The New Testament

Today, January 14, 2008 we finished the New Testament. First, we finished the one that we read to Chloee at night before she goes to bed. The one on the right is hers, you know the watered down version with lots of pictures in it. We have now finished the Doctrine and Covenants and now the New Testament with her.

Josh and I have been reading the New Testament for Latter-Day Saint Families for 1 year now and we finally finished it. It is a big book. The book is the exact same as the scriptures it just has better explanations and extras that give you more insight to what you are reading. It may have taken us a year but we finally did it! We tried to read a chapter a day, sometimes it only ended up being 5 versus but we finally completed it and I must say, it feels good.

As we were reading through the last book of the New Testament, Revelation, I realized how incredibly close the 2nd coming is and how unprepared I am. It was actually quite scary and intimidating thinking about all of the things I need to do do get where I want to be. I felt like I really had a new understanding of Revelation as we read the book with further insight of added documentation mentioned by so many prophets and apostles.

We are now going to start on the Book of Mormon. We are definitely going to keep with the books for the latter-day saint families. That was one of our 2007 New Year goals. We were a little late, but better late than never.

A New Cousin

Rhyder Timothy Peterson was born on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 1:12 pm. He weighed 7 lbs 2 oz and was 21 inches long. Isn't he so adorable!!

Stacie (Josh's sister), Tim and new baby, Rhyder. Josh and I both commented on the fact that Stacie was probably the first person we have ever seen right after they had their baby that didn't look and act like they were completely wasted. When we went and saw her, she was upbeat, peppy and didn't mind having visitors. Not pictured here is Chandler, the other part of the family but he's below.

Big brother, Chandler, takes a turn holding his new baby brother.

I just loved this picture, I had to put it in. They are just so fresh and new for such a short while. Why not cherish that time?

Moms know best! It was so fun to see Stacie love the new addition to her family as well as Tim. They both make great parents. Congrats Stacie, Tim and Chandler. How fun this is to start a new chapter in your lives with yet another fun spirit to warm your home. We hope the very best for you!

Doctor Drama

Yesterday in the middle of the night, I woke up with the fun big D. Fun all night long. Josh and Chloee must have had the same virus just 5 days prior. It hit both of them with just the BU (butt urine) as my mother-in-law put it. I had that and the upset stomach that brings the throw up. Luckily Kathy (Josh's mom) and Ty and Rach were here visiting so I had someone here to help me. I know, no fun for them but an ENORMOUS blessing for me.

After not being able to eat anything all day, it just got worse the dry heaving increased and I had to change my clothes a couple of times. I was headed to a doctor appointment that I had previously made for something else. In the event that I wasn't feeling so well, I asked Josh to come with me.

When we got to the doctor's office he wanted to do a blood test, yadde yah.... I do great having my blood drawn, after being pregnant it just doesn't bother me. Josh is a different story. So he was drawing my blood and he only took 3 tubes when all of a sudden I didn't feel so well. My hearing started fading and eyes started shutting and before I knew it, I guess I was out. I came to after being out for probably 30 seconds Josh said and I didn't know where I was and I suddenly had to puke. They lifted me up on the examining table rolled me over and I hurled all over, it was even in my hair, they caught most of it though. I had to lay there and they put cold paper towels on my head. What? I have had 7 tubes taken at one time and walked out of there fine and drove myself home. No biggie! I attribute it to already being super weak from the virus and not eating that it just pushed me over the edge. It was not fun. I actually don't think I have ever passed out before.

Well, there you have it, my doctor drama. It was just one thing after the other. You know locking myself out of the house, being sick, among other things and then to try and drive home from the hospital after that. NIGHTMARE. I am just glad that Kathy was here, I didn't have to take Chloee with me and she played with her and took care of her, fed her, bathed her, put her down for naps and got up with her in the morning. She was a total lifesaver. Oh, and so were Ty and Rachael, who played with her the entire time. I never would have got through it without them.

Screaming for Sanity

Ok, not been the best hour, day, week, month, whatever you want to call it for me! I will skip the boring part and give a brief rundown. I am not doing so well with this move. Chloee definitely is not doing well, she NEVER sleeps and is ornery 24-7, thus, so am I. It has been very hard.

It all started when Chloee woke up from her nap at 11 am. I took a nap at the same time because I was so exhausted and I have not felt good lately. I went in her room to find that she had diarrhea. Oh joyous! I was still in my pj's and no bra (I know it was 11 am but cut me some slack here). Anyway so I was taking the dirty diaper out and before I did, I opened the window in the bay so that Chloee could watch me. I run around to the garbage can and I came back to open the door AND IT WAS LOCKED. Anyone who knows me knows that at my house EVERY door is locked all the time. The stupid new locks on the house let you turn the knob even if it is locked so you tend to think that it is unlocked.

In a total panic and at absolute breaking point, I just stood outside SCREAMED and cried in total failure of not knowing what to do. Do I call a locksmith? Oh crap, I don't even have my cell phone! Bawling hysterically at the window, I realized that I couldn't hold my little girl and that I was completely helpless. She started to cry when I was crying so I knew I needed to be strong.

I ran over to my neighbors (whom I don't even know) and in the midst of the crying asked to use their phone. I called Josh at work and told him what was going on and was on his way. I came running back out and she was nowhere to be found. I knocked on the window and she came running. My neighbor brought me a coat and stood outside with me. We tried to keep her at the window until Josh got home but she soon got bored. Oh what a shocker?

