Jan-Feb Happenings

January: The main event that began in January was my sister coming to live with us to go to SUU and Phil and I started our Prenatal Classes which ended just last week. Having my sister closer has been nice! I love having her help around the house and the company when Phil wants to do things I don't really care to do. :) (I love you Phil I promise!) Emilee is great! She had a kind of crazy week there for a while, where she had cut her eyebrow, sprained her ankle and gotten sick all in the same week and so far she has been doing much better. :) Diego moved out sometime in January and is having a great time living with his new family. They are very nice people and were much more able to show him some of the sights better than Phil and I would have been able to! They even took him to Santa Fe! He seems to be doing good with them and shouldn't have any problems and the nice thing is we still get to visit him and have seen him multiple times in the last couple weeks. Phil misses the buddy he had but still hangs out with him when he has a free night... which is rare for Phil with all his projects.

This month Phil and Jared Porter got into welding and I think it is one of Phil's new favorite things to do! He loves it! It started with the Safari Rack for the white Jeep and Now he has finished up some shelving for work too. I'm glad he enjoys his new hobbies which also included him and Jared getting a reloading kit that they have been using to reload bullets for a lot cheaper than the cost of bullets. Phil spent many nights just working his little station of reloading and is officially addicted! Lucky for us it didn't cost too much, he bought the stuff from Cabela's using his credit and so that was basically free and then the actual kit Jared and Phil went in on it together. Thanks Jared for keeping my husband busy!

Later this month was Mom's Birthday and for once in her life she actually kept what I gave her... I think! We gave her some plates that were thinnner that she has been wanting for a while now so that was good. We had a fun time suprising her by telling her that both Emilee and I had to work and wouldn't be able to make it to visit her on her birthday. She was surprised. :) Phil and Dad were able to work on something of Grandma or Grandpa's while me Emilee and Mom hung out and went shopping. That evening we were also able to eat at the Greenery up the canyon in Ogden. That place is very dear to me in that my Grandma Sheryl Parsons would always take me there for my birthday dinner and we'd get Mormon muffins. It was so fun! We love the Salmon there too, so yummy!

Also this month we bought a new car, an Audi A4 2T Turbo stick shift. It is a really nice car and I did have some troubles driving it at first but I'm getting used to it. It will make a great mommy car I think. Phil was very happy with it and couldn't wait to get it! I had an Instructor Training in Provo during the week so he rode up with me, got the car and drove it back, he was so excited! I'm glad he didn't get a ticket from all that excitement of having a fast car! As for Instructor Training I will be official as of this week since I will be finishing up my co-teaching with Lauren on Wednesday.

January was a crazy month because Emilee and I started our jobs at The Cedar City Aquatic Center too! Wow I almost forgot about that! So yeah I have been lifeguarding and so has Emilee. We both get plenty of hours and really enjoy it there! If you haven't been to the new pool you should come check us out it is a pretty dang nice facility even with some of the things they cut! :)

Now on to February: This month was kind of the same as January in that Emilee and I have been working lots at the pool and have had a great time living together again. Emilee kind of gets the raw end of the deal for work as do I sometimes but she was very kind in letting me take Valentine's Day off so I could spend it with Phil. That was nice! Em and I washed our cars after I worked Emilee's shift 10-12 and also decorated Phil's car. I'd written him a note saying how much I appreciate him and all he does for our little family and he in return gave me what every pregnant woman would want, a whole Ice Cream CAKE! :) I did share but yeah I did mostly eat it... whoops! It was yummy and he also got me a rose, Valentine's Day Balloon and we were also able to eat at 3B's. It is one of our favorite places to eat and Thomas the owner was happy to see some business since most people go to the big resturant chains on Valentines. After that we took Emilee some 3B's to thank her for working for me and then went and saw "Just Go With It" an Adam Sandler movie which was actually really good! We both enjoyed it and it was a perfect Movie for both of us to see together. :)

Also this Month I started co-teaching the Water Safety Instructor Class with Lauren my boss at the CCAC. It has been fun and stressful all at the same time. I pulled a really long shift one Saturday totaling at 12.5 hours of work! Man was I tired! Oh and Then that Sunday we also hosted Sunday Dinner but that was ok I'd gotten the house clean enough before everyone got here.

Lara was also able to take my baby bump pictures and they can be seen in this photo album of mine or on Lara's blog. Laraleephotography.com. :)

It was fun and since the kids didn't have school on President's Day Austin and Braden were able to spend the night here and then go to work with Phil for a while. Unfortuanely for Phil he didn't know what he had in store for him at work that day and just after I had gone to take Braden home so Austin would work better Phil cut his right pinky finger on some sheet metal and had to be taken to the Emergency room since the InstaCare was closed due to the holiday. He got about 10 stitches and has not been as handy as he usually is but still has his finger so that is all that matters, even if he does lose some feeling in it from where the stitches are. The sad thing about that day too was that Phil had given all the neices and nephews the idea to go swim at the pool on that day and then he went and cut his finger so he couldn't even swim! He was kinda bummed but was able to help 'supervise' with his Dad from on the deck.

