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!