High On Pot!

I'm not sure why I'm sharing this but I think it's funny. It's from when I was a freshman in college 2 years ago. We saw a sign that said, "He who stands on toilet is high on pot"

Obviously we felt the need to demonstrate. lol I miss those clothes I was wearing!! lol I'm on the left BTW.

Yay for Temples and Family!!!

So I had a big weekend this past Thanksgiving weekend. We celebrated our first anniversary! Yay!! And I got to go to the temple on the 27th and I received my Endowments and Paul and I got sealed! Wohoo!!! I'm so excited! It was such an amazing experience. Luckily we have a temple in Twin Falls so we're gonna try and go at least once a week. I'm 7 months pregnant so I want to use the little time I have before it gets too uncomfortable to go. And then having a new baby I won't really be able to go for a while either.

I'm so grateful for the temple and for the opportunity we had to go. I'm so grateful for the Atonement that the Savior provides and for the opportunities we have to change and become better. I'm so grateful for family and that we have temples where we can be sealed together forever. I'm so happy our little boy is going to be born sealed to us! I'm also thankful for family and friend who support me despite mistakes I make and who are there for me when I need them.

And I'm thankful for hand-me-downs. We don't have much money right now to buy all of the baby things. And since this is our first we have nothing. But I have great brothers and sisters who are willing to loan/give us almost everything we need. I just felt so happy and grateful for everything in my life I just had to say it out loud/write it down.

A Child's Angel

I saw this on a post today on a group I'm in on www.babycenter.com It was too good not to share:D Enjoy!

A Child's Angel

Once upon a time there was a child ready to be born.

One day the little child asked God:

"They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow but how am I going to live there being so

small and helpless?"

God answered him "Among the many angels, I chose one for you. She will be waiting for you

and will take care of you."

"But tell me," asked the child, "here in Heaven, I don't do anything else but sing and smile,

that's enough for me to be happy."

"Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you every day. And you will feel your

angel's love and be happy." God reassured him.

"And how am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me, if I don't know the

language that men talk?"

"Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet words you will ever hear, and with much

patience and care, your angel will teach you how to speak."

"And what am I going to do when I want to talk to you, Lord?"

"Your angel will place your hands together and will teach you how to pray."

"I've heard that on earth there are bad men. Who will protect me?"

"Your angel will defend you even if it means risking its life."

"But I will always be sad because I will not see you anymore."

"Your angel will always talk to you about me and will teach you the way for you to come back

to me, even though I will always be next to you."

At that moment there was much peace in Heaven, but voices from earth could already be

heard, and the child in a hurry asked softly

"Oh God, if I am about to leave now, please tell me my angel's name."

"You will call your angel, Mother"

Author Unknown

It's a BOY!!!!!

I would like to reintroduce our baby boy!
He's hiding. That's his cute little back!

He sure looks alot different from the last time I posted pics.He no longer looks like a weird little alien bug.

He now looks like a beautiful boy! Look you can even see his parts. Right there between the legs.

He has such a cute little face. He loves having his hand up there:)

Now isn't that the cutest little foot you've ever seen?

His face it looks like a little skull. lol

I would have to say I think our little boy is going to be very cute:)

Ramblings of a Pregnant Woman: Second Edition

So I was thinking the other day that I haven't posted anything in quite some time. Why? I dunno nothing interesting is going on or I just didn't have anything to really say. I didn't have any fun pictures to post either. So where shall I start rambling? Hmmm.

As of now I am 20 weeks and 4 days pregnant. I'm finally starting to see my pooch through my already visible pre-pregnant pooch. If that makes any sense good if not it doesn't really matter. Shortly I will be growing out of my clothes I'm sure which is poopy because I am picky about the clothes I wear and I hate shopping. That is probably the worst combination because that means others can't really shop on behalf of me unless I am there to try on the clothes. As my mom can confirm this you can indeed trust that I am a girl who hates shopping of any kind. Odd I know a girl who hates shopping!!!! WOW! But that's me. The only shopping I do like is when I'm with a friend and we're getting stuff for her and not me and the only reason I like it then is because I get to (a) spend time with them and (b) they all look super cute/gorgeous in anything they put on. I'm really good at picking stuff out for other people when I'm shopping just not for me.

