Happy Father's Day!

I just wanted to wish my wonderful husband a Happy Father's Day. He is the best husband and father and I am so grateful for a day to reflect on all that he does as a dad. Now Brian is headed off to scout camp for the week so we won't see him but we're glad we got to celebrate Father's Day with him! Ethan and I love you, babe!

TV and Scooting

We are finally getting real TV. I am so super excited. We have had basic cable for the last several months, which I got bored with real quick. There are only like 10 channels total and nothing ever good on. So we signed up for Dish Network so that we can have a DVR (yay!!) and a ton more channels. I'm so excited and get this, its only going to cost $10 more a month than what we were paying for basically no channels. I am so happy, I'm posting about it!

Ethan decided to do a few things yesterday that surprised me. First he scooted to get to a toy that he wanted out of reach. Then he rolled over from him stomach to his back. Amazing! I can't believe he did both things. But today he is back to being his lazy self, no moving at all. I am totally fine with that because once he starts, he'll never stop! Oh I love this kid! How could you not?

This Weekend

Let's start with Friday. Last week had been one of those weeks for me because Brian was gone a lot and Ethan wasn't being the happiest so at Brian's softball game Thursday night, a girl in my ward invited me to go to Girl's Night. I was really excited because I really needed a break from everything and I wanted to get to know the women in my neighborhood better. We went out Friday night to Pier 49 Pizza where they have a date night deal where you get two personal sized pizzas, two drinks, two movie tickets and two ice creams at Charly's for $30. I know, good deal right? So that's what we did except we didn't end up going to a movie because there weren't any good ones that we wanted to see. No chick flicks. So then we went to the church to play some games and that was a lot of fun. I had to leave a little early because I had to feed Ethan but it was so much fun and I'm glad I went.

Then Saturday, I went down to my mom's to work on a blanket for my dad for Father's Day. He doesn't have any blankets so we thought it would be a good idea for him to have one from all of us. So my sisters (except Heather, who had to work) and I worked on the blanket and finished in 3 1/2 hours. That's really fast for the size of blanket we did. I was really excited because it turned out really good. Then my mom sewed up the edges as I fed it through the machine. We had some yummy lunch, thanks to my wonderful mother who took care of all of us this whole time. She kept the needles threaded and candy available. It was great. I had a good time spending the day with my sisters.

Yesterday, we didn't go to all of church because Brian hurt his back pretty bad doing tile on Saturday. Our shower floor tile cracked and leaked under our tile floor so Brian fixed that on Saturday while I was gone. He was really sore and not feeling so good so we didn't go to church but I still had my meeting and I had to go to Relief Society to do a few things. Then we just vegged the rest of the day, while watching Alias. I love this show. I forgot how much I liked it. We watched it back when we were dating and watching it again brings back so many memories! So fun. Anyway, we had a good but crazy weekend. And Ethan's been a little stuffed up so I'm hoping that he's finally getting teeth. He's been drooling forever and been a little cranky. He's chewing on his fingers more and cries when I try to touch his gums so hopefully that means a tooth. We'll see!

What a Disaster!

On Monday, I went to pick up Brian's dry cleaning and was gone for about a total of 15 minutes. When I left, everything was perfectly fine. As soon as I started driving, it started raining like crazy outside and hail came and it was all so nuts! So when I got home, I went to our sun room and put Ethan in his toy so that I could bring in the clothes. I turned around and saw that our cabinet above where our computer desk is going to go had fallen off the wall and was shattered on the ground. There was glass and wood chips all the way to the window, which for those of you who have been in my house know that is a long ways. I was so upset at the time I didn't think to take a picture of the mess until after I had cleaned it all up. I tried calling Brian like a million times but he wouldn't answer. Then I went downstairs to see if the rain was coming in our window in our cold storage room. It was and it was also coming in another window that one of the screws wasn't sealed off right or something. It's all fixed now but at the time I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown. And Ethan could tell I was upset so he was screaming like a madman until I picked him up and loved him. I also wanted to say that our cabinet guy that we just absolutely loath is the one to thank for our cabinet falling. We checked it out a little closer to see why it would've fallen and we noticed he put one screw on the top of the cabinet and three on the bottom. And they weren't even in a stud. Can you imagine the fury which I felt? I very much dislike the man as it is but to find out that he was stupid enough to only put screws in the sheet rock and only put a few in I was furious. And I usually put Ethan in his bumbo right where it fell so the bumbo was underneath the whole mess but its made of rubber so it didn't get hurt at all. But its a huge blessing that I wasn't home when it fell because Ethan would've most likely been in his bumbo. I can't even think about if that had happened. Its too scary and sad to think about. Oh and all the things that were in my cabinet broke. I mostly had candles in there and about half broke and shattered all over the place. I didn't notice at first but when I walked in and put Ethan in his toy, I had walked over all this glass but just thought they were crumbs or something. I took some pictures of the aftermath so they don't do justice to what it really looked like. The worst part of this is that where the cabinet fell on the wood floor is totally scratched up and a huge chunk is missing in part of it. The cabinet also took a chunk out of our wall and banged up the cabinet below that has drawers for our computer desk. Oh well, what do you do? We can't sue him because he has no money and it would totally ruin him and his family and if we called him to replace it, it would just take a year to get a new cabinet because that is the way he works. We're just going to call someone else and see if they can make us one within a reasonable amount of time. Wish us luck!

This is obviously after the mess was cleaned up.

I don't know if you can tell very well but there's a ton of scratches and a huge chunk missing in the floor.

Here's the cabinet in pieces. We may be able to use one of the doors again but as you can tell the other one on the left splintered in half. SO unfortunate!

Oh The Joys of Teaching

This past week has been a little crazy, but what's new? Life is always busy now that Brian is in scouts and Young Mens and I am in Relief Society. I was asked a few weeks ago to teach this Sunday. Anyone who knows me knows that I am NOT a public speaker of any sort, but to teach is 10 times worse for me. I am so scatter brained when I get in front of people that teaching has, in the past, been a very bad experience for me. I taught Relief Society today on prayer and I did a lot of that this last week in preparation for this lesson. I tried to forget that I was teaching during church so that I could enjoy the other lessons. I actually did a good job forgetting, thanks to my crazy son who takes up a lot of my attention. So Relief Society came and it was time. Of course I got really nervous but it wasn't as bad as the anticipation. It actually went really well because I had a lot of comments and I stayed pretty close to what I wanted to say. I got a little sidetracked a couple times but overall, it went well. I am SO glad it is over and I don't have to teach until November. The funny thing about me teaching is that I am the secretary of Relief Society so I'm not considered a part of the presidency. So I don't have to go to certain meetings and I never have to conduct but yet I have to teach. Makes no sense but oh well.

Yesterday, my sister and brother-in-law blessed their little angel, Clint. He was the baby who was supposed to be born a day before Ethan but was actually born three months too early. He is about the same size of Ethan now and he's 10 months old. It was a lot of fun getting together with my family and to see little Clint out and about. He's been stuck at home for most his life so he wouldn't get sick so this was the first time he got to see some of Mason's family. It was a lot of fun but unfortunately, I didn't have my camera so no pictures. Sorry.

Ethan is 7 months old today. He is growing so fast and I can't believe he's been with us that long. Its so great and I just love my angel baby. He is so much happier and will laugh for no reason. He just loves to eat anything he can get in his mouth, especially table foods. I've been careful what I give him but I let him eat half pieces of cheerios. He loves them! He could eat them all day. Silly boy! We love him so much. He's such a huge blessing in our lives. I know I say that a lot but its so true. Love you baby!