Another Trip to Cheyenne

It's been about a month since I've posted. I did say that once a month is good for me, right?

We're in Utah right now. We've been here since November 20th (except for the quick trip back to Cheyenne for a doctor's appointment). It's been nice to be around family again. It's crazy how fast time is flying. We have been splitting our time between Draper and Payson. We love being around family! The crazy thing is that our apartment is still TRASHED. It's hard to get the motivation to organize it when we're still not 100% sure that we'll end up staying here. We're still trying to work things out with Housing so we could move into a two bedroom apartment. But, it looks like we will probably end up staying here. That's ok. This is a very nice apartment... just a small one for a family of four.

We'll be heading to Cheyenne tomorrow. I'm not looking forward to the drive. The weather looks kinda gross. We wouldn't be heading back until Wednesday or Thursday, but I have some doctor's appointments to go to earlier in the week.

Anyways, I better get going. We still have a bunch of packing to do and I wanna hit the road early so we're not driving too much in the dark. hahaha Yes... us, hit the road early... hahaha

Random updates

Miranda has been such a grumpy guss lately. Maybe she is having sympathy pregnancy mood swings! I know I've been having them. I hate being hormonal!

We didn't do much for Halloween. I did make us get dressed up (in Harry Potter costumes... again...). Chris came over and we had pizza. Mark, Mary and Ollie stopped by and visited for a bit. It was fun. We haven't seen them in a couple months. Then we went to Cold Stone and grabbed an ice cream before bedtime.

I spent all day today packing things up. I barely dented the office and now my house is trashed. Ugh... I'm hoping to have everything packed before we go to Utah for Thanksgiving. That way we don't have to come back here early to pack before the move.

I'm also trying to put together another cookbook. This is supposed to be an "All Time Favorites" book. If anyone has a great recipe, please send it to me.

(I'll update this post with some pictures of Miranda in her costume as soon as I'm back on the main computer)

UPDATE- Finally got the picture on there (like a week later). She's the golden snitch from Harry Potter.

Chinese Food

Wow, has it really been a month since I last posted? Well... at least I'm back on track with my "normal" posting, eh?

Not a lot is going on here. Gordon just finished his third week at this rotation. It is going by really fast, actually. If this were a normal rotation (and not a double) he'd be finished next week. I've only gotten a few things packed around the house. I really need to get on the ball. I'd like to have the place mostly packed before we head to Utah for Thanksgiving. That way there won't be much to do when we come back for the move. It is kinda hard to pack since we're still going to be here for more than a month...

We had Chris and Julie over for dinner tonight. It was fun. I think we're doing Chinese for lunch tomorrow. Homemade, of course. =) Julie is coming over and we're going to experiment. Fun. I love cooking. We'll see if Miranda cooperates. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *gasp* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

No, really, she is a good girl. She just wants to be involved in everything we're doing. I think she gets scared by the frying pans when I cook, too. She stands in the doorway and cries for me but won't come any closer if she can hear it sizzling. She knows that the sound means hot and it scares her. Poor thing. So funny what scares her and what doesn't.

I can't believe I'm almost half way done with this pregnancy. It's going much better now that I'm past the morning sickness. I can deal with being tired. =) I'll be 20 weeks this Thursday. Crazy! We were just talking about how Miranda will handle a little sister. I feel kinda bad that she hasn't interacted with more kids until now. Hopefully she does ok. I think the biggest shocker will be that she will have to share Mom and Dad's attention now.

Oh well, I better get to bed. I think Gordon has fallen asleep on the couch. I didn't mean to be on so late. =) Goodnight!

~Christi

It's a Girl!

We went to Fetal Studios before we left Utah and found out that it's a girl! We're actually both really excited about it. It does help that we have most things we'll need already. haha Miranda will love having a little sister... once she gets over the shock of not being an only child anymore.

