurting so much now. He has to take breaks all the time.

April

 

April has been a busy month. We had Gavin’s birthday, and the baby blessing for Jordan, and lots of family outings.

Park with the cousins

Look, I can craft and put a baby to sleep at the same time.

Andrew and all of us went to his Mission reunion. This is the first one he has gone to since we have been married. We stopped by Temple square before heading there. We didn’t take any pics at the reunion but it had good food and everyone just LOVED our baby. Andrew got to play Dominions with 3 of the guys there. Later that week Andrew taught me “real” Dominions.

Gavin’s birthday was so fun. We were going to give him a b-day party last year but Andrew’s sister was married 2 days before his birthday. So we decided it would be to hard to do that for him so we said this year we would. So this year we had Jordan’s baby blessing 2 days after his birthday. I decided that we would just do it and have an extremely busy week. Honestly, I think it was better to do it that way. I only had to do 1 huge clean up for both events. We had hotdogs, made sport necklaces, opened gifts, had cake and threw balls into the buckets for points. It was entertaining to say the least. I was so surprised how calm all those 3-4 year olds were during the necklace making. It was the quietest during that time! I think there were about 10 there? and they didn’t make a mess of the beads. They kept them in their different color compartments. The perfectionist in me thanks you!

 

  

Why in PJ’s you wonder? In all the commotion of the party we forgot to give Gavin his B-day present from us! I can’t believe me. so at about 9 at night Gavin got his hotwheels track and his very own beyblades (he is obsessed with them)

 

As some of you may remember our basement flooded in October. Yes, I’m bring up October. My craft room has been ripped up and disbursed through out my house for over 6 month (at this point). We got the new drywall on and mudded it mostly and then it just sat there forever! Well we got the carpet down and put some tables in there and a bunch of toys. It made an awesome place for the kids that came to the baby blessing to have a place to play. If Andrew was on top of it and had my room all fixed up I wouldn’t have had that space available. Unforeseen blessings I guess. ;) Here are some picture of our little stud on his day and others.

Parties are so tough on naptime.

Try and get the cane! The boys playing with their Great Grandma Lee.

Jordan starting to smile. I guess he won’t be glaring at everyone forever after all! What a cutie.

Yeah that baby in the mirror is cute.

  

Fun Story about the picture below. Mitchell, Andrew’s little brother, was talking to us about something. I have no idea now, maybe school? As he was talking Jordan just kept giving HUGE smiles at Mitchell. It was so distracting. I tried to catch the moment. This smile was small compared to the others. He is a fan Mitchell’s voice. At least someone is ;) kidding. :)

30 before 30 update and improved list

 

I am 29 years old now! Happy Birthday to me. That means I only have 1 more year to finish up everything. I looked over my list and decided that everything on it I didn’t really want or cared to get done. Here is the old list:

1:  Learn to play 3 songs on the piano.
2: Read all Jensen outlet books
3: Get back to pre-baby weight, then -10 pounds
4: Go to Washington D.C.
5: Paint front room and bedroom
6: Stop late night sweets. Nothing after 9
7: Organize pictures
8: Get Andrew back to the D.R.
9: Re learn French and better than before
10: Make decorations for all Holidays
11: Learn to dance with Husband
12: Do my Continuing Education points for AAMA
13: Go water skiing
14: Catch a fish
15: Finish Prereq courses for Nursing
16: Make a full outfit for myself, by myself.
17: Finish a crossword puzzle
18: Go rock climbing
19: Participate in a musical/play
20: Jump into a lake by way of rope
21: Know my City of Smithfield
22: Go to stand up comedy night
23: Finish Wedding scrapbook
24: Visit a haunted house
25: Learn to drive stick
26: Experience a meteor shower
27: Figure out how to put on make up that looks good
28: Build a sand structure or snow structure  (and it actually looks like what it should)
29: Finish my 18,000 piece puzzle.
30: Do Temple work in all Utah temples

Anything crossed off it already done!

