Tuesday

Today is going to be a long day. Brett is gone all day studying for a huge test tomorrow so I probably won't see him until about 8ish is my guess. He gets Monday off though, so we need to find something fun to do this weekend. So today will be filled with lots of cartoons, snacks, and laziness.....we spoil ourselves when Brett is gone lol Did I ever show you how Cason holds his bottles?? He uses his feet. As soon as he lays down and I put a bottle in his mouth, he grabs with his hands and uses his feet to steady it. Pretty funny stuff.
I have been thinking tons about going back to school. I really really want to do something. Anyone every tried BYU Independent study?? Does it work to get a Masters? I think I eventually want to go to PA school....or maybe back to optometry school, my original plan?? Right now with little ones, I am playing mommy I know, but they will all be in school within the next 10 years so I could definitely be done by 35 I think. Not too bad right? If all goes as planned, Brett will be done by 33 so I think it is doable. Anywho, just a thought really I haven't done anything serious about it yet. LoL

Alright, time to get serious and start the day. I guess I should get out of the PJs and get my kids dressed too. Good Morning Tuesday!!

White Coat Ceremony

So I know some of you know about this already, but the White Coat Ceremony is a tradition they do in MED school for their students. One of the Dr's there called it a "right of passage" lol. Brett had his on Saturday and it was so fun to see him get his coat! When he walked across the stage, Adalie screamed out "That's my daddy!! Go daddy".
The ceremony is kind of a quite one, so it was cute but also unexpectedly embarrassing haha. A group of us wives all sat together so we could help with each others kiddos. You should've seen the looks we got. It is definitely not like a BYU ceremony. 5 mothers and 10 kids between us....you can imagine the noise we might have made.
I asked Brett if he felt any different and he said not really. But one guy did comment on how much it was like a graduation and kind of felt that the ceremony was a celebration of the end rather than the beginning...and they all had to go and still study. Either way, just another moment I am very proud of my husband.
This is Brett's carpool, also the husbands of the wives i sat with. We are all quickly becoming good friends here.

Sneak

Yesterday, I left a Pepsi downstairs on the living room side table. I went upstairs to Adalie's room to finish organizing her closet. I was up there for about 2o mins and came back downstairs to an empty Pepsi can. I asked Adalie what happened to the pepsi, thinking maybe it had spilled but I couldn't find any wet marks or stains on the carpet. Adalie finally said "I sneaked it." When I told her that was wrong and dishonest and she shouldn't be drinking Pepsi (ya I am sure that makes me a caffeine drinking hypocrite) she says to me, "Well I told you I was a sneak."

Little devil.

Some of my 7 to 12:30 thoughts

I am really upset I that I cannot find our camera. There are so many cute pictures on it from the road trip this summer. There goes 200$ down the drain, but the memories missed are really what makes me sad.

Brett is staying at school until 7 today....the price we pay for him coming home early yesterday. That gives him 30 mins with Cason and 1 hour with Adalie until bedtime, which also makes me sad.

Yo Gabba Gabba is the freakiest little kid show ever.

I have so many unfinished projects. I should probably finish them.

It's kind of annoying that Cason only crawls backwards. He gets his feet stuck under the couch. He gets mad when he reaches the wall and can't do anything from there.

I've already finished off the bag of mini powdered donuts and its 12:30. Brett is going to be mad I didn't leave him any they're his favorite...

I kind of want to go to Med school now that Brett is going. They learn some pretty cool stuff.

I want to take a nap.

I really like my new vacuum. But, I don't want to vacuum the stairs.

I am so excited for Black Friday...even though it is months away.

Who am I kidding?? I am excited for Christmas!!

Wonderful Surprise

Brett got to come home at 12 today which was AWESOME!! The fire alarm went off at school so they closed down campus for the day. Even though he is upstairs studying it is nice to have him home. Just knowing he is there makes my day about 10x's better!! Waiting for Brett to get home in the evenings always gives me a little anxiety LoL That problem was eliminated today! Woo Hoo! School is getting tough and his anatomy class starts tomorrow....cadavers and all so the load will be hefty. He has two big test next week back to back so he is hitting the lectures hard. I am so proud, he is doing great. He got a 92 on his first test last week. Keep up the good work honey, I really am sooooo proud of you and your goals!!

