Went home with tears!

Saturday night Abby and I got together with some of our friends to have a game night. Abby usually stays right by me because she is kinda bashful in those situations with a lot of people. She has gotten to know these kids over the last few months a little better so she just took off and went to play. I was so happy to have a little freedom. Freedom that would soon haunt me! We were playing a game and eating junk food.....having a good time when Dale (our friend and the host that night) came out of his bedroom saying that Abby had gotten into something. I went in there to find her digging into a huge jar of Vaseline with both hands and then wiping it in her hair and on her face. Very embarrassed but calmly, proceeded to clean her up. Which is very difficult for those of you that have had this happen to you. Vaseline is so greasy you can't just wash it off. You just have to wipe off what you can and leave the rest to soak in. ANYWAY, I got her cleaned up and changed into her Jammie's and sent her downstairs to play with the other kids. Oh no sooner than about 30 minutes after that one of the girls came upstairs to tell me that Abby was scratching everyone. Mind you this child was NOT even crying but was actually bleeding! She had scratches down her face and they were bleeding from my Abs. So that is when I snapped...made Abby say sorry and we gathered our stuff and went home. I cried as soon as I got to the car because I was so embarrassed! Too sensitive? Maybe a little but with a first child I must say that some of these trials are interesting to handle by yourself. I love my husband, but he isn't a social man. So that leaves me to either sit home all the time while he is on the computer, or go out and attempt to have some fun. I definitely got more fun than I expected....LOL! Happy Mother's Day right? Thanks for listening to my ramble!

HELP!

I need help with my parenting skills! Here is a picture of Abby thinking of who she can get next! She has learned to be naughty! Abby will be 2 in a few months and is in my eyes a bully to other kids. She hits, scratches and pulls hair. I know all about the "terrible twos" blah, blah, blah.... still need help! I would love suggestions on parenting books that work. Thanks a million!

I know, I know!

I know that it has been too long since my last post! Sorry to everyone! Here is a little tag for everyone to enjoy!

TAG I'M IT!

3 Joys

1. My Daughther Abigail & My Husband Steve. They are my life! We have a ton of fun when we get to spend time together.
2. Listening to and singing music of all kinds. I have had a love for it since I was a very small child and that love continues to grow daily!
3. Cooking and baking. I LOVE IT! I really enjoy trying new recipes and creating things that are cool with food.

3 Fears

1. SHARKS! I don't swim in the ocean because of it.
2. Being alone during the night.
3. Not being able to have any more kids....or trying so hard to get them here(fertility drugs) that they come all at once!

3 Goals

1. Improve the communication in my marriage and family.
2. Continue losing weight. I want my pre-wedding body back!
3. Finish my education. I have an associate degree but would love to get my bachelors.

3 Obsessions

1. The Twilight series! I think that is hands down number 1 on the list because I just love it!
2. Eating chocolate & icecream. I can't seem to break the horrible obsession/habit that I have for sugar.
3. Porcelin Dolls....mainly Madam Alexander dolls. Thanks to my Mother for getting me hooked on them. They are pricey but worth looking at. I usually got one every year for Christmas when I was younger so it is fun that Steve has carried on that tradition.

3 Random/Surprising Facts about myself

1. I hate putting laundry away.
2. I love eating icecream while soaking in the tub....I know I'm weird!
3. I just got a bug for beading...I enjoy designing and creating art to wear.

I TAG: Emily, Bonnie, Beth, Rachel & Sonnet

I think it's fair to say!

Rachel, our parents DID think that we looked a lot a like when we were children....I did too! I think it is fair to say that Abigail and I definately share the same genes. Here are some fun shots of when I was a little girl.

Me in a sweater that I am sure was made by my Grandmother Stosich.

Here I am at 2 talking on the phone. Abigail is always wanting to call someone.....she also always wants to have a PEN in her hand! Like Mother, like daughter....lol! Oh, and this is the closest age appropriate picture I could find, Abigail is 20 months now and the back of this picture says that I am 2 so.....there ya have it! This is one of my very favorite pictures of when I am little, mostly because it is hilarious......and the phone I am talking on is RED!!!! I love RED!

Crying my eyes out getting a picture taken.....look closely and you can see my tear stained cheeks.....

Me and My MOMMY!

Me, not very happy, with my Mommy & Daddy!

