All About Me

So, since mother's day was just a few days ago, as well as my birthday, I'll fill you in on what happened for those days.

Mother's day was busy. Nick was kind enough to allow me to lay in bed for as long as I was able before having to get ready for church. He got the boys dressed and ready for church. I've been collecting those Willow Tree figurines for the past few years and Nick got me one that had two brothers together. Love it! Having both your own mother and your mother-in-law live in the same area, it's a day filled with stopping by and saying hello. We spent the afternoon at my moms and stopped by Nick's say hello then home to get the boys home to bed.

Nick surprised me for my birthday by taking the day off from work and taking me to the temple. We hadn't been to the temple since before Tanner was born, so it was a nice treat. We left the boys at my parents and we drove over to Washington, D.C. We spent all afternoon in the temple. It was glorious! I'd forgotten how beautiful it is to be there in the house of the Lord! Afterwards, we stopped in Annapolis at a BBQ restaurant for dinner. We both went away from there hurting. The food was so yummy! We made it back to my parents about 8pm that night and we thanked everyone and brought the boys home. Nick surprised me again with symphony tickets for the following weekend. I'm so excited! I haven't been to the symphony in ages and the special musician for the weekend is a French horn player. Which, because of my background playing the French horn in school, I'm thrilled to hear this guy play! It was such a perfect day. I love my husband for being so thoughtful and listening to me when I told him that I'd love to go to the symphony one day.

The boys are as busy as ever. Tanner pretty much would live outside if we'd let him. He always has his shoes one on the off chance that mommy or daddy goes outside so that he can go too! He loves his shoes so much that he insists on wearing them to bed. He even wears them when he's got no clothes on ready for bath time. Unfortunately, the shoes don't get in the tub with Tanner, which is major drama for him! He's a funny kid! Tanner is really started to talk a lot. He doesn't have a big vocabulary, but it's growing. He just started to really talk within the last few weeks, so it's fun to hear him say things.

Spencer is getting to be a really fast walker! He walks pretty much everywhere now. He too has taken a liking to being outside. He gets really upset if he doesn't get to go along when you go outside. He's doing great at eating table food. No more baby food!! That's huge! It's taken Spencer a long time to get used to non-pureed food. He's my picky eater. My mom says it's pay back because I was one of her picky eaters. Hey, what goes around comes around, right? Spencer is funny to listen to when the music is going. He loves to sing with it! Especially at church. We we sing the hymns, he sings as loud as possible, and as soon as the music stops, so does he. It's pretty funny! Love him.

My pregnancy is going fairly well. I've been getting migraines a lot lately. I've had 4 in the last two weeks. The doctor gave me a medicine to help combat them, and yesterday was the first time I took it. It helped tremendously! I just hope these migraines stop soon. They're really starting to interfere with life. My nausea has seemed to lessen a little bit. I still have to eat pretty regularly in order to fight off the feeling. But it doesn't seem to be too bad anymore. I'm about 10 weeks, or two and a half months along. I wasn't able to hear the baby's heartbeat at my last appointment (too early), but next month I will.

That's us. We're still looking into to Nick going to this 6-month school next spring to get MRI certified. There's a lot of planning that goes into this, but we're hoping everything will work out for the best. I stay busy with the boys. I love being a mom. Especially when Tanner hands out hugs and kisses. I love my boys!