Royce made this!

This is a picture that Royce made last night (he seriously only worked on it for 2 hours, and it was done) for an educational game that he's been helping with for a couple of years, and I thought it was so incredible! Part of it is that it looks fantastic, but also I watched him through some of the stages of this process, and he started with a stone texture from on-line and a circle, and this is how the picture ended up. It's so cool.

Parenting: Touching the Hearts of Our Youth

Parenting: Touching the Hearts of Our Youth

Stake Relief Society Blog

For once I actually checked my yahoo account for the relief society information for our ward, and they said that the web-site is up from the last stake Relief Society conference, which I thought was pretty cool that they put everything up on a blog. (Including recipes from the luncheon.) So here's the link if you haven't seen it yet.

http://austinoakhillsrs.blogspot.com/

We've Almost Made It!

So we've almost made it through the first trimester! My progesterone level was low and so I had to take some replacement hormones, and that was awful. I was so sick all the time. All I did was go to Church, buy groceries, and sort the laundry and Royce and Emmaline did all of the rest. Royce was amazing. He did all of the cooking, the cleaning, washing the laundry, and he waited on me hand and foot, and was just always so happy to help, and tried to help me feel better. (On top of working 30hrs a week and going to school and all of the projects his professors have him doing.) He made Edward look like an insensitive jerk. :) And Emmaline picked up a lot more responsibilities, and did really well and enjoyed helping so now she's got her own little chore chart, with stickers, and ice cream rewards.
Anyway, this last week I've been able to slowly taper off my medicine, and my doctor called today and said that my levels look good, so I can stop taking the medicine! It's awesome. I'm already feeling so much better just being on less medicine. I'm still feeling a little sick, but it's totally manageable. So yeah! And I'll be 11 weeks tomorrow, so we're about to say goodbye (and good riddance) to the first trimester, and I'm starting to feel happy and excited about being pregnant again. And a special thanks to everyone who helped watch Emmaline too, and get her out of the house, and thanks for all of the offers too. Even if we didn't take you up on it, we really appreciate it, and are so glad that we have such a great support system here, and some great friends!

And these pictures don't really have much to do with the post, but I thought they were pretty cute. I'm still undecided about how I feel about her playing video games, but Royce is careful with what she plays, and it's a fun thing for them to do together, and they're just so cute!

Free Piano Music Download

I found a really neat blog where you can download some hymns that this guy plays on the piano, or he has sheet music available for some of the songs, and they're really pretty, and everything is free. Check it out!
http://www.hymnarrangements.blogspot.com