She climbed up on the kitchen table's chairs and then to the table and was dancing around on top of the table. I wanted to die. It was absolute horror, she went right to the edge of each corner, all the while staring at me through the window laughing at how I couldn't touch her. Oh, the horror, I almost threw up then and there. You see she can get up on the table but she can't get down. It was so hard, I was in actual hell for the longest 20+ minutes of my life.

Josh showed up and we got in before she decided to nose dive off the table. My stomach was still upset HOURS afterwards and it just wouldn't calm down. That is something I never want to relive.

Paris Hilton's Little Sister...

In one of the previous posts of my sister, Amy, she told a "stupid" moment story of herself, thus calling herself, Paris Hilton. Well then, since I am Amy's little sister, you can now call me Paris Hilton's little sister. Now in my defense, I was so tired from moving for 3 days and I was running on pretty much NO sleep.

This is a nice picture of the fridge at our new house. I was so excited because it had a lock on it. Yeah, now Chloee can't push the water and ice button all day. I kept trying to lock it but no matter how many times I locked it, the water and ice still came out. I was so mad, "you've got to be kidding me, I have a stupid faulty fridge that doesn't do what it says it will", I believe were my words.

Between huffs and puffs, I searched for the manual, only to find out I was screaming about not being able to understand it and that was because it was in SPANISH. Ok, so I am about to lose it when my mom points out something very OBVIOUS (when you are running on all cylinders and actually thinking clearly). Well, you can see from the picture that I was not looking at the little symbols, I was reading the words, left to dispense and right to lock. It looked like the words were telling me. Clearly, it says "dispenser lock" but with no sleep the words made sense until my mom said, "Look at the pictures you have it backwards." Oh my, we laughed about that for some time. Not really funny unless you were there! Just thought I'd share my Paris Hilton story!

Best Gift

I received the best gift for Christmas. I have been wanting to get into photography for some time now and I finally have my dream camera to do it.

Josh and I were talking about how I needed something for me to distinguish myself from Chloee's full time slave/mother from Kimberlee. This is something I have always wanted to do and I am so excited to start this new and fun adventure.

I am so thankful for an extremely supportive husband in every new idea I have. I guess I'll keep him! :)

Farewell :(

We said good-bye to our sweet home in Providence on Saturday, December 15, 2007. It was as my sister put it, "bittersweet". It was bitter to leave having so many memories in that home of 3 1/2 years, it almost felt impossible to leave. We built the home so we were its only owners. In July of 2004, after only being married for less than one year we embarked on our new adventure of owning a home. With Josh still in school and 2 more years to go and I working for a homebuilder, let's just say that we were in the right place at the right time and were VERY blessed.

It has been quite an adjustment moving into a home older than our other one and having previous owners, it just doesn't feel quite like "home" to me. Ok, enough of my sob fest. Here are some great pics of us starting our new journey in the homeland of "West Point".

Here we are waving "bye" to our home. I think I literally wore that outfit (if you could even call it that) for 3 days straight as we boxed, cleaned and (I) had emotional breakdowns.

The mountains were literally in our backyard. Oh, we loved that house!

How on Earth can 2 1/2 people fill up a 26' moving truck? Scary. What is going to happen when we have kids that are teenagers and they have a lot of stuff? I guess that is what you get when you have a husband who is a pack-rat. Now, in his defense, he did throw out a lot of stuff!

My mom cleaned and helped me box all week. She was a cleaning machine, I swear you could have came in with a white glove and not found a spot of dust or dirt anywhere. This was on Friday, my dad, Josh and Micheal moved everything out to the truck. Here the kids are having a pizza break using grandma as furniture.

During the week while we were boxing up stuff, she found these glasses and this police badge and went around moving boxes like mommy and daddy. It was really cute seeing her think she was helping.

In the sweetest, kindest words possible, let's just say, "Chloee did not adjust well, at all". She didn't want to sleep at the new house, she got up at 5:30 am every morning then she got sick and after only being here for 2 days, I had to find a doctor. It ended up being an ear infection. I was sick myself and depressed from all the boxes and missing the old house that I just packed us up and we spent a few days with my mom to save my sanity.

Overall, this has been a big adjustment for me. Especially where I have never lived outside of Cache Valley, I get lost a lot and I just feel alone. I am not one who deals well with change but I'm trying to change my attitude.

The most definite "sweet" part of the bittersweet is that Josh doesn't have to travel 2+ hours a day anymore. No matter how hard this move may be for me or our little family, I know it is right and I wouldn't change it for anything in the world. I am looking forward to being able to spend more time with Josh and not have to worry about if the weather is bad or if the canyon is a white-out. I am so excited to have him close for all those close encounters that felt like he was states away when I needed him. Also, we are BOTH excited about the huge slash in our gas bill.

THANK YOU to everyone who helped us move, offered to help us move and did so much for us. My dear friend Maren brought in dinner on Friday night, she watched Chloee for hours on end and Lance & her changed their Saturday plans around and Lance drove down with Josh in the truck and also helped unload with Micheal and Josh. Oh where would we be without our great family and friends? Love all of you and thanks again!!!

HELPFUL FORGETTING: While we were up this week visiting my family for New Years, we drove past our old home. The woman has a dog in our house (which makes me want to puke), it's a poodle. She has chicken wiring or something around the patio and cut a gaping, huge hole in the side of the house for her precious little dog to have a doggy door. Josh almost started to cry. We kept such good care of it and cleaned it to the hilt, it just goes to show you that people will change it and it no longer feels like yours anyway and that helps with the healing process!