Sunday morning scramble...

Do you ever find that the later church gets the more you have to scramble to get everyone and everything ready? I DO! I don't know what it is. Maybe I just think that I will have plenty of time because Church doesn't start until 1 except then I forget, that I forgot to color something for primary, and that Abby's dress isn't ironed, and that the snack bag isn't ready, and I haven't printed my agenda, for singing time yet, and Abigail still needs a bath, AHHHHH......and then I just run out of time. When I had earlier church I was much better about doing the saturday thing to get ready for Sunday. This Sunday I was actually a little less rushed so Abs got the best of that deal and got all fancied up for church.

Here are the events of Sunday caught on film. We started out in P.J.'s (we call them peedle jaadles) here is a shot of Abs right in the middle of saying "CHEESE"!

Then we threw her in the bath and rolled her hair in these fabulous curlers. Curlers are great because the curls stay in so well!

Here she is right after the curlers came out!

Of course I HAD to put a huge bow in her hair. Oh, yeah, and I cut her bangs too. Doesn't she look so grown up? What a doll!

Twice IS a charm!

Just a little update on the plasma donating. Silly as I am I tried again today and was successful at it. I got all the way done without having any type of reaction or even feeling any nausea. Good times I tell you!

Have some fun.

Take the Quiz here!

A few of my friends sent this quiz to me within a few days so I thought I better take it and see who I am! It's fun....take it and post your results so that I can see who you are too!

How Embarrassing!

About a month or so ago, a few of my friends told me about a plasma donation center that had opened up here in Idaho Falls. We all decided that we wanted to go and make some cash (good paying cash by the way!) so we set up the appointments and went for it. I didn't make it past the tests because I am on some medication that had to have a doctor's approval. That process took forever! The center had to send a paper to the Doctor's office for them to sign and send it back...doesn't sound too hard right? Well, the office sent it back and it sat at the center for an additional 2 weeks (filled out incorrectly) waiting for the approval of the center Doctor who was on vacation in Hawaii.... to approve me as a donor. The Doctor returned from Hawaii and still couldn't approve me because the paper was filled out wrong. So it had to be sent back AGAIN to the doc's office and so on and so forth.

Anyway after all this stuff was worked out, I finally got to go in and make some cash today...HA! and here is how it went. I was a little nervous so I had butterflies in my tummy. I haven't donated before (not even blood) Apparently donating plasma is super hard on the body if you aren't up to par on your health, it causes all sorts of issues. My appointment was at 6 a.m. so that I could get it done while Abby was still sleeping (she woke up at 4 a.m.) so much for that..HA! Onto the next, so I went into the center and they got me all set up and going. Seriously the poke wasn't bad at all, I honestly hardly felt it... so that was nice. I was feeling great and doing the whole pumping my fist thing and moving along nicely and then it HIT me. I had practically passed out and was trying to get some words out for someone to help me. They finally rushed over after a few minutes to rescue me and they barely got there in time for the nurse to lift up the garbage can for me to empty the contents of my tummy into...my whole body hurt so bad I felt like I could barely breathe. They quickly turned the machine off and got the reverse cycle going again with some IV fluids and made me drink a bottle of Gatorade, water and eat a granola bar right away so rehydrate my super fast. I felt better almost instantly but my blood pressure kept dropping so I couldn't finish the donation! FUN HUH? So I finally get in there and this is what I get....a reaction is what they call it. I ended up having to stay for like 20 minutes until my vitals stabilized before they would let me drive myself home. This all happened when I was about finished anyway and I still got paid...YIPPEE!

So for those of you who donate plasma, there is a lesson to be learned from incident today. Be a little smarter than I was and eat bacon and eggs for breakfast before you donate and that won't happen to you, and you can save yourself some embarrassment...HA!

I've been tagged!

10 YEARS AGO:

I was a senior at Skyline High School getting ready for graduation. Also participating in the season’s sport which was track…and probably getting ready for the State meet. I got 4th that year in the discuss. GO GRIZZLIES!

