Oh and the cabinet door is still a work in progress to be finished when I don't have a belly that makes it difficult to paint on the floor.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Bathroom
I know this isn't very impressive, but I love this bathroom. Since we moved in to our house this little second bathroom has been neglected. Aaron and I never needed it, but whenever we had someone over who needed to use the bathroom is was kind of embarrassing to send them back to our spare commode. If you scroll down you can see the before pictures. I know this isn't a big project, but I am glad that if you come over to my house now you have a nice place to go :)
Oh and the cabinet door is still a work in progress to be finished when I don't have a belly that makes it difficult to paint on the floor.
Oh and the cabinet door is still a work in progress to be finished when I don't have a belly that makes it difficult to paint on the floor.
Pinetop Sprinkle
A few weekends ago my mom and sisters threw me a little baby sprinkle. It was a small shower in other words. It was so fun! I went up with Heidi and her family a few days before the sprinkle and got to spend some time in Pinetop. I love the fall there, it is my favorite time of year. Aaron couldn't come because he had to work :( but life went on. I got some very cute baby gear from all the wonderful ladies who came to my sprinkle. I have had to accept though, that I am having a girl and girl things are pink. I have never been a big fan of pink, but it is hard to resist when everything is so cute and tiny:) My favorite gift was from my sisters. It was a trendy diaper bag stocked with all the diaper bag essentials. I am looking forward to having a reason to wear it... I am tempted to use it now, but I won't. I just wanted to say thank you to my mom and all my sisters for throwing me a much needed sprinkle (with very tasty food)!
Heidi, Me, Mom, and Brittany
P.S. Missed you Jill and Connie, Love you!
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Stories to Remember
The Big News:
"BAM" would be the word I would use to describe how fast I got pregnant. Aaron and I decided last Feb. to stop using birth control and I was seriously pregnant two weeks later. Aaron had been wanting to try and start a family for a few months and I was not quite there yet. But I obviously had a change of heart and we started "not preventing". I knew we would get pregnant fast, even with Aaron's reassurances that it would probably take a while. I just felt like it was going to happen really fast. Aaron was cute and brought me some pregnancy tests about a week into the "not preventing". He was excited. It was the early detection test that claims to have the results 5 days before your missed period. So around 5 days before my "fun time" I took the test and it was negative. My only thought was "I took it too soon". A few days later on the Thursday before my mom's marathon in Utah I kept thinking I should take it again. Aaron said "don't do it you just took one and they are expensive" which was true, but I wanted to. I remember doing a volleyball roll off the couch that night and thinking that felt different and that was when I decided to take another test. So sure enough 3 minutes later I knew I was pregnant. I remember looking at the two little pink lines and feeling all warm and peaceful. I went into the next room with the stick and showed Aaron. I loved the look on his face... it was like are you kidding! He then gave me a hug and I asked him to go to Wal-Mart and pick up some more tests just to be sure. He was out the door pretty fast :) I said a quick prayer and then Aaron was home before I knew it and I took another test, and then another. And that is the story of how we found out we were pregnant. I wanted to keep it a secret for a few months just to be safe, but it is really hard to keep a secret that big when your in a car for 10 hours on your way to Utah with your oldest sister. By Sunday all of our immediate family knew and soon enough it seemed like everyone else did too. Maybe next time we will keep it a secret for a little longer:)
Morning Sickness:
I hate morning sickness! So far it has been the worst part of being pregnant (knock on wood). It is a type of nausea that can't be described but I felt it constantly. I was sick all day. I read or heard of an article by some doctor that said that morning sickness is just in the head... that guy obviously has never been around a sick pregnant lady. Because it is not in your head it is in the toilet. My morning sickness hit around 8 weeks and I couldn't keep anything down except for top roman around 2 in the afternoon... weird. I no longer drink V8 Fusion or Honey Nut Cheerios...FYI. About a week into feeling sick I was lucky to have my sister-in-law Kim offer me some medicine to help with my nausea. I love zofran! It was my life saver. I got my own prescription and it helped me keep my food down and get through work. I still didn't feel great but it was a huge help and will always be thankful for it. The other weird part of morning sickness was how even the faintest scent of bacon or raw meat triggered my gag reflex. This post might be too much information but its my blog :) Anyway I think the thing I hated most about morning sickness was that it has made me not like the smell of Aaron's body wash. It was one of my favorite smell because it reminded me of when we first started dating. Now it only reminds me that it can make me queasy. It is funny though how being sick just becomes the norm and throwing up a few times a day becomes not a big deal. Yet even now whenever I hear our TV turn on, smell a candle I bought in the middle of morning sickness, think of my classroom observation hours, or look at my purple shirt I shudder because they all remind me of being sick. My morning sickness ended around 16 weeks and I am so glad. I still get sick from time to time but it always goes away. Aaron was glad that it ended too because I can't deny that my housekeeping went to pot. Who wants to do the dishes when it makes you gag? My poor house felt neglect for a few months. Next time I am pregnant I am going to definitely have to toughen up, but since it is was my first time I gave myself a break and luckily so did Aaron:)
Pregnancy Brain:
For those of you who know me you know that I can be a little aloof on occasion. I can be very comfortable in my own little brain thinking my own little thoughts and be clueless to some of the things going on around me. This is not how I am all the time and I am not proud of this character flaw, but hey. Since I have been pregnant I have noticed an up swing in my absent mindedness and What to Expect When Your Expecting says that absent mindedness is a side affect a pregnancy so there is my defence. There have been a few times though that its been really annoying. Like the time I went grocery shopping, got all of my food, went to check out and I didn't have my wallet. I had to go home while they put my food in the freezer so I could get money. Then there was the time I sucked up the window blinds cord with the vacuum and broke it. I hurried up and fixed it before Aaron got home so he wouldn't know... guess he does now. Then there was the other time when I left the water on in the front yard for 4 hours. Or when I thought KTAR said the word QU-TAR. Many times Aaron and I will be talking and he said "Lee you told me that yesterday". There have been more but with my current pregnant brain I can't seem to remember them.
