We made it through the week!

Do you ever have a week where you are just glad to have made it through alive? It has certainly been one of those weeks in the Nas-ter-son house this week.

Just a week ago we were in Tremonton putting on a reception for more than 150 people. Something like that requires more than one day of rest to recover from.  Then, bright & early (7:15) Monday morning started another week of band. And uniform alterations. And teaching of choreography (to the awesome assistant band director & friend of mine, Kirsten). And planning another (thankfully small) event. Shopping for it. Unpacking the last of the non-book boxes. Catching up on laundry, dishes & gardening. Marching in the parade with 2 of my 9 -soon to be 10- students who were in town. Coming home and cleaning up -again- so our home would be somewhat presentable for company.  I've also gotten my twirling site going, updated my catering site and created a new MMHS Color Guard site since our old one was having issues. To those who have referred people to me for catering, thank you! I do appreciate it very much.There. I posted. In case you can't tell, I'm pretty tired today.

Up this week...

*Get my official catering license
*Get my EIN stuffs so I can hire an employee or two soon (the events are getting larger and now I'm getting clients that I haven't met before)
*Begin serious choreography for MMHS fall
*Grading
*Hopefully some sleep


See you in a week~

A Wednesday in June

I started a post yesterday about trying to be more positive about life in general, then I fell asleep. Sleep is great. I fully appreciate a good sleep (I think most people do, actually.) Then I went to work this morning. I love what I do, I love doing it and it helps me stay active, healthy and creative. I do not love the administrative side of things. I also don't appreciate it when people don't follow through with their promises or I have to fight for something that I shouldn't have to fight for. I won't go into anymore detail but let's just say I'm frustrated again.

In other somewhat related news, there may not be a winter guard next year. (Yes, by my choosing.) Instead, we may join with the winter drumline and compete together. I was discussing color guard items with the band director when one of the drumline instructors popped in and said to join them. Benefits of being one giant team:

• We'd be one giant team
• More visual for the drumline
• More awesome music for the guard
• Lower fees all around
• More social interactions for the student
• Awesome combination of staff

Next step: get through summer and fall seasons. :) 

Actually, next step is fit into one of the high school uniforms. The assistant band director, Kirsten, and I are going to be performing in the Springville parade this Saturday with the two members of my nine member guard who will be there. Want a good laugh? Come watch! 

Oh. My. Gosh. (For Serious Sophie Fans Only)

So, in the last 10 days, Sophie has cut not one, but two teeth, gotten a kitten named Herkimer (very entertaining to watch the babies try to understand why they can't really play together) and discovered that being mobile (and FAST) is both fun and has the added bonus of making mommy and daddy really uptight about silly things. "NO, Sophie. Don't get into the cat food!" "Sophie, grass is not for eating!" "Didn't we put you on your back on your playmat in the other room 2 minutes ago?" "Sophie, please stop trying to pull chairs over on yourself. Thanks." 

To recap: 

Sophie can bite

Sophie can army crawl (two arms and a pushing leg)

Sophie enjoys putting EVERYTHING in her mouth

Sophie is not the smallest (welcome) living thing in the house anymore

Sophie LOVES to squeal, say "mamamama" and "a-bah" and the occassional "uh-boo" 

Sophie has discovered that playing peek-a-boo with your skirt is oh-s--fun

Sophie loves to video chat with The Connecticut Grandparents and show off her new skills

Sophie is all smiles almost all the time and is the cutest baby we've ever had. Oh, and we love her a lot. 

Below you can enjoy the Sunday Morning Funnies (compliments of Sophie and Herkimer.) Sophie's daddy was asleep the whole time. Extra points for spotting the sleeping daddy! 

"I see you!" 

"I'm getting closer"

"I got you!"

"No, I got you!"

"Oh, no! She caught us again!"

"I'm gettin' outta here!" "Hey!" 

"Maybe if I look cute, I won't get in trouble."

Finally- an update!

My window box of petunias.
This is on the window on my garage.

It has been three weeks since I've posted (holy cow...) and SO much has happened since that last ode to Mother's Day.  Let's see if I can get it all in here.

12th- we got a call from Aunt Joyce (our fabulous real estate agent) informing us that we were going to be able to close the following week. -For real this time.

My favorite room in the house.
I have so much space to cook!

13th- We got the keys to our new house and I was able to start cleaning and prepping for our moving day. Craig's mom came to help and brought a picnic lunch. It was easier getting things done with some help! After a looong day of cleaning, we went out to eat with grandpa and then went back to his house to continue with the packing and moving day prep. Oh, we also received a message that night that the truck we had reserved online was not going to be available. We were not happy. Craig fixed it.

Kitty obviously didn't want to move

14th- Sophie went to play with Aunt Erin and her cousins at about 8:15, Craig picked up the truck (from a different company) and the fun began. Some of our amazing friends showed up to help us load and go. Craig's brother Kirk, his dad, Alex, Neil and Katharine (thank you for keeping me sane!) came to help us load in Provo. In Mapleton, a few of my students and their siblings joined in the unloading as well as the band director I work with (Chris.) Lunch at Brick Oven and then Britney's baby shower. Crazy busy day.

