February 2015

Family: February flew by.....as does every month I swear! It was such a mild month. We got to enjoy a lot of outdoor time and the girls loved being able to go to the park. We didn't really do many adventures during February. The gas prices went down below $2 for the first time since high school, which was nice, but we didn't capitalize on it and go anywhere like we should've! Haha. Jacey took the girls out for a little photo shoot with the capes that I made for them. I thought they turned out pretty dang cute!

Colby: School is going great. He is getting into a groove with his Friday clinics and really starting to enjoy it. He pretty much has finals every single Monday which makes it so his weekends are consumed with studying. He is always great about helping me out to do a quick cleaning of the house and he always takes charge for Sunday dinners, which is so nice!

Megan: Work has been quite busy because of the sick season. Colby took me on a wonderful Valentines date the night before (so we could avoid the crowds). He took me to his favorite Thai restaurant up by the school and then we watched a movie in the back of the Durango. He planned the whole thing and it was so fun......definitely my kind of date. We watched If I Stay.....I may have cried a little. 

Hayden: One year after the traumatic hair cutting incident.....her hair is finally to a point that we can pull it all back in a pony tail which is so nice!! She is really growing up. She still has just a little strider bike that she has been riding around the neighborhood. She has been ready for a big girl bike for a while but I wanted to wait until better weather. So who knows......maybe she'll be getting something for her birthday!! She loved going iceskating with Jacey, her brother Jaden, and her sister Haley.  Also, one Tuesday she got to play with Shayda and Drex while Dylan had a doctors appointment and then the very next week she got to play with Brooklyn while her mom took (and PASSED) her LPN boards!! Yay!

Hanna: This little nugget had a little rough of a February. Right after her two front teeth poked through and she was acting like herself again then she Started fevering one Saturday afternoon. So we kept her home from church the next day and she kept fevering and had a hard time drinking her milk (she was fine with solids) and she was snoring horribly. So, even though experts say that kids under 2 don't get strep throat, I took her into my work that Monday evening and she was glaringly positive on the rapid strep test!! I felt so so bad for her!! Her tonsils were so huge that she had a hard time breathing while she was lying down. She got her "feel better shot" and started to improve over the next few days. Poor thing....lucky that none of the rest of us got it! I was so excited this month to FINALLY get her hair into the lower piggytails!! It looks so cute on her! She is such a good little kiddo and I just love it when I get some snuggles out of her!

Jacey sent me a bunch of pics that she had on her phone of the girls and her. I love looking at them. She really is so absolutely amazing with them and we are so grateful to have her here with us! She goes and does fun things with them, she sticks to a good routine, she helps me out is more ways than I could even begin to explain. We are hoping we can talk her into staying for a second year!

January- Realized I Never Posted This!

Family: We kicked off the New Year by staying home!! Ha ha. It was fabulous though. That weekend, we invited the whole Bliss family to come up and go ice skating at the Gallivan Center. Then we had a big ole pot of homemade chicken noodle soup waiting to warm us all up. It really was so much fun. Many of them had never gone ice skating before. Growing up next to the Sevier River gave me the opportunity to go many times. I remember one year we all got ice skates for Christmas. I think that was the year that my mom spear headed the attempt at making a rink in the field next to our house. It was a great attempt but didn't exactly pan out as expected. So fun though. 

Colby: On the 15th, Colby and I got to go to his White Coat ceremony. This signifies that the program is entrusting it's students to begin seeing patients. Many programs do not allow their PA students to start clinicals until the 2nd year so this is a very nice thing that the U does. He started his first day the very next day!. Every Friday he will be at a community health clinic in Provo. He sees a very large percentage of Spanish speaking only patients so it has forced him to really exercise his Spanish skills- and medical Spanish is a whole different beast!!

Megan: I just had fun with my family this month. I decided to knuckle down and get my cravings in check since I am done breastfeeding. I typically loose the "baby-weight" right after delivery but then I get the breastfeeding weight that I gain a whole lot more than the pregnancy weight. Then, on top of that, I have the Grad school "baby" that I never lost because I got pregnant right after. So, I've got a ways to go. I am not a fan of crash "diets" so what I focused on the first of the month is just maintaining portions, no sweets, and not eating after 7 pm. All of which are relatively difficult for me. I committed myself to no baking for the month and trying to do healthy snacking. I did do a no carb week (cause carbs are my guilty pleasure) and I'm not sure at this point whether it was beneficial or detrimental. I was able to loose 15 lbs but I sill have a good 15 more to loose and I know that will be a lot slower to come off. I hate looking at the scale because I just don't want that to be how I gauge my self-esteem but I am using that to temporarily set goals to accomplish. 

Hayden: She had quite the month. On the day we went ice skating (which she was so excited for), she was running in her Elsa dress and slipped on the cape and her face hit the tile breaking one of her front teeth!! It was so so sad!! You could tell it was pretty painful for her. So she got to go to the dentist and have it capped for the time being. Then a couple weeks later, the other one started to get dusky and we could tell it was dying. Luckily it is just a baby tooth. She absolutely loved ice skating. She thought it was so much fun. 

Hanna: She has turned into our little mover! She loves to dance to any music, anywhere. She will hear something in the grocery store and she'll start bouncing. She can feel that beat and she just can't resist a little jig!! It really is so so cute. She is so so close to getting her 2 front teeth. She has been a little cranky because of it. It seems like my girls take FOREVER to pop their teeth and it makes them miserable. We've been battling bum rash issues too which have not been fun! Her nighttime sleep has definitely been effected by all of it.