Diapers

Apparently having a few diapers on your porch is considered a "health hazard". 

We were told today by the mailman that there is one mail lady that refuses to deliver our mail if she sees a diaper on our porch.  He said that he didn't care but that if she's the one that has our route, and there is a diaper there, she will not deliver our mail. 

Wow. Since when is a dirty diaper a health hazard?? Yeah, it's probably not the prettiest sight to see some dirty diapers on the front porch, but really? Everybody uses the restroom. So does that mean if I go into a public bathroom and someone forgot to flush the toilet, that I should consider it a "health hazard" and leave immediately and never return to that store? Yeah. Didn't think so...

Oh well. I just wanted to write about it because I thought it was funny, and somewhat ridiculous. 

Mittens, Cucumbers, & Blankets...

Wow! I can't believe the snow that has piled up outside the last couple days! And it's beautiful, except for when your car gets stuck and sinks down into a bunch of mud and you have to call a tow truck to come and get it un-stuck for you. Luckily it was free because of our insurance! But still.

In celebration, I guess you could say, we whipped out Kimbri's mittens from last year. They actually fit her this year! When we bought them last year we were just trying to find something that we could put over her hands to keep them warm, and they went like half way up her arm. But they fit perfect this year, and for some reason she loves having them on. 

Kimbri enjoying freshly homemade bread. After not having eaten very well while having the croup, when I made bread she ate it up! And tons of it! 

Kimbri also has this recent obsession with the fridge. ANY time the fridge is opened she drops whatever she's doing and runs to try and get to it before I shut the door. One of these days she's going to figure out how to open it herself. She usually goes to the bottom drawers and gets out whatever is there, in this case, it is the cucumbers. :)

Also, the other day, she somehow figured out how to open the bottom drawer to the filing cabinet my dad gave us and somehow got in it all by herself! It's kind of a deep drawer so I was a bit surprised she was able to get in by herself. But that is another funny thing she likes to do...get in and out of boxes and things. 

And just as another little side note... here is a blanket I finished for Garrett. It has puppy paw prints on it. Thanks again to my Grandma for teaching my how to make these! I'm so excited to have a little boy to snuggle up in this blanket and hold! 2 months from today is my due date! Hooray!  

Accepted!!!

This handsome man got accepted to medical school!!!

We are so thrilled and excited!  I am so so so proud of him. He has been working so hard for so long for this. We seriously can't stop thinking about it. So often, during the process of studying for the MCAT, getting in volunteer hours, shadowing doctors, studying for tests to get good grades, filling out medical school primary applications, then secondary applications, going to interviews, etc... the list could go on forever. But so often it has crossed both our minds, what if after writing countless essays, paying hundreds of dollars for applications fees, etc, all this hard work, time, and energy, to the point of pure exhaustion, and he doesn't get in to medical school this year? We have talked about that multiple times and just wondered and waited. 

Well, November 7 Rick got a very exciting phone call. The lady on the other line asked, "Is this Michael Stone?" Rick said, yes, of course. She then asked something like, "So are you ready to hear some good news?" And she then proceeded to tell him that he had been accepted to medical school at A.T. Still in Mesa Arizona!!!! 

I think that conversation will forever be etched into Rick's mind. What a huge happy feeling of excitement! He called me right after he found out and I couldn't contain my joy and excitement! 

Wow. We feel so blessed and are so excited for the adventures that medical school will bring us. 

I am so happy and proud of Rick and all his hard work. All along, he has not only been dedicated to school, work and preparing so well for medical school, but he has been an amazing father, and husband to Kimbri and I... and to baby Garrett who is still on his way! I am the luckiest to be able to call him my husband and my best friend.

I LOVE YOU, RICK!!!

"She-shuss"

Something adorable happened on Sunday. I have to post about it so that I can always look back and remember this sweet little moment.

