Draw a Stickman

Need to try!!!


http://www.drawastickman.com/index.htm

Testing the camera

Here's a test of my camera. London was talking a whole bunch, and then of course when i get the camera out she stops. She looks a little different too. Kinda funny how the camera can do that. Oh well.

Merry Christmas

Today Reagan and I went with her aunt Beckie and cousin Courtney to the Tooele Christmas parade. It lasted all, of about, 10-15 minutes but it was fun. We saw santa on a fire engine and Reagan got excited AFTER he left. She's been saying "Ho! Ho! Ho!" since she got home. Here are some pictures from it.

"HO! HO! HO!"

Speaking of pictures, I opened my Christmas present today - A NEW CAMERA!!! YAY! Larry did a great job picking it out and since there are so many things to take pictures of, I agreed to open it early.

had to laugh

So Reagan wated her nails painted and brought the polish to Larry. So he decided to paint her nails. It was...sweet. But i don't think he'll be going into buisness any time soon. (sorry about the crappy quality of the pictures. My camera stinks.)

LONDON ELISE THORPE

Finally here i go. My camera is out of batteries and the batteries are packed away somewhere, so i only have older pictures. when we get settled in the new place and i find the batteries i'll get updated pictures up.

London was born August 23rd at 9:30am. I was at Home Depot the night before with Larry getting stuff for our sink that we were installing. The whole day I had been doing squats and anything I could think of to get this baby going because not only was i ready to have her, but I was scheduled for an induction on Wednesday which i didn't want to do. So, while we were at Home Depot a guy from our ward was there looking for some help in which Larry new what he needed. So i decided to take Reagan and walk around while larry was helping the guy out. While i was walking (mind you, no contractions thus far) i felt a gush of water between my legs. The more i walked the more it came out. It stopped for a minute and i thought i had wet myself. but as i continued to walk around in a bit more of a rush to find larry more water kept coming. Luckily i was wearing a skirt and my tighter garments so it didn't look like i wet my pants. that would have been awkward. So i found larry and before i even made it to him, and in front of the home depot workers and our friend, i told larry we had to go. now. he asked why and i told him my water broke. so, we went home and i called the hospital and they told me to come in to check me. larry had an appointment with a family in our ward so he went there for about an hour while i fed reagan and got her ready to go to her aunt beckie's house. i wasn't having contractions and i had a feeling that once i got to the hospital they weren't going to let me go back home so i told larry to take his time cause i didn't want to be stuck in the hospital.

Well, when i got there my doctor happened to be on call and came and checked me out. I was only dilated to a 2 and the baby was high so he talked to be about an induction. Urg. That's what i was trying to avoid. While going over all the pros and cons of different medicine and induction Larry noticed that I had a little contraction. So the doctor let us wait it out for a while to see if things would progress on there own. They went pretty slow and for about a 1/2 hour i had to be put on pitocin because my blood pressure was really low and it was affecting the baby. when things started to progress again the doctor took me off of it and let everything happen naturally the rest of the time. Im' grateful for that.

I ended up getting an epidural during the night which didn't work. My legs were really numb but i could feel all the contractions. That was absolutely miserable cause I couldn't move to help with the contractions. So then the guy came in later to adjust it and my epidural didn't wear off until about 6 that evening. Miserable. Miserable.

London was born 20", 7lbs 7oz. She was really healthy and still is. She's growing into a little chunk and a lot taller than Reagan was. She' s smiling so much now and talking which makes it so much fun. If i have a hard time getting her to smile or if she's grumpy, I can have Reagan come over and talk to her and London will just watch her, smile, and talk back. It's so stinkin cute. I'll have to get it on video sometime.

London's a lot different than Reagan was. A lot louder, but she's fun. Anyway. That's the story. Sorry so long.

She kept pulling her beanie over her eyes.

