Lately...

Ok so I have so much to write about and as always, no pictures to share. We'll start off with our new place. We moved! Yay! And we love it. We moved into an older town home in a wonderful part of Kaysville. We are really excited about it and our wonderful neighbors :) We haven't really been to church yet due to the fact I can't really sit for more than an hour and it happens to fall right during Ethan's nap, which he CANNOT go without seeing as how he is the orneriest kid at about 1:30. So needless to say we're really excited about the change in time come the new year.

Next would be Thanksgiving. We moved into our house in day before Thanksgiving. For Thanksgiving this year, we headed to my mom's. It was a lot of fun to see everyone. Almost everyone in my family was there for dinner and the rest who weren't, joined us later for yummy pies. It was craziness as always with all the people but so fun to see everyone. I wasn't feeling the greatest so we headed home a little early and just unpacked the rest of the night.

The last few weeks have been a little crazy. Between doctor's appointments and trying to get ready for this baby, with all the Christmas stuff going on as well, we've barely had any time to do anything. Brian is enjoying his work at Lowe's. He's loving his hours and just signed up for school in January, which we are both a little nervous and excited for. Its going to be an adjustment, having him be gone more and have a new baby on top of it but it'll be really good for him to get going. He's really excited about getting back into school and learning.

I have been playing with Ethan, going to doctor's appointments and trying to stay positive about still being pregnant. I know I'm only 38 weeks but when the baby drops at 32 weeks and doesn't move back up, it is a REALLY long 6 weeks. Plus I've been having contractions all the time with little progress which is really frustrating. But we are really excited to have this little one join our family, hopefully before Christmas :) I went to the doctor yesterday and everything is looking ok. I have high blood pressure but not enough for them to start me. I am dilated to a 4 and on my way, my doctor keeps saying. We'll see. She said she'll see me this weekend. I highly doubt it. I think Brayden will come when he's good and ready. Plus we have two family Christmas parties this weekend, which we definitely want to be part of.

Ethan has been such a fun boy lately. He definitely has his days and moments, being two and all, but he has such a fun personality and is beginning to pretend. It is so fun to play with him and watch him interact with Brian. He loves his dad and knows he can only do certain things with his dad, such as wrestling, shooting, things boys do. He also has been getting his 2 year molars, which have been ok. He's a little more sensitive but mostly he's good. He doesn't get sick or fevers or anything with his teeth, which has been such a blessing! He does however turn into a super sensitive bear but we just love him and give him ibuprofen and it seems to help :)

Life is great and we feel so blessed to be at this point in our lives. We are so excited to start new adventures (school, baby) and see what the Lord has in store for us. We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!

Pregnancy Happenings

So I wanted to write this down, mostly for my own benefit so I don't forget the details. This past week has been a bit crazy pregnancy wise. I went last Thursday into my 33 week doctor appointment. Brian decided to come with me so that he could meet our doctor. I had to switch seeing as we moved and I don't want to travel to Logan while in labor. Anyway, I had been having contractions pretty regularly all day but didn't really think anything of it. Contractions are pretty normal for me. So anyway, we sat in the waiting room for about 45 minutes before they finally called me back. Then we spent another 30 minutes waiting in the room. Honestly! So finally the nurse practitioner came and said Dr. Jiricko was caught up with another patient and couldn't see me. Like I cared at this point, I just wanted to go home. So the exam continued and she was concerned about my contractions so she checked me. I was dilating but not even to a 1 yet so she said she just wanted to monitor me for about 20 minutes, just to see how often the contractions were.

So they hooked me up to an archaic machine. We were laughing because it was printing paper, no screen and it was making humming noises :) Anyway, after about 10 minutes she came in and I had had about 4 contractions. And the baby's heart rate had what they called decelerations. She said it was normal for it to fluctuate but his rate went from 160 to 80 and that was dangerous. It happened a couple times in the 10 minutes so she sent me to the hospital to be monitored.

