Cool *New* Photos

Great Great Grandma Green as a child...3 years old if I remember right. This picture has definitely seen better days.
Grandma 'Beth' Palfreyman I absolutely love this photo of her when cropped in you can see the absolute look of joy on her face.

My amazingly beautiful grandmother


Ferdinand the Bull!!!

Grandma Green in her school days (that is her on the right)

"The Three Little Girls" My grandmothers aunts, trust me the family understands when I call them that.

Grandma Green beauty shot.

Well so they might not be all THAT new, but they are new to me and most of my family. I have been sitting on these babies for about two months now but it is officially time to let the cat out of the bag...also I am just excited to share them and this is the best way I could think of to do it.

Hormones

To begin I am just going to warn you right off the bat. No I am not pregnant. I just hate hormones (the ones that make me moody). I am blaming it all on hormones. My poor husband has had to deal with me snapping and crying all weekend. It all climaxed today as we prepared for our friends to come over for dinner. The house is mid level clean. Once David is up and about for the day I tell him (and type it out on the computer stickynote) our to-do list for the day. He then proceeds to agree to help and fixes breakfast. In the meantime I become very sleepy and start to doze on the couch. David tucks me in and tells me to sleep as he completes my list.

Twenty minutes later.....I wake up and remember that I need to lay out dough for our rolls. As I enter the kitchen I realize that while he has started a load of laundry he is reading an Ikea catalog. Something that I know will keep him distracted for hours. I groan and tell him to sit down and enjoy said catalog. He immediately puts it away like a scolded child and begins cleaning the kitchen. At this moment in time I really just want to yell at him to leave it all to me, knowing full well that I can not accomplish it all on my own. He stands his ground and I stalk away to the living room. About fifteen minutes later he follows me to find me curled up on the couch staring into space. Smart man that he is he immediately asks what is wrong and holds me as I break down and tell him what a horrible person I am, how I am lazy and need to grow up but can not do everything on my own.

When I have moments like these I realize that maybe, just MAYBE I am not ready to have children. I really need to woman up and grow up...stop bein so lazy ya know?

Continuing with tirade....After I calm down he finishes the kitchen as I fold some laundry, he sweeps and mops the bathroom, takes out the trash, and vacuums most of the house. I begin to prepare for church. He gets ready for Church and in a crazy attempt to kiss me, which I try to dodge we fall back on our bed and break it....again. Yeah this is the second time we have fallen on the bed and broken it....you would think we would learn.

*Mental note: Fix bed tomorrow....lots of supports.

We finish getting ready for church and head on down. Only to have me snapping about his driving and inability to park. URG I was so mad. I then rush into the church, trying to keep my skirt from working its way up my legs, realize we have missed the Sacrament, and give up on everything. I turn to him and ask to go home. He gets me home lets me crash on the couch and leaves to clean the business building so I don't have to. Honestly I do not deserve this man.

To Do:

As I am a list person and constantly write tidbits down to make sure I accomplish them, I hereby write my to-do list for all to see....you see that way I HAVE to accomplish the things on this list or people will know that I have been lazy. Therefore today I will:

Clean Bedroom.
Pick up living room.
Clean couches.
Dust.
Vacuum.
Dishes?
Scrub Floor (s...including bathroom)???
Clean bathroom?????
Organize Office??
Clean the B.B. (kd lingo)
Take a shower.
Sleep......


Okay so we all know it wont ALL get done but here's to getting most of it done....right?

Update

Just a quick note to update this past week. It was not as bad as I had expected it to be. Things went surprisingly well and I even received a 'promotion?' basically just additional responsibility that is running quite well. David is loving his classes and is working hard to 'brown nose.' His course syllabus literally states that only those students who go the extra mile without being asked will receive rewards of paid externships and such in the end.

The weekend is finally here and we are taking an opportunity to relax. We lounged in bed until like...12ish and are now heading out to grab a bite to eat with a gift card we were given. Hopefully things will continue to go well and we can find a sense of normalcy in our new circumstances.

P.S. David's cousins are expecting! Due August 15th there will be a new Dexter in town. I am SO happy for them!

Day 1

Well December was a total flop...blogging wise of course. After kicking the depression bug I lept straight into the holiday spirit and rode that train as far as it would take me. Sadly the train has derailed and it is now back to school for the Dexters. David has officially started his Culinary program he seems excited...I think.

Holidays...Shmallidays

Stress much? This past month has been one of stress, sickness, depression, marital discovery, drama, basically your normal December.

Thanksgivin

Thanksgiving Take Two:

Well here is the shake down on our second Thanksgiving together. Traditionally my family takes turns seeing family during the Thanksgiving season, last year we spent with my family for half of the day and then the second half with his. We then flew to Alabama for about two weeks to spend the Christmas Holiday with his family. As mentioned in earlier posts I am very excited to have our first 'at home' holiday season.

To hit the insanity off we had our first official Dexter year. After a stressful past two weeks (sliced finger open, Grandfather fell off a tree and broke his skull resulting in six staples, complications with fall causes need to surgery, computer goes officially kaput must buy a new-yes cause THAT IS what I wanted to do with all of my money- I mean I didn't really mean to drop it...it was all a surprise phone call...the shock made me do it, insanity preparation for thanksgiving begin). All in all we held together pretty well...I think. David really stepped up and helped out around the house. We were able to get almost everything finished that I was worried about (did I mention my four page to-do list? Oh well, too late now.) I am really blessed.



I was asked to make pies this year (same as last) and once again tried to figure out the recipe for the custard pies from the restaurant I use to work at. I thought I did pretty good but the family poo-pooed the attempt, at least David's family was appreciative. There was a little confusion about making a cream pie, guess we will fix that one next time though. After a dinner full of family and funny stories we took the little kids to the park. This park has so many slides and fun fun stuff, I kinda wish that I had played there when I was a kid. After a while we noticed the smallest member of our party was shaking with cold so we headed back to grandma's house to play several serious rounds of Candy Land. Honestly this was probably my favorite memory of the entire day. David's brother Stephen and I have never really spent a ton of time interacting together and during our game of Candy Land (which he totally trashed us all) we had a really great time!

The next day (or rather later that night) David and I headed out for our traditional day after Thanksgiving shopping. This has long been one of my personal traditions, one I share with a few friends and my mother, but this is only David's second year. Last year he was very shell shocked and struggled to keep up in the throngs, but after training at Disneyland he promptly took control this year and scored himself a new television, portable hard drive, and well thats about it. by the end of the day we were completely exhausted. David was able to squeeze in a nap and then ventured out later that night for a movie with his family.