Packham Pair's

5 months

2012-01-28T22:33:00.004-05:00

Jackson turned 5 months on Wednesday! I can't believe I have a 5 month old baby. It's crazy! Here is how he is doing:

Weight: 14.5lbs -Getting big!

Has tried rice cereal 3 times -Hates it! hopefully soon he will start to like it though. :)

Can sit up with assistance. I set him in the boppy sitting up and he does really good.

Teething already! -His two bottom teeth are poking through, which means Jackson doesn't always feel good. It's sad but were getting through it. I just can't believe he already is getting his teeth. I want his smile to be all gums forever! I'm actually a little sad. I'll get over it I guess.

Sleeping situation....oh gee. He will not go down in his crib. He either wants to be held or in mom and dads bed....no bueno people! I don't know what to do. I am too weak and I cant just let him cry..it makes me upset. He is still so little.

He is rolling over now from back to front! Usually when he is mad that I wont pick him up he just decides to roll over, and is actually liking his tummy time more.

He is now wearing 3-6 month clothes and some 6 month!

He LOVES his new stroller. We have been going on walks with our friend and he just loves to look around outside. He usually falls asleep too. It's just that smooth of a ride!

Pictures now! My sweet little Jackson just makes my world.

And last but not least! Jordan starts his new job on Tuesday. He is really excited! I am too because he is going to be taking the train into work now and I will know exactly when he will be getting home because there won't be any traffic. YAY.

I finally got a BOB

2012-01-24T16:08:00.003-05:00

I am a proud new owner of a BOB jogging stroller. I love it. I took it out for my first jog today and it was so much fun, and a lot harder than I thought. I can't wait to keep going out. Jackson has one sweet ride now! He still has to be in his car seat when we go out because he can't sit up by himself yet but in these pictures I just
sat him in it to see if he liked it. He LOVES it, and he likes to use the car seat adapter as a foot rest. haha It is pretty funny.

This kid cracks us up.

2012-01-09T20:53:00.001-05:00

Jackson is now 4 months old and is doing some funny things. I mean I am sure all babies do this but its our first so we just laugh with him..sometimes at him. No I am only kidding. I don't have a picture or video of this yet but he loves to scream now. Not because he is mad or anything just because he likes to hear the sound of his own voice. It's pretty humorous. We call him our little teradactyl. He just screeches as long as he can until he has no breath left in him. Then he usually laughs afterwards. He is so cute and funny.

He has also found his feet. He found them a while ago but he now loves to eat them. If he is on his back he is usually eating his toes. I guess they taste good. I should sprinkle sugar on them. :)

And something else funny is when he is nursing he will try to stick his thumb in his mouth also. He wants milk and to suck his thumb. Crazy kid. I have to pull his thumb out at least once or twice a feeding. He will just smile at me and then go back to eating.

Jackson is weighing in now at 13.8lbs and is 24.5 inches long. We had round 2 of shots and it was not nearly as bad as round 1. Round one was one of the saddest days of my life. I never want that to happen again.

Our little guy is keeping us on our toes. He can now roll over from back to front. Which I guess means no leaving him on the bed anymore alone. He is grabbing for about everything in site. He loves to be held. He is talking or "screeching" a lot, and loves to laugh when mommy and daddy give him kisses.

Here are a few pictures of Jackson. Enjoy!

Christmas 2011

2012-01-02T19:04:00.006-05:00

We had a great Christmas break with our family. We traveled back and forth from Maryland to Virgina so we could get time with both families. We were with my family Christmas eve and Christmas this year. We went caroling to a nursing home with friends and then to the visitor center on Christmas eve to watch the Sister Missionaries perform. That is a family tradition that we all love to do. It was a lot of fun having Christmas with our new addition. The pictures may be slightly out of order. Enjoy!

We hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

Boston

2011-12-14T23:28:00.008-05:00

Jordan had a conference last week in Boston. Since I stay home with Jackson now I was able to go with him. Even better is that my best friend Erin lives there now with her husband Kasey, so we had a whole week to play and catch up!

They live in a really cute little beach town too. They are so close to the beach so we went for a walk one day, went shopping, met Kasey and Jordan in the city for lunch, and just had a great time together.

Jackson just loves his Aunt Erin and Uncle Kasey. They are having a baby boy in March and they let Jackson wear there babies cute hat.

Mommy and Jackson getting ready to go pick up daddy.

Me, Erin, and Jackson. Erin is so cute pregnant too.

Here we are in Boston at the Christmas tree. It was huge. I have no idea how they got it in the middle of so many buildings. I think it is as big as the National Christmas tree in D.C.

Kasey and Erin

All of us at Mike's Pastry's. Erin and Kasey took us out for a night on the town. We went to a cute little Italian restaurant and then after dessert here. I don't know if you can see how HUGE our pieces of cheesecakes are. It was divine. I still think about this place.

This was outside where we had dinner.

Here is my cute little family...well you can't see Jackson. He was sleeping in the stroller and I was not about to wake him up.

We had such a great time visiting Boston. Thanks again Erin and Kasey for a wonderful trip! We already miss you!

Thanksgiving 2011

2011-11-25T16:56:00.003-05:00

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

I hope everyone had a great turkey day. We sure did.

Playing on his new play mat that Graham (grandma Packham) got him!

Here is Julie and Ashley watching the parade with Jackson.

A family photo.

Jordan's Nana Val came to meet Jackson. This was right before we were about to dig in!

Jackson turns 3 months

2011-11-22T12:09:00.005-05:00

First off my new nephew was born!

Cooper David Bullough

Isn't he so cute and little.

We love him so much already.

Jackson is 3 months old now!

I can't believe it. Time has gone by so fast.

Here is Jackson with his girlfriend Leila.

She didn't want to look at the camera.

Jackson is smiling lots now. Sometimes is just hard to catch it on camera.

Off to church.

And of course he still sleeps great.

Jackson is 11 weeks and my 100th post!

2011-11-11T16:42:00.004-05:00

Well first off a pat on the back to me! This is my 100th post. It only took me um...years .haha I have had this blog for a while and I finally made it to my 100th post. Yay go me! Now on to better things!

Like Jackson! He is 11 weeks old now and cuter than ever. Here is a quick update:

He is smiling

Laughing

rolling over

sucking his thump

(not sure how I feel about this...but it sure is cute)

holding his head up like a champ

eating about every 3 hours sometimes longer!

at his 8 week check up he was 10 lbs 15oz and 22.5 inches long.

He loves bath time!

Here we are before church! so cute in his little plaid shirt!

My friend Nancy got him this cute fireman onsie and fireman book. haha he is as big as the book next to him. It looks like the book could be his friend.

I am enjoying staying at home with Jackson. He is so fun and lovable. I don't want him to grow up any more. If only he can stay this little!

Nana came to visit

2011-10-29T09:11:00.005-04:00

My Nana came to visit us this past week. Jackson Loves his great grandmother. Me and Jordan stayed up at my parents house a few days so we could have more time with her.

Daddy and Jackson

Mommy and Jackson

Nana and Jackson

I took this picture and right as I did Jackson spit up. Haha we thought it was pretty funny.
Aunt Jenney with baby Jackson

Grandma Nie Nie and Jackson

Don't mind my rolls...I'm working on them. :) I thought Jackson looked cute in this picture.

Pumpkin Bum

We were trying to take a cute picture of all of us and this was the best we could get.

It was so much fun to have Nana with us. We can't wait for her to come back at Christmas to see how much bigger Jackson will be.

Thanks for coming to see us Nana. We miss you already!

Jackson is 2 months

2011-10-22T17:39:00.003-04:00

Jackson's Aunt Danie made him this cute hat! Just in time for fall!

Jackson is now 2 months old! Time is flying. I am having so much fun staying home with this little guy everyday. My maternity leave officially is over. I am not a stay at home mom. I.love.it.

Jackson can hold his head up really well now. He still needs a little help but is doing great. He is smiling a lot. He is sleeping longer through the nights. Not quite all the way through the night, but a lot more than before. He has his 2 month check up this week so we will get his stats then.

Lost Camera

2011-10-18T13:20:00.002-04:00

I lost my camera. I am sooooooo incredibly bummed. All I remember is that last Saturday we went out to dinner. I told Jordan to grab the camera. (you never know when you are gonna need it now that we have a baby.) He set it on the kitchen table...I put it in the diaper bag. Then went on our way. Jackson slept the whole time so I never took it out of the bag. Sunday at church I noticed it wasn't in by bag. hmm must have fallen out in the car. Nope. I called the restaurant and no one turned it in there. I am thinking it fell out somewhere and someone picked it up maybe? I have no idea. I am so sad though. I mean I have had the camera for a few years but I spent a lot of money on it, and I had taken some cute pictures on Friday and Saturday that I never loaded to the computer. :( We have other camera's but I want mine back! I pray that it will turn up somewhere. Or someone will be kind enough to return it if they found it at the restaurant. Aw man. I hate when stuff like this happens. :(

Jackson's Blessing Day

2011-10-10T14:54:00.002-04:00

Jackson was blessed on Sunday, October 9, 2011

It was such a special day. Our families were able to come and spend the day with us. Here are a few pictures of Jackson in his cute outfit that his Aunt Danie got for him!

This was at the end of the day. Everyone was relaxing. Look at Jackson. Haha he is lounging on Carole Ann. So cute. Pretty soon we will be going to see her new little boy be blessed.

Jackson now weighs 10lbs. He is cooing so much, and starting to smile. Which is my absolute favorite. He knows his parents voices. He loves love loves to be bounced like crazy. And I don't mean baby bounces. He likes huge bounces. I guess that is what happens when you teach step aerobics for 9 months. :) He is growing everyday and I still can't believe that he is mine. We love him so much!

Jackson is 1 month, his first bath, and trip to D.C.

2011-10-05T15:29:00.004-04:00

I am way behind on blogging. We have been busy as of late. Here is what has happened in the past few weeks. Jackson turned 1 month old! (tomorrow he will be 6 weeks..see how behind I am) He finally had his first bath. It took forever for his cord to fall out. And Jordan's uncle came to visit us and we spent lots of time in D.C. and hanging out with the Packham family.

We had such a great time with them. Jordan had 3 days off work plus the weekend. It was awesome having Daddy around! Jackson also did so great out and about. I had never really taken him anywhere for longer than an hour. We spend 2 days downtown and he was such a great little boy. He only got fussy on the way home. I would sing to him in the car and we figured out that he really likes Taylor Swift "Our Song" I don't know all the words but the first verse and chorus he really liked!

Last week I also got cleared to exercise again. I have been working out with my good old pal Jillian. :) My doctor says that my scar is beautiful. haha she can't believe how well I healed. It is already starting to fade. YAY She said she was going to have to take all the credit for that...which is fine she was the one that did the surgery.

So that is a little bit with what is going on with us.

Jackson is napping and that means I should too.

Enjoy the pictures!

Big Stretch

Jackson is 1 month old!!!

First time in a big boy tub. No more sponge baths. Thank goodness. It only took 4 weeks for his cord to fall out.

Jackson and Daddy after bath time!

MLK memorial

Downtown

Jackson is pointing to the Washington Monument here because there were guys hanging off of it looking for cracks in the monument from the earth quake a few weeks ago. Can you see them on there?

Look what I can do!

Jordan and David at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial

Jackson's Newborn Photo's

2011-09-20T14:24:00.005-04:00

We had newborn pictures taken for Jackson when he was 10 days old. Here are some of the ones I really like. They all turned out great! Enjoy my sweet little Jackson!

A day at Grandma and Grandpa's

2011-09-18T14:30:00.003-04:00

We went up to Grandma and Grandpa Premont on Saturday. We had lots of fun. My sister Jenney turned 18 on Thursday so we went up to visit her and celebrate her birthday!

The BYU vs. Utah game was also on so we watched that as well!

Papa and Jackson

Jenney and Jackson!

We had a great day hanging out with the family and can't wait to do it again soon!!

Our Snuggle Bear

2011-09-16T12:38:00.003-04:00

I love this sleeping baby! He is now 3 weeks old. I can't believe it. He is the sweetest little boy ever and we love love love being with him!

2 weeks old

2011-09-09T16:38:00.003-04:00

Jackson had his 2 week doctors visit yesterday. Here are his stats:

Weight:n 7lb 9oz (he gained 1lb 1oz since last week)

Length: 20.5inch

Head: 14.25 (does anyone care about this one?)

I can't believe we have already had Jackson for 2 weeks! he is so fun! I love all of his facial expressions, especially the ones when he is waking up!

Since we've been home....

2011-09-07T12:20:00.004-04:00

Jackson loves to nap with daddy...or should I say daddy loves to nap with Jackson. :)

Jackson loves when daddy comes home from work!

Bath time!!

Jackson meets Kathleen!!!

Jackson's onesie days : My Aunt is the Best! (this goes for all his aunts though)

Jackson is 1 week old!!

Laura came and stayed with us for a few days to help me while Jordan had to go to work! She was amazing and helped me SO much. I don't know what I would of done with out her here!

Mommy and Baby

Aunt Danie came to meet Jackson! It was so fun having her here!

Aunt Ashley and Aunt Danie holding Jackson.

We have been doing great since coming home. Jackson loves to sleep and eat lots! We feel so blessed to have Jackson in our family.

We had newborn pictures taken last week, and once I get them I will post them. I saw a preview and they are so adorable, I can't wait to share them with you!

Labor and Delivery

2011-09-02T14:10:00.005-04:00

Wednesday night (8/24/11): We went into the hospital around 8:30 that night to get all ready to be induced the next morning. So they we checked in got to our room and then the nurse was doing all my paper work. We loved the nurse we had that night. She was awesome. So nice and funny I wish she could have been our nurse the whole time. Then it was time for my IV to be put in. I have major anxiety over IV’s. I am not really sure why. It just really grosses me out and I really did not want one. Well you have to have one..so don’t worry they didn't just stick me once but 3 times! Ouchy! Each time hurt SO bad. I mean I think the IV hurt worse than anything else…well the contractions were pretty painful but you know what I mean. So after they FINALLY get the IV in me, they had to do a quick ultra sound to make sure his head was down. Then they put in the medicine to help my cervix ripen. And check to see if I was dilated…nope still nothing. Once all that was done they told Jordan and I to get some rest. They asked me if I wanted any sleeping medicine which I declined…I should have taken it. Oh my gosh the janitors decided they should wax the floors right outside our door, and that they should talk really loud the entire night!! With that, me being nervous for the next day, and the dang IV hurting really bad I got about 2 hours of sleep. Awesome!

Thursday (8/25/11): 5:00am rolls around and the nurse gets me up. I got ready (not really I took a shower.) The nurse took out the medicine to ripen my cervix and checked and I made it to 1cm! YAYYY finally some progress. They hooked me up to the IV and at 6am started me on pitocin. They started me really small at 2 cu’s and then told me every 15 minutes they would go up 2 more. So I apparently was having contractions without the medicine but they were so small I couldn’t feel them at all, and they obviously weren't making me dilate.

7:00am my doctor comes in to check my cervix and break my water. WOW weird feeling. While the doctor was breaking my water I was having a contraction. I guess we irritated him because we ruined his home and his heart rate dropped into the 60’s. So my doctor and all the nurses being really calm flipped me over. Put oxygen on me and were trying to get Jackson’s heart rate back up. Once they did they had to stop the pitocin for about a half hour and regulate him. So after 30 minutes they started me back up.

Around 9:00am I was at at 6 CU’s and really could feel the contractions. I was able to just breath through them so I wanted to wait a little longer to see if I could dilate more before I got the epidural. So my doctor comes back in and I am still 1cm dilated. What really! I can’t believe I am still only 1cm. So they to bump be up to 8CU’s and now I am really really really feeling everything. I was having all back labor and the contractions were about 2-3 minutes apart and some were lasting more than a minute. I had a few that were almost 4 minutes. It was crazy. So they warned me before they put me into labor that once I ask for the epidural if everything goes right it would be about 45minutes. So Around 9:30am I am in so much pain. I am trying to hard to wait on the epidural because I wanted to dilate more. The told me it’s 50/50 with the epidural. Some women stop progressing, some progress even more. So I finally decided it was time. I couldn’t take it anymore. I was about to cry during the contractions which made it much worse.

We asked at the perfect time because by the time they had given me the IV fluid I needed the anesthesiologist was free to come see me. That was an experience I won’t forget. I was sitting in the hips so much. I was so uncomfortable I just wanted it to be over. The shot I didn’t really hurt just the position I was in. Once I had the epidural I felt so good, and thought to myself. I am so ready to have a baby!

