January 2019

It's been a crazy last 12 months. I keep all of our pictures on an external hard drive and also saved to our computer. Unfortunately my external hard drive went bad and I hadn't done a second back up to the computer in about 18 months. It took me months to get pictures from those 18 month backed up and in one place again with having different cameras and phones but I am finally caught back up again with my pictures being up to date and sorted in one folder. And I've learned my lesson the hard way and I have 2 external hard drives now in case one goes bad. I think I only have a 2 week period that I wasn't able to recover pictures from which isn't bad considering I was worried I would lose a lot more than that. So add that to the normal craziness of life and that's why I'm so far behind in blogging, again. :)

We always celebrate my nephew Eli's birthday by singing to him and having dinner after.

January 4, 2019

The next day I was officially 10 weeks pregnant which meant it was my last progesterone shot. Thankfully they didn't hurt most days but it was nice knowing I was done. It was a process each morning getting everything ready and then I would heat up the area before and after the shot to help so that I wouldn't be so sore. It was worth the extra effort but definitely made it more of a process than just a quick injection.

(Liz was much better at keeping track of dates, etc. so I hope she doesn't mind some of the screenshots I took of her instagram posts.)

January 5, 2019

I couldn't believe all of the syringes I had accumulated so I took a picture of them before disposing of them. I probably sound like a record on repeat but I've gained much greater sympathy for those that go through IVF and everything that it entails.

January 7, 2019

Kaleb's school had an art show to display some of the kid's art from the semester so we were able to walk around and look at his exhibits.

January 9, 2019

Olivia had been looking forward to this night for months. Her first daddy-daughter dance at school. She had picked out her dress months before and picked out what shoes and jewelry she wanted to wear too.

January 11, 2019

You can see the excitement in her smile.

They went with a couple other dad's and daughters and went out to eat before going to the dance.

Matt was good about taking some pictures at the dance for me. It was a candy theme.

After the dance we all met up together to hang out. These girls were worn out and quickly fell asleep on the short drive home.

This was Kaleb's toothpick project that he made for his 3-D Art class.

January 17, 2019

Another birthday for Ashton! He wanted brownies with homemade German chocolate frosting and we celebrated at Sunday dinner. I like when they pick one of my favorite desserts for their birthday dessert. Yum!

January 20, 2019

The next day for Ashton's birthday he got to help shovel a bunch of snow! At least it was a holiday so they didn't have school. With the excuse of being pregnant I got to stay inside where it was nice and warm.

January 21, 2019

Our last pinewood derby ever! Ashton cut out his car by himself and did all of the painting. I think he came in 7th place overall which isn't bad considering we aren't very good at building pinewood derby cars.

January 24, 2019

Olivia was able to leave one of her stuffed animals at school overnight for a sleepover. The next day there were pictures of what the stuffed animals did during the time the kids were at home. Olivia always hates spelling words wrong, yes, even only being in kindergarten and so she'll come home and ask me how to spell certain words. So after I took this picture she changed her misspelled words on this paper. "Angel was played the ukulele and Angle was crazy!" She did great trying to sound out ukulele, that's not an easy word so it was fun to see how she spelled it.

January 24, 2019

It's a little sad to blog about the cabin because we actually sold it (July 2019) and so seeing pictures makes me miss being up there. I'm still happy we sold it when we did but we had so many fun memories up there.

This time we spent most of the day digging out the snowmobile since it was still up at the cabin. And being pregnant I wasn't much help with the digging and lifting and so Matt and Kaleb had to dig it out. Olivia brought a friend, Avaree and they had fun sledding and playing in the deep snow.

January 26, 2019

Even in the winter it's so pretty up there.

Olivia learned how to make snowflakes and spent the day making a whole bunch to tape all around the house.

January 30, 2019

Ashton and Olivia found this caution tape in the storage room and thought it would be funny to tape it to our door.

The sign says "Caution Crazy Parents in Room Beware."

January 31, 2019

Olivia was still in the "potty talk is funny phase" so her sign says toot.