Andrew the faker

So Andrew told me last night that on the night previous (Tuesday night in other words) when we had been laying in bed he pretended to fall asleep. We both do that, so I didn't think much of it, but I had forgotten that shortly after he decided to pretend snoring I audibly stated that I wished I could fall asleep so quickly. Quickly meaning within 2 minutes of laying down he is out like a light.

I didn't realize he was faking, although the thought did cross my mind. Well I guess he had decided that after a couple more minutes he would sit up in bed and try to scare me and tease me about how he had fooled me. Now I was sitting there listening to him tell me this and thinking he never did anything like that. His next sentence solved the puzzle. After he had that thought, he didn't remember anything else happening until he woke up at 3am for no particular reason. When he woke up, he thought about that fact that his plan certainly hadn't worked out too well. I laughed hysterically at that. Serves him right!

UPDATE: I guess this was confusing. Essentially Andrew was pretending to be asleep, but in fact he wasn't. He was going to fake a little longer and then scare me. Instead, he really did fall asleep until about 3am. Good thing too or I would have had a heart attack and gotten mad at him probably. :-)

Megan's birthday

Megan had a great birthday. We left around 1pm and drove to Lansing to see the capital. It looked like a capital of an older state. Very cool architecture and very old-style. Loved it. Wish more buildings looked that way. I don't enjoy the modern architecture as much, but that's OK cause I know others do. There is something for everyone. We got a free Baskin Robbins cone while in Lansing and then drove to Detroit and then into Bloomfield Hills which is where the Detroit temple is actually located. My goodness those are some rich people. Even the shacks were impressive. If it had been daylight after we got out I would have been snapping pics all over cause that's when we went through the impressive part of town (which I thought was what we drove through on the way there). I didn't get pics of those homes either, but maybe next time we go I will. I was floored at the whole thing. The temple itself is TINY!!! It is probably the size of the building we used to meet in for Church in Mesa. The baptistry is about 20 ft. from the entrance and off to the right through glass doors. Pretty cool. Andrew got to be the mouthpiece for both baptisms and confirmations for Megan and I. Megan went first on both accounts and then I followed. It was such fun and I wish we had been able to do more names. We went to dinner after we got out and then drove home, arriving just in time to see the temp outside hit zero and it was 10:30ish at night. We went to bed pretty quick after that.

On Monday I took Megan to get her ears pierced. She was super nervous and before she knew it, they were done. She cried a couple of lonely tears and then we paid and left. It went very well I think. We stopped by the dealership and showed them off to Andrew and then came home. Later Megan complained that her stomach was hurting, then still later she threw up. Then she did it again and again and once more for good show I guess. Thankfully it was all in the bathroom sink. She threw up several more times after that and only the one at midnight was on the carpet-all the rest in the bathroom (YEAH!). The one of the carpet was Sprite and water, so it was easy to clean-up. Andrew found online that in rare cases piercing the ears can cause equilibrium to be off and cause the stomach upset. While that might be what happened, she did have a small temp also, so we don't know for sure what the problem was but are glad she is feeling much better today. I kept her home, just in case cause I don't think doing that at school sounds like a very good idea. lol

This Saturday we are hoping to have a few people over for cake and ice cream and then her week of celebration will finally be over and we can move onto the next thing. I don't know why her birthdays always seem to last so long, but whatever I guess. You are only a kid once.

Blog, blog, blog

I'm not doing great at blogging, sorry about that. I shall keep trying and hope that someday I'll be really upon it.

I thought it interesting that blog sounds like blah. That's probably what my blog seems like.

I enjoy reading other blogs now and I hope that someday mine will be worth reading too. lol

We went sledding last Friday. It was tons of fun, but oh my goodness was it an adventure. We got there and thought it was pretty awesome to have the hill to our own. The other people that had been there left just as we were getting ourselves unpacked. We got our stuff and started to go up the hill. As we walked in front of the hill to the other side where it would be easier to go up the hill I slipped and fell. Wasn't too bad. We went up and as we climbed we noticed that there was black ice, but didn't think too much about it cause it wasn't the hill. We've had pretty warm temps the last several days and much of the snow had melted off. We just figured that would be good for compacting the snow we'd had previously had. So Andrew and I jumped on the large tobaggan and decided that we'd have a great ride. We really did too. Straight down, super fast, enough to get airborn at least four times and probably went a quarter of a mile at least and bumped ourselves several times. I lost my hat, but we laid back and laughed our heads off. It was awesome. We both wish that someone had been videotaping so we could post the aventure on You Tube. It was truly amazing. Megan's wasn't quite as great of a ride, but she had fun.

We all trudged up the hill again. When I was nearly there, Megan decided that she couldn't wait for me anymore and went down. She had a good run, as did Andrew who went down solo. I waited for them to climb the hill again. Then I got on and Megan got in front of me. We took off and when we got almost the first part of the hill done, we started veering to the right. I tried to correct, but used the wrong foot and as a result we ended up going backward across the straight stretch and then down the second small hill. We stopped abruptly and I hit my head pretty hard (right on my barrette of course) and so I decided that we were done. I also realized that I had hurt my left leg somehow and the right side of my rearend. I was definitely done. Andrew's tube went flat (guessing it was change it temperature). He finally made it down though. Megan was scared out of her mind. We were still going very fast. Poor Andrew had to go once more to get the last of the sleds down the hill.

We got home and I could hardly move. I'm still in pain, but it's getting better. I can walk without limping and I can even move my leg most directions without shooting pain. I am also wiser now and have made the commitment to never again go sledding on black ice! lol

Sledding

So last night we went sledding on a super fun hill. Not a bad climb for me (miraculous) and you go really far cause it's like two hills. Pretty awesome. First run down with Megan was flawless and we went for a super long time. The second run was more eventful, we nearly crashed twice and ended up doing a 360 on the way down...luckily niether of us fell off or out of the toboggan. I spent most of the evening talking with the YW President and just getting to know her better. So much fun! Andrew came along, though he's not in YM's. Didn't seem right to leave him behind by himself when we were sledding. Wish I had thought to take a camera, but of course I didn't. I'm probably the worst at taking pics. I always think of it AFTER the event is over. I shall try to do better. It is snowing like crazy right now, supposed to pick up 6 or 7 inches today-how exciting!

How would I react?

So we read in the Book of Mormon night before last about the reaction the people had to King Benjamin's stirring sermon and it made me wonder, how would I have reacted? Then I thought to myself, why is it that when we watch General Conference we do not have similar reactions? Don't get me wrong, I am frequently stirred within and resolve to do better and be better, but these people fell to the ground because they were so overwhelmed. Are we too proud? Are we too cool? I wonder...

So far so good, Megan's b-day

Well, we are just a few days into the New Year, but I'm proud to report that I have not missed a day on the treadmill, except for Sunday which I never intended to be a day that I would do it anyhow.

We are excited that this Saturday is Megan's 12th birthday! I can't believe I am old enough to have a child that old. How time flies! She is very excited. We came up with a fun and cool way to spend her special day. We are taking her on her first temple trip. We will go to the Detroit, MI temple (actually located in Bloomfield Hills, MI) and she will get to do baptisms for the first time. She is super excited. We plan to come back home through Lansing to see the state capital. We have been telling her she can get her ears pierced that day as well. She is excited about that, but I'm a little worried as I think she is going to hate the pain and will cry forever. Andrew is wimping out and won't go into the store with us to get it done, but I'm not going to be dissuaded from keeping our promise to her. We'll try to take some pics along the way and post them, hopefully much sooner this time than the way it worked out for our trip here. lol