Obligatory February Post

I have been meaning to post about Josie and Peter and life, etc. but I think for now I will just post a few pictures.

Josie                                                                                                              

Peter                          

                               

Josie

Josie

Josie

Peter

Josie

                       

Peter

Peter

Peter

Peter

Picture/Video Links of Us

I'm working on getting my pictures and videos up on these websites.

http://morganandandrew.shutterfly.com/

http://picasaweb.google.com/morangegurl

http://www.youtube.com/user/morangegurl

I Finally Finished the Baby Quilt!!!

That's right I finished the baby quilt that matches the bedding that I made for the crib. I already wrote about it on my new blog so here is a link to what I wrote so I don't have to write about it twice... Too late. :) Anyway here is the link.

Stuff I Made

So just for fun I decided to create a new blog specifically for stuff that I've made the link is: http://MorganMadeStuff.blogspot.com. Some of it I have already talked about on this blog, but I have a lot more new and old craftiness that I am going to post. There are a couple of things in progress right now that I can't talk about because they are awesome gifts for people for Christmas, but I'll be sure to post them up after Christmas. :) Hurray for being crafty!!

Random Thoughts in a Numbered List

1. Maternity overalls sound like a good idea right? They're nice and loose and don't bother your belly. I thought so too... until I decided to wear a pair the other day and I litterally had to use the bathroom 10 times that day when I finally decided to change into something else less cumbersome to wear, and ironically once I changed my clothes I didn't have to go to the bathroom as much.
2. I've been doing a lot of "crafting" recently in addition to the things that I've posted about already. I've been crocheting a blanket and making Thank You cards, I even made a wrap so I can wear my baby. It's just been a very crafty time. Yesterday I said to Andrew, "You really like me doing all this crafty stuff, huh?" He said, "Yes." And then I said, "It's because it helps to justify having a room full of crafty stuff." He again said, "Yes."
3. I found a really cool website while searching Frysfood.com (Fry's is our local grocery store in the Kroger family, the one by our house is a Market Place which just means it's bigger, similar to a Fred Meyer or WalMart) for the sales to make my weekly shopping list from. The website I found is called shortcuts.com and basically you register your loyalty shopping card with the website and "clip" coupons online, then the next time you use your card at that store and buy that item the discount will automatically be deducted from your total. I haven't tried it yet but the next time we go grocery shopping (probably tomorrow) I will test it out. There are only certain stores that participate so it may not be available to you but it's a great way to clip coupons and save money. Though I think the hard part will be not having the physical coupon to remind you to use it.
4. This past week I am to the point in my pregnancy that it has started to get particularly uncomfortable. I was sitting on the floor cutting fabric and really got annoyed that my belly was in the way and I couldn't quite reach what I was doing comfortably. I actually had Andrew cut the fabric for the wraps because it was so long.
   
5. I really enjoy walking with our walking group on Thursdays, it gives me a chance to get out of the house and get to know the ladies in our ward that are in similar situations that I am or else that I soon will be in. I also really enjoy the walking it's really good exercise and one of the ladies wanted to up the walking so we're going to go walking on Monday's too. I'd love to do it daily but I don't know if I can handle that much walking right now. The last time I went walking my pelvis really hurt, just like the first time I did the walking. Maybe I need to walk more to help prevent that... I'm not sure.
6. I'm really looking forward to Thanksgiving this year. We're doing it at our house and we're having Ham. I can't wait to have all that yummy food. I get to eat more this year because I'm "eating for two". :) I am trying out a couple of new recipes so I will be sure to share them afterwards if they turn out okay.
7. I'm constantly thinking about things that I can blog about. I don't always end up posting what I've thought about but it's still fun to think about. Sometimes I will tell Andrew what I'm going to blog about and then I remind him that he's allowed to blog too. The typical reply to that is, "Yeah, I know... mumble, mumble, mumble."
   

See, I am an Addict :)

I took the quiz that Megan shared with me and I am a 74% addict. :) I just thought you would like to know.

74%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

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Blogaholics Anonymous

I have recently discovered that I, Morgan T. Gardner, am a Blogaholic.