Anyway back to pregnancy (see there is in fact a reason why this is posted as ramblings!) Our little bug is getting so strong! Just in the past week he (no we don't know what we're having yet we just always refer to the baby as our little guy in there or he) has gone from feeling like flutters to being a dancing fool. So much so that I'm worried when he's bigger and I have to go potty real bad I think I'll wet my pants if he kicks me in the bladder. I'm not sure if anyone else can feel the kicks yet though. Whenever I have my hand where he's dancing I can't tell if I'm feeling it with my hand or just feeling it inside of me. Does that make sense? I can't wait for Paul to be able to feel the baby. That will be very exciting.

Our ultrasound is on Oct. 6th. So on a week from Tuesday we'll hopefully find out if we're having a boy or a girl. My mom wants a girl cuz that will mean she has 13 grandsons and 13 granddaughters to make them even with each other. Hopefully the little bean isn't too shy and holds still long enough to see. So I'm excited to find out if the baby lets us but I'm super nervous. This will help tell us if everything is going well and if the baby is developing properly. My biggest fear is that something will go or have gone wrong. I don't think it will everything feels fine and normal but how do I know? I've never done this before and making a baby is a big task! But I am super excited to be able to see our baby now that he looks (hopefully) a lot less like a little alien/sea monkey and more like a fully done baby!

On a side note I'm also very scared to raise a baby in the world today. It's a scary thought. If I didn't have the faith and knowledge I have in Heavenly Father and Christ I'm not sure I would want to bring a baby into this world that is continually pounding us with bad things. I mean the news is full of all the awful things that people do to each other. I remember going to high school (it was only almost 3 years ago) and I thought it was hard and I had it relatively easy compared to some. I can only imagine what the world will be like when my kids are that age. I see it everywhere.

Some of the meanest things I've ever heard anyone say is not actually being said but is being written. I think the internet is a wonderful tool that can be used for many good things. Like keeping in touch and finding out useful information. But it is also crawling with awful things. I see comments left on posts, videos, articles and people are down right rude and disgusting. I think they have the mentality that since they are face to face with someone they can say those rude and mean things that they probably would never actually say in person. It's ridiculous. What is happening to respect and kindness and integrity? Lucky for me I am blessed with family and friends who have those things. I would say that I'm probably sheltered compared to some people in the world. It makes me sad that in a world full of amazing things and great privilege people choose to hate and take advantage of others. Any way that's enough sadness for today.

Happier note! It's Friday! Wohoo! Not that it matters except for that means Paul doesn't work tomorrow, oh wait he does until 3p.m. But that's not bad because at least he'll be home in the afternoon and evening unlike during the week when he works till midnight. Well I think I'm about rambled out so I'll say goodbye for now. Hope everyone is doing well.

Maggie

Caring for Your Introvert - The Atlantic (March 2003)

Caring for Your Introvert - The Atlantic (March 2003)

I am definitely an Introvert. lol For sure.

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Our little Bean!

I am now 14 weeks and 2 days pregnant and into the second trimester. I have 2 months before our next ultrasound where we'll makes sure everything is good and find out the sex. We actually heard the baby's heartbeat on Monday at our doctor's appointment. It was amazing:) It was 170 beats a min. The doctor says he's guessing for a girl. We prefer a boy first so we'll see what happens we actually have more girl names picked so you never know. But boy or girl we are definitely going to love this baby with all we have. We are so excited! I already feel so much love for this little thing I've never even met yet. Paul says he still is accepting there's actually a real baby in there. He's excited though and already loves it. He'll turn into a daddy when he see's the baby for the first time. I've been feeling much much better and I've actually had Paul buy bottled water for me cuz the water here is so awful. My visiting teacher who lives like 2 blocks away said that her water bill said there were small amounts of arsenic in the water but not enough to make you extremely sick! What the heck!!!!! I don't want that!!!! Yuck! So yeah bottled water for me.

Anyway here are the pictures from our ultrasound from when I was 10 weeks I have finally gotten to put them on our computer! Without further ado I'd like to introduce our little bean!
This was a nice little profile shot. Look you can see the little brain developing! Awesome!
This is our little bug dancing like crazy. He was just a goin and a goin! At first I thought it was just from her moving the wand around but she said, "By the way that's your baby moving not me." It was so amazing! And I really felt for the first time that this was real.They printed out a couple 3D images they can make on the computer thing they have. Isn't our little thing so cute:) Woot! Well that's about it for now. Until next time! Maggie:)

My first Ultrasound

Well today I had my first ultrasound. Yeah!!!! If I had a printer with a scanner I would post a picture of our little baby bean:) but I don't so too bad. lol According to the Ultrasound I am 10 weeks along. According to my cycle I'm only 9 weeks and one day. So My official Due date is Feb 14th:) But my ultrasound says I'm due on the 8th so I'll just tell people the 14th cuz that's what my doctors say. But it doesn't matter cuz I probably won't go until then. lol My sisters usually don't go to their due date so we'll see.

