IttyBitty Blog

Little Miles Vern and Brody Franklin were blessed a couple weeks ago.  We decided it would be easier to have just one get-together instead of two.  I would have posted these photos earlier, but I couldn’t figure out the format that dad sent them in.  The boys looked cute together.  Brody still has a much bigger head. 

My mom made their cute little outfits; they looked so cute!   Trevor did both blessings and did a fabulous job.  Afterwards, we got together at the Bailey’s for a super potato bar and other yummy things.  It was a nice get-together.  The best part was that I didn’t have to clean my house for the event. 

You wouldn’t be able to tell by simply reading Katie’s blog, but she actually had a baby on December 2nd.  Brody Franklin Bailey, weighing in at 8 lbs. 11 0z.  He’s just 16 days older than my little Miles.

It was fun for Katie and I to be pregnant at the same time.  We had wished to be in the hospital at the same time.  It still makes me giggle to think of all the trouble we could have caused some nurses.  But alas, it was not in the cards.

On Christmas Eve, the babies met for the first time.  As you can see in the picture above, 2 weeks makes a pretty big difference. (Brody on the left, Miles to the right)   Either that, or Brody has a gigantic noggin (orange on a toothpick, hee hee).

I don’t mean to brag, but in the picture below, my baby is the calm one.

Looking forward to seeing these two boys grow up together.  I think that they kind of look alike.  I hope they’ll be good friends.

I have never been able to keep a secret.  Even my own.  It’s been a problem for as long as I can remember.  I just hate keeping secrets and having secrets kept from me.

My sister Katie is the exact opposite when it comes to secrets.  She has always been able to keep secrets for long periods of time…..and I HATE it!!!

With all three of my pregnancies, I have called everyone that I knew within 24 hours of the discovery.  I just can’t hold it in or I’m afraid that I’d explode.

Katie, on the other hand, waits for a very long time and then shocks the crap out of me.  With Max, I actually discovered her secret because of the preg test she left in her bathroom, but she didn’t TELL me until long after. This was of course long after I’d told everyone else that I knew.  With Paige, she leaned over just before a baby shower was about to begin and said, “by the way, I’m pregnant”….after she’d already announced to everyone else at the party.  And this time, with her third pregnancy…..yep, that’s right, her THIRD pregnancy…..she decided to wait an entire month and a half to tell me that she’s having a baby 11 days before me!!!  She actually just stuck her ultrasound picture in the father’s day card for my dad. Her due date is December 16th!!!

I am really quite amazed that she was able to hold that in for so long.  Even after I asked her for old baby toys and to borrow her boppy pillow.  Does anyone have a boppy pillow I can borrow?

Ken and Scott were in town so Katie invited us all over to play games.  I hate learning new games (it’s such a hassle) so I was very dismayed when Katie suggested we play a new game called Partini.  After we got playing, however, it turned out to be a pretty fun game.  It’s a whole bunch of games rolled into one and with a “drink” theme.  It’s like Cranium, only it has more games to play.  Above, Scott is smoking his “joint” made of clay.  The funniest game was the “hum punch”, where you have to hum a song and your team has to guess the title.  It’s so hard to guess, but I nearly peed my pants listening to everyone, especially Trevor.  There are no words to describe his humming.

We took a drive to Tremonten to see the house that my parents are building. They are planning to move back in the Spring.  Katie and Trevor have been doing the grunt work and we wanted to see their good works.  My mom said that they wanted to move to Tremonten because she didn’t want to live in a ”dump”.  I think she might have been refering to my house.  Lots are much cheaper when you live in the middle of nowhere, which means they can afford a nicer house. 

 It was VERY chilly and the roads were quite slick, but we survived.  Their house is going to be really nice, I think they’ll be happy with it.  Katie and Trev did a good job of picking out the lot.  It has a really pretty view of the mountains and a giant pasture.  They also have a GIGANTIC garage.  They’ll be able to fit six vehicles in that sucker.

After the tour, we drove back to Brigham to have lunch at Maddox.  Grandma Ge Ge gave us gift certificates so we enjoyed them together.  Maddox is delicious.  It is my favorite restaurant and yes, I had the turkey steak.

We had Katie and Trev over for a little after-Christmas dinner.  With my brother in Boston, and my parents in Germany, there weren’t any other respresentatives of “my side” of the family. 

After dinner, I mentioned that our garbage disposal was broken.  Before I knew it, Trevor had taken the whole thing apart and declared the motor burned out.  Joey decided to go buy a new one since our handy man was there and all.  Trevor fixed it up good.  I probably would have went without a disposal for a very long time if it weren’t for him.

Afterwards, we jammed with the Rock Band that Joey got from his mom.  We cleaned up popcorn with the vacuum that I got from his mom.  It was a very special evening.

This is a picture of what my sister calls a “gingerbread mansion”. 

I would just like to show everyone what a REAL gingerbread mansion looks like…

My sister Katie, along with some of her friends, and I, all got season tickets to the Desert Star playhouse this year.  We had the pleasure of seeing, “Miracle on 42nd Street”.  It was fabulous!  I absolutely love to see these funny plays.  The theatre is sort of set up like a comedy club with little tables to sit at.  They have really good pizza there, but unfortunately, we got the appetizer sampler…..not a good choice.

I love my sister Katie Lou.

We have such a good time together and I’m so glad that we are close.  She is such an awesome mom, great speech pathologist, and terrific homemaker.  She is very domestic.  People that know her are always telling me how much they LOVE her.  Even though I’m the older sister, I really look up to her and not just because she’s taller than me.  I think she is the bomb.  Major wicked, man!

My brother Ken was here all last week for work.  He moved to Boston last July so that his boyfriend, Scott, could get his Master’s Degree.   And because KennyBum is my favorite brother, I’ve decided to write a bit about him. 

KennyBum is paralegal/computer guy for a law firm.  They must really like him because they let him work from Boston.  A computer nerd at heart, he enjoys the mac a little too much for his own good and owns at least five of them. He has a terrific sense of humor as evident by his amazing blog which inspired me to start blogging.  Although I used to torture KennyBum as a child, he has since forgiven me and  we have long meaningful conversations about just any topic you could imagine.  I miss those talks.  Move back to Utah, KennyBum!!