What would you do?

Our neighbors have drums.

In our Contract it says we agree not to "make or permit noises inside or outside the unit that will disturb the rights or comforts of any resident. Acts and noises include, but are not limited to, keeping the volume of and stereo equipment, television, or musical instrument at a level that will disturb any resident." Drums fall into that category yes?? Also, I am a disturbed resident. The thing is, I really don't mind them playing them, even though it is horribly loud and obnoxious, I am willing to compromise and not be mean. I just wish they could pick a different time and maybe only do it an hour instead of 2 1/2??? We have gone over there four times and knocked on the door and rang the door bell just to talk to them nicely about it. They have ignored us and won't even answer the door when we go over. The will stop playing there drums until we get off of their porch and start again....louder and longer. Last night they started playing at 7:30....which is when Cason usually goes to bed. It was really nice of them when they didn't answer the door again.

I was going to be a nice neighbor and try and solve this by just talking to them and asking nicely, but now the 3 yr old in me is coming out and wants to show them whats what. Maybe hit them on the head with their own drum stick??

6 mths

Cason is six months old. It's kind of hard to believe he has already been here a half a year....time is rolling along nicely. Here are his stats and lots of random info about our BabyBoy....

**28 inch long and 18 lbs. He is going to outgrow his Big sister in no time.
**Has quite a few nicknames lately, mainly Bubba and Little Brother
**He LOVES music and will sing to you all the time. The SpongeBob Square Pants song will stop him dead in his tracks when he can hear it on the TV. haha
**His favorite toy - A water bottle. The noise it can make can keep him entertained for hours.
**He has two teeth and another coming in on the top. Exciting but poses a few problems, mainly constant drooling, bad sleeping habits, and fussiness. I keep him in a diaper pretty much all day because his shirts are soaked about two seconds after a dress him.
**He can say Dada and Boba (bottle)
**He scoots around backwards and in a circle...hasn't quit figured out how to go forward, but he is getting close.
** Cason has been a daddy's boy lately. He gets way excited when Brett comes home and wants nothing to do with me when he is here. He won't even snuggle with me anymore, it has to be with daddy.
**He absolutely adores his big sister. He watches her all day and laughs at everything she does...even when she screams at him to stop kicking her.
**He is always looking for attention....he usually likes to be the center of it and thinks the world revolves around him lately.
**Has blonde hair coming in all over. I had hopes he would keep his dark hair but it is quickly changing.
**Never leave your food unattended around this kid. Sometimes Adalie has "pic-nics" on the living room floor for lunch. (She gets to watch her cartoons while she eats) I have had to stop him from gnawing on one of her chicken nuggets. Also, I have had to clean up a Debbie cake covered baby and vacuumed many a cracker and cookie covered floor. He is constantly smacking and licking his lips around any kind of food.
**He is the loudest baby ever. He is always creaming, sad or happy he has no volume button.

All in all, he is such a fun little boy who smiles all the time and keeps us busy. We love you lots Cason Brett

Random Rain Post

It's raining here in Des Moines again, but no thunder and wind just yet. I tend to freak out a little when it is a thunderstorm here because of the thought of tornadoes. The lighting gets really bad here too. And it makes it worse that Brett is in one place and I in another. I have an emergency bag ready and a closet to hide in just in case. My windows are also leaking....one in the living room and another in the bedroom. Nice. Same with my fridge although I am sure it has nothing to do with the rain, that would interesting. Weird thing about rain though ....

It makes baby Cason sleep better and that's really great

SummerTimeBeginnings

Well, we did do some vacationing this summer and I guess I should get caught u on that....I am still missing my camera so these are the pictures from my sister in law and mother in law.

We started out our summer vaca in Idaho for my Brother in laws wedding. It was so nice and lots of fun to get to see everyone there! We had a scare on our way out there though....right before we got into Idaho we had to stop at an urgent care because Adalie spiked a 104.5 fever out of nowhere. She had been sick the week before with a bladder infection so we thought it might be that again. I have never seen her fever get that high before so I was really worried. They ran lots of test and even took a white blood cell count, but couldn't find anything wrong and just told us to keep giving her Tylenol to reduce the fever. She ran a fever for the next three days, but it was still never explained. It was weird and I worried the whole time...

