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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
We didn’t really do anything for Canada day yesterday since we had to go to the USCIS application office in Salt Lake to renew my permanent resident card which went a lot smoother that when we first did it in Idaho. The people at the Salt Lake office were quick and friendly but JJ wasn’t able to eat his lunch in the building. Then we went to the temple while my brother in law’s wife, Kristina baby sat for us which was so nice of her!
On Monday evening we made Canada flags to put on our window here is Sariah with her picture that we made with her hand prints (she wasn’t upset she was trying to go for the “natural look”):
JJ also made a Canada Flag, the leaf doesn’t quite look like a maple leaf though!
Here is a picture of Rebekah looking so cute in the Canada Dress I made for my youngest sister when she was a baby:
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
I was so busy this morning meeting with our mortgage lender, talking with our realtor and doing other house stuff. I didn’t even eat breakfast until 11:30! While I was on the phone Sariah decided to decorate the oven and dishwasher with red crayon. Her little hands were scrubbing for a long time, I don’t think it was really a punishment for her because she seemed to enjoy it.
However the worst part of the day is that my glasses keep falling off. I end up going to the optical department at walmart or costco everyone month to get my eyeglasses tightened only for them to become loose a few days later. I try so hard to keep my kids from pulling at my glasses but It is just something kids love to do.
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Yesterday I blogged about our clogged sinks well instead of waiting around for maitnence to fix it I actually fixed it myself! My prediction was that the garbage disposal (or garburator as we say in Canada) was the cause of the clog so I looked information up online about garbage disposals. Several websites said that to clean the garbage disposal run ice cubes through the disposal.
With the cap off the piping and a bucket to catch the water I got out my tray of ice cubes and ran a few cubes through the disposal at a time. Well … sorry for the gross description … a bunch of gunk and grime came out through the pipes. After I accomplished the task with all the ice cubes I screwed the pipe cap back on and ran the water on all the sinks and the water drained out just fine! I guess a ‘do-it-myself’ attitude will come in handy for when we become homeowners soon!
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Aren’t they just the two cutest little girls in the world? Of course I am a little biased!
One month from today my little baby will be a year old! I am so sad that she won’t be a little baby anymore. I wasn’t sad when Sariah turned a year old, probably because I was 5 months pregnant and I knew that would soon have another precious baby girl.
Sariah is now 27 months old and becoming so independant (which is not always a good thing!) she wants to dress herself and boss Rebekah around. Two months ago Sariah learned all of the uppercase letters and now she recognizes all the lower case letters aswell. We borrowed the Usborne Farmyard Tales Alphabet Book from the library which helped a lot. We are trying to help Sariah overcome her shyness. She will talk a lot at home but will not say a word in her nursery class at church. I was the same way though, it wasn’t until I was in grade 11 that it occured to me that it would be okay for me to talk at school.
Rebekah is also learning a ton! She took her first step the day before she turned 10 months old and is now taking little steps more often. She loves to take turns push Sariah around on her little car outside and then having Sariah push her. Bekah also learned how to say ‘no’, sign ‘eat’ and ‘want’. Bekah is following in her big sisters footsteps and is a climber as well. she climbs onto the tables and couches! Unlike Sariah though, she is so outgoing and will wave and say hi to people. While walking to the library yesterday she waved and said hi to the construction workers who all waved back to her.
It is so fun to see them grow up together!
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
JJ and I both agreed this morning that that out of the 7 apartments we’ve lived in that the one we live in now is the second worst (the worst is still the mobile home). The only thing that doesn’t put this apartment in the worst position is that the management is really nice and they do respond to the things that need to be fixed. It just seems that everytime something is fixed something else goes wrong!
Right now the kitchen sink and bathroom sinks (the plumbing must be connected) are clogged up. We tried fixing it ourselves last night but the problem is too deep and we haven’t been able to get a hold of the management yet. At least the tub isn’t clogged … I get cranky during the days if I don’t take a shower in the morning!
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Ever since we moved in here a month ago our air conditioning unit has been broken. Just this week it has been over 90 degrees fahrenheit which is just too hot for me. I went over to our apartment managers office yesterday right after Sariah’s nap which I guess was a good time for us because Sariah sweats a lot when she sleeps so she was all sweaty while we were at the managers office. The manager said that she would get someone over as soon as possible because it must be so hot for the kids.
The maitnence guy looked at the air conditioner for two minutes then went out to his truck and brought in a little window unit. It’s not the best at keeping the place cool but at least it helps a little.
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Over the last 3.5 years my husband and I have moved 7 times and each time we have gotten rid of a bunch of junk. Which is good because I really don’t like clutter.
While looking for Sariah and Rebekah’s baby books a few days ago I ran into a box of old textbooks from as long as 4 years ago. I guess we have been holding onto them with hopes of selling. We have sold most of our textbooks online but I think if we haven’t sold these textbooks by now, it is time to take them to the thrift store. Except for my husbands biology and chemistry textbooks which he wants to hang onto for graduate school.
