Corpus Clan

Videos of Archimedes

2012-01-24T16:35:00.000-08:00

I can't believe how much this kid is growing. Hes almost nine months now. Hes got one tooth with another almost in. He absolutely LOVES this toy my mom got him for christmas and I thought I'd put a couple videos so those of you who don't see him much can see how big he is getting.

My new discovery

2012-01-19T11:47:00.000-08:00

So, we just got back from a week in Florida visiting my brother Scott and his wife Traci. My parents and my brother Paul were there too. I am going to write a separate post about that later.. this one is to tell you about this super awesome thing that I've started doing.

So I can't remember where I heard about this program, but I had been looking into it for a little while and decided to just try it. I have only been doing it for a week, but I seriously love it. I don't know for sure if it has actually saved me money but what it has done is eliminated the need for me to decide what I'm making for dinner. I am sure I am spending more on groceries than before but that is mostly only because before we were eating mac and cheese or ramen and eggs for dinner or kinda just whatever we had in the fridge because I was too lazy to decide what to make. seriously. But when I went shopping this time, I felt like I was actually buying food and not just random crap. This program gives you a shopping list for five meals for the 2-3 person plan and I think 7 for the other plans. We are just doing the 2-3 person Walmart plan, and it makes plenty of food with left overs most nights. So far, the meals have been easy to make but they have been really pretty good. The only thing I really don't like about it is the need to go shopping every week. The other thing is that they only have you get enough for that week (this week they said to just get 8 oz of sour cream because that is exactly how much the recipe called for), so I bought more since I figured there is a good chance it will be in a recipe next week too. Anyway, I just thought I'd share that little bit of fun.

New Years

2012-01-03T14:16:00.000-08:00

We spent New Years at Andre's parents house this year. Every year, they have a pretty big party and invite a whole bunch of people. I think they invited 40 something this year and 37 showed up so there was a lot of people. We played games and someone brought Rock Band which was a big hit. Those same people brought a game called "bang" that looked like a lot of fun, although I never actually played it. There was a lot of food! At midnight, we celebrated with a firework show. Sheila told Andre the show could only last 5 minutes. It actually only lasted about three before Sheila told him it was enough. During that three minutes, he set of 42 mortars and who knows how many other fireworks. It was pretty intense. Archimedes went to bed at 8 for about 15 minutes and was awake the rest of the night until 1145 when he finally fell asleep in my arms, only to be woken up by the fireworks 15 minutes later. It was pretty funny, he kept trying to sit up in his sleep. I finally got up and went to a window where we could see them. He loved them. He is definitely his father's child.

Andre playing Rock Band

Archimedes with his Grandpa Corpus

I'm excited to start off this new year. This last year we saw some HUGE changes in our lives and I know this next year will be the same. It's crazy, right now, we don't even know where we will be living by this time next year. Andre will start his student teaching in the fall and we don't really get to pick where they send us for that. We told them three places where we would like to go, so we'll see where we actually get put. This year will be full of surprises, that's for sure. The thing I am most excited for is our new baby girl that will be here in May :)

big news!

2011-12-27T17:03:00.000-08:00

So I guess it's time to announce to everyone who doesn't already know that we are expecting another baby! I am due on May 21st, and we found out today that its a girl! We are very excited and can't wait to meet her. Here are pictures from her photo shoot today

Projects and Christmas

2011-12-26T23:01:00.000-08:00

Like I said earlier, I have been working on a few projects since we have this time off of school and can't go anywhere due to Andre being on call. Here are two projects that I finished today. I really like the way they both turned out. I got the tutorial for the rug here: http://www.modabakeshop.com/2009/02/braided-rag-rug.html and the idea for the mason jar thing here: http://camillestyles.com/2011/transformed-mason-jar-herb-garden/. The rug ended up being pretty hard. I was almost done with it and decided it looked HORRIBLE so I unstitched it all and started over. Did I mention that I stitched it all together by hand?? Yeah. I did. And I'm working on a matching one to go in front of my stove. I really like it and I'm glad I took the time to make it.

Since Andre is on call, we had Christmas with just our little family. On Christmas Eve, we decided we wanted to start a tradition of New York Steaks every year. We even got them cut at the meat department (a first for Andre and I since we usually buy our meat from the 50% off bin). It was delicious. On Christmas, we woke up, went to church which was only Sacrament meeting, and came home to open presents. As you can tell by the pictures, Archimedes was super tired, but he enjoyed the presents.. well at least the wrapping paper. There are also a few pictures of Andre taking down the ornaments. We took down the tree and everything as soon as Archimedes was down for his nap. I was sick of keeping him away from it :) Also, notice the shorts Andre is wearing. On Christmas. He was super happy that it wasn't cold, I was super sad that we had no snow. We were sad that we didn't get to talk to either of our brothers since we weren't home and we missed seeing family, but all in all it was a pretty good day.

This one was his favorite toy... it cost about a $1.50.

As promised

2011-12-22T17:15:00.000-08:00

As promised, a video of Archimedes crawling. Of course, as soon as I brought out the camera he didn't want to crawl anymore, but I got a little bit on the fourth try.. Don't forget to check out the video on the post before this one. Its awesome :)

Archimedes Laugh

2011-12-21T23:13:00.000-08:00

I still haven't gotten a video of Archimedes crawling.. I promise its on my to do list for tomorrow. In the mean time, enjoy this video my fabulous sister in law jessamyn took of his wonderful laugh. He thought the windshield wipers were pretty funny :)

Basket

2011-12-21T15:00:00.001-08:00

Since we have all these days off and we have to stay in town (Andre is on call) I decided to do some projects. I'll post about them if I feel they are blog worthy... This one turned out really really good and I am really pleased with my work.

I should have taken a before picture. Andre had all his random computer parts on that shelf and now they are in the box. I need to make another box for the bottom shelf for all of Archimedes toys. All I did to make this box was take a cardboard box and cut the top flaps off. Then I hot glued burlap onto it. Then I just embellished it with that rope that you see. Thats it. It only took about a half hour and it cost $3 for a yard of burlap, of which I used about 3/4. And I only put hot glue directly onto my hand one time: The stupid thing was that after I burned myself I flapped my hand like a fool and got the glue on my other hand as well so both hands are burnt. The worst part was peeling off the glue and having it take my skin with it... don't try that at home!

Big Development

2011-12-19T22:42:00.001-08:00

Archimedes started crawling today :) Its kind of an army crawl, and its super cute to watch it. I was kind of waiting he'd wait until after Christmas, but I'm super happy that he is crawling. We'll just have to be sure to keep him away from the tree and the presents :) I'm going to try and get a good video of it tomorrow.

Also, I'm working on making a home maintenance book, and I'm contemplating whether it would be something that I could make on a larger scale (just the beginning of a thought process really) I was wondering if anyone who reads my blog would be interested in trying it and giving me some feedback? It wont be finished for a little bit, but I just thought I'd see if there was any interest.

Dr Appointment

2011-12-14T13:20:00.001-08:00

Archimedes had a dr appointment today. It was his 6 month appointment.. never mind the fact that he is 7 1/2 months... He got a bunch of shots but he did really good. He screamed for about 30 seconds and then was fine. He is really irritable now though but he is currently taking a long nap. His weight is 17.8 lbs which is in the 27-28% for his ago, his height is 27 in which is in the 37%, and his head circumference is 18 in which is 83%. Weird because at his last appointment they told me his head was in the 13%... someone did some measuring wrong it looks like. Anyway, the appointment went pretty well. I just wanted to write this stuff down for my own records mostly.

He's Huge

2011-12-11T14:24:00.001-08:00

Archimedes is getting so freakin big. I put him in his swing today mostly for kicks and I took a few pictures. Here is a comparison to when he was... 3 weeks old.

He is now 7 1/2 months old. He is super super close to crawling. He can push himself in circles and backwards... pretty much any way but forwards. He has started to clap and he does it all the time. His 6 month appointment (I know I'm a horrible mother) is on Wednesday so we will get his stats and such then. I was hoping would wait until after christmas to start moving around so much but I had no luck.. I just have to watch him super close around the Christmas tree.

100 things

2011-12-01T17:37:00.000-08:00

The Ensign this month has a youth challenge called the gratitude challenge. I thought that since thanksgiving just passed and christmas is coming up, its a good time of the year to think about the things I am thankful for.. so I am going to take the challenge.

1. Write 10 physical abilities you are grateful for -

I am grateful for the ability to see without pain. When I had iritis, every time I opened my eyes there was excruciating pain. It was not fun.
I am grateful for the ability to walk without pain. When I was pregnant with Archimedes, my hip hurt me so bad some days that Andre had to help me walk from the bedroom to the bathroom and that is about all the movement I would do for the day. I am so grateful that I don't have to deal with that every day.
I am grateful for the ability to run without getting tired. I can't run as far as I'd like to,but I am honestly in better shape right now then I have been probably since high school.
I am grateful for the ability to sit and relax.
I am grateful for the ability I have to play the piano. I don't get to do it hardly ever since we don't have one in our home, but when I do get to play, I love it.
I am grateful for the ability I have to hold babies. I love to hold Archimedes and I love that I can provide service for other through babysitting.
I am grateful for the ability to hug. Isn't hugging the best feeling ever? There is nothing I love more than giving Andre a big hug when he gets home from school.
I am grateful for the ability I have to type. I can't imagine having to write everything out!
I am grateful for the ability to clean... I haven't done it in awhile but it is so rewarding when its actually done.
I am grateful for the ability to cook. Andre loves it so much when I cook a hot meal, and more and more Archimedes is able to eat what I cook. I love being able to provide this service for my family.

2. Write 10 material possessions you are grateful for

I am grateful for my computer. Without it, I would not have the ability to be a stay at home mom and go to school at the same time.
I am grateful for our car. It is a car my parents are letting us borrow and I am SO glad we have it. I don't know what we would have done if they hadn't given it to us.
I am grateful for my stroller. Some days, being able to take a walk with Archimedes is all that keeps me sane :)
I am grateful for my cellphone, which keeps me connected with friends and family, and keeps me safe in emergencies
I am grateful for our christmas tree. Note to self - blinking lights are not as peaceful as non-blinking lights.
I am grateful for the exersaucer that Desarae Kirkham let us borrow. The thing is seriously a life saver sometimes.
I am grateful for my camera. It gives me a hobby that is all my own. When I edit pictures.. I don't even know how to describe it. I absolutely love working with pictures.
I am grateful for the box that Andre made me. He carved it out of a solid piece of.. oak.. i think. It is amazing.
I am grateful for my Vacuum. For the first year of our marriage we had crappy little vacuums that didn't even make the crinkle noise when you vacuum stuff. It is amazing the difference a nice vacuum makes.. now if only I would use it...
I am grateful for the rocking chair in the baby's room. I don't know what I would do without it.

3. Write 10 living people you are grateful for

I am grateful for my husband. He works so hard to take care of me and Archimedes. He has long days at the school and still always comes home happy and ready to help. He is an amazing father and a wonderful husband.
I am grateful for Archimedes. He is the joy of my life. I never imagined I would love being a mother so much.
I am grateful for my mother. She is such a strong person and taught me everything I know about being a good person and a good mother.
I am grateful for my dad. He is so strong spiritually and an amazing provider for his family, but he never let his job get in the way of raising his kids.
I am grateful for my mother in law. She is an amazing example and is a really good listener. She has wonderful advice on everything from the gospel to mothering to food storage.
I am grateful for my little brother. Well, all my brothers really, for different reasons, but right now especially for my little brother and the sacrifices he has made to be serving a mission in Peru.
I am grateful for Jeffrey Hendrix. He was a very good friend to me in college. I don't think he'll ever know how much he helped me get through some tough times.
I am grateful for my grandparents, all four of them. They are all such amazing people in different ways. My grandma Parry is so strong and an amazing example. My grandpa Parry is funny and kind and really good at golf :) My grandpa Fuller is smart and patient and always willing to teach new things and my grandma Fuller is so kind and charitable. I am lucky to have been able to have all four of these people so close to me in my life.
I am grateful for my sisters and sisters-in-law. There is nothing better in the world then having sisters and I feel bad for all those people who don't get to experience it. I love sharing secrets and getting advice from people that I am so close to. I miss being able to be very close to any of them and I hope to one day live closer to at least a few of them.
I am grateful for Andrew Kovisto. He is one of Andre's really good friends and while him and I don't always get along very well, he is always willing to help and has been a wonderful friend to Andre.

4. Write 10 deceased people you are grateful for

This one will be a little difficult.. I guess it doesn't have to be deceased people that I knew personally right...

