March Fun

I'm a little behind... but this was our breakfast on St. Patrick's Day.  We had green waffles.  

And I finally made triple fudge pound cake for Landon to try yesterday.  I just love that stuff.  We had it with some strawberries for fun.

We took these pictures just for fun to mess with the new camera. But they make me smile. 

Landon says this one makes him look tall :)

I have been doing some thinking and trying to get ready for the baby.  It's a little overwhelming. Mainly because I am what I would call a sprinter in life.  I live my life the way I do conditioning :) I would much rather run sprints than distance because I can see the end, which helps me keep my perspective and push hard.  I really have no skills or discipline at pacing myself.  In long distance, the end is so far that I lose sight of how I wanted to run the race, and I just do what I have to to get by.  I think that's what scares me. Having a baby is not something where there's an end in sight. Your responsibility as a mother is forever after you have the baby. I want to be a good mother.  So I'm trying to think of little goals and things I want to do along the way and make a list now.  I have a feeling that once I'm in the middle of it, I will forget that perspective, and just do the bare minimum to get by. If anyone has any suggestions for cool things that you did with/for your baby in the first year, or how to set good goals with them, I'm always up for suggestions. 

Meet at Temple Square

Photo by Tami

Landon and I lucked out to see my sister Tami and her family a week or two ago. It was the kids' first time at temple square, so we got to walk around with them and act like we knew what we were talking about :)  It was a lot of fun to see them, even though it was only for a little while.

The kids were impressed by all of the detail on the doors--and how tall they are!

Fountains were also a favorite, so we stopped by all of those that we could find.

It's highly possible that our little baby will have hair as curly as this little guy :)

Also by Tami. You can pretty much just assume that all of the artistic shots are from her. 

This one just makes me smile. The worker there told him that this was probably close to the actual size of Goliath!

touching the temple

Landon wanted a shot of having the whole world in his hands...

And carrying the world on his back

shots with our new camera from the viewpoints in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building

It's a beautiful place with lots of history!  It was really fun to talk about it with the kiddos.  And they were glad to be out of the car in the middle of their long days of driving from Seattle to St. George!

31 Weeks!

Here I am at 31 weeks. Hopefully next time I can get someone to take a picture with Landon in it with me so we can put it in the baby book. Pregnancy is going great. I failed my first glucose test, but when I went in for the 3 hour test, I was fine, so no gestational diabetes for me. The baby likes to stick his feet in my ribs and roll his elbows in funny positions though. Luckily I really haven't had that much trouble sleeping still.  Landon, on the other hand, says I have taken to snoring in my pregnancy, so he probably struggles with it more than I do, ha.  We are trying to figure out all of the items we need to get for the little guy, and I am amazed at how much gear a little baby needs!  But we are excited for him to come. It's going by so fast and so slow all at the same time!

Do you remember those days in elementary school when it was cool to play marbles at recess? Landon and I were reminiscing the other day. He talked about how he used to be so good, but then the teachers made a rule against playing because they had been playing for keeps and he kept taking home the other kids' marbles.

I remember that my favorite part was just trading for the prettiest ones. Michael would always want to play, and I would generally lose, so I would much rather have just traded than end up with nothing.  The cat-eye ones were cool and all, but the steelies were harder to come by, and the gem-colored ones were my favorite.  At least we didn't have many steelies. Landon, on the other hand, doesn't find them that special because they could get them from old ball bearings on the farm equipment any time.

This all came up because we found some ball bearings in our desk. So we played some marbles. I was surprised--either I have much more control of my fingers now than when I was little, or I just had no idea how good I was at the time :) Landon was impressed that his wife was such a marble professional. Until I beat him. Then he wasn't so happy. We had to have a rematch of course, and he won the second game. So we left it at that.  Good times.