Morrise Family

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Sunny Day Blues

This week the kids and I decided to come to my parents' house and let Matt have some peace and quiet to study for finals. Yesterday I was hurriedly doing laundry, changing sheets, doing dishes and packing bags to get ready for the trip. While I was doing all this, Winnie was doing this:

There were kids outside playing and she kept looking out wistfully and asking if she could go play too. By the time I was ready all the kids had gone inside. No one told me that being a mother came with so much guilt.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Happy Easter

The Easter Bunny always hides our Easter baskets, so when Winnie got up this morning, she got to have a little hunt around her room for her basket. Too bad the video of her search is too big for Blogger because she was really excited!

The Bunny had hidden Winnie's basket in the play pen. Because Winnie went to 2 Easter Egg hunts yesterday, he thought it best to keep it light on the candy and add other goodies to the basket. Winnie got a coloring book, crayons, measuring spoons (maybe mine will stay in the drawer now), and her very own pillow. She did get a chocolate rabbit which we then let her eat for breakfast. Aren't we good parents?

For a while now, Winnie has been asking to have one of her blankets folded up like a pillow, so we thought it was time to actually get her her own. She got a travel sized pillow and I couldn't find any pre-made cases for its size, but I had enough fabric in my stash to make her a little pillow case.

Grandma Susan bought Winnie this little dress a while ago and we saved it for today because we thought it would be the perfect Easter dress.

Unfortunately, I didn't realize until I downloaded my pictures that my camera lense got a little finger print on it at the Easter egg hunt yesterday so all of my pictures and video from today are cloudy.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

The Cost of Having a Baby

With no complications, baby's grand total: $11,681.18. Ouch. Thank goodness for decent insurance.

Monday, March 30, 2009

2 Years Old

Winnie turned 2 yesterday. Where did the last 2 years go? Here's a picture of our sweet birthday girl, Queen Winnie:

Her ladybug cake:

Winnie was very excited about her birthday. All day long everything was her "birthday" something--her birthday breakfast, her birthday dress, her birthday daddy. . .

Matt and I gave Winnie a CD player for her birthday. I never would have thought I'd be giving a 2-year-old a CD player, but we set it up today and she knew how to use it without me even having to show her.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

I finally finish a project. . .

I'm great at starting projects, but not so great at finishing. On Monday, I finished one that I've been working on for a while. . .

Meet Luke Matthew. He was born at 8:30 Monday night, weighed 7 lbs, 20 inches long.

People keep asking me which one is better--unmedicated birth or having an epidural. I really couldn't say which is better because they were very different experiences. I'd recommend a natural birth to anyone who thought they'd still be able to enjoy the experience that way. Winnie's birth was much more intense and I was much more focused on just one thing. With Luke I was, of course, more comfortable, more relaxed and enjoyed being able to watch Matt's reaction to everything.

Winnie is slowly adjusting to having competition for our time and attention. Overall, I think she's doing quite well. My Mom's been here all week so the house is even relatively clean. Poor Matt, though. Baby's in our room so we're really disrupting his sleep. A few more nights of sleep deprivation and the dark circles under his eyes might be black enough that people will think he's been in a fight. Luckily, Luke's been a little better every night and last night even gave us a 4-hour stretch of uninterrupted sleep.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

425 East Center

The Lizzie V. Sutton house was listed for sale this week. The listing is sparse on details and doesn't have any pictures. The picture above is from the county tax records.

http://utahrealestate.com/866991

The Sutton house is one of my favorite houses in all of Provo and a Provo Historic Landmark. Just 4 blocks from the courthouse, it is the perfect location for our future plans since one of my goals is to live within a mile of Matt's work. The house has been for sale 3 times in the last 3 years and I'm pretty sure it's been owned by investors for quite a while. Currently the house is a triplex with two 2-bedroom and one 1-bedroom apartments. One of the 2-bedroom units is almost twice the size of our current house, so even though we wouldn't gain a bedroom, I think we could make the space work for quite a while until we could afford to expand into the other units and ultimately restore the house to a single family residence. If only it was a year later and Matt was done with school. . . and if only it weren't $370,000.