Much is happening....if only I could remember it all

So its been awhile since I last logged anything. Lets see if I can think of all thats happened.

Tyler joined the Idaho National Guard and leaves for Basic Training on May 18th but will be leaving from Phoenix. He'll be gone til end of September. He's totally excited and is having his first pre-basic training drill weekend this weekend. I got to talk to him tonight...which I didn't think I'd get to. He said it went pretty much the way he thought it would go and thought it totally cool. :) We'll be moving back to Mesa in mid-April. We're excited to go. We'll miss Idaho but definitely not the snow. I'm 7 months pregnant but the baby is measuring big by about 2-3 weeks. Brig is excited to be a big brother. He'll pat my tummy and talk gibberish once in awhile. Brig is trying to potty train himself. He'll go and stand at the toilet. If I get to close to even try to help him he tells me to get back!!! The last few days I've just let him run around without his diaper once he pulls it off but I set a timer and tell him he has to have a diaper on when it goes off because Daddy will be home soon. He's been really good about it. Only peed on the floor once and told me about while he was going. He was a big boy and put a towel on it when I got over to him. :) All I can say is that there is some benefit from having no doors on any of the rooms in our house right now.....bathroom included.

Busy Busy Busy

So things have been happening and days have been going on. Let's see if I can recall all thats happened in the last 3 weeks. The kids are getting along great. Emma is always telling Brig...."Big no. Big sit down." Things like that. Of course like any two 2 year olds they fight over toys or one makes the other cry for no apparent reason. Brig gave Emma her first black eye. He threw a jenga block at her and it cut her right below her left eye. Poor little girl cried so hard for like 5 mins and Brig just kept trying to give her a hug to say sorry. He doesn't know how to say the word yet but he loves to give sorry hugs.
I'm doing okay with this second pregnancy. I get tired real easy and I tend to feel sick after I take my prenatal pills no matter what part of the day I take it. I've been dealing with alot of lows and an occasional high with my bloodsugars. I got "tickled" on Sunday Monday or Tuesday coming home from Idaho Falls. It felt weird but it kinda felt like I was getting tickled from inside my tummy....twice. Tyler made the comment the other day that it seems like my stomach has a mind of its own because some days its bigger than others. LOL...
Tyler has decided to join ROTC at BYU-I but needs to get his gpa up just a little so it will take a semester to do that to get accepted to BYU-I. He's decided he wants to be a pilot in the National Guard and would become an officer through ROTC and get paid better than if he joined now as a private.
We finally get to move into our own place this weekend I think. It'll be nice.
We've gotten snowed on twice since we've gotten here and its supposed to dump more on us this coming weekend. I'm hoping it'll be alot but Jo is hoping not because she has a wedding to photograph this Saturday. Brig is funny with the snow. The first time it snowed he looked out the window and said..."ewwwwww!!" The second time it snowed he wanted to go playing it but wouldn't put his boots on so he didn't get to play in it. He watch Cars instead.
I'm guessing that before to long Brig will be ready to do the whole potty training thing. He took his diaper off the other day and brought it to me saying "Mommy.Mommy." I looked over at him and it was a stinky diaper. I took it from him and he ran for the toilet. He just had to sit on it. While sitting on the big boy toilet, he starts tearing off little pieces of toilet paper and dropping it in the toilet between his legs. Than something clicked and he ripped off a whole square and dropped it in behind him. It was very cute and he was very proud of him self.
So next week is Thanksgiving. We'll be at Tyler's aunt and uncle's house in Idaho Falls that day. Brig gets on with their family very well. There will be kids his age there on Thursday so I hope he gets along with them okay. If not, Casey or Jeff might have a little 2 year old tagging along behind them. (Those are 2 of Tyler's cousins)

