Crawling

Abbie has been crawling all day today and yesterday. The funny thing is she is faster going backwards that forwards. She is everywhere now. She was before but now she is even faster. I can't keep her out of places.

At first she would be up on both of her toes and try and crawl that way. Now she is on her knees but her right leg some times goes straight and pushes off of her foot.

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Jill's Quirks



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1- Organization, organization! It is bad I am an organized freak! At work I have a set place for every single thin down to certain papers. Now that I am only part time it has tested me on how much I will let other people sit at my desk and share with them with the way they like things. Now that I have kind of relaxed at work because of the situation my house pays the price of it. When I clean my house it is always going through things and alphabetic and in groups. For example all our movies are animated are in one group and alphabetized and the other movies that Abbie can't watch yet is in another group. Sheldon is completely opposite. He likes things clean but doesn't like to do it unless needed. He is perfectly fine if things don't have a specific place to be.



2- Stopping in the middle of something is not an option for me. If I am doing a puzzle like suduko or jig saw puzzle I will stay up as long as it takes to finish it. Sheldon has to keep telling me to stop when I am scrapbooking, drawing, and things like that cause I can't stop. I feel that if I stop and go back to it the next day or later in the day I will forget what I was wanting to do or something.



3- I*N*D*E*N*P*E*N*D*E*N*T I have to do things by myself. I have a hard time to ask for help, even when I was pregnant. I just recently rearranged our living room and I didn't want anyone to come over and help me move the big things. I didn't tell anyone because Sheldon always gets mad and says "I shouldn't do that I should leave it for him". Every once in a while it does get me into trouble. If I move a lot of big things the same day I end up being really sore the next few days.



4- I can't be late for a very important date. I can't stand to be late. I have to be at least five minutes early and sometimes I find my self being even earlier to things. It is so weird cause I don't know where I got it from. My mom is always on time and my dad is always late to things. My in-laws have their own time in things. I love them all but I am just weird in that department.



5- I am very competitive. I admit I can be mean or I don't talk when I lose. Sheldon and I share that trait. Sheldon is good at anything he touches and if I want to do something I always have to practice and learn how to do it. Let me tell ya that just adds to my frustration and motivation to beat him in everything!



6- It doesn't matter wheather it is warm or cold I have to sleep with covers and have plenty of pillows. I don't know what it is but I just can't get a good night sleep without them. I get really hot during the summer but oh well I guess. Sheldon thinks I am nuts. He has his central air just a blasting and a fan in our room going and some how he is still hot. Go figure.

Happy Birthday to my lil sis, Jackie!

I am so happy for my little sister Jackie, for her big 21st birthday tomorrow! Let me just tell ya that we are like any other set of sisters. We have our fights like siblings do and I have tormented her while we were growing up. The difference is how much I look up to my lil sis. Jackie is quiet the book worm. She is so smart and yet she brings the true meaning of "blonde" sometimes. She has gone through so much in life and I can't believe how she does it and with a smile too.

We have gone through losing a father and step dad all with in a 5 month span and Jackie was still in high school and yet she finished with her head held high. To be honest I would have just dropped a lot of things, which I did, and had a hard time to graduate. Jackie was able to get one of the best scholarships and man did she deserve it!

The biggest part is, she has had many surgeries on almost every part of her body it seems. We would tease her that she was just falling apart. I know it had to frustrate her so much but she could laugh with us. After the first or second surgery, I lost count, on one of her hips we found out she would have to go to Colorado to have a different surgeon see her because no one here could help her as well as this surgeon could. When she had another surgery from this doctor we found out she has a disorder with how her body heals itself. Which means if something happens to her and say she hurts her arm then her body can't fully heal without the help of surgery to help things along. I don't know what the disorder is called but I have never heard of this before. With all of this going on she is attending Weber State taking classes either online or at the University. The hardest thing is now she can't do the things that many people take for granted. She won't be able to play soccer, football, hockey, ice skate, etc with friends because she might do something to herself and to us it would just seem like something little.