They said everything was looking great. Our baby is an inch and a half long from head to rump! :) So tiny but we could see where his/her little legs and feet and arms and hands are developing and we can see the brain. Our little alien is so freaking cute. It feels like I'm really pregnant now and I'm more excited than ever:) Woot!!! Our little bug was going crazy during the ultrasound and moving around all over the place. He's definitely a wiggler our little bean is. lol We're so excited!!!! Woot! Anyway If I ever get to a printer with a scanner on it I'll put the ultrasound pics up. YEAH!!!!!! More later:)

Ramblings of a pregnant woman

So I haven't written for a while. I haven't really had anything to say. Lately I haven't even wanted to sit in front of the computer for longer than five minutes at a time. Just long enough to check my email and facebook to see if anyone has written anything to me. And of course to check on blogspot to see if anything new and exciting is happening in any of the people's lives that I follow.

I often wish my life was this amazing adventure and that I traveled the world or did great things. But then I really think about it and my life is a little adventure in itself. I've never really been the type to voyage anywhere. I was always perfectly content to stay at home with my parents. While all of my friends were so excited to go to college and leave home I was petrified. I didn't really want to go. One because I'm a homebody and don't like leaving home except for visiting people but I can't wait to be back home when I leave. And Two because I had no idea what I wanted to do. What's the point in going if I don't know what I want to do? I still don't know what I want to do for that matter and I even took a career class.

Ok I know what I want, I just want to stay at home and be a mommy. But I'm suppose to get an education. What does that even mean? It doesn't always mean going to school. It could mean just learning about whatever I want as much as I can. Or just learning from people around me. Or learning how to be a good wife and mother and homemaker. My mom is convinced otherwise and thinks I have to go to school. I don't WANT to go to school. I did once for a year and a half and it sucked. I was miserable. I mean I met cool people and made new friends that changed my life but you don't have to go to school to have that happen.

And now I'm married which is wonderful. I love him so much. And I'm pregnant. My mom always told me when I get married and have kids that I would be closer with my brothers and sisters who I have never really been close with except for a few of them in recent years because of the huge age difference. And that always made me angry. Why shouldn't I know them and talk to them like they were my friends. I think alot of them can't get past the fact that I'm not 10 years old anymore, I'm an adult. I knew kids in high school that I hardly talked to better than I knew the majority of my siblings. It always makes me sad and angry. Oh I'm sure they never knew. I'm sure they all thought I was there bratty kid sister with an attitude that didn't want to be around them and that I hated their kids. And I don't blame them I wasn't a sweet cookie all the time. And I'm sorry for that.

And now that I'm married and pregnant I know some of them better. And it's only because I'm married and pregnant that I know them better. Why is that? What is it about being married and pregnant that all of a sudden makes it ok to get to know me better? Why wasn't I good enough to really get to know before? Does it mean we have more in common now? I dunno. Why didn't we have enough in common already I mean we are from the same family that should be enough.

But whatever I'm past that stage in my life and now I'm in an entirely new adventure that I couldn't imagine myself in before. I'm in love with this baby that I don't even know yet, I can't imagine how much more I'll love he or she when they are actually here and I can hold him. I can't stop wondering what they'll be like if I'll have a girl and she'll be as crazy and bratty as I was/am or if I'll have a boy and he'll be like his daddy. I can't stop wondering if I'll have twins. I know that sounds weird but I just can't. I don't think it means I will have twins I just think about it alot. It could be possible twins do run in my family.

Anyway I don't even know what I'm talking about anymore. I guess I'll end. I didn't really write this for response or answers to anything. I just wrote it to clear my head and get it in the open so it will leave me alone I guess. So goodbye for now!

I'm Pregnant!!!!!!!!

