You know you're an adult when....

... You get excited about receiving diapers! Aaron likes the fact that I am completely gullible. I slightly resent this because I don't view myself as gullible - I just implicitly trust my husband. Which I believe as his wife I am supposed to do.

A little over a week ago I was calling around trying to find out what the Tuesday night activity for mutual was. I kept calling my councilor but she didn't pick up... which was strange she was usually home. So eventually I gave up and called the President and she told me that the activity was a surprise for the girls and just to show up at the church house for opening exercises and we'll go from there. She also mentioned I could bring Aaron if I wanted to. Thinking nothing of it I went about my day and mentioned to Aaron that he could come with me to mutual - he said he thought that it was going to be miniature golfing or something.

So we get to the church house and opening exercises are not in the Primary room. As a matter of fact there isn't a young woman to be seen. At this point I am beginning to wonder what is going on. One of the leaders takes me into the Young Women's room and there are all the young women waiting for us. They threw us a surprise shower!!

They had made a cake of diapers decorated with booties and hair ribbons. They also got a few cute outfits for AJ.

My favorite part of the evening was when the each of the girls wrote a reason why they thought I was going to be a good mom and read it aloud. It was hard not to cry!

We also played a game that a couple of the Laurels came up with. They melted four different chocolate bars and placed them in diapers... we then had to look and smell them and try to decide what type of candy bar is was. It was hilarious to watch everyone smell the "poopy" diapers!

It was so sweet of the girls to throw me a shower and to feel their love and support - we have a wonderful ward!

Aaron has awesome co-workers!

Last Friday I was invited to attend the R&D department's potluck. Aaron's co-workers made it into an informal shower for us! They decorated the lunch area with cute "it's a girl" decor and gave us some really nice gifts. We got a "diaper wreath" that was so cute that I just had to show everyone what it looked like. Attached to the wreath were several bibs, onsies, washcloths, a towel, a blanket, booties, a hat, diaper wipes, diaper cream and other items. The whole back of the wreath was made of newborn diapers. They also gave us a gift certificate to go out to dinner!

I really like Aaron's new job. Which is funny thing to say since I'm not the one working it. But, he is a lot happier and has great people to work with.

Professor Plum, in the garage, with the crowbar

Aaron has had it in for the Professor since the moment he met me. No really it’s true, you can ask him. He met me and thought that my purple PT Cruiser was the ugliest chick car he’d ever seen.
The one thing that he couldn’t fault my car for was the fact that it had some trade in value on it. And so his diabolical plan of killing off Professor Plum swung into action…
It’s been a particularly harsh winter here in Idaho and Aaron has gotten stuck in the snow – twice…once in each of our vehicles. They don’t believe in snowplows here - it drives us crazy. So Aaron got it into his head that we needed a better, tougher, four wheel drive vehicle that he could feel good about AJ and I riding around in. Aaron calls it his version of “nesting”. So after a few weeks of research and debating we finally settled on a family car and got it – a 2005 Chevy Trailblazer. Admittedly we really like the feel of the vehicle and are happy that it doesn’t look like a mini van. We know if we take good care of it, it will serve our family for many years.

For the record, my version of nesting (getting diapers and other odds and ends) costs a lot less than Aaron’s version of nesting. But it just makes me smile that he’s taking his fatherly role very seriously.