Cakes

I know you all are waiting to see how the cake did... Nope it didn't win, but it got honorable mention and a $25 gift certificate to the mall. Here were the winners.

Hi Everyone,
We want to thank everyone who participated in the cake contest! It was a really tough decision for our judges, but here are the winners!

Best Decorated – Vanessa Pauu

Best Tasting – Jenna Bushnell

2nd Place – Jennifer Vance

3rd Place – Anna Stone

Honorable Mention – Will Wu

Doctors and Cake

Humm where to start. I guess I will start with the doctors appointment. I actually gained weight!! A lot too. I was so surprised, and happy. I made up for last week as well. I think it was all those cupcakes I ate on Sunday night.

Will went to the appointment with me, which was nice because we had to do an unexpected ultra sound. I am still measuring small, and did not grow from last week. Don't worry everything is ok. The baby is measuring 34 weeks instead of the 37 1/2 she should be. The doctor said that we just have small kids. If her head was measuring different from her body, then she would be worried, but she looks fine. She is 5 lbs 2 oz right now, and the doc said that she might even get to be 6 lbs when I have her. It was fun to be able to see Seirra's face. I know she is in there, but it is different seeing her.

Here was our inspiration for the costume. This is Dr. Lawrence. She is a really good doctor for me. She is the no nonsense, but still really nice about everything kind. We asked her if we could get a picture with Jason and her and she was so excited to do it. She then said, "Ok well we need to get you a mask, a surgeons hat, some booties, and something to put in your pockets" (tongue depressors, she even drew faces on them for Jason). She was so excited it was so funny. So Jason truly is a doctor, with all the trimmings.

For my appointments I have to lay down and they lift up my shirt to hear the heartbeat and to measure my belly. Well Jason always wants to do it to, so Will played doctor while we were waiting and listened to Jason's belly with his toy stethoscope. Jason was so excited and had Will listen for a good 5 min. He would get frustrated when he would stop. Silly kid!

Will entered me into a cake decorating contest at his work. It was Halloween themed of course and well this is what we came up with.

Will even got in on the action and helped create the house on top. I have to say this is my favorite cake that I have made so far. I love how it turned out and I usually don't say that about my own work.

There were 17 cakes entered in the contest. They all are so different. I would say that there are 4 or 5 cakes that have a really good shot at winning. There was a coffin made with modeling chocolate, a spider, and a mummy that all looked really cool.

We will find out who wins later today. All employees go through look at the cakes, vote, and eat the one they want. Although it was pretty sad, no one has touched my cake or the other good looking ones. I guess they are just afraid to cut into them. I really don't want to take home that much cake, yikes! Well I figure even if I don't win, it was still really fun to make!

Here is just a random picture I took at Will's work today while we were waiting to eat lunch.

No camera

You are just going to have to wait for my blog today. It is just not the same with out pictures. I left the camera in the car. Woops. Look for it after lunch (Will entered me into a Halloween cake contest at his work.) I have to go check out my competition. I do have to say this is my favorite cake that I have made so far. I am excited to show you all.

Will's Surprise Blog: More Yums

Yesterday Kristin made me some chicken, brocolli, and mashed potatoes for dinner. They were the best mashed potatoes EVER. I think she had a bowl of Honeycomb for dinner, which made me start thinking . . .
I didn't really mean to make other people feel bad if they didn't cook their husbands favorite foods. Sure, my wife does and that's really great. On the other hand, I would s-t-a-r-v-e if I had to eat from Kristin's menu. She really is the pickiest eater I know. There would be no potatoes, tomatoes, ground beef, onions, peppers, fish, plus a million other things. Basically I'm bored here at work, just waiting for Sierra's next appt. Well, that's all I have to say.

Leaves

Who knew leaves were so much fun! I guess you forget what is fun when you get older. It is fun to see the simple things that make Jason's day.

Dates, Pumpkins, Games

This is a full blog of pictures today. It was quite busy again this weekend, big surprise. I planned for Will and I to have a free night and morning with out Jason. You know before we have 2 kids that we have to take care of. So we dropped Jason off with Mickie and Matt.

Cramming 3 dates into one was pretty fun.

• We ate at applebee's
• Went mini-golfing (I forgot a jacket, so I was a little cold. The good news was that with just Will and I it only takes 40 min or so to golf a full 18 holes. How weird is that.) It was a great course. We have decided that the only place to go mini-golfing is at an actual golf course. They have the best courses.
• We then bought a bunk bed for Jason at Ikea, but had to promptly return it because it would not fit in our car. We were 4 inches shy of it fitting. We will have Matt and Mickie help us transport the bed for us. That store is huge, so people gave Will and I a few strange looks while he was pushing the cart and I was straddling the bed in my boots and skirt. (For my defence I rarely wear heals and my feet were killing me)
• And last but not least we headed to the dollar theater (yeah we are big spenders) and watched Stardust. That was a great movie. I think that we will end up buying that one. They all did such a great job in the movie.
• We then sleep in with no interruptions. It was great! I do feel bad for Matt and Mickie. Jason sleep in their room, and by 6 am he was ready to wake up. He never wakes up that early. We owe you guys!