15th- Went to our last Sunday in the Edgemont 9th ward and taught primary the last time there. Loaded up more things at grandpa's (including the cat) and headed back to Mapleton to try to get a little more settled.

16th-20th Unpacking, cleaning, guard. One big blur, really.

Caprese salad and
monogrammed sugar cookies

Chicken Salad
Croissants & Raspberry Lemonade

21st- Catered a bridal shower thrown by Cecilia for one of her high school friends. It turned out lovely! Oh, we also got a car, went to the monthly Peterson gathering, got a couch from one of my sisters friends, a dining set from my sister and made sushi cookies. We looove sushi.

Not a flattering picture,
but you get the idea.

22nd-29th- Guard practices, leadership meeting with my new captain/asst., more moving in, painting, spent some time with Katharine, planted a garden & window box, learned that not all clients are kind, read all of the bold print or understand the concept of having to pay for things if they want them. I also cut my hair off. It was driving me nuts and I couldn't get it to do anything outside of a pony tail. I'll post a better picture sometime soon. Oh, and redid the catering blog. Hopefully it's a little more user-friendly now.  Feedback would be appreciated.

Up this week:
Summer band camp, lots of ward activities and catering a wedding reception in Tremonton. Keep sending your friends my way!

Post Mother's Day Post

Now that Mother's Day has come and gone, I can post pictures of the little crafty project we did for my mom! We did silhouettes of all of the Nasson-side grandchildren. It was lots of fun to do and even more fun for mom to open them... even the one wrapped in a walmart bag and twist-ties. (Hey, we like being practical in our family!) 

We were also really excited about the Mother's Day gift we got for Craig's mom. I did a fair bit of research and we ended up getting a quality, no-salt-required ice cream/frozen yogurt maker. Red. Fabulous. We might have to borrow it sometime. ;)

Lovely Saturday!

It's just a generally happy day!  The morning started off with baking and decorating (just with some lilac colored roses) a sheet cake and heading over to Grandma and Grandpa Peterson's. (Craig's grandparents.) We spent several hours weeding, bug killing and generally tidying the yard. They are both in their 80's and have a hard time getting the heavier yard work done. It was really lovely getting to spend some time with Craig's Aunt Joyce, Uncle Randy, his cousins and their wives. Sophie enjoyed spending time with her uncle Kirk and they partied until she couldn't take it anymore.

The morning was topped off with a lovely bbq put on by Grandma & Grandpa Peterson. I hope we can get over there a few more times this summer to help/socialize. Don't tell my mom or anything, but I actually REALLY enjoy yard work. Didn't when I was younger and I'm sure I didn't appreciate what we were learning at the time but I certainly do now! Thanks, mom!

In other news, we hopped down to what we hope will be our home soon (long story- not going there. Nutshell: Short Sale.) We were supposed to go through with Joyce but she had some things come up. We're so excited to be getting a home of our very own soon! Here is a link to a LOT of pictures for those who have been asking...

In other other news, I'm going to be spending the rest of my afternoon writing an article on everyday nutrition! I am now a freelance writer for KSL! How fun is that? I'll post a link to my article once it's published.

Hope all is well with everyone and the weather is happy and inviting where ever you may be!

Lots of love from all of us :)

100th Post!

Happy 100th Post, blog! This is probably more for me than anyone else but I feel like we've hit a milestone of sorts. 100 posts since I started this blog on April 18th, 2009. Since then, we've had a LOT of things happen! (This is just a recap of my posts from the beginning. Nothing new:) )

Craig and I started dating about two weeks after my first post. Actually, our first almost date was around the 18th. Andrew Charles was staying with me for a few days and one night while he was with me was our ward's closing social. Craig offered to drive us and naturally, I accepted. (Craig looked really cute that night, by the way.) Sadly, that's the only post I had for months.

We got married.

Craig had major surgery.

We moved in with Grandpa Merrill.

We went to Seattle and visited my grandparents.

I started teaching winter guard.

I started my dental assisting program

We found out I was pregnant and didn't tell anyone

On our summer trip, Jeffrey graduated from high school and Kristin got married

We made it to 20 weeks, found out all was well with the pregnancy and that we were having a girl! 

In October, I finished another high school marching season, worked as an audio recorder for the BYU marching band, had a fabulous baby shower put on by my sister, had fun outings with grandpa Merrill and our first Halloween together.

November was full of goal reports and general "being pregnant stinks" posts. We did have a few funny Grandpa Merrill quotes to share! Best of all, it was our first anniversary or our "anniFirstary." I didn't post about that, but Craig and I had a great weekend together.

December nothing too exciting happened. Just kidding. We had a Sophie!  We went to Connecticut for some R&R.

January was the month of birthday cakes, wedding receptions and put in an offer on our first house.

Sophie is now just 2 days shy of being 5 months old and we're still waiting on our first house. Here's to another several hundred posts! :D