I am grateful for the founding fathers and the work they did in making this country into the place it is today. It took a lot of braver and.. dare I say.. balls.. to get this country started and I am grateful that those men were able to do it.
I am grateful for all the prophets, but especially Joseph Smith Jr for all the persecution he had to go through. It would have been easy for him to just give up on the church and live a quite life, but he didn't. I am grateful that he was able to endure to the end and get the church started.
I am grateful for my own personal ancestors for getting me where I am today. I don't know a lot of stories, but I know there was a lot of hard times in the lives of some of my relatives.
I am grateful for my aunts that died but left behind wonderful legacies. Three of my mom's sisters have passed away, and all three have wonderful families. All of their children (to my knowledge) are faithful in the gospel and those that have children are raising them up to be really good kids/adults.
I am grateful for Skylar Johnson. He died his senior year of high school. He was a grade behind me and my senior year his locker was next to mine. I couldn't ever get my locker to open so he memorized my combination and would open my locker every time he went to his so that I could get into it. I wasn't super good friends with him but it would always make my day when I would see him opening my locker before his.
I am grateful for the pioneers that stood for what they believed in, even if it meant losing their lives. I am grateful for what they did to the church, and for the examples they left behind.
I am grateful for the guy who invented the johnny jump up... I dont even know if he's dead but Im going to include him on this list because the jump up is right in front of me and I am truly grateful for it.
I am grateful for Thomas Edison or whoever really invented the light bulb. What a simply amazing invention.
I am grateful for whoever invented the washing machine. I spend a whole day each week on laundry as it is, I can't imagine doing it all by hand.
I am grateful for Christ, who isn't really dead but should count for this list anyway.

5. Write 10 things about nature you are thankful for

I am thankful for the sun.
I am thankful for the snow.
I am thankful for the changing leaves on the trees. I swear God made them that way for no other reason except that they are pretty.
I am thankful for the mountains. I miss the mountains in the horizon that you see in Idaho Falls. For some reason I feel safer when surrounded by mountains.
I am thankful for rivers.
I am thankful for rainbows
I am thankful for the rain
I am thankful for shooting stars
I am thankful for stars in general
I am thankful for the moon.

6. write 10 things about today you are thankful for

I am thankful for the opportunity to work on homework
I am thankful that Andre gets to go to school
I am thankful that I get to stay home with my baby
I am thankful that I am almost over my cold
I am thankful that I was able to get my errands done
I am thankful that we had the money to pay our bills
I am thankful that I have a house to make a mess
I am thankful that I got to talk to my mother in law
I am thankful that I can watch shows on Hulu
I am thankful that I got all my work done in my desktop publishing class for the WHOLE SEMESTER

7. Write 10 places on earth you are grateful for

I am grateful for my home
I am grateful for my parents home
I am grateful for Andre's parents home
I am grateful for our trailer. I don't know what we would have done if we hadn't found that place. Hopefully we will sell it quickly, then I'll be even more grateful for it.
I am grateful for temples. Especially the Spokane temple, where Andre and I were able to be sealed together.
I am grateful for the school and that it is so close to our home
I am grateful for Moscow Mountain. The top of that hill is so peaceful.
I am grateful for all of the battle grounds that were fought on for my safety and freedom
I am grateful for the new walmart that will be built in moscow :)
I am grateful for Florida and for letting me visit next month

8. Write 10 modern inventions you are grateful for.

I am thankful for the computer
I am thankful for the cell phone
I am thankful for light bulbs
I am thankful for washing machines
I am thankful for christmas tree lights
I am thankful for my tablet
I am thankful for cars
I am thankful for electric ovens
I am thankful for MP3 players
I am thankful for modern medicine (especially the epidural machine :))

9. Write 10 foods you are grateful for

I am thankful for quick boxed meals
I am thankful for pizza
I am thankful for sour patch kids
I am thankful for slim fast. When I was pregnant with Archimedes I LIVED off that stuff
I am thankful for cold cereal
I am thankful for waffles
I am thankful for crepes
I am thankful for spaghetti
I am thankful for juice
I am thankful for baby food.. makes my life so much easier

10. Write 10 things about the gospel you are thankful for

I am thankful for the chance we have to repent
I am thankful for the book of mormon
I am thankful for church meetings
I am thankful for the prophet
I am thankful for baptism
I am thankful for the sacrament
I am thankful for the chance we have to be sealed to our families forever.
I am thankful for nursery
I am thankful for the priesthood
I am thankful for relief society

Wow. That took me WAY longer than I thought it would. Way worth it though. I would say that I want to do this every year but I know that I wont.. but its on page 6 of the Ensign if anyone else wants to do it. Seriously though I can't believe it took me so long. Well over an hour. I'm sure no one read the whole thing but if you did.. congrats! You should get a medal or something.

6 month pictures

2011-11-21T14:29:00.001-08:00

So a couple weeks ago, I was at my mother in laws house and me and her and my two sister in laws took some pictures of Archimedes. It was fun to take these pictures because he is sitting up so hes a little more interactive and looks so handsome in pictures. Here are a few that we took -

Isn't he just the best?? I have more pictures with the Christmas lights but I am contemplating making a Christmas card with them so I don't want to show the picture I'm going to use for that just yet...

Angry Archimedes

2011-11-14T15:12:00.001-08:00

Andre's mom always tells the stories of how Andre was angry a lot when he was a baby. This last week, I went up to Boardman for the week while all the boys came to Moscow to hunt. Sheila said a couple times how Archimedes demeanor is similar to what Andre's was when he was a baby. This angry streak just showed up a few weeks ago, but man that boy gets mad. When he doesnt get what he want he yells. Its kinda cute though.. see for yourself..

Books!

2011-11-06T21:16:00.001-08:00

Archimedes loves getting stories read to him, especially dr. Seuss stories. Andre has started taking over the job of reading before bed. Ive buried to get a picture but andre is always just in his garments at nigbt so i havent been able to get one... but tonight he was actually wearing clothes haha. Here is a picture 9f the two boys

6 months and Halloween

2011-10-31T16:18:00.000-07:00

Archimedes turned six months on Sunday. I can't believe he is getting so big! To celebrate his 6 month mark, he decided to start sitting up! He can totally do it on his own, but still falls once in awhile so I have to watch him close. Most of the time he would rather be sitting in my lap because I think he feels safer, but he is getting really good at it. He was pretty sick with some kind of a virus the last four or five days, one day he had a fever of 102 which seemed super high to me! He is doing a lot better now though, but Andre and I have some wicked sore throats so I am starting to understand what all his fussing was about.

We got to go to Coeur D'Alene and visit my sister and her family last weekend. It was a lot of fun and I was glad to be up there during the worst of Archimedes sickness so I had Brooke to help me deal with it. Andre went hunting..er hiking.. with Leonard. They had a good time but came back empty handed. While they were gone there was a deer right behind Brooke's house. I wish I would have had a tag, it would have been pretty funny if they would have come back from hunting and I had killed a deer without leaving the house :)

For Halloween, our ward did a chili cook off and trunk or treat. I bought a Monkey outfit from Old Navy for $2 and it was super cute.. I have some pictures:

He's also started eating some foods on his own, mostly just these crackers.. He loves them

This is a pretty amazing feat, not only is he sitting on his own, but he is sitting in his ginormous monkey outfit. Notice all the extra stuffing around the middle. He pretty much hated me for this. But he's cute right?

Jessamyn and Anthony's Wedding

2011-10-20T11:15:00.000-07:00

Andre's brother, Anthony, got married a few weeks ago. I was the maid of honor and andre was the best man, so it was fun to help them get everything planned for the wedding. I took their engagement pictures, and a lot of pictures at the actual wedding. It was really good practice for me. Here are a few of my favorite ones:

We were excited to see them get married. Jessamyn is a wonderful girl and we are excited that she gets the be part of the Corpus family. Her and Anthony are living in Moscow right now and its nice that I have a sister in law so close now.

4 month check up

2011-09-22T12:16:00.001-07:00

I tired to post this awhile ago but for some reason it didnt post.. so Ill put it up now instead.
Archimedes finally got in for his four month check up, about a week before he turned five months. The dely was due to me cancelling three times because I didn't want to deal with him getting shots again... Anyway, he weight 5 lbs 2 ounches and was 25 inches long. That put him somewhere in the 35th percentile for four month olds. Kinda funny because he has been in 6-9 month clothing for almost a month. Who ever came up with those sizes obviously doesnt do them based on the average baby! He is such a fun guy. Here are some things he does right now:
- almost sits.. not quite, but he's getting pretty close
- smiles every time he sneezes
- fake cries... its not very fun for his mom..
- sticks his toungue out and makes the pffft sound and spits everywhere. Its pretty cute.
- eats like a champ. He LOVES his solid food.
- sleeps through the night 90% of the time.

That is all that I can think of right now. This age is so fun, he is so interactive and fun to be around. But, right now he is crying so thats the end of this blog.

archimedes laughing

2011-09-09T17:40:00.000-07:00

This clip will for sure make you happy.:-)

Birthday

2011-09-07T18:47:00.001-07:00

Its my birthday today! Andre got me a tablet. It is awesome. I can do a lot of my school work on it and a lot of other things, like blog:-) It has a kindle app which is awesome and has a feature where i can connect to Andres desktop remotely and use all the programs that are on it. I can buy a keyboard on it that has a USB port which makes it almost like a netbook. So far i really like it. It is called the asus transformer and i highly recommend it to anyone in the market for a tablet. Archimedes is 4 months now! I can't believe how big he is! He has started wearing 6 to 9 month clothes already. Crazy! I had a scare with my blog the other day.i went to sign in and it said my account had been deleted.i about died! After about4 emails and 24 hours, i convinced. Google to undelete it. It made me realize how sad i would be if i lost the info on here. I am hoping to make it into a book ASAP.
I'm going to try and upload a picture of the baby...

Archimedes' blessing.

2011-08-11T22:46:00.001-07:00

On Sunday, August 7th, Andre was able to bless Archimedes. Almost my entire family was able to be there with the exception of Jackson, Scott, Traci, Jana and Dan. All of Andre's family was here except his brother Atrayu, and coincidentally, August 7th is Atrayu's birthday. He is in Japan on his mission so he had a good excuse, as did those who couldn't make it in my family. Anyway, it was a very good blessing, I thought. The only thing sort of scary that happened was that as we were walking into the church building, Andre's on call phone went off. Luckily it was a call that could wait for a little while, some one didn't have hot water for some reason, so he didnt' have to leave right away. He did leave as soon as the blessing was over and came back to sunday school and priesthood in his one piece work suit. What a funny guy. My mom even got some family pictures with me and Archimedes all dressed up and Andre in his worksuit. Brooke blessed her baby on the Friday before so lots of people were able to go to that too. Andre was on call all week so he wasn't able to go to Coeur D'Alene, but I went twice with the baby to see my family. I got a few pictures of the baby and Andre. My mom took a bunch more but I don't have those. After the blessing, my family had to head home for the LONG drive but Andre's family stayed for a while. We ate pulled pork at the park. While we were there, Archimedes had his first real belly laugh. He laughed for probably twenty seconds. It was an amazing sound. Its awesome how much joy such a little person can bring to me :) Anyway, here are some pictures.. enjoy :) ps. if you can't tell, I hadn't let Archimedes take his morning nap that morning. I wanted him to sleep through the blessing. He slept right until Andre stood up to take him to get blessed. The bishop said that Archimedes was just laying there staring up at his daddy the whole blessing. How cute :)

Family Reunion & School Stuff

2011-08-01T11:44:00.000-07:00

Last weekend, we went to La Grande for a family reunion on my dad's side. I was the only one of my siblings able to go. My dad was there, and all of his brothers and sisters were there with a lot of their kids. I had a super super good time. It's really neat to be able to talk to my aunts and uncles as an adult and really get to know them. I really enjoyed talking to all of them. One night, a bunch of us went to Dennys for a late night snack and my aunt Bobbi watched Archimedes. I was super nervous to leave him since I hadn't left him with anyone except Andre or my parents, but it was nice to know he was in good hands while we were out, and it was nice to go somewhere without him. While we were there, everyone slept in tents. I was SUPER nervous about Archimedes sleeping in a tent, I thought for sure we would have long nights. He did AWESOME. Almost better than in a crib. Turns out the kid loves tents. He also loved the campfire.. which is probably a sign of things to come haha. Anyway, I took a picture of him on my phone sleeping in a tent for the first time.

Here are the John Deere boots that my aunts gave me for him. He finally fits them. I put him in the ALL the time because they are so dang cute :)

This is his hunting outfit. The pants and hat are camo and the shirt says "Daddy's Little Hunting Buddy". Also super cute :)

The other big thing going on is that I get to go back to school! Andre's classes are all after 5 on monday and wednesday and on Tuesday and Thursday he has a class from 2:30-3:30 then 5-7 and no classes on Friday so I am taking one class on campus that will be during his lunch break, so he'll just take a long lunch break to watch the baby during that class then I am taking 3 online classes. It turns out that in order for me to get a General Studies degree, I only have to take 40 more credits, and most if not all, can be online classes. So if I wanted to go the next two semesters and the summer, I could be done by this time next year. Then I'll officially be a college graduate :)

High Chair!

