Fridge woes.

We went camping last night. Spent a nice evening at Willard Bay. It was realllly hot! One hundred degrees this weekend. We went and got a movie; "Bedtime Stories" with Adam Sandler. It wasn't too bad, cheesy, but okay. We got food from Sonic. It was tasty. Then we slept. When we woke up today I spent some time cleaning the trailer and Deric took apart the switch in the dashboard to see why our vents don't work in the truck. (We bought it with the air only coming out of the defroster.) He fixed it by cleaning the pieces! So, he saved us about $300 by not taking it "in" to get looked at and fixed. We decided to come home about 1:00 because we thought we could get a bunch of stuff done at the house we were needing to do. When we got home we found our fridge had stopped working and our freezer was defrosted. YAY. We replaced a part that had gone out in it about 3 1/2 months ago, we are sure it is the same problem. (If we are lucky, they will take back the part and reimburse us for it.) So, we took everything out, put it in the freezer and little fridge downstairs, out in the trailer's fridge, and then took some food across the street to our neighbor's fridge. Then we searched online to see what we wanted. We found it, headed to Home Depot...and they didn't have it in stock. Plus, it would be about 7 days before it would be delivered. :-P Good news though, was all the energy star appliances are 10% off right now and we get a $20 rebate from our power company. Woohoo. They didn't have one of the one we wanted to see there, so we had to go to RC Willey. There they had the same exact fridge, same price, even with the 10% off and they had it in stock in their Salt Lake warehouse which we could go pick up from. SO...we opted to go with that so we would have a fridge. So, he went and got it, brought it home, and we had like 4 guys from our ward come over and help us bring it in. So, here we have a brand new fridge. It is one of the ones with the freezer on the bottom. It has an ice maker that you can change the cube size. An "alarm" for if it is accidentally left open. It is bigger than our old one, so it will last us with more kids to feed.

All in all, it's nice to have new things...but it would have been nice not to *have* to get it right now. Esentially, the money we saved up by putting the money from the couches into another cd is eaten up...so we won't have the $1000 in a savings acct in the end. :-( Sad, but, at least we have a means of paying for it. We are always taken care of. :)

I got my bulk spices order: taco seasoning and vanilla powder. That's cool.

I am nearly done with putting Deric's junk in tupperware downstairs. :-) Yay!

I probably have a little over a week until Molly is here! Wow...

Broken.

Life really *isn't* very good right now. I can't handle ANYTHING.

Swimming...

Last night was the ward pool party. River was afraid of the water at first. Then she got used to it and enjoyed it. She didn't want to leave. Frankly, I didn't either. I was so enjoying how much relief I felt from it. I dunno, it was the first really fun thing I have done in months. I even went down the tube water slide.

Right now I am listening to River screaming at the top of her lungs because she doesn't want to take a nap. I wish I could gain the strength to do something about these feelings...I am just done.

The dog days...

I have been feeling completely blah the last few days. No motivation, no excitement, no ability to be pleasant and happy. It's really frustrating. I just want to get happy! I want to be comfortable! This weekend is supposed to be baking hot, 100 degree weather. Joy. We are going camping at Willard Bay. It should be decent. I can't sleep comfortably in my own bed, so it won't matter if I am in the trailer or not.

I hung all the pictures! I'm happy I did, though my house almost looks cluttered with all the photographs on the walls. Oh well, it's my artwork too...I think I might get some colored fabric to put up with my drapes to tie the pillows and the colored photos in a bit more. It is just too black and brown in there right now.

We started on the Trek video. We did the credits and are working on the "trailsides" and bloopers. It took a while to get everything organized (3 weeks) and now I only have about 2 weeks before I'm hoping Molly will be born...so, I hope to accomplish something or other. I keep feeling like I just won't be able to do much of anything. :-/ Which makes me feel a bit guilty. Oh well again.

I'm just trying to be cheerful...

Happy Birthday River!

What a day...

I got up and cooked for about 3 hours this morning. It was super hot out today, so I needed to get it all done in the morning. I made a birthday cake, potato salad, and baked bean casserole. Then I cut up watermelon, shucked corn, and decorated the cake. I was pretty tired after that. We ate lunch and went to church. I started to fall asleep really bad so we came home and River and I took a nap. :-) That was nice. Then the Sharps got here about 5:15ish. They had to leave at about 6:15...so, we ate really fast, opened presents, and then sang "happy birthday" and River blew out her candle. They had another birthday to go to and they were showing their rental house. It was a rush, but at least someone was able to come.

We are now just sitting and watching Toy Story 2 and Deric is editing some of the Trek video the credits section, we just got the footage last night. So, for the next couple weeks we will be devoting a lot of time to that (until Molly gets here).

Tomorrow I am going to have brunch with Sister McCarthy (yes, David's mom). She is in Kaysville visiting someone so I told her we should get together. So, that should be interesting.