After finishing the music part of the rehearsal for the Primary Program on Sunday, I went and found Rick and Kimbri so that I could take Kimbri for the last 15 minutes or so, so that Rick could attend class for the last little part. I took Kimbri back into the primary room just in case they decided to run through another song or something, since I'm the pianist. 

In the back corner of the room there was a little bridge with rope to help the little kids walk up and over it. Not sure what it's used for but each wooden slat that makes the bridge has words like, "kindness", "charity", "virtue", etc... 

Anyway, Kimbri was incredibly entertained by walking across the bridge, over and over and over. She was in the middle of one of her many trips across the bridge, when she got to the top, and looked up to see a big picture of Jesus hanging on the wall of the primary room. 

She stopped, pointed her chubby little finger at the picture, and said, "she-shuss" - which is her version of "Jesus". 

To be completely honest, I almost cried.

I've been showing her a little picture at home of Jesus and saying to her, as I show her the picture, "This is Jesus. Can you say Jesus?" 

Wow. I guess little kids do hear and pick up on things that we are trying to teach them. Even at such a young age. Seeing that she recognized Jesus in that picture and hearing her try to say his name was so touching to me. I bent down beside her and said, "Yes! That's Jesus! Good job, Kimbri." 

Seriously, Kimbri is such a joy in my life and she constantly reminds me of the most important things in life. No wonder we are supposed to become as little children. So perfect and Christ-like. 

I love you, Kimbri!

Halloween!

I feel like Halloween snuck up on me this year!  The Friday before Halloween Rick had to work so Kimbri and I went to Spanish Fork and participated in my parents ward Halloween party. We dressed Kimbri up as Piglet for that party. It was freezing outside! So the piglet costume was perfect because it was super soft and warm. 

Kimbri got a hold of the whole trick or treat thing pretty quick. She'd grab a piece of candy out of the bucket and put it in her candy bucket. And she kept wanting to stop and eat the candy in between each car at the 'trunk or treat'. Haha :) 

Olivia holding Kimbri.

We didn't end up getting to go to Josh and Diana's yearly Halloween party on the Monday before Halloween because Kimbri came down with the croup. Poor girl. :( I felt so bad for her. She just didn't feel good at all! 

By Wednesday, the actual Halloween, October 31, Kimbri was feeling quite a bit better but just not totally herself still. It was a super warm day! So we went ahead and dressed her up in her bunny costume. (I later found out via Facebook that her uncle Dawson was also a bunny...oh dear.) I think my little bunny is much more cute! Haha.  

Kimbri

Uncle Dawson

Anyway, we met my parents and siblings at the Provo mall to go trick or treating at all the different stores in the mall. Each store was passing out candy. It was definitely a very easy way for the kids to trick or treat! And again, Kimbri quickly remembered how to do the whole 'put candy in her bucket' thing. Olivia and Ezrie Pace were Thing 1 and Thing 2 from the Dr. Seuss book. Enoch was a karate person. Xander was some sports player, I dont remember his name. I was Minnie Mouse (I just wore a black shirt and put my Minnie Mouse ears on that I got from Disney World), and Rick had his Batman shirt on, again -same as last year :) Yeah, we are so creative. Maybe next year we'll actually think up some better costume ideas, earlier than the day of. Ha. That's a big maybe. 

And here are some more pictures from Halloween this year:

Notice her cute little poofy bunny tail :)

And the famous buck tooth binky her Uncle Zach bought for her.

Enoch as a mummy and Kimbri as a witch.

Tired and ready to go home. Still feeling a little sick.

Even more tired....

And there she goes... totally asleep within seconds
of being in the car. 

Rick about to carve our pumpkin to make
our yearly "Dinner in a Pumpkin" dinner.

