New beginnings

So we just got into our new place! I love it. The windows, oh so much light!! After 8 months of basement life this is heaven! I will post lots of pictures as soon as our new living room set is delivered and we have the place looking like we didn't just move in :) Things are going well here. Josh is working hard as always and the babies are growing like weeds. I am trying to get myself motivated in the weight loss and exercise department. What I really need is a work out partner... ahem (Jennifer Atwal...I am looking at you).

Evalyn Moment: I am eating jalapeno chips as I write this and Eavie was begging for one. Yes I told her they were hot :) I forgot I gave her one and a few minutes later... "Oh no! Oh no! Oh no!" Yes she's fine. No she won't ask for another :)

Anyways, it was in the mid-60's yesterday!! Can I get a halleluiah!? Today it is grey and cool, but hoping for spring soon. I miss the sun and warmth. I miss home. It almost killed me this past weekend that I wasn't at my cousin's wedding. I wanted to be there so badly. I teared up at every picture I saw of her and my family. I hope they all know how much I miss them. We are planning a trip in May it looks like. Just depends on Josh's boss since he is paying for Josh to go to training and we are just tagging along. Any excuse to go to Florida right?! Eavie will have just turned 2 and Jack will be about 5 months... wow.

Evalyn is turning two next month! April 19th is the big day and I am so excited :) I hope we can plan a nice little party for her although the weather is a tad unpredictable so who knows. The best laid plans... Speaking of the little monster (I mean Miss) she is wonderful! Really she is such a joy 85% of the time. She has adjusted so well to the move, and she is so much happier with the new added freedom of her own house. Right now she is coloring in the living room. She is a little artist! She spends a lot of time really focusing on her coloring and getting it just right...she also gets mad when it's not going well and crinkles the paper and throws it! I'm not sure what to do with that one. Right now she is saying "I color, I color, I color." I ask her if she needs a new paper and her prompt reply is "Yep!" Everything affirmative is yep right now, it's really funny! I hand her a new paper and hear "Thank you Mama. Thank you Mama" She melts my heart a thousand times a day. It is so amazing watching these little beings that you helped create. Our children are our most precious gifts and each should be treated as such. Heavenly Father trusts us to do a good job at taking care of his little children and whether you are a parent to your own or not this is each of our responsibilities. We should all nurture, encourage and love each others children. It takes a village ya know!

Jackie boy is napping in my room. We will get him a crib soon I promise. He is such a sweet, happy little guy. He gets mad quickly though if you don't realize he is hungry or needs a nap. That boy likes to eat and sleep. Maybe that's why he is over half his sister's weight already! Quick shout out to my cousins in England! Congratulations to Paul, Lauren, and Keira on new little Zoe...sorry I don't know how to do the special e :) Forgive me. And another congratulations to the new Mrs. Amanda Mitryk! I can't believe she is married. I love you all and miss you terribly! Until next time!! <3 I leave you with this little chicky :)

I'm Back Baby!

My husband doesn't like when I'm pregnant, probably because I don't like him much when I'm pregnant. I am not nice. I don't feel well. I am hormonal. Everyone and everything is striving to royally piss Mama off and doing a darn good job at it. When I got pregnant with Evalyn we had only been married a few months. Don't get me wrong, I wanted to get pregnant. All I ever wanted since I was 15 was to have a family and be a stay-at-home mom. (My mother thought I was crazy and probably still does) But then...I got pregnant. Oh gracious, I dislike being pregnant in a big way. I LOVE and am SO grateful and BLESSED to be able to get pregnant at all when several of my friends have and are struggling with having a child, but man I don't feel good for 90% of it. When you even annoy and don't want to be around YOURSELF you have issues.

Josh and I will be married 3 years on May 1st and I have been pregnant for half of it. The poor guy! Someone give the kid a medal! I really just want to talk about how amazing it feels to not be pregnant right now.

It rocks. Slam dunk. Period.

I super love my babies and Jack is a cake walk compared to Eavie but his gestation was hard on me. Church this past Sunday was a joy for the first time in months and months. I was social again! I wanted to talk to people and enjoyed showing off my baby. Conversely, I felt like a crabby hermit that got progressively more hermity and crabby as the pregnancy continued. I didn't want to talk or be talked to but then I would come home and cry about being lonely and not having any friends. I feel like my self-confidence is coming back. I remember feeling like this right after Eavie was born, but it was short-lived as we were so sleep-deprived, I didn't lose any baby weight, and I was working at home so I secluded myself from the world in general. Now that I am losing weight (down 27 pounds already!) and am not going back to work I feel like the world is my oyster! (That's a weird phrase by the way) So...this post was really rambly. I just wanted to say I am back baby!

Let's try this again...

