Chase and Amy

Sunday, November 29

I'm Really Excited...

Because:

We had a great Thanksgiving and got to see the lights at Temple Square...

I put up Christmas decorations and the Nativity set I got for Christmas last year...

I finished up all my projects that had been waiting...

And after this week I will pretty much be done with school for the semester!

Sunday, November 22

I Know that Thanksgiving isn't even here yet...

But it was snowing today and it felt like it should or could be Christmas so I allowed myself one breakdown of doing anything Christmas related. So I changed the background on our blog. But in keeping with the tradition of not thinking about Christmas before Thanksgiving, thus giving ample time to truly give thanks for what we have, I will not be listening to Christmas music, or putting up any other decorations of the sort until after Thursday :)

Monday, November 9

We're Almost There

I figured it was about time for another post. Someday I'll actually get around to posting pictures of Halloween, but no pictures for this post, sorry!

We're on the home stretch for the semester and I am very glad. It's been a very rewarding semester, but really long and hard. I just have to get through the next two and half weeks and after that everything will pretty much be done!

I finally got my capstone paper written. Hopefully the first draft will come back without too much red on it, so the final will be easy to fix! My group is implementing the health program we've been writing this week so we can wrap that up. I've never been a fan of group projects, but I have the best group ever and they've made this monster of a class a whole lot more bearable.

I registered for my last semester of college. Thankfully next semester will be pretty easy and laid back compared to this one, so I'm looking forward to it. Chase changed his major to CS finally! He spent so much time just trying to get into the MIS program it was more trouble that it was worth, so hopefully this will work out better for him.

We got to go up to Idaho this weekend for a much needed break from school life. We got to see some old friends that moved up there and went to the temple with Chase's parents. We haven't been for awhile so it was nice to go.

I am so excited for Thanksgiving! Mostly because I just might actually have the time to get some projects done that have been waiting for months. Quite excited to spend some time with my family and finally get our apartment feeling like we actually live there!

Tuesday, October 27

Not Much Going On

Yeah, not much has been happening these last few weeks. Well, kind of. By not much happening, I mean fun things mostly. Midterm has hit so LOTS of stuff has been happening with school, but that's pretty much it.

p.s. We are excited for my family to come up for Halloween and celebrate though!

Sunday, October 18

Trip to the Zoo!

On Saturday we got to go down to the zoo with my family. I hadn't been for a long time and Chase had never been (shock!) so it was really fun! There were lots of baby animals there this time and I think the funnest part was seeing my nephews reactions to all the animals.

Here's Heidi with Thomas and my mom and Michael in the background.

Chase holding up Michael so he could see the baby elephant.

All of us looking at the giraffes.

Mommy and Baby

Chase and Heidi so thrilled about the giraffes!

Friday, October 16

Project Bookshelves: Complete

After lots of this...

Came these!

Now we only have one more to finish up! They've ended up being quite the project, but I really like how they turned out. Now we just need more books to fill them up... you can never have too many books!

Sunday, October 11

Uplifted

I finally got around to posting these from last weekend. We were able to go down to Salt Lake with Chase's family on Saturday and hit both sessions of conference. Thankfully we got in on standby for the morning sessions and then had tickets for the afternoon. It was a fun experience since I've never been to a live session before! I would have to say Elder Bednar's talk was my favorite; perfect recipe for a happy family. Conference is always my two favorite times of the year.

We also got to go see John Schmidt in concert last night with some of my family. I love his concerts! They're always so fun. He did kind of play Love Story Meets Viva la Vida, which I was very glad about. If you haven't heard this song, you're missing out! I like how good you feel after his concerts.

Thank goodness for uplifting things! :)

Lauren Funnies

9/12/2012

- Every time she hears the dryer open Lauren runs in and holds her arms up ready for me to hand her laundry from the washer. I hand her every little piece and she throws it into the dryer making sure nothing is hanging out.

