Just your average day... Oh, I mean NIGHTMARE!

Wednesday was a bad, bad day. The day had gone very wrong, all before noon! It was one of those days when you wish you had just pulled the covers over your head, resigned to the fact that the day was inevitably going to beat you down, take all the sanity you had left (as little as it might be) and leave you wishing that this year had only consisted of 364 days, taking out that horrible day, that really should be referred to as "your nightmare".

Things that went wrong:

-Glucose Test: Had to fast from midnight the night before and on an empty stomach drink 10 oz of pure, orange sugar in 5 minutes. Blah, I feel like I'm going to throw up anyway in the morning, let's just add to it with a big bottle of crap.

-Try to get the bear ready to go to the lab. Not really a fun thing to do.

-Go to get in the Pathfinder to go, oh, a flat tire. Crap. Now we really have to bust a move and get out of the house so we can make it in time to the lab for them to draw my blood exactly 1 hour from when I finished the drink.

-Switch car seat to Honda. Luckily Josh was here.

-Get to the lab 15 minutes early. They need to draw my blood at 8:15 am so we show up at 8 am, supposedly when they open. The hours 8-5 actually mean, "Whenever we feel like moseying on into work, so maybe 9 am or so to whenever we decide to close, which can and will probably be sooner than 5." We stand there and wait outside with some other people and the door finally opens at 8:10 am. The people in front of me go, I need them to draw it NOW, I refuse to do this thing over again. I tell the lady, she puts me in front of this guy, who is mad about that. She is going so fast that I'm not sure she isn't going to go all the way through my vein to my elbow.

-I almost pee my pants, I can't find a bathroom. Finally find one and Chloee has to come with me, great. Don't make it a little bit. Joy!

-Drive to McDonald's to hurry and get me something to eat. Josh drives to the first window where you pay, basically throws the money at her and drives off... WITHOUT the food. He's in such a hurry to get back to work, he just drives right past the 2nd window. Reverse, pick up food from laughing McDonald's worker and go.

-Go to Wal-Mart to get a can of air to fill up tire, so we can get it fixed. Josh is behind very slow people and is in there for 20 minutes, all the while Chloee is screaming in the car the entire time that she wants her Daddy now! Super massive headache for me.

- Get home, the can was not enough air, drive separate cars to Maverik to fill it up more. Josh goes to work, I go to the place that is going to patch it.

-I still want to throw up. Guy tells me it will be 20 minutes. Choee and I sit in waiting room, Chloee can't sit still, shock, I know. She wants M&Ms from the little machine, I get them out and she drops them all over the floor and proceeds to jump around and scream because, I somehow did that. Sure.

-30 minutes later, "Adams, you're done. We found this 3 inch screw in your tire!" Fabulous.

-I'm on the end of the county where Target is and I needed to go look for something specific, like a crazy person, I go. Chloee runs away from me and I can't find her. I can hear her laughing though, she can clearly see me but I can't see her.

-I had a 40% off coupon to Old Navy for just that day. It is only a block away from Target. Chloee goes crazy in the store. I'm decision impaired and I can't stand anymore trying to try things on Chloee so I sit down on the floor. Get lots of funny looks, on the verge of crying. Get up, walk around some more and realize I have a clearance sticker stuck to my butt.

-On the verge of falling asleep while driving, puking and want to just disappear. Go home and Chloee hits a 2nd wind and it takes her 1.5 hours to fall asleep, then I only get a little, tiny one out of her, of all days.

Okay, that's it. Probably doesn't seem so bad but I felt like someone had ran me over with a dump truck and then reversed and did the same thing over and over again.

Snowbird

We went to Snowbird this weekend. Josh's work has their annual Christmas Party, which is at Snowbird every year. We have dinner, entertainment and they also pay for a night stay at The Cliff Lodge up there. It is a fun and nice getaway! The entertainment was the same as last year, which was hilarious, so we were glad to see them again. It is a group called, Comedy Sports, from Provo. The guy that owns it and that travels with them as "The MC" has actually been on Comedy Central. He was so funny. We wandered back to our hotel room at 11 pm and didn't go to sleep until about 1 am. We both were so tired but couldn't fall asleep.

It was perfect timing for me and we really needed this getaway together. THANKS Mom for taking Chloee for so long. She still hasn't stopped talking about all the fun things you guys did together. I really appreciate the sacrifices you made to watch her. THANK YOU!

