What did you do a year ago today?

BJ and I carved pumpkins and I got a pretty shinny diamond ring!!!!

(I still love that my roommate was there and took pictures for me!!!!!!!)

Its fun to look back at stuff that happend this time last year. Almost daily I'm recalling something we could or couldn't do last year that we are doing or not doing now. Last year I was at work and BJ informed me that my ring was finished and that he was picking it up before he went to work! Ya know cuz he still worked at TASC and didn't get off until 9 pm and I just had to sit around and wait for him to finally come over!!! I remember I just wanted him to hand it over. I was so over the cute asking by that point cuz I know he had the ring. I was a good sport though and played along with the whole pumpkin carving event. I love carving pumpkins and had been looking forward to it but I think that was the fastest I have ever carved mine before.

(I just saw the ring inside and I'm looking at my roommate like HELLO there it is!!!)

I remember seeing my ring for the first time and it really hitting me that I was going to get married!!!! BJ was so nervous! I remember laughing at him and just kissing him because he was so cute! He totally forgot my name and he was shaking! I have no clue why since we had already said this was going to happen for like 4 months! I guess saying the real words and having a ring makes it more real. We both were just so excited and happy!!

(I carved <3 love <3 to get him to hurry up with the ring hahah who knew he was putting the ring in his)

A year later we are even MORE HAPPY and EXCITED to be with each other! I fell asleep super early last night. I figured I would try and get up when BJ does and spend a little bit of time with him without me feelings so sick. During my work hours I feel great and only sick once or twice. But as soon as I drive home it hits me and overwhelmes me the rest of the night. I'm not the best at waking up in the mornings but BJ was nice enough to let me sleep til 6:15. He always gets the grumpy Krystal in the mornings. He wakes up at 5 and kisses and cuddles me til he really gets out of bed at 5:30. Sometimes I sleep through it and other days I kiss him once roll over so I can contiune sleeping. Then he comes back and kisses me again right before he leaves and I grunt out I love you and be careful with a kiss. He comments that I never am happy when he wakes me up. I'm just not a morning person. I always try to wake up before him on the weekends so he can wake up to a happy loving cuddly wife.. its happen once since we have been married. I tried getting up when he does today but baby said it was to early so BJ let me sleep a little longer. I did wake up happy though!  BJ did go in an hour late to work but thats ok. We were able to enjoy breakfast together which never happens during the week! That was the most we could to celebrate the day we got engaged! We are to busy during the week to do anything else but it was nice to have my husband next to me all morning and to eat with him! I love that man sooooooo much! I still don't know why he is so willing to put up with me but I am forever gratful that he does!!!

The happenings

Life is pretty much getting back to normal. The week off for Fall Break was AMAZING! I had a really hard time last week coming back to work. I made it through without too much complaining.

I am offically 10 weeks! The say the baby is a little over an inch long and the size of a prune. Almost everyone but dad thinks I'm having a boy. BJ is convined that its a boy. He only refers to "it" as "he". I think all guys are like that. We have 10 more weeks until we get to know for sure!!!

Some engery is coming back to me. Last Saturday we went to clean the church and I vaccumed the back half of the building. We woke up and headed right over then after we cleaned we came back home and I took a 2-3 hour nap. It pretty much zapped me all my energy for the rest of the day. This saturday we went on a 6 mile bike ride and ran errands all day long and even went to the movies. I only took 2 one hour naps! Thats a huge improvement! Sunday was bad. We didn't have time to eat breakfast and when I don't eat that just means bad news! By the time we got home I just threw myself on the bed and cried because I was so sick and couldn't even move. My loving husband jumped to make me something to eat, let me eat in bed, then let me sleep it off for 3 hours. I had a few more gagging episodes that day and couldn't really get off the couch but thankfully it was Sunday and I didn't have too!

For the most part I've been getting less sick which is nice. I have longer periods of relief during the day at work which is good, but I'm still really sick at nights which isn't good for my school work. My emotions have started to become a tad crazy too. I'm also even more antisocial then I was. Its hard for me to enjoy work when I don't want to be around anyone. Its weird but I blame it on not feeling good.

