Christmas time is here again...

Christmas is seriously my FAVORITE part of the year. Unfortunately this year the Christmas season seems to have come a little late to our house. For the first part of December we didn't really feel very in the Christmas spirit, but the past few days both me and Josh have really gotten into it. I am so stoked to spend my first birthday with him and our first Christmas together :) This guy is seriously awesome. He is truly selfless and thoughtful. I had to think long and hard about what awesome Christmas gift I could get him, and he already had mine thought out and done. What I really love about my Josh is that he has made this Christmas more about Christ. He has done so amazing at helping me feel the spirit of Christmas and feel more of the importance than the presents.
Because of this this has been one of my favorite Christmas' so far :)

Red solo cup...I fill you up....

Fill you up with Dr. Pepper and then my baby goes wild. Yup. That's right. The other day I was having the worst day and I just needed some caffeine to pull me through. Since I have been pregnant i've tried extremely hard to not drink my Dr. Pepper. But....I just couldn't hold off this time. I drank an XL size from Maverick in about an hour (don't judge me). For the next 15 hours straight Maddox was bouncing off the walls and going wild. I was concerned, but Josh convinced me he was fine. The fun part is Josh has been able to feel little Maddox for the past week :) So it's been really awesome.

A Picture Says A Thousand Words

I was scrolling through my phone and realized I just have way to many awesome pictures that I have yet to share with the world. Enjoy...

So this my friends..... This is what happens at my family reunions when my mom offers to buy beer for all the family members. It's a long story. Short... Uncle Brian was demonstrating the amazing Rebman Weenus. I hope I don't get in trouble putting this up....Uncle Brian...tell me if i'll lose my title as "Favorite Niece" for having this up here. I just love this picture so much!

                                               
 The Jesus snow globe? What is this? And who wants to shake up some dude? Seriously Target?....Seriously?....
                                                 
 "Ooooops....I licked the cupcake.....Do you still want it?....." Isn't he the cutest thing you've ever seen?

Come One, Come All!

I need someone to come visit my house every 3 days. I LOVE how fast I can get my house clean when I know someone is going to be there in 20 minutes. I do everything that would normally take me a few hours. So i'm inviting you all to come up here to Idaho and visit me.

So. I know that I was so set on the husband project but life apparently thought I wasn't busy enough and threw a little bit more on my load. First Thanksgiving came up, then work got super duper busy, then I got this nasty little cold that has completely weighed me down. BUT I have not given up. After the holidays it is the first thing on my list. And no....I don't procrastinate. I'll show you....Just you wait!

As for the Christmas season. I feel very accomplished. I got the hubby some awesome presents that I am pretty convinced he has no clue about, and i'm excited to see his face on Christmas morning! I'm also really excited that I will be making our first Christmas Eve dinner and waking up with my best friend on Christmas morning! This is going to be the best Christmas of my life....So far :)

I am a little homesick however...I do miss how amazing my mom makes the house look at Christmas time, and I miss the music, and her yummy cooking...and not being responsible of the household.......and she did my laundry........... and I always liked coming home from school to a happy mom asking how my day was........... there was so much food there......and good snacks!
Anyway.... Long story short...I'm homesick! I love our home now :) But life was so much simpler as a kid, right?

The Husband Project

Ok. So here is the layout of the 21 day husband project. I will write a post after each project I do and let ya'll know how it goes :)

Day 1- 30 Minutes of relaxing when Josh gets home from work. Let him have 30 minutes to relax after work. Let him play video games, or take a nap. Just stay out of his hair and let him wind down.

Day 2- Go on a drive/hike. There is a gorgeous canyon up here in Rexburg. I figure we can go drive up through there and walk around.

Day 3- Take as many opportunities to brag about my Josh :) Slip into conversations with him that i've bragged about him today.

Day 4- A food JUST for him. I'm going to make him lemon butter salmon (ick) and I will have something else for dinner :)

Day 5- Text him all day telling him how awesome he is and how much I love him.

Day 6- Hold his hand or snuggle him close when I have the chance.

Day 7- Get gorgeous JUST for him. Even if we're staying in for the night. Be pretty.

Day 8- Cook dinner and take it somewhere fun to eat. Maybe a chinese night sitting on pillows in our living room? I'm still a little uncertain on the details of what to eat and where. But it WILL be fun!

Day 9- Help him get ready for work. Wake up early and iron his shirt and pants for him and lay out an outfit fresh and clean. Make him breakfast and help him get out the door to work.

Day 10- Get a new cute outfit that he will LOVE. This day benefits both of us :)

Day 11- Let him come home to a very clean and peaceful house. Have pretty music playing and yummy candles burning.

Day 12- Write him a note on the bathroom mirror with some of the many things I love about him on it. Let him see it when he goes to take a shower in the morning.

Day 13- Keep Josh on my mind all day long. Pray for him throughout the day. let him know he's been on my mind all day long.

Day 14- Cook something that the both of us will enjoy. Something gourmet. Will decide what at a later date :)

Day 15- Throw away one item of clothing he really just doesn't like on me that much. If it's something I love throw it away and replace it with something we both love.

Day 16- Tell Josh all day long how dang good looking he is :) This one won't be hard at all! Luckily I got a good lookin man!

Day 17- Do all the chores (Garbage, Laundry, Dishes). In the book the lady says "A man that does dishes and laundry and cleaned the house is a dime in a dozen and really only existed on romantic movies". I guess I am one of the extremely lucky people. He works AND goes to school plus does everything around our house so I don't have to. I know this isn't a temporary thing either. This is just how amazing this man is. Gosh dang I love him! So give him one day off and do everything for HIM.

Day 18- Take him out to his favorite restaurant for date night.

Day 19- Make him some breakfast in bed. "If I call you darling....will you make me pancakes?"

Day 20- Leave post it notes everywhere. This will be very cute and sentimental, because when we first started dating I would leave him post it notes with cute messages on them :)

Day 21- Let him pick ANY movie of his choice. Yes. This includes Discovery Channel or Blue Planet.

I love my man a ton. The goal here is to show that to him and let him know i'm striving to be a good wife :)

Scratch That Last Post!

SO I had the 30 days planned out. But then my awesome sister told me about this book called "The Husband Project". I really liked the first few chapters and decided to switch my plan over to this book. I am going to finish reading it this weekend. Sunday I will set out my plan, and Monday it will go into action. I will be posting about each project. 21 to be exact. I hope this works as good as every claims!

30 Days to Becoming a Better Wife

Well...I feel like it's finally happened. I feel like the honeymoon phase is a little bit over, yet Josh still turns out to be so amazing and surprise me every day. Maybe it's just the pregnancy, but I feel like I haven't been the awesome wife I had hoped to be. Our house isn't always the cleanest, I don't get pretty every day, when I feel sick I just lay down for the night. Yup. I feel like one good for nothing wife, even though Josh tells me every day that's not true. So I have decided to take a challenge. I'm posting about it because I feel like if I throw it out there in public, I will be more inclined to stick with it so I don't look like a quitter as well.
My project is called "30 Days to Becoming a Better Wife". A family member of mine had done "30 Days to Becoming a Better Man" and I loved seeing his posts every day. Unfortunately on the internet I couldn't find a day by day challenge to become a better wife, just tips on how to be better. So I'm taking some of the tips I've found and adding in my own here and there. Then hopefully by then end of 30 days I will feel like a more accomplished wife. Here's the list ( I stole it from a website that gave a list of tips to be a better wife, then took out some, and added my own)

Here's the goal. One per day. However, each day i'm going to try and implement the days before into my day still. So on day 5, I will still try to do tasks from day 1,2,3,&4. I will just mainly focus on 5 while throwing in things from previous days as well. Each day I will blog about what I have done for that day and how it has made it better. My hope is that I will become a better wife and gain the habits I need to stay a good wife.

