BABY!!

Okay I know you are all just dying to know what I look like pregnant, so here's a picture for you in all my pregnant glory! 

For the records...20 weeks along, halfway, yay!

Okay the real good news is that today we got to find out the gender! Funny story real quick, a girl in my class that just had her baby at the end of March was telling me how when she went in to get her 20 week ultra sound the doctor told her the ultra sound tech was out of town but they could have her come in three days later! I was like oh my gosh if they tell me I have to come back later I will cry, I've been waiting for this day! So I go in to get my check up and the doctor comes in and says we don't have you scheduled for an ultra sound today something got messed up and we're completely booked for today...........are you kidding me, is this some kind of late April fools joke!?!? (that's what was running through my head) But thankfully the doctor said he could do a quick ultra sound that wouldn't give all the medical information they needed but he would be able to tell us the gender. Phew! 

OKAY so what is it??? We are having a little baby girl!! :) I'm so happy, don't tell anyone but I was really hoping for a girl. I have my reasons. They are much more fun to dress up, there are more cute things to sew for them, usually if the oldest is a girl then they can babysit the other kids younger, and I'm kinda scared to have a boy. I know weird, but it's true. I have babysat  A LOT and I feel like I always do better with the girls, I think it's because I am one. And I feel like it's always the boys who are the wild kids and act out, which I know is not always the case. Anyways I'm happy it's a girl and will be excited when/if we get a boy.

A BIG Thanks to My Mom!

My mom was in town last weekend and she took my pregnant sister and I shopping! We went to Idaho Falls and really hit the jack pot at Ross, and of course made a stop by Porter's and Joan's for some cute baby fabrics. 

To give you an idea of how awesome my mom is I took a few pictures of what she got me. Sorry the pics aren't that great...

 Here's the whole lot...it's a whole lot haha. I know corny.

Here is just the maternity clothes she got me(minus one shirt that's currently dirty). I know right?! My maternity wardrobe went from basically nothing to this! you can't see them very well in this picture but she got me maternity skinny jeans and they are the BEST, so stretchy and so comfy! I love my mom :)

This is the cute diaper bag we scored from T.J.Maxx, well it's not actually a meant to be diaper bag but it's going to serve as a great one. I love it and it was a really good price, cheaper than any plain ugly real diaper bag you can find. 

 The fabric we scored at Porter's, are those not the cutest owls ever? AND the owls are the oh so very soft minkee fabric and the back is flannel. When we saw the awesome sale we couldn't resist this cute cute fabric...as you can tell I haven't quite sewn it together yet.

*She also got the cutest flannel for a blanket she's making me, which unfortunately means I don't have the fabric to take a picture. And some fabric for a 'nursing cover'*

Haha I love this shirt, and as my mom said "you have to have at least one shirt with a stupid saying on the front".  She actually brought this back for me from Arizona I think, maybe Utah. Just thought you might enjoy it too.

Once again how great is my mom? It's all I will ever need, okay maybe not quite but being poor college students it was a HUGE help. Now I will actually have clothes to wear during my pregnancy. Thanks again mom, love ya!!

Birthdays, Birthdays, Birthdays!

For my family March is like the Birthday month, and all within two weeks. So a quick happy birthday to my two sisters, my cute little niece, my handsome nephew, and of course my Joey :)

I think I'll just focus on my husbands birthday since it's the most important to me. And I think it's so sweet when people make a little list of good things and such. So here you go. And in case you didn't know his first name is actually Josiah, which I thought would be more fun to use.

J oyful

Joey is a very happy or joyful person. I love when he shares that joy with his cute little niece and nephew and they sure do love him too.

O riginal

I was having a tough time with "o" and when I thought original I still looked it up to see where I could go with that. One of my favorite definitions I found was: genuine and true. That's Joey for ya. He is a very genuine and true person. One way I think he displays this is how much love he has for his brothers and parents. When I see that I see genuine love.

S pecial

I thought this picture would show how "special" he was. Just kidding, it's just for laughs. He is special in the true meaning not sarcastic. There is no one else like my Joey, he is a very special person to me and to his family I'm sure. I love him and all that he has to offer. 

I ntelligent

This is the only picture I could find to portray intelligence. Reading means your intelligent right? Maybe not his chick slippers but hey. Again seriously he is very intelligent and he does well in school, I can always count on him to help me with things I don't understand.

A we-inspiring

I love this picture, even though it's from his high school wrestling days I still think it portrays how inspiring he is. He is a very dedicated person so when he sets his mind to something he will do it, whats more inspiring than that?

H andsome

Look at that handsome devil! Okay maybe I'm a little bias but you can't tell me he doesn't look handsome in that picture! He definitely got good looks, i mean just look at that smile! One of the many things I love about him.

One last thing I wanted to share, the cool cake that I made for him on his birthday!!!

Even though it's not really football season, he still loves the Seahawks!

This is my first fondant cake, I've been really wanting to learn how to work with fondant and what better excuse than my husbands birthday? I think it turned out pretty good, I could still use some practice.

A Very Happy Valentines Day

Why is this valentines day a very happy one? because the news is finally out...

We sent out Valentine cards to all our family and some friends.... 

This is the front of the card (And yes I made all of them by hand)

 And the news was on the inside....

Yes we are expecting! And no I didn't spill water all over this one, it was just a quick way for me to blur the words so you couldn't read the note on the inside. I know Kim, you could have done so much better :)

I am due August 24th, 2011. Which means I am just over 12 weeks along. And REALLY glad I made it though my first trimester with no throwing up! I did get nauseous, but that's okay with me as long as I don't have to throw up. I mostly got nauseous at night...morning sickness?? Sleep is what I want to do ALL the time, I sleep 9-10 hours at night and then come home from school and take a 2 hour nap. Food doesn't really sound good to me because I get annoyed that I always seem to be hungry but don't want to eat. And if I don't eat then I get nauseous. Of course there are times when something sounds really really good to me, but of course we never have it. Oh and I sneeze a lot, I'm just going to attribute it to my highly sensitive nose. So that's been my life for the last few months. I'll keep you updated!

