64 Days and the count is on

!Holy Cow, so obviously i haven't kept up like I said I would, but in my defense with 2 kids at home and one on the way, the Holiday season, living on the 3rd floor and adjusting to a new ward, I've been swamped. I will inform you all you have been anxiously awaiting on the edge of your seat, about whether or not I made my goal....... I did and I even Surpassed it. I didn't cave to being comfortable until almost 23 weeks. I could still button my pants, it just sucked when i had to sit, bend or generally move with any kind of speed. hahaha

So of course like anyone else, anything maternity was to big for quite awhile and I kind of looked stupid, but that's ok. So here I sit at McDonalds eating my Hot n Spicy and large fry, letting my kids run aimlessly through the play area while I catch you up.

I am starting my 31st week being pregnant! Did it go by as fast for you as it did me?! I have only gained, are you ready for this? Drum roll please.........2.5 pounds! I know I'm pretty much amazing. Big Score for me. The Dr still thinks I have lost a lot of weight and every thing I weigh is the baby gaining as fast as I'm losing. That's the second big score. SWEET!

One more happy thought on this pregnancy. I only have 9 weeks left! I have my official Inducement Date and it's 8 days short of the ticker. So in 64 days Baby GIRL will be here. Woo Hoo! I still don't know how I feel about another girl but I guess I'll get over it and have another baby later and fast A LOT to make sure it's a BOY. hahaha

So here's the countdown.....64 days until our 3rd is born, 7 days til we leave for Arizona, 9 days til Christmas and 11 days til my baby girl turns 3!

I feel really unprepared for all of the above even though I'm done with all shopping and I'm beyond ancy to leave for Arizona. I think it's just the 3rd trimester jitters.

Other than that, my babies are getting bigger everyday. Just today Morgan says "it's a beautiful day to play" haha it's only icy, with fresh snow on the ground, hence us playing at McDonalds. Still what 4 year old says that. Hahaha

Well we are anxiously awaiting our new bundle and can't wait for more chaos.

Love to all in this great season and we hope that EVERYONE is blessed their wants and needs this season.

Where to Start

I don't even know where to begin. Do I catch you up on Eva? Us?Monotony? I don't know......

I guess we'll just do a quick one and get it over with, right? Well here goes the band aid....


We moved about 3 weeks ago and now live in Saratoga Springs. I never thought we would be out here. I've been against living out here probably the whole time we have lived in Utah.But we are here and we love it! Our new ward is amazing and we have started looking forward to church instead of dreading its arrival every week.

Our last ward wasn't that bad, we were just bored. We'd lived there to long. So our new change has been great. In fact we have lots of change right now. New place to live, new Car, and a NEW BABY! That's right we are having baby number 3. are you as excited as we are? We are ecstatic until we start thinking about the fact we are starting all over!?!? We will be going from two talking children, two potty trained, two who sleep all night, two who bathe themselves, dress themselves, sit at the table and feed themselves, have all their teeth, no bottles or diapers. To all of the above......

A baby that can't tell us what's wrong, what it needs or wants, TEETHING and diapers! But we are so excited to have another spirit in our home and are so thankful our Father in Heaven has decided to bless us so much and entrust us with three of his children.

I want another Boy so very badly and pray everyday that I won't have another princess running around. Jake is mixed, and even though he wants a boy would really like to have another girl. I say to that "Traitor." We will know in a couple more weeks what we are having and the kids are so excited to see the baby. They also want a brother! So Im crossing my fingers.

I'm excited as well to say that I have NOT Gained a pound thus far. In fact I'm still wearing my normal clothes. This is extremely exciting to me, and I will be ecstatic if I can make it to 20 weeks in normal clothes. I don't have much longer to hit that goal and hopefully I do. I will say that I am extremely impressed since I eat like I'm a BYU football player! Knock on wood that I don't jinx myself.

Well I hope all is well with all of our friends and I promise I will keep on top of updating! haha

I Must Be Crazy, or I just live in Utah!

It's Happened! It's happened slowly, but's official. It's like the Sunday school lesson always says. IT is by small and simple things that will lead you away into Temptation, or the frog in the boiling pot of water who is slowly boiled to death.

I to have been bitten with the ETSY Fever! I know, I know I tried desperately, i fought tooth and nail against the "let's get together and craft while our kids play, PLAY DATES"

I will say it's nice to be able to make things you enjoy doing and not be out the money.

Jake and I better move soon before something more drastic happens, like we adopt 12 kids or worse I get the go to Cosmo School itch.......

Wish me luck and i'll post my shop as soon as I have posted items for sale. I'll be having a give a way as well. sometime this week.

Rian, Rian Go Away,Come again another day!

Yes this was done on purpose!

