Heloooo

Yea it's been a while and I felt like writing a blog so here i am.

A lot has changed in these last few months with added baby and all! So lets start with her.

Miss Haylo Sofia was born on June 4 at 4:20pm she was HUGE! 9lbs and 10.5oz and 21inches long. She was so big that when she cam out her face was all bruised and her eyes had bloodshot rings in them for about a month. She was big but oh so beautiful!

When Petyl came and met her the first time she thought it was just a baby doll. Then we unwrapped the blankets and Petyls eyes got so big. it was sisterly love at first site!

After coming home from the hospital I was a little overwhelmed with all that was changing for Petyl. She is still my baby but now is the big sister and that was hard...but after a few days it was only really hard for me. Petyl is an amazing big sister. She tries to hold haylo hug haylo and even tried to nurse her once. Yes all these "sweet" things are very nice but very scary! LOL but really Petyl is getting much better. And it is so cool to see how much they love each other already. If haylo makes one peep petyl is right there or yelling for me to come help sister. And even if petyl is squishing haylo to death haylo just smiles and laughs at her big sis! 

The rest of the summer was really awesome. The girls and I went to Utah with the Rowlans for 2 weeks and I got to meet more of the family and have constant help with the girls. Petyl embraced her wild banshee and ran around the field all day and night, Fed horses every day, lit fire works, rode a quad, and enjoyed time with Forrest the dog. It was great!

After we got home things got CRAZY!

Trustan took on another full load this semester with classes 5 days a week after a full load of work. He has been exhausted but hopefully this is the last semester like this for a while.

I started back in my Teen Mom's Becoming Group and also with a friend started a Neighborhood Group(Bible Study) for the girls. It has been so amazing! I also was invited to a womens bible study and it is like changing my life! The women are so awesome and teaching me so much. I love the free childcare and so does Petyl. I cant wait for it to start back up in January. I also started back at my Neighborhood Group and really feel like a part of the family now :)

Halloween was so fun! Petyl dressed up as horse(she really wanted to be this white and pink horse!). She got lots of Candy and had fun watching spooky movies and seeing all the scary houses! We went back to Tolmacoff Farms and picked out a pretty plump pumpkin! Petyl got to ride the train by herself and feed all the stinky farm animals. OH p.s. I DID get an awesome gift of Halloween having my bestie Amanda Schoech come home to stay!

Thanksgiving(my favorite holiday) was super great this year. My mom hosted and cooked for Trustans family and even his Aunt Sandy and their family. It was really nice to have everyone together and even Trustan said that my "scheme" was actually good! So hopefully this means one year I will be allowed to have Thanksgiving with everyone at our house ;)

OH and Carissa Got married so we went and celebrated their special day!

So yea that is pretty much what you have missed these past few months. All the December festivities have begun and I will post another blog with all the fun details. 

Maybe I will start keepin up on this thing again ;) But in case I dont Have a Merry Christmas! and a Happy New Year!! Here is some more pics for the road..or for the..surf..or something... k bye :)

crazy life

So I am 36 weeks pregnant tomorrow. I am having issues with things...and am on "moderate bed rest" whatever that means. My hubby is in his finals week of school and is stressed out. and my lil nugget Petyl is going to be 2 next Friday. Things are CRAZY! but i have more craziness to add.

Last night Miss P spiked a lil fever..it was 9pm and Trustan noticed her hotness so we checked and sure enough she was at 102. I called the pediatrician on call and they told me the normal stuff..give her some Tylenol(GENERIC SINCE THEY ALL GOT RECALLED)...check on her every few hours..lots of fluids whatever. She had no other symptoms besides a slight runny nose. She feel asleep around 9:45 in our bed I got the room all re arranged so T could sleep in her bed with the alarm clock(he had to be at school at 8am for his Chem. finals) and fan and me an P would be in our bed. Me and him hang out and watch some tv.

