Count your many blessings...

I was browsing on Facebook the other day and came across an invite to a group called Prayers for Bronson. I usually join groups with titles such as this just because I like praying for people that need help. (Shouldn't we all?) As I looked more into the group of the little boy I was asked to pray for, I couldn't believe the heart breaking tragedy that struck this family on a typical Saturday morning. The blog site is www.stakerzxposed.blogspot.com. To get the whole story you will need to scrole down quite a ways to the date February 1 where it all starts. As I read the story I couldn't help but feel for this family, even though I don't know them. With my own baby boy on the way, I had many mixed feelings as I thought about bringing him into this world. It's a scary one, and bad accidents can happen. I am excited for him to be here, and I know that my life will be forever changed once I see him. It has already changed as I sense and witness the amazing miracle of his growth so far. I want to hold on to how I feel about him forever, because you never know what can happen. It's a scary thing, but we can only go forward with faith and knowledge and hold on to what we have. I need to think more often of the people I love.

Sorry, this was a little heavy. I just really wanted to share so that little Bronson can receive even more prayers. And hopefully we can all count our blessings after hearing of such a tragedy.

Cat Pee+2010=LONG POST

So, I guess since I told you last post that I had a hilarious story to share-that I should share it. My bff (see below) brought my bridesmaid dress over the night before her wedding so that I would have it the next morning to get ready in. I tried it on to make sure my growing belly didn't pop it open, and then laid it on our guest bed that we sleep in every time we go to Drew's parents' house. (Side note-Drew's parents have 3 cats, all of whom I am allergic to, and all of whom we keep out of our room while we're there.) NEVER have we left the door open. Well, we're sitting on the couch, the night before Jen's big day, thinking it's bed time, when Drew's mom comes out with my dress in hand and says, "Drew! The cat peed on her dress!" We looked to see if that could have really happened and yep, there was my dress now a dark blue because of the wet pee all over the skirt. WHAT?! All I kept thinking was..."okay wake up, this is a dream!" 1-We never leave the door open. 2-Of ALL the things in our bedroom WHY THAT? 3-What did I do to the cats that made them play such an evil trick on me?? Well-we still don't know which cat, although we all have our speculations. We rinsed out the pee, tried to make it smell better without actually washing it, and then let it dry over night. LUCKILY-everything turned out ok. (I didn't smell bad to myself-sorry if you smelt me that day.) Now I just need to tell Jen the funny story :) Kinda gross now that you look at this pic huh?

Next story on the agenda: Drew's time capsule. He made it 10 years ago (2000, when he was in 9th grade.) He got to open it on January 1 (we actually opened it on January 4) and MAN was it funny. There were lots of funny things in there, but most of all-this question/answer thing he filled out. Try not to make fun of some of the answers (I did!...my comments are in parentheses..)

YEAR 2000 Time Capsule:

Favorite color? Orange (Awkward...never heard him mention this color. Now it's red.)

Favorite kind of music? Anything but country. (Still the same..)

Where will I serve the Lord on my mission? Germany. (He went to Chile)

How did my mission affect the rest of my life? Return With Honor. (Okay??)

My strenths are: Friendship (Same, with SO many others.)

My weaknesses are: Being rude. (Sometimes :)

My favorite Holiday: Christmas (Same..)

My favorite family tradition: Opening a present Christmas Eve (Maybe not favorite to this day, but he does love it.)

Favorite Memory: Disneyland w/ band June 8-9 1999 (I hope this has changed....)

My biggest crush: Paola Obregon (He was OBSESSED with this girl..)

My current crush: Paola Obregon

People that influence me the most: Mom (Cute, I think it's the same plus maybe 1 or 2 others)

Attributes of the person I'll marry: Pretty, smart, funny. (Check, check, check! Totally kidding :)

Current Prophet: Gordon B. Hinkley

Favorite Prophet: George Albert Smith (When he read that he was like, WHAT?)

How many times have I read the BOM or Bible: ZERO (Changed... :)

My goal is to read the BOM 2 times before my mission. (I'm not sure if he completed this?!)