If I see another tweet, status update or any other day to day time waster, with a weather update I think I will scream! The cherry on top of it all is that people can't spell. It's not just the occasional oops. It's everyone spelling this way. Can I just tell you I spent a good minutes trying to figure out What the Crap these people were talking about.

Then it dawned on me.... It's RAIN not RIAN


AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

What has this world come to? What has the online Social World come to? Is it really so hard to finish a sentence spelled correctly instead of how it sounds or how your ITAP EN would auto complete for you in your text messages.

Oh where, oh where has everyones spell checks gone. More importantly your second grade Vocabulary.

I am so sick and tired of listening to the rantings of any individual especially our President who can't even read from a Freakin' Teleprompter! It's corpsman! Oh wait may we should start spelling everything how it sounds and forget teaching people Proper Phonetics!!!!! So next time maybe the Presidents speech writer should take the time to dumb himself down so the President doesn't sound like an Idiot. It's corpsman! oh wait CORE MAN or MEN. Our military personnel are not CORPSE MEN!

Im just sayin'.......

Pure Infuriation

Just when I think all incompetence has all but left the building. I have a day like today. LOUSY!

So I take Eva to the Dr today to have a normal checkup and get caught up on her shots. While there the Dr is taking a little longer than she normally would listening to Eva's Chest. quickly followed by Oh yeah you can really hear that Murmur.

"WHAT?!?!?!"

What Murmur are you talking about.
The Dr replying oh you know the one they found when she had all of her scopes done and stuff.
I don't know anything about what you are talking about
Well sure.....well you should the reports sent to me said that Eva is being treated with medicine and routine checks.
ME.........Well If I don't know about it she isn't being treated and I can say she isn't being treated.

Can you believe this nonsense

They have known since April that she has needed treatment and I had no idea. So the Dr says well you need to go right a way for an ECO and we will go from there.

Placing call...........................................................................................................................................

scheduler on the phone

oh....you mean your daughter is under 5!?!? Well we can't do that unless she SEES a cardiologist first.
What?!?! So needless to say of course you can't get in all the easily. So Eva will not be seen until January and then they will schedule the ECO.

Seriously WHAT THE CRAP!
If it is not one thing it soooooooo another. Especially with the health of the kids. They get over one thing or they are at least being treated for it and then you find another t hing.....
Am I just paranoid so I ask the DR about every little thing and that's why we know about all the health problems. I don't think so, my kids are genuinely under the weather. Nothing exaggerated there.

New Blog

Well ladies I just wanted to let you all know I have started a new blog!
www.nogreaterhonor.blogspot.com
It's all about trying to look past the monotony of the daily grind and finding joy in the small accomplishments. I'm making it private as to not have my mommy moments all over the internet, but I would love to have you all as readers. Leave me a comment with your email or facebook me a message.

Love to all my Bestie's

One Loooonggg Update!

Well, on my last post Morgan had just celebrated his 3rd birthday and I had just celebrated my 4th Mothers Day! Can you believe I have been a mother that long. Some don't know this but Morgan was born exactly 10 months to the day that Jake and I were married. The Lord had a higher calling for us and a much better plan than we did, and blessed us to get pregnant on Birth Control. Yes you read that one right. Morgan is .01% and I'm Fertile Myrtle. Anyway, Morgan was born 4 days before Mother's day, 13 days before his Papa's birthday, 22 days before my 21st birthday, and last but not least exactly 2 months before our 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY! It's been a Wild Ride but it's been fantastic with every single twist, turn or bump in the road we wouldn't have it any other way. The Lord truly knows best and in this case better than we did.

Memorial Day weekend we took a day trip to Moab to Celebrate my Dad's birthday. Moab is a little more than half way for us all to meet and have fun in between our big trips to and from Arizona. It was a blast. Papa was not expecting a birthday surprise, but he got it. We went to a new Restaurant instead of our usual ZAK'S. It was absolutely amazing and they had the biggest variety of food. Then off to the park to play with the Dog(my parents caboose baby) and the surprise cake.

Morgan chose a hunter shooting a deer with the inscription " Happy Birthday Mr Po-Dunk
" It's kind of an inside joke. Every year we put something other than Dad. This past year we had been making fun of my dad saying he was po-dunk and a red neck. "Not that there's anything wrong with that" as to quote Seinfeld.

J Man of course went back to Arizona with my parents for his vacay and had a blast.

