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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John Keats
This is my new favorite flower and I can’t for the life of me find out what it is!!! I am going nuts! Does anyone know what it is?? I am in love with it! It is all over the internet as the “Enigmatic Flower” but that is not what it is called. Whoever knows what it is gets a free picture of Cali!
Well, Jace ripped the screen off my laptop, so I have been computerless for almost two weeks! It is amazing how far behind you get in two weeks. So, I will just give a brief synopsis. Acctually, I don’t even remember what has happened these past two weeks except that my whole family was together for the first time in a year! Lia and Justin’s family flew in from New Haven last week and my dad flew in from Ohio and the rest of the family drove up from St. George and we had a great time just being together!
Other than that, I started school this past Monday– I just have my thesis class Monday and Wednesday for one hour and that’s IT. It was going to be a piece of cake, but Trevor just found out he has to move back to Ukraine until I graduate. Super sad. We don’t like how much he is away from Jace during these extremely influential years so we decided the best thing to do was for Jace to move with him and then Cali and I would join them in Ukraine once I graduate December 16th. That is sooooooooo long away and I am going to miss them both like crazy– especially Jace. Trevor is always away on business, but I have NEVER been away from Jace except when Trevor and I are on vacations. So this is going to be a very long three months.
Trevor has to go to New York this month for work, and we were just going to stay here since I have school, but since he is going to be in Ukraine for so long, we all decided to go with him to New York so we can spend as much time together as a family before we’re split up again. My professor is SUPER awesome and is totally working with me so that I can leave for this next month. HOORAY!!! So we will be in New York until October 1st, then Trevor and Jace fly to Ukraine and Cali and I drive back to Utah and I start back in school. PHEW!
In Cali news, she will be 8 weeks tomorrow!!!!! Where has the time gone!??!!? It seems like yesterday I was bringing her home from the hospital!!!! She is such a precious little girl and is SO good. She continues to sleep ALL the time, and pretty much only wakes up to eat. She sleeps all through the night and for that I will love her forever.
To celebrate her seven week birthday, we went camping up Spanish Fork Canyon. She was SO GOOD! She slept in the tent all night and we had a blast! Jace loved it to death. It was SO awful because I forgot I had a doctor’s appointment the next morning until the reminder went off on my phone while we were still sleeping, so we had to pack it all up and rush to my doctor and I was so filthy and smelled like smoke and I looked like a hobo. It was SO embarrassing. I am sure they thought that we were living in a tent in the middle of nowhere, renouncing civilization. I hope they don’t call social services or anything. We all looked horrid.
She is starting to grow out of her newborn clothes! She is getting so big! She has already almost DOUBLED her birth weight! She was 6.9 lbs at birth and at her 6 week checkup she was 10 lbs!!!! She was in the 5th percentile for weight when she was born but now she is in the 50th percentile!! What an overacheiver!!!!!!
She can lift her head and doesn’t need it to be supported anymore, when laying on her belly she can move her head from side to side, she has started giving actual smiles, and she even laughs in her sleep sometimes. That little girl is so advanced!
All right! That is as caught up as I am going to get– once you hit day three of not posting, it’s all a blur. So I will just put up pics. Happy 8 week B-day, Cali Girl!
Last, but not least, here is my current favorite song. Holy cow, I LOVE it. Phenomenal.
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Yesterday was Cali’s 6 WEEK BIRTHDAY! I can’t believe how fast time is flying! I wanted to make her a beach dress for when we went to California, but we left a day early so I didn’t get a chance to make it. So I made her one for her 6 week celebration of breathing. It turned out SO CUTE. I have been looking for an all white, knee length, cotton dress for her and have not been able to find one ANYWHERE so that is what I made her. The flower is removable so I can totally accessorize it with her moods. It is fully lined and only took about 2 hours to make! I think I will make her a few more in super awesome fabrics. Oh how I LOVE having a baby girl!!!!!!!!!
