I remember last year

It was my very first valentine's day when I was actually with someone. :) We celebrated Valentine's day the day before because Valentine's day was Sunday.  I had work in the morning....I was still a page...and when I came back, you had gone to the store and gotten me a large bouquet of circus roses (I'm not sure if I ever told you how impressed I was that you remembered that those were my favorite...not just on Valentine's day...but before that when we were dating...I only told you once...and that was on our first date) and a whole bunch or rose petals...and then you spread the rose petals out on the bed...over the temple blanket my mom made us...it was white side up...and then we "played with our set of keys" and almost ruined the blanket haha!  we decided to not do it with petals on the bed ever again haha.

after that we got dressed...I wore my red dress and you wore your suit pants and a blue dress shirt.  we went to tucanoes and that same waiter guy told us that we should wait to have kids. :)  silly waiter.  That's all I really remember...we got the rose...and we probably cuddled a lot and stuff...:)  it was fun...  it was memerable (mostly haha)  It made me love you more. <3

 

"bob-we-had-a-baby-it's-a-boy"

So, the baby is a boy!!  For the sake of those who love pictures in blogs:

nice picture proof of the boyness. :)  During the ultrasound he was moving around a lot...very active...only even with the ultrasound thing pressing into my belly, I still couldn't really feel him moving...the nurse reassured me that it's ok to not feel him moving for a while, so I just have to be patient...  Sorry, I haven't taken or posted any pictures of my "baby bump" yet...maybe tomorrow...maybe...haha.  I was told today that I don't even have one...but my clothes mostly beg to differ...
Albert and I have decided upon the name "Jonathan"...we just aren't 100% sure exactly how we're going to spell it... and we aren't sure what the middle initial is going to be (Albert doesn't like middle names for some reason, so I got him to at least give our sons middle initials). :)   But yeah. that's us.  we're super happy.  Albert's mom was super happy that she was right...and Albert's dad was so happy that he got it up on facebook before I did haha.  One of my visiting teachers, Katie, told me today that she knew how to make little boy vests and ties so I now get to look forward to a get together with her and my sister Andrea to make cute little boy clothes. :)  yep.  It's nice being able to talk about "the baby" and be able to call him by name...though it's been a bit of a transition to go from calling the back room "the baby's room" to "Jonathan's room"...but we'll get there...it's only been a day.
firsts in the last day and a half:
     -first time I got to see my son
     -first time I actually got heartburn
     -first time I met with my new visiting teachers
     -first time starting a mission fund for a child of mine
          -ok so it doesn't even have a dollar in it yet, but Albert and I figured that every little penny put in is a penny towards our son serving a mission, so might as well build it up...it'll add up quickly...hopefully.
     -first time in over 2 years attempting to make potatoes au grauten...haven't tasted it yet...it's still in the oven
          -this first time resulted in my first big cut since getting pregnant and lots of bleeding despite it being a very shallow wound...which may or may not have caused me to almost pass out.
     -first time in over a month that I've kept Albert up all night with moving around and talking in my sleep.
          -ok maybe this is the second...but then the first time would have been the night before...I was so proud of myself haha.
     -first time that I've actually noticed just how often I get hungry during the day...it's like every hour...or even half hour...yay for chips and salsa!
that's all the firsts I'm able to think of right now...yep!  it's been a good happy time  :)

almost a banana

         So...today is the day!  We find out if we're having a boy or a girl. :)  This coming Sunday makes us at week 20 (the half-way point, so after this it's all...downhill and getting bigger) which according to the site that sends me e-mails every week means that the baby is about the length of a banana.  I'm starting to actually show and am having a harder time fitting into most of my older shirts ("most" because I had a couple of those "I look like a maternity shirt but still look cute on a not pregnant person" shirts).  I haven't really felt the baby moving yet...I think I felt a bit of a flutter the other day, but it hasn't happened again yet so...we'll see.

         Morning sickness is totally gone (though I still have some troubles with really greasy meats like bacon, sausages and Wendy's hamburgers) and though I'm still tired, I usually feel fairly awake in the morning (so that's the time to see me right now cuz I won't be a total space case like I get in the evenings).

         Albert has been very good with dealing with all the moodiness, and tiredness, and crying, and mind changing, and picky-eatingness that comes with me being pregnant. :)  He also has been very patient with me counting down the days until today (when we find out what we're having) and with me getting hungry at really random times (like right before we're going to bed...though he does still look at me like "are you SERIOUSLY hungry again?" haha) now I just need to work on getting him to get the food for me lol.