Crazy Pregnant Lady Lee:
I can't pretend that I am someone who has my emotions together all the time. I am always working on trying to fix some flaw that I think I have. It can be exhausting and pointless sometimes. Luckily I married a boy who never does this and helps me be more at peace with myself. I am still a girl though, a pregnant girl at that, and sometimes I can't help it when I tear up over something as small as one of those Mormon Adds they have on the BYU channel or cry over the first part of UP! Being pregnant like most pregnant ladies know, makes you very in touch with how your feeling:) I (even if no one believes me) felt that for the first few months of being pregnant didn't get very emotional. It wasn't until recently that I have been feeling a wee bit more crazy. However, I did have my moments over the past few months that probably had Aaron very confused :) One Sunday night a few months ago we had just got home from Aaron's aunt's birthday party. At the time I was working on being a better house wife and making sure we had clean sheets and the laundry was always done... whatever. Anyway that night I was slacking and feeling like a bad wife. I had been lazy and not waited for our dryer to dry our sheets. The dryer hadn't been working all that great because we had moved it to put tile in the laundry room and it wouldn't get hot when we put it back in. So that night I tried to put damp sheets on our bed. This wasn't going to fly so I put them back in the dryer. Aaron was in the shower while I was doing all of this. While I was waiting for the sheet to dry I worked myself up because I wasn't a good housewife that could dry sheets. I eventually started to cry and that when Aaron found me. Poor boy. He asked me why I was crying and I told him it was because the sheets were wet and I was a horrible wife. He was trying so hard trying not to laugh at me. He told me to go lay down and he would fix the dryer, which he did. I got over the wet sheets.
Aaron:
Aaron has been really good to me. He has rubbed my feet and my back and picked up food whenever I didn't want to cook. He also was really supportive when I quit work a little earlier than planned, thank you! He has also helped me not be the baby and made me suck it up... more times than I would like, but its good for me. I am so glad the we are starting our own family and I am excited to see if our little girl will look like a Brooks or a Merrill. I know he is excited even if he doesn't want to be in the delivery room. Don't worry he'll be there, he just doesn't want to pass out, which he won't. He was sweet the other night. I do try not to wake him up during my many visits to the bathroom during the night, but I haven't been trying so hard now that I can't really turn over with feeling rather uncomfortable. Anyway the other night I woke up so hungry, I went to the kitchen to get some yogurt. When I reached for the yogurt I dropped the jar of salsa and it made a loud noise. A few seconds later Aaron came running out, looked at me and said I thought you fell over.... I thought it was sweet that he came to check on me. Even if it was just the pregnant lady getting a midnight snack:) He is going to be a good Dad.
The Name:
Aaron and I have butted heads about what this little girl will be named. He has liked the name Daisy since his mission. There was a family in Costa Rica whose Dad was some kind of ambassador and they were really good to the missionaries. They had a little girl named Daisy that really liked Aaron. She had blond hair and blue eyes and Aaron thought "I want a little girl with blond hair and blue eyes named Daisy". He told me that when we were first dating and my first thought was "like Daisy Fuentes?" We both felt like we would have a girl first and we looked through baby name books and family genealogy records looking for a name. Aaron always liked Daisy, but I could only think of all the Daisy's out there. Like Daisy Duke, Daisy Duck, Daisy sour cream, Daisy BB guns, Daisy the flower.... I liked the name but I still wanted to see what other names I liked. So over the past few months I have liked JOVIE, ELEANOR, MARGARET, REESE, RUBY, LUCY, ELLIE, TEAGAN and the ones that came and went I don't even remember what they were. JOVIE has been the only name I have been constant with me, but I can't think of a name that I just love! But Aaron can... DAISY has been the front runner since the beginning and the closer we get to my due date it looks like we are going to have a little Daisy. My thing is I am having the baby so I get the last say on what her name is. So if she comes out a little Daisy then she is Daisy, but if not then who knows what her name will be? Aaron and I still don't agree entirely on this but, we probably never will :) I can't wait to see her and who she is!
