Stuck

Kaylie is in this little 'terrible two' phase where, she never listens to me. I've told her repeatedly that she can't slide out under the arms of the rocking chair, and she obviously doesn't listen. So here she is stuck in the rocking chair, and I just had to laugh at her. I let her stay there a while because she needs to learn mom means mom says.

After I had my little laugh I had to try and get her out, and she was really quite stuck. Oh well, we'll see how soon it is before she tries this stunt again.

Update on the Chinese Water Torture

So here's an update on our little "Chinese Water Torture" (which is what I'm calling it.) That leak from under our fireplace was (I guess) caused from a broken pipe in the sprinkler system.

Lovely, huh? And to top it off, yesterday after I took these pictures, it rained and my living room flooded again...I love life. (At least at this point I can laugh at it.) I'm just happy that they located the problem, and are fixing it. (Keeping my fingers crossed though.)

Kaylie wanted to get her picture by the whole. (She's holding her stuffed puppy, "Stockton", and yes, he's in a dress....that's another story for another day.)

"Feeling a little picked on"

So I went Visiting Teaching the other day and my companion brought up how she's "feeling a picked on" these days, just because everything seems to be going wrong. All I can say is Diddo! we're "feeling a little picked on" ourselves lately, "when it rains, it pours" they say, and again nothing could be more true in our case.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to complain (we really are blessed) but man, all this "rain" is driving me insane, and I don't know how much more we can take. Here's our little list of problems these days:




1. We're stuck here in Utah, but we really want to be in Idaho, but there's no room in the family business. So we're here in Utah, Jacob's working twice as much as he would in Idaho, for literally about half the pay. But due to the current economy (no thanks to Obama) we dare not ask for a raise.

2. We are starting to have to pay back our student loans, which (due to the above circumstances) is next to impossible, we are not making enough to live and pay them all. And I'm too sick to work.



3. Last week I went to my regular well check visit on the baby and was told that the baby is too skinny and the Dr was worried that my placenta is dieing. This week a little better news, he's still gaining weight...but he's still way too skinny, and my placenta is starting to calcify, so I could have this baby at any time...and I still have a month to go. I'm basically suppose to be on bed rest (try that with a two year old....right). So a little scary....yeah!



4. Kaylie's got her molars growing in, and she's so grouchy and hard to deal with, plus she doesn't sleep very well at night so that means....no sleep for me...yay!


5. We've had every problem with water that you can imagine in our apartment. We love this apartment, and the rent is really cheap, but we've had about all that we can handle. Almost every pipe has had problems, but this week has been the icing on the cake because:



Under the fireplace has started to leak, due to sprinklers and too much rain. As soon as I get it dried out and the carpet all cleaned up it will leak again. And the smell of mold and mildew is just awful, it's making me and everyone else for that matter really sick.

While our landlord was here dealing with the fireplace issues I was in the bathroom doing my hair, when the ceiling above the shower started to drip really bad. (Not the greatest picture, but it is dripping). I'm just glad that he was here to see it because it's done it before but he never really believed me. Apparently the lady upstairs, had her shower on and it was leaking through into our bathroom....lucky me.

Then the linen closet flooded...yay...more stink! And that's about the point I started to scream, because I'm in the nesting phase (where I've been cleaning everything before the baby....and I get to do it all again.) So yes, I'm "feeling a little picked on" these days....how about you?

Forth of July

Jacob took this picture (he's always experimenting). But Kaylie was so cute, they handed out little flags and you can't tell from the picture, but she was shaking her hips and tapping her feet to the beat as the band went by. That little flag literally made her week, she's been carrying it ever since.

Dancing with Katelyn.

This is what happens when you give your husband the camera for the parade, you get nothing but pictures of old cars. This one was cute because there was an old couple driving, and they were dressed up in twenties style clothing. I can't wait to get old.

Not the greatest picture, but these guys were driving around "magic carpets", which were just lawn motors with a frame and carpets on top. They looked like they were having a blast, I've been telling Jacob that I want him to build me one to drive around.

Kaylie again at the parade. It was perfect weather, which was really nice for me being preggo and all. (Sorry to the random lady in the background, no idea who she is...oh well).

Another car, seriously that's all Jacob got pictures of really. He's just a little obsessed, but I love him any way.

Okay, this was a different parade, it was a week before the Forth (but still a Forth of July Parade...don't ask, your guess is as good as mine.) But this is an ambulance hurse...another Flamm thing I guess, I thought it was cool.

Kaylie and her bag of candy, she didn't trust me to hold it, so she dragged it with her everywhere.

Checking out the spoils after the parade, she got quite a bit of candy and other goodies. She now asks me everyday if we can go to a parade and get candy.

Random (not to mention late) Post

So these were taken way back in June, I was so busy that I never posted them. We were up at the Flamm's house and their neighbor's had a little Barbie Mustang that they were driving around. Kaylie loved riding in i, she didn't want to get out. (I forgot the little neighbor girl's name, pregnancy thing).

I always wanted one of these when I was little, like I would wish on shooting stars for them all the time (seriously, I was a little weird.) But after seeing how fast they can go, I'm not sure that I'll ever get Kaylie one. Fortunately this little neighbor girl was a really good driver, even when Kaylie was shifting the gears (which was hilarious, all the sudden they'd go backwards, forwards, slow, and super fast.) The little driver got sick of Kaylie pretty quick. I was hoping to get a shot of Brynnlee (Kaylie's cousin) but Brynnlee didn't want anything to do with the car, she was content on her bike (such a funny little girl.)

Our friends the Simpson's from Cincinnati, met up with us in Rexburg for just a little bit. We were so excited to see them. These are their girls with Kaylie...they are such cuties. Kaylie was way excited to see them. We miss the Simpson's a ton, wish we could have visited a little longer.

One Week of Fun!

Our friends the Stevens flew all the way from Cincinnati to see us this week. We had one super fun week with them, and we did a lot, so the next few posts are dedicated to our week with them.
In this photo, we took them to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open-house. It was really pretty , but I wouldn't recommend taking a two-year old through because it's hard to really enjoy it. Kaylie really embarrassed me because she yelled out in the sealing room "Mom, I need to poop!" That was lovely. Overall, I'm glad we went.
It's crazy, but this is the 13th Temple in Utah!

The Salt Lake Temple is by far my favorite Temple. Jacob and I were sealed there 3 1/2 years ago. I love going because it reminds me that we can be a family forever.

Cute picture of Kaylie dancing with Jacob in front of the Temple.

We took the Stevens to Temple Square to tour everything and I took a bunch of random pictures of the Temple, just for fun.

Cool shot, but I'm in dire need of a better camera (someday will have the money...I wonder how long I'll be saying that).