A little update

We're alive. I'll post pics soon, but here's a little update:

1) We just returned from a fabulous 3 day mini vacation to Kansas City.  Wonderful.

2) Last monday night I had really hard contractions (even after lying down) for 3 horus and almost went to the hospital.  I spent Tuesday on bed rest and felt pretty good by that night, so we bagged our big vacation plans for the weekend, and went to Kansas City, instead and took it one day at a time.  2 days relaxing in the pool was just what I needed. I'm curious what my dr. will say at my appointment tomorrow.

3) My absence from the blog is also related to spending all this time resting on blurb editing our blog into hardbound books. The first one (2006 and 2007) arrived Saturday and we LOVE it.  I'm almost ready to order 2008.  Pictures to come soon.

4) Happy 11th anniversary to us!  We spent saturday doing absolutely NOTHING.  We shopped online for bunk beds, spent the day hanging out at home with the kids, ate quesadillas for dinner, and got a redbox movie.  It was wonderful.  Usually, Saturdays are full of projects and places to be, and we loved just doing nothing all day. 

5) There are 200 tomatoes in my refridgerator and I have zero energy to can them.  I really need to make more salsa.  This year's crop is the best tasting tomatoes we've ever grown. Seriously, they are delicious.

6) We harvested the first 3lbs of concord grapes off of our vines, today!    Not enough to really do anything with, this year, but next year, oh next year, baby! I'm going to start watching now for a good price on a steam juicer for canning.

7) The bunk bed hunt continues.  We thought we found a set over the weekend and it turns out we were too late and they sold. And now we have our hearts set on a certain kind for that cheap. I need to get over that and find another set asap.

8) Speaking of beds...do you ever feel like you have a huge list of things to do, but it's all one big chain reaction?  I need to go through the baby clothes and wash everything that's been in storage. All of the baby clothes bins are sitting in my dining room, mocking me. But we need a dresser to put them in, which means we need to get Quincy's bed moved into Corbin's room, so we can move his clothes out of the baby dresser and into the drawers under that bed.  But we can't move Quincy's bed until she has a new one to sleep in and a dresser for her clothes.  I also have the fabric to make Corbin's bedding, but haven't bothered yet, since he doesn't have his bed set up anyway.  So basically, we're doing nothing until we find beds with drawers for the girls room, because once that is done, the rest of the things on our to do list will snowball behind.  It's stressing me out.
9) I'm 32 weeks pregnant and threw up all morning before church. So far, I've thrown up every single week this entire pregnancy. That kind of sucks/isn't fair.  Know what also sucks? Having someone at church say, "Wow! You're getting so big! Are you sure you aren't carrying twins?" yesterday.  That was nice. I didn't cry or say anything mean back, and I'm actually proud of myself for that accomplishment. 32 weeks and our babies are always 2 weeks early, so only 6 more weeks, and I haven't been put on bed rest yet. I think that is a new record for us and we are really grateful. 

10) Our bishop is really thoughtful. Yesterday, he called just to thank me for supporting Aaron in his calling and tell me how much he appreciates having Aaron as a secretary. Aaron spent 9 hours at the church yesterday, helping with appointments and such. We didn't mind at all, Aaron enjoys his calling and is doing a great job learning everything that needs to be done, but how thoughtful of our bishop to call me just to give thanks and recognize that having a husband gone all day on sunday is a team sacrifice.  All I could think was that it's nothing compared to what the wives of the bishopric members do!  Anyway, it was nice and unexpected, and a good reminder to me to express more gratitude and appreciate the people who serve me and my family.

11) I'm thinking about getting cloth diapers for the baby. Aaron isn't on board, but even if I just use cloth during the day and disposables at night, we'll still save a good chunk of change. 

12) Corbin is currently wearing nothing but a diaper with Buzz Lightyear toy tucked into the waist, and a plastic fireman hat backwards on his head.  I have no intention of getting him get dressed today. His "outfit" is way cuter than anything I could have picked out myself.

And that's what we've been up to this week.  Pictures to come, soon!