Monday, September 24, 2012

Cabin Weekends

September  14-23

Lived

- WooHoo! My parents finally got their cabin and we have spent the past two weekends there. It has been so fun decorating and cleaning getting it all set up just the way we want it. Our first weekend up there was Mom's birthday weekend. We got her some pretty cute stuff from Bulloch's that just happened to go perfectly in her new little home away from home.





 

- Last Monday Kaden, Leighton, and I headed to Salt Lake for the day to buy Kaden a Bronco. I told Kaden i would only go if he promised we could go to Temple Square. Of course i planned out our outfits and everything so we could take some cute pictures and I totally forgot my camera. Iphone photos of our trip only. Oh and we didn't even buy the Bronco. Poor Kaden still doesn't have his own vehicle.









- School craziness is finally catching up with me and I knew this next week will be super busy so i already started packing for our cruise. We are so excited! It is only 6 days away.


- Our second trip up to the cabin was a mostly a guy trip to get pipes and water tanks going. Sarah, Leighton and I tagged along to make them food. Of course we forgot quite a bit of the food though. The best meal was breakfast and Joe actually helped me make it.



Learned

- I don't really remember as many details about my life as I assume I do. This past week as I tried to recall specific details from my childhood I realized I couldn't. I remember random small blurbs like it raining so hard while I was in kindergarten that the gutters were over flowing and my mom and Chris were there with umbrellas when we got off the bus. I remember sitting on the counter in the palm view house making carrot soup (carrots, sugar, and water) while my mom was sleeping. I can picture perfectly the tree in the front yard that I loved to climb and the cracks in the concrete from the pepper trees in the yard. I remember the bushes that I liked to hide in and the fields that i liked to explore. I can picture very short clips of times I was playing with my friends like ducking under frisbees, riding our bikes around the block, digging holes, and all the times me or someone else got hurt. When I was thinking about all of the things I do remember I realized that there is so much more that I don't. I wish I could recall everything, but mostly I hope I don't continue to forget. I want to be able to tell my children about trips to froggy city, and the time I fell in love with a bird named little foot.

I think every week I will start posting about a memory but we will see.

-I want to do this because I also hope that I never forget the sweet things that I am experiencing right now. Every time Leighton laughs at Tiffany i pray I will always hear her sweet sounds. The way she pulls my hair or screams when she wants my attention. I even want to remember her beautiful cries and how they melt my heart when she is so dramatic.






 posting these just for Camille. Isn't she the cutest naked baby ever?



Loved

- I love gift giving holidays and I love my mom. So her birthday is so much fun for me. I got to go shopping for her and spend the weekend with her. She is the most amazing mother. She is beautiful and caring and funny and hard working and exactly what i hope to be like someday.



- I love moments that make me realize that  we are doing the right thing with our lives right now. I pray to know what we should be doing at this point, if going to school, being totally broke and barely scraping by is where we should be at this moment and then i read this at lunch one day. Then I went to the Brigham City temple dedication and left with no doubts in my mind that we are supposed to be here. We are supposed to be working on raising a family and building a foundation for the rest of our lives.


- I also love all of the time that Leighton gets to spend with her Great Grandma. I remember my great grandma Peggy but very vaguely and my sisters don't at all. It is a special thing that Leighton has 3 of them to love her.


Tuesday, September 18, 2012

{Silly Sister} #1


A little post about the silly things my sisters (usually Sarah) do to make me laugh.


Hopefully everyone knows what a Jackalope is, because well, Sarah didn't...

This past weekend my parents bought a cabin and on our way down Cedar Mountain Sarah, Kaden and I were talking about all of the crazy things we could hang up in it. For example, Kadens antlers (since they aren't allowed in the house), or a squirrel, or hedgehog or best idea ever a Jackalope! Kaden and I got so excited about it we googled a picture to show Sarah. We talked up how rare they are and how hard it is to get one. I swear this mystical animal was on her mind for quite awhile because she was not too happy when she saw my instagram post.


She even said she had been imagining how it would pop her tire if she accidentally ran one over.



Thursday, September 13, 2012

New Schedules

September 1-13

Lived

- The past couple of weeks have been great. We have all been working on getting used to new schedules and spending more time together.