If any of you have any other suggestions on what I should add into here, please feel free to leave comments. I would be more than happy to get other comments and thoughts on how this project is going. I can take constructive criticism :)

1. Be Pretty. Get pretty for him every day. Not just on special occasions or when you have to go out of the house. Get pretty for HIM. 

2. Play More. Men like to play with their wives. Make efforts to do things your husband enjoys. Deep down, they want us with them as a playmate. If your husband has a hobby, learn to do it with him and have fun. Or, learn something together and do it regularly. Play cards or games together. The point is to have fun doing things with him that he enjoys. No nagging allowed in these moments. Only good, clean FUN!

3. Make Him a Priority. He should KNOW that he is important to you and that he comes above all others.

4. Pray for Him. Praying for your husband is one of the most powerful and important things you can do for him! Do it daily–especially when he ticks you off! THAT is the BEST time to pray for him! ;)

5. Feed Him. It has been said that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach…

6. Clean the House. If you are a homemaker or have a husband that just does not do what you feel is “his share” around the house…move on from your “feelings” on the matter and clean the house. God is sure to bless you for your sacrifice and honoring of your hubbie.

7. All About Him Day. One day just serving your husband. Make his favorite meal, give him a shoulder rub, clean his car. Make his day!

8. I love you day! See how many times you can tell him you love him (for reals) in one day. Cute notes. A text or phone call during work. 

9. Honor Him in Front of Others. Be very careful how you speak to others about your husband. You should never ever ever bash him to friends in or out of his presence. Speak LIFE–always.

10. Date Night In. Rent a movie he's wanted to see. Order in food. 

11. Forgive Him. I strongly believe that forgiveness is the ONLY way anyone can have a long lasting marriage. One cannot expect to spend a lifetime with someone and never experience betrayal, disappointments and pain. When we come to a place where we CHOOSE to not allow divorce to be an option and FORGIVE as we are forgiven, we may just find ourselves in an awesome marriage! (I feel like I get frustrated about dumb things lately. Try to not get upset about stuff)

12. Affirm Him. Men like words of affirmation. Speak positive over him and words of truth. TELL him that he is sexy, compliment him, tell him… good job, thank you, I appreciate you, etc. Point out the good regularly. I also looked up affirm in the dictionary and found words like;  declare the truth of something , certify, cinch, confirm, declare, guarantee, profess, pronounce, repeat, vouch, witness. On the flip side I found the following antonyms in the thesaurus:  deny, negate, nullify, veto. Affirm him!

13. Help Him. We were created to be their helpers. Help him when he needs it and help him by keeping your own conduct in check.

14. Let go of Anger. Anger leads to sin and does not accomplish anything other than pain. I have learned over the years that the only way to ever get results with any issue is when I have looked beyond my emotions and let go of anger.

15. Be Ready for Him. If you are a woman blessed enough to stay home, make sure you are ready for your husband when he gets  home. Have the dishes done, the house cleaned, and dinner cooked. That way you don't spend time away from him still doing stuff when he get's home. If you work later than him, make sure you still make a point to greet him and let him know you missed him and he is your priority.

16. Get Sporty. AS, I mentioned above, men like playmates. It would behoove you to play something sporty with him…perhaps tennis, basketball, golf, etc. If playing is out of the question for you, watch sports with him. Learn the game and get involved with him. It has been said that the couple that plays together stays together. I find this to be very true.

17. Do Not Nag Him. There is nothing quite as sad as a nagging wife. Do not open the door for your poor husband to dread you. Now, on the other hand, men need to be reminded more than once. However, this is a delicate balance and must be handled as such. It really is HOW you “remind” your husband. Tone is everything…Remember: honey goes down a lot easier than an acid tongue. 

18. Work Out. Whether it's together or just you. Try to stay fit and toned. Make sure you still try and be gorgeous for him. 

19. Make Breakfast In Bed. Get up and make him something yummy. Take it to him in bed and make sure you tell him you love him. 

20. Random Acts of Kindness. The little things really do matter in a marriage. Put forth effort to do kind things for your husband. Little or big–they all matter.

21. Go for a drive. Go for a drive with your husband. Get away from the cellphones, TV's and Electronics. Go stargazing and talk about your day. 

22. LET Him Lead. This is a tough one for “today’s woman”. Unfortunately, God already made the decision of who is the head in a marriage. As women, when we are not allowing our husbands to be in their God-given roll, we are sinning. We are disobeying God. There is no other way to say it. Allowing our husbands to lead is a good thing, and when we do, God is sure to bless us! I believe He will also protect us when our husbands make the wrong choice–because we were obedient to the Lord. 

23. Encourage Him. Men…and women really need encouragement. Encourage him to do good by speaking it over him. Encourage means: to make (someone) more determined, hopeful, or confident–assist, help. I also looked in the thesaurus and found words like; cheer up, brighten, boost, praise, prop up, gladden , strengthen and inspire. On the flip side, I found the following antonyms; dampen, deject, depress, deter, discourage, dispirit, dissuade, uninspire, counter, deter, frustrate, hinder, hurt, impede, obstruct and resist. Wow!

24. Ask God to Change YOU. Asking God to change your husband is never going to lead to anything other than your own frustration. What we need to be asking is for God to change US into the wives HE wants us to be. When we do this, the rest will fall into place because we are seeking God about our own actions. We will not be accountable for what our husbands did…only what WE did…

25. Say Thank You. I have gotten into the habit of saying (and teaching my daughters to do the same) thank you when we go out to eat as a family. Yes, I bring money into the home and it may be what I earned that afforded us to go to dinner, but it is a respectful thing to do that really makes him smile. I mean just saying “thank you for dinner honey (or daddy as the girls say)” makes him feel good and like he is providing pleasure for us. Look for ways to say thank you to your husband–if you have children, teach them the same. An attitude of gratitude works wonders!

26. Make sure you pray and study Scriptures together. Don't let this slip away. A couple that prays together stays together. 

27. Dress Good. Make sure even if you get ready for the day you don't just stay in jeans and a tshirt. Put a dress on for date's every once in a while. Put on a cute outfit and he will notice the difference. 

28. Smile. It takes less facial muscles to smile than to frown. Smiling lines look better than frown lines. Smiling makes you and others feel good! Smiles beget smiles. Smile!! :D

29. Stop Complaining to him. We are supposed to confide in our husbands, but do we pull them down with us if we complain too often? Try to keep complaining about headaches, work, or kids to yourself and notice the difference in his attitude. 

30. Trust Him. I remember awhile back when my husband was driving us somewhere new and I kept trying to tell him which way to go. I even got quite ticked when I thought he went the wrong way. He finally looked at me and said; “Can you please just trust me and let me do this. Even if I get lost, I just need you to be supportive and stop telling me what to do!” Um…wow. Yeah, they actually want our support and to trust them–even when they may get it wrong. *sigh*

Baby...You're my muse

I just want to take a minute and brag on my husband...

