Wednesday, November 16, 2011

so many pictures

Ok. I know it has been awhile, and I have tons of pictures to upload, so we will make this as painless as possible and make my updates into mini chapters that will be easier to digest. Ready, set GO! :)

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Baby Blues

I thought I would update a bit about Spencer.


In his Handsome like daddy shirt. He is so cute, absolutely adorable.
Ah, his first tummy yime, in which he crawled 4 inches in that little army crawl scoot thing that they do at first. Little snot...

Ah, his little bouncer that he so loves

I love this picture of him.


Little Frog boy...so sweet


His Biliruben tests came back too high so he had to have this light bed. Needless to say, he didn't like it.


Oy. I can't believe Spencer will be 4 weeks old tomorrow, and technically a month old on Sunday. He is growing so fast! He's already almost too tall to wear 0-3 month clothes. I can't believe it. Before I know it, he's going to be a year old!

I have been a tad depressed lately, too. It's a normal bit of fluctuating hormones. I mainly take care of the baby so Brian can get the rest he needs for work, because if he misses or shows up late 3 times in a month, he will be fired, which is really lame considering the fact that he is a temporary employee. He's already up to 12 of 12 points because he had to take the time off to take baby in for biliruben testing and the day off when he got circumcised. Anyway, staying up with screaming, squalling baby takes its toll. I'm exhausted. I cry at lame things that are not sad or distressting. I feel very inadequate as a mother because I can't get my baby to not fuss sometimes. My mom will actually take him overnight for a few nights a week so I can get some rest, but it makes me feel like I can't take care of my baby.



For the most part, he really only fusses at night. He really is quite a good baby. He eats a lot though. He is already taking 4 oz a feeding, every 2-3 hours. I think he weighs a good 10 pounds now.

Saturday, July 30, 2011

baby







The little guy was born on July 21 at 3:00 p.m. He was 6lb and 14oz and 19.5 inches long. He sure is a cute little guy. we named him Spencer Tyler. I can't believe how tiny he is. :)





Thursday, July 7, 2011

When it Rains it Pours

I finally have almost everything ready for the baby. We have a few last minute things we need to take care of, and we should be good. I took a tour of the hospitals labor and delivery and pre registered for my admittance so all I have to do is sign consent forms. I about near passed out when they gave us the self pay (aka no insurance) price for having said baby...10,000. Yes, you read right, $10,000. We'll be paying him off til he's 5.

Brian still hasn't found a job, so if you know of one, let us know. We could really use insurance and full time hours right about now. I'm starting to worry about what we're going to do when I'm on leave with no income for a month...sigh. I think I may ask my visiting teachers to bring me meals for the first few days when I get back, just so I dont have to worry about it, but they may think that's strange where I live with my parents. I don't know...sigh...I'll figure something out I suppose.

I"ll have to make the few things that I can make into freezer meals into freezer meals this week. I'm hoping I will have the time to squeeze it in. I'm only planning on taking 3 weeks for maternity leave, I can't really afford anything longer than that, so please pray that everything will go fine for both of us and I won't need a c section or anytihng like that.

I am stressed to the max so the next few weeks ought to be fun. My mother is after me for everything and anything lately. I get frustrated with life's crap, and my sister irritates me sometimes. All I can do is hope and pray that everything is going to be ok.

I wonder about this trial in life sometimes and what its preparing us for...No job, no insurance, and a new baby is just about as bad as it can be. I think it will be interesting to see what happens next.

Thanks for letting me vent. It soes me good to let things out everyonce in a while. :)

Saturday, July 2, 2011

These pictures are from our first ever couples Family Home Evening that we did this past Monday. It was actually really fun and I think the other couples liked it too. Brian and I just set up a potluck at the park and we did a game where each couple acted out a famous couple and the rest of us had to guess who it was.



This is Jared and his wife, Makenzie, doing Brokeback mountain.
This is Josh and his wife Miley.



Matt and his wife Candace doing Mickey and Minnie mouse



Brian


And this was us doing Superman and Lois Lane



Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Hello There

Sunday was my mom's birthday. We all went in and got her a George Foreman grill. She's been dying to get one for awhile. Brian and I had gotten one for our wedding, and I love mine, so hopefully she will like hers.

I had to work yesterday and thought I was going to die (literally die) of boredom. It has never been that slow in my life in that store. I was doing pizza and would you believe I couldn't even get people to try it? Ridiculous...

