Thankful

Have you heard the song Thankful by Josh Groban?!? I am in love with it right now.  How perfect for the season huh!  Anyways after listening to it a bunch and with Thanksgiving in a few days I can't but help write a thankful post.

This year has seemed to have a few extra trials compared to other years but  it also seems like I have a few million extra things to be thankful for.  Funny how that works.

I'm so incredibly grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ.  It really has helped me through some tough things this year.  I think back to those six weeks in March and April where I started a new job, living in a new place, taking care of Addie all by myself. Or I think about the beginning of this year when the realization set it in that we wouldn't be going to medical school the following year.  What in the world were we suppose to do? During these times and many others this year I've never felt less alone and more calm.  Its crazy how sometimes you have to close your eyes and just have to take whatever steps Heavenly Father guides you to take and when you get to open your eyes again you have made it to where you are suppose to.

I am grateful for my family.  Have you seen Addie? Pretty much the cutest kid ever.  All it takes is a hug, kiss, smile, cuddle, really anything to melt my heart.  Its crazy how many different things have to go right and perfectly to have a healthy, happy child.  Each child really is a miracle and I thank God every day for blessing us with her as our miracle.  Trevin--where do I even begin?  I've never met another human being so willing to give and do anything and everything for someone else.  I'm not sure why or how I got so lucky but I really hit the jackpot.

My list could go on and on but I think I hit the main ones.  Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!

Cause You Had A Bad Day

Today was one of those days.  You know the kind where you go get blood drawn and end up having to get scrapped off the floor after passing out.  The kind where some random nurse, old enough to be your grandmother, spends 20 minutes lecturing/yelling at you about how crappy of a job you're doing.  The kind where because you are a girl you spend the next ten minutes sitting at your desk crying.  It was one of those days where you really don't feel like cooking and all you want is take-out but you have celiac and it takes more effort to find a place to eat than to just cook yourself.

But even at the end of one of those days there are always things to make you smile.  Here are my favorites right now....

At the pumpkin walk

Haha, I seriously love this picture.  What a funny little girl she is turning into.

My two favorite people on a lazy Sunday afternoon. 

Ready to go with our purse and wearing Mommy's shoes

My cheesy little Minnie Mouse

And last but not least Trevin made me gluten-free sugar cookies tonight, really he is awesome.  I may or may not have eaten three of them already.  What an awesome stud of a husband to spend his night making me cookies!!


I really do have the best life.  Sorry to make you all jealous.

My New Life

I had an endoscopy today.  Welcome to my new life....

Any recipe suggestions are appreciated

Long Time Coming

This smart guy.....

Got into school to be one of these....

Trevin got a call on Thursday from Midwestern in Arizona saying that he had been accepted into medical school there.  When Trevin got home from his interview in Iowa and finally told me on Friday (he wanted to tell me in person) I was so excited!! This has been a long time coming.

On our first date Trevin told me he wanted to be a doctor.  On our third date I told him he could stop impressing me and tell me what he really wanted to do.  Well he stuck with the doctor story.  It has sure been a very long rode to get here and I know its an even longer road from here but I really couldn't be more proud of Trev and more excited for what the next four years and beyond hold.  

We aren't for sure yet if we will end up at Arizona.  Trevin is suppose to hear back from Texas in a couple weeks and if he gets in there the choice will be super hard between the two.  But here is to becoming a med school wife! 

Its All Happening At the Zoo

We went to the Hogle Zoo today!! What a blast, Addie loved seeing all the animals.  We met our friends Trevor, Natalie, and Sydney there.  They are moving in a couple weeks so it was fun to see them one last time before they leave.  Here was our day.....

 Almost as big as a monkey!

 Even with the dirty look we are happy to be at the zoo

 Clapping our hands like a seal

Daddy telling Addie all about seals 

 By the end Addie and the seal were BFFs

Giraffe with daddy 

 On the tiger sculptures with Syd.  Getting two kids to look and smile at the same time is impossible

 We would have sat on that tiger all day

 Last picture at the zoo

As we left the zoo parking lot......

And finished the trip off with lunch at our most loved place!

It was fun to spend time as our little family today.  Trev was gone a couple days for his interview in Phoenix this week and I've been working a lot so it was great to finally be together and do something fun.  We've been looking forward to things a lot especially with medical school but too often I find myself looking forward instead of just enjoying the moment.  Today I finally stopped, took a look around, and couldn't be more grateful for all that I have.