"BAM" would be the word I would use to describe how fast I got pregnant. Aaron and I decided last Feb. to stop using birth control and I was seriously pregnant two weeks later. Aaron had been wanting to try and start a family for a few months and I was not quite there yet. But I obviously had a change of heart and we started "not preventing". I knew we would get pregnant fast, even with Aaron's reassurances that it would probably take a while. I just felt like it was going to happen really fast. Aaron was cute and brought me some pregnancy tests about a week into the "not preventing". He was excited. It was the early detection test that claims to have the results 5 days before your missed period. So around 5 days before my "fun time" I took the test and it was negative. My only thought was "I took it too soon". A few days later on the Thursday before my mom's marathon in Utah I kept thinking I should take it again. Aaron said "don't do it you just took one and they are expensive" which was true, but I wanted to. I remember doing a volleyball roll off the couch that night and thinking that felt different and that was when I decided to take another test. So sure enough 3 minutes later I knew I was pregnant. I remember looking at the two little pink lines and feeling all warm and peaceful. I went into the next room with the stick and showed Aaron. I loved the look on his face... it was like are you kidding! He then gave me a hug and I asked him to go to Wal-Mart and pick up some more tests just to be sure. He was out the door pretty fast :) I said a quick prayer and then Aaron was home before I knew it and I took another test, and then another. And that is the story of how we found out we were pregnant. I wanted to keep it a secret for a few months just to be safe, but it is really hard to keep a secret that big when your in a car for 10 hours on your way to Utah with your oldest sister. By Sunday all of our immediate family knew and soon enough it seemed like everyone else did too. Maybe next time we will keep it a secret for a little longer:)
Morning Sickness:
I hate morning sickness! So far it has been the worst part of being pregnant (knock on wood). It is a type of nausea that can't be described but I felt it constantly. I was sick all day. I read or heard of an article by some doctor that said that morning sickness is just in the head... that guy obviously has never been around a sick pregnant lady. Because it is not in your head it is in the toilet. My morning sickness hit around 8 weeks and I couldn't keep anything down except for top roman around 2 in the afternoon... weird. I no longer drink V8 Fusion or Honey Nut Cheerios...FYI. About a week into feeling sick I was lucky to have my sister-in-law Kim offer me some medicine to help with my nausea. I love zofran! It was my life saver. I got my own prescription and it helped me keep my food down and get through work. I still didn't feel great but it was a huge help and will always be thankful for it. The other weird part of morning sickness was how even the faintest scent of bacon or raw meat triggered my gag reflex. This post might be too much information but its my blog :) Anyway I think the thing I hated most about morning sickness was that it has made me not like the smell of Aaron's body wash. It was one of my favorite smell because it reminded me of when we first started dating. Now it only reminds me that it can make me queasy. It is funny though how being sick just becomes the norm and throwing up a few times a day becomes not a big deal. Yet even now whenever I hear our TV turn on, smell a candle I bought in the middle of morning sickness, think of my classroom observation hours, or look at my purple shirt I shudder because they all remind me of being sick. My morning sickness ended around 16 weeks and I am so glad. I still get sick from time to time but it always goes away. Aaron was glad that it ended too because I can't deny that my housekeeping went to pot. Who wants to do the dishes when it makes you gag? My poor house felt neglect for a few months. Next time I am pregnant I am going to definitely have to toughen up, but since it is was my first time I gave myself a break and luckily so did Aaron:)
Pregnancy Brain:
For those of you who know me you know that I can be a little aloof on occasion. I can be very comfortable in my own little brain thinking my own little thoughts and be clueless to some of the things going on around me. This is not how I am all the time and I am not proud of this character flaw, but hey. Since I have been pregnant I have noticed an up swing in my absent mindedness and What to Expect When Your Expecting says that absent mindedness is a side affect a pregnancy so there is my defence. There have been a few times though that its been really annoying. Like the time I went grocery shopping, got all of my food, went to check out and I didn't have my wallet. I had to go home while they put my food in the freezer so I could get money. Then there was the time I sucked up the window blinds cord with the vacuum and broke it. I hurried up and fixed it before Aaron got home so he wouldn't know... guess he does now. Then there was the other time when I left the water on in the front yard for 4 hours. Or when I thought KTAR said the word QU-TAR. Many times Aaron and I will be talking and he said "Lee you told me that yesterday". There have been more but with my current pregnant brain I can't seem to remember them.
