Mighty Mouse!

We have a mouse in our house. Jared first saw it on Saturday night, he thought it ran into the hall closet but couldn't find it. We then saw it again last night in our PANTRY! Jared opened the pantry door to get something out and it was sitting on top of a box of crackers. He got it out of the pantry after he had every possible escape route blocked and it still got away through our vents. So we set some traps with the hopes of catching it in the middle of the night. At around 3:30 am the trap went off and we both woke up and were excited BUT there was no mouse there when Jared went to check. SO today after work I cleaned out our pantry- threw some stuff away and Jared is going to stop and get more traps on his way home from work..sticky ones, a house they run into and decon. Cross your fingers that we can catch this sneaky little thing!

Black Friday!!

Not breaking tradition we got up and went shopping on Black Friday! It was insane at Walmart, we went in, couldn't find anything we wanted and walked out. I went with Polly- Jared's Mom- into American Fork and Jared went to many stores alone. Polly and I went to Target and stood in line FOREVER- so long that I got really hot, light headed and thought I was going to pass out. I sat down in the middle of the isle- and Polly left to get me a bottle of water. It was not pretty I am sure but I felt better after awhile. As we were waiting in line Jared went to Bed, Bath & Beyond, Home Depot, Kohl's & Best Buy. When we got done in the Target we met before Jared had to go to work at for breakfast at McDonalds--we only had about 15 minutes to eat! Then Polly and ventured over to Walgreen's....we wanted to go to Costco but it was only 8:15 and we didn't want to wait in the parking lot for 45 minutes so we called it a morning. I went home, wrapped the gifts and took a NAP! It was a fun morning!

Almost to 18 weeks..that will be tomorrow! I am stressing a little bit because I haven't gained any weight, in fact I have lost weight. Jared tells me not to worry- it will all happen at the end. I am just afraid of what the Doctor will say. I go back in 2 weeks and then we will be able to find out what we are having..so excited about that! Everyone says it is a boy so my guess is a girl, I have told Jared all of these things that people say to tell you what you are having like pee on draino and swing your ring over your belly..he just laughs and says we can wait until the ultrasound.

On another note, Thanksgiving is in 2 days! I can't believe how fast this year has gone. The kids at school had a Thanksgiving feast today and now we are off until Monday...it is a much needed break! Happy Thanksgiving!!

We got home from having dinner at Jared's parents house tonight to find a turkey, potatoes and apples on our doorstep. I know that someone was thinking of us and wanted us to have a good Thanksgiving, I am just very grateful for them thinking of us. What a great person that is. I know that the Lord is aware of us too. So THANK YOU to whoever it was!

Busy!

I had a busy weekend. I had a work conference in Ogden on Friday night and Saturday morning/afternoon. I left from work on Friday afternoon to drive to Ogden, we checked into the hotel (my roommate ended up not being able to make it so I had a room to myself), went over to the conference for one class and then to dinner at Igggy's.
Saturday morning we got up bright and early - 6:45 a.m- to make it to the conference in time for breakfast and the 8:00 a.m. start. We had classes that went for 1 1/2 hours..now they were good but it was so LONG to sit! We had a few classes...lunch..then another class. I had to leave before the last class to make it to my brother's surprise 30th Birthday party in Bountiful. It was fun to hang out with him and some of his friends..they had really good food their too. My Mom made red Velvet cake- my favorite!
We also went to the Jazz game last night. Last year Kyle Korver did a coat drive for underprivileged kids in the area and afterward he had an autograph session where he would sign one thing for you. We decided this year that we wanted to participate. Jared's parents also went with us- Jared's Mom found some cute kids coats at Ross.
So we watched the game- which they lost- and then waited for the autograph session. I got to have a card signed by Kyle Korver- Jared took a picture. Jared thinks I went to the game just because of that--I have to admit I do think Kyle is pretty cute!

Big News!!!

Yes that is me..and yes you read it right! We are having a BABY!!!This week I will be 15 weeks, which makes me due the end of April. I went to my 2nd Dr. visit today and everything is going fine...we were able to hear the heartbeat and all is good. As you can imagine everyone in our family is very excited, and we are too. It just doesn't seem real to us yet but after hearing the heartbeat it became a little bit more of reality.