Here is the Jensen book list:

1-Critical Conditions by Stephen White
2- Pretend You Don't See Her by Mary Higgins Clark
3- Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
4- The Perfect Witness by Berry Siegel
5- The Starry Child by Lynn Hanna
6- The Einstein Papers by Craig Dirgo
7- The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
8- The Nagasaki Vector by L. Neil Smith
9- Death Duty by Stephen Kimball
10- The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G Wells
11- The Day After Tomorrow by Allan Folsom
12- The Art of Breaking Glass by Matthew Hall
13- Treasured Vows by Cathy Maxwell
14- Death Wish by Iceberg Slim
15- Escape the Night by Richard North Patterson
16- State of Fear by Michael Crichton
17- Velocity by Dean Koontz
18- The Rainmaker by John Grisham
19- Orbit by John J Nance
20- The Death of Art by Michele Stapley
21- Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
22- The Silent Witness by William P Brothers
23-The Majority Rules by Eugene Sullivan
24- The Medieval Soldier by AVB Norman
25- You Belong To Me by Mary Higgins Clark
26- Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach
27- Vector by Robin Cook
28- Enter Evil by Linda Ladd
29- Critical Judgment by Michael Palmer
30- Deck the Halls by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Ann Clark
31- Kitchen Privileges by Mary Higgins Clark
32- Black Ice by Anne Stuart
33- Girlfriend's Getaway by Kathleen Laing and Elizabeth Butterfield
34- The Known World by Edward P. Jones
35- Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession by Erma Bombeck
36- The Pendragon Chronicles by Mike Ashley
37- And Then You Die by Iris Johansen
38-Cadillac Jukebox by James Lee Burke too much swearing for me- changed to Time Travelers wife
39- Up Close and Dangerous by Linda Howard
40-Loves Music, Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark
41- Murder at the Watergate by Margaret Truman
42-Thicker than Water by Maggie Shayne
43-Stillwatch by Mary Higgins Clark
44- The girl with The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson- Changed to Outbreak
45- Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard
46- A Bend in The Road by Nicholas Sparks
47- Silent Night by Mary Higgins Clark
48- The Burning Man by Phillip Margolin

Here is the new and improved list. Anything with a * next to the number is different. Also there is an explanation of where I am with the goals.

1:  Learn to play 3 songs on the piano.
2: Read all Jensen outlet books-  18 more to go. I took a break and read what I wanted to. I read The Help, Janitors (went to school with the author), Dealing with Dragons,and The Matched trilogy. It was nice but now I got to get back to it. Sorry Uglies you will have to wait.
3: Get back to pre-baby weight, then -10 pounds- Andrew and I are going to start this THIS week. Here’s to getting my body back!
4: Go to Washington D.C.
*5: Ride on a passenger train- Didn’t realize I hadn’t done that until our trip to Virginia. It was so much fun!

6: Stop late night sweets. Nothing after 9- getting better not perfect yet!
7: Organize pictures
8: Get Andrew back to the D.R.- unsure if this will be able to happen :(
9: Re learn French and better than before- I got duolingo on my phone. It’s coming back to me though slowly.
10: Make decorations for all Holidays
11: Learn to dance with Husband
12: Do my Continuing Education points for AAMA
*13: Organize craft room- I just got this back and So much needs to be done with it. Can’t wait! We just got my purple pegboard up. :)
14: Catch a fish- This summer I promise!
*15: Start Prereq courses for Nursing- had to change to start. Honestly, even if I was on top of it. I still wouldn’t have been able to finish them in the time allotted.
16: Make a full outfit for myself, by myself.
17: Finish a crossword puzzle- it might have been a crossword on the back of a cereal box but at least I got it done!

18: Go rock climbing
19: Participate in a musical/play
*20: See and catch fireflies- Another Viriginia trip first! :)
*21: Touch the Alantic and Pacific Ocean.- Virgina Beach was so much fun! The other was done when I was younger with my family. We went to California.
22: Go to stand up comedy night
23: Finish Wedding scrapbook
24: Visit a REAL haunted house
*25: Go down a zipline
*26: Visit Victoria, British Columbia- This one is a cheat! We are going to go there in a few months. It looks magical there!
27: Figure out how to put on make up that looks good- I’m getting better at this. When I do wear makeup it looks good when I’m wearing glasses. without the eyes are too much I need to figure that on out.
28: Build a sand structure or snow structure  (and it actually looks like what it should)
29: Finish my 18,000 piece puzzle.- We had a flood in my craft room so this had to be put away. I’m enjoying just getting that part of my house back! I’ll get the puzzle back out at the start of the new year.
30: Do Temple work in all Utah temples- We haven’t added any new temple visits this year! I guess we got to get on this or I won’t complete it!!

So that puts me at 10 out of 30! I am going to be having a VERY busy and fun year!