I've been tagged...

So now that I have been tagged I guess I'm supposed to write 6 facts about myself. Here we go...

1. I love playing games with our families. I could seriously play for hours! But I have a very hard time doing the "every man for himself" while playing. And everyone knows this about me, so I'm always the one being guilted into helping someone else out. If ever do a move/play (depends on the game) that causes someone else to fall back I instantly feel bad! I just can't be mean! lol.

2. I love a clean house! But I hate the process of making it that way. There is nothing better then coming home from work or waking up in the morning and having the house "perfect." I usually spend the first few hours of my Saturday mornings cleaning the entire house, I always feel so satisfied after! Even though I know it's only a matter of time before it's starts to get messy. But, the good thing about not having kids yet is that the house will usually stay clean for most of the week. We all know this is soon to change though. :)

3. I can't go to bed at night without having the bed all neat and tucked in. I don't always get to make it in the morning because either Steven is still in it when I leave or I run out of time, but no matter what I have to have it all straightened out again before I can go to bed. I seriously get sleep anxiety if the bed's not fixed before I get in it. Steven thinks I'm crazy or maybe a little OCD about it. Oh, and I hate it when Steven is in bed before me, I like to be the first one in, don't ask me why, cause I have no idea?

4. After about 8:00pm my mind shuts off. If there are any projects to be done or anything that involves too much thinking I can't do it at night. I am not a night person. If Steven and I start talking about, lets say our finances after 8pm I can't do it, I just get really frustrated. Any hard thinking my day might require has to happen earlier in the day. But that doesn't mean I can't get into a good board game after 8, go figure?

5. When I'm getting ready for work in the morning I do everything in the exact same order everyday. If I do something out of order I'll forget something. I don't know why I'm like this, but I've been this way since high school. My hair stuff and make-up even the stuff I use in the shower gets put back in the same spot when I'm done using it everyday. That doesn't mean my bathroom counter is perfectly clean when I leave in the morning, it just means I set my hair straightener down in the same spot on the counter everyday and such. After writing this out I'm starting to think I'm a little weird...I have never thought of myself as having OCD tendencies, but I think I have a few. hmm...

6. Lets see one last fact, I love to crack up laughing, the kind of laughing that hurts your stomach and makes you cry. It's seriously one of the best feelings ever. I have certain people that when I'm with them this almost always happens, I love it!

Okay that's it, there are my 6 random facts. I'm going to tag everyone listed on my blog, I don't have very many of them yet, so all of you can do it! :)

It was a great day...

Time Out for Women and Girls was really great! There was awesome speakers and amazing music! The day just went by way too fast! I really hope they come again, I would go every chance I could! We left very early that morning to get a good spot in line so we could get a good seat, and what do you know, we were first in line! We had about an hour before they opened the doors so lucky for us Cassandra had Uno cards in her never-ending-bag-of-supplies! So we of course had to get a shot of us sitting there playing while we waited.

I didn't do very well with taking pictures but I did manage to remember to take my camera out once during the conference, so even though this shot makes me look huge it is the only one I have to show of us actually in the conference. This was during one of the 20 min. breaks, you can see the line of people behind us waiting to get autographs of the speakers and musical artists they had there. I didn't do the whole autograph thing, I'm not really into that, but I did get to give Hilary Weeks a hug! She is one of my all time favorites, so that was cool! Oh, we also had perfect seats! We were center stage third row back, and the only reason we were in the third row was because the first two were reserved for Time Out people. It was really cool!

Afterwards we went out to ice cream, and we had to take a picture because they were huge! But very yummy! All in all it was a great day, we had a lot of fun together!

That's all for now....

Time Out...

Tomorrow I'm going to Time Out for Women and Girls with my mother-in-law and my two sister-in-laws. It should be a really fun day! We went last year and I loved it! If any of you women out there have never been to a Time Out for Women you should try to go, it's really great! I'm going to try to remember to take my camera with me tomorrow so I can get some pictures, but I make no promises ;) Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Excited!

I'm so happy to have found so many of my cousins with blogs! I had been wanting to start a blog for a long time now, but didn't know anyone else who had one, so I'm glad I finally just did it. I knew there had to be other bloggers out there that I wanted to keep in better touch with. :) Now I just need to get my friends going...
Looking forward to staying in better touch with everyone!