So I was resting and my sister Carole Ann was checking on us to see how we were so I decided to call her instead of txt back. We were talking then all the sudden 3 nurses run into the room. They started monitoring my tummy more and checking my cervix and then the oxygen got thrown on so I knew something wasn't right. I quickly hand the phone to Jordan and he tells her we will call her later. Jackson’s heart rate dropped again into the 60’s. Once they got it back up they had to turn the pitocin off again! I was still only dilated to 1cm too.

So the pitocin had been off for an hour. I was barley having any contractions. My doctor came in with a few options. We could go ahead and “throw in the towel” she said and just do a c-section, or try the pitocin again and see what happens. If his heart rate drops again then they were doing a c-section. She told me I wasn't going to dilate without the pitocin. The pitocin was affecting Jackson. She said my contractions are so strong and so close together and he doesn’t like that so his heart rate keeps dropping. She said it was our decision but she had a feeling since after 7 hours I am still not dilated any further I might and probably will end up in a c-section. She told me she really wished I could have a vaginal delivery but there are some cases where it doesn't happen. Me and Jordan discussed it and just felt it was best for the baby to go ahead with the c-section. We didn't want to put Jackson under anymore stress, and I didn't want o try more pitocin and never dilate and be in labor for the rest of my life. So c-section it was.

The doctor I was seeing had just ended her shift and needed to back to the office to see patients so I would be delivered by another doctor. I was actually kind of happy because the doctor that would be delivering me I love. She is so awesome! So she comes in and talks to me and then they start the medicine up and quickly I am loosing feeling in my body. Right before they are about to take me in I started shaking. I was telling Jordan that I am nervous but I don’t know why I am shaking this much. It was so weird. So they took me into the OR and Jordan had to wait outside while they prepared me. By this time I can’t feel anything but my arms. I am still shaking so much too. The anesthesiologist was asking me how I was feeling and I told him fine but I can’t stop shaking. He told me that was normal and was a side effect of the medicine. So Jordan comes in and they start the surgery. It was so weird feeling the pressure and tugging but no pain. It only took about 20 minutes and at 2:33pm little Jackson Gunnar Packham was born. It was such a special moment for Jordan and I. As I am sure it is for any new parent. I started crying and kept telling Jordan to go over and see him as they were cleaning him off. He didn't want to leave me but I really wanted him to go over there and film it.

We then went to recovery where I was able to breast feed and bond with Jackson. Then we went up to our room where we stayed for the next 3 days. The nurses took such good care of us there, and I definitely want to have all my babies at INOVA h if we are still in VA. We came home on Sunday and have been having so much fun with our little guy! We love him so much and he is such a sweetheart.

Introducing Baby Jackson

2011-08-30T17:12:00.003-04:00

Jackson Gunnar Packham

7lbs 2 oz

20.25 inches

We love our sweet little Jackson!

Melting Pot

2011-08-23T17:05:00.005-04:00

Jordan surprised me with dinner at The Melting Pot for our Anniversary. We had both never been there before and it was amazing! Defiantly a great place to go when celebrating something. We went to the one in D.C. We had so much fun talking and eating all the great food!

We got the spinach artichoke cheese! Delish

An assortment of meats...

And the best dessert ever. We did the Yin and Yang chocolate. Half white chocolate half dark chocolate.

And we didn't want to ask our waiter to take a picture so we took one ourselves. Probably should of just ask him..oh well.

And here I am at 41 weeks.

3 Years Ago...

2011-08-22T13:38:00.004-04:00

3 years ago I became Mrs. Jordan Packham

3 years ago I married my Best Friend

3 years ago I made the best decision ever.

~Happy Anniversary to my Everything~

Still Waiting....

2011-08-19T17:56:00.004-04:00

And its Friday, August 19th and I still have a baby in my belly. He just doesn't want to come out. He is totally comfortable and warm, and probably likes all the bad food I eat. He must know that once he is here I have promised myself more salads and veggies...and he probably doesn't want that.

We went to the hospital yesterday for a nonstress test and an amniotic fluid test. We did the nonstress test first and oh my gosh that took forever! He was not cooperating at all. I think it was his nap time or something because usually he is moving all over the place and he just decided to lay still. Those of you who don't know what a nonstress test is it is a test to monitor the baby's heart rate and movement. First they strap two devices to your belly: One monitors your baby's heartbeat and movement; the other records contractions in your uterus. The technician listens to and watches your baby's heartbeat on an electronic screen while your contractions are recorded on paper. Every time your baby moves you are suppose to press a button. His heart rate was normal nothing to be worried about but they are looking for it to beats faster (at least 15 beats per minute over his resting rate) while he's moving for at least 15 seconds on two separate occasions during a 20-minute span. Yeah this never happened..and this went on for 1 hour! He moved a few times but his heart rate never stayed up for the amount of time they wanted it to. It was fun to hear his heart beat for an hour but I was starting to get worried like something was wrong. So the technician talked to the doctor and they wanted me to do my amniotic fluid test and they would check him again during the ultra sound. They said he probably was just sleeping. So more waiting in the waiting room and then we had the ultra sound. Then more waiting again in the waiting room then finally talked to the doctor, and he asks me "So, when are you going to have this baby." UM LIKE I KNOW? I was thinking, I would of gladly had him 2 weeks ago. But instead I just laughed and said who knows. He pretty much told us everything was fine and he wants me to keep a kick count chart so we know hes still active. (which today he has been moving non stop...figures) And if he is not here by next Thursday they will see me again. Except I told him if he is not here by next Thursday they are inducing me. So I have a doctors check up on Monday so we will see what they say..I am hoping I go into labor before Monday, preferably tonight but it's really not my decision.

It has been weird not working, but honestly really nice. I have been able to do a lot of things that were on my list but never got around to...and they were pretty important to like getting new tags for the car. (important) getting a safety inspection for the car (important) getting a rock chip fixed on the car (important) letting the bank know we moved (important) going shopping (REALLY IMPORTANT) :) haha and then you know stuff around the house that usually doesn't get done until the weekends like laundry. Oh and Jordan has had real dinners this week! I'm sure a good stay at home wife...which that will probably change once the baby comes. At least Jordan gets a few days of it. I have been sleeping in too which I hear I won't get to do that the rest of my life either.

OH guess what! Yesterday after we went to get the tests done Jordan's work wanted me to stop by to give us a gift. They were SO sweet. His whole office threw a cute baby shower for us. There was yummy cake and ice cream, and such nice gifts. They got us a high chair, a water proof mattress cover, diapers/wipes, a cute cute cute lamp for the baby's room, outlet covers, and baby Tupperware. They were so kind to do that for us. It was the first time I had met anyone from his work and they were all so nice! I can't believe they did that for us, and Jordan and I are so thankful to them. We really appreciated it.

Well it's Friday and Jordan should be home any minute!

Due Date

2011-08-16T09:38:00.003-04:00

Well my baby has officially been cooking for 40 weeks! Today is my due date, and guess what...no baby. Surprise surprise? Not really. I have been walking, doing the elliptical, and even taking step aerobics to try to get this baby out and nothing! He is so content in there. Maybe if I unpack my hospital bag, and take the car seat out of the car he will decide to come. :) ha. I went to the doctors yesterday and nothing...still not dilated at all. I have a appointment for Thursday to get an Amniotic fluid test, and a non stress test done. Apparently after your due date the fluid can decrease so they need to check it. If it has decreased they will induce me that night! AH. I'm not really worried though. I'm sure he will be extra late. If he is not here by the 24th I will go in that night to the hospital and be induced the morning of the 25th. Lets cross our fingers I don't have to wait another week though. I will be taking long walks everyday! Maybe a few squats :)

Today is my last day of work as well. It is weird starting my maternity leave with out a baby. We decided that it would be best for me to have a few days to rest before he comes. I hope I don't get bored. I will probably end up cleaning everything again, or just going shopping. That sounds fun!

I need to find a baby blessing outfit too. I have tried searching online and am haven't had much luck. All you mom's where did you get your outfit to bless your baby in? I need help! I wish I was out in Utah it would probably be so much easier. Let me know if you have suggestions as to where to look.

Well hopefully the next time I post I will be introducing my little man to you. (Keep fingers crossed!!)

39 weeks

2011-08-08T15:49:00.003-04:00

Here I am at 38 weeks and 5 days. Now I am 39 weeks and ready to go!

We had a fun weekend this past weekend! We were with my family. Friday night we hung out with our old neighbor's the Quinn's. It was a lot of fun to see them and hang out. Saturday we went up to Baltimore to have dinner with my sisters in-laws. Yummy Yummy food this weekend I must say!

And Jordan hung up almost all our pictures this weekend and we finished the last little bit of organizing for the new place. It's really starting to feel like home. We just need to add a baby in there and I think we will be set. :)

My last day of work is my due date the 16th. I decided that if he is not here by then..(Which is likely) I should stop working so I can rest for a few days before they have to induce me. My doctor said that if he is not here by the 16th then they are only going to let me go a week over. So I can wait up until the 23rd which I think we will do. Induction is not my first choice so I want to wait as long as I can. Also our Anniversary is on the 22nd and that would be our one last Hoorah before we add another addition to our family. I think that would be kind fun to celebrate 3 years and then the next day have a baby!!

Wicked

2011-07-30T08:53:00.005-04:00

On Tuesday my mom and sisters went to see Wicked at the Kennedy Center in D.C. It was so much fun. Ever since high school I have wanted to see this play! I knew all the music. I even made my roommates in college listen to it, and then they got to see the play before me! FINALLY I was able to see it. And it was and is AMAZING! I want to go see it again. Now that I know the story the music totally makes more sense. The story is so entertaining and interesting. I loved it, and so will you. If you ever have the chance to see it, it is definitely worth it. Here are some pictures of the night!

Laura and Jenney waiting to see the show!

We love Wicked!

Before the show started this was the stage.

Waiting anxiously

I have been singing the songs all week and can't get them out of my head! I ran home and told Jordan everything about the play. Haha so if he ever sees it I probably ruined it for him but oh well. I was way to excited not to tell him everything! And besides...he asked!

Baby Shower

2011-07-20T16:45:00.004-04:00

Last Saturday my mom, mother-in-law and dear friend Kathleen threw me a baby shower! It was so much fun! I wanted to share the experience in some pictures! This picture above is me at 36 weeks and Carole Ann at 22 weeks.

This is the dessert table. Isn't the diaper cake so cool!

The Packham Girls

The Premont Girls

Me and my awesome co-worker Lena. She was the one who threw me the surprise shower at work!

One of my Best Friends Kathleen. She is such a great friend to help me mom out! She also threw my bridal shower. She is good at this stuff!!!

Baby Update: I had my 36 week appointment today. The baby is still head down. The doctor checked my cervix and said I am not dilated at all! :( that's okay I still have 4 weeks until my due date. She said she could feel the baby's head though. Crazy! His heart beat was 155. So really strong! I am measuring normal and she is estimating he is about 5 1/2-6 pounds right now. She said she is guessing he will be average size! Yay

Move Update: We moved into our new town home last Friday. We didn't actually move anything down there. We painted the baby's room, and our room. It was fun to do that project together but Oh man! I did not think it would take so long! I am so happy it is all done. We have everything in our apartment pretty much all packed up. We are moving everything out on Saturday. So I guess the official move will be Saturday. I am excited to get settled into our new home! I will post pictures of the new place asap!!!

Surprise Baby Shower

2011-07-14T06:27:00.003-04:00

Last Thursday my co-worker Lena planned an amazing surprise baby shower for me at work! It was so sweet of her. She asked me on Wednesday if she could get a ride home from work because her parents needed her car. And to thank me she wanted to treat me to frozen yogurt from the cafe upstairs at work. When we walked upstairs there were SO many people sitting in the cafe, and I just happened to know all of them from the fitness center. I honestly just thought they were all eating lunch together....but then a huge SURPRISE came out! I was so taken back I almost started to cry! My face turned bright red and I of course started to get really nervous and sweat! haha that has been a big pregnancy symptom for me is getting reallllly warm and sweating when I talk to people. Anyway that's for a different time. It was so sweet of everyone to come and surprise me like that. I love all the members here at the Westat Fitness Center! They are so good to me, and Jordan and I (and baby) got a lot of great gifts. We are so appreciative of the generosity of other people and thank them so much for helping us! That baby shower totally made my day! I was too excited after work that I couldn't take my usual 3 hour nap. I stayed up and read all the cards again, and looked through all the gifts! It was so fun to tell Jordan and show him all the great stuff we had gotten. My co-worker has lots of pictures I am just waiting for them so hopefully I can post those soon. (I look so gross in all of them because I had been up since 5am and decided I really didn't need make-up or fix my hair that day. and since it was right after I got off of work I am still in my work clothes so I'm wearing a really frumpy outfit.) haha kinda funny actually

This weekend my mom, mother-in-law and good friend Kathleen are throwing me another baby shower. I am so excited and can't wait to see everyone. It's going to be lots of fun. A little less than 5 week and our little boy will be here! I can't wait.

We are moving into our new townhome this weekend. I am so excited because our apartment is so messy from packing. Boxes everywhere!! We won't be moving completely out until the 23rd but at least we can take some stuff down this weekend and clear some room to create more messes. We are also painting the babies room on Friday and finally getting his room set up! It will be a fun project for Jordan and I.

I will make sure to take lots of pictures this weekend to show everyone!

Maternity Photos

2011-07-07T06:13:00.005-04:00

We took some maternity photos a few weeks ago. It was fun...really hot outside but we had a good time. Here are some shots that I liked. Enjoy!

Baby Update: I had my 34 week check up yesterday. Everything is great. His heart beat is still strong and I am measuring normal. There was some question at my 32 week apt that he might be breech so they took a quick ultra sound and his head is down so we are ready to go! The doctor told me I should keep teaching my classes/exercising as long as I can. As long as I am not having preterm contractions or bleeding she thinks I should keep it up. She said my labor will be that much easier...thats what I am going for!

4th of July: We had a great 4th. We went down to D.C. with my family. Usually it is a nightmare getting in and out of DC but it really wasn't that bad. We only like 10 miles outside of the city but still we found parking just fine. Only a few blocks from the Capital which was where we watched the show and fireworks. There were lots of stars preforming for the Capital show. Matthew Morrison (Mr. Shoe from GLEE) Jordan Sparks, Mark Ballas and Cheslsea Hightower (Dancing with the stars) Steve Martin...and more I just can't remember all of them. It was fun and the fireworks were beautiful. Half way during the firework show Jordan looked at me and asked me if I had his wallet. I told him no and we started to panic. We knew he had it when we were watching the show because he took it out to give his sister some money. We were searching our area like crazy. My mom, dad, sister, his mom, and sisters were all looking everywhere. I mean it's dark, and there are people everywhere. Then his sister Danie says are you sure it's not in your pocket. And I felt his side pocket on his cargo shorts and there it was....JORDAN! We were all relieved but couldn't believe it was just in his pocket! So Check you pockets next time hubby.

Moving

2011-06-27T15:24:00.002-04:00

Well it is official we are moving. Not too far though. We are staying in the general area. We found a town home down in Woodbridge,VA. If any of you know that area we are pretty much around the corner from Potomac Mills Outlet mall. The sad thing is we will have to move out of our ward. :( I was sad about this. We tried so hard finding something in our ward boundaries but had no luck. We needed something bigger and not more expensive and that isn't possible in Fairfax county. I will miss our ward so much but we won't be that far away. And I figured that I can still hang out with all the new mom's in the Annadale ward when you all get together. I'll just drive myself and my little man up to you...if you don't mind me intruding. :)

The good news is we did it!!! We found something bigger and less expensive! We will be in a 3 bedroom town home! It's super cute. The neighborhood was build in the 70's so it a bit older on the outside but the inside is newly renovated and it meets our needs. We can move in on July 15th so we are gonna paint the baby's room that weekend! We don't have to be out of our apartment now until the 22nd so we will still be living up in Fairfax until then so I don't have to have such a long commute to work. I am really excited though to finally be able to start on the baby's room. Everyone at work has been asking me if the room is finished and it's really funny to see there face when I say no..I haven't even started. I don't think it will take that long though. Or am I completely kidding myself?