We're Here

Well, for those that don't know Tyler got a job in Idaho Falls, Idaho. We've been apart since Conference weekend. We are now together again. Tyler and Jeremy came and got Brig and I this last weekend and we made it to Jo and Jeremy's house in Rexburg, Id around midnight last night. The drive wasn't bad at all. Brig slept most of the way and was pretty good when he was awake. Since there was so much stuff with him in the back seat, we were able to put him in the middle seat so he could see. I think he rather liked it. I was able to sleep a few hours but I tried to stay awake. I didn't want to have Tyler falls asleep when I was sleeping but Tyler did a good job at staying awake. We discovered about the time we crossed into Idaho that we couldn't turn on the heater if we wanted to be able to see out the windows. We're going to get it fixed but it was so cold for the last hour and a half. We couldn't turn on the heat at all. Oh well. I just hope Tyler's warm enough driving to and from Idaho Falls for the next few weeks.
So our story for the trip is this. We were about an hour outside of Vegas yesterday morning and the wind was blowing pretty good. Tyler and I were following Jeremy. We had our car and Jeremy was in a truck pulling the trailer. All of a sudden we see the camper shell that was on the truck come flying over the back of the trailer. It bounced once in the right lane and landed off the road about 10 feet. I was so glad it didn't hit anyone since there were cars behind us in both lanes. Hopefully they saw it happen and were able to slow down. Anyways, so we all pulled over. While Jeremy was packing up to get closer to the shell, he got to far over and ended up getting stuck in the loose gravel, a little jack-knifed. They tried to figure out how to get it out but it just kept getting deeper and deeper. After like an hour, 2 trucks pulled over and helped us get it out and back on the road. ;)

We're still alive!!

So I don't have much time but things are going good. We're happy and we love each other, thats all that matters.

Merry Jo

Merry Jo is one of my younger sisters. She just graduated high school in May and is dating a wonderful guy named Tommy. I got a text around 530 am today from Merry Jo saying that she had been rushed to the hospital last night but she was going to be okay. She had overian cysts, only recently found that out about 1 1/2 months ago when the first one burst. Well last night she was out with Tommy at a friends house when this one burst. Thankfully her friend is her doctor's niece and her brother is in medical school. Merry Jo passed out and than started throwing everything and anything up. Couldn't breathe because of all the pressure going on inside. Nasty business. The Docter/uncle told them to take her straight to the hospital. It turns out that when this cyst burst, it also ruptured an artery in her stomache. She had 2 liters of blood pumped out of her stomache and was then given 2 liters of new blood. The doctor in the ER told her and my mom and Tommy that if she had been any later, she could had died from the amount of blood in her stomache. SO thankfully, I still have a younger sister named Merry Jo. Brig and I went and saw her for a little bit this morning. She'll be there til sometime tomorrow afternoon.

A day in the kitchen

So yesterday I had most of my family over. My mom, Emily and Kambri. Damon, Tanner, and Jedera. Mom came to teach me how to make bread the correct way even though I have the recipe, though no one makes it like she does. I can say it turned out delicious. But off story. The kids came along to swim and Emily took Kambri into the pool as well. I can honestly say that Emily looks better in my swim suits while pregnant than I do. Which is good for her and a little depressing for me but its in the works to fit them all!!! Kambri didn't like the pool all that much but she loved looking down at everyone from the balcony over looking the pool. Brig was hanging on for dear life to Tanner. Thank good Tanner is a good uncle and loves his nephew. So Mom and everyone left around 430 pm. Tyler was on the phone setting up a job interview with Chase Bank (keep your fingers crossed!!!) so he didn't get to say good-bye. Any ways, I was taking out the bread shortly after that when Brig came into the kitchen. I told him Hot! Don't touch! I guess he thought I was talking about the oven door because he tried to push in the oven rack with his bare hand. Oh how he cried and I felt terrible. I wanted to cry too. So I ran his hand under cold water and than some aloe. Also some baby Tylenol because I didn't have anything else for him. I gave him an ice pack too. He thought that was great fun! He stopped crying and kept putting it on his head or in his mouth. I looked at his hand this morning, it wasn't to pretty. His right hand has some nasty blisters on it. 2 fingers and the pad of his hand between the 2. Today there was an occasional ouch but he didn't seem to notice it very much at all. I love my son. Its amazing how fast time is going. He'll be 2 in August and he still loves to cuddle with me like when he was born.

IT'S OFFICIAL!!!

They are now officially engaged to be married this fall!!! September 26th is the word and day