Applesauce!

I'm feeling productive today. My neighbor, Jenni, came over this morning to make applesauce. I was able to borrow a very amazing useful food strainer and it has made making applesause SSSOOO much easier. there is still quite a bit of work involved, but I'm slowly claiming my house back. I have had bags and bags of apples on my countertop, in my fridge upstairs, in the fridge downstairs, and in a wheelbarrow downstairs. I can't tell you how many apples we've had to throw away so far and I still have apples on my trees!!!! However, I am working on claiming my house back. If I'm lucky, I'll have my countertop back today. We'll see what happens. I do feel very blessed that we have trees and that I have been able to make applesauce this year. Nathan ate every last jar of the stuff I bottled last year and turned down store bought applesauce for mine a couple of weeks ago. So, I guess I need to get to work to finish the rest of it!

4 Months!

I can't believe my baby is four months old already! She's been a sweetheart and we are so glad she's part of our family. I took her to the doctor's this week for a well baby check. She is in the 25% in weight and the 90-95% in height! She's my tallest baby percentage wise so far. She recently "found" her hands and love to stare at them. She also recently found her feet and have discovered that she can chew on her toes! She has been teething off and on for the last couple of months and has been known to chew on her fist quite often. She can be pretty vocal when she wants to be, but will also cuddle with me at times. She does great with holding her head up, and has recently gained the coordination to grab toys, which promptly go to her mouth. She's my sweet baby girl.
We did the following pictures in blessing dresses recently and I love them! One is a dress that Jeff's mom made for her blessing. The other was my mom's blessing dress that I was recently given:

My sweet boys

Nate came home from school with a treat both yesterday and today. Zach was sad yesterday because he wanted a treat and Nate, all on his own, broke the treat in half to share with Zach. Today, Nate opened his treat and, all on his own, broke the treat in half so that Zach could have some too. I was really touched. They really are very sweet boys. A lot of the times they will play with their baby sister on their own. Nate just asked Zach to stay with Addison so she wouldn't be sad.

Word of the day: overwhelmed

Guest Speaker

So, I went back to UVSC, or now UVU, tonight. When I was at UVSC, one of the classes I took was law society. I guess it's more of a club, but it's a one credit class where they have guest speakers come and talk about various aspects of the law. The professor said he wanted a paralegal to come and speak. A neighbor is taking law society and asked me to come and speak about being a paralegal. SO, I was a UVU last night telling them about my job. Those poor people! I told Jeff beforehand that I didn't know if I could talk for 45 minutes. He told me, after years of listening to me ramble on about my job, that I would have no problem filling the time. Well, he was right and I did run out of time. Hopefully I didn't bore them to death, but I did get a few questions and people seemed pretty attentive, so I think it went well. They've had and ICE agent (immigrations) and a DNA expert come and speak so I'm not that cool, but I think it went well. Me, a guest speaker. Kinda crazy!