We grabbed some dinner and headed straight over. I wasn't too concerned about the contractions but the decels were a little scary. So they hooked me up at the hospital and the contractions were coming about every 2-3 minutes, some being more painful than others. So about a half hour into it, the nurse checked me and I was at a 1 plus so they decided to admit me. They started giving me tons of medicines, hooked me up to the IV with the antibiotics, since I am strep B positive and told me I couldn't eat anything but ice chips. I got the steroid shot to help Brayden's lungs, just in case he decided to grace us with his presence that night.

Well, I was hoping they would just keep me for a few hours and let me go home. But nope. Brayden's heart rate decelled again twice in two contractions so they kept me. They wanted to see that he had no decels for 8 hours. Well, they gave me doses of nifedipine, a drug that helps with contractions and they weren't slowing down so they gave me a shot of something else, can't remember the name but they said it was similar to magnesium. It made me feel so sick and my whole body shake. But that did the trick. After that, my contractions slowed to maybe every 5-10 minutes and I was able to sleep for a little bit.

In the morning, I was SUPER anxious to go home since I was feeling a whole lot better and there had been no decels all night. My doctor came in and started talking about having me stay all day and maybe releasing me after my follow up steroid shot that night. I was not having that since the hospital in super uncomfortable, things were looking a lot better and I knew I could rest better at home. I basically begged her to let me go home and she said if she checked me and I was more than a 2, she wouldn't let me. She checked and I was a 2! Yay time to go home. She sent me home with the nifedipine and on bed rest.

Well, things have been a lot better since then and I have been taking it semi easy. I mean come on, how much bed rest can you do with a 2 year old? I went to my 34 week appointment yesterday and she said things were looking great. I'm still at a 2 but she has kept me on bed rest until 36 weeks, along with my meds. Then after that, she said things can happen if they want. We'll see. I'm pretty confident I will be pregnant well into December.

On to other news, we found an apartment! Yay! I am super excited. Thanks to my friend, Jennica, who's dad owns some townhomes in Kaysville, we are moving in less than a week. Hopefully Tuesday but we don't know the day for sure. I will post pictures when we get all settled in. I am so excited to have our own place again. My mom's has been great and she has been beyond wonderful but its always nice to be on our own. I am so grateful for everything my mom has done for us. Without her, we have no idea where we'd be right now. Thanks Mom! We love you!

Photos Finally!

Just Because...

I love these faces!

So happy

This was forever ago, July 24th but I thought they looked so cute!

His new favorite pastime. This kid LOVES to color!

Happy Birthday to my little one! I still can't believe he's two. SO crazy!

He was so excited to see his buddy, Hunter. And I'd say Hunter was pretty excited himself :)

Loves this lion. He keeps calling it a bear. One day he'll get it right.

Ethan is very much into Toy Story 3, Finding Nemo, and of course, How to Train Your Dragon!

Playing with some dinosaurs, or dinosauns as Ethan calls them, from Grandma Mathison.

My belly at 32 weeks. Random I know but I keep getting asked to see my HUGE belly ;)

Halloween. He wasn't a fan of being dressed up so we bribed him with money. Also a new fave.

My two favorite people in the whole world. I love these boys!

Proof of the money. He loves it. Always asks for it.

We took Ethan to the Dinosaur Park in Ogden a few days before his birthday. He loved it! He was a little scared at first but then was completely fascinated with it. He wanted to touch everything and run everywhere. It was so fun! He loves those "dinosauns"!

I had to add these last two because I just love this kid. He is so stinkin' cute, most of the time.

Gotta love that hair. It grows straight out and there's nothing we can do about it :) Don't forget the shoes, over the pajamas. Yep, that's my kid! I hope you enjoyed the show.

Our New Car!

Imagine this car green with a spoiler and missing the black line on the back door, with a few dents here and there. That is what we will be driving now. Can you say stylin'?? I am actually really excited about it because it cost us $1200 and its a very decent running, and ok looking vehicle for the price. Believe me, I looked at a million cars over the last few weeks that were nothing compared to this and they wanted a lot more for them. We got rid of our Jeep, seeing as it had some major issues that would have cost a lot more than $1200 to fix. Now we have no car payment (once we pay this off in one sum, hopefully) and it will cost about half to fill this thing when empty, half as often.