I have been having a lot of pain in my pelvic area and I have had Cramps like when I'm on my cycle (in the front and in my back) for the last few days, and today I felt something pop where the baby is and I thought for sure my water had broken. I waited and waited for a gush of liquid or a trickle...and nothing. But the cramps sure got worse after that. I hope Spencer will be a good little boy and wait a week or two to come. 5 and 1/2 weeks is too early for my liking. I've had a few braxton hicks contractions too, but they don't hurt. They jusy make my whole belly tighten up. When the baby moves, my whole belly moves. It entertains me a lot. He sure is running out of room and I can tell. My belly is starting to grow out on the sides now.

Christy's kids are here today and they are driving me freaking up the wall. My kids will not be like that. They meltdown if you tell them no, and if you don't give them what they want. Its ridiculous. All the older one has done is scream and whine and boob all day. Holy attitude problems...

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Summer

So at my last Dr's appt, he said the baby has dropped and that he could come any day. That is pretty exciting for me. Everybody says he is coming soon...he's hardly moving at all now and i can tell he is really cramped for space. All I can really feel is his feet and elbows. i just hope he will hold out a few more weeks. Right now he would be 5 1/2 weeks early. So wish us luck and we"ll let you know when it happens! :)

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Maybe this will bring us up to date...

In the last few weeks since Kim has been home from college, she has had us going to all these historic sites. There are like 60 she wants to see in a month. It's a free ride for me, well, i do the driving, but she pays for me to get into places, she pays for my gas, and she buys me lunch. It's also a great way to get out of the house on my days off.

We went to Liberty Park last Tuesday and took Christy's youngest with us. Brandon totally cracks me up. He heard the peacocks and started freaking out, "it's Kevin kimmy, it's Kevin!" Kevin from UP, he loves that show. Anyway, he insisted on waving to ALL of the peacocks, male and female, through Tracy Aviary.
I have never seen such a personable animal. This bird seriously followed us around the whole cage and was close enough to take really good pictures of it. I thought it was kind of funny.


Brandon was more interested in the grass and other things than the real birds. He did like the ducks though.


Brandon didn't like that the birds were "looking at him"


The day before this, we went to the Great Salt Lake. BLEH. The smell about near killed me, so needless to say, did not stay there long. What is there to take pictures of out there except cattails and dead birds? I thought you may prefer the cattails. Kim really did take pictures of the dead birds on her camera...creepy. I took pictures of the cattails instead.


The day after Becca's wedding, and the day before we went to the Great Salt Lake, Brian had the opportunity to baptize his friend. He was very excited to do so, and I hear it was a great experience. I was unable to attend because I had to work.



Flowers flowers everywhere. Temple Square has a good variety of flowers. I enjoyed them.



I'm telling you, I enjoyed the flowers.


Brian made fun of me for taking so many pictures of Flowers at Temple Square while Becca and Steven had their pictures taken.


The main reason we were there...The Salt Lake Temple is very pretty. I like that temple, and I think we will have our generational photos taken there when Spencer is born.



Again with the flowers, sorry



I wanted a picture of Brian and I. We have so few pictures of us this year, I thought Becca's wedding warranted an excuse to have a new picture taken...i have a funky expression on my face though...


Awe...what a cute couple. I love to see how blissfully happy people are when they are first married. :) It's so cute.



And the last photo is from Easter. All the nieces and nephews at their Easter egg hunt that Brian and I setup for them this year. They had a blast, and next year Spencer will be able to do it too.



That is about all that has really happened. I dont really feel the need to go into great detail about things, but I did want to catch up with some pictures at least. Until next time...

Monday, May 30, 2011



Yes, I actually look pregnant now. I'm at 31 1/2 weeks in this picture, and I am currently 33 weeks now. Not much longer left. Though I will admit, 7 weeks feels like forever to go.

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Just wanted to say hi

Perhaps I should just set aside one day a week for blogging and catching up with life. It seems so busy right now, and not just for me-life that is. oy. When I thik about the next few weeks, I get overwhelmed. The 4 is my shower at my in-laws. The 11 is my shower with my friends. the 12 is my mom's birthday. The 19 is Fathers Day. The next week we are house sitting for my in-laws. Then there will be the 4 of July. July 5 is my brothers birthday. The 6 is my nephews birthday...and in 2-3 weeks after that will be...Spencers birthday!

I have so many pictures I need to put up, but my computer is so slow to upload, I may just take what I want off it and crash it myself to start it over clean so it will run faster. I have pictures from Beccas wedding, my little field trips with my sister because she has no car and i am her chauffer most of the time. oh and i have pictures of random things. Anyway, I really just wanted to say hi...

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Sigh. So Brian got laid off. I'm very frustrated trying to figure out how we are going to pay the bills with just my income. My boss is only giving me 2 days a week, when the other leads at my store are getting 4-5 days a week still. It's not fair. I work my butt off for my company and they repay me by giving me a whole 12 hours a week.

