An Eventful Week

This has been quite the eventful week!

Monday: I got my hair cut. Not just trimmed as you all know me to do, but layered and even thinned a little, although you can't tell the thinning part :) You can't tell very well with my hair curly, I'll have to take a pic when I straighten it one of these days!

Tuesday: Grace got her haircut. Her first one! We kept some of her hair to put in her scrapbook. Now she doesn't look like such a scrounge with 2 layers of hair, 3 inches difference!

Before:

After:

Wednesday: Grant and I were both home all day, together (until he had to go to work in the evening) and we re-arranged Grace's room. Grant and I are almost NEVER home together, he almost always is at work or school!! Here is a before and after. As you can see, the before is very cluttered and crowded, and the after, ahh, you can breathe!

Before:

After:

Thursday: Thanksgiving with 27 people, 15 of them children, no pics.

Friday: We got our bed!! These pictures are from box to bed, pretty cool to watch it inflate itself!

Saturday: We slept on our bed for the first time (long story, why we didn't get to until last night) and slept very well! We'll see how these next nights go!

Sunday: Grace stays home from church with Dad and I actually learned something(!) in Sacrament meeting about Gratitude.

The flu

This is her 1st leaf experience. She loved it!


Well, other than runny noses and 1 ear infection that never actually became a full blown ear infection Grace has been perfectly healthy. On Monday she decided to get the flu! If I had known from the beginning that all would be fine and she wouldn't suffer any major problems, I would have enjoyed it more! She just layed on the couch or floor (I couldn't put her upstairs in her crib, that is too far away) and I cleaned, and the house stayed clean! I like sick children! :) She is all better now but Grant decided to be sick last night, and I have a feeling, in my tummy, that I will soon follow suit!

In other news, we ordered our bed. The next update will be all about that I am sure. We ordered it from Bed In a Box. It is a memory foam mattress. If we don't like it, we donate it to charity and they refund our money, pretty cool!

One last note, it is snowing at our house!

Grace thinks this is fun...

Not a lot to report, just some cute things Grace has been up to. She has a fascination with her ears. She loves to put her fingers in her ears (my guess is she likes to hear the difference because she'll put them in, take them out, put them in etc.) After her bath we clean out her ears with those safety swabs, and then I let her play with it a little. This is what she does with it. She thinks it is hilarious!

She also loves the 3 bottom stairs. She will put her babies on them, lay on them, stash things on them. By the end of the day the linoleum floor in the entrance is covered in toys, blankets, dolls, and magnets. It is a habit I need to break her of so I don't fall one day! That could be dangerous!

And, a recent occurrence, another of our fish has died! As I write this Grant is getting rid of him. Does anyone have any advice on keeping fish? It seems like after we change their water, that is when they die. Not when the tank is filthy or we haven't fed them for 2 days, nope, just when they get clean water. Please help!

Bed-In-A-Box, Mission Reunion

So, Grant and I are semi mattress hunting. We think it might be a good idea to invest in something that actually helps us! I was doing some internet surfing and came across a website called Bed in a Box. They sell foam mattresses similar to Tempurpedic. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has ever heard of them and what you have heard. All the reviews I can find are great but I would love to hear from someone who I know.

Also to all you mission buddies, who is going to the reunion over Christmas down in Utah? I am going to try and convince Grant to go but who knows!

Electoral Votes

So I will admit, I watched the votes come in last night. I was curios for the president, but also a few Senate and House seats here in Idaho. Anyway, I was watching channel 7, the national news, and as the states reported their votes, they put this map on the ice skating rink with red and blue states, kinda cool! Anyway, I have decided they do it wrong! I am a visual person, I did better in geometry than algebra, I like sewing because I can see how it fits. So, the map, I don't like it! They need to make the states the same size in comparison with the # of electoral votes. Like Idaho should be smaller, the eastern states should be bigger so when you look at it, it doesn't look like the republicans are winning just because we won Texas! That is the extent of my political opinion I will post :) (And the picture is Grace about 8-9 months, too cute for everyone not to see!)

Happy Halloween

Well, here it is, Grace's Halloween costume. If you can't tell, she was a ladybug! At my sister-in-laws I added little freckles on her face and it was too cute! I wore a pink shirt as her rose, but no one paid attention to me so I must not have done a very good job :) We didn't go very many places. The local hospital does trick or treating in their parking lot with different organizations. Police men, firefighters, ambulance drivers etc. We went there with my brother and his family, then just to the Grandmas' and one great-grandma's house. I have been enjoying some candy though I must admit :) (yes she is sitting on a bag of trash, it is the only picture I got where she wasn't moving! My child doesn't take still pictures like your children!)