Pumpkins

Chris used all the good Halloween pictures. Sorry if you read both our blogs and see a repeat! We are proud of our home grown pumpkins. They had to weigh 50 pounds each!

The boys both went for the "scary" look this year. The masks didn't make it far. Isaac tripped on the neighbors driveway and fell on his face so the masks came off. Rain and wind to top off the trick or treating. We are having to re-treat. We used most of our candy on Saturday.

Ellie wore a funny pair of Frankenstien PJ's yesterday, but this little dress is much cuter. See the little shoes printed on the stockings! Thanks Aunt Brenda.

New Arrival

Just a little late blogging about our newest arrival. But if you follow the "Bug Boys" Chris was on the ball and let you know what's going on. Little Ellie Olson was born on October 12 at 4:07 pm. She was much littler than the boys - by almost 2 pounds! She didn't want to come on the most awsome birthday of the year 10/10/10 and waited for her induction date. All the men in our family are wrapped around her teeny tiny finger. I think she is pretty great too. Still pretty sleepy, except for 1-3 am when she feels the need to poop five times.

We couldn't resist the bella baby photos. They are so beautiful compared to the ones we got with the boys. Steven has a big eye goober and Isaac's hair didn't get combed after Chris bathed him. Both make me laugh when I look at them.

The new hospital was nice, but the food wasn't so great. I am not good at making my own choices. Just send up something that goes together and I'll eat it. Chris brought me a piece of godiva chocolate cheesecake in the hospital. Who needs flowers when you haven't had chocolate for 9 months!

I have to brag a bit. I'm back in my normal pants! If there is a silver lining to throw up and heartburn for nine months, this is it. After loosing 3 lbs the last couple weeks, my total weight gain was only 15 lbs. Probably not so healthy.

Chris took a week off to take care of us. He is a great mister mom. It was nice to have him around after having him work overtime all summer. I have a hard time leaving things undone and Chris gets a little mad to hear the washing machine going when he comes home from work. Do I really have to wait 2 weeks to act normal? I guess I could take a nap or watch a movie everyday - but I'm no good at that.

Are we having any fun yet?

Look! No life vests in the deep end!

I can't believe that summer is almost over. I have loved having the boys home. It's going to be real quiet around here when school starts. At least until October when we get a new baby. Most of the summer has been blah blah - mom's making us do an hour of homework everyday. That's the price of having a pregnant mom and workaholic dad. But we signed them up for 2 sessions of swimming lessons and the two little fish loved every minute of it. They had teenage boys for their teachers and would do anything they were asked. Steven's freestyle is amazing. He can go the width of the pool and tread water. Isaac had to be rescued twice by teacher Houston. So glad he was there to save my child from the slide and the diving board when Isaac "forgot" he knew how to swim, then caught his leg on the board jumping off backward. I was withing 10 feet both times, but a 17 yo kid is much faster than a preggo mom.

We went downtown to see the big parade with my family.

We also unwinterized the trailer and took the boys fishing a Smith and Moorhouse. We had a great time camping. We never catch any fish. Chris spent most of his time untangling the boys' lines. We cooked some great dutch oven food.

This is half of our tour of Capital Reef with Chris and Jeff at the family reunion. Cute dominoes.

After they woke up we walked to a waterfall.

And posed with Grandpa.

We went to see the petroglyphs, but the boys were more interested in the wood on the trail.

This is at the edge of the Goosenecks. They didn't want to stop throwing rocks over the edge.

I don't have any pictures of the mice in our kitchen. That was great excitement for a week. We aren't all blah blah blah after all. We even have a few pictures to prove it. Bye Bye summer.

Bug

Chris asked me last night why I never blog about his bug. He blogs about his bug enough for both of us, but I usually use my blog to complain about being pregnant!

I finally relented and let Chris have a project. His last one didn't turn out too well. Cost us a couple hundred dollars, hogged our garage for 2 years and ended up at the dump. Chris' bug project has gone a little better. Costs us money every month, takes a bunch of time, but Chris is loving driving Herbie around and is saving us some gas money since it gets twice the milege of his truck.

