Wedding Memories

So... I've been putting off scrapbooking our wedding for two years now. I still can't believe that it has been two years already, but that is beside the point here. I have been putting it off for later because I am not the greatest scrapbooker there is, but I enjoy it. And, our wedding, for obvious reasons, is very important to both of us and I wanted it done right. Well, I finally decided this week that it was now or never. With that being said - here is my first completed wedding page. The colors are actually the same, not sure why they turned out so different in the pic, the one on the right is true color.

"Get Your Punkin On"

Well, here is my Halloween "costume." Tonight was the church Fall Festival and trunk o' treat. I have never had my tummy rubbed or touched so much in my life before tonight. And by little kiddies i don't even know... I even had one child do a head bang against my pumpkin gut and i don't even know who he is either! It was weird. That little girl sure is making my me have a bigger belly huh?

The Fun Week with Family and Friends

Monday i finished a blanket for the baby. I'm not sure that i actually did it right even, but oh well, i suppose if it stayes together it should keep her nice and warm. I also made some bibs too. My book says I'll need at least 12 of them! Gesh.

I headed out to Rachael Dillin Duncan's house on wed, she lives about 2 hours away and stayed with her wed and Thurs night. We had a blast shopping and catching up, we hadn't seen each other in over 2 1/2 years. I helped her make and put up a wall vinyl. It kinda looks crooked in the pic, but its not.

On Friday, I drove the rest of the way to Atlanta, GA and met up with Pam Hartman Thompson and her newlywed husband Bob. They are so cute together. We had fun eating out and going to the movies. Which, The Express, BTW is a very good movie. On Sat, we dilly dallied around a little then made it over the the temple. It was really nice. Then I headed the 4-4 1/2 hours home from Atlanta.

About 7 or so, Rebeca and her daughter Ashley came over from Florida to spend the night because her husband is in the same class as Kevin in WOCS and she can see him at church, but staying over saves them from getting up at 5 am. We went to the Extreme Bowling here on post. That was fun, only my tummy could only take two games, so then Ashley bowled in my place, and managed to get bowling balls stuck in the gutter. I have never seen this happen. They would go so slow that the bar would come down and stop them in the gutter and they would just stay there, so by the time we were done, all 5 of our balls were hanging out in the gutter!

Of course on Sunday, I got to see Kevin, which is what it feels like I live for right now. He got to see the video of the 4-d ultrasound. It was awesome. We are half way over with this junk, 3 Sundays left, and the last one he has an all day pass. YAY! I meant to take the camera, but i forgot. Next week i hope to let you guys see how great he looks, minus being tired.

4-D Ulatrasound Finally Here!

This was so much fun! I would definitely recommend it to everyone that is having a baby. I was a little apprehensive, i mean, we aren't supposed to know what she looks like till she's born right? But still, its way cool.

Here she is sucking on the knuckle of her thumb. Her hands were by her face the whole time, except of course we looked at her feet and her hands went straight there, and then back to her face again when we went to look there too.

You can see her eye open here. The placenta is kind of covering the left side of her face somewhat. I looked at my baby picture and it is the same nose! But i think her lips are more like Kevin's.

What amazing technology we have in our time!

This is one of my favorites because the technician was pushing on my stomach to make her move around a little, and she got a big frowny face and scrunched her nose and this is the picture she was able to get from it.

Her eye open again... almost kind a creepy.. but it's still cool. They gave me a VHS of the actual movement she did and I'm going to get it transferred to a DVD so i can put that up too.

And here is my baby picture... what do you think? Is daughter like mother?

Kevins Crazy School Upadate

This is straight from his letters:

"Our mornings are usually crazy. Wake up is 5:25 now. No earlier or later. It's considered cheating if you do. And we have to make our beds, set up our rooms for inspection, (by the measurements) brush teeth and shave and be down in formation by 5:37 usually. Then PT, but after it gets crazy. We usually come up at 7:10-7:12. Have to shower, put on clean ACUs (and put on all patches and rank) and clean the barracks for common area inspection, i.e. dry showers and sinks, polish drinking fountains and such, and be back down to formation by about 7:30 or so. Then chow and classes all day. And then it gets pretty crazy again at night."

The letter from this week:

" We took our first exam. I got a 90%, which was pretty good for the class average. We had leadership reassignments to day. Unfortunately I am now Candidate Platoon Seargent. Not too big of a deal really, just have to stand out in front of the formation and eat last."

"I volunteered to call cadence while marching once the other day. Now I'm one of the favorites, sort of. At least one of the few who can do it. Unfortunately I've killed my voice so i can't really call it now anyway"

I think overall he is doing very well, given the type of environment the guys in charge are creating for all wocs. PT sounds kinda ruff for all the guys and classes are kinda boring, but its almost 3 of the 7 weeks over. The hardest thing it seems is they have ridiculous time constraints that they expect them to get things done in, and it would be impossible for anyone to do. Next week he goes to the field. He should get phone privileges this week or next week, which I am very much looking forward to, as you all can imagine. I'll try my best to keep you updated.

