It's beginning to look a lot like christmas!

So I woke up to a blanket of snow... no really it's WHITE... but not much i'm sure later today it will all be melted. Speaking of melted, Jennalee woke me up early and i was struggling to stay awake especially because she wouldn't sleep after i nursed her, she needed to be rocked... ever try rocking a baby while sitting up falling asleep LOL She grinned up at me and it just melted my heart, it was the sweetest thing ever!!!

So yesterday Jennalee turned 6weeks do you believe it's flown past so fast!!! I had my 6 week appointment so I had a baby sitter since it would be a few hours having to take that glucose test too... anyway turns out I have to call my insurance before they give me the birth control I wanted so that stinks that may mean we are stuck with this insurance co for another month to get it covered... :( Plus the dr. said i can't take the glucose test while nursing?!?!? what? I can take it while preggo but not nursing? isnt it just sugar?? Strange! Anyway so I was annoyed i was home quickly like 1 hr time and it was a waste to get a babysitter in the first place. DANG!

Adlanna's schedule has been chaotic lately, We haven't been doing anything different, but boy she has! she wakes 1 to 2 hours early each day... she is taking much shorter naps, she is struggling to go to sleep at night... its not so much fun..

Halloween is just around the corner so I am very excited for that! Also that means the following holidays are getting close... I have a ton of Christmas shopping to do but otherwise I am excited for the holidays.

DANG, See Jenna woke at 4am... and has been awake since I JUST got her to sleep and walked in here for five min of blogging to make sure she is staying asleep and WOW Adlanna just woke up. DANG no sleep for me :( Here it is 8am so I have been awake for 4 hours... at least I am not falling asleep sitting up anymore. But that means I gotta go... talk soon. Dont worry pics to come!

Tractor Pull in Cedar

So Saturday Chris had a tractor pull and with crazy work and having Jennalee Chris has missed many pulls, so we made sure he could not work so he could do this pull. It was awesome! Chris pulled a 117.7" Pull which I think is his highest record now, he got second place in his section and a red ribbon! :) YEAH!!!! I expected it to be cold, but it was nice and warm, didn't even have to keep Jennalee bundled up it was nice and warm, and no wind so it was AWESOME. Grammy Sherie made it down to see Chris in this pull, the first one she has been able to make it so, so that was exciting for us, and there is only one more "fun" run pull left so it was important to Chris. Thanks for coming Sherie it means a lot! Then Grammy Sherie babysat both kidlets and Chris took me out to dinner, I had told him earlier if the fam was going to go out I wanted Chili's cause they have their two for twenty right now, so that is where we went. For the first time EVER I ordered ribs at a restaurant and I will NEVER do that again... do you know how incredibly messy they are, you feel like a pig trying to eat them no matter what you do. LOL

Chris and I went and visited and had dinner with Kori and her family on Sunday, so that was fun to visit with her, she is due with baby #3 and boy #3 in Dec. so it was good. and they were all so happy to see a little girl. :) HEE HEE

I found a photographer and scheduled family photos in Nov. So i am VERY excited for that, Just gotta make sure Adlanna and i have something to coordinate with Jenna and daddy... and today I have been making a whole load of bows, and trying new things with ribbon.... I will let you know when they are done. I have had 3 ordered since Thurs... so things are picking up, I had to order more supplies to make a few, but I still came ahead with the payments received and will have a ton of extra supplies. Today I got payment on my most expensive order 33.50 after shipping. YEAH!!! Sits has still not put my items up for auction I guess they had a ton of things so they are behind, I will let you know when they do so we can watch how high they get, and see all the other things and we should all bid on stuff cause it's for a great cause, Spirit jump if you remember me telling you about that.

tomorrow I have my 6week appointment and then I have to go drink that nasty orange drink again to make sure all the GD is gone yummmmmm NOT... so I have Teresa coming to watch Addie since it will be a few hours and I can imagine trying to chase her in the waiting room while nursing Jenna and having everything exposed,, so instead we asked Teresa a favor. :)

Chris is taking Thurs and Fri off this week and we are going up to my family's place early to make sure we have time to shop for a van... I hope the lds site has something good listed today and that it is still there when we get up there on thurs. or that people list their stuff on KSL for cheap. :) Wish us luck!

