I’m starting to get really excited for History Maker. It still seem strange to go to the coast instead of Kelowna next weekend. I thought I’d write a list of 10 things that I’m excited about for History Maker

1. We are staying in a hotel! No tents for us this year! We are staying at the comfort inn in Abby, so thats where my car will be if Pluckmama feels the needs to egg it.
2. We have several new Christians and new youth. I remember my fist youth conference. It was a “wow” moment. I’m excited for them.
3. I’m hoping to plan it so I get to know a few girls I haven’t had a chance to get to know very well yet.
4. We’ve got a 15 passenger van! Yay for needing to take a smaller carpool.
5. Deliriou5? and Stellar Kart are going to be there. I quite enjoy them both. I’ll admit I’m sad that my favy bands are at YC Edmonton instead.
6. I’m excited that I won’t have to eat fast food because %90 is meat, and I don’t eat moo’s anymore.
7. I’m excite to hear the speakers and watch the youth understand different things.
8. Did I mention the hotel?
9. Driving tunes!!
10. I think my favorite thing about Youth trips is acting my age…or maturity level I guess. I just love having fun!

I’m headed back to the Spirit comes with power conference! Laters.

Smoochey has an ear infection. 3 points to Hiedi who called it like a month ago! We’ve been having a rough go with Emily for the last couple of months. She complains that her tummy hurts. I hadn’t seen her pull at her ears until yesterday. She was all whiny last night and an hour after I put her to bed she woke up screaming. Emily loves her sleep and doesn’t often do things like that, so I didn’t really know what to do. After a good snuggle we put her back to bed. She slept for a couple more hours and then woke up screaming again. From that point on she slept and woke up ever hour or so, and from about 5am on, she slept in our bed. It’s weird to have her in our bed because from the 4th day we had her at home she’s slept in her own room. Her noises made it so no one could sleep, so she’s very used to her own room. We all basically snoozed and cuddled with Emily until we decided that was enough screaming and took her to the ER at 7am. We waited an hour and a half to see the doctor. It’s never that long, but I guess there were 2 ladies having babies and thats a problem for huncity hospital. Emily fell asleep shortly after we got there and laid on the bed all sprawled out. She certainly didn’t look like a sick baby. I was worried that they would just send us home again and Emily would continue to complain about her tummy and we would be no further ahead. We ended up getting a doctor I’ve seen before, and I really like him. He thinks outside the box and is a bit oldschool, but sometimes that’s needed.

So antibiotics are go. I’m not a big fan, but I can’t see my muffin sick like this anymore. Poor little sunshine. Ear drops are her favorite too. *Insert sarcasm here*. So here begins the next couple of days of meds and cuddles.

On a lighter note, the spirit comes with power conference at our church this weekend is going well. I’m looking forward to tomorrow because I’ll be able to stay longer. AND, I think Marie baked some of her cookies for tomorrows snack! Yay my favorite. I’ll try to limit myself to 1 or 2, but it won’t be easy.  Well, I’m getting tired and I’m not sure where yesterday started and today ended, so I should go to sleep.

My how early 6am comes on Thursdays. I managed to get back into going to my spin class this week. I missed 2 weeks because I was sick. Tuesday was ok, but this morning was hard! I had to do some serious self talk to keep myself pedaling. I was not particularly into cycling at 6am this morning. I’m proud to say I made it through though and even pushed myself for the last 2 songs. Want to hear about my new Courtenay Challenge? huh? huh? do ya?

In 3 weeks I’m going to the ladies conference that my mom and sister and I go to in Chilliwack. I’m super excited about it. At some point during the weekend we manage to get away and go shopping. A seriously favorite pass time of Roxy and my Mom. I like to shop, but they are pro’s. So anyways. I wanted to think of a way to have a little extra cash to shop with so I made a deal with Morgan. For every pound I lose before I go he’s going to give me $10. We already ruled out the loops holes of gaining it back and losing it again. Haha. So I have 3 weeks to work my butt off, literally. It’s not that he’s paying me to get skinny, I just needed some incentive to work harder at it. He already owes me $20! I would love this summer to be a summer I’m in really good shape and running and biking and outside lots. I’ll keep you up to date on the challenge as we progress…or don’t. hehe.

I got a Jorb! I got the summer student grant at the church. Morgan thinks it’s fantastic because technically speaking I become his assistant. Riight. Cause I’m really going to make him pies because my job title is assistant. Dream on. So anyways. I get to spend the summer doing things I love! I’m really excited for all the time I’ll have to work with youth and stuff. I’m not sure exactly what I’ll be doing, but I start Monday and hopefully I’ll find out more then. Yay!

Emily officially switches daycares next Tuesday. The day care she was going to was good, but they couldn’t give me full time daycare and I needed 5 days a week to make it work with this summer job. And they were going to be away for all of August, so it just wasn’t going to work out all that well. So now she goes to a daycare in the home of a lady from our church. She has great kids and during the day there will only be about 2 other kids there. She really likes it already. I think Emily is one of those kids who like anything though. Social butterfly that she is.

