Our new mattress

We had a great Labor day weekend, how about you? My favorite part was having an extra day not to work! :) But in addition to that, Matt and I went out and purchased a brand new mattress! We have been talking about going out and buying a new one for quite some time, but it always gets put off. Up until now our mattress has been fine, it is just old. Well, lately I haven't been getting great sleep, because every morning I have been waking up with extreme back pain, and has really been affecting me all day. To resolve the issue temporarily I spent about 5 days sleeping out on the couch. Our couch is REALLY comfortable and quite frankly I could sleep there any time, but it was kind of weird sleeping away from Matt. So, we finally gave in and went shopping!

We went to Custom Comfort Mattress, and we had a really great experience. And we had the mattress delivered the same day. So...here are a few pictures of our adventure (what kind of blogger would I be if I didn't take pictures of this!?!)

This has been my bed for the last week. It is super comfortable! (That beautiful afghan was knitted by my Grandma)

Here I am at 25 weeks. It isn't the best picture of me, but it does show my tummy!Out with the old!Here is Matt, patiently waiting, in the bed frame, for our new mattress to arrive.

Here it is, our first mattress!

But, we didn't really figure that it was going to be WAY taller than the other mattress...I feel like a toddler trying to get up onto mommy's bed! HA! I still like it though. (Apparently we can get a shorter box-spring to accommodate, but I don't think we will).Hooray! We are so happy!

For the record, the bed is really comfortable and I am sleeping much better now. I think that my pregnancy isn't going to allow me to be perfectly comfortable, but it is much better than it used to be!

Out of the mouths of babes

I was babysitting my nephew, Tanner, last week and took him to an activity. While we were there I sat next to a friend, Angela. This is the conversation that took place:


Me: Tanner, tell her who is in here (pointing to my stomach)
Tanner: Oh, that is my cousin
Angela: How did the baby get in there (expecting a cutesie answer)
Tanner: Well, (holding up his hand to show a tiny circle) there is this little thing that moves, and has a tail and it goes to another thing, then the baby grows.
Angela: (a bit surprised), Did the baby come from Heaven? (again, hoping for a cutesie answer)
Tanner: (looking perplexed), No, it came from Matt!



HAHAHAHA! I just laughed and laughed. My little nephew is extremely educated! Go Tanner!

The Errand of Angels

You may or may not know that Matt has his own podcast, "Mormoncast." Lately it has been on hiatus, until this last week. Matt received a screener copy of a new movie called "The Errand of Angels." He did a movie review on his podcast. Go ahead and check it out. The movie was really good! I have included the movie review, but if you are interested in the podcast go to www.mormoncast.org



(Check out my other post for today, it is really important!)

Send Holly to Wicked

Hey everyone!! I have a friend from church, some of you may know her...her name is HOLLY!! In addition to being a wife and a mom to 3 boys, she is also a beautiful and talented woman that is currently in a competition, the Universal Studios Citywalk Wannabe Wicked competition . If you want to know all the details just visit her blog. She is currently a finalist and there is going to be online voting! I want to do all I can to help her WIN!

Voting starts August 13th, and you can vote as many times as you want. I will put the links up, and periodically will remind everyone to vote! Good luck Holly!

To view all the finalists go to the Sonicbids website, and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Click on "Holly Jones" and a profile window will pop up. Click on "video" and you will get to see a short video of Holly singing.

Here is the official website for the competition. Starting on the 13th, go vote as often as you can! The winner gets a walk-on appearance in "Wicked!" Pretty exciting!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TANNER!

Happy, happy birthday Tanner dear! Today is our nephew, Tanner's, birthday! Hooray! He is 6 years old today. This is the most recent picture I have of him, but I love it because it really shows his personality! He is a fun little boy, who is also very smart. It has been so much fun seeing him grow and learn. Some of my favorite memories of Tanner are him telling me that he has new teeth (he just wanted to let me know, because he "knew that I liked teeth" HA! And then one other time when he was about 4 years old, we were playing with a stethoscope. He was listening to my chest and then after he finished I asked him, "what do we do now?" His response was so hilarious: "We call another doctor!" I thought, oh dear, he is 4 years old and he thinks I need a 2nd opinion! EEP!

Well, he is spending his birthday up in Utah with my mom, so I am sure that she is loving having her grandson there. So, this is a long distance, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Where were you?

Ok, so most of us Californian's know that there was an earthquake today, that is no longer news. The earthquake originated in Chino Hills, but was felt from Oxnard to San Diego...strangely enough I have spoken to people who were in both of those cities. I was in Placentia, which is only 15 miles away...so we were rocking pretty good. I was working in a dental office. I had left my patient in the chair for a minute to go get her x-rays when it happened, so unfortunately my patient was alone, reclined in a dental chair. She got a little freaked out, luckily she was the last patient of the morning, and we had already finished her cleaning. So were you doing anything interesting when the earthquake hit?

So now, let me transition to a little question. Why are people so scared of earthquakes? I am not talking about the enormous ones that take down buildings and kill people, I am talking about the ones like today. 5.4 magnitude, no damage, no serious injuries, just a few things getting knocked down. I understand that if you aren't from an earthquake-rich part of the world that it can be a little scary, but if you have lived in California then you know what they are like, and you should know what to do. And any building built in California after the 1930s is built strong enough to withstand minor quakes, unlike buildings in small undeveloped countries where an earthquake can be devastating.
Today I had a lady spaz out on me. She grabbed my arm with her claws and like a death grip, did not let go! She left a mark. She was running back and forth like a crazy person during the earthquake and shouting (doesn't help that she is one of the employees at this office and her priority should be the safety of the patients). She actually thought an airplane was landing on the building. Then, we have to listen to non-stop coverage of the earthquake on tv, on the radio, etc. Can anyone explain to me why earthquakes are scary? Logic says: move away from anything that might fall and hurt you, and just hang on. That is really all there is to do (duck and cover!). *sigh*

P.S. I actually think earthquakes are kind of fun! I would have enjoyed this one if that lady hadn't been skewering my arm!

Poor Dad

My dad is in the hospital right now. Lately he has been having some kind of terrible abdominal pain and after 3 visits to the emergency room and a consultation with his gastroenterologist, they elected to remove his gallbladder. They weren't sure if the surgery would fix the problem, but when they got in there they did find that his gallbladder was pretty inflamed.

So, after this usually simple procedure, my a portion of my dad's right lung collapsed. YIKES! He is fine, but still, it isn't that much fun for him. The crazy part is that this procedure is usually outpatient, but he is still in the hospital 2 days later, going on three.

I am not sure what the point of me blogging about this is, but I just wanted to put it out there. Get well daddy-o!