Yes it's true. I know crazy right? Well we are so excited. I think I am about 5 weeks along and I'm due sometime about February 8th. Well that's what this site that Julie gave me said. I trust it. I still need to make an appointment for a doctor but I'm not sure who to go too in Twin Falls. I have to ask around to the women in my ward and find out who they like. We are so excited. But we do kinda have to find a little bigger of an apartment. Ours is pretty small but if we have to we can stick it out. I think I'm most concerned about the stairs leading to our apartment. Oh GAG ME!!!!! lol I am not looking forward to hiking up those suckers (or even down for that matter) when I am huge. lol Well that's all for now I'll try and keep this updated:)

The Preview is not at all how it really looks!

So when I'm creating a post and use the little preview button to see if it looks ok or if I need to adjust where everything is located, you'd think that would be how it would show up on my blog right? Wrong!!!! Every time I've used the preview thing and had it how I wanted it it looks completely different and even messed up when I post it. Like the tour of our little apartment. It was exactly how I wanted it and everything was in the right spot and the narration was in the right spot. Well after the post it is completely off and the words don't go with the pictures and everything is messed up!!!! It's not a huge deal I just felt like venting about it. lol

See apartment a few stories down:)

So I just posted about our apartment but it showed up towards the bottom of our blog because I started it a couple of days before I actually posted it. So just in case anyone was wondering:) lol

God love us : )

So our last couple of paychecks have been very tight. Usually we have extra on our second paycheck of the month so we can buy enough to buy mass groceries to keep us stocked until the next month comes because our entire first check usually goes to bills and such. But this last paycheck which was the 2nd one of the month was very very small so we weren't really able to do that. So essentially we weren't able to buy any groceries right? We still had food and we certainly weren't going hungry but we ran out of bread and then out of milk shortly after and then out of ramen of all things. . . I know impossible right?

You can never run out of Ramen cuz it's so cheap! Wrong! lol We had bought 2 cases a while ago and it just so happened that the every few months we need to get more happened on the time we got a minute paycheck that could only pay for the second half of the month that our other bills fall on. Needless to say we have been going with out milk and bread for about 1 1/2 to 2 weeks. Not the end of the world but we still want some. I need to get bread pans so I can make my own because for some reason we got like 5 bags of flour for our wedding. . . anyway back to the story.

So today Paul and I were thinking about all the food we wanted to eat cuz we were hungry and we both wanted Subway. So that made us think of bread right? So I said what about the 10dollars in our emergency fund? (we're trying to start one but obviously we're not doing to well at the whole emergency fund thing lol) We could go and buy bread and milk at Winco with this 10dollars(they have loaves for 88cents there). I said ok hand me the thing with our money in it. We have a little file thingy that we have different categories for our budget and money in. So I was looking in it and I decided to look in the other categories like grocery, cars, gas, etc.

And what do you know. . . I found a 20 in the gas thing from like 2 months ago!!!!!!!!!!! That I was certain we had already spent on gas for one of our trips to Mountain Home. So here we are with the money we didn't have so now we can get the groceries we couldn't afford and I'm possitive it's because even though money is tight for us we always pay our tithing. I know that God is always there watching out for us and blesses us when we keep his commandments. So now we get to have bread and milk and yes the beloved food of the poor person RAMEN! lol

I just had to share this with everyone as a Testimony of God's love for everyone and that if we really do do as He asks he will never let us be in need of anything. We may not always have what we want but we will certainly always have what we need! So next time you think "we don't have enough for food and tithing" pay your tithing first and just think somewhere out there is gas money that is gonna provide a way for you to eat! : )

Wedding Open House

Since we're really bad about getting our wedding open house pics developed I have decided I'll share a few on here for those of you who don't have facebook to see. lol All my pics are on facebook by the way. So here's a few pics for you to enjoy:)


This is us at our open house I'm pretty sure we were ready to be done. lol

This is our cake that my Aunt Janene made for us:) it's so beautiful and awesome. we love it and we think she did a wonderful job:)















She also provided the figurines they were adorable:) She painted their hair cuz they were blonde and we're not:) lol well Paul kinda is.














Here are some decorations from it. My mom did a wonderful job at putting it all together. Thanks mom!!! Love you so much:)














And a special thanks to Cynthia who took all of the pics for us at the open house and our engagement pics. You are awesome and we love you!!!!!

Our Apartment.