I do have pics from the tractor pull and it was great fun to play with Sherie's camera since I am having withdrawals from mine, but i will post those later.

A update slow but here it is!

So the other night we went grocery shopping and found pumpkins... So we had the girls decorate one each, I have 3 gords that Chris and i are going to decorate... they just aren't done yet for pics. Adlanna had the marker for literally 1 second un attended and she drew all over her tray... yeah it came about 80% of the way off is all :(





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Adlanna is getting bigger and more helpful, she talks more she interacts more she is more fun all together she is getting to big too fast. Chris always tells me how cute she is and how much fun she is.

We have been busy with bow orders and ordering more supplies to make more varietys of thing those are to come once I get them all up it will be weeks i'm sure. We have finally planned both kids halloween costumes so thats fun, and we are excited for the holiday.

Chris has a tractor pull this weekend here in Cedar city, so that's fun, even though it's majorly COLD.

We are officially looking for a minivan... it's just really really uncomfortable and squishy in our car and nearly impossible to pack the car for roadtrips up north and back... so we figure if we sell our car and make a switch we should break about even. :)

Jennalee is back to waking twice each night, i shouldn't have jinxed myself and told you I was able to sleep cause that only lasted those two days. She often has a problem latching when nursing so we occassionally have to do a formula bottle because i'm too tender and the pain does't allow her to get enough milk so then i'm nursing more which makes me more sore, so if we have a bad day then we have a formula bottle... about once that day... not everyday so that's nice and the formula we are using came from the hospital so no extra cost yet, also a nice thing! She is getting too big, she smiles more often now and I finally got her this week to smile at me by talking to her, Daddy sings to her and gets big smiles so it's a lot of fun.

Adlanna is to the point now that she will only hold her for a min then she wants to push her off of her... before she would hold her for hours if we let her even if Jenna was screaming LOL Now she's got more things to do. She is really into this train and she drives it back and forth across the entire house saying choo choo all day it's funny, she takes it into the potty and everything.

Potty now that that came up, she really loves sitting on the potty and will remember to go after she has already gone so she just has a few drops in the potty but it's a work in progress... she loves the pull ups with diego on them and so we tell her not to pee on diego. LOL She also is now being bribed by money, she loves gathering daddy's change and putting it in her piggy bank and I figure that's a better bribe than food dont' want her thinking she gets candy for everything. Yesterday alone we were in the potty trying like 10-15times and 3 of those were with me nursing Jennalee at the same time... its amazing what you learn to do while nursing LOL

Adlanna is really interested when i'm feeding the baby to come and sit by me and most of you know we got this baby for her to feed and burp and change at the same time which has worked wonderfully. Anyway the other day she grabber her baby and sat next to me just holding her, so I told her why don't you feed your baby and she pulled up her shirt said "milk" and put her baby up to her chest. It was so dang cute!! Made me giggle. So we of course showed daddy when he got home he laughed. Then she proceeded to change sides when I did and burp her baby. She finally realized her baby talks so she is really excited about that. Of course I didn't have the phoen to take a pic that time, but yesterday I asked her to feed her baby to see if she would grab the bottle or just nurse her and again she nursed so i was prepared and took these...



then we had fun taking other pics together, don't mind that she is naked, easier to take on and off the pull ups 15times a day, also she didn't want to get dressed and I picked my battle LOL







