Chiropractor?

Yesterday amidst the loveliness of being out of our home, Matt's great dad willingly drove Matt to work so that I would have the car to drive home once the heater was fixed(we were told for sure by yesterday). On their way they were rear-ended by an 18 year old girl with quite a "colorful" vocabulary. Of course, going 55, they both had some whiplash and resulting pain in the back and neck. Dave and Sue have a chiropractor who is in their ward and he graciously offered to treat them last night after hours to get it taken care of quickly(and, fortunately car insurance covers chiropractic care following a car accident very well). We went last night and he adjusted them and did a little bit of shock therapy, and had them lay on a "roller bed"? I don't remember the name. Anyway, Matt's doing great today and has no pain.(There is a possibility of some latent whiplash pain)

I am grateful for a mother-in-law who is not afraid to speak her mind or make suggestions, because, due to her suggestion I am so much more comfortable now! She said aloud in front of the chiropractor that perhaps he could help me with my restless legs. In my ignorance I said it's probably not good to be adjusted during pregnancy. Humble(the chiropractor) said that he actually has women 9 mos. coming in to him all the time and that restless legs can result from pinched nerves. He also explained that during pregnancy, all of the joints loosen up and so things can get out of wack easily. He said he had 5 minutes and that it was on him. He checked for mobility in my back and discovered that my left hip was much higher than the right one.(I have had some painful sciatic problems off and on since my pregnancy with Ammon). He adjusted that and went on to check my neck. He asked if I had been having headaches.....YES! I cried, "all day everyday!" He adjusted my neck and guess what? no headache today! As I sat up I was surprised by the feeling of sitting on both hips equally! My lower back has been getting more and more sore lately, especially when I would hold Ammon, and today it feels great!

Sometimes you don't realize how uncomfortable or in pain you are until it's fixed! I just figured my discomfort was normal and that there really wasn't anything I could do about it. I was happily proven wrong!

Craziness

I have wanted to post several things lately, but we were out of our apartment for two days! Our heater broke Sunday night and so we spent Monday through yesterday morning over at Matt's parents. Thank goodness for parents and family that live close and who are willing to take us in through all our apartment troubles. Our heater is finally fixed, and we can now get on with regular day to day activities....that is....until something else happens...

Last week

This last Friday we went to Gardner Village again. Ammon was awake this time, yay! It was just a relaxing walk around with some friends from my ward and their cute girls. It was a beautiful sunny day, and our camera does so much better on those days... We got some cute pictures, but Ammon and Sophie had so much to look at that it became quite a challenge to take a picture!
Thanks Wendy and Anna for a great time!Little Poppy in the middle loved Sophie's shirt! I think it made Sophie a little nervous...

Ammon was really nervous of the witch so I tried to face him away from her, hence the reason I look like I'm sitting on her lap...

Saturday was a good, productive Saturday-my favorite kind! I got to go to my ward's Super Saturday. It was my first time ever, and I loved it! I was able to make this cute nativity set, which I can't wait for Christmas to come so I can display it:)
I also was able to knock out 3 maybe 4 Christmas gifts, and got ideas for more! I had a great time visiting with friends and learning how to make new things, I'm definitely going back.

We also were able to find a 71" book shelf on sale to finally help organize more of our house. We spent the night before packing up rubber bins with Ammon's clothes and some camping stuff to store at Matt's parents. I feel a lot less cramped and stressed out having organized and found places for pretty much everything in our house, it makes me happy.

Here are a couple of cute pictures of Ammon. He likes to get in my laundry basket and pretend it's a choo-choo train. I got him his Thomas book and he was quite content for almost 10 minutes in there! What a cutie.

Surprise!!!!! It's A......

A GIRL!!!

Thanks so much to Sharon for telling us about this. And a huge thanks to Alaina for making this beautiful cake. Alaina is a good friend of my family's and did this for her sister last week. She has a cake business and made a generic baby cake. What we did is had the ultrasound dr. call Alaina and tell her the gender of the baby, but not us. She made the cake and frosted the outside so we couldn't tell. We invited mine and Matt's family to join in the surprise and cut the cake(flashback to our wedding reception). The frosting told us whether it was a girl or boy. It was so exciting and I had butterflies while we cut the cake. I'm so glad we did this, it made for a great way to find out and tell people.

