The Nutcracker

Well, Daniel and I went to see The Nutcracker. He enjoyed the music and I enjoyed spending time with him. I am not big into the whole ballet thing and neither is he but he loves music. I sat their thinking how uncomfortable the men in those awfully see through tights must feel. I mean....maybe I am mean but one word came to mind..EW! I know I am mean but most of you probably think the same thing. Anyway all in all we had a nice FREE date compliments of my work! Here are some awful photos of me that night...Daniel looks nice but I look like poop! Oh well!!



I need to get better at car pics!!Me es no bueno!!! As Daniel was clearly telling me in this pic!! Ha Ha gotta love it!

WEEK 16

11/30 WEEK 16

Nothing abnormal is happening other than the fact that people are noticing my ever so quickly growing stomach. I am not sure how much longer I am going to be able to hide this fabulous secret! I only need to hide it for three more weeks. We find out the gender in 22 days. December 22^nd I have an appointment to see the gender. It is so crazy I can hardly even wait. My tummy is definitely growing so I am hoping it slows down just a bit so we can hide it until Christmas Eve at least!! We might possibly tell everyone on the 22^nd so that way it is out in the open to at least our parents before we tell the rest of the family on Christmas. Anyway…if it is a boy the name is set but if it is a girl we have no idea what we will be naming her. I will most likely have Daniel make the final choice for the girl name since I picked the boys name and he didn’t have much of a say. I still have to pee all the time!! I literally could go to the bathroom and once I get out of the bathroom I feel like I could literally go again within that same second. I still think pretty much every food under the sun sounds disgusting half the time. I thought that everything was supposed to sound delicious and I was supposed to be able to eat anything I want and feel no guilt. What happened to that? Also, I am not gaining weight currently but my weight is shifting. My wedding ring does not fit and my gut is huge. Oh the wonderful life of being pregnant!! So, aside from thinking everything sounds gross a Reese’s milkshake sounded spectacular yesterday which is odd since from the start of my pregnancy ice cream, milkshakes, yogurt and most dairy has sounded quite nasty. So I decided to go get a McFlurry from McDonalds. I got to the window and the guy said, “it will be $2.69” so I gave him two dollar bills and three quarters. The kid looked at the money and looked at me and said “it is $2.69”, and I said “I gave you 2.75” he said “no, you gave me 2.55” I just stared at the kid like he lost his mind but I am sure he is right and I probably gave him two quarters and a nickel and then I replied “you know what, I totally believe you I am pregnant and apparently I can’t count and I am losing my mind”. The kid laughed and said “that’s understandable”. Then I started to look for the remaining change and I counted it out and for some reason I got to count the remaining and I just could not figure out how much money I still needed to pay the poor guy standing in the window. After shuffling around and fooling around with the change I looked up and asked him how much more money he needed he replied “.14 cents” and then he continued to laugh at me until my stupid pregnant brain got together .14 freaking cents. Then I pulled forward to the window only assuming that all of McDonalds was in there making fun of the stupid lady at the window!! So that is how dumb I feel being pregnant. I can’t even do simple math and might I add math was one of my best subjects!

What happens if...

Thanksgiving!

Black Friday Crew!!
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you tried to shove 20+ worth of potato peels down your garbage disposal? Well, wonder NO MORE...I have discovered what will happen! The sink pretty much explodes and your gracious husband gets to play handy man. This is the mess I created....


Under the sink completely flooded!


What a trooper!
Almost finished cleaning up and fixing my mess!
Shelly and I made Halloween crafts...we are planning ahead :) This is the process to total cuteness...
This is our finished product...





Its time to decorate for Christmas!

Our Winter buddies..
Daniel topping our tree!


The finished product of our decorating together!!!My awesome wreath I made..Shelly and I both made one!

The stockings hanging above our fire place...

Thanksgiving - Black Friday

11/26

Thanksgiving! So, Daniel and I had two Thanksgiving dinners to go to. Aunt Connie’s was at noon and my families was at 3pm. The night before I got a call from my Aunt Jeni who said that her plans fell through for a church she had booked and we had to move our dinner to 1pm. I was so stressed to say the least. I had to figure out a way to make it to both. So Wednesday night I started prepping my food!!! To Aunt Connie’s we took Daniel’s family favorite…Pistachio dessert. We enjoyed our yummy dinner that Daniel ate two helpings of!! I had bread that is so yummylicious and potatoes that were made special for me since I don’t like mashed potatoes. Then we left there at 1:15 to head to Eagle Mountain for my family dinner. We arrived at about 2pm we were an hour late but they were expecting that. I had brought rolls, green bean casserole with green beans from Daniel’s grandma’s garden, mashed potatoes, a chocolate pie and drinks. Daniel ate a little but mainly he took leftover’s home and has been living on them lately. He loves leftover’s I think they are gross!! He took a little bit of everything since we were smart and brought Tupperware J. After dinner some of us girls made shirts that said “Once you go black you never go back…Black Friday 2011”. We sure did wear them shopping too!!