This guy does dishes, laundry, cleans the house, goes to school, and works all so I don't have to! He rocks my world. He does everything without complaining or even being asked. Every day he finds a way to serve me. He's also very sentimental and sweet :) I love that guy! I know every girl thinks this about their husbands....but for me, I truly have the PERFECT husband, and could not have chosen anybody better! I know for a fact that he will also be an amazing dad, our baby is one lucky kid to have a dad as good as Josh!

I love him more and more every day and I hope Maddox grows up to be such a good man like his daddy!

A Special Day

Today was a really special day for me and Josh. We were able to go have a FUN ultrasound and have a good long look at our baby and find out the gender. It turns out it is a sweet little BOY! We are so thrilled. His name will be Maddox Jeffery Wray! We have been blessed to have 4 ultrasounds in this pregnancy already (they have me at high risk so I get ultrasounds every time I sneeze it feels like). Unfortunately these ultrasounds are usually stressful, the screen is turned toward the Dr. and tech the whole time, and we come away with just a little picture of our baby. Today we had a full 15 minutes of just a very quiet cozy room on a very comfy bed (for me) and couch (for Josh). It wasn't stressful at all after we saw our baby. They had it projected on the whole entire wall in front of us. It was very sweet to watch him. Our baby struggled for a few good minutes to suck his thumb. He finally got a few fingers in his mouth, but then gave up. He smiled at us and  curled up and posed really cute, and he flashed enough of his man parts to 100% accurately say that it is definitely a boy!

We struggled all day to keep our mouths shut, we even had to run away from a few people because they almost got it out of us, then tonight we had a party at my sisters house. My sister was awesome and made really delicious coconut cream cupcakes with a blue center filling :) My Rebman side aunts and uncles were there along with my family. It was really fun to talk and hear their name suggestions and baby guesses. We had a blast!

All day i've been a little bit choked up looking at our ultrasound pictures. I feel like this is all a little surreal, he looks like such a sweet little baby and spirit and I worry about the world he'll come into, and I worry about being a good mom for him. At the same time I feel so blessed to be sent such a perfect little boy. We love him to death already and we can't wait to hold him in our arms in a few short months :)


We <3 you Maddox!

 His cute little profile :)

Maddox trying so desperately to suck his little thumb while he stretched out his legs at the same time :)

P.S. I didn't really want to post my ultrasound pictures all over Facebook, I felt better about posting 1 or 2 on my personal blog that only closer friends and family follow :)

Babe Wray

That's been this kids name for the past few weeks.
Last night Josh was able to feel him for the first time! I've felt him more and more lately. Nothing strong, but I can definitely feel him. I went in for an ultrasound and the Dr. had the screen turned towards him, I felt the baby and said "Oh!" and the Dr was like "You felt that? He just moved". So now I have verification I'm not just crazy! I'll be 15 weeks tomorrow (the Dr. moved me up a few days (3) , I was a little further along than he thought I was originally) Last night I was laying on my stomach in front of the humidifier so I could stop coughing for more than a minute. I felt him move and told Josh. He put his hand under my belly and he could without a doubt feel the baby move around. We feel him better if I lay on my tummy (poor kid)!
Anyway it's really awesome that we have been able to feel him and it's a blessing knowing that he's doing good, and it was really fun for Josh to be able to feel him a little bit!

We ordered a crib today (my parents got it for me for my birthday, they are awesome!) It should be here in 2 weeks and we are stoked!
Only 5 more days until we found out what this little baby is! We can't wait! We also can't wait to be in warm weather with family! It will definitely be a nice little break that we need :)

Look out! Here comes the Good Year Blimp!

Yup. That's about how I feel. I feel like the Good Year blimp. I had a cute little bump before, but it was a flexible bump. It's not so flexible anymore. This thing is getting harder and bigger by the day. I'm to the point where I cant bend over in half anymore to pick things up off the ground. Adios flexible body...hello train wreck. 

The sad part is I don't even look pregnant. I just look straight out FAT. We were sitting in church yesterday and this stick skinny girl comes walking by with a very cute defined belly, and she's only 2 weeks ahead of me. Then there's me...I'm sitting in the corner like "I like cupcakes... I know you're too scared to ask cause you can't tell if i'm expecting or just a fat person. Ya, that's right...stare and then turn away when I catch you staring." 

This is the paranoia I experience lately. I'm so scared that I just look fat to society. I need one of those shirts that clearly states I'm pregnant and not just fat. 

Also i've had a few crazy dreams that this baby is a girl? So my mind is starting to be changed a little bit. I guess we will find out in 9 days :) I am still pretty convinced it is a boy though because I eat like a football player these days (Don't make a fat comment. I'm working out too!) 

Anyway. I'm 14 weeks and 26 to go. 

This has been my rant for today :)

What happens when the phones are down at work?

Well this morning we came into work and the phones were down. Unfortunately the whole company (including the customer service job I work) are based around phone calls all day long. So what happens when the phones go down? Well... First it's kind of like a panic...then an hour later everyone is just tired. We are all trying to talk our boss into renting us a bus and taking us to Lagoon or something. Not going to happen...but we got nothin else better to do other than bug him.
He has made a statement that if the phones aren't back up by 1PM today (after we get back from lunch) that he will let everyone go home. So prayers that the phones will stay down would be muchly appreciated.

I don't really like sitting around doing nothing so i've taken the janitorial position and started cleaning up the office. Trust me...this office is full of men. The only other girl in here is Nyssa and she is on her honeymoon, leaving me alone with an office full of men. So I feel like only the girls here take the clean initiative and clean up after everyone. I guess this is the job I will take today.
I am missing my friend in the office. Nyssa, if you're reading this (which i'm sure the #1 thing you do on your honeymoon is read my blog) for the love of batman please come back! I have no one to chat with during the day!

So on another note, last night I cleaned up the room Chevy had been staying in. Today I am going to be cleaning out the room that we have ALL of our storage stuff in. I'm going to go through my storage and clean out all the junk we don't need and put the stuff we want into the other room Chevy had been in. Then i'm going to take the back room (that all the storage is currently in) and start turning it into a nursery. Luckily the colors for the walls of the nursery are going to be the same if its a boy or a girl. So I went and bought paint last night and am planning on painting all day Saturday after I get that room all cleaned out. Then i'm going to go in and move all the baby stuff we have into there. Trust me, it's a lot more than you think thanks to loving friends and family :) This kid is going to be set!
So if anyone feels the urge to come clean out a storage room this week feel free to fly on up here :)
Plus side, the rest of our house is spotless thanks to my awesome husband. He has worked so hard the past 2 days doing laundry, dishes, and cleaning. Our house looks amazing!

Oh The Chevster...

Last night we gave away our first puppy :( It was the saddest thing. It just wasn't working out with our landlords and stuff. We found a family in Idaho Falls that wanted him really bad and have been looking for a dog for months now. We drove him down there last night, and when we first pulled up we were skeptical but after spending some time with the family and with chevy in their yard we knew he would be really happy there. So we left him there and drove away and cried.
That dog was a menace but we loved him. We just didn't have enough time for him, and especially with the baby on the way we weren't giving him as much love and attention as he deserved. I really hope he's happy where he's at. Its been a depressing few days at our house. This morning Josh was driving me to work and I said "What are you thinking about?" he said "Chevy......I just don't know what i'll do with myself at the house while you're at work....i'll be so lonely." Chevy and Josh were little buddies. They would go out wandering in the woods by our house and chase rabbits and squirrels. I really hope we have a little boy to go do all that with Josh so he has a little buddy again :)

Well enough with the sad news.
Good news is....15 more days till we find out what baby Wray is :) We are counting down the days! We just can't wait to find out!