Gordon is almost done with his third rotation. It has gone by kinda quick (to me at least). He was in Byron for two weeks of it and then he's been able to do the other two weeks from home. He has a bunch of meetings in Cheyenne he has to attend for the rotation, but it's still nice to have him home with us. I hate being home alone for weeks at a time. :(

There is so much stuff to do before we move. We'll be moving back to Utah in December. That way I won't be alone all of January while he is gone on rotation. We didn't think that was a good idea since I'd be 7-8 months pregnant at the time. Another perk is that our parents won't have to travel when the baby is born. That'll be nice. We are sad about one thing, though. We just found out that Bob and Kimber might be moving to Cheyenne in November. We are sad to be leaving just after they come. They're so fun to hang out with. And Gracie is so cute. She calls us the Harry Potter friends. haha I love it!!

I better try and take a little nap before Miranda wakes up. I'm still useless without one (still morning sick, etc. but hoping it will end soon).

Another Post

Well, it's only been a month since my last post... about normal for me, right?

Miranda and I are in Utah right now. Daddy is doing a rotation in northern Wyoming. I decided to spend some time here because we weren't sure how often he'd be able to come home this month. He has to drive about 6 1/2 hours to Cheyenne. The fun thing is that he came to visit us this weekend here in Utah. It was about a 9 hour drive, but he said he'd rather do the extra 2 1/2 hours to here than be home alone.=) We were happy to see him. Miranda LOVES her Daddy!!

Miranda is growing up so fast. I can't believe how big she is. Do all parents feel this way? Again, I can't post pictures because I'm not even on my computer. Candice is letting me borrow her laptop... that's the only reason I've been able to get online. Thanks, Candice!

Sorry this is so short, especially since I haven't said anything important... but I better get to bed. Fixing the gas leak didn't make the morning sickness go away, unfortunately. It'll all be worth it in the end, right?

Scary

Good news... Gordon survived his rotation. He passed and is happy it is over.

Not-so-good news... I've posted how I've been really morning sick with this pregnancy. I noticed last night that I felt better when we went to a BBQ and were out of the house for a few hours. I made a joke that I felt sick within seconds of walking back into the house. "Maybe I'm allergic to this apartment, haha". Well, the last couple days Gordon has been feeling sick too and he basically passed out on the couch this afternoon, even though he finally had a good night's sleep last night. While I was sitting on the other couch I noticed a natural gas smell and joked that maybe we have CO poisoning. Gordon got the CO detector out and it looked ok, but he smelled the gas too. So we called the gas company and it turns out we have a leak! Our maintanence guys are trying to fix the leak now, but this could actually explain why I've been so sick the last few weeks. I've blamed it all on the pregnancy but I usually felt better whenever I'd leave the house. I thought that was just because I usually feel better when I'm being productive... Now we're worried about Miranda and the baby. I am going to call my doctor on Monday to see what they suggest. I think everything should be ok with the baby. I've had minor symptoms, but nothing extreme. It just felt like really bad morning sickness. I have noticed that Miranda is sleeping a TON. I thought that maybe she was going through a growth spurt but she's been sleeping 11-13 hours a night plus a 2 hour nap everyday for the last few weeks. That is not like her. She usually sleeps 9-10 hours a night.

We have all the windows open right now. Hopefully that helps clear some of this out. Maybe I'll even feel better! Hooray for less morning sickness... =)

I posted again, can you believe it?

Gordon will be doing a rotation this next month so he can have February off. I hope everything goes ok on this new rotation. I'll feel really bad if it turns out like this first one did. He is hating life. Today is his last day there, thank goodness! He is really worried about failing the rotation. At this point he has done everything he can, so we'll see how it goes. He has worked his butt off, too. He comes home and does homework all night. It feels like he never gets to see/play with Miranda. It's been almost as bad as a rotation away from home. We're really hoping that this is the exception and not the rule. There are one or two other rotations where he expects a lot of homework, but hopefully the rest are not this bad.