32 weeks

2011-06-22T17:31:00.003-04:00

I am 32 weeks! Only 8 to go! It's getting closer and closer. I had a doctors appointment on Monday and I was exactly 32 cm. His heart beat was 145bpm and he is moving and a grooving! He is around 4 pounds could be 19 inches long..that's what my email said this week. Hmm i don't think my baby is 19 inches long yet. Have you seen how tall I am? haha I love to just watch him move around at night. It is a lot of fun to see it. He loves to get up into my ribs too. I can't imagine myself getting any bigger but it's going to happen. Everyone has told me IT WILL HAPPEN! I am still able to teach all my aerobic classes. It is totally getting difficult so I have had to modify pretty much everything. I am just happy that I have been able to keep working out this whole time. Come July though I will down grade my teaching time to only 2 times a week instead of 4. I am starting to feel lots of pain in my legs and back so I know that probably means slow it down. Super excited to meet this little guy!!!

Braxton Hicks/Hiccups

2011-06-13T19:32:00.003-04:00

31 weeks! And only 9 to go! It's crazy that I only have a little over 2 months. I can't believe that. I thought I would stay between 20-30 weeks forever! So last week I had braxton hicks for the first time...well the first time I noticed them. And I think I was having heart burn during also. I was so uncomfortable though. Jordan was so sweet and walked around the apartment with me rubbing my neck and shoulders. It was great..not the braxton hicks but the message. I didn't realize the braxton hicks could be painful. Actually to be quite honest I didn't really know what braxton hicks were. I had heard about them and new they were false contractions but I didn't really understand...and I guess I shouldn't really of understood what they were because I had never experienced them before. At first I just thought I was having really bad heart burn then I was thinking well why would heart burn be all over my stomach and not just in my chest. I was most definitely having heart burn also though.

Also I think it was about 2 weeks ago when I first felt our little guy having the hiccups. I was trying to take a nap after work one day and my belly had a constant bounce to it. It was so cute. I kept looking at my belly and smiling. And he has had them a bunch since then also! He is running out of room in there as well. I feel a lot of pressure on my belly and I know it's him trying to move around but having a hard time. He really seems to like the top of my belly right under my chest, and my ribs. Silly little boy! I can't wait to see him! I need him to keep cookin though!

Putt Putt

2011-06-05T21:13:00.006-04:00

Here I am at 29 weeks and 4 days! Only about 10 more to go! Can't wait!!!

This weekend my parents were out of town at a Wedding in Utah so my two younger sisters came down to stay with me and Jordan for the night. We decided that since it was so beautiful outside we should go and enjoy nature. Jordan knew of a park/lake that had fun stuff to do. So we headed down the road to Burke Lake. I had never been there so we were excited to go. Jordan knew about this place because he went on a camp out with the Young Men in our ward here.

Here we are at the dock looking at the water and people fishing.

They had a driving range and putt putt there also so we decided to go play some mini golf. It was really funny because there was a little boy behind us playing with his dad and brother and he kept telling us to hurry up because he didn't want to wait anymore. He kept asking us if we were almost done it was really funny.

Silly sisters

me and my man!

Sister and hubby. You can actually see the little boy I was talking about he is in the orange shirt and brown pants. This is us waiting because there were so many people playing so everyone had to wait not just the little boy. He was very impatient. But entertaining as well.

Sunday my sisters also came to church we us and everyone in our ward could not believe how much we looked alike. I think people I have never even spoken to said something to us about how much we looked alike.

It was fun having them over. Come back again soon Laura and Jenney!

Belly Update

2011-06-01T20:32:00.003-04:00

Here I am at 29 weeks. I only have 11 left! YEAH! Also look at this cute little onsie my sisters got me with cute little BYU-I socks from my sister Laura!!!

I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day! We went down to The Outer Banks with Jordan's Sister Ashley and her husband Davaughn. It was a lot of fun! We left Friday night and stayed through Monday. We grilled out, bummed around at the beach, and just had a good time together! We had an awesome beach house right on the beach! These pictures were taken in the beach house. Just so you know I don't have my apartment decorated like I live at the beach..even though I would love to live at the beach!

Ashley and me
Lounging
29 weeks.
Again. So I know these aren't the best pictures because of the lighting and I am wearing all black but they will do.
This dress I think makes me look really big but I guess I am in my 3rd trimester so I should be getting big either way.

I have some more pictures of us at the beach. I will post those soon. I have to get them off Jordan's camera first. So stay tuned....:)

I ate a Salad!!

2011-05-20T19:10:00.003-04:00

Okay so that is a totally dumb title for this post but I did! I ate a Salad for dinner tonight! And it wasn't a Cafe Rio salad. Haha It had veggies and good stuff in it. I felt guilty because Jordan bought a whole thing of lettuce for me to use and it was about to go bad so I had to use it. It wasn't a bad salad though! I'm super proud of myself. Ever since being prego anything veggie and green was a total turn off to me. I use to eat salads and veggies all the time. That was 60% of my diet! I'm getting my normal eating habits back again. At least I'm gonna try and start eating the way I should. I've def had my moments where all I eat are carbs. Oh well once this baby comes out it is totally back to business!

Anyway I just wanted to tell everyone that I ate a salad today! haha I'm sure a dork. No one is going to care at all...so I guess you can just skip this post.

Baby Update-I went to the doctor on Wednesday and he is doing great! Heart Beat was 150. I asked her about the exercising and making sure I am not hurting myself or the baby. She said everything is good. As long as I'm not feeling pain I am A OKAY! I was relieved to hear that. I am taking it easier than ever but I am happy that I am still able to exercise and have not had any complications with my pregnancy! Only 12 and a half more weeks! So exciting! And so not ready. Well mentally I'm ready (as ready as I can be...) Physically like having all the stuff I need for him soooo not ready! haha But I will get there!

And its FRIDAY!!! Yayy Yayyy Happy Friday Everyone! Do something fun this weekend!

Growing Belly

2011-05-16T19:21:00.002-04:00

These two pictures were taken on Sunday. I was 26 weeks and 5 days. People still tell me I'm really small but I do not feel that way. I have notice that some things are a lot harder. Like bending over! haha In my step class tonight we were stretching and when I went down to stretch my hamstring it like hurt! I was thinking wow that's new...so I didn't do it.

Last week I took my Glucose test. And...I Passed! Yay no gestational diabetes for me! whop whop. I am low on iron though so I have to take an iron supplement. I thought I eat a lot of meat but I guess I am not. A trip to target will fix that though.

Some ladies at work have kinda scared me a little bit. They were like are you allowed to do jumping jacks? Can you still teach. You shouldn't do blah blah blah...So Wednesday at my check up I will be making sure I am not harming my baby or myself. I don't want to go into labor because I was exercising. I know I'm not suppose to twist and do ab work so we will see. I mean I know my body and I know when I am pushing it too much. I guess because this is my first child I just want to make sure I am doing everything right. I know I am suppose to exercise but If my step class, hi lo class, and body sculpt are too much then I don't want to hurt my little guy. He needs to grow and become strong. Can't have him coming to early! I read that 30 minutes after you work out you are suppose to feel then kick a few times. But I don't know how true that is cause I can feel him kick most of the day but not too much RIGHT after I work out. I think I am over analyzing this.

Anyway I also went to a baby bazaar on Saturday. It was good but I didn't get anything. Nothing really caught my eye. But they have it again in September so I will probably stop by again and take a looksey around.

Things I'm Lovin Right Now

2011-05-12T11:01:00.000-04:00

I have been looking online lately at baby stuff. We haven't picked out most of our big stuff yet, like a stroller, carseat, and oh yeah What the room will look like. We will be moving to a bigger apartment so I can't actually start decorating a room for him until then. But looking online to get ideas is always fun. There are some extravagant nursery rooms out there. I mean they are babies they don't even care. I like the more simple look, but still very cute. And here are some other thing that I have my eye on.

I love this diaper bag. My big sis has this brand of diaper bag and it just seems so much cooler than all the others. Probably because she has it :) I really like this print though!

We already got a snug rider for the carseat to go into for a quick easy stroller. And its greco brand so I need to get a greco car seat. I thought this was cute. I mean I really haven't looked to hard at carseats, the more I look I dunno if I like it as much anymore.

I really want a jogger too. They are so cool! I probably won't be getting this one. It's a B.O.B and I dunno if Jordan will let me. Maybe I can find someone selling one in good condition still!

Okay I thought these Owls were so cute. haha They are little pictures you hang. Maybe I can decorat a room around these owls. Who know? haha but I just like them.

This weekend there is a Baby Bazarr and I think I might go. It's a big flea market of baby stuff. People sell used/new things. I think it would be fun to go and see what deals I can get! If the weather is good I think I might stop by and see how it is.

Uncomfortable....is this the beginning?

2011-05-05T06:36:00.002-04:00

Last night was the first night since I have been pregnant that I could just not get comfortable!! It was so annoying! All I wanted to do was lay on my stomach but when I did that it really wasn't that comfortable because there is a baby there, and it made me have to go to the bathroom. Did I mention that my body was super duper achy all over too. I taught a step class earlier that night and my hips, feet, and legs just felt so tired. Is this the beginning of the upcoming 15 weeks? And the best thing about all of this is our little guy was moving around so much! He likes to dance or box or something...maybe a soccer player? Or a gymnast. Or maybe he is just really hyper. haha I dunno but I love love love it!!! Other than only getting about 5 hours of sleep It was fun to feel him move around most of the night.

On to other things. I'm finally getting my hair done today. Nothing big just a clean up. It has gotten so long within the past few months. It will probably look the same haha but still it is just fun to have someone cut and style your hair. Even if it's nothing drastic.

Tomorrow=FRIDAY! and I have to re certify for my First Aid and CPR/AED for work. I should probably look over those manuals before I look silly in front of all my co-workers. Don't worry we aren't doing the exam at 6:30am!! At least I get to do it while I'm working. That was nice of them to let me work and re certify while everyone else has to go to work after the class. I'm killing two birds with one stone! Yippee!

And I am almost in my 3rd trimester! Crazy! Some girl at work yesterday was telling me how easy labor is. She was going off on how she only had to push 6 times and she was only in labor for a few hours. She was all its not hard at all. I was like um okay but you do realize that it's not like that for everyone right? I mean I really hope I can come out of this and say oh yeah that was super easy. But I feel that I need to be somewhat prepared for the pain I will have to endure. I mean c'mon I'm the one who use to get stomach aches everynight and growing pains when I was younger (not that they did much. I'm only 5'1) and cry about it! I just smiled at this lady and told her thanks for making me feel better. I love how many people have told me their labor stories also. I mean they just tell me, I don't ask or anything. One lady delivered in her car! YIKES!

24 almost 25 weeks!

2011-05-01T19:46:00.002-04:00

Here are some pictures from my birthday and a picture of me at 24 weeks and a half weeks. we have both felt him move and it is the coolest feeling. i cant wait until he gets bigger and Jordan will be able to feel him more!

23 weeks on my 23rd birthday

2011-04-24T12:28:00.003-04:00

i thought it was pretty cool that i was exactly 23weeks on my 23rd birthday! I'm using our ipad to post and for some reason it is taking forever to put a picture up so this post will not have my birthday pictures up.

anyway i had a great day. i had to work early and teach a 615am class. it was definitely one of my best classes. i had a lot of energy and it was just a lot of fun. my two co workers are so nice and got me a gift certificate to buy buy baby. cant wait to use that! when i came home i took a nice birthday nap until jordan got home. he came in and woke me up and surprised me with flowers and all my birthday cards and presents. then he made me a wonderful birthday dinner. he also made me an eclair cake! my favorite! then he gave me his present. like he hadn't already done enough. he told me in June he is taking me to see GLEE in concert. i am so excited. i love glee and now i get to go see them perform! its gonna be awesome.

then that evening we watched glee and parenthood and called it a night. such a great 23rd birthday!

the next day we had a doctors apt and everything is good. only 16 more weeks. were still working on a name.

Baby Moon Documented

2011-04-16T18:37:00.008-04:00

We were so happy to be in Warm sunny Florida! The night before we left we danced to Will Smith's Welcome to Miami to get pumped! It sure worked!!!

We went to Florida last week! It was a blast. We had so much fun together, just hanging out being beach bums! We went down to the Keys and South Beach Miami. We both had never been to that part of Florida so we thought it would be a nice get away! Here are a bunch of pictures documenting all the fun things we did!! Enjoy!

Right when we got there we hit up the beach! We decided we would just walk along the beach and be in the sun! This was Halendale beach in Fort. Lauterdale. Very pretty!

Of course we found a homemade ice cream shop in the town we stayed in. It was a cute little town called Cutler Bay right in between the Keys and South Miami.

This is in Key Largo at a snorkeling park we went to call John Penney Camp. It was such a cute park with beaches and trails, snorkeling, scuba diving, and glass bottom boat tours.

We decided to do the glass bottom boat tour because I cant scuba dive and I was a whip and was too scared to snorkel. They just drop you off 8 miles out in the ocean at the reef. I didn't feel comfortable in my condition. The boat tour was awesome though. We saw sea turtles, a sting ray, lots of Dori fish (you know Dori from Finding Nemo, and a barracuda!)

We stayed there all day and soaked up the sun! It was awesome!

This is Coco Plum beach in Marathon Key. Very beautiful beach. The Keys were so empty so we pretty much had the beach to our self. It was so warm there too. In the 80's and 90's all week. I loved it!

We are in Islamarada Key at a cute restaurant on the water.

Jordan ate Dolphin at this place. Not like Flipper the dolphin. (apparently that's illegal) if you see those fish that are hanging up on the ceiling those are a yellow tail dolphin. That is what he ate. He said it was good. I tried it and thought it was okay. I liked my crab cake better!

Love the View we had!

Jordan's first bite of dolphin!

And we had to get Key Lime pie while we were down in the Keys. It was delicious! So fresh and tart. mmmmm I want some right now!

We even were there for the sun set! It was gorgeous!

Here we are at South Beach in Miami. We were pleasantly surprised how nice it was there. Very clean and we loved the white sand and clear blue water! The water was warm every where we went down there.

HUGE slices of delicious pizza! We ate here twice for lunch because we loved it so much!

He was a marina just a little ways from the beach in Miami. We walked around and would look at all the cool boats!

We stopped at the beach before we had to head to the airport on our last day! This was Diana beach in Fort Lauterdale right next to the airport.

Love love LOVE the pier in the back ground!!

Bye Florida! We will see you again soon!!!!

We took a lot of Video too while we were there. Maybe I will post those too!

Belly Picture

2011-04-15T06:35:00.004-04:00

This is my at 20 weeks.

and at 22 weeks.

We had a great vacation in Florida and pictures are coming soon!

and It's FRIDAY!!!!!

He Is Still a Boy!!!!!

2011-03-31T06:24:00.004-04:00

I had my second sonogram yesterday. They wanted me to go back in for a second look because he was only 16 weeks when I went the first time and they wanted to see a better look. First things first...he is still a boy! Yay I'm happy we had a double check on that. This time the sono was really weird. I had a different lady that was doing it and she was really really I mean REALLY hard to understand. I had to ask her like 1 million times what she was saying. She finally said "You don't understand me very well." I wanted to say well yeah your accent is so thick I don't know if you are speaking English. But I didn't say that I just smiled and laughed uncomfortably.

The first girl that we went to was so awesome. Obviously Jordan and I had no idea what we were looking at on the screen so she would explain to us everything. This lady just kind of did her thing. I kept having to ask her what we were looking at and then it took me like three times to understand what she was saying. And she really didn't show us our little guy. For like 1 second she showed us the profile and then he put his hand over his face so she decided we didn't really need to see him anymore I guess.

All the measurements came out on track this time. So they didn't change my due date again thank goodness! He was 11oz. If she told me the length I didn't understand her so I'm not sure about that one. He was a lot bigger this time than a month ago. Even though I was kind of...or a lot disappointed about the appointment I am just very thankful everything looked and is normal. He is growing properly and we are both doing well! I was just really excited to see him and then I didn't really see him...or at least it didn't look like him. I was comparing the pictures from a him at 16 weeks to him at 20 and there definitely is a size difference but honestly I like the 16 week pictures better. They are just better shots of him and stuff. The 20 week ones some of the ones she gave us I have no idea what it is a picture of. She didn't label all of them so some are just blobs. haha kinda funny I guess.

Anyway I keep trying to take a picture of my belly and I just can't get a good picture I like. I will try again. I keep looking at my face in pictures (b/c of what that lady said to me) and I get self conscious and don't want to post anything.

We go to FL next week so maybe I will get an awesome picture then and post that. Or maybe I will try this weekend to get a good picture. I'll do my best. but can't make any promises.