Visit THE CAKE GIRL blog on my friends list to see the great work Alaina does. Thanks again!

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Tomorrow is the ultra sound and we are doing something really fun, but I won't say anything specific until tomorrow night. Be ready for a surprise!

A day as a Witch

Today was a day we have been looking forward to for quite some time. Last year we dressed the kids up and went to Gardner Village to look around at all of the witch decorations and knew it needed to become a tradition. This year we expanded on our tradition and decided to have a witch's lunch, decorate witches hats, and cupcakes and then go to Gardner Village. It was so much fun! Meg is great at hosting parties and so creative. We made "witch hat" calzones and made some broomstick pretzel treats. Meg made an awesome wizard's cape for Ammon to decorate since the girls had witch costumes, and he liked decorating it but refused to wear it. He liked his hat though.
Janie loved her cupcake! She dug right in!
Ammon got a donut instead of a cupcake because of his egg allergy. Thank you so much Janelle for being so thoughtful, it means so much.
Afton sure loved the black frosting and afterwards looked like a witch ready for an evening on the town!

Afton flying on her broom, how cute!
We did a scavenger hunt around the village and had to find witches doing certain things: this witch reading a newspaper in the outhouse was one of them.
We didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked because Ammon was sleeping almost the whole time, but it was lots of fun anyway, and at least he did wake up and was able to see some of the decor before we left. We ended the day with some yummy bread and snacks. Hooray for the witches at Gardner Village!

This is a video of the kids in their costumes. I decided it would be funny to get a video because these kids are a riot to try to put together and get a picture. Oh, and parden my rear in most of the view...

Disneyland!

Well I decided to put all the Disneyland/California pictures in a slide show since there are so many. Disneyland was great! These are only some of the pictures, Meg and Sue took a lot with their cameras, but these are from ours. We were at Disneyland two days and it was great. Matt went on Soarin' and Splash, but other than that we got to focus our time on taking Ammon on all the little kid rides. He liked most of them, but since it was all new he just stared wide-eyed throughout the entire ride. My favorites are Soarin', The Jungle Cruise, and Peter Pan...at least those are the ones that come to mind first. Ammon's favorite was the splash park in Bug's Land, and he got soaking wet. It seemed like the trip was over so quickly! I had a hard time leaving the park because it's just so fun!

The beach was great until I was reminded that there were fishing swimming around my feet..... I quickly got out of the water....I don't like fish....

Ammon was a great traveler. He really never cried or whined or fidgeted until the last 30 min-1 hour of the entire trip, it was wonderful. Matt was great to carry a lot and do things I was too tired to do. It was a very exhausting trip but I'm so glad we were able to do it and that we could share it with almost all the Cases, they are expert "Disneyland-ers" and it's fun to go with them.

I can't wait until the next Disneyland trip!

Making habits vs breaking habits

For me life seems to be full of me trying to start good habits and then breaking them....like waking up before Ammon to have personal scripture study, and have a shower. I always break them. I'm very grateful for every Sunday, every temple visit, every General Conference to keep me on track and keep trying. I have rededicated myself to being a diligent follower of Christ, every day. Having a quiet time in the morning to study the scriptures and talk with my Heavenly Father makes all the difference in my day. This time I intend to commit myself to doing these things and stick with it, and this time will be different because I know I can't do it along. I've tried over and over by myself and failed. I need the strength and the companionship of the Spirit if I am to succeed. I believe I can do all these things to bless me with the constant companionship of the Holy Spirit as I have been promised as I keep my covenants with the Lord.

Not-surprisingly, blogging tends to follow the same pattern. If I let myself go too long without writing something down, it will be a while before I do it again. Granted, this break in blogging came because of new carpet, painting, and a disneyland vacation. Good excuses right? I'm good at finding excuses....

Anyway, just a quick post to let you all know I'm still alive and that I have a lot to catch up on.

P.S. The ultrasound is next Tuesday! I can't believe I'm almost 5 mos! I'm starting to show now....so that's always fun. Anyway, I'll post more later and with pictures of Disneyland, woohoo!