It is a '97 Honda Accord with 194,000 miles on it. I know, a lot but Accords last forever right? We're hoping it will last us at least 6 months. That's all we need out of it. Brian took it in today to get the safety inspection done on it and it passed!! Hallelujah! Now on to registering it and we will be legal to drive this thing. Its too bad the offices aren't open today. Then we'd be cruising Kaysville Main in our awesome new ride :) Thanks to Devin for helping us get such a great deal!

Still Here!

*This is going to be a long post with no pictures, just warning you!

So the last couple months have been a roller coaster ride to say the least. We have had a ton happen. Brian was laid off from yet another job. That makes 4 jobs in the last year. And none that he's quit or been fired from. Interesting how we are now just being affected by the economy but when it hits, it hits hard. He got laid off about a month and a half ago and just got a job with Lowe's doing their commercial sales. It is the branch out of Bountiful so that will be nice when he starts school. Speaking of, he's starting school, hopefully, this Spring semester at the U.

Oh and speaking of working in Bountiful and school in Salt Lake, we moved. Yes, we moved from our beautiful home in with my mom. It has been a very smooth move and transition but I have to say I sorely miss our home. It was a lot harder than I thought to leave it and know we weren't coming back. I also miss all my dear friends and neighbors, especially our families in Cache Valley. It is hard leaving a lot of people we love but we've moved closer to other family members and friends who are fantastic! And we are very excited to be on a new journey. Its nice to be moving forward and we're really hoping this job works out longer than just a couple months.

Ethan has been adjusting better than I thought. He's not one for change so I was a little worried that he'd have a hard time. He loves playing with all his cousins here and especially Heidi's baby, Maddi. He loves to just pet her head and share anything he has with her. Sometimes its a little much but at least he's sharing right??

On to Brian's job. He was called in for his first interview Wednesday of last week and they told him that he'd be notified for a second interview the following week. But they called back the next day and asked him to come in Friday for his final interview. He was a bit surprised seeing as how they told him it would be at least a week but he wasn't complaining :) He went in and they told him it was between him and one other guy and they'd let him know. They didn't say when so the weekend was a bit stressful. They called Monday night at about 9:30 to have him come in for a job offer. Hallelujah! He went in thinking it would take a while to go over everything but they talked to him for about five minutes. They asked if he wanted the job, told him pay and after doing a background check and drug test, they would discuss everything else. Well, the guy who has been doing everything went out of town after their meeting so Brian still doesn't know when or really if he will start this job. Hopefully he'll be back tomorrow and get the ball rolling!

I feel like I'm growing huge already and I have three months left! I have little legs poking my ribs all the time, which is actually kind of fun right now. He's still little enough I'm not super uncomfortable but now his movements make my stomach move. Its so fun to watch. This is the best part of pregnancy for me, right about 25-32 weeks. Baby is small enough but moves a lot, and I'm feeling better. Its great. Moving and the stress of everything has made the contractions more often but I had this with Ethan too. Its just the way we roll here :) And I'm needing to find a new doctor. I really don't want to drive up to Logan, in labor, in a snow storm, around Christmas. I am looking into a few options and will hopefully have someone soon.

Moving is hard but I'm just really glad we've had the help and support of our families. My mom has been great. She took us in with open arms! We hope not to be here much longer, not because of her but because we like to be on our own. I just had to publicly thank my mother for everything she has done for us. She is the best and we love you!!

Also, thank you to everyone who has helped us through this hard time. Life has thrown some curve balls at us lately and we really appreciate all the help everyone's given us. It has made everything bearable so thank you!!

I don't have any pictures because my camera cord is packed in some random box in my mother's basement so when we move again, I will post pictures. I promise. That is all for now but I will be better at updating, seeing as how I have internet access again! Yay!

Yes, We Are Alive

So we haven't fallen off the face of the earth or anything. We did get rid of the internet so its been near to impossible to post lately. My dear in-laws are sweet enough to let me borrow their computer so I can update on what's been going on lately. Thanks!

The last month has been insane! We had a wonderful 24th, celebrated by watching a parade (Ethan's first) with Brad, Missy and Abbi. It was a lot of fun but Ethan did get scared a few times, surprise surprise! Then we went and celebrated our nephew, Noah's, birthday and had a blast there.