Crazy Pregnant Lady Lee:
I can't pretend that I am someone who has my emotions together all the time. I am always working on trying to fix some flaw that I think I have. It can be exhausting and pointless sometimes. Luckily I married a boy who never does this and helps me be more at peace with myself. I am still a girl though, a pregnant girl at that, and sometimes I can't help it when I tear up over something as small as one of those Mormon Adds they have on the BYU channel or cry over the first part of UP! Being pregnant like most pregnant ladies know, makes you very in touch with how your feeling:) I (even if no one believes me) felt that for the first few months of being pregnant didn't get very emotional. It wasn't until recently that I have been feeling a wee bit more crazy. However, I did have my moments over the past few months that probably had Aaron very confused :) One Sunday night a few months ago we had just got home from Aaron's aunt's birthday party. At the time I was working on being a better house wife and making sure we had clean sheets and the laundry was always done... whatever. Anyway that night I was slacking and feeling like a bad wife. I had been lazy and not waited for our dryer to dry our sheets. The dryer hadn't been working all that great because we had moved it to put tile in the laundry room and it wouldn't get hot when we put it back in. So that night I tried to put damp sheets on our bed. This wasn't going to fly so I put them back in the dryer. Aaron was in the shower while I was doing all of this. While I was waiting for the sheet to dry I worked myself up because I wasn't a good housewife that could dry sheets. I eventually started to cry and that when Aaron found me. Poor boy. He asked me why I was crying and I told him it was because the sheets were wet and I was a horrible wife. He was trying so hard trying not to laugh at me. He told me to go lay down and he would fix the dryer, which he did. I got over the wet sheets.
Aaron:
Aaron has been really good to me. He has rubbed my feet and my back and picked up food whenever I didn't want to cook. He also was really supportive when I quit work a little earlier than planned, thank you! He has also helped me not be the baby and made me suck it up... more times than I would like, but its good for me. I am so glad the we are starting our own family and I am excited to see if our little girl will look like a Brooks or a Merrill. I know he is excited even if he doesn't want to be in the delivery room. Don't worry he'll be there, he just doesn't want to pass out, which he won't. He was sweet the other night. I do try not to wake him up during my many visits to the bathroom during the night, but I haven't been trying so hard now that I can't really turn over with feeling rather uncomfortable. Anyway the other night I woke up so hungry, I went to the kitchen to get some yogurt. When I reached for the yogurt I dropped the jar of salsa and it made a loud noise. A few seconds later Aaron came running out, looked at me and said I thought you fell over.... I thought it was sweet that he came to check on me. Even if it was just the pregnant lady getting a midnight snack:) He is going to be a good Dad.
The Name:
Aaron and I have butted heads about what this little girl will be named. He has liked the name Daisy since his mission. There was a family in Costa Rica whose Dad was some kind of ambassador and they were really good to the missionaries. They had a little girl named Daisy that really liked Aaron. She had blond hair and blue eyes and Aaron thought "I want a little girl with blond hair and blue eyes named Daisy". He told me that when we were first dating and my first thought was "like Daisy Fuentes?" We both felt like we would have a girl first and we looked through baby name books and family genealogy records looking for a name. Aaron always liked Daisy, but I could only think of all the Daisy's out there. Like Daisy Duke, Daisy Duck, Daisy sour cream, Daisy BB guns, Daisy the flower.... I liked the name but I still wanted to see what other names I liked. So over the past few months I have liked JOVIE, ELEANOR, MARGARET, REESE, RUBY, LUCY, ELLIE, TEAGAN and the ones that came and went I don't even remember what they were. JOVIE has been the only name I have been constant with me, but I can't think of a name that I just love! But Aaron can... DAISY has been the front runner since the beginning and the closer we get to my due date it looks like we are going to have a little Daisy. My thing is I am having the baby so I get the last say on what her name is. So if she comes out a little Daisy then she is Daisy, but if not then who knows what her name will be? Aaron and I still don't agree entirely on this but, we probably never will :) I can't wait to see her and who she is!
Monday, October 4, 2010
The longest post ever
My mom said something interesting the other day about birthdays. She said that a birthday is a marvelous day. It is the day that we came to this earth from our father in heaven and that it should be a celebration of our decision to come to earth and that as parents we should celebrate the spirit that we have been given to protect and help grow. I've been thinking about that since our little girl's birthday is just around the corner.
I have also been thinking that the older you get the less exciting your own birthday seems to be. I am now 21 and I keep comparing my 21st birthday to all my other birthdays. I love my birthday not because it is my birthday but that it is the beginning of fall and that means the holidays are coming and the weather starts to cool off. However I have noticed that every year not just with me but with most people a birthday is just another day that happens to mark the passing of time in your life. When your a kid your birthday is like your own personal Christmas. You get to have a party, games, candy, friends, cake, and of course presents. It is a little celebration just for you. I am not saying that no matter how old you get you should have a party and act like your 6 again, but birthdays were a much bigger deal when I was in elementary school. I guess I am thinking that because in the world 21 is a mile stone kind of birthday for obvious reasons. A lot of people have a big party and get to act like they are 6 again ;) But for me I was happy to spend the weekend with my family which is usually what I do every year and wouldn't really want it any other way.