11pm P wakes up crying and we both go up..she is ON FIRE! like no joke I could have roasted a marshmallow! We started the thermometer(rectal btw) and after like 10 seconds it was already at 104.7 104.8 104.9..i threw that thing out and we took P to the ER-Mendys Place. 

When we got there she had cooled off a little..there temporal thermometer said she was 103. she could barely hold herself up on the scale she was so tired and weak. They gave her some Motrin while we waited for the Doc. 2:30AM rolls around- We had her all checked out ears, nose, throat, x ray on the lungs, catheter to check her urine.... NOTHING WAS WRONG. and BTW she was now running around the room making bird noises and talking to all the nurses. Her temp was now at 98. We went home. 

Now dont missunderstand... I am happy there is nothing major going on and that she was feeling better. BUT REALLY? Ugh it was crazy. They said there is a virus going around or something..and today she is a lil grumpy and wont really eat and has a tiny temp. So I will go to the doc on Monday. BUT REALLY? Of all the times to have a crazy temperature that pans out to be nothing...

CRAZY CRAZY LIFE! 

I felt bad for Trustan who got 4 hours of sleep before having to take his finals...its just Crazy. Dont you think?

Anyways thats all thats my rant/ craziness explained.

i do have to say I was a proud lil mama to see my baby being SO good for the nurses and doc. She did everything without crying or fighting at all. even the catheter she just laid there and then started talking to the nurses and daddy. it was so cute. Everyone commented on how easy she was and how surprised they were with her age. It was awesome..lil bug!

Ok im done now. Thanks for reading <3

Book Reading Update:

A few blogs back I posted those 100 books to read. I was going to start from the bottom up but then that first one was hard to find AND it sounded kinda lame.

I did read the lion the witch and the wardrobe which is on there. It was good funny what I remember from being a kid and reading it..that dang Turkish Delight sounds so good. I want Brieson the bro in law to make it for me! It did also confirm that the book was way better than the movie for sure!

I also started Song of Solomon(really weird so far!) I cant even go in to that yet but when i finish it will be an interesting review.

I have actually been working on the big one from the list THE BIBLE. I mean its on the list and eventually if I had any order to reading I would have to read that one.

So I just finished Genesis. It is so interesting how the stories you hear in church or have actually read many times can still show you such different things. I love that! I really liked reading Genesis. Favorite Story - I really love the creation part..just cuz it is so amazing to think about and still not really understand. I like the story about Joseph and how forgiving he was to his family. Noah..with that boat! that would have been so hard. I think about that move cant think of what it was called..Noah Almighty i dunno it was so funny but still to really think about it I am sure all those people back in Genesis thought Noah was a freak! and then they were sorry too.

 I think the one that stuck out to me the most is when Abraham is asked to sacrifice his son. UGH! that would be SO CRAZY! something I never noticed before was how when Issac kinda realized what was goin down he asked his dad uhm hey wheres the lamb? and Ab replied "My son God will provide for himself the lamb.." He didnt try and cop out with some whinny "oh son god is making me kill u!" he just had faith and stayed strong in front of his child. He knew whatever happened would all work out. which it did the Angel stopped him and a ram appeared instead. But I just LOVED that! Sometimes we people can be so...LAME in how we approach situations and I could never imagine being asked to sacrifice my little monkey and to see this strong example of faith and courage...It's nice it makes me want to be better and yea I just loved it.

So now im in Exodus I will update you when I finish. =]

Bacon Spaghetti

It was brought to my attention that some people have not heard of bacon spaghetti in fact they had the audacity to say "it must be a pregnancy thing cuz it sounds disgusting". Well it is obvious they do not know what they are talking about and I had to do something about it. I mean I cant let them challenge my well culinaried palette on this one! It could damage my reputation! So I am here today to share a recipe that has been in my family for..well i dont know how long but i am pretty sure my dads mom taught my mom how to make it and in turn i also learned to make it. AND let me tell you it is in no way near disgusting. Actually i would consider that an antonym of what it actually is!