The family did convince me however to go rafting with them on her last day of fever while my sister in laws mother watched the kids. Although I felt bad leaving my poor sick baby, I will admit we had fun. It was WAY cold but awesome rapids!

I absolutely LOVE white water rafting. Brett and I went on a really cool white water rafting trip while we were on our honeymoon.

We also went our to the boardwalk in IF where the temple is and it was, as always, beautiful. It reminded me of my old stomping grounds at good ole' BYU - I..

The wedding was beautiful. Outdoors and sunny. All the nieces and nephews walked down the aisle and it was Adalie's job to walk with little Nicky who was holding the rings. She was so cute and even held her little arm out like a princess down the aisle... lol.
It was so sweet to see Derick and Katie (the couple) so happy. I love weddings....it is always a reminder to me how lucky I am to have Brett...

The next day we followed Brett's mom and dad out to Colorado to stay with them for a few days as another part of our vacation.....will continue with that one tomorrow so you don't get bored reading this post half way through!

Mommy...there's a dolphin in our backyard!

The other day I was cleaning up in Adalie's room (still not that organized from unpacking). She was playing by her window and all of the sudden said "Mommy, there is a dolphin in the backyard!" I played along and was asking here all sorts of questions like what does it look like? Is it a mommy dolphin? Where did he come from? She had all sorts of fun things to say about it and I thought how wonderful her imagination is.
Well, after she went to bed I was cleaning up in the dining room. I went to close the blinds and guess what I saw in our backyard. A dolphin. I started laughing hysterically. Someones dolphin floaty had landed in our backyard. She really was seeing a dolphin in our backyard....

Staring Out In Des Moines

It has been hard to want to post anything because I cannot find my camera and don't want you to get bored with my post, but I realize I REALLY need to start writing some stuff down because there is SO much and I can add pictures of it later.

Well first off, if you didn't catch it before, we are here in Des Moines, IA where Brett has started the DPM program here at Des Moines University. I love our place so far. It is a cute little two bedroom, 2 bth town home with AC (woot woot!!), a backyard and playground for the kiddos and TONS of nice people. And I am LOVING not having upstairs neighbors. We are in a small student branch with about 5o other families and so far, everyone has been really nice and sweet to us. There are about a million and one kids around and for proof of that, our small branch has 4 nurseries!! I haven't been in a student ward for almost 5 years now and I have forgotten how ridiculously LOUD sacrament meeting is! Babies and Toddlers running around everywhere lol It is a fun hing to see. Our Brnach Pres seems really nice and I already have a calling....a nursery leader. Every other person in the branch is a nursery leader so I wasn't too surprised to get the calling. I will be honest, I have mixed feelings about it is that bad? I feel like I just got her and really need to get to know the sisters in the branch but I will be cut off from them in nursery all the time. Also I REALLY enjoy Sunday school and I will miss be able to go to that...ugh it is wrong for me to complain I know but I am a little sad. But I know they asked me for a reason and I will do it.

Anyway, it took forever to get unpacked! It also didn't help that the kids got sick the first night here and have been for a week. Roseolla showed up and the bumps are just now starting to be less noticeable on them....so that helped with the lack of time to get things organized and settled. Good news though, we are on our last load of the 10 loads of laundry that needed to be washed haha. I still feel like we have so much to do. Not some of my favorite things about moving...finding Dr's....learning new roads....where to shop...fixing the kids routine....all sorts of fun stuff.

I need to find my camera....I haven't blogged a whole month of our life and so much happened it it!!

We Made It!

Almost a month on the road, living out of a suit case and eating TONS of fast food....we made it to our new home in Iowa. It is crazy how much stuff we have to do just to get settled and I have a million things to post about, but it's sad it is still going to have to wait a bit. I tried to spend some time catching myself up on everyone's life via facebook and blogging but didn't have the time to leave any comments. Even now I am ignoring Adalie jumping at my feet saying she is thirsty and Cason's poopy diaper....better get on that. More coming soon...