Matt is home!

Well he is actually out Christmas shopping right now. I am so glad he is able to come home for Christmas! It has been so very nice to have him here with me! I love him so much and am so very lucky to have him as my husband. We went to my doctors appointment this morning and both baby and I are measuring perfectly and are healthy. I have had such a good pregnancy so far. We are so very blessed!! I know it would be so hard on both me and Matt if things were difficult for me while he is gone and I am so glad that we have been so blessed and things have gone so well so far. I have such an amazing husband! He is going to be an amazing father. He is so patient and kind and always willing to help others. I hope our baby girl gets his good heart, he really is the sweetest man ALIVE! I am really starting to show, enough that strangers even ask me if I am pregnant so I am getting pretty big. It is weird but exciting at the same time! Matt was able to feel our little girl kicking and it is so fun! She gives some good kicks and punches, you can see my belly move sometimes when the kicks are really strong. I am really excited but also really nervous to be a mother. What a huge responsibility not only just to feed and cloth but to love and teach. I guess I still have a few months to prepare. I hope everyone has an amazing Christmas (yes all two of you that read this) my sweetheart just pulled up so I better go give him some suga ;)

4 More weekends!

So just four more weekends alone and I get to see Matt! One of which is my favorite holiday THANKSGIVING! I figure I went 19 Thanksgivings without Matt I suppose one more wont kill me although I would much rather he could come. Brittany got married this weekend and everything turned out beautiful for her! It was such a nice ceremony and reception. It is fun to go to sealings and remember the covenants me and Matt made to each other and our Heavenly Father. How lucky I am to be sealed to him forever (and our soon to be little one too!). It sure makes me appreciate what a good man he is and how lucky I am to have him. He is going to be such a wonderful Dad he is the sweetest most patient person. I got three letters from him this week and got to talk to him once so it was a really good week! The only down side to the week was I had a ton of homework and I didnt get everything done that I should have so this week will be crazy too! I have two stats tests this week that I am dreading, I would really like to do well on the tests but I am getting very anxious about them which is never a good thing. I know blogs are sooo boring when someone doesn't put pictures but really this is acting more of a diary for me to get my thoughts out. I feel like I am starting to get a little belly although I mostly just look like I have gained a couple pounds and dont look pregnant quite yet but I am only 18 weeks so I think that is okay but hopefully I will start showing soon. I would like to look pregnant when Matt comes home for Christmas just cause I think it would be fun. Anyways that is all for now.

I have the cutest family in the world!

So my parents have pictures up of all the kids in our family in our kitchen. My little niece Abi was eating dinner in the kitchen and saw Matt's picture on the wall and said "I love Matt, I want to marry him someday". I thought it was the cutest thing ever! Boy are little kids the cutest! Also my wonderful sister Jenni made me a countdown to when Matt comes home. She bought one of those countdown to Christmas calendars and then changed it to countdown until Matt comes home that I get to start opening on November 23rd (which is the same day as my 20 week ultrasound, I cant believe I will be half way!). Then I only have 24 days left and he gets to come home for 17 days!! She is sooo wonderful! So I am redoing a dresser that I got for $20.00 that I am pretty excited about! I will post before and after pictures when I am done but it still needs a lot of work. I have a lot of projects I want to do for the baby but I am having a hard time getting motivated! With school and work I feel like coming home and being lazy. I guess I only have four projects I am REALLY wanting to do, I want to redo the dresser and crib we have for the baby and make this really cute lamp shade and mobile. I really need to get some motivation. This month it seems like I have at least one thing going on every weekend so hopefully this month will go by really quickly, weekends are for sure the hardest. Well I still cant find my camera cord or I would take a picture of the calendar cause it really is so cute! She put a picture of Matt's head to cover Santa Clause and a picture of my head on one of the little kids.

BABY!

So My mom ordered the baby bedding I am in LOVE with and giving it to me for Christmas! YAY! I am sooo excited for it!


On another note Matt got to call me yesterday and tell me the dates he will be home for Christmas, he will be home December 17-January 2. I am hoping to plan a couple fun things for us to do while he is home! Geez I miss him a bunch already and talking to him was kindof hard but sooo good to hear from him! Anyways let me know what you think of the bedding I really am OBSESSED!

Life..

