Dog Days of January

Okay, so a WW update I lost another pound. Although I feel much much thinner. I can tell I am. I am down to the last notch on my belt. That pound has to be pure fat. I have been watching GOOD movies lately. I watched SAW V, and Burn after Reading (SOOO good). I plan on watching the Rocker this evening. And Nates favorite team the Pittsburgh Steelers are in the SUPER BOWL. For only the 3rd time in Nates life. He is really excited. He loves Ben Roethlisburger #7...I plan on having a small party and eating a healthy Superbowl snack barrage..Oh and the BABY CUTEST BOY EVER..I love you ETHAN...!!!

January 20th

Okay, so I have been working a lot and it feels good. My schedule just got changed. That's my introduction for today. So I have started Weight Watchers again, and my Hubby Nate is helping through it. I have already lost 2 pounds and feel lighter than ever. I have really altered my diet. I have the most AMAZING son ever. He just got his first tooth on the bottom. All he does is want to eat stuff. He really likes his mush!! I have been on my diet to the T- and have not strayed from it one bit. This week is my second week. Those first few are the hardest to get through. Then it becomes habit. I hope to do something fun this weekend.

Here is a treat for you all...

Time is FLYIN'!

Oh I told myself I was going to blog EVERYTHING but it's really hard when you have no internet at home and all you do is sleep and work.

Time is FLYING. I sometimes work 10 hour days but at least I get 3 days off MOST weeks. So much happens every day that I always think, "I totally have to blot about that so I'll remember," but then I forget. I mainly blame my medication. It makes me so spacey. But I'm doing really well. I've decided that I will have to take my medication next time I'm pregnant. I don't think I can live without it.

So hopefully I will always remember things like him discovering his hands two days ago at 4 am. Or the time Nate bought too small diapers with the last of our money. Or 4 am this morning when I felt something warm on my leg and thought, "Oh he must have just peed," and then later realized that the warmth WAS the pee and NOT inside his diaper. Or the time he was being changed and grabbed the back of his hair WAY too tight and started screaming and couldn't let go of it and I'm sure he was thinking, "WHO THE HELL IS HURTING ME?!?"

PS - my friend who's little boy has spina bifida just told me she's pregnant. She is pretty much having a baby the same time that cousin Jenny =] is having hers. We are praying that there is nothing wrong with it. She doesn't even want to tell her family so they won't all keep asking if there's anything wrong with it. They are going to have an ultrasound fairly soon, so...

Hello

We went to get the baby's portraits done last Saturday. When we were done, we were waiting for Pam to meet us in the parking lot and the baby TOTALLY said, "HELLO!" It was crazy. And we were all there to hear it, Kennedy, my mom, Nate and I. We didn't even laugh cause it was so freaky!

Baby has a Dr. Appt...I do too...

The baby weighs 12 lbs 10 ozs. He is in the 75% percentile for weight. The Dr. was amazed. Poor thing had to get three shots today and he was SO offended. He calmed down pretty quickly though and now he is sweetly sleeping.

Yesterday I got a phone call about my pap test, which is always bad. If they don't call you, nothing is wrong. So she told me it was abnormal and that I had a yeast infection...how would I not know that I have a yeast infection? I have the feeling they mixed up my test with someone elses. Anyhow, I go in next Thursday for surgery. Hooray. =[

Oh! My Back!

I woke up one morning with a pinched nerve in my back. It was like a toothache in my back and it was getting to be unbearable, especially after about 8 days. Ice helped but only for one night. I took a lot of ibuprofins and rested a lot. It would go away and come back and go away and come back even worse. I kept saying I needed to go to the Dr. and then I would change my mind. I figured there was nothing they could do but give me pain medication or tell me to go to a chiropractor or something.

So one day, because my plumbing had been out of use for about a month, I went to my mom's in the middle of the night. On my way off the porch I missed the last step and fell hands-and-knees into the tomato plants. I thought for sure I would get stuck there like that. My ankles twised and my hands were scraped and my knee was all wet and muddy. Terrible luck. I sat there for a minute to be really mad and scared and then went home to tell Nate my story. Then I noticed my foot was all cut and bleeding. Shoot.

Then for a couple of days it felt like I had a hangnail or something on my big toe, I assume from falling. I took a bath last night and soaked it and cut off some of the nail and put some hydrogen peroxide on it. I was feeling very picked on, but finally I feel much better.

Terrible Grill Story

On Saturday my mom made Nate go to do an auction for her in Heber because she wanted to go with me to my friend Heather's Lia Sophia jewelry party. We went and bought some really cool stuff and had a great time. All the while Nate is texting us and sending us pictures of fridges and telling us that no one is at the auction so everything is going super cheap. We have this tiny little fridge at our house so we had been looking for a bigger fridge and it was nice because the house already had a water line installed for an ice maker/water dispenser fridge. Nate found one and it went for like $150. So then we had to figure out how to get it home.

My mom and I drove up there after the jewelry party in my car and thought we'd find something to get it home with at the U-Haul store. Oddly, the U-Haul was closed Saturday and Sunday...seemed strange to us as that is when people move, right?

Anyways! The baby was getting hot waiting for them to return in my car and he needed some shade so I stuck him in my mom's car with the air on. When they came back to tell us that the store was closed they said we were going to go get shakes. So I hooked the belt on the car seat real quick and we took off. We got our shakes but for some reason we didn't stop to eat them. I tried to eat some but it pretty much just melted because I was too busy driving.

Nate is a crazy driver! He was over about a foot in the other lane at least 100 times. I had to call and ask if he was trying to eat his shake too, but he wasn't. He is just crazy. I think we need to get him some glasses.

Anyways. We were driving down the canyon, making fun of Nate's driving and we hit a bump on a turn and my mom's GRILL FLEW UP AND FELL ON THE BABY! I thought for sure he was dead! Tara was buckled in the front AND sleeping and she was back there in no time flat wiping ash off of him. He sounded startled but not hurt so I was SO relieved but still couldn't wait to get the hell off that freeway to check him out! It was amazing! He was blessed that day that it didn't hit him in the head, but it didn't even hit him ANYWHERE! It was seriously a miracle.

Not even five minutes later this crazy mid-size SUV came up on the left side of me and totally cut me off like he had no idea I was there. THEN he slammed on his breaks!!! My mom's brakes are soft and not like mine at all so I had to instantly swerve into the emergency lane! We were so lucky that there was even a lane there! There is so much construction on I-80 that most of it only has a concrete barrier! We were so lucky to be alive that day. I told my mom that the devil was trying to kill us like Joseph Smith. I had a crazy adrenaline head ache and had to go home to take a nap. PHEW!!!