Heartbeats!!

So this morning I had the awesome experience of hearing our babies heartbeat for the first time! It was so amazing...! I was so nervous to go to the doctors and not be able to hear the heartbeat!! Thankfully my worries were just worries! The sound of the babies heart beating was so amazing to hear! I don't think I knew how I would feel when I heard it. I knew that I would be happy and that it would be so nice to hear but, when I heard that thub dub of my babies heart I was pretty much in aw! The babies heart rate was at 150 and the doctor said that the baby was moving around alot! I was so happy to hear this. It really is a miracle. I do not understand how someone can go through something like this and not believe that there is a God! I am seriously soo.. blessed. Anyways, I just wanted to share this and say that I am sooo excited and happy that our baby is doing well soo far! I am also excited that I only have one more week in my first trimester! I can't wait to feel this baby moving around, that will make this all seem even more real! :-)

Wierd!!

So today was the first time in this pregnancy that I threw up!! Yes thats right! It was the weirdest thing ever! I started out the morning perfectly fine. Nothing was wrong at all I had a good sized bowl of cereal and then about and hour later took my vitamins. Everything was going great, I just relaxing and checking facebook and of coarse my blog. By the time it was 11:30 I decided that it was about lunch time but I did not want lunch yet I really wanted fruit snacks! So I grabbed some fruit snacks and sat on the couch watching some T.V. Then just as I had swallowed my last fruit snack I had an immediate "I am going to throw up" feeling. I ran into the bathroom and up-chucked pretty much everything I ate and drank that morning!! And just as fast as that feeling came it went! I had just thrown up and then was perfectly fine. A little weak so I drank a lot of water and waited a bit before I ate anything, just in case my stomach was still not happy with me! However, I was completely fine and ate a lot for lunch and that was it. It was THE weirdest thing ever!! So now my lovely story about how I never got sick during pregnancy has to end. At least it was only today and at least I did not feel sick at all before or after!! What a weird thing! haha anyways so that is what happened today just thought I would let you all know! haha :-)

Christmas Break and the Begining of the New Year!!

Well to start out our Christmas break we drove for 14 and a half hours to get to good ol' Idaho Falls. We left at about 9 in the morning and got into Idaho at around 11:30. VERY.... long day. Thankfully my prayers were answered and we did not have to stop every 2 hours for me to go to the bathroom. I even drank a good amount of stuff but I only went to the restroom when we stopped for gas. Well I guess that is not entirely true. We would stop before we needed to fill up so that I could take a pit stop and so we would top off the gas and grab something to eat if it was close to lunch or dinner time. So at least the trip was not really prolonged because of my shrinking blatter. We also listened to the "Hunger Games" which is an awesome book. That made our trip go by a lot faster. So anyways, we finally got to our destination. Since it was so late there was time for a little chat and then off to bed. We had fun in Idaho with Brandon's family playing the wii and playstation and card games and just hanging out. Oh, and of coarse playing with the Coya's little 5 month old girl. We also went as a family to dinner and a movie one of the nights. We saw "Blind Side" it was a very good movie. Totally a feel good movie and we really enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun. Christmas was different than what I am used to but then again it was my first Christmas away from home. So it was bound to be different. None the less it was good. Then after spending time in Idaho with Brandon's family it was time to head down to California to see my family for a couple of days. Now normally the trip from Idaho to California takes us about 11 and a half hours to 12 hours. However, we never make the trip in the snow. Of coarse the snow had to wait until we were leaving to make its way into Idaho. So we hit snowy slick roads pretty much all the way through Utah which added on a couple of hours. Then we hit traffic going from Vegas to California. So our usual 12 hour trip became a 15 hour trip. It was a very.... long day. Both Brandon and I were soo.. sick of being in the car that the thought of having to drive another 4 and a half back home in a couple of days was not very thrilling to think about. Being in California with my family was nice though. We slept in and relaxed and had Christmas with them as well. One night we had a fire outside and talked about memories and things like that. It was a lot of fun just talking with the fam. My little sister Ashley was leaving for Utah that weekend so my mom and dad made sure to get her so she could spend time with all of us before she headed away from home for the first time. On New Years eve we did not do what we normally do each year but it was still fun. We played games and watched a movie and then at midnight we all ran outside banging our pots and pans and screaming HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! It was Brandon's first time doing this and he laughed the entire time we were running around outside. It was really funny. Then on Saturday we all went and saw the movie "Invictus" It was a really good feel good movie too. After we headed to costco since my mom had to get somethings there and we go pizza for lunch and I was STARVING.... it is not good when I get to that point because I get very grumpy and very week. So that was not fun but once I had food in me I felt much better. That was pretty much the end of our time with my family. It is always sad to leave but its also good to get home. Now that Brandon has started school again and I am back to the normal being alone and lazy days it is hard for me to get into the mood to clean. I have sooo much cleaning to do and yet I really do not want to do it. I feel so lazy, all I want to do is sit around and eat and bundle up in a blanket and watch T.V. or read a book. Hopefully this laziness will end with my second trimester. As for right now I probably just better suck it up and start cleaning and then I can nap and be lazy latter. Well here is to trying hahaha! Well that is about it for now. I will put some pictures up of mine and Brandon's Christmas with each other soon. :-)