One of my favorite games is the "grade school game" where you go around and tells stories from each grade. It always makes me laugh. Anyway I am going to play the " birthday game" and try and remember all my birthdays. No one has to read this because it might be long and boring but for my own fun I am going to do it:)
Birthdays 1-5: I don't really remember to much from my earlier birthdays. A few things that stick out to me are a barbie that Grandma Beverly and Grandpa gave me that had a wand that was a flower and it had a magnet in it. Then I remember getting a collection of the those Little Golden Books from Aunt Lyn while I was at Grandma Brewer's house. I also remember having a birthday party at home and unwrapping my presents and having to give everyone a hug after I opened their gift. I think that birthday was the birthday that Tim or Mom accidentally left the video camera rolling in the kitchen for like an hour and all you can here are little kids and all you can see it the kitchen table. Exciting.
6th Birthday: I think this birthday was my princess party birthday or maybe it was just a dress up party.... I remember all my joy school friends coming and were all dresses up in princess gear. I was wearing my pink sparkly dress with the gold trim that mom made me. I don't remember much about the party other than taking pictures at the end. Mom if your reading this maybe you could fill me in if you remember.
7th Birthday: I think this was the first birthday that I had a sleep over. It might have been my 8th but I can't seem to remember. Anyway what I remember most about this party was that Heidi threw this one for me or at least she once claimed she did. It was a Friday night and that meant there was a football game somewhere so mom and dad weren't home and Heidi was left in charge. I think this party was a last minute party, but it was a lot of fun. Heidi put up steamers and we had a store bought cake and we played a game where no one was aloud to eat their cake with utensils but only there mouths. I remember feeling cool when we did that because every one of my friends parties that I went to for the next year had cake eating in the same style. ( I do think that game was Heidi's idea) We also played dogs (Erin Brackney was my best friend at the time and we always played dogs together). I remember opening presents and getting a doll that came with about 20 different outfits.
8th Birthday: I remember my baptism dress was purple and made of a velvety material. My mom made it and I liked that I had a purple dress when everyone else had a white dress. I remember going into the water and seeing my dad on the other side of the font. I also was worried that I wouldn't go all the way under and that no one would notice. I remember getting my first set of scriptures with new scripture pencils and and a green scripture case. I also remember that I got baptised on the 4th instead of the 3rd my actual birthday because I wanted Pete to be there, but he couldn't make it on my real birthday because he had a football game.
9th Birthday: I was in the third grade for this birthday. I don't recall if I had a party, I don't think I did. But I remember getting a new bike that was purple and hard to ride because I was too short, but I thought it was the coolest bike because it was a real bike (I'd been riding a green banana seat for a few years, which I liked). I also got a jean quilt from Heidi that I still have and love. I remember when Heidi started making that quilt she didn't know what she was going to do with it but decided to make a gift of it to me. And more than once she has told me she regretted it because it was so nice:) I also remember getting an Idaho post card From Pete telling me happy birthday.
10th Birthday: I liked turning ten because I was in the two digits. I can't think if I had a party this year. I remember wanting horses because my cousin Marielle was into horses and I wanted to be able to play with horses when I went to her house. I think I got a necklace from the LDS bookstore with my birthstone on it. I do remember getting a watch and feeling like I was growing up because mom and dad gave me a watch.
11th Birthday: I remember asking mom if I could have a sleep over with just Ashley and Hannah. We watched movies and played hide and seek. I remember hiding in Jill's old closet while they both looked for me. And more than once they would come into the closet and pull all the coats back but couldn't find me. I was in there for like an hour. I remember thinking "this is awesome, I am the best hider" but then I thought "what if they saw me but pretended they didn't...." Anyway I finally came out and we all laughed.
12th Birthday: My mom planned a surprise party for me this year. It was a half day at school and picture day. I remember that no one got me a gift and or really said happy birthday and I was bummed. I do remember Hannah getting off the bus and throwing her arms up and saying "Dang it I forgot your present!" After school was over I walked over to the library where my mom worked and we were there while everyone went to my house. I don't remember the surprise part of my birthday but I remember thinking "wow". I had chocolate cake and got a new comforter for my bed.
13th Birthday: I remember thinking 13 isn't that big of a deal I am a teenager now but I can't do anything. I didn't have a party this year. But this was a fun birthday because we had a softball game in Alchesay and I got two home runs on my birthday (who cares if it was only Alchesay). I also got Monsters Inc., a CD case, and hard stuff.
14th Birthday: This was another surprise party. I was really surprised. All that day I remember feeling so sorry for myself because once again no one seemed to remember my birthday or get me a gift. I am ashamed to admit that but its true. I also was kind of bummed out because usually on your birthday you got to open your gifts in the morning and have your favorite breakfast. But all I got in the morning was the Bruce Hornsby anthology and a CD. Sorry mom I was a turd. Anyway I got home from school and pooped around the house for a few hours until my dad asked me to pick up the pizzas with him. I didn't think anything of it when we drove all the way down to Show Low and picked up 10 pizzas for mom, dad, and me. When we got home I walked in the door and my friend Kelsey was standing in the middle of the kitchen crying and I was so confused, but then all my friend jumped out and yelled surprise. And as for Kelsey she was having a rough day because her cat had been put to sleep and she was caught off guard when I walked in. That was definitely one of my favorite birthdays. It was way fun and much needed because I was feeling kind of blue since Heidi had left for college. So thank you mom and dad for throwing me a surprise party. I also got more gifts than usual because I think my mom wasn't sure how to shop for just one kid yet.... I got a jansport backpack which was a big deal in my brain because that was a nice backpack, a purse, and clothes.