Every couple of weeks we have to take an outing in the bug. Chris is in a internet bug club and they have a running picture contest. If he is the first one with a pic of a VW in front of say an abandoned building, he gets to choose what the next pic should be. Fun for all, we usually end up in downtown Magna.

Have you ever ridden in a lowered bug? Let's just say it's kind of bumpy. I am constantly scanning the road for the smallest bump so I can tense up for the jolt. At least he put the rubber bumpers back on the suspension so it isn't metal on metal - but it is still a jolt. I could handle this better in a non pregnant state. The boys think this is great until they get stuck in the seat belts or the front seats won't move forward so they can get out. I'm hoping for new seat belts soon.

I think it is funny how many people talk to Chris and reminisce about the bugs they once owned. My dad even had one for a while - he hated it. But most people remember the fun they had while they drove a bug. So I'm hoping we can look back and remember the fun times in our bug, even if we won't all fit in it come October.

Nothing Good to Eat

Just when you think you can't get any lower, you hit a new one. We have no good food at our house! We have lots of food downstairs, just nothing fresh to go with it. Dinner last night was just disgusting. Hot dogs and mac and cheese. That's not so bad except we had no milk to add to the mac and cheese. There are a few reasons for the bad food problems.

#1 is that I'm pregnant. Some women eat whatever they want. Not me. If I'm not barfing I'm having extreme heartburn. Eventually you run out of things you haven't heaved up for dinner. I know you all think you get heartburn, but then I see you popping a handful of m&m's and just don't believe that yours is as bad as mine. No chocolate, no tomatoes, no soda pop, no onions or peppers, and no ice. And this is with Prilosec or Prevacid. I tried a piece of chocolate cake last month and was sick for 2 days - totally not worth it.

#2 is it's summer. I don't like to cook when it is hot. The only things that sound good are corn on the cob and sauteed zucchini. It's going to be a while before we can get those out of the garden without paying an arm and a leg.

#3 the boys are out of school. It's just torture to take them both to the store at this point. They hang toys in every isle just to cause headaches. We came out of there today with a mountain of junk food and several varieties of kids yogurt because they can't agree on just one kind.

There are a few things that are working for me. One is rice and I finally learned how to cook it. You have to start preparing it an hour before you actually want to eat it. Measure out double water to rice ratio. Scoop in some salt - I don't know how much - and a couple tablespoons of butter. Bring it to a boil then turn it to low and put the lid on. Simmer for 40 minutes. Turn off the heat and leave the lid on for another 10. And you have rice that isn't chewy!

Some other great things are fresh fruit like apples, bananas and cantaloupe. I'm loving cooked vegetables. Especially cauliflower. Once chocolate is off the menu there are some other appetizing options. Caramel, lemon, banana, pumpkin. Just a warning, the vanilla frosties at Wendy's aren't so great.

I guess we will survive another 4 months of the bad food. Chris usually looses weight while I'm pregnant. My family would love a big pan of lasagna, but that would be too hard to resist and would make me sick. They will have to wait.

Hey this is the wrong blog!

Crap, I just posted on Dixies blog, I thought it was mine. Ha Ha Oh well,

Drive in Movie

I came across this old picture and had to post it to the blog. I think this is such a cool photo. It reminded me of my first bug. I was in a bug club and they had nights where they would meet somewhere and then everyone would cruise to another location. This night we met at hires in downtown Salt Lake. We ate dinner and from there we went to a drive in theater in West Valley. There were a lot of VW's and we all lined up and drove to the drive in. It was a blast, I took my brother with me and whenever anyone got stopped by a red light everyone would pull over and wait for them to catch up. I still remember all the VW's lined up at the drive inn. I wish I would of taken a picture. I don't remember what movie we saw, ( maybe my brother does?) but I remember having a good time. I wish there was a club in Salt Lake like the one back then. There is a club but most of the members are in the Ogden area so they do all their stuff up there. It makes for a tight schedule to go after work up to Ogden and make it home at a decent hour. Oh Well, maybe I ought to start one in Salt Lake.