Jocy was here until Monday night and we always get so sad when she leaves! On Monday, I walked in the front door and Harris said, "Jocy!!" and then later in the day when Sydney walked in, Harris said, "Jocy!!" again. My kids love her! I went to talk to my doctor on Monday about my hormones and she is very smart. My estrogen and progesterone are super low, and my DHEA which helps with immune system and energy is also super low so she has my taking vitamins and also a different thyroid medication. I'm excited to start feeling better! I need all the energy I can get.
On Wednesday, the babies started their music class! They were super excited to go, but it was a little overwhelming for them because the teacher is super loud and there was a LOT going on! They wanted to sit on my lap for a little bit, but they liked to stop out of their comfort zone and use the sticks to drum on the floor and shake their eggs that made noise. I'm excited to see them grow and learn. Goldie especially loves to sing and loves music. Just tonight she was singing after her bath, "Happy birthday to Goldie...and Harris!" Harris is more of the artist and loves to spend some time coloring and drawing. He's more detailed when he draws and it's so cute. They are both SO much fun! We just got a fence and for the first time, I sent them in the back yard to play by themselves while I made lunch. They played on their water table and it was so cute to see them talking to each other and showing each other things. They are the best buddies. I love that they have so much fun together! We are working on sharing, and they are so proud of themselves when they choose the right thing.
I took the babies to Discovery Park down the road for a few hours on Tuesday morning this week and they loved it. I just love my little people! They have no fear sliding down the slides and loving every minute of it. Goldie likes to say "hi" to other adults and kids. Harris said, "Come on, Goldie!" several times when he wanted her to come follow him.
It was a busy week for me work-wise! I went to breakfast with my RewardStyle account manager on Thursday morning in SLC while Tyler took the kids to Carol's on the way to work. My friend Mary's birthday was on Friday and Tyler and I went to her house for dinner. They had Cupbop, and my friend Megan who owns Sweet Tooth Fairy did an amazing job on yet another delicious cake. I was looking forward to her new cookies the WHOLE WEEK. Ba ha ha it's the little things. Tyler is the best husband on the planet of earth and I love that he didn't even know who would be at this party, and he didn't care. He was up for it! He is so much fun and loves socializing with people. I can't even begin to describe how lucky I am that I choose him to be mine forever. On Saturday night, I invited my friend Janssen and her husband to my other friend Jordan's influencer network event and it was awesome! We had never hung out with Bart before, and he was super cool and since they just moved here, I think they will be good friends of ours.
We sat in the very back at church today and H and G kept escaping because we had no way to keep them close to us. At one point, we lost them in the front and had to leave the back door and come in the side door to get them. Ha! We are not distracting to others at all at church ;)
Today we went over to Tyler's parent's house for dinner. They just moved in and there are lots of things that need to be done still but the house is beautiful! Harris and Goldie love playing in the stream behind their house. They both fell down and got their bums wet. They sat on the side on a rock and loved kicking their feet into the water. They also really like their cousins a lot, especially Ryker because he's the closest to their age that was there tonight and it's so cute to see them play together.
Sunday, August 26, 2018
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Weekly Update August 12-19 2018
Last week was a busy, fun week! I got to fly to Cincinnati with Pampers for my second trip on the Pampers baby board. I feel so lucky to be able to work and do what I love from home. They are such a great company to work with and I love the heart and soul behind them! The trip started out crazy though because we flew 45 minutes there and then the plane had to turn around and land in SLC so we were in the plane for 2 hours without going anywhere! The engine had a big "pop" right after we took off and I guess air had gotten trapped in it but they had to turn around just in case there was an issue. Luckily, some friends of mine and other girls traveling to the event were on it with me so we scrambled and ran over to another flight to go to Minneapolis, slept for 3 hours in a hotel there, then flew the Cincinnati the next morning at 7 am. We were super tired but so glad that we were able to make it and not miss the whole thing! That night we went to a Red's game and the city was really cool. I wish we had more time to explore!
