Disaster

Ever wonder what happens when you leave a hot pink crayola in your pocket on wash day? Well I will tell you....DISASTER, and a very unhappy Britnae. I had the unfortunate opportunity of finding an extra full load of whites in the dryer covered with hot pink spots on every single item of clothing. It looked something like this...

Things like Domenic's shorts, swim shorts, my swim suit cover-up, clothes I had borrowed from my sister in law (yikes!), and much much more were destroyed, so I thought. I hopped on the internet hoping to find some kind of cure for my chicken pox whites.

I found suggestions like "I used WD-40 on my clothes and it came out great", to things as complicated as "okay all you have to do is use 2 max caps of tide HE + 1 cup Oxiclean in blue bottle + 1 cup borax + 1 cap full Clorox 2 + 1 cup Shout spray + 1 cup white vinegar, distilled + approximately 1 gallon of very hot water".

Considering I had limited patience and was already on the verge of throwing the whole load out, I decided to go with one of the simpler suggestions, Oxi Clean. Okay, I knew this stuff was supposed to be amazing, but I mean it really is AMAZING!

I ended up pre spotting all of the load with the blue bottle of oxi clean pre- spot (in the blue bottle), then soaked the clothes in the laundry room sink in HOT HOT water mixed with the powder oxi clean for about 4 hours, and then washed the load again in hot water with more powder oxi clean.

I know, a TON of oxi clean but it really did the trick!

So, moral of the story...Don't leave crayons in your pocket! But if you do, use oxiclean (and get a cosco size because you will use a lot).

I am still alive, promise

In case you are wondering if I am still alive, I am!

Between moving, trips, and family my time has just.. i don't know... dissapeared? And I am so sad that I have been such a terrible up-dater, especially since so much has changed!

Here are a few updates to hold you over unil I find my camera battery charger (yes, along with many things we have recently misplaced...my brain being one of them... we have yet to find our camera battery charger so we can post some seriously adorable pictures of Gianni)

Gianni has 2 teeth! and yes, he bites.

He walks around with this little toy car that is baby sized and has a handle (did i mention it plays music and he likes to dance to it??), but is too chicken to stand on his own.

He is a teething maniac and will chew on anything and everything (have I ever told you my theory on how babies are just like puppies??)

He is a pro crawler and especially enjoys crawling everywhere he isn't supposed to be (like the stairs...yikes)

Domenic is officially into his Maters program at UW

We are living with the Sanelli Parents for the time being and are so grateful for their generosity

We miss all of our friends back at BYU-I (you know who you are)

I love being back in Seattle, but miss my family a lot

So, there you go... for now. We are still around, we have just been trying to get settled in and now that we are I really have no excuse (other than the fact that I should be spending my free time sleeping...If only babies were born sleeping through the night and never woke up at 1, 3 and, 5 a.m.-any suggestions?)

Life

I know I have done a million posts about gianni, but I thought I might share a little bit of what's going on in our crazy lives too.

Today Domenic ends his internship with KPMG (for those of you who don't know KPMG is one of the top 4 accounting firms in the U.S.). He has been working his tail off, and I mean literally. He leaves the house at 7:15 am and doesn't get home until 8 pm (and that's if we're lucky). He has had quite a few days where he didn't get home until 11 pm-12 am not to mention that he worked EVERY single Saturday since January 7th. It has been a huge blessing for him to have gotten a paid internship, especially in this economy, but i'm happy it's over. Needless to say I am super super excited to have him be done, and home to hang out with gianni and I.

Also, Domenic got into the Masters of Accounting at the University of Washington! We couldn't be more excited for him. Right now we are waiting on BYU to respond to his application. It would be sweet if he got into BYU because it's the #1 accounting school in the nation, but only 3% of the people they accept are outside of BYU Provo so even though Domenic does have a 4.0 and looks AMAZING on paper, the chances are still pretty slim unfortunately.

As for me, I finally got out of the house and took a walk in the gorgeous sunshine with Gianni. I got one of those sleepy wraps so I can just slip him in and go for a stroll. Can i say that the weather in Boise is amazing?? It is rediculous, I mean really. It has been about 60 degrees for the past week. I am starting to get the hang of things and have been attempting to get Gianni on a schedule. We'll see how that works, so far he's resisting it pretty well. Once i get him on one though, I can hopefully turn into a human again. As of now I am still a nocturnal zombie.

All in all life is sweet. We are a happy family who are growing and learning together. Through all the struggles we find happiness, and through pain we are finding ways to laugh. Family is such a blessing and I could not imagine my life any other way. Heavenly father has blessed me with so much and I cam so grateful for that.

Back to the real world

So we FINALLY got internet! YAY! Actually just finished setting it up so expect a lot of updates.

First and foremost, we are in Boise right now, Domenic is interning for KPMG ( one of the big 4 accounting firms) and can I just say I LOVE it here? We are finally back in the city where there is traffic, shopping malls, good restaurants, etc. I never know how much I missed the city until we lived in Rexburg for a while.

No, I haven't had the babe yet, but we are getting really close...17 days to be exact. We already have his room set up, and Dom makes fun of me because i'm in "Nesting" mode, no big just making a nest for my baby. Haha in case you are wondering what nesting mode is, I have basically been washing, and folding all of Gianni's clothes, I set up, and decorated his room, and I can barely help myself from putting everything away, and redoing it over and over again. I'll post pictures of his room soon.

