It's A Baby!

We have some exciting news! 

This little babe will be joining our family this April! The exact due date is April 27th. Jeff and I are  really excited we are finally starting our family. This is something we've wanted for a long time and we are very grateful that we finally get to have our very own little one to squeeze tight and smother with kisses.

These pics are from an ultrasound when I was 10 weeks, but I went in for one last week to find out the sex, but baby was being so bad and wouldn't uncross it's legs so....I have to keep referring to it as, well, it. Hopefully when I go in at 20 weeks, baby will be more cooperative. 

okay, the pic below is too funny to keep out. 

Because we'd been trying for a while, I would take pregnancy tests all the time and Jeff wasn't always there. This time, when I took one and it came back positive I couldn't really believe it so I took a few more and the other two came back positive, but one came back negative. Because we'd gotten our hopes up before, I didn't want to say anything without being 100% positive so I waited a couple days and took some more tests. They all came back positive! However, that day we were heading out to the Cook's to spend the weekend and I thought I'd just wait to tell him when we got back so it'd be just us. (I've always been weird about sharing big news....for some reason I like to keep it a secret until I'm like, completely sure how I feel about everything. I actually hate having other people knowing my business...which makes this blog a little ironic....) However, that night we were going to bed in our nephews room, we walked in and there's a bottle of Martinellis on ice with glasses that Eric (Bro in law) had set out for us. My first thought was, oh crap! they found out before I even told Jeff! haha. But I guess he just did it to be nice- or he really did somehow find the pregnancy test in my purse and didn't tell me lol 

Either way, the set up was perfect for me to tell Jeff right there. And so, that is how we get the below picture lol. I had my phone out and took a pic right when I told Jeff! ha, and he made the perfect face. After trying for a while with no success, it was kind of a shock when it actually worked!

This still makes me laugh. This is Jeff's ""oh crap" face. This is also why I like to keep big news to myself until I can not make this face when telling other people the big news. 

Nothing a little Martinelli's can't calm down.....Thanks Eric! It was perfect.

Supa happy

Okay, so this was taken at 16 weeks which is  kind of a joke because it's a phone pic and there's nothing really there- once I have a respectable bump I'll take a respectable pic. Right now, I just always feel like I look like I just ate a big meal. Jeff was the one who was like, we really should start documenting this....and he was right. Bad mama. So from now on I'll try to do a good job of updating our blog (my way of keeping our family history/ a journal) with baby updates. Of course, when the baby actually gets here, this blog will get a whole lot cuter and much more exciting :)

*I'll post more details later, but I wanted to keep this post happy- and there's no way that was going to happen if I start talking about the awfulness that is the first trimester*

Hello Boise!

I'm finally home!!!

and this is how happy I feel about it!

I decided to get a head start on the holidays and come out to Boise to spend some extra time with my family. It's been almost a year since I was last home and it always feels so good to sleep in your own bed in your own room! I'm sad because Jeff had to stay in Texas to finish up some school stuff, but he'll fly out next week in time to get here for Thanksgiving. 

There's something about being home that makes me revert to my high school self a little bit- like, I seriously want to eat 5 candy bars right now- for those of you who don't know, which should be a lot of you since I kept this on the down low, I managed vending machines in an office building downtown while I was in high school. It was a sweet job bc all I had to do was order the supplies and go down once a week to stock up and take all of the money out of the machines. It took about an hour a week, and I got to keep all of the money left over after buying supplies. This was an easy way to make some extra cash, and I always had about a hundred candy bars in the trunk of my car. I played a lot of soccer and basketball in high school and for some reason I thought that made it totally okay to eat as many candy bars as I wanted. And now that I'm home.....I want to relive those days and eat five 100 Grands. I have to remind myself that Thanksgiving is next week and maybe I should save pounding all the extra calories for next week....but it's me, so... I probably won't be able to wait that long :) 

Team Tiger Princess

On Saturday I went out to Wylie to cheer on Taylor in her last soccer game. Their team name was Tiger Princess. Taylor's team was so fun to watch and she even scored a goal! They're all around 4 yrs old and they were all adorable. 

With her new medal

Tay in action

#18!

After the game I went out to dinner with the Cooks and ate myself silly. I'm so glad I was able to see her play in at least one game. We've been so busy lately that we haven't been able to get out to Wylie as much as we'd like. Here's to a great season! Go team Tiger Princess!

