Wonderful World of itunes......

SO for Christmas my little brother Garrett got me an itunes card. I just figured out how to use it and I was overwhelmed by all the musical selections. All of the sudden I couldn't remember what artists I liked and it took me well over an hour to select a CD worth of music. Upon selecting music I realized I have a few musical crushes and thought I would share them with you, I don't care if you think their lame...they make me happy. And their not bad to look at either...(don't tell Bart that part).

Jason Mraz- sweet sounding, happy

Gavin Rossdale-manly and raspy

Rob Thomas-extremely cool

Josh Groban-classic, timeless, rich and flawless

The guy from the group "wall flowers"-too cool and manly

I love these voices. Their music is all so different as is there voices, but they just make me melt...Maybe I'll lose a few pounds listening to them-but I doubt it. It's a weight gain of a pound a week from here on out they say...Dang.

So feel free to share your crushes with me, you can include females too, I do confess I like "Pink" with her raspy voice, but I'm in a happy relationship with a male, so no worries.

But I do think I'm in love with itunes.....

Maybe I'll be a singer when I grow up and you can find me on itunes someday...(scary!!!)

I should probably stick with our Karaoke...

Flash Back....

who the heck said it was ok, to wear this tight fitting lounge dress home from the hospital? I still look prego! Of course, no one bothered to tell me I'd still have a tummy after giving birth, I thought "baby out, tummy goes down"... By the looks of me I was severley wrong..And don't even get me started on my hair...

Yes, this is the face of pain I didn't have my drugs yet, and I wanted them bad......

So sick from the pre-epidural medicine, if they offer it pass.

Big Girl's don't cry, I'm not gonna do it, but I wanted too..DOn't I look cute?

The final result...Bartel.

So I found these "gems" on my computer and thought they were too fun not to share. Sing it with me "Memories"!!! So this was my most miserable delivery so far. I was so sick and water logged it was horrible. I was puking my guts out the whole time during pushing and then I couldn't focus on my new baby until noon the next day, from being so sick. Then to make matters worse, I was on an I.V ALL NIGHT and when Bart came to see me the next day he walked in the room then straight out again and left to call my mom to tell her this...."I don't want to alarm you, but you are not going to recognize Randi When you see her..." MOM : "Bart I'm going to recognize my own daughter." Mom arrives with Bart in tow. I can't see well, but I can see a look of concern mixed with love. My mom acts natural, and I complain that I can't really see them very good. Well that's because I'm so full of fluids my eyes were just tiny slits, I could barely see out of. I left the hospital weighing more then when I went in....I was ticked. But I did pee-pee off 25lbs. in 2 weeks. That was awesome...I wish I had better pics of my after birth face, and body, you would die. I was very fluffy. We actually made a game out of pushing holes in my legs and seeing just how long they would last there. Good Times. I love you Bartel, I blame you of course for making me look so pillsbury like, but I do love you..

Bored.....

So I changed my blog colors. I've never really changed them and so I guess this is a result of having nothing else to do, so expect a new color maybe tomorrow? Also I will probably be blogging a whole lot more about nothing since I am just sitting here existing...

If anyone has some suggested books to read that would be great. I just finished "The Glass Castle" another memoir I loved it, and highly recommend it. I also have been working on "my sisters keeper"? I think that's what it is, I also read "the five love languages"by Gary Chapman and have discovered my own special language is not what I expected it to be....Curious? I will tell you what the languages are and you can guess for yourself my love language and my secondary language because it was a close second. And I actually got Bart to take the test and I discovered that his love language too was a shocker for me. I thought I knew him. I have been talking to him in a foreign language for the past 11 years!! But anyhow, this test is supossed to help you speak the language of your spouse to better serve and communicate with them. We did good for about a week..... Ok, here are the languages in random order:

1. Words of Affirmation (compliments, notes, etc..)

2. Acts of Service

3. Physical Touch (not just you know what, but a touch on the arm, playing with your hair etc..)

4. Gifts

5. Quality Time 

Some of these are easier to do for your spouse then others, but whatever their language is, that is what makes them respond best to you so for best results, learn their language. Not your language, theirs. Read the book it's not too long and it's very informative too. Plus you might just get a week or two of your language spoken to you. Ok, boring. I sound like I'm trying to be all knowing and seriously we all know I'm not. 

So while on my vacation from life, I have discovered online...."wheel of Fortune" and it's free, did anyone else know about this? I'm going to try to look for "Jeopardy" next I love trivia. I just know I'm going to end up in my recliner as an old person who schedules their entire evening around Alex Trebec and that glorious Jeopardy theme music. I have so much to look forward too! Alright my therapy session will now come to an end. I am so bored!!! I should start knitting or something but, it never fails that as soon as I get up to go potty, I come back and my mind is blank as to what I was just doing and how it is to be done. I hate that. And that's not from pregnancy that is all me. I have other talents right?

Good News!

SO that test I was waiting for to see if I would be delivering in 1-2 weeks cane back negative. Which is good. I know things could change but for now, I just have to continue my medicine and take it easy for the next 4 weeks making it till 36 weeks and then I can let nature run it's course, and hopefully it will run it's way to the hospital for me to deliver a healthy baby.

