One week more

One week until we are home in Utah.

I only have one more week to do nothing...but don't worry I have big plans.

Today I will do nothing. Actually, maybe I will try to go to the library and get one last book for this week. Yes I will do that.
I will also attempt to make the blog look better. I don't know how. I don't like blog templates. Someone help me.
I found Bewitched on Hulu. That was a good find.
Tomorrow I will do nothing.
Wednesday I have the car so I will return the guitar and sewing machine we have borrowed (no, the sewing machine has not been used. I didn't bring any of my supplies and wasn't about to buy new scissors, tape measurer, etc). I will make cookies for those we borrowed them for and I will also use the groupon I bought at the beginning of the summer for a manicure and pedicure.
Thursday I will begin to pack...maybe. Oh yes, and the company is taking us to lunch.
Friday I will finish or begin packing. Friday night we will pack the car
Saturday morning we will leave for Utah.


When I get home I will do the following:
Find out the gender of the child.
Buy a cute outfit for said child.
Brainstorm for nursery
Begin to actually buy things for baby...maybe
Research more for baby things
Buy maternity clothes? BLAH no thank you
Buy a maternity swimsuit...any suggestions?
Eat at Cafe Rio
Eat at Snoasis
Move into our new/old place. We will be living in the upstairs of the house where we were in last year. WAHOO!
Buy books for the semester
Enjoy the fact that it is the last time I will have to buy textbooks for myself.
Figure out how I will finish my dance minor
Find a job...interview for jobs I've applied for
Exercise
Wish I was at PAC rehearsals because I don't know how to exercise without dance. Maybe I'll just go and dance for the exercise. Tanner was asked to TA for PAC this semester so perhaps because our director loves him so much she will let me. And I have not lost my balance yet, just my dancing muscles.


Clearly I have more to do when I get home. AND my family will be there so while my wonderful, hard working husband is working next week, I will have people to do things will. Or at least I can sit with them and do nothing with them, and talk to real people.

And I will drink out of the tap. No more buying water bottles for this lady.

YAYYYYY for one more week of doing nothing! :)

Politics and my opinion

Some things have been on my mind lately and I thought I would get my rant on.

These are totally just my opinions and you can disagree or agree with me. I just hope it makes you think about what your opinion is on some of these different subjects.

Let's start with something easy.

1) Dr. Oz. Who is this guy? I have no idea what his credentials are,(I haven't cared to look him up) and I don't know who he is. Why do people love him so? I heard he has told people that it's good to have oil in your body because it runs throughout and lubricates everything...oil is not running around your muscles and making them move better. And suddenly this guy reminds me a lot of the wizard from the wizard of Oz...remember how he was a fake?

2) Olympic medals. The tax thing. So the whole deal here is that people who win a gold medal get $25,000 additionally as a stipend for their hard work not being able to have a job while they train. Silver gets a smaller amount and bronze an even smaller amount. So those men and women have to pay $9,000 in taxes if they win a gold medal. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Don't tell me the IRS is saying that the $25,000 is being counted as income! Well, isn't it income? At first thought I was like, that's rude. They shouldn't tax those athletes. But they earned that money by working hard. Other hard working people pay taxes on the money they earn. The Republican who is putting forth a bill  claims that the IRS is being discriminatory to the athletes. Aren't you singling them out by having them not pay on the money they earned? Because being an athlete is clearly so much more valuable to our society than working somewhere else. Um, can you say discriminatory?

3) Chick-fil-a. Eat chicken. That's all they're selling.  And the mayors of Boston and Chicago are again, being discriminatory against someone who they think it's being discriminatory. What the...

4) Education. No. I will not go there. That soap box will have to be saved for another time. Just know I have one.

5) Contraceptives. So if you want a morning after pill you can just go get one. I think the government is thinking, if we let people get birth control for free they will not have babies out of wedlock and we won't have single mothers and we won't have poverty and we will have happy, whole families. THIS IS THE ANSWER TO  FIXING POVERTY. Yes, often times when there is a rotten tree, I like to cut the branches off too instead of dig the whole thing out. This is just taking away people's responsibility. 

