Whats up with Koby?

Right now Koby is keeping busy with basketball season. He has played two games, sadly both losses but it's pretty great to see how much he has improved since last year. In the first game he had several steals and in the second he scored 4 pts, had a few steals and several assists. It is so hard for me to get good shots of him playing so bear with the bad photography. He is #19! It is also crazy how tall he looks around his team mates. In the past he was usually one of the shorter kids on his teams, this year there are only a couple of kids taller than him.




Also Koby was recently called to be the Deacon quorum president. He was set apart on Sunday and has been praying about his counselors. I am sure that he will do an amazing job-he has really good leadership skills and this will help him improve them.

Steve and Koby are looking forward to the Klondike camp out. I am just grateful that I don't have to go camping in the snow and frigid cold! I love my warm, soft bed.

Koby only has three more days left in the term and as of right now he has all A's. He has improved his procrastination a bit from last term. This time around he will only be doing ONE report the night before it's due, rather than two.

Newest little Zabriskie

Our family is now larger. On Saturday we brought home a new family pet. I am a total sucker for pets that people don't want anymore. That is how we got our dog and now how we got our turtle.

We told the kids on Friday night that we would be getting a new pet, and then tried to get them to guess what we were getting. I told them "Bigger than a fish, but smaller than a cat." Koby guessed, "Catfish?" After a good laugh they finally guessed right (with a few more clues).

Morgan is a bit afraid but is still trying to be a good owner. I think she sat and talked to "speedy" for about a half an hour.
Look at Morgan at the edge of picture-she wants to be brave but is still a bit apprehensive.

When Peyton came over she just kept saying, "Turtle gonna get you!" The best part is that the turtle was asleep most of the time that she was at our house.

My brain

I think I am a pretty smart woman. I have a degree, I love to read and learn new things. I am pretty open minded. I google anything I don't know. I am organized-maybe a little too organized (OCD), have a decent memory and functioning brain. I memorize numbers often without trying (like my driver's license number). People ask me questions when they don't know the answer.

I may not be the smartest cookie in the cookie jar but I have always thought that I was at least a step above the crumbs.

However, pregnancy changes all of that for me. Lately I feel like my brain has taken a nap and has left me on my own. First I can't remember ANYTHING! I have to make lists just to remember something the very next day. And then I can't remember where the list is so I end up with 4-5 lists with a lot of things on every list. Next,I start talking and half way through the sentence I can't remember what I was saying. I also repeat myself A LOT since I can't remember if I ever finished my sentence.

Here are a few examples of my foggy brain...

On Monday I took Morgan to the doctor. I remembered that I parked right in front of the building. So when we came out, I went right up to the van and was trying to get in. The key didn't work-which wasn't too alarming because lately the driver's side door was frozen and I would have to go in through another door. So I went around and tried to get in on the other side. No go. At this point I was beginning to panic. I had my sick little girl standing there in the cold and no way to get in the car! Finally I looked a little closer and thought, man those locks look different than I remember. You guessed it! NOT MY CAR! Later when I told Steve he asked me if it was the same year as our mini van (not that I would know that anyway!)I said, I don't even think it was the same model or make! It wasn't even the same color as our van!

I have caught myself putting the salt and pepper shakers in the fridge.

On Sunday I prepared our dinner. A roast with potatoes and carrots. I stuck it in the oven and went off to a planning meeting. About two hours later I came home and Steve said, "Honey, you forgot to turn on the oven. I just turned it on 10 minutes ago." So instead of a nice warm dinner ready in another hour, it was going to be about three more hours until it was ready.

I went to return the movies and pick up a few things at the store. Got half way to the store and realized that I didn't have the movies and that the gift card I was planning to use was at home along with the list of things to get!

While planning our RS meetings for the next 6 months I scheduled a meeting on February 23rd and didn't even remember that it's Morgan's birthday!

So if you see me walking around with drool dripping from my lips and a glazed look in my eye, please don't try to have me committed. It's really just a temporary illness that I like to refer to as 'pregnancy mush brain'. Please tell me that it isn't just me that experiences this!

Koby smiles

Maybe he just wont smile at the camera when I am the one holding it!

Christmas morn'

I haven't got a good excuse, I just didn't take many pictures. I only took a handful on Christmas morning and didn't take ANY pictures the rest of the day. Could be that both the kids and I were sick, my mom, sister-in-law and niece were too. Or maybe I was just too lazy. Anyway here are the pics from Christmas morning while we were opening gifts.

Steve opened this sweatband first and wouldn't take it off-finally I just gave up and took his picture with him wearing it.





It's like a Christmas miracle-Koby is smiling! We figured he would love to own that movie since he watches a DVR'd version frequently. (He also says 'gosh' and 'yes!' a lot!)Morgan was very excited about the easy bake oven-I hope to let her use it in the next day or two.

Scouts

Last week Koby earned 5 merit badges! Way to go Koby & Way to go Steve who is the scout master! I think between the 5 boys there was over 20 merit badges.

Beautiful girl

Whenever I look at Morgan I can't help but wonder how she turned out to be so beautiful. Here are some snap shots of her from the past week.




Just a few side notes: First thing she said after she got done talking to Santa, "fake". Second picture-we were waiting for scouts to start and had gotten there early-she suggested I take a few pictures of her, not just Koby who was getting merit badges. Third picture-taken at the Bar J Wrangler concert, which she loved. She was freaking out because of the Santa that was roaming around and she was mad at me because we didn't move higher so he wouldn't come near us. Again she used the word, "fake". She said she loves the real Santa just not the fake ones. I tried to tell her that they are not fake, they are Santa's helpers because he is so busy.