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Tray has only had a professional haircut twice. I usually just get the clippers out and away we go. I use a bigger attachment on top and do the sides and bottom short. Well.... last night things didn't go so great. He was so wiggly that after I did the top and was working on the bottom... there were a few oops! So I ended up having to buzz the whole thing. I did actually use an attachment but his hair is so blond that he looks bald. Travis and I just laugh whenever we see him. We have a couple of names for him to. Powder...Chemo..... TJ (Travis Junior-Travis is balding)...(None of these names are meant to be offensive, so please don't take any from them) It wouldn't be so bad if his hair was a little darker and he had eyebrows but he totally looks like I used a razor to cut his hair! Good thing his hair grows so fast. From now on we will be visiting the salon for our haircuts!

I am bored

I'm bored and I should go to bed but I am somehow glued to my computer screen. I have nothing really exciting to post but felt that my blog needed an update. I've been seeing the 7 things about me posts and although I haven't been "tagged" I thought I would share anyways.

1. I am addicted to blogspot. I spend hours just looking at other people's blogs. I start on my page and click on one of my favorites and then go from there. I mostly read about people that I know, but I'm sure they don't know me. I also read about people I don't know, those one's don't interest me as much though. But it's just so exciting to read about everyone's families and what they are doing.

2. I use a shower cap. I feel like I'm from the sixties or something, but I hate washing my hair. (This may be gross to you) I only wash my hair twice a week. And the past year I have been leaning towards showers instead of baths. So when we went on vacation and there was a shower cap in our room I took it home and used it until the elastic broke. I then went and purchased my own quality cap. I love it! I love not waiting for the water to fill up... and I love not having to blow dry my hair and have a bad hair day everyday!!

3. I am addicted to candy. I know a lot of people are but my obsession goes as far as to hide it from Travis so I can have it all to myself. In fact I just finished savoring a HUGE (1/2 pound) bar of chocolate that I hid in the freezer and enjoyed over the course of 2 weeks. I know it sounds petty to hide it from Travis but it's more fun to eat it that way because it feels like it's forbidden! I have stashes all over the house and in the car.

4. I have to have the bed made! Even if we are about to go to sleep and the bed didn't get made that day.. I will make it. I hate when the covers are all tangled and I can't find the edge of the sheets. It just makes me so frustrated. I've even woke up in the middle of the night to fix the sheets because I couldn't sleep.

5. Christmas is not my favorite holiday. Don't get me wrong it's at the top.. but I don't know if it's because of my birthday being so close to Christmas or what.. but Halloween tops my list. I love being able to dress up and be something else for a day. Don't worry I still listen to Christmas music as soon as it's on the radio.

6. I am a hoarder. I just watched Oprah today on hoarding and I thought to myself.. I could totally see myself in that situation. I try to have a clean out day twice a year and being pregnant helps alot when I am in the nesting mode. But I have saved things like class notes from 8th grade to 12th grade, magazines for years, every note that a friend has written me, young women's handouts, stupid things that I thought I would like to look back at, but haven't once. I did purge most of them, but it takes me hours to do a clean out because I have to read every single piece of paper that I pick up.

7. I hate talking on the phone. I remember being in elementary school and I wanted to call my bestfriend and I just couldn't bring myself to pick up the phone to call her. I was terrified. I am still that way. It takes a lot for me to call people. If someone leaves a message and wants me to call them back.... unless I am totally comfortable with that person.... I won't call them back. I don't know why this is. Even at work, my boss will ask me to call someone about something and I wait until the very last second to do it because I just have this huge anxiety about it. The funny thing about it is that I was a telemarketer. Go figure.

Well I hope you enjoyed my 7 things. I will go ahead and tag some people. Jayme, Megan, Mandi Wight, & Kalli-

Have a great day!!! (Or night)

Happy Haunting!! (And other pictures)

We had a fun Halloween weekend. Saturday I made Trav take us to Logan to the pumpkin walk. Little did we know that it was no more. So we made our way to a corn maze that was pretty kid friendly. It had a petting zoo and a straw maze for kids to jump into a pile of hay and crawl through tunnels. The actual corn maze wasn't too bad either. We had a cheat sheet that really helped.

Halloween was pretty fun too. Once Tray understood the concept of getting candy he enjoyed it way too much. He even enjoyed handing out candy to the other trick-or-treaters. It was cute!


Tray riding the horse at the petting zoo




In the corn maze




Ready to go trick or treating


Tray with Grandma B


Our Haunting Family Photo


Tray and Mom (You know you love the hair)


That's Dad behind that mask!


Trunk-or-treat

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.