Our Spring Break started out with Easter Sunday. Just because we have a yard and it was sunny and we could, we hid Easter eggs outside. I was super excited to have a yard to hide eggs in and I thought it was going to be so much fun. Clayton on the other hand, did not share my vision. I hid his first and I must have done an excellent job because he didn't find them all too quickly. His problem was that he wanted them all hidden in the grass, but there were only like 2 hidden in the grass, the rest were in trees, propped on fences, and stuck against the house. 
Hehe. 
Not that I think he'd admit it, but once he got looking for the eggs, I think Clayton got a little more excited. After Clayton found all his eggs it was his turn to hide and my turn to seek! I thought I was going to go right out and find them and leave Clayton in the dust. Yeah, it didn't quite work out like that. I found most 
of them quickly, but there were a few that stumped me. Ew.... the booger hid most of my Easter eggs in the grass, so I had to (9+ months pregnant mind you) bend over and pick up all my eggs. That part was not that much fun :o( After the Easter egg hunt we went to church and came home and had steak, potatoes, and corn for 
dinner. I know, it's not the typical Easter Sunday dinner, but last year I made ham and we ended up throwing away so much of it that I couldn't bring myself to do a ham again knowing that so much would get wasted.
Monday day Clayton had errands to run up north so I stayed home and graded a few papers and cleaned the house a little bit. Monday night, however, we used our sweet Chuck E. Cheese coupon where you buy a pizza and get 150 free tokens! Yeah, I just didn't know that their
pizza was $20. Oh well. I have to admit that the Sandy Chuck E. Cheese is not as great as the Orem one, but it was still fun. We played several rounds of Ski Ball, one round of Family Bowling and then mostly spent our coins on the "gambling games." The big jack-pot games are Clayton's favorite because he's pretty luck sometimes. I don't like them because they suck up your tokens, but unfortunately those were pretty much the only games they had. Oh, except they did have this whacking game that I thoroughly enjoyed, although Clayton may have been a little embarrassed to claim me while I was killing all those aliens ;o) When Clayton was down to just a few tokens he spent them at a ball drop game trying to win the 100 ticket jack-pot. He didn't hit it. When I was down to a few more tokens I followed the same strategy. With my last few tokens I one a "2 free plays" where I dropped the ball into the 50 token space twice, and then I got the 100 token jack-pot twice. Thanks to that ball drop game, I beat Clayton in tickets! He had 530 ish tickets and I had 620 ish tickets. Clayton kept on saying, "we're going to combine tickets, right?" The answer was yes, but I still wanted to know who got more. With our 1100 plus tickets we got a squooshy/spiky ball and 10 airheads. It was a pretty fun night!
Tuesday Clayton had to go to school and I had a doctor's appointment. The nurse came in all excited and said "Oh, you're almost done!" (You know, because my due date was less than a week away from that appointment.) But I wasn't as excited because I know that I've got an extra week on top of the due date- just she doesn't know that. Then the doctor comes in and asks, "so, you're almost there, is she ready to come out yet?" I said, "I'll let you check me and then I'll ask you that same question." The doctor laughed at this, but then he checked and he held onto that smile as he informed me that I'm still not breaking any records in dilation. I asked him if there was a number to go along with that statement and he told me that I'm still just dilated to 1 cm. So, here's the recap of dilation checks for the last 5 weeks. 5 weeks ago- 0 cm; 4 weeks ago- 1/2 cm; 3 weeks ago- 1/2 cm; 2 weeks ago- "closer to a 1"; this week- 1 cm. The doctor kept talking and said something where I replied, "Yeah, I don't think she's even dropped yet." He then informed me that she's still pretty high up there and so, no, she hasn't dropped yet. We did talk about the up coming storm on Thursday and how that could put me into labor, since storms have a way of doing that to women, but... My next appointment is the day after my due date. At that appointment the doctor says that we'll start talking about the "mercy rule," you know, the mercy of induction so that I don't have to be pregnant forever (because let's face it, I'm sure if it was 100% up to Ady, she would have me be pregnant forever). So we'll see how next Tuesday goes.
Wednesday the storm hit, it wasn't supposed to hit til Thursday, but it came early- and Ady did not! Clayton actually didn't have to go anywhere on Wednesday, but I had to go into school. Well, I guess I could have planned that better so that I went to school on a day Clayton left me alone, but I really wanted to get this giant stack of papers out of the way. So I went down to Orem and was pretty productive. I input scores that I had with me, and then more that were waiting for me at school, I graded papers and then input those scores, I hung up student work around the room, and I got a few more smaller details ready for the sub. By time I came home though, Clayton had run off to a meeting. Little did either of us know that it was going to be a 3 hour meeting that was an hour away. So much for spending any time together on Wednesday. I think we got in one episode of something before we went off to bed.
