April 19, 2009

• Very quickly…an update with pictures will have to wait as my HARDDRIVE has crashed.  I had no warning whatsoever.  It simply refused to boot back up when I tried to turn it back on one afternoon.  I may have lost pictures and videos from this year as I hadn’t backed them up yet.  Everything else was backed up though.  We have someone coming to help tomorrow hopefully get me up and running though. 

  In the meantime.  We had Easter and Serra’s birthday in the last week.  Easter morning was difficult because of 9am church.  The girls went through their baskets and wanted to to the egg hunt badly but had to wait until after church for that.  We, like Julie, miraculously made it to church on time.  The girls loved coloring eggs and surprisingly love eating them too.  I had to make more hard boiled eggs just to satisfy the craving.  They got a second egg hunt at the Andersons. 

  I exploded in pregnancy this week.  I didn’t know if it was overly visible to others…until church today when a woman told me all of a sudden I look pregnant this week.  She actually used the word exploded as well.  Always nice to hear.  I suddenly have a hard time getting from one place to the next, I am retaining water like crazy which makes the carpel tunnel really act up, and I can’t bend over to pick up things without major effort.  The next three months are going to be loooong and HOT!  It has reached the 80′s here and I have been struggling with the heat.  I am in soooo much trouble.  The baby is measuring big…no surprises there and my doc agreed that I can have a delivery date of July 17th if the amnio the day before indicates baby girls lungs are ready for this world.  That would make it slightly less than 3 weeks early.  So mark your calendars. 

  We got the raised garden bed 90% built and it and the part of the backyard and sideyard we are working on should be completed this week.  I can’t wait to get stuff planted. 

  Serra had a great birthday yesterday.  She started the day off with a requested birthday breakfast of biscuits and gravy (with hard boiled eggs cut up in it).  Then she opened all her presents.  She got a few new needed clothing items, a twisty towel for wet hair, sticker earrings, a sacrament activity book from the grandfolk from afar, hot cheetos (weird kid has liked them since toddlerhood), and some new computer games and activities to go with her new PC.  That’s right we will be a 3 computer household.  We have taken parts from our computers that have become outdated or refurbished by a friend and put together a system for her.  She asked if she could have the internet if you can believe that.  She wants to e-mail her cousins.  I told her that her cousins don’t have their own e-mail anyway.  Anyway, that will have to wait a few more years.  For now hopefully she will just enjoy having a computer to do some learning games on.  Brian actually only bought her one game that is not school based.  ZooTycoon.  She can build her own zoo but better make sure she builds the lions cages high enough so they don’t eat the guests.  Her auntie Serra put together a great collage of pictures of the two of them together over the years.   She really loved that and is still trying to decide where she will hang it.  Soon after that we headed to the movie Hannah Montana.  AmyJo and Tucker came and watched over the two younger ones while we took just Serra.  She got popcorn, candy, and a drink and we settled in for a great movie.  Even Brian liked it.  I recommend it highly…a great family flick with a good message.  Then we picked up 3 dozen assorted Krispy Kreme donuts to build the birthday cake donut tower and headed to a UFC party.  Serra didn’t mind sharing her evening with a few other families.  There were a lot of kids and a fun BBQ and more folks to sing to her while she blew out her candles.  The donut cake turned out awesome if I do say so myself and I did get pictures that Krispy Kreme requested a copy of to put up in their store.  As soon as I am up and running on my computer I will post those. 

  Anyway, we are off for yet another birthday celebration at the Andersons.  More later. 

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