30 Weeks!

It's hard to believe that I'm 30 weeks along already! I'm starting to get a lot of anxiety about giving birth, but I guess that's normal, right? I feel like there is still so much I need to get ready! I've been making these little hats and booties for her. I plan on making a lot more booties in a lot more colors. That way she'll have some to match all her outfits :)

And here is a pic of me. Some people have been requesting to see the bump, so here ya go!

Good bye my love!

So we did it. We bit the bullet and traded in our beautiful Infinity M35X this past weekend. We're both pretty sad about it.
When Spencer initially got it, he was a manager with Platinum and they were giving him a car allowance. Half way through the summer, we were informed that if Spencer's office didn't hit certain sales numbers, the allowance they had been giving us would be an advance. So we pretty much got the car with the expectation that the company was going to pay for it.
We got the car when the economy was great. Since it's gone down so much over the last year, so has the value of our car.
We decided to cut our loses and trade it in for a 2004 Honda Accord. It was a long afternoon and evening, and I'll be honest, it ended in a few tears.
(it's not hard to make a pregnant girl cry when you've been at a car dealership for 5 hours with no food, talking numbers and the amount of money you are losing)
but we feel like we did the right thing!
Just thought I'd let ya'll know about our big decision this last weekend!

Labor Day weekend

For Labor day weekend, this guy that my mom has been dating offered to take us all down to Flamming Gorge in his RV. Those of you who know Karen, are probably like, "Karen, going out camping in an RV? What?" Ha ha! But it was good for her and we really like this guy she's been dating. So if you see her, tell her how much fun it looks like we're having on this trip. And say "wow, he must be a really great guy if he wants to load your whole family up and take you on this trip!"
Spencer couldn't come cuz he had to work. We're sad about that, but we still had a lot of fun!

This is us going down the Green River (above: me and my mom, Karen. Below: my sister, Alyson, and her husband, Andy.)

We went to the Mountain man Rendezvous, That was pretty interesting! We decided to get some pics with some of the die-hard's! (we didn't get any with the guys in loin cloths, they were a little too authentic. -- if you know what I mean.)

This is Alyson overlooking Flamming Gorge. She'd be mad if she knew I put the bottom picture in, cuz it was supposed to be a joke. But she doesn't read my blog and I thought the rest of you would get a kick out of it!
This is me at the Flamming Gorge lookout. Some of you have been requesting some pictures of my belly. Honestly, you can't really tell. I feel like I'm just getting really beefy. But you decide. Here, I am 21 weeks.

I accidentally put these pictures in. It wouldn't let me erase them. So I just made them really small :)

This is, sort of, a profile shot. Can you tell I'm pregnant in this one?

Drum roll please....

It's a girl! I'm so excited! When I found out I was pregnant, I made a cute little purple hat with a flower on it and little purple booties to match. About three weeks ago, I realized that I better prepare myself in case it was a boy. So I made a little boy beanie.

Not that I would be sad of it was a boy. I was just so convinced that it was a girl. Plus, almost everyone thought it would be a girl (except Spencer and our brother-in-law, Andy)

So now it's official! We're gonna have a little girl!

We have a few name ideas, but we are open to suggestions. We'd love any ideas because we are having trouble agreeing on anything.

What do you think?

Wow it's been a while since I posted anything! Probably because it's been a crazy month! I flew home from Dallas on the 5th (in case some of you didn't know, we moved to Dallas at the beginning of July cuz sales were not good in New Jersey). However, for some reason, sales were not good in Dallas either. I flew home early because I had a wedding video job that weekend and also, one of my best friends was getting married.
Spencer was planning on staying in Dallas until school started on the 24th. But since sales were not going very well, we decided that it would be better for our family if Spencer left early and got a full time job in Logan before all the other college kids come back and there would be more competition for jobs up here.
So the day after I flew home, Spencer packed everyting up and drove home. Poor thing! He drove all 20 hours by himself. He only stopped for a couple hours to sleep in a parking lot in Parachute, Colorado. I told him that's how people get murdered by truck drivers, but he was adimate that he didn't want to spend $50 to stay for a few hours in a hotel.
Since we've been home, we've been busy moving into our apartment and looking for jobs. Luckily, the job search has gone pretty well and we've been able to spend some time playing, too! we've been able to spend a lot of time with my sister and brother-in-law, Alyson and Andy. And Andy even took Spencer out wake boarding the other day. I think Spencer is enjoying having a little bit of the summer left, since he's missed that last two and half summers!
Great news! Spencer got a grant from the government for his tuition! So all we had to pay was $90. And it will be the same next semester! This is a huge blessing!
Also, we both got full-time jobs! Spencer is going to be managing a cash loan store, and I'll working at Qwest. We are both so excited that we were able to get jobs up here only after looking for less than a week. We were nervous because some of our friends said that there were no jobs up here.
Also a plus... my job has benefits! I'm sure how it will all go down with the pregnancy, or what exactly will be covered. But it just gives us so much more peace of mind. We're also waiting to hear back from the medicaid people. Just in case my work won't cover my pregnancy because it was a pre-existing condition when I started working.
The lord is definately blessing us right now!
I thought that I would be able to get my sonogram by the end of this month to see if it will be a boy or a girl. But since we just got into town and I've never seen this doctor before, I have to wait a little longer to find out :(
So I thought it wold be fun to do a little poll....
What do you think it will be?
Write a comment to tell me what you think!