Random thought. Day before yesterday she shoved cheese up her nose and I had to get her baby nose snorker to get it out. ahh took my back to the good old baby booger days. She wasn’t impressed, but I was like “Um…I’m not the one who shoved cheese up there dude!” Oh and this morning’s cuteness. Emily woke up at 6:30, which would normally bug me, but I was at spin class and so she didn’t wake me up. haha. Morgan went to get her and just brought her to bed with him so she’d go back to sleep for a while. When I got home from spin class Emily’s door was wide open. I snuck into her room, but she wasn’t in bed. My heart sunk. I opened our bedroom door and let my eyes adjust. I couldn’t see her, but I could hear her sucky snoring. A little while later when I went in to wake Morgan up they were sleeping back to back under the blankets. It was soooo cute.

Well I’d better quit goofing around and finish this paper. Last class before summer vacation, which is just the weekend until I start at the church. haha

I’m taking another day off today. I should probably be doing school or something productive, but I don’t want to. I like that my idea of a day off includes working half of the day . *left for 6 hours*

Ok so then I ended up working through half of the day. I’ve been fighting with typesetting  posters and stuff this week. It’s been a pain in the butt trying to get everything to print. I’ve really enjoyed the project though. I think I’ve learned alot through this project. I’ve been looking around alot for ideas and concepts and thing. I found 2 great sites for helping my with ideas.

CreativeMYK.com
Church Marketing Lab on Flickr.

Both of those sites offer critiquing of work too. I put up a screenshot of the GDS website we’ve been working on and god some good feedback from that, and I’m planning to put up my posters for feedback too.  *oops I got side tracked again. *I really need to stop multi-tasking while blogging. seriously. Anyways. I’m working on a few projects right now, here’s the one I finished today…Just the poster.

I think it’s funny that PluckyMama should post pictures of Silas when he was a baby today because I’ve been feeling rather maternal lately. I went to visit Lana and Kris in the hospital today. They just had baby # 2. If you remember their oldest was four days older than Emily and very much apart of our baby journey 2 years ago. I kept telling myself that I was super stoked that Lana was having a baby and I wasn’t, but tonight I held baby Isaiah in my arms and it took me right back to teeny baby Emily. Isaiah slept in my arms for about an hour. His little face twitching and pouting. He’s a cutie. Looks alot like I remember his brother looking.

When I walked out the door to go visit Lana, Morgan yelled behind me. “Don’t get any ideas while you are there!” I laughed it off, but came home feeling all baby giddy. Totally nerdy. Morgan was like “ew you are getting maternal hormones all over everything.” I was like “come on, I can’t help it its built in ok!”. It didn’t help that Emily was beyond cute tonight and went to bed really well and everything. I figure tomorrow during a tantrum in church I’ll get over it. For the record, NOT pregnant. Not planning on being pregnant any time soon. I’m a Wife and a Mom and a student and a youth leader and and and and and. The last time I was pregnant I was so sick I couldn’t even work. I’m not really thrilled with the idea of puking for another 9 months again. Or I guess 7 1/2 months in Emily’s case.

One thing I am looking forward to for whenever we do decide to have #2, is this blog. I didn’t start blogging until Emily was 9 months old, so I didn’t post prego pics or newborn pics or anything. I think it will be really good for me to get to blog while being pregnant.

Emily at 4 months

Emily at 1 Month. Before she was even supposed to be born.

Random thought. I think I’ve had one comment in the last month and I wonder if anyone actually reads this blog. No worries that I’ll quit writing anytime soon though. I need to get all these thoughts out sometime. I’m just curious who reads this. So if your are being all anonymous, please comment and say hi!

I got a B in English!!!

My daughter is the most demanding little girl in the world currently. Even just in the hour we were at Save-On tonight she was randomly telling other people what to do. Here’s a few things she casually said while pointing her teeny little finger:

To a man in the produce department
“Don’t put that in your buggy!!”

To a lady in an aisle
“That’s rude, don’t do that”

To no one in particular
“Oh my Goodness you guys are funny”

To her daddy in the checkout
“Don’t pay for that!!”

To a lady from our church.
“Humpty dumpty did a BIG fall. I had bubba’s birthday cake!”

To me in the aisle
“We don’t want beans!”

As you can see it’s getting worse. She is turning into a little bossy two-year old. AHHHH!!!

On a better note, I am obviously doing ok with my weight loss progress because last night at youth I felt I was supposed to preach on the Bride of Christ and strongly felt I needed to do just that in my wedding dress. So, I made a deal with God that if it fit, I’d wear it. I was absolutely sure that wouldn’t be a problem on my part. No feeling silly at youth. So I came home and tried on my dress. 4 1/2 years later and the stupid thing fits! AHH. No I have to preach in a dress. Most likely the first and last time I’ll preach in a dress. So there I am walking out of my office into the youth room to Pachelbel’s Canon in D, Being all cheesey with my Extra special bridesmaid Coco carrying one of my seven layers of dress. It was pretty effective I think. My main message was just to be ready because Jesus is coming soon and he wants his bride to be ready. So, I’m hoping that the whole dress deal proved its point. If nothing else I’m happy that it fit again, because I know if God told me to wear the dress last year it wouldn’t have happened. I haven’t checked for a few days, but I’m pretty sure I’m only a pound or 2 heavier than when I got married! Here’s some photos of my second wedding dress day.