As far as pregnancy goes this month I have HAD IT!!! I'm so ready to get this baby out and get my body back! But I knew that this would be one of the worst parts and just need to accept it and live with faith that it will all work out in the end! This Saturday was my South Baby Shower on one of the stormiest days ever! There was a pretty good storm growing in New Harmony at about the time everyone should have been arriving at the shower. It was too bad, but I couldn't help what the weather turned out to be! Mom and Dad made the trip down so Phil and Dad could play a little while us girls got snowed in at New Harmony. Ok so we didn't really get snowed in but it definately did snow while we were partying!  

thanks to all those who came and got me things, I certainly needed all that I got! After our little party in New Harmony, Mom and I decided we may as well start on that baby room. I hadn't started yet because I wanted a certain crib set but when we were at Walmart using one of the gift cards I'd gotten we found one that would do exactly what I wanted, to be gender friendly with blues, greens and where purple could be added as an accent for a girl! Mom bought it for me, Thanks mom, and then we got started looking at paint and what options we had. We found some cute wallpaper that matched the crib set perfectly and also found that we wouldn't have to paint the whole wall and could leave some of the already blue up. It was so nice! Phil, Dad, Mom, Emilee and Brooke all helped paint and it was done in no time! Now I just need a window treatment and some more things hung and it will be done! Baby Sheryl you can come anyday now! :)

7 weeks

Student teaching has been taking more out of me than I thought possible! I love it don't get me wrong its just that after that I work at night to help pay for my school that I still have to pay this semester and that really sucks because I am almost always kinda sick to my stomach and hardly ever want to eat. I always seem to be constipated and I'm eating fruits and trying to be extra healthy even though today I bought school lunch for $3 and got burrito bites and chicken from the snack line and a $.75 Sprite. Not the best lunch ever, I think next time I do that I will just get the regular lunch for $3.50. Oh well! Anyway my measurements haven't changed but I have gained some weight, about 3 lbs. I'm not really excited about the weight gaining but that's ok I'll live I know its for a good reason its just I want my body to go back to normal after I'm pregnant! I just am praying for Mom's skinny gene, I just don't want to get as sick as she did which is so far so good! :) I have yet to really throw up and I'm getting passed the 1st trimester quicker and quicker so hopefully the 2nd trimester will be a nice break from the nausea and constipation. :) Tomorrow is Endurance day for PE! I can't wait to teach them the proper running form! :)

Also in other news our kitties are finally ready to be given away and I cannot WAIT to get rid of them! They have stunk up my house LONG enough and today we actually kicked them out of the house so we can clean so Sosete will come back inside, Mila has been driving us nuts lately (I also blame the pregnancy but.... she was pretty nice to me when she was pregnant with kittens!) Oh well! Hope to get rid of at least 3 to Phil's family and the rest to who-ever wants them! :)

6 Weeks and 5 Days

Well last night was one of the worst emotional nights so far! I was told in an email that day that my Mentor Teacher wanted me to come in the next day, Thursday the 19th. I was not planning on coming until the 23rd so I was kinda scared and nervous and unsure of how I would handle being pregnant and teaching PE. I chose to do PE first because I haven't heard from Art teacher yet and also because I would be able to do most of the activities in earlier stages of pregnancy. I was so worried about all of those things and life-guarding in the evenings during student teaching freaked me out too. I just wasn't that fun to be around. Luckily Phil came home and made me feel much better about it all and even gave me a blessing today. I love that he can give me blessings to help me feel reassured that Heavenly Father cares about me! What a sweety!

Oh and I went today and it was simple and easy nothing too much to do but call role and explain rules. Not bad! I think I can I think I can!

5 weeks and 2 days

I know that time supposedly goes by quickly when you are pregnant but that is so not the case today! It seems like it will be forever! I hate having to go pee all the time!!! I'm always Hungry and I always need to pee, it is so annoying! I guess I will live I just wish I had got my body more into the shape I wanted it before I got pregnant. Phil had me pose for belly showing photos even though I'm not showing at all and man, I look nasty from the side. I wish I did have a prego belly to show off but it just isn't there yet! Oh well, I'll let him have his fun but don't expect any of those photos on here or anywhere, I only posed to make Phil happy. We also took measurements today and since there isn't much to compare them to they will remain a secret until I start to show more. :P

Blasted Cedar City SNOW!!

This is the only good thing about winter snow in March.

Yesterday evening Phil, Valerian and I dug up one of our trees

(an extra cherry tree) that was planted in the middle of our backyard. We had raked all the leaves and decided to give the extra cherry tree to Emily as a birthday present and now there is a lovely hole in the ground which is now covered in snow blah! I hope it melts so we can continue to do yardwork!

This is the view from my sink inside

And this is the lovely hole in the ground blah! the root is what is covered in snow.

The bags in the distance are from the leaves we cleaned up yesterday when there was NO snow!

Ok I just needed to vent about the snow so I hope you enjoyed it! Phil and I are just ready to start gardening and living up to our last name, Spring hurry please!