Its Fall

I don't blog much apparently. I also don't take pictures with my camera anymore. most of these pictures are from my phone. Anyway here is all the fall things I've been doing.

Jared's mom and sister Anna came into town for Granny's birthday. We got to go to a pumpkin patch with them and Jared's brother Ryan's family.

While Anna was in town we went to a couple home decor stores and Jared really liked and let me buy these from Rodworks. I love them.

I made owl gingerbread cookies and ate them all myself... ok not really but almost!

I made tortellini soup. I love soup season and its getting cooler in Utah so soups on!

and finally I glittered some pumpkins to go next to some other Halloween things that I will blog later when its all put together.

Now on a different note I just wanted to share these

Jared brought them home for me they are beautiful. They are also Gerber daisies which aren't very strong and don't last very long. I should probably cut them down but i loved how long their stems are.

AND last but not least a story. A very scary, icky story that is for Kendle. If you do not like spiders do not scroll down to see the picture. I won't.

Once upon a time I wanted some ice cream. Jared and I have a chest freezer that Jared got for his birthday this year. It's in our garage. My biggest fear is when I go out to get something at night and its pitch black in our garage and i blindly reach out to turn on the light my hand will find a spider and not the light switch. So I go out to get ice cream, flip on the light, go to open my freezer, look up and SCREAM! There is a GIANT spider right in front of my face RIGHT next to the door. I run inside without closing the door and tell Jared and Micheal they have to get this spider as i'm trying to keep it together. I go into the other room and break down and start crying of all things (i blame pregnancy) and wait for that spider to meet its fate. I can hear the boys in the other room talking about how big it is and Jen refusing to go look. THEN they start talking about what they are going to catch it in. Michael catches it and sets on our porch (because Jen refused to have it in our house. Thank goodness) a container with a giant spider in it. The days go buy and Michael feeds it, watches it, is fascinated by it and even names it. While I have to be haunted by it everyday! At last I see he put the container in the garage, on the work bench in front of where I park, thinking he had disposed of his nasty pet. I pull in one day from work and see that IT's still in there. He brought it in so it wouldn't be cold.... really. really Michael. It is still there to this day. If only you could see my face as I tell this story. Anyway here's the nasty thing. If it doesn't look huge... well it is. The picture might not do it justice. I wouldn't know. It took all my courage to take a picture of the thing.

25 Weeks

Pregnancy update!

I got to experience what a sciatic nerve can do to you last Sunday. It started Saturday night and when i woke up Sunday i could barely walk! I seriously thought I was going to die. I limped out of my room and Jen was like "what is wrong with you?" I explained what I was feeling and her and Michael were both like "Welcome to pregnancy!" She told me it was my sciatic nerve so I went and googled it. The only ways of relief were message therapy, physical therapy or to stay off your feet. That wasn't going to happen. I'm on my feet all day at work! So the rest of that day I stayed in bed with my feet up, slept sitting up with my feet up and woke up with a little bit of discomfort. I went to work and warned people that I didn't know what was going to happen that day but it ended up going away instead of getting worse. It was completely gone by the end of the week. What a relief! I was so worried i was going to have this pain for the rest of my pregnancy and 3 months afterward! So that was a fun adventure.

I've been enjoying all the maternity clothes I've borrowed from my sisters. The dress I wore today I just HAD to wear my red heels with. We walk to church. Its not very far but if you've walked to church in 3in heels you would understand. I think it will have to be my last time wearing heels because half way through church my sciatic nerve started telling me my shoes were a bad idea. Hey I looked good so thats all that matters right?... until I can't walk anymore because of sciatica... We'll see what happens!

I haven't been doing very well with taking belly pictures. I think I've said this before. I did have people take some two weeks ago and then again today. So here they are!

This is 23 weeks.

I was taking pictures of myself when Michael asked if i wanted help.

Picture courtesy of Michael

This is 25 weeks

 Jared's not capable of taking pictures... here's his attempt. You can see my baby bump pretty well its just blurry and kind of weird that he cut my head off.

 Here's Jen's attempt. Not bad, not bad I'm just not a fan of pictures of me.

