The Relief Society Presidency

So the Relief Society presidency came to see me today. (The Relief Society is the group for the women in the LDS church) They always go and visit/introduce/get to know the new sisters (that's what we call each other) in the ward. Anyway, they were awesome! I had a really good time talking to the four of them. I'm really excited about getting to know more of the ladies now. I guess they have a volleyball group that gets together and plays every Tuesday at 9:00am. I LOVE volleyball it is my favorite sport. I haven't got to play for a really long time ago. I think the last time I played was like 2 years ago : ( boo. Anyway they were so awesome. I'm so excited to be in this ward. I already feel so at home here. : ) YAY! Anyway that's all I just wanted to share I guess.

Squash!

So today we tried squash for the first time. He LOVED it. I have the feeling he's gonna be more like mommy and LOVE veggies. Yay!!! Anyway here's a cute video of him eating.

Crawling!

That's right folks he's crawling. He looks a little uncoordinated but give him a break he's only been doing it for a matter of a few days maybe a little longer. And I FINALLY got a good video of him doing it. Usually I turn the camera on and he's like a deer in the headlights. This time I didn't let him know what I was doing and he crawled good! : ) w00t!! : D Anyway here's the video. I thought of including more but I don't feel like dealing with the video uploader today. lol

Oh and he has discovered the kitchen/dining room. It's such an exciting new place! The living room will just not do anymore.  Except he's not really sure what to make of the flooring in there. ha ha!

It's Been Awhile

Well it's been awhile since I last posted. I'm sure you all missed me! All the crickets out there chirping that is *wink wink*

Anyway I guess this post is just to say. I'm still alive. Not much has been going on. Robert has been quite the busy fellow tho. Robert has just got his first tooth! It's broke through the skin (I would know it's a sharp little buggar!) But it still has to push up and show itself all the way. I'd get a pic but Robert is anti-showing off his gums, he plays with everything with his tongue. Surprisingly or not so surprisingly he wasn't too bad while it was coming in. He did a lot of the closed mouth hum/whine thing. He just wasn't himself and I guess and had a little bit of a harder time sleeping. Nothing getting in bed with mom and sleep nursing wouldn't fix tho. I was tired but he was fine, he sleeps great like that but I don't. I like my sleeping space! : ) Also Robert has started crawling!!! It's very tentative and it seems the more he thinks about it the more mad and unable to move he becomes. It's when we're not expecting it that he's all the way across the room. But he's getting better and better everyday. I'll make a post about it once I get a good video. I was gonna get one today but the camera battery was low and it wouldn't let me. Sigh. Maybe tomorrow.

I've been good. I haven't even thought about Facebook at all really. The only thing I have thought about on there are the group of ladies that I was friends with that I don't get to talk with very often now. I hope they're all doing well. A new thing for me that has happened is that I have taken over doing the family newsletter from my sister, she's too busy and is burnt out, so I took it over for her. It's been fun so far and the first newsletter I'm doing is being sent to my family on September 1st. I'm excited, it's gonna be a summer edition. Then we'll have one each month. It's hard to get everyone to send in their news tho. I'm sure I've driven them crazy with all my email reminders to them. Oh well I'm sure I'll get everyone to send in their news eventually. Until then I'll have fun with what I have sent in. I haven't made any friends yet here. Although I have met a few people in the ward that I could hang out with. I just have to find a chance to talk to them sometime. This last Sunday we kinda left pretty fast after church got over so I didn't get to speak to anyone. Well there was one lady I talked to in the mother's lounge while I was feeding Robert, but she was just visiting family so I guess I won't be seeing her. Hopefully next week will be better. We won't have the combined meeting with the men for the 3rd hour so I'll have a better chance to talk to some of the women during Relief Society.

I also realized that I am writing in a journal. It's just not how I would usually do it. It's here in my blog, instead of a paper journal. I think that's why I love blogging so much, because it is a journal for me. I haven't written in my journal regularly for a long time and I miss it. I just don't seem to have the time to write everyday. I write so slow and usually write pretty lengthy entries and I just don't have the time for that. Well I suppose I do but this is so much easier and prettier than my handwriting. Plus my journal is still packed away somewhere in a box that I need to unpack. Speaking of unpacking I finally am starting to feel ready to unpack all the way. I haven't been able to decorate (not that I have anything to really decorate with) and make it feel like home because I've been getting used to it and it has only recently begun to feel real and permanent not temporary. We finally got blinds for the sliding door to the back yard! Wohoo! Windows at night freak me out usually so it's nice to have something there I forgot to close them tonight tho. Oh well, I guess I should do that then. Well that's about it for now I think. See you tomorrow hopefully with more on the crawling and tooth.

