A Miracle!

So I believe in miracles!!!  I feel sooo much gratitude right now.... and this blog has kinda become my outlet so let just tell y'all what happened. 
When I was in Utah about a month ago my mom and I went to the temple for a session.  Now, let me just start out saying that I lose things...... a lot!  I had misplaced my temple recommend/my whole wallet the morning of Amber's wedding so that was super stressful and I didn't want that to happen again.  So thinking I would NEVER forget where I put it.... I put my recommend in the pocket of the back of teh driver's seat of my parent's Yukon.  Yeah, I know what you're thinking.... cause i'm thinking the same thing now.  Why, there???  I have no idea ok..... let me just blame it on pregnancy, like I do with everything else.  Well the evening before my mom and I went to the temple I stumbled across my recommend.  So I slipped it into my jean pockets....... the evening progresseed and we went to Seagull book, Plato's closet, and Labeau's for icecream.  I didn't think twice about the recommend in my pocket.
Well, the next morning rolls around bright and early!!!  I knew I just had to grab the recommend from the pocket of the jeans, then on the bathroom floor.  And whattdya know?  It wasn't there!!!!!  So we started into scramble mode trying to find it!  NOWHERE!!!!!!!!!  Finally my mom and I decided to just go...... hopefully my bishop and stake president would be easy to reach and they could still get me in (despite the early hour adn the two hour time difference, and the fact that I'd barely moved to a new stake and the stake president doesn't even know me).
Well, what do you do when you're circumstances are these?  PRAY!!!  I can't tell you howwwww much going to the temple meant to me that morning.  It's very difficult to carve out time for a temple trip since moving to Hershey.  It's next to impossible to find someone to milk for Eric so his time away is pretty much NEVER, and I'd gone by myself once which was good BUT, peyton screamed for a whole hour of the journey, we got stuck in traffic..... and the list goes on.  So, the fact that I was in Utah and teh temple was sooooo close and I had free childcare meant the world to me!  So PRAY I did. 
We get to the temple and I fill out the papers with my name, birthdate, stake president, bishop... all that good stuff.  The gentleman from the back came to retrieve my paper and a minute after he left to contact my peeps, the man at the front desk asked casually, "Well, what's your name? I guess we could check up here to see if anyone turned it in?"
I gave them my name and he hands me my recommend.  Speechless...... there are no words for a moment like that.  A miracle is what I call it!  There was a lot of thanking the Lord for that one that day!
Next miracle time....... Well, Eric and I were planning a temple trip for this Saturday.  Everything was falling in place..... Barry got someone to milk....which was a miracle in and of itself, Amber and Christian had a free schedule so could babysit for us, etc. 
This was going to be the first time Eric could go to the temple since we've moved here..... we went once before and after everything was planned, we realized the temple was closed for cleaning (we ended going up anyway to visit Christian and Amber though).  Well, a couple days ago our car started reaking of gas/antifreeze.  I haven't been able to go many places because we couldn't even drive our car without gagging due to the strong smell.  We'd unroll our windows and just deal with it.  The "car place" said that it was an antifreeze leak over the heater coil/thingamajig.... I can't even realy remember.  Well, what I do remember is that it was going to cost us 500-700 dollars to fix!!!!!!  Holy toledo!
So, we were freaking out a little due to the fact that we just don't have that money right now.  We didn't even know if our car was worth that since we have to put two new wheels on it as well, so we were considering just getting a new vehicle all together.  Trying to keep our options open basically. 
Well, after I found all this out my stomach just dropped.... there went our temple trip (labor to fix this thing was 3 days at the soonest) and I was worried about money.  Everything happens at once.... we still have to pay for Peyton's hospital stay, still have to pay 40% of all my hospital bills for this baby, etc..... uuuggghhhhhhh.  So like I said, what do you do in these circumstances... get on your knees and PRAY!  I know Heavenly Father wants to bless us, and as hard as Satan is working to keep us away from the temple, Heavenly Father is working to make sure we can! 
This morning we got a call from teh "car place".
Car place: "uuummmm, we're confused.... what's supposed to be wrong with your car?"
Eric: "Antifreeze leaking in heater coil/thingamajig" (except he knew what he was talking about)
CP: "Well, we took off the dashboard and there is nothing leaking..... you can come get your car."
Eric: stutter..... stutter... stutter..."But the smell is horrible in there... we haven't been able to even drive in our car"
CP: "The car was sitting out in our shop all night.... and this morning there was NO smell."
Eric: stutter... stutter... stutter (actually he doesn't stutter but whateves) Ok, we'll be right there.
A miracle!!!!!  And I'm sooooooo grateful!!!!  Temple here we come.... and NOTHING will stand in our way!!!