Saturday was disc golfing and pumpkin carving. I think they all turned out pretty well.

Here they all are...

Mickie's was great. She did "Pumpkin Head Harvey" I was pretty impressed with how much it actually looked like my dad.

This one was for Jason...

It's lightening MaQueen. Cachaw.

Will's is bowser..

Pretty good, huuu?

Sundays dinner. Random picture I know. Will said he just wanted a picture of his family. Pot stickers, yummm.

We turned off the TV for the night again. You find some interesting things to do when you are not being entertained by the TV.

Lots of dancing...

Poor Will, Jason made him dance the whole entire CD which is 30 minutes long. Will was so tied by the end of it. But I think it was totally worth it.

Last but not least, we had Travis over to play Ticket to Ride. I pulled off the victory by one point. Will thought that he was going to win, but right in the end I pulled off the victory. Mwahahaha.

Cupcake anyone?

It's Perfect

Yesterday I spent all day, (ok really Jason's nap time, and a little of the night) making his costume. I was surprised it took me only 6 hours to make, and that even counts cutting and unpicking Velcro for 45 min. I put the Velcro on and then decided that it would be itchy, so I used snaps instead. We plan on him wearing the scrubs as pj's after Halloween. They fit him so well. What a cute kid!

Last night Will and I did a lot of shopping. It really was just a lot of stores that we had to hit up. You know the standard of looking for bassinets, beds, doctors toys, etc. As you can tell we did find a stethoscope. Oh and that candy coupon did work. Will printed out a coupon and so did I, so we got 2 bags of good candy for $.16. What a deal! (Yes you had to pay tax. How funny is that)

Last night was the first time that I didn't make it to the BYU class. The relief society had a little class on how to make ficcocia bread that I went to support. They did a pretty good job with it, but when they gave out samples to test what they made they gave use huge portions. So I had to choke down a whole pumpkin pancake.

What a great picture. The book is called "I'll Always Love You." He was feeling extra snuggly yesterday.

Anyways, this is Jason saying bye to Will. It is so cute. He knows when Will is going to leave. Will grabbed his shoes and Jason automatically said, "Bye dad." He was trying to get rid of him early today I guess.

Free Candy

For all of those who have not bought candy, or would even just like a free bag, I found this coupon online. Will and I are going to go try it out tonight. It is for Kmart:

http://www.kmart.com/ue/home/100807_freeCandy.pdf

If that link doesn't work then you can go to http://mybargainbuddy.com/ today and it will be on one of their links.

Tired

Yesterday was pretty lousy, but tonight I have a BYU class that I will enjoy.

Will told me that I shouldn't do anything wrong for the next little bit and that I have a free pass to heaven. We were buying Halloween candy and the girl scanned the laffy taffy inside the mixed bag of candy. It came out to be 2 bucks and not the 6 that it was suppose to be. I told her it was the wrong price, and she persisted that it was the correct price. Yeah I finally had her ring it up at the right price. I was very persistent about it, which was very uncharacteristic of me. Will was pretty surprised.

So I decided that if I was not going to be able to sleep at night I might as well get something done. So I went and bought Jason the doctors pattern and cut it out. We are still trying to find a cheap stethoscope and knock off crocks, but we still have a few more places to look. (I gave up with that silly quilt for the moment). There was no way I was going to get it done before Jason's costume needed to be done.

Jason always wakes me up in the morning. Will sticks him right next to my face, so that he can talk to me till I get up. Thanks Will :)

Go back to sleep!! Can you tell how much that worked? He thought it was funny and started to play with me. Haha

P.S. Will used his bench last night and enjoyed using it. It was supose to be $40 and we got it for $20.

Doctor's apt

Well I just got back and things are looking good. I did not gain any weight this week, but the doctor felt the baby and said that she feels like she is a good size. She did grow a cm this week, so that is a really good thing. I didn't need an ultra sound, Wahoo!! I am still at a 1 and I am a little more effaced. So we are on our way.

I could not sleep last night. It just hit me that I have 3 weeks today, till she is born and that 3 weeks is turning into 2 weeks and so on. I know 3 weeks is a lot of time to get things done, but I was so stressed last night.

Jason decided to wake up at 6:30 this morning, so I got even less sleep then I wanted to. Lets just say that we both are going to take a much needed nap in a half an hour! (He is cranky, and I think he is starting to come down with a cold. I sure hope not.)