Me and food are starting to be friends again. Some days not so good of friends but we are getting there. I still eat half of a kids portion but I'm wanting to eat that at least! I've discovered that I love potatoes cooked anyway. I can eat potatoes all day long!!!!

Popcorn always is good and always sounds good to eat and I can eat a whole bowl by myself. Pizza always sounds good even if I only eat a slice. I still can't go grocery shopping alone because I want any and everything at the store but will not eat it once I get home.

The craziest thing I've discovered was cinnamon. Ever since I can rememeber I have gotten sick whenever I smell cinnamon anything. I get a very bad headache and if i smell it long enough I will throw up! I always hold my breath as I walk past cinnabon at the mall. I just can't handle the smell. Its weird! I walked in Fry's last week and they had an apple cinnamon candle in the flower department. I stopped and took a deep breath and thought YUM that smells soooooooo good!!!! I didn't want to walk away. Then it hit me that it was cinnamon and I freaked out just a little bit! I must be pregnant if I thought cinnamon smelt good!!!!!

BJ and I went to walmart to buy a boom box for the drive ins. I have been wanting apples and carmel for awhile so we were searching for the carmel when I smelt something heavenly! I had to have it!! I found BBQ pulled pork and thought thats what i was smelling and told BJ I had to buy it. Then we kept walking and the smell was so powerful that I went in search of it cuz I just had to eat it. I found a lady sampling chill and I told her I had to have some!!! BJ was laughing the whole time! He thought I was a tad nuts for tracking down the smell. But there was no way I was leaving with out eating whatever smelled so good! =]

Wedding pool party

 ok doesn't BJ look like a Chip n Dale hahahaah not the cutest pictures but it does the job

Thanks to BJ's cousin who took all these shots for us! I didn't have anything of my center pieces and she caught some fun shots from our wedding pool party! Thanks Tasha!!!

Amazing Lang photoghapers

Yeah we are almost 4 months married, 2 months prego but we couldn't pass up the amazing Lang's capturing us in our wedding glory! I love taking pictures and the Langs were amazing! We had a lot of fun and got some amazing shots i think!!!!

BYU-I

BJ got his track assignment. He will be on the Fall/Winter Track. When I first read that I was floored! Why wouldn't they put us on the same track?!?!?!?

Then after thinking it through I was glad they did that! BJ will start in the winter with me and then he has off until September. We will have enough money saved for our 1st semester but then we will need to get a good job. Now BJ will be able to work through the spring and summer. He will be able good before all the summer kids start looking for jobs. And if he needs to drive a bit into a town to get a better job it wont be during the worst snow time. Which is very good news. Also the baby is coming right in the middle of spring term. Which means i'm going to have to adjust to having a baby and try to finish my term. Hopefully we can figure out BJ's work schedule and my classes so one of us can be with the baby. It will be interesting. Its also nice after June I wont have class until Jan. I hope to finish by next winters term. We will see how it works out.

BJ and I went looking at coats and boy oh boy are they going to cost a pretty penny. I'm thinking i'm going to either have to buy a really big coat or see if i can find a good deal on a maternity coat. I told BJ I want a cute jacket and a coat. Boys only have boring stuff. We only checked out one place but we are starting to hunt for warm clothes. I looked in our "coat closest" and in my "winter box". I am so doomed!!!! I'm hoping my little own personal heater helps me through my first winter up there! Everyone keeps telling me how frigid it is there. I'm starting to get a tad nervous!!!

These just don't look warm enough! But they are cute!! i'm going to have to wear things like sweaters and buy long sleeves. How weird is it to think that I'm going to put warm clothes on and not regret doing it by 1 pm. I need sock and real socks and slippers. I might acutally wear them! Thats a weird thought! I'm excited to try out a real winter but I don't think i'm ready!

Good news Sunday

(random kids idk who they are)

Sunday was a day of great news!!!