On a totally different note, here is a hilarious picture. Like Daddy, like daughter. When I woke up from our nap this afternoon, this is what I saw and I HAD to have a picture of it. Just too darn cute and worth the consequences I had to pay afterward... the monster being awakened from slumber... NOT JOSH, CHLOEE, but most of you probably figured that!

Festivities

My dad would be SO PROUD! We took Chloee to the city building on Monday night for FHE to sit on Santa's lap. We figured it would be a nightmare of thrashing and screaming but we were pleasantly surprised. She sat on his lap and continued sitting there while she told Santa what she wanted, which was "cookies". I think she's confused. Josh reads her a story about a little girl that leaves out cookies for Santa, so somehow I think she thought he was asking her what she was going to leave for him! Either way, I was so proud of her, and my dad would be SO proud. He's been wanting to see how she would be sitting on Santa's lap... well, here you go, no coal for this chick.

After Chloee's insane day/night of throwing up and trying to put me in an early grave, we decided to do a fun little craft tonight. We made a cute Christmas chain to help her count down the days until Christmas. She also has a little candy calendar that Grandma Kathy gave her, which she also loves. Every morning the first thing she does is ask to open another door on her chocolate calendar. Crazy girl!

O Christmas Tree...

We decorated the house yesterday. It was fun to pull out all of our Christmas decorations and go to town decorating EVERYTHING. We watched Home Alone 2 while we did it all. Chloee had such a blast, especially with the tinsel and ornaments. Here's how it turned out.

Isn't that thing huge and so pretty all lit up? I seriously have to fill up the tree stand with water a couple times a day.

This little fake tree got "the works" as well.

Josh put garland around the stair banisters and then wrapped lights around it. The house looks so cool with all the lights off and with everything plugged in. It feels like Christmas should be tomorrow with the way our house looks and smells... awh, pine!

My mom is making the baby's stocking. I can't wait until we get it so this display can be complete. Weird to think we are going to be a family of 4 here in a little bit.

We have lots of decorations throughout the house. We have mugs, crazy reindeer that I made when I was younger, cute little stuffed santas and bears, etc. Yes, I know we are obsessed with Christmas and decorating. That's the way we like it!

This says "Merry Christmas" in Portuguese. Josh always makes some great Brazilian treat every year at Christmas time.

That's it, I could post a million other pictures but I won't. After our little decorating escapade, we went out and looked at the lights that people had on their houses. Chloee was so fun, she would shout out, "Look Daddy, it's the lights, they're so gorgeous." I thought we were going to die laughing after she said "gorgeous". Where did we get this girl?

TWILIGHT

YES!!! Josh and I went to see TWILIGHT last night! It was incredible, to say the least, I only wish it had been longer. I was so sad when I knew it was ending. Why couldn't it have been 6 hours long, or more?

Thank you to my sweet sister, Amy, who is the absolute BEST EVER for watching Chloee while we went. She is such a sweetie. She was on her way back home to American Fork from my Mom & Dad's and she stopped here on her way back and watched our little bundle of mischief while we went! Of course she slept over and we talked until 2 am. We are so tired. Josh and I were like zombies at church today!

Thanks again Amy, I look forward to my round 2, your round 3 or maybe 4 by the time we go again! I can't wait!

We Got Ours

Today we went and got our Christmas tree! We went to this "tree farm" although they aren't groomed like tree farms, they have character. Every year we get a real tree but never want those ones that are just "perfect" and cost like $75. This place was called, Neville Farms and we got to go look for the tree we wanted and then cut it down. How cool is that? We had a lot of fun!

Here we are with Chlo and "the tree" we picked out!

Josh and Chloee hard at work. No, we did not let Chloee use the saw, that's just the blade cover.

After we cut it down we found out that the back side of that sucker was BALD! All the more character and we figured it would fit in the corner better that way.

Let's take her home! It was a fun experience and they had hot chocolate and candy there too for people. We found our new annual Christmas tree place.

We had to move the couches around and the entertainment center, well, pretty much everything. That this is HUGE, even with the bald spot in the back! Tomorrow we are going to decorate it, I can't think of a better Sunday afternoon activity.

REALLY LONG Rabbit Trails...

I have done rabbit trails before but this one is SO LONG. I obviously had a lot on my mind with my rabbit trails this time. Wow, I know is a novel now but still, I write for me, so feel free to stop reading right now, if you'd like.

