Just life.

I realize that I haven't posted in a while. Things here have been crazy, and I haven't had a lot of spare moments to devote to blogging. Sunday we had stake conference. We had a convert bare his testimony, and it was awesome. He has only been a member for two months, and he has read the Book of Mormon 5 times. That just blows me away. Before he was baptized he was a Roman Catholic priest for 33 years. WOW!!

Philip and Orion spent some good quality time together that afternoon. It was fun to just sit back and watch them play. Orion just lights up when he gets to play with Daddy!

Monday, for Family Home Evening, we carved pumpkins. Well, Philip carved, Orion colored, and I worked on cleaning the seeds. Monday night, Orion came down with croup. So needless to say, we didn't get much sleep that night. Tuesday I was dead tired and sick, Orion was sick and Philip was tired, but had to go to work. Thankfully, I have wonderful friends. Tuesday morning, Shawna called and asked if she could bring me dinner. How grateful I am to her!! That evening, Abrey called and asked if she too could bring us dinner. It isn't every day that out of the blue two people volunteer to bring you dinner. Since Shawna was already bringing us food, Abrey brought us dinner for tonight. What wonderful people I know!! I hope I am as in tune with the spirit as they are.


Today for the most part we are all feeling much better. Orion slept decently last night, I only got up a couple of times to check on him. He still has a nasty cold, but I suppose I can live with that. He is so cute. He can blow his own nose. He asks for a "blow" (that is his word for tissue) then proceeds to blow really hard, then wipes his nose. I usually go by after ward and finish cleaning it up, but I think it's adorable. Anyway, I hope you all have a great day.

DISCLAIMER: There is content in this post that some of you may find appalling. Please don't pass judgment on my motherly love. I really do love my son, even if I do put his life in danger.
(according to Phil his life was in danger, I didn't think the situation was quite as dire.)

This week has been both really great, and really busy and not so good, all at the same time. Thursday morning, my WONDERFUL friend Shawna took Orion over to her house to play. Once I had the house to myself, I didn't know what to do!! So, I did what I always do. I exercised for an hour, then started cleaning. No big change, but it was great to be able to do something, and have it stay done for a change. THANK YOU TO SHAWNA!!
Friday morning, Orion and I went to story time at the library. Once again, Orion didn't really get into it, but he loved playing with the train table afterwords. Right when we walked in the door, Philip called, and invited me to go into town and have a late lunch/early dinner with him. I just had to find a babysitter, last minute. So I called my other WONDERFUL friend, Jenifer and asked her if she could watch Orion last minute. Because she is so great, she agreed, and I dropped Orion off at her house an hour later. THANK YOU TO JENIFER!! Philip and I went to Quedoba (I have no clue how to spell that!) then went and picked Orion up. It was a good day.
Today I spent the morning reading my book. I was supposed to finish Halloween costumes, but I couldn't put my book down!! This afternoon, I cleaned the house in preparation for Sunday. Philip even helped by cleaning the basement and Orions room. THANK YOU TO PHILIP!!

Ok, if you have any concerns at all about my motherly capabilities, stop reading now. I don't want to tell you anything that would feed those doubts.

The other night, I was giving Orion a bath. We have a rule in this house, that you can't stand up in the bath, you have to stay seated. Philip even obeys this rule. If he is taking a bath, and the soap is too high to reach from where he is sitting, he calls me in to get it down for him. Anyway, this particular night, I didn't make Orion follow the rules. (And yet, he still lives!!)
The video is a little long, and there isn't really anything exciting at the end, so feel free to stop in the middle! :0)

Orion can dress himself !?!?

This morning, I handed Orion some jeans and asked him to put them on. Usually he tries really hard for a while, with no success. Sometime he does manage to pull his pants up, but usually both legs are in the same leg hole. Today, was different. He managed to get both legs in separate holes, and with very little help from, pulled his pants up. YEA FOR ORION!!

This evening, Philip surprised me by bringing home some beautiful flowers for me. I love it when he thinks of me. His exact words were " . . . these aren't a gift, you've earned them. You do so much for me . . ." I am so thankful for my husband!!

