Anyways, originally I was going to write about how much fun this last week was, and include a few more stories of ups and downs in our lives that have happened. I'm not going to post a baby bump picture, because my bump looks the same, and I don't have any more good shirts that I haven't already worn in the last two pictures that make it noticeable. So, I'll wait until I actually look pregnant and not just slightly overweight so that you can tell no matter what I'm wearing. (Lucky for ya'll, I made Ryan take lots of pictures with me this weekend though, so you get to suffer through looking at ALL of them, because this is MY blog and I can post whatever I want!)
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| Ryan took this picture, he thinks it's a good one. |
Some ups:
Ryan has most Sundays off now, which is a huge blessing! We also have 9 am church this year, instead of 1 pm church like last year. So we go to church and then have the whole rest of the day to relax and spend time together!
On Saturday, it finally snowed, which hasn't happened since Christmas. It finally looked like a Utah winter around here and I was actually pretty excited about it. (I got a magical new coat for Christmas that actually keeps me warm and I've been waiting for it to snow so I can really take advantage of it!) The downside was that Ryan had to work ALL day on Saturday, which was a bummer, but because he had Sunday off, we went to church and then after church we went into the canyon and played in the snow and took pictures and had a blast. It's been ages since we've been able to do that, and for me to be feeling up to it at the same time. It was so much fun to be outside, to wander around, to take pictures, and to not feel sick the whole time. Also, kissing when it's cold outside, in my opinion, is one of the best types of kissing you can do. ;) (This is where all the pictures will come from.)
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| Wise words from my first BYU bishop: "Kissing is better than not kissing." I agree! |
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| Ryan has been growing a beard out for the last couple months. Also, he loves eating snow. All the snow stuck in his beard was cracking me up while we were out. :) He's so cute! |
Then, to top of a wonderful day, Ryan and I got creative and made real Ratatouille! I took a picture so you could see how beautiful it turned out! It was so fun to both be home at the same time, to work in the kitchen side by side, and to enjoy a delicious meal (without feeling sick! I'm not sure if this is obvious or not, but I LOVE not feeling sick!)
Also, I made a snow cone using real snow from the backyard. Which just made it way more cool!
Another up is that we went on a double date last week and I found a place that has REAL milkshakes, that actually taste good! (It's called Smashburger. I'm surprised Ryan and I had never been because he is obsessed with burgers and fries! That's always his first choice for dinner!) Also, we had a lot of fun on our date.
Oh and another one. This one started as a down and then turned into an up. :) On Monday night Ryan came home around 8 and had homework that he needed to get done. (Background, there are few things that make Ryan more grumpy than being hungry, having spent the day at work with annoying people, bad drivers, and SCHOOL. Which includes: homework, emails from teachers, doing anything with the school website, tests, going to class, etc. School just is not something he enjoys... Oh, and when things go wrong. He doesn't like that either, but who does?) Anyways, so he needed to turn some homework in before the end of the night, but our laptop decided it needed to update. Which concerned me because I didn't want Ryan to be grumpy immediately upon arriving at home. So, he got home and I tried to get the computer to hurry along. Then I made something for dinner so that he would be distracted by the food. However, the computer was still updating almost 45 minutes after he got home, so I pulled out our other computer (which is NOT reliable) but I was really hoping it would work, but then it needed to update TOO! So, we were sitting on the couch watching both computers update (You know when a computer updates and sits at 0% for an hour? That's what was happening...) I could tell that Ryan was getting grumpier and grumpier so I was working on coming up with ways to cheer him up or make him laugh, but my mind was at a blank, so I went into the kitchen and prayed/tried to make a deal with God (not in a sacrilegious way...) that if we had family home evening (read a conference talk together) if he could PLEASE make the computer finish updating so Ryan could get his homework done and we could just enjoy the rest of the night. So, I proposed this idea to Ryan and he agreed begrudgingly, and so we read a talk and I kept frantically looking at the computer to see if it was working (by this time it was at 16%). We read the talk, which by the way was Russell M. Nelsons recent talk about the Book of Mormon. And I could tell that Ryan had little faith in my deal with God, but I tried really hard to have faith, and guess what?! The update miraculously finished just as I finished reading the talk! And Ryan was able to finish his homework in a couple of minutes and we were able to enjoy the rest of the night without anymore downs! He is SO lucky to have me. ;)
Some downs:
I already mentioned the one where Ryan was at work ALL day. That was lame.
Another was a SERIOUS case of pregnancy brain (which doesn't actually make me feel any better). Ryan and I are in the nursery at church on the 1st and 3rd Sundays each month. (Nursery is the class for the 18 month old to 3 year olds. They play with toys, eat snacks, have a very short lesson, some songs, and then more playing with toys. Pretty much the best place to hang out during church.) So, when church is over, we wait for the parents to come and pick up the kids, and this Sunday there were only 5 kids, and 4 adults so it should have been incredibly easy to keep track of them... but somehow I let one escape when the parents started coming and he made it out into the parking lot before he was found! It was terrifying, and I felt SO bad. Worst nursery worker ever award. (I'll add this to my list of traumatizing experiences in nursery. Once a couple of years ago when I was home for the summer, I was asked to help in the nursery, and on my watch, one of the children split his forehead open on the door hinge and ended up having to go to urgent care and have stitches... and a couple of weeks ago one of the girls got her head stuck under the room divider and I had to push her under while keeping the rest of the kids from sticking their heads under too... Does this make you worry about my qualifications for becoming a mother in a few months? Apparently God trusts me because I keep getting asked to help in the Nursery...)
The others just have to do with some unexpected expenses that we ended up having to pay... which was a bummer because saving up for a baby is stressful, and every day there is some new charge that we have to pay or something that breaks that has to be replaced. (From listening to other adults, I think this is something that will happen for the rest of my life, only the expenses will go from $120 unexpected dollars to $2000 unexpected dollars for a broken dishwasher or air conditioning or something.)
Oh, and that I forgot to take my morning sickness medicine the other night, and lost all the food I ate for the entire 2nd half of yesterday. (I shouldn't be too upset though because it's been about a month since I last threw up, so it hasn't been as bad as I make it sound. I just think it's unfair that I am 5 1/2 months into this pregnancy and if I skip my morning sickness medicine, I won't be able to keep anything down... but life isn't fair, I know, and I do have medicine, that if I remember to take, seems to cure my problem so, I don't have too much to be upset about.)
So, if your life doesn't have any ups or downs (ha!) enjoy reading ours from the last week! (Also, enjoy a million more pictures that I liked from when we played in the snow.)
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| Isn't he the most handsome guy you've ever seen? :) I am so lucky! |
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