15th Birthday: I liked this birthday. My birthday was on the weekend, Jill and John had come up with Quinn for general conference, Heidi came home too, and Tim and Connie. I remember Quinn getting a bath before breakfast and Heidi doing her laundry (I was keeping an eye out clothes). We had biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Jill gave me a yellow fleece blanket, Heidi gave me a box with twall fabric on it, and Mom and Dad got me new set of scriptures for seminary with some very pretty piano music. We went up into the mountains to listen to conference and dutch oven-ed and ate camels:) And John let me drive their Tacoma, that was the highlight of the day.
16th Birthday: I got an ipod for this birthday, however I was more excited to get my driver's license. But I remember going to the DMV and finding out that I couldn't get my licence that day because you have to make an appointment, you could no longer just go in. Plus the speedometer in my jeep stopped working. I was beyond disappointed. I wanted to drive so bad and even though had an appointment for the next day (which I passed) it still sucked. I guess heavenly father was teaching me a lesson in patience. I remember going to Denny's with my Mom after we couldn't get my license and knowing that I should be acting more mature about the whole situation but I didn't care. I got over it and I am thankful that my mom was so understanding.
17th: I remember this as a good day. At the time I really wanted a boyfriend, but at Blue Ridge that wasn't going to happen. So my friends knowing that I wanted a boyfriend got a poster of Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow (mmmmm) and put him in my car as a filler. They also decorated my car and that made me feel special. I also go a new ipod as my gift from my parents my previous one had been stolen from my car along with my jansport backpack in the Taco Bell parking lot. So luckily they were nice enough to get me new one. I also had fun that day because for volleyball we went up in the country club and played sand and celebrated mine and Katie's birthday with cupcakes. Then for dinner we went to Native New Yorker. I also got a fun gift from Jill. She put together a gift basket full of random things like pantene shampoo, post its, socks and pens. I still have those socks and they are the best. I also got a fun card from Tim and Connie that sang the "its the perfect day" from the Legally Blond soundtrack and it was a volleyball card.
18th: This was my last birthday at home. I got a red camera from mom and dad. I like this birthday too. I had a volleyball/birthday party with the girls on my team at my house. We went to the football game against Show Low then came back to my house. We ate and watched movies (Elf is ten times funnier at 3 AM). It was just a good day.
19th: This birthday was a little bit different than all my other birthdays. I had a volleyball game against Yavapia and we won which was awesome. I hadn't really told anyone it was my birthday and some how my coaches found out so after the game they had a brownie bites towere with candles on it and the team sang happy birthday to me. That was very sweet. Heidi also decorated my bathroom for me which started my day off fun. I got Mrs. Petigrew lives for a day and all of the Anne of Green Gable movies. But what was different about this birthday was that my boyfriend took me out to dinner. Aaron and I had only been dating a few weeks but he was officially my boyfriend. He took me to the Olive Garden and gave me a card with flowers. The card was an Office card and he wrote "love" Aaron. After we went to dinner we went back to Heidi's and "watched" Hot Rod. It was fun birthday.
20th: Last year Aaron and I went up to Pinetop for my birthday. That alone was a great birthday present. Tim and Connie we up too and we drove up to Green's Peak. In the evening after them men got home from the priesthood session we had cake and ice cream. Then on the way home we stopped in Mesa and picked up my birthday present Finch. He was tiny. My mom also gave me a basket of fall decorations which i really liked because it made my house feel all cozy.
I doubt anyone but me with read all of that but I thought I would write down all my birthday memories before I forget them.
I have also been thinking that the older you get the less exciting your own birthday seems to be. I am now 21 and I keep comparing my 21st birthday to all my other birthdays. I love my birthday not because it is my birthday but that it is the beginning of fall and that means the holidays are coming and the weather starts to cool off. However I have noticed that every year not just with me but with most people a birthday is just another day that happens to mark the passing of time in your life. When your a kid your birthday is like your own personal Christmas. You get to have a party, games, candy, friends, cake, and of course presents. It is a little celebration just for you. I am not saying that no matter how old you get you should have a party and act like your 6 again, but birthdays were a much bigger deal when I was in elementary school. I guess I am thinking that because in the world 21 is a mile stone kind of birthday for obvious reasons. A lot of people have a big party and get to act like they are 6 again ;) But for me I was happy to spend the weekend with my family which is usually what I do every year and wouldn't really want it any other way.
One of my favorite games is the "grade school game" where you go around and tells stories from each grade. It always makes me laugh. Anyway I am going to play the " birthday game" and try and remember all my birthdays. No one has to read this because it might be long and boring but for my own fun I am going to do it:)
Birthdays 1-5: I don't really remember to much from my earlier birthdays. A few things that stick out to me are a barbie that Grandma Beverly and Grandpa gave me that had a wand that was a flower and it had a magnet in it. Then I remember getting a collection of the those Little Golden Books from Aunt Lyn while I was at Grandma Brewer's house. I also remember having a birthday party at home and unwrapping my presents and having to give everyone a hug after I opened their gift. I think that birthday was the birthday that Tim or Mom accidentally left the video camera rolling in the kitchen for like an hour and all you can here are little kids and all you can see it the kitchen table. Exciting.
