I was talking to someone the other day about how I've never had a pedicure ::insert gasp here, I know I know:: and they made the comment "Once you get one you can never go back". I've been thinking about it and obviously if I've never gotten a pedicure and I get one, I can never go back to not having one before. It's funny the phrases people use and come up with and use, when they don't really make sense.

My biggest pet peeve with phrases? "I could care less" meaning it doesn't matter to them. It's not "I COULD" or that means you care, the phrase is "I COULDN'T care less" which means you really couldn't care less. I have to admit I used to be a "I could care less" person until one day I said it and realized it didn't make any sense. So, if you are a "could care less" user, now you know, you've been forgiven, and please- let's "couldn't care less" now k?

Home Stretch!

We've made it! 3rd trimester! We're almost done! 

If you ask any given website or doctor when the 3rd trimester starts, they will tell you different things. I've heard from 26 weeks-28 weeks. 

Since I'm 27weeks and 5 days, I'll make it my own job to claim I'm in the 3rd trimester :)

To mark the occasion, here's the bump! 

If you know me at all, I don't post belly pics.

 (I always feel like I look dumb)

I started filling out Baby Boy's baby book and realized I hadn't taken a single belly shot.

 I started feeling guilty; headed to the bathroom, closed the shower curtain, almost cleaned the mirror but then decided if I didn't take the picture right then it wasn't gonna happen, grabbed my phone and snapped it

... and what-do-ya-know, I don't think this one is too shabby so I'm bloggin' it. 

Here ya go little boy, your Mommy does love you!

Bye Bye Birdie

Last month was CaaRaZy. That is for sure. To sum it up, it was "musical season". Which means Kyle would leave for school at 7 a.m. and wouldn't be home until 10:30 p.m. for about 3 weeks. Luckily he comes home for lunch every day and we went and had dinner with him in his office, but we didn't really see much of "Daddy" last month- just Mr. Gardner- and it's different.  Luckily here in Holbrook Kyle doesn't have to be in charge of everything by himself. Holbrook has a Drama Teacher AND a Band Teacher that helped with the musical, a big difference from Kyle just doing it all on his own. All the hard work really paid off and the kids did AMAZING and the show was really fun to watch. 

Here is a picture of the cast:

  

 Miss London chillin' in the seats... probably waiting to go home :)

Now that the musical is over and we have "Daddy" Kyle back he's been doing a lot of yard work and helping around the house, which is fantastic because this pregnancy is starting to wear me out a little. I've been really good about walking at least 5 days a week but pregnancy is just pregnancy- it wears on ya no matter how much you try and prevent it! Tomorrow we start the 3rd trimester, and I haven't gotten ready at all... but I still got time :)

My MacBook

About two weeks ago my computer starting acting really funny, it was running a little slower then usual and the battery would do weird things. The little icon in the top would tell me I had like 20 hours of battery life left (I've NEVER had 20 hours for my computer, I think the most was like 4) and then it would suddenly die. I would plug my computer into the charger and it would kick it into sleep mode. Just weird things. About a week ago it died and just wouldn't turn back on. Bummer dude. We were going to the valley this weekend so I just figured I'd take it into Apple and they can do some diagnostics and tell me what was wrong with it. I couldn't remember exactly when I bought it, and from what I could remember I thought it was about 4 years old which means out of warranty.

Kyle made my computer an appointment for when we'd be in the valley. We took it in and they couldn't really figure out what was wrong. They took it apart and said it looked good, a little dusty, but nothing they didn't expect. He said there could be two things wrong- the magboard, which is the part that tells the computer a power source is connected, or the logic board. The magboard would be $56 to fix, and the logic board would be between $400-$500, and my computer was out of warranty (which I figured). Ouch Charlie. I told them to go ahead and try the magboard (if it didn't work they wouldn't charge me) and if that didn't work I'd just pick my computer up and I just won't have a computer that turns on (don't really just have $400).

A couple hours later we were driving to my parents house and I was looking at my little repair report, and it said I purchased my computer May 9, 2009. I have Apple Care, which means I should be under warranty right now- it extends the warranty to 3 years- which would mean I'm covered for another 2 weeks. I called Apple and they said there wasn't any record I had Apple Care, and since I bought the computer from Best Buy and not them I needed to get my receipt. Well, I live 3 hours away and can't just go home. I called my awesome MIL and asked her to go to my house and see if she could find the receipt. After thinking about it a little more, I remember getting a package in the mail with an Apple Care box, but because this was almost 3 year ago I didn't really remember if that was for MY computer or not. To top that off, I did some Spring cleaning about 2 months ago and I remember picking up that specific Apple Care box and thinking "Why do I keep stuff like this?!" and threw it away... THIS IS WHY!! I need that box!! Well, since I threw away my proof I didn't really have anything to go on.  I called Apple (for like the 3rd time) and asked if there was any way we could figure out of there was Apple Care purchased that never got registered with a computer. They looked under my stuff, nothing. Just a computer. I gave them Kyle's e-mail, and the guy said it would take him a few minutes to go through all our purchased (songs, apps, anything we bought with that e-mail was on there). Go for it, so I sat and waited some more. He got back on the phone and said "Of course, it was on the LAST page, but there IS in fact Apple Care that isn't registered to anything, and it expires May 9, 2012" HALLELUJAH!  I was ECSTATIC, I think I even told him he was my favorite person today. He registered the Apple Care to my computer, and now I get a fixed computer. Yay.

