I just want to say that I have the best hubby in the whole wide world. *Love* :)

Inauguration Day

I'm really sad that I missed pretty much everything on this historic day. It sucks working and not having a TV available. I'm hoping to catch some news coverage a little later tonight when Myelle goes to bed. If anything I'll search it on the internet.

Now I have one little rant about today. I am sooo annoyed at everyone that made comments about how "It's a sad day today" or "He's not 'my' president", etc. Now I may not have voted for our new president, but I am an American and President Obama was who the majority elected. Therefore he has my full support as the president of my country and I DO NOT want to hear your derogatory and racial remarks against our new president because you can't accept the way things turned out.

It's a..........

Boy!!! No doubt about it. LOL Quite clear in the ultrasound. :D We're super excited and Erick couldn't say much more than "Awesome" when I told him. Myelle...well she hasn't caught on yet.

In other news: we are moving to a different apartment this Saturday. *Sigh* I feel like we just did this. Oh well. It's to an upstairs apartment so it will have light! Yay!! I'll post pics when we get all moved in...again. LOL Just call us the Nomads. ;)

Boy I'm getting behind on blogging already and we're only 2 weeks into the new year. *Sigh* Oh well. I've been cleaning and organizing like crazy the past 2 weeks so I could feel like my life was less chaotic. LOL Apparently Heavenly Father has different plans for me.

We noticed our bedroom was flooding on Thursday night and had to move our bed out into the living room. No company over for awhile I guess. Last night they came and sucked up all the water and cleaned the carpet in the bedroom. Smelled much nicer. Well...guess what....it's still flooding. There's more water in the carpet and it's smelling bad again. Erick will call the management again when he gets home from work today. They think they may have to rip out the drywall in our bedroom. We won't know what they can do for us in the meantime, hopefully they'll know something on Monday.

Ah well, what great adventures, huh? My life would be so boring without them. :D Monday we also have our ultrasound and find out the gender of the baby. YAY! Erick can't get work off so Mom is going to come with me.

We are being very thankful that Erick is getting all the hours he wants and can handle right now. It will definitely help out a ton.

And I haven't forgotten about the requests for pics of the baby bump. I'll post them tomorrow after church.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Update!

I know Merry Christmas is late and Happy New Year is early, but the holidays are always a hard time for me to keep up on things especially when working retail. Here I am wishing you all the very best holiday season even if it is late. I also wanted to post an update on how we're doing.

I am so appreciative of my bosses for working with me this last crazy week. Last Saturday Erick had to go to the ER for a really bad flare up of his Crohn's. He was admitted and spent the night there. It was the busiest day at work but Nicole wouldn't let me stay. Thank you for that because despite what he said at first I'm sure that Erick was glad I was there with him.

I'm also thankful of how patient my bosses have been with me being sick. Not just with morning sickness that still hasn't gone away, but with the stomach flu I came down with this weekend. I called in sick Friday, but didn't dare call in sick again today so off to work I went and Nicole sent me home. Which I am very grateful for the extra rest because it's miserable being sick at work and now I won't have exposed everyone else to it.

We had a wonderful Christmas at Mom's house and when I remember to get my camera from there :) I'll post pics. Myelle had a blast and I had more fun watching her excitement than ever before. Erick and I are so blessed to have her wonderful little spirit in our family. Quick side story: Myelle just loves Jesus. She is always pointing out the baby Jesus in every nativity we see and today we got out our Christ with the little children statue and she was trying to give it hugs and kisses.

We are really sad the weather and the roads kept us from going to Burley this weekend, but we are so thankful for family that understands. It is great to stay safe and sound at home. Know that we love you and that we will visit as soon as we can.

Now I am going to head off to bed and hope that when I wake up this darn flu bug has run it's course.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

More Crafty Christmas Gifts

I finished a few more gifts today. Good thing too since Christmas is only a week away. I finished a coloring book for Myelle. Just have to wrap it up with some crayons. She's going to love it. This pillow is for Erick.

I hope he likes it.

Erick made a couple of these. I think he did an excellent job! Very cool and I wouldn't mind having one for myself. Not mentioning who they're going to until after Christmas, but I hope the people they are going to are going to like them.

Fun Christmas Tag

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Depends on what it is. Mostly wrapping paper, but gift bags are occasionally more convenient. Santa presents always come wrapped in Santa paper.
2. Real tree or Artificial? Real
3. When do you put up the tree? Shortly after Thanksgiving.
4. When do you take the tree down? Whenever I decide I need the space more than I want the tree up.
5. Do you like eggnog? Heck Yeah! Just finished a glass.
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Hmmm. Not sure. Maybe our puppy Chief. Or the Winnie the Pooh train when I was really young.
7. Hardest person to buy for? My Dad
8. Easiest person to buy for? Definitely Myelle. The hard thing is not going overboard.
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes. I have 3 at least. I think I have more.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? You mean people actually get them sent out? :D Mail or hand delivered for sure on the ones that I get sent out.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Never had a worst Christmas gift.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Anything other than The Christmas Story and Jim Carey's Grinch.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? The day after Christmas. :D I'm always looking for good deals and great gifts.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Not that I can remember.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Any kind of Christmas candy.
16. Lights on the tree? Yes! I love motion lights. Erick loves white lights. We trade years who gets to pick, but my bro and his wife were ingenious and put white in the branches and around the trunk and the motion lights around the outside of the tree.
17. Favorite Christmas song? Pretty much all of them. Favorite favorite....Carol of the Bells. The list of ones I don't like is shorter than my favorites.
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? This is the last year we will be traveling. We're going to my parents house since Brett and Brianna will be there. It will be the last year Mom'll get to have the whole family together for Christmas morning.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? You betcha. Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder (is it Donder or Donner I never knew), Blitzen and Rudolf! Haha and I didn't even look.
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? This year a star, but we alternate between a star, angel, and a big red bow.
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Some years we get pajamas to open on Christmas Eve, but otherwise everything on Christmas morning. Except for open early presents of course ;)
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? How cranky people get while they are doing their Christmas shopping and how they take it out on the employees of the stores.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? Eclectic.
24. Favorite time for Christmas dinner? Anytime
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? Lots of stuff....Top things on my list.......Not having to work so I can stay home with my kids....a clean house......a good full night's sleep.........Being able to go to church every Sunday instead of working......Getting closer to my Heavenly Father......good health.

I TAG Mom, Rachel, Jessica, Jen, and Scott.