Oh and last night Trish had a candle party. It was nice to visit with everyone. I didn't get any candles though. Some of them made me sick. Plus when I was pregnant with Jason I bought a bunch of candles and now I can't stand to smell them. Yeah I learned my lesson with him.

Later

I have a doctors appointment in a little while. I will right after lunch.

Randomness

Ransom: Last night I could not make dinner for the life of me. I was trying to make biscuits and gravy. Lets just say after making the biscuits twice, we ended up eating at Kneaders. I even had a dream that I could not bake. How sad is that, that I dream about baking.

Last night at Walmart we stumbled across a multi-purpose work out bench. Yeah random that we bought it. It was the display, so it was 20 bucks. Will didn't even have to put it together. He is excited to give it a try.

Since I don't have much to report on today Will has come up with a list of stories about Jason.

• When ever we are in the store and Jason is walking around with us, all Will has to do is say "Follow mom" and he starts following me. It is really nice he actually listens.
• When we go to the store Jason usually has toys in the back seat with him. Yesterday Will told him that he could only bring in one. So Jason put down all of his toys except for one.
• We were at Matt and Mickie's and I asked Jason to throw away a fruit cup that Matt was holding onto. He took it and threw it away. So I thought maybe he would put the spoon in the sink. Well he knows where our sink is, but Matt and Mickie's is in the island in the kitchen. So he took the spoon, walked around the island once, and threw it in the trash. Haha. Good problem solving skills that kid has...
• And last but not least, Jason has to have his bear and blanket to sleep with. I tried to put him to bed with out it, and he threw a fit. As soon as I brought it in to him, he fell asleep with in a few minutes. (It was still a little damp from the wash, but he didn't care.)

Baptism

I forgot to mention that the non-member kid in our Sunday school class got baptised on Saturday. We were so excited for him. They keep saying that he knew everything already and just needed to get baptized. Well yeah he has been coming to church for years. His parents are not members, so he just never got baptised.

It is cool what examples his friends are. He is a great kid.

When he was getting confirmed he never asked people to do it. So in sacrament meeting Will was putting on chap stick, when all of a sudden they were trying to get his attention to be in the circle. They announced his name in the microphone and everything. Everyone turned and was staring at him. Poor guy. Haha caught in the act of putting on chap stick. Will was more embarrassed about that then anything.

Mickie and a fun video of Jason wearing Matt's socks on her blog.

Hard as rocks

Tons happened again this weekend. I don't think that we ever have a do-nothing-weekend. We all keep ourselves pretty busy, whether it is playing games or BYU football games.

The weather was pretty bad this weekend, but don't worry, Will got in his round of disc golf with Art on Friday. Poor Matt couldn't make it down in time. Maybe next time.

Friday night was Settlers with Travis, Nate, Will, and I. Mickie and Suzanne are funny, they don't want to play and be all stressed out, but they sure will watch.

Saturday the weather was pretty bad. We went and bought our pumpkins. It was such a fast process. Usually we are standing there forever, but they had a really good selection and with in 3 min we all had out pumpkins. It was so nice.

At the store they were doing a kids club activity of making cookie. Poor Mickie was asked if she wanted to make a cookie. The lady thought she was a kid.

Jason sure did enjoy eating the cookie. Ok confession, I ate most of it.

Jason was off running around with Matt in the store... I couldn't help it.

Mickie and I made Caramel apples before the game. Humm that was quite the experience. The caramel actually stayed on the apples but humm we over cooked the caramel. They looked really cool.

At one point Matt bit into the apple with a huge crack and asked "Do I still have all of my teeth?"

He then proceeded to say "I have never worked so hard to eat a snack in my entire life. I surrender to you caramel!" We all were laughing so hard. I don't know what hurt more my stomach or jaw. Next year we will perfect them.

We then headed to the BYU game, which was freezing. It rained/snowed off and on. Will and I left at the beginning of the 4th quarter. Yeah we were wimps. We were winning by quite a bit when we left.

We watched transformers while Will drafted his fantasy basketball team. Yeah 2 hours later he joined us and then everyone left. Poor guy missed the whole movie. From what I caught of it, I thought it was really good.

Sunday we went over and hung out at the Maxwell's. Steph showed us a hidden video on the Mulan dvd with Jackie Chan singing "I'll make a man out of you" in Mandarin. It is pretty bad. His yellow jacket/pants make the whole video. You can tell they didn't spend to much money on that video.

It is so nice to have so much family living around here. I always enjoy seeing everyone.

Will's Surprise Entry: Yum

I just thought I'd write something short because Kristin is so great.
Honestly, I don't know of many wives who would make food for their husbands that revolts them. Kristin does this for me on a regular basis! Whether it is Salty Chicken, Adobo, Kalbi, Fish, or something I see in a magazine, she makes it anyway. Sure, I have to hear about how "Nasty!!!" it is, but it is usually well worth it.
That's a pretty big deal and I thought the world should know what a great person Kristin is.

