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 :))

Love Letter

Dear Drew-
Remember back in the day when we spent every hour of every day together? (Except 2-6 pm and 1-6 am) Those were the days. We would do this together....

And this together...

But best of all....this together...

I just want you to know, I miss being with you all the time. Our work schedules are no fun because they conflict with each other. But, I love you more than ever. And I'm so happy we did this together....

So we can be TOGETHER FOREVER! I love you honey....thanks for being you.

Love, Your love.

P.S....thanks for loving my new haircut. (I got a haircut everyone...pics to come.)

A day in the life....

What a crazy, but amazing week! I absolutely LOVE my job, and my classes aren't that bad either! I have mostly just been training this week, but next week, I will pretty much be set free! It's the perfect job, and I work with such fun people! It's great...Here are some pics to show a day in the life of a Medical Assistant. (FYI, none of these pics are of me....in case you were wondering why I look so different..they are just pics of things I do.. :)

Give flu (and other) shots

EKG's

Take blood pressure (and other vitals)

And of course, LOVELY computer work. This is what I spend most of my time doing. (Entering prescriptions, calling in prescriptions, entering new patients, updating patient records, etc.)

And let's not forget about this part of my life....

Aside from work and school, I do still have him..

So with all of these great things, plus going to Gold's Gym with my new pass....my life is pretty hectic! But I love it. I wouldn't change it for the world!

My "great" great grandma...

This past week was full of events that were both fun and surprising, and some that were sad but joyous at the same time. My parents, along with Garrett and Gavin and their friends Chellcee and Emily came down last weekend to spend the weekend at the Condo and move Garrett in to his new apartment. It was a fun weekend at the condo and was bitter sweet moving Garrett in to school. While we were at the condo, my mom received a call that her grandmother, my great grandmother, had passed away. My grandma was such an inspiration to so many. At age 94, she was still bowling on a regular basis, and was an award winning bowler. I am a better person having known her, and I will remember her always. I will cherish the blanket she made Drew and I for our wedding forever. Her funeral was yesterday, and it was a beautiful service. Grandma most definitely lived her life to the fullest with an amazing attitude and love for life. We will miss her greatly, but we know she is probably bowling, watching Braves games, and smiling down at her family, just like she always has. Love you grandma!

Look how cute and little she is (everyone looks small next to Garrett though...)

Here's grandma with Elle last Christmas

I love this pic of my cute dad helping my grandma

This weekend was bitter sweet not only because of my grandma's passing, but because of my little brother moving to Cedar City for school. I am really excited for him to go to SUU and happy that I will get to see him more often (hopefully,) but I just can't believe this day has come. It worked out for us to drive to Heber together for the funeral, and drive back to Cedar today. I had to witness him saying goodbye to his cute girlfriend, (so sad) to my grandma, and to our baby brother Gavin. I think I had a harder time than Garrett did with the last two, but I just can't believe he's so grown up! Hopefully Gav can be okay without him, since they haven't been seperated EVER. I know Garrett will be okay, and everything will be fine, but GEEZ time flies! Here are a couple funny pics of my little brother, whose not so little. :)