Bart has been extremely helpful, which I totally appreciate. He's been getting kids ready for school when he's home and made a weekly menu for the breakfasts he'll be making ( I was just gonna throw cereal at the kids) he went shopping for groceries, doing laundry, cleaning. He says it's no big deal but it's huge to me, I know he helps out as much as he can anyways I am just usually helping along with him, and just watching him do everything is sooooo hard!! 

My friends and family have been helping out a ton too. Meals, visits, all kinds of offers of help, cleaning up endless feathers upstairs from one of Annies dress up dresses that i should get rid of but she's so cute in it that I can't, picking up kids from school, keeping kids after school, renting movies for me (since I don't have cable- who's dumb idea was that?) sharing books, praying for me. I feel very loved and blessed to know and associate with such good people. Thank you to everyone, I can't wait to be able to return the favors. This is a huge test for me, to let others serve me,  I love you all and my whole family really appreciates all your doing for us.

Just an update

So I had an appointment today with my Dr. things are progressing at a rather rapid rate again. So I get to start taking that lovely "stop your contractions" medicine, trebuteline? Ugh...I hate that stuff. So depending on my test results which should come back in 1-2 days, I could be delivering in 2-4 weeks.. Oy. I will keep you posted. In the mean time I"m on "house arrest" and if anyone has any ideas how to not do cleaning, laundry, and shopping with a house full of people, than please let me know. I have no idea how to just sit still, with so much to do. But I do see the wisdom of bedrest, because seriously, I feel like one good sneeze and we could be having this baby any minuet.... At least they have shots of hormones for the babies' lungs to develop that makes me feel better we'll see if I need that in a few days... But all is well,  I'll keep you informed.

Still Here....

One last look at my beloved gingerbread house
Grandma Kimmy makde these hats and scarfs for the kids so cute! And perfect timing for the weather! Thanks grandma.

Barbie princesses' Annie was in heaven

Coco finally got that American Girl Doll, Samantha, she loves it. Now, all she wants for Christmas next year? The rest of the collection!

Careful, Bartel's got his eye on you with his new super duper magnifying glass!! He wanted one so bad, along with books, a watch, parmesean cheese, and $$$. 50's and 100's were supposedly acceptable.

Waiting for mom to get ready with her camera and cocoa in their new jammies.

Tarzan girl. This is just for fun...

I know it's been awhile. And I do love blogging, but I have been so lazy about it lately. I always have something else to do like, lunch, dinner, laundry... I'm getting into that "nesting" stage and so I think all my free time has to go into cleaning and organizing. Even though it doesn't always work out that way, sometimes those thoughts of being productive are enough to wipe me out and they end in a nap. And that's just the truth.

So to back up a bit.... Christmas was good. Christmas eve was spent at home relaxing..sort of. I baked cookies for santa and for the kids to decorate, while Bart who can't sit still, worked on the house. He put up a towel rack in our downstairs bathroom...I've been waiting 5 years. Then this one is a real treat, a toilet paper holder in my bathroom...Also 5 years of waiting. I'm so happy. Then he decided to sand down our back doors that haven't been painted yet and were suffering from water damage. My house was then full of dust...Not too thrilled about that one. But whatever. Maybe he was counting these acts of service as part of my Christmas gifts? That would explain a lot...I don't want to talk about it.....

SO I made our tradition of Chili and corn bread, again. I guess that's why it's called a tradition. It's my familys' tradition, but for some reason Bart is stuck on it. So we do it every year. Next year I'm making it ahead of time and freezing it like my mom did so my christmas eve will be all the more relaxing. So at night we decorated cookies and ate way too many, and then we played a few rounds of "Go fish" and a few matches of our favorite "connect four". Then we opened one present, of P.J.'s another tradition, and it was off to bed to await the big guys arrival..

Grandma Deb and Opa were hear bright and early to see the kids get up and open gifts. I of course made everyone wait until I was finished making homemade cocoa and had my camera ready. There are just some things worth waiting for. And my cocoa is. The kids were good sports, so patient.

Later that night we went to Opa's for a prime rib christmas dinner..very yummy. We did our gift exchange and I got some really nice things from Barts Family. It was a very nice day indeed..

New Years was busy we had all the youth over for the first presidency message. That ended at 8pm. Then we actually had a party to go to. It was my first New Years Party. I was totally surprised that I lasted until midnight. It was fun though that's probably why. We played this game where you wrote down something about yourself that no one knew, and then three people were called up and the story was read and one of the people actually wrote it and we were all asked questions and you had to lie and pretend it was yours, and get people to vote for you. So somehow, I convinced everyone that I went skinny dipping with boys at youth confrence. And won that round. When really my secret that no one knew couldn't have been more opposite, I will share it...As a teenage I could not say my prayers unless I had my bra on, I just didn't feel worthy. If I went to bed and forgot to pray, I would hop back out of bed throw on my bra, pray, and then take it off again. It was this way until I was married...Everyone thought thatt that was funny and weird, especially since I convinced everyone I went skinny dipping with boys! So this is all for now, I'll post some pics more later, I will try to keep up with the world of blogging.