I went to bed at 9:30 last night! And then Deric got up with River when she started screaming at 6am so I could sleep until 7:30ish. Yay for being caught up on sleep!

I went yard saling this morning. I got a little greenhouse so that we can grow our tomatoes and peppers and vine plants early on so that we can have a more successful garden. :-) ($2) I got a "cozy coupe" for River (you know, the little tykes cars) it was a police cruiser, but the light on top broke off ($8). I found two vintage fisher price toys, the wobble chime ball ($.50) and the "teaching" wind up music clock ($.50)...probably more for Molly to play with. I LOVE vintage toys! I got an umbrella for the patio for free! I was going to see if the pole fit the one I already had, nope, but this umbrella works well enough. I also got some outdoor hanging lamp lights for my neighbor who has been trying to come up with a way of making some. I paid $5 for them so I figured it would be cheaper to do it that way. I also got my Christmas wrapping paper for like $1.50 (3 rolls). So, yah, fun stuff.

I then went grocery shopping and price matched on like 15 things. I got River's birthday balloons and cake and candle for tomorrow. And of course all the party food. :-) Took me forever, since it is Saturday and Walmart is rearanging everything in the store to upgrade their look. I can finally hang the rest of Molly's clothes now too.

Diana is supposed to be calling me about 3ish to let me know when she will be here. We'll see what happens with the rest of the day!

tired...

I am SO tired. River has been skipping naps the last couple days. And I don't get to sleep until like 11:30. Then River wakes up at 7. I need a nap each day to feel awake.

I just got off the phone with Diana and she and her family are going to come over tomorrow night to visit. Since they are going to be in town. It will be fun to finally get to see Logan. I saw him in early November briefly in the car seat he was in when they stopped by the house. I didn't know for sure if I was pregnant at that point...so here I am, at the end of my pregnancy and I get to see them again. Haha! :-)

I think I am going to go yard saling tomorrow morning since it will be the last opportunity probably before Molly comes. Since next weekend we are going to go camping and the 24th Deric is working in the SLC parade for Pioneer day as a Ham Radio operator.

I went to Visiting teaching interviews today. I probably complained a lot more than I should. Oh well, these last couple weeks have been bad as far as my attitude and energy level have gone. My visiting teaching companion stopped me on the way over there and was like "I think we should just skip this month because of how close you are". I was like "Well, I am planning on skipping next month, so really I am fine with getting this month done since I don't know how it will be after Molly is born..." She's like, "Oh, well, ok, I'll set it up then". Just funny... At the interview we got a slice of pie and then got to choose a vinyl lettering saying. Mine says "Home for the Harvest" which will be nice at Thanksgiving/Halloween time. I needed more things like that...now to just make it!

Today I am going to go do our grocery shopping after I go to Kohl's and use yet another free $10 gift card. It's fun, I go there with these and spend like 11$ and then get 10$ off, so I get all this new stuff for like nothing! So, gonna go make the meal plan now...

Play day...

We went over to the park by Alaris' house to play and then went back to their house for a little bit afterward. They are actually going to come over later today to see the couches and play a little bit. :-) Between now and then we will just be hanging out and taking our nap. Maybe a little tidying up.

Framing

Well, I gave my pictures to Ben Franklin to have custom framed. It will be a couple of weeks before I get them to hang in my living room. Oh well...at least they are getting done finally. :-)

I went to the bank today. We started a 5 year dedicated savings account for River with the $225 we have saved for her in the last two years. Her birthday money and $10 a paycheck have gone into a savings account until now, and we moved it all over today. We will just keep putting it in each of the highest yield dedicated savings accounts each time they end. But she will be 7 when this one closes! Wow, that will be crazy. We plan on opening a savings account for Molly next month too. The goal is to do the savings for each of our children...and since it is in something we can't pull money out of there is no temptation for us to use it either. haha! When they are old enough to earn money for themselves we plan on matching fifty cents for each dollar that they put into their savings (up to $1000/year). They have to continually have an increase in their account balance at the end of each year to keep the money we matched with though. So, they can't spend any of it. When they are 18 the money is totally theirs. But, with the stipulation that they spend it on something important like schooling. I think it will be a great way to encourage them to save their money and use it wisely.

I don't know what to do today...maybe something crafty.

Couches day!

Well, I have spent the morning working on cleaning each room of my house. I have made sure everything has been put away and that there are fresh towels and such. It feels good to have it all cleaned so thoroughly. I figured that it would be good to do with the new furniture coming and wanting to focus on creating my living room and bedroom spaces. Now we have room for everyone to sit if you come out for Christmas. ;-)

Rob Parkes offered to send me $5 because of the shipping costs. So, I am getting a little money from doing the bag after all!

Well, I'm tired for now so, nap time!

Ps. I put a picture of the bag and the parrot up on the days I talked about them so check 'em out!