getting ready for babies

thank you ben and alison!

and thank you mom and dad for helping us move it all!

(now all we have to do is figure out where to set the crib up...)

26 weeks

dear baby girls-

i love feeling you kick inside of me! i love watching your elbows, knees, and feet poke out on my belly too! dad laughs a lot when he feels my belly move, i think it's because he's so amazed that he can feel you too! you guys are sure working hard! all day when i'm at work, i feel your wiggling around like crazy. sometimes i wonder if you are having wrestling matches inside or maybe you are just practicing your gymnastics? either way, keep it up. i need you girlies to grow big and strong! you must really wear yourselves out because by the time i get home and want daddy to feel you move, you must be sleeping because you don't wiggle so much at home :)

last night, it felt like i could literally feel you growing, my stomach felt SO stretched out. so this morning i measured my belly and it was a WHOLE INCH bigger than yesterday! i really did feel you grow!

thanks for being so nice to me thus far in this pregnancy. i have a little over two months, and i know we all still have some major growing to do, but if you could go easy on me, i'd appreciate it!

i love you kiddos so much already. it's amazing how much i love you even though i've never met you! but i remember the first time i felt you move (even before we knew there were 2 of you!) and i remember the first time daddy felt you move. you guys are so much a part of us already that daddy and i can't wait to see you!

we love you!

love, mom

delicious!

one of my favorite things to make in the summer is zucchini chocolate chip muffins!

dallin and i went to the murray farmer's market yesterday and came home with some delicious treats! they have juicy blackberries, sweet corn, peaches, eggplant, melons of every variety, and so many other things. my favorite part is to just look around and see all of the good things they have.

we came home with some zucchini yesterday, and to make sure we used it before it went bad, i made my favorite thing! i used this recipe with a few modifications, and they turned out wonderfully!

the recipe said that it only made 12 muffins and i wanted more, so i doubled the recipe. but instead of using 1 cup oil, i used 1/2 cup oil and 1/2 cup applesauce. i think next time, i'll just use applesauce and see how that works. i added a quarter cup of flour as well to thicken up the batter. i actually got 3 dozen muffins out of the recipe as well, which was nice because we had some extra to give away!

happy summer cooking!

what are some of your favorite summer treats?

this week

this is what dal is doing this week:

this is what i'm doing this week:

i think he got the better deal. don't you?

modest is hottest

dear old lady patrons of the park center-

i appreciate your dedication to staying fit in your golden years. i enjoy watching you do water aerobics and march in the water to patriotic music. i can only hope that i am as active as you are when i'm 70 and 80 years old.

however, i hope i am infinitely more modest than you...

now, before you get offended, please let me explain.

dallin and i started coming to the community rec center to exercise. being pregnant, one of the only things i can do right now is swim. now, i love swimming laps, so i quite enjoy my time at the park center.

however, imagine my shock the first day i entered the locker room to see all of you ladies naked! some of you were small and skinny, others were not so small and not so skinny, but all of you were covered in wrinkles and rolls! none of which i wanted to see!

so, dear ladies, please, for the sake of all of us, use the changing rooms to change, and maybe you could shower at home next time? or at lease close the curtains that are provided in the shower room? i know you guys love to talk, but if you can't hear each other through those flimsy flower curtains, wait until you are done showering and all dressed again!

we are told all our lives that modesty is important, and even though you are old enough to do whatever you want now, i still think that modesty is as important as ever!

i'm pretty sure you don't want to see me naked, and as much as i admire you, i don't want to see you naked either!

so please, from the pregnant lady, do me a solid and keep all of that lovely skin covered up!

love,

me

crafty

i copied this idea from a super creative friend of mine. visit her blog here.

while mine didn't turn out as cute as hers, i was pretty pleased with the result.

i bought the flip flops at joann's for $1.50 and the spool of black ribbon (i have tons left over too, for future projects) for about $3.00.

i made the flowers using this tutorial, except that i used about 15-20 inches of ribbon so that i could make the flower bigger.

then i super-glued the flowers to the top of the flip and that was it!

24 weeks