CLOTHES!!

See!?  I told you so!  I don't know what to do!  I had 10 big storage bins FULL of girl clothes!  I went through them ALL today and sorted them into size piles, in hopes I could figure out a good way to sell this stuff!  I was surprised at how little I had left in the 0-3 month pile, but the pile for 3-6 month is good, 6-12 is pretty big, I combined 12-18/18-24 and it is huge, 24month/2t is bigger, 3t is bigger than that, and 4t-4/5 is the biggest!  Just to give you an idea of how much there is...I counted the pile of 3t stuff and there was 115 things!!  I was thinking about just putting the lots on ebay, but ebay is really hit and miss...you see small lots go for over $100 and huge ones barely make it to $20...When we had our yard sale last year I sold all the clothes for $1/piece and that went over really well.  All of my clothes come from 1 of 3 places: Childrens Place (which is a majority of the bigger sizes), Old Navy (there's a decent mix), or BabyGap (which is pretty much what all of the smaller stuff is).  Any suggestions on how I could sell this?  Post it all on KSL or Craigslist at $1/piece??  Anyone interested in buying any?  I have some reeeeeally cute stuff...I just don't feel like hanging onto it anymore since I am having 2 BOYS!  Who knows if there will be more kids after this...and 10 bins takes up quite a bit of room in the basement!  I'm working on getting pictures of each size lot, so if you are interested...let me know!  :)

I am starving!  I need to make some dinner and i am really sore today!  All the way up around my ribs...it sucks...it hurts sitting here in the computer chair!  I need to move to something where I can recline back a bit!  Time to figure out something for dinner!!  And it's almost 8pm!  Bad me!!

I'd Rather Be Blogging!!

There are really a million other things I should be doing right now, but I am exhausted and simply don't feel like it!  My day has been great, but Jenica is just on one and it's making me crazy!  We'll have really good days, but today just isn't one of them.  She is whiney and thinks she has to play with someone constantly!  It's making me crazy!!

Anyways, this morning I had a Dr appt!  I was excited to see what Dr L had to say about the discovery of the twins!  And I was excited to actually get to talk to the dr because all the info I have is what the ultrasound tech told us or what I have read online!  So anyways, I am always anxious about my blood pressure and peeing on the strip that shows if there is protein in my urine (because I had toxemia with Kiki).  My blood pressure was 100/70...the lowest I have ever seen it, and my urine was great.  The nurse said I was down 2 lbs from last time...but the dr wasn't too concerned because I am eating and keeping things down...I just need to work a little harder on eating more, even though it's hard with the limited amount of space in my belly!  And finally...I am 22 weeks and I measured 28 today.  He was also able to pick up both heart beats because they were different.  I think he said one was in the 120's and one was in the 150's.  It was weird to heard such a difference, but he said they are both within range. 

He said the ultrasound looked great.  The boys were exactly the same size, and all their parts and such were developed properly.  He said there were 2 sacs, 1 placenta, which means Identical, which means more chance of complications, so they will monitor me closer than with a single baby.  He said one of the biggest risks is premature labor/birth...my goal is to make it to 36 weeks.  We'll see how the summer goes as far as bed rest depending on if I start showing signs of any complications that are more typical with twins.  Here's a picture of me today, I felt like I needed a more accurate one because the one of me and Aimee below looks small...because I was squatted down and hunched over a little!  Look how big I really am.  I am so scared of how big I am going to get!  Yikes!

Just a few pictures to share from the last couple days!  On Saturday we attended my Nephew, Miller's 3rd birthday party.  We went up to my brothers place and the kiddos swam and ran around and had a great time!  Here is Miller, he wouldn't smile for me...

This kid is soooo funny!  Just to give you an idea, he was handed a box from baby gap (where him mom works).  Apparently he knew what was in it.  He immediately pushed it away and said "That not mine".  Then they opened the box and showed him the cool clothes in it.  Once he got a glance, he pushed it away and said "That not for me"  It was so funny!  Then he opened a present from his grandparents and as soon as he saw a pile of clothes he did the same thing.  Pushed it away and said "no, that not mine"  Apparently 3 year old little boys don't care about getting clothes for their birthday!  lol  And below is Kaitlyn, Jeni, and my neice Paige enjoying some popsicles.

After the party we stopped by the hospital to see Aimee's new little boy!  He is adorable!  They named him Matthew.  She had him on Friday the 13th.  That's good luck if you ask me...since that's my lucky number/day. (my birthday is april 13th, anniversary is october 13th and we even got married on a Friday)!I didn't get any pictures on Fathers day, I didn't really even think about it. 

Yesterday was a fun, yet long and exhausting day.  Me and my mother in law took the girls to the pool up in Bountiful, because it is the best pool ever!  And we've been promising the kids since the last couple weeks before school was out!  They refer to it as the pirate ship pool!  It was so much fun!  We stopped and picked up lunch and took it to Josh on the way up, and then when we got to Bountiful we went to Panda Express and got some lunch, then we headed over to the pool.  I think we got there about 2pm.  Here are the girls jumping in the pool!  
The deepest part is only 3 ft deep and then it goes to 2 ft and then 1 ft and then walks out on the other side.  The "big" pools are all indoors, so you don't really have to worry about deep deep water.  At first we were right there with the girls, but we couldn't keep up with them swimming all over the place.  We took them inside for a little bit and when we came back out, Laurie and I ended up sitting on the edge of the pool and watching the girls.  Then we got up and ended up in some lounging chairs watching them jump in and get out, jump in and get out, running/swimming all over the place.  I am so not like that just to sit back and watch the kids in the pool, but this one was so great, we were so close incase they needed us, and there were lifeguards everywhere!!

