And the Winner is..................

The Bird.

Waiting for Baby

It looks like I am not the only one around here waiting on the arrival of a new baby. 4 out of 5 springs since we have moved into this house a bird has built a nest right outside our back door. The door exits out onto a deck so we are able to look straight into the nest and spy on the eggs. The first spring here I remember spending hours staining the deck and having a mama robin as company. I even remember talking to her, it get's pretty boring staining a deck. I told her today that we would have a race to see whose baby (or in her case "babies") would arrive first. Let's cross our fingers that I win.

FHE

We are going to be learning this song for FHE tonight(there is an updated version on Sugardoodle.net which includes Elder Neil L. Anderson). Not only will it teach Peanut and Finley the apostles, but it will help me and Chuckles too, we are always getting the apostles mixed up. This last week we were able to attend our first temple session at the Draper Temple and we were in the same session as Elder Richard G. Scott, we were trying to remember what his talk was about at Genenral Conference 4 days before. We were totally wrong we said it was on Provident Living and no it was on Temple Worship. Hopefully this song will help us keep them all straight.

LOL!

Today Finley said to me "Sometimes I take my boogers out of my nose, and then put them back into my nose" gross, but it is better than eating them, which we have finally broken him of. I guess we need more tissues around the house so he has a place to put them.

Good Mail

You all know I am a blog-a-holic, it is an addiction I am not ashamed of. Through all the blog's I read everyday every now and then I come across a post about the blogger receiving "good mail" I always think how fun it would be to receive some of my own "good mail' but it usually requires some sort of card making group where you make cards and send it off to 10 of your groupies and they in return send 10 cards of their own and so on. I am not crafty (I have dreams that I was) nor do I really like making cards, or baking delicious goodies, and in fact I am pretty unmotivated so it would be hard to get myself to the post office. So the thoughts of any "good mail" coming in my mailbox isn't likely......until........yesterday. My good friend Nicole must've read my depressing status on Facebook about how I was going to wash all of Peanut's baby clothes to try and get myself excited about baby's arrival and to forget how LARGE and miserable I am, because when I opened my mailbox yesterday there was a package addressed to me! It was from Nicole in Colorado. I thought huh? Is it my birthday? no. Did I send her homemade cards in my sleep? no, i don't think so. I ripped the package open in a totally excited state of confusion. And this is what was inside:Ooooh, so cute. The cutest little outfit and the sweetest card to go along with it. Thanks, Nicole! Your gift made me smile the rest of the day and into today. I have been wearing the outfit on my belly all morning.....well, maybe not all morning, but it has been placed there several times throughout. Your gift made me excited to be having a baby and even more excited to be having a girl that can wear this adorable piece of clothing. And thanks for fullfilling my dream of recieving "good mail", I hope I can return the favor soon. Love ya!

luck o' the Irish

We had a festive St. Patrick's day. I actually had some energy and motivation yesterday so I tried to make the day special for the kids.

It started off with waking up to a surprise from a visitor who left his mark all over the house.
And he played a nasty trick on us by turning our milk green. Peanut would not have anything to do with the green milk and whined and cried the whole way through breakfast because she did not want to eat her mini wheats with GREEN MILK!
Our little Leprechaun's gold must have kept falling out of his pocket and since we live on the wrong side of the rainbow his gold magically changed into chocolate -yum-.St. Patrick's day is not complete without our traditional Corned beef and cabbage meal complete with green Jell-o and Irish soda bread.And the leprechaun even left me a surprise in the cupboard......a box of girl scout Somoa's, ahhh my leprechaun must love me.

It was a fun St. Patty's day. It was fun to celebrate, even though we had some friends visit straight from Ireland last summer and they said they don't really do anything special for the day and they don't eat corned beef and cabbage :( oh well, we will stick with our Americanized traditions.

WOW, wow, wow!

I know this is probablly posted all over the web, but I was totally amazed by this girl's knowledge of the LDS church and I wanted to document it for me to watch again (and maybe again).

Day of Faith: Personal Quests for a Purpose - 3. Rachel Esplin from Harvard Hillel on Vimeo.