Life has been pretty uneventful these last few days. Sunday night, Orion took his life in own hands, and drew on our bean bags with my expensive stampin-up chalk. I think I under reacted to him, because I was trying so hard to not over react. Oh, I still can't think about it without it making me sick!! He also got it all over his Sunday pants, and it didn't come out, so now, I have to get him new pants to wear to church. SILLY BOY!!! Today I finished Philips cape, and I am almost done with Orions. I just have to figure out how to finish the neck and add the strings. I don't really understand what the instructions are saying. . . Hopefully tomorrow, I will cut out my fabric and get that put together before Halloween. If not, the possabilities are endless. We also made cookies today. They were soo nummy. I had to force myself to put 2 dozen in the freezer and only leave 4 out, so that I wouldn't eat them all. Orion was more interested in the dough then the cooked cookies. At one point today, I heard him crying in his bedroom. It wasn't a hurt cry, it was a "I've gotten myself into a situation that I don't know how to get out of"cry. I went in to find him stuck in the ottoman. Needless to say, he didn't play with it for the rest of today.

Pumpkin Patch Fun!!

Today was really good. I woke up at six this morning, and unable to pull myself out of bed lazed around until seven. I went downstairs and exercised until Orion woke up. I didn't get my whole 45 minutes in, but hey, it is Saturday. I deserve to slack off sometimes right?? At about 9:30 we all piled in the car to go to Sutters Ridge Farm. We got there (5 minutes later) to discover that they don't open until 10:00. So we parked the car and went for a nice leisurely stroll on a trail. It was so beautiful. As we walked I wondered if that is kinda what the sacred grove looks like. It just reaffirmed my desire to go visit there. Orion had lots of fun on the trail. He discovered a few bushes with thorns however, and did not enjoy those at all!!

When we got to the farm, we walked down to feed the goats. Orion really liked the lamas. I think he was a little afraid of the goats. Next we hit the tricycle track. Since Orion was unable to reach the peddles, I had the wonderful privilege and opportunity to push him around. Then we went on the hay ride to the pumpkin patch. Orion was enamored with the tractor pulling us. He didn't take his eyes off of it for a minute!! (Not even to take a family picture!!) We found a couple of pumpkins we liked and took hay ride back. Once again, Orions attention didn't waver. If only I could get him to pay such good attention in church!! All in all, I think we had a very nice and enjoyable morning together as a family. I love having the whole family together all having a good time.

This afternoon, Orion stayed home and played with Philip, while I went to a baby shower. I went shopping for a gift right before, and decided that I hate going to baby showers! I always pick out the cutes things, for other peoples babies!! I pick things out, and then want so badly to get extras to put in my baby boxes for my children. If only . . .

This evening Orion and I cleaned house (swept. mopped, vacuumed, dusted, picked up, you know.) in preparation for Sunday. I was very tempted to not do so much, but we are having friends over for dinner tomorrow, and I certainly don't want to have to be cleaning tomorrow before they come over. Now it is one of my favorite times of day, BEDTIME!! After Orion is in bed I plan on spending a relaxing evening reading the Relief Society lesson for tomorrow, and then maybe take a bath. Oh, I can hardly wait!! Good night to you all.

I feel like it has been a while since I've posted. Sorry about that to all of my devoted readers. (Ha Ha Ha, I needed a good laugh.) Anyway, the other day Orion and I finger painted . . . with pudding. Orion had fun painting, until he tasted it. Then he had fun eating it. Philip told me my picture was much prettier. (much more pretty??) Not much is going on, so I will quite here.

Just another day.

I feel like I start all of my blogs "so yesterday". Why?? Because by the time the day is winding down, and things actually happened that I could write about, I am too tired to even think about posting anything. So then bright and early the next morning, I am writing "so yesterday . . . "

So yesterday was good. We walked to the library in the morning. Last week we went on a Wednesday, but when we got there, it was story time, (close to the end) and the kids room was packed. So we just picked up my books that were on hold and walked home. This week I thought, ok, we will go on Tuesday. Orion likes to play with the train table and will sit and play for a good 20 minutes while I read. Well, yesterday (on Tuesday!) after we spent the 30 minutes walking there, guess what, IT WAS STORY TIME!! Apparently our library does story time 3 days a week!! I know I shouldn't really be complaining about it, but Orion doesn't really get into story time, so I prefer to go when he can enjoy himself. Anyway, we stayed for story time, and then checked out some books, and started our long trek home. After Orions nap we went outside and played with the sidewalk chalk. Why he felt he needed to color himself, I do not know.


Afterwards, we went and did some dishes. I got a cute little video of Orion helping.


Oh, and lately Orion has really been into hats.