Making a "craft"

My supervisor (and wonderful friend) from work gave me this magnet...

...It made me laugh because I am SO NOT crafty, yet I am surrounded by the most creative people every day (at work and outside of work)...

So this is MY claim to craftiness for a while... :)

Every day battle...

I like to be on time...it's just who I am...

...Before I got married, I was at least 10 minutes early for every appointment, engagement, commitment that I had...

...once I got married I settled for arriving 5 minutes early or barely on time...

THEN I had kids...

...now, I'm chronically late...

...FOR EVERYTHING...

...and amazingly enough, I'm ok with it :)

But I saw this on Facebook and HAD to post it...I could relate ALL too well...

Why is it that when you HAVE to be on time, like REALLY HAVE to be on time to something, one of four things happen whenever you try to put your child into the car seat...

They become:

...Or maybe these are just every day occurrences...

...It's a wonder we make it anywhere...

Baby Boy "Zeus"

I've been having high blood pressure during this pregnancy...(among other things...)

(I know some of you are thinking, "You? High blood pressure? Miss Type A? Shocking!)

...So I've been having follow-up ultrasounds to make sure the little guy is growing...

...This is one of my favorites...

...Couldn't quite get his face....he was too wiggly!

Falling in love with this little guy already!

"Leading with Lollipops"

While working for Canyons, I have had the wonderful opportunity to view several TED talks, and in consequence, I have become a HUGE fan.

The talk below has become quite my favorite because it has A LOT of applicability outside of my job as a teacher specialist...

The little things that we can do everyday that make us "leaders"

It's 6 minutes long, but well worth the view!!

I have had three "lollipop" moments (that stand out to me) and, unfortunately, have not taken the time to tell those people what an impact they had on me in that one little moment...

It's my goal to tell the two people (I have no idea who the 3rd person is) about the "lollipop moments" before the year is up...

Do you have a "lollipop moment?"

Baby Duncan #3

We had an AWESOME ultrasound technician and not only got a DVD of the session (the baby was a wiggly one!), but some awesome pictures including this one:

I love this one...you can see almost the whole body and it actually looks like a baby and not just a bunch of blobs that you have to squint your eyes and tilt your head in order to make out what it is...

Meth house update: our insurance has agreed to pay for the remediation...but of course before that will happen there is A LOT of paperwork and hoops to jump through before it'll happen. Onward, ever onward...

Loving the warm weather when it's available!

Happy Spring!!!

Longing for Summer

Found this video on my phone...
...made me long for the lazy days of summer...
...hot days, warm evenings on the back porch...
...the simple joys of childhood...





PS She found the shower cap when my mom was cleaning out her dresser...Molly plopped it on her head and wouldn't take it off for several days...love that girl!

...Life...

Kinda a long post...sorry...for the "Cliff Notes" version, scroll to the end of the post...

So I debated what to call this post…”Rough Start to a New Year…” “Endings and Beginnings “Ups and downs…” or maybe just “People Who Use Cook Meth in Other People’s Houses Should be Slowly Tortured…” …

…but after much reflection and lots and lots of thinking during my morning runs, I’ve decided that…its just life…

...I recently read a blog post of my dear cousin who lost her brother in January…she was wondering how you go on, how to blog about what happened last week when you feel so sad and empty inside and are trying to make sense of what happened…she felt guilty for trying to move on…like moving on was forgetting what happened and trying not to be sad was saying you didn’t care what happened when in fact its all you can think about….but life goes on, you don’t want it to, but it does….and so must you.

...So I wonder, how does one go on when one looses a brother so unexpectedly…when you loose a child….when a perfectly normal, healthy couple who so very much want a baby of their own can’t have one….when a baby you’ve been waiting/planning for is not given to you…when the world as you know it is turned completely upside down and inside out?

You just do…

...Recently the world of our little family was turned upside down and inside out. Long story short, two weeks ago we literally evacuated our home in Murray with just a few clothes…and Legos and a baby doll J and we have been spending the last few weeks in the basement of some friends of my parents. Nothing has been the same since…our house has been deemed uninhabitable; most of our belongings have been “quarantined” pending further investigation; and we have been thrust into a nebulous cloud of unknowns…

...How do you go on when you don’t know where to go?

...You just do…It’s life….you move on because you have to…you need to..

…We have chosen to move on to Holladay to set up our new residence…and are excited about the possibilities of the new place…but still long for the comfort of the house we lived in for 4 short months after 6 LONG months of renovation…

…We don’t know what’s going to happen to the Murray house….

…We are trying to go after the property manager whose negligence started this whole mess, but who knows if we’ll get anything out of her….we definitely can’t go after the tenants…

…but we know we can’t stop to feel sorry for ourselves because we have two little kids who are wondering why they can’t have any of their toys, or why we aren’t living in our house that daddy worked so hard on over the summer, or why we have to move to someplace new….but on the other hand they are excited about the attic with the pull down ladder like in “Toy Story 3” and the “Harry Potter” closet under the stairs…

…and they are excited about the new addition to our family that will hopefully arrive in early August. Molly says if the baby is a girl its going to sleep with her and if its a boy it’ll sleep with James…and she’s ready to be a big sister and she’ll help dress it and feed it and love it…this bit of news has been a ray of sunshine in an otherwise bleak winter…

…so in short…

….We are moving…

…again…

…and Molly is going to be a big sister this summer! And hey, the house in Connecticut finally sold!