A few days later, it was my birthday. My sister Laura made me dinner and brownies with homemade ice cream. It was so yummy and great to not have to make dinner on my birthday. Thanks Laura!

The next weekend, we went camping with my family. We headed up to Cinnamon Creek on a very rainy Friday night. It rained the whole night, which made sleep impossible but fun nonetheless. Saturday we spent just hanging out, which was nice. We had a run-in with a rattlesnake. I really wish I had gotten on camera my two brothers-in-law who took care of it. Robert had a huge rock he kept throwing at it and Steve had a shovel he kept trying to chop the head off with. He finally did and they kept the rattle for a trophy I guess. Then when my other brother-in-law Casey came back, he suggested they fry up the snake and eat it for dinner! Sick I know but they did. It was quite the adventurous day :)

This week, August 11th, we had our 20 week doctor's appointment. Baby looks fabulous and is growing right on schedule. And as most of you know, IT'S A BOY!! We're so excited. Brian has said from the beginning he knew it was a boy so he was pretty proud when he found out for sure. I'm really excited to have two little boys so close in age. Hopefully they will be best buds.

That night we celebrated Clint's 2nd birthday. Speaking of Clint, Tara was able to bring Natalie home a couple weeks ago. She was six weeks old to the day when she finally was able to come home. Mother and baby are doing really well. Natalie is still healing from her surgeries but hopefully will be better real soon. We're so glad to have them home!!

Later that same night, we headed over to our friends, the Picketts, to celebrate Carlin's birthday. We are almost exactly two weeks apart in age and are very similar is pretty much everything else. I love that woman! Happy birthday Carlin!

I know this is a long post but sorry, no pictures. Next time, I promise. Until then, I hope everyone has had a wonderful summer!

Our 4th of July

Was pretty much perfect. We didn't have any set plans and we loved it. Friday we had Brian's mom over for dinner. She is such a great person to be around. Thanks for coming over, Lorie! After we put Ethan to bed, we tried to watch the Logan fireworks from our neighbors' back porch. Unfortunately there were a few trees in the way but it was still fun to chat with them. Saturday, we hung out with Brian's brother and his family, made homemade pizzas and did our own little fireworks show. It was so fun to see how excited the kids got. When we got home, our neighbors up the street were putting on an awesome fireworks show. They buy the illegal ones and it was so great! So much better than the night before. We just watched from our driveway. So cool!

Sunday, we headed to church and pretty much just chilled the whole day. It was so nice to not have a super busy weekend with a thousand things to do. It made the whole holiday very enjoyable. Monday we took Ethan to see Toy Story 3. I got two free tickets to the movie when I bought the other two on DVD earlier this year and it was fantastic. I really liked the movie and Ethan did great, most of the time. He's still a little too young to sit through the whole thing but he enjoyed what he watched.

Tuesday Brian started his new job. That's right folks! Brian got a job! It is so exciting for us because we were thinking it would be forever until he could find a good job. Nope, only two weeks. Anyway, he's now a salesman for a heating and air company called Hustad Mechanical.He's really excited about it too because it has a lot of potential and the people there are great. They were really excited to have him come work with them and that makes Brian even more excited, which makes me happy :) All in all, a very good week for us.

Our Lives As Of Late

So much has happened in the last little while I honestly have no idea where to start. Biggest thing that has happened is Brian lost his job. He was laid off on Thursday but we kind of knew it was coming. His boss (not my brother) is crazy. He didn't really give a reason for firing him. So we've just been trying to figure out what we want to do now. It kind of threw us for a loop but we're back on track and Brian already had a job interview. Hopefully something will work out soon.

Secondly, it was Father's Day. Happy Father's Day to the best father in the whole world, my wonderful husband. He is the best father. Period. Ethan idolizes him like none other and I can see why. He is always playing with him, taking him outside (which is Ethan's favorite place), cares for him, and loves him so much more than he ever thought possible. Love you babe! We had a great weekend. We headed down to Layton to go swimming with my dad and my whole family. It was a blast. There are so many of us, it was so fun. Then Sunday, we hung out with Brian's family and had some yummy desserts and just had fun. Ethan loves to play with his cousins and he just had a blast all weekend.