         So: thoughts right before going in to the OB/GYN

-we don't care if it's a boy or a girl...we just would really like a healthy baby.

-Albert is still worried that it's going to end up being twins even though the Dr. told us that if it were twins I'd be bigger by now (blame that on a couple of games of life and a dream his dad about us having twins without knowing that that same night Albert and I talked about the possibility of us having twins)

-Albert's mom is DEAD convinced that it's a boy...she says it's because I was so sick during morning sickness.

-Laura C. and Mandy (from work) both think it's a girl...they didn't give any reasons.

-I don't know what to think it is.

-Albert's dad is super duper excited...I think he's almost as excited as I am haha. :) it's a good thing.  our baby is going to have a great grandpa. :)

-it's going to be a lot easier after this appointment because now when people ask me what I'm having I can actually say that I know (unless the baby decides to be shy...we're hoping it won't be) and I can start planning on what the room is going to look like and start making outfits for it (with the help my ridiculous crafty sister, Andrea)

-I'm still trying to get Albert to speak more Spanish around the house now because some studies say that the baby is starting to hear now...so far I speak more Spanish than he does...even though he knows I'd be able to understand most of what he was saying to me.

-randomly feeling grateful that my child has decided that it DOES like sugar (unlike it was acting like at the very start of the pregnancy)...this is emphasized by the fact that Valentine's day is Sunday and my mom has sent out the valentine's day cookies...

         -laughing at Albert for not liking as much frosting as my mom usually puts on the cookies so she just frosted the edges and wrote his name in the middle and he seemed so relieved when I told him haha.

now my mind is on a tangent and really just wants to think about sugar...totally going to have rice crispies when I get home from school hahahaha. good thing I only have 1 class today.

Anyway, more later...hopefully including at least one picture. :)

Merry Christmas!!

     So.  This is our 2nd official Christmas together.  This, however, is our first Christmas spent with other people (well last year we were on a cruise but this is the first year with people we know and care about).  Albert has not yet gone completely insane with so many people around (only 15 people are staying this year as opposed to the 25 people who were in the house last year while we were staying here around the time of our wedding.) for which I am eternally grateful. :)
     But first a little bit of other information.  For those of you who have not heard yet, I'm pregnant!!  YAY!  the baby is due on July 3rd.  I will be 13 weeks tomorrow (the 26th) and both Albert and I are very ready for me to be over the morning sickness part of the pregnancy.  :P  We heard the heartbeat for the first time on the 15th of December and we get to find out the gender right around Valentine's Day. :)
   Anyways, back to Christmas.  So my parents were wonderful enough to fly Albert and I out to VA.  My body switched over to UT time pretty quickly...Albert...well....he sleeps a lot lol.  mostly if I move around a lot at night though...I've been doing that more and more lately.

No, Albert isn't playing the piano...he's on his laptop

     I was quite excited to be coming out because I just knew that I would get to play Mary in my family's Christmas pageant because I'm pregnant....not that I'm really even showing...only a tiny bump. maybe there will be a picture later...maybe...  anyways, so last night dad and I were planning the whole project and we decided to do this year's pageant differently and have everyone as angels and look down at the manger scene  and we got Tiffy, Will, and Katie to set up the barbies into a manger scene...they did a pretty good job I think :)  anyways.  So I wasn't Mary...but I'll be much more pregnant some other year and then I will be Mary. :)
     I have loved watching my nephew, Will, and my niece, Katie, play with everyone at my parents' house.  Their little sister Emily is just 3-4 months old and is super smiley and completely adorable...basically.  I really love watching my dad and brothers play with her.  Will is 3 and completely obsessed with How to Train Your Dragon.  Katie is completely adorable.  she has super curly messy hair and refused to give me a hug when she first saw me...guess I'm too scary.  Wednesday I cleaned out my bins of stuff from high school and I found a wooden model piano.  Katie decided she really liked it and began "playing" it and she started singing along to what she was "playing" and it was just super duper cute.  :)  yep.  My family has so many cute little kids. :)  wish I could see all of them more often.

 Playing...some game...someday I'll remember the name of it.

Christmas Eve dinner. (Shepard's Meal)

    Until this morning I've been able to eat almost whatever I want...not excluding chicken enchiladas...which sound horrible to me right now, but tasted really good when I was eating them.  yesterday we mostly ate bread...which was wonderful because most of it was my mom's freshly made wheat-ish bread. :)  yep. :)  it was lovely.  anyways, so this morning I ate bacon and that was the straw that broke the camel's back...so...I got sick...and threw up...twice...but I've been good since...I'm grateful that I'm not the only married woman here and that the 2 women older than me have both had children. :)  it means that they completely sympathize and my mom completely understands when I tell her that I cannot eat the chicken-noodle soup.  :)  Life is good.
     Found out 2 days ago that one of my super-great friends, Laura Crenshaw, got her mission call to San Fernando, California. :)  Albert and I are super excited for her.

it snowed too much so church was cancelled so we had church at home

Relief Society/Young Women

Playing Ticket To Ride

Sunday Dinner

Puzzle completing is a HUGE family tradition.

