Young Womens

I forgot to post about mutal yesterday! We acutally brought a camera so...there are pictures! We dressed up and carved pumpkins and decorated cookies. It was lovely. When I was younger...well heck even now, when ever I was uncorfortable or felt insecure (which was just about always) I would go nuts. I never wanted anyone to know how insecure I was so I always pretended to be totally confident. Consequently, I was totally weird and crazy for a long time, trying to fool everyone. Now that I'm older and I'm in charge of Young Women sometimes its hard for me to remember these girls dont respond the way I did. I mean, in high school you are so concerned about being cool its almost a handicap. Anyway, the point is that, during this party it was so evident that no girls wanted to put themselves out there. They couldn't go all out in the costumes, or have a lot of fun with the pumpkins of cookies. No one could really enjoy themselves because they were so scared to be thought of as silly. Isn't that sad? A few girls did dress all the way up but mostly they just couldn't. If only we could get over our shyness and just be ourselves. I think a huge lesson to remember is that no one is really focused on you, everyone is focused on themselves. I just felt sad that we couldn't have a great time because everyone was so scared. This feeling of shyness doesn't just go away with high school either. A lot of people, I think, still have to deal with feeling out of place or not knowing what to do in situations. Can I just ask a favor, whenever you are around me stop worrying! Just be you. And I'll just be me. I promise not to judge you or think your weird. Lets have fun and let go and stop worring if we are going to look weird or get ridiculed...we're going to be fine! enough ranting...here are my girls...i love these girls so much...bonus points if you can figure out first where i am and second what i am...Oh yeah, and the girl in front with the mustache and purple tights is 'White Trash Woman' the white trash super hero...haha Ashlee is great

And another one comes along

Yesterday I went to the Midwife clinic for my first appointment to find out how far along I am. The whole time leading up to this appointment I was sure that they would say, 'wait why are you here? That test was wrong your not really pregnant.' Obviously that didn't happen. We went through all the rigamroul of putting me in the computer. Then the midwife decided to just see if we could hear the heartbeat. We could. That amazing pulsing, swish swish swish, of a new life swirled around us and finally this seemed real. I am going to have another child. There is a small life growing inside of me once again. I, of course, started to cry. To realize this is real was overwhelming. When I first heard I was pregnant I wasn't very happy about it, but how can I not be thrilled when I finally heard that little heart. Its amazing to already love something you cant see and cant even really feel yet. Anyway, after that we went to get an ultrasound to see my exact due date. The tech did all the measurements then turned the screen toward me and that was when I saw my new little gummy bear. That is what it looks like, haha, a gummy bear. So cute. So according to the measurements I am due- May 27th. But according to the measurements with Jadynne was due Dec 5th. We all see how close that was. Jadynne measured small evey ultrasound, so, maybe the same will be true for this baby, who knows.

We also took some pics of Jadie in her 1st Halloween costume. I decided to make her a turtle! Oh man, I think it turned out so cute! Like my mother, I just have a hard time stopping. I just want to keep adding and adding until it would be so elaborate she couldn't even wear it so...it is in the car.

I'm also posting some pics of us at a pumpkin farm. Wonderful Mindy made the long drive with me so I could get this super good deal. They were, and are I guess, selling as many pumpkins and you can get into a cart for $25. I got 21...I know we could have gotten more but I started to feel guilty. It was awesome. Plus it was super fun to go and pick pumpkins, I felt like I was in F-town again. Running over to Scott Goodpasture's picking out my pumpkin to carve. Very fun. Anyway, those are our comings and goings. And if I can I'll post a few videos of Jadie's 'tricks'

ok well this is Jadynne climbing up the stairs...pretty cute.

Our Family

Well, I decided I'd better join the blogging sphere. I just love to see my family's blogs so much I thought I should really get into this. So, my first blog I guess I should just tell everyone what is currently happening? Cameron is still going to school, he will be walk in April and then take a few classes during the summer and finally be done. Great news I know! He still works for NuSkin. I finally got to see his office (its one of those secret kind of places...kind of like the priesthood session at confrence). It was pretty nice, he is surrounded by Lawyer offices and wow they are nice. I had this thought the other day-- we always look up to people who have a lot of money, we always want to be them. What we dont understand is how much work it usually takes to get there. I mean if you think about being a doctor or something, there is a lot of school to get through. They have to go to tons of school and then they work long hours after they are graduated. I mean in order to make a lot of money you have to work super hard, no way around it. so I was just thinking that instead of always looking to 'redistrubute wealth' or looking up and envying we instead need to look into our own lives and work. We can make our lives anything we want them to be its just up to us what happens. Instead of blaming everyone else for our lives or just wishing things were different. Lets take control of our lives.
Sorry for the rant. Back to the family. Jadynne is full of tricks. She is a super fast crawler. She loves to clap and sometimes we can get her to wave. She loves pointing, we often have 'ET' moments. She can crawl up the stairs super fast. Mostly she just loves to stand up. Any some what stable object is used to pull herself up. When we hold her hands she walks. Mostly she doesn't want sit if she can be held up for walking. Throughout all of this is makes noise. She loves the sound of her own voice. Dadadada, dgadgadga. Sometimes if i'm really lucky she will say mama. I feel pretty awesome when that happens. It amazing how fast she grows up. I dont think its possible to love this little girl anymore than we do. Finally on to mommy, me. Well, nohting new is really going on with me. I finally got my new glasses so duh dah duh dun!! I can see all the time! its pretty awesome. I'm still in YW. Its wonderful, I'm more one of the girls then a leader. um...oh yeah one more piece of news for me. i'm pregnant. Nothing huge just my life being turned upside down again. so thats the Bradys