I am happy that we got pregnant so fast, but I forgot how bad being pregnant was. The outcome of pregnancy is great... actual pregnancy is not so great. At least the first half. I am so morning sick (all day long) that all I do is lay on the couch all day. Poor Miranda has watched so much Elmo lately. She loves Elmo, but usually I wouldn't let her watch this much tv.

It sounds like Miranda has woken up. I better go get her and feed the beast. HAHA No, she's actually a really good girl. =)

Almost There

I am so unfaithful to this blog, no matter how much I try. It's hard to get on everyday (or even every few days) to post something when there really isn't much going on.

I went to the midnight showing of Harry Potter last Tuesday. Yes, I am one of those dorks who goes in costume. I LOVE it. haha Brian (Gordon's brother) has a bunch of friends that get together for every HP movie and book. They do a Pot(ter) Luck, which is an all day party and then they get in line like 10 hours early. It's really fun.

Gordon is close to being done with this rotation. He is trying to decide if he should switch his month off and do a rotation next month. If he does he will have February off, just in case I have the baby early. The only bad thing is that the rotation he has in February sounds better to him than the one they offer next month.

Miranda is getting bigger every day. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures to post because I'm writing from the laptop. She has decided she LOVES Elmo. She will dance and get excited when the song comes on. She only watches it for a couple minutes at a time, though. I don't want her to be a kid that watches TV all day, but it would be nice if she would sit and watch something for 30-60 minutes. Free time... Does anyone actually remember what that was? I know I don't! ;) And I really won't know what it is once the next one is born. At least now I do get free time during her nap. I won't even get that anymore since they won't have similar sleep patterns for a long while. What were we thinking??? One kid is enough!! I changed my mind!! HAHAHA

Speaking of "one kid"... I better make her eat. She just sits there and plays with it if we don't feed her. She is still so dependent. Most kids her age get upset when you try to cut up their food and feed them. She'll pick it up and hold it out to us so we have to put it in her mouth. Silly girl!!

Some Good News at Last!

Wow, my last post sure was angry. I am still a little miffed with this place, but we did finally get in on Monday. We were really lucky and a bunch of people showed up from Julie's ward and our new ward here to help us move in. It was great. We got the truck unpacked in less than 45 minutes. Unpacking the apartment is a different story. I had to COMPLETELY scrub a room before I dared to unpack it. I don't expect a place to be perfect when I move in, but it should at least be cleaned. This place was pretty dirty. There were still bread crumbs all over inside the cutting board. ICK! Seriously, I probably spent at least 10 hours scrubbing the kitchen before I unpacked anything into it. I still haven't done the master bathroom, so we use the other bathroom for everything. I guess all this is making it sound like I don't like this place. All in all, it will be an ok place to live. I do LOVE all the space. It's going to be hard jumping back and forth from this three bedroom bahemeth to the 400 square foot mini-apartment back in Utah. haha At least Draper has my parent's house right up the driveway for when i feel too crowded.

Well, I better get to bed. It's now 1:00 AM. I am SO addicted to WoW, it's not even funny. I better get to the point of my post tonight... We found out today that Miranda is going to be a big sister!

Never rent from Mountainside Apartments... Tell your friends!!