YAYYYY FLORIDA IN 6 DAYS!!!!! I am so excited! Bring on my Tan PLEASE!

I just cant get this tune out of my head

2011-03-25T18:02:00.003-04:00

I still wanna learn how to Jimmer

Even though they are out I still sing Teach me How to Jimmer in my head.

2011-03-25T06:29:00.003-04:00

This is how I feel right now....

Except Instead of my falling asleep on my computer I am falling asleep in a gym. And I don't have coffee in my cup its just water. And I don't have that cool phone on my ear. But you get the idea right?

Something about waking up at 5 two days in a row with out a nap in the afternoons is just killing me. I cannot wait to take a nap today though. It's going to be great! Some ladies at work told me that I should be getting more energy back soon...or eventually. Did that happen for all you prego women. I still just want to sleep if I can. I mean I know my work schedule is weird and I am pretty active during the day but I pretty much think about my warm comfy bed a lot.

Atleast it is Friday though! I love weekends, and I really love when my weekend starts at 2pm. So I guess I really shouldn't complain about being tired because I get off at 2, so my weekend starts earlier than most people.

I just want to say that I haven't had a Slurpee in 2 weeks! I guess that phase it over? Who knows. Okay I'm out.

Key Largo Montego, Baby why don't we go

2011-03-23T16:31:00.002-04:00

Baby Moon in 2 weeks from today!! Yay We are so excited! We are going to go down to Florida! Where it is warm and sunny and I can get a tan! We will be in Key Largo area most of the time, but also seeing what Miami is like too. I have never been to that side of Florida before. I have only been to Naples, and Orlando area. Jordan has never been to Florida so we are so excited to get away for a little bit!!!

It took us a while to decide where we wanted to go but when we realized I didn't have a passport, and saw that passports are taking a bit longer to get these days we decide to stay state side. I guess Bermuda and the Caribbean will have to wait until next time!

Baby Update:

Everything is good with our little guy. He is moving everywhere apparently. I can't feel him yet but when we went to the doctors on Monday for a check up she would find the heart beat and then he would squirm around and she would have to re-find it. That happened about 4 times! :) Were gonna have an active little boy! I have taken a picture and am planning on posting it soon. I just have to get it off my camera! So stay tuned to see my small baby bump.

Cravings.....

2011-03-12T19:47:00.003-05:00

I really haven't had too many cravings during my pregnancy so far. EXCEPT for Slurpee's! Oh my gosh this is all I drink. (well water too) but honestly I have at least 3 a week! haha and I get the big size like the kind in this picture! They are so yummy and satisfying.

I still don't really want anything healthy though besides fruit. I like pizza and Slurpee's. That is my favorite meal I think. I really wish I wanted salads and chicken but chicken still makes me feel sick and salads just don't sound good. I'd rather eat pizza.

Someone at work told me I looked prego in my face not my stomach.....awesome. Probably because I drink slurpees and eat pizza. I guess I brought it on myself. But still you don't have to tell me that! I mean c'mon sensitive pregnant women here!

Maybe I'll post a picture of me soon. I'm 18 weeks now. I'll have to decide because I'm kinda self conscious of my face now.

Baby Packham is a........

2011-03-03T17:58:00.003-05:00

Here is our baby cake we did the night before!!!!!!

Was our baby cake right???

It came out Pink!

It was wrong...IT'S A BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(And yes that is Jordan licking a huge knife....boys)

We were so shocked. Not just because the baby cake said it would be a girl, but we actually thought it was a girl! Right when she told us it was a boy I turned to look to see Jordan's reaction and it was so cute! His jaw dropped and he looked so adorable! You could tell he was so happy to be having a son!

So I loved getting to see our little guy! We were there for about an hour! It was great! He was so active to! Oh my goodness he was squirming around so much. At one point he put his head through his legs. The ultra sound tech was laughing too. It was really funny.

So do you wanna hear some more shocking news. I am only 16 weeks and 2 days! WHAT how did that happen? How were they so wrong on my due date. The OB told me I would be due July 21st, now I am due August 16th. That's a whole month off! So I have to wait a longer to meet our little man!

The good thing is since I was only 16 weeks they want me to come back at 20 weeks to do another sono! Yayyy I get to see my little boy again! They said he was just small so they wanna see him when he is a bit more developed. They said as of now everything looks great and he looks good! They were like we are so sorry you have to come back but I was happy!

We are going to be proud parents of a Baby Boy! Now on to the shopping and name picking!!!

Boy or Girl?

2011-02-28T14:08:00.002-05:00

Wednesday is the big day!!! We get to find out if we are having a boy or a girl! I am super duper excited! I really have no clue as to what we will be having. I am thinking girl but really who knows? Jordan says it will probably be a girl since he has all sister and since I only have one brother. I really just want a healthy baby! Girl clothes are really cute though. :)

So any guesses as to what we will be having?

I am making a baby cake tonight to see what we will be having. You know the food color one. Where you dye half the cake pink and half the cake blue and whichever side you cut into first that's the gender you will have! It worked for my sister! Let's see if it will work for me!!!

Happy Birthday Jordan!

2011-02-24T06:29:00.004-05:00

Happy Birthday to my sweetheart Jordan! His Birthday was actually February 1st so this post is oh you know only a month late! Better late than never right!? Yeahhh that's right! Well we sure did have some fun for Jordan's 25Th birthday. We went bowling with his family. Now I know we just graduated college and that's what every college person does, but honestly I think I went bowling 2 times the 4 years I lived in Rexburg. I really never went. Probably because I am so bad at it and never wanted to go. It was really fun though with his family. It was Jordan, me, and Julie on a team and Melanee, Ashley and Davaughn on the other. We won both games. BOOYA! haha. I am so terrible at this game. My highest score was like 86 or something. Jordan and Davaughn are really good! I was very impressed. Julie had her moments of being really good, and then some not so much. Me I was pretty much always bad. I had to really concentrate it was funny. Jordan was helping me though so I was able to get a few spares but no strikes.

Anyway we had a great time spending the day together.

And today I am 19 weeks. I am almost half way! Crazy to think that I only have 21 weeks left. But when I think about it that is still a really really long time. The time does seem to be passing by quickly. I think I am sleeping through most of it though. I'm sure all you pregnant or use to be pregnant women can understand.

Last night as I was going to bed Jordan asked me what I was going to do after work since I get off at 2pm. I told him take a nap until he gets home at 6pm. And you know what that is literally what I am going to do. When I wake up its dark outside and I always think its the morning. I am so confused when I wake up. It's actually pretty funny.

I have still been having crazy dreams. Scary dreams to be exact. A member at the fitness center told me to eat something before I go to bed and that will help my blood sugar stay up and I wont have bad dreams. So last night I ate potato chips...they were baked so it's all good!

Oh do you want to know what else I did last night. So you know how for valentines Jordan bought me a really comfy spa robe? Well I pretty much wear it every second I can. I was eating a Slurpee last night because my wonderful husband brought one home for me unexpected and I accidentally spilled some red Slurpee on my off white robe. Opps! So I immediately put it in the wash because I didn't want it to stain and guess what I found in the washer as I was pulling it out. MY CELL PHONE! I had left my cell phone in the pocket and washed it. I was so worried about the tiny red spot staining that I completely forgot about my phone! Whops. Good thing when Jordan got the phone for me he put insurance on it. He knew eventually I would do something stupid and break it. So today I have to take time out of my nap to go get a new phone.

The Most Romantic Husband Ever!

2011-02-15T21:46:00.004-05:00

I never really cared for valentines day before I got married. No, not because I never had a real valentine I just could take it or leave it. Either way my mom usually gave us candy or something and my dad would give us a rose every now and then so it was always a fun day but eh just another holiday to me. Well obviously when I got married I did really start to like it because I now forever have a Valentine! Mine and Jordan's first valentines day he took me ring shopping. There's a winner right there. He didn't do the typical proposal but got my excited and took me to look at some nice bling! Well this Valentines day I had to work until 8pm and be at work the next day at 6am so it wasn't really an option to celebrate V-day on V-day. We decided we would do something over the weekend but never really discussed anything.

Well my awesome sister sent me a link to make a photo book for a pretty sweet price so I decided I would make Jordan a photo book of our life together so far. I know kinda cheesy slash awesome! It actually came out really good and Jordan LOVED it! While I had been busy making this cute book Jordan was making his own plans. The Friday before Valentines I got off work at 2pm so He sent me a txt that said "be ready by the time I get home, and bring your purse." okayy well that didn't tell me anything. What do I wear? Why do I need my purse even though I usually bring my purse with me wherever we go. So I dress nice but not overly nice. We went out to a nice dinner at a restaurant I had been always wanting to try. Costal Flats up here in Tyson's Corner. It was very casual but we had a good time and I'm really glad he took me there cause I had heard really good things about the place. Then We went to Macy's to buy a Robe. I was really confused as to why Jordan wanted me to buy a robe. So I picked out a really nice spa robe that is so comfortable! Then we went to Bath and Body works and bought some stuff but Jordan wouldn't let me see so at this point I don't know what he bought. Then we "get lost" as we are driving home. When actually we pull into the Westin at Tyson's Corner. Like 5 minutes down the road from our house. haha. Jordan said we need to go in and ask for directions. UM okay...I just decided to go along with it. :) Well I guess the directions are in one of the hotel rooms because we were going up the elevator.

Jordan surprised me with a night away! And a spa treatment by my one and only! It was so relaxing. Being a aerobic instructor my muscles are always aching because they are constantly being worked out. I am always asking him to rub my legs or my back or my arms or something! So the wonderful romantic husband that I have decided to give me a great evening where I was able to be pampered by him. The stuff from bath and body works was aromatherapy stress relieving lotions to help my muscles relieve some of the stress. It was such a fun valentines day being away from home :) haha and cuddling with my hubby!! I had a great valentines day and I hope you all did too!

Happy Valentines day!!!

Balance

2011-02-11T06:52:00.002-05:00

I think my life is pretty balanced. Well maybe not? I went to our wards relief society meeting last night and the topic was balance in our lives. It was actually really good. They had a panel of women who spoke briefly about their life and how at times it was unbalanced, but how they are now able to balance whats important in their life. I started to think about whats going on in my life...pretty simple to be honest. It's just Jordan and me for the next 6ish months and its been that way for a long time. I have responsibilities but over all my life is not very overwhelming. I simply go to work everyday. Come home and hang out with Jordan. I mean there is the grocery shopping, exercising, cleaning, church callings, scripture time, etc. but we always do that stuff together. Then I started to think okay well pretty much if I'm not working or eating I'm usually sleeping. So maybe my life is a bit unbalanced right now. I have an excuse though so I didn't really count that part into the mix. Well come July we will have a new addition to our family so hows that gonna play out? I keep thinking to myself. Once I stop working I will have so much time to clean my house and make dinner and all that stuff a mom/wife does. Right? Isn't that how it works? Probably not all the time. Right now I feel that with being pregnant all I want to do is sleep. When I have a new born baby I'm still probably just gonna wanna sleep and take care of my baby of course. Man Balance is hard! I never really thought too much about it because life is simple right now. I do know that as long as I keep my Heavenly Father close to me that everything will work out and my life will be balanced. I;m really glad I went to the meeting last night. I wasn't going to go, I totally forgot about it. Jordan volunteered to help in the nursery so I felt that I had to go. I am so thankful though I did. I loved hearing those women's testimonies and how they shared their stories about their unbalanced and balanced lives. I know I needed to hear that to help me in the future.

Oh and I just said how Jordan volunteered to help in the nursery while we were all being spiritually fed...none of the other men showed up that were suppose to help. So he had like 30 kids to himself. Well their was a mom in their for like half the time but 30 kids to 2 people and then just Jordan for the second half! That's crazy! He is gonna be such a good dad! He didn't even complain or anything. I would have never even volunteered, let alone if I did I would for sure complain that I was the only one! Hes so great! I am so blessed to have such a wonderful man in my life that wants a family, and is actually really good with kids.

So today I am 17 weeks! yayy one week farther! So happy. This is going to sound really bad but I feel like I have been prego forever! The sad thing is I have only known I've been prego for 7 weeks now! I have so much longer to go! I think the whole being tired all day is what makes it go by so slow. Too bad I can't just sleep through a few months to make the time pass by quicker! I think part of my problem at least for this week is I have worked the opening shift at work so Ive been up at 5am most days this week. And haven't taken naps because I have other stuff that needs to get done.

At work I use to teach a 7am aerobics class. Well it wasn't being very highly attended so we changed it to 6:15am and now its super highly attended. Oh man I know its only 45 minutes earlier but the class is so hard to teach some times. I eventually start to wake up like 10-15 minutes into the class and I feel good, then when it gets over about an hour later I just want to lay my head on my desk. All the members are so nice and asking my how I am feeling and stuff. It's fun that I can talk about it now where as before no one even knew why I was prego. I told a group of women that come to my early morning class on Tuesday and one of them said they thought I was because I am so pale and tired looking. UM! hahaha I wasn't sure if I was suppose to laugh or be offended. This lady has asked me multiple times if I was sick because I looked really pale/tired a lot. Well lets just say its February and I haven't really seen the sun since September and waking up early everyday/ being pregnant does make you look tired. Anyway they were all really happy for me.

Ohhhh one more thing. I promise this is the last thing and I will end this never ending post! I bet no one even reads this far anyway but this is really funny/kinda weird. So I'm at work yesterday. Don't forget I am a fitness specialist at a corporate gym so yes, I work in a gym but it's an older population. The members are mostly in their 30-50's Everyone that has worked at this company has been here for like 25 years. Well not everyone but a lot of people. Their are only a small handful of 20 year olds. Anyway we have locker rooms...do you know where this is going? Most women are very modest. A lot of them change in the shower stalls. Well yesterday I had just finished cleaning all the equipment and I walk into the locker room to wash my hands and WHAM a really old naked women is standing pretty much by the door talking to another lady like she was fully clothed or something. I mean I know what other women have I have it to. But really we don't wanna see that! I mean I am so happy she is comfortable with her body that she feels she can walk around the locker room butt naked but c'mon lady spare the rest of us! I was trying to hard not to laugh as I was washing my hand. My co-worker was in there also and I couldn't even look at her cause I would have busted out laughing from how caught off guard I was. Now I know this is so common at most commercial gym's or YMCA's but honestly this is the first time I have ever seen this here at our gym. Everyone works together. Isn't that awkward? Seeing your boss or co-worker with no clothes on? Ew haha I hope that doesn't ever happen again.

Okay now I am done with this forever long post! Only 6 1/2 more hours til I can go home and take a nice long nap! Happy Friday everyone!

16 week update!

2011-02-05T19:10:00.001-05:00

Right now our little pookey is the size of an avocado. It's about 4 1/2 inches long from head to rump and 3 1/2 ounces!

I guess I'm now showing a little bit because some members at work told me so..awesome! haha some people are so blunt it's funny.

I am feeling the same. I mean its only been a week since I told people so I prob shouldn't feel too different. The only thing that I'm not liking so much about the process is that I am having crazy scary dreams! People have told me that when your pregnant your hormones can cause you to have very vivid dreams. And let me tell you I am having them. Every night. And I remember most all of the dream. It's weird. I do like that my hair is growing fast though, I can def tell! sweet~

Oh Baby...Literally

2011-01-30T21:00:00.005-05:00

It's True, We're Pregnant! Come July 21st (Or around that date) We will be parents! (CRAZY)

I am 15 weeks along and finally feeling better! I know I am totally not even showing at all in this picture (just a bit chubby) but I am trying to document my progress and growth. So here we go...

So the funny thing is we didn't even find out I was pregnant until I was 10 weeks. I know what your thinking how does that happen? Well in November when I thought I might be pregnant. The test came out negative so I thought oh well my hormones must be off so I just missed that time of the month this month. Nope Wrong. I should have taken more than one test. The week before Christmas I started to feel very very sick. Always thinking I am going to throw up. Nothing sounded good to me except toast. I was sleeping all the time. And ya know the other signs of pregnancy. So after a week of feeling like this and thinking I was pregnant I couldn't wait any longer to find out if I was pregnant or just sick. I was so sick at work the Thursday before Christmas. I went straight to the store after work to pick up a test. I waited until Jordan got home from work to take it....and yep there was a reason I was feeling the way I did...There was a little baby in my belly!!

