working on buying a house

we are almost ready to close on a house! its been a crazy process but i think its actually gonna happen now. we've been serious about buying for several months and finally got our credit high enough to be taken seriously. we realized how fast we would have to get things moving when we got word of our apartments being taken over by the bank. and then we ended up without a house to move into since we didn't want to rent when we were looking at houses and putting offers on houses. i tried so hard to stay in our ward for church but i guess thats not where we need to be anymore. its really very sad to me. but i think we found the perfect house for us. after we close on it i'll post the address or put it on facebook. but its 1400 sq ft with 4 bedrooms 2 bathrooms and fenced back yard. two car garage, and a possibility of making a 5th bedroom. its amazing what things fall into your life at different times!

crazy nite

so last nite, early this morning about midnite i woke up with very bad pain under my ribs. couldn't hardly move or breathe or anything. i eventually called the hospital to ask about the pain. i told them i am 36 weeks pregnant and where it hurt. they asked if i had any contractions. i didn't notice any at the time so i said no. they told me to come in if the pain didn't go away soon. so i tried to go back to sleep and i started feeling contractions mostly in my back. i started timing them, 3 minutes apart! thats never happened to me! so i let them continue for about 30-45 minutes then decided it was time to go be checked out to make sure things were either gonna stop or really get going. i was in the hospital for about 4 hours. with contractions anywhere between 2 minutes apart to about 7 or 10 minutes apart. i still got sent home cause they weren't doing anything but being a pain. i didn't figure i had too much stress that would actually try to cause labor. at least they didn't try to stop the contractions! she said i'm far enough that if baby wants to come, she can. but still so far no baby and very few contractions right now.

finally figured out pictures!!!

ok so at my last dr appt the dr measured the baby and said she was measuring small. and was last month too. so she ordered an ultrasound. i had that ultrasound today and these are the two pictures she gave me. the top one is the profile, the bottom one is the face. shes looking at you. look close you'll be able to see it. i will find out on thursday what the dr thinks about it. i don't think shes small but if she is, its cause i asked for a small baby.

making baby food!

i have been wishing and wondering how i was gonna get some half pint jars and some pears. i wanted to turn it into pear sauce for macie when she comes. i ended up talking to the right person, wende!!! she said she had some extra quarts and i mentioned i needed half pints, she told me she thought she still had some empty ones so she gave me those! then a little while later she called me and told me she was just offered pears. so she gave me pears too!! i was so excited! i used almost half of what she gave me the other day and got 10 half pint jars of pear sauce for macie. so each jar will give me 2-4 feedings when she starts eating! all for the cost of my time, the lids and a little bit of power! i'm so excited!

more updates-school, birthdays, canning and family stats

so curtis has been going to school now since the 26th is when he actually started. he loves it, they get to color a lot of papers. they have spent lots of time learning the letter Ii. they just started the letter U. they've been practicing writing and following the dotted lines. they also practice coloring inside the lines too. curtis has come along ways with all of those. the first few days of school ari would cry when we left. now curtis tells me to leave and ari just walks out the door without much more thought. she does have a hard time at home without him here. she clings to me and i cant get anything done. she forgets how to play or maybe she doesn't know how to play without curtis here.
i am very grateful for raydene bauer, she watched ari for 5 hours and curtis for almost 2 hours today so i could get the canning done today. the kids had fun over there and were asking to go back. in a couple days probly...
monday i canned the peaches, with some help, that i got from the orchard saturday. i got a bushel of peaches and with using almost all of them i got 12 pints and 20 quarts. my dad got a bushel of peaches and with what he wanted to can, got 21 quarts done today. it went so much faster today even with 1 person less than yesterdays. we took 5 hours monday to do mine and 3 hours today to do my dads. and better yet, every jar sealed. last year there were a few that didn't.
for my birthday this year, it was a few weeks ago, vaughn bought me a new ring to add to my wedding ring. its just a small band of little diamonds. its very pretty though. i got it saudered (connected) to my other one. now i just need to wait til christmas so i can even it out with one more just like it. plus i got a kitchen aid mixer a few weeks early which has been great!!
curtis had his birthday the week after mine, his was a lot of fun too. we had my parents and sister over for lunch and cupcakes and to open his presents, after they went home we went to chuckie cheeses to play for awhile. for the majority of the 1st batch of 100 tokens they rode rides and got very few tickets. so i bought some more tokens and got lots more tickets so they could get a few prizes. they have added lots more games and rides there this year. we went several months ago and they really didn't have much to do. this time there was lots!
oh and cant forget how the family is actually doing... for the pregnancy- i'm at 31 weeks this week, i'm starting to feel like i'm towards the end because its getting harder to do things and my back and stomach are getting sore. vaughn likes to make fun of me for the way i walk.. i figure i have the right to walk funny, shes getting bigger. oh and i don't remember if i've mentioned her possible name yet. so far its macie. we haven't agreed on the middle name for sure yet. but probly something like mikay or mikayla. vaughn is working in ashton id right now. they are hoping to be done there by the end of the week and move on to idaho falls next week. hes still coming home on the weekends so i get at least 1 full day with him. curtis is just going to school like i've already mentioned and ari is having withdrawls of him like i've already mentioned as well.

