ideas??

I've had our lil man's room painted for about 2 months now. The only problem is, I can't decide or come up with any way I want to decorate it!!! I've thrown around a few different ideas, but when you're pregnant, at least it seems this way, you find something you like but if you don't take a picture of it or write it down, you forget it; it's inevitable. So I'm open to any decoration ideas, themes, etc. I've got 9 weeks till this lil one comes and I'm going into nesting mode.here's a picture of how I painted it.
(One wall blue, the rest that brown color)


and now... let the creative juices FLOW............

a shout out

To a couple of my favoritest Country Mercantile homegirls:) Monique & Bethany. There's a little bit of a story to explain this shout out and the answer it was to my prayers :) haha.

Seth went to my hometown last week and while he was there, had to do some work at the Country Mercantile. I worked there for about 5 summers during high school. My first summer, I gained AT LEAST 10 pounds in the 1st two months there. Check out the link to the store on the right of my blog or in this post in the first sentence to find out how. (chocolate and goodies)

I knew Seth would be going there and was trying to find some way that I could convince him to bring me home some of the goodness, because... 1. he doesnt like chocolate and doesn't like me to eat a lot. 2. I'm supposed to be cutting down on sweets at this point in time.
BUT I couldnt think of a convincing enough reason why, so I decided to just let the opportunity go.

Well Seth comes home from work and I come inside and he says, "oh, you have some stuff from Monique and Bethany." MY DREAM CAME TRUE!!!! They had sent him back with a bag of chocolate covered gummy bears and strawberry kookabara licorice!! in a cute lil basket. They made Seth PROMISE to get it to me and he did, he didn't even try to hide it! I'm so glad they made him promise, or it would have been hidden for sure! I seriously could not have been happier.

THANK YOU SOOO SOOO SOOO much Monique and Beth! You both are awesome! and not just because of that.

Dreams DO come true :)

requests granted

here it is... Chubilicious, myself at 30 weeks.

broken streak

1 year and 2 months coming.
Tomorrow will be the first day that I don't see Seth since 1 year and 2 months ago. To me that doesnt seem that long, but some couples make it 3 yrs or more before they don't see each other! I thought I could handle it. I knew I would miss him and be completely freaked out at night (i'm kind of a scaredy cat in the dark) but I didn't realize I would feel like HALF of my entire being was missing. It's a weird, strange, hurtful feeling. I don't like it. He left me after sacrament meeting today and right when I sat down in Sunday School I had to get up and leave to go the bathroom because I couldn't hold in the tears! I blame it mostly on my crazy pregnant hormones :) I miss my man.

And to make the water works worse, I got home and saw a bunch of sticky notes everywhere. It was def sweet and I was grateful for it. Especially my goodnight kiss one:) Thanks love.
Here's a few:

in my spare time

This may be known to none, besides my husband. Why? because I only started doing this about 2 months ago.

I LOVE browsing recipe blogs and recipe sites. AND I'm spilling the beans...I actually REALLY enjoy cooking. I never thought I would, I never really cooked meals in college, just threw random things together. But ever since about 2 months ago I have tried to make a meal every night. Of course I haven't done it every night since, (who's THAT perfect? ;) ) but I have tried new recipes every time I have cooked since. Okay twice I have used repeat recipes.

I used to tell Seth that I did NOT like cooking and was almost going crazy that I had to do it for the rest of my life, until I realized I was lying to myself when I found I would look through blogs to find new things to try and cook and I LOVE IT, the cooking and all! Sometimes I even look forward to getting off work, so I can start cooking ;) (so maybe that's a little bit of a lie)

My favorite blog so far is www.favfamilyrecipes.com

Got any favorite recipes?? Send 'em my way;)

high 8 or high 9 lbs?

-After measuring me-
"You're a little bigger than normal at almost 28 weeks, were you a big baby?"
"No, I was about average."
"Hmmm."
"My husband is 6'10"."
"Ooooh.... ya..... you're probably gonna have a big boy."

28 week doc appt. this morning. Weight's a little high since last time. No more binging out on sweets for me :) and I think I'll join the neighbor lady that walks around our subdivision 12 times. Okay maybe more like 4 to start out. BUT Doc did measure me and the lil guy is bigger than average at this rate. Bring on the tallness:)

(this is at 27 weeks)

"has anyone ever told you...."

...you look like Uma Thurman?"
"Ya, actually."

I've gotten that comment, no joke, like 30 times within the last 6 or 7 years. My summer job in high school at the Country Mercantile is where I got most of them. It was a common one.

Today at work was just one more of the 30 plus times.

I think she's super pretty. MAYBE sometimes I resemble her, and that's why I hesitated to put a picture next to her.

You decide.. (none offense taken if you don't think so, cuz I don't totally see it )