Since I'm not working right now and don't have a car during the day and have few things that take me out of the house, I find myself at the computer multiple times during the day. I check my email and check my blog, not to see if anyone has commented but to see who else has recently updated their blog. I really love the Blog List. I told Andrew today that I don't watch soap operas, I read blogs. I'm constantly checking to see if any of my friend's blogs have added people to their lists of people that I know and don't already have in my list. Sometimes I check my blog and forget that I checked it just a couple of hours ago and that most people don't even post everyday to their blog. I get a little sad if nobody's updated recently then I remember that I just checked not too long ago. I do do other things like sewing and cleaning and such and there is a free online game, Puzzle Pirates, that I like to play, but reading blogs is my favorite thing to do.

This is just a random realization that I came to; this is not an effort to make everyone blog more so I have more to read. :) But if it works out that way I'm okay with it, either way.

Online Baby Shower Clarification

It seems there is some confusion about the online baby shower. It is not a one day thing but an ongoing blogging event, with polls about who the baby will look like, whether or not you think it will be a boy or a girl, etc., until the in person baby shower on November 1st. So if you haven't looked at it recently there may be something you haven't seen yet. Only 2 people have voted on who they think the baby will look like; so far I'm winning. :)

Andrew's Fruit Trees

Ever since we knew we were moving to Arizona we knew that we wanted fruit trees in our yard. Andrew has been particularly excited about it and he's been doing a lot of research about fruit trees in Arizona, etc. On Saturday we went to the Nursery to pick out some fruit trees for our backyard. We asked all our questions and walked around and thought about it for a while and decided to pick out the trees we wanted. We ended up picking out: Lemon, Tangelo, Red Grapefruit, White Peach and Asian Pear trees. The trees are all dwarf except the Asian Pear tree; we chose to do this because we didn't want to have to climb really high to get our fruit. They are also all self pollinating which is nice because we didn't have to buy two of the same kind of tree to get fruit. In fact the Lemon tree and the Grapefruit tree already have fruit on them, they're not ripe but should be in 4 months or so as long as the trees don't drop the fruit. Citrus trees will do that but other fruit trees won't.

The trees were delivered yesterday (a down fall of not having a pickup truck) and Andrew came home and went out in his work clothes and started digging a hole. We needed to go grocery shopping and I knew that if we didn't go right away he would get too into digging the holes and planting the trees that we would never make it to the store. I forget how early it gets dark since it's fall and we don't do day light savings time down here (personally I think we should spring forward and then stop changing the time). Anyway it was dusk when we got home but Andrew was determined to plant at least one tree last night and he did. One thing you need to know about digging in Arizona is it's very difficult because the ground is very hard. Our backyard has about 6 inches of "digable" dirt until we get down to the hard pack, which Andrew discovered. Someone commented to us that if you want to dig a hole in Arizona you do it during the monsoon season other wise you're not really digging you're chipping and hacking. To cure the digging issue Andrew soaked the ground and then planted the Tangelo tree. The hole for the Lemon tree was a little different he started digging that hole when he was done planting the Tangelo tree and soaked it in water and then he had me fill the hole with water before he got home today so it would be easier to dig.

He will probably get the Grapefruit tree into the ground tomorrow and the peach and pear trees on Saturday.

All Our Fruit Trees & Fertilizer

Andrew Digging in His Work Clothes

Andrew Watering the Tangelo Tree

The Tangelo Tree in the Ground

Andrew Starting to Dig the Hole for the Lemon Tree with a Flashlight in his Mouth

The Lemon Tree in the Ground

Funny story; Andrew came home from work today and asked if I had blogged about the fruit trees yet. I said no, why don't you do it? His response? You do it so much better, and if you do it, it will actually get done. I think it's funny, and so here is Andrew's exciting news as told by me. :)

The Blog List

I don't normally promote random things like this but, I really like the Blog List gadget that's available on Blogger. It's really quite cool, you can create a list of all the blogs that you are following and then import them into the Blog List where you then see all of the blogs in the order that they were last update. You can choose to show just the title of the last blog or include a snippet as well. It's really convenient while working on your own blog to look at your list and see whose recently posted so you can take a look at what's new. Private blogs will show up in the list with only the blog name and no additional information, but either way it's nice to have all the blogs I'm interested in easily in the same place.

A blog by any other name...

Blogging seems to be the thing to do, and I have decided that I will do it too. :) I figure that since I don't really do well at the journal thing that maybe if it's public then I will feel guilty for not posting and will keep going. Or something to that effect. We're not terribly exciting, but maybe what's boring to us might be interesting to you. Either way it's worth a shot, so here goes.

Here's a random fact: the font that I'm using is called Georgia and it is my favorite; I use it for all electronic documents, even at work. It looks nice and different without being too cutesy and hard to read.