Januszewscy

Quesadilla!

2011-04-11T16:03:00.000-07:00

Roxy loves quesadillas, or you could call them quasidas. Yep. Thats what my mom called them once, and she has not been able to live it down.

I wish that i had some pictures but i dont have any.

Just wanted to let the world know that she does, so far, love mexican food. My little angel.

well that didnt work...

2011-03-04T23:24:00.000-08:00

So the exercising thing went caput when our downstairs neighbors decided that they didnt like us excersizing (jumping and kick boxing, really) at any time of the day. They banged on the floor at every time of the day. We tried 6am, 9am, 12pm, 3pm, 10pm, and every other time, but they would bang on the floor. So logically-like we have been told plenty of times- we should go talk to them and find out the best time. Well i dont want to do it, and david will usually confront anyone or anything, but he doesnt want to do it either. so we say our goodbye to chalene for now.

Something else that just doesnt work- more like i dont like- is the music on our page. Lets be honest, everybody pauses it as soon as the page loads. I know i do, when i open our page and everybody elses page. I love the music, its just an inconvenience, when someone is talking to you- and its super hard to read when something is blasting in your ears.

Now to go with the bad, ill add a YES!! IT WORKED!!! Now its all in caps because, ladies and gents, my baby has learned to self soothe and sleep (mostly) through the night. Before this week my little lady would wake up every 2 hours -yes every 2- for a top off. Now for a newborn that is not bad, but for a 7 month old it gets a little ridiculous. So for the past 7 months we have been some sleep deprived parents. The difference with this week is that we decided to let her "cry it out" (oh no!) Thats what i thought, but for reals, it worked. I was afraid to do it because the first time we tried R wouldnt stop crying, so that meant mommy didnt stop crying. So we tried again, Round Two! It was rough the first couple of nights becuase the mommy is sick (so just more exhausted in general) and R didnt know what was going on. So with the help of a patient hubby willing to stay up with me to make sure she got back to sleep- its working. The only way i kept my sanity was with the use of orajel, really, and giving her back a 12am feeding. Orajel, really? Yeah, she is a sucker for that stuff. You put it in her mouth, give her a paci, a blanket to hold and in 2 seconds she will be out. You think she would be teething, right? Nah, she will take the stuff anytime. So we let her cry for a few minutes, and then david would go in to soothe her (i couldnt or else she would keep crying til i fed her-know that from personal experience). He did that a couple times and then he would give her the orajel. We knew she needed the midnight feeding cuz orajel didnt help at all. So after a good nurse, she fell back asleep, cried a little after that, but then fell back asleep til 7. I call that success. The next 2 nights, same thing except without the crying after midnight. Tonight-yeah thats right, my baby slept through her midnight feeding. She fussed a little and then fell back asleep. No orajel, no nuthin. Im pretty stoked. I chuckled a little when i realized the miracle...

Now if only i could turn off my brain and block out the noise of david killing zombies in the background (our desktop is in our room)- then id be able to sleep like my babe.... Oh yay, the massacre just finished. Im off to dreamland.

TURBO FIRE!

2011-01-23T21:02:00.000-08:00

David and i started working out last week. We wanted to do p90x but i was too afraid, so he agreed to do turbo fire with me. So far its kicking both our butts. I have 15lbs to lose and david has a to lose a bit more than that. We have also started counting calories. We started on Monday the 16th, and on friday we weighed ourselves. David has lost 5 lbs and i have lost 1. So we are feeling pretty good, and excited for the next months. The workouts are super fun, and the instructor is named Chalene, and she has tons of energy. Once we are done with this then we will probably do insanity, and then p90x. We are excited for the future, and see what happens with our weight loss goals.

my cutie pie

2010-10-01T16:01:00.001-07:00

she is always so happy when she wakes up. It makes the late nights with lots of crying so much more worth it.

2 Months from the Womb

2010-09-21T17:05:00.000-07:00

Down

2010-09-09T10:35:00.000-07:00

Today im feeling down. It feels like everything is compounded, and nothing is going right. I hope that this little girl will get me through.

Roxy the Diva

2010-08-11T17:07:00.000-07:00

RLJ

2010-08-04T16:10:00.000-07:00

Roxy Lana Januszewski

2010-07-22T16:01:00.000-07:00

Born July 19th, 2010

7lbs 0oz

18 inches long

Little Less Than 3 Weeks Away

2010-07-07T14:30:00.000-07:00

Well it's about 3 weeks away until we get to see our new baby girl. Lots of things have to get finished and done before then. We have to finally choose a name, figure out vaccine stuff(which to get?, When?...etc), get the baby room all set up.

