Happy Mother's Day!!

I hope everyone had a Happy Mother's Day! My day started with homemade Waffles by Brad. They were super yummy and absolutely perfect. Then of course we had to hurry and get ready to go to church by 11am. The only thing that may not have been quite perfect was the fact that Brinly was too shy to go up and sing with rest of the primary kids. I didn't want to force her to go up but I was a little bummed. The rest of of the children looked and sounded great though! Maybe next year. We ended church with the traditional flowers being passed out by the youth to all qualified mothers. Those are always fun to get. Brad and I enjoyed a nice quiet afternoon watching the Jazz game while the girls all had a two + hour nap. I called my mom to wish her a Happy Mother's Day and then we went over to Brad's parents house where all the guys pitched in to make dinner for a few of us moms.
That was nice not to have to cook or clean up (the one day a year that I don't have to). Dinner was absolutely wonderful by-the-way guys! We proceeded into the living room and exchanged gifts for all the moms. Brad surprised me with this picture which he put some time of his own and a little of his crafty self went into it as well. I was very impressed! Thank you honey. He also gave me some sconces to go with a picture of the temple that he got me for Christmas. When I get that hung I'll show what those look like. Over all it turned out to be an awesome Mother's Day, thanks to my Husband who makes it that way. I Love you, Brad!

Backyard Catastrophy

So we had a little issue yesterday that had to do with the main pipe for our sprinklers. I happened to go out back cause the girls wanted to play with some bubbles.
Next thing I knew I was starring at a mound of grass that had been lifted from it's roots by some massive amount of water. I called Brad to tell him that maybe a sprinkler pipe broke and told him of this mound. I don't think my telling him did much because obviously pictures don't do this "thing" justice.

Within an hour of discovering the first mound a second one had formed and more water had flooded our backyard.
Now for those of you who know how wide our backyard is these pictures only show roughly half of our backyard. Luckily only this half got flooded and not the other side because who knows what would have happened. (House flood???) By the time I actually took these pictures I had been instructed on turning off the main water flow to our sprinklers and this mound you see dropped about six inches or so.

Once again these pictures don't do this mound justice, but hopefully you get the idea of our excitement yesterday. Thanks to Brad (who happended to get off early), my brother-in-law Aaron, and our neighbor James Dotson (who after work at 5:30pm was able to bring a small pump to pump the water out to the street) we have been able to atleast start the process of drying it out. Thank goodness our neighbors yard didn't get too much water in their yard. I really don't want to imagine what could have happened had I not atleast discovered it when I did. I only wished I would have known what to do sooner. Oh well!

So Sorry!!!

So I'm super sorry I haven't kept my blog updated. I seem to think that I need pictures to give me an excuse to post but I know I don't. So for those of you who are wondering what's going on with my pregnancy, everything seems to be on the up and up so far. I am counting down the last five weeks. If everything stays good then we'll just be taking things as they happen. Does anyone have any suggestions how to get through the last five weeks a little quicker? Oh well, as long as I'm feeling good for the most part, I shouldn't be complaining.

Down One

So this next week I am down one kid. My family came through on their way to Disneyland and decided to take Brinly along. Brooklin and Madison were beside themselves after she left, but now they're doing better. It does seem to be a little quieter without her but we're going to miss her for the few days that she'll be gone.

I just about failed!

So Miriam, apparently I'm not much better at this test taking!

Finished Product!

So for the last little while I have been wanting to make a blessing dress for our almost here, not yet named, little girl. This last week I cracked down and just went to it. It took me one full day to complete but here it is. It's nothing super fancy but I was quite pleased how it turned out. Especially when I was sort of improvising and adjusting it to how I wanted it to look.

Ten more weeks to go!

So I guess you can say that I am officially 3/4 of the way done with this pregnancy. I am definitely feeling pressure from myself to get things done because anything could happen from here on out. So wish me luck in getting my long list of things to do done. I'm slowly chipping away at it but then I think of something new to add. GREAT!!!