Well my Matthew is gone. He had to go spend the night in a hotel on Monday and Tuesday but I was still able to spend a little time with him both days which was nice. He then flew out on Wednesday but I got to talk to him throughout the day on the phone. He called today just to verify some information but his phone has been taken away so he wont be able to call. This is going to be hard but worth it. I sure am missing him a ton. I think weekends will be the hardest, my weekdays are so busy that I am easily too distracted to mope around. Keeping busy with work and school will be good for me, but these pregnancy hormones sure aren't helping much (haha as if I wasn't emotional enough already!). I swear I am not going to be all negative and sad all the time but I figure I am allowed to just one time the first week he is gone. I got a card from him today and he sure is a sweetheart, sorry ladies but I for sure got the sweetest husband there is! He also bought me a box of those rice krispy treats with the message things on them and wrote me a nice note on every one, but I am going to wait and read them slowly as I take them to work for my lunch. It was nice we were able to go to the doctor and see our little baby girl the day he left, I really wanted him there for that. He took a few pictures of us and the baby with him. I have just been focusing on him being gone until Christmas because that doesn't seem to far away and those two weeks will be fabulous! I am glad I am living with my parents, there is always someone here to talk to or keep me thinking about other stuff. If you haven't figured out already I sure am a baby and don't like to be away from Matt too much haha I mean its only been a couple of days. On a different note I am now all registered for Spring semester and am pretty excited for my classes, they all seem pretty good and the professors all got good ratings. Well I still haven't posted about our trip and when I find my camera and cord I just may but no promises haha!

Back to Reality!?!

Well we are back from vacation and we had a blast! It was so good to get away just the two of us for a week. I will post more about our vacation later when I have downloaded the pics. For those of you who don't know (which I think most do although some figured out by facebook on accident..I wasnt going to say anything on there but aparently signed up for a pregnancy calander thing) I am pregnant! I am due on April 15th and we are sooo excited! If you know our situation Matt will be gone at military training so it was a bit of a surprise but we are still really excited and hopeing Matt will be able to come home for the birth. I am 13 weeks along and havent really been sick (besides this cold that I cant get rid of) which has been a real blessing because I have been really busy with work and school. We are going to our next appointment on October 25th, the day before Matt leaves, to hopefully find out the sex although it is still a little early. I am not showing so a picture wouldnt really be fun because I still look the same. I will update my blog if we are able to find out the sex. Another note we are having a going away party for Matt on October 23rd at my parents house in South Jordan, all are invited! Please come and tell Matt good luck! Let me know if you need directions or anything.

life!

Well nothing really new happening with us. Just working, school, eat and sleep. We are getting ready to go on our cruise in a couple of weeks and are really excited! We leave on Oct. 2 I am a little nervous about getting motion sick so if anyone has any good ideas, medicine or anything that helped them LET ME KNOW! When we get back we are moving our stuff into a storage unit and moving me in with my parents (well a couple weeks after we get back). It will be a busy next month or so. Matt leaves on October 26th. It has really snuck up on me! It will be hard when he is gone but luckily I have a great family to keep me happy and I will be crazy busy with school and work. My school is going good so far, it has been an adjustment because I forgot how stupid some classes are. I have one class where we only discuss actual class material for 20 minutes of the class and the rest the time we are talking about random stuff. I guess I shouldn't complain because it will probably be an easy A but it is still frustrating because I am paying alot for the class and I bought the book too! Anyways blogs are always boaring without pictures but I am at work so no pictures sorry :( Just trying to keep you updated with my boring but wonderful life!

Well its been a while!

I have gotten so far behind I kindof gave up! So I am just going to give highlights of the past little while!

-Matt graduated from the University of Utah with a Masters in Urban Planning.
-I got a new job at StubHub which I am really liking!
-Matt joined the National Guard and will be a linguist for Military Intelligence.
-Matt will be leaving for basic training on Oct. 26 and I will be moving in with my parents.
-I will be starting school full-time in the fall, attending UVU
-We are going on a cruise at the beginning of Oct. as a going away trip before Matt leaves for 10 months
-Matt went to yellowstone with his family but i couldn't go cause I was working.
-We went to McCall for the Thomas family reunion.
-We went to Bear Lake for the Marler family reunion.
-We have a new niece Lexi (Natalie and Andy's daughter) born on the 4th of July.

Well I think that is all for now.....I will add some pics in no particular order.

Side Note

I really want this hat...isnt it AWESOME!

Rambling!

This post really has no point, there is nothing uber exciting happening in my life so I am just posting random thoughts.

1. My hair is really dry, I mean Sahara desert dry, and I was wondering if anybody had any tips? I googled and found some tips: examples, do not wash hair letting natural oils repair dryness, use mayonnaise as a mask ( YUCK that one made me gag) and different treatment products so off to the store I went. I bought this product coconut milk (only .84 at target whoot whoot) hopefully it will work the reviews online look promising. I also went a whole day without washing my hair (don't worry I still showered) and it was horrible I felt like my hair smelled all day and looked greasy, so I am not doing that again! On a side note the smell of this product makes me want to eat it, soooo delicious!