Well guess what...?!

A lot of you already know, but I thought I'd do the traditional blog post saying, I'm pregnant! I'm twelve weeks along and due on January 24th. We got to listen to the heart beat yesterday and that was fun! The doctor would find the heart beat and then she'd loose it and have to find it again. She said the baby was swimming around! I thought that was cute!
I've been doing good! For a little while I was feeling sick on-and-off throughout the day. Going into New York everyday didn't really help. I would feel sick on the bus and every ethnic food stand I would walk by would make me feel like I wanted to throw up. But I've been feeling pretty good the last couple of weeks. So that's good! I've also tried to still work out everyday. I'm planning on still teaching aerobics in the fall, so I have to at least try to stay in shape!
So we're doing good and we're very excited!

NYC

We been making trips into the city every once in a while (well I go everyday for work, but this is for fun) to do some sightseeing . This is us at the Castle in Central Park.

This is us in Times Square. My work is only a few blocks from here, so I get to see it all the time! But Spencer had never been to New York before we moved here.

The Tony Awards were happening that night. So that's what all the chairs and ropes were set up for. The reason I am diplaying my candy bar is because, just before that in the Hershey's store, I got our whole group free Hershey's bars by singing the Kit Kat jingle in front of the whole store! (I don't know who she is, but I really like the lady on the left side of Spencer)

This is cute little Bridget! My friend, Brooke Hallows, came to visit from Rochester one day and this is her little girl. We covered a lot of ground around the city that day and Bridget was so good! She was like this for quite a bit of it :)

Woops! This is Brooke, Jaime, and me in central park the day Brooke came to visit. Sorry, I forgot to switch the orientation before I uploaded it.

East Coast Fun!

Spencer had a lot of fun operating the video camera! Check out the farmer tan!

The FDR Memorail

Spencer standing in line for food during the great depression

The Lincoln Monument

The WWII Memorial The Jefferson Memorial

Two weeks ago we decided to take a little trip to Washington D.C.! (sorry mariah! We would have stopped to visit but we kind of tagged along with people who had family there so we just kind of had to do what they did cuz they drove :)

It was a few hours away, but it was really fun!

New Jersey or bust!!!

So we have safely arrived at Fort Lee New Jersey! But not without an adventure...

We left Utah on Monday morning. We caravaned with another couple but one of guys out here needed someone to drive his Tahoe here. So there were four of us and three vehicles to be driven. The intital plan was to all take shifts and we would trade off who gets to take breaks from driving. That seemed like a good plan at the time. Let me just say that in the three days (or 33 hours) it took to get here, there was only a three hour period of time where I was not behind the wheel. Spencer got the same amount of break time as I did. Cross country road trips are not for the faint of heart! (good thing they don't have a blog haha! Wait...that I know of...yikes!) Thank goodness for Harry Potter on CD and Saved by the Bell and The Office on DVD (The Tahoe had a DVD player in it) -- and just for the record, I have never read or watched any of the Harry Potters, so I am not a total nerd (I just needed something to keep me entertained for a long period of time!)

We stopped over night in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Spencer loved this because Michigan State is there and apparently has the biggest college football stadium in the country. So before we hit the road Wednesday morning, we checked it out. It was pretty fun! The campus is really neat, it's like it's own little city. It was also nice because we stayed with some family members of the couple traveling with us. So we got free room and dinner that night and brakfast the next morning.

We didn't get into New Jersey until late Wednesday night. It was pretty stressful! Non of us knew how to get around or where we were going. It was raining really hard, too. Not to mention that we had been driving for the past three days, so tension was high! When we arrived at our apartment complex, we were told that our apartments were being re-carpeted and were not ready for us. However, our managers booked an extended-stay hotel for us in the mean time. So we set out in the rain trying to find this place. Let me just say that the roads and traffic here are ridiculous! In Utah, Semi's are always the slow vehicles on the road and you get all mad if you get stuck behind one. Here, not the case. They are the ones tail-gating you, changing lanes and darting in and out of traffic! I thought I was gonna die that night!

