The Baby Ate My Brain

So, I was going to get on and write about my parents coming last weekend and how my little brother was going into the MTC. Luckily, I had two comments on the post I'd already written on that subject. Also, luckily, I read those comments before I started writing. I could have sworn I hadn't written about that yet, so I had to go back and read my last post... lo and behold, I HAD written about it.

I read that this week the baby's neurons in its brain are developing... at a rate of over 25,000 per minute!!! Not even my math and number-oriented husband could wrap his mind around how many that was in a week's time. I also wondered if I was losing brain cells just as fast. Hopefully not, because I don't know that I actually have that many to lose... either that or they are all gathering around my tummy, which seems to have 'popped out' in the last week or so.

When my parents were here and I would have bouts of forgetfulness I would claim that 'the baby ate my brain'. This statement had little Miss Kaiti worried that the baby actually was eating my brain. We had to explain that it wasn't really eating it... I just couldn't remember anything. So, to everyone who was worried that my brain is being eaten by my little two ounce leech (said in the most loving and endearing way), don't worry. The baby isn't really eating my brain. Sometimes it just seems like it.

highs and lows of a busy weekend

This past weekend has been quite interesting. AJ left Friday morning for drill in Boise. I really don't love drill weekends, especially when AJ is gone overnight. I've had insomnia pretty bad lately (hooray for being pregnant...) and I really don't sleep well when AJ's gone anyway. Soo... Friday night I spent watching movies, trying to fall asleep. And crying like a baby... not sure if it's hormones or because I desperately missed my husband. Finally around 5:30 I fell asleep, that's right... 5:30 in the morning. So, it shouldn't be terribly surprising that I didn't get up until after noon.

I finished some housework and packed up a suitcase. Around 3:30 (half an hour after I'd planned...) I hit the freeway and headed to Grace. I spent the evening with my grandparents. My parents and siblings got there around midnight. We spent the next couple hours getting them unloaded and all settled in. As well as doing some 'catch up' and some talking. We finally got in bed around 3am.

Lucky for us, church wasn't until 12:30. We got up around 11 and after a bowl of cheerios, a few minutes in front of the mirror and changing from sweats to a skirt, it was off to chruch. I ate almost all the way through the three hours and had a few instances of convincing myself that I didn't really feel sick. After successfully making it through all three hours we went back to Grandma's and ate sloppy joes for dinner. Yummy!

My favorite part of the whole night was when AJ texted me and told me to come pick him up. He rode down with another guy in the Guard and he dropped AJ off at the junction between Grace and Soda Springs. It was soo good to see him again and I know it was only two days! We were glued at the hip for most of the rest of the night. I sure do love that silly boy.

We spent yesterday running around with my parents. We hit up the mall... my parents and Kaiti's church clothes were forgotten in Reno. And my favorite part of the day... Igot my temple dress! Yay! Ate lunch at Artic Circle. AJ wanted to go to Big 5 so we went there and then met my mom and sisters at Ross. My mom didn't have any luck at the mall. I wanted to check out their selection of maternity clothes, for future reference.

We then went and met some family at Sizzler for dinner. It was delicious but we were still pretty full from our late lunch. We sat around and talked for a while. It was nice to just bask in that 'family glow', We went up to my cousin's house so the rest of my family could see them. After a couple hours up there we finally came home. It was so nice to finally stop going, going, going. It took about all the energy I had for a day like that.

But we still couldn't go to bed yet... I needed my mom to help me with my dress for pictures at the temple. I wanted to wear my wedding dress, but it had gotten a bit tight... especially with this new little bump around my middle. We let out the sides and it didn't fit too terribly, as long as I don't gain 10 lbs in the next 5 weeks, it should work out alright. We'll keep our fingers crossed. We finally got to bed around 12:30 last night and got some much needed zzzzzz's.