Curveballs

Life has sure been crazy lately!  We have just been busy living life but none busier than our almost 18 month old.  There really is never a dull moment around here.  Addie is very busy copying everything you say and getting into every possible thing that toddlers shouldn't.  Some of her most popular words and phrases current are, "Mama! Mama! Mama! Mama!" until I rush to her side and give my full attention at which point she babbles something to me and then goes on playing.  "Go Cougars," we start them young around here.  "Snack", "Fish", "Cracker".  We were in the car listening to the radio, dancing, Addie was fist pumping in the back seat and the chorus of the song kept saying "so bad".  I think the song was "Call Me Maybe" but I can't remember.  Anyways after the song was over Addie kept saying so bad over and over.  I guess we better start watching what we say.  As for getting into things that she shouldn't, it is not uncommon to find her up in the windowsill banging on the window or to look over and realize that she has eaten part of the crayon she was supposed to be coloring with.  I promise we watch our daughter.  Today I was putting groceries away and looked over to find that Addie had started climbing up some drawers to reach the treat cupboard.  It must have seemed much more efficient to her than standing in front of the treat cupboard whining
when she has a mean mom that only gives her fruit or something.

I have just been working like usual, throwing in the occasional game of tennis, and a semi-failed attempt at the driving range with a toddler.  My free time usually consists of mindless tv but shopping sometimes sneaks in there (shopping in Logan is pretty rough) and I've been vowing to finish Addie's first year scrapbook for a few months now.  Eventually it will happen.  I got a calling in the ward, I work with the Laurels in Young Womens.  I think its karma for all the grief I caused Young Women leaders.  For all the lessons they taught that I ignored and all the activities that I ditched out on.  Its great though and its been a lot of fun so far.

Trevin has been busy finishing up mowing for the summer, he has been staying home more with Addie and doing translating for Utah State.  Addie now knows how to give "Knuckles" and make car noises.  His interview at Texas went great and he still has 3 more interviews coming up in the next month or so.  Arizona, Iowa and Pennsylvania.  Since football season started he couldn't be happier with his Cougars and Broncos.

Anyways this blog is titled "Curveballs" for a reason.  Its probably kinda deep so this is your clue to stop reading if you aren't into that.  I'm a planner and am generally prepared and organized, some people called it intense or uptight but my mother-in-law calls it perfect.  She and I are both perfect.  Anyways this perfectionism has led me to plan out my life from the time I met Trevin until we are settled down in a white picket fence house with 3.5 kids.  The first year or so things worked out perfectly as planned.  After that things started to not go the way I had imagined.  Lately we had more of our plan go haywire which has really got me thinking.  Its a pretty cheesy metaphor but it's been working for me....

I am always ready and expecting life to throw me straight fastballs.  I wind up and swing at them as hard as I can.  Sometimes it wasn't a fastball thought but it was a curveball and I swung so hard that I fell down.  At least I swung as hard as I could and will just get back up.  You end up brushing off a lot of dirt but its fine, when you hit a homer it feels so great that  I'll just keep swinging.

And...stop planning so much! I'm not ready for a white picket fence or 3.5 kids, I'm barely managing watching my newborn run through the house yelling random words she picked up on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

What Up Hollywood!

Yes, it has been awhile since I blogged.  I have probably even lost all my blog stalking friends.  Oh well, sorry guys.  Anyways life has been busy, fun, and exciting lately.  Addie is growing up so fast and really loves to talk now.  She mostly babbles but if you ask her to say a word she will usually say it.  So far her consistent vocabulary includes apple (she says this for ice cream), banana, baby, mama, dada, grandpa, outside, night night, "ooh tootles" (Mickey Mouse Clubhouse) and some other more inconsistent words: rainbow, doctor, parade, shoes, and she even said Honda tonight when we asked her too.  She loves to mimic whatever we do.  We were laughing in the car and she started fake laughing, hilarious!  Anyways we bought her some sunglasses on the 4th of July and she LOVES them.  She keeps them on especially when indoors.

Someone had a brilliant idea that Addie would like sleeping in a tent so we decided to camp out in Trevin's parent's backyard over the 4th of July.  Addie was pretty excited to run around inside of it but come bedtime she cried and cried until we took her inside and but her to bed in there.  You live and learn I guess.  At least we didn't try to go camping for reals and get stuck in the middle of nowhere with a screaming child that wouldn't go to sleep.  Count your blessings.