Our flight back to SLC went super smoothly (woo!!), and I was really, really glad to be back with my babies when I got home. I miss them so much when I'm gone and being their mom seems like an even bigger treat when I am home. They are the best things and worth every second of trial that it took to get them here. We had a fun day on Friday, then picked up Jocelyn at the airport on Friday night. I LOVE when she's in town. We came home, grilled on the Traeger then went to bed. The next morning, she had a hair appt so I went on a bike ride and got ready and played with H & G, then all of us sisters and my mom went to lunch at the Ridge on the mountain between my house and Draper. It was delicious and such a pretty day! We then went to Gardner Village and had a blast browsing through the stories and laughing. Jocelyn is hilarious and I always laugh the most when I'm around her. That night we got takeout Cafe Rio and watched Only the Brave. My grandpa came over for dinner, too! We actually waiting in line at R&R and got to the front and they were out of everything we wanted lol so I took the babies home to get ready for bed and THEY got takeout for us.
We went to church the next morning and Harris ran all the way up to the stage and I had to go get him. Harris and Goldie like to escape out of the pews. I didn't realize Goldie was following me, so I walked out the side door and our neighbor boy went to get her and I walked back in through the back door and we just heard Goldie screaming because she was scared! I didn't know they had followed us out. So...once again we were the loudest at church. Ha! I got these new pads for the babies to paint with where they have water in them and the water changes the colors on the page. After it dries, you can do it all over again. They both loved it, but especially Harris! He did it for 45 minutes straight. Goldie looked over to him 3 separate times and said, "Good job coloring, Harris!" She talks SO well and it blows my mind. When I got home from my trip, she looked at the humidifier I had going and said, "What does that do?" as plain as day. She has been saying, "What'sat?" (all one word ha ha).
The babies have loved holding hands and running back and forth really fast across the main floor after they eat their lunch. It makes me not want to put them down for their nap because they are so cute with each other!
Last night Tyler had the babies outside while I was getting dinner ready. They both had their helmets on and Harris was on his bike. Goldie told Tyler, "be right back! I'm going a on trip." She ran way over to the neighbor's with Harris on his bike. When I came out to call them in for dinner, I said, "do you want to eat your food?!" and she said, "I want to eat my food!" She came running over as fast as she could and Harris came cruising over on his bike. He rides it so fast! I love when he sticks his feet out in front of him and balances. He's so good at it! When Goldie got back, she said, "I'm back from my trip!" It's so cute because I think she was copying me from when I went on my trip last week. She is SO cute! She also says goodbye to people and says, "See you later! See you on Monday!" HA!
Our flight back to SLC went super smoothly (woo!!), and I was really, really glad to be back with my babies when I got home. I miss them so much when I'm gone and being their mom seems like an even bigger treat when I am home. They are the best things and worth every second of trial that it took to get them here. We had a fun day on Friday, then picked up Jocelyn at the airport on Friday night. I LOVE when she's in town. We came home, grilled on the Traeger then went to bed. The next morning, she had a hair appt so I went on a bike ride and got ready and played with H & G, then all of us sisters and my mom went to lunch at the Ridge on the mountain between my house and Draper. It was delicious and such a pretty day! We then went to Gardner Village and had a blast browsing through the stories and laughing. Jocelyn is hilarious and I always laugh the most when I'm around her. That night we got takeout Cafe Rio and watched Only the Brave. My grandpa came over for dinner, too! We actually waiting in line at R&R and got to the front and they were out of everything we wanted lol so I took the babies home to get ready for bed and THEY got takeout for us.
We went to church the next morning and Harris ran all the way up to the stage and I had to go get him. Harris and Goldie like to escape out of the pews. I didn't realize Goldie was following me, so I walked out the side door and our neighbor boy went to get her and I walked back in through the back door and we just heard Goldie screaming because she was scared! I didn't know they had followed us out. So...once again we were the loudest at church. Ha! I got these new pads for the babies to paint with where they have water in them and the water changes the colors on the page. After it dries, you can do it all over again. They both loved it, but especially Harris! He did it for 45 minutes straight. Goldie looked over to him 3 separate times and said, "Good job coloring, Harris!" She talks SO well and it blows my mind. When I got home from my trip, she looked at the humidifier I had going and said, "What does that do?" as plain as day. She has been saying, "What'sat?" (all one word ha ha).
The babies have loved holding hands and running back and forth really fast across the main floor after they eat their lunch. It makes me not want to put them down for their nap because they are so cute with each other!
Last night Tyler had the babies outside while I was getting dinner ready. They both had their helmets on and Harris was on his bike. Goldie told Tyler, "be right back! I'm going a on trip." She ran way over to the neighbor's with Harris on his bike. When I came out to call them in for dinner, I said, "do you want to eat your food?!" and she said, "I want to eat my food!" She came running over as fast as she could and Harris came cruising over on his bike. He rides it so fast! I love when he sticks his feet out in front of him and balances. He's so good at it! When Goldie got back, she said, "I'm back from my trip!" It's so cute because I think she was copying me from when I went on my trip last week. She is SO cute! She also says goodbye to people and says, "See you later! See you on Monday!" HA!
