Random Tidbits

So there are a lot of things going on in our lives that just don't seem like enough to write a whole post about.  Actually, I'm just being lazy.

Josh graduated last Friday!  Instead of walking we decided to go to Tucano's, and he loved it!  Then we went and saw the new Captain America.  People keep asking if he's sad he didn't walk, and I don't think he is.  Honestly, he just wanted to be done and not think about it.  On top of that he's been so busy lately with his senior project that he didn't have much time to think about ordering anything.  We're so glad he's done!

Instead of homework we spend our nights doing yard work.  We have a lot to do.  We're really annoyed at our builder right now because they did a horrible final grade on our yard and then they took down our stake, so we have no idea where our property line is.  We have to fill out warranty stuff to get them to come put a stake up....when they are building 4 houses down the street and are here every day.

We attempted potty training Michael again, but it didn't work.  He would hold it on the potty and then as soon as we put his underwear back on he would pee.  We bribed him with everything imaginable.  Including Grandpas truck, a trip to Lowe's, a candy cane, and his Easter candy.  All at once, and nothing worked.  After a few major meltdowns we decided maybe it isn't quite time.  He also seems to be scared of the potty, or at least he is now.

Elli is finally done teething for now, meaning she has been the happiest little thing ever!  We've missed her happy little self.  She has a doctors appointment this week, so we'll see if she's growing.  I weighed her on our scale a couple of weeks ago and she finally hit 20lbs, but now she's running everywhere and burning everything off.  We finally put her in 12-18 month clothes.  She's finally growing!  She's started saying more and more little words, like milk and Michael.

I'm 33 weeks pregnant!  All I can think is 4 more weeks and then I can go running and get this baby out.  I've had a lot of contractions lately.  Sunday night I had them consistently for a few hours.  I'm so excited to have another baby!  Or maybe I'm excited to not be pregnant anymore.  Either way, I'm happy we're getting there!  I have an appointment with my midwife on Friday, the last one at her clinic.  After that it's one home appointment and then I just wait for the baby.  Can you tell I'm getting excited?

Josh, Robot

Josh's semester is over!  This has been one of the most stressful semesters we have ever had, despite the fact that Josh only had 3 classes compared to the usual 5.  I wish I could say it was so stressful because we had a baby in the middle of it, but that would be a huge lie.  Elli didn't make the semester rough at all.  Besides, I had her on a Friday and the only class Josh missed was the one he left early to rush me to the hospital.  What made it a rough semester was this robot.

It had to act like a mars rover and pick up blocks and make a stack of them.  Here we picked up Michael's toy truck and set it in the swing.  Josh did a lot of the designing and put together a good deal of it.  It was a pretty cool robot, and fun to chase Michael with.

I went with the kids and Josh's Grandpa to see him compete.  It was nothing like this robot...

But it was still pretty cool!  Unfortunately the little "hand" part of it (the part that was holding Michael's truck) stopped working about halfway through the competition.  So Josh's robot ended up pushing blocks to the other robot to stack.

Josh won a rock-paper-scissors battle and we now have the robot sitting on top of our entertainment center (since there is really no other place to put it).  Having this over with has relieved us both so much!!  Then I remember he has to build a race car engine for his senior project next year...wish him luck!

Baby...

Can you tell she loves the bouncer?

Thanksgiving and Black Friday

We don't have any pictures from Thanksgiving.  I haven't taken many pictures lately because...well I feel huge in all of them!  But we had a great Thanksgiving!

Josh went and played football with my brother-in-law and some of his friends.  I know he had fun, but I didn't enjoy the complaints that his arms hurt all day :)

For lunch we went over to my parents house for a non-traditional lunch of BBQ turkey.  We had tons of fun and enjoyed the good food.  We could have gone to a movie but Michael doesn't do well with movies, so we went to our second Thanksgiving.

We had dinner with Josh's grandparents, his mom, and his brother.  It was a traditional Thanksgiving and very yummy.

On Black Friday we didn't do much shopping.  We ended up going to carter's later in the day and got a few baby clothes, but that was about it.  We had some friends come over and spend the night.  It was fun, but we had a few little problems, correction: Michael had problems.  He had a stomach virus and I ended up taking him to the doctor Saturday morning.  Josh went and played football again with some of his friends from high school.  Thankfully he wasn't as sore this time!

I should write a post about everything we are thankful for, but I have another post or two to write tonight, so I'll simply say I have the best family and I love them very much!

What we've been up to...

