We Are Pregnant!!!

We have actually known for a while and I was going to tell everyone when I finally went to the Doctor and made it official, but I finally called the Doctor today and they can't get me in for another month. So I decided I couldn't wait that long to post it. I asked a friend on how to figure the due date because she said her date was right when she went to the Doctor, so that's what we are going with September 22. We really didn't plan to have a baby this time of year because with Gracey I was pregnant through the whole summer and I HATED it. I swelled up like a balloon. But I guess whatever the Lord has instore is OK. And it was getting to where Brooklyn and this baby would be almost 3 years apart, not that that is a bad thing I just want them closer. So, I only get sick when I get hungry, so I just need to eat before I get sick. I really haven't had any cravings, just roast. I hate lasagna and spagetti now. And another thing I used to love Diet Dr. Pepper and after I found out i was pregnant pop was too sweet so I have quite drinking pop. I do drink some pop when we go out to restaurants if they don't have any good lemomade so I'll have root beer, it doesn't seem as sweet. So that's good pop was always my downfall. Gracey and Brooklyn are excited, they want a brother, we will see how that goes(huh Cassie?) I figure I am 12 weeks this week. So when I finally get to the doctor I will be 16 weeks. So then that means the next appointment after that I will have my ultrasound and then find out what it is. So I guess having the appointment later makes the time go by faster. We are very excited, crazy to think about having 3 kids and being a family of 5. But I am sure we will get past it, everyone else has.

All About Gracey

This post is all about Gracey! For preschool they do a star student every 2 weeks and this week was Gracey's turn. They sent home a couple of papers asking about her and asking for a few photos of her with friends and family. And posting about this is really good for me to help me remember some of the things she liked when she was 4 years old. So here are the questions and the answers that she gave me.

Favorite game to play: Dora video game

Favorite song: Honey, Honey (off of Mamma Mia)

Favorite TV show: Sid the Science Kid

Favorite Sport: Dancing! (I really need to put her in dancing)

Favorite Food: Crepes

I think I was named Gracey because it is my favorite and I love it.

I am in Snuggle Bunny Academy and my teachers are Miss Joey and Miss Laurie.

When I first started preschool, I felt really happy because I loved it.

Now I think preschool is fun because they have toys and I met new friends.

If I could have anything it would be a doll, a barbie and a new toothbrush(these are the things she told me and she has all three of them, a very simple kid, but Idon't think she quite understood the question)

The best day I remember was on Easter, when I got to go find my Easter bucket. It had new clothes and butterfly flip flops in it.

My favorite color is pink and purple.

My best friend is Kalisha and Whitney

My favorite animal is the giraffe that I sleep with.

When I grow up I want to be a fairy. (here again I don't think she understood the question, but that makes it all that more funny)

I want to always tell my mom and dad that I love them with all my heart. (she is our very loving child)

Finally Potty Trained!!

This is such a good thing to have done!! We have been potty training for about a month and a half now. I really thought she would be easier than Gracey. I was hoping that her seeing Gracey go would make her want to go, but it didn't quite work out that way. But she is doing really well. She won't quite go on her own yet, but she will tell us when she needs to go. I don't know if she could go on her own yet because even with a stool she can't quite pull herself up on the toilet yet, a little too short still. But I think for only being 2 years and 3 mos she is doing great! So now we can relax and enjoy our "sandwich"(notice the sandwich she's eating).

Tag!

~My 8 favorite TV shows:
1. Bachelor
2. American Idol
3. Grey's Anatomy
4. Private Practice
5. Dancing with Stars
6. Good Things Utah
7. That's about all the
8. T.V I watch except for cartoons


~8 things I did yesterday:
1. Woke up at 7a.m(very early for me)
2. Played with Jaren(just had to make you laugh)
3. Picked Gracey up from school
4. Went to the bank to set up our business checking, finally!
5. Laundry
6. Cleaned bathrooms(something that needed to be done for awhile)
7. Watched Bee Movie about 10 times
8. TAXES! I hate taxes


~8 things I am looking forward to:
1. SPRING!!!!
2. Brooklyn going to the bathroom on her own
3. Any spare time with Jaren (ALONE!)
4. To have a boy someday
5. Tax Return!!
6. A Successful Business!!
7. Pretty much I look forward
8. to anything GOOD in our lives!


~8 of my favorite restaurant's:
1. Texas Roadhouse
2. Chilis
3. Sizzler
4. Formosa Chinese Restaurant
5. Old Grist Mill
6. Fredrico's Pizza
7. Arctic Circle (Gracey's Favorite)
8. Any place that serves breakfast (Brooklyn's favorite)


~8 things on my wish list:
1. To be a better mother
2. Have more patience
3. To go on a really fun vacation with my husband and girls
4. My house paid off
5. Debt free!!!!!!!
6. To have a year's worth of food storage
7. To have the Holy Ghost talk in a loud and normal voice(I guess I am not spirtual enough, so this would help)
8. To be able to read the Book of Mormom with my family all the way through, not just through 1Nephi.


~8 people I am tagging:
1. Tara Rigby
2. Jayme Richards
3. Callie
4. Kamey
5. Kylynne
6. Criston Rigby
7. Mandi Jones
8. And anybody else that needs something new to post like me!

Thanks Cassie for aniciating this, I really needed something new to post. And we really have a lot in common because there were alot of answers I didn't change. Sorry, I am not very original.