Things they don't tell you before you have kids

Oh sure, when you're pregnant you'll get a multitude of people come up and tell you what a blessing and how much fun the kids are going to be.  If you're a first time mommy, you might still look around on a sunday at all the perfectly coifed children and those families that all the children are perfectly reverent and think to yourself that that's exactly how you're family is going to be.  Or maybe you see those kids on sunday that have the stained shirt, one shoe off and the other on, the mom has to haul one child out mid prayer kicking and screaming, the kid's hair all looks fuzzy, and boy are they irreverent....... I'm guilty BEFORE my kid came along, of thinking, "Well, gosh. My kids will NEVER be like that."  Haha, let me tell you what people just don't tell you before these kids come along.

• They will ruin everything you own.  SERIOUSLY!! 
• Scriptures are used for ripping out the pages.
• Crayons or markers are dangerous, very dangerous!
• No matter how many onesies you own, every single one of them will be stained.
• Juice boxes usually just like to be squeezed to see how high the drink can "fountain" out of the straw
• Don't leave a diaper off for even 10 seconds..... they will pee all over your new carpet
• Do not leave a CD player within reach of the child..... they will either break it or break any CD inside the player.
• Some kids just refuse to go to nursery........ probably will still have ot sit with him in class when he's 14, the rate we're going
• You will have to pull off every crust before that kid even touches it.
• The day you decide to clean your couch cover (because it's in desperate need and you're having some friends over in a couple days) is the day your little guy has a runny nose and will wipe boogers all over it...... or he'll get an "oowwwie" that needs a bandaid and little cream stuff that helps with bacteria.... before the bandaid is even on he'll twist away and wipe all the cream all over the couch.  It's also the day your "big baby" (the husband) accidentlayy spills his whole plate of dinner all over the couch. 
• If you get in teh habit of letting him sleep with you, he'll never want to sleep alone again. EVER!!!!! Then he'll take up the whole bed
• He'll tear apart your most favorite cookbooks, photo albums and anything else he can get ahold of
• If you start praising him for "being a big helper" for throwing something away for you,he'll purposefully rip out all the pages in his story books just so he can show you what a big helper he is by throwing them away too.
• That new shiny baby grand you got.......... chocolate stained keys every couple days and fingerprints galore
• Doing the dishes should be renamed to "taking a shower" when the kids help
• Flour buckets need padlocks
• you give the kid rice and measuring cups to play with on a blankie and the rice WILLLLL end up over every square foot of the room you're in..... and the next room.

Many, many more..... and I may or may not have experience with EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. of these things. haha.  So I have..... I love my little guy to the moon and back.  I wouldn't trade him for squeeky clean furniture, or belongings that keep intact, or even to have my own bed back.  He makes my life fun!  In the midst of everything, he really reminds me it's not about the things we have anyway.  It's about relationships, and love..... and eating dessert before dinner (because he saw it on the counter and refused to eat anything but the caaaccaaa/chocolate)!  I'm so blessed!

