a serious craving..

fresh, ripe garden tomatoes
miracle whip
thick white bread
s + p





the sooner the better

i could eat them everyday for the rest of my life

April 18th, a really good day

It all started with having to use the bathroom 4 times before 7am, ugh (the not awesome part)
SLC 1/2 Marathon starting at 7am
the gospel choir pumping us up
Running 13.1 miles with my Bruce...13 weeks pregnant
Our very own fan club cheering us on


finishing the 1/2 marathon, 13 weeks pregnant

celebrity sightings

delicious lunch at Grove's Deli with friends
browsing through The Market
a long nap
dinner at Rodizio with Russ and Christie

lots and lots and lots of really good food
really good desserts at Emilie's wedding reception
watching celebrity apprentice on Hulu (I know, it's lame but addicting!)

and about that fetus?
we're happy!

you might say ecstatic,

and beyond thrilled!

April Showers

This is why I love SLC in the Spring:

FLOWERS!
green grass
trees blossoming
early mornings getting lighter
warm days
snow still in the mountains
people in the parks
nice rain showers

I love the changing of the seasons- it's so beautiful right now everywhere!

Hello. It's been a while.

Man am I glad it's finally April, and although it doesn't feel like nice Spring weather, I'm glad to officially be in a Spring month. March was a particularly brutal month is every aspect of my life. And after a packed 31 days of working full-time, school, clinicals, training, Relief Society and our big enrichment party, one great girls weekend in St. George/Vegas, multiple tests and a 14 page paper and presentation, I finished it all with having only two breakdowns. Whew. I have a really great husband to say the least.

And speaking of the man, these pictures brightened a dark, snowy day. (Thanks Darrell!) Mr. Yellow Wiggle Bruce? What do you think? They still never fail to make me laugh.






It's good to have thoughts that can always make you laugh, you know. I have my top memories so vividly recorded that they can honestly ALWAYS make me laugh! I try to think of them when I'm trying really hard not to break out in tears, or on really bad days.
Let me share some with you so you can enjoy them too.

1. Utah State Howl. Me and my girlfriends as hyper as we were everyday freshman year, running around to each dance room and dancing 'til the wee hours of the night. Me, Carly, Cara and Ashlee were just about to run to the next best song in the other room. So we were running through crowds of people, I look back just in time to see Ashlee FLYING through the air. She caught some serious air. She was in true superman form. She had tripped over the ramp hidden by the crowds of people and landed flat on the ground. We were doubled over laughing SO HARD! Kinda like it still makes me laugh whenever I picture it. Then we went to help her up but someone else was trying to pull her up without her feet under her so they were just pulling her shoulder out. I will never get over how hilarious this was and I'm just glad that I had the pleasure to witness it. Thanks Ash!

2. Another tripping and falling story. This happened in Varazdin and me and my companion were walking down the street, trying to make a train. Something tripped her foot or something but she started running kind of to catch herself. Instead she teetered to the left, then to the right and went up in the air in slow motion (I'm not kidding, everything was in slo-mo) and came down hard on the sidewalk. She even had enough time in the air to turn slightly so that she would land on her shoulder rather than her face. Amazing. It was mid-Fall and she landed in a pile of leaves that lightly blew into the air around her. She was pulling leaves from her tights, hair and shoes the entire train ride while I was trying to suppress my laughter after it "wasn't funny anymore." Sorry, I still can't suppress my laughter!


3. This story is kinda a secret. All I'll spill is that it involves my inability to control my bladder at an age that is unacceptable to not have such control, and when I was in a position where it was even more unacceptable. uhhhh... But the witness to this event laughed to tears, and I'm sure she still does, as I do too.

Man, I can think of TONS more!!! So the walk away lesson of this post is that even when life is so busy that you kinda want to die, think of everything that happens to make it so wonderful!

I love my life!