And time goes by...

Wow! Almost a month since I last posted. So unlike me! We've had a lot going on lately, so I better do some catch up.

First, we had Cooper's 3rd bday. It was pretty uneventful. He wanted a car cake and I lacked the enthusiasm for making a cake, so we ended up with a sadly decorated car cake. He seemed pretty excited about it though. We did presents and cake and called it good. He was pretty excited with his presents.... thanks to Gma and GranChud. All his presents were from them. It was bad timing that I was so sick of all the toys we already have, feeling like they never get played with and already putting together a DI pile, so I decided the presents from Grandparents would suffice! And of course they were.

The next day Elizabeth had her first recital. She's been taking piano for just over 2 months. I was nervous about her actually getting up there, saying her name and song title and being okay. She was terrified not too long ago to even get up in church to give a prayer, so I was praying she'd be able to do it, and she did. Beautifully at that! No mistakes. She's doing really well at the piano and we are excited about her newfound interest and talent.

 

Caroline and Isabelle have both been doing well too. We just registered Caroline for Kindergarten and she's really excited about that. I can't believe she's already old enough! Isabelle has been quite whiny and clingy lately. Not a fan! Brian admitted she's much worse when I'm around than when it's just him.

I've had 2 weekends away this month and Brian has been so supportive of it. My first one I went to a photography course down in Orem and then got to hang with my sister Caroline. That was fun. I got to sleep in too which was lovely. The next weekend I had some friends call and ask me to play in a vball tournament in Jackson Hole and Brian even said he'd skip his rehearsal so I could go. That really surprised me. That's a big deal for him so it meant even more to me! It was so fun to be in Jackson Hole and playing a little volleyball with my girls from dental school. We played on a team back in the day and it was a lot of fun. I wasn't much help though. I was so freakin' tired!!! Plus, the next day I was so incredibly sore, but it was fun to have girl time out. I don't do that very often. Not only that, being able to sit or do whatever I wanted without having to get up and get milk, food, change diapers, break up fights, etc. was heaven alone! Thanks to Brian for being so awesome and letting me do both these things without a single complaint! My only complaint was that I got home both times to a spotless house, all the laundry done and the kids were still happy and alive. All my time convincing him it can't be done was totally shot to.....

I had another wedding last week in Salt Lake and due to some unfortunate events, my sister Melanie wasn't able to watch my kids so my Dad was so awesome and drove them all the way back up to Logan. He saved me a ton of stress trying to figure out where to cart them off to for a whole day and all that kind of drama. Thanks Dad! You saved me big time! My sister Caroline hung out with me for the day and helped me out.  She's the one that got me the job too. Thanks sista'. I was exhausted by the end of the day, but thanks to Dad, I was able to drive back home from Roy instead of going back to Sandy and then driving back up to Logan the next day. Oh bless my Dad!

We've been looking for a house to buy ever since we moved here. Well, looking, but now we're ready to buy and we had an accepted offer yesterday, so as long as everything goes well with the inspection, appraisal, finance and any other hoops we have to jump through, we will be closing at the end of April. We'll take the next month or so and fix it up. It's a great house but needs some updating. We're really excited about it. The back yard is great too. They have a garden area set up with sprinklers just for it (Bri was thrilled) and plenty of running space, a few really big pine trees that offer a lot of shade with a picnic table underneath them and about 7 fruit trees. We are excited about that! We've been watching HGTV a lot now and Bri's been on the internet pricing out wood to do the hardwood floors. We went to Lowe's for part of our date to get a better idea on what we want for carpet, counter tops, appliance and such. Just when you think you throw down all the money for a house, you have everything that needs to go in it and to help fix it up. Yikes! But we're excited about it. Pictures to come....

And last but not least, I had my first Dr's appointment today. We even got an ultrasound, so here is a pic of our new Chud Nugget to be. Yep, we're expecting our 5th (and final I might add) Chudling. Due date is October 16th which is even more fun since my sister Jill is 2 weeks after me. That was a super fun surprise. We aren't planning on finding out what it is because I think it would be so fun to hear them say, " It's a .....". But after the ultrasound today and seeing that little baby move around, I don't know if I'll be able to contain myself at the next ultrasound, so we'll see. So  there's the last month in a nutshell. I've been super tired and Brian has been amazing at picking up the house and just filling in everywhere I'm lacking. I haven't been too sick. Throwing up has been a minimum. Only 3 times to date and the last few days I've been feeling pretty good. Still crazy tired, but good.