     Just realized I haven't talked much about Albert's experience this Christmas...he thinks my family is strange...which is not a surprise because we kind of are...he's had a lot of fun playing dart gun battles and dominating at Risk.  He wasn't too happy when I was up at 5:09 this morning cuz I couldn't get back to sleep, but he loved his presents. :)   What he didn't love was the fact that my mom gave me MORE craft/sewing stuff for the house...baha!   ah well... :)  good thing he loves me.  He's excited to be in our own house and in our own bed...yep...we leave the 28th so that we can split the holidays evenly between my family and his family....also so my family doesn't drive him completely insane lol.  Anyways, yep...that's us. :)  I'll add some pictures later.

Pushing Right Along

          So life keeps going.  Seasons change, it gets WAY too cold, finals rush towards us, and we're still trying to stay sane...Albert's doing better than I am I think.
          Albert's super excited for the first part of the 7th Harry Potter movie to come out. :)  (Yes, we're huge fans...we have all of the movies...and a clear-play player so I can watch them too 8D  )  That's about all the big news that's coming out right now...oh...and we're getting wood flooring in our house sometime this week. :)  (not sure when but the guy is fixing the parts of the floor that need fixing today...he may have also been laying down the wood, but I don't remember...we'll see when I get home eh?)
          We're super excited for Thanksgiving and all of the family-ness and festivities that result because of it.  (though Albert may be a bit apprehensive about the thanksgiving dinner w/ my family because he knows we tend to do some pretty crazy things...ah well :P )  We're also excited because it gives us a good break from school (and work for me) and because we only have 2 weeks after that left of school until we're done and then we don't have to worry about any kind of school work...well...for 3.5 weeks depending on how fast we get our finals done :P
          Things that we are especially grateful for this season: carrots, super pretzels, warm beds, great housing managers, loving family, brothers who come and eat our cookies that we can't finish, being healthy, getting enough to eat, lots of quilts, flushing toilets, cars that run, crock pots, good grades, clean minds, good jobs, wonderful friends, and a lot more which I won't write because there's too much...those are just some of the highlights.
         Anyways.  yep. life is good.  we're happy, we love each other, we love life...though we wish we could have a little more time to sleep and a little less running around to do sometimes, but don't we all?

Halloween

So, this was Albert and I's second Halloween together.

     Last Halloween, we dressed up (me as a gypsy and Albert as a pirate I think) and met up with our friend Laura.  We then drove up to where Laura's Nana lives in Orem and went trick or treating.  we got lots of weird looks, but had a bunch of fun.  Near the end I started saying "happy holidays" to people because TECHNICALLY it was a holiday and Thanksgiving and Christmas were so near...that also got me lots of weird looks.  Anyways, once we were done trick-or-treating, we took all of our candy to the hospital in Provo and gave it to the authorities and asked them to give it to the children (those who could have it) who were stuck in the hospital on Halloween.  It was actually a bunch of fun and I was a little bummed that we didn't do it again...

     This Halloween weekend was a little controversial because Halloween was on Sunday.  Anyways, so Saturday morning Albert's mom came over with his Aunt and another friend and had a yard-sale on our front lawn (it was actually pretty fun because they could talk to all of the Hispanic people who came along).  I then had to go to work.  For work we were allowed to dress up as long as it kept within the parameters of work dress code (close toed shoes, nothing really immodest etc.)  So I went as a princess.

 Awesome book about a princess

     As you can see, two other girls came as princesses too...but that's ok...we decided to get along.  

     As you can also see, we met up with Charlie Chapman (quite a nice chap actually haha).  :) but yeah.  

     We only had 2-3 people come to our door Saturday night *disappointment* ...and nobody came on Sunday 

Ah well. Happy Belated Halloween!

Time Flies When Life Is Busy

          So, today is our 10 month anniversary.  CRAZY!!  Life goes on.  We're still good... I'm pretty excited to see my mom and dad who are flying out today and leave monday. :)  Also midterms are almost over and so far so good grade wise. :)  Yep...that's us. Sorry that it's not much...maybe next week...