update stuff

So, I haven't posted anything on here for a long time. Probably because I forget I have a blog!! I only check it when someone asks me if I've read their blog or not. That's when I remember I have one, too! haha....
The biggest update right now is that we've moved in with Mark's family to save money. It's not the funnest thing, or what we ever wanted to do, but if we ever want to go anywhere else for school (which we DO!) then we had to do something. It took me a while to pack the apartment because we weren't sure if someone would be able to take it on that short of notice, but someone FINALLY did and at that point we had 5 days to get everything done! ha ha... Since Mark's got school and work, he wasn't able to help out much with the packing part. So time consuming! We took at least 5 carloads of stuff to DI. I'd say about 15 garbage bags full of stuff, and a couple pieces of furniture that wouldn't sell. I sold a few things on www.craigslist.org, though, and earned some money that way! We've got everything here in our bedroom, so we're a little packed but it's not too bad. Titus has his own little corner with his crib that's blocked off so he can't see us. Good thing there are 2 doors to the bedroom so he thinks he's in his own room.

Titus now has 4 teeth. 2 on the top, 2 on the bottom. His top teeth are SO far apart you could probably fit another tooth in there. I'm not sure if that's normal or not, but it's sure cute. He looked like a jack-0-lantern this Halloween. He's getting SO big!! At his last appointment, he was 22.5 lbs and 29" long. That was a little over a month ago, so who knows how big he is now! He's got a bigger carseat now and he loves it. We can't wait to turn him around to face forward. He has to much fun exploring and getting into everything. He really likes socks... that aren't his own. When he finds socks on the ground, he picks them up and plays with them. A new favorite toy! He would rather have bare, freezing feet than wear a pair of socks, and quickly taught himself how to take them off. That's been fun.... I think we've lost a couple socks already this week somewhere between here and upstairs!! He still isn't walking. He walked a lot before he got sick, then he was sick for 2 weeks and hasn't really walked much since then. I don't mind too much that he doesn't walk yet, I just don't like that he stopped progressing. He'll get there, though!!

Mark and I are both donating plasma so save some money for Christmas and for our saving. It's actually not too bad! I thought I'd be a wuss and cop out after once, but it wasn't bad. I don't mind doing it, and $50 extra buck a week is nice! $100 if we both go do it twice a week. I'm saving lives and getting paid for it!

I'm getting excited for Christmas already. While packing and cleaning the apartment to move out, I listened to a really good Christmas CD and got in the mood. I love Christmas and everything that comes with it! I've already done some of my shopping because I'm so excited. I wish Christmas was once a month. :)

I Love You and Thank You

I've been wanting to post about this for a while (or at least write about it somewhere) but don't really know how to start, or bring up the subject. I guess I'll just get into it, and see where it goes from there!!

Father's day in 2007 kind of came and went for us... I called my dad, but didn't send a card, which is weird for me. I still don't know why I didn't send one. Anyway, I kept thinking I really needed to write my dad a letter and tell him how much I loved him and how thankful I was for him. We had become so close the last couple years of his life and I just wanted him to know all those things. Around August-ish, I felt bad about not sending him a card for Father's Day, so I made a super awesome homemade one, then wrote him everything I had been wanting to say to him for a while. I put it in an envelope, stuck a stamp on it, and put it on the counter. There it sat... and sat... and sat...

In the early hours of September 2o, my dad passed away. While getting ready for my flight home that day, I saw the envelope and tucked it in my carry on, not really knowing what I was going to do with it. It eventually ended up in a little drawer in his casket and was buried with him. He never got to read it and I had a really hard time with that for a long time.


Unfortunately, this happened to me again. While we were all home for dad's funeral, a very dear friend offered to pay for most of us to stay in a hotel so my mom's house wouldn't be as crowded. After all was said and done, I figured it cost about $1000+ for us all to stay there for multiple nights. It was such a sweet, sweet thing to do, and saved us a lot of money and stress. For a long, long time I kept thinking I needed to write them a thank you note. It seriously would pop into my mind a few times every week, and I kept putting it off. I don't remember the time line too much, but my mom called one day to tell me that this person was diagnosed with cancer. Of course I was shocked, especially because of the type of cancer they had. Two weeks later, she died. I never wrote the note, and still feel bad about it.

I just don't ever want that to happen again. I told myself that if I ever felt like writing a letter or note to someone specific, I was going to do it that day. It just really sucks that I let it happen twice.

If something someone does touches you, let them know. Once, a loooong time ago, I wrote a note to LaDean Yost (I'm pretty sure I spelled that wrong... oops!) because she bore her testimony in church and I was really moved by it. She really, really appreciated that note and told me she was going to put it in her scrapbook because it meant so much to her. It is SO important to say how you feel, let people know if they did something you appreciate. Don't let those moments pass you by because you never know when you won't be able to tell them I Love You and Thank You.

Cute things Titus does

So, Titus does a lot of really cute things. I think more than the average baby, but that probably just because I'm his mom.
When we put him down for a nap, he'll usually cry for a few minutes before falling asleep. Occasionally, he'll be quiet for a while, so we go to check on him to make sure.... I don't know what. Maybe that he's comfortable or something. Anyway.... one time he was quiet for a while so I went to check on him and he was just standing there waiting for me. After he saw me, there was no sleeping! Since then, he's done it a few more times. I think he knows that if he's quiet, one of us will check on him and he'll get picked up. I've learned now to just hope that he's asleep and it's his fault if he doesn't get any rest!!

Another really cute thing he does is giggle and smile whenever someone sneezes or yawns. He LOVES open mouths so much for some reason. It's always how I greet him in the mornings - with a big open mouth and a "HI!" Whenever I open the door to get him out of the car, I always say, "BUG!" and he loves it. I love how happy he is most of the time.... :) What a sweet baby.

He does so many other cute things like crawl over to me and pull himself up next to me and just stand there and blow raspberries or talk to me. His little words and little sounds are the best. I love being his mom.

Updates, updates, updates!!!

Alright. So, I've had this blog FOREVER, but have only posted on it once. I'm worried about 3 things concerning this blog:
1. Forgetting about it, never writing on it, forgetting to check it, etc. I'm big into facebook and keep in touch with all my friends that way. I never have anything interesting to say, anyway! ha ha
2. I will check it fifty times a day, hoping for comments, reading other people's blogs, spending hours writing random things, wasting time I should be spending playing with my little guy! :)
3. It will turn into a journal where I write about personal, private things that I don't necessarily want everyone to read. Maybe I'll say something rude or write about something to get it off my chest and regret it later.

Updates. I had a baby boy, he's now 8 months old and crawling all over the place. Mark and I have been married for a little over two and a half years and have been in St George, Utah since day one. He's got another two semesters at Dixie, then we're moving ... somewhere! ha ha The plan is up the Provo area right now.

As for me... I'm just a stay at home mommy. I spend all day with the cutest little boy who naps well and eats even better! I scrapbook when I have a spare moment, and do other crafty things. We just bought a bunch of supplies for me to make a ton of necklace holders to try and sell at a yard sale in August. Hopefully those sell! Otherwise, everyone's getting a necklace holder for Christmas. :)

Setting up...

Well... I'm slowly beginning to understand this blog thing... If so many of my friends and family weren't on here, I wouldn't be doing this! :)
You should all thank Leslie for finally getting me on here, though... She's been such a good friend and now she's leaving me! Dang you, Leslie. I love you!