Right now we have about 5 names: Roxy, Emma, Sophie, Lana, and Esther. We don't have any middle names picked out since it's hard to match them up with 'Januszewski'.

The baby room is almost finished. We got a crib a mattress and bedding. We are making a changing table that Lauren originally started in High School as a cabinet. We have converted it into a changing table by adding some legs to it and a wider top. We got new hardware to get the drawer and the doors to work. We painted it a custard yellow. It looks really good so far. We'll have to post some pictures. Other than that we are almost ready for the baby to come. Lauren is actually requesting from me to be able to already have her. She just wants her out so bad. I do too... don't get me wrong. There is still a ton to do before she comes, if not we'll be in a world of stress(I think).

Lauren seems to be getting more and more uncomfortable. I try to help a lot but I just feel bad that she has to go through all of that by herself. I try and give her foot rubs and rub her back when the baby is kicking a ton. I also get her crushed ice all the time since she needs to drink lots of fluids(Doctor's Orders).

Ugh, moving....

2010-06-04T19:59:00.000-07:00

So.. tomorrow its happening... again. Moving. David and i just moved out of our old apartment a little over a month ago, and moved in with my parents. Now we are moving back to Provo because our new apartment is now available. ( We were able to sell our apartment one month earlier than planned so we could save money for a month.) So tomorrow it begins again. Im especially hating this move because I can help about as much as a trained monkey. All i can do is stand around, point to where i want things, and supervise. Its ridiculous. As I am typing David is out in my parents garage organizing our boxes so that packing the u-haul can go quickly and smoothly, and no, he wont let me help. If I am left to my own devices i try to do things myself... when we moved out of our old apartment, a month ago, i was in charge of packing up our bedroom- little did David know that in my head that included moving around the box spring and mattress. I was severely scolded as i pushed and pulled the bed out of the bedroom all by myself. Shortly after that i tried picking up our dressers, and all the boxes holding our clothes. Again, i was told i was being a 'bad girl'... then he laughed because i gave him the innocent 'who me?' look. So now i have strict orders that im not allowed to lift anything remotely heavy. Meaning, im not allowed to lift any of our boxes, or furniture. So here i am wishing i could help. Wake me up when its all over. Thank you.

Ultrasound...

2010-04-05T21:10:00.000-07:00

I know this was a long time coming... So here are the ultrasound pictures.

I had to take pictures of the ultrasound photos, because the scanner wasnt working at the time, so excuse my fingers.

We are so excited for our little girl! She is very active so far and i assume she will only get more so the closer we get to the end. Im about 24 weeks, so we are a little more than half way there!!

Not showing yet!

2010-02-19T16:00:00.000-08:00

So, it feels like i wake up every day expecting to finally be showing... but it still hasnt happened yet. I get tricked though, because the little nugget seems to migrate up a little while im sleeping. So in the mornings, while im laying down, with a full bladder, i have a baby belly. The reason we know its the baby showing in the mornings because its always a lopsided bump- The baby seems to favor my left side. But the moment i get up to look in the mirror the bump is almost completely gone, then i go to the bathroom and there is no more bump at all. Weird.

I can also feel the baby moving too. It feels like my muscles are tightening involuntarily, its a really weird sensation. The other night i had david push on my stomach a little while i was feeling the tightening, and he got really excited because he said that he could feel the baby moving too. This is what makes being pregnant worth it. The morning, afternoon, and evening sickness is not worth it until you can feel the baby move for the first time and everything starts to seem more real.

I will be 18 weeks on Monday the 22nd. Then we will have our first ultrasound 2 weeks after that and find out what the gender of the baby is. David is convinced its a boy, and of course i feel like its going to be a girl. So it will be fun to see who is right!

Baby Frustration.

2010-02-08T15:50:00.001-08:00

So i keep thinking that i am going to get over being sick, and then it hits me harder than i ever thought it could. Last night, we went to family dinner at my parents house. I usually feel better at my parents house for some reason. I dont know what it is, but my body/the baby doesnt like our apartment. Every time i walk in i almost immediately have to go to the bathroom and bow to the porcelain god...

But back to last night, i thought i would feel better at my parents, i didnt. I felt so bad i barely ate any dinner and had to lay on the couch the rest of the night while everyone else had fun in the kitchen. Then when we left i almost made David pull off the freeway a couple times so the baby could take its anger out on my stomach. I made it home, however, and went straight to bed.

