So sweet cuddle bug

Aubree has been struggling with sleep for the past month.  I think it's a combo of supplementing with formula (gassier), and teething. I have ended up falling asleep on the rocker at least part of every night. 

By five a.m. when she wakes up I'm tired and just feed her back to sleep. Most times in the rocker but the last few times in our bed. It's easier for me to get up and make Ry's lunch that way. 

Yesterday I climbed back in bed with her. She woke at about eight, like normal lately. She crawled around on our bed for a bit and then cuddled with me.  She laid her face against mine, cheek against cheek, faces facing the same way.  She laid there for a few minutes. It was just so precious.  Then she moved her head forward on to my pillow and went back to sleep.  This made the late nights and staying at home with her SO worth it. If I was working I'd never have gotten to enjoy sleeping in with her like that. :-D 

Memorial Day Fun!

We started off the day by going to the ward breakfast at the park.  We had pancakes and sausage. It was fun to see what the Kuna park off Main st. looked like up close after driving by it a few times. 

We decided to go with the Howe's to the Parade.  We missed it by a few weeks. This year they did it earlier. So we decided to go to Wahoos mini golf. That was a lot of fun. The girls were fun to watch.  Hannah got sprayed by water at the ending.  If you missed the last hole it sprayed you.  She didn't like it.  Then McKinley slipped on the water. We decided to go get their food.  We both got nacho grandes those were huge.  Neither of our families finished.  Aubree wanted same so I was feeding her Cheerios with my left hand while I ate with my right. 

We both were supposed to bring a side to the Burnhams that night but we partied all day and wouldn't have the time or energy so we went to Winco to buy some potato salad.  The girls thought it was funny that we were also at Winco with them.  

Later at the Burnhams we had dinner and then played a game. You had to have a run or a set of three like in phase ten but you play with face cards.  The number of cards you had was the number that was a wild that round. You can only lay down on the first person to lay outs cards. When they lay down you only have one more round to lay down or get rid of your highest cards. You don't want points in this game. If you win you deduct 5 points if you lay out and get rid of your cards you have 0 points Ace's are worth 14, and jokers none. 

While we were playing Aubree was playing with Sawyer on the ground, and we were joking that he was trying to impress her.  "Check out these push ups,  check out my guns." It had me laughing so hard it was hilarious. 

It was a great day off with Ryan.  I hope we can have more fun days like this on his days off :-D

The Gift of Hearing

I heard about the mothers gift giveaway on the radio.  I didn't think I'd get them but with how expensive hearing aides are I figured it was worth a try. 

I had Alisha enter me cause she would know what I struggle with most. She wrote something and it had some good pointers but not all truth for me.  Some was true for her amount of loss so we worked on it a little together and then she submitted it.  She got a call and informed me to call them back. I took a hearing test and they got to see me personally.  They decided to reward two of us.  I was kind of glad because then that means I didn't take them from the other lady.  So excited that I got them. 

Aubree is crawling

Since we got back from our Vegas trip (5/1/13) she has been all for crawling.  First with one knee and one foot but now she is better at two knees except for on the linoleum kitchen floor.  That's when she likes to bear/froggy crawl. 

Ashley's wedding weekend

We flew in using the companies fly miles. It cost us $200 dollars in gas last time we drove the Jetta so we asked mom if they had the fly miles and if we could use them.  She let us.  We extended our stay.  We flew in late Thursday.  Since mom wanted us to visit friends during the day I meet up with Chandree a HS friends for breakfast. Then mom came back from work early to hang out. We visited with family.  Ryan ran off with the guys a few times to outdoor stores which he enjoyed. Aubree got in the jacuzzi with me and liked it.  I took family pictures Saturday night. 

Sunday we visited our old El Camino Ward.  They adored Aubree. Monday we visited Ry's old workers, grandma Simpson, and David Wadsworth.  Got Canes and visited with mom and Dad.  

Day of the wedding. We slept in. Then I realized all I needed to do.  I got mom and Alisha helping me.  With their help we got the dress ironed, nails painted and tanned my legs. Once I got there they were running behind too.  I'm surprised Ashley wanted a hand in my makeup.  Brennan curled my hair. After the girls were ready we headed to the chapel.  Things were a little unorganized in my opinion so everything was running behind. We didn't get to the reception until after it started and had to take bridal party pictures there in the dark. 

It was funny Aubree kept looking at me.  I could tell she noticed a difference in my makeup. She is very attentive and notices the small details.  It's kind of fun. 

The next morning we boarded the plan and went home.  Both times Aubree did pretty good on the plan until about when the plan landed. 

A more uplifting spirit

So I've been watching some episodes of the TV show "Once Upon a Time". It's been fun watching and is kind of addicting. Well it may be a fluke but last night in the middle of the night I was up with Aubree and the LED night light in the hall was flickering. Ry just a few days ago said LED lights don't go out so it was pretty trippy. I was praying for peace cause I get scared of things easily at night. I jumped back in bed bringing Aubree with me. I didn't want to be near that light. While I laid there trying to fall back asleep I thought of how can I be better at bringing the spirit of Christ in our home to help me not be scared like that. I decided to stop watching the show. It has a intriging story line but it has some creepy magic and evilness parts in it. I don't want to be bringing that kind of spirit into our home so I last night I decided I can live without it.

Wonder oven, garden, busy bag exchange.

Lasagna dinner in the wonder oven! It turned out perfect! I put lasagna in two jars, bread in one jar, corn in another (I'd do frozen next time or add some flavor. Canned was too bland even with butter.) and then brownies in the last one. This was the only one that didn't work, but that's my fault it was a microwave recipe. I just put it in the microwave and then it was great served with ice cream. Yum!

For the lasagna I greased it with Crisco. I mixed my sauce, cottage cheese and grate cheese in another bowl. Then I filled the jar 1/3 - 1/2 full with uncooked mini bow tie pasta (any small pasta should work). Then I mixed in the sauce mix up to about 2/3rds full.  I wanted to give the pasta some room to grow.

Aubree put herself to sleep holding her lovey bear.

Broccoli has sprouted.

Aubree being silly with her toys. She is SO entertaining.

And lastly the pizza is my contribution to the busy bag exchange. A few ladies in the ward got together and traded little busy bags we made. We made 11 extra to give to the others. We all ended up with some awesome games for our kids.