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!!!!!