9 weeks of the flu

I've decided we will probably only have one child.  Most people tell me that I will forget how miserable things were and want another baby.  I have out-smarted them all and will write some descriptive things down to remind myself of what it was like.  Whatever I chose after reading it years from now will tell a lot about myself.  I may be very, very stupid.

Here are some highlights of pregnancy so far:

-The first day of being sick was on our one year anniversary.  We had eaten a really yummy breakfast of french toast and sausage.  I haven't eaten sausage since- mostly because I thought it was food poisoning.  And if eating sausage makes me nauseous for 9 weeks, I will most likely never eat it again. 
-I had no idea that a person could be so tired after 10 hours of sleep and laying in bed the whole day before.
-Phases of food: pop tarts, cereal, pretzals, 7-up, cheese
-Food I will not eat for a long time because I saw it after it was digested: golden puffs, ham sandwiches, frosted flakes
-Food that always sounds good: Cheese, pizza benders, Panda Express, most everything not mentioned above
-It is amazing that nothing. NOTHING. will make the nausea go away.  It may settle for an hour, maybe two but it does NOT go away.
-Taking a sleeping pill every single night actually did help take the edge off the nausea.  I'm convinced though, that it was the cause of a headache I had for more than a week.
-I had a horrible cold/sinus infection.
-Telling Brad one day that I threw up while at work.  I said being sick at work had to be the worst.  His response was that being buried alive at work would probably be worse.  That only made me fill a tiny bit better, but it did make me smile.
-Running out of a meeting and barely making it to the bathroom on time.
-Stopping at Del Taco after a really fun play Riley and I went to because I hadn't eaten in a few hours. Ate the taco just in time.
- Not really eating meals, just eating whenever I feel my stomach might be getting empty.
-Eating a bowl of cereal in bed, then sleeping again for another 20-30 minutes before getting up and ready.
-Going to bed at 9:30 every night
-Crying for silly reasons.

Maybe that is enough of the negative.  To give myself a fair chance in a few years, I won't hide all the positives:
-Watching Little House on the Prairie- really, it is awesome.
-Reading a lot of books
-Having a flexible work schedule
-Having Riley around who does a great job cleaning, cooking and making sure I eat.  If I ever say, "Oh dear, I need to eat"  he says, "what do you need?" He'll even stand up and walk towards the kitchen.  Unless he is in the kitchen (50% of the time) he'll walk one step towards the fridge.
-Getting really uplifting texts and emails from parents, siblings and in-laws.
-Thinking about the fact that I'm not sick for any old reason- that a (hopefully healthy, beautiful) baby will be the end result!
-Buying realllllyyy  cute clothes. And getting things ready for a baby.
-Choosing a name.  Although every time we discuss it, Riley ends up naming objects that could maybe, in a million years, pass as a name.  The worst so far has been "counter"....
-Hearing a really cute, really fast heartbeat every month that the doctor says is the baby- I'm not convinced it's not my stomach churning...

my conclusions upon writing this:  the positives outweigh the negatives.  And even though I thought I was getting a lot better and was very disappointed today, I know that it will get better!  Eventually. I mean, I can't be nauseous forever, right?  Nauseous or not, there is some beautiful 90 degree weather and a water park calling my name.

Funny pictures

So these are from when the family was here. Jane took all of these :) they all happen to be of graham but they are pretty funny!

 

 

This one is my favorite: 

Christmas this year will be fun!

We have great news to announce!  Call us Mom and Dad  because we are expecting a baby later this year.  December 19^th!  To save you from doing the math, that makes us about three months along.  We are very excited!  We got to listen to the heartbeat yesterday and it was the cutest thing.

Last week we had some family in town.  Unfortunately I completely forgot my camera so I have no proof.  Hopefully Mandy and Stacy put some up soon so I can steal them.

We are looking forward to some fun summer plans!  I hope all of you are enjoying your summer as well!

Bigger and better things

A lot has happened since the last time I posted.