2011-07-21T17:31:00.000-07:00

Andre's wonderful grandparents bought us a high chair as a baby gift. They even let me pick it out. I picked this one because it reclines, which is good for him now, and it will fold up. Plus everything, including the straps, are designed to be super easy to clean. I love it. It matches the swing my mom and sisters bought me. I just think its super cute. And Archimedes likes to be in it when I am cleaning the kitchen. He just sits and follows me around the room with his eyes. Its neat.

Plus isnt this the best picture of the day :)

Not Quite Solid...

2011-07-19T20:48:00.001-07:00

Yes I know.. Feeding your children anything except for breast milk/formula before they are four months old is likely to make the entire world explode. However, waking up every hour all night long is likely to make a mother explode. So, I have started giving Archimedes a small amount even though he is not quite 3 months old... (about an ounce, maybe two, but as you can tell from the picture, not much of it makes it in) of formula with some rice cereal in it. It is much less messy when I give it to him in this special little bottle, but much less fun.. plus I am not quite smart enough to figure the bottle out entirely and it doesnt quite work right all the time. He LOVES eating this food. He starts laughing as soon as I start to feed him. He is really starting to make a lot of noises too. When he is happy, he is constantly cooing, and he is starting to figure out how to spit a little. Andre's Grandmother, La Rae, bought us a highchair today and I can't wait to see it. It should get here in a couple days and then this whole feeding thing will maybe be a little easier...

I love this little boy. I love staying home with him. I thought I would get really bored staying home all the time but so far I have only had one or two days where I'm like... I HAVE TO GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE! I am SO glad that I'm not in the trailer anymore. The place is so much bigger and happier and I think it makes a big difference. I'm sure it'll be harder in the winter, but right now, I love being a mommy :)

4th of July

2011-07-08T17:19:00.000-07:00

I got to go to Idaho Falls for the 4th of the July. I feel bad that I left Andre alone for the 4th, but he couldn't come because he was working. Archimedes and I have been having a pretty good time. We went to the parade, a family bbq, and the fireworks. The fireworks were amazing, as they are every year. The baby loved the fireworks. My sister in law Traci took this picture of him.. He wasn't this sad the whole time...

We have been having a good time and I'm glad I was able to come down. I get the go to my cousin's wedding this weekend, then I'm going back to Moscow on Monday... I'm really excited for that. I miss my husband!

shots :(

2011-06-29T17:38:00.000-07:00

Archimedes got his 2 months shots today. It was super sad. He has been pretty fussy all day. I feel so bad for him... but at his appointment, they said he weighs 11 lbs 14 oz, and he is 22 inches long. His head was in the 75%, his weight around 55, and his height around 35 I think. So hes a short fat guy with a big head :) We love him either way.

best picture ever

2011-06-27T19:41:00.000-07:00

tell me this isnt the best picture you've ever seen :) Click on it to see it bigger. Thanks so much Traci.

Idaho Falls

2011-06-20T11:45:00.000-07:00

Andre had a conference for school in Boise this week, so Archimedes and I got to go to Idaho Falls and see my family. It was such a great visit, despite the long drive. We got to see lots of family and were able to be there for Enoch's first birthday. I was sad that we had to leave before Fathers day. I have such an amazing father. He is so spiritual and patient and understanding. I have never heard my parents argue. I remember one time I was riding with him and he got pulled over because his car was the same as a drunk driver the police were trying to catch. The officer asked my dad if hed had anything to drink. My dad said "officer, I havent had a drop of alcohol in my life." I am lucky to have been raised with such a great example. I love him very much and cant wait to see him again... hopefully in July!

While we were in Idaho Falls, Traci took some pictures of Archimedes and they turned out really cute.. here are a couple of them:

We are glad to be home. Our apartment is all put together and is actually really clean.. hopefully I can keep it that way. Andre is working 2 jobs for the next 2 weeks. He's going to one from 7-4 then the other from 430-10. Its going to be a long 2 weeks, but it'll be nice when the paychecks come :)

MOVING DAY. plus some baby :)

2011-06-11T21:42:00.000-07:00

My Mother in law Sheila came up to Moscow with her youngest son, Arimas, to help Andre and I move. Like I said before, we had SO much stuff. They were great help. We wouldn't be anywhere close to done if they hadn't come up. We are almost done, we just have a couple random boxes left to unpack. Our trailer is completely clean so if anyone wants to live in Moscow in a trailer... just let me know!

Baby laughs are probably the best sounds in the world. Archimedes has been kind of laughing for the last week or so. Its so awesome. I tried to get a video today but I couldnt get a very good one. Sheila took some pictures of him.. I know she wants to see them (her camera battery was dead, so she used mine). So here they are.

And a video.. I don't think I got an actual laugh on this one but he's cute anyway.

In other news:
Archimedes slept in his crib last night for the whole night. He did wake up to eat twice, but I laid him back in the crib when he was done eating and he went right back to sleep. He even slept until 630 which is pretty much amazing. Its hard to get up that early, but it is the time of the day when he is the happiest so it makes it a little easier.

Andre took the Praxis test today. He felt pretty confident about. He was scheduled to take in on April 30th at 730 am. Archimedes was born April 30th at 725 am. Needless to say he had to reschedule. Anyway, I think thats all that I've got for now!

Andre's Birthday!

2011-06-09T19:21:00.000-07:00

Aren't they cute??

Yesterday was Andre's birthday. He spent the first half of the day working and the second half moving. We did get together with some friends to celebrate over dinner tho. I thought in honor of his birthday, I would write some things that I love about him....

- He is a great father. He takes the baby from me right when he gets home from work and just hangs out with him for a little while. He is always willing to stay with the baby if I need to go anywhere, and every time he calls me he asks what the "fat boy" is doing. (He calls him fat boy out of love of course)

- He is a hard worker. He only has to put in 10 hour weeks, but he has been putting in 40. He feels good about himself if he comes home from work exhausted. He takes pride in caring for our family

- He loves to help others. He is kind almost to a fault. He has shown me how to have faith that if we do all we can to help others, we will be blessed. He has also taught me to have faith that everything will work out how its supposed to. I have learned to worry a lot less and trust in the Lord more.

- He holds the Priesthood. He gave me an amazing blessing when I first got pregnant and was having problems with my hip. It helped me make it through the pregnancy. Not pain free, but strong enough to bare the pain.

- He likes to have fun.

- He loves me and tells me so all the time.

There are a lot more things I love about this man, but the baby just woke up :) Happy Birthday Husband!

So Much Stuff!

2011-06-09T13:37:00.000-07:00

We have so much stuff. I know this because we are moving :) We got into our new apartment yesterday. Its great. There are so many cupboards and closets its amazing. It really is great. Moving with a 6 week old baby? Not so great... We have more than 1/2 of our stuff moved in tho so we are for sure making progress. Our bedroom is HUGE. Well.. way bigger than our room in the trailer any way.

Yesterday was andres birthday. Im going to write a separate post about that tho.. Anyway.. back to moving!

baby video!

2011-05-31T17:04:00.000-07:00

Archimedes totally rolled over today.. sort of :) Here is a video to prove it and to show everyone just how cute he is. Just ignore the annoying voice.. Plus check out his cute outfit and shoes that his Grandma Corpus bought him.

Plus, I got some pictures to finally upload.. so I here is the picture of him sleeping in his crib from earlier and some from him playing today.

proof that he did it more than once :) He actually did it three times.

sleeping crib picture :)

CRIB

2011-05-31T11:13:00.000-07:00

My mother in law bought an awesome crib for my baby. Thus far, however, he doesnt like it. Every time I lay him down in it, day or night, he gets super super mad as soon as he realizes where he is. I think part of it is that his bassinet is inclined and the crib isnt.. but... Last night he slept in it for like six hours. I even took a picture... but it wont upload for some reason soooo I guess you dont get to see it

Bath

2011-05-29T20:50:00.000-07:00

I didn't take any pictures, but today when I gave Archimedes a bath.. he didn't scream. At all. That is a huge accomplishment for him. Most days when I give him a bath (usually every other day) he screams the whole way through. He didn't look especially happy this time, but he didn't scream :)

In other news, we are trying to sell our house. We bought it for $3500 and we are trying to sell if for $8000... a little greedy I know but we have had about four people seem really interested in it so far so.. hopefully it sells soon :)

Also, tomorrow I get to see my sister :)

NEW JOB

2011-05-26T18:11:00.000-07:00

Andre got a job :) He found a perfect job. He is the on call maintenance person at the U of I. His job duties require him to be available to respond within 30 minutes notice between the hours of 4 pm and 7 am monday through friday and then 7 am Saturday to 7 am Monday, every other week. During his weeks of being on call, he has to get at least 10 hours from being called in or dong some other work. He can work more if he wants to. The other weeks, he has no responsibilities. If he works more than 10 hours, or works at all on his off weeks, he gets paid minimum wage. The first 10 hours of his on call week he doesnt get paid for. Instead, we get to live in University Housing. FOR FREE. All we have to pay is utilities. We also get $1000 flex for the summer and $1500 for each semester. Flex dollars are ones that can only be used for food, and only on campus. There is a little grocery store, a cafeteria, a bunch of cafes and a dennys that we can use the money at. So, on June 13th, we are moving :) We got a two bedroom apartment on campus. Its a little bigger than our trailer, plus lots free-er. We are going to sell our trailer, hopefully soon! We feel so blessed that Andre got this job. We have been living super cheap (under $400/month for all our expenses), but this will be even cheaper, and the conditions will be better. Plus, since its gotten warm here, the trailer park has come alive.. and not in a good way. Some thing really make me laugh though.. We have a neighbor who set up a garage sell to try and sell some of his stuff. He has been sitting in his front yard every day for about three weeks with all his crap. Some how, every day, he accumulates more stuff. The only kind of advertising he has for the sell is a sign at the end of our park (mind you, our park is not any where near a main road) that says "Garage sell, number 12, please come." Its pretty awesome. He told Andre he has made $150 dollars so far, but no one has paid him yet because they are all going to pay him at the first of the month. He says hes not afraid that people wont pay him because he has a motorcycle gang that people know about. This person that said these things doesnt actually own a motorcycle. There are, however, two men with bikes who drive around without shirts on. They start their bikes about every half hour. This process takes about.. 20 minutes. Once they get their bikes started, they drive around our trailer park about twice. Then they stop. Half hour later, they repeat. There is also a guy that drives a gold car the honks every time he passes our trailer. I'm not sure who he is honking at, but it doesnt matter what time it is (last night, about 2 am he honked) he'll honk four or five times as he passes our trailer.. needless to say, I am excited that we are getting out.

We feel really blessed about this. Andre had applied for tons and tons of jobs, and even still that is the only one we heard back from. We had saved a bunch of money when I was working, but we had only saved enough to get us through May. We were getting a little worried (by we I mean I). But everything has worked out great. We are so excited :)

Suits!

2011-05-22T14:00:00.000-07:00

So I had bought a suit for Archimedes to be blessed in. I found it at Burlington Coat Factory for something around eight dollars. I thought we would be blessing him soon after he was born. But, things didn't work out and we wont be blessing him until August. It is a 0-7 lbs suit so I don't think it'll fit him in August... Anyway, I didn't want the suit to go to waste so I dressed him up nice for church today. I took some pictures of him and of him and his dad after church. Here they are:

New Favorites.. Or First Favorites...

2011-05-21T13:17:00.000-07:00

Archimedes has a few favorite things. I guess they are pretty much his first favorite things.

One of them is the stroller. He barely can sit up in it, and thankfully it lays down a little. And he has to have his head a little cockeyed to keep his eyes in the shade, but he loves it. He was fussy when we started on our walk but as soon as we started moving he calmed down. He was awake for the whole half hour walk we went on and super super happy.

A second favorite thing is music. If I sing to him, he'll calm down immediately. He also likes Johnny Cash, Flogging Molly, Lynard Skynard, and the Marshall Tucker Band. He dislikes Rascal Flats. Coincidentally, his father has the same preferences :) Last night we went to a wedding reception of friends. We went at like eight, which is about when he usually goes to bed for the night. He slept in the carseat for about a half hour after we got there. The music was really loud and I was afraid that when he woke up he would be upset. He woke up and he was super happy. I was amazed. I took him outside where it was a little quieter, but it was raining. He just kept looking up at the sky like he was trying to figure out what was going on, but he seemed to not mind the rain at all. He just likes being outside.

Lying on his stomach. I'm pretty sure hed sleep this way if I let him. I laid him down on his stomach on a mat that my mom bought him the other day. He stayed that way for about 45 minutes. I actually took some pictures of that:

Today was a successful day

2011-05-19T14:23:00.001-07:00

I had one goal today. Get my child to take a normal pass. Thus far, he has only liked the dumb ones they give you at the hospital. I dont know why they give these ones to you there. Hardly anyone actually uses them, plus they are ugly and more expensive. Plus about a hundred people gave me the other kind at baby showers. So, today I decided Archimedes was going to switch over to the cuter kind :) Success!
This kid is getting so big so fast. He has a double chin. His uncle calls it a dewlap...

