We're still here

I just wanted to post to let ya'll know we haven't fallen off the face of the earth. We are still chuggin' along. It just seems like not much is going on for us these days. I am currently just over 36 weeks pregnant. I was taken off work a week ago, so now I spend my days home with Joey (though I was only working while she was at preschool and on Fridays, so she was home with Ty then). I would tell you guys how the pregnancy is progressing, but I'm trying (and usually failing) to live by the Thumper rule. You know "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." Let's just leave it at this pregnancy has been tough, and the past couple weeks have truly stretched my patience.
My last day of work, my work threw me a surpise shower. There were things going on that made me wonder if they were up to something, but other things I was totally oblivious about. As they told me some of the things I was oblivious to, I started laughing. Like, they were hiding some important papers from me, so I'd have more work to do that last day, the shower card was passed in front of my nose a few times... things like that. They gave me some cute clothes, but the big thing they did for me, was they all went in on a nice stroller for me. They got me the Sit-n-stand stroller. I'm pretty excited about it, but haven't had Ty put it together yet cuz I know Joey will just want to play on it. The next day my friends threw me a shower. Again, I got lots of cute stuff for this little kid. He sure will be well outfitted and have tons of cute blankets (and they are all so soft).
I can't say we are ready for this kid to come, as I'm not sure what I still really need, but I can say, if he came right now, besides being over the moon about it cuz I wouldn't be pregnant anymore, we'd do all right. We have all the essentials now.
Ty was released from the Elders Quorum Presidency about a month ago. The whole presidency changed, and hopefully the new presidency doesn't have to deal with the problems that Ty and his friends did. So far, no new calling, and he is loving that. However, the executive secretary happens to be a family friend, and has spread word that Ty is free for a calling, so I'm not sure how much longer he'll be free.
Joey is loving pre-school! She constantly asks why she can't go every day. We barely walk out of the classroom when she is trying to tell me all that she did that day and show me all her work. They are working with her on how to write her name correctly in lower case letters. She's getting so excited that her "r" is getting better looking. She loves singing! She loves singing the songs for the primary program to practice. She is paranoid that she doesn't know them all. A friend of mine is in the primary and says that Jordan not only knows all her songs, but is likely to be the star of the program on Sunday. I can't wait to see her up there. It does make me sad cuz my baby isn't a baby anymore.
Well, that's pretty much what's going on with us. I'm not sure when I'll be updating again, but likely before long because Halloween is coming up, and I'm hoping to get cute pictures of Joey in her costume.

B-day gift

So, my birthday was over a month ago, but I'm just getting around to posting about the gift my wonderful hubby got me. Let's rewind first. About a year and a half ago, I discovered that it is possible to become allergic to white gold. That's what my wedding ring is made of. If I wear my ring for more than about 4 hours, my finger blisters and swells and hurts and itches... all at the same time. It takes about a week for the blisters to completely heal. So I haven't been able to wear my wedding ring ever since. Now to my b-day present. It actually came about a week early, but Ty was so excited about it, he couldn't wait to give it to me. He got me a new ring.

It is made of Tungsten Carbide, it won't scratch, the diamonds are inset so they won't hurt the baby, I love that it is a more grey color... basically it's perfect. He says that some day he'll get me a new ring that has a bigger diamond, but I love my ring now! Isn't he such a sweety?

Cookie Mojo

So I've totally lost my cookie mojo. From the time I was little, I loved making cookies. Ok, well I really liked making the batter, and eating the cookies, but hated actually cooking them (I grew up in a large family and always made at least a double, sometimes a triple batch of cookies... so it took FOREVER to cook them all). Anyway, I've totally lost my cookie mojo. I can't make a good cookie anymore. I dunno what happened. The last few batches have come out gross and hardly been eaten before we've decided they were hazardous to our health and just dumped them. I actually have a batch sitting on my counter that is a few days old now that even Joey won't eat. I'm so sad. I hope I find my mojo soon. If anyone has some good recipes, I'm willing to try new ones to help find it.