Also because of this I now must cook the meal for my Rowlan inlaws...they are kind of the test group for any new thing I do or old thing I love. They will then clarify its amazingness in case these unkknowledged people are too afraid to branch out and open their tongue to delicious amazement! Note these inlaws do not know about this yet but I am sure they wont complain..about me cooking a meal for them since that is a rare occasion in the household.


Anyways here is the recipe and if you are smart you will give it a try!


Bacon Spaghetti

Ingredients:
5-8 slices Regular Bacon no maple or anything that would be weird! (I like turkey bacon for this too..and its better for you!)
1/2 onion small diced
1 Green Bell Pepper big diced
1 clove garlic diced up
1 can mushrooms or fresh ones sliced up
1 Jar spaghetti sauce - a four cheese or classic works good..or make ur own
extra seasoning- if the sauce is "missing" something add black pepper, oregano and parsley.
Favorite Noodles..Original Recipe wants the regular spaghetti noodles but its good with linguine or some penne too.


Directions:
Cook your noodles. While they are cooking start your bacon in a large skillet..you want it to be real crispy so let it get almost burnt(it doesnt matter waht it looks like cuz you will chop it up later). Then take it out to dry on a paper towel. Add the onion and bell pepper to your bacon grease over medium heat(if you have a lot of grease drain some...turkey bacon doesnt leave that much). Cook a few minutes and add your garlic (and if you have fresh mushrooms add now). When everything is browned good add your sauce. Let that simmer for a while and add you extra seasoning if necessary. Chop up your bacon and add it back to your sauce. Drain your noodles and combine with sauce or just serve sauce on top of noodles. You can always add some meatballs or shrimp...but the plate is good on its own anything else is extra.


Serve with some garlic bread and salad and you have an amazing meal!

big girl room!

Miss Petyl my lovely child learned how to get out of her crib...and she decided to become a pro at it in 2 days. So pro that even when I pushed the crib to the wall where she was shimmying down she still managed to get out and get stuck between crib and wall. So I knew safety wise it was necessary to move.

I cleaned up the new room and brought all her Petyl stuff in. It looked like a nice toddler room. And she liked it. I was dreading night time tho! I wanted her to be real sleepy and ready for this big night. So we watched some wow wow wubzy(her favorite if you didnt know). Then we had a little snack of cereal. took a warm bath. brushed teeth. got snugly in some jammies. read a book. at 10:30pm i laid her down...and. she CRIED! got out of bed. banged on the door. turned the lights on. jumped in the bed. played with puzzles. spilled humidifier water.

UGH it was not going well. so i re assessed the situation. cleaned up some of the mess. moved some things around. and then I laid on the lower trundle part of the bed while she laid in her bed.
        
****note: anyone who knows me knows how against this i am. i am not one that sleeps with their child until the fall asleep. i want my baby to comfort herself and not depend on me being there for her to feel safe to sleep.

I thought this might work tho and was desperate... she was staying in bed tappin her nose with her blankie closing her eyes being a good girl. It had been a while with no sound and little movement. I decided i would make my escape. I maneuvered my BIG belly down to the floor without moving the bed too much. got on all fours and sneaked to the door. I did a little peak at my precious babe and then squeezed out. I ran to the monitor to see her still laying in her bed. YES i thought, it worked.

I was wrong! 2 mins later i heard her cute little whisper "mommy? where are you?" then she got up and came to the door knocking! did I mention it was now almost 12:30AM! so I went in not knowing a plan. she threw her binkie and blanket and said bye bye and blew them a kiss. so i went with it. I said Oh you dont want them okay i will just take them out. I threw them in the hall and she said NOO and gave me her infamous evil eyebrows. then she pointed to her diaper and said Pee. so i told her we would change it and then it was bedtime. As I laid her back in bed she asked for her covers. I covered her up kissed her head and walked out. I watched her on the monitor for a while before it sank in but the little stinker fell fast asleep!!! after all that crazyness that is what worked! and I didnt have to lay with her I didnt have to sneak out I just did the norm minus the baby crib! It was pure awesome! 

