The happenings of the last few weeks

The second Friday in September, I had been trying so hard to leave work on time, and get home to pick up Kate. While I was trying to get home, I got hit on the freeway. All things considered it could have been much worse. Here are a couple of pictures of my car.


The green van is the car that hit me, and as you will notice, we are not on the freeway. The lady tried to run, I followed her.

Kate had her first stomach bug a couple of weeks ago, and I ended up taking her to see her doctor. She was having a hard time eating, and I didn't know if it was because we switched her formula (due to the Similac recall), or because she was sick. In the last month she gained 2 pounds!!! She has almost grown out of her 6 month close already. I keep hoping that she will make it until her 6 month birthday until I have to put her into her 9 month clothes, that is only in three weeks!! Kraig and I both ended up getting whatever stomach bug Kate got. Schools back in!

We also took Kate on her first trip to Vernal to visit two of her Great Grandma's. One isn't doing very well, and has never seen Kate before. Here are a few pictures from that trip. The pictures were taken by Kraig.






Kate's new thing is to grab her own feet, it is kind of funny.

Thoughts

This is probably going to be one of those blogs that nobody responds to. In all honesty, I am fine with that. I just want to throw it out there for the black void of the internet.
Lately I have wanted to write. I just don't know what. I use to write poetry, but I haven't had to for a long time. By the way, very few people have read most of my poetry, and there are even fewer that have access to it.
Writing on here helps, but I don't think it is what I want to write. My problem, I don't know what I do want to write. Some days it feels like there is so much that I want to get out, but I can't ever seem to be able to put it in to words. There use to be times when the words were simply there. They seemed to flow like water down a river.

Taking a break

Things have been a little crazy lately, and probably will be for a while. I have decided to take a break for a while. So for those that need to get a hold of me, you know where I am.

Lately

Here are a couple of recent pictures of Kate. She has grown so much, I can hardly believe it. She had her four month check up Monday. She is 25 inches long, 14 pounds 12 ounces.

We got the OK to start feeding her rice cereal, she isn't so sure about it. I guess it is a good thing we have a month to get her use to it before we start feeding her fruits and veggies.

The doctor also said that she is teething. Kate has been trying to chew on her binky's, bottle nipples, and Kraig's finger. She hasn't been anymore grumpy then usual so I don't know how soon she will have teeth.

Kate also got some of her vaccinations, that pissed her off. She is still a little grumpy from that, hopefully she gets feeling better soon.

Kate has figured out how to roll over from her back to her stomach, but has not quite figured out how to go from her stomach to her back.

We also finally figured out a way to give her baths with out her screaming through the whole thing. We just have to make sure the water is the exact same temperature as her body. It can't be warmer, or colder.

Friday night we went to a wedding reception for a friend of ours. There were a few people there from high school. I as usual felt as though I didn't quite fit in, and that the only reason any one even noticed me, was because of Kate (yes we took her, and she did really well). I also felt slightly envious of some people, they just seemed very put together, and I never am. I always feel awkward, and frumpy.

I don't do make-up (I don't really know that I want to), my hair does what it wants, and I am far from fashionable. I am looking forward to when my hair is longer again and I can at least pull it back.

One thing though, I have always felt this way. It is just a little worse now because of all the baby weight I still need to lose.

Kraig has taken up boating. Kraig and his brother Kurt, have been working on their grandfather's boat fixing it up. They have taken it out a couple of times, and it still needs work. I HATE being on large bodies of water, so Kate and I stay home. I do not like being in boats, so I find being at lakes boring. I don't fish I can't stand it. It drives me crazy.

Kraig and I have also been looking for a second job, so that we can get our bills paid off. We are still working on getting the hospital bills from Kate paid off. Plus I have had to have a bunch of things done since Kate was born. Things just keep piling up, and it is just too much some days, especially since I really don't want to be working at all.

Thinking

Kraig and I have been trying not to spend a lot of money. We are trying to pay off hospital bills, and stuff like that. So I have been debating if I should start cooking again. Right now most of the stuff we do it just frozen dinners, some are really good, and some not so much. One issue is that usually by the time we get home it is about 5:00pm, so cooking just sounds like a chore. It doesn't help that for me cooking dinner was one of my chores when I was in junior high. My mom worked, and my dad didn't cook, so it became my "job". Now I have a hard time doing it.
Anyway, one of my friends on Facebook put a link up to a blog she reads, The Things I Love!
Kendra (the girl that does, The Things I Love!) was doing a give away for Freezer Meals: 30 Meals in One Day. I read her blog about it, and it sounds like a really good idea. I went to the company's website . I want to check it out on my own. I love the idea. It would be simple, and dinner would be already mostly made, just needs to be warmed up. I am going to try their sample recipes.
I would like everyones opinion on this, would it be worth it? You can get just the cookbooks, or
just the CD's, or one book and matching CD, or all three books, and the CD for all three books.

I will do an update when I do the sample recipes!

My baby is three months old already!!

Well Kate is now three months old! She is slowly becoming less grumpy. She has also figured out how to play with her tongue. Kraig taught her to do it! Here are a few pictures of her that were taken this week.




The blue is her real eye color.






This one of Kate's room. I absolutely love this saying, so I couldn't resist putting it on her wall. The coloring and effects are courtesy of Kraig.


Here is video of Kate playing with her tongue.

Something new

Most of you know that I have signed up to be a Scentsy Consultant. I love Scentsy. I am so excited to sell it now!! I am also having my Scentsy launch party next Saturday. So those that haven't received an invitation of some sort and would like to come let me know!!