Doctors, Nail polish, food, and Ikea

Yesterday was an eventful day. I first went to a doctors appointment.

• I am surprised that I am already dilated to a 1. Hey I will take it, one less centimeter to have contractions through.
• I only gained one pound in the last 2 weeks, I really don't think I will make it to the recommended 25 pounds. I even made chocolate cake and cookies. I think I will have to make those carmel apples this weekend.
• And Sierra is still measuring the same as last appointment. I am not terribly worried about that. Jason measured the same for 3 appointment's in a row at about this time too. I bet if she doesn't measure bigger next time I will have another ultra sound. Ultra sounds are fun, so I won't mind. It is nice to see the kid right before you give birth.

I am such a nerd. Art and Steph got me some Del Sol nail polish. It changes when it is in the sun. I have walked outside a few times just to see the nail polish change. Haha. I think I am just as bad as Will, except no one is here to document it.

I am sad that Jason broke a bottle of the nail polish. We were downstairs and he was playing with my new bottles. I didn't think that they would break so I let him play with them. Why not right. I was on the phone with my aunt and all of a sudden I smelled nail polish. Oh crap!

Jason had managed to break it in a plastic duck bag that he has. There was no nail polish any where but there, on his hands, and mine. I was so amazed. I just threw the bag away, washed his hands, and that was it. I really lucked out. From now on he wont be touching my nail polish.

2 Nights ago Will and I tried a new recipe for the crock pot. I will not pass the recipe on because this is what will said, "I can eat lousy food, but I can't eat bad food. That tastes like vomit." Well at least he was honest with me. So to make things up for such a crumby dinner we had Salty chicken last night, his favorite, (I still had a bowl of cereal).

I occasionally like to eat Cheetos, but the problem is that they turn your fingers orange. Well I have the perfect way to eat them. You eat them and practice your chopstick skills at once. Yes I know the picture is dark, but Jason was being a silly goose in it. We couldn't help but put this picture on the blog.

The last thing was that we went to Ikea to look for beds. It was an interesting store, but we didn't not find any beds that we wanted for Jason. It is such a hard decision. Do we get a bunk bed? a twin bed? a bunk bed with a larger mattress on the bottom? a twin with drawers? I think it will take us a little while to find something that we both want. Jason had tons of fun laying in each of the beds while we looked. We did how ever end up buying Jason some plastic cups, bowls, and plates while we were there. I think they will be the perfect size for him.

After that we went over and hung out at the Spence's for a while. Lets just say Jason really trusts Matt. He would jump off the counter to Matt. You can see the video on Mickie's blog. Goofy kid.

Boo!

Yesterday was the carmel apple class. They looked so tasty, and easy to make. Last time I tried to make carmel apples all the carmel slid off. I now know my problem, the apple still had the wax on it, and it probably was a little wet. I don't know if I will try making them in the near future or not, but it sure was interesting to watch.

I did win a carmel apple, but I ended up giving it to Bobbie. It was one of the last ones left and it had coconut all over it (yuck!) Bobbie said that that was the one she would chose, so it was a win win situation. Plus I owed her for "making" her choose the broth, haha.

I was crafty yet again when Jason was napping. Yes this is my last craft for a while. I don't know what possessed me to make the wreath (I don't have any Halloween decorations at all). I guess you have to start somewhere right.

I saw it in a magazine and decided to make it. It was pretty much the standard ghost suckers and then I shoved them in the wreath with a bow. It took me an hour to make, and I have really enjoyed seeing it on my door. I am a little bit of a nerd though. Last night it was windy and I worried that it would fly away, but it is still there, holding strong.

Progress

So I would not usually sew the squares together this early, only because that is all that I have done, but I just had to see some progress. Now I just have 8 more chunks like that to go.

I also got crafty and painted letters for Sierra's room.

I am glad I did it while my little helper was asleep!

Problems

Well I have been trying to add pictures to the blog today, but Blogger is having problems right now, so I will just have to post them later. The pictures are really the only things I wanted to post. Oh well...

I think I will go stir crazy today with the weather being like this. It is a good thing that I have something to look forward to tonight! Caramel Apples!

Crayons

I got bored yesterday, so Jason took a bath with the bath crayons. I am just hoping that he doesn't try and draw on himself and the walls with the regular crayons. That will be a fun one to try and clean up. He enjoyed it though.

I am so excited, tomorrow night is the Carmel apple class. Yahoo! And also Thursday kicks off the weekly doctors appointments till Sierra is born (4 weeks and counting!)

On Friday we had Paul and Mieka over for dinner and they have a newborn (2 weeks old) and Jason keep saying "It's a baby!" He was so good with him. I am interested to see how he treats Sierra...