Finished!!!!

Today I finally finished my quilt. I haven't had a chance to take pictures yet, but I wanted to let you know that I am finally done. It took forever for me to get the binding stiched on. My hand has started to go numb when I am doing projects, so I can't do much at a time.

I will post pictures soon.

Julie

Complete!!!

I am so excited. I have finished the baby afghan that I have been working on. My goal was to finish both the quilt and afghan by my birthday. I was able to actually finish one by my birthday. I am so excited, it turned out so cute. I have even taken some pictures of it.Just in case you can't tale, the colors are purple, green, and pink. They all have the little strip of silver in the yarn. So it is kind of shimmery. Have I mentioned that it is way cute. I am so excited. I love finishing them. This is like my 9 one or something, and every time I get so excited to see the finished product. Though I do usually use different colors, so they are all different.

I am almost done with the quilt, I just need to finish the quilting and then put the edging on it. I hope to finish it in the next few weeks, but I can only work on it when Josh is sleeping and he hasn't been doing very well with his naps lately so, hopefully soon.This is a picture of the top of the quilt. This is before I sewed them together. I took it to send to my mom and get her opinion of the placement of the different squares. When I am all done, I will get some more close up pictures of each square so that you can see them better. But it give you an idea of what I am working on.

As for a new question, What is your all time favorite meal to eat? I mean full meal. And no you don't have to cook it or buy it, it will just appear.

The Saddest Song I Have EVER heard

Song

So it's not often that I hear a song and immediately have to share it but... I just heard this song and knew that I had to share it with you guys because it has to do with the importance of being a woman and a mom at the same time. So I heard it and thought of you both because of what great moms you are.

The artist is Clint Black and the song title is The Strong One

No blaming me if you cry! :o)

I made mom cry when she listened to it

Love ya!

Hi!

Hi guys! Sorry that it has been so long. I started back to school and have been trying to be really good about getting my homework done early. In theory it was supposed to work perfectly, but in reality I'm still a procrastinator! Thankfully this is my last class and then I will officially be done and have a BA. Thank goodness!!! My class is called Crime in America and it is online which is both good and bad. I like it because I can do my homework in my pj's. The bad part is that I keep putting off assignments... like now. :o) The class is okay, it is just a lot of independent research and paper writing. The assignment I'm working on now is three pages long so far and I'm only a quarter of the way done. Yikes. Okay, I need to get back to the paper so this will be a short post since you guys aren't here to help me with my homework.

Oh... I almost forgot my question!!! Since we were going with a school theme this round I'll complete with:

What do you think is the funniest prank we ever pulled in school?

Krista, remember when you spit in Mr. Guards coffee cup when he left the room and then he came back in and finished drinking it!

Aimee Update

Aimee Update~

I texted her today.

*She is at the "I just wanna sleep 24 hours a day" stage.

*She is 16 weeks.

*She had an ultrasound a few weeks ago to see if things were good.

*The tech said they are leaning towards a boy but it's too soon to tell.

*She has an ultrasound in 5 weeks for the actual sex of the baby.

*Payton has started a new habit...biting people. She doesn't know how to stop it.


So there you have it!

Now on to a new question... What was your favorite slumber party we had?

My turn

So I know that it is my turn to write. I just can't think of things to write about. In my other blog, it seems like all I do is talk about Josh. To tell the truth, it seems like that is about all that I do, entertain Josh.

As of late, I have been working on two blankets. One is for me, I am almost done with it and I will put pictures up. The other is for the baby, it is a baby afghan. It is going to be way cute. I am almost finished with it as well. I hope to finish it this next week. Also this week I will be hosting a pampered chef party. It is on Thursday. I will let you know more info on it if you want to buy things on my party. The more money that guests spend, the more free money and other things I get. So I am trying to think of as many people as I can. Because I really want pampered chef stuff.

But, other than that, not a lot is going on. I should have more stuff to write next week.

So I think it would be fun to ask each other questions. They could be about anything. Memories, hopes, dreams, anything. So I will start.

What is your favorite memory from Jazz band? (in middle school)

Jess's Senior Cruise

I thought that I would share this picture with you guys. It's Jessica on her way to the senior cruise. I just can't believe that she is a senior this year. High school has been very hard for her and we are all excited that she is a senior and seems to be finding her place with the help of the running start program. I only wish that she had had an awesome group of friends like I have. You guys are the best. Love ya!!!

