Randomness

This is Sydney eating her first rice cereal. She really liked it the first few times, but now she just spits it out.

This is my great grandparents homestead. My Dad and his brothers are rebuiding it. It's the same size as the original and the chimney is the original. My great grandparents had 13 children, but some of the older ones had already moved out when this home was build. But still, can you imagine living in a small space like this with 10 or so people. How they ever do it way back then is beyond me. How spoiled of a generation we have become. Now people live in spaces 10 times this size with maybe one or two children. Their whole house is seriously the size of my living room.


Landen and Cohwen playing!

This is Sydney's new funny face she likes to make. It's so cute when she does it. It makes her cheeks look fatter.

Landen eating breakfast!

Tag! I'm it!

My friend Jennifer tagged me.

Here it goes...

20 years ago

1. I was 7 years old, almost 8. excited to be getting baptized
2. I lived in Show Low
3. I was about to finish the 2nd grade

10 years ago

1. I was a senior in high school
2. My friend Mindy and I were making plans to go to EAC together. But she got engaged that summer.
3. I was executive secretary in student government; over the whole school

5 years ago

1. I was living in Mesa, packing up my things to move
2. I was apartment hunting in Glendale with friend Michelle
3. I was finishing up my last two prerequisites at MCC

3 years ago

1. Byron and I had been married for 8 months.
2. We had just barely moved to our apartment in Ahwatukee
3. I was doing my last rotation for Occupational Therapy at a pediatric clinic for children with developmental disabilities, and about to graduate from MWU next month. YEAH!

1 year ago

1. I was very stressed and emotional. I just found out I was pregnant with Sydney.
2. I was recently called to be the second counselor in the Primary Presidency.
3. I was desperatly wanting to move out of my apartment and buy a house

so far this year

1. I have had a baby; well towards the end of last year. That still counts!
2. I have moved into a house, again towards the end of last year!
3. I continue to try to decorate my house and make it look like a home.

yesterday

1. I cleaned my house
2. I folded laundry that was actually washed on Saturday.
3. I took a walk with the kids

today

1. I went to a play date at a neighbors house.
2. I want to take a nap, but more than likely won't
3. I am going to watch and have a "biggest loser" party at a friends house tonight for the finale.

in the next year

1. I hope to lose at least 30 lbs; hopefully more.
2. I hope to read my scriptures more and start FHE with Landen
3. I hope to be more patient and play with my kids more

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another tag from Jennifer

4 people who email me regularly

1. Netflix
2. Amber
3. Sharilyn
4. lots of junk mail (sorry don't get regular emails from people)

4 places i would like to visit

1. Australia
2. Back east, visit the church history sites
3. If I were rich, I would love to go to all of the temples across the whole world
4. New York; to watch a show on broadway

4 favorite restaurants

1. Olive Garden
2. On the border
3. Taco Bell
4. PF Changs

3 things i am looking forward to in the next year

1. Rocky Point
2. Camping over Labor Day weekend
3. Byron stop working so much

3 things i am not looking forward to in the next year

1. Terrible two's
2. Potty training
3. The hot summer heat

I tag who ever wants to do this...

Sydney four months old

Yesterday, Sydney had her four month check up. She has grown so much. She now weighs 14 lbs, 55th percentile and is 25 1/2 inches long, 90th percentile. She has grown two inches in the last two months. She really is "growing like a weed." She is so much fun. While I am feeding her, she likes to put her fist in my mouth or try to grab my nose. Sometimes it takes a long time to feed her because she just wants to talk to me or smile at me.

Sydney can hold her own bottle, sorta. Landen never learned to hold a bottle until he was probably 9 months because he rarely had a bottle. But poor Sydney has a bottle quite frequently, at least one every three days or so. With the second child, you learn to leave them more often. With Landen, I never left him with someone. That is probably why he is such a HUGE mama's boy.

I can't believe she is four months old already. But she is at the fun stage. The first two months are kinda boring, but I do love to just hold them. Then they start to get their personalities and they sure do make you laugh. She is just so much fun and I love her to peices.

She has had an ear infection. That explains why she has been waking up during the night. She has been such a great sleeper since I brought her home from the hospital. She used to sleep from 9 p.m. till 5:30 a.m. usually 5 out 7 of the nights. Recently, she has been waking up two to three times at night. I was telling this to a lady I visit teach and she told me that Sydney probably had an ear infection because when her babies used to sleep through the night and then started to have frequent wakings, that more than likely they had an ear infection. So sure enough, yesterday confirmed that. So sadly we have to go back to the Dr. next week to get her shots, since she didn't get them yesterday. That is if her ear infection has cleared up by then.