We were really excited from the beginning. Well actually we both were kind of expecting that I was pregnant so we just looked at each other and thought well...can't go back now. We were heading to Jordan's families house that night for Christmas. So right when we got there my brother-in-law Davaughn had just bought a whole bunch of pizza and asked me if I wanted some. I told him maybe later I don't feel so good. He looked at me and was like ohhh are you pregnant or something..Jordan and I looked at each other and they immediately knew. Ashley and Danie (Jordan's sisters who were there) Started screaming and hugging me. It was fun to see how excited they were for us.

We didn't tell my family until Christmas morning. This is kinda gross but I put the pregnancy test in a plastic bad and put it in my stocking. HAHA gross huh. So when we were opening stockings I pulled it out and I gave it to my sister Carole Ann and asked her what it was. My whole family was so excited and they told us they thought I was because all week I was complaining how sick I felt. But they were nice and let me tell them instead of just asking.

So come July Jordan and I will be parents. I am really excited. It came very quickly but it definitely feels like the right time. I have already been to the doctors twice. I was able to see our little pookey on a sonogram the first visit and hear the heart beat at my second visit. The first week of March we will be able to find out what we are having.

I'm really grateful that I will be able to keep teaching all my aerobic classes. I was worried the doctor was going to tell me it was so dangerous in case I fell or something but she said she thinks its great I want to continue teaching as long as I can. So I will teach all my classes (Step, Hi-Lo, and body sculpt) up until I can't. I have been doing a really bad job of exercising on my own but with my classes I at least get in 4 days of exercise. Now that I am in my second trimester I am feeling so much better and am getting my energy back so I have made it a goal of mine to keep exercising on my own time as well. I know its so much better for me and will make labor better. As for the eating part. Well the first 10 weeks I didn't even know I was prego and I was eating so well. Once I started feeling sick from 10 weeks to now I pretty much ate bread. (Not the best but thats what made me feel better) The good thing is I haven't gained any weight yet. YES. but I'm sure that wont last much longer. That's okay. I am excited to start showing!

I will try to keep the blog updated with everything! Yayyy I'm gonna be a mom!!

Hello - I should have posted 2 weeks ago....

2011-01-13T06:34:00.003-05:00

Well this isn't suprising! I haven't posted in who knows how long. I keep reading everyone elses blog and thinking that I should post but never get around to it...well I finally am.

I don't have any pictures today. I haven't uploaded them to my computer yet.

So lets start from the beginning! HAPPY NEW YEAR! Did everyone have a great Christmas and New Year? We sure did. It was very nice and relaxing. We were with Jordan's family and my family for the whole week after Christmas just switching off. We watched lots of movies, played games, ate good food, and laughed a lot! It was so much fun to not have to work and hang with the fam!

Now its back to work. Well atleast 2 weeks ago it was back to work. I'm just a little bit slow.

So what's going on with us? Lets see nothing much. Things are pretty much the same for right now. Jordan's birthday is coming up in a few weeks. I want to do something fun but don't know what! Any Ideas?

Okay this post was boring. Maybe next time I'll post about something more exciting then this.

Christmas Time

2010-12-23T06:24:00.002-05:00

Its almost Christmas!! I am so excited! I just Love this time of year! My whole family is in town and we just have so much fun together!

This year we will be with Jordan's family on Christmas morning, and mine later that afternoon. Its nice we can be with both sides since we live so close!

Today is my last day of work for the week. My director is letting us go 2 hours early so I only have to work until noon today! Isn't that just amazing! I was so happy when he told us!

The members here at the fitness center have been so kind also. They have been bringing my team gifts like no other! And most of it is food so bring it on! haha Its really funny when they give us like a huge box of cookies, or chocolates or lets see, A Pastry Ring! I def ate most of that! I feel like I shouldn't eat it in the gym so I hide in my office so no one can see me except my co-workers!

I hope each of you have a very Merry Christmas and a great New Year.

My Thoughts Today...

2010-12-17T10:24:00.002-05:00

It snowed yesterday...like 1 inch. Not even that much. So why does everyone decide that since there is some slush outside they don't have to come to work. Because when people don't come into the office this makes my work day very slow and boring. You know why? Cause if people aren't at work...then no one comes to the gym. (The gym that is in their office building that I work at)

I am excited for Christmas. I am finishing up getting the last of the gifts and doing major wrapping tonight!!!

Jordan wants to see Tron tonight. Every movie we go to that he picks out always ends up being really great, but I still don't really wanna see it even though I'm sure I will like it. I'm just being difficult.

I brought a healthy lunch today and I decided to eat the chocolate a member gave us at work instead. I'm still hungry though....hmm more chocolate?

My brother David and sister Laura are flying in tomorrow evening from school for the Holidays! Yay excited to see them!!

Four day work week next week, and 1 day work week the week after! Booya! I have been saving up these days off all year. (or at least since I have been working which is since May)

I am making cupcakes tomorrow! Yummo!

That's all for now!

Michael Buble Concert

2010-12-02T20:31:00.005-05:00

November 30, 2010 will definitely go on my list of days I will never forget!! I'm sure the people who have been to one of Michael Buble's concerts understand where I am coming from. It was absolutely amazing! Best concert I have ever been to by far. (Ive only been to like 3 others but still) Our seats were AWESOME! I was so happy with them. I mean obviously there were better seats than ours but I was very pleased. Here are some photos of the night! ENJOY

Mommy and me before we left!

Oh yes this is my and Michael together!

My Michael Buble t-shirt! (It says Buble LIVE! & In Person) haha

I totally think he was looking at me here!

This was when he went into the crowed and got on a little stage and sang a few songs. (Home, Hollywood, and some others I can't remember them all)

He really knew how to work the crowd and have a good time! After he came out and sang 2 songs he was reading all the signs people made for him. One little girl in the front row had a sign that said "All I want for Christmas is a hug from you" and she was like 9. He was like really! From me? Ah I think I could do that! And he ran down and gave her a hug. It was really sweet. I was really jealous though. If only I were 9 and was in the front row with that clever sign! Maybe next time! :)

Best Concert Hands Down. He sounded so good live, and sang all the right songs!! If he ever comes to your town GO!!! It is so worth it!! I had a blast and had dreams about the concert that night! It was great!!! :)

Thanksgiving

2010-11-26T22:03:00.004-05:00

First off I have to say congrats to the Sherwood Varsity Cheer Squad for taking 1st place at competition!!! This is my little sister Jenney and me after they won 1st place!!!!

Now on to Thanksgiving!!

It was a great day!!! We made a TON of food! There was only 5 of us. We went up to my parents house about half hour north of where we live. It was my mom, dad, sister, and Jordan and I. We had a great time hanging out together and eating til we about popped!

Here is some pictures in no particular order.

This is right before we ate dinner~ Yummo!

My Handsome husband Jordan! (don't even know why he is making a gun with his hands. weird)

Making delicious rolls

Yayyy Its Thanksgiving and I'm wearing a really cute apron!

I had to work this morning at 6am! Do you even know how hard it was to get up that early the day after Thanksgiving! I could barley get out of bed. When I woke up at 5am I felt like I had just eaten dinner still. Eventually it went away.

And do you know how many people came to the gym today. (Remember I work in a corporate gym so its only for people who work with the company we are located at) Okay I'll tell you. From 6am when we open til Noon we had a total of 7 people come in. SEVEN! Then the lunch hour we had maybe 8 total. I left around 2pm and there was NO ONE there! It was the slowest day ever!

Today is also my Dad's Birthday! Happy Birthday DAD!! We had a great evening with the family! We took the fam out to a restaurant over by us in Fairfax called Sweet Water Tavern! Oh my goodness it is so amazing! If you like steak and seafood and awesome fajitas you should most definitely try it out. Oh and if you live near Fairfax, VA. I don't think its a chain. Any who it was fun to go out with everyone!

Micheal Buble Concert is this coming Tuesday! I CANT WAIT!! I have been practicing all his songs so if he calls me up on stage I will know the words! :) This will be a night to remember for sure!

RoCk ThE rEd!!!

2010-11-13T14:49:00.004-05:00

This past Thursday my Awesome neighbor Robin invited me to the Caps Hockey game! She is a huge Capitols fan and took me to my very first Hockey game!! Jordan was out of town so it was nice to have something to do while he was gone!! It was so fun! The Caps won 6-3! And we totally Rocked the Red. Even though I only had a red scarf but I tired at least! I had no clue what was going on the entire game but Robin told me everything that was going on so I felt like a hockey fan too!! I at least knew when to cheer for the goals! haha Thanks Robin I had so much fun with you!!!!

This is Robin and me before the game started. We had to get there for warm-ups! It was cool to watch them before the game!

Something else that is cool is I got to see where my mom and I will be sitting for the Michael Buble concert in a few weeks! I am soo excited because we have great seats!! I will say good job to myself for this because whenever I go to concerts I never have good seats! (Except that time I went to Enrique Iglesias concert in 9Th grade, those were pretty good seats! I could see his mole I was so close)

Jordan got home this morning early early! I felt so bad because he had to take the red eye home and he said he didn't sleep a wink! He came home and slept until 2pm!! He needed the sleep I guess!! I am so happy he is home now!!!

One more thing! Today my little sister Jenney is competing in her very first High School Cheer Competition! I am really excited for her! I even get to go since I like back on the East Coast now!! I haven't been to a cheer competition since I was in high school and I was the one competing!! I saw their competition practice this past week and they are good! Their squad has won the past 2 years in a row so they have a huge target on their back! Their routine is awesome so I know they will do great! And whatever happens happens!

GO WARRIOR CHEERLEADERS!!!!

I found some pictures from High School when I competed!! Take a look!!!

This was my Senior year! We got 1st place!

This was also my Senior year at the homecoming football game. Go us!!

This is my two bestest friends and myself at a football game!! They called us the Triangle cause we were always together and there was three of us...haha funny I know!

Singing Out Loud..haha

2010-11-06T18:16:00.003-04:00

Okay so Today has been a great day. I got to sleep in, I went and bought all new Mac Make up. I got my eye brows threaded (Ouch but great results) When we got home from shopping I looked over and saw a pair of headphones on our night stand. The ones just like the picture above. I asked Jordan where we got these? He bought them yesterday for the airplane when he goes to Cali tomorrow. I was thinking are you serious you bought a new pair of head phones. Once he explained to me how cool they are and the great price he bought them for I didn't care as much. Then he had me use them. OH MY GOSH we had a blast playing with these. They have a feature on them where it pretty much blocks out all outside noise, and when your music is blasting you really cannot hear anything. So I start singing to the song Animal by Neon Tree's. You know the song right? (Whoa what are you waiting for say good bye to my heart tonight.)

So I am singing that with the head phones on and I cannot even hear myself at all. So I look over and Jordan is smiling and like laughing at me. I was singing so loud cause I couldn't hear myself at all. I don't have exactly the best voice in the world too. I get up and Jordan puts on the head phones and starts singing the song Harder Stronger Faster. You know that song right? Well I starting crackin up because he sounds sooo bad and is so loud. We sang for like an hour different songs and laughing at each other. We eventually pulled out the video camera and recorded us singing so we could hear how great we sounded. Man oh Man I think I should totally go on American Idol. I would be one of the people that they put on just so everyone can make fun of me. haha That's how good I was. Once Jordan got bored of singing and went to watch Football I continued to sing for about a half hour around the house. My sweet husband didn't even tell me to stop singing, just to stop singing so loud!!

Okay so one more thing before I go. When we were at the mall today we stopped in Barns and Noble to look around and I was by the cooking books. Now Don't judge me but I was looking through like every book on the table and I happened to start looking through a cook book called Skinny B-word. It actually has the bword on it though. It's a health cook book and I dunno why I was reading it I just was. It wasn't bad I mean c'mon it was a cook book. So Jordan is downstairs looking at real novels while I'm reading this cook book. Then I hear someone say Hi to me. So I look up and I have absolutely no idea who this person is. I am thinking oh this is probably someone from my ward. I still don't know hardly anyone so he must have recognized me because I spoke late week. So I say hi back and he says to me You are such a cute girl why are you reading a book with that title. Let me remind you that hes older like late 30's early 40's. So I'm like oh my gosh he totally is in my ward and he is going to tell the Bishop that I was reading this cook book. I start telling him this isn't a book about how to become this its a health cook book so its just the title. It really doesn't mean anything. I'm kinda embarrassed that I was reading it so I am waiting for him to say I'm Brother So and So I am in your ward. But nooo Do you want to know what he says next...He goes, "you have really pretty eyes" I seriously stopped and took a step back. I thought to myself "Ew I'm like half this guys age" I close to book, said "Thank you, but I have to go", and walked as fast as I could to the stairs to go find Jordan. I got to Jordan and told him and he was like ohh did that guy scare you. I started laughing and we walked out.

Okay honestly that has never happened to me before, I mean I think the guy was hitting on me but I really don't know. We were walking out of the mall and me and Jordan were talking about it. He was like you probably hurt the guys feelings. Haha I guess I may have because I went from one second smiling to the next second straight face and running away. But he totally went about it in the wrong way. Maybe he built up courage to walk over and say hi but he needs to learn how to pick up girls better. And he should look for Wedding rings too. Just a thought! Weird but we actually had a good laugh.

I went to the bathroom and Jordan was waiting for me. When I came out Jordan was like three ladies came up to me and told me I had a cute hair cut. HAHAHA Wow we must have looked really good today or something. They were ladies about our mom's age. I guess Jordan and I attract the older crowd. Funny stuff. I wish I would have said something witty back to the guy though. Like "man, is that the best you can do." or some line from the movie Hitch. That would have been good. :)

My Thoughts.....

2010-11-04T21:16:00.006-04:00

For the past 2 weeks I have tried to post, and then realize I really don't have anything really that exciting to say...then I realized I read everyone else's blog like its the coolest thing ever and its really just their day to day stuff that goes on with them. So lets see what goes on with us day to day?

I just ate all the chocolate peanut butter pretzels that my mom gave us last Saturday..and I don't think Jordan even had one...but hey they almost lasted a week.

Jordan is leaving for San Jose on Sunday. He is attending a conference for work for the whole week. Exciting for him....not so much for me. I'll still be in Virginia...

I am so excited for the Michael Buble concert in a few weeks.

I got some really cute black boots that make me like 4 inches taller. I'm normal height when I wear them. Can I get a woot woot!

I really don't understand how Bristol Palin is still on Dancing with the Stars...I mean really who is voting for her?

Why the Heck was Glee not on this week?

Our calling in the ward is....are you ready for this.... Ward Choir Nursery Leaders. That's what I get for telling the Choir Director that I will not be in the ward Choir. Pretty much we watch every ones kids while they are practicing for an hour after Church. (Last week I let some girl eat 4 cookies opps)

I am so excited for Thanksgiving, Mostly because I get the day off from work. And I do love Sweet Potatoes.

Sometimes I tell my co-worker way to much about my life. She is so sweet to listen. Half of which I probably shouldn't be telling her. We have some good laughs though.

Pillsbury Biscuits are one of the best things I have ever tasted. (yeah that ones in the can that you pop open...delicious)

I really want to coach high school cheerleading. I wanna go back to my old high school and coach. I heard through the grapevine that the position may be opening. The only problem is they take teachers and people in the school system before outside people. I am not in the education system so I would not be first pick. I think I still might try though. You never know!

Alright that will be all for now. I need to go to bed seeing is that I have to get up at 5 tomorrow for work! At least its Friday tomorrow! Yayy Happy Friday and Happy Weekend!

Fall is Here

2010-10-05T19:10:00.003-04:00

Out here in Virginia it is definitely fall. It has been really rainy and cool. I was surprised how quick the temperature dropped. I am ready for fall, and for all the leaves to change. I don't really like the rain though. It was nice for like a day to come home from work and just be lazy but it wont go away. It has been over cast here for a while now. And I must say that it is not fun driving at 5:15am in the pouring rain. Its so dark, I can barley see the lines on the road and its just scary. I go so slow haha and cars are flying past me! They probably think I am an old grandma or something..nothing against old grandma's, then just tend to drive a little bit slower.

So it's finally feeling like fall. I am ready to break out a can of pumpkin and bake something. Although I am trying not to eat sweets. I'm sure I will crack and bake though. I made homemade rolls last week with corn chowder and it was so delicious! The chowder was a cooking light recipe

and it was a huge hit. Well haha by huge hit I mean Jordan and me really liked it.

Work is going really well. I am getting a lot better at teaching Step Aerobics. I also just added a class, boot camp. I haven't taught it before so we will see how it goes. I think it will be fun though. I should act like a marine or something. I'm sure all the members would just love that! Jordan is doing really well at work. They just love him. He designed a whole new website for his company and it is awesome. He is so talented!!