I have had some people messaging me on Facebook asking all about my pregnancy. So to only post it to friends and family that follow this blog here you go...

How many weeks?
13 :)

Cravings?
My cravings are so inconsistent. It drives Josh insane. One day I only want one thing all day long and will only eat that thing and think its the best thing in the world. The next day the craving the day before sounds repulsing, and so far once I have a day of craving one thing I never want that thing again. My options for food are going to run out sooner or later at this rate.


What's been the hardest part?
I don't sleep at night anymore? I know people keep telling me I shouldn't complain now, cause it just gets worse. But I average about 4 hours a night with no naps during the day. I guess its good practice right?
I also get hiccups ALL THE TIME. For the past 3 weeks it has been non stop. Josh just laughs at me now every time I get the hiccups.

So there it is for all 9 of you. You know who you are :) Love you all!

Sweetest Day

Today is sweetest day. To read all the facts and history click here. Sweetest day is a day to celebrate all the people that make your life special. So here is my little shout out for all the awesome people in my life.
First of all there are my awesome parents. They have worked so hard for my whole life trying to raise me well and give me everything I need. They are really awesome and have been so patient with me. I couldn't have asked for better parents.
There are also my siblings, they have been so kind to me my whole life and have always been there when I need someone to talk to. Both of them would go out of their way to help me out with something. They truly are amazing people. I love them both to death.
Then there is my awesome husband. I couldn't have asked for anyone better. He is truly amazing. Every day I think about how lucky I was to find him. He helps me in so many different ways, he fills in for my weaknesses and he makes my life incredibly amazing every day. I just love him to death.
Then of course there is the tiny little baby...we don't know much about him or her yet but we love our baby to death, and he/she definitely is a very special person in both mine and Josh's life.

Last but not least there is all my family and friends, you are all so special to me, and I wish I could write about each and every one of you, but I just have to many awesome people in my life to even count. So thanks for being so amazing, I love you, and happy sweetest day!




So what are we doing today for sweetest day? Well we are actually partying. Josh had to work this morning, but he is just getting off. We are going to carve pumpkins, eat pumpkin pie, cook pumpkin seeds, and watch halloween movies. It's going to be an amazing day. We both woke up this morning so happy and refreshed and excited to spend time together this afternoon doing some fun things :)
Pictures to follow!

But we're happy in our bubble...

I have been inspired by great blog writers to continue writing on my blog. Today's topic is our bubble. Josh and I have been married for 4 months now and we are still in our little honeymoon bubble. We are perfectly content with just each other, we don't need to go places, or do things with other people, we are just so content being each others best friends. Our life is near from perfect, but it feels perfect to us (or should I say me?)
We are in such a routine. We wake up, lay in bed and talk for a few minutes, then I quickly get up and run off to work. I come home to the dishes done and lunch made by my sweet husband, we chat for an hour then i'm back off to work. I come home and Josh is at work, so I make dinner, attempt to clean up our room (how does time fly so fast? Oh ya...Pinterest) and then I go and pick him up from work :) We get home, eat dinner, then pick a movie or tv show and snuggle until its time to go to bed. However, lately I have not been sleeping hardly at all. So around 1am i'm usually waking Josh up talking him into going out in the living room with me to watch a TV show or something until im tired again (I can't go out in the living room alone...our house is to big, and what if there is a murderer or something hanging outside our window?) So he gets up and hangs out with me until we go back to bed (isn't he such a good man?) I love our little bubble!
Speaking of bubble's, i'm getting quite a little bump popping out. My shirts that were more form fitting before I was pregnant are starting to not fit. My undershirts are silkier and so within a half hour of getting dressed my shirt is popped up over my tummy. Unfortunately sometimes I don't notice until a little while later :/ Luckily due to morning sickness (?) other areas of my body are getting very skinny (woohoo!) I didn't know if you wanted to get skinny all you had to do was get pregnant!
We are super duper excited to bring another little person into our bubble :) We might have to kick the dog out to make room in the bubble, but he's already at risk of exile. So we'll see where that ends up.

Nevada??????

I'm so stoked for the family reunion. I love my job, but it will be nice to take a few days off, fly to Nevada, spend some time with loved ones, and relax!
I am counting down the days. How many days? 23 more days!!!
I am SO excited to find out if our baby is a girl or boy! The chinese pregnancy calender said it would be a boy, along with a few other factors we are convinced it is a little man. But we shall see!
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$90 in taxs?! Well ok!

So I am looking into booking a flight for me and Josh to go to Nevada the first week of November for the family reunion and to find out what Baby Wray will be :) BUT.... our flight for both of us round trip is just as much as gas would cost. So yay! We save a 12 hour trip in the car on possibly icy roads. But NOT YAY! Because the government is insane. I just got charged $90 in tax's. Yes. That's right. Ridiculous? I think so. Has anyone looked into these charges airlines are giving us? They have a September 11th charge (so now WERE paying for September 11th?!) They also have a departure tax. A facility usage fee. Government tax (which I can understand). Baggage Tax. Booking tax. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm. I know for a fact 4 years ago we didn't have to have all these taxs. Just saying. Cough cough cough. This is crap.

The Wild Ride

We cooked a can of beans on the burner last night. Yup. That's right. We have highly considered poaching a rabbit or deer...or even our neighbors cow this week. Time to go shopping? I think yes.

On another note I think I may be starting to get a small baby bump. Either that or i'm just getting fat (not....we have no food in our house). Whatever it is its very uncomfortable.

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that we have now opened a poll on whether our baby will be a girl baby or boy baby. Please go vote :)


Love you all <3

Strange things are happening to me..

strange strange things (click here). This song has become my theme song over the past few weeks. Strange things are definitely happening to me, no doubt about it. But they are good strange things, strange things that will lead to one very cute baby in 7 months. Morning sickness has been my new enemy. It hits about 9am and leaves around 12. Then again in the evening around 6 I get it for another hour. My hair is growing out BLONDE? I have this blonde ring around my head from my roots. So weird. On top of that I don't like food anymore. The sight or thought of food makes me very nauseous. It has become a chore to eat (I never thought I would hear myself say that). Also I'm SO TIRED all of the time. Working full time is horrible for me right now. Hopefully within the next few weeks I will start getting over all of that.

We went in for our first ultrasound yesterday. How exciting is that? We were both overly ecstatic when we saw our little baby's heart beating. There is nothing more sound than seeing your baby and knowing he is perfectly healthy.

We are so blessed and so happy :)

Diary of a mad black woman!

