May Madness

Wow! May went by way too fast, which may be a good thing. Between the babies, birthday's, mother's day, and a wedding we were pretty busy with family stuff. I also had to work a lot more often this month instead of 3 shifts a week I was averaging 5 or more. Doesn't make for a very happy camper.

We were so excited to have another Nephew join our family on May 4,2012. He's a cutie and has the biggest hands I have seen on a baby. Then on the 30th (I think....)Justin's cousin had an adorable baby girl. She had a ton of hair!

We were also excited to be a part of my cousin's wedding on May 12. I have never been to a live sealing session before. It was fun and they got married in the Bountiful Temple so it was fun to be reminiscent about our wedding day. There were so many other brides there which made me super glad that I was the only one there that day. There was a couple coming in as we were going out but that was it. Thus the beauty of getting married in September. =) 

Then we had birthday month with my brother, sister, mom, niece and grandma. Whew. It was fun and good weather to celebrate in. 

Since I have been working so much I have been on the lookout for good books. I have been wanting to read this book for a while and it's never been at the library and then it finally was!

It was an easy and exciting read about a group of aliens from another planet and they were sent here because their planet was getting destroyed. The aliens who destroyed their planet are here on earth trying to take over and destroy it. But the alien kids that got saved have powers that can help them fight the other aliens. there were 9 kids that were saved and then 3 died. But the kicker is that they have to kill them in order or else it doesn't work. So it follows the story of number 4. So there you go. I am now waiting for the 3rd one to come out to see what happens. They are fun and easy, good for work because it keeps me awake. Some other books have a more sonorous effect and I can't take them to work. =)

I also had a job interview for a really awesome job at the Bountiful hospital. The interview went really well and I LOVED the manager. She seemed super nice and easy to work with. I am still waiting to hear so I am guessing that no news is good news??? Hopefully so, I called her this week to remind her that I am still very interested. 

That's about all we've been up to. We have some more plans to have fun this summer and this month. Hopefully we can take more pictures and post more. Happy Summertime!

Mother's Day

We spent Mother's Day with Justin's mom Cecilia. The kids helped to make a yummy dinner for everyone and we had a fun picnic outside. We were bummed and missing Jayson and Neha but had lots of fun together. Aren't we all so cute. =)

Justin's mom is awesome! She is very generous with all that she has. She is very loving and kind. I feel so blessed to have her as my mother-in-law. 

All the Messenger kids except Jayson. 

It was a fun day and I called my mom to tell her that I loved her. Unfortunately she had to work but her Birthday is this week and we will party then. I am grateful for all the examples of great mothers in my life from my own mother to my Mother-in-law, sisters, aunts, grandmas, and other awesome ladies I have known in my life. Thank you for showing me the happines and joy that comes from being a mother. 

Rough week

Last week was kind of a rough week for Justin and I . I had to work five days in a row with a little break of one day off then 3 more days of work. Justin ended up getting sick by one of the kids in our primary class. The kid had a cough and when Justin got home from church he said he had a tickle in his throat. By Monday night he felt awful and had a fever of 99.8. I sent him to bed at 7:30 and he slept all night. I was a getting a little bit nervous because Justin's fever got worse to 101 and Tylenol and cold medicine wasn't doing anything. I guess it didn't go higher but it sure didn't bring it down like I was wanting. I made him stay home from work to get better. By Wednesday he felt better and went to half a day of work, but then he had a fever again that night. By Thursday he was feeling and looking better. I was so glad because I was getting worried with his fever and how miserable he looked.

I was struggling a bit last week with some personal issues, family stress, and work stress. It's really hard to work nights sometimes. Not only is it the staying awake part but it gets really lonely. Have you ever been awake or sick at 3 in the morning? You don't want to bug anyone cause they are sleeping but you need some reassurance. So when that happens and I am worried about life I tend to work myself up into a pretty awful state of mind as I sit and watch my patient sleep. Justin sometimes texts me in the middle of the night but it gets pretty lonely, especially if I don't have the T.V. as a distraction. However, things always look better after a good nights' rest and I am feeling better after a weekend off and some time with family.

Life is hard and it's even harder to pray and pray and continue to get the "not now" answer. The lesson I taught to my primary class this week I think was for me. About how Heavenly Father best answers our prayers. Sometimes it's a yes, no, or just not now. I suppose it's a good lesson on patience as well. =) When things get rough its hard to think of the big eternal picture which in turn can help us through rough, lonely , times. So here's hoping that we can all work on looking for the eternal aspects of life and let the daily struggles melt away.

So excited!!

Next week we are going to 

THE AVENGERS!!!!

So Justin and I are kind of dorks and really really like to watch superheros movies. We usually debate who is a better superhero Batman or Superman. I still attest that Batman is just a rich guy with lots of toys but he is super good at hand to hand combat. But we are super excited for the Avengers. Last year on our anniversary we watched all the movies leading up to the Avengers: Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Captian America, Thor and The Hulk. It was a lot of fun and cool to see how they would all come together.