I am nervous for Sunday to come. I am sub teaching Relief Society. I am scared. I haven't taught Relief Society since I was in my singles ward at BYU-Idaho. And it was fun then because your Relief Society are your friends and you know they will save you if you get stuck by answering questions or making comments. I am sure the sisters in my ward will do that also but I am still new to the ward and I hardly know anyone. They are all so much older than me too. I bet I am the youngest one in the Relief Society. I just hope it goes well. Jordan has been helping me a lot with the lesson. I only have to be up there for about 25 minutes though. They take SO long on the announcements and songs. Its kinda funny. And we have Fast Sunday this Sunday so I get to leave time at the end for Testimonies. Thank goodness! Pray for me that it goes well!!!

I am so excited I have Monday off from work. It is my last day off until Thanksgiving. I know most people don't even get days off. I get paid days off and if I don't use em, I lose em! So I picked random days off through the rest of the year. I get this one, then Thanksgiving day off, Then nothing until Christmas, then only three days off before the new year. Gee working is demanding. I am so use to taking off whenever I want, and getting 1 week for Thanksgiving, and 3 weeks for Christmas. Not this year. I am excited for the Holidays though.

Michael. Yes, Michael Buble!

2010-09-26T19:19:00.003-04:00

I am going to see Michael Buble November 30th at the Verizon Center in Washington D.C.!! Yayy I am so excited. I am going to take my dear mother! We are very very excited. I think we have pretty good seats too! I tried winning tickets on the radio three time but I guess some other lucky girl won them instead! That's okay! Jordan told me even if I didn't win I could still buy tickets, as long as he didn't have to go. haha just kidding. He didn't say that but I think he was thinking that. :) jk ;)

I cant wait til November 30th!!

Chicago, lost in D.C. and Tow Trucks

2010-09-14T11:07:00.004-04:00

Jordan went to Chicago this past weekend for work. He worked all day Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. On Sunday a co-worker and his family that is up in Chicago took him out to see the city. Here are some of the things he saw. He only took a few pictures.

I had to drop Jordan off at the airport really early on Thursday morning because I had to be at work at 5:45am. We get to the airport in plenty of time for me to get to work. We say our goodbyes and I am off to work. So I am driving on the Dullas Toll Road and I am not seeing any signs for 495 North. I call Jordan and I'm like "Hey do you know what exit I am suppose to take?" Hes all no but I'm sure 495 North will come up eventually. At this point its like 5:30am so I am still in good shape. So I keep driving. I call back ten minutes later, "Jordan I am seeing signs for the pentagon, and down town D.C." "Mary, you have gone way to far" Oh crap this is bad. So I get off at the Pentagon/Crystal City exit. No idea where I am, and I need to be at work in 5 minutes. I am freaking out on the phone telling him I have no idea where I am. Long story short I finally found my way back up to 495 and I get to work 25 minutes late...Awesome.

I drove down to Virginia Beach that afternoon to see my sister and her family. I didn't want to stay by myself while Jordan was gone because I didn't have to work on Friday. A nice trip to VA beach would be fun. I get there around 6:15pm and we had a good night hanging out. 7:30am the next morning Carole Ann rips the covers off of me and asks "Where did you park your car??" "In the visitor parking like you told me..." I said. " Its not there!" Oh great, really! All day Friday we are trying to get my car back from the towing company without having to pay. They towed my car in the visitor parking with a visitor pass. It clearly was a mistake. Well Carole Ann's apartment company had given her the wrong visitor parking pass. We were on the phone all day with the property managers to have them pay for their mistake...it didn't really work. 8:00pm that night we went and got our car. Payed our of our pocket. My sister and her husband will be deducting $125 from their rent due to the lack of help we were able to get from the management company!

Wow what a weekend!!! There were many more events that took place but I will spare you.

I still had a great time with my sisters family. It was a lot of fun and I didn't have to work!

Hopefully this weekend will be eventful too!!!!

Labor Day Weekend

2010-09-06T20:58:00.003-04:00

Don't you just love 3 day weekends! I sure do! We celebrated Jordan's little sisters Birthday this weekend. Today is her real birthday but all weekend we celebrated! It was a lot of fun!

Friday night we went down to D.C. to a comedy show. We had never been to one before. Julie wanted to do something different for her 21st birthday, so Jordan suggested a comedy show. We went to see Loni Love. She is hilarious. I laughed so hard! There were some stuff that I felt bad because I thought it was funny but it was a bit inappropriate but hey sometimes that stuff is just funny! She is a bigger lady so she made a lot of jokes about food and how she loves all kinds of people because of the great food they make. So that was Friday night.

Saturday was a great day. After we got our cable and Internet hooked up Ashley, Julie and I went out shopping at Tyson's Corner. Tyson's has become my spot. We live just down the road from the mall so I feel like every weekend I go there. I usually don't buy anything but this time I splurged. I think I bought all of Macy's. It was great. Ashley kept picking out the cutest outfits and telling me to try them on. Then I ended up buying all of them! It was fun though I needed some cute fall clothes! After shopping all day we went over to Ashley's apartment for dinner and games!

Today, Monday we hung out with the whole Packham Clan! We went to Cheesecake Factory for Julies Birthday Lunch! I love Cheesecake Factory. I got a yummy veggie sandwich! And the Red Velvet Cheese Cake! We all got different kinds of cheesecake! I feel like I should never eat again! haha you know that feeling! Its like everyday for me...ya know my life story of overeating!

We had a great weekend! Now back to work tomorrow and life again! I live for the weekends! So much fun! I only have to work three days this week! I am super excited! I have Friday off and I am going to go down to Virginia Beach to visit my oldest sister Carole Ann her husband Jon, and her baby Jonathan!! I am super excited. Jordan is leaving for Chicago on Thursday for work and he wont be home until Monday morning! I wanted to go with him but we decided that I would probably get in the way since he is going for work and all I would want to do is play! I didn't want to be home by myself so I'm taking off to see the sister!

Happy Labor Day Everyone!!!

And Happy 21st Birthday Julie!

Family Photo's

2010-09-03T08:01:00.001-04:00

Here's the whole fam bam together again!

We had a great time down in Virgina Beach with everyone! We took these pictures because who knows when we will all be together again with a photographer. We were suppose to take pictures on the beach this year but it poured rain the day we were suppose to take them. Plan B was Carole Ann's house! It worked just fine.

Look at Jonathan's cute smile!!

The girl taking the pictures took a few of Jordan and me cause it was our two year Anniversary that day! They are really casual but I like them. We haven't had a good picture taken together since our wedding day!

So everything is going well with us! We are really excited for the holiday weekend! I love long weekends when I don't have to work! I have a three day week next week because Monday is a holiday and I took Friday off! Jordan is going to Chicago for a business trip so I am going to head down to Virgina Beach again to visit Carole Ann, Jon, and baby Jonathan again!! I'm excited! Jonathan is crawling now! Its so cute!

Here is some exciting news, we are getting Internet at our apartment on Saturday! Yayy finally we don't have to borrow anyone's anymore and barely get a connection!

I can't believe it's already Fall again! But you know what that means! GLEE and all the great shows are going to come back on! I am super excited! Hopefully my work schedule won't interferer with that too much! This year has just flown by! Next thing we know it will be the new year!

Crazy!

Here's To Us

2010-08-22T20:27:00.000-04:00

Here is to you Jordan! Happy two years!
I am so thankful to have spent the last two years with you.
I can't wait to see what the future has in store for us.
Happy Anniversary my Love!

August...So Far

2010-08-12T06:34:00.000-04:00

Okay okay remember how I said I would post more often..well this is more often. We don't have Internet yet at our apartment so it is a bit harder to post. I am still planning on posting pictures of our new place...I just have to take them first. We don't have any cool decorations up yet so I am kind of waiting for that to happen before I show the world where I live. :)

August has been good to us so far. Its already gone by so fast. Where is the time going? The first weekend in August we met Carole Ann, Jon, and my dad at the temple followed by a great lunch at Chipolte. We had a great time hanging out with the family and playing with baby Jonathan.

Last weekend we met some friends (Kristy and Justin) up at the temple and went to Mongolian BBQ afterwards. Oh how I love that place. I could eat there everyday! Once we finished with that Jordan and I tried to find Costco...lets just say don't go to Costco in downtown Arlington. Our GPS was taking us in circles. Literally we pasted the pentagon about 5 times. We finally found it and remember how we are in down town..well parking at Costco is the same as parking to walk to a memorial. Lets just say that turned into about an all day event! It was fun though...and I got my frozen yogurt that I always have to have when we make a Costco trip!

This weekend my brother David is coming. He will be here for the next two weeks. Were really excited to see him. I haven't seen him since graduation back in April. We are going to go down to VA beach next weekend to play! I finally get a few days off from work. Yayyy I love getting paid not to work!

by the way..work is going great. I have been teaching the step class. I am def not the best stepper but it is coming along pretty well. There are definitely up and down weeks with that class but it has been getting better every time. I just hope in the future I can look back at this time and laugh! It can only get better right? Lets hope!

So here is what I will be blogging about in the next few weeks. Since I am blogging about blogging I will be updating more often!

1. David coming

2. Beach trip

3. Our 2 year anniversary

4. New apartment pictures

Okay now I am holding myself to this!

The Whole Month of July..opps

2010-07-23T08:07:00.000-04:00

Well I have to say I did it again. I didn't post anything for the longest time. Ever since I started working full time I forgot all about my blog!! It wasnt until my friend/old roommate Ashley told me I needed to update my blog more often! haha she is right! I do! And thats what I am doing Now. I don't have a ton of pictures up yet. The few I have will do for now though! This post is going to be the entire month of July. I can't even remember back into June. Im pretty sure all I did was work. Nothing that special! We have had some fun times though this month! Where do I Begin?

4th Of July: For the 4th we spent the weekend up at my sister-in-law's place in Reston VA. We stocked up on so much food and had a great weekend! Danie came into town on July 1st so it was great to have her here with us. Some of the things we did were canoeing, eating, watched fire works, had a BBQ, took naps, ate some more, went to see Eclipse, and watched Ashley and Devoughn run a 4th of July race!

Danie's Birthday: Danie celebrated her birthday with us at the beach! We went down to Virginia beach for the weekend. It was great because not only did we get to relax on the beach but we got to see my older sister Carole Ann, Jon, and baby Jonathan! It was fun to see them and hang out! I hadn't been to the beach in 2 years so it was a much needed trip. I got very very sun burned and it was very hard to teach my abs class because I couldnt lay down on my back. haha my class understood though! Danies birthday cake was so big we ate it the entire weekend. I am still pretty sure there is still some at the Packham's house. We should probably throw that away now!

Melanee, Danie, Jordan, and Ashley at the Reston Town center

on the 3rd watching a concert some jazz people put on!

Don't you just love his outfit. haha boys...

All of us at Ashley's house. Davoughn is taking the picture
thats why he is not in it!

Danie and her yummy cake we ate all weekend!

All of us together! So Fun!

Another exciting thing that is happening this weekend is we are finally moving into our own apartment. We have been living with our families for the past 3 months. Jordan has been extened a job offer at the same company he is interning at. We were so excited that they wanted to keep him. I mean who wouln't he is so talented at what he does! We move in this weekend. We will be living in Fairfax. It is about half way inbetween both our jobs. No more waking up super early to get to work on time, and no more being seperated durign the week so I don't have to drive an hour and a half to get to work.

I will try my hardest to post more often! Also once our apartment gets set up I will post pictures so everyone can take a look at our new home!!

Well thats all for now!

(Hope you liked it Ash!)

The Latest With Us

2010-06-12T14:10:00.000-04:00

This is my nephew Jonathan. I found this picture on my camera and thought it was so funny. I hope my sister doesn't mind I'm posting it. haha

Well I have yet not blogged for a very long time. Last I told you I got a job. Its going so great, and I love working there. Its a lot of fun. I just found out that I love teaching step aerobics. I was always afraid to teach step because you have to be right on with everything and if you mess up everyone knows but its so fun. I teach the beginner class and its now my favorite class to teach.

I am also teaching a circuit training class, a body sculpt class, an ab class, and a kickboxing class. Its going well. I had my first health consultation on Thursday and my first personalized exercise program also. Its fun to design work outs for people and see how they like them.

Jordan is doing great also. He is working hard, and it seems like the company really wants him to stay once his internship is over. He hasn't been really searching for any other jobs so he will probably stay there until he finds something else. He wants to start applying to government jobs like the FBI, CIA, and others.

Our living situation has been kinda interesting since I got the job. We have been living down in Stafford, Virginia with Jordan's family because its only about 25 minutes from where Jordan works. Well since I have been working up in Rockville Maryland its about an hour away. I have to work 3 days a week early in the morning...like 5:45am so I have been staying with my parents in Maryland because its only 15 minutes from where I work. So its kinda annoying because I am in Maryland a few days a week while Jordan is down in Virginia. On the weekends we are in Virginia though. We just need to get our own place. We are trying to find the best deals though so we don't wanna rush into anything. Also its been hard to look since we both work full time. I have been researching online but everything is super pricey. Not like Rexburg when we were all made Hyde Park was going up to $575. haha man I wish that was the case here.

So that's whats been going on with us as of late. My sister and her husband and Jonathan just moved to Virginia Beach and we cant wait to go visit them. Hence they live by a beach so that will get me down whenever I can!! We miss them up here but are super glad they live close enough to visit often.

Carole Ann surprised us this past week and came up for a few days with Jonathan. Jon had to go out on a ship for a few days so she decided to come up. It was a lot of fun playing with Jonathan, going on walks, and being at the pool.

This is our new car that I promised I would put a picture up of.

We really like it. We had a little scare though last week. My neighbor said she heard on the radio the dodge caliber was being recalled for the same reason as the Toyota's were. We researched and we found out it was the 07 model and we have the 09 so we were okay.

And one of our favorite things to do....DUH go out to eat!! Jordan took me to this really yummy Italian restaurant and we got the West Coast pizza. haha it was Hawaiian pizza. It was super good and whenever I look at this picture I want to go there!!!

For Memorial Day we went to Kings Dominion. Its an amusement park over here. It was so much fun. We rode a ton of rides. It was really hot but we didn't care. I didn't take any pictures. I was having too much fun to remember about my camera.

That's what has been going on with us!

We really like it here and I love the HOT weather.

Until next time!!!

I have a job!!!

2010-05-29T08:39:00.000-04:00

Well can I just tell you how busy I have been. I was extended a position last Friday as a Fitness Specialist for a company called Corporate Fitness Works!! I interviewed for this position the whole month of may. I had three interviews and finally they extended the position to me. We were so excited!! Now since Jordan works in Springfield, and I work in Rockville Maryland we were in a bit of a pickle when it came down to the car...So we got a new one!!! Yayyyy We went car shopping all day last Saturday and picked out a car. Its a Dodge Caliber and I just love it!! Its sorta like a mini SUV. It gets good gas mileage and it was in our price range. I started work on Monday. I was getting trained to I had to go to all of our fitness centers in the region. I went to Sprint Center in Reston, VA then I went to Census in Suitland, Maryland. Then finally I went to Westat in Rockville Maryland where I will be staying for now on. It has been really fun so far. Now I'm sure you are all wondering what does a fitness specialist do? Well I will tell you...

Our company contracts with other companies. For example I am working at Westat which is a Research company. All the employee's of Westat can join our fitness center which is located in there office building. So I teach classes, do personalized exercise programs, health consultations, health interviews, health promotion programs, everything to get them ready to join our facility. I work with two other fitness specialist and we pretty much run the center and keep everything up so its looking nice and all that other great stuff. Its really a fun job. I get to do exactly what I wanted! My favorite classes in school are the ones that prepared me for this job. I was thinking right after I received the position how much BYU-Idaho prepared me for the real world. I had so many opportunities to get real world experience. During the interview process they asked a lot of questions related to experiences that I have had in the Health field. Luckily BYU-Idaho gave me all of those experience that I was able to tell them about. I am so thankful that I was able to go to a University that allowed me to go outside of my comfort zone and have to be the leader many times in my college career. I'm pretty sure I complained about it often but now looking back if I didn't have those experiences I probably would not have this job.

Anyway so Jordan and I are doing great!!! Traffic is kinda annoying but I get to drive a cute car! :) that makes up for it! haha

So that's my update for now. Hopefully we will be doing something fun for Memorial Day and I can post about that. We haven't really made plans yet. Oh yeah and I will post some pictures of our new car soon!