This week, Brian has scout camp. He left today and won't be home until Saturday. It'll be a long week but I'm excited for him to get away and have some fun. He definitely deserves it. Brian's been doing a lot of work on our house the last little while. He added a back splash to our kitchen and master bath. He also covered our plywood step in our sun room with carpet, painted the garage and has been working hard in our yard. He has been working so hard and been so stressed he definitely needs a break from the real world.

Also, Tara had her baby. Natalie Ann Stevens was born yesterday morning. She weighed 5 lbs 7 oz and was 17 inches long. She was 4 1/2 weeks early and she's doing great so far. She will probably still be in the hospital for another week or so but she's not on oxygen and breathing all on her own. She's a cutie! She has Turner's Syndrome which has been a roller coaster ride for Tara this whole pregnancy. The doctors kept telling her to prepare to lose the baby, to give birth to a stillborn if she made it that far. Well, she made it to 35 1/2 weeks, alive and well. She is super adorable. A side effect of Turner's is a bad lymphatic system or drainage so she's really swollen right now and you can tell just moving her hurts her. Its so sad! But its so good to have her here, well and healthy. Congrats to Tara and Mason! We'll pray everything continues to go well and you can bring your baby girl home soon!

Just Pictures!

Just taking after his dad :) (Don't worry, he can't really open it)

Just being silly

Not quite sure about this one...

Loves his spaghetti!!

Coming home from Myton, obviously had a long day ;)

Cutest face ever!!

Showing off his cool slippers and awesome soccer jersey from Uncle BJ

Just being the cutest kid I've ever met.

Oh how I love this kid. He is so much fun! At the same time he can be so incredibly stubborn, I have no idea where he gets that from ;) Anyway, enjoy this video below. Ethan fell asleep for the first time while eating lunch a few weeks ago and I had to get it on video. He made me laugh so hard. Love this kid!!!

Our Little Peanut

Is exactly that, the size of about a peanut (or grape). You may wonder how that can be as I wrote a blog about two weeks ago and the baby was that exact size. Well, we had our first ultrasound on Friday and found out it doesn't really matter when you have your last period. It doesn't mean that you got pregnant two weeks later. The doctor had put that I was due Dec. 8th on just about everything, then did the ultrasound. I just about slapped him when he said the baby was only 8 weeks instead of the 11 we thought. He then moved my due date to December 29th. Honestly? Right after Christmas?? He said he'd like to induce me the week before so that he'd for sure be there. Well, I don't know if that's going to happen but I can't believe I'm back to being 8 1/2 weeks. I thought I was so close to being done with this whole being sick thing. I was thinking I was really close to being out of the first trimester. Frustrating, to say the least. But huge blessing is that the baby's heartbeat looks really strong and it was moving and waving to us. It was so fun to see the little peanut in there. And on Brian's birthday none the less.

On to that. It was Brian's 27th birthday Friday. Happy birthday, my love!! We didn't really do anything Friday because Brian had a wonderful scout camp out that night. We did have some cheesecake with some friends Thursday night. I also surprised Brian by getting him his new favorite game, Monopoly Deal. Its the card version of Monopoly and much more fun than the board game (in my opinion). We did have the ultrasound on Friday, so that was kind of fun to see our baby for his birthday. Also, Emily, Brian's little sister, came over Friday night after Brian left to watch Leap Year with me. It was a lot of fun to have her over. Love girls' nights. Fantastic! All in all, good weekend. Just disappointing to go back a few weeks with the due date. Oh well! Baby's healthy, that's all that matters :)

Happy Anniversary! And a bit more...

This past week was just about as crazy as the last. We had lots of fun stuff happen this week. BJ, Brian's youngest brother, got home from his mission to London on Thursday. We were all so excited to see him and for Ethan to meet his uncle for the first time! He wasn't such a huge fan at first but he's definitely warming up to BJ Its so fun to have him home. We are so proud of him for serving a mission and we're glad he's back! We love you Beej!