I can't tell you how many times I asked Heavenly Father for my computer to just turn on, to just work. I can't afford another one, and it's something that was just mine. Not Kyle's. Not Macy's. Not London's. It was mine. I don't have a lot of things that I don't share. It may sound selfish, but I liked having something that was mine. Heavenly Father definitely answers prayers, and I definitely had to do my detective work to figure everything out, but I just had a feeling that my computer should be covered. It was definitely the Holy Ghost telling me to keep going, keep calling, keep asking them to look different things up, and it worked.

I. Am. So. Happy. :)

Easter in Vegas

My cousin Jenni recently got married on March 30th to the awesome Josh Hansen (congrats guys!!) We weren't able to make it to their actual wedding that weekend in Utah, but we were able to meet up with them the next weekend in Las Vegas for their reception. It was kind of a quick trip to Vegas but we had lots of fun anyway. We left Holbrook on Friday morning and took our time getting up there. We stopped in Flagstaff for fuel and stopped by Best Buy and then headed to Kingman. We ate at Panda Express and then went to Ross to get some sippy cups. We forgot ours and I don't trust London as someone else's house with a drink in anything but a spill proof cup :) We made our very first purchase for Baby Boy and got him a little outfit and some PJ's. We have about 3 months left till he makes his appearance so I guess it's about time we get started in preparing a wardrobe for him! 

We got to Vegas in mid-afternoon and spent the night having fun with the family. 

Saturday my parents came up and we hung out at the Winns house until it was time for the reception. My Aunt Steph and Uncle David hired someone to do all the decorating so it was a pretty chillaxed day. They asked Kyle to DJ for them so we got there a little early to set up all the sound equipment and let the girls run around. 

I absolutely love this picture of London, she has the cutest little smile. 

 Kyle and his two little girls.

This is a typical view of Macy and London. Macy wandering around looking for something to do and London following her. Everything Macy does, London does. 

 My Mommy and Me :)

 I'm awful and didn't get a picture of the beautiful couple, but Jenni looked amazing!!

Sunday (Easter) we ate breakfast with the Winns and then headed back to Arizona. Kyle had never stopped at the Hoover Dam before, and they finished construction on the ENORMOUS bridge over it, so we stopped and did a little sight seeing.

This is Macy, Kyle, and London standing on the bridge. 

 London and Macy checking out how far up we were. While we were walking across the bridge Macy kept saying "I want to see the bridge..." and we had a hard time explaining to her that we were ON the bridge. 

That's a BIG bridge!

We hopped back in the car and made it to Kingman and decided to stop and get some lunch. It was about 1 o'clock and I was HUNGRY. We wanted to stop at In-N-Out but it was closed for Easter Sunday (Good for them, but man I'm still craving a double-double, animal style, cut in half, with chili's on the side) and decided to eat at The Golden Corral instead. It was SUPER good and I decided that a buffet really is the best place to take little kids to eat. I didn't have to worry about ordering the wrong thing, if they didn't like what I gave them I just went and found something else. Awesome. 

Since it was Easter Macy kept asking to go for a Easter Egg Hunt. I had gotten all their Easter Basket stuff in Vegas and I picked up some plastic eggs and candy to go inside, but there wasn't really time that morning to do it. We decided to wait until we got to Kyle's Mom's and enjoy some of the Easter festivities with her. 

Macy knew exactly what to do and wasted no time in collecting as many eggs as she could find.

 London wasn't really sure what they were doing, but she knew Macy was excited about something so like a good little sister she just followed Macy.

 All Marie's apple trees were in bloom- it was such a pretty day outside. 

 London decided to ditch the Safeway bag and just use her hands. She'd pick one up, another would fall, she'd pick it up again, and so on until we got her to use her bag again. 

We had a very successful Easter Holiday. :)

Favorite Part of Pregnancy

When people used to ask me my favorite part of pregnancy, I never really knew what to tell them. 

I mean, I like feeling baby move inside my tummy, but I'm not the women that really misses that after the baby is born. I'm just too excited to be able to breathe again and lay on my belly to miss the kicking. 

I always kind of felt like being pregnant was just a way to get to my favorite part- the baby! 

Today, I learned my favorite part. 

I love to take baths, and when I'm pregnant I can see the baby move all around and my belly move in all directions.  A little poke here, a poke there. With this little guy, it happened for the first time today and I was in awe. Just watching my belly be all distorted depending on where and how he was positioned was just so cool to me. It's really a little person in there. Kyle probably gets annoyed sometimes when I take a bath, because when my belly starts moving I yell his name and make him wait to see the little wave in my tummy. I always get the same "yeah- that's cool.... ok bye" but I think it's so fascinating! 

Definitely my favorite part of pregnancy. 

Sunday Morning Rant

Right now I'm irritated with 3 things.

1. Barkley ate Macy's shoe. A very cute blue sandle with a big white flower on it. I got them at the end of summer last year a size too big so she could wear them this summer and within DAYS of getting them out for her to wear he ATE A FLOWER. I wanted to kill him.

2. My due date. I know it shouldn't bother me, but it does. Bad. I don't think I'm only 21 weeks along. They base your "due date" off of your last menstrual period. I KNOW for a FACT that my last period was NOT October 31. It was definitely in the middle of October. So I don't really know how far along I am, and neither does my doctor. I have a "due period" I decided. I'm due between July 23 and August 6. There ya go.

3. How everyone keeps comparing The Hunger Games to Twilight. THEY ARE SO DIFFERENT. Not even comparable. But I guess people did that to Twilight and Harry Potter too, which was stupid. But I guess that just means Twilight really is that popular or people wouldn't be trying to compare it to everything. It's not the "twihards" that are comparing it either- it's the people that don't even like Twilight. If you don't like it LEAVE IT ALONE.

K. I'm done. Thanks. I feel better.