6th Birthday: I think this birthday was my princess party birthday or maybe it was just a dress up party.... I remember all my joy school friends coming and were all dresses up in princess gear. I was wearing my pink sparkly dress with the gold trim that mom made me. I don't remember much about the party other than taking pictures at the end. Mom if your reading this maybe you could fill me in if you remember.
7th Birthday: I think this was the first birthday that I had a sleep over. It might have been my 8th but I can't seem to remember. Anyway what I remember most about this party was that Heidi threw this one for me or at least she once claimed she did. It was a Friday night and that meant there was a football game somewhere so mom and dad weren't home and Heidi was left in charge. I think this party was a last minute party, but it was a lot of fun. Heidi put up steamers and we had a store bought cake and we played a game where no one was aloud to eat their cake with utensils but only there mouths. I remember feeling cool when we did that because every one of my friends parties that I went to for the next year had cake eating in the same style. ( I do think that game was Heidi's idea) We also played dogs (Erin Brackney was my best friend at the time and we always played dogs together). I remember opening presents and getting a doll that came with about 20 different outfits.
8th Birthday: I remember my baptism dress was purple and made of a velvety material. My mom made it and I liked that I had a purple dress when everyone else had a white dress. I remember going into the water and seeing my dad on the other side of the font. I also was worried that I wouldn't go all the way under and that no one would notice. I remember getting my first set of scriptures with new scripture pencils and and a green scripture case. I also remember that I got baptised on the 4th instead of the 3rd my actual birthday because I wanted Pete to be there, but he couldn't make it on my real birthday because he had a football game.
9th Birthday: I was in the third grade for this birthday. I don't recall if I had a party, I don't think I did. But I remember getting a new bike that was purple and hard to ride because I was too short, but I thought it was the coolest bike because it was a real bike (I'd been riding a green banana seat for a few years, which I liked). I also got a jean quilt from Heidi that I still have and love. I remember when Heidi started making that quilt she didn't know what she was going to do with it but decided to make a gift of it to me. And more than once she has told me she regretted it because it was so nice:) I also remember getting an Idaho post card From Pete telling me happy birthday.
10th Birthday: I liked turning ten because I was in the two digits. I can't think if I had a party this year. I remember wanting horses because my cousin Marielle was into horses and I wanted to be able to play with horses when I went to her house. I think I got a necklace from the LDS bookstore with my birthstone on it. I do remember getting a watch and feeling like I was growing up because mom and dad gave me a watch.
11th Birthday: I remember asking mom if I could have a sleep over with just Ashley and Hannah. We watched movies and played hide and seek. I remember hiding in Jill's old closet while they both looked for me. And more than once they would come into the closet and pull all the coats back but couldn't find me. I was in there for like an hour. I remember thinking "this is awesome, I am the best hider" but then I thought "what if they saw me but pretended they didn't...." Anyway I finally came out and we all laughed.
12th Birthday: My mom planned a surprise party for me this year. It was a half day at school and picture day. I remember that no one got me a gift and or really said happy birthday and I was bummed. I do remember Hannah getting off the bus and throwing her arms up and saying "Dang it I forgot your present!" After school was over I walked over to the library where my mom worked and we were there while everyone went to my house. I don't remember the surprise part of my birthday but I remember thinking "wow". I had chocolate cake and got a new comforter for my bed.
13th Birthday: I remember thinking 13 isn't that big of a deal I am a teenager now but I can't do anything. I didn't have a party this year. But this was a fun birthday because we had a softball game in Alchesay and I got two home runs on my birthday (who cares if it was only Alchesay). I also got Monsters Inc., a CD case, and hard stuff.
14th Birthday: This was another surprise party. I was really surprised. All that day I remember feeling so sorry for myself because once again no one seemed to remember my birthday or get me a gift. I am ashamed to admit that but its true. I also was kind of bummed out because usually on your birthday you got to open your gifts in the morning and have your favorite breakfast. But all I got in the morning was the Bruce Hornsby anthology and a CD. Sorry mom I was a turd. Anyway I got home from school and pooped around the house for a few hours until my dad asked me to pick up the pizzas with him. I didn't think anything of it when we drove all the way down to Show Low and picked up 10 pizzas for mom, dad, and me. When we got home I walked in the door and my friend Kelsey was standing in the middle of the kitchen crying and I was so confused, but then all my friend jumped out and yelled surprise. And as for Kelsey she was having a rough day because her cat had been put to sleep and she was caught off guard when I walked in. That was definitely one of my favorite birthdays. It was way fun and much needed because I was feeling kind of blue since Heidi had left for college. So thank you mom and dad for throwing me a surprise party. I also got more gifts than usual because I think my mom wasn't sure how to shop for just one kid yet.... I got a jansport backpack which was a big deal in my brain because that was a nice backpack, a purse, and clothes.