The family is the basic unit of society and we are seeing it fall apart. It is degraded and thus so is our country following suit. 

Ron Paul encourages us to govern ourselves and our families. I agree. It begins in the family.

I find this life to be confusing sometimes. I see our country struggling in some areas and doing well in others. I see the constitution hanging by a thread. Yet, I am comforted because I know this is the way God intends it to happen. We can not fix the government or change our economy with a flip of a switch. The problem is within our families and in this generation of entitlement. Blah blah blah. I'm done. 

And today I'm 21 weeks pregnant. YAY! :) 

Some belly pictures

My mother claims that many people are anxious to see belly shots. I have not be vigilant at taking them every week. I'm sorry. I will start to do that now. I promise. SOOO here are a few. I think I've taken more on my phone but it does not claim being smart and I don't know how to get those online.

 This is when we told Garrett we were pregnant. He was at work and the owner of Culver's said we could put it on this big sign. So cool.

This is the day we found out we were pregnant. We visited my parents and she insisted we take a picture. Thank you Lindsay for making me look pretty in this picture. :)

SO...4.5 weeks

11 weeks. In the lovely bloated stage. Excuse the face and open drawers. 

17 weeks
Tanner's Birthday. Don't worry we documented those festivities as well.
And no, I don't wear make up anymore isn't that what the pregnancy glow is anyway?

Just a few days shy of 20 weeks. 

How's that for random? 

We're waiting to find out the gender until we get back in Utah in a few short weeks!! We can't wait.

And yes, this little girl or boy likes to move and kick and punch his/her daddy's hand. Too fun. 

Really Grateful

You know, this summer has been really hard.
I've had a hard time sitting around with no car 95% of the time and feel very lazy.
I'm not going to go into all of that because it's boring and I have had enough pity parties to last me a while.

But I'm really grateful for a good husband who is the best therapist.
I'm grateful for my mom and sister who let me text/call/skype them almost every day.
I'm grateful for good friends who let me blab to them and cry to them on the phone.

I am grateful that I get to read a lot and expand my mind and also watch tv shows that are popular and I never knew about because I don't watch tv...except for this summer.

And I am grateful for the Olympics because now I can cheer and cry with the athletes. And they make me motivated. Like I did push-ups and squats and calf raises yesterday. This is a big deal.

I'm grateful that I've been sick with this little babe and even more grateful that at 20 weeks I'm starting to feel better.

I love the pool and I love homemade pizza and I love that I get to go to Alabama this weekend. I love that even though my husband is a self proclaimed health nut, he brings home resee's peanut butter puffs and cinnamon toast crunch for cereal.

I have a lot to be grateful for because life is great, even amidst this hard summer.

AND did I mention that Tanner won a company competition and a free trip to Cancun? Ya, that's something else to be grateful for.

Update for my avid followers

Whenever I see some of my favorite blogs void of updates I get sad. I like consistency. That being said, I don't think I am anyone's favorite blogger or a very amusing read. I would still like you tell you something.

I'm obsessed with Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next Series. Thank you Megan, thank you thank you thank you. I was working my way through the series and went to get the fourth book at the library. When I saw the other three just sitting there I thought, what the heck!  I should just bring them all home!  I did just that. I am really glad I love reading so much...so much that the other day I was sitting there reading while Tanner made dinner alone and I did nothing to offer to help. I am ashamed. The book (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet) won. Thanks Jenn!  I'm trying not to bring my book to the dinner table as often and yes, I've made more dinners lately.

I will soon post some really really hot pictures of myself with a semi-pregnant belly. I am currently 19 weeks and 2 days along and I like being pregnant. I will be perfectly honest and say that those kicks I feel (or a head jab-seriously how does a fetus this big make an impression-it must be the head) are strange. I am trying not to think about it. So get ready to see pictures of me......and no I did not do anything cute with a chalkboard so don't expect to pin my pictures. 