The extended stay hotel is not like a normal hotel where there is someone at the front desk all night. They close at 11. So we get there and we can't get in. There was a phone in the lobby for emergencies and after hours assistance. This connected me to the only employee in the building who was a laundry lady that did not speak very much english and informed me that she could not check anybody in or look up resevations. I feel bad because I got a little assertive with this cleaning lady, but I mean COME ON PEOPLE! So we just ended up staying at the "no tell motel" that night. The next morning we we went to the hotel that we were supposed to be staying in (not without getting lost a few times) and unloaded our entire car into the hotel room so that Spencer could use the car the next day for work. Since we are going to be living here for four months, we had quite the load on that hotel luggage cart. The front desk girl gave us a weird look as we wheeled our tv up there.

It was clear that we needed a GPS cuz we couldn't go anywhere without getting lost. However, we couldn't even get to a store to buy the GPS without getting lost! Thanks to Erica's iphone, we found a target!

We got into our real apartments on Saturday. The guys were working so that meant that me and Erica had to move all our stuff from the hotel to the apartment by ourselves. It wasn't too bad. We just had a lot of bags, boxes and our huge Tv geez! Plus, the elevator in my building was broken. Luckily we're on the second floor, not the fourth. So it could have been worse.

Even though the apartments were all finished being re-carpeted, out furniture had not arrived. So we borrowed some couch cusions from some friends and Spencer and I have been taking turns getting to sleep on them. Luckily, the furniture guys came today! We have couches, a bed, a table, a dresser, lamps -- it's wonderful!

This is the longest post I've ever written, but the story needed to be told! Hats off to those of you who have gotten this far into the post! We're happy to be here!

The Rachel Ray Show

Since we are moving to New Jersey for the summer, I've been trying to find some kind of cool job or internship that I could do. Then it hit me! I could be an intern on the Rachel Ray show! Most of you probably know that I got my degree in Broadcast Journalism and interned for Channel 2 in Salt Lake a couple of summers ago. So yesterday I sent Rachel's people an e-mail with a picture, resume, and links to some of the shows that I hosted and anchored for at Utah State. I also told them all the ideas that I had for my summer as their intern. ha ha! Basically I told them that I want to be Rachel's "out and about" intern, where I would be her corespondent out amongst the fans. ha ha! I'm waiting to hear back from them. However, if I get rejected or they never get back to me, I'm just going to keep e-mailing and contacting them until I finally get something. Wish me luck!

So this is what I'm thinking....

I've been thinking of cutting my hair. I like my long hair but since I went blonde over the summer and then went back to brunette, it's kind of damaged. So I want to chop it all off! Ha ha! Above are some ideas that I have. In case your having trouble picturing me with the short hair, there are some samples! :) The blonde one at the top is not one my ideas, I just did that for fun!

This week...

I thought I'd give an update on what's been going on up here in L-Town!

On Tuesday, Spencer did something to his back playing church ball. He's been walking around like an old man since then. He went to the chiropractor on Friday and he said that Spencer sprained his lower back. He has another appointment tomorrow. He says he feels like it's getting slightly better each day. Hopefully, after to tommorrow's appointment he'll be getting around like normal!

Ever since the fall, I've been having small issues with my bosses at the Sports Academy. I haven't been getting into arguments or anything! It's mostly been that I would try to ask questions or issue complaints and I would get ignored, or given lame excuses, or just given the "run-around." Since, as instructors, we don't work together side by side, (we mostly see other teachers before or after classes passing in the hallway) I just felt like I was the only one feeling this way, so up until now I've just kind of sucked it up dealt with it. After an employee-wide e-mail that was sent out last sunday ruffled my feathers a little, I sent both of my bosses a more "assertive" e-mail than I would normally write. They got back to me with more excuses and one of them responded kind of defensively.

On saturday, there was an instructors meeting that no one even told me about. One of the other instructors called me after the meeting and told me some of the things that came up. Apparently, she has had a lot of issues too. So we are rallying together with a few other instructors and we are meeting with our bosses and the SARC General Manager tommorrow morning. Unfortunately, we are all a little intimadated by our bosses! Ha ha! So wish me luck!

The instructor that is trying to get all of us together to, kind of, "fight back." Is one of the main Yoga instructors. It was so funny cuz everytime I have ever talked to her, she is so calm and "zen-like." But last night on the phone she was like "this is Bull-****" and getting all riled up! Spencer and I were joking that this situation has "her shakra's all out of line""her chi is so not flowin right now!" ha ha!