Check out his eyes. Aren't they amazing? Model in the works :)

first dr appointment

2011-05-16T13:58:00.000-07:00

So this one is a little out of order. Archimedes had his first appointment on May 11th. He was 10 days old. He weighed 8 lbs 6 oz and was 21 inches long. He was 7 lbs 13 oz when we left the hospital (7 15 when he was born) and they said he was 19 3/4 inches long at the hospital - although I think that the length measurement is a hard one to get accurate..) either way, he's gaining weight like crazy! Hes in 0-3 month close now instead of new born for the most part.. but he's still wearing new born diapers. I dont really want him to grow very fast.. I really want him to stay little for a long time!

2 weeks

2011-05-15T21:14:00.000-07:00

Archimedes is two weeks old as of yesterday. He is growing so fast. I should be taking tons and tons of pictures... but I'm not.. I'll try and take a few tomorrow and post them. He is a really good baby. He sleeps most of the night.. he'll go to bed at 8ish and wake up around one to eat. He'll eat for about 30 minutes then go back to sleep until around 4. He'll eat again and go back to bed until 7. Its pretty awesome. Sometimes at 4 he thinks he wants to stay awake but he's pretty easy to get to sleep again. He likes to grunt a lot if he gets mad or annoyed. He really doesn't like being messed with too much. He'll grunt when I'm changing his clothes, if I change positions when I'm holding him.. things like that. He also HATES being wrapped up tight, unless he can get his arms out, then he doesnt mind it, but he has a hard time eating if his arms are free... he keeps pushing me away with his arms and putting his hands in his mouth instead... Hopefully he'll figure out where the food comes from pretty quick!

Anyway, I just wanted to write down a few things about him.. He's pretty awesome. I can't wait for the rest of my family to meet him.

Mother's Day

2011-05-08T11:41:00.001-07:00

I have now officially been a mother for eight days. Wow. Thats all I can really say. I now have a new appreciation for my mother. I mean I only have one child and Ive only had him for a week. My mother had SEVEN. I cant even begin to imagine all the sacrifices she had to go through for all of us. She never seems to think about herself, only the well being of her children, even now that all of us are (mostly) out of the house. She recently took time off work to help me with my newborn. While she was here, she cleaned my house, cared for me and my baby, and made sure we had everything we could ever need to take care of him. She is an excellent teacher, and I continue to rely on her wisdom and knowledge almost daily. She is an amazing example. I have never heard her complain, Ive never seen her fight with my dad, and have only very rarely heard her raise her voice. She made sure all us kids made it to church every week and instilled the importance of God and all His commandments into our heads. She was forgiving when we did things we shouldnt have and understanding when we needed help. She now has ten grandchildren, soon to be 11, and she does all she can to know each of them individually. She is a fighter, she stands up for what she knows to be right, and she doesnt give up on anyone. I love her very much and am grateful that I have such an awesome example to look up to. I love you Mom! Happy mothers day.

Baby!

2011-05-04T15:59:00.000-07:00

Archimedes Tyberius Corpus made his way into the world on Saturday, April 30. I was due on April 20th, but he didnt show up then... I was scheduled to be induced on Wednesday, April 27th. I went into the hospital at 7 am. The dr started me with cytotec. This is supposed to soften the cervix because I was still not effaced or dilated. Each dose last 4 hours. So, she did one dose and was supposed to be back 4 hours later... it took her about 6 hours to get back. During this six hours, the babies heart beat was staying really steady, which apparently is a bad thing. I was also having contractions that were too close together to start another dose of cytotec. So, they started me on pitocin at like 7 at night. About one, I was having really strong contractions, but still not dilating. We turned the pit off for two hours so that I could eat and take a little break. After two hours, (this was now 4 in the morning) we turned the pit back on. At around 9 the next morning, the dr mosied on in and told me that my baby was having late decels where his heart rate was dropping after some of the contractions. She told me that she wasnt going to be able to do anything until he looked better. So, I laid in bed until about 2 pm. She gave me another dose of cytotec. I cant remember for sure when but during the three days I received 4 doses of cytotec during the process. Friday night, I was finally at about a 1 1/2. The dr broke my water, I received an epidural, and the plan was for me to be on pit for the night until the baby showed up. There was thick meconium in the water, so I was a little worried about my baby by this point, I was on pit for about two hours then the nurses told me that the baby was having decels again. They kept making me turn from side to side to try and get his heart rate to have more variety and to stop the decels. So they turned off the pit and told me when he looked better they would start them again. Then, about twenty minutes later, the nurse came in (this was about 10 at night) and told me that a lady had come in with a VBAC and that there is only one surgery team at night and since I was so close to having to have a c-section, they would have to hold off on the pitocin. I was super super mad because since my water was broken, I had until 5 pm the next day to get the baby out until I would be forced into a c-section. I had stopped having contractions and was just hanging out with an epidural and my water broken and a baby whose heart beat kept freaking out. The nurse tells me to sleep. yeah right. So, every twenty minutes she keeps coming in to tell me to turn to my other side to try and adjust the baby. I started having contractions again and he started to have really bad decels and his heart wasnt changing when I changed positions. The nurse says she has to call the dr to see what we should do.. this was like 2 am. She decided to check me to see if I had dilated at all. Much to my surprise, I was at a 4! I was so stoked. So, after another couple hours of me being turned every thirty-fourty minutes, she checked me again. At 4 am I was at a 8, by 5 I was at a 10. After 2.5 hours of pushing, my baby finally got here! He had the cord around his neck and had swallowed a ton of meconium, but after they sucked it out, he was amazing. His head was all sorts of misshapen. He's beautiful now though. He is a really good sleeper and a pretty good eater. Mostly, he's just perfect... but don't take my word for it... check him out:

EASTER

2011-04-18T22:33:00.001-07:00

The Easter Bunny came early to us this year :) I guess he decided we might not have time to celebrate come Sunday. So, he brought us a dominoes game, a football, and a brand new printer that he got for an amazing deal ($200 printer that only cost $50). The new snazzy printer does all sorts of neat things, including CD printing, picture printing, printing from memory cards, and wireless printing. It is really really impressive.

We are trying hard to do FHE every week. We started this three weeks ago, and so far we are 3 for 3. Tonight, we dyed easter eggs, read President Holland's easter talk from 2009, and played with our new dominoes. It was a lot of fun... Here are some pictures from our dying experience :)

Andre's little brother Atrayu who is serving a mission in Japan gave sent this cross home to him. Apparently there was a guy there who was talking to Atrayu and their conversation went like this:

Guy: Do you have any brothers?

Atrayu: Yes, I have a lot of them.

Guy: What are their names?

Atrayu: Well, there is Anthony, Andre, Arr..

Guy: You have a brother named Andre???

Atrayu:.. Yes...

Guy: Here, give this to him. He should have it.

And the guy handed Atrayu the cross and a pin with the virgin Mary on it. So, of course, Andre is wearing the necklace every chance he gets...
Of course, it had to end with a science experiment :)

So, I am STILL pregnant. My due date is on Wednesday. The other day I thought I was really close to having him, I'd been having contractions every three minutes for about a week and a half. It turns out though that I was just really dehydrated. Ive been downing water like its going out of style and the contractions have mostly stopped. Kind of a bummer, but the contractions weren't doing anything anyway. I'd rather NOT have contractions then have contractions that were ineffective.

Thats my update for now :)

finished changing table

2011-03-28T18:48:00.000-07:00

I finished it. Its all stained and moved into the bedroom. I LOVE IT. Here is a picture for your viewing pleasure
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changing table :)

2011-03-20T15:40:00.000-07:00

So we looked and looked and looked for a dresser or a changing table that I liked. We found a few but they either were poorly built or WAY to expensive. So, this week (Andre's spring break) we went to Boardman to visit his parents. They have tons and tons of woodworking tools and we decided to build a changing table. We had a few messups, but it turned out really really good. And I got to learn a lot during the process. I still have to stain it, but besides that, its done. I made the plans, and they werent very easy plans to follow... from now on, I think I'll stick to plans made by someone who knows what they are doing.. anyway, here are some pictures of that and some pictures from the rest of the Boardman trip.

Andre's brother and Uncle killed some rabbits...

sweet panoramic picture that my camera can take

Andre's aunt Jessi and I... We had a hard time holding the camera still

(Almost) Finished Product!

35 weeks and a hair cut

2011-03-12T21:17:00.000-08:00

I figured that since I am now almost 35 weeks pregnant, I had better break down and post at least one pregnant picture. I also got my hair cut this week. I hated it at first. I got it done at the beatuy school here and I felt like they didnt do a very good job. I came home and cut another inch or so off of it. I think that I cut off about a foot or maybe a little more. Im not sure. But, here is a picture. Enjoy!

baby showers, mission farewells, and wood work

2011-02-20T19:42:00.000-08:00

so last weekend my sister Brooke and I took a drive down to Idaho Falls. It was a very eventful weekend. My sisters and sisters in law had planned a baby shower for me. It was awesome. They put a lot of work into it and I got a lot of much needed baby items. My cousin Tammi really wanted me to post some pictures of all the cute decorations, but I don't have them... sorry Tammi you'll have to talk to my mother about that...

The next day my little brother Jackson gave his "going away on a mission" talk. He did an amazing job. I can't believe that he's going on a mission. Im so proud of him and grateful for the example he's been. He is now in the Provo MTC for about three weeks then he'll be going to the Lima Peru mission center. His actually mission is Cusco, Peru. He is going to be a great missionary.

This weekend, my friends threw a baby shower for me. We played a lot of fun games and had a really good time. I wish I had pictures from that too, but we didn't take any. I'm glad that I have such good friends that would put the time into making the baby shower fun.

This weekend I decided to try my hand at a little wood working project. I found some simple plans at ana-white.com. I made this:

its a little shelf for holding books. I made two of them. I did a really good job, I think. The only thing I did bad was that I splashed stain everywhere when I was staining them. It turns out that Vegetable oil takes stain off the skin really well though so I was glad about that. I didnt have a jigsaw to cut the edges so I just used a saw and some rasps to make the curves. It was sort of difficult but Im satisfied with how they turned out.

I think thats about it!

cribs

2011-02-07T19:15:00.001-08:00

So Andre and I have been looking for awhile for a good baby crib. We found one on Craigslist for just $40. It was a log crib that looks a lot like this one:

I was super excited about it. It needs sanded down and stained because its been sitting outside but it looked like an awesome crib. Anyway we went and bought it. We got it home and found out that since it was custom made, it was all one piece. All glued together anyway. And, it wont fit in our front door. I was so sad! So, went sat it on our front lawn and are going to fix it up anyway and try to sell it and make a profit out of it. That crib in the picture goes for 1,400 new so I figure we should be able to get a little more than $40 out of it.

Anyway, this weekend we went to Boardman for the superbowl and Andre's mother and I went crib hunting. We found one that I LOVE. We set it up today.. here is a picture

That blanket is one that a girl I work with made for me. It has john deere tractors and logos on it (of course) She is making bumpers out of that same tractor material. And the sheet I found at Ross for $2.99. They have all the same colors as the blanket. Anyway, it feels good to be one step closer to being ready for this baby! Only 10 weeks to go!

John Deere Green

2011-02-02T15:17:00.001-08:00

I finally painted my baby's room. The baby and Andre are going to share :) the room right now is Andre's "war room" The room will now be divided by a gun case (I never dreamed I would ever make a wall in my baby's room using a gun case.) Anyway, here are pictures. They are in backwards order. Oh yes, the room is also a laundry room since that is where our dryer hookup is. More later....

Finished Product!

Green walls with out tape
Green walls:
previous color:

January 15th

2011-01-15T14:26:00.001-08:00

I know I'm going to regret not blogging or writing hardly anything down about this pregnancy. However, that fear of regret probably is not enough motivation for me to blog more often. Oh well. I just had this thought. Hunger seriously rules my world right now. I will be just fine doing whatever it is that I'm doing at the time and all the sudden its like BAM. HUNGRY. And if I don't get food within the next 5.3 seconds there is probably a kitten somewhere that dies. Maybe its not that bad but its bad. I'm sure Andre is getting sick of it. I guess if thats my only complaint about pregnancy its pretty good. I guess its not my only complaint, just the only one that I really hate. I can deal with my hips hurting and with my huge stomach and the fact that I can smell the gross paper factory from Lewiston at my house in Moscow.. which is 20 miles away. If thats not an amazing sence of smell I don't know what is. I haven't really had any weird cravings. I think the only craving I've had at all is for rootbeer. But that craving is not one limited to pregnancy for me. I love rootbeer :)
I have a friend in my ward that has been super super awesome to me. We recently started going to the student ward instead of the family ward. The first day I was there, she befriended me and that week invited me to a girls night with some of the other girls from the ward. Since then, she has called me many times and invited me to a few different things. She has been super awesome and I'm glad that she has taken the time to be my friend. Right after she found out I was pregnant, she gave me her old car seat and swing. Then, when she found out I was having a boy, she told me she had some clothes for me. She just had a girl, and its her second girl. Apparently when she didn't know what she was having, she went to this clothing exchange thing where you donate clothes and get to take clothes that other people have donated. She had gotten a lot of boy clothes, just in case. So she pulled down this big tupperware box of clothes and blankets and gave them to me. So now, my baby has clothes :) Almost everything that we have for the baby so far has been from her. I'm so greatful that there are people like her that are so nice to everyone around them. She's been a super huge example to me and I really appreciate her. She really is amazing.