FIVE PLACES I HAVE VISITED:

1. Germany

2. New York City

3. Mexico

4. Austria

5. Atlanta, GA

FIVE THINGS ON MY TO DO LIST:

1. Get a spare key made for Chester (our Camry….I lost my copy)

2. Clean the house

3. Donate plasma

4. Learn how to build a bathroom!

5. Save up for a vacation.

Lifetime Goals

1. Go on a trip to England with Steve

2. Be financially stable.

3. Build a dream house.

4. Have more children

5. Go on another cruise with my sisters!

THREE BAD HABITS:

1. Leaving laundry in the washer overnight. Arghhhhh! I always forget about it and then have to wash it again with baking soda to get the stink out! When my laundry is out of my sight, it is out of my mind. I will have main floor laundry one of these days!

2. Eating sweets. I just can’t get enough chocolate ice cream and candy. Easter was a huge drawback on the loosing scale. I will be working for months to get the Easter weight off

3. Taking naps with Abby. I don’t do it everyday but often enough! I should be more productive and get stuff done while she is sleeping but sometimes I just get SOOOOO tired!

FIVE THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT ME...

1. I enjoy sewing and creating patterns for new things.

2. I like to cook….and just love to try a new fancy recipe. Especially with baking. I just signed up to take my first cake decorating class!

3. Steve’s input is that people should know that I have A.D.D! HAAAAAAA!

4. I am terrified to swim in deep water. Just can’t bring myself to do it. I have only ever been knee deep in the ocean because I am too afraid to go farther. Funny thing is that I have had a lifelong dream to learn how to surf. I think I would actually be great at it because I have pretty good balance…don’t think it will ever happen though because you kind of have to go farther than knee deep to catch a wave!

5. I am obsessed with the life of Jane Austen! Steve said he is going to take me to England one of these days and we will go on a Jane tour. FUN EH?!!!!

I Tag: Sherrie, Mohna, Keisha & Gretchen

Big Girl Bed for a Big Girl!

Abby decided last week that she wanted a new pillow (that's what she calls the spare bed in her room). So what she really meant was she wanted a new bed. For naps we have been putting her in the big girl bed to get her used to it and she was loving it. She apparently has been anxious to get out of her crib...but has never been able to climb out or hasn't really tried that hard. So we got her all set up for a big girl bed. The crib came down, the spare bed came out(which was a full size) and we put the twin size bed up. Steve fixed up the frame for the bed and got it all put together and hauled up to the room and then Kate took over to get all the sheets on and made it nice and cozy for a snuggly night's rest. We headed off to the store sometime in between all the moving madness to get a safety rail for the bed. One of the days that she napped on the full size bed she rolled off in her sleep...we wanted to make sure that didn't happen again. Abigail was so surprised and excited to go to bed that night so it took a few extra stories for her to settle in for the night. WOW, what a difference the bed has made for Abby's sleeping patterns. She sleeps in until almost 8....yahoo! Whew, so, Abby is growing up fast and is turning into a big girl like her cousins and all her friends! We love her to death!

Abby Lou Who?

So I did up Abby Kate's hair the other day all cutesie and then she went down for a nap! I am so foolish as to think that she was going to come out of the nap just as she went in. What a joke! I don't know why but she is such a crazy sleeper and I have to do her hair several times in a day. ANYWAY.....let's back track a bit. I took Abs to the movies a few weeks ago with some friends of ours for a matinee. We decided that the kids would just love to see that new Dr Suess movie "Horton hears a Who". The kids had a blast by the way, and I thought the movie was cute. Abigail sat in her booster seat and just ate and ate and ate away at the popcorn, with her eyes fixed on the screen....she cracks me up. So, back to the nap story Abigail woke up that day looking like she belonged in that movie as a memeber of whoville community....HA! The picture doesn't show great detail but I had put a bunch of connected ponytails in there and it looked pretty cute. When she woke up all of the hair in the back was sticking pretty straight up, so for the rest of the day we called her Abby Lou Who! (BTW you can see a top view of the noodles hair in the Easter pictures. The one with her standing by aunty Em.)

THANK YOU!!!!!!

Thanks big time to my sister-in-law Keisha for helping me find the more creative side of blogging! I love the FREE templates. I put a link under fun sites to see, so that everyone can have fun creating and playing around with your own blogs. HAVE FUN!

WOW! It's the Easter Bunny!