Peaches!

So it has been 4 days or so since we started carrots and we've had no problems. New kind of poop compared to what we're used too, but hey that's what real food will do to ya! lol Anyway so we decided to try another food! PEACHES!!! Yay for more options! Hopefully all goes well with the new food. He wasn't sure if he liked them or not. I'll probably try them again later today. He'd already had some carrots when I tried it. Here's some pics. Got a couple good ones and that's about it.

He looks so weird because the flash was bright.

Looking at the jar

Om nom nom nom!

No more Mom!!

Sadly we didn't get any all over the face messy ones we didn't get that far today. Maybe we'll have some later!

Our New Ward

So today we went to our new ward for the first time (our congregation for church). It was great. There is only one ward in Hansen. Before we went I was wondering if the ward would be small or big (since there is only one). I was hoping it would be small. I like small. I LOVE small. At least when it comes to people. The song "Little Bitty" by Alan Jackson pretty much describes what I like. Except I like a big yard. But I love little towns and little wards and that kinda thing.

So what size is our ward? SMALL!!! : ) I was very excited about this. It's probably the same size as 3rd Ward in Mountain Home or close to it. I'm excited. I function much better in smaller groups. Everyone was very friendly. We feel at home there. And guess what?! I see quite a few ladies that could be potential friends!! How exciting. Let's just hope I keep up the courage to step out and make friends with them. I'm excited. Relief Society was great. And I actually got to stay in all of it! Woot!!!! Well that's it for now : )

Oh how about a song : ) It's "Little Bitty" by Alan Jackson. I just had to do it after talking about it : )

Little Bitty

Sorry I couldn't figure out how to put the video on here so you just have to click the link if you wanna see it!   : D

CARROTS!!!

So we have started solids. I'm kinda sad I can't just start giving him all sorts of different flavored baby food. But alas, I must wait the allotted 3-4 days so I can know if he has allergy to anything. We already know he loves rice cereal which I tried to show off with an ultra cute video but it didn't feel like loading so you're all just out of luck! So the first food we are doing is carrots! Here is a sample :-) I'm pretty sure he likes them. Oh and it sure makes his poop really interesting compared to just mommy's milk (or cream as some of you like to say)!!

He's looking at the jar thinking, "give me that now!!"

Mommy you and your spoon are silly!

Om nom nom nom! *burp*

I can't wait for what we can try next!

6 MONTHS!!!!

Well I'm a week late but my little man turned six months on the 14th of August!! I can't believe that it has gone by so fast. It seems like I just found out I'm pregnant but that was over a year ago! Where does the time go?! It has flown by soooooooooooo quickly. Here's a quick recap!

February:

This was taken the day he was born.

March:

This is 1 month old

April:

2 months. He's such a cutie!

May:

3 months, I love his faces :D

June:

4 months, And just what do you think you're doing mom!

July:

5 months, Slowly starting to sit up. . . kinda!

August:

6 months, I've gotten so big!!!

Robert is such a little character! He has such a personality. I can't wait to see what kind of person he will become. I already know he'll be a flirt stud muffin! lol He totally flirts with all the girls who come and talk to him it's so cute! He is rolling like crazy and he's trying to crawl. He's in the gets on his hands and knees and rocks back and forth stage to figure out how to move his legs and arms. He also loves doing push-ups on his hands and tippy-toes and yelling the whole time. He loves to scoot around and get into everything. I've caught him every night this week trying to escape his towel after bath time when he's waiting for me to get him some pajamas. He's succeeded pretty much every time. I've got some cute pictures of him mid escape. He's starting to be more snuggle bunny when I pick him up, especially right after a nap or when he's tired. He puts his little head in the crook of my neck and wraps his arms around me real tight. It's so cute and makes me feel like everything we will ever have to go through is all worth it just for those little moments.

He's trying!

Now where does this leg go?

And UP! 2, 3, 4!

I am escaping and free!!! You shall never catch me!!! BwaHaHaHaHaHa!!!!