Andre has started school again. He's going strong this semester with another 20 credits. Last semester he ended up getting one B and the rest As. He had 20 credits then too. He ended up getting 100% on his physics final and the teacher is trying hard to get him a spot as a lab TA, which is a job normally reserved for graduate students. It would be awesome if he got it. He spends a lot of time before those tests teaching other students how to do the work. He is going to be a good teacher. He loves to help other people and doesn't often think about himself. I am lucky to have found such an awesome guy.

I am now 27 weeks pregnant. Almost into my third trimester. We decided we're going to name our baby Archimedes. Were going to call him Archie for short. We haven't zeroed in on a middle name yet though. I was trying to find a good family name or something and so far I haven't found anything that seems right. I want to name him after Andre, but Andre doesnt like that idea so much. He things Archimedes Andre doesnt sound very good. Our other ideas are Archimedes Tyberius and Archimedes Raider. If anyone else has any ideas for awesome baby middle that you have been saving to use on your children, go ahead and tell me so I can steal them from you :).

I think that's all I have to say.. sorry that there are so many words and no pictures. I really should post a pregnant picture (or so I'm told) but I just don't feel like it :)

eventful week (and its only Tuesday!)

2010-11-30T20:22:00.000-08:00

We got home from Idaho Falls on Sunday. We had a really good time there. It was awesome to see everyone. All my brothers and sisters were in town at the same time. We even got a family picture with all 22 of us.

So, we got home about 4 pm Sunday. It took us about nine hours to get here. The roads werent too bad, just a little snowy in some parts. When we got home, Andre informed me that a pipe had burst. He was outside checking out the damage while I was inside. I soon realized that it was FREEZING in our house. I looked at the temperature thing and it said that it was FOURTY degrees in the house. No wonder the pipe burst. I couldn't figure out why it would be so cold. I informed Andre that our furnace must have gone out. About this time, he had managed to cap off the leak outside. He came inside to check out the furnace and I heard water coming from somewhere else. We went into the bathroom and the pipe behind our washer had cracked and there was water spraying onto all of Andre's clothes in the closet. It took him a minute but he figured out how to shut off all the water to our house. About this same time, I got hungry, so I opened the fridge. It didn't seem like it was very cold. I opened the freezer and realized that our frozen juices were no longer frozen. I close the freezer and took a second to calm down. Here is what went through my mind:

- we have no water

- our furnace is busted

- our fridge is busted

-CRAP

So, Andre started to work on the furnace It turned out that the pilot light had gone out, which is why it was so cold, which is why the pipes froze. So, we figured out most of the problem. I then happened to glance at the microwave clock and realized it had reset. So it turned out that the power must have gone off at some point while we were gone, which is why the fridge didn't seem super cold. So, it turns out that our furnace was fine, our fridge was fine, and we just had two pipes to fix. After a few water leaks and a couple hundred trips to the hardware store, Andre got it all fixed. We only had to go without water for about 24 hours, and we were lucky enough to have the spare key to Andre's brother's trailer, which is only about five trailers down from ours.

In other news, I had my ultrasound today. The tech told me that my baby already has a head full of hair. And the baby is in the 41% for weight. And it has four chambers in it's heart. And it is a boy :)

Check out the alien like pictures that the tech gave me :) I especially like the one on the bottom.

November 5th

2010-11-05T20:59:00.000-07:00

So I havent written in a while. There really hasn't been too much to say and I don't have any sweet pictures to talk about... So this is just gonna be me rambling on about things..

Im now 17 weeks pregnant. I find out the gender of the baby on November 30. I'm pretty excited about that. I just had a doctors appointment and everything seemed fine so hopefully it stays that way. I've gotten past the sick days for the most part, and its really pretty easy going, besides the fact that my hip has been giving me problems. Not too much to complain about though. I just barely started to gain weight and let me tell you, I am packing on the pounds. I now officially weigh more than I ever have before, and the neat thing is that I was excited to see that I was finally gaining weight. Its a nice feeling stepping on the scale and hoping that the numbers are higher than last week.

Andre and I just switched wards. We were going to a family ward up here. We went there for about a year and got a calling into the nursery. Right after the bishop set us apart, he looks at us kind of funny and says "why are you guys even in our ward?" and one thing led to another and we are now going to one of the married student wards. The funny thing is that it really isn't a whole lot different than the family ward. We are still a lot younger than almost everyone, almost all the men are returned missionaries, and so are most of the women. Most of the guys are in law school and I would bet that a good 60% of them went to BYU for undergrad. We have met some really nice people in that ward. Andre was pretty excited that we found such an easy way to get out of a nursery calling :)

Andre's grandpa came up for the last couple of days so the two of them could go hunting. He is still up here and we have really enjoyed having him. Andre loves his so much and they get along very well.

Well I think thats about all I have to say.

lots of good stuff

2010-09-09T13:06:00.000-07:00

So forever ago I said I would post pictures of my kitchen and bathroom. I still don't have pictures but I have a video of each so... here they are

Hopefully that works. I love my kitchen its pretty awesome. I opened the closet in the bathroom because I made those shelves. For those of you who don't know, I did all the painting job without andre, with just the help of my good friend Alisha.

I had my 21st birthday a couple days ago. I just worked for the whole day so it wasn't too exciting. My mom got me a new table which I love and Andre got me....

of course... I like it its just a small little gun with lots of safety features. I really like it. I feel bad because I got a hand gun before he did... oh well!

Some other exciting things have been happening...

We had our first anniversary. I had to work that day to so it wasn't too exciting. Andre took me out for dinner the night before and it was really nice. I can't believe weve been married a whole year!

I got a job at Safeway in the Deli department. Its been pretty fun. Ive had to work lots of hours but I get good pay checks

Andre has started school. He likes his classes so far.

We are getting sealed this weekend! Im so excited for this. My family is all (well most) coming up to Spokane to be there for this. I am so thankful that so many of them could make it and I really will miss the ones that can't be there.

AND....

Im due April 20! Thats my little baby, upside down. He/She is 1.27 cm right now so.. pretty much tiny. Sorry that I didn't tell more people in person.. it doesnt really seem real to me still. We got to see the heartbeat today, that was really really neat. We are both very excited to be starting our family :)

Oh yeah, and Im getting a hair cut today! First one in like.. 8 months :)
Thats all. Hopefully that was enough news for one post.

august 5th, 2010

2010-08-05T14:46:00.000-07:00

pretty much Ive done a lot of stuff since the last post. In July, Andre tried out for a semipro baseball team in Las Vegas. It was a fun trip. He did really well, but he wasn't fast enough to make it. It was pretty neat, there were about 300 boys trying out, Andre made it down to the last 50 or so before he got cut. It was a long day though, he was there from 630 am until 5 pm and it got up to 115 degrees!

After that, Andre went to help the high school at a football camp. He was gone for about four days and during that time, I went to Moscow and painted and made some shelves. I painted the kitchen (again), it is white and red and pretty much amazing. I also did a chalk board cupboard door. It turned out really good. I also painted the bathroom. I painted it a bright blue color. Its fun. And I painted most of the trim of the outside of the house. I did this all in about three days with the help of my fabulous friend, Alisha. It was fun and the house feels a lot more like "our" house, instead of the house we bought from some weird guy.

Speaking of buying houses, we received the title (not deed, because my house has brake lights) to our trailer. I was very excited. We actually own something. We still have to pay lot rent, but it is much cheaper than living in an apartment.

We have spent the last few days rearranging and cleaning the trailer. I like the new arrangement much better. We are getting a new table from my parents today, and I am so excited for it. It is a really pretty table and the chairs are SO much better than what we had before. I will have to post pictures once everything is all set up.

Ive just been looking for a job these last two weeks or so. Andre is getting ready to start school on the 23. Im going to work full time this year and start a nursing program the next fall. Hopefully we'll be able to save a decent amount of money with me working full time.

Anyway, I think thats about it. Ill post pictures soon!

summer!

2010-07-12T16:58:00.000-07:00

So, weve been living in Boardman. Its been a lot of fun. Ive been hanging out with my mother in law a bunch. Last week, my sister in law was at girls camp, and me and sheila (my mother in law) decided that we would redo Ariana's room. We have just 4 days to do it. We painted, got the wrong color, painted again, got another slightly wrong color, painted a third time, and finally got it right. After we painted we put up waynes coating on one wall, painted it, put up trim and crown molding, then put down a pergo hardwood floor. we bought this awesome chandelier to put up, and I wired it in all by myself! (It only took me three tries to get it right). We ended up painting the insides of the two closets (that now have beaded curtains) pink, the waynes coating and one wall white, and the rest of the walls lime green. If I do say so myself, its pretty much an awesome room. On Friday night, we had spent the whole day working on it, (Sheila was up from 5 AM working and we quit about 930 PM) we just sat in the room for about a half hour thinking about how amazing it was. Ariana was pretty surprised and satisfied when she came home. It was a lot of work, but really fun. Plus I not only learned how to wire in a light fixture, I also learned how to run a nail gun :)

Boardman

2010-06-09T11:35:00.000-07:00

So, we are living in Boardman, OR for the summer. We are staying in Andre's parent's camptrailer. Its been pretty fun. We are still looking for jobs and hope to have some here pretty quick. One of the best parts about living here is that my mother in law has two washers and two dryers. Its like being at a laundry mat, but without all the nastyness that comes along with laudry mats. Its amazing to be able to get laundry done so much faster!

Yesterday was Andre's birthday. I am so glad that I married him. He is such a fun man to be around. The night before his birthday, we went to Tri-Cities and had dinner at Red Lobster then went to Barnes and Noble. I love going there with him. The two of us could spend a few hours there just roaming around. They are such neat books!

I really don't have a lot of things to blog about right now. The weather is crappy here, as I hear it is in most other places. Yesterday was amazing and on Saturday the weather was really nice - I even got a sunburn. I wish the sun would just come out and stay out!

Well, I think thats about it.

My new kitchen

2010-05-26T11:10:00.001-07:00

So I painted my kitchen... I painted the cupboard doors black. I dont know if I like it so much but its different. It looks better than before. Tell me what you think...

We are moving to Boardman this summer. We are leaving this afternoon. Were going to drop some stuff off there then head down to Idaho Falls for a few days... we are leaving in 4 hours and I havent started packing yet.... and here I am... blogging... I guess I better get going.

Post #50

2010-05-15T15:23:00.000-07:00

So we finally got a lawn mower and a vacuum. I opted to get a nice hand held vacuum instead of a crappy upright one. It'll work fine because we don't have much carpet in our house, and its a pretty beastly vacuum. And the lawnmower we got is an old fashioned push mower and it is also beastly and works great for our little lawn. Its nice because we dont have to worry about matinence or gas or anything like that.

The other day we were at applebees with some friends and a guy came around saying there was a kareokee contest. Andre decided to sing. It turned out he was one of the only people who wanted to sing, so he sang like 15 songs. He had a really good time and did a good job. Since he won for the night, he gets to go on and compete at a reginal competition in June. Only problem is that its at a bar. Its about a week after his 21st so he'd be able to get in, but I wont. He's not too sure he's going to do it, but first prize is $600 and he'd get to go onto another competition and get a shot at a record deal. I think he has a pretty good shot at the $600 or at least the second or third prize spot since I think there are only about 10 contestants. We shall see...

Camping/Apple Crisp-pie/Uhaul/Sacramento Pictures

2010-04-30T15:30:00.000-07:00

I finally uploaded some pictures... Enjoy

San Fransisco From a distance

Golden Gate Bridge

Alcantraz

I have a hard time getting both of us in the picture...

A neat bank in Shaniko - A sweet ghost town in Oregon

The Apple pie/crisp thing that we made... Andre had this idea to make apple pie but a crisp top out of honey bunches of oats (just the bunches). It turned out REALLY good.