TOFW weekend

Wow, my heart is sooo full right now!  I was fortunate enough to be able to attend a Time Out for Women weekend here in our area this weekend!  My mother in law came down to babysit Peyton and I went out with the ladies.  It was kind of my last HUZZAH before baby Sadie gets here.  The conference just filled my heart and soul.  I felt that what these speakers and presenters said were meant for me.  Particularly a music group called Mercy River.  They had fun/silly songs and beautiful songs that just really touched my heart. 
Music works through me like nothing else can.  A wonderful truth that I found this weekend was from a testimony and song of Mercy River.... I want to share it with you.
When Peyton was in the hospital for the Intussuseption (I learned the real name, AND how to spell it), he was in sooooo much pain for awhile.  He'd lie on the bed and just start writhing.  Eric and I would have to be on either side of the bed so he didn't fling himself off.  The first test they ran was X-rays...... and like I said earlier.... I couldn't go in for that because I'm pregnant.  It's very difficult having to stand on the outside of a door just listening to your baby scream but after he got done, all he wanted was his mommy.  We returned to the E.R. room waiting for the next test, which is when they came to insert the IV.  After his IV, he was even more uncomfortable and in even more pain than he'd previously been in.  As he lay there on the big hospital bed, all he wanted was for me to hold him close. 
He couldn't seem to find a comfortable position at all anymore and his poor belly jsut hurt so much.  He was crying and crying but whenever I'd pull away, he'd cry, "Mommmmmyyyyy."  Well, I started singing I am a child of God, and all the primary songs in his ear.  He quieted down and relaxed and ended up going to sleep in my arms. 
While they were doing his air enema a while later to fix his issue, I sat on the outside of the door again just listening to him cry.  The minute they placed him back in my arms, he was fine.  He just needed his mommy.  Throughout his whole hospital stay, he just needed me close and he was fine.  Like I said, he just needed his mommy and I was the only one he wanted. 
As his mommy, I couldn't do anything to take away his pain and make it all better but I could be there for him when he needed me so much. 
Don't you think this is how our Heavenly Father feels?  He needs us to need Him so badly when we're hurting!  He may not take away the pain but He can send comfort and love.  He wants to comfort us and make us feel better. 
I know our Heavenly Father loves us so much!!!  This was such a testimony to me....... I need my little baby to need me so much!  Heavenly Father needs us to need Him as well!!!!!

Pregnancy update

It's sooooo crazy to me how different my two pregnancies have been. When I was pregnant with Peyton, third trimester was HORRIBLE for acid reflux!!! That sucked of course but it was pretty much the only symptom I was experiencing besides a tinnnnyyy bit of swelling and tiredness. Well, let me tell you something....... the last week I have been exhausteeeeedddd!! In fact, I can barely keep my eyes open as we speak. I think I'm going to have to start taking a nap with peyton daily! I hate taking naps because usually I can't sleep at night but maybe, just maybe I'll be sooo exhausted that I can sleep whenever. The other downside of staying awake while Peyton sleeps is that I reallly enjoy my time to just hang out, blog, get things done around the house that I can't when he's awake and the past week, I've been weeding while he sleeps.
The other couple downsides of this pregnancy...... my pregnancy carpal tunnel. UGGGHHHHH!!! It is soooo annoying and usually makes it so I can't sleep well at night. After talking to the doc, he recommended certain braces for my wrists..... tried them..... and no relief!!! The other downside..... swelling!!!!! It's crazy, my left foot and leg look pretty normal but my right foot is as big as a walrus!! Seriously, it's huge!! The last couple nights, I've asked for a foot massage for just the one side. Bless Eric's heart, he does give me those massages!!! LOVE HIM!!!!
The end is in sight though and we can't WAIT to meet our little Sadie Mae!!! 4 1/2 weeks to go! wahoooooooo! This morn bright and early I picked up a power floor sander in Lebanon.... and Eric and our friend Mike have been sanding the baby's room. It's a relief to know that it's getting done and we'll be all ready when she gets here.
Funny story, while driving home from picking up the power sander, Peyton and I stopped at McDonalds for breakfast. I asked if they had any nuggets available during breakfast hours (cause that's Peyton's absolute favorite). They told me no of course.... I finish ordring and pull up to pay. She looks at me and says, "Ohhhhhhhhh, I get it, you're pregnant. Sure we'll get you a special batch of nuggets... as long as you don't mind waiting 4 minutes." Haha, it cracked me up. They thought it was jsut a craving, I didn't correct her that they were for my son.
Well, there's the updates for now. Here, I sit, pooped right out and just dreading the fact that I'll be busy cleaning "sanding dust" off everything for the next few days. WIsh me Luck!!! Word to ur mother!