If you want to make one, too, it is SO easy. I got one yard of fabric and kept it folded and then I cut a simple bodice (you can pretty much just trace the bodice of a dress you already have– babies are easy to fit (so cut two of the front and back so it will be lined). And then measure the bodice bottom, double that, and cut four rectangles (I just folded the fabric once more so I just had to cut one) and make sure it to cut it as long as you want the skirt (I did it 12″ long). This is the lined skirt. Take the back bodice piece and cut a slit down the back for the button closure or ribbon closure (zippers are a hassle I think).
Now sew the lining into the pieces so now you just have a bodice front, back, and the front of the skirt and back of the skirt and turn them all inside out so they are all “finished” with right sides out. Now take a piece of thread and cut it to the length of the of the bottom of the bodice and baste the front of the skirt and scrunch it until it it is the length of the bottom of the bodice. Pin it to the bottom with the ruffles on the outside and sew it to the front of the bodice. Do the same thing with the other rectangle on the back bodice piece. Now just put the front and back of the dress together and sew the sides of the skirt and the top of the sleeves and that’s it! It is SO easy and you don’t even need a pattern.
…here is a clip of her. WOW– three blog posts in ONE DAY. Talk about catchin’ up!
Hear ye, hear ye– presenting Jace’s first music video!
Awesome superhero capes Trevor's mom made for Jace.
Wow! It seems that whenever a lot happens, I totally quit blogging! The more bored I am, the more I blog. Well, Trevor got back from Ukraine so we celebrated by taking the kids to Disneyland. That is SO weird to say “the kids”. It makes me feel SO old. Anyway, we took off a day early so that we could spend some time in Las Vegas with Trevor’s family. It is always so much fun to see them! So we had a great time with them and then we took off to California.
We were supposed to spend the first day at the beach, but by the time we got to our hotel we were SO exhausted that we just chilled there for almost all the day. Then, near dusk, we decided to finally get to the beach and take some awesome pictures of Jace and Cali in front of the setting sun.
It was going to be great. Well, as we were going, the car all of a sudden DIED. We were able to pull to the side of the road amid all the California traffic and we were totally confused about what could be wrong with the car, so Trevor checked the oil and everything and everything was totally fine and then we realized that we were OUT OF GAS! Since it is pretty much impossible to run out of gas in a Prius, we hadn’t even thought of that! So we ran out of gas in the Prius.
HOW embarassing. That is the quintessential example of irresponsibility. But anyway, Trevor had me get behind the wheel and he pushed us all the way to a post office so we would quit blocking traffic and then he set out on foot to get some gas. Well, the first gas station he got to was Arco and they only take cash and he only had a debit card. He tried and tried to get just a gallon and then pay in five minutes after we got the car running but they were total punks and wouldn’t help him at all! They made him walk to the next gas station which was two more miles away!
I was terrified because Jace, Cali, and I were broken down in this abandoned Post Office parking lot and it was pitch black and I was sure we were going to be murdered. I had Trevor’s snow saw that he keeps in the car clutched in my hand the whole time. SO scary. I thought Trevor was going to be no more than 15 minutes but when he didn’t return for an hour and a half, I thought he had been mugged and left for dead. I was about to flag down someone for help when he finally came back.
Phew. So he put the gas in and the Prius wouldn’t register that we had any gas in because we were SOOOOO empty. So Trevor had to hike three miles back to the gas station, get another gallon, and try again. It wouldn’t registered with this next gallon, either, so Trevor pushed the car onto a hill and pointed it downward so all the gas flowed to the front, and then he started jumping on the car, bouncing all the gas down the pipes. FINALLY the car registered that we had gas and all was well. But we were exhausted from the ordeal, got a bunch of fast food, and vegged in the hotel for the rest of the night.