Friday was our 5th anniversary. Five years! I still have a hard time believing we've been married that long. But then I think of all that we've done together and can't believe its ONLY been 5 years ;) Anyway, Friday night we went out to dinner and did a little shopping. It was nice to be able to just go out the two of us and not have our little man with us. Thanks Emily and Grandma Lorie for watching Ethan! He loves you two like crazy!

Yesterday was Brian's grandmother's 80th birthday. So there was a huge party down in Myton for all her kids and their kids and their kids. They put on a fun talent show and just played around. Myton is such a fun place for these kids. They can run around and get as dirty as they want without getting in trouble. Its fantastic! Sadly, I wasn't able to make it with Brian and Ethan but I know they had a great time. I saw some pictures to prove it (which I will upload as soon as I can). I was in Kaysville all day yesterday giving some fabulous ladies massages. I did some sports massages then normal Swedish. It was fun to do something different with the sports massage. I usually just do Swedish so it was kind of fun to change it up a bit.

Today was BJ's homecoming talk. Emily and BJ both gave wonderful talks. Then we went over to Brian's parents' house to have some very yummy food. It was a lot of fun seeing everyone and chatting for a while. We had to leave a little early because Brian had a meeting and Ethan was in desperate need of a good nap. He was SUPER sensitive and VERY tired. Overall, its been a great weekend! Now on to watch some TV with my hubby. Ahh, life is wonderful!

Babies EVERYWHERE!!!

This week has been craziness to put it mildly. Monday started off with Heidi, my little sister, going into labor. This is her first baby and it was a girl. They named her Madelyn Leann. Little Maddi weighed 7 lbs exactly and was 20 in long. She has some dark hair and she is absolutely adorable. I was able to be there when Maddi was born and what a cool experience that is. I'm so happy for Heidi and Casey. Congrats to the new parents!!

Then on Wednesday, I went down to North Salt Lake to do some massages for Heidi. She obviously couldn't make it so I went in her place. It was a long day but very awesome money wise. I worked for about 5 hours of massage and made almost $300. It was great! Thanks Heidi for having your baby and letting me take over! ;)

Friday comes and my other sister, Heather, went into labor with her baby. Both Heather and Heidi were due next weekend, a day apart. So fun! Well, I was supposed to do some pictures for Heather but little Ashton came too quickly and we missed it! I couldn't believe it but luckily Robert was there and playing paparazzi (Robert's words). When me and Tara walked (more like ran) into the room, he was video taping and taking pictures at the same time. Now that's what I call talented. Little Ashton Paul joined this world at 5 PM Friday and weighed 7 lbs 5 oz and was 20 in. He's super blond and super cute! Congrats to parents (again) Heather and Robert!

Now on to some other news. You may be wondering why there is a picture of this delicious looking grape. Well, that is the size of our baby right now that will be coming in December, minus the stem and little green grape attached. That's right, we're joining the crowd of people in my family having babies. We weren't planning on joining everyone, that's for sure. This baby is very much a surprise but a very welcome one. We are really excited! Its great because we didn't have to do any fertility this time. With Ethan, I was on clomid for a year and we did four rounds of artificial insemenation. Not fun. This baby decided that it wants to join our family without help getting here, which I am 100% fine with. I am 9 weeks and due December 8th. Its crazy to think of having two kids but we are really happy. Ethan doesn't quite understand but he keeps poking my stomach and saying baby. Maybe he'll get it by the time the baby comes. We'll see! Brian is 110% positive its a boy so don't try to convince him otherwise ;) We'll find out in July what it is for sure. We have our first ultrasound on Brian's birthday, May 21st. It'll be fun to see our little peanut for the first time and hopefully everything will look good. We are so excited to add to our family!

Enough Already!

So a few funny things have happened the last week or so that I just had to post about so I wouldn't forget. Like I could but I want to anyway.