Seeing the blessings through a trial!

Soooo..... I feel extremely blessed this week! Ya know, it's soooo crazy to me that we sometimes forget how blessed we truly are until a trial happens. Well, my baby's been sick. And there is NOTHING worse than that. I can't tell you how many thousands of times I wished it was me in his place!!!! Well, everything started on firday morning...... Peyton and I were out weeding the flowerbeds and Eric had just gone back to the barns to put away the cows when Peyton just started screaming. I turned around and he dropped the shovel from his hands and grabbed his stomach. My first thought was that he was trying to shovel and rammed the shovel into his gut..... so I wasn't too worried. I picked him up to console him but he just kept crying and crying. He started thrashing around and kicking me and just saying gibberish. We ended up going inside so we could cuddle on the couch but just kept crying. He would occasionally stop for a few seconds and start to go play, then double over and hold his stomach again. After 10 minutes I felt like something was seriously wrong.... i just started crying cause I couldn't handle seeing Peyton like that, and I called Eric. He was coming back to the house in a couple minutes. As I sat there crying next to Peyton trying to console him, Peyton would look at me and see me crying..... he'd stop for a couple seconds, kiss me on the forehead and then double over in pain again.

My baby is sooooo sweet! AFter Eric came in we gave him some pain meds and Eric gave him a blessing.

As Eric was blessing him, Peyton fell fast asleep. He took a good little nap while I just held him and he woke up happy as a clam. We went back outside and Eric let him ride around on the tractor with him as he did his chores. It wasn't till we were back inside that Peyton had another "episode" of holding his belly and crying for awhile. I had no idea what to do........ he'd been perfectly happy for a few hours then his pain started again randomly. I called the doctor on call and he said that if Peyton had another "episode" then we should take him to the E.R. because it sounded like appendicitis. After speaking with him we called a doctor from our ward....... he helped us out and we were able to "check for appendicitis" at home as best we could and we all really felt that it couldn't be that.

Bro. Olson (the doc) recommended that if he had another episode we should prolly just take him to the E.R. anyway to figure everything out. Well,we all went to bed..... this is Peyton above right before bed. He put on Eric's socks!!! Haha, but between him crying... he really was just soooo happy. It was confusing. Well, that night was a LONG one!!!! He woke up soooo many times just uncomfortable and would hold his stomach. But he wouldn't do the full blown screaming and crying. I would just snuggle him and get as comfortable as possible and we'd doze back offf to sleep!!! Well, finally at 5, we gave up trying to sleep. We went downstairs together, gave him some pain meds, water, adn snuggled on the couch. After a bit he fell back asleep and slept soundly until Eric got back from the barn. I called Eric right after he dozed off and told him we needed to go to the E.R........ he was milking but as soon as he was done we were heading off to the hospital!!! So off to Hershey Medical Center we went. UUgggghhhhhh..........then for the worst part of all. All the testing to figure out what was going on!!

They started with Xrays........ (couldn't go in with him because of being pregnant), then inserted an IV (that was horrible), drew for blood work, then an ultrasound. The ultrasound is where they diagnosed this condition. I still can't remmeber the name for it...... but it's when your colon folds in on itself. YOUCH!!!! No wonder he was crying sooo much!!