The past two years....

It's crazy to me that we have been married for a year and a half now! So for those of you who we don't get to see very often, here are a few shots of the past couple of years and our family of two. I have loved this time with just Steven and I, and I am sure I'll have times when I'll miss it, but I am soooo looking forward to our family of three!
This was one of our engagement pictures taken almost exactly two years ago! (I just realized the date is still on the picture, oh well.)

Another engagement picture. Wasn't that orchard soooo beautiful! There is no color editing in this picture. Oh, and I have to add, our engagement pictures were taken by our lovely friend Ashley!

Our wedding day! It's still crazy to me that we have been married for 1.5 years! It really doesn't feel like this day was that long ago. This was taken on the top of the Oakland Temple, it was such a clear day you could see all the way to San Fran. behind us, that doesn't happen very often!

This is one from the reception with my girls. You can't tell from this picture, but the gym was decorated so beautiful! It was especially pretty when the main lights were off, so the only lighting was the white christmas lights and the lamp posts we had around the room.

This is one from our honeymoon, if I remember correctly this was the day after we got married when we were still in LA, I believe this was taken on Venice Beach.

Another honeymoon picture, we rented this little peddling cart thing to ride around the island with. It was a lot of fun, but our legs got a little tired at times when we were trying to go up some of the hills.

This was taken about 2 months after we got married. We were at the Oakland Temple, Steven was in one of his old missionary companions wedding.

This one is us at the beach in Oregon. We went in July of 2007 with my family on their annual trip to the Oregon coast. I believe this was at sunrise. This trip is always tons of fun!

And then finally, this was our 2007 Christmas card picture. Our first Christmas as a married couple, about a month after we moved into our house and about 2 weeks after we got Charlee. We had a lot going on at this time last year! I still can't believe this was taken almost a year ago!

So that's it, hopefully I didn't bore you with all of the pictures of just Steven and me. But it was fun for me to look back on the last couple of years and see how much has happened in such a short time!

p.s. if you click on the pictures you can see them in a larger view.

Baby bump

I have had a few requests for e-mailed pictures of my growing bump, so I decided to post the picture on here in hopes that it will get those people checking out my blog! My real hope is the more my family/friends check out my blog it will get them to want to start one of there own! hint hint... ;)

Anyway, so here I am, at the end of my 16th week. Sometimes when I look at myself I think I look "normal" for this stage of pregnancy, and then other times I feel like my belly looks bigger then it should be, and that scares me, as I'm still not quite half way yet. I want to keep my weight gain in the healthy range...guess I better not go over bored on my eating and make sure I get my evening walks in!

Slow start....

I realize that it's been about two weeks since I last posted, and in my last post I had said that I was going to post everyday or close to it. Obviously I haven't started out too well. But, my reasoning was because I really wanted to have some pictures to post the next time I wrote and I have been horrible out trying to take pictures! So I figured at least some of an update with our without pictures is better then none at all!
So, lets see, what's been going on? Mostly just enjoying the fall! I am loving this time of year when its not hot, but not freezing cold and a few rainy days thrown in every once in a while. But I know winter is going to be here before we know it.
This last Tueday for YW we went to the Pumpkin Farm, it had been a couple of years since I had been there, and going just made me that much more excited for this baby to come! I can't wait till Steven and I can take our kids there, I loved going there when I was a kid! So I have decided that we are going to carve pumpkins this year, which may seem kinda silly since we don't have kids yet, but I really want to and I want to have them to put on our front porch! :)
As far as baby news goes, I am 16 weeks and at this piont my due date is March 28th. We have the ultrasound scheduled for Oct. 29th, Im so excited! I can't wait to actually see the baby and find out whether or not we should be calling it a "he" or a "she"! I feel like my belly has grown a bunch lately, and I have to admit, I'm not feeling like the "cute" pregnant girl I was hoping to feel like, I just feel rather large. My dr. did say at my last appt. that I need to watch my weight, oops! :)
Well I can't think of anything more to write about at the moment, I don't even know if I have any readers yet, which makes me feel kinda funny, like I'm just telling all of this to "internet land" but hopefully I'll get some comments on here soon!