We went bowling when Kassy was here. That's Kassy and Shawn. (one of Chris' buddies.)

Then there's Connor. He just wanted to push his stroller around the bowling alley. Thankfully we were like one of 4 people there so he had free reign to the right! He had so much fun! We loved that he could run around!

When I get a new computer I will put up more pictures from my new camera!

These are the fabrics for Nicci's quilt. I wanted to take a picture before I cut it all up.

This is the hardest part I think, cuz if I mess up now, I mess the whole thing up. No fixing it! OK I'm going to go be a big girl and make a quilt!!

If only

The only problem with just blocking of the kitchen, is, well there are a number of problems.

One he loves to be in the kitchen helping us cook. If I had to keep him out, I think we would both go crazy. He is very good at throwing tantrums. I am not kidding, it doesn't seem to matter if I ignore him or comfort him. He still throws tantrums. They are getting a little better. But by the end of the day, I have usually had enough. (Plus add in that I am always super tired from being pregnant and things just escalate.)

Two the opening for our kitchen is like 6 feet or something. I know they make gates that big, but I think he would figure out how to knock it down, he is really good at problem solving, plus it doesn't seem like one that big would be very sturdy. Robert has worked with Josh to teach him to figure things out. Which is good, but can get a little annoying in a 15 month old. I don't always want him to be able to figure it out.

And lastly, if I blocked off the kitchen he would only be able to play in the living room which is not very big. Seriously, with the love seat, chair, entertainment center, computer desk, his book case with toys, and all the other odds and ends we have, there is really not much room to play. He loves to go into the kitchen and bounce his balls and roll his cars and play. He gets bored as it is. I don't even want to imagine what it would be like if I didn't let him play in there. I am even starting to let him play upstairs if he wants. I just have a gate on the bathroom (he has a little too much fun in there) and I don't care what else he gets into. The house is usually a mess, so that is the way life goes.

So I started writing this as a comment to your two comments and decided it was going to be too long. But we are actually getting used to the baby locks. It is now mostly when other people come over. We have already told Heidi (she is Robert's sister and lives in Rigby (10 min away)) about the fridge. She is over enough that we thought she should know. And once Josh learns that something don't open, he usually leaves it alone. So I guess we could take them off, but you never know when he will try to open it again, just to see.

Seriously, I don't know what we were thinking, being two engineers and reproducing. It is not safe!!

Sarah

She's 14! I can't believe it, it hardly seems possible that she can be that old. It seems like only yesterday that Mom brought her home from the hospital... Now she's a teenager (and all that that entails!). She's excited because this is her last year at Cedarcrest and then she will go to the high school next year. She wanted to go to Deception Pass on her birthday to play on the beach (and I use that term loosely because there is no sand, just rocks) and take pictures with her new digital camera. We had a lot of fun. The weather cooperated and it was about 65-70 degrees out by the water and the sun was out!!! It was warm and she had a lot of fun. Then we went back to the house so she could eat birthday cake and open the rest of her presents (we made her wait ALL DAY!!!). I caught her and Jessica horsing around and was able to get a quick picture.

Jess has a senior cruise coming up on Saturday and she found a really cute dress today for it so I'll have to post a picture of her if I can catch her before she leaves for the fun.

Hope you guys are well. I'll post more later.

Update

I just thought I would put a little update up. Things are going really well. I have been working on my quilt and have the top all finished. Today I went and got the batting and backing. But I realized that I need to get a little more for the edging. As soon as I get it finished I will put pictures up. It is turning out pretty good so far. Especually considering it is my first attemt at quilting, well if you don't count the pillow thing I did when I was like 13.

Have I told you Josh has learned how to open the fridge. Let me tell you, it is annouying. We put a lock on it finally and it has taken Robert and I all weekend to remember that it is on there. I am supprised that we haven't ripped it off yet. Now we just need to put locks on the top drawers in the kitchen. We haven't worried too much about them, because Josh isn't tall enough to actually see in them. But being the problem solver that he is, he has learned he can push my step stool over to them and get in them very well. The only problem is in some of them are knifes and things he could hurt himself on. And then we will have to learn that the locks are on those drawers. Child-proofing is just so much fun!!!

So Josh woke up from his nap the other day and his hair was crazy, I tried to get a picture of it,

This is the best that I could get. He had three horns poking up. It was pretty funny to see. I don't know what he did in his sleep, but he must have been all over the place. Well, I just thought you would enjoy a picture.

