Monday Funday Runday Spunday

Well I am 3 months into this pregnancy and this baby is already taking over my life! I have spent the last month wandering around with marshmellows shoved up my nose to keep from smelling anything. Its like someone made everything smell like an armpit. An armpit that just ran with its owner for ten miles. I cant go outside, inside or into the break room at work. I can't go anywhere without gagging or worse...revisting my previous meal. If warm air hits my face, I'm sick. If someone near me hasn't brushed their teeth, I'm sick. If someone hasn't washed their clothes, I'm sick. If there isn't a window open and fresh air coming in, I'm sick. If I eat food, I'm sick. If I eat nothing, I'm sick. What is going on baby?! Can't you just be happy?! haha.

It's worth it. One day I'll be a cute and pregnant as my sister-in-law Ceci. (She's due end of March) And after that I'll be a MOMMY! Even if my smeller never goes back to normal and I spend every 7am from now on hugging the sink or toilet, it will be worth it when I'm a mom :) (Lucas, however, might just get sick of me. It's so rare that something I eat doesn't make me sick, or I dont smell something that makes me sick that he has completely lost the woman he married--I'll be back! He's such a good husband.)

Well aside from the pregnancy take over I have been working lately at the hotel and its SO nice to work less hours in the week and only worry about one job. Plus I needed a child care break. I still work two overnights a week and that is hard, but you gotta do what you gotta do to bring home the MONEH!

I went home one weekend and visited my siblings in Utah, Lucas stayed home for school and I missed him horribly! It was really fun to hang out with Sarah, Jason and Mashay, and Steven and Ceci. It's always refreshing to be around family :) I was also happy to smell that Utah smells better than Rexburg. I had to laugh though when I saw a sign in Utah that said "Warning, limit driving. Air contamination warning!" I can't win.


Yesterday for the superbowl Lucas and I both kinda randomly picked a team to root for and Lucas went Sat night and bought all sorts of snacks and we had our own little superbowl party. Even though I randomly chose the saints, and he chose the Colts.. I was really glad when my team won. My favorite part of the day was pampering my football watching husband. It felt very TV sitcomish and I liked it.

Sometimes I get so crazy in my head wondering if I'll ever live in Hawaii again. I'll spend hours on the computer look up real estate on the islands. (So pricey) I am dying to live there again. I get so happy just thinking about it. Lucas isn't sold AT ALL on living there. He wants to go for like a week every year. BOO! Whenever we talk about it and he makes me realize how unrealistic it is to move there now or anytime soon I usually get really quiet and mope around for a while. I just miss my island!

I drink about one Jamba Juice every day. Its the only fruit or fruit juice I can keep down and its AMAZING. I think I'll go get one after i add random pictures I forgot to post.

Oh, I'm obsessed with the Bachelor. We had friends come over and immediately say "Are you kidding me, you guys?!" because we had it on. Well, I wish. The reality and drama of it all just sucks me in! I admit it, I have a problem.


Steven and Jason and their beautiful wives both just celebrated their one year anniversaries. You know what that means? Mine is only 8ish weeks away! This year has gone by so fast! I love life.

Here is my adorable nephew, Ewan. He is so cute and Lucas is OBSESSED with him. I think he looks a lot like Lucas, too. We'll only be so lucky to have such an adorable baby!


I dont remember if I ever posted about the gingerbread houses we made. It was a holiday adventure that we will never do again. We used all of our food storage flour and then lost the will after hours and eventually quit. Slowly we both added some to our houses during the next two weeks. We never really finished, and a couple weeks after christmas Lucas threw the houses away. Eh-we tried didn't we?!




We also went to a live nativity with Carrie and Scott, and it was really cute. Here are the old pictures :)


Oh, Lucas says I always win our little tiffs. Well once he won and I'm recording it! I was telling Lucas that he always double checks the things I do and it makes me feel like he thinks I'm irresponsible. I told him there is no need to double check everything I do, and I'm just as capable as him at doing small tasks around the house. I mean just that morning I had remembered to repackage the Netflix Movie and mail it back with all the bills! He of course never meant to make me feel that way and didn't even know he was double checking things I said I did. So a few minutes later we decided to play some Guitar Hero. Lucas went over the x-box to put in the CD and...wait... what is this? The netflix movie?! Well I'm glad he found out. Turns out I mailed Netflix our Guitar Hero CD. Awesome.


Here are some grumpy faces for you.








Oh, and I recently blog stalked a friend of a friend who posted that she tried this New York hair stuff called "Blow". I bought it at three in the morning out of tiredness. Luckily when it came and I tried it it was AMAZING! Goodbye flat hair!!



Now please, go and blog on your blog so I have something to do at work. Thank you.

Just a little bean.