So we hit 2 egg hunts this morning in the freezing cold weather! The one at the park was split up into age groups and the 0-2 didn't run to get eggs, we just waited in line to see the Bunny and he filled our baskets...nice eh?! The other one at the church was a run till you drop hunt. Abby made out pretty good on that one.....I think Isabel got the most out of all the kids! She is a wizard when it comes to egg hunts (thanks to Uncle Charlie getting her all excited and ready to go today!) Abigail kept saying see the Bunny, see the Bunny. She really wanted to see the Bunny and when we finally got the the Bunny she totally flipped out and started crying and continued to cry until we reached our car (clear across the park) It was pretty cold out and the kids were troopers just for being there to brave the weather. We had a great time! We hope you all have a super fun Easter holiday and have the spirit of Christ in your homes and in your heart!

Abby and her peeps

Here is Abs playing with her friends (from left to right Amelia, Abby, Olivia & Hannah) They have a great time together. Today was also the first time that I attempted braids in Abby's hair. They are super short but I think they are super cute!

Jane Austen

Man oh man, am I obsessed or what? Thanks to Masterpiece theatre I have recently gotten back into my love for the stories of Jane Austen and her life history. I just finished a book named "The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen" I enjoyed it thoroughly until I got the very end when I realized that half of the stuff in the book wasn't true. Although I enjoy a good love story with a very depressing ending...HA!!!!, I would prefer to read about actual events in her life. I should really be more careful about picking and choosing the books that I read when I am interested in real life events. If anyone has any good books that are based on her actual life, do share! It just pains me to no end to know about the life long love that she had for a certain man and that they were never able to marry. Call me BORING, but I love this kind of stuff. In fact, I was ranting and raving to Steve last night about all of it, and forced him to sit and listen to me read the last chapter of the book. It sparked an interest in his mind as well. I just may be the luckiest lady in the world because I have a husband that served a mission in England (the home of none other than the famous Jane Austen). So Steve's words last night after I finished reading that last chapter to him were as follows..."Wouldn't it be cool to go to England and visit her grave, go on a tour of all of the places that she visited in her life and do some research about this unnamed man that she loved her entire life?" My jaw dropped! "I would LOVE to do that honey, that was a fabulous suggestion" was my reply. COOL EH? So maybe in 50 years when we can afford to go to England, Steve and I will be taking all sorts of Jane Austen life history tours! As for those of you who don't have an interest in Jane Austen, you should get one! She is an amazing author. Sherrie, I know you have done some extensive research on Jane, I would love to either read you paper sometime if you have it on a file or have the references that you used. Thanks a million.

Playing in the Sun!

Here is a Picture of Aunt Emily, Isabel, Vaughn and Abigail having a fun time. Emily and the kids stayed in town for a few days and we had a great time. We miss you already but are so glad to have you closer :) Abigail is constantly wanting to call to talk with Baughn (Vaughn) She can't quite master the V sound but it is fun to hear her try. Yesterday she was calling out for Charlie. She wanted to call and talk with Uncle Charlie on the phone. I have to get sound of that posted on here. It is pretty cute to hear her say all of the cousins names. She even says Aunt Gretchen and very clearly....she is a smart and fun little noodle.

Abigail and her friend Hannah got to play outside yesterday. We are enjoying the sunshine in Idaho! We took a walk down to the park and around the block, ran into a fun friend to chat for a bit and before we knew it the wind had picked up and the sun went behind the clouds so we headed home. The snow is finally melting thought and it is getting into the 40's. Abigail is always begging to go outside and play. Next week should be much warmer so Abigail will be a happy camper. I will also be glad to get outside again and shed some of this winter weight :) Gotta get ready for the family trip to Lagoon in June!

Crazy Fun!

Here are some fun photos from the last few weeks. We love our little noodle.....she keeps us laughing! If you click on the "view all images" button at the bottom you can view it in a larger slide show. Otherwise the Sarah video will be in your way. :)

In the NEWS!

Emily and I were on our way to a baby blessing yesterday in the early afternoon when she mentioned that the window in Chester was broken. I looked in sadness to my poor picked on car and hurried back into the house to tell Steve of the damage. He quickly got shoes on and this is what became of the afternoon. Here is a clip of the 5:00 news yesterday March 2, 2008. Chester (our camry) was a victim of some of the crimes happening in Idaho Falls. I guess there are some teenagers that have too much time on their hands these days. Steve did well talking with the channel 3 news crew. I wasn't at home when they came, I was still out and about with Emily so it was a surprise to me to even see him on the news! Good job Honey....you are a T.V. STAR!