2. My parents bought me a beautiful new sewing machine for Christmas and I have not even used it yet. I have these projects running around in my head but after my last FAILED project I am scared. If anybody has any cute easy projects (I really like making clothes and stuff) then send them my way cause I really need to get over this.

3. I found this dreamy duvet cover at anthropologie I want it soooo badly! I cannot stop thinking about it, I even have dreams about it!

So if anybody want to buy this for me I will gladly accept :)

4. For one of my new years resolutions I wanted to try a new recipe once a month and thought I would share. For January I tried this cream cheese chicken crescent rolls and it sooo easy and delicious! here is the recipe
http://www.bakespace.com/recipes/detail/Cream-Cheese-Chicken-Crescent-Rolls/18593/
I also got a delicious recipe from my neighbor for a tasty pasta and tomato salad it is sooo good but the recipe is pretty detailed and would take to long to write on here but you should all come over to my house and I will make it for you :)

5. I think I would be really fun for a bunch of ladies to get together and do a craft night, recipe night, quilt night, play bunco or something, especially sense I may or may not be moving soon so let me know if you are interested. Sense quitting my job I have more time on my hands and could organize a get together.

Well I think that is enough rambling for today!

WARNING! May be long post!

Well I have not blogged in quite a while so I will just start with Christmas, we spent Christmas Eve with my (Leslie's) family and Christmas day with Matt's family. I had to work Christmas Eve but I got off at 5 so it wasn't that bad, I just headed to my parents house right after that and met my Matthew there. We had a big Mexican fiesta it was delicious pretty funny though because my mom probably made enough to feed a whole army! After that we read some Christmas letters to remind us what the season is really about and opened our one Christmas Eve present, which is always pajamas. Sense Matt and I were not going to be there for Christmas morning we opened all of our presents and had them open ours, I am pretty dang excited because my parents got me a sewing machine now I won't have to borrow my mom's every time I do a project! After that some of us played some ping pong and watched the Christmas Story (what a funny flick!). Then we headed home, we had decided to open our presents to eachother on Christmas Eve because we were trying to get to Farmington at like 9 and I am not a morning person so it is best if you wake me up as late as possible. Christmas morning we headed up to Farmington (Matt's parents house) we opened presents and had a big breakfast! Both mine and Matt's cameras had broken so Matt's parents were nice enough to get us a new camera! Now we just have to be better about taking pictures haha! Matt's sister Lara got us catch phrase which I LOVE! We played that ALOT on Christmas and have played it a lot sense hahah! We stayed until like 5ish just playing around and having fun and then we went home and watched the proposal which I got from my little brothers (such a good movie!). Later that night we went over to my parents and played 1-13 with my parents and brothers and I didnt come in very last so I was happy! My absolute favorite thing about Christmas is the wonderful music, especially done by choirs at church it always get me tearing up (which I guess isn't that big of a deal haha). Matt was in our choir at church and did an AMAZING job on the Christmas program, Christmas sunday is one of my favorite sundays of the year :) All in all we had a pretty AMAZING Christmas! We hope you all did too.

Note also in the pictures I made our stockings this year :)


Well next on my list of things to blog about, we bought matt a new car! His truck was pretty much falling apart and even though we had planned on just running it until it died I was about to strangle "someone" with my frustration on having to get it fixed about every single month. Matt had wanted a Subaru WRX but we new we couldn't really afford one of those but went to the Subaru lot to look anyways, they were having a pretty good deal on a Subaru Impreza and we took it for a drive and decided we couldn't pass it up so we took it home with us. Here is a picture of it, we are hoping it lasts a LONG time! It is an 09 with 11,000 miles on it so keep yours fingers crossed for us that we don't have anymore car problems for a while.










We also had a really fun New Years Eve! We had some friends over and just played games (catch phrase, disney scene it, and charades mostly) and ate a TON of food! Here are some pictures of that.


Last on my list, Matt and I took my little brothers (Jon and Tyler) to a Jazz game for their Christmas present (it has kind of become a fun tradition). We went just last night to the Jazz vs. the Denver Nuggets I am pretty sure haha, if you know me at all you know I only go to sporting events for the yummy treats so for the most important information of the game yes I did get a churro and yes it was AMAZING! Besides that the Jazz didn't play very well and lost (also becoming a tradition to go to a game where the Jazz lose I guess) but we still had a TON of fun!



That is all sorry so long, but I am in protest because nobody ever comments so I don't think anyone is reading it making it a waste of my time but my friend Kylie told me I needed an update so here ya go!