Now this is a happy ending but I have to share what happened next.

In all my mommy happiness I went down stairs to get a drink only to drop the WHOLE bottle of apple juice breaking the lid and spilling all over the kitchen! the stickiness was not going to be okay so I mopped the floor and then went to bed angry but happy all at the same time.

Oh the joys of motherhood!

here is my little bug... pic from monitor of her sleeping soundly!

p.s. tonight P went to bed at 9:30 and it was a normal routine...now if only we can get her to nap in there......another challenge to conqour...stay tuned!

Goals/To Do before baby arrives

Okay so it is spring and i really want to clean up my whole house. I have had a good start in organizing everything but then i started to slack and it is piling up again..and there are still things i want to DO! So i am going to blog this bad boy so i feel more accountable or something...

1. Clean/ Organize the garage
2. make trustan go thru his clothes that do not fit him
3. Clean out petyl closet and clothes
4. Move petyl stuff to big girl room and organize haylo room
5. Commit to Potty Training! (she is so ready and i am being lazy!)
6. Plant SOMETHING in the yard...so it looks prettier! im thinking wild flowers..they can grow with the rest of the weeds but look nicer!
7. Have a yard sale (with all the cleaning out I should have a nice bunch to make some money off of!)
8. Hang pictures so it looks like a real family lives in this home!
9. Scrapbook the life of Petyl...and then some!
10. Move Petyl to big girl room(and big girl BED!...or find a crib someone wants to donate to my cause)


Ok i think that is all for now..i am sure i will walk in to another room and see that there is more things to add to this list but its a good start right! and now i have made the list so i will start to do things on it..Promise!

EYEBROW THREADING

mm k so I really wanted to try this eyebrow threading thing that they do at the mall u know. So I have been growing these beasts out so that they could really be shapped and it would be worth it ya know. I have been growing them for like 2 months. That is a long time ya know! i mean these things were getting caterpillarish. Today had to be the day. I needed to end the crazyness. So I went in to get em done. Let me tell u it doesnt look painful but man it does NOT feel good! Waxing doesnt feel good either but its like bing bang ur done. This is like an inbetween tweezing and waxing cuz its like a lot of tweezing at once. It hurt. My eyes were a watering. But I do have to say there was no reddness that u get when u wax. So that is a plus. Anyways check out my pics...i have a before during and an after for u. And if u were thinking about going in to have some threading done then now u kno it is not pain free but the results are nice. I still think next time i will go back to waxing!

Books

I decided that I love to read but sometimes it's hard for me to decide what to read unless I have a purpose for reading it. The last time I really read was the Twilight Series and that was also motivated by all the other friends I had reading and tlakin about the books etc.. and before that I dont even remember. But I never know what to read either..I feel like there are all these books we are "suposed" to read or should read and I want to read them! So I starting looking up lists of books to read before you die..top books..etc. I found A LOT of books. But I settled on one list.

Newsweek posted the top 100 books: The Meta List. It is a list made from all the other lists. I liked it cuz it was recent(the article was from June 29,2009). It has a good variety too...theres fiction and non fiction..theres stories I have heard of and some I havent. It seemed like a good fit. My plan was to start at the bottom and work my way to the top. Number 100 happens to be The Second World War by Winston Churchill a 6 book series! EW! is this a test? Ugh well I decided that there are a few series' on the list so I could at least read the first book to start and then go from there. I searched for the first book and the Phx library only has it online and that is no fun. Peoria and Glendale have it but I will have to pay for it and that is also no fun! So my good friend Sarah Raber is going to get it for me from her library...so I will wait.