Although the tent was not a hit she did love the fireworks.  She kept saying, "WOW" and would grab our hands and make us point to them in the sky.  I don't think I've ever seen her sit still so long. 

And she loves to swim.  The pool in Grandma's backyard is a blast!  The first time we took her to a big pool this summer she was pretty scared of it but has since gotten used to it and has so much fun.  Too bad its kind of pricey so we stick to Grandma's pool most of the time, which is fun too.

In other exciting news, Trevin got an interview at the University of North Texas for med school so he is going down there in a couple weeks.  We are so excited.  It is our first choice school so everyone cross your fingers.  I promise I will blog more often so you will all blog stalk us more often too.

Alive

Yes, yes we are still alive!  I deeply apologize to all my frequent readers (Kori).  But here is the latest on our lives.  Trevin just submitted his applications for medical school (please be good to us this year) and is working for his cousin doing landscaping part-time.  He also got in contact with people at Utah State and is doing some Spanish translating for some of the departments.  In his free time he likes to use his new golf clubs I got him for graduation and has been playing Logan City rec basketball.  After being on six or seven intramural teams that lost championship games Trevin finally won a t-shirt playing basketball.  Sorry BYU, but it was actually a nicer shirt anyways.

Addie is hilarious and crazy!  She is starting to say a few words.  She says bird, if you asked her about dogs or monkeys she will tell you the sounds they make, she says night night and bye bye and will pretty much try and repeat anything you tell her to say, today we got through almost all the ABCs with her attempting most letters. She is growing up so fast and developing a cute little personality.  Addie LOVES to play with Grandma and is so lucky to have family so close.  She also likes playing in the grass, shoes or no shoes she just takes off running.  If you turn on music she always starts dancing, clapping her hands and shaking her bum, so funny!!  Her hair is also getting long, when its wet its all the way down her neck, too bad she wont keep any sort of accessory in.

Work has mostly summed up my life lately.  I keep waiting for it to get a little less demanding and stressful so I am still hopeful.  My free time is spent with Trevin and Addie.  It is so nice that Trevin isn't busy with school.  We have been trying to plan some fun summer things.  We recently took a road trip to Colorado for Trevin's high school buddy's wedding.  It was great to see so many old friends, spend time with family, and go to a Rockies game and Brock and Ashley came out too so it was good to see them.

Here are some pictures from our trip....

What's For Dinner

I have to have a plan.  If I don't plan what I'm going to cook for dinner I don't cook.  I love it when people share recipes so I thought I would post some of mine.  Here is what we're eating for dinner this week.

Saturday--http://www.skinnytaste.com/2011/04/healthy-baked-chicken-nuggets.html & sweet potato fries

Monday--Crockpot Teriyaki Chicken http://lakelurecottagekitchen.blogspot.com/2011/08/crock-pot-teriyaki-chicken.html

Tuesday--Black bean quesadillas http://budgetbytes.blogspot.com/2012/02/hearty-black-bean-quesadillas-661.html

Wednesday--Chicken Broccoli Alfredo http://www.celebrations.com/content/skinny-chicken-broccoli-alfredo

Thursday--French Toast

Friday--Pork Chops http://crazyhorsesghost.hubpages.com/hub/The-Best-Pork-Chop-You-Will-Ever-Taste

Enjoy!

Birthday Day

I started out yesterday a little depressed. It was Addie's first birthday and Trevin wasn't going to make it to celebrate. We didn't really have any birthday plans which made me feel bad too. Trevin had texted me in the afternoon and told me he had too many finals left to take and wouldn't be able to make it up until Sunday or Monday. Addie and I played around the house a lot and finally around 4:30 I decided I needed to do a little celebrating so we went to go look at toys and get some dinner. As we were walking out to the car to leave Trevin pulls up!! It was the best present of the whole day and Addie got so excited and couldn't stop waving. Apparently he had tricked me and was really done with his finals and was leaving Provo when he had texted me to say he wasn't coming. Seriously though what a stud! He took 5 finals in 6 1/2 hours so that he could be here in time for Addie's birthday.

Once Trevin got there we went to look at some toys and and get some things for her upcoming party next week. Then we took her to Chick-Fil-A for dinner. We got her her first kids meal and she loved it! She was especially obsessed with the juice box. After that we came home and she got to open presents from her Grandma and Grandpa Cardon and Mason and Kylie.

