18 Weeks!

Can you see the little pooch?? It is there, but not very noticable yet!

Pictures of Nothing!

For those of you who have been bugging me about getting pictures up so you can see.... here they are!

This picture was taken at 13 weeks. Almost 3 weeks ago.

This picture I took today January 2, two days from being 16 weeks!

I promise to do better... but it's kind of hard for me to remember. I know I don't look huge, but the way I feel is totally opposite of this picture. The last little while I have been very bloated and it is not the greates feeling.

I have been doing a lot better lately morning sickness wise, but I have had a nasty cold and it has totally wiped me out energy wise. We are still doing good and have our 16 week appointment tomorrow morning which we are excited for. We will not have an ultra sound this appointment, but by next month hopefully baby will be nice and let us announce what we are going to be having!!

Big Snow Storm!

Before Christmas we were wondering if we would ever have a White Christmas, but on December 21, our power went out about 7 a.m., and as I was laying in bed I told Brett I thought I heard a snow plow go by. He didn't believe me but got up anyway to look outside, and this is the wonderful view we saw!

Our Cute little house!

Poor car buried in the Snow!

I had to go to work this day, and so I made sure the power was on in Ephraim, and sure enough it was, so I got to get ready in the dark. Brett didn't trust me driving so he took me to work. As I was at work my sister in law sent me this next photo of Brett and his brother.

Turns out they started building a Snow Cave around 1:30 p.m. because they still didn't have power and they wanted to play in the snow. They made 6 big snow balls and rolled them all together and eventually by about 8:30 p.m. that night this was the finished product.

Sorry these next two are side ways but the one is the entrance and the other is the inside when they were digging the cave out!

That night I did not get home until about 5:30 p.m. and we still did not have power. I was up watching the boys build the snow fort, and the mayor came over and made sure we all had a warm place to sleep for the night because they didn't think the power would be on 'til morning. I started thinking about all the luxuries we have with just electricity alone, and how long and cold the night could get. Finally around 8:00 p.m. after almost 13 hours, the power did come on, so we were able to have a good nights sleep.

First Trimester

The First Trimester has come and gone. At first I didn't think being pregnant was going to be very hard, and then around 8 weeks I thought differently.

1. Sickness!

I had thrown up once or twice not thinking anything of it, but one morning Brett had a job in Beaver so I tagged along with them. I woke up and ate some crackers, went to the bathroom to get ready and up they came. Well I grabbed a yogurt on the way out the door, and by about Nephi it came up as well. We took a pit stop there and I tried to get some crackers down... and again it was pointless. I just gave up and tried to sleep the rest of the way to my house. Well I was very nauseous all day, but never threw up again. Well this trend continued, and I learned I had to eat regularly On Time, and I couldn't talk about certain subjects, and many smells would make me drive heave to where I would not do so well. I still get sick occasionally but not nearly as much as I used to.

2. Tiredness!

There was a phase that I went through where I was always sooo tired. I would go to work all day, and then I would come home lay in bed and send Brett to the freezer where we lived off Freezer foods (mainly chicken nuggets and corn dogs). Nothing got done around the house, unless Brett did it, and I am very grateful for my wonderful husband and his willingness to help me with everything. The last 2 or 3 weeks I have been feeling pretty energetic, but I've realized I can still get worn out very easily.

3. Mood Swings!

Hormones are definitely raging right now in my body. One minute I can be so happy and the next I can be sad or mad. I've learned that I usually get so angry over the stupid things, and so I've been trying to be better at that. I also cry a lot more than I usually do. Any little thing can set it off as well, so watch out! lol

4. Appetite!

My appetite was gone for a while and as I mentioned we pretty muched lived off of chicken nuggets, corn dogs, and also frozen burritos. In the mornings I have NO appetite usually and even still have to force myself to eat just because I know I will get sick if I don't. I tend to eat more healthy than I ever thought I would. Some of the things I have craved are apples, salad, banana peppers, and more fruity things than anything else. I would occasionally crave chocolate, but then I would eat some of it and it would not be very good at all.

My pregnancy hasn't been too bad, but then again it is my first experience so I wouldn't know what bad is anyway. I see some girls come into the pharmacey and how sick they look makes me feel pretty good about how I've been feeling. I probably don't have any reason to complain, but I still do, but what pregnant woman doesn't? We are very excited about having this baby, and even though it has been rough here and there it will all be worth it in the end!

Baby!

