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Wednesday, 09 May 2012

Yesterday, Maddy was asking about something and Dave started answering her. She then glared at Dave and said, "I'm talking to mommy." lol She's also been asking for energy lately. I have no idea where some of the things she says come from. Will has been sounding out words at random times all by himself. He was saving his computer game and wanted it to say "Will's game." Well, I was very impressed when he sounded out game as he typed it in. It ended up being Wills gam, but I was proud he was trying.
I got a pedometer to measure how many steps I take each day. You are supposed to do 10,000 steps each day, and my typical day yesterday yielded about 4,000. Pretty unimpressive :/ You could probably say I watched a little too much tv yesterday. I started watching a documentary about aliens, but really it was the whole theory that aliens helped with the formation of the pyramids and so forth. After a couple of those shows I watched one called Ancient Aliens. This one was about mysterious places around the world, mostly places where people mysteriously died of unnatural causes. During one of these shows the Hopi Indians were mentioned with their theory of how the earth was formed. I wasn't really paying attention and had to rewind a part because of the parallels it had with some mormon beliefs. I have aways been very interested in the Native American culture and what links it may or may not have with mormons. With the hopi's being one of the oldest tribes, I can see several similarities with what we believe. And though some of it seems a bit mythical, I can see how maybe centuries could have changed things beliefs. They even said 3 prophets led them to where they settled and told them that the white men would come soon. Not saying that's what happened, but it's all very interesting.

Saturday, 28 April 2012

This week has filled me with anxieties about Will and where he should go to preschool. I, along with 255 other people, was emailed that the letters stating the status of the preschool applications would be mailed out this week. I started getting down about the whole situation since there was hardly a chance for Will to get in. I dropped Cheryl off, after we went shopping together the other day, and on the way home I almost started crying because I just want Will to have the best opportunities. In my heart I pleaded with Heavenly Father, "What about Will? Doesn't he deserve to go there?" The moment I was done thinking that, I just got an overwhelming warm feeling that Heavenly Father hadn't forgotten about Will and all would be well. Then I did start crying. lol So there I was still hoping for a miracle that he'd get in to byu, but I figured he wouldn't get in since community is last pick. As a backup plan I had been thinking about the learning dynamics preschool and thought we'd just send him there if he didn't get into byu, but I felt impressed to bring it up to the lady I visit teach the other day. So it came up and she ended up telling me how learning dynamics is too much sit down work and they don't use exploration as a teaching tool - something she convinced me was good for Will. Then she gave me a flyer to the preschool her daughter went to last year (Who just has a flyer handy? Really.) and said it was the only other preschool structured like byu's. I had looked at their website last year, but they were going to be closed down. That apparently changed after all the moms got together and did something about it. At that point I was 99% sure this was Heavenly Fathers way of opening a window since I felt Will wouldn't get into BYU. Today after not getting my letter, I called byu and Will did not get in and is 30 on the waiting list. I have a preschool tour appt on Monday for the other preschool. Everything happens for a reason and I am so glad it's not in my hands since God is the only one who truly knows what is best for us.

Well I went to my 2nd weight watchers meeting last night. I have no idea why I was so against joining before. It's so easy and flexible. I'm down 4.6lbs; and that's after I cheated several days. This week I'm sticking to the points and we'll see if I can get below my pre-pregnancy weight soon, and stay below that mark. It's beginning to get ridiculous. I hit that number and then I lose motivation and gain again. Right now I'm feeling good though, and I love my new twist stepper thing!

Friday, 20 April 2012

Things have been going pretty good around here. After looking at diet pills for 2 days with scary ingredients, I decided to try weight watchers. I signed up and went to my first meeting. I think I can do well on the plan since I can still eat what I want and go out. I will, however, use up my whole days points if I want to eat a supersonic cheeseburger :( My first weigh in was kinda interesting since I had my keys, phone, and wallet in my pockets, and my shoes weigh 2 lbs by themselves. lol Oh well, I'll just wear them every time to make sure I'm consistently weighed. My twister stepper should be coming in the mail this week, too.
We should find out by next week if Will gets into the byu preschool. I really hope he does. We visited the other school which boasted high reading learning percentages and seemed very structured. While the school was okay, it wasn't what I thought it would be, and there was only 1 teacher per 12 kids. How can she give the required one on one reading time and watch 11 other kids, or at least Will? Plus it's only 2 days a week instead of byu's 4 days and it costs about the same. We've started giving Will fish oil gummies. I think they are helping, but we'll see.
We had our fhe on Tuesday so we could walk around the temple. It was a nice day and the kids liked it, except Maddy was so scared of the fountains. She was shaking and hiding her eyes; maybe it was just the loud rushing noise. Afterwards we went out for ice cream. Dave didn't want to chance the creamery line, so we went to dairy queen. It was fun until Maddy took off and nearly ran out to a busy street. I had to yank on her hood to pull her back :( Poor kid, she just has no concept of dangers. We'll have to find a way to teach her.

Monday, 09 April 2012

The kids were horrible at church today-maybe from the candy they ate, who knows. Maddy had a runny nose and cough, so we were going to have to stay home, but Will was assigned his first scripture in primary, so we went to sacrament mtg and then waited till Will read his scripture. I had asked him if he wanted me to help him and he said he wanted to do it by himself, so I printed off the scripture and had him read/memorize it the last couple of days. He did it perfectly :) So proud of him. We will do Easter egg stuff for fhe tomorrow. We did do an easter egg hunt at Cheryl's and the kids loved it.

Thursday, 05 April 2012

Dave's parents had some timeshare points they need to use before they end their contract and told us to use what we could before the end of August. At first I looked and there was really nothing, but then a miracle happened and a condo in Oregon opened up right by my waterfalls that I have yearned to see since I was young. Of course I prayed about it and went to sleep. Then for some reason I woke up to go to the bathroom and while trying to go back to sleep I just had this bad feeling about it and then the thought just came to me that this was not the time to plan a trip to Oregon. Thankfully, after such a bad feeling, my desire to go kinda disappeared so I didn't feel too bummed about it. The next day I looked for something else and the way the timeshare is set up, a lot of resorts have set days you can go, and some even limited nights. I found a place in Colorado only 7 hrs away that had one bedroom and a private spa on the balcony. I wanted to go just for the spa, but realistically it would be dumb to drive that far for 2 nights (limitations courtesy of the resort). Then I decided to look at the local places and a 2 bedroom with a private hot tub on the deck of the unit had just opened up in Snowbird(about 20 min away from salt lake) in August. I am so excited and jumped on that offer in no time. AND...it's in the mountains, so the avg highs are low 70's. WOOOOOT. I'm sure during the day we'll go to temple square and maybe the zoo too. I know it's close to home, but a nice trip in a 5 star resort that costs very little is what we need.