She is so excited for presents!

Playing with her new vacuum, thanks Grandma and Grandpa

Modeling our new Tinkerbell nightgown

Little Tinkerbell

I forgot to take pictures but we finished off the day with some yogurt at Twizzleberry. Addie loved it and although it was no Yogurtland it was still good! We had such a fun time celebrating Addie's birthday.

Dear Addie

Dear Addie,

Today you are 1 year old! My mom always told me that she loved me but until I had you I never realized how much she really did love me. You may not understand until you have your own kids but boy do I love you so much Addie. I wish I had written you a letter after you were born but life was hectic so this one will have to make up for that too. Life started pretty rocky for you. The first time I held you was 7 hours after you were born, it was only for a few minutes. A few hours later you were whisked off to a better hospital. The first time I really got to hold you, you were two days old and I couldn't stop crying. You were so strong and such a beautiful baby and you were all mine. The next couple weeks were an emotional roller coaster. You stayed in the hospital and we would come to see you a lot. Whenever we weren't there I always made your dad call and check in on you. You finally came home on Easter Sunday. That same day your dad had to speak in church which left the two of us alone. Boy was I nervous, you went through three outfits in those first three hours home. The next few weeks and months you cried a lot, we took you to the doctor over and over because you would cry so much. Your dad and I would take shifts and hold you all night so you could sleep and wouldn't cry. At three months old you outgrew it just in time for your dad to start school again. You were the best baby ever and have been nothing but fun and joy for us.

Some of my favorite things about you from this year are....

The way you sleep. You curl your legs under you and stick your bum in the air, it is so funny.

Your crazy hair. When you were little your hair was so wild!

How you liked to watch sports with your daddy on Saturday mornings, now you prefer cartoons like Mickey Mouse Clubhouse or Baby Signing Time

The way you toddle around and tell everyone you see hi

You love to cuddle when we ask for loves

Your big slobbery open mouthed kisses that you give without us even asking

Addie this year has been an incredible experience for your dad and me. My heart has grown more than I ever thought possible. I hope you always know how much we love you. Happy first birthday to my little big girl!

Love

Mom

Easter Eve

Today Trevin and I bought some things for Addie for Easter, indulged in some Easter candy, colored eggs with the fam, and as soon as Addie went to bed the Easter bunny came. I realized last year we didn't do Easter baskets, I don't think I ate a single piece of Easter candy, no eggs or bunnies! Last Easter eve Trevin and I slept in a room connected to the NICU at the hospital. My cell phone would ring every two or three hours and I would groggily make me way to Addie's bed in the NICU and feed her (Trev slept through the whole thing but with a year to make up for it he has long since been forgiven). Just shy of one week a year ago Addie was born and on Easter she got to come home from the hospital. Its crazy how time can give you so much perspective on things. Right after Addie was born and admitted to the NICU I obviously thought the world was ending. The doctor assured me that her illness wasn't something that she would take to kindergarten or even her first birthday. I really wanted to believe him but still had my doubts. In a few weeks it will be a year since Addie left the NICU and has never looked back.

I never imagined laying in the sleep room on Easter Eve last year that a year later Addie would be walking, laughing, constantly folding her arms because she wants to pray, using sign language, learning a couple words, and even getting a little attitude. I never imagined we would be living in Logan and I would be working. I look back and see how much our little family has grown and can't wait to look forward to a year from now so see what we've done.

Happy Easter Eve, and like we told Addie, "Be good or else the Easter bunny wont come." I think I've decided that Easter bunny is what Santa does for a living in the spring. Gotta pay the bills somehow I guess.

Cache Valley Bo-Baly

I really don't have any exciting updates on life, maybe that's why it has been awhile since I've blogged. However for those avid followers I figured I needed to give them a little something to keep them still reading so that when I do actually have something to write I will have someone to read it too....all three of you!

Anyways Addie is hilarious. Here she is with her pink blanket that she is obsessed with. She loves to walk around with it but always trips over it so here is the new way she carries it.

She is getting so smart and after all that baby signing FINALLY does some signs. She does please, more, wash hands, and all done. She also has started to get a little attitude and scratches you if she gets mad at you...looks like we need to work on that along with the whole eating grass thing. Yeah probably not the best. I can't believe she turns one NEXT WEEK! I think back to life a year ago and cannot believe how much it has changed....