Ok the moment you've all really been waiting for in reading this! His 6 month apt and stats! Well I'm sure you all could care less about the apt and just want the stats! Too bad, you're hearing about the apt anyway! Well His apt went awesome. The doctor is very pleased with his growth and health. She says he's perfect! So after that he got his shots. . . DUN DUN DUN!!! Poor guy she stuck that first needle in and I've never seen him cry so hard in his short little life :-( He didn't even breath for a long time, and no puff of air in the face did any good either. I felt so bad for him, it broke my heart. After the nurse was done giving him the shots she warned us that he might be a pass out crier. You know the kind of crying where they cry so hard and don't breath and then pass out. Yeah she said it would scare the life out of us but that he would be ok. I hope that never happens! He's such a happy boy tho, I have a hard time seeing it happen. That's the only time I've seen him cry that hard. I am glad she warned us tho so I don't freak out as much if it does happen.

Ok here they are for reals!! The stats!!!

Height: 28 inches! Well he certainly didn't get his height from his parents! lol

Weight: 19lbs 13oz! He did however get the weight from his momma! ;-)

And I'm not sure of the head circumference but it was in the 25th percentile which is where he's been the whole time so that's good :-)

Well that's it for this post stay tune for CARROTS!!!!

Families Are Forever!

I talked in another post about how I like to scrapbook and wish I had more money to get materials for scrapbooking even though I haven't done it that much. You have to start somewhere tho right? You can't start awesome at everything and I certainly have a long way to get there until then.

Anyway, here is a scrapbook I made for a college English project in the fall/winter of 2007 when I went to BYU-Idaho. I cheated. I had one of those pre-designed scrapbooks where they have the paper matching and pattern stuff already. You just add the photos and stickers and little things you want to it. But here it is. It's on Families and How I believe that families are together forever!

Second Guessing Myself

I'm beginning to second guess myself about leaving facebook. Wondering if it was really the right thing to do. I think it is. In fact I'm pretty positive it was/is the right thing for me right now. But I can't help but wonder. I know it's only because I miss it and I miss talking to the people on it as often as I do. I haven't really texted or called anyone since I left. I don't want to interrupt their lives or call/text at an inconvenient time. I think that's why I like facebook so much, because I can just type them a little note and they can check it/respond in their own time. I feel like people can't do that when you call or text. You have to respond immediately and stop whatever you're doing to do it. I know that's flawed logic but isn't most of my logic flawed in some way? Don't worry I'm trying to work on that.

So I'm gonna try and communicate more with people and try not to feel like I'm being an unwanted interruption. That's the whole point of this right? To fix myself? Well we'll see how that works out, I have to change my attitude of me thinking I'm broken and no one wants me first. Wish me luck or pray for me or whatever it is that you do when someone needs help.

I have the feeling this blog is going to turn more journalish. Journalish. That's not even a word. I must be bored. I wish I had a sewing machine or money to scrapbook. I love scrapbooking. I haven't done much but what I have done I love. Hmmm I think I'll post that next. A scrap book I did for college. Yes that's it. See you in the next post my faithful readers! If I have any that is. lol

An Explanation

I'm sure anyone of you who are on Facebook are wondering what happened to me. The truth is nothing really happened to me. I'm not in the middle of a crisis and don't have time for Facebook. I'm not having relationship/family issues that I need to work on that would require me getting off of Facebook. Really nothing happened.

I love Facebook, and despite what my family thinks, I am NOT on Facebook all the time. I actually don't get on there that much and if I am on there for a while it's usually because I'm chatting with a friend. Sure in my free time while Robert sleeps I might play a game or two on there but that doesn't take that much time. I love the group of ladies on there (you know who you are) that I have become quite close too. I'll miss being able to get on everyday and see how they are and how their families are. I will miss them. I'll miss all the pictures (I absolutely LOVE pictures) of people I don't get to see all the time. And I'll miss talking to/checking up on the only friends I have. I can still do it by phone obviously but that's not the same.

So why did I leave? I'm not really positive myself. It's more a feeling than anything I suppose. I can't really explain it but I will try to explain in this post. But I was thinking about it a lot yesterday and I just felt like I needed a break. So I will go back to Facebook, I just don't know when.

