Life has been great! i have been enjoying keeping the house clean and feeding my hubby and baby better food, and just feeling like a mom! Granted i think after a while i wil go stir crazy, so if any of you want play dates just let me know ;)!!!
But and Jackie have been trying to be productive, Monday we went running, its my goal to get in shape and run a 5 k at the end of the summer- let me know if anyone wants to join! Its a big one for me because running i hate more then anything really its just down their on my list we went tuesday, but Jackie was a pill today so we did kick boxing, so i think we might run one day do that the other, that way i can mix up my work out ya know? who knows, but its so much eaiser to get everything done without working because i actually want to go out and do things now instead of being tired from being at work lol.
Derek is excited for his job he still does traning for another week, but he thinkgs its going to be a great opurtunity for us so we shall see!
Besides that i am trying to get our apt manager to put new carpet in here, its gross i cleaned it three times with a carpet cleaner and Jackie still turins black when she crawls around, so i hope they will do it!
besides that not much is new just chilling with our neighbors, and friends and staying happy! Jackie is growing like crazy and getting teeth in fact right now she should be going to sleep, but instead is yelling for da da and ma ma it breaks my heart to hear it, but i know she will go to sleep sooner if i leave her alone, i know i need to put pics up haha soon i promise ;) (WOW THAT WAS BORNING SORRY!!!)
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Life at home!
Work is done and gone with! I can not tell you how happy i am to be done working and just consentrate on being home! Vegas was a lot of fun! its always nice to go see my mom and brothers and have fun with them! we went and rode the buffalo bills rollercoster which is always fun, and heart stoping!
Day two as a stay at home mom, is great! I am loving life just playing with Jackie and kepping things picked up at home its nice to not have to worry about anything else! But it does keep me busy which is nice because i dont just want to stay at home and watch tv all day!
Anyway nothing else is really new but i am sure with my new found freedom i will be able to update more often!!!
Day two as a stay at home mom, is great! I am loving life just playing with Jackie and kepping things picked up at home its nice to not have to worry about anything else! But it does keep me busy which is nice because i dont just want to stay at home and watch tv all day!
Anyway nothing else is really new but i am sure with my new found freedom i will be able to update more often!!!
Saturday, May 10, 2008
just a regular ol day!
I sit here writing to you blogging world as my husband watches the last few seconds of the Dallas Detroit hockey game and as my daughter hopefully drifts off into a deep slumber. I have not done as well as i would like at keeping you up to date on our life and so here goes another update on the life of the Stells.
Jackie learns something new each day. Whether it is a new word she has learned the meaning to or a new word to say, she always seems to have a new "trick" (I don't know how to phrase that, she is not a dog ). We teach her things and then ask her to perform them for others. So a trick it remains. At least I don't give her a treat if she does it. But, she does get a lot of attention which she loves even more. Babies are amazing, they learn and grow so fast. I look at her and am shocked at how far she has come!
Mother's day is around the corner. In fact, its 39 minutes away. This is my first mothers day as a mother and its a weird feeling to think that after 22 years I am a part of the mothers crowd. I am a part of the "in-crowd". Derek has been an wonderfully sweet husband, he and Jackie went to the mall on Friday while I was at work and got me a lot of cute mother's day gifts. When I got home from work, he had them all on the chair. He said that they were too excited to give me all my gifts and I had to open them then! Its a weird feeling though to have people thank you for being a mom. Since Jackie has been born, its something i love doing. All the hard work is paid off when I see my daughter laugh, smile, learn, and grow! Don't get me wrong, I love getting gifts and having people make a big deal about it. Wow, its not even mothers day! Guess we will see what the morrow brings!
Derek is doing well he is getting excited to switch me positions, get rid of the title Mr. Mom and start working! Only 4 more days left at Platinum Protection and then off to Vegas. Then Derek will start at Prosper, so we shall see where life takes us.....but where ever it does we are happy and together and nothing could make me happier!
Jackie learns something new each day. Whether it is a new word she has learned the meaning to or a new word to say, she always seems to have a new "trick" (I don't know how to phrase that, she is not a dog ). We teach her things and then ask her to perform them for others. So a trick it remains. At least I don't give her a treat if she does it. But, she does get a lot of attention which she loves even more. Babies are amazing, they learn and grow so fast. I look at her and am shocked at how far she has come!
Mother's day is around the corner. In fact, its 39 minutes away. This is my first mothers day as a mother and its a weird feeling to think that after 22 years I am a part of the mothers crowd. I am a part of the "in-crowd". Derek has been an wonderfully sweet husband, he and Jackie went to the mall on Friday while I was at work and got me a lot of cute mother's day gifts. When I got home from work, he had them all on the chair. He said that they were too excited to give me all my gifts and I had to open them then! Its a weird feeling though to have people thank you for being a mom. Since Jackie has been born, its something i love doing. All the hard work is paid off when I see my daughter laugh, smile, learn, and grow! Don't get me wrong, I love getting gifts and having people make a big deal about it. Wow, its not even mothers day! Guess we will see what the morrow brings!