We have no health insurance, and we have medical bills up the wazoo. Medicaid won't cover us unless we pay them $2,500 a month because we make more than the salary cap. If we made the $4,000 they say we make a month, I guarantee you that we would not be living with my parents, scraping what little we can just to get by. I'd have my own place and be able to save a thousand bucks a month. Seriously...why do they have to make it so damn difficult for everyone?

I hate being in this predicament. I'm having a baby in a little over two months and instead of really being excited, I'm dreading how much the cost is going to be now. I'm praying that he isn't early and that he is healthy and that there will be no complications. I'm tired of people saying that "you should have waited until you had insurance." We weren't expecting to get pregnant when we did; it just happened. We weren't expecting all the complications and ER visit in the beginning, either. Don't get me wrong; I'm happy to be able to finally have my baby. It took us forever to get pregnant. It just seems that when something finally works out for us, crap happens to make our lives miserable. sigh. Sorry for complaining, I just needed to vent a little.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Busy

So yesterday was my baby shower for my family. Well, my side anyway. I got some pretty cool stuff. Amazingly, i didn't get one bottle or one binky. I got some clothes, and thankfully, they weren't all newborn size, so I have a decent variety to choose from up til he's a year. Of course I wll have to buy him lots more, but at least he has a decent start.

My Grandmother, my mom's mom, made him two cute quilts and some receiving blankets. I got a bunch of diapers, a baby bath and some toys and some baby care stuff.

What I really need to do is go buy him a baby book, or go buy the stuff to make him a baby book for his first year. I wanted to get it started before he was born...yeah...that is likely not going to happen. I just have so much to do. Becca's wedding next week, transferring to a new store the week after that, Bri's family shower the week after that, friend shower the week after that, then there will only be 4 weeks til he is born...eep! the last bit is going by so fast.

Monday, April 25, 2011














I was going through some of my pictures and backing them up and stuff, when I found these. They are from last September when Kim went to Logan. She is moving back in a few weeks. This was actually the last "vacation," if I can really call it that, that Brian and I had. If I werren't pregnant, I'd tell him we needed to go somewhere soon. It is nice to get away and do something fun, but right now, I don't know if I really feel like going anywhere.



I have already forgotten the original reason I wanted to post something today, so I guess it wasn't that important. My sisters and I planned my baby shower yesterday and I am pretty excited about that. After the baby is born, My sister in law is going to take some generational photos for us. Brian still has his Great grandparents alive and its not often you get to see 5 generations and I think that would be something really special for Spencer to have one day. I think I may ask my sis in law to take some pictures of him at the hospital for me too. I want to start my kid's photo album with some nice pictures.



In fact, I need to start taking pictures of my belly now that i'm finally starting to show. I don't really want them done, but I think that I will be sad someday to not have them. I've got so many things on my to do list before the baby comes. I don't think I'll get around to it all. I'm going to be so busy this summer...we have my baby shower, Becca's wedding, 2 other baby showers, Mother's day and Father's day, July 4 and a billion family birthdays...oi.




Monday, April 11, 2011

This is the set we got. Everything matches it. I think it's adorable. I was going to get little elephants, but they were on clearance and by the time we had the money, they were gone.

Lazy Days

I have been feeling so lazy lately. I just don't feel like getting anything done, but i have to. I'm going to try to get our room moved around so we can fit Spencer's crib and stuff in there with us. I still need to by some crin bedding, but its so wicked expensive, I'm wondering of it would be cheaper to make my own? It costs almost as much for a baby bedding set as a king size bedding set. Ridiculous! I am 26 weeks on Thursday, and I can feel the little guy moving all the time. sometimes it drives me crazy; I feel like he's punching my stomach and my bladder simultaneously, but i sure do like to feel him moving around. I can't believe I am almost into my third trimester. It has gone by so fast. I have bought his stroller and car seat, as well as a bouncer and a playpen. His "theme" is monkeys. I've bought him some clothes too, but I am not sure how much more to buy because I am not sure what I will be getting for my showers. I suppose you can never have too much baby stuff. I would like to buy him a swing, but they are really expensive, too. Babies R Us wanted almost $2oo for the one that matched the set we bought. What I really should be buying is diapers and wipes and stuff to stock up. one of these days, if I un-lazy myself and figure out how to use the scanner, I will put up my ultrasound pictures. Until next time...

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Just doing a little catching up :)

Ok. I apparently have tons of pictures on my computer that I need to go through and put on disks... these are just from when we went to the basin for grandpas funeral.