• wearing jeans three sizes smaller
• sleeping for 8 hours STRAIGHT (no potty breaks)
• wolfing down meals in under 3 minutes
• getting ready for the day in less than 20 minutes
• savoring nap time
• being able to walk a mile faster than 30 minutes (sad but true one year ago)
• seeing a giggly happy face every morning that can't wait for me to pick her up so she can give me hugs and kiss (it all makes it worth it!)

And on some other more random notes we found a place to live in Logan....

Yeah we aren't living at the temple but just right behind the overflowing parking so pretty much the temple is our backyard. We don't move in until the end of April or else I would show you pictures, although my mother might faint. It was very cheap, lets put it that way. It will be good though for our family, its clean, lots of space for Addie, and it seems like a good area. Its nice to know where we will be calling home for the next year or so.

And finally my job. Did I tell you I love it? Its hard to leave Addie every morning but I feel so blessed that I'm going to a job that I like, it would be so much harder if it was something I dreaded every day. I seriously couldn't have a better boss. I asked him for a day off and he told me "you work to live not live to work." Seriously who says that? Anyways its going great and the girls I work with are super fun too.

Alive

I know it has been awhile and I have been bad about updating all the changes in our life lately but we are still alive! Here is a quick update on life...

Addie and I have been living in Logan with the in-laws for a week and a half now and Addie couldn't be happier EXCEPT missing her daddy of course! She follows her grandma around all day and practices all the new things that grandma teaches her. My mother-in-law will play with Addie for half an hour and teach her a million things that later I think to myself why in the world didn't I think of that. I guess it comes with experience. Anyways in this past week and a half Addie has mastered walking and prefers toddling around to that crawling stuff she used to do. If Addie could talk she would probably say that's for babies. She has also learned the actions for the itsy bitsy spider song, peek-a-boo, how to hug and kiss her baby doll, and today she was trying to wrap her baby in a blanket. I love it, she is just growing and learning so fast. She also LOVES books and will sit and read books forever and ever. Even if you don't read to her she will look at them by herself. She also has a favorite pink monkey blanket that is used for cuddling and sleeping (thanks Amanda!).

Anyways besides Addie growing up like crazy I started my job last week which will definitely be a challenge but I think fun too. I am going to be doing all the scheduling for all the staff on the inpatient units of the hospital in Logan. Its a brand new thing they're rolling out at the Logan Hospital so right now I'm just doing set up but we go live in May. My co-workers are great and its just a really nice set up. It has been SO hard to leave Addie every day but I've just been doing four or five hours a day so we get lots of playing time before and after work. It seems like our time together is more quality because I'm not trying to do so many other projects and things but when I'm with Addie we just focus on playing. It has also been really hard not having Trevin here. Yeah it would be nice to have help with Addie in the evenings but more than that I just miss him. In case anyone is wondering, only 3 1/2 more weeks of this BUT the great part is he comes up every Friday and leaves early Monday morning so at least we have that.

We are also currently apartment hunting. We're hopefully looking for something close to the hospital since we just have the one car we share. But we're going to look at a place on Friday so we'll see how that goes. And there is a quick update on our crazy lives these days

Over the River and Through the Wood

To Grandma's house we go....

Addie and I are moving to Logan this weekend....with Trevin to come as soon as he graduates. Trevin and I came to the realization a couple months ago that medical school wasn't in the cards for this year and we started looking for other opportunities to keep us busy (and alive) for this year while Trevin reapplies. We both started applying for jobs and I ended up getting a job at the Logan hospital scheduling the nurses and staff for the hospital and doing payroll. The kicker is I will be starting on Tuesday. So Addie and I will be moving in with the in-laws (bless their souls!) for the next month or so until Trevin finishes school and we can move into an apartment in Logan. This all has happened within the last couple weeks and has felt like a whirlwind but also a huge blessing. We have been really praying for opportunities for this year and I won't call it luck that I happened to see this job on a random job site on the internet, I happened to get invited for a group interview with 11 other people, I happened to get a second interview along with 3 other people, and I happened to get the job. Its going to be hard to be away from Trevin for the next month but this has really been an answer to our prayers.

Lately we've been thinking a lot about how things are panning out this year. Why did we not get into medical school? Why out of the tons of jobs that we both applied for did I end up with the job? I'm still trying to figure out what lessons we are suppose to be learning from all this, I guess retrospect is a lot better of a viewpoint. If anything I know trials like these bring our family closer. We have definitely been counting our blessings a lot more and realizing the important things in our lives. I keep finding quotes on pinterest that I love and have definitely been uplifting.