As we were waiting for someone to come get us for "his procedure" (they were giving him an air enema where they stick a hose up your rear and with concentrated air source, hopefully blow your colon back out of itslef.) As we were waiting, Eric fell asleep (as usual) and Peyton did too (thanks to the morphine they gave him through his IV to help with his pain)

Yeah his IV hand is ginormous!!!!! They had to wrap it all crazy liek that so he wouldn't rip it out. Then a nurse came to get him for his procedure. He looked sooooo small on that big bed. He was a lot happier (and sleepier though) because of the morphine.
Right after his procedure!!! I couldn't go in with him AGAIN because of the radiation they use to see the air through the colon in real time. Let me tell you how comforting it was that Eric was with him throughout everything though. Peyton never had to feel alone cause he always had his daddy!!! After he was all fixed up, there was a night and day change!!!! He was all healed... his colon was back to normal and he was happy as could be again! BUT, we had to stay overnight at the hospital because of the chance of it reoccurring within the first 24 hours after it's fixed. Eric had to go back to the farm then... and Peyton and I waited for the nurse to come get us so we could have a regular room.

And here's our regular room.... and Peyton's new jail cell... I mean, bed. Seriously though... look at this thing. Right after we got there, I told them that this whole arrangement wasn't gonna fly. I was staying overnight with him and wanted to cuddle. The nurses told me that they had to tell me that they prefer that we didn't co-sleep but I didn't care...... so while we waited for a different bed... Peyton looked at all of his stickers. Over and over and over and over and over again.... Every procedure/test they did on him, the nurses gave him an average of 6 new stickers!!! He was pretty thrilled with all of them.
Then his new bed!!! Soooooo much better! The downside of the rest of our time at the hospital was the fact that Peyton couldn't eat solids the rest of that day and he had to keep his IV in. Well, in Peyton's mind, nothing was wrong anymore. His tummy felt ALLL better and he wanted to run around and explore. So basically, I counted down the minutes till Eric could come back and give me a break.... haha. Peyton wanted to wander the halls..... I would clumsily follow behind him with his huge IV cart and try to keep up. After a coupel hours, one of the nurses came to me and said, "You know there's a playroom right?" WHAATTTTTT???? No, I guess i hadn't caught that. So after I forced Peyton to take a good nap..... (mean mom I know,, but he was pooped) we went to the playroom. That pretty much became our new room from there on out....... when Peyton was awake, that's where he wanted to be.
He was super annoyed with that crazy IV. It was good when Eric got ther, (he brought me some good strawberry crepes from Bob Evans and we took turns eating somewhere that Peyton couldn't see us because he still couldn't eat solids and he was starving!!) we all hung out and Eric left to go home to sleep since he had to milk in the morning. Despite being hooked to a crazy IV and being hungry, Peyton slept AWESOME!!! AND, that was even with all the nurses coming in periodically to check on him throughout the night. We were a little leery because he held his stomach and cried for just a couple seconds a couple times before bed and we were super worried that his colon had regressed. I'm telling you, I prayed soooooooo hard that everything was ok and that his body would heal and we could go home the next day.

Doctors were called in to check him over and to keep a super close eye on him and thankfully, our prayers were answered. Everything was ok and he slept great!! The next morning.... Eric was able to join us right after milking and stay with us till we went home. Right before Eric got there, the nurse came in and let us unhook Peyton from the IV stand (the needle and everything was still in his wrist so we could reinsert the IV when we got back up to the room) so we could go down to the cafeteria and get me something to eat ANDDDD Peyton was allowed ot eat solids!!!! HALLELUJAHHH!!!!! the nurses gave me a $10 ticket that I cuold use on ANYTHING in the cafeteria for breakfast. I lvoe free food!!! Well, after a long agonizing decision and a little boy that was going WILD because he was sooooo excited that he wasn't hooked up to that crazy stand we decided on scrambled eggs, cereal, biscuits adn gravy, chocolate milk and bacon. YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! Yeah, we were in heaven. We saved half of it for Eric, cause we're that nice. And actually, all that food was for me because the nurses brought up a tray all for Peyton with cereal...... scrambled eggs, french toast sticks and lots of juice. So we ate a darn good breakfast.... and even beter. When we got back to our room, the nurse had previously told us that we had to rehook his IV but.... when we returned, they said he didn't need it anymore. (They were weighing each of his diapers to make sure his intake, and output made sense and they didn't make him reattach his IV because the weight of the diapers was sufficient) So we spent most of the day in the playroom. It was actually really fun.... Peyton ran wild/no attachments and Eric and I did some airhockey!!