Ok, I'm here to vent...
We have been planning on moving into a new apartment for about a month. We had all our application stuff in at the end of May with a move in date of June 20th. We've already rented a truck and put our notice in with our current landlord. I called the apartment place yesterday to set up a time to sign the lease and get the keys. The lady tells me that the University's Financial Aid department filled out one of their forms wrong and we need to have that in before they can even process our paperwork. Then she pulls up our file and sees that some information wasn't ever returned by America First Credit Union either. She then tells me that it takes 24-48 hours to process this paper work once they get it back... This is Thursday morning and we're scheduled to move in Saturday... Ok, a call would have been nice!!! They NEVER even told us there was a problem. I called them less than 2 weeks ago to verify that everything was ok and they said it was. Well, we run around like mad on Thursday and get everything turned in by the end of the day. She tells me that she'll send it in first thing Friday morning (for some reason she couldn't do it that evening even though it came in before 4:00). On Friday we were in Cheyenne to pick up the rental truck so we stop by the apartment place because they are not answering their phones. She tells me, "Oh, I'm glad you stopped by. The verification lady called me about half an hour ago and told me something was still wrong with the information from America First. But, we can have you fill out this other form while you're here and just turn this in instead." Ok... so I'm thinking, "Why didn't we just do this form in the first place since America First was giving them such a hard time to do the form they wanted??" So we jump through that hoop and she says she'll let us know by 5:00 what's going on. At 4:50 she calls and says that she hasn't heard back from the verification company and since it's after 5:00 she can't call them (even though it's NOT after 5:00 yet). I asked if there was any way to move our stuff in on Saturday if we stayed with family and didn't live in it until Monday. She said that if our stuff is in there then we officially have "possession" of the property and we can't do that until we sign a lease. She's like, "I have a sticky note on my computer to contact them back first thing on Monday morning to find out what's going on". Well, THANKS! We already have a rental truck, our family is coming up from Utah to help us move and now we don't even have a place... and we still don't know if we'll have it Monday. Great! Even if we do get it Monday Gordon and I will have to move everything in ourselves now because our family has work to get to on Monday.

*sigh* You know, I'm not mad that the verification takes 24-48 hours. They probably have no control over that. By WHY, oh WHY, did they not call us and tell us that they were having problems so we could have gotten it taken care of in time to move in? They never even called at all! The only reason we knew there was a problem was because I called them. WTF??

A Month in a Nutshell

Ok, so we're back to posting here once a month...

In March Gordon, Miranda, and I went to Utah for Spring Break. Miranda and I stayed behind to visit with family after Gordon went home. It was a lot of fun. We stayed with Grandma and Grandpa Hardy on the weekends and with Grandma and Papa Meier on the weekdays.


Miranda sure loved to take people for walks. Here she is cruising the kitchen with Grandpa Hardy.


While we were visiting Miranda got really sick. Here's the video I sent to Daddy to show him how much she wanted him. We found out a couple days later that she actually had viral AND bacterial pneumonia. Poor Girl.


Then we went to Vegas with Grandma and Papa. Here is the big girl walking around the Dinosaur park with Grandma. It was so warm!


Miranda went down her first slide at the Dinosaur park. She laughed at the end, but I don't think you can hear it well in the video.


Miranda and Papa crashed in the backseat on the way home from Vegas. It was a long drive, but she did really well.


We did have a lot of fun in Utah, but it sure was nice to get home to Daddy!

STILL waiting!

I am seriously going insane. We were supposed to have the results for Gordon's rotations by Feb 23. We STILL don't have them (over two weeks later)! We're never going to find out where we're headed.
Friday is my last day of work. What's crazy about that is I have work today, but Wednesday is my normal day off and I took Thursday off because Gordon has some tests. So I only have two more days of work. Weird...
We're looking forward to our trip to Utah on Friday (or Saturday, weather depending).

It's Gordon's birthday. It's only been 2 months since I last posted. HAHA I started a post a couple weeks ago and never got it done. Miranda is getting SO big. She's mad at me in this video because I won't let her have the cell phone. I think it's funny when she fake cries.
We're still waiting for Gordon's rotation list to come in. It was supposed to be posted last Monday and it STILL isn't there! I'm going insane. Depending on what he gets we will be moving to Utah or Cheyenne. If he has enough locations in Cheyenne, Laramie and Fort Collins then we will move to Cheyenne with him. If not, we'll head to Utah so we won't be alone the whole time... by we I mean Miranda and me. HAHA.
I better get going. We're heading to Cheyenne to do some shopping and go to Texas Roadhouse for Gordon's birthday. There is a surprise party waiting for him there. I hope he has fun. =)