Job Update.

I really should have posted this yesterday but didn't, anyway, Ron started his new job yesterday at another game company here in Orem called Wahoo Studios. They're a smaller company and also make x box 360 arcade games. I have to say that it's been the smoothest job transistion ever and we don't have to move and it's so much closer than Chair was! All very good things.



After he got home last night, I'm a lot less excited...their insurance plan sucks in huge ways. They do it through this company called A Plus and they're ridiculously expensive and the deductables are really high. This makes me very sad, I'll also be uninsured for a month, this is not such a good thing when 7 months pregnant. I'll also have to see how much it will be to pay form my anti depressants out of pocket. Now that they're starting to work again and I feel much better I sure don't want to stop taking them for a month.

Sometimes,

you just find a song that speaks to you. The fact that it's from one of my very favorite shows makes it even better, this video is from the finale of Six Feet Under.

Pretty pictures

Watching Dora together.

They were very tired girls.

She looks so sweet when she's sleeping...lately she's been a

screaming monster whenever she's awake.

The winds of change,

Are once again at work in my life. I have to say so far this year has really freakin sucked! I was in the hospital, Ron had his appendix out and now yesterday he got fired. He went into work and was home a couple hours later and when I asked him what he was doing home he said "they fired me for no reason". Just like that the world turned upside down, no more health insurance and no more security. I mean seriously, he went into work asked to talk with him and handed him his termination papers, no reason given and I'm kinda pissed off that he didn't demand a reason. I sure as hell would have! I'm calling his boss today and asking him why, I think we deserve an explination. And if he signs a paper saying that he won't sue them for wrongful termination or breach of contract they'll give him 6 wks severance pay and cash out his 401k.

So, we should be ok with money until he finds a new job, it's just there is no way of knowing where this new job will be. There are a handful of other game companies here in the Salt Lake area so we'll see what they have to offer first. There is also a few really big software companies here, Ron dosn't really want to work for a software company and would rather be making video games he says that with his experience and qualifacations he could be making twice what he was working at Chair. I don't want to have to move, I hate moving. I'm also 6 months pregnant and already having enough complications that I don't want to have to deal with the stress of moving right now. It's just not good for me, or anyone else.

He went and interviewed with 2 other game compaines here in Orem yesterday afternoon, but dosn't think that either of them would be a good fit for him. We'll see what comes of it all...

I forgot!

I forgot to tell you all that I got a little camera for Christmas. Ron got me a little Sony Cybershot and it's been long overdue! So far I love it and don't have any complaints but I haven't really done much of anything with it either. I haven't taken that many pictures yet mostly because my house is just to embarassingly messy and because I just haven't been feeling that great. But here is what I do have so far :)

Eden and a naked Beeba.

Eden in the box

Beeba passed out on Ron in the office.

Emi and Annie "take our picture, mommy!"

I'm a bad blogger

I've been telling myself everyday that I need to sit down and blog but keep putting it off or am just to tired. Life has been pretty crazy recently, lots of exciting things going on over here.

Last Monday I got to go to the hospital to labor and delivery. I started having contractions on Sat night and they last through the weekend. I got barely any sleep because they went on all night. They wern't regular but they were strong enough to be painful. So I called my Dr's office last monday morning to see if I could make an appt to go in and have her check me to make sure I wasn't dialating. I was pretty sure they were Braxton Hicks but they just wern't stopping and changing position or what I was doing didn't make them go away and the Dr did tell me that with consecutive pregnancies they could get stronger and start earlier. Anyway, the nurse talked to the Dr and she wanted me to go to labor and delivery to have the contractions charted and to get a fetalfibronectin test to make sure I wasn't going into pre term labor. So I had Ron come home early from work and went and spent 3 hours in labor and delivery. The fetal fibronectin test came back negative, thankfully. So it was as I thought just very strong Braxton Hicks. I really hate being pregnant especially when I'm having contrations for 3 1/2 months before delevering the damn baby!

I've had so little patience recently, I feel bad for the girls. I feel like a terrible mother for yelling at them what feels like constantly. I started taking my anti depressants again so I'm hoping that they'll help. My house is also a huge freakin mess which dosn't help my state of mind much. Cleaning is such and ordeal and hurts so it's just not getting done. Here we are on the 13th day into the new year and I still haven't taken down my Christmas tree!

This monday Ron was scheduled to go in for a colonoscopy to check for Chron's Disease. For the past year he's been having random joint swelling and pain and they can't seem to figure out what's going on with him. He's had x rays and endless lab tests but they still don't know what's causing the swelling. So his rheumatologist wanted him to get the conlonscopy done. So we took him in monday morning at 10. The girls and I had to go with and wait for him while he had it done because it'd done under sedation and he wouldn't be able to drive afterwards.

About 45 mins after he went back a nurse came into the waiting room to get me and we all trooped back to the recovery room, or rather the recovery cubicle. The Dr promptly comes out and tells me that they didn't find anything indicating Chron's Disease but did find that his appendix was extremely infected and pussing, acute appendicitis. They wanted to send him over for a CT scan to confirm the diagnosis and remove it. Ron of course is still knocked out. We got him into a wheel chair wheeled him outside and across the parking lot to the building next door where the CT and MRI machines lived. Ron woke up, literally, when they came out to take him in for his scan. I quickly had to fill him in on what was going on. The girls and I waited some more.