"My life may not be going the way that I planned it, but its going EXACTLY the way God planned it."

"Faith in God includes faith in His timing."

I'm sure a lot of people out there have these same feelings, whether its about getting into medical school, or getting a job, or having a baby, or getting married, or whatever it might be I'm learning a lot about patience and faith through all this. Most importantly I think Trevin and I are better understanding the phrase, "we're in this together," and I couldn't have picked a better guy for the journey!

Diet--Day 1

Trev and I started a diet today, not like a lets be skinny and eat nothing diet but like a lets be healthy diet. Actually we call it a "wellness program". Brock and Ashley inspired us with all their healthiness so we made up our own program. If anyone really wants the details comment and I'll tell you what we're doing. Anyways part of the program calls for no desserts 5 out of 7 days of the week....we went to Yogurtland for family home evening tonight. Day 1 and we already used one of our treat days, off to a good start. It was all Addie's idea, promise! Another part of the program calls for 30 minutes of exercise 5 out of 7 days a week...we played Just Dance for 30 minutes tonight. Haha so maybe we have gotten a little bit of a slow start BUT I'm excited to get back in gear for the summer. AND the best part is we just bought the Insanity DVDs, has anyone every done the workouts? I saw Shaun T on Dr. Oz the other day and ever since have been thinking about doing them. This morning I come in the living room to Trevin watching the infomercial for it. We seriously have a hard time believing the results you see on TV but its worth a shot I guess. I'll keep you posted on how that goes.

Two Weddings And A Baby Blessing

Yes the title describes our fun and tiring weekend exactly. My old roommate Katie got married on Friday in Bountiful. I wish I had brought a camera to take pictures instead of having to wait for the professional pictures but when you are thinking about your child and the babysitter and your hair and what tie your husband is wearing the camera slips your mind. Anyways what a beautiful wedding it was and what a long day it was. We left the house at 8:30 am and got home at 9:30 pm. Definitely a long day but I love weddings. I always think back to the day I got married and I always get a little giddy, what a fun day your wedding is! Anyways it was a super cute wedding mainly because they have liked each other since high school and I watched her go through the whole thing while he served a mission in Brazil and then she left on a mission hours before he got back from his mission. Katie and I wrote a lot of letters to each other and she would always tell me about the boy. I was just so happy that after all this time they are finally together.

The next day was one of my best friends, Amanda, wedding. What a beautiful day and I couldn't be happier for her! Before her husband came along she spent a lot of time with Trevin and me. We used to joke that she was our third wheel/child but I loved how much time we spent with her! But through all of it I'm so glad that she found someone that makes her so happy, they're so perfect together! I was a bridesmaid so it made for a long day. I feel like my toes are all broken now from wearing high heels for two days straight but it was all worth it.

Today Trevin's best friend Trevor blessed their little baby girl. It was so nice and what a cute little girl they have!

It has been a long weekend but I couldn't be more grateful for our friends and for their happiness!

V-day RSV Way

My parents always told me they made sacrifices for me and I always laughed and assumed my presence was the greatest gift to them. Anyways being a parent I'm starting to learn a little about this whole sacrifice thing. Trevin had made reservations for Valentines a few weeks beforehand (come to find out later was a nice restaurant up at Sundance). We were going to trade babysitting with some of our friends so that we could all have date nights. We babysat their 2 month old last Friday night for them and then they were going to babysit on Valentines for us. Well Addie started getting sick over the weekend and the day before Valentines we ended up going to the doctor to find out that Addie had RSV. Poor girl! She was going to be fine but very contagious...especially to a 2 month old. We decided to cancel our date for the next night to make sure our friends' little baby wouldn't get sick. We had Chilis takeout and watched TV. I was slightly disappointed because I love everything clique about Valentines including fancy romantic restaurants but I had a lot of blessings to count that day. Addie was healthy and my sweet husband thought of a back up plan. Here are some pictures of our little sicko on Valentines and a couple other pictures (Thanks for the Valentines shirt Grandma Robinson!)

Newly Weds No More

We bought a king bed this past week. Need I say more?

