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Driving in a Storm!

So I made kind of a bad judgment last night. I decided to drive from my House in Roy to my moms house in West Valley. I am spending Thanksgiving with them this year while Hyatt is in Afghanistan. When I started to drive it was snowing lightly but the wind was blowing pretty strong. As I got on the freeway it started to snow harder. I was very cautious about how fast I was driving as it grew darker. There was not very many cars on the road so I didn't have to worry to much about staying in any lines. I got on to Legacy highway and the sun had gone down and it was almost impossible to see because the snow was now coming down extremely fast and there was lots of it. It got to the point where I could barely tell where the road ended and the shoulders started. It was getting bad and there was a build up of sleet on my windshield wipers. I had about a 3 in. space where I could still see out my window so I pulled over and cleaned off my windshield wipers. That helped till I got to about the I-80 west exit on I-215 and then it happened. The Sleet build up on the windshield wiper was so bad that my windshield wiper stuck to the frozen sleet on the left side of my windshield and Broke. I carefully pulled off to the side of the road and got out to try and switch the passenger one to the drivers side. As I was trying to take off the other one a Highway Patrol Officer stopped and came to help me. She was able to get off the other windshield wiper and we went around to the other side of the car. As she was putting the windshield wiper on for me, that one broke too. I didn't know what to do. I thought about calling my mom to come get us but the Officer said that in a storm like that we couldn't just leave the car there. She suggested turning up the defroster all the way and continuing to drive really slowly. She said that she would follow me till I got to a place to get new windshield wipers. So I started to drive and I couldn't see at all. But then I had an Idea. I rolled down my window and took the windshield wiper and used it to wipe off the windshield with my hand. so for about 6 miles I drove rolling my window down about every 30 sec. to wipe off my windshield. A frozen Arm and 6 miles later I pulled into a checker Auto parts and bought new windshield wipers. I know that I would have not made it to my moms house if I wouldn't have said a prayer before we left. I feel blessed that I was able to make it "Home" safely. I know that the Lord gives us trials so that we can learn. The Lesson I learned was... Don't try to drive in a snow storm. And Always try and have an extra pair of Windshield Wipers with you when you are going to try to drive through a storm.

Oh the JOYS of Pregnancy!

So this last Wed. I went to the hospital in excruciating pain. Come to find out, I have Gall Stones and will now need to have my Gall Bladder removed. However, My Dr. thinks it wise to wait till I am at least 37 weeks to even attempt to get it removed. I am 32 weeks now and I have been watching what food I eat. I have switched to fat free most everything and I am staying away from high fatty foods as well as fried food. Plus side is I lost 4 lbs. in the last week. Minus side is I can no longer eat anything that I crave. (Except Yogurt.) Also a negative is that I can have that same pain anytime I eat the wrong thing. Like tonight, I was eating some tortilla chips with the boys and all of a sudden I am doubled over in pain. This time it only lasted for an hour, thank goodness. the first time it happened the pain lasted for about 3 hours. My Dr. gave me a prescription for Lortab but I cant pick it up till tomorrow. I basically have to hope that I don't have too many more episodes in the next 5 weeks or hope that my gall bladder doesn't decide to go septic on me. That would require emergency surgery and that can put me at risk of going into pre-term labor. I think that I am going to try and be optimistic about this and do my best to keep healthy. I mean heck, whats 5 weeks on a no/low fat diet going to do but help me eat better and maybe continue to loose some weight. Wish me luck!!!

Our New House!!!

Outside front.
Kitchen

Kitchen still.

Dining Area

Front Entry

Front Room (just off the entry)

Family Room (just off the Kitchen)

Aview of the Kitchen from the Family Room

Downstairs Bathroom

Master Suite

Backyard.

RV Pad on the West side of house as well as the shed in the backyard.

So What does everyone think? We are super excited to move in and we cant wait to make it our own.

All The Excitement Going On!!!

Well to start off, Andrew and Kaleb are getting so big. They love to do stuff together, but at the same time they are both so different from each other, that it is sometimes hard for them to get along. Andrew is 4 and will be going to preschool this year. Kaleb will be 2 this year and loves to eat and get into things. Andrew loves to talk and make up stories, and Kaleb is into climbing on things and getting into everything. Andrew is my little Sunshine Boy and Kaleb is my Chunky Little Monkey. I love my kids but I am finding it a lot harder to keep up with them lately.

On November 25th 2009 we found out we are gonig to have a 3rd. I am just about 20 weeks along now and we should be able to find out what we are having on Tuesday. I am pretty sure that we are having another Boy, however, Hyatt and Andrew are pretty convinced that it is a girl. Andrew is already telling everyone about his little sister. We dont have a boy's name picked out yet, but we have had a girls since before Andrew was born. Kirana Kelsey McDougal. So If you have any Boy name suggestions we welcome them.

We recently put Andrew into swim lessons and he is loving it. He doesn't really like being on his back, so we need to work on that. But as long as he has his Goggles on he will swim with his face in the water. He loves to jump into the water from the edge of the pool and he loves to float on his belly as long as he can touch the bottom when he is standing. We are going to be taking a short break from lessons so that we can make sure that nothing interfears with our next adventure.

We are going to be moving into our new house sometime in April. Our closing date is currently set for April 8th. We are really excited. It is a 4 bedroom/3 bathroom house on a corner lot. The house sits on just about half an acre of land so our backyard is huge! We are currently taking donations for the Hot Tub that we want to put back there. ;) The kitchen is fantastic and we hope that we will get a lot of people who want to come visit us. We will try to post more pictures when we actually get to move in.

All in All, life is really busy but we have so much fun stuff to look forward to. We hope that everyone is well and we look forward to what else life will bring our way.