I didnt even get to lay down before my guts decided i had to be sick. So i grabbed my handy dandy bowl and had a good red faced session. Last night while we were driving home, i wondered aloud if maybe i am feeling sick again because my insides are moving around trying to make more room for baby. David thought that could be a good reason, but told me to not get too ahead of myself... I am only 16 weeks. Hopefully i will have something to show for all my sick feelings soon. Until then i will continue to be a heathen and bow to my porcelain "friend. "

Until i feel better I'll think of a few of the things that make me happy:

The warm days of spring and summer

People who are dumber than me...

And the pounds lost after i have this little trouble maker. :)

...Polish...

2010-02-01T20:21:00.001-08:00

WARNING: Long post... sorry all, i got a little frustrated.

So... I am trying to be a good wife and soon to be mom and learn polish. For anyone that doesnt know, or cant read our last name, David is polish. Well his parents are from Poland, but David was born in Chicago... Anyway, he grew up speaking polish to his parents, and he also went on his mission to Poland. So if he wasnt fluent before, he definitely is now. The reason i write this is to explain that i feel its important for our kids to learn the language, as that is one set of grandparents primary language. However, im frustrated. Polish is hard. David laughs when he explains to me that Poles take pride in how hard their language is. David has taught me a bit, and i can generally understand when he is praying or speaking in Polish. However, I am trying to learn at home and lets just say its not going quickly. I'll just give you a run down of why polish is so hard:

1. Each word can be changed 14 different times, depending on the form of speech.

2. There are four (4) genders. (Four?? REALLY??)

3. Each preposition, and verb changes the ending of a word accordingly.

4. Not only are nouns changed, but adjectives (anything describing the noun) change as well.

5. The language is spoken in double negatives.

6. The instrumental case in english is simply a different ending in a polish word. ( Who the heck knows what the instrumental case in english is anyway... now i have to know it in polish???) ie: (english) I am taking a bus. (polish) Ide autobusem. Direct translation: I am going by the means of a bus. (WTF??? Those two words mean all that?? Again i say, WTF??)

7. In English we use adjectives to describe somethings state of being. In Polish adverbs are used instead. Now i will show you why this is difficult; because it just doesnt seem that confusing...but it is. ie: (english) I am cold. (polish) Zimno mi. Direct translation: It is cold to me. ( I wish that everyone could have been here to listen to David explain to me why those two words mean, it is cold to me. He had to break down the english sentence to describe why the polish sentence works. By the way, in the polish sentence, there is no verb, just an adverb and the indirect object form of I. Sheesh.)

Now for those of you who have read through this post...which i know is long... David asked that i put in the reasons why Polish is easy. So here goes.

1. There are only 3 tenses- past tense, present tense, and future tense.... However, there are two forms of each verb. ( So not exactly easy, since you have to know which one you are using -perfect form or imperfect form.)

At this point David is struggling to think of another point of why polish would be easy...

2. There is no filler words like : a, an, the, of. These words are all inclusive in the ever large words.

As for redeeming qualities, it seems this is it.

Now regardless of how difficult i know the language is, i still attempt to teach myself. This, however, will not go well but I push forward. Well i guess this is me throwing down, that i will learn this language. There will be plenty of tears, and probably expletives said in frustration, but i will learn it. I dont think i can put a time limit on it, but this is me making myself accountable. Thank you for letting me rant. The next time i make progress i will definitely put it on the blog. :) *sigh*

Done and Gone!

2010-01-29T21:19:00.001-08:00

The first trimester is over... officially, im in my 14th week and im glad to be done with the first 3 months. Im still not showing, so there isnt a picture to accompany the post- Sorry! There hasnt been a whole lot of things going on with us lately. Mostly because i have been feeling lousy all the time, and david is still going to school. But being the amazing guy he is, he does all the cleaning, and helps with dinner every night. Just a little update to let you know we are still here, just doing our best to get by.

Thanksgiving

2009-11-19T14:56:00.000-08:00

Its interesting that Thanksgiving is next week, because i have especially been feeling very ungrateful for what i have. I realize that i want more time to do things i love, and less time for those things that i dont really like and am not particularly good at. Which is what everybody wants... but it just feels like everyone else succeeds, while i fail. I wish that i were more creative, more stylish, have more money, live in a better place (one that im not embarrassed about when people come over), and i wish i was a better cook. I wish i was more assertive, a better friend, and smarter when it comes to school. I get these feelings every so often and it makes me feel like a... well.... something. I cant say frump because that is not all encompassing, but i dont know what word to use. Im trying harder to not feel so down... So for this next week i will not think about the bad and focus on the good. My life is not as bad as i make it out to be. I hope that Thanksgiving goes well for everyone.

