My Guy

Cheesiest picture ever!


I really do have the best husband ever. This post has been in my head for months and it's finally time to just put it down on "paper" so that the "world" knows. I'm not a frilly, romantic, sweet kind of girl so I'll just list the characteristics that make him so "perfect." (and that will be my last use of quotation marks, which reminds me I need to post on my girls' incorrect use of air quotes... but this is about Seth not the girls so it will have to wait.)

• Seth washes dishes, vacuums, cleans bathrooms (including toilets), sweeps, mops and whatever else needs to be done that I haven't gotten to on any given day. (and no I don't ask him to, he just does it.)


• He gets up with kids at night. On a regular basis. He never complains or pretends to not hear them. If it's been a long night and I'm sleeping through something he may gently nudge me and ask me if I can get up because he's getting frustrated but that's it.


• He tells me I'm beautiful and that he loves my pregnant belly, when I know it can't possibly be the full truth.


• He puts kids to bed.


• He lets me go to the store all by myself.


• He plays with the kids. He can make them laugh like nobody else. And while I pretend to be annoyed because it's usually right before bed who can really get mad when their kids are rolling on the floor laughing?


• He never complains when I underachieve (which is basically everyday.) He simply steps in and picks up the slack.


• He gets my sense of humor. (that's big, not many people think I'm as funny as I think I am but he at very least pretends to think I'm funny!)

I could go on and on but I won't. I just feel extremely blessed to have such an amazing man. And it's his birthday this week. Happy Birthday, babe. I love you.

Hot Date

I get to go out with my husband tonight.

That makes me SO happy. We used to be really good about going on dates but lately our monthly trip to the temple has been our only escape. It's expensive to go out. Even if we don't spend any money on our date we still have to pay a babysitter. Plus, with Kilian here it's a little weird to get a babysitter unless we know for sure that he has plans and won't be home.

Anyway, I just wanted to share my joy of going on a date with my hubby.

Shopping

The older they get the harder they are to buy for. That's what I've decided. I try really hard to start getting "little" things for Christmas starting sometime in the summer. If I see something on sale I'll grab it and store it away. Well I just got down the box of treasures and guess what... Luc is spoiled and apparently super easy to please. On the upside, he's done. I don't need to buy him anything else. On the downside, the girls have just a couple things and Seth and Kilian have virtually nothing.

By the end of the Christmas season I am just tired of spending money. I'm such a "frugal" person that all this shopping is exhausting. Don't get me wrong I like to shop now and again but this is too much all at once for me.

I guess what this probably means is it's time to increase my focus on the real meaning of Christmas.

Evening the Score

Seth was wrong. It doesn't happen too often. But this time I was wrong too. He and I were both completely convinced that baby #4 is absolutely a girl. We were absolutely wrong. And with that we are even, 2 girls, 2 boys. Yay.

It's taken me a few days to get used to the idea since I was so sure it was another girl but now it all just seems perfect.

We've almost decided on a name. (I've decided. Seth just doesn't know he's decided yet.)

The boys can share a room (and as soon as Kilian leaves I will start getting all the rooms rearranged, ie. nesting)

Luc needs a brother. Kimball is quickly tiring of all the tackling and karate chops.

I still have some boy clothes left. (I have NO baby girl clothes.) I wasn't great about holding on to most of it but I saved most of the good stuff.

There was more to the perfection of the situation but I can't remember now.