IF you dont' check out my buzz blog you won't know that I was asked to put up a giveaway for 3 pairs of pj's from dillards that retails for 78dollars EACH, and I recently was contacted to test some ecofriendly products and then blog about them and give some to my readers... it's nice to be asked to do things instead of tracking down my own sponsors. Plus more freebies for me and that's what this is about! :) AND for those of you who don't enter giveaways i will tell you that I just KEEP winning, I won some DARLING cute shoes for Jennalee's blessing dress, and i won some home cleaner all natural stuff, and a necklace and reusable ziplocks and piggy paint and all sorts of GREAT items so enter it's easy! A Friend of mine told me some hints, enter as many times as you can, don't worry about when your comments are in the list and try to enter ones that have 150entries or less... I watch to see how many followers that blog has too. :) it pays to enter! p.s. Right now i have 3 different items (5 actually since two items have two winners) up for grabs so go enter!!



I just previewed this post... WOW you can totally tell which camera phone was chris' and which was mine... horrible difference! I can't wait to get my camera back just a week now. :)

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So today has been challenging. Jennalee has been hungry far too often, she wont burp so she has gas and that is keeping her awake. Chris had to work to the girls and I hung out, I got my ribbon in the mail so I put together more bows, I got my Personalized trick or treat bags for the girls... (one of the current giveaways on my buzz blog right now is for one of these! There are different styles not just the BOO bag) this is what I did a swap for... and the lady wanted wierd colored bows but they actually turned out darn cute! Watch the bow blog for those... you'll know because it's orange polka and lime polka sets :)

About the time that Chris arrived home from work I found a whole package of gum empty and little silver wrappers empty everywhere I think I counted 8 of them... yeah no gum anywhere so I imagine while I was nursing or changing bums or trying to keep Jenna asleep one of the many times Adlanna let herself into the snack cupboard and ate the whole package of gum. GRRRRRRReat! *sigh* She now has diareah... which is NOT fun when your trying to strip her clothes off her because it's all the way up to her shoulders GROSS!!! *gagg* She is also awake screaming right now and has had some LOUD gassy farts so we have to keep checking her for poop ... poor thing I don't want her bum burned!

Jennalee just fell asleep for longer than 20min since like 3:45pm today WHEW... but as soon as she did is when Adlanna woke up screaming... So I am here trying to un-stress... yeah right!

Chris has another sinus infection... we love these! So he is next to me on the other computer signing up for facebook LOL this is what we do stressed out and in pain at midnight LOL
He is a little unstressed since the Brianhead job is now done... basically anyway... next week they might send him to Page AZ which wouldn't be fun for me... but what can you do.?!?

Did I mention our insurance premium went up 120.00 a month additionally from the 75.00 it increased back in July.. .yeah sucky! So we went in to reapply yesterday hopefully we can get something cheaper. OH and financial aid at the hospital for the maternity coverage that the insurance doesn't cover yeah it expires on the 29th and since the bills are now larger than a few hundred dollars they are making us reapply to medicade before they will run them through financial aid... So hopefully the lady can get in gear and get us approved or denied like ASAP.

A blog that I follow is doing a fund raiser for SPIRIT jump Check out spirit jump here. And I donated 6 bows and a beanie to be auctioned off, so go bid on them or something else it's for a GREAT cause!!! I will link you there once it's up, they originally were going to have it listed today but now it's postponed until next friday.

Exciting news is that JEnnalee's eyes are a DARK very pretty blue!

Random Pictures

I put Jennalee in the pumpkin outfit so I had to take a pic, how cute... not bad for a camera phone!

I found this the other day, Adlanna must have wanted the doll safe while riding in the car, all buckled in. p.s. the dolls arms are through the straps and everything

this is one of the LARGE apples my tree produced. I got over a dozen all different size about 3 this size. They were good too!

Sadie took this with her camera phone when she was hanging out with us last week, i thought it was cute!


Chris took these on his phone i'm sure he drew the pic, but isn't she cute with it and her hair flowers that Josie made for her b-day?

Jennalee is 4 weeks old today!

Seriously? It's madness, it seems like I was having her yesterday!