curtis starts preschool while dad is out of town

curtis is starting preschool on the 24th!! i cant believe hes old enough! only by a couple days. if he were two days younger he wouldn't be starting this year. i loved school shopping for supplies, i didn't realize how expensive things get when you have to get very much. i've heard from others that have to buy a lot more for several kids instead of just pencils, a box, erasers and scissors. its crazy what they need. i found out he needs a lunch box too! i told him we get to go pick one out. i'm excited about that til i see the prices. he will be at school everyday for 4 hours. it will be good for him and ari is gonna go crazy! she hates when hes gone.

vaughn is in pocatello right now working :( at least he has a job thats paying the bills. this is the start of his 3rd week. he leaves from home sunday afternoons and stays til friday afternoon. hopefully they will get done with what they've gotta do over in east idaho soon! theres a few job locations over there.

update on the previous posts

curtis made it threw lessons without getting kicked out. he didn't pass to the next level though. which doesn't really surprise me. but the last day he did go down the slide on the teachers lap and then thanked her for it. but he insists he will never do it again. thats ok at least he tried once.

this week makes 24 weeks pregnant... that makes 3rd trimester right?? i cant remember but anyway its getting closer!!! she is moving a lot, although today not so much yet.. theres only one name that feels like it might stick so far. we don't know how long it will sound right to us. we both came up with macy. curtis will tell people now that hes getting a baby sister, or that he will have two little sisters. he always wants to feel the baby. he likes it, ari not so much. she wants nothing to do with a new baby of her own. at least not yet.

last week, me and the kids took a trip to arco. its a little tiny town out by craters of the moon. (its a little bigger than picaboo) anyway, my bro and his family live there. i decided it was a good time and good idea to take a short trip before this baby comes and makes traveling harder. we headed up friday morning once curtis was done with the last swim lesson. it took 3 1/2 to get there. not so bad. we stopped in boise for a toilet break and then in carey; only an hour left of the trip. after we got there and got lunch, we all went to idaho falls cause john (my bro) had a meeting and davian (his wife) was still at work so i had 4 kids to watch at the park where he dropped us for an hour. i'm not used to watching 4 kids so it was a little bit of a challenge. plus when i'm at the park with my kids, they don't usually get an hour to play. but it was all ok. the trip to idaho falls was another hour drive... the next day up there was atomic days, its a huge deal over there. they have a huge parade and fair and stuff. its pretty cool. just before the parade started, an airplane flew over the parade route and dropped a whole bunch of ping pong balls. each worth 50 cents if you took them to the sheriffs office. i caught one, a few minutes later a kid walked by and gave me two more and at the end of the parade one of the police cars in it gave us two more. plus lots of candy from all the floats. it was pretty great! i took my camera to get pictures of our little weekend over there but didn't manage to remember to pull it out. maybe if i go back again in a couple weeks like the kids want then i will take a few pics..