Lemon Buddies

I made these for a ward dinner the other night, and I've had LOTS of people ask me for the recipe, so even though I put it on Facebook, and not many people have this blog's info, I'll put it here too!

Lemon Buddies

(The Lemon Version of Muddy Buddies)

Ingredients:

9 C Rice Chex

1 1/4 C White Chocolate Chips

1/4 C Butter

4 tsp Lemon Peel Zest (I just use the whole lemon.)

2 T Fresh Lemon Juice (I just use the whole lemon for this too!)

2 C powdered Sugar

Directions:

-Put lemon peel, lemon juice, white chocolate chips & butter in microwave for 1 min.

-Stir, Microwave 30 sec, or until well melted and combined.

-Pour mixture over cereal in a large bowl and stir carefully until well coated.

-Add powdered sugar.

-Spread on wax paper to cool (Don't skip this step! They go soggy if you do!)

-Store in an air-tight container.

-Enjoy!

Happy Mother's Day!

Well, today is Mother's Day. Stewart and the boys are in Idaho visiting his family, because his sister just got home from her mission and spoke in church. (It's like a REALLY big deal! No one sees her for 1 1/2 years, and she only got to call home on Mother's Day and Christmas, and we only got weekly e-mails.) Anyway, he didn't want to leave me home, but I made him go. Seriously, I made him! My Dr. wouldn't let me go. I'm already dialated to a 1 and I'm REALLY soft...

At my appointment last Monday my Dr. was delivering a baby, so I saw his nurse. (I would rather see her than one of the PA's!) She checked me and got pretty worried. So she called the Dr and I got a call from HIM later in the day. He sent me up to the hospital to get steroid shots to help Kirra's lung development. The next day I went up again to get the second shot. They were pretty uncomfortable, but if they help the baby, I'm all for it! My Dr came into the room during my first shot and talked to us. He said that he's more worried about me than other patients, because I've had my kids earlier everytime. Hayden at 38 weeks and Keagan at 36 weeks. He's worried that Kirra could come even earlier than that. I'm still not on full-bedrest, but I'm REALLY supposed to stay off my feet as much as possible.

Stewart asked if I could go to Idaho with them this weekend, and my Dr said that it was up to us, but he'd suggest not to. Then Stewart asked if we needed to have another ultrasound to make sure that Kirra is doing alright development wise. My Dr said, yes! YAY! So we got to go in on Wednesday and have another ultrasound! She's measuring great! She's about a week ahead, which is just like our boys were. She weighs around 4 lbs 10 oz now. So that means she weighs even more than that now! She's still a she, which is FANTASTIC! She has the chubbiest cheeks ever! I love it! She looks just like her brothers too. She's got Keagan's face, and Hayden's nose. It just makes me even more excited to see her!

I've been having LOTS more contractions this week. I keep having hot flashes whenever I stand up, and getting super dizzy. I'm afraid these last few weeks are going to be tough on me! I'll be 33 weeks on Wednesday, so I technically only have

more weeks to go! YAY! I hope I can make it that long!

Well, I'm going to go wait for my boys to get home so I can see them sometime this Mother's Day! We get to go to the Dr again tomorrow, so I'm excited to hear her precious heartbeat again!

Contractions

I never updated after my last post! Geez! Sorry!

So I went to the Dr last week and he said that everything was fine. He said that I was still closed and I wasn't effaced yet. Then he said did a Fetal Fibronectin Test (I can't spell) which tells if you're likely to go into labor in the next 3 weeks, and it was negative. So no bedrest for me! YAY! I'm just supposed to rest longer, and try to take it easy.

SO... Last night... At around 3:30 or so I started having a few contractions. By 7 they were REALLY strong, and they were every 2 minutes or so. I drank a bunch of water, and laid on my side. They kept getting stronger and by 9:30 they were every minute. I took my pills to stop my contractions and they didn't work. Finally, Stewart called one of our Home Teacher's and he came over and helped Stewart give me a blessing. It was 10 at night, when he came over. Right after that Stewart helped me upstairs. I hadn't stood up for a LONG time, and my legs were numb because I wasn't getting any blood to them with all of the contractions I was having. It felt like I was walking on pins and needles clear upstairs. Even when I laid down, they hurt still. Stewart filled the tub up for me, and helped me lay down in it. After about half an hour of that, I started getting really tired. My legs still hurt, and were all tingly still. I had taken an ambien before I got in the tub and it just hit me! I laid down and I'm pretty sure I fell asleep in like 5 minutes. Stewart said I had a contraction and then was snoring! HAHA!

When I woke up this morning, I was contracting a little. I called my Dr's office and they got me in to a PA at 9:45. (My Dr is out until Wednesday.) I went in and she checked me and said that I am "slightly effaced" and "pretty closed" Don't you just LOVE those descriptive words? I wish she would have just said, "Well, you're starting to efface, and just less than a fingertip dialated", that would have been MUCH better for me! Anyway, I'm supposed to up my TV/sitting/reading/anything not standing time, and down my standing time. Great! I'm also not supposed to pick up Hayden any more. How am I supposed to do that? I tried talking to him about it today, and it didn't help much. He still wanted me to hold him.

