Milk Cures Crying

Milk is a new cure for crying... when it comes to onions that is. I discovered it on my own last night as I was cutting up a huge lot of them. I decided I was going to dehydrate some to make cooking easier/quicker/cleaner. So, 10 HUGE onions, one hour of chopping into 20+ cups, a sharp knife, 3 glasses of milk, no tears, 9 hours in the dehydrator and making the neighborhood smell like an onion field only yielded me about 4 cups of dehydrated onion. Yay!
You would think that I would have ended up with more final product when I started out with huge bowl of chopped. I guess onion is more water than onion. (So to make the milk thing work, when you start to feel the sting coming on, just gulp milk and you'll be good to soldier on!)
Oh, and a few relatives have complained they can't comment without having an account, so I changed my preferences so you can comment and choose "anonymous" so let the comments roll on in family members.

Another Bitter-Sweet Sunday

Well, Kevin will move in to "Senior Status" on Friday, meaning he'll have more privileges and he finally got to use his phone for 30 min last night. Not much really, but hey, that's better than nothing, that's for sure. Here we are outside our ward building in Ozark this morning. Doesn't he look great? I guess i'm really starting to have a pregnant tummy now.

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.