Office Supplies

Well, I really thought that I would be on here more often. I have found that it is hard to do anything on the computer when Baby of Dreams is awake and when she is sleeping I am either doing household tasks or sleeping myself.

Tonight Baby of Dreams swallowed her first office product (that I know of). A small plastic covered, blue paperclip. This was her first swallowing of a foreign object so I panicked a bit. I rushed her upstairs to where the Husband was sleeping, to see if he could see it hiding in her mouth, he couldn't. He wasn't extremely worried, but I went downstairs and called the on-call doctor anyway. He wasn't too worried either, so then I calmed down. Now we begin the fun task of watching for the devious, blue paperclip to make it's appearance again. Baby of Dreams seems to be handling it all very well.

The Story of Us (I got Tagged)

I was reading my friend's blog and she had been tagged to answer a whole bunch of questions about she and her hubby. I was thinking, 'It would be good for me to get all that info down and fun to remember it all.' When I got to the end of her blog she had actually tagged me. So thank you Andrea.



How did you meet: We met for the very first time in August or September of 2000. The Husband was living with his uncle in Gresham, OR and preparing to go on a mission. I was on my mission, in my first area of Gresham, OR. Uncle was the ward mission leader, so of course my companion and I went over there quite a few times for dinner and missionary related things. I remember thinking that The Husband was a great 'kid' (he was 18 and I was 21) and doing a great job preparing for his mission after being a scoundrel of a teenager. The Husband remembers that I, was hot. We took a picture with him, me and and my companion, when I left the area. We never exchanged correspondence or even really thought about each other again until October of 2004. I was going to school at BYU-Idaho and he was living in Parker, ID, about 15 minutes from campus. We were both involved with ldssingles.com and randomly started chatting with each other online. I was about to stop chatting with him because he wasn't very interesting, when he mentioned he had gone to school in Oregon for a bit. It took us a few minutes to put things together, but we finally realized that we had met on my mission. We went on our first date two days later. After our first date he felt that he didn't want to date anyone else. We held hands a week later and were seeing each other exclusively after that.
Where did you go on your first date: The Husband took me on a drive up Kelly Canyon, then we came back and went on a walk around a park in Rexburg. We then picked up once of his cousins, that had lived in Gresham, and the three of us went out to ice cream. We then dropped her off at home, but did not want to end our date, so we played pool until I had to be home for curfew.
How long have you been together: We have pretty much been together since our first date, so at least three and a half years now.
Who eats more: The Husband, although I think I might have for a while when I was pregnant.
Who said I love you first: I am not positive, but I think it was him. I wanted to wait and say it when I was pretty sure he was "the one" and he just knew I was cool and he really, really liked me.
Who is taller: Me, sigh. I always swore I would marry someone at least 6'4". I am 5'10" and he is 5'9"
Who sings better: I guess me, but only because I sang for two years in high school and he never had any training. He has a very nice voice though.
Who is Smarter: It just depends on the subject. We both have different strengths.
Who does the Laundry: Me, pretty much always.
Who does the dishes: We now switch off every week.
Who sleeps on the right side of the bed: If you are standing, looking at the foot of the bed, he does.
Who pays the bills: I do. As the Husband says,"You are so good at it and why should we both stress about the bills."
Who mows the Lawn: He does, except the one time I did it, when I was extremely pregnant. Go figure.
Who cooks dinner: First of all, we hardly eat dinner together, because of his work schedule. But we both cook. I probably do it just a bit more than him, because I am home more. He likes cooking breakfast and Mexican food.
Who drives when you are together: He does, except when we are on a trip and he is extremely tired and needs to take a nap.
Who is more stubborn: We are both extremely stubborn. It makes for interesting disagreements.
Who kissed who first: Well, he went in for the kill, but I was extremely ready and very happy about it. We were watching a movie at his house with his brother and girlfriend (now wife). I have no idea what movie we watched ;)
Who proposed: I would have to say both of us. I suggested it, but he actually asked. Over Thanksgiving break his parents invited us to go up to Island Park to stay with them, in a relatives cabin. It was all very proper, I was in the room downstairs and he was in the room upstairs next to his parents. His parents were watching a movie downstairs and we were upstairs cuddling and talking on the couch. He asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I told him I wanted something sparkly. He acted like he didn't understand for a bit and then he let on that he got it. At the beginning of December we traveled down to Utah to see my cousin who had just had a baby. We stopped at Temple Square and were sitting on the steps in front of one of the doors of the temple and he just asked me. He didn't even have a ring so we moved my CTR ring from my right hand to my left hand. We later picked out a very simple white gold band that became my engagement ring for a few weeks. About a week and a half before Christmas I had to have some minor surgery. I got home and was recuperating on the couch. He sat on the floor and was holding my hand for a while. When I brought my hand back up there was a gorgeous diamond ring on my finger. He had gotten it that day while I was in the hospital. It was nothing like we had talked about except that it was a square diamond, but I absolutely loved it and still love it to this day. We were engaged six weeks after our first date and married six weeks after that.
Who is more sensitive: Me, although he surprises me sometimes.
Who has more siblings: He has 5 siblings. I was raised as an only child, but have 4 half siblings.
Who wears the pants: We both wear pants and sad to say, both wear skirts. (He like to wear a lava lava that he got on his mission, around the house.) We try to share things pretty equally, although if business needs to be regulated, he has designated this my job.