The next day we went to Disneyland and Jace LOVED it! It was SOOOOO FUN!!! I had Cali in a harness the whole time and she just slept. She was such a good girl! I would just had to feed her every three hours and other than that, it was as if she wasn’t even there. We all were able to go on most of the rides together. There were only a few that they wouldn’t let Cali on, so on those ones Trevor and Jace went alone and I just waited. Jace even went on Splash Mountain!! We were SOOOOO proud of him! He was terrified out of his mind, but he just sucked it up and did it. He didn’t even cry. He didn’t want to do it ever again as long as he lived, but at least he didn’t cry!
Cali was the princess of Disneyland and everyone wanted to look at her and talk about her, and ask me about her. We were total celebrities. haha They even would let us go to the front of the lines and stuff because of her.
Toy Story is Jace’s current favorite movie so he was ELATED when we were able to meet Woody and Jesse. We had to stand in line for forever before it was our turn and Woddy and Jesse were doing pictures and being nice and everything, but when it was our turn, they thought Cali and Jace were so cute that they played with Jace and Cali for like 10 minutes. Woody stole Jace’s sucker and ran away and Jace had to catch him and he just did all kinds of things. They made it so memorable for Jace!
Everything was totally awesome, but my favorite thing was the fireworks show at the end. We staked out a place right in front of the castle so that we had a fantastic view of the whole show. When Tinkerbell and Dumbo flew over the castle, Jace couldn’t take it anymore, and he passed out from over stimulation. It was all so real and his little three year old mind couldn’t take anymore magic. It was so sweet. The fireworks show was absolutely breathtaking and magical.
We went to Huntington Beach the next day. We have SO many memories at Huntington. It was so awesome to be there with TWO kids! The US Surf Open was there the previous week so they had tons of US Open stuff for sale so Trevor was in heaven buying all the surf stuff. Cali rubbed all the sunscreen off her nose while we were there and got a sunburn on her little nose. So sad.
After the beach we went and saw some of our friends and we stayed there too long so we had to drive ALL NIGHT to make it to a wedding breakfast in Salt Lake the next morning! We couldn’t stop at all or else we would have missed it. So Trevor drove as long as he could and then I took over outside of Vegas and I drove us all the way there, making it in record time. We stopped at Grandma and Grandpa Chapman’s house in West Jordan to get ready and made it to the Joseph Smith Memorial Building just in the nick of time! The breakfast was DELICIOUS and totally worth 10 hours of no sleep. But afterwards, we drove straight to our house and passed out cold until we were awaken by my family who had come up for Cali’s blessing the next day.
So we had a great time playing with my family and the Chapman family, and then the next day we blessed Cali and had a barbecue for lunch. Lunch was AWESOME– thanks for helping so much everyone! Cali was SO good during her blessing. She was being fussy right before Trevor was supposed to take her, so I was worried she would get really bad during the blessing, but she fell right asleep! She is seriously such a good girl! Trevor gave her a beautiful blessing and Cali looked beautiful in her dress. It was perfect!
It was such a fun, busy, week! This really should have been three blog posts, but oh well. Yesterday Trevor had to unexpectedly leave for Denver for a week, so it is just Cali, Jace, and I again. He will be in Denver each month for a week and then Ukraine each month for a week, so we only have him two weeks out of each month. It is a total bummer. He is a busy guy. But we are thinking he might start taking Jace to Ukraine with him so he can spend more time with Jace. That will be so fun for Jace!
OH! Also, on the way to California, we did Geocashes! We just started doing them about a week ago and they are SOOOOOOO fun! We found a few on the way down and then planted one of our own outside Joshua Tree National Park. If you are over in that neck of the woods, try to find ours! It is called “Red Scramble”. That is our new family hobby– we feel like pirates hunting for buried treasure. SO FUN!!!
As I was getting Cali ready for the day this morning, I could not stand how incredibly ADORABLE she was just laying there in her diaper on the bed. Oh my heck, SHE IS SO CUTE! I seriously can’t stand it!!!!!!! So I had to snap some pics. I LOVE THIS GIRL! The only thing cuter than a naked baby in a diaper is a naked baby in a diaper with a bow. Missed opportunity. Bummer.
And then we went to the park and they were adorable there, too. These little stinkers are totally my favorite things.
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