update on fishing trip

So the fishing trip that Steve went on for steelhead, yeah not so hot. I guess that a lot of the fish were gone and none were biting. So the whole trip was a bust. All Steve caught were a bunch of crap fish and missed a couple steelhead, his dad on the other hand caught a couple, but had to let them go because they were wild, and you can only keep the hatchery ones. LAME... So oh well, but here are a couple photos from the trip:)

GOING INSANE

So I went to a Dr. app a couple of weeks ago where I explained to my Dr. that I was having a lot of contractions and sharp shooting pains through my stomach, so he decided to check my cervix to see if it had dilated any. Much to my dismay, it had started to dilate already a 1 and I was only 30 weeks at the time. So he put me on bed rest, which has been extremely hard for me, BUT since we are living my my in law's my mother in law has been my saving grace! She wakes up with the girls in the morning and takes care of their every need all day long since I cant go up the stairs or walk all too much ( even though I have cheated many times). So I have been on bed rest for the past two weeks now, the longest but shortest two weeks of my life. I had another Dr. app today where I had to give a report on everything that had been going on. Despite me laying down or sitting all day even with occasional standups and walk arounds, I still was having contractions and sharp pains through my thighs and lots of pressure in my lower back and lower abdomen. So he directed me to stay on bed rest and hope that things hold off until 34 weeks, but he is really wanting me to get to 36 weeks. At 36 weeks he said he would take me off of bedrest and let the baby come when she wants. So I could be having her a lot earlier, which makes me happy, but also nervous, because I for sure don't want to have any problems and would hate to see her in the NICU. So I will keep my fingers crossed that she grows and develops quickly so that she can enter this world perfect and healthy as ever!

The negatives of being on bed rest is I never hear from anyone, family and friends included, I very rarely get a text or calls from anyone and am dying to have my phone ring just so I can chat with someone. I really miss not being able to do normal day routines with my girls. My favorite was holding Brynlee with her blanket and singing her a song before bed. She always gave me this look like I love you mom, and since I have been deprived of that, she now only like daddy or Nana to lay her down which makes me sad. It has definitely been a hard couple weeks staring at the same walls, to keep myself busy I just make bows and watch movies and read books. Makes time go by a little faster for me so I am not constantly looking at the clock. I keep telling myself that this is such a short time in life compared to the whole scheme of things and that can make it through another 4 weeks of this.

Fishing Trip

Pictures soon to follow! So Steve left early this morning for his annual Steel head fishing trip with his dad and friend Harley. It is in Idaho somewhere, but it is 6 hrs away from here. Get got up at 4:45 this morning to leave at 5! he had everything all ready and was gone for about an hour when I felt his cell hone vibrate at my feet. He had unplugged it and taken his charger for the wall and car and left his phone here! So needless to say I am feeling a little bit of a withdraw from him. I have no contact with him until he gets home Saturday evening. Long trip and a long 3 days without hearing his voice. To top it off I can't stand sleeping alone in our bed! I did it all growing up so why is it a problem now??? Totally stupid but I guess I have grown used to having someone there to protect me and keep me warm since I am always so cold! Anyway, he will be back Saturday evening so that needs to come fast. In the mean time I have done laundry, cleaned our room and both girls rooms, vacuumed, folded and put away laundry and also started more laundry in the washer. So I was finally able to get myself in the mood to do something productive which I have not done all week. So I am hoping to get myself caught back up before Steve gets home so he can come home to all clean clothes and a clean room. I was not in the mood to cook and I needed diapers anyway, so I drove the 5 minutes to Wal-Mart and got diapers and also bought the girls popcorn chicken from the deli. They love the chicken there so I knew they would be happy! So all in all it has been half of a good day at least. I got to spend time with my girls, and even though they cried for daddy most of the day and I wished that he was there too it was still an okay day.
Tomorrow Leslie, the girls, and I are going to go to Marie Calendar's because we have a coupon for a free pie! MMMMMM So we will get some yummy food and a pie and then Saturday morning we are going to go spend some time with Jenn and her kids and go to Wheeler farm to take pictures and have fun with the kids for a few hours. I am so excited to get some cute pictures and let the kids run! SO I will soon have pictures of Steve's fishing trip and then pictures from Wheeler Farm!

Friends!