Business

I thinking, with an idea started from Nicci, that I'm going to start my own online business. I'm going to make baby blankets and aprons and some other things, with my friend Mychel. We can do it anywhere in the world. And make a little extra profit while we're raising our babies. What do you girls think?
What else should I be making? What do think would sale?

Time Out for Women!

Congratulations NICCI!!

November 24!! That isn't very long for you to get up here and visit!! :)

Nicci, are you going to live in the dorms or with Erika?

Of course we will say an extra prayer for them and their families. I'm so sorry for your loss. I can't believe it when people do that. It makes me sick!

Okay on to sometime a little lighter...Time Out for Women.
It was AMAZING!!
First, our little church bookstore, the one and only, had a giveaway! Guess who won?!! Yup me!! I won Hilary Weeks (she's a church singer) book about the background behind some of her songs! (She writes her own songs.) She was AWESOME!

You guys know I don't cry very often, Hilary made me cry! With her song, If I Only Had One More... it made me realize how much I take for granted. I'm going to try and find the lyrics for the next post.

I'm going to share some of the main points from all the talks. They were all so wonderful and I highly recommend it to EVERYONE!

Questions can be powerful. What makes more of an impact... I love you versus Why am I so blessed to have you? You look great vs Have you lost weight?
Our beliefs are embedded in the questions we ask ourself. Do I love me? Am I fat?
Two most important questions we can ask ourselves are...
What Beholdest Thou? meaning 'What do you see?' What emotionally, physically, and spiritually, do you see?
2. What do you want out of it? This can even be as simple as deciding where to go on vacation. Your question shouldn't be 'Where do you want to go?' It should be What do you want to get out of it? Then plan your vacation from there. It will be a much better time for your family.

You can put this in your pocket for all those times you guys debate over the church! (haha haha!) But it's an interesting fact. No other organization (church, business, government, etc) of people has as much leadership with WOMEN in the world! (I think the most common thing that I've heard bad about the church is that it doesn't involve women. Now stick that in your bonnet and suck it!)

Eve is the Mother of all living things BEFORE she bore a child. That's the start of our church beliefs.

Mother guilt=bad. Do you feel guilty when it snows? Then why would you feel guilty over things you can't control like other people's actions.

If you start with high difficulty, you get higher scores even if you mess up. So what if we had degrees of difficulty on our life. We don't get to see the degree of difficulty on our or other people's life. We can't judge.

Do caterpillars know they are going to become a butterfly, or does God want to surprise them? (Do we know what we are going to be or is God going to surprise us?)


OK so I think that's enough for right now. If you want more thoughts, let me know. I have 1.5 day left! :)

Julie- are you craving anything with this one?

This Week

What a crazy week this has been! I found out that I go to the academy November 24!!! Yeah for going to the academy in the winter (because we all know how much I love the cold/wet... NOT!) I can't complain too loudly though because I'll graduate April 9, before the heat sets in so... Not a bad deal really when ya think about it. Then I worked at a child passenger safety booth today at Babies R Us (it's still hard to believe I get paid to do that :o) ) It was crazy busy in there. Who knew that so many people went to that store on a sunny Saturday afternoon! It was a lot of fun though...

Krista, how was Time Out for Women? It sounded like so much fun! I wish I could have gone with you.

So normally I wouldn't ask this of you guys but this particular incident hit a little close to home so... If you have been following the news from here lately, on Tuesday a "mentally ill" man went on a rampage and killed six people and injured others. One of the six killed was a Skagit County Sheriff's Deputy, who was also a friend and former academy classmate of one of the guys I work with. Also, one of the injured is a Washington State Patrol Trooper friend of mine. So needless to say this past week has been a bad one for our law enforcement community. I'm asking if you could add in an extra prayer for them and their loved ones.

Thanks! You guys are the best. Hope this week gone well for both of you.

Love ya!!!!!

Aimee

Aimee texted me last night. They still don't have a computer so that's why she isn't on here.

She thought she was 8 or 9 weeks along...she had her first appointment and found out that she is 12!! So she's already at the beginning of her second trimester!

She was so excited. I don't think she enjoys being pregnant as much as I did. (Well except the whole barfing thing.)

I just wanted to update you guys on her.

I'm going to Time Out For Women right now! It's sooo fun! When it comes to Seattle, you girls need to go!

