1st day of Jeff's career job!

Today was Jeff's first day at Snow Canyon Middle School as a P.E. & Weights teacher.  Growing up, my mom always took our picture on the first day of school and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't tempted to snap one of Jeff on his way out the door this morning!  I am so grateful that he (finally!) has a teaching job and our life can get some normalcy in it.  He's also assistant coaching the Freshman football team and so far I'm LOVING the schedule compared to Cedar High's Varsity team.  On the calendar so far there are only 7 games, and they are on Thursday afternoons.  AND there are no Sunday night meetings.  So it is pretty fabulous that Elea and I will have him to sit by at the games on Friday nights and Sunday evenings won't drag.  YAY!

On a completely different note, I signed Elea up for her first ever dance class today.  I think I am doing it more for my entertainment than for her to develop any talent at this point. ha.

I'm revisiting the idea of potty training.  I am pretty clueless on how to do it & don't know if I am up for the messes.  However, I don't know that I will EVER be ready for the messes so I should probably put some big girl panties on us both and just do it.  Alternatively, I'm also considering just dropping her off at Angie's house for a few days so that Angie can potty train her and Lexi at the same time and call it good.

Since my last post, we made a trip up to Roosevelt and then down to Page, my parent's came to visit, and we went up north to Preston, ID for a family reunion.  I will post about all of these adventures and more, with pictures, sometime this week.

 

Baby O. #2!

He/she is due January 28th.  I made the announcement on Facebook last week, but am a little late getting it recorded on here.  As of today, I am 14 weeks along, so through the first trimester and breathing a little easier now.  After miscarrying in February, we kept this pregnancy under wraps longer- just in case.

So far I have been very lucky.  I was nauseous off & on and definitely had my days of wanting to do nothing but lay on the couch all day- but that's about it.  Nothing too crazy.

I'm feeling like it's a boy.  Jeff hasn't said one way or the other, but I thnk he's assuming it is a girl.  Elea said to me out of nowhere the other day, "I want a sister."  Regardless, the ultrasound is scheduled for August 17th to find out one way or the other.

I've had, I think, 4 ultrasounds, maybe more.  Dr. Chalmers is fabulous and knows that I am/was worried, so he let me come in whenever I wanted for a quick ultrasound, just to make sure everything was still going as it should.  There wasn't much to see with the first ultrasounds, but here are a couple of pictures from the last one-- he/she actually looks like a legit baby now!

12 weeks & 4 days

Elea's 2nd Birthday

Elea turned 2 on the 13th.  It seems sort of crazy that she is already 2, but at the same time, she is definitely her own little person & talks A LOT so 2 should seem normal.  If that makes any sense.

We didn't go crazy this year for her birthday-- Just had family over for pizza & cookies and ice cream.  Elea doesn't like cake so I made her a giant chocolate chip cookie instead.  One of her favorite foods is pizza, so I figured I should take advantage of that before she gets old enough to request birthday meals that can't be bought in a drive-thru window. 

For her birthday she got books, books, and more books.  And some Backyardigans DVDs and a small teaset.  She loves books more than any other thing right now.  She falls asleep with 3+ books in her bed at night and tends to carry one around with her the way other kids carry around a blankie. 

It was really nice to be living in a place big enough to have 8 adults and 12 kids without having to walk all over one another.  The kids got in a water fight in the backyard towards the end of the night, which was pretty fun to watch-- and even more fun to send the kids out to the cars sopping wet through the side gate!  (sorry Jen & Shanna!)

Her last trick of the evening was showing us how big she is now that she is 2 by climbing up the sink to wash her hands!

Page & Lake Powell

We went to visit Ang, Der & the girls in Page from the 9th- 11th.  All of Jeff's siblings and their families were able to come so it was a lot of fun.  We rented a boat, wakeboard, and tube on Saturday and spent all day at Lake Powell.  Toward the end of the afternoon a storm rolled in and so that was pretty frantic trying to get all the stuff and kids loaded up with sand pelting everyone in the face.  I think Jen's car had a small sandbox in it by the time everything was loaded up. 

Elea loved playing in the sand and the water.  She loves being on the boat and fell asleep both times.  Jeff took her on the tube again and of course, she loved it.  :) 

CHEESE!

Missing Elea

The 3 three nights during the week of our move we were in chaos so we left Elea with Jeff's mom.  Angie had offered to take her to Page for the week, but when it came down to it, I couldn't stand to not see Elea for that many days.  Even with being able to see her for a couple of hours every day, by the time Wednesday night rolled around I was determined to have the house put away enough so that she could sleep at our house on Thursday.

As often as I complain about her waking up at the crack of dawn, or whining, or other standard toddler antics, she really is my little happy fix.  We missed her a lot those few days- although I think she was handling the separation JUST FINE.  ha.  I'm grateful she has so many people in her life who love her and are happy and willing to help take care of her. 

We're Finished!

Well, almost finished.  Still need to find places for the random stuff & have some pictures etc. to hang on the walls, but that's about it.

It turned out to be quite the undertaking- more than we'd planned.  Our landlords had told us that they would be completely out of the house and it would be ready for us to move into on the afternoon of the 2nd.  So we planned on spending 4th of July weekend in St. George at my in-laws with Ang, Derek, & the girls.  I was psyched because I thought that *finally* I could con Ang into helping me move in some of the little stuff & get the headache of moving the kitchen over with.

It was not meant to be.  We checked out the place Friday afternoon and it still had stuff in it and was nowhere near being move-in ready clean.  So I made an awkward call to the landlords and they said that they had just gotten exhausted so they planned on getting the remainder of the stuff out and it cleaned on Monday morning.  We'd made a deal with them that Jeff could use Spencer's Heavens Best stuff and clean the carpets & deduct it from our rent so he went ahead and did that on Saturday with Derek's help.  & power-sprayed out the garage so they could unload the truck & trailers worth of stuff.

So Monday morning around 10, I stopped by the house. Their stuff was gone, but I could tell it hadn't been cleaned.  Awkward phone call #2.  Found out it was as clean as they were planning on cleaning it.  Sick.  So they agreed to pay for a cleaning lady & luckily Tiff was an angel and came over Tuesday & Wednesday & cleaned for us.  She did AWESOME.  Jeff (& Jen & MarJean) ended up painting the entire house with the exception of the kitchen & bathrooms because that was faster than trying to clean the walls.  I spent hours just cleaning doors & other random things.  It was pretty insane.  So then we (by we, I mean Jeff, Jace, & some of his friends) packed up the U-Haul on Wednesday & unloaded it.  & then we've just been getting settled since then.

Oh ya, I forgot to mention that we we went BACK to Cedar on Thursday to finish the last minute cleaning of our old place before checking out.  Luckily we passed that inspection easy and will get our full deposit back (except for 1 dollar for 2 burned out lights).  The actual "move" was relatively painless- it was just getting this house ready to move into that was a giant pain.  But, now that we're in, we're grateful that Jeff chose to paint because it feels like a totally different house.  THANK GOODNESS.  It was a fun lesson to learn that the word CLEAN is definitely relative.

We've moved!

I promise I'll update soon with all the gory details.

Here is the one picture I took during the 4 day process. We moved all of our stuff before remembering to change out the air filter. This was Jeff's solution.

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