Thanksgiving Break!!

During Brandon's break we did a lot of work on our house. We worked on the house for a week and then headed to California to visit my family for Thanksgiving. It was a lot of fun. We got our laminate wood flooring down in our living/dining room and we got our tile placed in front of our back door. It was a lot of fun. We also put up our Christmas tree. It was fun working on our house again and getting things finished that we had wanted to finish for a while. Then we headed to California where we hung out with my family for a week. We went and saw "A Christmas Carol" with Jim Carry and "Old Dogs" both were ok. But, it was fun going with my family. We also played super mario on the wii and beat the game haha. Also we went and played raquetball and had fun watching movies and playing games with the family at night. It was an overall fun little vacation and both Brandon and I enjoyed it. Now school is back on for another 3 weeks before Christmas break. Which we are super excited for as well.

Brandon working on the saw to cut the pieces of
wood to the right size. He did such a good job.

Getting closer....

A picture of Brandon's mad skills with the saw and measuring!! :-)

Our almost finished product. Just had to finish the baseboard. We think that it looks pretty good. :-)

Here is our tile spot in front of the back door.
We already layed the boarder tile as you can see.

Brandon working away trying to get
everything clear and ready for the rest of the tile.

After we had it all put down in the right places.
Just needed to grout it.

Here is the final product. With grout and everything.
We are a great team!! :-)

Finally... our very first big Christmas tree. That we got on craigs list.
It works perfect and we love having our first Christmas tree in our first house!!

We did not get any pictures from my parents house so these are just from the first week that we were on break. Overall we had a great break and can't wait till the next one.

HALLOWEEN!!!

Carving Pumpkins! So much fun!

So we carved pumpkins with our friends and Brandon had the job of getting
the top off as well as carving it!

I had the job of taking out all of the guts...!! Yum.....! hahaha
Well I kind of volunteered! I had to do something to help in carving our pumpkin!

Here is our finished product! muahahaha! Scary!!
I think it turned out pretty good! :-)

making weird faces is just in our nature! :-)

Our little pumpkin family! :-)

Brandon was the guy off of Waynes World. He looked soo weird with long hair!
Who would have thought that my hair extensions would have been used for this haha!

I was a mad scientist thanks to Brandons doctor coat and white hair coloring!! muahahaha!

So fun, and very cheap!

hahahahahaha
Off to the ward party!


Me and the girls! We all went shopping that morning to get stuff
for our costumes at Wallmart! It was fun!

The crew! So fun!