First off, last Sunday Brian locked the keys in the car. He found an ad for a locksmith in Kaysville who would only charge $30 to come unlock the car. No extras for it being a weekend. So he called the guy and he said he was on his way. An hour and a half later, he shows up, takes two seconds to unlock the car, then hands Brian a $140 bill. Brian was very upset and shocked, obviously, because this was much more than he said it would be. Well, Brian called the guy's boss and gave him a talking to ;) But the guy wouldn't budge. He said he had the right to have certain fees and that there was no way to get out of them. So we ended up paying the whole amount and it REALLY ticked me off. I was not happy because the guy cheated us. It was so dishonest. I HATE people like that.

Anyway, next thing. Our registration for our Jeep was up the end of March. We knew this but couldn't register it until we got paid. Well, I threatened Brian to not speed or doing anything wrong while driving so that he wouldn't get pulled over and get a ticket for the registration. Well, I got pulled over Wednesday coming home from a meeting. I was driving up our street and there was a cop. I thought I'd be fine because I wasn't speeding and there was no way he could see my license plate right? Well, he did and obviously put it into his computer or something. He pulled me over, right in front of our neighbors' house. I was a little embarrassed to say the least, especially when one of our neighbors drove by and laughed at me. Anyway, the cop says, "You know what's funny? I never patrol this street, let alone look at registration." Ya, I thought it was hilarious! He gave me a ticket and went on his way. I was seething! I had never been pulled over, ever and the first time had to be for registration? Honestly!

Enough of all my venting and on to funner things. Ethan is such a talker now. He can say so many words and he actually knows what they mean. Its so fun to see him learning and growing so fast. He is my sweet angel baby and I love him so much! He fell asleep in his highchair for the first time ever today. He was eating a piece of cheese and being extremely quiet. I looked over at him and he was asleep but still chewing. Holy cow! I had no idea he was that tired. He had been cranky all morning but I thought it was because of his teeth. Nope, just SUPER tired apparently. Love that kid!

Words Ethan says:

Papa

Mama (grandma)

Mommy

Dada

Baby, when he sees a picture of one or of himself

Abbi

Wa (water)

Thank you

Pees (please)

Alright! (thanks to Grandma Ilene :))

Yes, while nodding

Milt (milk)

Caw (car)

Mow (cow mixed with moo I think)

Puppy

Hi

Uh-oh

Hewo (hello, while chatting on his phone)

Tractor

Roar! (anytime he sees a bear or dinosaur)

Kitty

Ahh (I love it when he says this)

Love you

Duck

Shoes

Tee-tee (his blanket from Grandma Ilene)

Emmy (Emily)

Baw (ball)

Bye, with a Southern accent

Jesus

Co-co (cookie)

Wee!

Knot knot (knock knock) He says this when he walks by Brian's office with the door shut.

Fish

That's all I can think of right now. I told you this kid can talk! I love it. Such a stud.

Our Easter Weekend

Was great. It was full of tons of fun things and sadly, I didn't get any pictures. I believe my brother did though so I'll ask him for them and post them as soon as I get them. So Friday we headed down to my mom's and spent the whole weekend there. Later that night, we had my sister, Heidi's, baby shower. It was so fun to see everyone, including all our cousins who we never see, except at these gatherings. She got tons of super cute stuff and I'm really excited to meet little Maddi!

Saturday was also very fun. In the morning, I got to see my dearest, most sweetest friend Jacque. I love her to death. She made it possible for me to display some blocks I made. Thanks, Darling. I love you!! We then met up with some of our friends, Braden and Skyler Norton, later that evening. I absolutely love those two. They are such great people and so much fun! We seriously can't get enough of them. Its too bad we live so far apart. We went to dinner and bowling. Ethan has never been bowling and wasn't the happiest kid there. He got three of his first molars within a few days of each other so that explains it. But we had fun despite our ornery child. I hope the Nortons still want kids after seeing how "pleasant" ours can be ;) We love you guys!

Sunday was spent at my mom's for breakfast, my dad's for the last half of the Sunday morning conference session, and the afternoon at my brother's house. Ethan had so much fun at Jason's. They had an Easter egg hunt for all the kids and this was Ethan's first one! He mostly got the concept of it. He ran to an egg and would squeeze it till it would open and candy would go everywhere. He's been really good at cleaning up lately so we told him to clean up the eggs. He then started to put them in his basket and had so much fun chasing after all the eggs to "clean up".