Updated Picture Wall

Now, I normally wouldn't be blogging about so many little mundane things as I have been, but since Kevin's gone and I'm all alone, this is the only way to share the things I do with someone I care about, and it also makes it seem more worthwhile too, I'm not sure why...

Updated Picture Wall

The Latest Project

I found a cool directions to make a hooded baby towel, and I added flannel on the outside. this was the my first experience with binding, and I like how it looks.

and no Michelle, i didn't get a new machine, i found a thing for $8 that sits behind the machine that is for holding the spool

Addresses and Tuesday Night Creativeness

Per Skips Request:

Kevin & Amy Cederquist
24 Dunn Drive
Fort Rucker, AL 36362

Melissa Cederquist
PO Box 571
Kenai, AK 99611

Here is the latest of my projects, a wedding present for a friend:

And a "Hooter Hider" (i.e. nursing cover up) for my friend Jessica:

What do you think?

Life is Bitter-Sweet

Well, today I got to head to church an hour early and spend 45 min pre-sacrament meeting, sacrament meeting and Sunday school with Kevin. Then say good bye again. It was wonderful and awful at the same time, when I knew we only had a short time together. But it was definitely better than not seeing him, that's for sure. As he put it today, only five more Sundays, and the last two he'll have passes, so really he thinks of it as only 3 more Sundays.

He told me about his training and it is so by the book. They have a standard operating procedures manual, and they have to follow it or they get demerits. They aren't told how to do it right first, they have to figure it out on their own, or they are demerited. After 25 demerits, they have to write an essay. He said that he likes that public profanity gets you automatically 25 so he can go around telling people to cut out the cussing and they will listen, unlike any other part of the military him and I have both been involved in. But this is ridiculous, his shirts have to be folded in a 7"x7 " square, his bed has to be 2" away from the wall and folded exactly right. His locker has to be a certain measurement from his bed and the wall and at night his door has to be open exactly 2". Everyday there is a 3x5 card that is outside his room that has to have the date in correct form and a few other things on it. the margin on the left side has to be two inches. He got his room one demerit because he put Oct 07 instead of Oct 7. I think this would drive me nuts! This is like movie stuff that you don't really ever think actually happens. They aren't even allowed to put their rank and name tapes on their uniform the night before or have their watches wake them up early to get prepared for the day, which lasts from 4:30 to lights out at 10:45. At that time he finally has a few min to read his scriptures by flashlight, which would get him a lot of demerits and say his prayers. So he's only getting about 5.5 hours a night. I'm glad it's him and not me that's for sure.

I Love my Cricut

This is my first attempt at using vinyl with my cricut cutter. It actually took me all evening really to figure it out, but next time I think it won't take so long. I'm planning on putting up family pictures over it, just don't have them up yet as I just finished making this tonight, I guess I'm just to excited to share my work.... I'll re post when i get the pictures up.

I'm Pregnant

What is wrong with me? This morning I watched a Sarah Pailin speech and got more choked up over that than I did when Kevin left. These emotional highs and lows caused by this little girl of mine can be mind boggling.

Well... he's gone

Well, here is the last image of Kevin before he undergoes his transformation to a warrant officer. I snapped this picture then dropped him off at his warrant officer candidate school (WOCS) in-processing on Wednesday and tried my best not to cry, which was amazing only a few tears slipped out seeing how I am all emotionally pregnant and stuff. He has had his phone the past few days, but he hasn't been allowed to use it, so of course he has called me everyday - if not twice a day.

Tomorrow the real training starts and his in-processing will be done. His phone will be locked away for good and he has his first PT test tomorrow, and he told me last night that he might name our daughter during it so he can think of her to help him do his best possible... I told him (sarcastically) I'm sure he wouldn't try to name her Chloe, which he has been trying to do ever since before I got pregnant. And just so everyone knows, I am now leaning towards that name too ;). I think I've done well staying busy the past few days, lets just see if it's something I can keep up for the next 7 weeks. But good news is that I will get to see him and sit with him every Sunday during church in Ozark.

Also, on a side note, the tire problem turned out to be a small deal compared to what came later that day when we were in the middle-of-no-where Kentucky. We were driving along listening to our audio book and then all of the sudden all these lights and buzzers went off on the dashboard and when we pulled over we discovered that our lower radiator hose was blown off and we had six gallons of coolant everywhere but where it belonged. We had to wait 3 hours on the side of the freeway for a man to come and patch us up. So when we planned on getting to our hotel by 8 pm that night, we didn't check in until after midnight.