• We finished finals successfully!  We finished finals on Tuesday and finished the week with some fun spring activities that we didn't take any pictures of.
• I got in a car accident :( That darn University Avenue is a killer.  I have sworn not to drive on that road during any busy time of day.  I'm almost too embarrassed to put a picture up but I'm sure you are all dying to see what I did to our lovely, reliable, wonderful car. Before and after.

• Doesn't that just tear your heart out?  Well, everything worked out great, the car was considered a total loss and we received a lovely check from Geico a few short days later.  
• It took us almost a month to find a new car, but last week we finally bought one!  It is an 04 white Toyota Camry.  We are hoping it lasts us a long. LONG. time.  And I'm sure it will if we treat it nicely! (sorry we don't have pictures, but I promise it isn't very exciting)
• On April 23rd we celebrated our ONE YEAR anniversary!  Cool, huh?  My little brother told me that he never thought we'd make it this far.  We celebrated the day with a lovely walk, Costa Vida and a trip to the Riverwoods where we wasted $4 trying to win an iPad and then watched the Hunger Games!  Which we were both quite disturbed by.  Nonetheless, it was a great day!  We've had a really awesome year. Some of our favorite memories include our wedding (of course!), fun trips to Manti, Las Vegas, St. George, Logan and our honeymoon cruise, kayaking with my parents, the cabin with the Wilson's, rafting, hanging out with family, celebrating Christmas, dreaming about an iPad, getting an iPad(!!!! still the coolest thing either of us has ever owned), walking to school together every morning, date nights, dinners, me suggesting we go out for pizza but instead Riley makes one (happened at least once a week), fun parties, meeting new people in our  super cool ward, getting locked out of our apartment on several occasions, and many, many more!  
• Last weekend we went up to Logan to visit Brandon and Chelsie.  They showed us a pretty awesome hike that I may, or may not, have been extremely sore from the next day.  Pass the Popcorn is a really awesome game!
• Riley and I attempted a dutch oven pizza at Bridal Veil falls... after forgetting our lighter and trying to use a car cigarette lighter, riley drove down the canyon to get a lighter (talk about dedication).  Unfortunately not even that would make our two year old coals light...  we ended up cooking it in our oven at home and renting War Horse. 
• Riley took the GRE and did aawwessome!  We will keep you all informed when we figure out where we are going!  Which we won't know till.... next spring! Until then, folks!  (ok, I will most likely update before then...)

Awkward family photos

Kelli, you might especially enjoy this :)

Last night, Riley and I were doing homework and he suggested that I Google "awkward family photos", so I did.  This website came up: http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

Go ahead, try it. You won't regret it.  I spent almost half an hour laughing and awwing, but mostly laughing.  Some of them are horrifying.  For example: 

I'm not exactly who, in their right mind, would allow their child to sit on this terrifying creature. 

Hope you all had a Happy Easter that in now way involved this distorted rabbit!

Spring!

No more of this: (not that we have had much snow...)

Instead we get this:

This is what I've been waiting for all winter long.  I borrowed this picture from here.  I guess we are supposed to site things like that... anyway.... I have been waiting to see the grounds people out planting and putting pretty dark dirt to cover the gross planters everywhere.  Soon the trees will blossom and things will be green again.  Today the temperature reached 70 degrees.  Which means several things:
-two weeks and two days left of classes
-finals end on April 18th
-we can go swimming, and on walks, and sit outside, and walk to school in the not freezing temperatures, and all sorts of other great stuff.

Isn't campus beautiful when everything is alive?

Happy Pi Day

I have always enjoyed pi day.  I remember in my 7th grade math class everyone had to bring something in the shape of a circle to share with the class. Some people brought donuts.  One kid brought a pizza.  This quickly became a favorite holiday.  Unfortunately the government doesn't recognize this as anything significant or else we might have the entire day off to celebrate by eating pizza and singing the pi song. That's right, there is a song.  Pi equals... 3.14159265358. So cool.  

http://www.piday.org/