Birth Order

This is an email my mom sent and I thought it was pretty funny espsecially for those of you who have kids.

1st baby: You begin wearing maternity clothes as soon as your OB/GYN confirms your pregnancy.

2nd baby: You wear your regular clothes for as long as possible.
3rd baby: Your maternity clothes ARE your regular clothes.
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Preparing for the Birth:
1st baby: You practice your breathing religiously.
2nd baby: You don't bother because you remember that last

time, breathing didn't do a thing.
3rd baby: You ask for an epidural in your eighth month.
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The Layette:
1st baby: You pre-wash newborn's clothes, color-coordinate them, and fold them neatly in the baby's little bureau.
2nd baby: You check to make sure that the clothes are clean and discard only the ones with the darkest stains.
3rd baby: Boys can wear pink, can't they?
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Worries:
1st baby: At the first sign of distre ss--a whimper,

a frown--you pick up the baby
2nd baby: You pick the baby up when her wails threaten

to wake your firstborn.
3rd baby: You teach your three-year-old how to rewind the mechanical swing.
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Pacifier:
1st baby: If the pacifier falls on the floor, you put it away until

you can go home and wash and boil it.
2nd baby: When the pacifier falls on the floor, you squirt it

off with some juice from the baby's bottle.
3rd baby: You wipe it off on your shirt and pop it back in.
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Diapering:
1st baby: You change your baby's diapers every hour,

whether they need it or not.
2nd baby: You change their diaper every two to three hours, if needed.
3rd baby: You try to change their diaper before others start to
complain about the smell or you see it sagging to their knees.
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Activities:
1st baby: You take your infant to Baby Gymnastics, Baby Swing,

Baby Zoo, Baby Movies and Baby Story Hour.
2nd baby: You take your infant to Baby Gymnastics.
3rd baby: You take your infant to the supermarket and the dry cleaners.
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Going Out:
1st baby: The first time you leave your baby with a sitter,

you call home five times.
2nd baby: Just before you walk out the door, you remember to

leave a number where you can be reached.
3rd baby: You leave instructions for the sitter to call only if she sees blood.
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At Home:
1st baby: You spend a good bit of every day just gazing at the baby.
2nd baby: You spend a bit of everyday watching to be sure your older child isn't squeezing, poking, or hitting the baby.
3rd baby: You spend a little bit of every day hiding from

the children
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Swallowing Coins (a favorite):
1st child: When first child swallows a coin, you rush the child to the hospital and demand x-rays
2nd child: When second child swallows a coin, you carefully

watch for the coin to pass.
3rd child: When third child swallows a coin you deduct it from his allowance!
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Our New House.....

Not really, but a girl likes to dream. Last weekend Nate and I were down in Salt Lake and took a drive up to see the progress on the new Draper Temple. We saw this house (I don't think it can be called a house. Maybe a mansion, but I think the the best word would be CASTLE) from a distance and just had to take a closer look. Sorry about the bad pics, they were taken on my phone. I had to take three different ones to fit the whole thing in and then put them together.

Candy Apple Red

So last night I finally used my new Kitchen Aid to help in perking up my domestic skills. This was a graduation present from mother-in-law Carolynn. I loved it and it looks SO CUTE in our little kitchen and matches all the other candy apple red decor like the red tea pot, flowers, and other girly stuff we decorate with. It sure did make it a lot easier to make things from scratch and Nate had fun playing with it too.

Where in the World is Minden, Nevada?????

Well another adventure had presented itself to us. Nate was offered a summer internship with General Electric as a junior mechanical engineer. After much deliberation and researching we have decided to accept it, so unless something better comes along it looks like we will be spending our summer in Minden, Nevada. It is about 30 minutes outside of Lake Tahoe which means that it is ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS and there is a ton of stuff to do around there. It is about 584 miles or 9 1/2 hours from Logan or about 485 miles or 7 1/2 hours from Twin. We are excited about this opportunity because it would allow Nate to add more experience and a big name in the mechanical engineer world to his resume. Right now he is currently working at the Space Dynamics Lab here at Utah State in conjunction with the Russians and NASA developing things on the International Space Station to grow plants in. He loves his work here and learning new things. He is such a Nerd sometimes.

Ode to the Hairdryer.....

So this might sound lame to many of you, but Mom I know you will understand. This morning I decided to wear my hair down. This doesn't happen very often, as those of you who know me can testify, and was in the middle of drying my hair (which honestly takes FOREVER) when all of the sudden my hair dryer made a funny noise, got REALLY RED INSIDE, and started to smell funny. I immediately turned if off and unplugged it. It had been acting funny for the past couple of weeks, but I just thought there wasn't anything really wrong with it and it was just being temperamental, but I was wrong. It had gone cuputz! It saddens me that I had to throw it away because we had so many good hair-days together. It's like that curling iron that just makes those perfect curls and it dies so you have to go get a new one and learn what setting to put it on, what way your hair will curl best around it, and just how to hold it to get that perfect look. So today as I threw it in the garbage I almost shed a tear (not really), but oh well things happen.Nate will be happy because he said it was the loudest and most obnoxious one he had ever heard and has been telling me to use my other one for a while. Now I have to revert back to my old one from Florida. Lets hope that it too will bing many good hair day!

Projects I checked off my list this week...plus a little more

So this week has been quite a productive week for me. I finished another blanket, started another one, finished the matching burp cloth for Desi's baby blanket (we'll send it to your parents house. Sorry it wasn't done when we dropped off the blanket), I also got a good deal done on Nate's and mine Christmas stockings done. (I didn't finish them for our first Christmas so I made sure that they would be done for next year) Man I just realized that one thing on my list of things to get done for Christmas is already started and it is only January. Wow! I need to do this more often. I also cooked dinner every night this week, and they were things like chicken and funeral potatoes, white chili (Thanks to Desi for the recipe. It's one of Nate's favorite), stroganoff, bake potatoes with all the fixings. Also cleaned the very cluttered and messy extra bedroom, went to the library, actually read a good chunk of one of the books in the stack that is now next to my bed, and got all the laundry done, folded, and put away. It is so weird not having to worry about school any more, but I think I will need to find more hobbies to fill my extra time.

We also got quite the storm today. We awoke to about 3 inches and it has kept coming down on and off all day. Our cars are covered, but it is so beautiful and we really need it. We are to about 6-8 inches now and it is still coming down.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Fit For A Princess

So today I decided to to pull out one of the gifts that my mom gave me for Christmas and make a fun Saturday morning breakfast.

These were some of the coolest looking waffles I have ever had!!! And of course we used matching princess and castle cups with it. Nate enjoyed them too, after rolling his eyes and laughing at how much fun I had. I told him to just wait because I will eventually get the matching toaster that toasts the glass slipper on it too.