We have for sure had so much fun the past couple weeks with making new friends! Steve and I have been going to a financial peace class that is being hosted through the church and we met up with the Crookstons that are in our ward as well going to the class. We started sitting next to them and goofin' off in class BAD US! So we exchanged phone numbers and started talking a lot over text and facebook and found out that KaraLynn was 6 months younger than Brighton and Brynlee was only 3 months younger than Morgan! They quickly got into a tight friendship and Kara and Brighton are so stinkin' cute together! Brynlee doesn't seem to care who she plays with as long as she is included! They love being able to come over to Jenn's because the backyard is so big and there are lots of toys for them to play with and lots of friends. As for me, I finally was able to find someone I could talk to and hang out with too that helped me stay sane and not stress out so much! I have not had a friend like that since High School and I really needed someone like that in my life. Steve for sure is happy about it too because he knows I have somewhere our girls can play and somewhere I can go and someone to hang with! We have had many fun days over here and I love every minute of it, even though we don't do anything at all, just watch the kids play and make lunch, and just chat it really is the highlight of my days! Friends are definitely good to have around!
We had a relief society birthday dinner last night so I went and picked up Jenn and her sister Paula and we just carpooled together. I brought this yummy Strawberry jello cake and Paula brought this divine looking German Chocolate cake!!! it seriously looked like something off of Matilda! That awesome cake that boy is forced to eat? yeah mmmmm! So we had a good time there and after is usually where it catches me in a weird place because I never have had a reason to stay after because I don't have friends to talk with. This time Jenn, Paula, Elizabeth and I stayed almost 45 minutes after just talking and laughing! It was so much fun! Life is for sure rich when you have friends to spend it with and laugh with!

Kara decides she wants to be a beautician

So kara decided a couple weeks ago that she wanted to be a beautician! I had gone to do something I can't remember where I went, but in the mean time steve Text me saying that kara had cut her hair!!! I was so sad cause she had to have a bunch of hair cut off before for having gum melted into it to her scalp... So she went from middle back length hair to chin length. ANYWAY, So I asked him how bad it was and all he said was that she just looked really stupid! So I was really nervous to go home. When I got inside I saw her hair, she had cut off half her hair on the right side of her head so it kinda looked like half a mullet. So ugly! So to fix it I just combed over more hair from the other side to make it took not so bad. I thought I had it fixed.

The next day i come downstairs after just a few minutes of them being alone and see hair all over the floor, I look up and see KaraLynn standing there with scissors in hand and look at her hair.... here is the result... see for yourself!

So as you can see, the right side of her head is really thinned out from the day before and then the new haircut she cut off most of her bangs and then also did this to Brynlee's hair....

So now Brynlee also has ugly hair thanks to her big sister who chopped the crown of her hair off to the scalp. So it is spiky and when I put it in ponytails it spikes around it so its cute when its done, but just down like this it looks horrible. SO SAD!! I told kara that we were going to chop off her hair like a boys cause it was so destroyed and she just sobbed! So I felt like I had made my point and just do my best to make it look decent. I can now laugh at this and later will always remember how sad I was but how funny it really was. Who cares! Atleast hair grows back! So this is what they look like when I have it all done cute

And Brynlee...

February!

This month has been one for the books for us! It was really exciting at first then turned sour really fast. We got word from our renters that they had bought a house and would be moving out so we could move back on march 1st. We were excited about it because that meant we would be able to be on our own again and just in time for the baby to come into our lives. A few days later our renters had still not made their rent payment for the month of Feb. so I text her and asked where it was. She said that they weren't going to pay it because that's what our security deposit was for. Needless to say they went completely against the contract and now are taking them to court for the rent, plus damages. Plans were still in full swing for us to move in on the 1st of March so that was still really exciting and I have been really anxious because I just need my own space and privacy. In the mean time...

