So low...

Everytime I see myself in the mirror I'm like, "Yowzers, I look really low." ☺
So I took a picture to see if I still looked low since I didn't look quite this low in the 36 week pictures we just took the other day.

Yeah, it looks pretty low still.

Organizing Challenge #1

 

I've started an organizing challenge and this week was cleaning off countertops and tables. Removing small appliances off the countertops that don't need to be there, etc...

Thanks to pregnancy nesting I had already done most of it awhile ago. ☺

We've been sick this week so it was mostly just cleaning up from letting things build up. Except for the cabinet in my back entry, that's definitely one of my problem areas.

 

BEFORE PHOTOS:

 

 

 

My back entry cabinet which clearly needed some organizing. ☺

 

 

AFTER PHOTOS:

 

 

(I have to keep my diabetes stuff out on the counter still so that I remember to check my blood sugars)

 

 

36 Weeks

 

WARNING

Lots of whining in this post...

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We've contintued to be sick for the rest of the week. Aidan has missed like 5 days of school at this point. =P The kids and myself are still hacking and if there isn't a major improvement in the next day or so, we'll be taking them to see the doctor.

I'm more miserable from being sick than from being pregnant.☺ I've also got another cold sore in the same spot as before so I'm pretty thrilled about that.

The temperatures have remained really cold getting in the negatives at night and up in the 20's during the day (if we're lucky).

 

I feel as though I've made some headway on my house organizing though and so if I wasn't sick I'd be able to sleep at night. ;) Finally got the baby's clothes (and gear) washed and put away too.

 

The kids wanted in on the impromtu photoshoot as we were headed out the door.

 

 

Aidan was really fond of this face pose.

Round 2

ugh. ugh. ugh.

Aidan came home from school last Thursday not feeling well. That snowballed into him having a fever, runny nose, and coughing violently all weekend and now he's missed 3 days of school. Yesterday Ella and Britton started doing the same, so we're battling more high fevers, coughs, and little sleep.

Now I'm getting sick.

I feel like we just did this.

Britton's First Haircut

I've been saying for awhile now that he needed his first trim, and I finally got around to doing it. ☺

 

 

 

It wasn't too traumatic for him, and Cary wouldn't take some "during" pictures for me.

After (not sure why I didn't clean off his dirty face)

 

35 Weeks

 Cue panic attack.

Actually, I just look really tired in these pictures and I've apparently outgrown this shirt too because it bunches up strangely (something I didn't notice until these pictures!). ☺

Aidan is now sick so Cary and I didn't get much sleep last night.

 

Driving

 I've been going to SLC fairly often at this point for doctors appointments and other appointments. Cary has been staying home with the kids and I usually draft Janille or Kenneth to take me in.  I have to bring Cary's cell phone with me since we got rid of mine a long time ago. (they are useless out here) and I've been having a little too much fun with his Instagram account. ☺
Yesterday was Kenneth's lucky day and he drove me into SLC, and we were a little nervous since we'd heard that a major storm was supposed to hit later on in the day.

There is still a lot of snow everywhere from the last storm.

 

We saw clouds all day but we never actually did encounter snow, until...

on our way back home a few miles past Hinkley it was a full on blizzard almost all the way to EskDale. Jim, our Sheriff, was in his truck ahead of us and he blazed the trail. (It wasn't snowing in Snake Valley though, strange!)