For lunch we ate well again and then we were just biting the bit to get home. After returning from one of our ventures to the playroom, one of the nurses told us we could go home at 3!!!!!!!!!!!! WAHHHOOOOOO!!!!!!!
A couple minutes before going home, the nurse removed his IV from the wrist. Good riddance!! This is Peyton putting his sterile gloves on to clean up our room before departing. haha.

Really, we have felt sooo blessed throughout the whole thing. Peyton's problem was a quick fix.... he loved it at the hospital for the most part, despite not having any family there we never felt alone due to so many concerned friends and family's phonecalls, emails, and texts!!! We were able to go home teh soonest that one can go home from something like that, some friends from our ward brought us dinner for the night we got home from the hospital (soooooooooo appreciated, we were pooped!!!!!!) and somebody else brought us two meals to stick in the fridge or freezer for later. We've felt all the prayers from our loved ones, and peyton has bounced back like nothing happened.

This is Monday. He wanted to be outside with his daddy all day long and Eric's really good at letting Peyton "help". They rounded up the cows, rode on the tractor, washed up the milk room, etc. He's our lil farm boy that's for sure. So grateful Peyton is all better. It was super scary at first jsut not knowing what was wrong with our baby!!!! peyton is the sweetest kid ever..... and the nurses loveeedd him. Peyton had his favorite as well........ a nurse that had a ducky necklace. When you squeeze the ducky it quacks, def the coolest thing ever to Peyton.

The other stressful factor of the weekend was the fact that I was supposed to give a talk in sacrament meeting. We called the counselor over talks and let him know...... on Sunday evening, when one lady brought us over the couple of meals I asked her how church had gone. Turns out that the speakers consisted of me (youth speaker), her (lady who brought over meals, Sis. Kensinger) and the stake patriarch. She told me that Saturday evening as she put the finishing touches on her talk, she had the distinct impression that she shoudl make it longer. Weird she thought, but she did anyway. WOW, it's amazing how the spirit works and how everything works out!!

Easter was great this year!! We kicked off the season with an Easter dinner and easter egg hunt at Grandma Caufman's house the Sunday before Easter sunday. It was great to see all of Eric's family again and make some fun memories!

Peyton loved the "hunt." And he had lots of helpers that wanted him to get everything so he loved all the attention. There were quite a few kids but grandma tells each kid what they get. (this year was one bag of crackers, bag of candy, a reese's egg or marshmallow, and one egg)
Here he was being such a big boy and getting his marshmallow out of the tree.

He was soooo proud! So was his mama!!
Look at that happy boy! It really was such a great time and as we were leaving, Grandma wanted us to go through her garage adn chicken coop to pick whatever we wanted to keep. Her house is up for sale so she's clearing everything out. So we got TONS of chicken stuff! Kinda exciting! We got all kinds of feeders, scoops, etc. We're super stoked to get chickens of our own soon! Right now, fixing the coop and getting the chickens is THIRD on our to priority list. (#1. Finish baby's room #2. Put in garden and then chickens)
And of course I had to add this sweet pic of my lil man. I'm soooo luck to have a husband who is willing to rub my feet after my long days. Remember talking about Peyton being his daddy's copycat....... YESSS!! He saw some lotion on the table, ran over to get it (Eric and I were oblivious at this point) plopped down on the pillow and jsut started massaging my feet. Love that kid.
Peyton and I dyed some easter eggs earlier in the week and had a blast!!! We'd hoped Eric could join us but of course the night we wanted to dye the eggs, they had all sorts of emergencies out in the barns and Eric didn't get in the house till 9. So obviously we started without him. Peyton wasn't too thrilled with the whole "dying" eggs thing. He had a little people toy horse help him and decided that the horsey was hungry so, he stayed busy feeding his horse the eggs. Then he thought it was great to crack the eggs against each other. I shelled a coupel eggs so the horsey could eat better! Ya know, I was ok that he didn't want to dye them. I love dying easter eggs but I just wanted Peyton to have fun and trust me, he was having a blast! The egg above is his attempt to shell some eggs of his own.