June found itself eventful! The Toronto Family was spontaneous. Jake called in and took a last minute PTO day and we drove to Evanston, Wyoming. The four us had an absolute blast. Unfortunately, Jake and I found ourselves teaching "life lessons" on the side of the road when some cows decided to get frisky. Jake and I haven't ever taken a day trip just cuz it would be fun, the whole time we have been together. We always use our vacation to see grandparents.
So if you want to know where to go we'll tell you. There is an awesome Ice Cream shop in down town that does gourmet pretzels and sandwiches. The pretzels are topped with meats,sauces anything you can think of, and the whole shop is decorated vintage. Best of all it wasn't over priced, especially for being in a po dunk little town. There is a gorgeous Oriental garden, Train museum, and drive through park where they keep elk and the like for you to see from the car. On the way home we drove the long way and came home through the Uintah Mountains. It was amazing! We are hoping to plan a group camp out for next summer. The campgrounds were almost completely empty and seconds from lakes and streams. BEAUTIFUL!

THEN........ DUN DUN DUN

Jake caught SWINE FLU at work. The Toronto's were put on QUARANTINE! The kids and I didn't get it, but we all had to take Tamiflu anyway. I think it's because the kids and I get a Flu shot every year,but 135 dollars later the only one to have it was Jake.

Thankfully Jake was all better in time for us to go Camping 4th of July weekend with My parents in Arizona. It was the kids' first camp out. Morgan was in Heaven. We hiked everyday and went fishing. We played baseball, gathered firewood, went four-wheeling and played with the dog. Unlike Utah, Arizona has poison oak. So we spent a great deal of time telling the kids to stay away. When we got home guess who had poison oak. Nope it wasn't me. EVA! She never went near the stuff. All I can figure is Eva was sleeping with the dog and she had been running in it, and so she got it.

So home we came with one itchy Eva.

When we got back Jake and I celebrated our 4th wedding Anniversary!
This is Jake and I July 9th, 2005 in front of the Snowflake, Arizona Temple.

Our sealing was standing room only and this is a picture of everyone in our sealing.

We were so happy to FINALLY be married. We were married 1 year and a day from when we started dating. Luckily Jake was out of the state, but our 7 month engagement was rough. I'm so happy we made it and were married in the Temple. I'm also so happy we took the time to know everything about each other. Jake and I spent 9 of our 12 months in different states I'm so thankful that the Lord was still able to make us come together and be close with free nights and weekends. Yes the spirit works long distance!

Our yummy Cake! It was 6 layers of chocolate cake and fresh strawberry filling. My Favorite, and not traditional white cake or trendy.That's why I liked it so much.

As for August, I got a Blackberry! Jake has truly come to spoil me! I love it, Jake love's it. Seriously you can do anything with this phone. The best way to break in a new phone is go on yet another road trip. Can you tell we don't fly anywhere. hahah
So Jake's family had a reunion as well this summer. Every year the family picks a place to go to together. This year was Estes Park Colorado. Needless to say the bottom of Wyoming is a GOD FORSAKEN LAND! But it has cell service so I was able to Facebook, youtube, googlemap....surf the web listen to Pandora. It was amazing and it kept the Kids busy.

So here's a little preview of our trip to Colorado, and ill post more later.
Just before leaving town Jake had checked the fluids, but was going to put washer fluid in and just lightly closed the hood. The gas station was out of fluid so we decided to leave, no one remembering the hood.So as we are leaving town to drive through Provo Canyon  we're driving down 800 North in Orem when all of a sudden..........



Our hood FLEW OPEN!!!!

I seriously just about peed my pants. I was laughing so hard! So we couldn't get it to close, and yours truly SAT on the hood. I still can't keep from laughing every time it comes up....haha no pun intended. Mind you this is all happening right in the middle of the road. We decide hey we should try to open it again to see if we can. Just in case we have an emergency. THE HOOD WON'T OPEN! That's right. Jake is just staring at the car and I'm bent over laughing hysterically trying not to pee myself, and Morgan yells from the car "Not good Dad.....(shaking his head) Nope, NO BUENO." So I start to laugh harder. Jake just looks at me and says well let's go.Then on our happy way we went with no functioning hood. It stayed closed though!


The only excitement in driving across Wyoming is the thrill you get in seeing just how far you can drive on EMPTY and... Windmills. There is nothing for miles and miles and just as your car starts to chug from the lack of life juice it so desperately craves an exit comes into view. A safe haven of truck stops, "showers", and the call of a super sized Dr. Pepper with a side of Hostess.



Our little rendezvous was at a YMCA Camp. Have you ever heard of such a thing. Well it exists. Jake's parents rented cabins for us all to stay in. We were lucky enough to be the only family with a private cabin. We had quite the adventure. NO BATHTUB! Good thing I'm innovative. I made a Bathtub, and the kids thought it was the coolest thing since sliced bread! It was a pain to fill and dump out but it was worth every giggle that came from the bathroom.
As you can see in the bathroom the water heater is exposed. Morgan went on and on about this for days, he kept telling me that we needed to find Papa and build a door.Ill post that video later. Hopefully we are just about caught up. Check in again this week to see if I have posted another Looonnnggg upadate