I have never seen any with such happiness with life even when it seems it doesn't deal the best hand to ya. She is one of my heroes that I know I couldn't live without. She has made me think of life in a totally different picture. She has made such an impact on my life and I know she has in others. I hope she has the best birthday!

Abbie and Sheldon

Sheldon says he is so happy to have Abbie here. He always tells me it is hard to picture life with out her. It is so cute when they play together and I know, especially when she gets older, they are best buds!

Utah State Fair

Abbie was extremely good the whole time we were there. She watched the pigs as we walked by until one that was right next to her snorted really loud, catching her off guard, and scaring her. She was crying so we had to hurry through the rest of the pigs. Next were the sheep. Abbie was just watching them and we came up to sheep that was getting it's wool trimmed and she couldn't keep her eyes off it. When we got to the goats she didn't mind the noise and even tried to pet one but it walked away.

I swear every year you get so excited to go and then when you do end up going it isn't has big as you remember it to be. We went this year with our cousin Daniel Anderson and his wife Alicia. I thought we would be there longer that we were. We were able to see all the animals, walk through and see most all the booths and walk around the whole fair in about 1 1/2 hours. Over all it was fun though. Especially for Abbie getting to see the animals.

Tooth

Abbie got her first tooth in on Thursday this past week. Poor thing, they have been coming to the surface and then back down for quiet a while now. Finially, one has broken through! The surprising thing is she hasn't been too cranky over it. Every once and a while she will cry and grab her mouth but she has been the happiest little kid. Now I will never check her teeth by putting my finger and feeling for them. Man, I never knew that a little one could bite so hard.

Bows

My awesome and creative friend Kristi taught me how to make bows. When Abbie was born I tried to make bow but they never looked good. Then Kristi showed me a way that was fun and didn't take that much time. I had so much fun and so now I admit I am addicted. Yes, I make them all the time now. I haven't ordered the stretchy lace yet but I was too excited to have Abbie wear a couple of them so I decided to make my own headband. I made the one in the picture out of yarn and crocheting. The pink bow with the headband attached to it in the top picture was my first bow, the day Kristi showed me how to make them. The other pick bow was my second and so on. I have so much fun doing these. Thanks Kristi!

Abbie and Ellie

The Gardners are back! Sheldon has his partner in the gaming department, I have my friend back so we can hang out and do projects, and Abbie has Ellie back. At first she was hesitent but in the end she was fine. Ellie does make a loud high pitch noise and it really scared Abbie. Once she was sitting by my leg when Ellie made the noise and Abbie turned around grabbed my leg and started crying.

Labor Day weekend

Sheldon, Abbie and I went up to the Uintas with Sheldon's family, and the Andersons, and the Creamers. We had a lot of fun and it was a well deserved camping trip. Sheldon was able to ride his dirt bike a couple of times. The best part was spending time with family and of course fishing!

We went fishing up at butterfly lake. For the past 3 years I have gone I have never been able to catch a fish up there. I have when we have gone to Burnt Fork fly fishing but never at the lake. Well this year was different. I caught a big albino rainbow fish and a small rainbow. Abbie was talking and flapping her arms up and down getting so excited. She wanted to hold the worms but we didn't have any wipes to wipe her hands off after because she always ends up putting them in her mouth.

Oh my goodness, we had so many bags for just Friday night to Monday morning. Sheldon and I had one bag for our clothes, cooler for drinks, and another bag for snacks. Also, we had Sheldon's helmet and gloves for his bike, 3 pillow one for each of us, and chairs. Abbie on the other hand had the rest of the car packed. One bag for clothes and a couple of blankets, one for toys, a pack 'n' play, and one full of food seeing how she can't what we eat yet.

We had so much fun even when it rain the last night we were there and almost the whole way home. We even had snow in Evanston. Abbie the whole way home except for about 15mins, was asleep. It is sad that the camping season is over until next year.