I got a phone FINALLY!!! And I desperately need phone numbers b/c I don't have my old phone any more so if you would be so kind, leave a comment at the end of the post with your name and #, and I'll text you my new #.

I'll keep you all updated, and i'm sorry about the boring long posts w/o pictures but I'll do a post with a ton of pictures to make up for it, promise.

Forever, I know...

It has been FOREVER since I posted anything (thanks to our lack of internet mostly). Sorry :(

Here are a few updates, when I get a chance I'll try to post pictures it just gets embarrassing when you are uploading pictures from your camera on the school computers if you know what I mean.

The Crazy Life:
We have been super super busy packing everything up for our move to Boise in 3 days. Everyday we make at least one load of the things we aren't bringing with us to our storage unit in rexburg. P.s. did I mention that we are only moving one car load of stuff with us to Boise?

We were lucky enough to have gotten Dom's black truck but on the 10th, a girl ran into me on my way to an appointment so now we don't have our white kia, well we have it but it is in no way driveable-pretty sure it's totalled but we have to have an adjustor come out and decide the damage (don't worry, im fine, the baby's fine, our car is just out of commission for now).

I am now only about a month away from having our little baby boy Gianni (oh yeah, that's the name we decided on by the way - Gianni is the italian version of Johnny which we liked, plus it is a tribute to my Dad's name which is John. And his middle name is going to be Mark- another tribute but to Dom's dad instead).

CONGRATULATIONS RYAN AND JENNIE! For those of you that don't know, my brother ryan and his wife jennie just had an adorable little girl (okay well not just but about a week and a half ago). She has the cutest name - Emma Rae, isn't that adorable?

Domenic has 1-count it ONE final left, and he is taking it today!!! YAAAAY!!!

Christmas is in ONE WEEK, can you believe it??

Last night the power went out for 28,700 people from: Rexburg, Rigby, Iona, Teton, St. Anthony, and the Rocky Mountain Power area around Idaho Falls- it was completely dark. Apparently there were two explosions that happened in near by cities that caused the outage. A gas tank blew in Mud Lake and a broken insulator and damaged equipment, on a electric transmission line between Rigby and Rexburg. Kind of crazy- good thing I didn't pack all of my candles :)

You know it's good when it gives you goose bumps!

I found this on a friends blog and absolutely LOVED it! 

I hope you will too!

A Night Out

Between studying and working, Domenic hasn't had much spare time to do, well anything really, except study so tonight was a special treat. We decided to kick off General Conference by going out to dinner with some good friends of ours , Carlie and Colman. It has been a while since we have gotten out and a nice juicy burger was sounding really really good so we headed over to Red Robin! Anyways, we had a really good time, and took some goofy pictures. They are of course out of order but I still haven't gotten good enough, or had enough patience to put them into order. anyways, I hope you enjoy them, we had a blast!

What is a picture without dom pulling a goofy face?

Carlie drinking out of both of their cups

Carlie and Colman

Dom and Brit

The Gang

Feeling Better

Alright, so it has been 3 weeks in the making, but I really think that my mono has bit the dust. It was kind of interesting because I had been feeling horrible and super tired every day for the past 2 1/2 weeks and then all of a sudden this last Sunday I felt completely normal! I even got up an hour and a half before church (for all of you out there who have church at 9 a.m. you know how hard that is) and got ready! I even wore make up which was something I hadn't done since I had gotten sick (it is amazing what some foundation and mascara can do for you, really).

I was trying to figure out why and how I had experienced such a miracle and got better so quickly, but then Domenic was talking to his family Sunday evening and they told him that they had been praying for me and even FASTED for me that Sunday! Mystery solved. I feel so blessed to part of the gospel. I have been blessed so many times it is super hard to even imagine there not being a Heavenly Father. We are so grateful for the faith of others and the blessings we receive because of them.

It is also really convenient that I got better just in time to take my finals! Thank you Heavenly Father! It also means that I get to help Domenic with his monstrous work load and start being a wife again in stead of a zombie, good news or bad news, I'm still weighing the pros and cons of both :)

To all of you that prayed, fasted, etc. for me, we really really appreciate it all! Thanks a bunch, your prayers have been the best medicine.

Life as of late

I am so so sorry I have been slacking big time on my blogging, especially since I have been harassing my sister to post on her blog more frequently (sorry Keitra). But, I do have a legitimate excuse.

Besides the fact that there is only 2 weeks left in this semester and Domenic is SUPER busy with tons and tons of homework and tests, I happened to be lucky enough to somehow, don't ask how because I have no clue, catch mono, get a bladder infection, have a late visit from the crimson tide, and have an enlarged/ over-active liver that is super painful.

So needless to say, my life has consisted of sleeping and peeing constantly for the past week straight. 

Why do I tell you this? Probably because I am super bored not being able to do anything all day and feel like a zombie, but also because of something Dom said to me while I was feeling the poopiest. He said, "well brit, what do you think we are supposed to learn from this?", and my immediate response was probably not the most kind, but went something like this: "sometimes we don't have to learn from things Dom, things JUST HAPPEN". 

After having too much time to sit in my bed or on the couch and try to think, I really do believe that there is wisdom in what he said. Even if we can't see a reason for things happening the way they do, it is still so important to have faith that our Lord and our Savior know, and we should find comfort in that. Simply believing is enough to pull you through the worst of times, the times when you feel the most helpless, and completely lost. It is a source of optimism and hope that things can, and will be better.