Well not quite... I'm not black....but it could definitely be called "Diary of a mad pregnant woman". So here comes my rant for the day. PREPARE!
Ugh. I am so tired of the Facebook scene. I am sick of reading everyones DRAMA! Did we not graduate from middle school here people? I guarantee this world used to be 10 times less dramatic before Facebook came along. So many people say "If you don't like it then delete your account". I totally would ...except there are people on there that are hundreds of miles away that me and Josh love very much and this is the best way to keep in touch. So nobody try offering up that tidbit of advice, cause we love you all to much to just not Facebook stalk you :)

On a hypocritical note I would like to document the lovely loveliness we experienced last week. I'm pretty sure we got the full serving of being an adult. So we rented a house...and were told we could move in Saturday. So we pack up ALL of our stuff friday night etc etc. Then I text our landlord and say "Hey we will be there tomorrow afternoon." she responded "Ok, sounds good:)"
So we show up and the current tenants hadn't even started PACKING. Holy swiss I was so mad. But we just brushed it off and went and lived with Josh's parents for 3 days. We show up again on Tuesday to the house and NO progress has been made. So we have all of our stuff we have ever owned in one room that we are also sleeping in, eating in, and living out of, because there stuff was still ALL over the house. Not one room was empty of their stuff except the one we were living in. Anywhooooooo. So then we find out the black mold in the bathtub wreaks every time it gets wet, none of the outlets in the house work, and the carpet cleaners were supposedly  supposed to come about 7 different time (and they never showed up) Sketchy? Uhhh Yahhh. Luckily everything we had was still packed away into all our boxs and bags. All week Josh kept saying "This is just the storm before the calm" and I really really reallyyyyyy wanted to see the calm, but I couldn't quite yet until Friday night.  We found an ADORABLE house. We LOVE our landlords. And Chevy is having the time of his life. We are so dang blessed.

So now this brings me onto my rant about trials. EVERYBODY has trials. They aren't all the same exact road. But we are all given the same amount of trials. Nobody is tested harder than others. The point is we all have our stuff. Don't think that others are having the time of their lives when you're going through misery. Everyone has worries, concerns, family issues, and trials. This is life. This is why we're here. And the point is to realize who has walked the same exact path we have. There is one person who will ALWAYS understand how you exactly feel, and there is no better feeling in the world knowing that there is someone by your side who knows your pain and suffering, your wants and needs, your hopes and dreams.

We love our lives :)

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!

My problem this week has been procrastination. We are supposed to be moving in 2 days and I haven't touched one thing. Yup. Thats right! So if anyone is so incredibly bored they want to come pack and clean a house, be my guest! I don't know why i'm putting this off so badly. Could it be because I love this house so much? It's SO dang cute, comfortable, it feels like home, and lets not forget this is where me and Josh started our lives as newlyweds. I keep thinking about the first time he brought me here to show it to me and I was SO excited! I jumped up and down so ecstatic about our new place. I think i'll actually have a hard time parting with it even though we have only been here for a few months. We went out of town last weekend for Josh's birthday and I had a hard time sleeping in the hotel, but when we got home I flopped down on the couch, sighed, and said "I love the feeling of being 'Home'". This house has been our home :( I dont like change!
I sit here and stare at everything thinking "Holy crud I better get going" so I stand up off the couch and decide "After I take a nap". Ugh it's going to be a long moving weekend :(

On a different note... (my rant for the day)

I am now currently applying for jobs, and I am SO tired of all the scams out there. SERIOUSLY PEOPLE! Why dont you go get a job yourself instead of try to scam people. Most people wouldn't fall for this... Sadly there are a few who would...but not enough to pay this guys bills every month. So I get this email (please note the highlighted parts!)

p.s. this is how I picture this guy.

"Thanks for applying for the position. (then he tells me about the job). You will mostly be working from home for me. I work with charities all day, so you will be transferring checks into different bank accounts, and booking out of the country flights for me all day (holy probable cause batman. Somebody needs to go report this guy to the FBI. Geez.) I am very hard of hearing, so don't call me, we just need to communicate through email. Your hourly pay will be $34 ($34 an hour? Holy crap that's almost worth sending you my account information! [said no one ever]). Send me your bank account number so I can transfer the funds directly in there. I'm excited to have you work for me. (Nope...no name given at the end of the email)"

Ya right guy. Like i'm going to say
 "Ok Mr. Nameless boss, here's my bank account number. Enjoy. P.S. I really think it's cool that you just give money to charity all day as your job, where did you get all the money to just do that? Just curious. Anyway...Sorry to hear about your hearing (pun intended)...don't worry we can just communicate through email from here on out! Also, why do you leave the country so much? You're not in trouble with the FBI or anything are you? ;) jk jk jk. lol.
Love,
your new employee! <3 "

Rawr. Get a life!

Love,
The girl who still has her identity... And an unpacked house.

You really want to know?

Well I know...I need to do better about writing in my blog. So once again here is my commitment to write almost every day if possible. We'll see how long this one holds out for.

 So today's topic is you really want to know? Cause I will be happy to tell you.

I think people on Facebook are starting to forget their bleep button. When I first joined Facebook, status updates were cute, sweet, and funny. It was a good way to keep up with friends far away from you. Now it seems like people are starting to not care what they say, how they say it, and what friends they might offend. The presidential debate is coming up and there are a lot of different views flying around. Now...I am all for hearing REAL POLITICAL facts about both parties. I understand both have strengths and both have flaws. However, I am not for people posting on their Facebook "Romney is an idiot and ANYONE who votes for him has to be mentally retarded". I assume that I am "friends" with everyone on Facebook. I am definite that nobody on my friends list is someone I quite dislike, and I hope that is true for most Facebookers. So why completely bash "a friend" of yours. Posting something like that, you have to know that not everyone in your friends list has the same political views as you, right? So are you not doing anything more than offending one of your friends? I have had many people say the same things "I thought this guy was really smart...but when they post status updates like this I just think 'Seriously?'"
My main point is going to come from a picture I posted on Facebook that says "Because of your political posts on Facebook, I am totally going to change my views. Said NO ONE EVER!" and it's true. Nothing ANYBODY reads on Facebook are going to change their views. If anything, it is only going to offend or question YOUR mental retardation. So just don't do it.

This has been my rant for the day.
Love Hannah :)

I do I do I do I do love YOU!

So Josh's birthday is right around the corner....not only is it the first birthday as old married people but the first birthday as a couple period! So stressful...I don't know what to get him. He wants a bike for his birthday...but I don't want to give him just one thing and say "Happy Birthday!" How do I make the day special? We are trying to save for school...so going somewhere or doing something expensive is out of the question...but I want his day to be special and meaningful...so what do I do? Ideas would be muchly appreciated.

One thing about Josh is he actually is more sentimental and thoughtful than I am. He knows exactly what presents to get and how to make me feel extra special...but I can't seem to get a grasp on it. So I have to do good for his birthday! I want him to know that I love him and appreciate him :) So please...if you have any ideas share please!

Little girl...you're in the middle of the ride!

Could the married life be any better? I submit that it cannot! Josh is my best friend in the world! Every day is like another adventure in the greatest book we are just writing as we go! Sometimes I feel like we are children going on our adventures in the woods with our puppy...other times I feel like we have been married for 100 years and we know everything about each other and are still crazy in love. Either way every day I still get butterflies and melt when he kisses my forehead. He supports me in my crazy ideas, spontaneous cravings, and activities.