- School has been going on for a few weeks now and for some reason i just don't feel like i have a need to do homework or work on lesson plans right now. My problem might be that i only have two classes and feel like playing with Leighton or auditing notes might be more important.

- Kaden's work schedule flipped so he is no longer working Sundays which makes me one happy wifey. Going to church alone is not as hard as it looks, but it isn't fun either. I sure am glad that i will have my hubby by my side during sacrament for now on and in Sunday school. Church seems just that much better with  him there.

- Speaking of work... I got a job! Finally i am working for my mom at Mesa View Hospice and i love it. I do all of my work online and at home. It truly is the perfect job and perfect for my family. I am so grateful that My Mom and Shannel felt like i could do this.

- Labor day weekend was eventful. Saturday we went to the Iron County fair with our friends Eric and Courtney. You can see some of our pictures here at Courtney's cute blog. I was surprised how small it was and what little there was to do there. We have always been so spoiled with the Clark County Fair but we still had fun. Kaden is already spoiling Leighton with all the little carnival toys. Sunday we headed to the annual family reunion. It was too bad no one in the family was there. (cough cough Vance, Teisha, Kyle, and Jessica) I guess we missed out on seeing everyone on Saturday. We still had a nice time though hanging out with Penn and Nancy.



- Last weekend was fun too. Sarah and I packed up Leighton and Tiffany and headed to Logandale. My mom called Friday and was in a shopping mood, we couldn't turn her down. Needless to say we had one very successful shopping trip. The next morning we all woke up wondering why we didn't buy more.
  
- Leighton took her first Tortoise ride while we were in Logandale. I have had Stuart (the tortoise) for 15 years now and it is crazy to think that when i brought her (yes, her)  home from the pet store she fit in the palm of my 8 year old hand.

Learned

- I may have a little obsession and this one is probably not very good for me. I now own six pairs of colored jeans. Is that totally obnoxious? Ah how in the world did i get hooked on this expensive obsession. I swear i cant feel cute with out a pair on. The worst part about this is that they will all probably be completely out of style by next fall.

- To add to my post last week i think i totally had an ah ha moment this Sunday. I was able to listen to an amazing lesson in relief society that i swear was meant just for me. We talked about how before we can love others we need to love ourselves first. We also need to quiet our own voices in our head in order to hear the spirits promptings. It is so true! As soon as i heard those two things i immediately started thinking about how insecure i have felt lately, how hard it has been for me to talk to people, and how awkward i seem to be. I am sure i have been all of these things because i have put myself down so much. I know i really do tear myself apart and i really need to work on that. I remember when i first moved out and i would feel this way i would write notes to myself on my mirror. I would recite good things about myself out loud to actually remember and hear them. I think i am going to try these again and see if these will help in my endeavor to be a kinder, happier person and better friend.



  
- Ah looks like i need to mop everyday now too. 

- It is sadly time to start baby proofing. I actually probably should have done this a few weeks or even months ago but instead i have been loving that my somewhat mobile baby hasn't been too curious but now Leighton is completely mobile and overly curious. She makes it around the island in the kitchen in 2 minutes and can dump out Tiffany's food before Tiff has a chance to get to it. I'm sure it will only be days before all my cupboards are emptied.

Loved

- I have loved the grades i have received so far this semester. I made a goal to get nothing short of an A in both of my classes, and so far i am still holding a 100%.

- I have loved the time Kaden and i have been spending together. We got hooked on the show Parenthood and couldn't stop watching it. Sounds ridiculous but it is a show worth watching and even gave us some marriage and parent advice. I can honestly say that i am so grateful for the way both of our families have been raised and how close we all are. I hope our own family will be the same way.

- I have also loved all the time that Kaden has been spending with Leighton. It works out so great that on Tuesdays Kaden gets to watch her while i am in school. He is an amazing father and is so in love with her. He helps me so much at home and with our beautiful baby girl.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

The Month of August

August 4-31

Lived

-I decided to take a little break from blogging which was more like a little break from life. After we got home from California i worked on homework and finals for a week straight. It was completely exhausting and i felt a true hatred toward my computer afterwards. So now i have to try and remember what all we accomplished in the past month.