Well we have had a very eventful last month, it has been AMAZING. We started December off with a bang and found out that we are going to be parents! Thats right, I'm pregnant! I'm so excited I can hardly stand it. I took a pregnancy test early in the morning on December 2nd because I knew something was different. When the test said "pregnant" I almost started screaming, i clapped my hands over my mouth and just stared at it. Pregnant! HOORAY!!!! I'm so happy! I ran into our room where Lucas was still asleep, and held the good news in front of his face and shook him awake. He woke up and looked confused then focused on the stick and said (very tired haha) "You're pregnant!" Why yes, yes I am. I then hugged my baby daddy and kissed him like crazy. What a happy morning.

So we knew it was pretty early and planned to annouce it to our families when we went home to Colorado for Christmas. We thought of some cute ideas of fun ways to tell them, but as soon as we were in town we kinda just burst with the news. Everyone was very happy for us :) And I have to say, my children with have the most amazing grandparents of all time!

So we spent Christas vacation (yes I time off work. NINE. It was amazing.) bouncing back and forth between my parents and the Taylors houses. I had morning sickness a couple mornings and Lucas got sick for a couple days, but besides that we got SPOILED and feel so incredibly blessed and loved. Its great to have such amazing families. We decided we are moving back to Colorado in May since Lucas has decided that he wants to start the journey towards becoming a firefighter. He wants to go to the fire acadamy at red rocks community college in denver. How handsome he is.

So after a beautiful and wonderful Christmas (though we missed the two brothers and their families that we didn't see on Christmas) we headed back to Colorado where i woked 24 hours of the first 36 we were home. Gotta make the money~

We also just had our first doctors appointment~ We thought we were about 11 weeks pregnant, but they measured the baby and turns out I'm only 8 weeks and 5 days. So basically we found out we were pregnant like a week after it happened. Thats incredibly fast. Good job us.

Well, I'm exhausted. I'm working the night shift right now and am trying hard not to fall asleep at the computer. I think I'll go walk around and try and wake up.

Britishy

I had to get out of bed just now to write down a before-bed conversation between Lucas and I. Here's how it happened:

I lay down to sleep and Lucas gets a drink of water.
me: "What are you doing?"
Lucas: (setting glass on side table) "I was just drinking some water."
me: "Oh"
Lucas:" Would you like some before I drink it all?"
me:" Yes"

He hands me the glass and I drink all but about a half inch of water and hand it back to him. He sets it on the side table.

me: (in random britishy accent: "there's still some water in there so dont put anything fragile or paper in there"
lucas:(In an enthusiastic new zealandishy accent: " Oh I'm glad you told me because I almost put some fragile paper in there straightaway!"



Its funny cuz we're tired. And its funny. I'm getting back in bed.

Growing up is FUN to do :)

Well about a month ago Lucas and I traded in our gold Saturn for a new car!!!! I am in love with it. (except its a little noisy) Here are a couple pictures of the sweet ride we'll be cruising around in!!!

Hi Mom!

I no longer work at Valley RV Center. I dont know if I ever posted that. I went to part time after I accepted the nanny job, and after a month or so of that they ran out of work for me to do, so I got downsized. (The company is now on a seasonal break because the only guy who knew anything about the place got a new job in Boise, and the manager got fired. haha) So I took a few weeks break, then applied for a job at a new hotel that was being built here in Rexburg.

While waiting to hear about hiring, they had me and Carrie and a bunch of other people come in and make beds and fold sheets and vacuum and organize. It was a lot of work. Eventually he told me that I had the job! I applied for Night Auditor, so i will be working from 11pm to 7 am. I wanted full time work, but he gave the full time schedule to another girl with more experience as a Night Auditor. Now I work two part time jobs. I'll work MWF as a nanny in the day. and TH, F, and S as a night auditor. It should be interesting. I'm at my first shift right now and I feel like if someone tries to train me on one more thing I might just throw up all over the place. Training week is so hard for new jobs! But luckily tomorrow is my first day of just doing all that I have been trained to do! Tonight it has been pretty slow. We have 1 guest in the hotel for our "grand" opening. haha. You should go book a stay here and visit me! It's the Springhill Suites in Rexburg Idaho. Check it out!

Also, I will be able to go to utah for Thanksgiving this year, to spend it with Brian and Gunilla. I'm really really excited. I miss my families so much. And I get to have my first attempt at making green bean casserole!!!!

Food sounds wonderful right now. Turns out sleeping all day and working all night doesn't really make for a healthy meal schedule.


Did I ever mention how amazing of a husband I have? He's amazing. We let a young kid who was down on his luck stay at our apartment on our futon. Lucas talked to him, and checked him to make sure he was safe, then we got him dinner, he slept in our 2nd bedroom, and then in the morning after i left for work Lucas gave him our contact info and a Book of Mormon. What a stellar guy I married.


One time I wasn't sleepy, and Lucas was asleep. I could have gotten up and watched TV but i couldn't tear myself away from Lucas. I just looked at him and thinking about how lucky I was made me start crying. I feel like the most blessed person on the planet. Lucas makes me so happy, its crazy. I miss him. I hate that I'm at work and he is at home in our Queen bed all by his lonesome tonight.