However...sometimes I can't help but wish we were both graduated from college, buying our own house, and living our happily ever after. Then I remind myself that we ARE living our happily ever after. Jimmy Eat World quotes it perfectly "Little girl...you're in the middle of the ride!"...and I realize this IS life. This is what I have looked forward to, isn't it? Being married to my best friend...staying up late eating popcorn and watching movies, building forts, pillow fights, and being able to have that one person you can run to and confide in. We have only been married one month and I already feel like time is going too fast. I don't want to miss one moment of our lives together...and yet it moves oh to quickly. So here is a recap of our past 5 weeks of marriage :)

                                                                     Our first night home dinner

                                                       Slept on the floor for like a week :)

                                                                And we had to eat out of our cake pans...and share a bowl of eggs because we didnt have dishes....haha

                                       

                                                 Finally we got a nice comfy heavenly soft bed :)

                                                      First 4th of July married :)

                                               I put a pool in our living room

                                              Sommers family reunion at Bear Lake :)



All in all....this has been the best 5 weeks of my life and I wouldn't trade one second of it for anything in this world :)

The Haircut

So Josh REALLY needs a haircut. Really its not that bad. He's still in the missionary mode where anything below a buzz is way to long. So, he asked me to cut his hair. There was one point a few months ago where I did cut his hair. But it was with dog clippers...they weren't cutting....and Josh ended up looking like he got into a fight with a lawnmower. But either way he thinks I can do better. I don't understand the trust this boy has in me..but whatever. So today i'm looking up tutorials on interest trying to figure out the best way. I think we are going to do it with scissors...we'll see how this turns out in the end :)

Sun, Love, Family.

Well...we were able to go to our Sommers family reunion for a few days. It was really fun. They rented a house up at bear lake (which is only like an hour away, which is super nice). We took a tent and pitched it in the backyard. We crashed pretty early on Thursday but Friday we woke up early and got ready and went to Bear Lake for the day. It was AWESOME! I don't know how many of you have been to Bear Lake...but you can pretty much just walk out into the middle of it without the water ever going above your head (which is my kind of swimming). Macy really liked it too. We had a lot of fun. The water was nice and cool. The sun was out and hot. There was no wind. The water was perfect and blue. It was awesome. I am dying to go back already!

So many big decisions..

It's official. I'm terrified to be an adult. Things get all real and scary once you're married and completely broken away from your parents. We found a house in Rexburg to rent and it's really nice and we have prayed about it and feel really good. But...ITS SCARY! We are signing our life away on a lease. We're forking out the first months rent and deposit. We're trying to make decisions that are going to effect the rest of our lives! It's stressful. Gray hairs coming on? Quite possibly.
Why can't everything just be simple and fine and dandy? Cause I got to admit...that would just be stupendous.

In my defense everyone, including myself warned him before we even got married...

Well...Even though people have warned him, including myself...my sweet husband still didn't know what he was getting himself into. Every single day he tells me "I will never have a boring day being with you". I keep this man on his toes! Today when he got out of work he called and I said "When you come home just don't be mad!" He got real worried really quick. He said "I'll be home soon....."
I wish I would have caught the look on his face when he walked in....This is what he walked into...

                                     
                                      

The funny part of the story was me getting the pool. I got really bored today. And as you can see I really had no desire to clean our house. So I sat on the couch for a few minutes and decided I was really hot. So I decided we needed a swimming pool. I went into town to TrueValue. I got a tarp and pool. The lady was looking at me weird but didn't ask questions. Then after I went out to the car and attempted to put the pool into the back seat I realized it wasn't going to fit. So I went back inside to buy rope. I tied that pool down as tight as I could to the roof. It was wrapped through my windows like 10 times. After I was done tying it down I was really proud of myself...until I tried opening the door to the car to get in. I realized I had tied shut all the doors. I had spent the last 10 minutes tying up the pool and didn't want to untie it. So I (literally) dove through the drivers side window to get into the car. After a few minutes of giggling and getting myself upright I looked over and noticed this girl staring at me like I was nuts. I just laughed and drove away. I went 20 mph while I had my hand out the window holding down the pool for extra support. Unfortunately it was windy so I ended up hanging out the window with 2 hands holding the pool that was now flying away while I controlled the steering wheel with just my knee. I was only going like 10 mph by now so no one get mad! Anyway. Finally I lost the pool. Luckily I was in a deserted area so it didn't hit anyone. I tried getting out of the car only to remember that I was tied in. So I climbed out of the window head first, landed on the ground, and by this point I was mad. So I folded that pool into practically a square and shoved it in the back seat. Luckily it didn't crack because it was so warm it just bent nicely :) I got it home and spent the next hour filling it up with a cooking pot. It was a lot of trips from the sink to the pool. Finally Josh walked in to his wife sitting in a pool in the middle of the living room. He didn't know what to think at first but then started laughing hysterically. We spent the next few hours playing with our bath toys and watching TV while we hung out in our pool. It was an awesome day. 

For those of you who are going to say "That is a horrible idea, you could ruin the carpet! etc" because I know there are a few out there. The tarp was 100% water proof. We did not splash at all. And the pool is now out of our living room and there is not one drop of water anywhere :) So don't be upset! 

Today was AWESOME!

My Husband The Felon

Well....
Last week we got a letter in the mail saying there was a warrant out for his arrest. A week before our wedding Josh got into a little fender bender in Utah on a Sunday afternoon as we were parting our ways to go home. He got a ticket and we never paid it (with the stress of everything it was the last thing on our minds). Well the same day we got the letter in the mail stating he had a warrant out he got pulled over. The cop was a grade A jerk. Like honestly...I know cops are supposed to be tough and all...but this guy acted like he was gonna shoot us. No joke. This cop was mental. So after he yells at us for 3 minutes (oh p.s. we got pulled over because Josh wasn't driving in a straight line because we were laughing. He was maintaining a lane...but he slowly veered to the right and the cop got mad) so anyway. He takes Josh's license to go run it and i'm in our car like "I love you Josh. I promise as soon as I can i'll come bail you out of jail....Don't worry i'll tell your mom you love her" haha. And Josh looked like he was going to pass out. His face was all white and he was gripping the steering wheel for dear life. 2 seconds later the cop came back and i'm thinking "This cop is such a jerk there's going to be no mercy. My husband is going to jail". But instead the cop said in a VERY rude voice "Well I have to go help someone that is stranded. Consider yourselves lucky I didn't write you up for every thing in the book". Ughhh. He made me so mad. Is there a place you can go complain about jerk off cops??? It's not that we got pulled over it's the way he treated us. He talked to us like we were white trash scumbags.
Anyway...
We got the ticket paid and everyone is happy and dandy now and my husband no longer has a warrant out.

A Bed, A TV, and a Vacuum!

So there is this tiny store here in Malad called "Thomas Electric". They have this system where people in Malad can go put money there for a couple getting married..and then we go pick out what we want at the store. Its kind of like registering backwards?
So we went in today to see how much we had gotten. We got enough to get a bed set (The nicest mattress they had, box spring, and frame). We also got the nicest vacuum they had (I LOVE it........I also need a life). And we got a 50 inch plasma screen HDTV. After the vacuum and the bed I asked if we could just put the rest of the money into our savings account for college...they didn't go for that so I looked around to see what else we could get (we still had a ton of money left in our account by this point). So after looking at nightstands, dressers, couches, etc. I couldn't find anything I loved...then i walked into the back and saw this monstrous TV and knew Josh would just die. So I got it. What else was I supposed to get? The problem is I don't feel like I can say anything about it because I don't want people to think we took the money people were generous enough to give us to go buy some plasma flat screen instead of something practical. So please...nobody get the idea we wasted our money away. We just didn't know what else to get there. So my life is currently complete. A VERY comfy bed that is off of the ground! YAY! (We have been sleeping on the ground for the past few nights), a massive TV that has amazing picture and hooks up directly to WiFi so we can watch netflix and Hulu on it :) and a nice vacuum. Now I have a nice clean house :)
And of course don't forget my awesome husband who goes to work every single day to earn money to support our small little family! I am one lucky girl :)
Goodnight world!