Here are the fish Andre caught ONE DAY of camping... we came home with 21 fish in 2 days

My Puppy :)

Andre with a fish on his line

The pretty lake - Well I guess its a reservour but.. whatever

Its Rootbeer I promise
I finally took a picture with US in the center instead of me.
This was our Sunday dinner... high class?? Once again, it's rootbeer I promise
A bridge at a stop on the way to Sacramento
This sign was posted by the bridge... like 18 times... creepy? Yes.

So, we went camping last weekend, as you can see. It was a lot of fun. The fishing was really good and we just... had fun :) I love camping.

So, I was having a hard time getting full time at my work for the summer so I got another job. Andre recently started working at Uhaul and they were looking for someone to come in about 15 hours a week and clean storage units. I can come in when I feel like it and stay until the job is done. Not too bad. I work by myself and listen to music while I clean. So, that on top of my other job is about 39 hours a week. Uhaul is really neat, they have really good benefits. Not that we are getting them from my check, but Andre only has to work 20 hours a week and we get really cheap dental and a limited medical plan. Its pretty awesome. We also get discounts at a lot of hotels and different places, and other neat things. It'll be a good place for both of us to work I think.

I think thats all for now... oh.. here is a picture of the inside of the pie/crisp thing

dog + flour = ???

2010-04-14T21:10:00.000-07:00

this is what happens when I cook too much. What kind of a dog loves flour? weird? yes.

stake conference

2010-04-10T22:19:00.000-07:00

Today at the adult session of stake conference, the stake president told us a story. I thought it was neat.

Two guys built a shop and bought a truck. They were starting their own business. They drove their truck down to a farm and bought watermelons for a dollar a piece. They took them back to their shop and sold them for a dollar a piece. The next day, they went and bought watermelon for a dollar a piece and sold them all for a dollar a piece. The next day on the way to buy some more watermelon, one of the guys looked at the next and said "we arent making much money on this business are we?" The other guy replied, "No, I think that we need to change something.. I think we need a bigger truck."

I thought that was a pretty good story. Mull that over.

bagels and stuff

2010-04-02T16:20:00.000-07:00

I know, I forgot to blog the rest of my trip. It was awesome. We went to San Fran for a day and saw all the sites. My favorite was the crooked road. It was neat. Then, we went to Old Sac one day. Its a neat part of Sacramento that reminded me alot of Jackson Hole, with old looking shops and what not. It was fun. My camera broke tho.. I think I can fix it but I havent looked at it yet. No, not my good camera, just my point and shoot one.. but still I was pretty bummed. So I dont have a lot of pictures...
But, I just got done making Bagels.. I want to saw that home made bagels are amazing and super easy... sorta time comsuming but.. Heres the recipe if anyone wants to try them out.. lemme know how they turn out!

I just copy and pasted the recipe from

http://hubpages.com/hub/Homemade_bagel_recipe_Make_great_nadrolled_water_bagels__its_as_easy_as_baking_a_loaf_of_bread

I havent tried to put toppings on it yet, just done plain bagels but if anyone does.... lemme know how it goes.

Homemade bagel recipe

4 cups bread flour

1 Tbls sugar

1 1/2 tsps salt

1 Tbls vegetable oil

2 tsps instant yeast

1-1/4- 1-1/2 cups of warm water.

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl. You don't have to worry about soaking the yeast when you use instant yeast (most yeast sold these days is instant yeast). The dough should feel stiff, but add the extra water if it's really stiff, or you can't get all the dry flour incorporated.

Plop the dough down onto the counter, and knead for about ten minutes, or until the dough is uniform and smooth.

Cut the dough into 8 equal sized balls, and let rest for 10-20 minutes.

Pre heat your oven to 425.

Now, take each of the dough balls and using two hands, roll it into a little snake on the counter. When the snake is longer than the width of your two hands, wrap it around your dominant roiling hand. The dough rope should be wrapped so the overlapping ends are together at your palm, near the start of your fingers. Now take the two overlapping ends, and use your palm to squish/roll these two ends together. Once the dough is fused, you should have a perfectly circular bagel-to-be! This is the only part of the process that can take a little practice before your bagels will look really professional. Don't get discouraged if they don't look perfect, it just takes practice!

Let your bagels rest on the counter for about 20 minutes, and meanwhile, bring a pot of water to boil, and grease a large baking tray lightly. You can just rub a splash of vegetable oil and rub it around.

After the 20 minute wait, your bagels will start to look puffy, and it's time to get them boiling! Add them as many at a time as you can to your boiling water without crowding them. Boil for about a minute, turn them over, and boil for another minute. Take them out a let dry for a minute and then place them on your oiled baking tray. Repeat until all the bagels are boiled.

Add the tray to the oven, and after 10 minutes, flip the bagels over, bake for another ten minutes; and they're done!

Let them cool for at least 20 minutes, get the cream cheese ready, and feast on what's got to be one of the best weekend brunch treats possible!

You can add any toppings you like to these. To make sesame, onions, poppy seed, caraway etc. etc. bagels just have a dry plate ready with the seed or spice topping spread out on it. After the bagels have come out of the boiling water, place them face down onto the seeds, and then place the seed side up onto the baking tray. Bake and flip as for plain bagels.

Vacati

2010-03-14T18:08:00.000-07:00

I LOVE california. We got to Red Bluff yesterday. It is a really neat town. We got a really cheap hotel room that I was a little nervous about but it turned out to be a really nice place. We went to sacrament meeting at the local ward and everyone was really nice. We went around the town afterwords and did some window shopping. We drove into Redding. We went to the outlet malls and some other neat little shops. On the drive here from Boardman, we went through this town, Shaniko I think its called, it was a really neat little ghost town. It looked like it was straight out of a wild wild west movie. Really neat. Tomorrow we are going to Burning and the Indian Reservation and then onto Sacramento. So far, its been a lot of fun.

Spring Break

2010-03-12T12:52:00.000-08:00

Spring Break officially starts as soon as Andre gets out of class at about.. 1:50. After that, we are going to the gas station, the bank, then off on our trip!
Tonight we are just going to Boardman for the night. We are trading his mom cars so we get better gas milage, and so we dont run the risk of breaking down somewhere. Then, tomorrow we are driving the almost 10 hours to a little place called Red Bluff, Ca. Whats special about Red Bluff?? It has cheap hotel rooms, and its close to where Andre's Indian Reservation is. We are going to go talk to some people there, get Andre his tribe card that says hes an offical indian or something, then hang out around there and a little in Redding, Ca. Then, on Monday, we are going to drive the 2 hour drive to Sacramento. We are staying with some of Andre's family friends there for 4 days. Its going to be a fun trip, just mostly for the sake of going some where I have never (or dont remember, if I have) been to. Dont worry, Im taking 2 cameras and a video camera so.. hopefully Ill get some good pictures and some decent footage. Ill be sure to keep you all posted!

Grandma Parry

2010-03-02T14:58:00.000-08:00

So I totally had this idea to dedicate a blog post to my Grandma Parry since its her birthday today. I worked the night shift, and just woke up and lo and behold, two of my cousins beat me to it! Oh well, I will still post one about her.
My Grandma is an amazing person. She cares so much for all of her children, grandchildren, greatgrandchildren and great-greatgrandchild. Its amazing how much love one lady can have. Ask my grandpa, he's got a running total of their posterity, and its amazing what two people can create. My grandparents have kept their children and their childrens children and their childrens childrens children very close to each other. I remember family dinners we used to have every sunday at Grandmas. Haha, me and my other cousins were on the younger end of everything and we always had to go eat in the office. We didn't care though because our table was a sweet folding table that folding into a briefcase looking thing, complete with its own chairs. After dinner we would go downstairs and play paper boy on grandma's regular nintendo that was sooooo awesome. Or we would play crackers in the bed. Anyway. Back to Grandma. She is always there to support all of her grandkids. She came to many sports games and other functions while I was growing up. I really like what Larkin said about how everyone feels that they are her favorite grandchild, and everyone is right. She has gone through so much suffereing, but is always wondering what she can do to help others instead of worrying about herself. One of my favorite memories of her (Im not quite sure why its my favorite) was one of the many wonderful times we were up at the cabin. We were playing Kanasta, which Grandma is amazing at. There was an earth quake, which is weird for that area. It was just a small one, the people in the basement didnt even feel it. But my grandma was so sure that someone had shook the table and she wanted to know who it was. She was sure the earth quake was some how tied to the card game and someone trying to make it so she didn't win. If I remember right, her partner was Paul. Her and Paul were always partners during that game and they always did very well. My grandma is very very smart. I always thought that when I got older, I would be able to do crossword puzzles and those puzzles where the letters are all mixed up and you have to figure out what the letters actually are. I thought it was just a thing that grown-ups could do. Turns out, I was wrong. I now am so much more amazed at her abilities with those puzzles! She does them so quick, and the fact that she can do them at all amazes me. I mean.. Im a pretty smart person, but those puzzles are hard! She whips them out like there is nothing to it. My grandma is an extremely caring person. She will do anything for anyone. One of my other favorite memories is every year on Haloween, after we got cold trick-or-treating, we would go to my grandmas house. She always had hot apple cider ready for us. It was always my favorite part of Haloween. I hope I can turn out to be even half the lady she is. She really is an amazing woman.

Also, not to leave him out, but its my nephews birthday today too! Happy Birthday Kanyon! He's such an awesome guy and I love that he lives a pretty short distance from me. I love being able to see him and his sisters and my sister.

And, today is just the day for birthdays. Its also my Uncle David's birthday too! I hope all those people with birthdays have a good day today!

video

2010-02-24T09:59:00.001-08:00

this is the same video from my last post. hopefully it works and makes you smile!

Things that make me happy

2010-02-18T21:32:00.000-08:00

First - this website is amazing. It plays upbeat songs that just make my day. I love to go to it when I am cleaning or first thing in the morning.
http://8tracks.com/tylr/songs-that-make-you-feel-better
Second, this video made me laugh. Out loud. And Im alone. Its that funny. Okay its really not that funny but its neat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyy5lUtiLXE
Im not sure that the missionaries are supposed to be spending their time this way, but it still made my day :)

Nutrition

2010-02-17T13:29:00.000-08:00

Im in nutrition class right now. And I swear, I am using my computer only to take notes. Not facebook, not solitare, and definatly not to blog. Simply notes.
Andre and I fed the missionaries yesterday. Everytime we have company over, Andre likes to cook. This is fine by me! He cooked chicken cordon bleu. It was amazing. I made pineapple upside down cake in my new dutch oven. It was pretty good. I really want to learn how to make good food in the dutch oven. If anyone knows of a good dutch oven cook book, let me know!

Valentine's Day

2010-02-11T12:53:00.001-08:00

So, for Valentine's Day, Andre told me he wanted to buy me a new pan. The pans I have came from a pretty nasty set that Ive had for 4 years and they are just.. nasty. Anyway, so weve been looking for a couple days for one that I like. I really wanted one that was cast iron, but cast iron is SO heavy. I couldn't decide if I really wanted to get the cast iron or one that was a little lighter. Anyway, we went and looked today and while we were looking, I had to go to the bathroom. When I got back, Andre had the pan picked out. In fact, he got me a pan and a dutch oven pot. I am sooo spoiled. They are amazing. Heavy, but amazing. Plus they look neat.
Here is a picture of the dutch oven:
and the pan:

Dont worry tho, Im not the only spoiled one. I found two world war one bayonetts at the second hand store here. Andre was really excited when he found out that I bought them for him.
And yes, we are horrible about keeping secrets, which is why we both have our Valentine's Day gifts three days before Valentine's Day.
Congrats Scottie and Traci on finding out its a boy! Im very excited for another nephew! And its neat that we finally have a boy to carry on the Fuller name.

Neat stuff

2010-02-10T13:05:00.000-08:00

So I just got my test score back for physiology. I was nervous for that test because I did not take the pre req for the class and the teacher tried pretty hard toscare me out of taking the class. Anyway I got a 94 on the test. I'm so excited about it. And, back to the bed story it turns out that the bed I had was a full and the frame really is a queen. We figured this out after we bought a king. But it's ok cuz we sold the king and I think we found a queen. Were gonna go look at it later this afternoon. Then, I will get to buy asweet new comforter set. I'm super excited about that. It's gonna be one of those huge ones. With lots of pillows. I'll post pictures.

new bed

2010-02-04T19:17:00.001-08:00

so, today, Andre and I went to the Hope Center in Moscow to see if we could find a bed frame. Our bed has been sitting on the floor and I really wanted the room underneath for storage and I just really wanted our bedroom to look nicer. We have a queen size bed, but its pretty crappy, so we were debating on if we should buy a nice frame or a cheap frame and a nice bed or what we should do. So we decided we would buy a mattress pad and a pretty cheap frame. Anyway, we had seen one at the Hope Center that we liked and decided to go see if it was still there. They have a lot of furniture that they pretty much just give away. So it was there, and we talked them into giving it to us for $25 dollars (amazing really, its a really really nice frame) anyway, so we get it home and its HUGE. It would only fit one way in our room, which is really small anyway. So we go to put the mattress on it... guess what.. its a KING SIZE FRAME. So, we now have a queen size bed on a king size frame :) Good news is that people tend to sell old king mattress pretty cheap because no one wants to hang out to one. So now we get a new mattress AND and new frame :)
I actually found a King mattress for sale in CDA for only 85 dollars so.. were going to look into that. I didnt really want a King bed because they are so huge I feel like Im going to get lost in it ha. Anyway, here are some pictures of huge bed:) Also, I put on some pictures of the Gingerbread church that my mother in law and I made at Christmas time. Isnt it cute? We even had stained glass windows :) And, there is a picture from the Christmas card that Andre's family sent out. Enjoy!