Here's Jenica cheesing it up for me!
Here are all the girls!
Here's the fun pirate ship that has a couple slides off of it!
Here is Kaitlyn showing me how much fun she was having!
I love this picture!  Talk about sisterly love!!
I guess that's it!!  Sorry for the novel!  I still have pictures to post of the girls re-painted room and the new playroom downstairs!  I promise I will get to it someday!  :/  Now I need a nap before I have to frost cupcakes and get to enrichment!!  

Mosaic of Me

The concept:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker.

The Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.

The Answers:
1. Kari
2. currently...Alfredo
3. Bountiful High (although I also went to Carbon High)

4. Brown (is that weird?  I am am a huge brown and baby blue kick...that's what the boys room will be)
5. James Marsden
6. Water w/ Lemon
7. Hawaii
8. Cupcakes (are we at all surprised?)
9. Better 
10. Family
11. Creative 
12. jkjandkperry, but nothing came up...so I typed nothing

If you have a minute, try it. It was fun!  Thanks Suzy!!  :)

21 Weeks

Is that really it?  21 weeks?  The last 2 weeks (ever since I have found out about the twins) it has been extremely slooooow!  Hopefully things pick up soon...

Here is me and my good friend Aimee last night!  She was supposed to be induced today, but as of this morning, the hospital was full, so she couldn't go in!  I can't wait to meet her new little boy (she has 2 girls already)!

We had to take this picture...we were letting our little boys play together!  Someday they'll appreciate it!  I'm excited we'll have our babies close!!  3 little boys to play together!  Fun stuff!!

Slacking...

First off...Thank You all SO much for your thoughts and comments!  I can't believe I hit 30 COMMENTS!  That's definitely a record!  I love all the attention!  :)

Sorry it's been so long since I last updated...I am truly a slacker.  But I have been crazily trying to get as much done as I can while I am still "small".  HA!  I am not enormous yet, but the boys, well...one of the boys is already up in my ribs...if that gives you any indication to my size.  I am definitely getting bigger, but the big is still to come, i'm sure!  

I decided to pull out of the Japanese Exchange this year, which makes me so sad, but I can't make that kind of a commitment with not knowing what will be going on with me.  For all I know I could be on bedrest and Josh will be out of town for the last 5 days of the program this year, so there's no way I could do it alone.  If I was having one baby I would still do it...I'm sad because it's been such a great experience both years we did it...and it will probably be awhile before we can again because of lack of space.  :(  This house is about to be crowded!  

I am trying to get everything done now...because I know it will only get more difficult!  I have already began painting and have a few more painting projects I would like to complete before they arrive.  I decided to start by moving the girls back together, which was going to happen regardless because we have the bunk beds and the babies need a room.  I was sick of the pink on pink paint in there...and I really wanted to get some new bedding...so they would feel like their room was "updated" and they got something special and it wasn't all about the babies.  I decided I couldn't part with the bedding we already have, so I settled and just painted over the darker pink bottom paint with a bright turquoise/blue that matches their quilts!  I LOVE IT!  New paint is always so much fun.  Plus the pink has been there since before Kaitlyn was born...so 4 1/2 years!  I don't feel bad.  

I have to finish putting their room back together, then I will post a picture!  My next project was a toy relocation.  Last winter we set up a play area in the basement, which ended up getting trashed constantly with the loads of dumb toys down there, and then upstairs was always messy with the "better" toys we had up here.  So I went down on Monday and worked all afternoon.  I bagged up like 6 big garbage bags of toys to take to DI...yah, we have a ton of crap!  Sadly the other half of the basement still needs to be gone through and most of it taken to DI also, but I have a TON of bins down there to organize the rest of the stuff.  Anyways...Tuesday I took every single toy from the girls rooms upstairs and got them all organized downstairs...and got rid of a few of those as well!  It's great down there now!  I hung up the puppet show, hooked up the little TV with the Wii...they having been having a blast playing down there!  And I am loving having them on another level of the house.  It's so much quieter up here!  And I love not having toys scattered all over up here.  It's quite nice.  

Ok, I feel like I am just rambling...I have a ton of pictures to post, but I have to make some stuff to take dinner to someone tonight, so I better get busy!  I just wanted to let you all know that I am alive and doing well...here is a family picture that was taken last Saturday at a reunion we went to for where Josh grew up!  It was a lot of fun, even though I didn't know most of the people there.  This picture is missing my girls, little sil Alicia, my sil Shelley and her kids.  

Left to Right:  Sarah, AJ, James, Laurie (Josh's mom), Alan (Josh's dad), Me, Josh, Jeff, and Jason.