SOLD

I put our old couch on craigslist yesterday at 6am.

I received an e-mail requesting to see it at 8am.

I replied back and the person came to look at the couch at 8pm.

He handed me the money and carried the couch out to his pickup at 8:02pm.

...Wow...I LOVE craigslist!

The Scariest Word in the Female Language

OBGYN. I hate going to the OB. It has got to be one of the most uncomfortable appointments. My mom always tells me that after having five kids it really doesn't bother you anymore. Well, I am not yet to the point of having five kids, so I am still in the awkward stage.

I have been looking for a good OB for the last few months. When I first moved to Boise, I went to the first OB that would take me at a moments notice. I was not a fan. I decided to spread my wings and find an OB that would work for MY needs.

After talking to many different women in my ward and to lots of other friends, I finally made my decision. I decided to go to a certified nurse midwife that worked in a hospital. Leading up to my appointment this afternoon, I was really nervous. Not nervous about the procedure, nervous about finding someone that I could trust and feel comfortable with.

At the appointed time I went to the doctor's office to wait in line with numerous pregnant women. When my time came to go back for my check up, out walked Deena, the midwife's nurse. Deena is one of the people who helped me decide to go to this midwife. She is the mother of Stephen's best friend since childhood. Ever since I met Deena for the first time, I loved her. It was such a comfort to see a familiar face. Even more of a comfort to know that she would be there to help me as a nurse. She is awesome!

After Deena finished her nurse duties she said, "I'm going to bring you in a pretty little outfit for you to put on, but don't change until Georgiana (the nurse midwife) has talked to you. She feels that people are more comfortable talking in their clothes." After that she left the room and brought in a purple hospital gown with a pink flower on the breast.

Before even meeting Georgiana, I had two reasons for coming back. One, I would be wearing a pretty purple gown, rather than the ugly white ones, and two, she recognized peoples comfort levels and tried to cater to them.

Georgiana came in and I loved her! She listened to me and talked to me as a person, not as a patient. The appointment went as normal, but in an odd sort of way I was more comfortable. THANK YOU TO ALL OF THOSE DOCTORS AND NURSES WHO TREAT PEOPLE AND NOT PATIENTS!!!

Transition

I substituted in Primary on Sunday during the Sunday School hour. It was really fun to go back and teach. I think that it is a lot more fun to teach primary when you know the parents of the kids. After teaching a bunch of seven-year-olds, I ran back into Relief Society to conduct.

As I was standing up in front of the women conducting the meeting it took me a couple of minutes to finally transition my brain from talking to seven-year-olds and then speaking to a group of women. I could just picture myself, running in from Primary to RS and then making the ladies listen to my "primary" voice. Am I the only one that talks to kids differently?

New House Ornament

I am SSSOOOOO excited!! Stephen and I bought a new couch! We bought the couch in August and in order to get the couch we made some compromises. We cut our grocery budget in half and then got rid of our date money and play money for the month of September. I was so proud of ourselves! Good thing I had lots of canned goods.

We bought the couch in August and the furniture store told us that the couch would probably be shipped to Boise in the beginning of November. LONG wait...but then they called us last week and said it was in! Yeah for surprises! Now we can have people over and not have them sit on the floor. Wahoo!

We went from our beautiful green couch in Stephen's bachelor days....

to a sectional that fits more than three people! We had Morgan and Jess over last Saturday to watch a movie with us and we all were on the couch laying down...IT WAS A MIRACLE!

EQ Partay

Stephen and I got a new look at our fellow ward members at the Elders Quorum Party on Friday. We had a ton of fun, but were introduced to the many quirks of the men. Being in Relief Society I really don't know many of the men in our ward. I was quickly introduced to them in through the numerous games we played.

Stephen and I started out by filling out a questionnaire about our marriage and courtship. Most of the questions were to see either how much we remembered or how much we payed attention. Some of the other couples felt that we were cheating because we had been married for the least amount of time and didn't have as long to remember. For example: "What color is your wife's toothbrush?" or "Where do you plan on retiring?" or "Where was your first kiss?" There were twenty questions to answer. It was fun to see what things Stephen and I remembered and forgot.

The evening progressed to a game of Family Feud. Members of the Elders Quorum were polled on different questions and we were to come up with their answers. Personally, I thought that some of the answers that the Elders Quorum came up with were really lame. For example: One of the questions was, "What is the greatest man movie of all time?" One of the answers was The Counte of Monte Cristo! Seriously?! Man Movie!! That is NOT a man movie. I complained about that, but it was hilarious to watch the other guys' reactions as well. Some of them were just as shocked...

The final game was set up like speed dating, except that we did it as a couple. They asked each couple to come up with a question to ask the other couples to help us get to know one another better. We each had 30 seconds to ask our question and get an answer, so with two couples we had a minute. Stephen and my question was this, "If you were both stranded alone on a deserted island and could bring two things, what would you bring?" After telling one couple that they couldn't bring their kids, one wife said, "Thank you!" he he he

Some of the most entertaining answers were these: toothbrush and John Locke (yes the one from Lost), unlimited Mountain Dew and Pizza, and duct tape (that was all he needed).

We also had some clever questions asked of us. One was, "If we were to go on a double date with you and you husband, what could we do to offend you?" Another was, "If you could change anything about your spouse, what would it be?" Yeah...how would you answer those?

