Columbus Picture Update

While we were in Columbus I didn't blog much and it was tricky to know what we were up to. So here is just a fun short little post of a bunch of random pictures from our last couple of months in Columbo (this is not a spelling error).

Shopping

Their relationship.

Using our fancy blender to make smoothies

One of the only ways we got fresh air during the winter. 

And yes it was just as dreary as it looks. Bleh!

Macy entertaining herself on a chair in the Amish panorama art room.

Seriously she played on that chair for like 45 min.

Visiting Amish country with David's parents. 

David was working as usual.

Macy and her bag from Amish country.

Free ice cream at Dairy Queen in Columbus 

Sitting by the side of the road getting cars to honk and eating his ice cream with some cute girls he just met.

Lots of dinners with the Sister Missionaries. I think we had the elders over like twice in the last year because David was rarely home when they would have come over.

Green pasta for St. Patrick's

Wearing some green.

Fun with friends.

Our friends from Toledo (who lived in Dayton) visited us! Davie and Clara are a little over a year apart so they never really played with each other, BUT this time they did. It was so fun!

He is so smart and also obsessed with my glasses. 

Lots of cereal. About twice a year I go all out and buy a bunch of sweet cereal. 

New bike she got for Christmas. 

Davie loves this jacket. So does everyone who sees him in public. 

He always wants to ride under the cart. 

April General conference. Wearing the little outfit Grandma got her.

Grandma is always sending him stuff that doesn't fit yet :)

Touching the stereo and video equipment. 

ALWAYS touching the stereo equipment. ALWAYS. I finally freaked out one day I ripped out all the chords and set the receiver and playstation on top of our TV stand.

I have to carry my cup around the kitchen. My milk is better that way.

Stairs can pose a risk to a child's life. So of course kids love them.

Bored at church so she feels perfectly comfortable taking Daddy's phone without asking.

Hangin' with buddies at church.

Napping

Cute matching church outfits.

Cute bow tie.

We went to church at the building right next to the Columbus temple and we passed the temple almost daily. I loved it and I loved it even more when Davie would announce it every time we passed the temple.

Using mailing address stickers the way they were meant to be.

Sticker mustache. 

One cool chick.

Wicked

This post is a long time coming and let's face it no one probably really even cares anymore, BUT here I am writing about it anyways. In May after we (our graduated siblings and our family) all went to Disney World, David's mom planned a couple of days for us in New York City to see two Broadway shows and do a little sight seeing. I was actually not looking forward to this potion of the trip. At the time I really wished we didn't have to re-pack AFTER going to Disney and accumulating more stuff only to fly to NYC and stay in a smaller hotel. Add my fear of flying two more times (it was actually 4 because of the layovers) with a little boy who had been throwing up every flight and I was actually quite irritated. I know, I know I was literally complaining about my blessings and opportunities but packing two kids around on airplanes and in big cities is not ideal. Not to mention the fact that I really don't care that much about big cities like New York.

So there I was annoyed all the way around and to top it off my MIL had bought tickets for us to see Wicked... ugh, I was like wut ev! The tickets are free right? The reason behind me being so negative was varied. I'm a little bit of a reverse culture kind of person. When skinny jeans became popular I didn't like them, so I didn't wear them for quite some time. When flats became popular I hated them forever (I still can't believe they are as popular as they are it's been like 10+ years). Some of it is just to not follow other people and some of it is because I genuinely don't like MANY of the "new" trends at first.

 Wicked has a similar story for me. I won't go into vast details but during High school in drama class there were people I liked and others that I did not for any number of reasons. When wicked came out it was huge! Some of the kids I did not like had gone to NYC to see it, some with their families and some for a Drama club field trip. Either way there were girls that loved the show that I did not like and they talked about it all the time. You could say I was experiencing a bit of transference. I didn't like these girls and I was transferring that dislike to Wicked. 

Going into the show I had low if not almost no good expectations, I was sure I was not going to like it. I should also add that stories, movies and TV shows today often love to have the "twist" in the plot be the "bad" guy is actually a "good" guy and the "good" guy is actually a horrible person. I don't like that. I think it's confusing and that many times our culture does that to make kids think that bad people are not actually bad. To a point this is appropriate because black and white situations are not common, but not the way our society portrays it nowadays. I was sure the show was going to be about how horrible the wicked witch of the West was and yet somehow she was also simultaneously the "good" guy. 

Totally random- Look! It's Roy! This add was in our playbill and I was totally wishing we could go see it!

Brian and Anna (they liked it too)

I'm pretty sure there are only about 3 people reading this post still. So I am going to go end this quickly without talking about the plot other than to say I did not feel like wicked did this. For those of you who have seen it you know what I mean and for those of you who haven't... well you SHOULD definitely see it. I LOVED the show. I thought it was great! I loved the music, the characters the story and I even cried a little at the end. I was so glad I went! Thank goodness for a Mother in law who forces you to do things (Haha I'm kidding ;). This literally ended up being my favorite part of the whole trip. Who'da thought?!

Moral of the story? Try new things. Wow, you would think I had learned that by now.

