it feels good.

I had one of those amazingly awesome weekends. The kind of weekend that you catch yourself looking at all that you have, and wonder how you got so lucky. There were so many moments that I sat and watched Paul and Van and felt Vin moving crazily in my stomach, and I couldn't help but feel complete.

Often times I find myself having pitty parties. Ya know the kind where you think I wish this person would be my friend, I wonder why they don't like me, or where did I go wrong...yada, yada, yada! This weekend more than ever I realized all of that doesn't matter now or ever. What matters is my little family.
I took Van on a date Saturday morning, just the two of us. We went and chased Snowball the Cat at Gardner Village, and ended up at the bakery. Paul and I took Van miniature golfing, and played all the video games her little heart could stand. I'm pretty sure we stopped at the gas station 3 times for treats. I let Van stay up a little later than normal. I let the house cleaning slip (once again). We danced in the kitchen while our dinner was cooking. Paul and I took a long nap together, and Van watched that same movie too many times to count.

Although we didn't travel to some tropical resort, we didn't spend lots of money, and we didn't even take a day off from vending...we were a family...and that is what makes my weekends so amazingly awesome!

guest post by Van: a note to my brother

dear baby brother (insert her nickname for him, which changes all of the time),

i hope you could be healthy.

i love you.

i wish you could come out.

i missing you so much.

i want you to have fun with me, and go play games.

i love you again.

van.

sister friendly.

A little over a year ago I posted about Paul and I being in charge of "Sharing Time" for the children in our church. It was shortly after that, I was put in to the Primary Presidency, and have been charge of "Sharing Time" a lot more. Let me just say that Paul's idea from a year ago has been my ultimate stand by.

I have successfully pulled off being THE Sister Friendly in our Primary, and I am darn proud of it. =) The kids love it, I love it, and guess what? I have some serious knowledge of The Friend Magazine. Yes, I can tell you where the hidden CTR ring is found, and I can even tell you pretty much every story cover to cover.

What you need to be Sister or even Brother Friendly?

An apron with lots of pockets sewn on.

Knowledge of The Friend Magazine.

The pockets bulging with prizes for right answers.

That is it.

Easy, right?

The prizes in your pocket could be anything from stickers, candy, custom t-shirts, or even CTR rings.

What kind of prizes did your Sister Friendly hand out?

What is your "Sharing Time" stand by??

nesting. or something like that.

I wouldn't say that I'm nesting yet. I think that I have been being lazy for far. too. long.

This is what it looked like last night after I cleaned out Van's closet... Yup, 4 huge bags of size 5 clothes. Van is officially in the "big girl" section now.

Not our baby anymore.

predictions.

I always think that it's fun to try to predict stuff.

Right before Van was born we thought that she would look like me.

Big brown eyes, brown hair...we were so wrong.

We even questioned in the delivery room after seeing what she looked like, if we had picked the right name for her. That full head of blond hair, and those gorgeous blue eyes really threw us off. I thought that she would weigh less, Paul thought that she would weigh more. The only thing that we really had right was...she was indeed a girl!

This time around, I have already started making speculations and predictions.

Since Van was bigger than I thought, and Vin is measuring 2 weeks ahead of what he is supposed to...I'm predicting him to be 8 pounds, and 5 ounces! Oh, and since my prediction is Vin will weigh more than Van...he is going to be a little longer than Van at 21 inches long. He has to have hair, because that old wives tale says if you have insanely horrid heartburn (like I do) your baby will have hair...so Vin will have brown hair. I gotta have a baby that not everyone questions is really mine. After looking at the ultrasound pictures, he indeed is going to have his sisters nose, I think. He will be perfection in my book.

What do think Vin will look like, weigh, etc?

wordless wednesday: change. it happened to all of us.

Amazing what 18 months will do to all of us.

gah.

I'm sick.

Really. sick.

I'm not myself.

I'll be back though.

I guess this is what maternity leave will feel like. ;)

Sorry Paul and Van...

I promise I'll be normal again.

Thank you Paul for watching Van, and making my bedtime 7:30 pm last night.

I love you two...and Vin right now is very undecided. LOL.