I am going to tag a few people now, mostly because I really enjoyed doing this and want others to enjoy it too, but also because I don't know all of my friend's stories.
Okay, I tag Heather, Alisha, Jessica Wood, Jessica Aston and Audrey.

Catch Up

Well, I thought I would do a pretty good job of this, but I have been slacking already. In my defense though, we have been pretty busy lately. The Husband's days off were changed so that we got a four day weekend last weekend, so we went to see my mother, grandmother and aunt. We also got to see The Husband's grandparents and one of his cousins and his wife. It was a wonderful weekend. Usually the stress of traveling gets to us and we end up being miffed at each other for at least part of the time, but this trip went without a single miff, as soon as we got in the car and left. It was wonderful and a much needed relaxing time. Unfortunately we are still not completely unpacked from it. I should probably be working on that now, but Baby of Dreams has been taking an extremely long, and much needed, nap, so I am catching up on a little correspondence and computer stuff that has been piling up.

I wanted the world to know that our garden is ready to be planted as of last Thursday, unfortunately neither of us have gotten out there to plant anything. Although it did snow for a few minutes this morning, so is it really a good idea to plant yet? It will probably have to wait until Saturday because that is the first day both of us will have off work.

I am trying to think of all the wonderful things Baby of Dreams has been doing lately. I just bought a fabric thingy, to go in the kid sitting place, in a shopping cart and took Baby grocery shopping for the first time without her sitting in her car seat. When we got to the check out counter she decided that the rotating belt looked fun and tried to climb out of the cart and onto it. Luckily mean mommy stopped her. She wasn't too impressed with me, but didn't take it too hard.

I am just waiting for her to wake up now. She is upstairs with The Husband, who is trying to get some sleep in before he goes to work, so the minute I hear her wake up I will have to run and grab her, so she does not wake him up. She has been asleep now for about 3 hours, which is unheard of for her. I think I had better take advantage of the few minutes I am sure I have left and eat some dinner. I have leftover beef curry and rice in the fridge from yesterday and I am very excited about it.

It really is time for me to go to bed

I was just sure that Baby of Dreams would go to sleep soon after I got home from work. I even turned down an invitation to watch 27 Dresses with my brother and sister-in-law at their apartment, because I figured she would go to sleep right after I fed her. That was at 7:30 pm. It is now 10:12pm and I just put Baby of Dreams upstairs in her crib and she is still not asleep. Oh well, I guess I will see 27 Dresses some other time. Baby of Dreams is having a very difficult time going to sleep, so here I am cutting this short. Real quick though, if I know you and you leave a comment on one of my blogs, I will probobly add you to my People We Like list. Oh and one question, what does blog mean or stand for?

Stake Conference

I will preface this by saying that The Husband works nights and got home at 9:30 am this morning. Stake conference was at 10:00 am so I was glad that he made it in time. Attending church solo, with a new crawler is quite a chore. Unfortunately The Husband is getting sick and therefore opted to stay home and sleep it off, before going back to work tonight. So I strapped Baby of Dreams into the stroller and walked the 5 minutes to the church with her. I guess I should have known better than to sit where baby couldn't crawl around. We sat down next to girl who looked awfully familiar to me. It turns out that I used to work with her at the Nordic, up at BYU-I. We chatted for a bit before conference started and very soon after it became apparent to me that Baby of Dreams was not going to sit nicely on my lap for 2 hours. She didn't even last 10 minutes. We ended up in the overflow section in the Relief Society room, where many other parents with small children were. I sat by a couple in our ward that have a little boy a few months older than Baby of Dreams. The babies had a great time swapping toys and sharing each other's snacks, that is until Baby of Dreams spit up, which is normal, and then proceeded to wipe her icked up hands all over the little boy's hair, which is not normal. His mother smiled and very calmly wiped off her son's head. I am just now realizing that I am the mother of the wild child that leaves the spit up mess behind everywhere they go. I did clean everything else up, but good grief, how did things come to this? I blame The Husband for being a rambunctious youngster himself and passing the genes onto Baby of Dreams. I am sure that I never did anything even close to that when I was a baby ;)

It Begins

Well, I fianlly did it. I joined the world of bloggers. I have been keeping up with a lot of friends and their blogs and thinking how fun it was to get to know their families better. This has made me start realizing all the positives to blogging. First of all it is very much like a journal, which I am usually terrible at keeping up with. Second it is a good way to keep family and friends updated with our life. I have been quite successful at keeping up with Facebook, so I think I might be able to handle it. I might even get The Husband to add his two cents every once in a while. I am now going to go play with the settings and layout.