We Really Did Watch Conference (and it was AWESOME)... But Here's What Else We Did

Conference weekend was great! Since we don’t get normal tv channels, we travelled down south for the weekend to watch conference at our parents’ houses. Friday afternoon and all day Saturday Arek and his brothers and brother-in-law worked on replacing a transmission, which incuded removing the old transmission, travelling to the junk yard to find a “new” transmission, and installing said “new” transmission. I am told they had a blast. Replacing a transmission doesn’t sound like a lot of fun to me, but, hey, to each his own. They all still liked each other when it was over, which is the most important part… and the car now runs great, which is fabulous for Jenny and Todd because while the car was out of commission they were having to squeeze their baby’s carseat into the TINY back seat of a two door car. Now Lilly (and Jenny, whose seat was having to be almost pressed into the front dashboard) can ride MUCH more comfortably.

On Saturday I got my hair cut. Hurray! I’ve been wanting a change for quite some time and finally got around to it. I got about 8 inches cut off (from bottom of my shoulder blades to just below my chin… although it looks longer than that in the picture cuz of the angle, I guess) and it feels great! I absolutely love the feel of freshly cut hair. Arek has never seen me with such short hair but he seems to like it a lot. And Julie hasn’t freaked out that her mom looks different, so that is also great.

While the boys were gone to the Priesthood session of conference my mom helped me make a dress for Julie. I’ve never made one before but we got easy fabric and we did a simple design and… voila!

What a cutie she is! I think it came out pretty good. We even put two botton holes so we can lengthen the straps as she grows.

Oh, and Julie is now six months old! She had her checkup and shots on Thursday, and my little chunk is still staying consistent in the 88% for both height and weight: She is now 27 inches long and 18 lbs 3 oz. She is now a champion sitter-upper and she is trying to figure out how to become mobile and starting to try to pull up on things from sitting to standing. She is also getting more used to eating food… although she still doesn’t like me to feed her much: she preferes to get it all over her hands and then suck on her fingers. Well, at least she’s getting used to the taste and she cries less and less each time we try.

Julie is also starting to go through some separation anxiety, I think. She was having a really hard time this weekend when she wasn’t with me… but it also could have just been because her shots were really hard on her this time around. Let’s hope it was just the shots and it’s not already coming to the point of fear of “strangers” (meaning anyone she doesn’t see everyday… so pretty much anyone besides Arek and me). Here’s a funny shot I got of her unhappiness with my mom: I promise, Mom, it’s not you… it’s just a phase my little girl is going through