Ode To Yogurt Bites

Ohhhh how I love you... I will never need ice cream/chocolate/cookies/cake again.... drool.

Excuse me while I go get a package from my freezer.

Ode To A Caring Spouse

Yesterday was a bad day.

It was the first time in the past 2 weeks and 2 days that I have felt overwhelmed with this whole motherhood thing. Gabe and I had been in the car for a while and it was a warm day. The A/C needs to be charged in our car and the sun was on him the whole time. He was screaming and crying when we finally got home. I had to run to the bathroom or I was going to wet my pants, so I took the car seat right into the bathroom with me. (Mothers- how do you juggle bathroom time with baby?? I find myself taking a shower when he's napping and having the monitor volume on high and I think I usually hold it in until Nate gets home from work!) He kept screaming so I'm trying to rock his car seat with my foot but he's not buying it. And there is a ring of sweat around his headrest now. So I finish up, pull him out to comfort him but realize I can't wash my hands while holding him so I lay him down on our bed and run to wash my hands. He freaked out. I've never heard him scream like that before! I wash my hands and finally get him semi calmed down. Needless to say, I was exhausted by the time Nate got home. He cried during dinner so I didn't get to eat very much. He cried during the movie we were watching. Nate could tell I had had just about enough so my husband, who for as long as I have known him swore up and down he would NEVER change a diaper, jumped up and changed one very poopy diaper. Knowing Gabriels diapers, I was so shocked that he said it wasn't as bad as he had thought it would be. That little act of changing a diaper really meant a lot to one frazzled mom. Nate is a really tender dad and loves to hold Gabe and calm him down. This morning before running to work he said "I wish he was awake so I could hold him before I leave..." I'm so appreciative of all the things Nate does for us. 

We love you daddy!

Ode to a best friend.

Today is my birthday and my best friend

Susan

gave me the best birthday present!

A tribute to me on her blog! 

She is the best friend I could ever have

and I'm so lucky that we roomed together.

Thank you BYU-I Housing!!

Love you Susan!

An Ode to Unfinished Projects

So I've noticed its February.  And not the first couple days of the month either.  We have been in Tucson for over a month now.  Rachel and I have had some interesting conversations about what we have accomplished and how things aren't moving as smoothly as we thought they would.  Life has some hiccups occasionally.  So I have started organizing in my head a list of the projects I have either started or wanted to start, thought I would list them so that I would have a check list to follow:

-Finish the chairs for the table

-Get the seat cushions covered with Rachel's crazy couch cover thing.

-Organize the bookshelf in my study area

-Independent spanish study

-Get the Saturn's oil change

 So looking at this list, only five long, is depressing enough.  I'm going to bed.