ooooooooh, yes please!

so the other night, i had a rough pregnant night... if i have those sometimes now, i don't even want to think about when i'm like seven months... oof

anyways, my dear friend maille told me i needed to get a snoogle.... at first i thought maybe she misspelled snuggie, but then i remembered that maille is smarter than i am, and she NEVER misspells ANYTHING (she's a writer), so i googled it.

UM, YES PLEASE! (if you forgot my birthday in february, or would like to take care of the pregnant lady, i will totally take charity) haha :)

this simply looks like heaven, and they say it's great for feedings in the middle of the night once the baby is here as well. it's kinda pricey, but i'm definitely going to order one for when i get back to arizona. i am SO excited! thanks maille! :)

more than tired...

so this baby is killing me! my doctor said it best when she said it would suck the life right out of me.... it's true. i used to be able to do 5 crabbing trips a day, and now i'm dead after 3! i used to be a night owl, and now i'm a bear after 10 pm. (dad said he never thought he would see the day when he stayed up later than me.)

i love it though... even though it's super stressful and VERY expensive ($750 for the doc to look "up there"... are you KIDDING ME?), i am so excited about this little life inside me. sometimes i am scared that we jumped in a little too soon... before we got our own feet underneath us, but how can i not be grateful that heavenly father is giving me my biggest dream of all???!!!

anyways, nothing much... just some musings from the pregnant lady

more to come... :)

a little secret :)

so we have some news....

and here it is...

about 11 weeks along... due date of January 11 (which is grandma sally's b-day)... and mom and baby are doing great...

more to come! :)

sweet home south carolina

they should really make a song about that... oh wait, James Taylor did, and i love him forever for it. i am home sweet home in south carolina for a couple months to help out on the boats. i love going out on the water every day... telling people about this magical place... seeing dolphins (and their babies)... playing with pesky little crabs.

this place is in my heart.... it's in my soul.... it's in my blood

arizona drivers

excuse me sir, why would you give me the finger when i was here first? why do you have more right to this spot of the freeway than i do? why do you ride my tail when i am in the right lane of the freeway going the speed limit... why not just pass me like a normal person instead of telling me to get out of your way?

excuse me ma'am, why would you rather run me off the road than let me merge? why would you pull in front of me when there is no one behind me? (especially since if i did the same thing, you would ride my bumper, wave your hands at me, and call me all sorts of dirty names?)

i never thought i would find meaner drivers than utah drivers... i was wrong... it must be the heat makes people cranky...

picking bones...

i have a few bones to pick, but i don't want to bog you down with too many at once so we will do one at a time. here we go...

bone #1: health care

dear mr. president, at first i thought maybe... just maybe... this was a good idea. i have friends from canada that told me how affordable health care is up there. however, they then told me that the health care is second to that here in the united states, and that they come here to get most procedures done. then i started hearing how much money it was going to cost us (taxpayers) for you to have your sweet health care bill, and i got even more upset. please allow me to give you a simple lesson in economics...

raise taxes = more people lose jobs because business owners cannot afford to have many employees, demand goes down because people don't have any money to spend, and thus we fall even deeper into a depression than we already are. oh and you can thank your friends the clintons for the housing crisis... probably not such a good idea to meddle in our open and free market and tell bankers to lend to those with lower income and lower credit scores... because what happens when the economy goes sour and people get laid off? oh yeah... they walk away from their responsibilities

lower taxes = more money floating around in the market, more jobs because businesses can afford to hire people, and demand thus supply goes up... therefore pulling us out of the depression that we are in... it's not that hard to wrap your head around

now that your economics lesson is over, here is my advice... if you are going to insist upon killing us with more taxes than we already pay, why not pour the money into something worthwhile... like, say, education. that way we can teach the rising generation to get a good education in order to get a good job that can provide them with healthcare... or let's just do it your way, teaching everyone to walk around with their hands out waiting for someone else to do it for them. let's teach them the value of good, hard work to get ahead, instead of instilling even further the "entitlement" mindset that everyone has these days.

stay tuned for:

arizona drivers

glenn beck haters

the makers of 8: the mormon proposition

those in opposition to SB 1070

disclaimer: this is not in any way meant to offend anyone. we are all entitled to our opinions. if you disagree, i respect your constitutional right to do so, and i expect the same in return. that is the beauty of our constitution... if that even means anything anymore.

baby fever!

so there are lots of babies coming into this world all around me... and it's driving me crazy!!! here are the most recents...

this is rowan. she is the precious of one of my dearest friends, maille. i haven't met her yet, but i am hoping this summer while i am on the island... hint hint :) if you had known maille and i back in our hey day, you never would have thought that maille would have popped out a kid before me. i was the one that was going to get married and have 6 kids before 30.... but maille and i both just hit 29, and she has one upped me :) i hope we have one soon so rowan and mine can be great friends like maille and i

meet owen... he is just a few days old, and this little squishy belongs to miles and kendra. he just came into the world this week and i can't wait to meet him! i hope before i go home for the summer, but if not definitely when i get back. miles and kendra are two of my very bestest friends that i met up at BYU. i will forever be grateful to josh for bringing me into that group of friends when i got home from my mission. they are so special to me.

other than that, my friend abby is about to pop, a friend at work is about to pop, desiree is working on fertility treatments right now to start her family with chuck, and there is just baby fever in the air. i thought it was a possibility last month, but alas the little stick said no. i'll keep you posted :)