Long nights, little sleep... and we don't even have kids yet

Brandon and I haven't been sleeping very well lately. We have both been waking up in the middle of the night and rolling over which wakes the other person up. It has been a long few days. Well, last Tuesday we both went to bed around 10:30pm. I luckily stayed asleep until 4:30am when I woke up and saw Brandon sitting on his side of the bed fiddling with his phone (alarm clock). I rolled over towards him and asked if he was okay. He said, "I just want to be asleep." I told him to lay back down and then I fell back asleep. When I finally woke up for the day (7:00 am), Brandon was awake and ready to leave for school when I rolled out of bed. I opened the bedroom door so he would know I was awake. He came in and I gave him a hug and the dialog below followed:

Melody: So you didn't sleep very well last night?
Brandon: Well, actually, I was sleeping fine until you woke me up.
Melody: I didn't wake you up, you were already awake sitting on the side of the bed.
Brandon: I was sitting on the side of the bed because I was coming back from sleeping on the couch.
Melody: You slept on the couch? Why did you sleep on the couch?
Brandon: Oh (glare), you're in so much trouble. I slept on the couch because you told me to!
Melody: (Realization sets in) Oh...

I suddenly remembered a weird dream I had and someone (I thought Brandon) said something about sleeping on the couch. I guess I was the one who said it.

What really happened was that, around midnight, I shook Brandon until he woke up and I said, "Someone needs to sleep on the couch." My husband being such a sweet and tired guy didn't argue or even ask why he just picked up his pillow, unplugged his phone and slept on our love seat (we don't really have a couch). At around 4:30 am he gave up and came back to bed. As he was plugging in his phone, I woke up and told him to come back to bed.

The funny thing is I have NEVER told him to sleep on the couch and he never has before this week. I think it is funny that he didn't argue with me about sleeping on the couch but I guess he decided in his tired mind that if I woke him up, then the "someone" who needed to sleep on the couch was him and there must be some reason why. And whether that reason was valid or not should not be discussed in the middle of the night.

As if that wasn't enough Thursday night I woke us both up yelling "ow!...ow!!...OW!!!" I had a charlie horse in my calf. That's always exciting at 2:00am.

St. Louis, Again

In a stunningly uncharacteristic deviation from our normal bi-monthly-blog-updating schedule we actually have a few interesting things to write about again today. We took another trip to St. Louis to visit the temple on Saturday. We couldn't resist a short side trip while we were there, so Melody's coworkers suggested a few places for us to visit: the zoo, the science museum, and the Budweiser brewery. Maybe next time we'll hit up the science museum. The weather threatened to ruin our plans and, as you can see from the pictures, it did rain a little, but it wasn't anything that a few umbrellas and a good attitude couldn't overcome. The pictures do a better job cataloging our adventure, so here are the rest of them:

Cub Scout Career Day

We were invited to help at the cub scout career fair this last week.

Brandon obviously presented on being a doctor. The first question the kids asked was "are you a real doctor?" Not yet, I have to finish school and then I'll be a doctor. "How long before you finish school?" Um, like 10 years, but thanks for asking... He made his presentation interesting by bringing bones to pass around (they were actually fake plastic ones, but don't tell the kids). They came up with crazy questions all the way through the presentation. One boy, out of the blue, asked, "What does the liver do?" What seven year old even knows what a liver is anyway? Brandon did his best to explain blood detoxification, glycogen storage, and lipid-digesting bile production in as simple terms as possible. The presentation ended with Brandon checking all the boys' reflexes. Most of them worked, if he distracted them well enough to relax their leg.

Melody presented on accounting. She worked so hard to come up with an interesting presentation (despite the subject matter) including the game of life, fake money, and role playing. Melody explained where all the money goes when you buy the game of life from Wal-mart. It was actually a great idea and she did a good job, but there's no fooling little children. During questions at the end one boy asked "Do accountants do anything fun?" I guess not. Melody's coworkers in the accounting department got a kick out of that the next day, though.