*There are a couple of websites that I just can't stay away from. The first is, of course, pinchingyourpennies, I love this site. I have actually gotten a lot of my Christmas shopping done, surprise, surprise, with a very nice discount! The other is this new one that I got from Amy's blog, Cake Wrecks, oh how hilarious this lady is! I can't stay away from it. One night Josh and I went through and looked at a lot of her posts and could not stop laughing! The one with the soiled monkey or the wookie with too much self-tanner! Amy, you know what I mean!

*We have finally made a potty breakthrough with Chloee! Everyone has said that she will do it when she is ready, so I finally just left it alone and figured that I'd take my child to Kindergarten in pull-ups! She has finally just started going on her own. It is amazing. She tells me that she goes in the "big girl" potty because now she REALLY is a big girl, because she sleeps in a big girl bed! Josh wants to get her underwear, I don't know if I'm ready for that yet!

*I am a FREAK when it comes to Christmas presents! I have to get the perfect gift for everyone with lots of thought and creativity to go into it. I make Christmas way more stressful than it needs to be. I have found that I am never quite happy with the reaction that I get from people, after all the hard work I put into their gift. I think sometimes that I AM the impossible one to please, ok, probably most of the time. I am usually always disappointed, so bring on the gift cards as gifts this year. I could never do that for Josh, he is the one that means the ABSOLUTE most to me and I have to find the perfect gift(s) for him. It's like our thing and we can hardly ever keep it from each other. One of us always slips or just can't handle it anymore. I love my husband!

*I have started making freezer meals with my friend, Maren! We both know that once our babies come, there will be NO cooking going on in either of our homes, so we are stocking up! We just made another 2 meals today in only 35 minutes! Great recipe Maren. Good thing we finally bought a deep freezer!

*Amy introduced me to this fabulous song that I just can't get enough of. I listen to it all the time. It is called "Paperthin Hymn" by Anberlin! It is amazing with so much emotion and it makes me want to run. Running right now would probably put me into labor and give me a heart attack because I am in such bad shape! Here is a link to the YOUTUBE video of it!

*As most of you know, we didn't reveal the name we had chosen for Chloee until she was born. We had it picked out from the time I was about 20 weeks. We are doing the same thing with this baby. People think we're weird, I don't care! First of all, people tend to keep their RUDE comments to themselves about how they don't like the name, when the baby is ALREADY here! Plus, I don't want to hear what everyone thinks about the name we picked out, if you don't like it, I don't care, I didn't say you had to name your baby that! Some people! We are having a hard time deciding on the name though. We have like 7 girl names but can't decide on any of them, even though we both like them all. I think there's another name out there for this one! Chloee says her name is "Chica", that is what Josh calls both Chloee and I, so of course she'd assume that would be the baby's name!

*My husband rocks! Yes that is right, he is the best! We are going to go see Twilight together this week. He even read the book, thanks Amy for the great gift! When I told him I was going to go see the movie with Amy sometime, he was like, "I know how much you want to see it and I'd like to take you to something you want to see so bad but let me read the book first so I know what's going on!" For real, I love that my husband DOESN'T care what other people think of him! Amy and I have decided that we have super "SECURE" husbands who really don't care what anyone else thinks of them. Micheal, Amy's husband, and yes ARMY man, has read all the books too and if he weren't in Iraq, she would have seen it with him opening night! Although, I know they are going to go in January when he comes home for his R&R! In the words of Micheal, "If you knew your wife wanted to see the movie, why wouldn't you take her? Are you really not secure enough with yourself to do that for your wife. And, duh, any man that takes his wife to that movie, is totally going to get laid!" Oh, so funny! I love him and miss him and his hilarious humor!

*I'm really sad that Josh is going out of town the week before Christmas! The closer it gets, the more I dread it! Blah, I hate Ohio, no offense, Jamie! I am looking forward to going to Snowbird next weekend with him though! That will be a fun and much needed getaway!

*We are buying our Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving! We can hardly wait! So what if we are SUPER into Christmas. Josh already has our lights up on the house too! We really like to spend time together, just our little family. We are not traveling on Christmas and we like it that way. We did it for way TOO many years and we like doing our own traditions with just our family!

*Chloee is terrified of the dark. This big girl bed thing is going to put both Josh and I in an early grave! She is terrified to go to sleep by herself, when she wakes up in the middle of the night, she screams that she's scared. We have a nightlight in there but NOTHING seems to be working! I think my friend Jenni told me that she had a CD playing in her little boy, Dylon's room with Primary songs on it and it helped him. Or maybe that was someone else. I can't remember but that's the next thing to try.