We did get 4 eggs dyed. How purty!
His "cheese" face with his horsey and eggs!

On Easter Sunday we went over to our friend's house, the Olson's for Easter dinner. It was soooo delish... even though I demolished the mashed potatoes. I did make a decent pudding poke cookies and cream cake though. We also had ham, rolls, sweet potatoes (nevvvveeerrr had sweet potatoes I liked and I absolutley LOVED these, I had thirds, AND I possibly think they tasted better than pumpkin pie!!!! THAT GOOD!!!!) I have to have that recipe! After lunch/dinner we had an easter egg hunt for the little kids (Peyton and Ellie). They are in nursery together and are sooo cute! All the eggs were just scattered across the lawn so it'd be easy for them and they were filled with candy.

First thing Peyton did when we started the hunt was, drop his basket and run straight up the slide. Yup, it was priceless!!! We finally lured him away from the playset long enough to get some eggs but he sure loved playing on that thing!!

All the older kids helped Ellie and Peyton get all the eggs! After they were through.... all the kids went inside while Eric and Ryan (the dads) hid all the older kids eggs. The Olson's challenged their kids to not eat candy for a year..... and if they succeed, they each get $100 so in each of the eggs, there was money instead of candy to tempt them. I'm telling you, the boys hid them WELL, and there were TONS of eggs!! They counted out all the eggs to see who "won" afterwards and there were close to a 100 eggs. Then they divided up all the money.

It was sooo wonderful to be with good friends for the holidays. We only stayed a couple hours because Eric had to get back to his chores but that was ok too. Peyton and I took a great nap together, then after we woke up we watched movies about Christ.

I'm soooo grateful for this holiday! I love all the easter egg hunts, easter bunny, and all the good food but I especially love the celebration of Christ's atonement and resurrection. I feel such gratitude for the Savior's sacrifice!! We are soooo blessed that when we make mistakes, we don't have to live the rest of our lives with that over our heads. We can be made clean again through repentance and the wonderful gift of the atonement! Not only that but the Savior felt ALL we feel. We never have to feel lonely because the Savior has felt it all! I know that Christ came to Earth, I know that He died for each of us, and He lives again!! What a wonderful thing!!!

Awkward and Awesome

Awkward

• Peyton yelling, "Wah, wah" really loud when the sacrament starts! He doesn't really like taking the bread, but he's all about his little cup of water.


• Halfway through me giving the sharing time, Peyton pulling my dress up in front of everyone. (yup, still hates nursery)


• Making mashed potatoes for an easter dinner with some friends and totally screwing them up. Chunky potatoes anyone? (but hey, it was my first time EVER making mashed potatoes from scratch)


• Getting slightly competitive for my son during the easter egg hunt! (but shhhhhh, nobody knows cause I was being discreet about it)


• Peyton spilling his wHOLE glass of water on me and my church clothes at our friend's easter dinner.


• Going through Biggest Loser withdrawals since there was only one hour of it last week instead of the normal 2! Long week, haha


• Only being able to fit into TWO pairs of pants...... sad day


• After making a REALLY good breakfast of German pancakes, coming down the stairs after giong to the restroom to Eric eating and feeding Peyton chocolate pudding cake. (breakfast was taking too long apparently)

Awesome

• A sweet lady at Walmart wanting to put away my cart after I finished unpacking all the bags into my car


• Making it through a two mile hike, STRAIGHT up a mountain!!


• People telling me I'm cute..... while pregnant! That's a big deal


• Doctor appts and listening to my baby's heartbeat!


• Easter weekend...... loved everything about it!


• Library books


• A neighbor who mows our side of the lawn too


• A little boy who loves to rub my feet and kiss me!!! And cuddle still!


• My piano... (have I mentioned how much I love it)