It feels like it's been forever!

I don't have any pictures yet (still need to go get my camera), but I wanted to do a little update before I forget everything that's happened lately. I might give more information than is interesting, but the fact that I remember it is reason enough to post it, if you ask me :) Easter was fun (again, no pictures, but they're coming- whether you are in the mood to see Easter pictures by then or not), we had an egg hunt with Nate's family, and then another one with my mom, and then we had our own on Easter morning along with searching for the baskets. Nate and I were a little distracted Easter morning, putting the finishing touches on our talks. We had to speak in Sacrament meeting for Easter. It was interesting. I used to love giving talks, don't know why, but I did. NOW, it's like death to give a talk for some reason. My nerves just don't handle it very well. The whole week before was like torture everytime I thought about it. I am a bumbling idiot the entire time I am giving my talk too, which just drives me crazy. I was practically hyperventilating during it and had to stop to breathe, several times throughout. Anyway. Nate did an AWESOME job and is STILL getting comments about how entertaining and Spiritual his talk was. Maybe that's why I don't like giving talks anymore....Nate's are always way better. He's a tough act to..... go before. Anyway. That's over. I should just put it behind me. Charity and Kelly did a really cute job, they had wanted to give talks and I knew we weren't going to have a lot of time, so I let them write down their testimonies (after much discussion about what a testimony is) and then they read them in front of everyone. I was really proud of them. It was nice that my Dad came to hear us and thanks again, Mom, for watching Brad and Noah for me, they were still kind of sick and had to stay home.

So, what else has happened? I'm trying to think.

Nate started his new schedule. It's been interesting. Last Monday was a drag. It was his first Monday off (we were really excited to be able to spend it playing and just having a fun day off) but unfortunately I was puking my guts out the whole day. Nate spent most of the day cleaning up my throw up! That's a great way to make you excited to go back to work the next day I bet!! He was probably more anxious for his first day on the floor than ever :) I even blacked out right before throwing up and launched projectile vomit clear across the room, almost on Nate at one point during the fabulous day off. Sorry for the details, but it was WEIRD!! I totally couoldn't remember anything until I screamed out "I don't know what's going on!!!" after throwing up. I have a really good husband. He's amazingly patient with me and really sweet when I'm sick. He actually brought me home flowers when he took the girls to school. What a sweetheart. So yeah, that first day kinda stunk. Tuesday was similar, since I was recovering most of the day, but that evening we were able to have Sarah and Charlie over for dinner (thanks for the Lasagna Mom!!), that was a real treat for the kids. Wednesday was a little more enjoyable during the day. The boys are totally digging Nate being home in the mornings. I am loving it as well. Although I need to figure out how to motivate myself to do my housework in the evenings on those days because it didn't get done last week. We'll see how we do this week. Nate has been on the floor at work. Sounds like it's kicking his butt a little, but he is handling it so well!! I don't know how he does it. He's so driven to succeed and I am SO grateful for his committment. I can't imagine getting this far only to have him give up. He's amazing! He is also having to juggle with the new schedule.

Charity did her Bald Eagle Report. Had her Hannah Holbrook 50th Birthday Party Celebration, and is spending a lot of time wiggling her tooth. It's really loose. Charity got to go on her first Field trip with this class on Tuesday. I was still kind of sick, so I let Nate take my place. I was bummed that I didn't get to go with her, but Nate and she had a really good time together. I need to get a bunch of pictures from his phone too!!! Gees I'm so behind!

Kelly, our little social butterfly has been going to birthday parties like crazy. She actually had two in one day last Friday. She's a cute little friend. It's fun to see her with her own friends without Charity. She really is very social compared to how we always pictured her. Not shy at all.

Bradley has been spending most of his free time planning his birthday party. It's not till October, but that doesn't stop him from making mental lists of how many bags of balloons we need to buy and what color the pinata will be. It's hilarious. I seriously think he might actually carry this out for 5 more months and actually have his "Dinosaur Party"! Whenever there's a dead moment he suggests that we think of some more games.

Luke has had the big dipper on his cheek for the last couple of weeks. Not marker (unfortunately it wasn't that simple), but spots! A few people commented that they looked like chickenpox, so I took him in, but they were only on his cheek. The doctor rambled on for a while of all the millions of diseases it COULD be, then gave us a prescription for some antibiotics to take if it didn't seem like it was getting better in the next couple of days. Love that. I hate being the one to make the call of whether to give antibiotics or not. He said they weren't contagious, so I just let them go untreated (maybe bad, but whatever, they just didn't seem worse). They are finally clearing up. If only I had gotten a picture though....they were in the perfect shape to be the big dipper and then a few days into it, he got a North Star! I know I'm a dork for thinking it was cool, but it was! He has been fine though, no other symptoms of any kind. Just needs to have better hygiene maybe.

Noah the poor little guy had a run in with a book that Luke had thrown, and just barely missed his eye by like a half a centimeter!! He had a small cut right on the edge of his lower eyelid, and it got really infected. He came with us to the doctor when I took Luke and they gave us some anitibiotic eyedrops for his owie. His also cleared up pretty quickly though. I was happy :) He looked awful with the puss and scabbing. He has managed to cut in two more teeth for a total of 4 and sometimes we can see two more coming in.....they're being sneaky though. We've been trying to teach him how to walk. He has NO INTEREST whatsoever. In fact he is almost fighting it now. He LOVES to stand up on his own and loves the attention he has been getting from that, clapping and smiling for himself, but no steps. The doctor told me that 16 months was the official age for that milestone, back when he was like 12 mos, so I have just been letting him take his time, but now that he is 15 1/2 months....... I'm sure it's not a big deal, but I hate the thought of him taking any longer. I want him to be normal....sue me. He's adorable though, and still as cuddly as ever. Last week when I was sick, he spent a lot of time with Daddy and was choosing him over me a lot and that totally had me bummed, but he's back to normal now :) LOL jk. He still loves me :) Nana had the nerve to ask me if he was a boy the other day, confused by his long hair, so Noah had his first hair cut yesterday! That was a tough one for me. I don't know why it's so hard for me to cut their cute baby hair....oh wait, that's why!! It's so cute and baby!! But he does look very handsome with his cleaner cut look. Not as much like Uncle Steve anymore.

So, that's all I can think of right now. I need to look at my calendar or something because it drives me nuts to think I forgot to journal something important ("important" being a VERY relative term at this point, in case you didn't notice :)). Anyway :) Hope this post wasn't too boring, but if it was, I hope you just stopped reading rather than waiting around for it to have a point :)