Hypocrisy

Recently I have realized I am super annoyed when my friends don't update their blogs. I mean how am I supposed to know what's going on with them if they don't write blog posts? Or be entertained when my friends only update their blog once a month... then I realized I've been just as bad lately AND worse. It's been over 2 months since I updated on here and I'm ready to admit that it's not to lack of time. It's due to my desire to veg. So here is my promise to do better, at least for now. 

So what is there to say? The kids and I have been in Idaho Falls for almost a month now. I bravely flew solo from Columbus. The saddest part about our vacation to family this year is that David will not be joining us. He has several bad rotations in a row between November and February. Our plan for a while now has been to come out for Christmas this year and since money was tight we realized quickly that would be our only visit during this year. The original plan was for the babies to come with me and david would join us and his family for Christmas (or Thanksgiving) however short of a time. Then David was given another Intensive Care Unit rotation, and several surgery rotations in a row and now we are in Idaho and he is and will be in Ohio. No visiting for him (BIG sad face).

So what's happened this year? I know we aren't to the end of the year yet but I'm so far behind on it all I might as well create a list re-cap. This list is not exactly in order, but almost.

1. We came home from Idaho in January 3 days late due to the polar vortex in Ohio.  

2. I started my last school semester! And so did David!!

3. I experienced my first level 3 snow storm.

4. David's brother Brian and his wife Anna have their little boy! Our first nephew!

5. I had my 3rd baby and my 1st girl!

6. We found out that David matched, and that we were moving to Columbus this year and Orlando in 2015.

7. We watched a LOT of Veronica Mars and I procrastinated my 25 page thesis paper for a LONG time.

8. Macy has COLIC. (so much crying)

7. I graduated! 

9. I added Georgia to my list of states visited.

10. David, Brian, Anna, Davie, Baby Brian, Macy and I all go to Disney World to PARTAY!

11. Then we go to New York. 

12. I attended my first and second Broadway musical. AMAZING! One of theses days I will write more about that, it was my favorite part of the whole trip. 

13. I add New Jersey to my list of states :)

 

14. David graduates medical school. WAHOOOOO!!

15. Macy gets blessed. 

******WE SOLD OUR FIRST HOUSE!!!!!*****

 

Bonus we only had 3 people look at our place before we sold it. Thank goodness 

because those viewings were ROUGH on us! Apparently we do no live life in show mode.

16. We move to Columbus

17. David's first rotation as a Pee-on is the ICU and it's basically horrible.

18. Macy STILLLL has COLIC!!!

19. Macy starts to crawl way earlier then expected and is super good at it. 

20. David and I celebrate our 4 year anniversary, separately. So far our only tradition is to celebrate it separately. We are very romantic like that. 

21. David's brother Mike and his wife Lauren have their baby! I now have TWO nephews!

22. Macy, Davie and I spend a TON of quality alone time together. 

23. My least favorite rotation of David's is night float. Basically David works all night and then comes home and needs to sleep all day. It's horrible and I hate it. Also my kids are really loud.

24. We decide to start to potty train Davie. We took the 3 day approach and it works out REALLY well. It's been great. 

25. Macy was waking up several times a night for about 4 solid months. Which left this mama way too tired way too often. 

26. This leaves David and I super lazy and we spend most of our time together vegging out and watching Biggest Loser whenever we have free time.

27. Macy turns 6 months old and slowly starts recovering from her constant crying. 

28. Davie is getting so BIG, talks so well, and can be so incredibly sweet. 

29. We did nothing for Halloween, because we invited our friends over to play games. Then on actual Halloween (in Ohio they schedule what days communities get to trick or treat) it was horrible cold and rainy AND David and I just didn't want to deal with it. Grade A parents right here.

30. We all kissed David good-bye and got on an airplane to visit family for the next two months. 

Annnnd there you have it! That's the basics of what has been going on around here. So admittedly even though I have been busy and lazy those are not the only reasons I have not been blogging. Can I just say right now that I almost never ever write a blog post that isn't thoroughly thought through first. This year I got comments on a post that were quite rude and most likely from someone who I'm honestly quite shocked even reads my blog still. I also got deleted as a friend by someone on Facebook after I wrote a VERY personal, VERY long (and in my mind well thought through, as in months before I finally published it) blog post. WOW. To say I was shocked was an understatement. And while I might like to think I have thick skin, I most definitely do not. Imagine how a punch in the face feels because that is what it felt like.

I write my blog for my family first and for my friends second. Without blogs and Facebook I would feel totally alone sometimes. For those of you who have never lived a long way away from family and close friends for longer than a year you have no idea the kind of joy silly things like blogs and Facebook can bring someone. I'll openly admit that I often imagine deleting my blog and Facebook accounts and then I remember that without those I would never know what is going on in the lives of people I care about. I LOVE seeing my friends babies, your new houses, the fun places you go and any and every other fun thing you post on Facebook/blogs. I fully enjoy knowing the things you are struggling with are the same as mine and lastly I just like feeling as though I still get to be a part of your life. Even if it's just in text on a screen, it means something and I enjoy it.