I almost didnt survive Halloween

2009-11-01T15:21:00.001-08:00

So, to begin the day I dropped off Lauren at work at 9am. On the way back home I was driving down University Ave. I was driving about 35mph. I was in the right lane and I saw a guy coming out of the glenwood apartments driveway. Knowing I had the right of way I kept going naturally. 10 feet before I passed him, he decided to gun it out of the lot. This gave me no time to get out of the way or stop. So, I slammed on the brakes and swerved to the left. Before I knew it we crashed and the airbags went off. Well it wasn't my fault, so the other guys insurance is paying for it. I am fine, except for a finger that hurts really bad and my neck hurts a little bit. All this happened on the 10 year anniversary of breaking my collar bone on Halloween '99.

Both Airbags went off and the Emergency lights button popped off as well as the GPS screen.

All the tubes and wires were severed and the tire got a flat

A wonderfully shattered windshield

That used to be the front right corner of the car.

It doesn't look good

She died young.

BORN: August 2003

RIP: October 31, 2009

2 Months!

2009-10-18T15:56:00.000-07:00

Happy Anniversary to us! Its been two months today. To celebrate we decided to go on a walk. We ended up a couple places. We stopped by the park by our house for a couple minutes, then we walked to the duck pond on byu campus.

It was the first time either of us had been there. We took a few pictures to commemorate, and find out all the cool things we can do with our camera phones. :)

Just to be cheesy for a minute, im really happy that i am married to david and i cant imagine a day without him or his goofiness.

Im not really sure what david was trying to do with these pictures, but all i know is that the background is more in focus than we are. But its just us chillin by the pond.

The whole reason we were drawn to the duck pond was as we were walking we heard the ducks quacking, now to us this sounded like laughing. So every time they quacked, we chuckled. The only thing for us to do was record it. Now as you know, you cant make an animal do anything, so there is a little bit of waiting for some quacking. If at first you dont think they are laughing, watch it again. You'll hear it.

After the duck pond we walked around provo a little more, went on campus for a drink of water and then headed back towards our place. As we were heading home david picked a flower for me, it was orange, and put it in my hair and gave me another one to hold. Then we stopped by ben and vanessa's, we happened to walk right on their street, so of course we had to say hi. I felt bad cuz we actually woke them up from their sunday nap... pj's and all, but of course they talked for a minute. They even gave us food, mostly stuff they wouldnt eat, but its great for us! We were even invited for dinner, but we didnt want to impose. So i gave them a flower, and then we continued on our way home.

David is such a cutie; after we left the henry's, i saw a tree with pretty leaves, so i picked one. (I get really excited about things like that. You know, fall, pumpkins, crunchy leaves, pretty flowers...) But when david found out that i like to pick pretty leaves, he stopped at every tree to get some. All sizes too! By the time we got home we had tons!! Im excited im going to make an edible wreath with them.

Its gonna be great. Im gonna paint chocolate on each of the leaves, and wait for it to harden, then peel the chocolate off, and place them on cupcakes in the shape of a wreath. It will be so yummy. Im excited.

After we got home david made mixed berry smoothies, he is definitely a pro.

Now were just settling in for a movie- yet to be chosen. Today has been great! Hope everyone else has had a wonderful sunday.

Photos = Great..., Photographer = Lazy Bum

2009-10-16T23:16:00.000-07:00

Wedding Pictures...FINALLY!

So, 2 days from now marks our TWO month anniversary and we just barely received our wedding pictures, finally. So, I wouldn't be so frustrated about this had our photographer said it would be in 2 months. However, he said in a month they will get done. But, during these 2 months he has finished several other weddings and many other engagement pictures. It's pretty apparent that he was just very lazy. I mean the pictures came out great, but he didn't really even edit all that many. I guess I will have to do that on my own. Well that's my rant...

Bad Timing.

2009-10-14T22:50:00.001-07:00

So i wish i were one of those people that could keep up with a blog and all, but im not. There just arent that many people that pay attention to our blog; I guess you could say that we aren't huge contributors to the "blog world." Oh well. While we are on the subject, david and i are doing fine, a bit under the weather, but fine. Oh yeah, and school blows. We both have a few tests this week, so into study mode we go. Next time i have a minute to breath ill make another post.