- Lauren sits on the counter while I get ready in the mornings. She picked up the bottle of hairspray and started "spraying" her hair. While fixing dinner she sat on the counter and grabbed the PAM bottle and "sprayed" her hair.

-She does not like doors or drawers left open. If she sees one open she will close it. If there is something poking out of a closed drawer she will try and tuck it back into the drawer.

-When I dust she needs a rag too and follows right behind me and mimics every move I make.

-Lauren loves taking baths. She gave her baby doll a bath in the sink today complete with rubbing her head and cleaning out her ears.

- She likes to take all her stuffed animals and babies and take turns wrapping them up and rocking them. Then she sets them in a row on her bench and gives them all a drink from her sippy cup.

- When she's trying to get my attention and I'm standing at the kitchen counter, she will wiggle in between me and the cupboard, push with all her might against the cupboard and stick out her bum against my legs to push me away from the counter.

- Lauren waves at every car and person that drives or walks in front of our house.

- She knows how to rock out to music BIG TIME. Driving the other day she fell asleep. A while later I looked back at her and she was awake head-banging and wiggling in her car seat to the radio which is a common occurrence.

- Chase gets her out of her crib in the morning and she comes to wake me up. She gives me a kiss and climbs in bed with me and has to be tucked in. That lasts about five seconds and then we go have breakfast.

10/3/2012

-She fell out of her crib last week. Down another wrung the mattress went!

- She's started carrying her baby around even more. I catch her giving her kisses on the head, feeding her crackers, taking turns eating a cookie, wrapping her up and rocking her, walking with her around the house and pointing things out, patting her on the back, putting her in the chair at the table and tucking her into bed.

10/11/12

-Lauren tried going potty today! Wasn't quite sure what to think and was nervous about falling in. But she really liked the flushing part. :)

11/15/12

-Lauren succeeded in dumping 18 eggs into the shopping cart last week without breaking a single one!

- When she's getting dressed she likes to run around naked for a few minutes, throw her diaper away, and then lay down to get dressed.

-She found an old purse and carries it around all day on her shoulder with her baby in the other arm. She waves to me and heads to the door and gets a little upset when I won't let her leave.

-She learned how to climb on her rocking horse and spends hours a day rocking and climbing on and off.

11/18/12

-Lauren spilled some water on the carpet. I told her to go get a towel to clean it up. She walked to the kitchen to grab what I thought was a towel hanging on the oven that wasn't there, and instead grabbed the rug and dragged it over and started trying to furiously mop up the water.

12/10/12

- Like Father-Like Daughter. Lauren can find our phones, open Netflix, find Curious George and turn it on. All by herself. She will pull the laptop up on her lap and pretend to type and turn it off and on. She's more tech literate than I am!

-We didn't realize just how much she understands. Looking at books the other day, I asked her questions and she would point and find things that I had no idea she knew.

- She's started singing Old MacDonald. The only part she knows is eee-i, eee-i!

2/22/13

- Getting ready the other day, Lauren walks in with her hands on her hips and yells "Hey guys!"

- She's into counting, but everything is "two." One, two, two, two, two...

-Walking is not an option...run-hop-skipping is a must!

- Lately she likes us to sing to her before bedtime. Her favorite song is "Do" (Old MacDonald) and gets mad if we try to sing something else.

- She plays possum all the time and closes her eyes when she doesn't want to do something, or in the last few days-pretend to be asleep with fake snoring and all!

3/2/13

-She's quite concerned about everyone's well-being. If you cough or say ouch, she'll come over by you and ask, "ew awight?" (You alright?)

4/22/13

- The other day after being sick I was sitting on the bathroom floor. Lauren came in and asked "ew awight?" then pulled the brush out of the drawer and brushed my hair for me. She did a pretty good job and didn't even pull!

- She got her "big girl bed" a few weeks ago. In the morning she comes in our room and peeks over the edge of the mattress to see if we're awake. The she either wacks us awake with her George or Bear or pounds on the mattress, then grins and says hi mom!