Front Row...Heck Yeah!

2010-05-04T19:25:00.000-04:00

We went to an O's game last weekend. Orioles vs. Red Sox. It was a good one above was where we originally sat. Really good seats and a great view of the baseball diamond, but then we upgraded to these.....

If you look really closely and know what my parents look like you can see my dad, and mom in the second row. Jenney is down there too but you cant really see her from this picture. This is a picture we took from our original seats two decks above them. (we zoomed in a ton of course)

Our awesome next door neighbor offered us her amazing seats for the Orioles vs Red Sox game. We love going to baseball games especially when we get to sit in there seats. So she got us all tickets and we all went on Saturday night. We were really excited to go, it was a great day and the Red Sox were in town. We root for the O's now since we have lived in Maryland for almost 11 years. We used to root for Boston but then we felt we were betraying our home team!

So this is how it happened...We arrived at Camden yards at about 6:30 for a 7:05 game. We decided we would eat first before the game started. Of course we had to go to Boogs BBQ our favorite spot at Camden yards! So we were walking to go find a table, my dad and Jordan were in front of my mom, Jenney, and me when I hear a lady say excuse me a few times. I turn around and she asked us if it was just us three and I told her that there was two more in front of us and two more coming. She sighed and kinda was like ohh...then my mom asked why? She said oh well my friend isn't feeling well and we are going to go home and we wanted to give our tickets to some one...then she goes on to say they are front row seats right behind home plate!! I was like uhh I'll take them. She didn't want any money or anything she just didn't want them to go to waste. So we took the tickets. I ran over to tell me dad and he was like Oh my gosh seriously. We all obviously wanted to sit in those seats so we decided to be fair....since my dad bought all of us tickets in the first place we decided to take shifts. haha yes only the Premont family would actually split up the time so we can all get a change to sit there. My mom, dad and Jenney took the first shift. Then Jordan and I switched at the top of the 5th inning. Then Carole Ann and Jon came at the bottom of the 7th. And my dad stayed there the whole game.

It was a blast!!! It is a totally different ball game being so close to the players and all! My fav player Nick Markais hit a home run along with Luke Scott and some others! It was pretty cool!

This is Nick...I'm pretty sure we are on first name bases now since I sat right behind him and cheered for him!!!

After the game!

Feels good to put the running shoes back on...

2010-04-26T13:59:00.000-04:00

I cant even tell you how great it felt to put my runnig shoes back on today!! Its been 2 months since I last put them on...can you believe that TWO MONTHS!!!! thats just wrong!! I was so busy my last semester with school and work that I put aside my passion. Now that I am done with school and still unemployed I get to stay home and do something I love...RUN, and feel good!!! I'm not gonna lie though I was pretty scared when I stepped on the tread mill today. I was thinking how hard it was going to be and that I probably should never of stopped working out but that time has passed and its time to get back!! I'm really excited since I am home by my self all day I might as well take advantage of it!!!

Today was also Jordan's first day of work! He left bright and early. He has about a half hour commute. I cant wait til he comes home and tells me all about it.

I also met my nephew two weekends ago. He is the cutest little thing ever!! I was never bored when I was aroudn him!!! Thats amaing for me because I get bored so easily. He is almost 4 months and is smiling and if you make him really happy he will giggle its so cute! I love it. I cant wait to see him again!!

Friday April 16, 2010

2010-04-16T15:50:00.000-04:00

Here's some pictures from graduation!!

Enjoy!

Waiting to start convocation! We had front row. Good thing I graduated with Jordan!

Yay we did it!

The sign tells all

The Premont clan

Mom and Dad with the Graduate

I didn't take any pictures of packing because I thought I was going to rip my hair out! Thank goodness for my mother in law, mom, and grandma. With out them I think I would still be in Rexburg trying to pack everything up!!!!

And our road trip begins.....

(I took this picture when we were going through the mountains in Idaho)

So we left Rexburg Sunday the 11Th around 1pm...we left about 4 hours later than we wanted to but that's okay. My parents got us a GPS for our graduation present, and they also didn't want us getting lost on the way out to Virginia. (we took 80 the whole way..it was kinda hard to get lost) but the GPS was amazing because it tells you the restaurants that are around and hotels. Usually we just stop somewhere quick to eat and get back on the road but since we had the GPS we decided to go places we have never been. It was great!

The first night we stopped in Laramie WY. It was so funny cause we wanted to stay somewhere cheap, but not feel like we were going to get murdered in the middle of the night. Where did Jordan pick to stay? The Gas Lite Inn. Now I had never seen one of these but this was a one of a kind. I wish I took a Picture. It was so late and I was so tired I didn't even care. But lets just say The outside looked like a log cabin, and it had statues of Cowboys and Indians. There was 10 cats inside the room where you check in, and Pocahontas was on our wall staring at me....haha it was clean though and the bed was comfy so I didn't really mind :)

The second day I wanted to get far cause we had an earlier start. Driving sure makes you tired...I haven't figured out why though all your doing is sitting. Its all that concentration I guess. We were driving through Nebraska which is the LONGEST state ever! We decided to stop for lunch somewhere that I cant pronounce in Nebraska and since we had our handy dandy GPS we used it. So I wanted something fresh and on the GPS Heavenly Homemade Sandwich came up and that was what I wanted. I cannot express enough how amazing this place was. The bread was homemade (hence the homemade part in the name) and it was so delicious. It was by far the best turkey sandwich I have ever had. yum yum I want one right now. (even though I just ate lunch it was not nearly as good as this Heavenly Homemade Sandwich) After my delicious amazing yummy sandwich we got back on the road and made it to Omaha where we stooped for the night. The next day we made it to Indiana and then the last day we drove 12 hours to Virginia. The car ride really wasn't that bad. Jordan let me drive a lot so I would complain about being bored. What a smart cookie! Now that were here we have just been unpacking and getting settled. I love the weather here its so warm and humid I LOVE it! I'm def going to miss everyone in Rexburg and we better all keep in touch!!!!

Grown up and GRADUATED!!!!

2010-04-15T15:47:00.001-04:00

Finally College Graduates!!!

We are so excited to be finished with college and start a new chapter in our lives!

We made it to Virginia safe and sound. The drive really wasn't to bad, but we are happy to be here!

Just an update...

2010-03-20T00:32:00.001-04:00

Here is a quick update on whats going on in our lives the past month an a half!! School has gotten busier than ever. but its good because its passing the time so fast. 3 more weeks til were college grads and off to Virginia April 11!! Cant wait!!!! just need to find me a job....

This is Jordan on his birthday. I forgot to buy candles so he is pretending to blow them out to make me feel better:)

This is Jordan's birthday present. He is loving it now with March Madness going on!

Remember how we are moving and we sold all our furniture a month too early!! This is our Sunday dinner...we had a picnic!!

Yes i am wearing Pajama Pants!!

This is my boat...I mean bed. Yes we sold our bed too. EVERYTHING IS GONE except one couch and that is what Jordan sleeps on! We had this blow up raft we bought last summer so float on the river with and it turned into my bed for the next month!!

Well that's what the past month and a half brings us. We have had some good laughs especially since I'm sleeping in a boat!!

We have a plan!!

2010-02-28T00:27:00.001-05:00

Finally we have a plan for after graduation! Jordan has been interviewing for a few companies our east. This past Tuesday he got an offer for an internship in Springfield, Virginia! DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS??? We are moving to Virginia!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS I am so excited, happy, grateful, excited, grateful, blessed, and everything else that goes along with it! I was starting to get use to the idea that we were going to be in Rexburg for the summer, and Jordan would do his internship at the school and who knows what I would have done. I will have more job opportunities out east than I will in Rexburg. But now we know what we will be doing and they said that after he is finished with the internship he could apply for a full time position! Even better its a paid internship! Jordan will start April 26th! We don't have an exact date as to when we will be moving but it will be shortly after graduation. Well that's pretty much all the exciting news I have. Oh yeah only 6 more weeks of school! I am ready for this semester to be over. But we all knew that! I say it 1bazillion times a day!

this was suppose to be posted a long time ago....

2010-01-31T23:14:00.000-05:00

These pictures were suppose to be posted about a month ago..but I guess better late than never right? These are just some pictures of our trip home to Maryland, and Virginia for Christmas. Enjoy!

Jordan with his sister Julie and her boyfriend Carlin

Sisters! Jenney and me at our friends wedding!

Christmas eve at the temple!

This is the gingerbread house we made!!! It actually

turned out looking good! usually our families gingerbread

houses are terrible!!

Sisters!!!!

Things have been going well for us here in Rexburg. Lots of snow, homework,work, and everything else that consumes our life! We are enjoying our last semester and cant wait for spring to come! Jordan is still looking for an internship. As of now everything is up in the air as of what will happen in April if we graduate. Hopefully we will move but who knows we could be in Rexburg for the summer. We will just have to see!

Jordan's Birthday is tomorrow! We pretty much celebrated his birthday this weekend. We figured we wouldn't have a lot of time on Monday to do stuff because were in school and have work, and 24 is on!!! We decided to go out to dinner Saturday night. I wouldn't let him open his presents yet though. That has so wait til Monday! Opps I forgot to buy candles for his birthday cake!! I guess I'll be making a quick trip to the store tomorrow!!

2010 will be a great year!!!

2010-01-01T12:11:00.001-05:00

WOW it's January 1, 2010! That's crazy! It will be a great year though. Jordan and I graduate in April, I am going to be an aunt in 4 days, we will move from Rexburg at some point this year. Hopefully April, and Jordan and I will be able to get REAL jobs with our college degrees!! Sounds like a great year to me!! I am very excited for this new year and have lots of new years resolutions that I hope to keep!!

We have had so much fun here in Maryland/ Virginia. We have been playing and laughing and running around and getting our much needed sleep!! The first few days we were here we went to the mall like a million times to get Christmas presents. Then Christmas eve we went caroling with some friends at the nursing home near our home. After that we have a tradition to go to the visitor center to see the lights and hear the sister missionaries sing. It was really pretty and the missionaries sounded great!! We come home and of course what do we do? What the 24 hour marathon of a Christmas Story. Best Christmas movie ever!! Christmas morning was wonderful. It was so great to be with our family and enjoy each other. We were able to skyp with my oldest sister and her husband because they couldn't be here with us due to the baby they are having this Monday!! yayy we are sooo excited for them. I can't wait to be an aunt and hold my little nephew. :)

The Saturday after Christmas Jordan's sisters came and picked us up and we went down to Virginia to be with them for the weekend. We had so much fun, eating lots of junk food, and playing board games. Monday we went to the dentist since we hadn't been before we got married and guess what....Jordan and I have perfect teeth!! Well that's what the dentist said..I think it's just cause we didn't have any cavities. But we were really happy about that! We weren't trying to pay for fillings too! We came back to Maryland on Tuesday and have been laughing even more. Their have been a lot of funny moments! Its been great!

Yesterday for New Years Eve day we went down to D.C. and went to the Spy Museum. I really liked it. It was pretty cool! Jordan thinks he is a spy now so he really liked looking at all the cool gadgets and stuff they used to be a spy. He wants to go into the FBI so he loves that kind of stuff!! We also saw a the wizards center player Brendon Hayword. He were eating in Fudruckers and he came in to eat with his friends but brought food from another restaurant and the manager yelled at him and told him he had to leave. He is like 7 feet tall so he stood up and started talking back to her. haha they got into a little fight and she said she would call the cops, so he just ended up leaving. Jordan thought it was so funny and cool cause he loves basketball and who doesn't like seeing famous people! Also last night our friends Justin and Kristy came over and we played games, and rock band and hung out. Then we watched the ball drop and finally fell asleep!

We have had so much fun on our winter break. I'm not super excited to start school but I am super excited to finish school!! We still have a few more days here to play with our family but it doesn't seem like long enough!! Oh well we will enjoy our new year and hopefully I will blog more, that should be a resolution for this year!! Okay I will post pictures later!!!

It's finally feeling like Christmas

2009-12-18T18:47:00.000-05:00

Yes, school is done, work is done (til January), and were going home in 2 days!! That means instead of thinking about all of the crazy school work I have to get done, I can start thinking more about Christmas!! I am so excited and happy that I get to see my family in two days! My mom called today and said that they are suppose to get a huge snow storm starting tonight sometime and its suppose to snow 14-20 inches between now and Sunday!! That's crazy, Maryland and VA hasn't gotten that much snow for so long! I hope it doesn't affect our traveling. We leave Sunday morning at 10am and I want to get into Maryland at the intented time 4pm! Last Christmas we got stuck in Las Vegas for ever because their was a lot of rain in California and that's where our plane was coming from! It took forever to get home. I don't want that to happen again. So we will be praying that the snow doesn't affect our travels!!!

I am so happy that I am done with all my classes. I really enjoyed them all this semester. I learned a lot and grew a lot too, but I was getting a little tired of assignment after assignment and test after test! It was time for a break, and this break is much needed. All I can think about is relaxing at home with family and friends who we haven't seen in over a year!! It will be too bad that my oldest sister and her husband wont be able to come up due to their son coming in a few weeks. But we still love them and will miss them very much. I know we will be thinking about them for sure!!!

So only one more semester for Jordan and I! YES that means graduation is almost here and freedom. haha I don't know why I think that life is going to get easier once we finish school! I am just very excited to move to a new place and start somewhere else a new chapter. Jordan is still on the search for internships. He has been doing a lot of applications and he hopes to stop by some places in DC when we are home to talk to them personally! Hopefully that will get him in somewhere!Well that's all for now, I will be updating soon so I can tell everyone about our trip and how much fun we have. Ill take pictures too, I always like reading blogs when there are pictures to look at. Its so much fun!! okay until next time!!!

Thanksgiving Break!!

2009-11-29T15:45:00.000-05:00

We had a whole week off of school last week! It was absolutly great!! I am so refreshed, I still don't really want to go to school tomorrow but only three more weeks then we get to fly home to see our families. We had a really fun relaxing week. We were in Vegas for a few days and that was a lot of fun! We slept a lot, walked around and enjoyed the warmer weather. It wasn't super warm but a lot warmer than Rexburg. A coat was not needed, just a long sleeve shirt or sweater did the trick. We ate at some good resturants. Okay so we went to In N Out burger while we were down there. I had only been once before but it was like 10 years ago so I did not remember what it was like, and Jordan had never been. So we decided to see what all the hype was about....um are you serious that was what everyone was going crazy about..a cheap greesy not very good burger? I know I will probably get a lot of crap because I said that, but honestly it was nothing special. I guess for 2 bucks it was okay but I'd rather go to five guys and get my arteries clogged there. :) haha. Anyway that was our In N Out experience. Jordan liked it, but he likes anything that is greesy and on a bun. We stayed at the stratosphere hotel on the strip. It was cool we got to go to the top for free. We didn't end up riding the rollar coasters everytime we thought about doing it we had just eaten a big meal and I don't think Las Vegas would of appreciated my meal all over the streets. I also watched this program on the tv about the rollar coasters and it made me really scared so I was glad we didn't do it.

Thanksgiving was fun with Jordan's side of the family. I had been with them before but I think since I feel more like the family now since we have been married longer I was more interactive with them and could talk to them more. They are really fun and so funny also. We ended up having Thanksgiving dinner on Friday because Jordan's uncle David couldn't make it until Thursday night and we wanted him to be there. So Thursday we just snacked on lots of good food and ate Marie Calander Pies. Yum Yum. Then Friday we had our feast, and BOY was it a feast. Lots of good food, and the sweet poatoes of my goodness they were heavenly! Also the apple pie was AMAZING. Jordan's Aunt Marsha Made it and it was divine. I want more of it. Enough talk about the food. Im getting hungry.

It was different not to be with my family but we talked to them a lot on the phone. My parents and younger sister Jenney went down to TN to visit my oldest sister Carole Ann and her husband Jon. Carole Ann is due in January so she couldn't travel. They had thanksgiving down there with my mom's brother and his wife and two girls. I was a little jealous I couldn't be there but thats okay. Next year maybe we will all be together! Anyway the point of my telling you all this is that my family was over at Target by my sister's house and guess who they saw...Anyone wanna take a guess? Taylor Swift!! Isn't that so cool!! yeah and she got a picture with her! They sent it to me! I was super jealous at this point. I don't even really listen to her all that much just the songs she has on the radio...actually thats like her whole album but still I wanna meet someone famous. It was good for my little sis, she loves Taylor Swift so she was really excited!! Okay well that was pretty much our vacation in a nut shell. Only three more weeks of school and then maybe I will blog again.