Feb 1st 2010

2010-02-01T10:40:00.001-08:00

I really need to take some pictures. My blog is starting to too pretty lame with all the words and none of the pictures.
This weekend, my sister Brooke and her family came down to Moscow to visit. Len and Andre went fishing and I hung out with my sister and her kids. Miranda was a little onery, but besides that the day went really well. It was a really short visit but I was so excited to be doing something besides school or work, and I really miss being around family. So I was very glad that they came.
Im sitting here trying to think of what else has happened recently. We are pretty much just working and going to school. Andre had a friend that owed him and another guy some money so he ended up commondeering a truck. The truck has some parts that need replaced but Andre's friend has an old truck that has all the same parts that he just got in a wreck with so I guess they are taking the two trucks, making one good truck, and then they are going to sell it. Im pretty excited about that, a little extra cash is always handy :)
I guess thats about it.. sorry there wasnt anything too excited for me to write about :)

Piano man

2010-01-25T10:31:00.000-08:00

I am sitting in a room in the commons which is a main building on campus and I was doing really good at getting study time in. I am in a room that is normally really super quiet which makes for some easy studying. The only thing is that there is a piano. About five minutes ago a guy came in and started playing and he is amazing. I was a little annoyed because it's harder to study with the music but it is well worth it. I wish I could play as well as he is.
Anyway, not too much has been going on. Andre got promoted to manager which is neat except that he is an inside guy now when he does manager shifts so he doesn't get tips anymore, but he got a small raise. So it'll be good experience and waybetter hours ( days instead on 5pm till 3 am). I start working tomorrow. I feel like I've been out of a job for a long time but I am not anxious to start again. I got a job as a cna helping at a home with some guys that can't live on their own. It should be a good experience. I'm hoping not to work too mug but well see.
On another note, I'm typing this whole thing on the Foch screen of my iPod touch so if there are errors, forgive me.
Well, the piano man left so I guess I will get back to studying :(

1/16/2010

2010-01-16T17:50:00.001-08:00

I havent posted for awhile, so I figured... I would!
We finally started school! Woohoo! I am taking 15 credits and Andre is taking 13. I am taking a few credits online, so I only have classes for two hours Monday, Wednesday, Friday and then a lab on monday night and thursday night, so I have it pretty easy this semester.
I am almost done with my CNA class. I only have 12 hours of clinicals left. I should be done with it, but on the last time I had clinicals, which was supposed to followed by one more 12 hour day, my eye started to get irritated and red. I went to the doctor that night and he diagnosed me with Conjuctivitis (Pink eye). I knew the Dr was going to diagnose me with that, but I also knew that was wrong. Ive had pink eye before and this was not pink eye. So I took the anitbiotics for a few days, and the eye just got worse. It was painful and super extremely sensitive to light. Any time there was any sort of light, it hurt. One night, I woke up in the middle of the night and the light coming in from outside (at 2 in the morning) hurt my eye. It was pretty bad. So I went to an actual eye doctor and it turns out its Iritis. Anyway, he put me on some steroid eye drops and it got better, but didnt go away. Now I have to take four steroid pills every morning plus a steroid eye drop every hour. And, I am proud to report that is (mostly) gone. No more pain, only redness. The only good part (I guess) about this is that I got some sweet crome and black glasses :)
I think thats about all I have to say at this point. No sweet pictures or anything :(

12/18/2009

2009-12-18T19:36:00.000-08:00

We've been at my in-laws for the last week or so. We were only planning on being here for like... 6 days, but right after we got here our dog started to act really sick and got really bad the day before we left, so we took her to the vet. The vet ruled it down to either parvo or salmon posioning. We had given her the head of a stealhead to eat 8 days before that. I wasnt aware of this but I guess any kind of fish that migrates is posionous to dogs. I guess they carry a type of parasite that only affects dogs. So, because of this fact, the Vet treated her for salmon posioning. I guess if we hadnt taken her in, she probably would have died before we got back to Moscow. She had to stay at the vet for 48 hours, got IV treatments and antibiotics, but she is doing much better now,muchly due to my mother-in-law. We didnt want to leave without her and we were planning on coming back for Christmas so we decided to just stay here, then head to IF on the 26th. Im super excited to come to IF.
I really like it here in Boardman. Sheila (the mother in law) and I have been baking and doing all sorts of neat things. Its been pretty fun.
Im excited for christmas. I love this season. I hope everyone is doing well!

Amazing video

2009-11-30T23:10:00.000-08:00

Take a second to watch this video. Its amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43L1IR5qHIU

and...

2009-11-28T13:25:00.000-08:00

So. The box said it would look good. The box is a darned liar.
It was a two step process. Step one, put in the all over brown color.
Note: the box said brown, not bright red.
Step two, put in the red high lights
Note: the box said red, not orange.
Needless to say.. my hair looks like a 3 year old got a hold of some markers and found me innocently sleeping...
Heres the pictures, you be the judge.

Today

2009-11-27T22:40:00.000-08:00

Im dying my hair. bought the cheap stuff. its sitting on top of my head, perculating. Stay tuned.

Turkey Day!

2009-11-26T17:25:00.000-08:00

So Andre and I had our own Thanksgiving Dinner today. It is our first thanksgiving since we got married and I decided to go all out and make a full dinner for the two of us. The amazing thing is I think we spent.. ten dollars maybe. We got a good deal on the turkey ($2.50 for 7 pounds) we already had the potatoes, I made stove top stuffing which was like.. 75 cents, and spent $1 on cranberry sauce. I was pretty proud of myself. I took some pictures :)

Like I said before.. Im pretty proud of myself. Everything was perfect except a slight gravy fiasco that I fixed. 10 points for me. Of course my amazing husband helped too.. notice the picture of him scrubbing dishes :)

Deer...

2009-11-18T19:07:00.001-08:00

So my husband shot a deer.
sweet huh?
he was pretty excited about it.
On a more exciting note, my dog now weighs 30 pounds. And she is sitting on my lap as I type this.. Im sad that she wont be a lap dog much longer...

midweek trip

2009-11-07T23:35:00.000-08:00

So a little while ago, my mother-in-law asked Andre and I to go to Boardman and give a presentation at a college fair for Andre's high school. So that was last Thursday. We went to Boardman Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and came home today (Saturday). It was a lot of fun. The college fair was fun, we didnt even actually give presentations, we just did like a.. question and answer thing for the Juniors and Seniors in high school. They asked all sorts of questions about college. It was fun. While I was there, I learned that there is a nursing program in Clarkston that I did not know about. It is just a associates program, which is what I want. I thought the closest one was in CDA. I guess this program is pretty easy to get into (I am already qualified as soon as I finish my CNA class). I applied to the school and have started talking to the nursing program so.. hopefully things will start happening soon :) Oh yes. I started my CNA class. It is just a 8 week class mostly online, class meets just once a week. I also have to do 40 clinical hours for the class, but I think it will be a lot of fun and a good experience. I am really excited about it.

theres a picture of our puppy in the back of the truck on the way to boardman. She was all curled up in the spare tire. She is a sweet dog. Shes pretty funny. The Corpus's have two dogs that she loves to play with. When we got home today, she was EXHAUSTED. She went to sleep the second we got home at 4 and hasnt barely moved.
Well. thats about it!

Pictures, WIndows 7, and stuff..

2009-10-14T19:57:00.000-07:00

My Family came up to Coeur D Alene for Kaydra's baptism a little while ago and I took some pictures when we went to this... water park/bowling alley/mini golf... place.. It was pretty fun. I love hanging out with my nieces and nephews and was glad to get to spend some time with my family. On other notes, I just put Windows 7 Ultimate RC on my Acer Netbook and its amazing. I recommend windows 7 to anyone who is thinking about upgrading. Its XP meets Mac meets amazing. Dont get me wrong.. mac is still my favorite. But for a windows OS its not half bad.

Also, I got promoted to tech.. conditionally, meaning I have to do well or else I get demoted back to cashier.. It shouldnt be too hard tho.. I had the highest sales last week as a cashier, higher than any of the techs or managers. Not to brag but I was pretty proud of myself. So, now I just have to overcome the anger I feel when people call and ask for the tech department, hear a female voice, and immediatly think they have gotten the wrong department. How on earth could a girl know anything about technology. Its frustrating because if I dont know something, its because Im a girl and girls shouldnt be techs. If one of the other techs dont know something, its because well, techs cant know EVERYTHING right??

Jordyn Style Post

2009-10-08T17:40:00.000-07:00

Enjoy :)

So....

2009-09-15T18:24:00.000-07:00

It happened! The wedding was amazing. I cant believe how much time and effort it takes to plan a wedding and two receptions! My sisters and mother and mother in law all worked soo hard to make everything go perfect, and it pretty much did. There were a few mishaps (the lighting falling during the ceremony) but all in all it went pretty well. Thanks again for everyone who helped.
The reception in Boardman was a lot of fun. Andre's mother planned a lot of games and had amazing food and every thing went really well there too. Andre's mother and aunt even got me pink Justin cowboy boots to match theirs so Im part of the club now :)

Andre and I are living in our sweet little trailer in Moscow. We finally got most everything moved in and put away so its starting to really feel like home. I found a job today (well I got my old job back) and Andre may have gotten a job at the same place. We were kinda nervous (well I was nervous) about not having jobs but now that that is mostly taken care of, everything is amazing. I love my new husband Here is a picture that my aunt Elaine took at the wedding. She did an amazing job. Thanks again Elaine :)

getting closer

2009-08-26T14:28:00.001-07:00

So.. the day is getting super close.. only 10 days now :) Everything is coming together nicely - thanks mostly to my mother. I am getting super excited :) My dress is all done - thanks to Deb. We found a sweet dress for cheap at a consignment store right next door to the dress shop where I almost bought a 900 dollar dress.. Needless to say the consignment shop was a bit cheaper, and it still had the new tags on it, and it fit me PERFECT. It was meant to be.

We found a place to live after the wedding. We were really hoping to find a month to month rent and I called EVERYWHERE in Moscow and no one would do month to month, they all had you sign a year contract and you had to pretty much give a pound of flesh to get out of the contract. Well I had a feeling to call this guy who was selling a trailer, and sure enough, he said he would love to do a month-to-month rent and if we stay there long enough to have paid the price hes asking, which we will if were there only a year, he will give us the trailer. Its nothing fancy, but its got two bedrooms and a really nice kitchen and living room area. Its nice. The only weird thing is that the washer hook up is in the bathroom, and the dryer is in the smaller bedroom. Really weird. But we didnt think that we would have a washer and dryer any way so it didnt really matter, but my cousin called my mom today and said she has an old washer and dryer if we wanted them. She said the only problem is that one is gray and one is white but I guess it really doesnt matter since they are in different rooms :) Thanks Tammi!

Now all that needs to happen is Andre and I need to find jobs.. Any ideas?

engagement pictures

2009-07-26T15:30:00.001-07:00

There are some of the engagement pictures we've taken. Only 41 days left (but who's counting??) :)

Big News :)

2009-07-15T22:17:00.000-07:00

So.. Many people probably heard.. but in case you havent..
Im ENGAGED!

Were getting married September 5th. His name is Andre Corpus. Im very excited. Weve been engaged for about 2 weeks. He asked me to marry him at Office Depot in front of the Epson Ink :) Weve had a lot of planning to do. We're going up to Moscow tomorrow to look at a place to live and get some other stuff done. Hes been down in idaho falls officially meeting my family and telling everyone the good news :) But, I have to go to bed so.. Ill write more later.

Lunch Break

2009-06-22T18:00:00.000-07:00

So I put in my notice for my job. I quit on July 11th. After that, I get about 6 weeks to come home and hang out and do whatever. Im pretty excited.

On the last post, I forgot to tell a pretty sweet story. So one day when I was in Boardman, Andre and I went and did the music for Andre's little brother Arik's 7 and 8th grade dance. It was pretty fun, except all the kids only would dance when it was mexican music playing.. it was a little ridiculous. So in effort to get the kids up and moving, Andre decided to hold an Air Guitar contest. 1st place - 5 bucks and a "dance with his beautiful girlfriend"... Needless to say, I made the winner, 7th grade Jason, quite embarrased when he got to dance with me in front of all the other students. I was a little annoyed at Andre but it was pretty fun. He made it up to me by dancing with me on the next slow song. I thought that was a pretty sweet story and I didnt want to forget it.