We Had a Yard Sale

Wow. It was a very busy morning. Or I could probably better say a very busy last few days!  My mom has been "fall cleaning" and was in the de-junking mode so it got me into the whole idea too. She brought me all my old bins and tubs that have been sitting up in the attic storage area with all my old stuff in it. She also brought tons of boxes of things that she no longer wanted and was just going to give to DI. She said that if we wanted to do a yard sale with all of it we could. So we did. I went through all my old bins and all of the boxes of boy clothes that my mom gave us throughout the past week and made two huge piles of 'yard sale stuff'. We finally got most all of it out of our house this morning.

We got up 6:45 am. I don't remember the last time I got up that early. I usually sleep as long as Kimbri lets me. Olivia spent the night and brought stuff that she wanted to get rid of too. So we all got up and finished making signs to put up. Then we started taking everything from inside out to our front lawn and setting up. 

It was a long process and it seemed that people came in waves. One moment there would be a handful of people there and then there would be a long pause with nobody. But it was fun to chat and just hang out. Jessica came over and brought a few things to add to the yard sale too. And she brought her cute little dog that she just got on Tuesday! 

All along there were workers in our driveway digging up piles and piles of dirt to fix a water line leak. Ugh. I'm very grateful that problem has now been fixed! I bet our water bill is going to be through the roof this month because it's taken so long for our landlords to get it fixed. Oh well. What can ya do?

I also decided to make cookies while we were just sitting around, in between people coming and going. 

Overall, it was a pretty okay turn out. I told myself that if we made at least a tank of gas worth of money that it would be worth it. And I think we made it. After a while of nobody coming we loaded most everything up that didn't sell into Jessica's truck and she hauled it to DI for us. A huge thank you to her! 

What a day. Our water is finally back on so now I guess I should go do dishes or something. Or probably clean our house. It looks like a tornado came rolling through it just from getting ready for the sale and having boxes piled here and there, etc... Oh, but I hear Kimbri waking up from her nap. So I'll go snuggle with her instead :)

Croup

Yes. That is right. Our poor little Kimbri got the croup again. Where did she pick it up? I have not one blasted idea! But I feel so bad for her. She had it before several months ago but now has it again. The doctor said that the fall season is the most common time to get it :( 

The last time she got the croup they asked us if we'd rather give her an oral medicine or a steroid shot to treat the croup. We chose the oral because she had never had a problem with eating or swallowing anything at that point in her life. We had given her children's medicine before and she loved it! But you would know that she wanted NOTHING to do with the oral medicine that treats the croup! It took both Rick and I to make her swallow it. The instant it would hit her tongue would be the instant she would try to spit it out. 

So..... anyway, this time around we opted for the shot. One shot and it would all be over. However, this shot must have been a bad one because she cried way worse than when she just gets immunizations. She cried while I put her pants back on, as we checked out of the office and all the way down the elevator and out to the car. I felt so bad for her. I guess it didn't help that she had, had a rough night the night before, being up coughing and wheezing and plus it was nap time, so she was double tired. Actually, she was probably triple tired. Or more. 

When we got home, Rick had just gotten home from class and met us in the driveway and carried Kimbri in the house. She fell right to sleep on Daddy's shoulder! She took a little nap but woke up not too long after still wheezing and struggling to breath. Poor girl. 

We snuggled and watched Charlotte's Web. I thought that might be a fun movie for her since it has so many animals in it! And not to mention Charlotte, the spider!! Kimbri is so in to spiders right now with it being Halloween and all. Any time we go to my parents house she gets excited when she sees the big, fake spider hanging from the chandelier above the kitchen table. So Kimbri pretty much loved every time the movie showed Charlotte the spider :)

Well, I think the shot kicked in because last night Kimbri had a much better night! She slept 12 hours straight, woke up and had a bottle and went back to sleep for about 40 more minutes. When she woke up this morning she seemed a lot happier and better rested. However, the runny nose that had only been slightly runny has turned into a VERY runny nose that we had to constantly wipe all day. So now her nose is a bit red. But hopefully things will continue to look up and she'll be back to her healthy self soon!