So as most of you, or probably all of you know, Brett and I are going to be having a baby in June! It has been quite the journey and we are very excited. The first little while before we found out I knew that something was up, but I didn't know what. Well eventually I came to a conclusion that maybe I was pregnant. We went to the Temple one night with Brett's dad, and his brother and wife and on the way back we stopped at Wal-mart. I immediately strode over to the pregnancy tests, and Brett thought I was crazy going to buy them when his family could find out so easily. Well we snuck the tests out successfully, and everything was a go. The next day I decided I would take the test... and of course nothing. "Well if I'm not pregnant, then what is wrong with me!!," was all that would go through my mind. Well about 4 days later, I still knew something was wrong, so I went into the bathroom and took another test. I looked at it and wanted to cry because at first glance it looked negative. I looked at it again, and noticed a line I had never seen before, and I started crying. I was so excited because I was going to be a mommy, and I immediately ran to my phone to call Brett. He was at work so I whispered into the phone, "Brett you're going to be a daddy!" I'm pretty sure it came as a big shock, and he immediatley changed the subject so that his brother wouldn't think anything was up. Well proud daddy came home that night and finally could show his excited, frightened, proud, etc. emotions. Daddy has been so sweet to Baby and I, and we are very lucky to have such a wonderful man in our lives!

Holidays!

We have had fun the last couple of months spending time with family and friends. It seems like everywhere we go, I either don't take pictures, or I totally forget the camera. We went down to Beaver for Thanksgiving and spent the time there with my family. We've had our Christmas tree up since before Thanksgiving, and are finally getting it all decorated.

Brett scouted the best tree on the mountain, and retrieved it!!

And FINALLY we are getting it all decorated.

It is almost done! Finished product soon to be on!

The first weekend in December we were able to go with Brett's brother and his girlfriend to Helper to watch a light parade. I did remember the camera this time, and I even remembered to take pictures... but then the battery died! So we only got a few pictures but here they are!

We are excited to spend our first Christmas together, and wish all of you a Merry Christmas!!

Hunting 2010

Fall time has arrived, and when the fall comes everyone knows that hunting season is right around the corner. This year Brett and I both had deer tags. Brett had a muzzle loader tag, and I had a rifle tag. Brett also had bought a spike elk tag, so for the past couple of weeks we have been on a hunting frenzy. Unfortunately Brett didn't get a deer, or a spike. However, he did enjoy hunting with his brothers, and one of his brother's got the "Big One" out at their property, and they were all way excited about that.

Well soon October 23rd came around the corner the opening day of the rifle hunt, which also happened to be Brett's Birthday. We were hoping that it wouldn't rain a whole lot the night before because the roads would be way muddy. We woke up that morning at 5:30 and started our adventure. We left about 6:15 and headed for the mountains. As we started it was way muddy. We were going to try and take our truck up to the top, but it kept getting worse and worse, so when we couldn't go anymore, we parked at a flat area a mile from the top, and climbed in with his brother in a little Toyota. The soil is very loose, and it has a lot of clay in it, so our truck was just digging like crazy because it is too heavy. Well we decided to go the long way around because we figured the short cut would be too hard to get up with it raining. We came along and a Jeep was stuck almost going to go into a hole. Brett and his brother got out and were able to get them turned around, and we almost turned around ourselves, but we figured we might as well give it a shot. The clay was so slick that when Brett was coming back to the truck he was just standing up and he slid down the road. A little further up, we ran into a big Ford that had slid off the road, and we were able to get around it, but we weren't able to stop else we would have lost momentum. After we got up on top the roads are more rocky so we didn't even run into problems. We finally got to where we wanted to be, and there were soo many people up there it was ridiculous!! I didn't even know if I dared shoot if I saw a buck because I didn't know if there were people sitting below me. After a while of sitting there it got quite cold, and we were hearing shots all around us, but we saw no bucks. We headed back to the Toyota and Brett's dad and his brother were making a fire. All 6 of Brett's brother's were there and his dad so it was all of the boys and me. We sat around the fire for a while, and we decided we wanted to go try a different spot so we left. We drove about 2 miles, and stopped and talked to someone we knew, and continued down the road. Everyone else had pulled off a different road, and we thought they were still ahead of us so we kept going. Brett and his brother saw some does, and I spotted the Buck! I was literally almost pushing Brett out of the truck! The deer took off, so Brett and I took off trying to cut them off. In a second the does and fawns came across but the buck never did. We cut back a little ways and Brett spotted him. He was about 80 yards away. I knelt down and shot him. I didn't know if I had hit him or anything, but Brett reassured me that he saw it hit. We started to follow where we had seen the deer, and it took off down into a canyon. We got on the tracks, and eventually saw blood along the trail. I wasn't sure if he was dead or not, but about 100 yards down the steep canyon, we lost the trail, and Brett looked around for a second. It had gone into a group of pine trees and died. I haven't shot a deer in a long time, and I forgot how much your adrenaline gets pumping!

This picture was shortly after we found him

Brett was kind enough to Gut it for me. He later told me if I shoot big ones he'll gut them, but if they're little he won't. Luckily he was just teasing me and said he'd really gut anything! The dark spot on it's body is where I shot it at!

I had my own personal hauling crew!

We were able to bring the rhino down a ways and take it to the truck

All of the boys!




More Antler shots

Brett's best birthday present this year!

We hung the buck in a tree outside of Brett's dad's house. It was way funny to see people (especially hunters) driving by and their reactions! The game warden even stopped by in the evening and said that it was the biggest buck he had seen all day.

I had a fun time being with the family and spending this time with Brett, but I'm also glad that I'm done because it's supposed to snow the rest of the hunt!