Thoughts...

I decided that I need to write more on my blog-- thoughts, feelings, etc. I'm not an amazing writer and despite the fact that I never have a hard time finding something to say, I do have a hard time writing anything of length. It's been a tough past few days. Everything with graduate school is exploding in my face. My thesis advisor moved to TX and my new committee is not supporting some aspects of the research we did. I went up to ISU for a meeting on Friday and was totally attacked. I cried the whole way home, but made a resolution to myself that I could overcome this and with the help of my old thesis advisor could prove these people wrong. Well, today my new advisor wrote me suggesting that I turn my thesis into a project. It would be the easy way out, but makes me feel like a total failure and all the research and hard work I did would be in vain. It makes me want to throw-up. I just feel so abused!! I thought educators were supposed to help students-- I guess I was spoiled at Ricks and BYU!! This makes me want to teach even more. Maybe that's why I need to go through this, so I will be a more understanding teacher and be an advocate for the student and not the "rule book." Despite all of this I am so blessed-- I really do think I have the cutest kids in the world!! Here is a recent picture of Claire. She was 5 weeks yesterday!!

House Update

Our house is really comming along!! Jason and his dad have been working very hard!! I'm so excited with how it is looking!! It finally looks like a house-- yeah!! The roof is super steep and it's so far up--I was very nervous when they were putting the plywood on the roof!! We should hopefully have the roof on in a few weeks and it dried in by the end of the month!!

Side view and garage-- you can see how steep the roof is here!!

And here you can see how tall it is!! We didn't even consider the hill at the bottom of the house or the fact that we would have 15 foot truses when we were drawing our plans. I think the house is about 45 feet tall plus the hill-- so scary!

Happy Halloween!!

Batman and the flower fairy-- so cute!! We had a great Halloween. Kate was so adorable in her fairy costume-- the pictures don't do it justice. Maybe I'll have to have a little photo shoot and dress her back up-- if so, I'll post more pics. Karson was Batman again-- He sure makes a cute little super hero.

Grandpa with all three kids!! Claire was a little fairy too!!

What a cute little fairy!!

Our sweet baby Claire!!! She looked so precious!!

More Pictures!!

Here are some more pictures of Claire. My mom and I had a little photo shoot yesterday. She got some great shots!! I can't decide who she looks more like, Karson or Kate? My mom says she looks just like Claire!! Either way we think she is pretty cute.

She's Here!!!

Here she is!! Claire Marie Jones was born on Tuesday Oct. 14th at 6:41 pm. She weighed 6 lbs 15 oz and is 19 inches long. This is Claire and me right after she was born.
The kids came to visit that night about 7:45-- just an hour after Clarie was born. They were so excited to hold her and love her!!
Here she is with her new baby doll-- Kate insists that she have it with her all the time-- she says that it keeps her company. We came home last night. I'll post more pictures soon.

SNOW!!

Yesterday morning we woke up in a winter wonder land and it continued to snow all day long. It stopped for a little while last night, but is snowing again this morning. It is the most snow I can remember in one day since we have been back in ID-- and it's October-- what the heck? We stayed home all day long except for Jason who went out and shoveled snow off our new house. The power went out twice. The second time Jason got out the camp stove and we made hot chocolate-- so fun. The kids had a blast playing in the snow. Jason also made the kids snow cones-- the thought of eating snow from our yard grossed me out, but the kids thought it was the greatist thing and no one got sick. That night We ordered pizza for dinner and played games like Twister! We had a nice day at home as a family-- something we haven't had for a long time-- since we've been building our house.

Not yet...

So, I haven't had my baby yet. You all probably figured that out since this post doesn't contain any baby pictures, but I thought I'd give a little update. I went to the doctor today and pretty much nothing is happening. Okay, I'm dialated a little and the baby has dropped, but I was like that forever with Kate. I'm 39 weeks today!! So crazy. I think Kate was only 2 or 5 days early-- something like that, so I guess I could go awhile longer. I am just so ready to be done!! I cried the whole way home from the doctor. Anyway, wish me luck and pray really hard that this little girl will join our family soon-- Thanks!!