Favorite fashion/clothing: Adidas (Random, he only has adidas shoes now.)

Least favorite fashion: Fubu (What even is this?)

Best thing about being a teenager: Friends

Worst thing about being a teenager: Not having a car.

Favorite Hobbies: Friends

Favorite TV show: Simpsons

Least favorite TV show: 90210

Favorite Movie: The Cube

Least Favorite Movie: Inspector Gadget.

Favorite Subject: BIOLOGY (What?)

Least favorite subject: Band

What career will I have? Psychologist. (HA! Wrong and wrong!)

What kind of place will I live? City. (Maybe :)

The most important thing in high school is: Education (I'm impressed!)

Favorite sport: Soccer.

Least favorite sport: Ballet (That qualified as a sport back then?)

Favorite soda: Dr. Pepper (Same..)

Favorite food: Taco Bell (Eh, depends on the city now to him.)

Grossest food: Anchovies (Who doesn't agree with this?)

What kind of person do I date? Paola (GEEZ!)

Which temple will I be married in? Hawaii. (Uh oh....)

How many kids will I have? 2 (He's in for a surprise..)

Favorite car: Ford mustang convertible (I wont mention that it also said Yellow..oops..)

Best thing to do to pass time: Sleep. (Still the same...he LOVES sleep.)

What college will I attend: UNR (University of Nevada Reno!?!?!?????)

Favorite music video: All The Small Things (Funny..this seems like FOREVER ago.)

I'm the biggest fan of: DREW BARRYMORE (In caps and underlined..)

My favorite scripture hero: Nephi

My dream vacation: Hawaii

Message to myself in the future: Stay cool and love Drew Barrymore. (WHAT THE??!)

Haha, sorry it was so long...I just thought it was so entertaining. A LOT has changed, and yet some hasn't at all. I love my hubby. :) We are going to make a time capsule this year to open in 2020. Weird!

Holidays, My Best Friend's Wedding, and other BIG news!

Christmas was weird this year but good as always :) Drew had to work Christmas morning so we weren't able to go to Heber until after he got off, but once we got there it was great! We were able to do lots of fun things. We spent New Years in Vegas with Drew's family and our best friends' wedding. Drew's best friend married my best friend (yes, we set them up two years ago-then he left in the middle of their relationship to finish his mission..they stayed strong!) in the Vegas temple on Saturday. It was an awesome day and Jen looked BEAUTIFUL. We love them and were happy to be apart of their awesome day. I do have a HILARIOUS story about my brides maid dress that I will share in another post. It's definitely worth posting about. :) NOW on to the best news of all! My mom and her sister are (well....were) avid believers in the pencil test to determine a baby's gender. They did it multiple times on me and it said girl every time. Because of everyone's curiousity and arguing on whether or not it was valid, my mom decided she couldn't wait any longer, and took Drew and I to one of those Fetal photo/3d dvd places for us to find out what we are having. We found out, it's a BOY! And we are soo excited. It was definitely worth it because we got an awesome dvd of the baby moving around with lots of cool pics. Anyway, this is kinda long and though I have other stuff to say, I'll save it for another post. Love you all! Enjoy...

Here's the obvious shot... :)

I love this one..

So cute :)

Craig is REALLY excited...(this was the end of the night when we were all sweaty from dancing.)

SOOO cute...middle of the floor.

At the temple....

My sleeve is tucked weird...but I like this pic.

Me and Ky. (Maid of Honor and Matron of Honor)

Our Gingerbread adventure

Our friends Katy and Chad have a tradition of making/decorating Gingerbread houses every year. Since they couldn't do it with their families this year, they decided to invite friends over to do it with them. We were really excited to bake our own gingerbread, and build our "brilliant idea." Well, technically it wasn't our idea. We changed it a bit, but we got the idea off the internet (google images.) The first batch of gingerbread didn't work out so well because we didn't roll it out thin enough and didn't have NEAR enough for the pattern. So, we went to the store to get more mollasses (BLAH BLAH BLAH) and other ingredients for another batch. The second batch was much better, but burnt. Good thing we weren't planning on eating any.

