Married to a REAL man =)

Last night I came home from tutoring and Adam was shampooing all the carpets. It's needed to be done and Adam took the initiative to rent the carpet cleaner and get it done.

This is just a small example of the ways Adam tries to help around the house. I try to do most of the cleaning, cooking, laundry, and Hannah duties but it gets so difficult while I'm pregnant that most of the time I end up just focusing on Hannah because I'm too exhausted to do anything else and without me even asking him to, Adam picks up my slack.

All this and he is taking 18 graduate level classes. These are not simple classes. He has had to design an electronic calculator (that actually works) an electronic reader application (like a Kindle...which also actually works) and right now is working on designing a video game...and all of that is just for ONE class.

I know I've written about him taking these classes before, but it is a HUGE deal. I'm so proud of him and I count the days down until May 8th when he is done with all 6 of his classes and he just needs to worry about his full time job and family (lol "just").

This man is up at 6:30 every day to be able to get Hannah up and ready and fed so that I don't have to get up so fast and start my day vomiting. He doesn't have to do it, but he does it for me. He does it for her too, so that she knows Daddy loves her. He also tries to spend a little time for us after school and helps me get Hannah into bed by 6:30 before he starts his homework and many times he is up until 1:00 in the morning working on his homework or classroom work. Although I don't ask him to help around the house, or with Hannah, he does it because he loves us and wants to make my life a little easier while I'm pregnant. He is always asking if I am happy, or if there is anything I need him to do.

I'm not even going to mention the time he spends in meetings and mutual as the 2nd councilor in the YM presidency, but he is quite a stud.

He only has two more full months of this crazy life. Hopefully I'll get my energy back before then so I can help to lighten his load somehow. I'm so grateful for my man. I'm so grateful for the way he takes care of us, and shows us that he loves us. I'm grateful that I chose him and for the way he supports me...although I think he will rethink another pregnancy any time soon, especially if he decides to work on his Doctorate :)

Tagged!

My friend Georgia tagged me in a blog post so how can I resist!

4x4= a little bit about me =)

1: Four Places I Go
1--The Park
2--The Library
3-- The Temple
4-- Tanaka Elementary

2: Four Favorite Smells
1--A Baby's Breath
2--Lilacs
3-- "First day of school" (you know what I'm talking about...new notebooks, cleaned carpet, sharpened pencils, hope...)
4-- "Christmas time"

3: Four Favorite TV Shows/Movies
1--Gone with the Wind
2--The Sound of Music
3--Sense and Sensibility
4--Jane Eyre

4: Four Recommendations
1-- Take a nap a day
2-- Listen to the Prophet, Parents, and Dave Ramsey
3-- Read
4--If you have to chose between a clean, functioning household and taking your child to the park, go to the park. As long as it gets done sometime don't stress about your house, stress about the time you'll miss.

I almost forgot to tag four people =)

My Aunts Lesley and Lilian, My mom, and Rosalie.

The Phone is Ringing!

I was talking to Hannah's nursery leader on Tuesday night and she said "Oh Hannah is so funny, last Sunday she had a pink phone squished between her shoulder and ear and she was pushing a fake vacuum and was talking to someone."

She gave me away.

I am a phone talker. I love talking on the phone and I can talk to various people for up to two hours a day (usually while Hannah is napping but obviously she catches me sometimes. Example set.)

Hannah has become a phone talker/texter. If you've ever recieved a call or a text from her which usually looks something like this: sldfjlsuikdlsdfjasodf but occasionally she presses the quick text button and comes up with a phrase. My favorite was when Adam and I were hanging out and he got a text from "me" that said "I'm in a meeting."

She loves to call Gama, Gampa, Sohn, and Mehee. She also calls Rosalie and Caitlin, and Cait's husband Richard on occasion. In the picture above she was talking to Adam since he isn't coming home until late tonight. (She'd also just woken up from a nap so please excuse the hair :)

My funny girl!

Discovering the world around.

Last night was Bunco night and because of some crazy scheduling I needed to take Hannah with me and lay her down at my friend's house so that Adam could pick her up about 45 minutes later, that way neither of us missed out on school or Bunco (I haven't been out with my friends for several months so I was in need of a night out, and Chelsea just told me I could lay Hannah down to sleep at her house until Adam got home).

Since we only have one car, I was walking over to Bunco with my stroller, singing primary music to Hannah and trying to get her to be in a sleepy mood. It was a dark, peaceful time of night and there was nothing much for Hannah to look at except where the dog barking was coming from. Suddenly she pointed upward and with this amazed look on her face she said "MAMA!" because it was such a big reaction to whatever it was, I stopped and crouched down beside her. Her eyes were fixated skyward and her mouth was gaping open. "What do you see Hannah?" I asked.

"STARS!" Was her amazed reply.

We had read about stars, we sing songs about stars, we talk about the moon and the stars and she'd see the moon a lot, but it is hard to see stars in Las Vegas so I've never really pointed them out to her, sure enough it was a clear night and you could see many stars in the sky. We sang "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star together" and she would not take her eyes off the stars she had just discovered. It was so sweet.

So next time we are on a walk I won't go so fast, in case we both miss something that I have long ago discovered, that would be a wonder to her.