Thursday we were both home, but it was a cleaning day. I had done some more cleaning on Wednesday, but Thursday was the day to make sure that it was ALL done. There are several reasons that the house needed to be ALL clean this week. One- it's Spring Break, so it's the only time I have to really spend the time truly cleaning (not just wiping off) everything. Two- when I bring baby home, I don't want to have to think about the dirty house and when I'm going to have time to clean it again, so if I clean it now, it should (emphasis on should) stay clean through delivery. Three- Mom and Dad are coming soon so they can be here for Ady's birth and when company comes (even if it's just family) the house needs to be clean. There are other reasons, but those are the big ones. When I told Clayton that it was going to be a cleaning day, he immediately went to the office to work on cleaning that up. You know, it's amazing how we've been in our house 2 months already and Clayton STILL hasn't put the office all the way together. Don't worry, after a whole day in the office while I cleaned the whole rest of the house, the office still isn't put together. Lame! Oh, but what was glorious about Thursday was that we took full advantage of the fact that we didn't have anywhere to be and we don't have any kids yet. We slept in until 10:30 am. I know that's never going to happen again, so I'm glad we were able to do it. Before when I would sleep in too long I would feel like I wasted a day, but seriously, I don't feel like I missed anything, I enjoyed it!
Today is Friday and Clayton is off putting a network together for a company and talking all freaking day to do it. So I'm left here alone. I'm working on laundry, I went and got my hair cut, and then I'll do a few more school-y things when I'm done blogging. And I'll wait for my hubby to get home (I've already called him 3 times today, but I don't think he appreciates it, so I'll try to restrain). I usually get my hair cut by a friend, but she's not answering my message, so I had to find somewhere else to go. It was terrifying- especially since I did a drastic change. I figured since I'm going to be a mommy, I had to get the "mommy hair cut." That's where you cut off all your hair so the baby can't pull it out. So that's what I
did. I cut off 10 inches so that I could donate it and then added some layers. It didn't turn out quite how I wanted, you can't even tell she put layers in it, so that's kind of lame. But at least baby can't rip all my hair out, because I already cut it all off. I knew this Spring Break wasn't going to be the most eventful, but I've had a TON of down time and I wish we would have done a little more. Hopefully tomorrow Clayton will be home and we can go for a picnic or something (although it's supposed to rain/snow again tomorrow, so probably not the picnic thing).
One (two) more days of Spring Break and then it's back to school for me- even though my sister thinks it's absolutely ridiculous to teach right up until I pop her out, that's pretty much my only option. Oh, unless the dream I had the other night comes true. I dreamt that I went back to school on Monday and the kids were being super disrespectful and rude and I wasn't going to have it. One kid that gave me attitude I called over to my desk and I started lecturing, then when he rolled his eyes at me I laid into him. While yelling at him, I was thinking that my next step was to go tell Mr. Parkes that I was going to take personal days until the baby came and then I was just going to be on maternity leave. So, I guess if Monday really does go that badly, I do have the option of using personal days so that I don't compromise having a job next year :o)
Hehe. 
Not that I think he'd admit it, but once he got looking for the eggs, I think Clayton got a little more excited. After Clayton found all his eggs it was his turn to hide and my turn to seek! I thought I was going to go right out and find them and leave Clayton in the dust. Yeah, it didn't quite work out like that. I found most 
of them quickly, but there were a few that stumped me. Ew.... the booger hid most of my Easter eggs in the grass, so I had to (9+ months pregnant mind you) bend over and pick up all my eggs. That part was not that much fun :o( After the Easter egg hunt we went to church and came home and had steak, potatoes, and corn for 
dinner. I know, it's not the typical Easter Sunday dinner, but last year I made ham and we ended up throwing away so much of it that I couldn't bring myself to do a ham again knowing that so much would get wasted.Monday day Clayton had errands to run up north so I stayed home and graded a few papers and cleaned the house a little bit. Monday night, however, we used our sweet Chuck E. Cheese coupon where you buy a pizza and get 150 free tokens! Yeah, I just didn't know that their
pizza was $20. Oh well. I have to admit that the Sandy Chuck E. Cheese is not as great as the Orem one, but it was still fun. We played several rounds of Ski Ball, one round of Family Bowling and then mostly spent our coins on the "gambling games." The big jack-pot games are Clayton's favorite because he's pretty luck sometimes. I don't like them because they suck up your tokens, but unfortunately those were pretty much the only games they had. Oh, except they did have this whacking game that I thoroughly enjoyed, although Clayton may have been a little embarrassed to claim me while I was killing all those aliens ;o) When Clayton was down to just a few tokens he spent them at a ball drop game trying to win the 100 ticket jack-pot. He didn't hit it. When I was down to a few more tokens I followed the same strategy. With my last few tokens I one a "2 free plays" where I dropped the ball into the 50 token space twice, and then I got the 100 token jack-pot twice. Thanks to that ball drop game, I beat Clayton in tickets! He had 530 ish tickets and I had 620 ish tickets. Clayton kept on saying, "we're going to combine tickets, right?" The answer was yes, but I still wanted to know who got more. With our 1100 plus tickets we got a squooshy/spiky ball and 10 airheads. It was a pretty fun night!Tuesday Clayton had to go to school and I had a doctor's appointment. The nurse came in all excited and said "Oh, you're almost done!" (You know, because my due date was less than a week away from that appointment.) But I wasn't as excited because I know that I've got an extra week on top of the due date- just she doesn't know that. Then the doctor comes in and asks, "so, you're almost there, is she ready to come out yet?" I said, "I'll let you check me and then I'll ask you that same question." The doctor laughed at this, but then he checked and he held onto that smile as he informed me that I'm still not breaking any records in dilation. I asked him if there was a number to go along with that statement and he told me that I'm still just dilated to 1 cm. So, here's the recap of dilation checks for the last 5 weeks. 5 weeks ago- 0 cm; 4 weeks ago- 1/2 cm; 3 weeks ago- 1/2 cm; 2 weeks ago- "closer to a 1"; this week- 1 cm. The doctor kept talking and said something where I replied, "Yeah, I don't think she's even dropped yet." He then informed me that she's still pretty high up there and so, no, she hasn't dropped yet. We did talk about the up coming storm on Thursday and how that could put me into labor, since storms have a way of doing that to women, but... My next appointment is the day after my due date. At that appointment the doctor says that we'll start talking about the "mercy rule," you know, the mercy of induction so that I don't have to be pregnant forever (because let's face it, I'm sure if it was 100% up to Ady, she would have me be pregnant forever). So we'll see how next Tuesday goes.