What have you held onto that you now want to get rid of?
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
On Monday we left our kids with a babysitter and set out on our adventure of our first day of house hunting with our realtor and we saw a couple that we liked. One was a condo and with the additional HOA fees it would be about $200 more a month than our limit but they had a great fitness center with a play area so you could work out and watch your kids at the same time. We also saw a house that we liked but it needed a lot of work done. I liked how the realtor had all the info and pictures of the homes we saw printed out and we wrote little notes on the pages. I never had a pen so we had to keep trading the realtors pen back and forth.
Today was our second day of house hunting and we brought the kids with us this time so I made sure to put a couple bic pens in the diaper bag. We actually found a house that we really liked. There is a little work to be done but the paint job and roof are fairly new, the rooms and bathrooms are fairly big. Sariah already had her room picked out but she may be disappointed to learn that the carebears and doll house wont come with the house. We put an offer on the house, we don’t want to loose our opportunity on house we like since there are so many other married BYU students looking to buy homes right now in our price range.
Wish us luck on our offer being accepted!!!
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
While at the Provo library today my husband and I signed up for the adult summer reading and also signed our daughters up for the children summer reading program. My husband seemed very excited about the program, he loves to read history books. I am excited about the program as well because now I will be motivated to actually read a book cover to cover which I haven’t done since Rebekah was born 10 months ago. We need to write up a review of each book we read and then submit the reviews for prize drawings! There will be weekly drawings for prizes and the grand prize is a Wii, that would be a very cool prize to win.
I checked out a bunch of zoo animal books for our girls since I am starting a little infant/toddler program with them and our first unit is on zoo animals and when we finish the unit up in a few weeks we are going to go to the zoo! I am incorporating ABC’s, colours, shapes and counting into the unit and my two year old sariah is loving it! She counts up to 10 now and Rebekah (10 months) says two every time I say one, which is so cute.
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
While sitting in the pew at church on sunday trying to be reverant and trying to keep my kids from chasing eachother around the chaple my husband stared at me with a shocked look on his face. My heart started racing as I thought there was a spider on my head but I told my self to stay calm and quiet. My husband then reached his hand towards my head and pulled out a gray hair!!! I am 25 so I was not expecting any gray hairs for a long time. I always said that as soon as I started to get gray hair I would start dying my hair but I can’t do that when I’m pregnant so it will be difficult to cover up the gray when I have more children. The next time I am pregnant I will have to be creative with covering up the gray like putting these ostrich feathers in my hair? … Well I’m sure you have some better creative ideas 
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
The apartment management sent a repairman over to our apartment yesterday to fix the air conditioner and dishwasher. I was happy to save some time by loading all the dishes into the dishwasher than having to do the dishes by hand. However a few hours later the couple who live in the apartment below us knocked on our door and said that they had come home to find that a lot of water had leaked down from our apartment into their apartment around the area where our dishwasher is! I think I’ll just stick to doing the dishes by hand even if it does get “fixed” again. I don’t want to cause someone else to suffer the consequence from our dishwasher again.
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
I like to make a special treat on holidays, last night I decided to make Apple Pie for memorial day. I made a graham cracker crust, then poured the apple pie filling I made at a church activity over the crust and then topped it off with a cinniamon frosting I created using shortening, icing sugar and cinnamon. It was yummy!
It was raining yesterday so my husband and I mostly spent the day at home relaxing with our girls. We also went to walmart to buy some bananas. We were wanting to buy some dishes since the only dishes we have are a few plastic bowls but husband thought that $1.50 for a plate was too expensive … we will probably end up buying those plates when he realizes that the only place cheaper is the dollar tree and says that the dishes there were ugly.
Some good news is that my husband got a job today! He will be working a gas station for the summer and he will also be volunteering at BYU to do Research at one of the Bio-Chemistry labs.
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
It is my girls month day today! So much has happened within the last month - they are growing up quickly!
Sariah is talking a lot now, she LOVES letters and will point to every letter she see’s and tell us what it is. She also likes to count (up to 6) and practice learning colours. We recently learned that Sariah is lactose intolerant. I kept bringing it up with the doctors soon after she turned a year old and started drinking cows milk that it wasn’t agreeing with her but they told me that she just needed to get used to it. It took over a week of trying lactose free milk for her symptoms to go away, even yogurt does not go well with her!
Sariah is becoming even more independent. She needs to climb out of her car-seat herself and often wants to dress herself and put her own shoes on so leaving the house takes a little longer now.
Rebekah took her first steps yesterday!!!! We were at church and she saw a couple one year old’s walking around and she stood up on her own and took three steps towards one of the babies. As we were getting ready to go home Sariah and Rebekah were holding hands walking down the hall together, which was beyond precious! If only I took the video camera to church
Bekah also ate spaghetti for the first time:
She ate every last strand!
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