Quadruple baby shower!

My friends, Lisa Foster and Robyn held a quadruple baby shower for us all during the same weeks Scott's family were in town for his commencement ceremony. It was a really busy week, but lots of fun! Marilee (who was in town this week) had a handsome little boy named Collin, and Danielle just had a beautiful little girl named Reagan. Kathleen is due a couple weeks before I am with a little girl who's going to be named Eva. Not only that, but after we opened presents Robyn announced that she's almost 12 weeks pregnant as well! So congrats to Robyn! It was fun to see everyone and share in our "pregnancy woes" together.

Thank you Lisa F. and Robyn for making this little get together happen.

Commencement

We had so much fun with our family this last week. Everyone came in town from Philadelphia to celebrate everyone's graduation commencement. Even though Scott graduated last December, he also celebrated his commencement along with his brother Rob, and his cousin J.D.

We were able to celebrate with lots of hanging out with a dinner at our house, then a brunch the next day after Rob and Scott walked (JD walked at two). Then a bunch of the boys got together to watch the NFL draft the following day, and we had another dinner at aunt Cathy's that night. It was so great to see everyone!

A week less to hang in there.

So instead of 7 weeks 3 days, it's now 6 weeks 4 days left because I'm getting induced a week early...hurray! So after looking at dates with my doctor, we decided that June 9th would be a great birthday for the little guy. I'm actually pretty relieved to know that he'll come sooner rather than later. My short little body doesn't like being pregnant very much.
However, we tried the same thing with Crystal (trying to induce a week early) and it didn't work cause she came 2 weeks early instead of one. Once again, my body couldn't handle waiting, so we'll see.
In the meantime I'm just hangin.

"The joy of motherhood comes in moments" -Elder M. Russell Ballard

Probably just like every other young LDS mother, Elder Ballard's conference talk mentioning motherhood as a daughter of God was in my top three favorites.
Crystal threw a horrible tantrum yesterday, probably the worst I've seen in months and months, and yet today all is forgotten.
Here she is sleeping on the couch yesterday just minutes after her gigantic tantrum...how can anyone stay frustrated with that little sleeping beauty?


Today she decided to go all the way upstairs and find a cardboard box that she knew I kept in the office, and haul it down with her clumsy, two year old body, then go upstairs to her room to take today's favorite toys from her toy box, and crawl in the box with her toys and blanket so she could watch Disney's Toy Story exactly the way she wanted to: All cuddled up in a box like a house cat. She must have had this idea all planned out in her head as she seemed never to hesitate in any moment as to exactly what she was doing.
I can't believe that this little person who's only been on the earth for two years, with so much creativity came out of me. I can't believe I took part in bringing someone so precious and wonderful to this world. Every day she makes me laugh. Everyday I look at her and see so many of the Christlike qualities that I want to have.
All the cute and sweet moments really do create true joy in my life. When I took this picture I was laughing and said "I love you!" and she looked up with the smile in the picture saying "You love me?" How could I not?

Kids everywhere

I went to my friend Lisa Foster's house on Monday morning to see some of my high school pals. We all brought our kids. I brought Crystal, Lisa had her three kids, Kathleen had her two boys and Liz had her two boys as well. It was great to see Liz, who was visiting from Cali. All our little munchkins looked so cute running around together and sitting together on the couch. If you want better details of the experience, go see Lisa Foster's blog on my link list. I borrowed this picture from her blog because I forgot my camera. Aren't all our kids so cute?

Music soothes the savage beast...or in this case rock music eases the pregnant lady

So even though I'm nearly 8 months pregnant, my wonderful husband and I decided that we still couldn't pass up an opportunity to see Jimmy Eat World perform with Paramore last night at the McKay event center in Orem.
Obviously, we were in seats since my stomach is so far out I can't see my toes. I half expected the security guards to frisk my tummy and make sure I wasn't smuggling stuff in, but it was just the same basic frisk they always do on the way into a concert.
Anyway like I was saying, we were in seats, but Scott got the hookups to the best seats in the house and we ended up being closer to the stage than the people in the mosh pits which was great.
The opening bands did a good job. The first was "Dear and the Headlights" who were much better than I expected them to be. The second was "Paramore" who Scott and I were both familiar with, so we liked watching them, and then we fulfilled our tradition as a married couple and watched Jimmy Eat world for the forth time together.


We couldn't pass up the opportunity because we've been going to their concerts ever since we were engaged, and even though sometimes we listen to lots of different music, this awesome little band from Arizona is our official band as a couple. We may not have a "special song" that most couples have, just a special band.

What a great night! Thank you Scott for taking me to this. I really needed it. I don't know what it is with watching live shows, but I've been addicted to watching bands perform since I was 14 and saw Weezer, and it was really nice to be able to do something I could still do while I was a teenager even though my body, age, and being more grown up and "mature" has set other limitations on what was fun (or what I've called fun) in the past.

Opinionated

I took this fun survey that I found on my friend Liz's blog. According to the results I'm just like Lizzie Bennet. That probably explains why she's always been my all time favorite character out of all of Jane Austen's characters. Makes sense since my one of the things that attracted my husband to me when we started dating was that I had my own opinion about everything. Also our story about how we fell in love has a lot of similarities, to the book, which is also why I love the story so much.

Take the Quiz here!

Thanks for the fun idea Liz! If anyone else wants a go you can go ahead and click and see who you're most like. (:

Passed out

Here's Crystal taking a nap on the couch with her ugly blanket that she's incredibly attached to no matter what we do.
Crystal likes to have a water bottle at her side at all times like her mom, so that's why she's sleeping with a water bottle next to her mouth looking like a little drunk.




It's so funny how toddlers can fall asleep in weird places and positions. She's the best. Everything she does entertains us, and even though they call it the "terrible two's," her laugh, logic, conversation, playfulness, and beautiful spirit are ten times more wonderful than the meltdowns can be terrible. In the case of our little girl, the glass is more than half full regarding her age.