You know you're in vegas when...

Well... me and Josh went to vegas on our honeymoon. We stayed at the M resort in Henderson. It was SO nice. We had a straight shot view of the strip (it was beautiful). It was just sooo relaxing. Loved it.
Some awesome things we did...

• Madame Tussades wax museum. 
• Shopping
• Yummy meals
• Shark Reef
• Bass Pro Shop (Josh's choice)
• and watched Brave. 

All in all it was pretty awesome!
Some things we saw that you only see in vegas...
A 3 year old black girl with gold caps on her front teeth.
Scooby Mobile
Captain Jack Sparrow (Just randomly... He said he doesn't like drawing attention to himself......so he dresses up like Jack Sparrow and expects people not to stare....?)
Hmmm. That's all I can think of for right now. I know we saw more strange things...but you get the idea :)

I'm Married!!!

Ugh.... So much has happened in the past 2 weeks that I just haven't even had a second to post about.
One post at a time....
So the wedding day!  Someone told me to write down all the details. Sooo ...here goes
Our Wedding Day Video - Here is the video of our wedding day my awesome brother made.
Me and my mom and dad went and stayed in Idaho Falls on Friday night. Friday night I could NOT sleep. I was up until probably 3AM. Saturday morning I had to wake up early to get gorgeous. At 10 I had to go to the church to pick up Josh so we could go to the mall and buy me earrings :) hahah. So When I got to the church I spilled Dr. Pepper all over my white church dress I had planned on wearing inside the temple. No worries...I had another dress packed away for our honeymoon that I ended up throwing on. So off we went to the mall to find earrings :) It only took about 5 minutes. Then it was back to the church. Did I mention the church was foreverrrr away? And we got quite lost. But its ok...we got to the church just about the time we were supposed to be leaving for the temple. So we grabbed our dads and jumped in the car. We got to the temple and went in. They took us into a room to make sure all of our information on our marriage license was correct. Then we went into the changing rooms where I got into my temple clothes. We were super ahead of time so they let me and Josh go directly to the Celestial room for the next 45 minutes. I will tell you there is no time more nerve wrecking then sitting there with your soon to be husband. He was all calm...and enjoying the spirit in the room and I was just thinking "I wanna do this NOW! I've waited months...why are they making us wait?" haha. We had tags on our clothes that said "Sealing" on them though...so everyone that came through the Celestial room knew that we were getting sealed and we got a lot of "Congrats" and smiles and pointing fingers. So the fame was kind of fun. Then finally our escorts came in and got us and took us down to the sealing room. All of our family was all seated and me and Josh walked in. We sat at a bench in the middle of the room while the Sealer gave us advice. Honestly I don't remember a word he said. I'm pretty sure he gave us 3 scriptures that applied to marriage...but what those scriptures were I couldn't even tell you. I was staring at Josh the whole time and I remember my cheeks were starting to hurt I was smiling so hard. Then the Sealer had us step over to the alter where he sealed us for time and eternity. The only words I remember him saying were "This sealing covenant you make with God" and then "I now pronounce you Joshua and Hannah husband and wife" and I will tell you there is no other time I have gone in so fast for a kiss from that man. It was awesome! Then everyone came through and said congrats...then I went and got into my dress. We stepped outside and took a million pictures...then me and Josh got into our own car. We talked for a minute..then decided to go to the Distribution center to get me a few things I needed. So we walk into the distribution center in my wedding dress and his tux and EVERYONE stared at us. It was pretty funny. We got what we needed then got back in the car. Neither of us had eaten all day...so we talked about where to go. I didn't want to get stuff all over my dress...so I suggested a smoothie (no mess). We drove across town to Jamba Juice and again...went in in my wedding dress and his tux. Again. EVERYONE STARED! After we got our smoothies we headed back to Malad. We went over to the reception to find out Ben (Josh's little brother) had busted open his nose a few minutes earlier and was rushed to the ER. Everyone assured us he was ok. We started the reception and stood in line for nearly 2 hours. After the line we cut the cake, played a shoe game, I threw the bouquet, Josh got the garter and threw it, and we danced :) Then we ran off to our honeymoon. Our car was filled with balloons. The front window had 2 hearts drawn on it. The other windows had 'GET SOME' and 'Multiply and Replenish', 'Just married', and 'Lucky in love'.
I love that boy!

Things are cooling down

So. Yesterday I went through the temple for the first time...and it was amazing :) After that my sweet man took me to buy a new dress to celebrate! We then made our way to Idaho. Sweet Josh fell asleep in the car and as we kept going more north I kept looking at the "exterior temperature" and it was rapidly dropping. I found myself getting very excited. Last night for the first time I did not sweat throughout the night and have to kick off the covers....quite the contrary actually...I woke up freezing and tangled up in the blankets (I had left the window open last night). The only unfortunate part is the cooler it is the more species are able to live. At least in Nevada the only thing that can survive in the heat are the humans...and the occasional scorpion. In Idaho there is every form of species crawling, flying, growling, and of course attacking me. This morning at 5am Josh woke up to the texts "HELP ME! ITS ATTACKING ME!!!! GET UP HERE RIGHT NOW!" of course he didn't wake up until 8 and see the text...but he came running in and saying "What's attacking you?!" I was like "That moth over there....he was on my ear!!!!" He just laughed and walked out leaving me there to fight off the moth. I guess you just can't have the best of both worlds. Either the heat and no life forms....or the cool weather and every creepy crawly thing that has ever walked this earth. Nevertheless I am excited to be here in Idaho and be with the love of my life. I can't wait for Saturday to come so I can be sealed to him forever. And yes...I'm doing good at keeping this blog up.

Going to the temple and we're gonna get married!

So....a lot has happened...and it has been so hectic I haven't had time to post. But I SWEAR I will write in this blog once a day after this is over. So I got engaged to the love of my life...and we are getting married next week. I don't have much time to write....but just know I love him. We are moving to Malad...and I am just going to have a nice relaxing summer being a cute little housewife (lots of times for blogs and pinterest) haha. Anyway..I can't wait :)

Im going to ZIMBABWE!

Yup. Thats right. According to my text to my dad tonight, i'm going to Zimbabwe.
"Hey Dad. Me and Danielle decided to go to Zimbabwe. My car didn't have enough gas to get there, so we had to take the truck. Thnks! Love you"
It was meant to say "Hey Dad. Me and Danielle decided to go to Zumba. My car  etc..."
Anywho....Autocorrect....Check to correct autocorrect before you send.
Moral of the story.
The end.

Sorry friendly followers

I'm sorry! I didn't realize how many people were following my blog until I didn't update it for a few days. I got plenty of messages on Facebook and at church about how I'm behind. So here I am. Back in business. I was supposed to go to Alaska this week but bailed out last minute for some important people in my life. So I'm living in Nevada, working for my dad during the summer and dating the most amazing person in the world. Its the fair this week and Josh is here :) so we will be spending some time there today. Pictures to come. Love you all. Thank you for following and all of your awesome comments! You're all awesome!

Being asked to "Step Aside" in an airport is never fun....

