Do you know what these mean?

I do! Or, at least, I'm learning what they mean. I'm taking an EKG class at work. I never wanted to learn these before because they always seemed so foreign and almost scary to interpret. But, I'm finding that they're actually not that difficult, and they're actually kind of fun!

Frustrating

Well, we may or may not get this house. We were pre-approved but now there is a problem with my income. I'm a float pool nurse, which means that I'm really not guaranteed my hours, even though the chances of being canceled here are really really low, but the underwriters are not wanting to count my income at all because of it! Didn't I tell everyone what a frustrating process I knew we were in for!

On a brighter side, Darci decided to roll over for the first time today. Now, there's no stopping her and the big pile of spit up that it causes!

Darci is 4 Months Old

Hard to believe, time is flying by. Darci's already 4 months old. She's doing great. She rolls almost all the way over from her back to her tummy, she just needs to figure out how to get her arms the rest of the way over. She's giggling and smiling and melting our hearts everyday.





And here are all 4 of the crazy kids!

We got a house!

Well, we finally got someone to accept our offer on a house! We're hoping to close by the end of May. It's going to be in the same ward/area as we are now. It's a 2-story 2130 sf house with 4 bedrooms upstairs and 2 living areas and a dining room downstairs. The backyard is landscaped and terraced and pretty neat. There's also a small basketball court area in the back. The bedrooms are small, we'll have to do bunk beds for the kids to share, but we'll easily be able to stay in the house for years. Now I have to start pricing out washer, dryers and fridges! Yikes!

We like our ward, so we're happy that we found something within the boundaries that is still relatively close to our jobs. Everyone's been great in our ward so far, so now we can get more involved without having to worry about moving out of the ward in a few months.

We went to Thatcher this last weekend. It was a long trip - 7 hours in the car. And I just have to brag about my baby for a minute. She is soooooo GOOD! The way there, we only had to stop 1 time to feed her, she took 2 naps and then just stared around and talked to herself. She was great. The way back we fed her twice because we left later after feeding her in the morning. She slept about half the time and the rest of the time just looked around. She is such a good baby. It may have something to do with her being just one baby at a time, but really she is so good. I could have several more if they were all like her.

Grandpa and Nana had fun with her, although Grandpa missed out on holding her too much because he was afraid of a little (OK, a lot) of spit of. I don't know what my problem was, but I only took 1 picture the entire time we were there! Here's Darci with Grandpa Martin.

Kevin was sick most of the time we were there. He threw up in the van when we were just 5 minutes away! He didn't throw up while we were there, but he had isues coming out the other side and complained about his tummy and was fussy most of the time. But not one accident in his pants! He's done so good in underwear. Derek face-planted off the monkey bars and has a small owie from that. Paige threw up in the van on the way home and is recovering today. Hopefully it will bypass Darci and Derek, but Tad is starting to feel it today at work!

Piggy tails and rooster hair

So Darci has crazy hair everyday. Some days she looks like Kevin, who also has crazy hair that does not stay down. Those are our rooster days. Other days, I put it up in piggy tails to match Paige. It's so fun being able to fix her hair when she's this young. Paige was well over a year before I could get piggy tails in her hair. Tad thinks we should shave it again to see if it grows in better, and sometimes it is really tempting.







Darci has also noticed her own hair. She'll reach up and grab it and hold on to it with her death grip because she still doesn't quite know how to let go. She's happy in this picture, but she wont be once she starts moving her hand too much and pulling on her hair. Oh, and Darci giggled tonight for the first time during her bath. It was way cute.

As a side note, I don't know if anyone has noticed my sidebar and the "Kiva" post there. It's a great charity that helps struggling people in poorer countries get loans for their businesses or whatever they need. You can donate money towards their loan and they slowly pay you back. We've made a few loans and they've all been paid back within about 6 months. Even if they don't get paid back, I figure that they could use the money so much more than we do. You have to loan a minimum of $25. Check it out. www.kiva.org

How wierd is this!

So I was at work yesterday and I looked out the window and saw a mountain and I thought to myself, wow, that's a really cool view of Camelback Mountain... After a few minutes, yes it did take me a few minutes, I realized that there was no way that was Camelback Mountain! I'm not in Arizona anymore! I think I need to get some sleep instead of staying up so late reading the Twilight books!

On another thought... it's amazing how wherever you are, you meet people that look like other people you knew somewhere else. They say everyone on this planet has a twin somewhere, but I think we have several twins, probably octuplets. It's just amazing to see how similar we all are even when we are all so different.

I'm glad to be back at work... I really missed it. This hospital is great... a little backwards in some ways (paper charting, overhead paging, shared rooms, 8-bed wards, and other things), but it is very modern when it comes to medical technology and procedures. I trained in the mother-baby unit yesterday and it was so fun to see all the little babies, but as a nurse you don't really get to enjoy them, you're so busy with everything else. There was a young couple there, probably late teens, that just had a baby. The father was so excited and loved that baby so much and was so sweet to the mother. Now I don't know what kind of life that baby will have, what kind of struggles it will go through, or if the parents will stay together, or what, but it entered the world so loved. For a brief moment in time, the world was a happy place.

More pictures

Here's some more of Darci sleeping with her bear.


Overall girls..... Darci loves talking and laughing with Derek