I just made my first reservation over the phone :) Love it!

Songs from a Friend

It's a wonderful thing how spending some time with a familiar and favorite song can instantly make the world alright. The other day I was walking home from work just sorting out life with my friend, ipod. We talked at first just casually, but eventually found ourselves singing at the top of our lungs into the fields of Idaho. We discussed society, self image, romances, childhood. It was a wonderfully eye opening and happy walk. Unfortunately, to all onlookers, it appeared to be just a girl over enthusiastically enjoying her nutso walk through town, singing at the top of her lungs alone. If they only knew the depth of the friendship I've formed with my favorite tunes.

Ipod wisely played these lyrics from Jason mraz.

"climb up over the top,
survey the state of the soul.
You've got to find out for yourself,
whether or not you're truly trying.
Why not give it a shot?
shake it, take control.
inevitably wind up finding for yourself,
all the strengths you have inside still rising."


I heard what my friend was saying. THank you, friend ipod. So while i walked I would take breaks from singing and listen to some lesser known songs and let them be the background music to my thoughts about life life.

The more I thought the more I realized that I am so blessed! I love my life. I love my husband, I love that we have to work hard to pay what little bills we have while he is in school and we plan the path of our life. I love the good friends we have made here. I love being outside, i love the huge fields of hay around rexburg. I love crazy ever changing weather. I love my family, and my in-laws. I love my job, and the luck I have had with employment. I love the gospel, and the answers that are always there. I love life. And I absolutely love music.

Halloween is over girls, you can put your standards back on. YIKES.

The night before Halloween we went with our friends, Carrie and Scott, to a HAUNTED STAW MAZE! Lucas wasn't really in the mood to go because he had been at work all day and then we went straight to the maze. (Carrie wore pink and had a pigs nose and wings and was the Swine Flu- it was perfect, Scott wore a crown and a wig and a necklace of pop cans and was "the King of POP" Love it. ) So we got to the maze, and I immediately think of the last time I was in a haunted house. I was terrified and even cried. Sarah almost had a concussion from me trying to spring in the opposite direction of the monsters/actors and Jamie almost had to carry me through some parts because I was so scared. I never used to be that way in haunted houses, I just thought they were cool. For some reason though I became a haunted house baby. So this year was going to be different! plus its not a house, just a maze no big deal right? WRONG!

A haunted Maze at night is WAY worse than a haunted house! the straw was stacked way high above us and the maze was huge and really well done, we got lost over and over again. The actors in there were really scary but not overdone, and didn't do too much over-acting. Plus you can't just keep going and know that you are almost done, because you are LOST! You dont know the way out and the actors are moving all over the place! I was terrified, but it was so much fun that I was half screaming and half laughing the whole time.

A couple actors got too "in your face" relentlessly and Carrie HATES that so she eventually settled for not almost killing the 16 year old in a costume and had hot chocolate with the people in the front while Scott, Lucas, and I finished the maze. So all it takes is one turn into a dark maze with a creepy guy walking towards me in a creepy mask and I'm trying to sprint away and screaming "No no NO NO!" My eyes started watering right away, but I decided to tough it out.

Highlights of the maze:
--A guy wearing stilts in a huge jacket so he looked like 9 feet tall popped out from a corner and scared us all so bad, we kinda ran from him and he chased us! On stilts! I was so scared! I started running, and SLIPPED and FELL! Just like in a scary movie! hahaha So i ran away, and lost stilts man, and eventually Lucas and Scott found me and we kept trying to find the exit.

--Lucas became a military man in the maze. He LOVED it. He had to protect me and try and navigate our way out. He was so excited it was so cute watching him get into it. But I stopped noticing how cute he was when an actor would chase me, then i hit survival mode and just ran away. haha

-- One of the actors heard my name and from above us on the hay we rounded a corner and he goes "AMMMMBEEERRRR" ...No you shut up right now.

-- Everything else.

It was awesome, that was basically our Halloween this year, and it was great.

Lucas worked all day Halloween, and I worked hard at sleeping in. I almost woke up a few times, but I stuck to it, and didn't get out of bed until 11:45. You are right, Dad, where there is a will there IS a way! ;)

We drove around and saw some trick or treaters out alone. That is so sad to me when kids trick or treat alone. I just want to give them thousands of candybars in their pillowcases.

Also, I shared in the Halloween festivities of my friends via facebook. Maybe thats creepy, but not as creepy as how many of the nice women I am friends with forgot not to dress like strippers just becuase its Halloween. I have NEVER seen a firefighter wear ANYTHING like that. I would like to thank all my friends who put some thought into their costumes, looked good, funny, and not like they participate in illegal activities after 10 pm.

ANYWAY, Halloween night we just went out to eat and shared some pumpkin pie, then we watched Flight of the Concords until we fell asleep at like 10 30. It was pretty spooky. Binary solo!!! 0001011010111000000111010111001101!!!


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