15th Birthday: I liked this birthday. My birthday was on the weekend, Jill and John had come up with Quinn for general conference, Heidi came home too, and Tim and Connie. I remember Quinn getting a bath before breakfast and Heidi doing her laundry (I was keeping an eye out clothes). We had biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Jill gave me a yellow fleece blanket, Heidi gave me a box with twall fabric on it, and Mom and Dad got me new set of scriptures for seminary with some very pretty piano music. We went up into the mountains to listen to conference and dutch oven-ed and ate camels:) And John let me drive their Tacoma, that was the highlight of the day.
16th Birthday: I got an ipod for this birthday, however I was more excited to get my driver's license. But I remember going to the DMV and finding out that I couldn't get my licence that day because you have to make an appointment, you could no longer just go in. Plus the speedometer in my jeep stopped working. I was beyond disappointed. I wanted to drive so bad and even though had an appointment for the next day (which I passed) it still sucked. I guess heavenly father was teaching me a lesson in patience. I remember going to Denny's with my Mom after we couldn't get my license and knowing that I should be acting more mature about the whole situation but I didn't care. I got over it and I am thankful that my mom was so understanding.
17th: I remember this as a good day. At the time I really wanted a boyfriend, but at Blue Ridge that wasn't going to happen. So my friends knowing that I wanted a boyfriend got a poster of Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow (mmmmm) and put him in my car as a filler. They also decorated my car and that made me feel special. I also go a new ipod as my gift from my parents my previous one had been stolen from my car along with my jansport backpack in the Taco Bell parking lot. So luckily they were nice enough to get me new one. I also had fun that day because for volleyball we went up in the country club and played sand and celebrated mine and Katie's birthday with cupcakes. Then for dinner we went to Native New Yorker. I also got a fun gift from Jill. She put together a gift basket full of random things like pantene shampoo, post its, socks and pens. I still have those socks and they are the best. I also got a fun card from Tim and Connie that sang the "its the perfect day" from the Legally Blond soundtrack and it was a volleyball card.
18th: This was my last birthday at home. I got a red camera from mom and dad. I like this birthday too. I had a volleyball/birthday party with the girls on my team at my house. We went to the football game against Show Low then came back to my house. We ate and watched movies (Elf is ten times funnier at 3 AM). It was just a good day.
19th: This birthday was a little bit different than all my other birthdays. I had a volleyball game against Yavapia and we won which was awesome. I hadn't really told anyone it was my birthday and some how my coaches found out so after the game they had a brownie bites towere with candles on it and the team sang happy birthday to me. That was very sweet. Heidi also decorated my bathroom for me which started my day off fun. I got Mrs. Petigrew lives for a day and all of the Anne of Green Gable movies. But what was different about this birthday was that my boyfriend took me out to dinner. Aaron and I had only been dating a few weeks but he was officially my boyfriend. He took me to the Olive Garden and gave me a card with flowers. The card was an Office card and he wrote "love" Aaron. After we went to dinner we went back to Heidi's and "watched" Hot Rod. It was fun birthday.
20th: Last year Aaron and I went up to Pinetop for my birthday. That alone was a great birthday present. Tim and Connie we up too and we drove up to Green's Peak. In the evening after them men got home from the priesthood session we had cake and ice cream. Then on the way home we stopped in Mesa and picked up my birthday present Finch. He was tiny. My mom also gave me a basket of fall decorations which i really liked because it made my house feel all cozy.
I doubt anyone but me with read all of that but I thought I would write down all my birthday memories before I forget them.
One Year Older and Wiser Too!
I am now 21 years old! wahoo! I am a real adult now... not really. I am excited to change my drivers license from the vertical view to the horizontal view though. I had a good birthday. I have always liked having my birthday be on or around the fall general conference. I wish Aaron and I could have gone to Pinetop and gone up into the mountains to listen to conference. That was and still is one of my favorite things to do for my birthday. However, my first birthday away from pinetop was a very good one. Aaron and I spent about and hour and a half in Hobby Lobby picking out my birthday present and then we went to the Cheesecake Factory. I was impressed with Aaron, he is a fun shopping buddy. I just have to catch him on the day that he is so bored he is willing to spend over an hour and half in Hobby Lobby... And the Cheesecake Factory is always delicious! Plus the last time I went was on the date when Aaron told me he loved me so it was kind of fun to go and see how far we have come since then. A lot can happen in a short amount of time. We also went over to Steve and Rena's for the the second session of general conference. We had a really good dinner and Jeremiah made the best apple cobbler in his dutch oven. It was funny when I was trying to blow out the candles because they wouldn't stay put in the cobbler. They kept tilting and come to find out after I blew out the candles they kept falling because the cobbler was so hot the the wax was melting in the cobbler. It was really funny but probably one of those things where you had to be there. Over all I had a good birthday.
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