Week in Review

Midterms, a Definition:
One disaster after another leading to stressed out, crying every two hours, emotional female. Somehow these emotions seep into the other members in the household creating one crabby home.


After spending lots of time all semester compiling my final project (aka my entire grade for this block class) I stored it safely in my backpack so that I could get it bound after my lab. My water bottle opened up on my way to lab and baptized my project and my backside. Mortified, I called Charles told him to come and get me pronto. As soon as I got into the car I cried for at least the next 15 min, then realizing that crying was probably only going to get my project wetter I took the whole thing apart.

While I was waiting for it to dry I made this yummy pizza. (Yes, I love to load the veggies, especially spinach. Yum!)

After dinner I ironed the pages and put my portfolio back together, it turned out alright.
Luckily my teacher was VERY understanding and I still got a 100. hallelujah!
Somehow I had forgotten (very unlike myself) that I had a five page essay due for my religion class the same day I had a five page exposition due for english. That was fun to get done.
I can really only blame myself for most of the stress. Hopefully when finals role around I will be a little bit more on the ball and not being doing everything at the last second.






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Other than that, this has been a lovely week. Idaho has turned out some gorgeous fall weather and we have taken advantage of it. We have been able to go on some walks and let Ella wander around outdoors. (Which she LOVES!) Splendid.
Ella is growing up so fast, she seems more like a toddler than a little baby now. She stood up (holding onto a table leg) this week. I was so shocked when to turned around and she was standing and waving at me with a HUGE grin on her face. I was soooo excited for her. You could tell she thought that it was a big deal, I clapped and told her how awesome she is. Then, since we were at the church cleaning, I rather un-reverently raced into the chapel grabbed Charles and told him to come and look. I think that everyone thought I was crazy. I know this isn't a pic of her standing but that one is on my phone, this was a funny one. She was trying to stand up but ended in the splits.

She is a very outgoing baby. Today at church she would speed crawl down the hall but everytime someone passed by she would stop and put one arm up to wave. So cute!

In accordance with the season, we got Ella a sugar pumpkin which she loves to play with.(and gnaw on) ((is that even how you spell gnaw??))


Ella loves to help Daddy when he is on the computer. That doesn't always work out so well so now we let her use my old broken laptop. She is probably the only 9 month old with a Dell XPS.


Yesterday Charles, being the wonderful husband that he is, let me go off for about 5 hours to can applesauce with my friend. About two weeks ago we went and picked 20 boxes of apples for FREE. It has taken a few weeks for my friend and I to coordinate a time we could both can the goods. It was a blast! They have six kids, most of them were old enough to help with the process. It was kind of funny to be told what to do by the six year old. (he actually knew more about canning than I did) But now I have all this lovely fresh applesauce to eat. Delicious!


What did you do last week?