I feel like we've been up to a lot of random things lately that I want to blog about.  So here are what we've been doing (I'll save stuff about Michael for his birthday post tomorrow):

• Michael and I have made quite a few trips out.  We went to the zoo one day when Josh had a break between classes.  We went to the aquarium (which really is more fun for me).  We've walked around Trolley Square and City Creek.  We went to Gardner Village and bought some cute head bands for Elli (you can get the stretchy head bands for $1 at a little kids boutique there, they are usually $4 everywhere else). Josh has been able to meet us uptown quite a bit so we've enjoyed a lot of family time!
• Attempting to get ready for winter.  It took the first snow like two weeks ago for us to realize Josh needed to do that stuff.  Since then Josh has had an eternal struggle to keep the lawn mower 'winterized'.  It isn't ours and we don't know how his grandparents have winterized it in the past.  After watching 5 hilarious attempts of Josh driving the lawn mower up planks to get it into the too small shed it ended up outside under a tree.  We ended up covering it with a tarp, but that refuses to stay on it.  Every few days Josh is out there putting more and more rocks on the tarp to get it to stay put.  
• Seeing a ton of deer.  If we bought a tag we wouldn't have to go anywhere, just sit outside and wait for the deer to come eat our plants.  We see one on average once a day, they are usually in our driveway at night.
• I've been getting bigger and bigger.  If you haven't noticed I have posted very few pictures of myself lately.  I believe that the camera adds 10lbs, but when you're pregnant it adds 30lbs.  In reality I don't think I'm bloated like pictures make me look...so I refuse to post them.  People keep asking when I'm due.  I think they expect me to say in a week, but I still have one trimester left :(.  When you're as short as me the baby just doesn't have anywhere to hide.
• We've both gotten new callings...sorta.  I'm an activity days leader and have my first activity on Friday, but still have no idea what's going on.  Josh is soon to be in the scouts.  He was told to do all the certification stuff for it.  We still feel out of place in this ward.  I know it takes a while to fit in, but this is a deep rooted ward.  People have been in it for the last 40+ years.  They know each others grandkids.  So it will take a while to find a place.
• My sister had her 30th birthday party and we had a murder mystery party :).  It was pretty awesome and worked out great!  Josh was basically an Italian mobster and I was his pregnant fiancé, who was really impregnated by his twin bother who was killed.  Then we had an amazing cheesecake! 

 Life has been moving at a rapid pace.  We feel like we are just running and running.  It's hard to imagine that a year ago today Josh and I were out eating spicy food, going on a walk, and trying to get our baby boy would be here.  

A few things about us

So I really don't talk about Josh and I that much on here...I prefer to make this about the cute little guy.  I figure an update every 3-ish months is sufficient.  So here goes!

• Josh and I went up to Flaming Gorge with my family a couple of weeks ago.  That's where we took the adorable Magic Mike pictures.  I've gone almost every year for my whole life for 1-2 weeks a summer.  Josh loves it up there as much as I do and we plan to continue the tradition.  At one point my whole family was up there.  Josh's dad even joined us for a few days.  We spend the days on the boat wakeboarding and wakesurfing, swimming and cliff jumping when it's too hot, watching Josh and my brothers almost kill each other having tube wars, and chasing little kids around.  At nights we eat some of the best dutch oven meals ever!  

Josh is pretty good at wakesurfing

• We are moving...we just don't have an exact day.  Josh's grandparents are leaving for the MTC on the 13th, but they will be coming home at night for 1-3 weeks.  We want to get settled before school starts, but we haven't decided whether to move right before they go to the MTC or after they leave.  Anyways we don't have too much moving to do besides Michael's things.  Plus I've become an expert at moving quickly at this point.
• Speaking of school...I believe we start on the 20th.  This will be a busy semester for both of us, but we need to get some stuff done before this new baby comes.  Thankfully Josh's work is very flexible and I have some amazing family members that are willing to watch Michael!
• And speaking of the baby...I went to the doctor last week (finally!).  The baby is healthy and still due Feb 1st.  My doctor thought there might be some discrepancy on the due date since I was recently pregnant, but it was exactly what I thought.  
• I know I said this was about us...but this concerns me!  I took Michael to his throat specialist and it looks like he is just fine.  Which is a huge relief to me.  Michael gets scratches and bruises every once in a while and I'm learning to deal with those, but I couldn't handle weird white bumps in his throat.
• Last week we went camping with my dads family.  It was great to see all of them!  Josh and I even got to go on a little 4-wheeler ride.

We are continuing to be really busy.  We are doing a lot of work on our garden (which we planted way too much corn in) at least once a week.  We have had a lot of family camping trips and get-togethers lately.  We are enjoying seeing some of our friends before we move and before some of them move.  I think we are trying to get as much in as we can before school starts again.  We both know that winter break is never really a break, well not sufficient to get over the burnt out feeling, so we are living it up to the fullest!

Our last month...

Josh and I have been pretty busy.  Josh is working all the time and he is still taking one online class.  I've been in my sick stage of pregnancy but I think I'm coming out of it.  It seems like that alone is enough to keep us busy, but we have been doing a lot of other stuff.

• Josh and I celebrated out two year anniversary :)  We went up to Park City, had an amazing dinner at Ruth's Chris, and got massages 
• We went to Lagoon with the Crump's for a type of family reunion
• Celebrated Josh's grandparents 50th anniversary 
• Had family pictures
• Went to a family party for the 4th
• Celebrated Josh's birthday with a dinner at Tucanos with my sister and her cute family

Unfortunately I know we've been doing a lot more but I don't remember it (I don't even remember the last time I posted).  I will post some pictures soon, I have a bunch of cute ones of Michael rolling his way into tons of trouble!