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Here is an update on what we have been up to this last week!

• Justin: Started school last week. Urgh, Waking up at 6 has been hard. We just can seem to get to bed before 10:00. Unfortunately his early class is Calculus and he can't miss that.The other night just as we were getting ready for bed Justin was opening the window. The screen has never been right in that window. So at 9:30 he decided to fix it. Sometimes this can be very frustrating for me. But after a few minutes he fixed it! Yeah, less bugs in the room now! Justin has been able to spend time with Collin and has enjoyed it a lot! Track practice starts this week. Last Saturday the track team had their 5k to see who was in shape and who was not. Justin passed fine. He decided to take his heart monitor, and watch so he could time his run perfectly and not exert to much energy. Hopefully this year he won't have any injuries and be able to perform his best. He is also looking forward to seeing Moon this weekend. It is playing up in Park City, and it looks pretty dang cool!
  
• The Baby: No name yet, but I am still looking. I had the glucose test and was just a tiny bit over the norm level. They said they would call me if I needed to come in and take the 3 hour test. I have not heard back from them so I am really hoping I don't need to take it. The baby is moving around lots. Yesterday he kicked Justin in the butt. That made me laugh. I just finished reading about pain medications and alternative ways to manage the pain of delivery. I am 95% sure I will be getting an epidural. We will see what happens. Justin is still pushing for natural child birth. Maybe one day...
• The Rats: They are still super cute. They have adjusted to moving just fine and have not had any issues. They are getting a lot of out time now. Emma has been taking them out and playing with them after school, and Justin has them out while he does home work or is reading. Macbeth started jumping up onto our computer chair last night so now we will have to make sure to keep that away from the desk! and Magellan has tried climbing up the outside of the desk, we saw him dangling off of one of the drawer handles. It always amazes me how high they can jump when they want to. Some of their favorite things right now are flip flops, electric cords, and books. It is funny to try and take things from them, they really have a tight little grip!
• Katie: Well I have been working and making dinners. Saturday we had some of Chris's friends over to celebrate the end of his phlebotomy class. I ended up making 8 pizzas, and afterward I was exhausted. But the pizzas turned out super great! I love making pizza! I didn't get everything done I wanted to this weekend but that is ok. I need to buy Curtains for our room, becasue you can totaly see through the ones we have. (good times) Also, the "curtain rod" in the room is beginging to fall down. I am going to get a golds gym pass, I know there will be at least 3 months where I probably will not be using it at all. But really I will just need to work it in to my new scheduel after I have the baby. My feet, ankels and hands are swelling more now. Justin was having fun yesterday at church indenting my swolen feet with his fingers. I am also going to get a new pair of floatie flip flops. My old falling apart ones have been a life saver in the last few months! Work is well. I decided to re-decorate my class room. I have not been satisfied with how I decorated it since I did it last year. I have 1 wall finished. and 2 more to go. Unfortunatley I only have a little time in the morning to work on it so it has been a slow process. Red ribbon week is also coming! I love making posters for this week. I am hoping to have the school covered in Anti Drug, Anti Tobacco and Anti Underage drinking posters. I have been getting pretty warm lately so I am looking forward to fall and winter.
  

Swimming and Weekend Fun!

Last night was the ward swim party at the P.G. pool. It was a lot of fun. We ate and visited. It is super crazy to see my old sunbeams grown up! They are super cute! It has been about 2 years since I last swam. Justin and I thought we would do that Saturday mornings at the Orem rec center. It happened only once and neither of us could swim 1 whole lap, it was pretty sad. So last night for my excessive I was going to swim laps with Justin. This pool was much smaller, I found I was out of breath after every length of the pool. But, I think I ended going back and forth 8 times! And I didn't drown once! (Although I felt myself sinking as the night wore on.)
Eliza came with her son and it was fun! He really likes water! Now that my mom has had a chance to play with him in the pool I think we may be getting a kiddie pool next summer! I am very excited about that!

I just wanted to give you a peak into my weekend schedule. And how much time I think it will take us to finish.

• Clean, vacuum, wash, and wax car. 3hours
  
• Make pizza for about 11 people (teenage boys!) 3 hours
  
• Have date night with Justin, Go to Harmon's and Borders! 3hours (two of my favorite things to do with Justin)
  
• Trip to Ikea. 2hours (If Justin has his way we will only be there for 25 min tops.)
  