Derek is doing well he is getting excited to switch me positions, get rid of the title Mr. Mom and start working! Only 4 more days left at Platinum Protection and then off to Vegas. Then Derek will start at Prosper, so we shall see where life takes us.....but where ever it does we are happy and together and nothing could make me happier!
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Baby Einstein??
Wow Jackie is constantly growing getting bigger and smarter each and every day! She went to the doctor the other day and he said developmentally she is 4 months head of where she should be!! Any way here is a list of things she can do!!
- Feed herself
- Drink out of a sippy cup and a normal cup
- Walk along furniture
- say and know the meaning of hi dada mama eye dog and duck (she can point out dogs in books and turn the pages to find them if you ask her where the the dog is)
- Pull her self up
- stand for a few seconds
- Wave (she does use hi like the word ahloa (for both hello and good bye) lol)
- play peekaboo she likes to steal Derek's hat and then play peek a bo with it
- Stand in her crib a night when she should be going to sleep and yell MAMA HI DADA HI HI HI HI yeah she is trying to make us feel guilty!
- understands the word no, although she does not always obey it
- last night i was reading her, her bed time story and she took the book for me and started to "read it" out loud her self she would talk turn the page talk turn the page it was petty cute!
- She plays with her little piano and knows what button plays a song
- She knows what button on the remote turns the TV off and gets angry if we take the batteries out and it does not work
- We have a stuffed cougar who's name is Isaac and he is always up on our bed she knows his naem and today was reaching to get up on our bed sayins ias ias ias so Derek put her on our bed and she climied up our pillows to get to him and then hugged him
Theres more i am sure but thats all i can get out of my sleepy brain! But we love her and are happy she is learning so much!! I am pretty excited because i only have to work 7 more times and then its off to Vegas an no more work for me!!! :) I can stay home and teach Jackie :) She loves walks and to play with her toys
Thursday, May 1, 2008
info on stells
so my neighbor tells me i work to much not to update more often but my life is borning! Any way the new news is Derek has an interview today for a job at Prosper where one of his old missonary comps works! so we are hoping all goes well there cuz then i could do what has been long in forth coming and QUIT!
Monday, April 28, 2008
time for some news....
well its been a while with out any notice from me and I know my avid readers will just die without more news about the Stell's :)! So here it is...
Derek is done with finals, and just enjoying the break right now! Just one more year and he will be done :)!! I am excited and then hopefully we will move somewhere exciting lol! He is now looking for a job so if you know of anything let me know!!!! Besides that he is great!
Me i am great! I just started my new work schedule 9-5 m-f which i lame but oh well at lest it will bring the dough! hahaha i start taking the supervisor calls today sooo that will be exciting lol lots of angry customers but oh well i think they are fun to talk to because usually they are sooooo wrong!1! I am excited to paint my apt and go to IKEA with Adrienne, i just need time and MONEY to do it all lol, a few paychecks and we should be there :)
Jacquelyn is cute as ever!! She recently has decided that she does not want to go to bed what she does now is stand up in her crib and yell hi mama hi dada dada dada mama HI HI HI its super cute but sad to hear! And we have decided she is a genius! she was look at a book the other day and it had pages with animals on it in the middle of the book there was a dog, so we would close the book and ask her where the dog was and she would look through the book tell she found her dog and hit it and say do do do lol she is cute and smart she also knows where other peoples eyes are she will poke it out and say eye eye lol its cute! :) she is SMART! well sorry to not be too thrilling :)
Derek is done with finals, and just enjoying the break right now! Just one more year and he will be done :)!! I am excited and then hopefully we will move somewhere exciting lol! He is now looking for a job so if you know of anything let me know!!!! Besides that he is great!
Me i am great! I just started my new work schedule 9-5 m-f which i lame but oh well at lest it will bring the dough! hahaha i start taking the supervisor calls today sooo that will be exciting lol lots of angry customers but oh well i think they are fun to talk to because usually they are sooooo wrong!1! I am excited to paint my apt and go to IKEA with Adrienne, i just need time and MONEY to do it all lol, a few paychecks and we should be there :)
Jacquelyn is cute as ever!! She recently has decided that she does not want to go to bed what she does now is stand up in her crib and yell hi mama hi dada dada dada mama HI HI HI its super cute but sad to hear! And we have decided she is a genius! she was look at a book the other day and it had pages with animals on it in the middle of the book there was a dog, so we would close the book and ask her where the dog was and she would look through the book tell she found her dog and hit it and say do do do lol she is cute and smart she also knows where other peoples eyes are she will poke it out and say eye eye lol its cute! :) she is SMART! well sorry to not be too thrilling :)
Monday, April 21, 2008
just a boring ol' update!
Well my dear neighbor tells me i need to update the only thing is nothing is really new, but here it goes!!
Well lets start with a joke!!
