First Week in 2011

Cute Steve and I.

31 weeks! Stretch marks are NOT funny.  Steve keeps telling me they are a right of passage - well - there isn't anything beautiful about this right of passage!

31 weeks - oh - this face is getting too pregnant!

Getting back to school hasn't been as hard as I thought.  We did our belated Christmas party which was fun.  We're back to real life.  Steve and I went with our friends to a delicious pizza restaurant in the Riverwoods called Malawi's Pizza.  We've been having good luck lately trying new restaurants.  La Jolla Groves is also amazing!  


We're attempting to clean out our back room which immediately was deemed the storage room as soon as we moved into our apartment.  Steve and I have decided we are too much like pack racks.  We have good intentions with things, but it all just gets stored away.  We still have a bunch of organizing to do so we'll have room for the baby, but we're getting there!  We went to Toys R' Us to get a couple things I needed for my class - and Steve had a visit back to his childhood and wanted to explore the whole store while he carried around one of those plastic light sabers that collapses into itself and shoots out when you flick it.  I think I almost got hit in the face about twelve times while we were there!  He was in heaven though. :)  


My sister, Rachel, just turned 18 which I feel has totally dated me.  I can't believe she's going to be graduating college!  It's funny to feel so old at times and then so ridiculously young (like thinking I'm actually going to be a parent!).  You just do it though - don't you?  Anyway - life continues!  Here's to another freezing week in January!

Christmas time - Steve hangin' out after church.

30 weeks! I think my face is actually getting more pregnant as we go - blah!

New York Trip

Here we are at Angelo's Pizza from the first night we were in Times Square - yum!

Times Square

Classic M&M store

Hanging out at the subway - we were there probably half of our trip - like true natives!

Steve had to have a hot dog in Central Park. :) That was the main experience he wanted to have.

We went to Rochester for Thanksgiving and stayed with Maren's parents. Here we are at the Hill Cumorah. So fun!

This is a terrible picture - but I'm at 24 weeks here. We had just gotten to our ghetto but clean hotel in Jamaica, New York!! We had a great trip there with our good friends, the Dille's.

Here is the belly at 21 weeks! We have been really bad at documenting my belly growth.

Married July 25, 2008

The beginning of the blog...

And so it begins...I had never yet entered the world of the bloggers until now.  I decided since Steve and I are expecting a little boy to come mix up our crazy lives I should attempt to document some form of what goes on with us!  And, with it being New Year's and all...what a great time to start! 

Steve and I have been married for 2 1/2 years and have loved every minute of it.  We are both from Mapleton, Utah and never dreamed we would marry someone from the same place!  Lucky us!  We have lived in Provo on the west side of town...where our apartment complex neighbors are wonderful, but most of the rest of the neighborhood receive about weekly visits from the police.  Flashing lights no longer phase us. ;)  Okay - I may be exaggerating, but we don't mind the rent and we love our ward.  

Steve is finishing his undergraduate in Exercise Science and will graduate this spring.  Wahoo!  He has applied for graduate school in the Physical Therapy programs, and we are just waiting to find out about interviews this next month.  He is more than excited to be done with his undergrad.  He keeps quite busy being a full time student, being a head T.A. for Human Anatomy, doing research for a professor, and working as a Physical Therapy Tech at Peak Physical Therapy.  He is serving as Elders Quorum President right now in our ward as well.  He is a BUSY man!

I am in my third year of teaching elementary school and in my second year of teaching 1st grade.  They are a cute class for sure.  Thank goodness the beginning of the year is over - training six year olds in how to do school is quite the ordeal.  I've kept busy serving as the Young Women's President and then the 2nd counselor in the Stake YW Presidency.  

Steve and I found out in July that we were expecting our first little addition to our family.  We couldn't be more excited!  The morning sickness wasn't too horrible.  Steve mostly wasn't allowed to talk about food unless given permission.  The few things I could stand that first trimester were chocolate creamies, cole slaw, ginger ale,  and steak.  What a random selection of foods!  I started teaching just before the first trimester was over which was nice.  The second trimester was the funnest having more energy and enjoying food once again.  I haven't had many cravings - I think Steve has taken over that part of the pregnancy.  He has had many symptoms including late night runs for cherry popsicles or rootbeer floats as well as sore feet, hands, and back that need to be rubbed all the time!  He has been a very great husband of a pregnant woman.  Apparently my being pregnant was much easier for him than he expected.  He had this idea that I was going to turn into a raving, hormonal, emotional maniac.  Maybe because we are having a boy - the lack of extra estrogen has saved me from the emotional mania.  Who knows?  Steve has wanted all boys forever, but after finding out we're having a boy now, he's okay with having a girl next (since he can decide and all). :)  

I took the glucose screening test for gestational diabetes and got a very high sugar count back...and then had to take the tolerance test which takes over three hours and I couldn't eat all the yummy holiday treats for three days before I took the test.  It was terrible - and I don't wish that on anyone!  They take four blood samples (which left bruises) and you have to fast.  Fasting when pregnant is NOT funny.  The lab results were normal, and my doctor thought they probably gave me the wrong dose during the screening test which resulted in a high number he had never seen before.  Sheesh!  We are just glad I don't have gestational diabetes.  Now I am in my third trimester - the long hall.  I've got quite the bowling ball belly and the stretch marks to prove it.  I never stretch marks could be so ugly!  Steve keeps telling me it's just part of the passage of life, and he'll love me anyway...it doesn't make the marks any prettier though. :)  

We've decided on the name Ross Charles White for our little guy.  Ross is Steve's first name that comes from his grandpa on his mom's side.  Charles is my dad's middle name.  We like the name, but still have to see him to make sure that name fits.  Little Ross has graduated from kicking and punching me to what feels like resistance exercises.  I'll see and feel my belly be pushed out on one side and held there in that position for a while and then he'll relax.  He seems to like rolling around in there and trying to expand his living space.  I think that's how I've gotten these stretch marks!  It is such an amazing feeling to feel a little something moving inside you...weird - like an alien moving around - but such a miracle.  I can't believe my body just knows how to house and grow this little person.  It's amazing!  

With the Christmas break coming to an end, we are both a bit sad but back to taking it all a day at a time.  2011 is going to be quite the year with a new baby in the future and who knows where we will be living as well!  What an adventure!