Just a side note, whenever we get our wedding pictures we will put them up.

Happy Halloween!

In Retrospect

2009-09-06T11:51:00.001-07:00

A few pictures taken on dave's camera after the wedding, i cant wait til we actually get the real pictures.

At the luncheon. The food was so good. I dont know how to make roman chicken, but it was... heavenly.

Bre and me

David, Chris Foutch, and me- Tom is hiding in the background

Chris Foutch

2009-09-05T08:31:00.000-07:00

work is like a snail... it goes way too slow.

Honeymoon

2009-09-03T10:34:00.001-07:00

So while i am waiting for david to get out of class- one of the two we dont have together, i thought i would put some pictures on. We didnt take very many on our honeymoon. I hate taking pictures when there are tons of people around and you have to inconvenience someone else to take it.

The Bellagio gardens. This is a huge birdcage, cool place, crappy photo.

The Venetian mall umbrellas.

2009-09-03T09:33:00.000-07:00

Ok, so its been a long time since ive been able to post anything... So i figure i need to make the time if im gonna keep this up. To start out- an apology for the drought of our blog posts. David doesnt write posts, and thats where it all falls to me. Becuase of the wedding, i think ill claim insanity for the 3 months of summer, especially the month july. There were so many things to do, and it was so frustrating feeling like i couldnt stay organized and on top of everything. Anyway. Its all over now, and its not really important to give a play by play, because it was a stressful time and now we've moved on to bigger an better stress. School started and its great. David and i have most of our classes together which is awesome. I love having him there to ask questions. I work at Salon K, and love it so much more than Dallas Roberts. Sorry no pictures today. But maybe we'll have some soon.

2009-06-28T20:39:00.000-07:00

So we just started this blog, and it feels a little weird to be honest. Kinda voyeristic. But i am definitely one of those people that go's and reads all my friends blogs. So here goes, for all my voyeristic friends who want to know whats going on in the deep dark places of our minds, i present: OUR BLOG.

Wedding update number one: We are still engaged. :) nothing new there.

Update numer dwa (pronounced, noo-mair d-va, its polish, like my fiance) All the plans are going well, and are almost done. We have about 7 weeks ahead of us, and stress levels for a wedding in my family are at an all time low.

The only thing im worried about is whether my parents house is going to be ready, along with the bridesmaid dresses. After david and i got engaged my parents decided that this was the opportune time to pull out all the carpet in the dining room and on our staircase, and put new real hardwood floors in, none of that laminate stuff... I thought it was a great idea, until i found out they were going to be doing it all themselves. Ahh... home renovators. Do-it-yourselfers... i salute you...except when you have a wedding to host... in your house in two months. *SIGH* Now the bridesmaid dresses come into play because about a week into the engagement i decided to start looking for everything... including bridesmaid dresses. Can i just tell you... the colors of the fashion season are definitely not brown, blue, or green.

So my genius idea was for my mom to make the dresses i envisioned. She, of course, thought it was a great idea. So we bought the fabric, and now its just sitting because my parents are still working on the staircase. So now 7 weeks til the wedding, and neither are completed. Here's to hoping... Stay tuned to find out when it will all be finished... i know i will.

Along with trying to find my bridesmaid dresses that first week, we tried to find a photographer... We were successful in that field. He is amazing... his name is Jimmy Bishop with Gideon Photography, click here for his website, or here for his blog (look under engagements and we were his first post on this blog if you want to see more photos). We were lucky to have gotten our engagements done super early, about 6 weeks ago. Ever since then both of us have been absolutely obsessed with them.

The reason i bring this up is because lately i have been putting them in a scrapbook for the wedding and its been so hard trying to choose which ones to use! I love the little crafty projects though, its fun when David gets involved too. He sits down with me and helps me cut things out and gives his opinion on which pictures go best with which scrapbooking paper. I have my own little Christopher Lloyd (minus being bald, small, and overly opinionated about the need to fill a room with furniture and chotchkies, oh yeah and he isnt gay). I love it. He has adopted all of my hobbies, and loves to go shopping with me. Its perfect!

Its not so fun right now though

becuase i work in the afternoons and evenings and he works from 2am til about 1pm. Crappy hours, but gotta have the moolah...

Anyway, i think thats all for now... i'll let you know when the need to vent in written form bubbles forth.