So GREAT news, Jennalee went to bed at 10:30 the night before last and woke at 7am, last night she went to bed at 10:30 and woke at 5... WHEW I am finally getting some sleep. :)

She is loving cuddle time, tummy time, the swing, being held all the time, and when her sister says "morning" to her each time she wakes up and kisses her cheek.

She does not like bathtime, bedtime, the bouncer, gas or dirty diapers. But hey who does?

She is not having any problems with me eating chocolate or anything else so far for that matter. She is growing and fitting a little better into her clothes so that's nice, still can't keep socks on those little feet...

Her belly button looks wonderful, and I have to tell you how cute her little tiny bum is... Its so tiny!!! I need to get some naked shots, but hard to do with no camera.

Apple Fest

So this past weekend we went to New Harmony's apple fest... well first we ran to St. George to look at vans and see how much the dealership would give us to trade in our car, but we didn't actually do that since the vans at the dealerships were so much even if they gave us a good price there wouldn't be a van to purchase.

The applefest was fun we got a carmel apple and a bag of apples.. which I want to make into more carmel apples, we ran into some old friends from the town, Chris' exgirlfriend whom I had never met before *AWKWARD* and my old boss from St. George... and his family. Man just seeing him brought back how much I hated that job and him. LOL ICKY!

Then we came home and played as a family. On Sunday we cleaned out the garage. I took a before picture but not a after picture yet... but it's 90% clean so that's nice, we re-organized it and moved a lot of stuff back to the shed so thats good. Next weekend we have to put the siding on the shed, then the next weekend has a tractor pull here in Cedar then the next weekend is halloween which we are going to travel that weekend to see family. It will be the first halloween we spend with my family so that's fun!

Adlanna doesn't have a costume yet, we will be borrowing one of the Armstrongs old costumes once Danika decides which one she is going to wear.

I have had a few bow orders and a few more people trying to decide what they want. I also found something on Etsy I wanted for the girls so I am doing a trade with her for bows to get those without having to come up with the money.. :) I did have to order some ribbon to complete that order so i'm waiting on that for two orders. I am excited to get back into the groove and make more bows. I made 4 last night and they are DANG cute! Again no pics... my camera phone sucks worse then Chris' and yeah..

Britt I think I do want the battry and memory card mailed so I can at least use my crappy small camera until then. :( :) Can you mail those with insurance for like $100.00 thanks.

Talk more tomorrow hopefully I want to do a 4week old post for Jenna.

The weekend @ Britts: Cornbellys, Danika's birthday

This past weekend was my neice Danikas 2 yr birthday so we ran up north to celebrate with them!lf-rt: Jennalee, Adlanna, Kaylah, Danika, Jaiden

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We had a list of things to do and a list of people to see and didn't get even half of them done... Plus Jennalee was up the whole first night, and Adlanna was up the whole second night, Chris had a BAD headache both days enough that he was taking my pills from the OB from delivery LOL





So Cornbellys is one thing we went and did with the whole Armstrong family... We did hee haw farms last year and they are similar so we went to try the one we hadn't been to yet.




























the bouncy pillows were my favorite, and all the kids seem to have a lot of fun on them!!




































































































At the end of the day we found a face painting booth and Chris is a big fan of facepainting he always wants to get addies face done, the last time they didn't really have painting talent to a little flower or bug or whatever was your choices, these people were from BYU and they were amazing! I loved it! and it was a whole $3.00 it was the only money we spent on entertainment so it was good.

Danika's party was at chuck e cheese and it was fun, I don't think I have been to chuck E cheese for YEARS. Brittany's inlaws were there and hadn't seen the baby so they passed her around and my aunt Cindy stopped by and dropped off a present for the little piglet. Danika got lots of great gifts and she was loving every minute of it. I didn't have my camera so all the party photos are from Brittany and half of the cornbelly's pics are from her as well (that's why everything is out of order)