Almost Thanksgiving Break.....

2009-11-18T23:55:00.000-05:00

So I know I haven't posted in so long but my camera wont let my pictures load onto my computer. I hate posting when I have no pictures to show. But I didn't even get to blog about halloween or anything! Oh well I feel like I can't even blog about that now because it was like a month ago. Its Thanksgiving next week and we are so excited for break!! Only two more days until we get a week off of school!! I am so excited. I have been doing lots of homework to get ready for our great Thanksgiving vacation. Here is the plan so far...

Sunday: Leave for Utah. Spend time with my brother David and hang out
Monday: Drive to VEGAS!!! yesssssssss were going to Vegas for three days Monday-Thursday we will be playing in Vegas.
Thursday: TURKEY DAY!!! Drive to Cedar City and spend Thanksgiving with Jordan's Grandma, sister, mom, aunts, uncles, and anyone else...I'm not really sure who's gonna be there. As long as there is Turkey then I'm there!! haha
Friday: who knows but def eat left overs and maybe go shopping?
Saturday/Sunday not sure but start our journey back to the great place of Rexburg

Wow what a week! I cannot wait! We are staying at the stratosphere this time we will be in Vegas and Jordan really wants to ride the roller coaster at the top! That looks so scary. We will see if I do it!! If anyone has any fun things they know to do in Vegas that are not too expensive let me know! Well I hope my computer will stop being dumb next week so I can load our pictures of our adventure!!!

Utah and Family....love it!

2009-10-27T22:55:00.001-04:00

So this past weekend Jordan, Laura, and myself took a trip down to Utah. It was great fun. We met my dad there, and my oldest sister and her husband their to play play play!!! So here is how our weekend went:

Friday: Plan to leave around 2:oo pm. Jordan decided we needed to make a quick stop at walmart to get somethings....little did I know he wanted to get Transformers to watch in the car. Well since he was getting a present I needed one too. YAY for Michael Buble's new CD!! I listened to it pretty much the whole way down. It is awesome and I love it, and you should all get it so you can love it too! We finally get to Provo around 7:30. We meet up with dad and brother and head over Brook Oven Pizza. Yum Yum. Carole Ann and Jon were getting in at 1030 so we needed to pick them up. Mission accomplished and we headed back to Provo. Jordan and I stayed at the greatest people's house...Erin and Kasey Johnson. We stayed up talking til about 2 and I had to get to early to take Jordan and my brother David to GAME DAY in the morning.....

Saturday: Alarm goes off at 6:30....kill me I only got 4 hours of sleep. We finally got up at 6:50 and I went to take Jordan and David to the stadium for game day. Got back to Erin's and layed back down..phone rings at 745...Dad calls and is ready for me to pick him up to take him to Game day. Do that...go back to Erin's and get ready. Now I am waiting for the boys to call so I can pick them up. Gee what am I everyone's shuttle? Oh don't forget how I get to take Laura my little sister to get her hair cut and then pick up my sister and brother in law to take them back to Provo. So by the time all of this shuttling is over it is only noon. Wow busy day so far. But I didn't mind it, it was fun and who needs sleep anyway right? So after the morning we decided we were hungry..cafe rio yep here we come. Then we just went on campus and that evening went to the BYU vs TCU game. We wont talk about that..I'm sure you all know how it went! That evening we went out for more pizza yes we like pizza....and then hit the hay I'M TIRED!

Sunday: SLEEP IN YESSSS!!! Went over to meet the fam for the last time and said our goodbyes took some pictures then headed home. I slept 3 out of the 4 hours I think. It was great! Got home around 6 ate french toast...and let me remind you how I did NO Homework this weekend. Yes don't you love that...until you find out you have 2 quizzes this week and 2 tests...oh crap. Maybe I should be studying instead of blogging....nahhh this is much more needed!!

Pictures will be coming soon. Hope you enjoyed my weekend as much as I did!!!!!

Pumpkin Weekend

2009-10-18T18:08:00.000-04:00

So this weekend was Super fun!!! We actually did something other than homework. I was able to get all my homework for the weekend done on Friday. It was awesome. So Friday night we decided we wanted to carve a pumpkin so we went and got one. Obviously when picking out a pumpkin you have to find the perfect one....so I was looking for the roundest, the orangest then my wonderful husband insited we get this green one....because it was different and has character I guess? haha hes so funny, so we ended up getting not the orangest...but it was pretty round. After carving our pumpkin we watched the proposal. I love that movie it is so funny. I laughed so hard even though I have already seen it before. I made a big bowl of pop corn and we just had a great time together!!!

Saturday was another fun day. Of course I woke up early and headed to the gym. When I got home Jordan was still sleeping. He needs his beauty rest. :) Jk we did a little bit of homework and then we went out to Idaho Falls. We walked around the green belt got some lunch and just relaxed. It was a beautiful day. We had stake conference Saturday night as well. After stake conference I decided I was going to make my own pumpkin puree for some pumpkin bread. Now I didn't just randomly decided to make pumpkin puree, I have been wanting to do this for a while. Someone at work told me about a great website. (http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/) and I found that there was a recipe for pumpkin puree and I thought it would be fun to try. Wow its a lot more work than opening a can. Its not really hard cause all you do is roast the pumpkin and puree it. But number 1: I don't have great knifes for cutting pumpkin, and 2: I don't have a food processor so I used a potato masher. I tired using my blender but it was taking forever. So I just put some elbow greece into it and got the job done myself. Let me remind you I didn't start this project until 9pm and I also decided I would make bread and muffins also. I got finished around 11:30. It was a lot of fun, I will probably never do it again...well maybe if someone buys me a food processor (hint Christmas hint) I was actually thinking as I was making the puree "I will never do this again.." But then I tasted the bread and decided once I get better knifes and a food processor I'll do it. I am not sure if it was the bread recipe that was so good of if the fresh pumpkin made it that good? I just love pumpkin bread canned or fresh hands down. It was a fun activity and Jordan loves to eat so it was a win win situation. Oh ya and my kitchen kinda looked like a pumpkin bomb went off!!

I am really excited for Halloween. I don't think because its the holiday that I love, but because that means only 3 weeks until Thanksgiving break, and then three more weeks until the semester is over! This coming weekend my dad and older sister Carole Ann and her husband Jon are flying out to Utah so were gonna go down. I will be taking pictures for sure and will definitely post something after that. I'm trying to be better about posting more often. I look at everyone elses blogs and then I look at mine and its so boring compared to others. So I'm working on it! :)

Enjoy the pictures!

we put a candle in it just for this picture

I would feel bad if I burnt all four apts that are

connected to ours....so we blew it out after we

took the picture.

haha i thought this was funny.

Ended the night with popcorn and the proposal

(Jordan thought it would be cute to have popcorn

in his mouth while I took the picture...)

The beginning of the project....

After they were roasted...the house smelled so

good

getting ready to mash

I decided to freeze the leftovers...i probably wont

do this again for a loooong time!

and let me tell you...they were good

October Is Here!!!

2009-10-03T17:29:00.000-04:00

I am so excited that it is already October!! The first month of school has gone by so fast, I hope it doesn't stop!! School is busy busy busy!! Its great though. I actually am enjoying this semester! Last semester I couldn't wait for it to be over. This semester is fun and hard at the same time. My health appraisal class is awesome. I get to have a client and help that person develop an exercise program and help her eat well and hopefully by the end of the project there will be a weight loss. I really like this class because this is actually what I want to do with my major. I want to help people change their life and meet their fitness and nutrition goals!! I get to work one hour a week volunteering in the wellness center on campus where I take peoples blood pressure, body composition, Vo2 max, muscular strength and endurance. Its pretty cool!

Jordan is enjoy the semester also. He is super duper busy! He has a lot of computer classes that he has big projects for. He is super smart so its a breeze for him. Well I don't know if its a breeze but I never hear him say his homework is too hard. So I just assume its easy peezy lemon squeezy. :)

We are very excited for October 23rd because we will get to see my dad, sister, brother, and brother in law down in Utah! That's only like 3 weeks away!! SWEET. I haven't seen my big sister and brother in law since Christmas and she is prego now so I am super happy I get to see her all cute and prego. She is due January 11, 2010 so she has a little more to go but def the cutest pregnant sibling in the Premont family...oh ya she is the only pregnant sibling in the Premont Family.

Well I just wanted to update the blog. I don't have any pictures because nothing has really happened where pictures were necessary. If we do something worth while I will bring the camera and post pictures.

Back to School

2009-09-13T21:23:00.000-04:00

Well school has started again. It is going pretty well so far...we have only had two days of class though. I actually really like my heath science classes so far, I'm not too fond of my child development classes, but that's okay. I am still working so the day goes by pretty fast because I just go to school then work. Jordan is enjoying school also. He wasn't able to do his internship this semester because they had already given it so someone who has been working there longer. So this means we will probably have to stay next summer for him to do his internship on campus.

My mom was also here last week. She came to drip Laura off and see us at school. It was great to see her!! I wish the whole family could have come but that's okay. We will see them in December. I pretty much already have a count down until we go home for Christmas. Its also nice to have Laura back at school. We have been going running together every day. Well I guess that was just a quick update of whats happened lately. Nothing too big. Hopefully my mom will send us some pictures of all of us while she was here and I can post them. Until next time....see ya

Happy One Year!

2009-08-22T21:32:00.001-04:00

That is Jordan up at the top with his arm raised,
getting ready to jump off.

The boys jumping off the 3rd platform

The happy couple hiking

Jordan suprised me this morning!!

Jordan and I made it, one year down many many many more wonderful years to come! Today is our one year anniversary. I can't believe that one year ago today we were just getting married. The year went by so fast, but so many good memories to think about.

We had a great day, Jordan brought me breakfast in bed, and flowers. Then we went hiking at some cool place, I have no idea where it was but it was so beautiful. We were there for a while enjoying nature and each others company. After that we drove to Idaho falls...made a quick stop at 5 guys to grab a bite for lunch then we went and saw Julie & Julia. It was cute, I'm not sure how much Jordan liked it but he humored me and took me to see it. I want to try to find Julie's blog because the movie was based off of 2 true stories. And I also feel like I need to cook something french with lots of butter. :) After the moive we went and looked around the stores there in IF. We stopped at Michael's and found some cute pictures to put in our frames. We have lived here almost a whole year and just finished decorating! haha at least I finished right?

We were suppose to either go out to a nice finner or come home and make each other a romantic dinner but we are still full from lunch so I don't think that's going to happen. I'm sure I'll be hungry around 10 o'clock and just randomly eat the whole kitchen. :) So that's how today went. It was really nice and I have enjoyed that past 365 + days I have spent with my loving husband! Hes the best!!!

On a side note, David came up one day this week and we went to Lava Hot Springs. I haven't been there in probably 10 years. It was a lot of fun, and YES I did jump off one of the platforms...it was only the 1st one but it was still really scary. Jordan and David jumped off all three of them! They are crazy boys with no fear. There was an old guy there doing crazy flips off all the diving boards and plat forms. I was very impressed.

School starts back up in a few weeks. I'm kinda ready but not really. I'm mostly just excited to see my sister and mom when they come out. And the closer that it starts the closer the end of the semester is. Then we can go home for Christmas and only have one semester until graduation! Yay wont that be fun!

Our Little Vacation!

2009-08-04T17:02:00.000-04:00

So school is out, and we just got home from vacation. We first went to Salt Lake to see Jordan's sister Dani. That was fun. We just hung out and went out to eat, then we went down to Provo to see my brother David. We hung out with him and went to a yummy BBQ place where David much enjoyed the wings. haha jk we told him to do that (see picture below) We went to Brandon and Michelles wedding on Tuesday and had a great time. Then Wednesday morning bright and early Jordan left to go fishing and camping with his dad and grandpa. I decided to stay in Provo with David and hang out with him and my good friend Anjuli. I slept a lot, ate lots of ice cream, and played! I went to all of David's inter mural games. It was fun but its good to be back home. Jordan and myself just started new jobs yesterday. I'm working in the admissions office and Jordan is doing networking stuff with the computers on campus. It feels good to finally have a job again. well until next time...enjoy the pictures!

Jordan with the Palmer boys

This is me and Anjuli watching David's soft ball game!

Jordan and me waiting after the wedding!

David really enjoyed the wings!

Schools Out For Summer!!!!

2009-07-22T22:16:00.000-04:00

Yay school is finally over. I feel like these past two weeks I have been a chicken running around with my head cut off. I'm so happy its finally over! What a huge relief! And something even better. I GOT A JOB!! not just working at world gym teaching classes but I will be working in the Admissions office on campus starting in August! Yay isn't that so exciting. On Saturday we are leaving to go down to Utah for a week. That will be fun to get away for a while. I will be taking new pictures so hopefully there will be some good ones to post when I get back.

SIX more days of school!!!

2009-07-15T22:06:00.000-04:00

Oh my gosh! School is finally almost over!! WAHOO. I am soo excited! I only have to take 6 tests in 6 days...great! haha thats okay I just keep telling myself one more week and then its over, well at least until September! Only one more day of waking up at 530 to teach aerobics also! But do you want to know something cool, world gym is hiring me as an instructor their starting next week once my internship is over. I will be teaching pump it and spinning. I am excited cause I will actually be getting paid for something. I have been searching for a job and cannot seem to find one yet. I am still waiting to hear back from places. I want one over the seven week break but mostly for the fall semester!

So yesterday we got a fun surprise, Jordan's mom came up to see us for a few days. She has been visiting Utah and family their and took a quick trip up to Rexburg to say hello to her favorite son and favorite daughter-in-law! Shes been fun to have here. We haven't seen her since Christmas time.

Well hopefully once we are out of school more exciting things will happen to us so I can post it on my blog for all to read! (cause I know so many people read my blog...) well until next time...see ya!

Fourth of July Fun!!!

2009-07-06T23:17:00.000-04:00

These are the flowers we got and set
up...you cant really see them very well
but there are really cute!!!

We had a very eventful weekend slash Fourth of July. We saw transformers...which we really liked. Jordan's grandparents came to town for the night. They took us to dinner then we played games all night. It was really fun! Then Saturday the fourth we did the usual...fishing. Except this time was different. I caught a huge whopper...or as Jordan likes to say RIVER MONSTER!!! it was fun, usually when I go fishing with Jordan I just sit, read, text, anything but fish. But this time I was like what the heck let me try. I caught two baby one then the big whopper came! It was so fun. Then after we came home we went to IF and were planning on going to see the fireworks. Jordan wanted to stop by home depot first so he could get some stuff to make a fishing pole holder (of course he would do that..) Then I saw all the pretty flowers and pot planters and we decided we needed to bring our front porch to life with flowers. After we got everything we wanted I was too excited about my flowers to wait three more hours to see the fireworks. We decided to go home and put them together which took all of 10 min. haha So we just had a low key night at home. It was fun, and relaxing...but now its Monday and back to reality. That okay only three more weeks of school! Yay I can't wait for this semester to be OVER!!!!!

This is the baby fishy I caught..we let him go
he was too cute to keep.

Jordan wanted to hold MY river monster

This is the River Monster.

Memorial Weekend to Vegas

2009-05-27T19:31:00.000-04:00

Jordan and I on the Strip for a walk!

At the Pool at the hotel (excalibur)

Jordan playing his favorite game at the arcade

(we had to spend our money some how :)

yay for vegas at night!!!

waiting for the Mirage volcano show to start!!

So we had a pretty spontaneous weekend!! Friday at 5 when Jordan got home from work we were trying to decide what to do for the night. Then Jordan was like lets just go to Vegas! So we joked about it for a minute...then we were like okay we have to! So at about 10pm on Friday night we hit the road. We drove until 3 Am then decided to stop for a quick nap. Woke up at 6Am and got back on the road and made it to Vegas at 9am Saturday morning! It was such a fun weekend. We went to the pool everyday, went to see a movie, walked around the strip, went to an arcade, saw a she man, saw a lady wearing a fanny pack, ate lots of good food, and just had a great time enjoying the hot sun!!!

The drive home wasn't too bad either. I drove from Cedar City all the way to Rexburg. I have never in my life driven for that long. It was fun, Jordan had some homework to do so I got the privilege of driving!! I just put on my music and sang all the way home!!! I LOVE VEGAS. I totally want to go back soon!

P.s. Thanks Nikki for letting me know how to post pictures, now you all can enjoy our trip to Vegas too!!!