The Bridal Show

We survived! Thank you everyone for all your help. This couldn't have happened without all of you!

Rachel had a baby.

Baby Reed!
We made ourselves at home in the hospital. It was a long, long day...

The sound of settling...

Stress..stress...stress.  Rachel and I are putting on a bridal show in 3 weeks.  I am throwing up my guts, Rachel is going to pop any day.  WE GOT THE COVER OF THE MAGAZINE!  And all we can think about is all the hard work and effort we put in to this point, only to lose all of it on our inability to do much more than lay on a couch.  I'm freaking out, and if I think about anything other than rainbows and bunnies-I throw up.  I can't be too happy, too stressed, too angry, too excited-it all makes me throw up, and quite frankly, I am tired of living in a permanently temperate environment just for my digestive tract!  And my phone won't call out today because I haven't paid my cell phone bill..and so I am left to my own madness here at home, all alone.  It's so hard because, I don't want to go to work today, I don't want to do anything at all.  I just want to sleep and sleep and sleep.  I have no desire to do anything-this just isn't me.  I miss my drive.  I don't even want to try and find it I feel so tired and on edge, because, once again if I do ANYTHING, it makes me throw up.  Writing this is making me need to throw up.  I need help.  Rachel and I need help.  We both realized this last night that there is no way we are going to be able to do this bridal show alone.  Is there anyone out there willing to help to sad sad pregnant women that throw up all the time, forget what they're saying mid sentence, and may or may not go into labor at any moment?

April is Prego...

This is a picture of Me and Jon.  I am blonde now, and much much skinnier and Jon looks like a cartoon...
The pictures I took of my test turned out bad, so I stole a stock photo on the internet.  You can just pretend it's mine-it's the same brand I took.  

Snow Day!!!

Our poor kitty-kat got her first taste of snow this year.
Unbelievable.  seriously.
St George had it's first real snow day.  School was cancelled and everything (for a whole 2 inches of snow.  I know, it's weird)  We're a bit more accustomed to Idaho where we need a good 5 feet to cancel school.  Anyway, I've never seen it stick for a whole day-and such huge flakes!  It was a amazing!

Secret Santa

So, long story short, we have a group of friends that we do FHE with every week and this year we decided that instead of having our own Christmas Party and buying each other gifts that we would like to do a Secret Santa project.  It was the coolest thing because we really pulled together more stuff than I thought possible.  I was so amazed to see how much we were able to do and it was just the neatest thing.  I think the best part about it is that I feel like half of us could use a secret santa this year, and we were still all able to contribute.  Love it.  Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!

The live Nativity

There were goats and shepards and llamas and everything!

And jon in his snow suit, and I in my scarf...

Jon and I had the opportunity to go with a bunch of our friends to the live Nativity at Tuacahn here in St George.  So fun.

Gingerbread houses and Christmas Trees

Our Christmas Tree!  Instead of a star, or an angel or anything like that we have the grinch!
Jon says it is even more stunning in person.  Truly a gingerbread work of art.
His houses are always so creative and different.  It really isn't fair.
Mines way bigger than his.

Smashing Pumpkins in Vegas

So, my friend Kristy invited me to go on a date with her to Smashing Pumpkins right after Thanksgiving and it was a sweet concert.  I have tried multiple times to upload a video of it, but Blogger hates me, so it's not happening.  sorry.  It was awesome.
Our one decent, yet still blurry picture of both of us.

Thanksgiving

We had us a gluten free thanksgiving this year.  It was traditional and non-traditional all at the same time.  I think Simon had never seen so much food all in one sitting (he's from England, so he is only beginning to see the large quantities of food we Americans attempt to shove in our mouths for holidays sake.)
Kristy really, really wanted some of that Apple cider.
Oooo, and here is Jon with the beginning of his now massive beard.  He made the pumpkin pie almost all by himself this year.
I love whip cream.

Beware, there may be some Movie Spoiling in this one...

So I may have watched this movie twice now, and I kind of sort of downloaded the soundtrack, which I am listening to a little bit and ummm...I'm like 15 years old.  Hey, at least I don't have the pink streak in my hair anymore-that would drop me to 13.  I did like the movie.  I had to see it a second time to decide.  I think my favorite is still the baseball scene-just because it is EXACTLY how I played it out in my mind while reading the book.  Critique?  Well, I was a little disappointed in some of the dialogue-I really feel like some of the stuff straight from  the book was less cheesy than what they ended up saying.  I was a bit bugged that they added scenes not in the book and left some important scenes out that I think should have been there.  I can understand if they have to cut scenes due to time-but if they are filling in with other stuff that wasn't in the book-that bugs.  Overall casting was SO much better than I originally thought it was going to be.  Just looking at stills of the actors that they cast pre-movie I was very worried.  I really like how they all turned out.  Edward and Bella-perfect.  I didn't think I was going to like Jasper and I think he worked great.  They really needed to tone down Carlisle's makeup-I think he would have been so much better toned down a bit.  OH!  The Edward in the sun thing-ug.  ew.  sad.  Oh well.  I can't think of how they could have done it better, but it was WAAAY too cheesy.  Considering the small budget and inexperience of the production crew, I think it went better than I thought.  Overall, I liked the movie, and if you want to go again...I'm game.

April Baby

So this was me as a baby.  I threw a Baby Shower last night and we had everyone bring baby pictures.  This is me.  I was surprised that a lot of people seemed surprised it was me.  It was a fun shower-Congratulations to Rachel, she totally cleaned up gift-wise.  So awesome.  And I think it was a lot of fun.  I'm just glad it all came together in the end...

I'm a Loner Dottie, a Rebel...

I'm in a bit of a weird funk today.  I renewed my love affair with The Get-up Kids and it has taken me to a different place in my life.  A place of sadness, lots and lots of running, countryside, and the comforting smell of chlorine and trees.  It's just weird how when you give all the CD's back at the end of a relationship and then go without hearing songs you listened to everyday for a couple years-the things that spring back to life are crazy when you hear all of them again.  If you get the chance, go listen to the entire "Something to write home about" album from The Get-up Kids.  You'll thank me later.

Bath & Body Works...

Well, I am making the transition from Halloween stuff to Christmas.  I already miss the Halloween store-it was so weird to pack it all up and be done already.  It doesn't seem like November!  For the time being, you will be able to now find me at Bath & Body Works.  This is my 4th time working for The Limited Brand Co. and I've loved it every time.