After the scan he was wheeled back across the parking lot to the surgery center and back to the recovery cubicle to ready him for the appendectomy. 4 different people came in to tell us what was going to happen and explain the procedure to us. I had to sign a bunch of paper work, giving permission for the surgery, permission for blood transfusions if things went wrong and several other things. They took him in for his surgery and the girls and I finally got to leave for awhile to get some lunch, drop off perscriptions and go home and rest for awhile. Anyway, we finally got to bring him home at 10 that night. The girls were surprising well behaved, or as well behaved as children can be when they have to sit and be good for hours on end. But the whole experience did me in, I think I'm still recovering form the insanity of it all.

He's recovering well, there haven't been any complications, of course he's in a lot of pain and can't work for the week but he's getting better each day and tomorrow he can take a shower. In the mean time I have another person to take care of...

We still have freaking mice! I've caught 8 of the damn things and there. are. still. more!! How many freakin mice are in my house!?! They are, seriously, driving me insane! I can here them all the time in the walls scratching and gnawing, scurrying and fighting and squeaking. Fortunately, they have stopped scratching and gnawing in the wall behind my bed at night. They were doing that for a few weeks, in the wall right behind my head. It kept me up, it's hard to go to sleep listening to the creepy little things right behind your head. I think I'm developing a mouse phobia.

We've been using the glue traps and I have to say they work really well. But as much as I hate the damn things now I feel horrible guilt having to dispose of them alive...I feel like an awful person but having small children I don't feel comfortable having the typical snap traps laying around my house.

So this has been my life recently, dealing with mice, lots of contractions, guilt for being an animal torturer, guilt at my impatience with my children, taking care of a sick post operative husband and feeling like crap!

Aye, me...

...a broken computer that likes to turn itself off at random times and then not turn back on, sick puking children, out of town visitors, Dr's appointments and mouse extermination. This is what I've been up to the past week.

You'd think that having a computer programmer for a husband would speed up the computer fixing problem, sadly, no. It's still having major issues and Ron keeps saying that he's "fixed" it and that there's nothing wrong with it. I beg to differ.

Ron's ex Teneka and their daughter Jamie have been in town since last wednesday. We met up with them Friday evening after my Dr's appt and took them out to Pirates Island, the girls all had a really great time running around playing. They then came over to the house and we watched a movie and let the girls stay up till midnight...it was pretty insane. Saturday we met up with them again at around 4ish and took them to the Lehi Legacy Center to go swimming and then to the Asian Buffett for dinner. In the middle of dinner Emi suddenly threw up all over the table and floor and we sick throwing up the rest of the night and all of Sunday, too. She's much better today but now Beeba is sick and so is Jamie. Taking care of sick thowing up children is never any fun.

I had my ultrasound last Wednesday and I'm having ANOTHER girl, 4 girls, the teenage years will be trying. I'm 23 wks now and the due date is 21st of April though I'm sure she'll be born more the end of May or very beginning of April as my children like to arrive about 3 wks early. I'm still having lots of contractions, which, unfortunately, is a theme with me. I've been having very strong painful contractions for the past 2 1/2 wks now. The Dr says they're just braxton hicks and that with each pregnancy can come earlier and get stronger. Yay, me, I get to be in "labor" for the next 4 months!! God, I hate pregnancy.


My house has been infested with mice for the past couple weeks as well and after trying to get Ron to buy mouse traps everytime he went to the store finally had to take care of it myself after he told me that the store didn't have any mouse traps. It took me all of 5 mins to find them, right where I thought they'd be, next to the insecticides and bug killers. I caught and disposed of 2 last night. Good riddance!

That's it for now, I just wanted to jot down a quick update. I'm feeling kinda sick myself and am not sure if it's from cleaning up all the puke of if I'm actually getting sick myself...hopefull I'll be back soon.

Broken computer

So, I really wanted to write more of a post when I put up the pictures from the wedding but my stupid computer has been broken for the past week! Ugh, and even now I'm not so sure that it's fixed, it keeps randomly turning itself off, SO freakin annoying!

So anyway, yeah, hopefully I'll be able to go around and get caught up with everyone today it seems to behaving so far, I'm keeping my fingers crossed ;)

Oh and apparently, there is a video of the actual wedding ceremony for anyone that's intrested on Elise's blog here

Wedding Photos...Finally...

And here they are, the wedding pictures. Nothing to special, I was married in jeans. But none the less here they are.

Our Family

Ron and I

Ron and I

Annie and Uncle Jeff

Poor little Eden she was so tired.

Beeba!

Emi!

New Moon Pictures!

Here's some pictures from the New Moon party, we had such a great time! The before party was so much fun, lots of girls and lots of laughing and lots of desserts!

I won 3rd place in the trivia contest. There were 3 of us who got all the answers to the quiz right but I got the tie breaking question wrong. That's me on the end on the left, for those who don't know me well ;). Natalie made all kinds of really cute stuff, I picked out some earrings.