-We did a lot of laying around, literally. We have a king size mattress in our living room waiting to be moved up to my parents cabin. Yea its been there since before we left to California and it doesn't seem to be moving anytime soon.






-Leighton went swimming in a pool for the first time. Sadly it wasn't the experience i was hoping it would be. She absolutely loves the bath and is a fish in the bath but the pool, not so much.

-I started taking Leighton and Tiffany on walks together. It is not that easy but very worth it. I love getting out of the house and feeling like i'm doing something to help myself feel good.


-Kaden took me shopping for my birthday. It was amazing! Seriously it was one of our only good shopping trips where neither of us got angry or spent way too much. I loved spending the day with just my husband and my baby.

-I went on a little girls trip with Leighton and Courtney to Marsvalle to see my parents. We went meaning to stay for the day but ended up staying the night. We putted around in the rzr, ate some yummy food, went on a rafting ride and just hung out. The weather was so nice and it was fun to hang out with Courtney and get to know her more.

-Leighton and i went to Logandale for my birthday and went to Vegas with Hannah and Naomi to go shopping. We found lots of fun stuff and had a great day celebrating both Hannah's and mine birthday. I can not believe she is sixteen already though, look out people she will be driving soon.





- The Hymas family came up for some football on campus and we got to go hang out with them and watch Pierce and Gannon play some ball. It was fun to finally see them i feel like it has been forever, and it was great to finally see Pierce. I have really missed him, it has been way too long.


- Last but not least, school is officially back in session. I'm not quite sure how i feel about it. Its good in some ways, i get some adult interaction and i am continuing my education but in other ways it really stinks. I had a girl who was a freshman when i was a senior in high school tell me how old she feels at school and there are kids in my class who were in the second grade when 9/11 happened. I am too old for some of this people and not really by age obviously i'm not old, but i can not stand how a lot of these girls act. I hope i was never that immature.

Learned

- Surprisingly i love being computer free. It is so nice to focus on other things instead of the internet or whatever else i spend hours doing on the computer. However i didn't like not writing on my blog for an entire month. This post is so vague and so many wonderful things happened in August that i should write more about.

- I need to work on being more outgoing. I think i have wrote about this before but i have felt so socially awkward lately. I am finally making friends and doing more things with people here in  Cedar and i love it, but afterwards i have about a million things running through my mind about how weird i must have been or how crazy they must think i was and how they will never want to be my friend and such randomness. I know i can not be the only person who does this, but i hate that i do. Maybe i just have been so unfriendly for so long that i just need to be more used to it. But i am just saying right now i am sorry if i ever offend anyone or talk to much about myself, or am completely awkward, i am working on it.

Loved

- I loved experiencing new things with Leighton this past month. She is getting so big! She crawls like crazy, and i swear has doubled in size. She laughs all the time and makes lots of silly noises and faces. She is so completely perfect to me. I can not get over her red hair and big blue eyes. Every time she is sad i melt. I am trying not to spoil her but i am sure i do. She has fallen off of this stupid king size mattress that is in our living room twice now and both times i have felt like the worst mom in the world. She is mesmerized by the opening song on Parenthood. She lights up whenever she sees or hears Kaden. She is cuddling again and when she is tired she wants to curl up in my arms. She gives kisses, great big ones with her mouth open. Sometimes when i am laying on the bed or floor and she is playing next to me she will crawl over and give me a kiss, ha and then she will bite my nose. I do this to her all the time so i honestly think she is copying it. She is eating baby food now and can't get enough of it. Seriously this little girl eats about three jars of vegetables or fruits a day mixed with cereal. She attacks Tiffany, and Tiffany is the perfect dog around her. If she gets annoyed she will just lick Leighton until she leaves her alone. Leighton is also teething and puts everything in her mouth. When she is in the bath she will even try to suck on the side, she sucks on the side of her high chair and i have caught her trying to eat the bottom of chair. Leighton is so smart already and i know i am going to be in trouble with her little attitude and how mobile she is but i can not get enough of it. Everything she does is so perfectly amazing to me and i thank my heavenly father everyday for sending her into our lives.