HALLOWEEN NIGHT


On Halloween night everyone came over to our house and we did caramel apples and watched a movie. It was fun and we had trick or treaters come for the first time. It was fun. I was so excited to get trick or treaters until they started coming and then I got all nervous haha I am a dork. We had to turn our lights off early because we were running low on candy. We did not know how many trick or treaters we would get so we only bought one bag from Sam's. So next year we will have to get another bad probably! It was fun hanging out with our friends on Halloween and making caramel apples. I could have done without the scary movie but it turned out pretty fun. It was our first Halloween in our first house and it was really nice. Lots of memories. So here are some of the pics of the caramel apples we made. They were very tasty!

These are Brandon's apples! We put crushed up snickers on them! yum..

These are Dan and Tristy's

Here is me and Tristy having fun decorating are apples!

And last but not least.... this one is mine!! it was so very delicious!! :-) Yum yum yum!!

So Halloween was a lot of fun this year. Now I get to start putting out some CHRISTMAS Stuff!! WAHOOO!! hahaha

2 Weeks and We have made it through the first quarter!

Well We only have about 2 weeks and then Brandon is done for about 2 and a half weeks. We are sooo excited to be able to have some time together. Brandon has been very... busy with school. Monday's he basically gets home eats dinner and goes to the library to study until 9 and then comes home and studies until we go to bed. So Monday's I don't really even get to see him. However, Tuesdays are the party days because the test for the week is over and so he takes a little brake and we hangout together. So life has been pretty different ever sine summer ended. I on the other hand have all the time in the world. I had one job interview and did not get that even though I thought it went rather well. So I kind of gave up. I also was thinking about how hard it would be to go visit family during the holiday seasons if I was working, and those are the only times that I really have to spend with Brandon and with family so I kind of did not want a job all that badly. Now I just do things around the house and when there is yard work to be done I go do it. :-) So sometimes there is not much to do and I have not found a good book to read. Finding a book to read will probably be my next project but until then I just try to have dinner ready when Brandon gets home. That is if I can think of something that would be good for dinner. So ya, life is kind of boring sometimes. Oh, and for Halloween we pretty much are not going to be dressing up because we have not thought about what to dress up as and we have no money to buy something for a costume. Unless we can find something around the house we will probably just be lame this year and just have carved pumpkins. Which is at least something Halloweeny!! Then after this week is over and Halloween is past. It will be time for the Christmas stuff to slowy start to come out! Very... slowy since we don't really have anything to decorate our house with, but its the thought that counts. haha! We will have a Christmas tree this year which is very exciting. I will put some pictures up of our pumpkins when we carve them and update more then. But, until then this is pretty much what is going on in my life. Pretty exciting! :-)

Our House and Dental School!

Well we have done a lot of work on our house but we love it. All of the work is basically done we just have to work on the backyard and do some updates when we have the money. But, we love it. It really feels like home to us and that is very nice. I would love to get new carpet because it kind of smells in the living room but we will just have to wait till we have money to be able to do that. Our backyard has huge piles of thorny branches from when we trimmed our trees in the front down when we first moved in, and the grass is pretty dead! So that is our project for the winter. We are enjoying Arizona and have made some good friends!! I wish that the weather would cool down. I dont think it has been cooler than three digits ever since we moved here. Except for one storm we had which cooled the weather down a little bit which was nice. So we just stay in the house or go swimming to stay cool. Brandon started Dental School 2 weeks ago and that is going well. He is getting a little bit stressed because it is a lot of studying and a lot of information to cover in a short amount of time. Oh, and he has a test every Tuesday. So that is a little bit stressful. But he did well on his first test.. he got an 88% which I was proud of him. Of coarse he wished that he did better but he was still happy with it. So Brandon is going to school and I am trying to find a job, which is not going all that well. With the economy the way it is there really is not any employment out there and the places that are hiring don't seem to want to call me back when they tell me they will. So we will just have to see what happens with that. If I do not get a job then I will just work on the house and make sure that dinner is ready when Brandon gets home, and go hangout with the girls when they want to. So other than trying to find a job and not having that much time with Brandon because he is always studying, life is pretty good. It will be even better when the weather cools down and Brandon has a break :-) well here are some pictures!