One of my New Year's resolutions is to keep a blog...again. I am making a goal with myself to update at least once a week. Hopefully I will get in a good groove and will be able to do more, but let's be honest, I'm not that interesting and don't have a lot to say ;)

As a brand-new stay-at-home mommy I have found myself simultaneously with no time on my hands to do anything more than the essentials and lots of thinking/dreaming time while nursing our newest addition, Baby Jack. Pinterest has infected my life and thanks to internet on my phone, I spend most of my nursing time scrolling through pins and getting wonderful ideas of things I will never have the time or energy to do! For those who don't know (hi mom and dad!!) Pinterest is a website where people can share and organize ideas for anything and everything. Check it out, but beware of the addictive nature.

In other news my wonderful, amazing better-half has recently been offered a great promotion opportunity and after agonizing decisions we have decided to accept. This is bitter-sweet for me as many know we were planning on moving to Florida in the next few months. His new position is Assistant General Manager at his current Firehouse Subs store and later this year he will be promoted again to General Manager when his boss opens the new Firehouse Subs in Provo, UT. Josh really loves his job and the people he works with and he is GREAT at it. That, coupled with the fact that I can now stay home with my babies if I choose to, is what prompted us to stay. So for now we are just going to see how things go with Josh's new store and take things one day at a time :)

-Oh and keep me honest people, if it's been awhile since a post hound me! I really want to keep this resolution!

How to (Not) Teach Relief Society

So several months back I was called to be a relief society teacher (I graciously accepted the calling while freaking out internally)...and so every week leading up until the third Sunday of the month I have my ritual freak out, panic building, bemoaning life, melt down as I prepare to teach on Sunday. This past week was no different. This weeks lesson was on work and personal responsibility (a wonderful lesson) I (sorta) diligently prepared my lesson.... (read through it Thursday and then Saturday night got it together) I whined regularly about it....vowed I was going to ask to be released! I just can't do it! The stress! Then Sunday morning comes. I am calm. I know my lesson will be good. I am ready to face the lions. Only this Sunday happened to be Branch Conference, which meant I did not have a class to teach...and there was supposedly a phone call that was to be made to me to let me know....but well it wasn't. Oh. All of a sudden I wanted to teach my class. I love the feeling I get as my fellow sisters discuss the topics and generously input their experiences to enrich the lesson. And then I whined and moaned to my husband about how I didn't get to teach my lesson.

I think I need a lot less moaning in my life and more just doing. What do you think?

1 am anyone?

So what is pink, and wet and making me cringe all over? Evalyn screaming hysterically in bed at 1 am!! Two words.... TEETHING SUCKS. That is all for now.

It Takes Faith

Why I Can't Stop Reading Mormon Housewife Blogs

So I read the article above the other day, because one of my favorite blogs I follow is mentioned (Nat the Fat Rat) and it's about Mormon mommy bloggers and how non-member women become obsessed with them and all that they portray. Now I definitely don't consider myself as one of the bloggers this article mentions but I did agree that those blogs tend to be more uplifting than the average. The article attributes some of it to staging...that these women are putting on their best front to he world but that underneath they are a crumbling mess of depression buoyed by medication. I know there are many women who are struggling with that and I don't mean to belittle their experience at all ( I have fought depression myself) but there is a critical aspect that the 20-something women mentioned in the article are taking for granted... Faith. Faith does bring joy into our lives daily. We aren't wives and mothers because we are Told to; we are because we Want to. It brings us Joy. Joy is not the absence of sadness or trials; it is having a greater perspective and choosing happiness over sadness. It is not easy and I am not smiling just to put on a good face. My mantra for this year is "life is what we make it". We have choices every single day. No, things are not perfect, but when something challenges us we choose how to react and how to let it affect us. I have to say this mantra to myself ALL THE TIME but I never have pretended to be perfect did I? :) A lot of people now-a-days see those with faith in a church or religion as naive but that is simply not true for me. In my case I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Our church is perfect as it's leader is Jesus Christ, but it's members are still human and not infallible by a long shot. I find joy in my family. I find joy in my Church. I find joy and peace through my faith... Not that I don't have to work at it, but anything worth having is worth working for. The Savior led a peaceful life and that is not the same as a quiet life without trials or hardships. He came to lead by example and to do what we could not do for ourselves. I follow Him and He leads me to happiness. Keeping our eyes focused on Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ keep us unified as a family and gives us greater perspective and for that I am eternally grateful.

Ok so new year new blog?

(As I try and write this Eavie is clinging to my arm and going "MAMAMAMAMA". Yes folks this kid needs a nap)

Happy New Year! There have been quite a few new years resolutions going on in the Sliger house and dang it! Why not add a couple more right?! Quick recap: Eavie is now 8 months old.... holy cow when did that happen? Christmas was wonderful, although I missed my family in Orlando desperately. And....that's about it. Oh yea. We now have a dental situation with Miss Evalyn, in the respect that she now has one (1) tooth to speak of. This event occurred (painstakingly) over the weeks before Christmas and we finally broke through a couple day before....one night of great sleep quickly followed :) In more tragic news...we have recently learned that the next door neighbor to our recent dental eruption (that's a weird phrase) is attempting to be a copy cat... in other words we have discovered that Eavie has more than one tooth and that teething does not end after the first has come in.... oh yeah.
Work time soon, thankfully I just work in the next room ;)