Such a poser

Always wanted to play the drums in a wedding dress!

My Bridesmaid Coco!

We went to JAM (Jesus and ME) conference for kids this morning. It was super fun. Emily loves being with the other kids. They were nice enough to make an exception for Em to come for a while even though she’s only 2 and the other kids have to be 5 to go. She even won a prize for having the smallest croc clad feet. She was pretty good for a while, but then she got bored and needed to come home. I went to chuck her into bed for a nap and remembered that past self left a nasty mess for future self to clean up later. Lazy past self. This morning when miss Em got us she started yelling. So like a good mom I ignored her for a few minutes and then went in to get her. She kept saying something with her sucky in and I couldn’t understand her.In other news…the sucky is going bye bye on Monday. Anyways back to the past. I made her take out her sucky and she says “I did a pee”. I’m like “of course you did, it was a long night”. Then she said “Mommy will clean it up”. Thats when I noticed the huge wet mark on her sheets. EW. Somehow she got her diaper off inside her pants and pee’d everywhere. Lovely. It’s understandable why past self left me that mess. Unfortunately present self couldn’t make future self do it later and had to deal with messiness pre-nappy. Grr. anyways. Cleaned her up and put her down for a nap. Now I’m contemplating taking a nap too.

I took a lame quality video clip of Emily with my digital camera. She’s scribbling, but we made up a little song for her name, so she’s spelling her name. She thinks Coco is over and wants to give her the picture, but Coco isn’t even there. It’s super cute, so here you go.ok so now it’s taking forever so look at it on my facebook or I’ll add it later.

I’m putting off waking up the Em-cabob. She was a bit crazy last night. oh well. hows that for timing. Halfway through my first sentence she starts crying. okeyday. I’m going to have to go now. haha Here’s a pic of her being the artist she is on her new desk. you’ll notice that she is also decorating the desk not just the paper. haha

I’ve been listening to podcasts by Greg Stier and Rob Kelly and I was really inspired by both of them. I listen to a section of a message from Rob Kelly a couple of times and wrote down what he said because I think that being a GO-er is a big part of who I am. Jesus gave the great commission to us as a purpose for our lives, and I just really liked the way Rob put it, so here it is. Check out the whole message here.

When the neighbor needs help - GO
When someone needs a ride - GO
When there is a culture to be crossed - GO
When someone needs groceries - GO
When there are memories to be made - GO
When the conditions are just right - GO
When you don’t have a clue - GO
When there is a flight to take - GO
When someone is hurt - GO
When the church doors are open - GO
When there is a friendship to be made - GO
When someone needs a hug or a pat on the back - GO
When there is food to eat - GO
When the grandkids are playing a game - GO
When someone is crying - GO
When something is broke grab the duct tape and - GO
When it’s time for a nap - GO
When there is celebrating to be done - GO
If someone asks - GO
If anyone asks - GO
If everyone goes - GO
If no one goes - GO
People need Jesus so Go

It’s weird to be relaxing today. I am in desperate need of a day off, so I declare today is day off day. What I mean by day off day, is only going out this evening, doing laundry, dishes, cleaning up and taking care of Emily. That’s a good day off. Most day we are on the go for the whole day. We barely have time to make anything worth eating and the laundry keeps stacking. I got all gung-ho for flylady earlier this year, but I’m going to have to work at it pretty hard to keep up. Now that my exams are done I’m trying to decide what to do with my summer. No matter what I end up doing, I really want to make it a priority to exercise, make good meals, and spend time being silly with MK and Emily. I was looking at last summer’s beach day pictures, and I’m really hoping we get the chance to spend lots of time at the beach and the park with Emily. I know we will just have to make time.

Emily ended up coming to worship practice with us last night. All our usual babysitters were busy or sick.Normally she isn’t very good at worship practice, and lately she’s been going to bed by 8 or 8:30, so we weren’t expecting her to do that well, but she did great. She fell asleep on the floor behind my drumkit for a while. That’s my girl! then we put on her DVD player and she watched Kronk. She sat on Roxy’s bass amp forever, just feeling the groove. She played in the nursery and whined a bit, but overall she did fantastic. I used to bring her to practice lots when I was on almost every team. She used to play in her playpen or I’d wear her in the backpack while I played bass, but she is just to busy for that anymore. She wants to Go Go Go. Her lip is doing alot better BTW.

Well I think I’m inspired to do some laundry and putter cleanup, so wish me luck. haha.