Turtles, Indians, & A Dead Deer

I have been trying to get Tray ready for Halloween. Last year I bought his costume in September and had no worries. Now I'm waiting until the last minute to do it. Oh well. So I have is narrowed down to two.

Turtle or Indian

I think I'm going with the turtle because it's a little big but that means I have plenty of room to layer for the cold weather. Plus he looks so darn cute in it!!!! *note* interesting thing about the turtle costume... it's almost 15 years old. It was Kelton's when he was a little boy and has been pasted down from there. Grandma has the best costume box ever!!!!

On the opening morning of the deer hunt Travis shot this trophy

He is ordering a mounting kit so I get to have a deer skull hanging on my wall. Yipee!!!!(If you caught my sarcasm good for you!)

Update on our shopping challenge. We made it to Thursday. Yeah we only went 4 days without going to the store. I had to get Travis his groceries for the hunt because he couldn't live on noodles for a whole week and he was in charge of 2 dinners for all the camp. But this experience has opened my eyes a whole lot. It inspired me to go to the cannery and get some food storage started. I don't know how long we can live on hot chocolate and dried milk... but it's a start. Well I did get some onions, flour, oats, sugar, & rice. I also plan to go again to get some macaroni and other things. We also purchased us a freezer... now I know it's useless in a power outage but at least we have the space now to get more frozen goods. I plan on getting some Rhodes dough since I haven't a clue on how to make bread. We have a long ways to go before we even have a 3 month supply but at least we have something.

I started my 3 day weeks at work this week!!! I am so excited to finally be closer to staying home all the time (well 4 weekdays)! I've already started some projects that I hope to have finished before Kamryn gets here. I am planning on painting some stipes in the laundry room tonight. I will let you know how that turns out.

My first Tag!!!!!

7th Grade

Now

I have been tagged by the Richards on my life then and now.



THEN: When I was younger, my favorite clothes were: I liked LEI pants and really any shirt that was cute. Wasn't really into name brands just nothing that came from Kmart.

NOW: Feel Good Fashion and anything I can sqeeze myself into and not look like a circus tent. I also love Old Navy maternity clothes but the quality kinda sucks.



THEN: When I was younger, my favorite TV shows were: The entire TGIF line up!!!! Especially Full House. I still cry on some of the episodes.

NOW: CSI, House, & King of Queens, & So you think you can dance. I seriously plan my week around those shows!!!



THEN: When I was little, my favorite music artists were: MJ, Moonpools, Jewel, and Alanis Morrisette

NOW: I like pretty much anything. I love classic rock, especially the women from that era.



THEN: My favorite food was: CANDY!

NOW: CANDY! (That's the only thing I "crave")



THEN: I was afraid of: Burglars, my house catching on fire, & kidnappers.

NOW: Same thing, only magnified. And having Trav or Tray or Kam die. I seriously make myself cry thinking about that.



Jayme wanted to include our hubby's but Trav is doing man stuff and hunting so I will have to post his later.

Weekend Sickness

So our weekend was filled with the flu!!!! Tray got it Thursday night right in the middle of CSI. That was probably the saddest thing I have ever experienced with him. We were up most of the night. So Friday I made Travis call into to work so I could go to work. Well I got sick in the morning, not with the flu thankfully, and so I went to work for an hour and came home to relax. We missed our temple trip and I was so upset!!! But we have plans to go soon. Saturday I had a primary activity, our program was Sunday. Well that was a little stressful... so it gave me anxiety and I scrubbed my house!!! I had to get rid of all those flu germs. They were freaking me out. Sunday morning Travis woke up and made breakfast. Tray still wasn't eating a lot but he did have one sausage link. So off to church we go. Travis informed me that he wasn't feeling so hot. I just thought it was a lame excuse to not go to church. The program went great! I of course was pouring tears by the closing song!!! (that's not hard to do with a pregnant woman though). As soon as we get home, Travis came down with the flu! (at least I didn't have to make dinner). Now I'm just waiting for my turn. I hope that while I was cleaning saturday that I killed whatever germs were living on me with bleach and that I won't get sick.
In other news... our bishop gave us a challenge on Sunday to not go to the store for 2 weeks and to live off our food storage. Well my food storage consists of a case of roman noodles and corn. I didn't make it to the grocery store last week so we are out of milk, eggs, bread, and meat. This challenge has brought a little tension between Trav and I. I feel like I shouldn't have to sacrifice my health (pregnancy) to live off of no groceries for two weeks. I hate roman noodles and I seriously suck at keeping my cupboards stocked. We could probably make it to Friday, but after that....no promises. Travis is also leaving on the deer hunt and it's my annual weekend to go to Hunan Village. But lesson learned.... if there really was a tragedy we would probably be the first to die of starvation. Too bad I missed the case lot sales. And we should probably invest in a freezer and get a beef so we can have some meat.
Well enough rambling.... I'm off to bed.

The suspense is killing you!!!

I know that the suspense must be killing everyone!!! But seriously I have been trying to take a good picture of my pregnant belly to put with this and all of them make me look 9 months pregnant when in reality I don't look that big.

IT'S A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!

We are so excited. I think that Travis was more excited than I was. But we both had an idea that it was a girl the entire time. My mom about died when we told her though. She is the most excited.

Now I get to spend my saved money on clothes and all that fun girl stuff. I already bought a little outfit for the hospital for her. And I am already on the search for those huge headbands and all the cute accessories to go with the clothes.

Oh I guess I can reveal what two names we have narrowed down for her. She still doesn't have a middle name but we're working on it. Our #1 pick is Kamryn and our #2 pick is Karsyn. I think we will go with #1 though because it has more meaning because it's kinda like my name.

We've been trying to teach Tray that he is going to have a sister. He's really good at saying sissy but other than that I don't think he really understands what's going on. I guess we still have 4 months to teach him.