My parents and siblings left this morning for Provo. Andrew and Mom and Dad wanted to do another temple session today. Andrew goes into the MTC tomorrow. It's crazy... that makes me feel old. Not getting married or even getting pregnant, but my little bro going on a mission. He'll be a great missionary and it'll be good for him. We're proud of him for going. Congratulaions and Good Luck! Keep in touch. We love you.

boredom begats... creativity?

So, I got bored today and stumbled upon this website that had a bunch of photo editing features. It caught my interest and I stuck around and played. This wasn't my first project that I tried, but it was the first I felt was somewhat worth saving. And since AJ has drill in Boise this weekend and I'm going to be in Grace with some of my family I will probably get a little homesick and missing my husband, I can now sneak back to our blog and look at all the fun times we've had and remind myself that it's only a couple days. What can I say? I'm still smitten with this man of mine.

Happy New Years

Well, we hope everyone has had a fabulous beginning of this new year. I can't believe that in just over a month AJ and I will have been married for a whole year already. It has been a most eventful year for sure, but an incredibly awesome one nonetheless. And in seven short months we'll be starting a whole new adventure. One that both excites and terrifies me, although mostly excites... usually. =]

I guess I'll wrap up the last couple days and we can then go forward. On Tuesday night AJ and I had quite an interesting experience. Life as an Army wife is anything but normal, steady or predictable. There is a whole bunch of restoration and remodeling being done up at the Armory right now. Because of such not all the alarm systems can be armed each night, and thus, someone has to be on-site 24/7. Well, AJ gets a phone call around 4pm informing him he'd been volunteered to stay the night at to report back up at the Armory at eighteen hundred hours (6 o'clock for those of you in the civilian world). He called me and told me about it and I wasn't too thrilled that my husband would be gone all night. Sleep is a somewhat precious commodity these days, seeing that it takes a TON of energy to construct a baby, and I don't sleep well when AJ's gone. So, when he told me I could come with him I was torn over sleeping in my comfy bed alone or on a cold air mattress with my husband. The air mattress won, mostly because I figured we could be miserable together just as well as we could be alone. I packed up some food and movies and games... and the air mattress and sleeping bags of course and we hit up Taco Bell take out for dinner and went to relieve the guy at the Armory. We ate dinner, and then moved our base camp up to the room with a ginormous tv monitor. AJ did his nerd thing, hooked up his laptop, and we watched a movie on the huge monitor. Well, I watched a movie and AJ played video games. Boys will be boys. I fell asleep around 11:30 or so and AJ finally came to bed around 1 0r 1:30. We got up at 6am (not a time of the morning I frequent) we packed everything up and then were relieved of duty around 7:15. We came home and went back to bed. Well, tried to anyway. We were both a little restless and about the time we finally started to drift off again AJ got a phone call. He was then awake and didn't have a chance of going back to bed. He got up and went over to his brother's house to work on a car they'd been trying to get running. I went back to sleep until I got a phone call around 11.

I got up, showered, and got dressed then waited for AJ to come home. We had a few errands to run so we did that and then came back home and made some Muddy Buddies. We went over to some friend's around 8. The Institute had rented out the Student Union Building at the University so we went up there for a little while. The boys played a few games of billiards and the girls chatted. We eventually hit up the food and then went back downstairs and the boys played a few more games. We went back to Russ and Ashley's around 11 and waited for midnight. All three of us girls are expecting and so we were pretty wiped out by the time we watched the ball drop. We came home shortly after and headed to bed. We decided to start a Monk episode but when we both started nodding off during it we decided to call it quits for the night.

We slept in this morning. Ran a few errands. Came home and AJ made us dinner. When some friends moved last spring they cleaned out their freezer and we inherited some of their meat. Some of it was venison that Amy had shot. AJ cooked some of it up tonight and I had my first taste of deer meat. I actually really liked it. He made some mashed potatoes and gravy and a salad we got at Costco yesterday. It was a delicious dinner. I have such an amazing husband. And thanks for the meat, Amy!

I made some guacamole while AJ cooked dinner and then we made some black bean salsa (yum yum!) before just hanging out. We've had a pretty fabulous first day of this new year... and here's for 364 more!