Uh oh

I think I'm getting a little too used to Texas weather. I left the house this week on my way to visit Jeff at school wearing jeans, boots and a sweater- to immediately come back inside and grab my coat. I thought it had finally gotten cold! Nope, got in my car and found out it was 73 degrees. Yeesh. I'm getting weak! On my way home I had to turn on the A/C :(  I don't think I'm going to hold up too well this winter.

But didn't my honey look cute at school?

I generally never visit Jeff on campus bc I've either been working or I just haven't been too excited to drive on the 35. However, b/c I never really go on campus, I've never really met any of Jeff's school friends- unless they're in our ward of course. The big joke between Jeff and his school friends is that he has a make believe wife since we've been here for over a year now and Jeff's wife is still pretty much MIA. Anyways, I finally went and visited him during the day and I got to meet some of his friends and prove that I am, in fact, real.

Happy Halloween

Hope everyone had a fun Halloween! Jeff and I went as pirates. 

G'arrr. 

We were lucky and had friends putting on a few different Halloween parties- we had so much fun eating yummy food, hanging out with friends and playing fun games. Jeff is one of the funniest people to play group games with- it always cracks me up seeing him in action.  

For our costumes I literally only spent 2 dollars at the dollar store! yay me. I bought two "pirate packs" meant for a five year old and then searched the back of my closest for the rest. 

We had ZERO trick-or-treaters. Just like last year. I still bought candy though just in case with the hopes that I could still eat it all when no one came :) 

Pirates in lub.

 A little of Jeff in action. Notice Jeff's evil face compared to the friendly fighter pilot's lol

We ended up playing this hand game that none of the guys had ever played before- somehow two guys ended up being the last two and Jeff took it very seriously. 

Hope everyone else had a great holiday! and now on to my favorites! Thanksgiving and Christmas!

phone dump

whew! some of these pics are OLD! since i'm still playing catch up i've decided to just dump some the photos from my iphone on this ol' blog.

a long time ago we tried out this burger place by our apartment- it was alright, not my fave

this was more recent- i got together with some girls to make delicious caramel apples a la rocky mountain. i was not involved in the dipping,which is why they look so good

before church

i looked in the rear view mirror and this car monster made me jump lol

we went to the dallas aquarium with the cooks

i could not stop staring at the alligator- it was freaking huge!

jeff has taken over the grocery shopping which is awesome, and now my phone is full of pics like this from whenever he's trying to track down whatever i put on the list so i can text him whether its the right kind/brand or not -phones are so useful :) -

i was diggin' my outfit this day- back in august- although you cant see the gold buttons that run across the top, they're the best part. i don't always get ready (wear make-up/do hair) for work, so when i do i try to take a pic lol

my walk pictures! i decided to take a walk by myself one evening while jeff was studying- and i did walk, but i also sat on a bench for a while. sitting on a bench alone makes you feel lonely. oh wells, at least it was a pretty view.

and that's all! hopefully i update more often so i don't dump pics from august to october all at once :/

Sunday Walk

Hello blog- it's been awhile.

Life's been alright lately, but I just haven't been in the bloggin' mood- although I've made new goals to fix that- I definitely haven't stopped looking at other peoples blogs! I love blogs- so I really need to make more of an effort with mine :)

 Anyways, last Sunday Jeff finally convinced me out into the sun to take a walk. The weather was perfect. Jeff brought our camera and played photographer while I pretended I was a very pale model. 

And even though I'm not a real model....I am really very pale :( 

I thought the end of summer was supposed to be when you're your most tan????  yeah, whatever.

 Also- I'm getting bored with my hair- 

what should I do with it? Not wanting to cut it, but definitely up to dye it something diff???

There's my cutie. 

Jeff's actually been super busy. He's in school, works at Parker's gym, and has taken on coaching these really cute little ten-year-old girls in volleyball. He gives them a group session every Friday night and they pretty much worship him- and so do their moms lol they all think he's hilarious, and they pay him so...it's a win/win for everyone!

 He's also killing it on his intramural volleyball team- his teammates call him Thor, and he's the captain of Parker's beach volleyball team for Chiro games which take place in Florida in November, but they're practicing now bc they're got a gold medal to defend ha,- oh, and he also plays in court tournaments with some of his Yucatan (the beach club nearby) buddies. And he somehow manages to make me dinner every night and pack me snacks for the next day. So yeah, I think he's great- so great that I will continue to live in Texas with him even though I have gotten irrationally homesick for Utah/Idaho.

But guess what?! I'm going home for Thanksgiving!!! I can NOT wait. It's been about 4 years since I've been in Boise for Thanksgiving! So yeah, I am def counting down the days until I get to see the fam and have my mom make me delicious foods :)