24 Weeks & Sunday Dessert!

 If you didn't already know...I'm pregnant! I am 24 weeks today. I had a doctors appointment on Friday and everything is looking good. He (it's a boy!) is just over 1 pound and about the length of an ear of corn. 

I haven't had any weird cravings. I hear about women having strange cravings or any sort of cravings. I don't think that I have had any. I enjoy eating food but nothing in particular. Today I was excited to bake. I have wanted to bake some cookies for quite some time and I finally did it! I made oatmeal cookies and chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. They almost taste like carmel oatmeal cookies though because of all the sugar. They are D.E.L.I.C.I.O.U.S!

New Traditions...

This year for Valentine's I was kind of obsessed with creating a tradition that we could do every year for Valentine's Day from now on. I think that I was successful and I'm excited for next year to try out our tradition. What is that tradition you might ask? Well, don't get to excited because it's nothing fancy but it was fun....

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HOMEMADE PIZZA!!

We decided to make a margarita pizza, delicious! 

Giveaway!

Amy at www.agoodlifeblog.com is doing a pillow pet giveaway!


They are these super cute pillows that look like pets! They would be great for families that are not ever allowed to have cats, dogs, ferrets, or any other form of live animals! I hear they are super soft and cuddly. I'm really hoping to win this time. I previously lost the giveaway for a cute alphabet poster but I'm hoping for better luck this time and more entries! Wish me luck!

Dental Appointment

Ryan recently asked me when the last time I went to the dentist was... I responded, "I'm pretty sure I went just before we got married while I was still on my parents insurance." That of course would have been close to a year ago now so I needed to go in. Apparently you're supposed to go like every 6 months I guess!? So I finally made an appointment and when I was there asked when my last appointment was. To my amazement they told me April of 2008! That is nearly 2 1/2 years! Most people and dentists would understand if you were a student and didn't have dental insurance but I had no excuse! I have always been insured and just never went! So, I was told that I had a cavity and also I was having a previous filling restored to white so that is doesn't look like there is food stuck between my teeth!
I had the procedure done this morning but I'm thinking that they did the wrong tooth because I'm not noticing much of a difference. What do you think?

(notice in the after I have to use my finger because I can't smile!)

Cute Baby/Va-Cay/ Extreme Home Makeover

This adorable little guy is the main reason we all went down to Texas. He is so cute. He is 4 weeks in these pictures and he still looks just like a newborn. He is so small. This is the only picture that we got of him smiling and isn't it just adorable!

While we were there Ryan (my brother) was setting up his classroom for school and one of the days we decided to go down and help him get set up. While there we may have posed Ethan for some photos. I think Beth may have started to get worried with all the different pictures we were posing Ethan for!

I just can't get over how adorable he is! I love him so much and miss him so much. Beth and Ryan try to send us pictures of him everyday and I love getting them. He is now up to 10 pounds! He's growing so fast.

While we were there we also helped Beth and Ryan fix up there house. We laid floors, painted, trimmed trees and bushes, and fixed the plumbing! It was quite a week.

While we were there all the girls decided to have their eyebrows threaded. It's this new way to shape and pluck your eyebrows.

Check out this video of it: Eyebrows

So, the video claims that it is a less painful and easier, but don't be fooled, it is incredibly painful!! Our eyebrows did look great but Oh My GOSH! It hurt so bad.

So, our week was great and I was sad to leave. I love seeing all of my family. I can't wait until Christmas to see them all again!

4th of July!

So I know this is really late but every time that I get on to do an update I get so distracted with trying to fix my pictures on photoshop that it takes me hours and I don't get anywhere and then I still don't have pictures to post. So I've started to use Picasa and I really like it for creating little collages. It helps me put a lot of pictures in one blog without it being ridiculously long. So, I hope you enjoy the update and hopefully more will soon follow!

Priest Lake....

Every year my family goes camping at Priest Lake for 4th of July. It's really the only time we ever go camping but we love it! This year we were on the windy side of the island and it wasn't very warm to begin with. We got there Friday afternoon and by Saturday afternoon we'd had enough. We spent pretty much the whole time in our tent playing games and we decided that we could do that at home where it was more like 90 degrees instead of 40. So, after we had just unpacked and boated everything over to the island we packed it all back up and headed home! I think we made a good choice because the weather never got better and we had a blast at home.

The collage includes pictures of us hiking, sleeping, and trying to stay warm in our tent!

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Ephrata...

After I got home from camping with my family for the night Ryan and I decided to head over to Ephrata for some family and fireworks! We had a blast over there with everyone. Even Marilyn and Megan were home to visit! We went to the water park, had fun with fireworks, played on iPhones, and even had a pushup competition!

A Grown Up Job

So, last week I started my job at Fitness Together as a personal trainer. Back in May I took the ACSM certified personal trainer test and...

I PASSED!

That's good because I need it to have the job I currently have. So this last week I was just doing the usual following people around and learning everything but on Tuesday I actually started to train clients, all by myself.

It was so awesome!

I'm very excited to work at Fitness Together. The other trainers are awesome and the work atmosphere is amazing.