Sunday, August 12, 2018
Weekly Update - August 5-12 2018
It's been a good week! I got my Nexplanon birth control out of my arm a week and a half ago and felt super crappy last week (bloating, hormones going crazy) but I have felt MUCH better this week starting on about Tuesday or Wednesday. Hallelujah!! You don't really appreciate your health day to day until your health starts to South and then you're like...BUT WAIT!! I need you!!
Blanca came to clean our house on Monday which is always a happy day because everything is so clean and fresh, and the babies like to say "hola" to her which kills me. On Tuesday, we went to the library after naps, and the babies love the little school bus there. They also have iPads and they love playing the Daniel Tiger game. We went to the splash pad for about 30 minutes after that. Harris ran back and forth and back and forth in his new European style swim trunks and they KILLED ME on his little body. Oh how I love those babies.
I organized a birthday dinner at a sushi place in South Jordan called Tsunami for Oakley and had a fun girl's night there on Tuesday night. My friend Megan owns the Sweet Tooth Fairy Bakery and she made Oakleys an unreal delicious cake + has some new giant cookies that BLEW MY MIND. It's what dreams are made of. The texture of it all, thick and moist, had my craving them all week. Thanks a lot, Megan!! Ba ha ha I'm going to buy more tomorrow...
We stopped at my friend Mary's afterward and saw her new house. She is adorable and owns a company called Made by Mary that has the prettiest jewelry. She has the best pieces...her "mama" necklace and my "be bold" necklace were some parts of my struggle with infertility.
Wednesday was a call with Jake, a guy I met through infertility stuff. His wife and him started a great company where you can go online and rate your fertility doctor and find one and read others ratings. They live in San Francisco and are planning to come to Utah for an event. The community that I have now that I have gone through infertility is really cool. There are so many silver linings in hard trials.
On Thursday afternoon, I met my friend Janssen at the Orem splash pad with our kids. Our neighbor Tate came with us. Janssen was texting me earlier in the week asking if I was going to Cincinnati with Pampers next week (I am! So excited!) I met her at the last New York Pampers trip. She's LDS, has 4 girls and lived in Arizona and I just barely found out that she moved here to Provo!! So excited. She's adorable and I love hanging out with her so we met at the splash pad and caught up a bit.
Friday night was date night with Tyler, Marc and Courtney! We went to R&R BBQ, then went to the Alcatraz Escape Games. I got us in for free in exchange for an Instagram story. Blogging has been so so cool!! I also picked up the gift basket that R&R is donating for our fertility dinner. It's in one month and I'm kind of freaking out a little! I'm glad I have great girls on my team. We have 8 applicants so far. Anyway, the night was fun and the zombie escape room only had me sweating a little bit...ha! My brain just doesn't work that way. I'm no help when it comes to solving the problems...so I just gave lots of moral support.
Saturday was a get things done kind of day. I met Olivia from Freshly Picked to pick up some shoes for a blog post I'm doing for FP this week. I then went to Costco, stocked up on all of the supplies, and then came home and organized them and fed the babies lunch. I then went to the gym. I WOULD have gone on a bike ride, but there are some crazy wildfires here in the mountains and they are SO SO bad. The air quality is so bad that you can't even see across the lake. Tyler and I LOVE to go biking every single morning, and I did this week (It's the BEST kind of therapy), but I couldn't sleep very well on Friday night because my throat hurt so much from breathing all of that crap, so I had to work out in the gym on Saturday. I was really proud of myself that I went, because I wasn't really feeling like it!
After the babies woke up from their nap, we packed them up in the RZR and rode through the AF canyon and over the mountain to meet my mom and Steve in Midway for dinner at Tarahumara Mexican restaurant. It was delicious! I got fish tacos, the babies had lots of chips and dip (they absolutely loved dipping their chips in this ranch dip they there), and they had a chicken quesadilla. They were SO good and happy and easy at dinner. I love when that happens! It was a really fun night. Tyler and I got home and watched a couple episodes of Hart of Dixie then went to bed. I love it because it's about a cute lille quaint town and it makes me happy.