KaraLynn got really sick. She was throwing up for reasons we have no idea. It was all dry heaving and went on all night long. So I was one tired mommy the next day. She seemed to be Ok throughout the next day and slowly we started to let her eat here and there just to make sure she would not throw up a whole bunch of stuff. So She finally got past it and was fine. The next day Brynlee started to get really cranky and nothing seemed to calm her down. She started to get a fever, luckily without throwing up, and at first it was 101.5 then it went to 102. so that was a rough night too. she would get so hot she would sweat so I was constanly in there giving more tylenol to make the fever go down. Thus lasted for 2 days then finally subsided. THEN KaraLynn decided she wanted a fever too... Hers went from 100 to 101 to 102 to 103!!! Even though I was giving Tylenol to her it would not help. So Steve being wonderful took over for me and put her in a lukewarm bath which brought it back down to 102 and throughout the night with the help of a cold washrag to her head it went to normal by the next afternoon. Rough couple weeks that was. Little did I know it was just beginning...
Within the next few days I started to have lots of Braxton hicks contractions. They didn't seem to want to stop and suddenly I started to have hard cramping with it too which made me really nervous. So I got on the phone with my dr and told them what was going on. they had me come in for some tests to see if I had infections which were all negative. They told me to go straight to labor and delivery the next day if I was still experiencing them. So the next morning I got up and felt completely fine. did my normal stuff, dishes, breakfast, getting the girls dressed. About an hour into the day I started having them again hard so I went in. My doctor checked me and told me everything was fine and hoped it was just growing pains pulling things around, but that he wanted me on a strict bedrest the next week! I was not allowed to walk around very much, no stairs, no holding my baby, and I needed a babysitter to do it all for me. Luckily I had my mother in law (LIFESAVER) and she took good care of them for me. It eventually went away. Phewww...
the closer we came to march 1st the more stressed we became realizing we didn't have the funds for food when we moved out. The monthly income just wasn't all adding up and we were coming out short a lot! So we had some heart to hearts with our inlaws and decided that we would continue to rent out our home in Eagle Mountain until we knew if Steve would be getting the job in Idaho. It was a very hard decision and lots of tears were involved on my part because I didn't want to accept the fact that we could not do it. Now that it is all said and done and we have it back on the market we feel and know we made the right choice and are just grateful for family that can help us out so generously. We may not be where we want to be right now, but in the long term scheme of things we will be in a good spot and be able to do things on our own easily. I know if we keep making the right choices with our finances and continue to pay off things and eliminate the crud we got ourselves into we will be fine and come out on top! Life is good despite all that is going on because I have my wonderful husband and my beautiful CRAZY girls with me to help me through and soon I will have a precious miracle from heaven in a few short months. Life is crazy but good:)

Life this year

So this year has been a crazy one already! So here is my best to fit it all in.

Steve got a call back from Idaho for the job at the Site, he is now in the top 8 people being looked at out of the 650 that applied and then the 35 that got interviews and now the top 8, and 4 are being hired. He toured the areas he could that he didn't need a clearance for and felt really good about the job. The benefits are really great, the pay is twice what we make now, which we will never make here in Utah, and it's in a place where we feel like home. We would be living in the Idaho Falls area. We have no idea when we will be starting the job though. Right now we are going through an FBI clearance which they say could take anywhere from 4 months to a year and a half, so it's just waiting, waiting, waiting. I guess the FBI puts this more on the non important list, so we are really hoping they get it done in the 4 month time period so we don't have to sit in limbo for so long.
We got word from our renters that they had purchased a house and were going to be out March 1st. So we are really excited to be moving back to Eagle Mountain next month. I am really antsy to be on my own again and have a place that is more secure for my kids. It has been really rough on my oldest, KaraLynn, especially. She acts out a LOT and I can't seem to make it stop. There is not enough consistency in discipline and things that she can and can't do. The past few nights have been the worst. She has been waking up in the middle of the night and coming upstairs to sleep on the couch which I don't mind as long as she is quiet, but then she decided to start waking up Brynlee to play because she was bored, which did not set well with me. So then I told her she had to stay in her room when she woke up. The next night she wouldn't even sleep in her room and she would scream for about 3 hrs! She said she was scared of her room and the monsters that would come out of pictures and through her windows. That did not set well with me since I had such bad experiences when I was little. So I decided not to ignore it and also decided she was too young at 3 yrs old to be sleeping in her own room in the basement by herself. So since there is no where else for her to go, she now has a bed on our floor at the foot of our bed until we move back into our house in march. So we are hoping it is a fast fly by month.
Our baby is growing normal and healthy so far! I am due June 18Th 2010 and we are expecting another girl. It is my favorite part and something I have major withdrawals from when they are born, when they kick me. I love being able to feel her move around and know her moods and when she isn't too happy with me. She is EXTREMELY active and even my doctor was getting frustrated because he was trying to measure her but she would keep doing somersaults making it hard for him to measure her head. Too funny. We are so excited to meet her in June! Just a few short months away. Another reason why I an anxious to get back into the house. There is no way we would be able to fit 3 kids here.
Last night I had the strangest dream, but it was such a good one. I went into labor and Steve wouldn't be there because he was stuck at work. When the baby was born the doctor handed her to me and said congratulations, you have a beautiful healthy baby BOY! I was like wait I was supposed to have a girl???!!! I was so happy but sad cause Steve couldn't be there to see his son be born. But once he got there it was so great, and we ended up naming him Cooper Stephan Ohngren. He was so precious and I still remember how it felt to hold that new baby in my arms, the smell and the feel of his skin against mine. It really is the most incredible feeling ever. I am extremely excited for our little girl to come, but if she turned out to be a boy in the end I wouldn't not mind that so much:)
Well that is us for now. Busy Crazy life, but wouldn't trade a second of it!