This is why I get up every morning....

Valentine's Day and such....

It's time to really get caught up on blogging. Valentine's Day ended up being.... okay. I delivered those candy bouquets for a YW fundraiser for 2 1/2 hours, put in some hours for the open house, went grocery shopping, and watched our friend's baby so they could go to the Sweetheart's Ball (we got the good end of the deal on that one. :) Just kidding Sarah!) Anyways, when the kids got up we gave them some goodies and had pink, heart shaped, waffles for breakfast. Yummy! 

We had playgroup as always, a WIC appointment, and on Thursday afternoon my dad was in town for a meeting he had the next day. It was fun to play with him. We just hung out for a bit, hit up Target, and then went out to dinner to Olive Garden. It is always a special treat to have Grandpa in town! Andi learned how to say Grandpa and we heard it all the next day as she was looking for Grandpa. 

On Saturday we went to the library literacy day. It was awesome! It said it was geared for 0-5 year olds, but was really more for 4-7 or so, but my kids still loved it. They had a puppet show, live kids music, face painting, and tons of tables of crafts. At the end they gave every kid a new book. We met up with Carolyn and her kids and enjoyed ourselves all morning.

On Saturday night we had our friends Cavan and Sarah over to watch the UFC fight night. Once the fights were over we played the Wii and talked some trash while bowling. And of course there is always a little food involved when you're at the Harmon's!

The kids loved making the crowns so much at the library that we decided to make them at playgroup today. 

We be buggin'

I was tagged by my SIL to list 10 things that bug me:

1. Being late. I hate it when others are late because I think it is disrespectful of my time, but I hate being late myself even more. I totally go into anxiety mode if it looks like we're going to be late.... to anything.

2. Open cabinets. Drives me crazy. Just close them already!

3. When people assume that because I am tall I play, love, and am good at basketball, I don't, I don't, and I'm not. I am good at a lot of other things though!

4. That Carter won't go #2 in the potty.

5. Indian meal moths.

6. Lights being left on.

7. Portland drivers in "snow" or the clinking of studs on bone dry pavement... dumb dumbs.

8. Neighbors who drink outside their apartments at 10 am (that's in the morning folks, I kid you not!)

9. Smoking. It is disgusting, stinky, and kills everyone around it, or at least decreases their quality of life. 

10. The smell of ketchup when I'm not eating it (or other stinky things my husband eats). 

TAG: Favorite Kitchen Appliance

So, this really isn't an "appliance" per say, but I could not live without my pampered chef pizza cutter. I got it about two weeks ago and cut EVERYTHING with it. Quesadillas, sandwiches, cinnamon roll dough... the one thing I have left to cut with it is pizza! 

Mommy Moment: I'm the Queen

Carter, Andi and I were sitting in the living room today and Carter turns to Andi and says, "Andi, you're a princess and I'm a prince." And then I told Carter, "And I'm the Queen." To which Carter replied, "Yeah, you're Lightning McQueen!".... I'll take it.

Busy bees

So much for staying low this week. We have all had some colds going around so I thought this would be a good week to lay low and maybe rest and relax a little. Oh no, that did not happen. It's been a very busy, but good week. Keeping busy was actually probably easier than trying to stay home all day ever day and entertain two toddlers- they suck the life out of you! 

It all started with the YW president taking off out of town very last minute, so lucky me, our last minute Valentine's day candy bouquet camp fundraiser landed in my lap. That meant getting people to sign up, breaking down how many supplies we needed, and picking up those supplies (with the help of Diana too). Then we got to assemble them on Wednesday night, which meant I got to be the task master and I get to deliver 35 of them on Saturday morning (well, at least half of them anyways. Thankfully our secretary volunteered to do a portion of them too... thanks Sarah!!!), not to mention tote them around in my car until then. That was task numero uno that I got to do. Second is New Beginnings. Yes, our YW are "supposed" to be in charge, but that just means more work for me... checking in on them, making sure they are on task, checking in on them again, and then finally doing everything because nobody followed through with their assignments. So I get to print off our script for our "skit", make a program, find the mission impossible theme song and download that and burn onto a cd, and make a dessert. That's all before next Wednesday.

In the meantime, my property manager failed to mention to me that she was planning an open house for our property this weekend, Friday & Saturday, until it came up just in passing on Tuesday. How do you forget to tell the person who has to be in charge about an open house?! Honestly. So, I have been frantically getting three units ready (which they still aren't and the open house has already started), buying refreshments, ordering balloons, printing off flyers, posting open house ads online, and then finally setting everything up. Not to mention that the open house is not during my normal business hours. My property manager is awesome!

In between all this we had our playgroup V-day party on Monday, held our own "open gym" with Rachel and her triplets on Wednesday, had Ben and Sharon over for dinner last night (sorry about the bumps on your boys!), and filed our taxes today. That was a definite bright spot in our week!! Yay for being poor, but still making a little money, having a student, and two kids!! BONUS!

There have been a few stressful moments, but all in all the week flew by and I'll be super grateful when all those candy bouquets are delivered tomorrow and the open house is over. *sigh*

At our own little open gym. Carter and Andi took turns pushing each other on the bike. It made mom's job a lot easier!

Carter got a little confused at nap time and ended up in Andi's purple heart pajamas:

The kids at dinner last night. They look like an AT&T commercial, "more bars in more places":

Pregnancy post

There are a few things that I want to remember about this first trimester that I haven't blogged about since we hadn't announced our pregnancy until last week.

-I loved orange juice for a week or two. That was pretty much the only thing that sounded good and it sounded good ALL the time.

-We first heard baby #3's heartbeat at our first ultrasound on January 9th.

-Though I was a little nauseous for the first 8-10 weeks, I never threw up- lucky, huh?!

-I am just now starting to pooch a teeny tiny bit. Probably not super noticeable unless you know me really really well.... like Jefferson; he noticed last night.

-I mostly have felt so great that I have to remind myself every once in a while that I really am pregnant.

-I only have 6 more months of pregnancy!! Probably sounds like a lot to outsiders, but I think of everything that needs to get done and be decided upon before now and baby #3's birth, and that's awfully soon!!

Playgroup Valentine's Party

Today was our playgroup Valentine's party. We love our friends at playgroup; they have been such a great way to start our week! Today we played, ate lunch, exchanged Valentine's and then frosted and decorated heart sugar cookies. We had a great time!

Mommy Moment: My kids are awesome:

Carter's newest thing is dressing Daddy Bear in his pajamas every night and sleeping on the floor:

Rough night?

The single pony tail... so cute!