...we've had
6 cars
6 dogs
2 children
and 2 homes.

yep. we're moving!!! It's actually a trailor, but it's on more land, it's 4 bedroom and 2bathrooms, it's up the street from us in our desired area, and about double the size of our house now. We've been cleaning it the past couple days and still have a bit of cleaning to do left, but we closed yesterday and got the keys! yay! Reagan was running around going crazy. She didn't know what to do with all the space. I'm so excited for her to have room.
I haven't taken pictures of the inside yet, but i'll try and do that today. I have some pictures of the outside, but I'm afraid to show them cause it's a bit scary. It's a fixer-upper, but in the end it'll be worth it and our family can grow in it. Eventually the plan is to build a house on the land. So, we'll be patient and live here for a while and be happy. Yee-haw.

kinda cool

http://www.heraldextra.com/tabernacle/article_db328b06-0b0f-11e0-a131-001cc4c03286.html


ok. and i realize i haven't posted ANYTHING about London, but pictures and stories are soon to come. It's just so busy!!

oh, and p.s,. - is that not so cool about the new temple there?!!! Exciting!

It's about time!

For the sake of living on the edge larry and I decided we would wait a bit over a day from my due date to figure out our unborn child's name.

Yeah right.

We thought we knew she'd be named Elise but then we changed our minds again and again and again. So tonight I told larry he couldn't take a nap (he was really tired) until we nailed down a name. So...
London Elise Thorpe
That's the winner. Now all she has to do is be born. Somebody mind explaining that to her?

I'm having a what??

So, Monday night I had a very interesting dream. I was at an appointment-ish thing with a Health nut/work out guy. Why i wasn't seeing a doctor, who knows. But he continued to tell me that I was pregnant, but was having a guinea pig. Huh? yeah. ... So as time went on I started to become more and more confused. I asked him how, with Larry and I both being human, can we have a guinea pig? He explained it to me. I wish I remembered what his explanation was, but I don't. All i remember is being satisfied with his answer for just a minute and then going back to confusion. I soon started to face the facts that I was indeed having a guinea pig, and I remember wondering what color fur he would have and what not. Soon the guy came back and told me I wasn't having a guinea pig but I was having a midget! He told me that to make the news a bit easier to take he made up the guinea pig part so a midget wouldn't seem so bad. Ha. Weird.

New Bed

A lady our ward called Larry and asked if we wanted a toddler bed. We had been looking for one for a while but hadn't decided on one. Lar said sure and we picked it up yesterday - mattress and all. Reagan loved it and surprisingly slept in it the whole night hardly moving at all. I thought she would fall out because she's quite the mover but she stayed with her head on one side the whole time. Then when i woke up and looked at the monitor, she was just laying there awake. She didn't even get out of bed! Hopefully it stays like that.

10 days to go!

So obviously i suck at taking pictures and can't even get myself centered. but to my defense, i am taking a picture on the phone and it's really hard to press the button with one hand. oh well, at least you can see my big belly...40lbs later. Ha! I just keep putting em on. There's no stopping me!!! Mua-ha ha!!

And just because, here's reagan wishing ya'll a merry chirstmas a bit early. She likes bubbles. I don't know what her facial expression is all about. Ha.

Seriously???

oh my goodness.

So i had a big slap in the face on Sunday. How did i not realize i was so close to my due date?!! I kept thinking I had almost a month. I think my "logic" was that it was the beginning of August and my due date was the end of August. Well, time sure crept up on my fast. I have, now, less than 2 weeks until my due date. AND if this birth is anything like Reagan, she came almost a week early. DO YOU REALIZE WHAT THAT MEANS??!!! I can be going into labor in a week!!!! Yikes. So, yesterday - realizing that I'm not close to being ready - was spent organizing, packing and washing. Still more to finish today. Then I kept having dreams that I was having contractions. There was a few times I woke up in pain but I don't know if it was the stress of my dreams or just serious Braxton Hicks contractions. My goodness. Wish me luck.

what a girl

Seriously. Where does she get it from?

