may and early june updates

wow its been awhile. lots has happened since the end of april. ariana had a birthday which makes her 2 already! i can't believe shes already 2. her birthday was may 19th. we had a little birthday party for her. my dad came over that morning and brought her a couple gifts, a little later we had her cake decorated by jen. it was awesome, we looked at a picture of "my little pony" and had it drawn on the cake. vaughn got called for a job interview so he got up and left for that. a couple hours later i got a call and he told me that he has a job and is going to take a drug test and then off to work. kind of put a damper on her birthday to me a little. but a couple hours after that he called again and said he was on his way home and said he will start work in the morning instead. works for me. that evening my mom came over to see ari, didn't have much for her then but just to say hi. a little after that vaughns family came over to see her too plus have dinner and cake and watch her open presents. i think she had lots of fun.

so vaughn got a job as i mentioned earlier, its another pipe laying company. bodiford construction... hes been laying pipe for 3 years. he likes it i think. the only thing with this company is that hes getting so many hours that he may not be able to go to school during the summer. if thats the case he will try for school again this fall.

we had been hired to mow the yards at our apartments and to keep it looking nice around here. this year we got tired of spending 3 hours pushing a mower around. so we bought a riding mower from campbell tractor. its a john deere dealer. we finally had it delivered the 2nd of june. its so nice. we can get done mowing in about 2 hours now without being sooo tired. in the deal to mow, it makes is so we only owe 5 a month for rent! as long as all the mowing money goes to rent.

right now i'm about 17 1/2 weeks pregnant. almost half way!! but i feel the baby move now. vaughn can even feel it move once in awhile. its great. we will hopefully find out in a couple weeks what it is. pretty sure its a girl but i still wanna know for sure.

where do i start?

so curtis has one more day of school. may 1st will be his last day. he has loved it and i recommend that if any of you want to put your 3 to 5 year old in it that you email the lady asap and let her know. he spent lots of time at school learning about animals. he learned about stars and space and aliens to go with it. he learned about a farm and sports. they used lots of paper plates to make their crafts. they painted with their fingers and brushes. they put bracelets and necklaces together. they learned about trains. the students that were taking care of the little students read lots of stories to them.

i had an ultrasound to get a due date. the official due date they wanna use is november 12th! it was a little closer than i thought. i thought it would be about the 19th. i'll take the 12th though. there is definately one baby. i was kind of hoping for two just so i wouldn't have another pregnancy. most of the time i feel pretty good now but sometimes my hunger gets out of hand and i start feeling pretty sick.

the mowing season has started. vaughn mows the yard for our apartments and gets paid for it. we are not professional but it gets the job done. if anyone wants to help us out, you could hire us for your yard mowing. we are trying to come up with a riding mower since we have an acre and a half to do with a push mower. it takes 3 hours to mow then to go around to weed eat.... its a long job. but its gonna pay our rent for a few months.

curtis is in sumbeams at church as most of you know or could have guessed. he gave his first talk a month ago or so and has been so incredibly anxious to do it again. he gets another chance on sunday. he wants to go up during fast and testimony meeting.

well anyway i cant think of anything else right off hand. hope your days are well!

curtis starts playschool

i heard from shelly from church that two different high schools were putting on a play school for kids ages 3-5 or 6. i signed curtis up for the one at colombia(?). anyway its on amity. today is his first day. we found the room without too much trouble and we walked in and took his coat off and handed the permission form to the teacher and went to see what the other kids were doing. didn't even look back to say bye. i think the confidence of walking in and not looking back comes from his years in church classes. in nursery they walk into class and after awhile don't look back. thats what this class reminded me of. i think it had the whole set up of a good preschool. i went to pick him up today and he didn't wanna come with me. he wanted to stay and play a little longer. lots of other little kids there were excited to see their moms. curtis didn't come running or say hi when i walked it. its crazy how other kids reaction is so much different than curtis. he excited to go back tomorrow.

no body likes to be sick!

we've had way too much sickness going around! last sunday nite to monday nite i was sick. i was throwing up too much and hurt too much so i went to terry reilly's and they gave me an iv and a pain killer shot and an anti-puke-y shot and then sent me to the hospital. while waiting for my turn to be seen, me and vaughn got a call from my mom who was watching the kids saying that ari was sick with a high fever and needed help. so vaughn went and got her and my mom kept curtis for the nite. she was admitted to the er too. i got called back before she had been seen by triage so she was brought back by vaughn with me and she got taken care of a couple hours before she would have been other wise. her fever ended up being a really bad ear infection. my throwing up ended up being the flu and morning sickness that lasts all day. they did blood tests and an ultrasound. baby is just 1 and is where it belongs. ari will not eat or drink anything unless its totally her idea. she wouldn't take tylenol at the hospital so they gave her a shot in her leg to help with the infection. now a couple days after all that, my stomach still hurts from being pregnant and curtis decided his stomach hurts too and he also complained of his ear. i took him to see a dr and while waiting to get his ear irrigated so the dr could see the ear drum he threw up. so curtis goes back tomorrow to get his ear checked and so does ari, she gets her ear checked tomorrow morning too. hopefully all is well. i just felt like complaining about all of us being sick. vaughn isn't taking it real well. he doesn't like taking care of everyone while we're being sick. all well almost over it i hope.

another update

i went to terry reillys yesterday and got an official pregnancy test done so i could get a dr appt. just as i thought, they told me i'm 6 weeks pregnant. (probly 7 now) and the due date they gave me from that is still nov 5th. on the 15th of april i should be able to get an ultrasound to get a more accurate date.

new baby on the way

we are adding to the family. we don't know what it is yet obviously since i'm only 6 weeks along. due around november 5th 2009! curtis has been telling me theres more than one baby so i guess in a couple weeks i will find out! we have no preference of how many or the gender since we already have one of each. i'll keep it updated a little i hope.

december is busy!

so now that december is almost over, it has been very busy. we learned cpr, we've been to a couple of christmas parties. my parents went to storage unit autions and we helped them empty them. i think most exciting so far, before christmas anyway, is a new niece was born into the durfee side of the family. vaughns sister had her 2nd baby, which is a girl they named kimberly renee. she was a c section delivery because of the way she was positioned. she had her butt down and her feet up by her head in the ribs of the mother. 7 pound baby was a good size for her. i drove gramma to see the baby and while staring at the baby through the window of the nursery, kimberly kept putting her feet up to her head again to fall back to sleep. she wasn't wrapped in a blanket yet obviously but she is so tiny. eventually i think i'll get a good picture of the christmas tree up here. its still not completely decorated.