Sledding in our backyard

This was our first time sledding this season and probably will be the last. I am not much of a cold wintry person, so because of me my kids don't get out much in the winter. But my mom came over and brought my little sister and my nephew so they could go sledding on a real hill, not just down a flight of backyard steps. Jk mom whatever works huh? But it is sad that it takes my mom coming over from Logan to get us outside sledding in my own backyard. But I guess whatever it takes.

Gracey found the sled that didn't go very fast. She is just like me, likes to stay at her comfort level at all times.

This is my mom going down with Brooklyn, getting her used to going down the hill.

Nice Shades, Girls!!!

Oh Brooklyn! Always falling asleep in the strangest places. We had only been outside for about 45min and she was already falling asleep. Later that day Gracey as well took a nap. So then I started thinking maybe I should take them outside more often so then they will go to sleep better.

Thanks mom for coming over and getting my kids out of the house!

Remembering...

In sacrament meeting on Sunday the talk was on Rememberance.The rememberance that this guy mainly was talking about was how do we remember things, pictures, letters, family history. It was a pretty good talk and pretty funny too. He told us of a book that he keeps of all the funny things that his grandkids say.He enlightened us with a few it made the whole congregation laugh out loud. And it made me think my kids are at the age where they come up with some pretty funny things. For instance the other day I was upset with Jaren for working too long at night and I can't remember what I said or what she was talking about, but what she came up with is "Daddy, that's because you didn't chose the right, you chose the left," it made me laugh so hard I couldn't stay mad at Jaren any more. Then on Monday before we took Gracey to school, I never wake up on time to feed her a "good" breakfast, so she asked if she could have a snickers for breakfast and I told her no, that they weren't good for her to eat so she said "Well, why do you buy them then?" My response was speechless. Now you know why I don't weigh 100 pounds. That is the exact reason, I like candy too much. But any way kids say some pretty funny things and I am going to start finally writing them down before I forget it, in a week. A good quote that the high councilman said was "Remember who you are, you are a child of God"

KiDs...

Kids, aren't they funny! Brooklyn started out in the very bottom and then Gracey wanted to get in the one higher and and then Brooklyn seen Gracey and wanted to be like her. And then it kept getting higher.I was a little nervous about puting them up so high I wasn't sure if the shelves would hold them,but they did not even a creak. Jaren built an entertainment center to last. It better for how long it took us to make it. I love my kids so much they make us laugh all the time!!! If it wasn't for them I would turn into an old awnry(how do you spell that) lady pretty fast.

What a "Smartie" Pants

What all the "SMART" people eat!!




So When I went to pick Gracey up from school on Monday, I needed to go in and pay her teachers and one of the teachers said she has a note in her backpack. Instantly I thought it was a bad note, but she corrected me. Then she continued to tell me what it says in the letter above. Then she said that Gracey told them that she ate "smarties" last night that's why she is so smart all of a sudden. Gracey told me the night before that Grandma Julie told her that if you eat smarties you will get smarter, then she continued to tell me that I needed to try some. Well I guess it doesn't get better than that, my 4 year old (thinks)she is smarter than her mom(which doesn't mean too much). Oh kids, they say the darnest things. I guess for one meal a day I should eat smarties so that I can be as smart as her for when she starts kindergarten, or else I will be SOL. But we really are very proud of her and her accomplishments and I am also grateful for her teachers and the time they spend with the kids.

Did you know?

We went to Pocatello yesterday to do some things for Jaren. We had to ship some parts, so we were trying to find the place where we needed to go and we got lost so Jaren started texting something to someone and I kept asking who he was texting because the number was not a real number. And he told me that if you text the name of the place and what town it is in to the numbers that spell Google, they will text you back the address and the phone number. Isn't that cool. So then you don't have to call 411 or whatever the number is to call that charges you a lot. Of course with this you have to be able to send texts. Maybe that is an old trick but I have never heard of that. I thought it was pretty neat.

We had a very good Christmas, it was kind of small, but we had no regrets. Christmas morning Jaren got up at about 6:30 because Brooklyn was crying. When he went up there Gracey was awake and she told Jaren that she needed to go back to sleep so Santa could come and instead of letting her go back to sleep(like most parents would)he said are you sure he hasn't come yet. So she went out and looked and of course everything was out and in the meantime I am down sleeping. I had no idea they were coming down until I heard Gracey talk about what she got. So needless to say I didn't get to record them and their reaction. SO thanks Jaren we will have this Christmas to remember by not having any video of the kids on christmas morning. Well they played with their toys and then about 7:30 Jaren and I went back to bed. We should've stayed up and got ready because we had a big day in front of us. We went down to my Grandparents in Ogden and then back to my moms in Logan. The weather was pretty good all day until we got ready to go home and this was the day of the really bad storm(in Utah, Idaho didn't get hardly anything)The weather was so bad! It was a blizzard when we got to North Logan, I kept telling Jaren to turn around and we could just stay at my moms but he wanted to sleep in his own bed.People were driving on the wrong side of the road because they couldn't see were the road was. So they just got over when there was a car coming. Jaren in his big bad truck was passing people like they were standing still, it probably scared them right off the road, I know it scared me especially when you couldn't see the road. But we made it home about after 2 and a half hours. We were probably watched over because we stopped to help someone. But after all the craziness we had a good day.