Other than quitting my job, not a whole lot has been going on. Im doing my last summer class, and its a TON of work. I have to do a 18 week lesson plan, a one day in depth lesson plan, a bunch of reading, and an hour long group project, and thats only for the first 2 and a half weeks of the class. Its intense, but I think Im going to like being a teacher.

Well Im on my lunch break, and I gotta go back to work.

this week

2009-06-14T14:49:00.001-07:00

This last week, I have done a whole bunch of sweet stuff. I had a week off of class and I got work off so I decided to go on a road trip or two. I went to Idaho Falls for a short trip friday saturday and sunday, then I left Monday for Boardman. It was Andre's 20th birthday so I went up and stayed there until thursday. It was a lot of fun. We had a really good dinner for his birthday and I gave him the sweet pocket watch that I bought for him for his birthday.Its supposed to be a vintage 1950s watch with original chain and everything. I got it engraved on the back in this little shield with his initials and on the inside of the back cover I engraved a line as well. Its a pretty sweet watch and he really seemed to like it. Theres the back before I got it engraved.
So then on tuesday, we went to the cattle auction. He didnt end up buying any cattle, but he did buy a black sheep for some reason. It was a pretty fun day, I only got a little crap flung on me. After we went to that auction he showed me his "herd" which consists of 3 cows.. I think 2 bull and one steer but I could be wrong. They are pretty sweet. One of them will come when his name is called, and he loves to be pet.
Wednesday was spent with Andre working on his dad's old tractor that had broken down. I sat with him while he worked on it for the most part but it got really hot so I didnt stick it out as long as he did. Then we went bowling with some people from his singles ward. On the way back from bowling his car broke down and his dad and brother had to bring us some water to get the rest of the way home.
Thursday I hung out with him for a little while then went back to Moscow. I was really sad to leave him. I really like his family and I love being out on his farm. My sister and her kids came to Moscow Thursday afternoon though which was also fun. We went to a park and ate KFC. The next day, we took the kids the the water park in Moscow. It was a really cheep park that was really fun for the kids.
Brooke and her kids left later that afternoon. Since I had until Tuesday before I had to work or start class again I decided to go to CDA with her. I came up last night and went to church with her today. I really am going to like having her up here. I missed being able to see any family members. Its nice to be only an hour and a half away from my sister.

Thats about all for now. Thanks for reading if you made it this far. Sorry there werent any sweet pictures.. I forgot my camera through this whole trip :(

this week

2009-05-28T21:30:00.001-07:00

So. This weekend my mother and my sister Courtney drove up to Moscow to help me move and brought me up a Jeep so I dont have to drive my sweet truck around anymore. I was very very grateful for their help and I am very glad to have the Jeep up here now. Then, on Monday, I went and picked up Andre. He came to Moscow and helped me for a couple days. We also found time to have a little fun... we had a picnic, and I went and walked with him while he golfed 18 holes. It was a lot of fun, its been awhile since Ive seen him and I was very excited to see him. I even took a couple pictures - this is the two of us at the arburitum after we had our picnic.
And here is one of Andre golfing. Next time, maybe Ill golf with him...The only bad part of the week was the massive sunburn I got while he was golfing. But, its mostly gone now so its all good.

In other news, I am almost done with my first three week class of the summer. Only one week left. I am really glad I did the class this way, it would be a really pointless and boring class if dragged out to a full semester. As it is, its still pointless, just not as boring.

Photo Excursion

2009-05-18T19:40:00.001-07:00

This is a picture of me and my good friend Jeff Hendrix. I have been very grateful to have him around these last couple of weeks and I am sad that he is leaving soon. Today, him and I went to the Arburitum at the college with a couple of cameras - Here are some of the pictures that I took that I really liked. Enjoy.

For Lack of a Better Title

2009-05-17T17:43:00.001-07:00

Its been kinda crazy up here in Moscow. Everyone left for the summer and I have been packing my things to move to a different apartment. It kinda stinks that I have to pack ALL my stuff up just to move down the street, but the rent will be much cheaper and it will be nice to have a change of scenery.

I had a pretty sweet faith building experience the other day. The Sunday before finals week my bishop decided to get up and talk about keeping the Sabbath day holy and how homework should be done on other days of the week. Of course he picked an excellent day to bring up this topic. I had a final the next morning and hadnt yet begun to study for it. So I decided to just trust the bishop and trust the Lord and do what I was supposed to do. I spent Sunday doing Sunday-things and I didnt study. I woke up early the next morning and attempted to study, but I didnt feel prepared for the test at all. So I go to the test, fairly nervous, and no one was in the room. I was freaking out that I had gotten the wrong time or the wrong room and I was going to miss my final. I finally tracked down my teacher and it turns out I had been told the wrong day. My final wasnt until Wednesday. Had I been paying attention in class, I would have known this from the beginning, and it never would have been a issue of whether I would study on Sunday or not, but I was very glad that I had kept the Sabbath day holy and that I was given extra time to study for my final.

On other notes, I bought a sweet LCD Moniter that will also hook up to my desktop computer so I now just have to push a button on my remote to go from TV to computer. It's pretty sweet.

Tammi - I know you will be reading this as you are one of my faithful readers, and I hope you had an amazing birthday. I love you very much and I am very thankful for the example you have been to me. Thanks for being such an awesome cousin.

Mom - I know you also will be reading this, as you are my mother and thats what you do - I hope you had an amazing Mother's day. Im sorry that I wasnt able to be there, but I just wanted to let you know that I love you and I appreciate all you do for me.

Thats about it! I hope everyone is enjoying this amazing Sunday as much as I am.

The first rule of blogging

2009-04-29T03:02:00.000-07:00

Yes Its three in the morning and yes mom, Im still awake. I had an extremely difficult day, but it ended well. It started with me going to the elementary school and getting the last of my practicum hours. I had to say goodbye to all the kids and I started crying when they started crying. I really started to get attached to some of them and I will really miss them.
The day went on and there was a lot of drama. I have a few friends that are mad at me for reasons I dont quite understand and I was really feeling like I was picked on and felt like I had no one. I realized though that I do have a few really good friends that are willing to be there for me when no one else is.
I realized a lot of things today. I feel like the things that happened to me today happened because I needed to hit rock bottom, and today I did. There is no way but up from here, and up is where I am going to go. I keep telling myself Im going to make some drastic changes with my life, but now I realize I have waited way too long to do it. I figure if I blog about it, I have to actually do it. Kinda like when I see people blogging about how they are going to run marathons. I mean.. after you blog about it you really have no choice right? thats like the first rule of blogging.

SUNSHINE

2009-04-07T14:48:00.000-07:00

IT IS 68 DEGRESS OUTSIDE! It's amazing. I went on an amazing run, there is a little bit of breeze so it's perfect. I was never very big into running (I usually only did it as a punishment from a coach) but it is amazing how good you feel after going for a run combined with amazing weather. Today has been a good day, and nothing has really even happened. I just feel.. refreshed. I think I finally got a job, Im not getting my hopes up, but Office Depot, where I have had two interviews, called me yesterday and asked me to get a drug test done tomorrow so hopefully that is a good sign! Everything seems to be going good right now and Im praying that it stays that way. I have only 12 more practicum hours to get, which I should be able to get done by next week. I hope this week keeps going the way it is!

Girls rule, boys drool

2009-03-24T16:32:00.000-07:00

So today at the Charter School, all the kids were drawing castles and writing a few sentences explaining the castles. One girl won for the best story, at least in my opinion.. Her story went something like this:
At this castle, the girls are in charge. All the prisoners are boys. All the girls are in charge so it is fair. The boys do all the work. They are even the maids, but since maids are supposed to be girls, the boys dress up like girls and pretend to be girl maids. All the boys do all day is work, work, work while the girls lay out in the sun. Girls rule!
Yeah.. she had a pretty good idea, in my opinion.
And I am now 1/3 of the way done with my hours for that class. Only 20 more hours to go.. the bad part is that I have only 4 weeks to get those 20 hours (it took me almost 3 months to get the first 10)

You've Got.. Something.

2009-03-20T19:26:00.000-07:00

People always say that change is a good thing, but what it really means is that something you didn't want to happen, has happened.
- You've Got Mail
My life is so.. different right now then I thought it would be at this point. If you would have asked me 1 year ago, a month ago, even two weeks ago what I thought I would be doing this week, there is no chance that I would have had any idea. I guess that's what life is about though. Change just makes people stronger. I have realized that the one thing that I can take with me no matter where I am at and no matter what I am going through is my relationship with God. I have been trying really hard to make this relationship better, and my life has been a lot more calm since I have been doing this. I've come to the realization that I honestly have about 5% control over what happens in my life and that all I can do is hope that things work out, and live faithfully until they do work out. I was starting to feel sorry for myself and felt like I was being picked on, but I realized that everything is happening for a reason and that I am going to be that much stronger because of everything that is going on. I can't wait to see what the future holds for me. I have a new faith that everything will work out how its supposed to and that in the end, I am gong to be happy for eternity. I just need to stop wishing eternity would come faster and just enjoy the ride there.

new computer

2009-03-16T22:07:00.001-07:00

so I got a sweet new lap top.. its actually a netbook which is a cool word for really small laptop. its like.. 2ish pounds and only has an 8.9 inch screen. its really cool and so far I am really impressed with it. It was cheap too.. just 300 dollars. I got the blue one. It even looks cool. Im really excited about it and Im really glad my dad bought it for me. Im lucky to have such a nice father :)

Losing things.

2009-03-11T17:17:00.000-07:00

"When you get old, in life, things get taken from you. I mean, that's a part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life's this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us….. And I know if I'm going to have any life anymore it's because I'm still willing to fight and die for that inch, because that's what living is, the six inches in front of your face.” - Al Pacino, Any Given Sunday

So I found out last week that Andre has decided to quit school for the rest of the semester. He will be here for two more days, then its spring break and he isnt coming back afterwords. It really kind of stinks for me, he has become my best friend in a very short time and I am really going to miss him. It isnt really a huge deal I mean boardman is just 4 hours from here so if I ever really want to see him I am sure that something will be able to be arranged. I am excited for him, he is going to work on getting his pilots license which is something he has really wanted to do. It will be exciting for him, but I am going to miss him

Ill write more later, he is here to pick me up and take me to red lobster :)

this week

2009-02-28T23:14:00.000-08:00

Ive had a pretty lame week this week. Nothing too exciting has happened. The main exciting thing is that the last few days was the Jazz Festival. Its a pretty big deal, a lot of schools from around here come and compete. There are elementary kids, middle schools, high schools, and colleges. Usually all this festival means for me is that the campus is extremely over crowded and there are loads of people who dont know how to use cross walks. This year, however, my cousin Derek performed and I got to go watch him play the drums. He was pretty amazing and it was nice to see some family up here.

Heres a picture I took with my phone so its not the best quality... but he did an amazing job and it was really cool to see him play.

Andre went out of town this weekend, so I vowed that I would actually get some stuff done. While I didnt get everything done that I needed to, I did feel like today was a fairly productive day. My truck looks better then ever. I really love that thing. Its amazing.

I felt pretty good about myself today. I went to Schucks to buy a seat cover for my truck. I bought a few other things as well. When they rang me up I wasnt really paying attention, and after words I realized I had only paid ten dollars, when the seat cover was supposed to be 30. I looked at the receipe and realized that they hadnt charged me for the seat cover. I went back and told them what had happened. The cashier was almost upset that I made him do the extra work. Oh well. My eternal salvation isnt worth 30 dollars.

Quote of the day: Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. C. S. Lewis

Quote of the day:

My adventure for the day

2009-02-14T18:26:00.000-08:00

Okay so.. I had a pretty sweet day today. Andre and I decided to go to Lewiston to go to Costco and then the Red Lobster. We decided to take my S10 since it has been running really well. So we got to costco, went in and went shopping. We then went to get back in the truck and.. it wouldnt start. So we called Andrew, Andres good friend, and he said he would come get us. So, instead of Red Lobster, we decided to walk and see what we could find that was close to eat. We found this sweet place, called Tomato Bros

It was a really awesome italian restrauant. I really enjoyed it. So Andrew got there with Brandon around the time that we finished eating. We figured out that the starter had decided it didnt want to work anymore in my truck, so we had to tow it back to Moscow.

This was andrews truck pulling mine. Yes there is a glove and some twine on the windshield. No I dont know why. So we were on our way up the Lewiston grade and the chain came unhooked. Andre had to get out and hook it back up and this is what he looked like when he got back in.
All in all, it was a pretty good day haha. We only got jerked a couple of times, so I only have minor whiplash injuries. It honestly was a really fun day and it is one that I dont think I will forget any time soon. Im just lucky to have such good friends that like to do such fun things :)