• Trip to Golds Gym. (I am finally breaking down and joining.) 1 hour (our goal is to go in say I want a year pass, pay and leave.Like they will let me do that;)
  
• Deep Clean the bathroom. 2 hours ( Blaugh, I don't really want to do this but it does need to be done.
  
• Play with the rats 1 hour (yeah take a break and watch some Avatar!)
  
• Clean and organize the desk. ( it had become our junk pile.) 1 hour
  
• Put away the rest of the stuff from the move. 1 hour
  
• Clean and re-organize the spice cupboard. 2 hours

19 hours, and that is just a rough estimate. I am hoping that maybe I can slip in a soak in my parents tub. Oh man that would be awesome!

Ruined Dress?

Well I hope not. Sunday morning I had the great idea to make coffee cake for my family for breakfast. I was in a bit of a hurry so I quickly got dressed and started cooking. Well I needed to add some brown sugar to my melted butter....
I was planning on sliding the brown sugar into the bowl from my 1 cup measuring cup. Well it didn't work quite that way, instead the brown sugar slid out of my control quickly, and into my bowl of butter, and splattered butter all over my dress. Ahhhh grease stains!! And it is like my new favorite dress ever!!!
What was super frustrating was that I neglected to put on an apron. I ALWAYS put on an apron!
I have ruined many things because of grease. So I was worried.
Fortunately I remembered my Martha Stewart Book!!!
I was so HAPPY! she has a whole chart of stains and how to get them out. So after a change and church I came home ready to tackle my mess. I followed the directions pretty close. (I used instead of an enzyme detergent an enzyme carpet cleaner.) There were like 5 steps to this cleaning process. So I washed the dress in cool water and let it hang to dry. (just in case everything didn't come out.)
about 85% of the grease stains were gone!!!!. I will try again this week the 5 steps and this time use an enzyme detergent and I think the rest should come out.
Yeah Martha!!! My hero for making a stain removal list that was so easy to use!!!
This is seriously a great information book. I have not read the whole thing yet, but a great reference for everyone to have!!!

Cha-Cha-Cha- Changes

After a lot of thought and talk we have moved to my parents house. Thankfully everyone has been very supportive and helpful. We are hoping to make a smooth transition. My brother was super nice and let us use his room! (There is a bathroom connected to it! Such a great thing for me right now!!!)
We finished cleaning out our old place on Saturday! (thanks again family!!!!!) And now I need to figure out where and how we are going to store, and put things. My parents have been patient with me slowly going through bags, and putting things away. (There just are not enough hours in the day!)
Ikea! I am so glad there is one close. We have to fit our house into a bed room. So we have needed storage solutions. Hopefully at the end of this month we will be getting a bed frame and some risers so we can put stuff under our bed too! I will get picture of the room when It is all finished.
I just realized that I did not take any pictures of the move. Oh well. Next time I will take photo's. We will really miss our garden. I feel bad for leaving and letting everything in our gardens die. Maybe our neighbors will start watering it and eating some of the vedge, and fruit. I really hope so, there will be 2 huge pumkins for them if they do...
Justin starts school this week!
Our baby is still doing fine! Nothing exciting to report there :)

That is pretty much what we have been up to for the last little while.

Harry Potter

So, I am reading Harry Potter again. I am always amazed at how fast I read these books. I started the Goblet of Fire yesterday and I am already 138 pages in! I will probably be done with it by Monday. Also, I realized something about the books that I disliked at first, they all have kind of an intro to Harry and his world at the beginning. Which means you can really pick up the books and not read them in order. (although you would be missing a lot!) And that is nice.
Anyways, I am really looking forward to reading 5,6, and 7 again. I have only read 7 twice and I don't remember everything that happens...
Also, the movies always make me want to read the books because I feel like they are missing something.
Oh and when the 7th movie(s) come out I totally want to have a huge Harry Potter party! I saw a friends blog with pictures from her party and I felt like I totally missed out on having one this year. (Mostly because I was having real bad morning sickness. And was not up to planning anything that didn't involve a toilet.)
Have a Harry Day!

Ducks are the cutiest!

While we had family in town we went to the park by our house that has a duck pond. The ducks were super cute! (the kids were too!)

D. liked eating the bread as much as the ducks did. I even got one to take the bread out of my hand!

This is my favorite duck. He was cute!

The sands of time...

Well it finally happened.
I found a gray hair...