A couple group photos of all the ladies!

One giant step...

I've been meaning to post for the past couple days but I got side tracked reading this really awesome book that was suggested to me by a blogging friend, I've been totally engrossed!

Anyway, on Monday Ron and I went to the county clerks office and got our marriage license. So now we've got 30 days to make it official. I don't think I'm really going to make a big deal out of it, I just don't have the energy to make a huge production out of it. I just kinda want it all to be over with. Seriously, I'm so exhausted all the time that just thinking about it makes me even more tired.

So, I'm thinking we'll probably just go back to the clerks office and have it solomized there and then go out to dinner with the family or something. Maybe have a small reception next spring when I'm not pregnant. Because I know Elise would be upset if we didn't do something to celebrate the blessed event.

2 more days until Twilight...I need to get a black shirt. There's a dress code for the group ;)

New Moon

I'm a total dork and I freely admit it! I've got tickets along with a bunch of friends to go see New Moon on Friday night so this week is going to be my blogs Twilight week. Yesterday I just finished reading all the books again so I'm all ready for the movie :).

On Friday, my new neighbor and friend Dina and I are going to meet up with my old friends from Lehi for a before party with yummy food, trivia games and I'm sure lots of really neat prizes, I can't wait. After that we head off to the movie, let me just tell you that I've never found anything cooler than some of the thearters around here, I bought my tickets 2 months ago and I've already got assigned seats, how freakin cool is that?!

So, right now as excited as I am I'm really hoping that they've done a much better job with New Moon than they did with Twilight. I was not really to happy with Twilight, if I hadn't read the books I dont' think I would have liked it very much. So lets all keep our fingers crossed that it's worth watching...

Noah's Christmas Wish

Devon posted this on her blog the other day and I thought I should pass it along to all who read mine. This little boy Noah is dying of cancer and they Dr's have given him 2 weeks to live. He want's to celebrate Christmas this weekend and would love to get a bunch of Christmas cards. I say lets make his wish come true!! I looked this up on snopes and it's true.

I say let us all send this little boy a Christmas card and pass it on to your friends as well.

his address is here

Apple Cider Cheese Cake

Ok, so I got this recipe over a year ago and saved it becuase I thought it sound pretty awesome. I finally got around to making it the other day and it is dang good, so I thought I'd put up and share it with all the other cheese cake lovers out there :)

Apple Cider Cheese Cake

1 9" pie crust (I used a graham cracker crust cause I think they're super yummy)
4 packages instant spiced cider
4 TBL sour cream
10 oz cream cheese, softened
1/2 c whipped topping thawed
1 1/2 c canned apple pie filling
1 crunchy type granola bar

Spread apple pie filling on the bottom of pie crust. In large mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, sour cream and spiced cider mix until fluffy. Beat in thawed whipped topping. Pour (I don't know what they mean by pour, it was more like try and spread it over, there was no pouring involved when I made it) over apple pie filling and refrigerate. Crush granola bar and sprinkle on top just before serving.

Random Tuesday Thoughts

Since I'm trying to get back into the whole blogging thing I thought today I'd take a page from Cristin's book and do some randomness.

I woke up the other morning to find a huge sopping patch of carpet right in front of the kitchen tile. Of course I stepped in it with socks on! When I asked my children why the carpet was sopping wet, Emi told me that Beeba did it, she was watering her garden.

Eden has learned to take her clothes off. The other day I looked over to find her sitting naked on the floor legs spread with a spoon in her hand. I'll give you 2 guesses to figure out what she was doing. 30 secs later she peed on the floor, guess you can't really expect a 17 month old to go to long without a diaper.

My neighbor, Sarah, is an ICU nurse and was working Sat night, she said the ICU was full and that 60% of the paitents were people with H1N1. Several dying from it, I really starting to get kinda freaked out about it. I mean I personally haven't had the flu in over 10 years and have never gotten a flu shot but this year I'm seriously debating it. I think it might be hearing about all the pregnant women who have died from it. There have been several familes in my neighborhood who have had it.

My vacuum cleaner is clogged and I can't find where it is. My office REALLY needs vacuuming.

I love my neighborhood, the other day one of my neighbors boys came over in his boy scout uniform and asked me if he could rake up my leaves. He needed some extra service hours. A couple days later another couple boys came over and raked them up again. It's nice to have one thing I don't have to worry about doing.

Dreyer's peppermint ice cream is AWESOME and so is Pumpkin Spice egg nog.

I've been feeling kinda guilty because I actually prefer the cranberry juice with the high fructose corn syrup in it to the 100% juice one. The one that's 100% juice one uses apple juice to sweeten it and tastes like cran apple, I not a huge fan of cran apple. When I want cranberry juice I just want cranberry juice.

Last Friday we went to my old neighbor, Mauri's daughters birthday 5th birthday party and one of the party favors were these pink little cowboy boot cups the girls LOVE them and don't want to drink out of anything else.

Wow, I guess I'm pretty boring tonight I can't think of anything else to write about except that it's time to put my kids to bed! Time for some quiet and ice cream :)