Mother's Day

It's Mother's Day again. This Mother's Day was pretty low key. We went to church and then the beach. It's the first time this year, and I'm so excited for the weekends to come. We didn't get in the water this time. Between Matt's surgery and Madeleine's fear of the water, we didn't see much point of getting our swimsuits. The sand was wonderful though, and Madeleine was thrilled to discover shells. She was so excited. She loaded up her little truck we bought with shell and drive it in the sand. It was buried a few times on accident when a sand tunnel collapsed, but Madeleine would run and grab her little blue shovel and dig it out again.

The beach was pretty empty and the clouds were moody. They were so thick and gray and the sky just faded into the ocean. We couldn't see and of the boats or airplanes but Madeleine kept looking for them whenever she heard them.

We left after a while and came home to a broken fridge and no food. We ended up eating ice cream and going to bed, which I guess is a pretty anticlimactic ending to the day. :)

PS. Blogger won't publish my responses to comments on old post. I'm going to try again in a few days, but sorry if I didn't get back to you! I appreciated all the advice about daycare. 

Mother's Day

Mother's Day was pretty awesome. 

Matt made me breakfast.

I got chocolate and a temple envelope with the Oquirrh Mt. temple on it.

(That's where we were married.)

I was thrilled!

Then we drove down to Alpine.

To see my mom, but more importantly my siblings!!!

They are on missions. So we only get to talk to them twice a year.

We skyped with Mollie.

She looked so happy.

She thought baby was cute and looked just like the photos.

Talking to Riley was funny.

I really loved it.

Matt took pictures of baby and me outside.

She wasn't so sure about the pine cones or the dumb chickens my parents own.

But we got some good ones.

And lastly...here is a random picture of her and one of her great-grandmas.

Granny is one of my favorite people to visit.

She always has something snarky to say.

Lately the last few times we have visited she has said,

"No wonder why she can't roll over.

She can hardly move in those damn jeans."

Wise words. Don't you think?

(By the way just for the record, Madeleine can roll over (even in jeans), just not command. She's not as well trained as a dog.)

Random Things

Nothing super exciting has been going on lately. Matt does homework and I try to entertain myself without distracting him. (I’m really good at being distracting.) But here are few things going on...

Photos

Matt figured out how to get photos off our phones and onto the computer. It was tricky since neither of us have picture text, but here are some of my favorites.

This one and the next one are from when we were dating. We didn't take a ton of pictures (not like we take a lot now),  so getting these made us happy.

Those are rice and beans. If you were wondering.

Earlier this summer, we were walking to where we parked my parents car. Matt goes,  "Michele, there is something on the window. Do you think we got a ticket?" He was starting to stress out, since it wasn't our car, and Matt has never had a ticket. Turns out it was just a bag of cheetos, and being that flamin' hot cheetos are his favorite, I told him that was a sign from God that he needs to cut back on the chips. 

I was in Tenessee for mother's day, and only finished one of  the mother's day gifts. Matt was sweet enough to make the 2nd apron, and then took this picture to let me see it before he sent it. (I think he looks pretty cute too in an apron.)

This is my absolute favorite picture of Matt that I have. One day I was reading and Matt felt neglected. So he led a trail of m&m's to his lips in hopes of a kiss. 

Recipes

Also, we’ve been trying out new recipes, since not everything is making me sick again! Here are two that we did this week.

Tom Kha Ghi

This recipe was pretty good. We ended up combining it with another recipe, and now we love it. Twice just this week alone. (We are so excited to have the weather down to the 80's so we can make soups again.)

Beef Empandas

I actually don't use this recipe. Since my grandfather is from Argentina, I've been making these since I was small, but I tried out her dough recipe today. It wasn't too bad.

Offspring

Whenever people ask me what it is like being pregnant, I tell them it’s like having the loch ness monster in my stomach. I like feeling her move all the time, and Matt is happy because my freak-outs that the baby is dead are happening less. (And when I do freak out, all I have to do is poke my stomach a few times and she’ll kick back.)

Baby at 24.5 weeks. She's over a pound now and still looks human. 

Me on the same day.  See? Physical evidence that she is pretty big. People are actually starting to notice I'm pregnant.