We got the annoucement that BJ's sister Liz (the one who lives in utah) is PREGO!!!!! That is very exciting news because she has MS and that means good health on her part to carry another child! We couldn't be more excited!!! She is 3 weeks ahead of me. Her due date is April 24, 2011. The race is on! =]

I knew she was prego back when we found out. I have a weird sense about these kind of things. Also it was one of my dreaded things that one of BJ's sisters would get prego the same time as me. Why? Just because BJ gets pushed aside with everything and I wanted him to have the excitement for a bit. Well we got it for a few weeks. All in all it should be fun. Now we just need to see what we are having!!! I'm so glad that my kid will have a cousin their age! Forrest will be close to their age and his cousin Aubry will be a year older. I always wanted cousins my age growing up so I'm glad they will all have someone to play with!

The other exciting news is Dan got accepted to BYU-I!!!!!! This is great news!!!! Although, the in-laws thought better of buying a house for us, I'm still glad that Danny gets to have the real college experience!! (we might look into again now that its for sure we will all be up there.. we'll see but i'm thinking its a no go) It will be so good for him! And that means we will have a baby sitter up there! WOO HOO!!! That also means help moving our stuff up there! We now get to use the family trailer and truck to move our apartment up there and not have to rent a UHAUL! That will save us some bucks!

The ups and downs

I must compare being pregnant to a roller coaster. Why the eyeglasses you ask?

Well I discovered mine yesterday. I have a ton of reading to get caught up on during my fall break (not doing so good on that though) and reading makes me queasy. A co-worker suggested I get glasses just while I'm pregnant. I have glasses I just never wear them unless I go on a rode trip. They help with the car sickness. So yesterday I tried them out and I read a whole chapter and a half without getting queasy once! WOO HOO! I thought it would be a good idea to go get an eye exam and see if I could use better glasses since the ones I have I got 6 years ago!!!! So I go to the recommended Dr. the Balls family uses ( You know the one that helped Tom when he lost his eye and they are mormon and live in our stake so you pretty much have to go to them) I'm used to going to all the recommended Balls places because they usally are the only ones approved by my husband. And its just not worth the fight. 1/2 the time they are good. Usually they make some comment about the Balls and I'm always super uncomfortable because I'm nothing like any of them and don't want to make a bad impression for them. Well I go and my appointment was at 10:15. Thank goodness the iPhone was invented because I didn't even get into the room until 11:11. I was watching a tv show so no big deal... then they do the whole eye thing and the dr comes in... doesn't even say hi! and says well it just looks like you want new glasses. Then goes on to ask why I was there. I explain the whole pregnant issue. It looks at me as if i'm an idiot and says well it should not affect your reading, just distance maybe. He goes on and on about how dumb I am and how he guesses he'll continue the exam but it seems like a waste of time cuz he could just give a paper and I can go get new glasses if i really want them. I was so hurt!! A- no nice manners and i'm a new patient. Not even a hi nice to meet you or congrats on the baby. nothing. B- new glasses would be nice if i need them but i'm not going to drop$100 on them if mine work. Thats why i'm getting an exam cuz i haven't in 6 years!!! He gets up and leaves and I wait another 30 minutes to finish the exam. He then comes in and I guess he finally looked at my paper work and asks about Bruce.  But he had gotten Bruce and Matt mixed up and didn't realize I was Bruce's new wife and that he came to our wedding. He then realized it and got all super nice and icky and asked me questions. But after he again tells me i'm an idiot for thinking i need glasses for reading. At that point I just wanted to leave. I barely made it out of the office before the tears came. I cried the whole way home. I have tears in my eyes thinking about it. After he realized I was a member of THE BALLS family he was nice. Not before he realized that. And he continued to tell me I was an idiot. I know i'm more upset because I'm prolly just having a super emtional day. But still. I don't like him and I'm never giving them my business again. No more going to recommended places. I'm finding my own!!! Don't people know you have to be nice to pregnant women who are sick 24-7 and are just trying to find any thing that makes them feel normal?!?!