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Becky, Jared and Sarah
Note to Self: Our Future Pet
Jul 12th
We went to Idaho this last weekend (I’m sure Becky will write a post about it). If you know the setting, the situation may not seem as strange to you. But anyway, I saw something there that made me excited.
A Pet Goat!!
That’s right, a pet goat. It was a pygmy goat and it was so cool! We were at Sara and Brad’s house (they were getting married which was why we were there) and their next door neighbor had a goat as a pet. It was just like having a dog! I got so excited that you can actually do that! And the pygmy goat was the perfect size. I hadn’t realized it before, that I could have a goat in my back yard like a pet like they did. It totally made my day. Since Becky and I can’t agree on what kind of dog we would want, if the desire for a pet ever came from our kids, we decided that we’d get a goat (as long as we get a saddle or something so the kids can ride it, is what Becky says).
If you know me, you know I love goats (unless I only told Becky, but Becky knows and she still loves me). There was a goat farm on my mission and one goat in particular, Cookie, was just as friendly and playful as a puppy. So I made a movie about Cookie when I got home from my mission. Cookie is the white goat in the video. So this blog is a note to myself that when my kids start asking for a pet (like a dog or something), we’re totally getting a pygmy goat! (P.S. Here’s the movie about the goats on my mission. It’s worth a watch)
5 weeks!
Jul 8th
Sarah is now over 5 weeks old!
We have had many, many milestones, since everything that Sarah does is the first time. Since I already covered the first week I’ll start with the her second week of the month.
Sarah’s first bath-June 5th
Go BYU!
One Week
Two Weeks
Rolling Over – June 10th.
We got the video of Sarah rolling over on June 10th. She rolled over a few days before that but we didn’t “catch” her until then. We are very proud of her, she is very active and strong. You can see the videos in previous posts.
First Doctor’s Appointment June 15th
Sarah was holding my hand for comfort after getting some blood taken. She did really good. She wasn’t up to her birth weight yet, so we had to go up the next week. Lucky, she was good by the third week.
First time eating out June 18th
We went to the Brick Oven, it was the first time Sarah eat out. Well, she didn’t actually eat and she slept the whole time. But we had fun!
First Real Bath June 20th
Sarah’s First Time at Church -June 20th
We only went to sacrament meeting, but it was still Sarah’s first time at church, she did really good and slept the whole time.
June 28th First time Lindsey and Parker saw and held Sarah
Fourth of July in Delta, UT
First time geocaching – July 4th
Blessings
Jun 30th
I Have been meaning to post all the blessings that have come into our lives when we decided that it was time to have a baby. I truly know that it was the right decision (even with all the lack of sleep).
So here are some of the blessings we have had.
I didn’t know how to go about getting insurance and then my co-workers fiance was a insurance agent
I was thinking about getting a second job and my old boss from my internship called and said that they could use another person part time. They had flexible hours so I could do both jobs. This is also the job that I wanted to have after I had a baby because it is part time with flexible hours and is actually a job in my major. Another blessing in this situation would be that I got a pay raise because I was no longer an intern. Anyway this was such a blessing and she called me I didn’t even have to call.
Living in my grandpa’s house. As you know we lived in my Grandpa’s house for two semesters. This saved us a ton of money when we needed to save money.
Finding this apartment, I would have to say that finding the apartment were we live know is a major blessing. It is the same price or less than our previous apartment with the same perks (internet, a must for Jared, and cable) but it is two bedrooms which we really wanted/needed for another baby (I know that some of you guys had/have a baby in your bedrooms but I couldn’t sleep with her in our room because of all the noises babies make so although I didn’t know it at the time having a second bedroom is a must for us) oh and this goes along with being able to live in my Grandpa’s house because we may have saved in our one bedroom apartment at least for 3 months otherwise and I would have gotten no sleep that way.
Jared was able to find the perfect second job for the summer with relative ease.
More recently a major blessing in my life was that my mom was able to come down and help me with Sarah. I don’t know what i would have done without her. Thanks mom!
I would also say that the relief society is another blessing for arranging meals for us.
Also I have to be grateful that everything went relatively well with my labor and delivery. Another blessing regarding that would be that on the second day in the hospital I was having a hard time feeding Sarah, she was more interested in sleeping. So, I was working with a nurse and lactation consultant all morning to get her to eat. Well, when the doctor was examining Sarah to give her the okay to leave the hospital Sarah threw up right in front of the doctor, it turns out that she had mucus in her stomach and it needed to be pumped out. We feel really blessed that Sarah threw up in front of the doctor, if she had done it with us not only would it have freaked us out (the doctor said she was turning blue) the nurses might have said that it is normal to spit up and brushed us off. So I feel like it is a big blessing that it happened with the doctor.
Another blessing has been in getting all the baby stuff that babies need. Well, first I would have to start with pregnancy, I was blessed that my cousin Kitty and my sister-in-law Nicia and my sister Katie were able to let me borrow their maternity clothes, so I didn’t have to buy them. Thanks Kitty, Nicia, and Katie! Then we have gotten wonderful gifts from friends and family, thanks! Also, my mom gave me money to buy our crib. Then Nicia let me borrow all of her baby girl’s (and there were a lot) clothes. Then we were able to get travel system as a great group gift. Thank you! Then our apartment had built in drawers and cabinets so we didn’t need a dresser. Anyway, we were blessed that way too.
Hey All You RSS Feed Readers!
Jun 29th
I updated the look of our website! There’s been a ton of changes I’ve made to it. First off: New theme. I wasn’t necessarily sick of the old theme, but it was getting dated. I went on a theme search that made use of a couple Web 2.0 styles and some cool effects, and I found one I liked. Second: After a little tinkering around, I figured out how to add all those button icons at the top. If you hover over one, it will peek out, and if you continue to hover over it, it will tell you where it will take you if you click on it. I thought that was pretty cool. Third is the new sidebar things. I guess I’ve always been able to add these sidebar widgets, but they didn’t look that good until now. Fourth, I changed the way people submit comments. You’ll notice something that says “Leave a verified comment.” Just click on that and sign in using a service. There are more details in the previous blog post. If I can ask everyone to do me a favor, it will be for everyone to leave a comment on this post telling me what they like/don’t like about the new site, what I should add to the site or what you’d like to see more of posting-wise, and try leaving a comment using the new system. So all you RSS reader people, go to the actual website and try it out!