Faith and Miracles

Tanner and I just started reading the New Testament and we love it. I love the conversations it spurs and the spirit I feel as we read.
I also love the Bible videos found on lds.org. Here is one of my favorites. Miracles are always directly related to faith.

Why I may be an irresponsible parent

I did some really fun things this past week. Maybe they were too fun.

On Tuesday the company Tanner works for paid for everyone to go to a huge water park. It was located in Santa Claus, Indiana. It was about three hours away so we left bright and early to get a good taste of Holiday World. Yes, Holiday World in Santa Claus. Victoria, he does exist. This was the very first theme park in the world and it was all about different Holiday's. A huge Christmas tree greeted us as we walked inside and Christmas music was blaring from the speakers. Since it was July and about 1000* outside, it did not feel very normal. It was very fun however. We spent most of the day in the water park and decided not to explore Fourth of July land or the Hallo-swings.

The Splashin' Safari park was awesome. I was extremely paranoid about going. The night before I had a mini break down because I didn't want to go. I would just be sitting there all day in the hot sun, holding my husband back and I wouldn't want to go on any of the rides. Then one of my favorite people out here texted me and told me that we had to ride together. After a lot of coaxing we decided to go. I was so worried about the whole being pregnant and going to a water park. Obviously-it can be super dangerous. There was however, the longest and biggest water coaster in the world "THE MAMMOTH" at this water park.

That was the first ride we decided to go on. It was a long long wait. I looked and looked for warning signs saying no pregnant women but there was nothing. Seriously...nothing. (Little did I know that Tanner and one of our friends who works with him saw the sign and decided to with hold that information). So after about an hour and a half of waiting in the sun (and drinking lots of water that was stationed throughout the lines), I passed out. My really strong husband caught me and escorted me out of the line and under a gate. Yes, he is strong. Apparently everyone kept asking what was wrong and he was like, she's pregnant (and crazy). He kept asking me where I wanted to go and the only thing I could think of was the bathroom. So after a bathroom trip and feeling sooo much better, I decided we had to go back to the ride. Thankfully everyone let us through because they had seen what happened, and we were able to go on the ride with our friends. IT WAS AWESOME. It was truly the best water slide/roller coaster I have ever ever been on. I just...look it up on youtube and try to experience the awesome-ness of this ride.

The next ride we hit up had a no pregnancy sign. So I waited and watched. It was fun...and then our friends convinced me that if I could go on the first ride, I could have gone on that one. Roller coasters are bad if you are pregnant because they have lap bars and jarring twists and turns. Yes, water slides have dips and turns but you are floating on water. I did a selfish thing. I went on the rest of the rides. I do think our baby enjoyed it however because he/she was flipping out the next day. That is good news.

So that was my selfish day where I went on water slides and ignored warning signs and my baby is still happy and consequently, so am I.

Another irresponsible thing I did last night involved one of my cravings. I have been thinking and craving sushi for about two weeks now. BUT I know that the world of the internet cautions against raw fish. I understand why. But I couldn't shake sushi out of my mind. So we went. We ordered nothing with raw fish and I still got my sushi fix. And it was an awesome awesome place. Tanner thinks it's funny because for hundreds of year women have been pregnant and eating whatever they want including raw fish-hello Japan- and hot dogs and every other bad thing you aren't supposed to consume. But perhaps we're living less healthy now and the risks are higher because our bodies are just not taken care of as well. Who knows.

I did already beat myself up about going on the water rides and eating sushi. I had a mini break down. I'm really awesome at those. They happen quite frequently. Tanner is really good at handling them. Except when he tells me to control myself-telling a pregnant woman to control herself makes her more hysterical. At least, it did in my case. I don't think he'll be using his favorite word any time soon. :/ And I'm probably going to be eating more sushi during the pregnancy. Actually not probably. I will be.