Friday was our anniversary! We went out to Cafe sabor and got ourselves a new lamp for our apartment as our gift to ourselves. Ha ha! I know, traditionally, you are supposed to eat your left over wedding cake on your 1st anniversary, but there wasn't any left. So I made us a mini wedding cake. It was really cute! I was square, four layers, and it was about 9 inches high. It was a fun little thing to make!

This next week is Spring Break! Spencer doesn't have school and I have the week off of teaching aerobics! we've worked out a "Spring Break schedule" so that we can get a whole bunch accomplished and we don't waste our days away. Hopefully it will prove to be a successful week!

Correction! :)

We are not getting rid our internet now! We talked the comcast guys into giving us a better rate! Yay!

One year anniversary!

On Friday it's our one year anniversary! It's kinda crazy! Time flies! We don't have anything big planned, probably just dinner somewhere or something (I know, we're boring). But I'm excited that we've reached this milestone :)

Also, we are cancelling our internet for a couple of months. So don't be offended if you make a comment on our blog or something and I don't get back to you. We'll probably have it again when we get to Newark :)

10 things....

Rules: List 10 honest and interesting things about yourself. Then tag 7 of your friends.


1. I love crafts and making things! Maybe people think this is wierd or gross, but I told Spencer that when we get a house, I don't want to spend tons of money on new furniture and decorations. I want to get old stuff from the DI and garage sales and fix it up really cute!

2. I'm terrible about getting up when my alarm goes off in the morning. I think Spencer hates the person who invented the snooze button. I seriously press it at least three or four times every morning. Spencer tells me to set my alarm for the exact latest time that I can wake up, and then just get up then! It just doesn't work that way for me.

3. I feel like I clean my house everyday and it drives me crazy! I guess that's normal for most people, but I feel like if I clean it, it should stay good for at least a couple days! I think it's cuz our apartment is so small! It looks cluttered when there are like two things sitting out on the counter!

4. I substitute swear more than I should. I say stuff like "what the helanore" or "WTF" or things like that. Especially when I'm playing games or things when I'm being competitive. I should proably stop that habit before I become - in spencer's words- a "cuss face."

5. I love to have my house smell really good! Of course everyone does, but all over out apartment you'll find scented candles, air fresheners, wall flowers, sachets, and stuff like that.

6. I am not much of a pet person. Don't get me wrong, I like animals! But i just don't think that I will ever own pets. They shed hair, you have to clean up their poop, they cost extra money to feed-take to the vet-etc , they make your house smell like an animal, they jump up or sniff or scratch or aggrivate guests. All that kind of stuff!

7. I've watched so many make-over and style shows that I think I could be a personal stylist or a make up artist. I think it would be fun!

8. I think I might try my hand at selling security systems this summer. I figure while I don't have kids I should try to make as much money as I can and save it or invest it. That way, when I do have kids, I can stay at home with them and hopefully it won't be too much of a financial strain.

9. I eat about 2 pounds of carrots a week. Weird, I know...

10. I love to travel! The top places on my list to go right now are: Italy, Greece, France, and Peru. The list will change as I cross my current list off...

I tag.... Tiffany Morris, Morgan Bradshaw, Kim Noel, Cora Johnson, Tammy Griggs, Julie Andreason, Crystal Smith

Spencer picked out the current playlist...

Eastern Bound!

We've found out where we are going to be selling this summer! Newark, New Jersey! Crazy huh!? At first I was like "ugh New Jersey?!" But it's growing on me! There are so many cool things to do and see on the east coast, so I'm getting really excited! Plus I'll get to visit my old stomping grounds back east and show them to Spencer!
Here are some fun facts about New Jersey!