Well .....today has been an adventure. First of all...I bought a Cherry Dr. Pepper at a gas station before I got on the shuttle to Salt Lake. I didn't open it, and once I got the airport security line I was "Kindly" reminded by the security guard I couldn't have it. So she whips it out of my backpack and throws it at me and she goes "Take a swig, and throw it away". I didn't want to disobey her....So I opened it up, and it fizzed EVERYWHERE!!!! It got on the people behind me...in front of me...all over ME....on the floor...people were stepping in it. It was a mess. So the lady goes to get me a rag. While she is gone someone else comes up with a rag and so I start cleaning it up. ANOTHER security guard freaks out and goes "IS THAT BLOOD? IS THAT BLOOD?!" (it was CHERRY dr. pepper mind you....so it was red). After that it just went downhill. I got "Pulled aside" into a separate room...and they brought in the trash can that I "discarded my evidence" into. I had to drink some of it. haha. And then they patted me down (full body...freaky) plus I got scanned by that naked scanner thing. I had to show them all of my ID, etc. And I was questioned about my birthdate...social security number...etc. There is nothing more nerve wrecking then being questioned like that.
After I was getting my stuff from the X-ray scanner, i was trying to pile it all in my backpack and i was dropping stuff and shaking and the security guy was like "Come sit over here with me...Take a minute to breathe" and he sat me on a bench and chuckled (He was a cute old man) and he talked to me for a minute then went back to work. He made my day hahahaha.
So. Next section of the story. The person behind me that I spilled Dr. Pepper on.....GUESS WHO!
It was Jack Antonoff from my favorite band FUN!!! He is the piano player of the band and I love him! He waited around for me and talked to me. I felt really bad...he had dr. pepper on his baby blue shirt...he looked so good in that baby blue shirt. Anywho.... We sat down and talked for a while and got a picture together. We're totally buddies now. He took the picture with HIS phone and texted it to MEEEE!!! *faint now* it was pretty much amazing. He thinks its amazing that I play a few instruments...and that i'm an education major. hahaha. It was amazing. So bittersweet....Dr. Pepper could have possibly gotten me into a federal prison....but instead I met one of my favorite band members of all time!
Win for me?
I think yes!!!

Disneyworld!

T-Minus 1 hour until I am on my way to the shuttle....to go to Salt Lake City Airport.....To go to Disneyworld!!!! Let me just say how dang excited I am to go have 3 fun filled days with my momma! Its gonna be great :) Oh. And life is well. Sorry I haven't updated this in like 3 days. I feel kinda bad. So life is good...school is stressful....people are crazy....and Disneyworld is amazingggg :) Post pictures when i'm back! <3

Presentation Day

I have to give a huge presentation in my History of Education class today. I got here 45 minutes early...thats how stressed out I was. First of all....walking to school...its windy and cold and I have to wear a dress. So my dress is blowing up EVERYWHERE. So embarrassing. Luckily my old FHE brother saw me, stopped and picked me up and gave me a ride the rest of the way (of course he was giggling).
Then I got here and i'm just waiting...I'm shaking so bad I can hardly type this. Oh well :/
Well hopefully this goes well.
Wish me luck <3

Follow Up....

So the last story I posted was about a couple sweet old ladies. At the end of their conversation one said "I gotta get me into one of those singles wards!"

NO JOKE I saw her walking around at church today. I don't know how but I think she got herself in. hahahaha.

Oh Old People....How I Love You Dearly!

So I am sitting in the hallway waiting for my classroom to clear out so I can go set up for my seminar...there were two very rubenesque older ladies ( probably in their 70's-80's) walking down the hall. I didn't hear all of the conversation I heard was ...
Lady#1: Well what happened to Kathy? She stopped coming to our lunches..
Lady #2: Didn't you hear? She went to one of those Single Ward's, or whatever they're called up here, and she met her man there. They're getting married in 2 weeks.
Lady #1: Seriously?! What is it called?
Lady #2: Singles ward, I think?
Lady #1: I gotta get myself in one of those. Who should I talk to?
This was an all to serious conversation and I couldn't help but chuckle......
To these 2 elderly woman...I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors to find a man before your time comes. Keep up your spirit!

Sleeping in the house of prayer...

Well everyone here at BYU-I DO calls the testing center the "House of prayer" because "there is no other place on campus that more prayers are offered" haha. So I was super tired and taking my child development test. I got to question #15 and I closed my eyes and I was out. I must have been out for a few minutes cause I was drooling when the guy that walks around and monitors was shaking me to wake me up. When he woke me up he was like "Hey! I recognize you! You taught my academic advising seminar!" I was still groggy and just said "Ya? Did you like it?" He goes "Ya! It was great. You were super funny. You better get back to your test though..." haha. You know you need to go to bed when......
I fell asleep on my steering wheel (I was parked...just waiting for class to start)
In child development when you're watching the miracle of birth....Who could honestly say that SLEPT through that?
In the testing center....
and possibly in my gateway seminar tonight...I'm so pooped I don't know if I can stand up for an hour. Here we go!!!

PS! I got a 98% on the test. Ya.....my new game plan is to take naps in the middle of my tests. I feel like it is very effective.

The Irish Man

So my new testament class was cancelled today...but if we came to his other new testament class at 7:45 AM then we could make up one of our absences. I figured why not so I came. There are 2 irishmen in this class. One of them is making a ton of comments and he has an extremely thick accent. He keeps saying things like ...
"Methinks"
"Thou be doin..."
Its awesome. I am totally enjoying this. I want an irish man (he's married so he's out of the running)

I HAVENT SLEPT IN 8 DAYS!

Ok Not really....but hopefully you'll understand the humor after watching the video below....
So it is 3 AM....I have to wake up in 3 hours anyway... So I have decided to pull an all nighter and get caught up and possibly ahead with my work and homework so I can have an enjoyable stress free weekend. 
There is a little voice inside my head saying "This is a bad idea....." But there is an even louder voice yelling "Stay up! Don't worry about being tired! You can snort Dr. Pepper all day tomorrow!" 
Staying up it is!
What is even better....is I walked out of my room to go get a glass of water. My roommate is in our bathroom dying her hair. Its 3AM. Well played Jocelyn.....Well played. haha. I love her, she's so funny!
I'm gonna be productive tonight! And tomorrow I will just have to hype up on caffeine and go to bed early!
I feel like I will end up like this lady....

I don't know what to say...

I feel bad that I haven't posted in a few days. So I thought I would write a quick post. I am sitting in my marriage class and we are watching this move "Fireproof" pretty cute, but slow. So I decided I could use this time to write a quick post.
7 More days until I will be on my way to Disneyworld! I cannot waittt! Its going to be epic. I don't know what else to say.
Oh! Work through relationships. Don't bail. Anddd love everyone. Thats what I learned from this movie. It was pretty good.

Daylight Savings Time & Caffeine...

All I gotta say is not a good combination. It is currently 6:11AM here and I have not yet gone to bed. I think it is a combination of the time change, and the huge Dr. Pepper a date bought me tonight. The sad part is, I'm starting to get tired now...but i would only be able to sleep for 45 minutes before I have to wake up to get ready for church. So whats the point? There is none. Im just going to pull an all nighter.
Well almost... Heres the plan
Church ~ 9AM-12PM
Nap ~ 12PM-3:15PM
Library work ( Calling)~ 3:30-4:30
Sunday Activities ~ 5-9
Bedtime~ 9PM.
Im excited already....
This is so sad. I can't even keep my eyes open. I need another Dr. Pepper.