Stewart has been great! Seriously! He has done EVERYTHING for me today! Since I took that Ambien so late, I was REALLY tired all day, so when we got home from the Dr he let me sleep for like 3 hours. Then he has taken care of the kids all day and is even making my freezer meals I'm supposed to take around this week. So sweet!

I guess I'm going to go lay down so that I can hopefully get this new batch of contractions to slow down!

Bedrest

I went to the Dr. yesterday. He said that I have to go back in on Monday, so just 1 week. I'm currently 28 weeks along, so 1 week appointments aren't supposed to be for a while! I have to keep going back because I have these contractions ALL the time! They really suck and are worse than I had with my boys. Since I've only got 9 weeks until I'm "Full-Term", the Dr is worried that I'll start labor and not be able to stop. I guess being safe is better than being sorry. Keagan came 4 weeks early and spent a little bit of time in the NICU, and I'd really like to avoid that if at all possible! It's really hard having your tiny baby be in a place that you can't even hold them because they have tubes all over them!

Hayden has been sick lately. He went to the ER the other night because his fever spiked to 102.4 in like a half hour and we couldn't get it to stop. Of course as soon as we got to the hospital, it broke! But when we got home, it was 101.5 again! I swear hospitals make you better until you leave them! They can't really tell us what he has, but they put him on a few different medications, and they seem to be helping him a little. If only we could get him to sleep through the night now! Keagan has been sleeping a lot better than Hayden has lately! Luckily for Keagan, and us, he hasn't gotten sick (knock on wood).

Stewart has been sick and so have I. I'm just hoping we all get better soon! Being sick isn't much fun!

I'll try to send some pictures of the kiddos from my phone to the computer soon, so I can put up some pictures!

Supposed To...

I'm supposed to be cleaning the house right now. Yep. Keyword there "SUPPOSED". I'm not. Obviously. I got the Master Bathroom done, and some laundry done. I'm waiting on the towels to finish drying and I think I'll call it a day!

I'm also supposed to be making 4 Chicken Potpies for some families in the neighborhood that I'm in a Freezer Dinner Exchange group. I've got to give them out next week, so I figure I can wait a little longer! (I'm such a procrastinator!)

Did you look at the pictures of Keagan's birthday? Aren't they just so FREAKING adorable? I love how he lifted up the little dish and tried to lick it clean! He seriously ate the whole thing! Besides what he got in his hair, and all over himself, and the high chair. The rest went in his tummy! He got a tummy ache later, but I'm pretty sure he thought it was worth it. Too much sugar is never a good thing, but seeing the joy on his face while he ate that cake was priceless!

We are trying to potty train Hayden right now. He'll go pee on the potty everytime, but not poop. Then he was in the tub one morning and started freaking out that he had pooped in the tub (it was more like he farted and a little came out). We put him right on the potty and he went. We celebrated that more than Christmas! He called his grandparent's. He got 3 stickers. He talked about it for days! Then, he wouldn't do it anymore. He spent a day at my parent's house, and was in pull-ups the whole time. No accident! Even pooped on the potty, by himself. But as soon as he came home, no such luck. He just won't do it for us. I don't know what the deal is! I've tried everything. Do any of you (4 readers, haha) have any advice? I just want my kid out of diapers before the next one gets here! AH!

Pictures from Keagan's birthday

Randomness

I'm pretty sure that there is nothing in this world better than being able to settle into a nice bubble bath

with a game of Suduko,

a cup of pebble ice,

and silence! (Ok, maybe there are a FEW things that are better...) A bubble bath can cure almost anything! I'm tota

lly convinced of it! Locking myself in the bathroom and having just a few minutes to myself is awesome! And when Stewart is kind enough to let me stay in there for as long as I want? Well, I'm in heaven!

I've got these AWESOME projects I've been working on, but they're for a friend for her baby shower, and I can't put pictures up here until I've given them to her. Oh, and I have to FINISH one! I guess it'd be good to do that soon, since her shower is Saturday... I'm really excited for them though. Stewart made me promise to not give them to her early, because as soon as I finished some of them, I wanted to run them to her house right away!

I've been getting this urge to create A LOT! The problem is, I don't do it. I just don't want to try something and not have it work out the way I envisioned it. You know what I mean? I've got to do something though, because it's killing me to come up with ideas and not do them! Then I forget them and I never do them! I'm going to make something... I just don't know what yet! I found this great blog called 1 Month 2 Win It. I want to enter something in it, just to see if I can get picked, then if I do, I'll have an excuse to make more stuff! You should check it out! It's intimidating seeing what these women come up with in just 1 week, but it's also so inspiring!