New Jersey is the only state where all of its counties are classified as metropolitan areas.
New Jersey has more race horses than Kentucky.
New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (1 sq. mi.) than Havana, Cuba.
New Jersey has the most dense system of highways and railroads in the US.
New Jersey has the highest cost of living.
New Jersey has the highest cost of auto insurance.
New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation.
New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to as the Diner Capital of the World
New Jersey is home to the original mystery pork parts chub, Taylor Ham or Pork Roll.
North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world, with seven major shopping malls in a 25 square mile radius.
New Jersey is home to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
The Passaic River was the site of the first submarine ride by inventor John P. Holland.
New Jersey has 50+ resort cities & towns, some of the nations' most famous: Asbury Park, Wildwood, Atlantic City, Seaside Heights, Long Branch and Cape May.
New Jersey has the most stringent testing along our coastline for water quality control than any other seaboard state in the entire country.
New Jersey is a leading technology & industrial state and is the largest chemical producing state in the nation when you include pharmaceuticals.
Jersey tomatoes are known the world over as being the best you can buy.
New Jersey is the world leader in blueberry and cranberry production.
In 1642, the first brewery in America opened in Hoboken.
The famous Les Paul invented the first solid body electric guitar in Mahwah in 1940.
New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the US, located in Elizabeth. Nearly 80% of what our nation imports comes through Elizabeth Seaport first.
New Jersey is home to one of the nation's busiest airports at Newark Liberty International.
George Washington slept here. Several important Revolutionary War battles were fought on New Jersey soil, led by General George Washington.
The light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture projector, were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park, NJ laboratory.
The first town ever lit by incandescent bulbs was in NJ.
The first seaplane was built in Keyport, NJ.
The first airmail (to Chicago) was started from Keyport, NJ.
The first phonograph records were made in Camden, NJ.
New Jersey is home to the Miss America Pageant held in Atlantic City.
The game Monopoly, played all over the world, named the streets on their playing board after the actual streets in Atlantic City.
And, Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world.
New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area outside of the Middle East countries.
The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey.
New Jersey has the tallest water-tower in the world.
New Jersey had the first Medical Center, in Jersey City.
The Pulaski SkyWay, from Jersey City to Newark, was the first skyway highway.
NJ built the first tunnel (Holland Tunnel) under a river, the Hudson.
The first baseball game was played in Hoboken, NJ, which is also the birthplace of Frank Sinatra.
The first intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick in 1889. (Rutgers College played Princeton.)
The first Drive-in Movie theater was opened in Camden, NJ, (but they're all gone now.)
New Jersey is home to both of "NEW YORK'S " ProFootball Teams.
The first radio station and broadcast was in Paterson, NJ.
The first FM radio broadcast was made from Alpine, NJ, by Maj. Thomas Armstrong.
All New Jersey natives: Sal Martorano, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Jason Alexander, Queen Latifa, Susan Sarandon, Connie Francis, Shaq, Judy Blume, Aaron Burr, Joan Robertson, Ken Kross, Dionne Warwick, Sarah Vaughn, Budd Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Marilynn McCoo, Flip Wilson, Whitney Houston, Eddie Money, Linda McElroy, Eileen Donnely, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman, Jerry Lewis, Tom Cruise, Richard Wojewodzki, Joyce Kilmer, Bruce Willis, Caesar Romero, Nelson Riddle, Lauryn Hill, Ice-T, Nick Adams, Nathan Lane, Sandra Dee, Danny DeVito, Richard Conti, Joe Pesci, Joe Piscopo, Robert Blake, John Forsyth, Meryl Streep, Loretta Swit, Norman Lloyd, Paul Simon, Jerry Herman, Gorden McCrae, Kevin Spacey, John Travolta, Phyllis Newman, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Eva Marie Saint, Elisabeth Shue, Zebulon Pike, James Fennimore Cooper, Admiral Wm. Halsey,Jr., Dave Thomas(Wendy's), William Carlos Williams, Ray Liotta, Robert Wuhl, Bob Reyers, Paul Robeson, Ernie Kovacs, Joseph Macchia, Frank Albert Sinatra, "Uncle Floyd" Vivino, and Kelly Rippa.

Eyelash Extensions

The lady that Alyson nannys for gets eyelash extensions and they look really good! You don't even need to wear mascara! I have such short eyelashes anyway, so I thought this would be a great idea.
About a week ago I told spencer that for my Valentines day present I want to get eyelash extensions. He was like "how much are they, like $100?!" And I was like "No! I bet they are not that much at all."
I went to some salons here in Logan and come to find out, they are $120! Then you have to get them refilled every few weeks for like $40 each time! (H-No!)
My sister got extensions one time, but she just bought them at Sally's and had a friend do them. They last about the same time and cost like $12. SO last night we tried it! Here's a pic. I know it's kinda hard to see. If you think they look totally fake, please tell me! I won't be offended. I would only be out $12.

Finally Figured it out!

I finally figured out how to add links to all of your blogs onto my blog! I know...I'm a little slow. But thanks for your help, ya'll!

Exciting News!

Spencer talked to his academic advisor about a week ago, and to get his Business Economics degree he only needs to complete one more semester after this one! I was soooooo excited! He's meeting with a counselor today to go over all the details and make sure that it can be done. We are so excited!

New Years Pricing!

I'm doing a New Years Special for my business! Check out my website for the details! I also have a new video posted and I should have another wedding posted by next week!