I like to impress Justin with my knowledge of who belongs to DC or Marvel. There is stil a lot I don't know about all the comic books and whatnot but it's fun to talk about it with Justin. I also get more of the jokes from The Big Bang Theory, ( I love that show).

We are also jazzed for the final Batman movie this summer The Dark Knight Rises. I really like the Director Christopher Nolan, think the new Batman movies, The Prestige, Inception, and he is doing a new Superman movie!  Then there is a new spiderman movie as well! Yeah we are dorks but we like it. =)

What have you been reading?

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

I love to read. I love the feel of the pages, the smell of the ink, the pictures on the cover and the idea that the book will change my life in someway. I have to be careful when reading at work because if it's not a very engaging book I will be out to only jolt myself awake two minutes later. I have had some really good reads lately. So good that I started and finished one at work. ( That also meant that my patient slept =) ). When I get into a good book I don't want to do anything else so the housework doesn't get done, dinner isn't made and I have a general " Don't bother me I am reading" attitude. I am grateful that my husband understands and shares my love of books...most of the time. =) Usually when I get going on one good book I have to keep reading more and more so here are some of the good ones I've been reading lately.

 Every Soul A Star   by Wendy Mass, the author of A Mango Shaped Place, which is also an awesome book. It's a young adult book in which there are three teenagers narrating it through their common experience. It's a lot about changes and growing up. But the coolest part about it is that they are all there to see an eclipse of the sun. They talk a lot about astronomy and the description of the eclipse. I totally want to see one! The next one happens in 2016. I really liked it and grew to really identify and love the characters.

 The Quilter's Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini. It's the first in a series called the Elm Creek Quilts. It was an easy and fun read. It's about the woman who moves to a new town due to her husbands job and trying and trying to find a new job with no success, ( I sympathize). Then she goes to work for this old lady who her husband works for. She helps her clean this huge house and the old lady teaches her how to quilt. They become friends and make what sounds like a beautiful quilt. This book made me think of my mom and how she quilts. Also it talked about the symbolism behind some of the quilt blocks used and that was fun to know. It was fun and hey there is a whole series of clean, entertaining and fullfilling books. I tend to shy away from the Adult section in the library I have found that there is more swearing and love scenes then in the young adult books. So to find a good adult fiction series is good.

Then since it's been 100 years since the Titanic sank this month I got a little obsessed with it. It started with a funny t.v. movie on ABC, then there was a PBS documentary, then because Justin is cute he got me some books about it from the library. The one that was really cool is:  A Night to Remember   by Walter Lord. It was published in the 1950's and it tells the tale of the sinking ship as remembered by survivors and those involved. After learning more and more about the incident I just have to shake my head because there were SO many chances for it to not have happened. They were getting messages about ice but the receiver on the titanic was too busy sending out messages for the guests. There was a ship 10 miles away from the where the Titanic hit but was mad at them for being rude at them and closed the wire messages at 11:30....right about when they hit the ice. It also gave the view of the ship The Carpathia how it worked so hard to get there on time and the preparations they took to save as many people as they could. But still the biggest doh! moment is all the people who really truely belived that the ship could not sink, and they wanted to stay on it instead of get into a lifeboat, even in the end!

So hopefully those give you guys some good suggestions. What is your favorite book? What have you been reading lately?

Projects

Remember this??

Well it finally got done!

It turned out really cute and I love the pink ribbon weaved through. The lady in my ward who it was for loved it.

It's so cute. =)

When that project got done I was finally able to play with my sewing machine. I got some fabric to make a baby blanket for Justin's cousin. I think it turned out really cute.

I ended up with a lot of extra fabric so I made a little diaper bag just big enough for wipes a diapers. I also made some burp cloths. ( with still some left over!)

It was fun to practice something new and to play with my machine. Next up a skirt project for me! 

Date night

A couple of weekends ago Justin and I actually went on a date. We have been redboxing it lately and really needed to get out of the house. So Justin came home early, I got all cute and we went out. I had a gift card to Olive Garden from work so that's what we did for dinner. 

Then Justin had a giftcard to the movies and earlier that week got us tickets for , The Hunger Games, which came out that weekend. So it was practically a free date all we had to pay for was the little extra at dinner and a tip.

I loved the movie! I had read the series last year and I really liked it. I reread it in preparation for it. I have to say for a book made into movie it was really good. It stayed really true to the book and the things that they changed made sense. The only things I had problems with were more technical like the camera moving all over the place during the action scene, and then Katniss seemed to not knew her lines or something cause it took her forever to say them. But over all I liked it. I especially liked that I got to have fun with Justin and do something different. 

I then had a fun surprise date with my sister Natalie. She came over and woke me up ( hehe) and we went to the new awesome mall in Salt Lake! It was pretty awesome and we had fun shopping and looking around. 

It's always fun to spend time with the people I love.=)