Black Friday---It all started Thursday at 10pm at Wal-mart so if anyone knows what that means it means we were really there by like 7:30pm on Thursday. We were positioned all over Wal-mart to get all the goods! Aunt Jeni, Aunt Jelaire, Dakota, Adrian, Nicole, Ana, Stevie, Jen, Maddie, Jakob, Brina and me, we had a small army!!! At 9:55pm the battle for the goods started and can I just tell you MEN who are 6’6” and weigh 250+ should not be allowed to be so aggressive. Brina got her finger sliced open and got sat on and pushed over and I got shoved and have bruises all over my body over a $3 item!!! After the craziness at Wal-mart we went and ate at I-Hop then we went back to Wal-mart for the Midnight sale. We bought more stuff there then we went to Target. We got everything we needed there even though we didn’t wait in the cold. Then we went to Smith’s Marketplace and waited in the car from 3am until 5am then me and Brina bolted in the doors and got exactly what we needed. Then I dropped Brina off at home and went to bed at 7:30am!!! I slept until 2pm on Friday then I finally unloaded my car and Daniel and I went out to the Dollar Store, Kohls and Wal-mart again!!! I am crazy I know!! That is my Black Friday 2011 experience….next year I just might do it online!!

WEEK 14 & 15

11/16 WEEK 14

Ugh!? Super super sick!! I have been miserable!! On Friday I got to feeling really sick I woke up early and cleaned the house then all of a sudden it hit me like a ton of bricks. I got super sick. I was making dinner cuz Shelly and Jake were coming over and I started crying my eyes out to Daniel. Random pregnancy tears I am assuming. It was absolutely horrible. I needed to rest. I of course didn’t rest and it only got worse from there. I had picked up some extra hours at work on Saturday so I had to be there from 8 AM -9 PM. It was like murder. I sat in my char at my little desk with my blankie wrapped around me and had the chills and the sniffles and watery eyes for 13 hours. I am sure it didn’t make things any better with the fact that I am pregnant and can hardly take any meds. Plus, I thought I couldn’t take any kind of cold medicine so I literally suffered all day on Saturday before I called my doctor and asked what I can take. Thereaflu is one of the cold meds that I can take so you better believe I have been living on that this past week. Daniel set up the humidifier and I snuggle in bed every day when I get off work so I can try and feel better. Sunday I of course didn’t go to church I lounged around the house practically dying. The rest of this week I have been trying to overcome this awful cold. I am finally officially in my second trimester!!!! YAY!! You would think that the sickness of all kind would have stopped. We are in the countdown to finding out if this little bundle of joy is a boy or a girl. 6 weeks to go!! So far the votes are up there in the girl department. It wouldn’t surprise me but a boy would still be fun and is what my gut wants, either will be fun though. Also…heatburn….ugh…does it ever stop? I just hate it. I feel like nothing makes it better. Luckily my friend at work just told me tums are my best friend so ima go buy me some tums!!!

11/23 WEEK 15

Nothing has really changed. As a matter of fact I probably would say that the heartburn has been getting worse. They say heartburn means lots of hair…we shall see!! Aside from that I am achy and painy….BOO ACHES AND PAINS!!! My back might as well break…it would probably feel better!! I know it only gets worse from here but one word…UGH!!! Pants are getting tighter and it is getting harder and harder to hide the fact that I am pregnant. I need a new wardrobe! I am thinking we are going to go into the mall and go to a place called Fetal Studio and get the gender of the child the week before Christmas. I will be calling and setting up an appointment. See Daniel and I don’t have insurance yet and my insurance kicks in 12/05 Daniel’s kicks in 01/01 Daniel’s insurance is expensive and mine is definitely cheaper so I really don’t know what we will do!! The point of that is if I want to find out the gender through my Dr I have to pay almost $400 in December for a visit and an ultra sound. I can go to the Fetal Studio and find out the gender for $50 so I def think I will be doing that.

13 WEEKS

11/09 13 Weeks! My clothes are tighter and my tummy is slowly growing. I knw there aren’t a lot of changes in how I feel this week from last but I am almost out of my first trimester. By the end of this week I am out!! They say at the end of week 13 you are no longer in the first trimester. I am hoping that my hormones and how I feels goes a little bit more normal than how I feel now. I feel sick still and I seriously think pregnancy is like puberty my skin is horrid!!! I have to wash my hair daily and I feel like I break out everywhere….I know TMI but for real this has to be documented that it is no frolic in the park!! Anyway 7 weeks to go until I get to find out the gender of this little one!! Daniel and I are finding more and more names we like which is good because variety is always a good thing. Daniel is still sad that lovey dovey is not my thing lately but he will get over it..ha!! That’s horrid for me to say but it’s true.

Happy Annniversary

11/09 Happy Anniversary to Daniel and I and what a wonderful four years it has been. We are basically like a normal old married couple this year. We did NOTHING!!! We both went our separate ways in the morning and Daniel went to work, then school and I went to work. Later that evening I helped Chaz answer a girl to the Bingham Ball that had asked him. That was all sorts of fun and totally reminded me of high school. Then I watched Cassidy and we fell asleep watching Duck Tales “woo ooo” Ha!! (You would only get that if you watched Duck Tales back in the day) Anyway…nothing of much more excitement happened earlier this week! So See ya!!