Today however I was substituting an amazing 6th grade class and they were too good so I had to busy myself with the teachers books..where I saw The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. I knew this was on my list.. I also know that I read this book in grade school but need a refresher. So during class I read the first 7 chapters and then continued when I got home with my personal copy and now have 20 pages to go. So I guess i am on my way. Note-Number 41 is ya know The Holy Bible. That may take some time... Anyways this is my new adventure. I am going to do it. I dont know how long it will take..but I will do it. Then I am going to post after each read. Wish me luck :) Here is the list of just the book names and the link to the article if you are interested.

P.S. Shelly Rowlan I would love to know how many books on this list you have read???

Newsweek’s top 100 books Jun 2009
http://www.newsweek.com/id/204478/?q=/name:0/type:0/range:0/page:1

1. War and Peace


2. 1984


3. Ulysses


4. Lolita


5. The sound and the fury


6. Invisible Man


7. To the lighthouse


8. The Iliad and The Odyssey


9. Pride and Prejudice


10. Divine Comedy


11. Canterbury Tales


12. Gulliver’s Travels


13. Middle march


14. Things Fall Apart


15. Cather in the rye


16. Gone with the wind


17. One hundred years of solitude


18. The Great Gatsby


19. Catch-22


20. Beloved


21. The Grapes of Wrath


22. Midnights Children


23. Brave New World


24. Mrs. Dalloway


25. Native Son


26. Democracy in America


27. On the Origin of Species


28. The Histories


29. The Social Contract


30. Das Kapital


31. The Prince


32. Confessions


33. Leviathan


34. The History of the Peloponnesian War


35. The Lord of the Rings


36. Winnie the Pooh


37. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe


38. A Passage to India


39. On the Road


40. To Kill a mockingbird


41. The Holy Bible


42. A Clockwork Orange


43. Light In August


44. The Souls of Black Folk


45. Wide Sargasso Sea


46. Madame Bovary


47. Paradise Lost


48. Anna Karenia


49. Hamlet


50. King Lear


51. Othello


52. Sonnets


53. Leaves of Grass


54. The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin


55. Kim


56. Frankenstein


57. Song of Solomon


58. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s nest


59. For Whom the Bell Tolls


60. Slaughterhouse-five


61. Animal Farm


62. Lord of the Flies


63. In Cold Blood


64. The Golden Notebook


65. Remembrance of Things Past


66. The Big Sleep


67. As I Lay Dying


68. The Sun Also Rises


69. I, Claudius


70. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter


71. Sons and Lovers


72. All The Kings Men


73. Go Tell It On the Mountain


74. Charlotte’s Web


75. Heart of Darkness


76. Night


77. Rabbit Run


78. The Age of Innocence


79. Portnoy’s Complaint


80. An American Tragedy


81. The Day of the Locust


82. Tropic of Cancer


83. The Maltese Falcon


84. His Dark materials


85. Death Comes for the Archbishop


86. The Interpretation of Dreams


87. The Education of Henry Adams


88. Quotations From Chairmen Mao


89. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature


90. Brideshead Revisited


91. Silent Spring


92. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money


93. Lord Jim


94. Goodbye to all that


95. The Affluent Society


96. The Wind in the Willows


97. The Autobiography of Malcolm X


98. Eminent Victorians


99. The Color Purple


100. The Second World War


Oh and another list I found that I want to read also is the top 25 banned books... here is that list too!

#1 A Day No Pigs Would Die


#2 American Psycho


#3 And Tango Makes Three


#4 Annie on My Mind


#5 Bridge to Terabithia


#6 Candide


#7 Fallen Angels


#8 Fanny Hill


#9 Forever


#10 Frankenstein


#11 Harry Potter (The Entire Series)


#12 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings


#13 Lady Chatterley's Lover


#14 Lord of the Flies


#15 Of Mice and Men


#16 Silas Marner


#17 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn


#18 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer


#19 The Arabian Nights


#20 The Catcher in the Rye


#21 The Chocolate War


#22 The Color Purple


#23 The Giver


#24 The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders


#25 Ulysses