Stephen and I had a blast! Thanks to the EQ!

Church Choir

We have church choir every Sunday at 11:45. Church starts at 12:30, so it helps us get to church early and get a seat on the soft chairs. ...Yes we really have that many people in our ward. This particular Sunday I sat in the choir seats next to one of our ward members' little girl. I think she is four. Stephen and I have a history with this little girl, we will call May.

May's family has sat in front of us, or on the side of us numerous times. We always make faces at her (in the middle of church) and she smiles. Getting a smile out of this little girl is quite difficult. She is very mellow and very matter of fact. I've never met a little girl like her, but she is just fun to get to know.

During choir May leaned over to me and asked, "Where is your dad?"

I sat there for a second not sure how to respond. From that question I knew that she thought Stephen was my Dad and not my husband. I knew it, I look like a little kid!

I leaned down to her and said, "My dad doesn't live her, but my husband is sitting in the back of the chapel."

"Oh." She said, and scooted back in her chair.

Pie Crust

I made my very first pie crust! I didn't really look that great, but I don't think that I had enough dough. I was still quite impressed with my self and my accomplishment. I made my crust for a peach and raspberry pie. Yum...it was really good. Compliments of All Recipes.com. I don't know how people lived before the Internet.

I would have taken a pretty picture for you, but Krystal still has my compact camera and my SLR had dead batteries. So, envision a brown flaky crust that didn't cover the pie completely and had raspberry juice dripping down the side. GO KAMI!!!

I am A-M-A-ZING!

I have learned in my life that I am the person to decide my self esteem...and I am AWESOME!!! A sister in my ward had a bag like this and I fell in love with it. She gave me the pattern and I have been making these bags ever since. It started out as a Mother's Day present for my mom and mother-in-law.

I have now made five bags.

None of them have been for me...Eventually I will get to that.

...But aren't they cool?

Peaches, peaches, and more peaches

I have officially learned to can peaches. I have canned peaches with my Mom a ton over the years. When I lived at home, I never thought the day would come when I would actually leave! Therefore, I never paid attention. I went home this week to gain some much needed instruction. Honestly, I wasn't there for the whole canning experience. I didn't get to the farm until the end stretch was in sight. Come on...I was not leaving my house any earlier than 6am. It looks really fun, though...doesn't it?

I must give credit, where credit it due...Karli took most of these pictures while I was not there, but I wanted the record for myself as well!

The end count was 101. One hundred and one bottles of peaches. My Mom is amazing! Don't they look so pretty?

Mission Impossible

Krystal is a liar.

She is the type of woman that strings people along and then dashes their hopes by saying, "NO I WILL NOT BUY YOUR HOUSE...I JUST WANTED YOUR PAINT COLORS!!!"

This may sound a little odd, but a desperate woman will do just about anything.

Krystal and Shane's house is still missing paint. In an attempt to get the paint colors off of a newly built home, they tried for a week and a half to get ahold of the builders. Never getting a phone call back, Krystal called the realtor and set up a walk through, hoping that the paint colors were in the garage.

This is where Stephen and I came in. While Shane and Krystal were distracting the realtor, Stephen and I found the gold in the garage. Stephen and I just accomplished a covert operation. We should put our resumes in at the FBI.

Happy Birfday!!

...I love the ears...Dakoda and Hunter

Backyard Mountains

Mitzi and Brandon's backyard is the mountains...are the mountians...is?...are?...yeah whatever. Last Sunday we drove around in their "backyard" and saw some pretty neat sights.

Of course, while in the mountains, we had to goof of. This is Rustin totally trying to dunk Dakoda. If I remember right, Koda was giggling profusely.

Stephen and Brandon found a log sitting across a stream to play King of the Mountain on. The pictures tell the story...

The next picture didn't turn out very well, but this is part of the fam going off on another little trail. Beginning left to right: Dad Post, Stephen, Sam, Brandon, Beth

At the end of the trail, Stephen and Sam posed in the middle of the trees.

Spanish Fork 5K

Stephen and I drove down to Spanish Fork last weekend to run the 5K with Stephen's family. I have been dreading this run ever since the idea was brought up in the spring...BUT...it turned out to be really fun!

Here are all of our runners. Uuuummmmmm. I think that everyone looks a little....shall we say...drugged?

After the race I was TOTALLY dead. I actually jogged the whole time, which was quite surprising. The most that I have ran since I started "training" was two miles. The people around you running gave you a total high. It made me push hard.

Here are the results:

Brandon: 22:42
Stephen: 26:55
Joseph: 27:43
Mitzi: 30:55
Kami: 39:27

This is how they kept track of our times. It took us a few minutes to figure out how to put these darn things on. (The orange tag)

These are all of the random pictures that I took of everyone else while running: I know, they are all blurry. I realized after I took all of the pictures that I had a motion option on the camera. Yeah, I'm retarded.


#1 - This is Brandon's shoulder. He said that he was going so fast that I couldn't even take a picture of him. NOT TRUE!!! My camera was being retarded...

#2 - This is Stephen. He's the one closest to the double yellow line.

#3 - This is Joseph. The one in the lead.

#4 - Here comes Mitzi!

Just use your imagination to make the pictures not blurry. Don't worry, I take pictures for a living...

When it rains, it pours

Why is it that when you pay tuition, your two cars both break down?