But even for all the fun of the weekend, we still were able to remember the real reason for all the candy and celebration. We are so grateful for our Savior and the sacrifice He made for us. The Atonement is such a wonderful blessing in our lives. We don't know where we would be without the knowledge we have of the gospel and our Savior. I love Easter weekend and all it represents and can't wait to teach Ethan about it!

Randomness

This blog is going to be full of random stuff but mostly, of course, Ethan. He's been such a little stinker lately. He's been getting all four of his first molars, which one finally broke through yesterday (YAY!!) which means hopefully the other three will come out soon and he'll be our sweet little guy again. He's also learned to count, sort of, and say go. He'll say "Two...two...GO!!" He was doing that the whole way home from Tara's tonight. It was so cute.

He's been into putting on shoes and walking wherever he can with them on. He always puts them on the right feet too. He mostly puts on my shoes though. Not sure why. Maybe they're easier to walk in...

The face definitely goes with the shoes ;)

These are Brian's shoes, not mine. I just loved the way he was posing.

Ethan decided today to rearrange our chairs in the kitchen. He took all the bar stools and moved them here. Then he started clapping for himself when he got done. I couldn't help but laugh and take a picture. He can be so cute sometimes.

He's also learned how to hug. He kind of just caught on one day and started to hug Abbi like crazy. He loves that girl to death. For the first few days, he would only hug little kids but now he's starting to give loves to me and Brian. I am eating it up too. I love it!! Now on to kisses :)

These two have too much fun together. I love it!!!

On to other random stuff, Brian finally fixed/finished our shower. I'm not sure if I've blogged about this before but our master shower hasn't work for more than a couple days since we moved in a year and a half ago. We showered in it for a few days at first then realized it was leaking. So Brian tried to fix it and it still leaked. He fixed it three times before he just ripped up the entire bottom of the shower to redo it all.

I was actually impressed with how fast he got it fixed. He usually takes a while on projects he's working on (ahem the mantel). He got this finished in about three weeks and we have showered in it for three days without any leaks!! I can't tell you how excited I am! And it looks really nice too. The grout looks funny in this picture because it was all wet from Brian's shower he just took.

I probably won't blog before Easter so I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and a Happy Easter! Oh, and enjoy this video. It shows how much fun these two have together. So funny!

Poor Ethan!

Pretty much the last two weeks, Ethan has been super cranky all the time. And really sensitive. He has some major teeth coming in, so let's hope they break through any second because he's driving me crazy!! He was okay at church today, which was good. Also, he has done really well with the time change. Its like it never happened. He wanted to go to bed at about 7:30, which yesterday was 6:30 because he did this...

See the fat lip and blood on his nose? It was SOOO much worse than this. This is the shot after I was done freaking out and we put him in the bath to get the blood off him. I was going to take the trash out and Ethan thought I was leaving so he wanted to go with me. He started to chase me really fast. Too fast apparently because he tripped on his own feet and totally face planted on our wood floor. I heard the snap of his fall and ran to get him. He had a hard time breathing, he was crying so hard. He had smacked his face on the floor so hard, both nostrils were bleeding and his whole mouth was covered and full of blood. I was trying to plug his nose to stop the bleeding but he was thrashing all over the place. He got blood EVERYWHERE. I mean everywhere. All over himself, me and Brian. Poor kid was in so much pain. His lip swelled up pretty fast. His mouth was bleeding but also he was getting blood in his mouth from his nose. It was disgusting/horrifying/sad. I finally was able to get his nose to stop so we put him in the tub to get all the blood off and he was happy as can be. Super ornery after he got out though. So needless to say, he went to bed early tonight.

What a happy kid. This is before his teeth started to come in:)

He has figured out how to use his ball as a seat. He has to push it up against the wall to get it to stay though. So smart!

Getting ready for bed. He loves to be all cuddle up, in a blanket with no mom :(

Brian thought it was funny to pull Ethan's pants way up, like an old man! It was.

And this is Ethan's favorite new place. He loves to hang out in our laundry room in one of the cubbies. He is such a stud. I love this kid!