I got Reagan up from her nap yesterday and while I was walking around picking stuff up around the house she came out of the bathroom and into the bedroom where I was looking like this. She had gotten into my drawers in my bathroom and decked herself all out. She's so funny. Later on she grabbed a "phone" (an air conditioning remote) and walked around talking on it while holding her blanket. She usually uses my sponge curlers for her bracelets but today here she opted for the rubberband look. What a fashionista.

So last night I finally got her some real dress up bracelets and necklace. She's so cute.

And yes i need a new camera. I take all my pictures on my phone and when the blasted thing finally focuses (which is not always) she has looked away. Thus none of her pictures are her smiling or really looking happy. Sigh. Someday.

Nursery

So Reagan isn't yet 18 months (will be August 12th) but because i'm due on the 22nd I didn't want to deal with the nursery transition with a newborn if it was going to be bad. So i talked to the Primary Pres and asked if i could give it a trial run to see how Reagan does. She said that would be great. She also asked Reagan if she wanted to just go to primary and skip nursery because as we were speaking Reagan went, found a chair and sat down next to some "friends". Reagan said yes, but i figured we should still start with nursery anyway.
On to nursery we went and when i stepped in the door to talk to the nursery leader and ask her, Reagan went straight for the toys and didn't look back. I told the nursery lady that i could help out in nursery or even just come back in, like 10-20 minutes and she said if she needed me she'd come get me, but to leave Reagan there. Reagan did great! I spied through the window and she was playing with toys and the kids without any problems. I came back to see if i needed to get her after Sunday school and she didn't even look up at me. She was too busy playing and having a good ol time. So, i left her. When it was time to go home she didn't want to leave. How awesome is that!! Hopefully it stays that way.
Here are some pictures from when we got home. The only way i could get her to stay still was with a dounut hole and Shawn the Sheep, thus she's not really looking at the camera.

Look what she colored in nursery! Can you believe it? ... me neither. But it sure looks like she wrote her name. Ha.

Cheese! Show me your teeth!

ok. so it's been a while since i last posted anything and just thinking of all the things to update is making me a bit overwhelmed. so...i won't think about it and i'll do it later.

but to tackle one item of buisness...or information...or whatever you want to call it.

so, our home has been up on the market since, i believe, last september. not so many bites. we currently have a 2 bedroom 1 bath with no storage, pretty small bedrooms and a floating foundation. what? what do you mean by a floatin foundation? well, the original house that is made out of railroad ties has had an addition put on by the same man that built a boat in his basement, couldn't figure out how to get it out,and so just left it there for a long time. i'm not judging or saying anything negative. i just thought it was funny. anyway, the corner of our bedroom, which is the addition part, doesn't have a foundation...for like 2 feet. to get it fixed will cost quite a bit of money. and larry and i don't feel comfortable selling our house in that condition since it's kinda hidden. making any sense? sorry if its not. i don't know how else to explain it. ANYWAY.
larry and i were talking over our options and we've decided, with a lot of prayer and research, that we're going to tear down the current addition (the bedrooms) and put in our own; now making it a 3 bedroom 2 bath with a basement under the addition to be finished later when finances allow it. larry and his family are very talented and very experienced at building so we're doing it ourselves. this now, also, allows us to refinance and get a better interest rate keeping our payment close to where it is now - but with more house - more LEVEL house (for those of you who understad our slanting floors, wall, toilet...ect).
Now to the point of the post. I'm already starting to look for deals on bathroom stuff to keep our cost low. I'm thinking about putting vessel sinks in the master bathroom. I don't want something too modern that'll go out of date in a year but there are some pretty cool things out there. So,anyone want to give their option???? I would love to hear from ya. So, let's see how to do this. I'll post some pictures of the good deals that i found and then let me know which ones you would choose, if any. if there are ones that you like but i didn't post, let me know. ok... so here we go.

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In case you know of somebody

Ok. So we are selling vehicles to help pay for the baby and also get a commuter car for larry since he got a job in salt lake. So, if you know of anybody looking for a 02 ford explorer xlt or 95 ford f150 Eddie Bauer edition, feel free to let me know. Even those in Cali. That would be a good reason to take a trip!