We got to their house around 11:00 on Saturday morning, and they told us to plan on most of the day. We thought there was no day it would take us all day. HOLY COW! It took us 6 hours!! In the end, our plan didn't really work, but we had lots of fun! You can see below what we ended up with, and what our plan was in the beginning. I hope we can do it every year, even if it's not with them because it was lots of fun!

Here is our end result (only one side of our house survived the crash, without frosting.)


Here is munchkin land and the yellow brick road.


Here is our house before it crashed.


Another view of our house before the incident...


And here is what it was supposed to look like. Drew is holding it up on the tornado. And that brown thing in the tornado was supposed to be a cow. It didn't work out :)

"I'm.....pregnant??"

So I always used to laugh at women who would use the excuse of being pregnant for practically ANYTHING. Well, I have to admit, I am now one of those women. (Oops..) But, when something like this happens to you, and you are pregnant, you will find it easy to blame anything, but especially something like this, on your "pregnant mind."

Today, I sent 3 packages (Drew's whole Christmas from Amazon) to my old house in Cedar City. Crap. So, tomorrow...I get to go over there and knock on a strangers door and ask them to kindly call me when my packages arrive. Crap. Well, "I'm pregnant!" Right? :)

I'm scared. So I might just make my husband do it for me because, I'm pregnant.

Okay, the word is out....

As most of you probably know, I'm pregnant! I am 14 weeks this Saturday, and time is going MUCH SLOWER than everyone said it would! I'm sure things will pick up now that I am not so sick. I found out when I was 4 weeks, and told my family right away (assuming I was 7 or 8 weeks by my own calculations...) Everything is going great so far and we are so excited! School ends this week, Drew is done FOREVER and I am done for a while...we are in a great place right now as far as our jobs and church callings, etc. Life is great. We are looking forward to the upcoming weeks for Christmas, New Years, our best friends' wedding (my best friend is marrying his best friend....and yes I set them up!!! ) and on January 5, we should find out what we're having. :) So start the guessing! I dont' think there will be any fun prizes involved, but it's still fun to guess. :) Anyway, here are some pics of my ultrasounds so far. The first two were at 10 weeks, pretty cool. And the last one down there is my very first one at 5 weeks. Pretty funny, little dot :) Love you all! I will keep the exciting posts coming, hopefully. Sorry it's been so long!

CarlsGOOD California

Hey all! It's been a crazy couple of weeks, mainly because we've been vacationing, and then catching up on school and work from missing a week to vacation. =) It was sooo much fun. A PERFECT vacation. We went to Carlsbad, California (about 40 miles North of San Diego,) with Kelsea and Brandon (Drew's brother and his wife) and her family. It was their 20th year of going, and they have lots of fun traditions. The hotel is RIGHT on the beach, and we just hung out on the beach for three days. It was great. We had lots of fun moments so I got lots of pics. Enjoy the update. Hope all of you are doing great!

My pedicure (that cost $41 dollars because she didn't tell me certain things were extra.)

SUPA DONU! (Asian's work here...that's how they say it.) It's a tradition to go here, atleast twice for breakfast.

Just a pic on the beach at sunset, however, you can't see the sun :)

An AWESOME Castle that Kelsea's aunt made. This was the cave part.

And the castle part.

Getting ready to boogie board. Oh that was great...

Drew's second castle of the week. (Notice the pretzels...)

Our "Camp"

Oh....we aren't the cutest but it's the beach!

And another....

Drew's first castle of the week....again, the pretzels.

Cute Ty. He was kinda bipolar all week. He loved it AND hated it.

I looked over and they were in the same exact position, except Brandon's hands. SO I made him cross them for a kodak moment.

Cute huh!

I have no idea why my face looks so orange, but I thought this was funny...

Sorry...don't get bored. I just like these :)

From Drew's phone...cute huh!

We unpacked our first night there, and this is what the four of us had packed. I wish I had a pic of our sunburns to prove you can NEVER have enough!!!

The view from the street our hotel was on....

I hope we get invited again next year because it's such a fun trip to look forward to. (All year for some people, like Drew :))