Some crappy phone pictures!

Last Saturday night Paul and I went and saw Frozen. It really did live up to all the hype! I loooooved it. Paul liked it too. I will be owning that movie. And Tonya I am waiting for you to send me a copy of the soundtrack! 

The theater we went to is AMAZING. It's an AMC theater down in Layton and just look at how ALL of the seats are in the theater:

Yes. They are all leather RECLINERS. You have a little button on the side of your chair that you can adjust it to however you want. It's amazing and pretty much the only theater I'm going to go to in the future. (By the way, Paul laughed at how he looks in this picture. He looks like he's gained 50 pounds! He wants you all to know he has not. Ha ha. )

I also painted this night stand to match the dresser for the little nugget's bedroom. I really like how it turned out.

And I guess that's all the crappy phone pictures I've taken lately. 

I'm down to the last week of doing my job on my own-next week I start training my replacement! That is weird to me. I'm excited to be done, but a little sad to be leaving thins job. Change is weird, especially knowing this will be a BIG change, meaning, I will soon have a child I will be responsible for the rest of my life pretty much. 

Pregnancy Update. . . I guess

I haven't blogged much about this pregnancy, like you have already noticed. I think mainly because I don't know what to say! I feel like I should document some stuff. . . . but I don't have any pictures of the bump so if that's all you are reading this post for, you might as well stop reading.

For the most part things have been going really well. I really have no major complaints. The only things that really aren't ideal is the hip pain I experience every night when trying to sleep. Even that has lessened a bit. Probably helps that I have a foam pad on my side of the bed and also use a body pillow. Now it's just getting to the point that whenever I change positions I automatically feel like I have to pee so I am making multiple trips a night to the bathroom. Oh well. I also feel like my nose has been constantly stuffy the past few months and apparently that is normal. . .all the extra blood flow can cause your membranes to swell. Awesome.

One other thing that really isn't super fun is just getting all the annoying comments. Especially the ones about how big my belly is. Gee, thanks. As if I hadn't noticed that it gets in the way of everything too! I feel like I popped out way early and I know everyone is different but some comments I've gotten (that I'm sure someday when I'm not full of hormones I will find funny) are things like "I think you're going to have a BIG baby!" or "I think you're going to have to have a c-section your baby is going to be so big." Or the classic "when are you due?" and after I respond end of February I get the "oh wow, you look like you're ready to go to me!" Hearing all these things have helped me to mentally remember to never EVER say those things to pregnant women. Let's just stick with the "you look so good!" ones, ok people? But whatever. I know people mean well and just don't realize how it sounds when it comes out of their mouths.

I thankfully passed the glucose tolerance test with no problems. It really wasn't as bad as I was expecting;. It helped that my doctor said I could eat before the test, as long as it's not anything high in sugar. I set that appointment for early in the day so I just had some eggs for breakfast. The drink wasn't that bad either. I got a fruit punch flavored one and it tasted just like Hawaiian Punch and brought me back to my childhood days. The only thing I wasn't a fan of was having to chug it within a few minutes. But everything went smoothly. I scheduled out the rest of my appointments which was so weird for me! These weeks are flying by and before I know it I will have given birth and will be a stay-at-home Mom. So. Weird.

Other Happenings

First, the following weekend after the baby shower I got to see most of my family AGAIN because little brother Cory was invited to be a guest organist on Temple Square! This is so amazing and not really surprising that he made it past the audition process. He really is amazing at the organ and it was great to be able to support him at his first recital.

The only picture we snapped was this sneaky one since photography during the performance isn't really allowed.

He's walking up to the organ if you squint and look closely!

It was fun to hear him play and to once again catch up with family. The next time I see any of them I will have a baby! This is getting more and more real.

Something else Paul and I have been up to-re-vamping our date nights. We kinda got out of the habit of planning our weekly date nights. We were busy with summer stuff, then I was sick during that first trimester stuff, and we just stopped doing them. We feebly tried to plan a few from pulling date ideas out of our jar, but both of us kind of lost interest in any of the ones we had come up with! It was turning into a chore to plan these dates and that is NOT the point. They are supposed to be something fun to look forward to, not dreaded and put on a to do list. So for now we are leaving the date jar alone and came up with some other ideas.

Since we both work full time and are pretty much homebodies, we decided that Friday nights will still be date nights, just a little different. One of us will take a turn coming up with something for dinner. We're going to rotate through three categories: Iron chef style (where we randomly draw out two ingredients from a bag and come up with a dish that way), International Style (where we pick a letter from a bag and find a culture that starts with that letter and make a dish from that culture), and Recipe book style (where we draw a name of one of the recipe books we have and make a new dish out of that). The other person is in charge of drawing a letter out of a bag and picking a movie that we own that starts with that letter.

 We figured we should make good use of the movies we own and get around to watching them. So far it's really been great. These types of dates are just what we want. Laid back with a little bit of planning. They have been going great.

Other things going on: I'm going to start training the lady taking my place in a few weeks. After some debating I've decided to go part time my last month at work. Mainly because I realized Paul's health insurance benefits are better than mine. Also, my company will be going through the open enrollment process during the month of March and it was just confusing to me how my benefits would play out since I wasn't planning on staying past March. . it was just easier to quit being full time so that I could qualify to be on Paul's benefits.The deductible is a lot lower so that will be nice. And I'm actually really looking forward to having a few days off a week to finalize and get everything ready! As long as she doesn't come early. . .which I have a feeling she won't. Well, I also had a "feeling" that she was a boy, so I could be totally wrong. We'll see I guess!

Not much else is going on in our lives right now! I can't complain, we are really blessed. I'm trying to remember all that we have and do my best to give back. Heavenly Father blesses me beyond comprehension every day.