Temple Square

This Christmas season I was able to visit my old stomping grounds four times, I just can't get enough! While that statement is true, the first was with TJ and one of his mission companion's and his adorable girlfriend, the second time was with the young women, the third time TJ and I had done a quick trip to the temple and got out at 5:27 the lights come on at 5:30 and my brother Mike from CA just happened to be there however it was a crazy nut house so we went again with them this week. While I have a treasured memory and miracle of nearly every square inch of Temple Square, looking back at Christmas time is always a blur. I remember hearding masses of people up to the Christus, taking lots of pictures for people and talking to lots of church members and sleeping well every night. I'll have to go through my old journals and look up some seasonal memories. I do remember my first day as a missionary from the MTC was Christmas Eve, it was unseasonably warm and I remember taking people through the family display and passionately talking about the restoration with the zeal of a new missionary. That's all I got for now. PS we found this house up on 18th Ave with enough snowmen, mangers, and santas for all of Christmas St, probably all of Sugarhouse. We were telling scary stories and said now what would be creepy is if there was a guy sitting in the middle of all this, just then I looked in the garage and there was a man sitting there, who then walked out gave us candy canes and told us scary stories about the old Shriner's hospital.

Gag reflux won!

I feel like I can officially join the pregnant woman club, Sunday night our landlord made some kind of Thai something or other which smelled actually pretty good, I went to bed and when I awoke the spicy oniony smell filled my nostrils as the central heater turned on and the gag reflux finally won! It felt great and since then my nausea has gone down big time although now when a smell gets me the reflex is fresh and ready to do it's job. I've even cooked for TJ a couple nights in a row.

6 Weeks 12 Weeks

6 weeks in turquoise, 12 weeks in salmon

Food is good, gag!

Many people say that when you are pregnant one day you wake up and you are not nauseated anymore. I'm still waiting for that day to come. I sometimes wonder will I ever feel the same? The words I keep telling myself are food is good, food is good, you like food. But the bitter horrible truth is that every food smell makes me gag a little till I'm starving but the aftermath of eating is equally awful in it's own way. My sister was sick her whole pregnancy my mom just the middle, so far I'm in the 2nd trimester and wishing I could just sleep till it went away. The newest thing today is dizziness just before I was supposed to teach the young women at church I kept feeling like I had just spun myself around and laid down on the floor, luckily someone gave me 2 Starbursts and I managed through it all, anyway sorry about all my ranting but I just had to type my thoughts it an attempt that typing might convince myself, food is good, food is good, gag!

Give Thanks!

Thanksgiving was spent in a blur of Connolly's in St George, we were down 2 families which equated to about 43 people I believe. My sister Caitlin made these sweet t-shirts which we all pretty much lived in all weekend. A ping pong tournament was organized and some of us worked on our mad cheering skills! Black Friday TJ kept waking me up all night asking me if he should get a kitchen aid or not, I kept telling him not to worry about it and go to bed. However I awoke to a chrome kitchen aid on my dresser, it was like Christmas morning!!! My mom has had her kitchen aid for EVER and I initially learned to make a lot of things on it! I've burned out a motor on a hand-mixer so TJ was insistent that I get the mega wattage version he kept telling me that to go with lower wattage would be like using a cocoamotion. Unfortunately on Thanksgiving day Brian broke his leg during Turkey Bowl he didn't get to return home or to the "mansion" as I call it (it's really more of a vacation home I guess with 43 beds, pools, and other fun features) till Saturday:-( so sad. That's him sleeping with TJ. Anyway the things I am most greatful for are, my family, the new little one that is growing, I think it's just the coolest and my extended family and friends. I am also so greatful for my knowledge of Christ's gospel, sometimes I forget living in UT that the knowledge I have is so rare but I can't ever get over what a gift it is. I'm greatful for my life it is so much different than anyone I know but it has been so wonderful and so beautiful! I'm a lucky girl! Also I forgot to mention that I stole the awesome fam picture from Caitlin, thanks!

Nesting

Yes it's true I'm pregnant! I have lots of cravings and feel slightly sick sometimes but not too bad. However before I knew I was pregnant we were thinking about buying a condo and moving. All and all we felt really good about doing it good price, great location, it was cute had lots of perks and it is a friend of mine who's moving away. I prayed about it and got the answer TJ could take care of me and a baby where we currently live. I didn't think in the least that I was pregnant. We were hoping to be pregnant for the past couple months and I just didn't think it would happen anytime soon. I even started to think maybe we should put it off till TJ was done with school so that we could buy a home. Anyway TJ said if we stayed where we were I could make it as beautiful as I wanted. So I nested as my landlord calls it, his wife is about 6 months pregnant and nested when she was first pregnant too. I bought some artwork and we well TJ painted our kitchen table. Hopefully you like the black because that's the after. Great job honey! About 3 weeks later we found out I am pregnant I kind of had an inkling on our Mt Olympus hike as I was slower than usual plus I had consistently slower running times all week. TJ was taking a nap when I took the test, I showed it too him and he kept saying what does it mean and drawing a plus with his fingers, haha. That puts us at a June 30th due date. We're excited for our new little member, life is going to change!

Things found in the shower part II

The other morning my toothbrush was completely missing! Every couple weeks I have to remind TJ my toothbrush is purple his is NOT! Good thing we are married. Later when I hopped in the shower hoping to find my toothbrush there like last time I found this talk about multi-tasking!