Trevin and I never bought a bed when we got married. Our first apartment came furnished with a FULL bed. Yes a full bed with enough space to either cuddle or sleep on the floor. When we moved out of that apartment into our current place we needed to get a bed but no longer had the cash flow of newly weds so my in-laws were nice enough to let us borrow a spare QUEEN bed they had. I thought it was plenty big enough for the two of us but apparently I like to sleep in the middle of the bed and when I'm pregnant I bring 6 new friends to bed...pillows that is. It was so nice of them to lend us the bed however it was old, old enough that I felt like a raft at sea every time Trevin would toss or turn in bed. SO when we got our tax return (having a baby rocks!) we vowed to buy a new bed. The day finally came and we went bed shopping. This is a plug for the place we bought our bed but seriously so awesome, its called Mattress Dealzz in American Fork, yup love it! Anyways a king bed was only a little more expensive than a queen and Trevin has dreamed of this since we got married so we got it. We are no longer those snuggle cuddle bugs that you always assume newly weds are. Well...we never were but its official, were an old married couple, we have a huge bed that allows us to never touch whatsoever during sleep. AND I get to sleep in the middle without getting shoved over anymore!

Coupon FAIL

Lately, and by lately I mean since Friday when we bought our new printer, I have been slightly obsessed with couponing. I was printing them off the internet and making stacks and piles and lists and planning my mass attack on Walmart. I even dreamed about coupons Saturday and Sunday night, blah, awful way to sleep. Anyways this morning I woke up EARLY. I had a huge list and it was the only time of day I could go so at 7 am I headed to Walmart (because they price match and I THOUGHT I could avoid going to 5 stores this way). I got to Walmart and realized I left my wallet at home. So mad!! I drove the 15 minutes home and then plowed my way through rush hour traffic to get back to the store. I had exactly one hour to get through the whole store or else Trevin (at home watching Addie) would be late for school. I planned on walking out of Walmart with 30 boxes of cereal all under $1 a box. FAIL. I walked out with no cereal. They didn't sell the size cereal that I thought was on sale. In my defense I saw it on a couponing blog, I didn't actually look at the ad. Lesson learned! I figured no big deal I'll just stop at Maceys on my way home to get the cereal. Ha, turns out the kind of cereal I had coupons for wasn't even on sale. So to make a long story short through out the day I ended up at 2 other grocery stores 1 of which I was successful in, the other had some weird store policy that wouldn't let me use my coupons. I didn't find out till after they had rung everything up. So yes my dreams and aspirations this weekend were all dashed in one day. But lots of lessons learned. The main one....couponing isn't my thing, I need a new hobby.

A Haircut and Ice Cream

Someone's hair was a little out of control, time for her first haircut!

She sat so still and didn't move a muscle on our makeshift haircutting chair.

I lied, she isn't naturally that still. We had a little help from the Baby Signing Time video on TV

Later that night we got ice cream cones from McDonalds (yes my addiction is slowly coming back) and she really really loved it, so much so that while I was sitting on the floor eating my cone and watching TV she snuck up on me and got another bite.

Big Girl Syndrome

We have a problem at our house. We call it the Big Girl Syndrome. Now that Addie can crawl and pull herself up and stand she thinks she is independent and is a "Big Girl." This means she refuses baby food of any sort. She also will generally not allow you to put anything in her mouth. If she is going to eat something it is going to pass through her hands for inspection first. In addition, being held is only a means of getting somewhere quicker. If the intention of holding is to confine her then she screams enough to make people give you dirty looks at the grocery store. Naps are also considered optional in her mind. And big girls must like playing in the kitchen because that is her new favorite hang out spot. Happy 9 months to our little "Big Girl!"

Faith

I found this on Pinterest

"we must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us"

Lately I've taken to finding uplifting quotes like this and reading lots of General Conference talks on faith. Trevin hasn't been accepted to medical school yet and time is running out. We don't know what we are going to be doing next fall or where we are going to live. He has started applications for graduate school programs too (the deadlines happen to be in a month meaning we found out he has to take the GRE in two weeks) but lately it just feels like a down pour of less than good news. Trevin said tonight we really should be due for a break soon, seriously, haha.

I'm so glad for my religion, I think if I didn't have it all of this would be a lot harder. But with lots of prayers, scriptures, and General Conference talks things are looking lots brighter than otherwise. I'm sure we will end up where we should be and everything will work out.

Christmas

Just a few photos from Christmas. Yes Trevin had a Christmas mustache, lets not go into that but anyways we had a great Christmas and Addie had a blast!!