Once again

So yesterday I had my 24 week appointment and we had a sex check ultrasound done. Once again they say that it is going to be a girl. So I feel very good about that now. So they doctor says that every thing seems good. Her heart beat was in the 140's and I am measuring right on. It was nice to hear that.

So Krista, I was reading your blog and noticed that you said that you had to have the stroller, are you trying to make an anouncement??? The stroller that I want is a graco duo glider. I think that it should work really well. But I am sure that we will end up getting more than one double stroller, considering we have 4 single strolers and a bike trailer.

Well, I just thought that I would update you on my doctors appointment.

Julie

Hello chicas!

I have a question for you guys...actually two.

When you sign in, can you see all three of my blogs? Or just our blog.

And do you guys read those other blogs on the side?

Oh make it three...I'm going to do another giveaway on my blog but I'm open for ideas. If you guys were to play, (hint, hint) what would you want?


So nothing much going on here in Waggoner world. Connor is FINALLY pulling himself up on the couch and stuff. It's so nice to actually see him heading in the right direction. But now he can reach the DVD player so Chris gets upset when he turns off his movies but I just sit and laugh cuz he wants him to walk sooo bad. I'm just waiting patiently!! (Actually thinking about tying him down but whatever!!)

Well that's all for right now...I gotta run to Costco!

How's everyone else?

The end of traveling as we know it.

This summer has been one of many travels. We decided to try and see all of our family this summer since I will be in no condition to travel around Thanksgiving and Christmas. So I figure we won't be going anywhere until after winter is over.

Well, We just got back from a trip to Utah. We went down for Labor Day weekend. It was a lot of fun. My dad and his siblings were having a family reunion so we were able to see a lot of family. All of my sisters came as well. Steph started another semester of college. She is a Junior now. It is prett crazy. I must be getting old.

Josh had a lot of fun playing with everyone. I don't have all the pictures from this weekend because my mom took most of them, and I didn't get them from her. But she said she would send them. We stayed at my uncle's, which was fun because they had some little kittens. Josh thought they were pretty cool. He kept calling them dogs though, we couldn't get him to even think about saying kitty. He always wanted to hold them. The only think he didn't like about them was when they followed him around, he would get scared when he turned around and they were there. It was pretty funny to watch. He also found out that they don't like to be pulled around by their tails. He only did that once.

It was so much fun to see Josh play with his little cousin Nathan. When we saw them a few weeks ago, Josh didn't want to have anything to do with him. But this time, He would wave and get really happy when he would see him. It was really cute, Josh kept giving Nathan hugs. Nathan is only 8 1/2 months so sometimes his hugs were more like tackles than hugs, we got pictures of both. So the first picture is the tackle and the second one is when we asked Josh to give Nathan a hug.

It was fun to watch them try and learn to share. My uncle has one of the flinstones cars and they both thought that it was pretty fun to play in. They also both wanted to play with the ball. Here Josh is taking the ball from Nathan. Luckly they are both pretty easy going and neither one really cared when the other took something.

My Dad really had fun playing with his two boys. He obviously could play better with Josh because he is walking and 6 months older than Nathan. And I must admit that I really really enjoyed watching my dad play with Josh. It made me very happy. I just wish we lived closer so that they could play more often and develop a really good relationship. But maybe someday.

Well, I am sure I have mentioned before how much Josh enjoys playing with water. Well, my dad showed Josh the joys of a hose. We were at my Grandparents house after church on Sunday and They had a hose out. So my dad turns it on and Josh thinks it is great. My mom has all the pictures from him playing in the water, but Andrew took some videos of it. In this first one he is just playing in the water.

In this second one he has discovered that he can drink from it. I am pretty sure he figured it out himself. What is really funny is that later, he started to blow bubbles into the water that was comming out. When he found the hose again later, he picked it up and started to blow into the hose again, which pressurized the hose and water started to come out. He thought that was pretty cool. He got so wet, we took his pants off and I literaly was able to ring them out. So here is a little clip of him drinking.

So those are the highlights from this weekend. How is everything going with all of you? Krista we haven't heard from you in a while. What is new. Also does anyone have any ideas for lunches and snacks for 15 month olds. I hate trying to figure out lunch for me and now I have to do two of them. So any new ideas would be great. Thanks.

Well I htink that about wraps this up. Sorry that it ended up being so long. I hope you enjoy it.

Julie