And I thought we got lots of snow? This was when we had no snow here. Very glad I'm not living in the basin. That's gotta be at least 5-6 inches, or more.
It was, at least, a nice view up a path that is usually a nice walk, when it isn't covered in snow. Stupid white stuff.

Our hotel room at the Springfield suites in Vernal. Very classy. Probably the fanciest hotel I have ever stayed in.
He hates it when I get his picture when he isn't expecting it. Bwa ha ha. There is a reason I take the pictures...

This is my grandmother saying goodbye to my grandfather. I was surprised that I caught it with all my aunts milling about like crazies...

And last, a morbid picture that my mother actually requested. Its the last photo of my granddad, obviously, but it creeps me out a little bit to tell you the truth. I have a great photo of him at Christmas in his old Marines uniform, but search as I might, i can't find it anywhere. I'm very saddened by that.
In other news, we went to the new Pizza Stop in Magna last night with Becca and Steven, and Toni and Bekah. It was fun, even though we had to leave early because brian had to work early this morning. It is always nice to get out and hang out with friends. Its a rare treat for me because it seems that my friends are always so busy. :)
At the end of next month, I will be starting my 6th month of pregnancy. It has actually gone by rather fast. I'm glad to be past the scary stage and I really enjoy being able to feel my baby move and stuff. I'm excited to buy baby stuff this month when we get our taxes back. I think it will be awesome.
I also have a bunch of pictures of all my latest craft projects. I will update those on a day I am off work, as it will be a very lengthy blog, I am sure. i really need to get my pictures printed and start working on my wedding book and stuff again. I feel so far behind. I get started and then it takes me forever to finish. I was hoping to be caught up before Spencer is born, but I don't really see that happening anytime soon.
Work is going well for now. My boss is really wanting to quit, but she wants to wait for a while before she does. They are saying that Sam's may not resign our contract next year in March, so I am going to see if I can find a new job by the time I get back from maternity leave. If not, the Manager at Sam's in Murray is the same one that hired me in provo and he will give me a job there making almost what i make now. Thankfully, I was smart enough to work well in college. :)
Um, I think that is really all that I have to say. I'll try to update again on Tuesday. I'm making pink lemonade cupcakes. I'm curious to see how they turn out.





Monday, March 7, 2011

Lots of Catching up to do

My granddad, Ervin Larsen, died on the 27th of February. He had been battling prostate cancer for over 9 years. We had to drive out just past vernal to Tridell, where he was buried. Tridell is a little hick town that you can drag main street in less than 5 minutes walking. it is where my grandmother and my mother grew up.

Grandpa got a 21 gun salute at his graveside service because he spent time in the marines. He was actually on one of the boats in france at D-Day.

His favorite soda was mountain dew. We were naughty grandchildren. We used to sneak it to him even though he wasn't supposed to have it. In our hotel room after the funeral, we toasted my grandfather with a lot of mountain dew. The mortuary even let each grandkid put a can of mountain dew in his casket. That was well over 100 cans. :)


I will miss him, but I'm glad I was able to see him and visit him at the very end. He was the last og my granddads to die.
In other news, Brian and I found out that we are having a boy. We are going to name him Spencer Tyler. I am excited, and I hope that all goes well with the rest of my pregnancy.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Here I thought if I got a new blog, I would update more often...not so much, I guess.

My grandad isn't doing so well. He has had cancer for 9 years or so, and he is on the really downhill side of things. He is at home with hospice care, as there is nothing that can be done anymore. It is sad to see him now. He can't hold his utensils, he slurs his speech, and he can't even get up. I dont think he will last too much longer. He has been my grandad my entire life, and I dont have too many memories of him. We would always go and visit, but it was mostly my grandmother we were seeing. He would stay pretty quiet and just sit in his chair. There is a picture I would like to put up on here, but I have to figure out a way to get it from my sister's facebook first. After he dies, I'll only have my two grandmothers left.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

New Blog

I know it's been a bit since I last updated, and seems how our family is changing, I thought I would make a new blog. New blogs are always nice.

At the end of the month, we will find out what baby is going to be. We are really excited to find out. Brian wants to have a boy, but I don't really care if it is a boy or a girl. If it is a boy, his name will be Spencer Tyler. If it is a girl, we can't decide on a name we both like. I am officially 16 weeks today, and only one more month until I am halfway through. My clothes are getting tighter and I will have to buy new ones soon.

I have already had a rough pregnancy and almost lost the baby. I lost the twin that I was carrying already, and it tends to make me nervous at times. I sometimes worry that it will die and i won't know...it's too early to feel it move yet, though sometimes I swear I can feel it moving like a small muscle twinge in my lower belly. I just hope everything goes well. We have been waiting for this baby for a long time.

Anyway, I think I will write more later, when I have more time