Wednesday the storm hit, it wasn't supposed to hit til Thursday, but it came early- and Ady did not! Clayton actually didn't have to go anywhere on Wednesday, but I had to go into school. Well, I guess I could have planned that better so that I went to school on a day Clayton left me alone, but I really wanted to get this giant stack of papers out of the way. So I went down to Orem and was pretty productive. I input scores that I had with me, and then more that were waiting for me at school, I graded papers and then input those scores, I hung up student work around the room, and I got a few more smaller details ready for the sub. By time I came home though, Clayton had run off to a meeting. Little did either of us know that it was going to be a 3 hour meeting that was an hour away. So much for spending any time together on Wednesday. I think we got in one episode of something before we went off to bed.
Thursday we were both home, but it was a cleaning day. I had done some more cleaning on Wednesday, but Thursday was the day to make sure that it was ALL done. There are several reasons that the house needed to be ALL clean this week. One- it's Spring Break, so it's the only time I have to really spend the time truly cleaning (not just wiping off) everything. Two- when I bring baby home, I don't want to have to think about the dirty house and when I'm going to have time to clean it again, so if I clean it now, it should (emphasis on should) stay clean through delivery. Three- Mom and Dad are coming soon so they can be here for Ady's birth and when company comes (even if it's just family) the house needs to be clean. There are other reasons, but those are the big ones. When I told Clayton that it was going to be a cleaning day, he immediately went to the office to work on cleaning that up. You know, it's amazing how we've been in our house 2 months already and Clayton STILL hasn't put the office all the way together. Don't worry, after a whole day in the office while I cleaned the whole rest of the house, the office still isn't put together. Lame! Oh, but what was glorious about Thursday was that we took full advantage of the fact that we didn't have anywhere to be and we don't have any kids yet. We slept in until 10:30 am. I know that's never going to happen again, so I'm glad we were able to do it. Before when I would sleep in too long I would feel like I wasted a day, but seriously, I don't feel like I missed anything, I enjoyed it!
Today is Friday and Clayton is off putting a network together for a company and talking all freaking day to do it. So I'm left here alone. I'm working on laundry, I went and got my hair cut, and then I'll do a few more school-y things when I'm done blogging. And I'll wait for my hubby to get home (I've already called him 3 times today, but I don't think he appreciates it, so I'll try to restrain). I usually get my hair cut by a friend, but she's not answering my message, so I had to find somewhere else to go. It was terrifying- especially since I did a drastic change. I figured since I'm going to be a mommy, I had to get the "mommy hair cut." That's where you cut off all your hair so the baby can't pull it out. So that's what I
did. I cut off 10 inches so that I could donate it and then added some layers. It didn't turn out quite how I wanted, you can't even tell she put layers in it, so that's kind of lame. But at least baby can't rip all my hair out, because I already cut it all off. I knew this Spring Break wasn't going to be the most eventful, but I've had a TON of down time and I wish we would have done a little more. Hopefully tomorrow Clayton will be home and we can go for a picnic or something (although it's supposed to rain/snow again tomorrow, so probably not the picnic thing).One (two) more days of Spring Break and then it's back to school for me- even though my sister thinks it's absolutely ridiculous to teach right up until I pop her out, that's pretty much my only option. Oh, unless the dream I had the other night comes true. I dreamt that I went back to school on Monday and the kids were being super disrespectful and rude and I wasn't going to have it. One kid that gave me attitude I called over to my desk and I started lecturing, then when he rolled his eyes at me I laid into him. While yelling at him, I was thinking that my next step was to go tell Mr. Parkes that I was going to take personal days until the baby came and then I was just going to be on maternity leave. So, I guess if Monday really does go that badly, I do have the option of using personal days so that I don't compromise having a job next year :o)
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