As you all know we recently moved. It's only 7-10 miles from Twin Falls to Hansen (where we are now) but it's a fresh start. We were in Twin since about mid-October 2008, and I still have no friends there. I mean my VT (visiting teacher from church) was nice and I loved her but she's my mom's age. I didn't have any friends there. Neither did Paul. He's too busy working til midnight so we didn't have a chance to have couple friends. And not really seeing him all week I wanted him all to myself on the weekend. So what does this have to do with getting off Facebook? Well I'm getting there. lol

I have friends on Facebook, I love them. Some of them are newer friends and some are friends I've had for a long time. But I never really get to see them. And some of them I'm not sure I'll ever really get to see ever. But I don't have any friends where we live. And now that we have moved I'm hoping for a fresh start. I'm hoping to be more outgoing and more involved in the community and at church. This is not something that's easy for me. I don't make friends easily and I definitely don't talk to people very easily. Heck I struggle to make conversation with my family so imagine how it is for strangers. And if I stay in my little safe zone of Facebook I'm afraid I won't make a good enough effort to meet people and have friends here. So that is one reason I left.

Another thing is I have a lot of free time right now. Robert is in the stage where he is content to lay/sit on the floor and play he doesn't want to be held but I don't have to run around chasing him cuz he isn't that mobile yet. This also means that I don't have much to clean or do around the house except keep an eye on him and keep him entertained. Paul is gone all day and packs dinner/lunch so I don't have to spend time making a dinner, because lets be honest who likes making dinner for one? Not me. I usually whip up something quick and don't bother with a meal you have for more than one person. Anyway I want to find a hobby. I would love to sew but have no machine and can't afford one at the moment. I LOVE to read but I'm struggling with that because it made me sick to read while I was pregnant. I want to be more crafty and use my time constructively, not that I think talking to my friends and seeing how they are isn't constructive, I just mean more constructive here at home.

I also have things I need to work on myself. I have issues. Not a lot of people know. I have horrible self-esteem/self worth issues, among other things but I won't get into the others, which is probably part of why I have a hard time making friends. And that's another reason I left, I just didn't think anyone would care if I was gone they don't talk to me anyway. Well a few do, but most friends I've had since high school and college just seem to think I dropped off the face of the planet when I got married. They never message me, call me, or anything like that. In fact only a small handful still bother to see how I am. And yes I have messaged them but it gets me nowhere, and these were people I thought were close friends. So again I say I thought no one would care or notice I was even gone. A few of you have, and I'm sure if you're reading this you are one of the few people who cared enough to notice, or maybe you didn't notice and you just happened to see this. I even struggle with it within my family, wondering if they really care about me or if they are just required to because they are family.

And thank you so much to the people who asked if everything was ok. You have no idea how much it means to me that you did notice and cared enough to ask me. Re-reading that last paragraph I think I may sound selfish but it is something that I struggle with immensely.

So here I am hobby-less, friendless, and selfishly feeling worthless and being on Facebook isn't helping me change that. I'm comfortable on there. It's routine. It was time for a change. And time to quite worrying and wondering about who my friends really were or if I was just a number to add to their "friends" list.

So now my goal is: To make friends, find more constructive things to do, and work on my personal worth. Hopefully I can make it. And hopefully I'll have worked these things out enough that I can feel confident and comfortable in returning to the land of Facebook. It's going to be hard I know. I've already sat down at the computer to check my email and work on some other things and clicked on the Facebook link in the address bar and getting to the page and realizing, "oh I'm not on Facebook." I do miss it. I miss it more than I thought I would and I think that is because it's so routine and comfortable. I miss the people I love on there but hopefully I'll still be able to talk to them even though I don't have Facebook anymore. Maybe blogging will be my hobby, but I'm too boring to have anything to write about so never mind. . . maybe.

Well I hope that even remotely made a bit of sense. I just feel better having written it and getting it out there, so thanks for reading it means a lot to me.

My Water Jug

Robert LOVES my water jug. Every time he sees it he lunges for it like there's no tomorrow. He's actually really good at sucking from a straw. Whether or not he gets it swallowed is another matter entirely. lol

Here's a cute video of him drinking from my water jug.

Robert Eating Cereal for the Second First Time.

So our doctor said we could start giving Robert solids/cereal at his four month appointment.  We tried it, he was interested. . . kinda. But he just didn't want to yet so we didn't do it anymore.

So on Friday, the day before he turned six months, we tried cereal again. He was a pro!!! Now this boy can't get enough! Well I was gonna post a cute video with this but our internet is being weird and won't let me. So sorry tough luck.

Robert Loves the Keyboard.

Robert loves the keyboard. So I decided that every once in a while he can write his own thing. This is what he wrote the other day :D

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