 Ethan wanted a turn

 And then he wanted a turn taking pictures

Gotta love that kid. Also gotta love Ben! He is sure fun to have around as well. In Sunday school today he was cracking up laughing at the people behind us. Gotta love baby laughs too!

Travel System

Jared and I bought our travel system! I'm so excited! Its our first baby thing! I was so excited i took it out of the box and put it together and walked around the house pushing it. But of coarse we won't have a baby for another 4 months so we had to put it in the shed. Jared didn't want me to put it together and just wanted me to keep it in the box but there was no way i could do that. 

This is the one i got

And here it is all packed up for the shed... : (

A Memory Card

I finally got a memory card for my phone. i had 190 pictures on it and 35 videos. For some reason the videos don't have sound but i'm going to share some of the pictures just for fun!

I went to a UDA convention beginning of this year and one day we went to the top of the Joseph smith building to eat lunch and this was the view.

Sometimes i REALLY want a dog even though EVERYONE tells me not to get one. I look online at adoption places this is the one i wanted to adopt. so cute.

One time i took a figure drawing class. I was going through my portfolio and found this! i sent a picture to my friend. We had this hanging on the back of our door in our apartment we lived in together lol 

fun clouds on the way to Idaho

My Brother and sister-in-law's chickens

One time Jen and i made lots and lots of cake pops

When Jared and i went camping on the way up there were cows in the road. Random.

I have tons and tons of pictures of Ethan, Sawyer and Kate. This one is a super old one of Ethan

Ben falling out of his wrap.

Kate and I in tucson

a pretty old one of Kate. I love her expression.

Sawyer. What a cutie.

And thats it. Sorry it was so random!!

When It Rains It Pours

Jared took the weekend off so we could do something fun. We decided to go camping! The forecast was in the 80's with isolated thunderstorms and 30% chance of rain... were we stupid for still going?? This is what happened...

We set up camp.

Then we relaxed.

We made marshmallow sticks.

This loomed over head

We got these awesome marshmallows! They were crazy!

Tested out our sticks.

We started cooking dinner

It was delicious and right when they were done it started raining.

We jumped into the car to eat. We borrowed Jen and Michael's air mattress and put it in our 7X7 ten and it was crowded! We eventually went back out to finish dinner when the rain slowed down.

Then it picked right back up so we ran into our ten. We played cards, hung out and Jared took a nap.

It finally stopped and we poked our heads out and saw this...

Where did the clouds go? We made s'mores, sat by the fire for a bit and then we threw everything left outside into the trunk so it wouldn't get washed away in the night. Just as we finished putting things away it started raining again. This time there was thunder and lightening and it was raining hard! I was freaking out a little bit. Being 21 weeks pregnant I pee at least twice a night and I was really hoping to not have to go in the middle of the night. I didn't but i woke up in a lot of pain real early in the morning but at least i didn't have to go out in the rain and pitch dark. Jared would probably want me to add that in the middle of the night i woke up and was so uncomfortable i started tossing, turning and kicking my feet while he was on the other side of the air mattress bouncing up and down.

After our early morning bathroom run Jared started a fire for breakfast and i went back into the tent

It was pretty good. I'm not a huge fan of eggs cooked in bacon grease.

There were rain clouds and thunder in the distance so we packed up real fast and got out of there. We had never been to this place before and the campsite ranger guy told us of a few trails we should hike. We were planning on doing it in the morning but it was really muddy and looking like rain so we just went home. One day we'll have to go back. 

Here's some photography pictures for my photography readers to be impressed by. It was a really pretty place.

Drum Roll Please!

Yup its a boy! I think I was secretly hoping for a girl on the inside BUT a boy is good too. I found out and then flew to Tucson. Thats why it has taken me so long to post this. I wore a blue t-shirt so when i walked off the plane they would know what i was having. So Nana, Mom and Kristen pulled up and i knew they were all hoping for a girl so i was prepared for the worst. All in all they still love me and i'm sure they will love my little boy too... hopefully. I have a lot of competition on the cuteness scale. 

This is the shirt i wore home but i didn't get any pictures when i was home. Kristen took a lot she will probably blog soon.