We had church today and Goldie says, "WHISPER" as loud as she can when I ask her to whisper. She saw Tate and said, "hi Tate! Splash pad" from across the chapel and she saw Clark, Whitney and Clayton and said hi to them multiple times too. Ha!
We are headed up to Oakley right now for dinner at my mom's house! We are having Crust Club pies, dessert pie and salad. We love heading up to "our cabin" on Sundays. Hopefully the air quality is a little bit better up there.
Blanca came to clean our house on Monday which is always a happy day because everything is so clean and fresh, and the babies like to say "hola" to her which kills me. On Tuesday, we went to the library after naps, and the babies love the little school bus there. They also have iPads and they love playing the Daniel Tiger game. We went to the splash pad for about 30 minutes after that. Harris ran back and forth and back and forth in his new European style swim trunks and they KILLED ME on his little body. Oh how I love those babies.
I organized a birthday dinner at a sushi place in South Jordan called Tsunami for Oakley and had a fun girl's night there on Tuesday night. My friend Megan owns the Sweet Tooth Fairy Bakery and she made Oakleys an unreal delicious cake + has some new giant cookies that BLEW MY MIND. It's what dreams are made of. The texture of it all, thick and moist, had my craving them all week. Thanks a lot, Megan!! Ba ha ha I'm going to buy more tomorrow...
We stopped at my friend Mary's afterward and saw her new house. She is adorable and owns a company called Made by Mary that has the prettiest jewelry. She has the best pieces...her "mama" necklace and my "be bold" necklace were some parts of my struggle with infertility.
Wednesday was a call with Jake, a guy I met through infertility stuff. His wife and him started a great company where you can go online and rate your fertility doctor and find one and read others ratings. They live in San Francisco and are planning to come to Utah for an event. The community that I have now that I have gone through infertility is really cool. There are so many silver linings in hard trials.
On Thursday afternoon, I met my friend Janssen at the Orem splash pad with our kids. Our neighbor Tate came with us. Janssen was texting me earlier in the week asking if I was going to Cincinnati with Pampers next week (I am! So excited!) I met her at the last New York Pampers trip. She's LDS, has 4 girls and lived in Arizona and I just barely found out that she moved here to Provo!! So excited. She's adorable and I love hanging out with her so we met at the splash pad and caught up a bit.
Friday night was date night with Tyler, Marc and Courtney! We went to R&R BBQ, then went to the Alcatraz Escape Games. I got us in for free in exchange for an Instagram story. Blogging has been so so cool!! I also picked up the gift basket that R&R is donating for our fertility dinner. It's in one month and I'm kind of freaking out a little! I'm glad I have great girls on my team. We have 8 applicants so far. Anyway, the night was fun and the zombie escape room only had me sweating a little bit...ha! My brain just doesn't work that way. I'm no help when it comes to solving the problems...so I just gave lots of moral support.
Saturday was a get things done kind of day. I met Olivia from Freshly Picked to pick up some shoes for a blog post I'm doing for FP this week. I then went to Costco, stocked up on all of the supplies, and then came home and organized them and fed the babies lunch. I then went to the gym. I WOULD have gone on a bike ride, but there are some crazy wildfires here in the mountains and they are SO SO bad. The air quality is so bad that you can't even see across the lake. Tyler and I LOVE to go biking every single morning, and I did this week (It's the BEST kind of therapy), but I couldn't sleep very well on Friday night because my throat hurt so much from breathing all of that crap, so I had to work out in the gym on Saturday. I was really proud of myself that I went, because I wasn't really feeling like it!
After the babies woke up from their nap, we packed them up in the RZR and rode through the AF canyon and over the mountain to meet my mom and Steve in Midway for dinner at Tarahumara Mexican restaurant. It was delicious! I got fish tacos, the babies had lots of chips and dip (they absolutely loved dipping their chips in this ranch dip they there), and they had a chicken quesadilla. They were SO good and happy and easy at dinner. I love when that happens! It was a really fun night. Tyler and I got home and watched a couple episodes of Hart of Dixie then went to bed. I love it because it's about a cute lille quaint town and it makes me happy.
We had church today and Goldie says, "WHISPER" as loud as she can when I ask her to whisper. She saw Tate and said, "hi Tate! Splash pad" from across the chapel and she saw Clark, Whitney and Clayton and said hi to them multiple times too. Ha!
We are headed up to Oakley right now for dinner at my mom's house! We are having Crust Club pies, dessert pie and salad. We love heading up to "our cabin" on Sundays. Hopefully the air quality is a little bit better up there.
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