It's time...

I have finally decided that it's time. It's time to stop procrastinating blogging because I will only get further behind. It's time to stop being one of those people that don't post for months on end (I never made fun of them...). And it's time to just forget that I have no Christmas pictures because I suck at taking pictures.

So here you are, we are back from the dead.

Christmas=awesome. I'm just going to say there was no time to take pictures because we were having too much fun. If you want a little tid bit and some cute pictures from the holidays here is the link to my sister's blog because she actually posted for the holidays.

OKAY...
we are now back in good old Rexburg Idaho. And yes it's freezing. We moved into a new complex, let's just say it's amazing how much stuff we can acquire for only being married 9 months...

This is our apartment when we moved in

Disgusting I know. Oh did you happen to notice the space heater in the kitchen? Yeah that's not ours. When we moved into our brand new apartment the temperature was at 36 degrees and the furnace was not working. But hey 36 is pretty worm considering it was in the negatives outside the week we moved in. But still very cold and not comfortable to live in. Warm bath anyone?

I do have to say I am so glad that our hot water was working just fine because the space heaters they brought over took a little while to heat up the whole place. We lived off of three space heaters for about four days before they fixed our furnace...and then the next morning we woke up to 60 degrees when the thermostat was set for 70. Yay for living off space heaters! No actually it wasn't too bad they came back and fixed it again and it's still holding strong. 

Well I was planning on posting after pictures too, because fortunately our apartment does not still look like this. But I haven't taken any yet and I don't want to spend the time tonight. I'm just proud that I finally did something on my blog again. So stay tuned for more on our new apartment. And hopefully a lot more frequent posts :)

I am no longer a teenager.

It's true, I know crazy. On Sunday the 14th I turned 20 years old. I know this post is a little delayed, but we had a CRAZY week starting early Monday morning. So a week and two days later my birthday will get a little recognition.

Saturday was my "birthday day" with Joey. He took me to a movie at riverfront in the morning, dinner at the white house grill, yum! And then we had cake and presents with his parents when we got back. I LOVED/LOVE my birthday presents.

Here's my banana split ice cream cake mmm...

Okay maybe I already knew what I was getting, but still, I had to show how excited I was to be getting it

YUP! I finally got a sewing machine! I'm just reading how to use my new toy...what should my first project be?

Thanks Plumb family for the gift, I love it.

Sunday I spent the day with my family and my mommy made me whatever I wanted for dinner and a DIVINE home made carrot cake! And since I don't have a picture of what she got me I'll just tell you. I got a lamp stand! Okay it may not sound that fun but I have really been wanting one because I've had a lamp shade, that I picked out, for a while but no stand to use it with. I can't wait to get back to Rexburg and set it up! Thanks mom...a little late :)

Sorry this post is super boring, but I can't just not say anything about my 20th Birthday.

Goodbye Rexburg, Hello Spokane!

It was a little crazy for a while.  All of the sudden we decide that we need to head to Spokane, until school started up for us again, where both our families are so that Joey can get some work with his dad...because as poor college students on off track with no scholarships to live off, we need the money.  The plan to find a job in Rexburg was a joke, we quickly found our that everyone in Rexburg is looking for a job. And by staying with our parents that meant free rent! So we were fortunate enough to sell our apartment contract very quickly

What a great blessing it was to even have this as an option, to have family to take us in on such short notice, to have parents that own a business so we can work for them, and to be able to sell our contract.

  How ironic it was that once we had this all planned out and then, to make a long story short, Joey was offered a job at Melalueca and I was offered one at Porter's. I know right??!! Well Joey was offered the job first and after going over finances, with it being a very part time job, we could not afford to stay in Rexburg for him to take it. Even though it meant a job in Rexburg for the long run of schooling, and at a place we really wanted to work.  A few days after turning down the Melalueca job I got the call from Porter's and unfortunately had to tell them I was heading out of town until January.  And I so badly wanted to work there, because I love that store! (more on that later).  

It seemed like such a bummer to have it happen that way, where we had to turn down jobs that we both really would have liked and definitely needed.  But after a trip to the temple we realized that it was a blessing really, that we needed to come back to Spokane for more reasons than we probably know yet.  But I know that we will be blessed for our faithfulness and hard work. And hopefully we will be able to tie something down when we get back to Rexburg.  As my mom once said, "Heavenly Father is so much wiser than I am." What an amazing mother I have.

Okay...so I captured a few pictures of the quick move. We packed up on Monday, brought stuff to the storage unit. And then Tuesday we cleaned, cleaned, cleaned! And cleaned some more! And left for the drive the next morning.

Joey cleaning the window

 this is when we were almost done so the stuff on the floor was way cleaner than earlier

When I was cleaning out the fridge I thought it was pretty cool that I could fit in it.

...and so can Joey!

No we are not drugged in any of these pictures we were simply exhausted.

And no we don't where matching cleaning gloves because we don't want to get our hands icky, we simply needed them so our hands wouldn't fall off into a pile of dried prunes from all the scrubbing.

But it did feel good when our, let's just say picky, apartment manager loved how clean it was and was so impressed that she offered to be a reference if we ever needed one, and said she would welcome us back into the complex with a waved application fee (not that that will ever happen).

After  staying up til four in the morning cleaning and then waking up at 7 to get the last few things done before clean check and then leaving for the seven hour drive right after we were pretty beat.  But, we are glad to be back in Spokane with family and friends. Sorry if this bored you, but it's for the record really.