How do you tell the difference between a school bus and a grape??? to hear the answer you must keep reading ;)
Finals are approching so Derek has been stressing and studying trying to get everything done!! He is getting ready to look for a job so if any of yall know anything that is out there let me know!!!! I want him to get a job so i can quit and just play with my daughter everyday!
For me life has been good, adapting a postive outlook has really made thing better for!! Even though crap happens I have decided i just dont care, i am super lucky to have everything i have and so i can put up with the bumps in the road!
Jackie is just growing up like crazy! She is getting so big and eating new foods eveyday! She LOVES mac and cheese, and cheese! Bannanas are her fav fruit and broccoli her fav veggie! she wont eat baby food so we to give her a varitey of big peopole foods to keep her healthy!!
but she is crawling every where and getting into everything we have its gerat fun and we love her! Side note today Derek bought her, her VERY first happy meal lol i know a 9 month old with a happy meal. He has been dying to get her one since the day we got prego and i could not hold him back. so today she got a chicken nugget happy meal. lol she loved it, she really did not eat much of it at all but liked gumming the fries and the chicken nugget lol i say nugget because she did not make it past one (THANK GOODNESS! :)) Lol she did not get a drink because she is a baby lol no POP for them! we decided our kids can figure out what pop is when one day they are at a friends and they offer it because we wont! haha, so she just drank apple juice from home
the answer is you jump on the top for a while, if you dont get any juice its a school bus!! hahahah i know so funny but i had to make this blog some what enjoyable! ;)
Well lets start with a joke!!
How do you tell the difference between a school bus and a grape??? to hear the answer you must keep reading ;)
Finals are approching so Derek has been stressing and studying trying to get everything done!! He is getting ready to look for a job so if any of yall know anything that is out there let me know!!!! I want him to get a job so i can quit and just play with my daughter everyday!
For me life has been good, adapting a postive outlook has really made thing better for!! Even though crap happens I have decided i just dont care, i am super lucky to have everything i have and so i can put up with the bumps in the road!
Jackie is just growing up like crazy! She is getting so big and eating new foods eveyday! She LOVES mac and cheese, and cheese! Bannanas are her fav fruit and broccoli her fav veggie! she wont eat baby food so we to give her a varitey of big peopole foods to keep her healthy!!
but she is crawling every where and getting into everything we have its gerat fun and we love her! Side note today Derek bought her, her VERY first happy meal lol i know a 9 month old with a happy meal. He has been dying to get her one since the day we got prego and i could not hold him back. so today she got a chicken nugget happy meal. lol she loved it, she really did not eat much of it at all but liked gumming the fries and the chicken nugget lol i say nugget because she did not make it past one (THANK GOODNESS! :)) Lol she did not get a drink because she is a baby lol no POP for them! we decided our kids can figure out what pop is when one day they are at a friends and they offer it because we wont! haha, so she just drank apple juice from home
the answer is you jump on the top for a while, if you dont get any juice its a school bus!! hahahah i know so funny but i had to make this blog some what enjoyable! ;)
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Attitude adjustment
So lately i have been having an attitude problem, i have been getting upset over everything and making too big of a deal out of things. So anyway yesterday me and Derek were having FHE and it was my turn to give the lesson and having put it off tell the last minute i grabbed my old church book and looked through it to see if i could find something worth using. Anyway i found a poem and a quote that fit perfectly in my life right now and i would like to share them with you all
the first one is just a quote from Chuck Swindoll
the first one is just a quote from Chuck Swindoll
"The longer i live, the more i realize the impact of attitude
on life. It is more important then the past,
than education, than money, than circumstances,
than failures, than successes, than what
other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, talents or skill.
It will make or break a company...a church a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day
regarding the attitude we will embrace e for that day.
we cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact
that people will act in a certain way.
We can not change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how i react to i.
And so it is with you...
We are in charge of our Attitudes."
and the poem is by an unknown author and it goes like this
It's all in how you look at it
We ask for strength and God gives us
difficulties which make us strong
We pray for wisdom and God sends us
problems, the solutions of which develops wisdom,
We plead for prosperity and God gives us
brain and brawn to work.
We plead for courage and God gives us
dangers to overcome
We ask for favors and
God gives us opportunities.
An way i just want to let you all know that after i read these i have decided i need to be happy, and go through life with the hand i have been dealt! I am extremely lucky to have what i have and i need to look through life that way! So this is me telling you all that i am changing my mind set and that i am going to always have a good attitude! So what if work is being crappy to me right now, i have a job that gives me money to pay for my little family and for that i am so grateful! I am so happy to have great friends who always are there for me and who are always trying to be there for me! Anyway sorry for the boring blog i really just wanted to share this with you all! One more thing i read that i really like its D&C 122 go read it! i love this chapter, I love the Lords words to Joseph Smith! Keep on smiling everyone! i know times get hard, but someone is always there, just remember no matter what happens we can be in charge of our attitude!
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