Post Op

Dailynn had her Post Operation Dr. appointment this week.  We went in and everything looks great!  They did an ultrasound on her and found everything working the way it should.  The reflux is fixed and not causing issues anymore.  We can now take her off her medications and let her body do what it needs too.  She still had her homework of going to the bathroom a lot more, but she seems a little more excited about that now. I'm hoping that we will be past the wet beds soon, but that only will come with her doing her homework.  Wish us luck!

Christmas

So we have made it through Christmas.  On Christmas Eve, we got a big snow storm lasting most of the day.  I will not lie, I was so excited to see the snow when I woke up!  The fun was that I started me having harder contractions throughout the day, that made me a little excited and scared at the same time.  We got up at a descent hour and ran down to Carl's Jr for breakfast.  We planned on going to a movie a little later in the day so we ran over and got tickets for that just to make sure they didn't sell out.  We then had 2 hrs to kill, so we went to go find dresses for Avi since she is in need of them right now, why can't kids stop growing?  We lucked out in Kid to Kid and found a great one for a great price.  The girls wanted to go see the mall and Santa Clause, so we went there.  The line to see Santa was much longer than we had time or energy to wait for, so we went to the play land instead.  I was so glad that I had absolutely no reason to step foot in any of the stores there, it was a mad house!  The girls literally ran around the play area for 20 min straight!  We then headed to our movie Arther Christmas.  By the time the movie started the place was packed, and I was glad I got our tickets early when only 10 had been sold before us.  After the movie we went home, had dinner, cleaned up a little, and generally got ready for Santa the next day.  We let the girls open 1 present which were the PJs they were going to wear that night.  

 On Christmas morning, Avi woke up at 6:20 ready to go, Dailynn was excited when we woke her up, but JJ didn't want to have anything to do with it, and wanted to go back to sleep.  The problem is we were too excited to wait for her to wake up causing a little distress for the first few min.

 The girls checking out what Santa didn't wrap for them.  Jeslyn needed a little help figuring out what was going on.

 As soon as she found her leap pad, there was no going back.  She loves that thing!

 When we open presents, each girl gets a turn.  Sometimes if they are the same thing, we will had it to multiple girls at once.  With Jeslyn, she spent the first half of Christmas playing her leap pad and only opening presents if they got between her eyes and the pad.  She would open it, look at it for a sec, then throw it to the side and get back to her game.  Eventually she realized she was getting some cool stuff and put the pad down and got excited about the presents.  Avi got a new camera, an mp3 player, a bunch of drawing stuff and books.  Dailynn got a DSI with games and  a case, books, drawing stuff, and a watch (she has been stealing mine like crazy lately, I wanted to keep it for myself).  Jeslyn got about everything under the sun, and she loves ALL of it so much!  They girls said they had an AWESOME Christmas!

2 days later we had Grandma and Grandpa come share a little Christmas with us.  They brought some puzzles, block, movies, and a great picture.  We gave Mom her gift of the flatware from us siblings.  They loved it!  We had a great time with them and the bobcat.  He liked climbing out Christmas trees, so Mom helped me put one of them away.  That was helpful, now I just have to finish putting the other one away and Christmas will be over and we can work on baby.

Room Mom

I was convinced to be the room mom for Avi's class this year.  I haven't ever done it before, so I didn't know what to expect.  Luckily I had a little bit of brain power to not sign up for too much with Dai's class too.  So my responsibilities have been to throw the class parties.  I have done 3 so far, so here they are.

We started with the Halloween party.  I have a great mom who gave me the angry birds set she used for the family reunion to use at the party.  It was such a hit!  We also did some pumpkin bowling, bobbing for donuts, and some other short games.  For it being my first party I think it went ok, I wasn't thinking clearly on the timing of things, so there were some bottle necks here and there, but the kids still had fun.

 You know Jeslyn can't be left out of the fun!

Then in November, the teacher wanted to do an etiquette dinner to try to teach the kids some manners.  Luckily all I had to do was arrange food to arrive, and there are some wonderful moms that did a great job with that!  They had to come to school in Sunday dress, and the boys had to escort the girls to the table after they got their food.  It was so cute to watch the boys fumble with trying to get the girls hand wrapped around their arms to escort them.  Before they were able to eat, they had to do a minute of silence.  I know those kids have never known a longer minute in their lives.  The teacher also insisted on them having intelligent conversation, but what I was hearing wasn't always that way, come on they are in 4th and 5th grades.

 For Christmas, we played a few games, decorated cookies, and the teacher let them play freeze dance.  We started with Christmas bingo, and Jeslyn thought it great to just eat the Swedish fish rather than play bingo herself.  We had a version of Taboo that we played and I was laughing my head of at that because the kids looked like deer caught in the headlights every time they got a new word.  They could talk and brag all they wanted, but as soon as they got the word and the timer, they couldn't say a word.  After that we let the kids decorate Christmas tree sugar cookies.  I was sick by the end of it when I saw what they had done to some of them.  The freeze dance competition was fun to watch, some kids are much more reserved, and others, just don't care what they are doing.  I got home with a super sugared up Jeslyn and a desperate need for a nap!

lesson from the BoM

So its that time of year again where everyone is asking for donations to the food bank.  At the school they are asking for 10 cans per kid and they get a ticket to go watch a movie at the high school next week. For some reason this year I'm just not excited to give food away.  I think its just that I have actually been using food from my storage this year and I guess I don't want to give it up, or I feel like Murphy has been attacking and I'm nervous to do so.  I express these feeling to Nathan last night, but when I was reading scriptures this morning this is what I got "I mean all you who deny the better, because ye have not; I would that ye say I in your hearts that: I give not because I have not, but if I had I would give.  And now, if ye say this in your hearts ye remain guilt less, otherwise ye are condemned; as and your condemnation is just for ye covet that which ye have not received" mosiah4:24-25.
I found it interesting that I read that little bit of scripture, and that its about the only part of the chapter that I paid attention to, on the morning after my comment and the last day of the school food drive.  I guess I get to go dig through the pantry and food storage before school today.

the score

I just got home from my test elated and over joyed to have passed the test!  The bummer part is that is all I know, they only will tell me pass/fail, not an actual score.  Oh well, I'm just so happy to have it done!

The test

As most of you know, I work for H & R Block preparing tax returns during the tax season.  The IRS has decided that anyone that prepares more than a few returns has to take a test to register with them.  I, like a crazy person, decided that life isn't crazy enough, and that I should get this test taken before this baby comes.  I have been studying for over a month straight to get ready, and the big day is fast approaching.  This Thursday at noon I will be taking it.  I was hoping that I could enlist your support through prayers for me that day to be able to think clearly and remember the information I have been studying.  I will try to post after the test, but I'm apologizing now if it doesn't happen in as timely manner, your always welcome to text me to ask how I did if I don't.  Thanks for your love and support.