Well I figured since the only people who have see our apartment are my parents and Paul's dad and Grandma I decided to give you a little virtual tour. I also thought it would be good since many of you will never actually get to come over. So here it is for your viewing pleasure our apartment. It is an old 1920's house that was built to be a triplex. We live upstairs with two downstairs neighbors who are actually great. But we don't below and listen to us so maybe we're not the great neighbors. lol



These are the stairs to our apartment. Yes very creepy sometimes. lol
When I first moved in they freaked me out.




Our door in all it's glory. The peephole is very handy:)















When you come in if you look to the right you have. . .













This is our little eating/computer/home appliance area/whatever we want area. lol and yes our ceilings are crazy short I can basically palm our ceilings with both hands in most places. It's small but we like it.


From our little nook if you keep going straight you have. . . the hallway!!! lol

This is the closest thing to a hallway that we have lol it's not even really a hallway












From the hallway if you look to the left you have our Bathroom!!!! lol It's very small but it works




















Below is our tub and sink area. You'll notice that those are tomato boxes as shelves. . . Yes very handy indeed. lol Our friend Tauna actually showed us that little secret and they are extremely sturdy and work very well especially if you're poor cuz they are free. All you have to do to get one is ask Subway or somewhere like that. lol They have changed our life! lol



















Straight through the hall and you come to. . . .













This is our bed room it's very cozy. I like it except for the closet freaks the crap out of me. It's
like one of those closets from the scariest movie ever and you just know someone's gonna be in there waiting to kill you. It's like a crawlspace thing kind cuz it's an old 1920's house.

And Yes it's a little messy but not too bad.

Yes I know the dresser needs painted. It's needed it as long as I can remember. I've had it since I lived at mom and dad's house.

In case you haven't noticed by now but we really like shelves. They come in very handy when there's not very much room in the house. We actually got most of them from Tauna except for the ones our bedroom. Those are ones that Paul and I had before she gave us more.




If when you come into the apartment and you look to the left you will find. . .


Our kitchen it's small but we don't mind. It's big enough for us and the shelves help alot with storage. The only thing we don't like about it is that it only has one outlet besides what the stove and fridge are hooked up too. It sucks so we always cook in our living room or the nook. So that's why we call the nook our appliance room it has our microwave in it permanently. Oh and our stove is ancient and tiny/skinny it's awful we try not to use it except for like boiling water and that's about it.





So this is our shelf and our cupboard space. yeah none. That's ok there's a little bit by the stove. And that's our little toaster oven thing. We try and use that any time we can to avoid using the stove. It's the lucky appliance that gets the plug in the kitchen. lol


Now if you move on to your left from the kitchen you come to the. . .
The living room!!!! It's very comfy and we seem to have an abnormally large amount of furniture for this area but we sill have plenty of space. Oh the blanket on the wall is covering a window to help keep the sun/heat out. Since blinds do nothing. lol







Yes some of you may recognize this entertainment center as the one from mom and dad's and you would be correct and works amazingly. The other blue sheet thing is covering Tauna's set of shelves. I like it :)






And in this room we only have like 2 plugs and we think one kinda has a short or something so we don't us it. It's behind the shelves. So we get to use two surge protector extension cords. Woot!!!!! lol its really not that bad.




Here is one more little couch in our living room. That makes one big one and 2 love seats. This particular love seat turns into a hide-a-bed oooohhh!!! Yeah so anytime you wanna drop by we got a bed for you. lol

And in case you were wondering yes those are all of my stuffed animals. You may remember me sleeping with them till I got married and I just couldn't get rid of them, so that random shelf in our apt. was just perfect:)

Well that concludes the tour. Anytime you wanna stop by for the real life size thing come on over:)

Us!

Well I decided to start a blog. Since I got married and I'm not living at home anymore I figured it would help people know what's going on with us. So it'll feature Paul and I since we have no kids. lol And since we really have nothing too exciting going on it'll most likely be random nonsense. That's ok cuz the point of this is really for me to just write and show pics and stuff. There will most likely be lots of pictures cuz I love them:)

So who are we? My name is Maggie Martin and my Husband is Paul Martin. We got married on November 25, 2008 and are so so happy:) Paul is going to school to become a Diesel Mechanic and at the moment I am trying to figure out what I wanna do so I can finish my schooling. Until then I'll be at home. I might go and start working on finishing my generals though. We'll see.

We happily live in Twin Falls while Paul is going to school. Hopefully when he's done he can get a job in Mountain Home and we can move there. That would be great since we're both homebodies and love it there:)