BYU-I CLASSES

I DID sign up for my first semester at BYU-Idaho!!!!

I was lucky enough to sign up only 4 days after it opened so I still got the good times! BJ has to wait until the 15th! EEK!!!! I might change mine around to better fit his but I was able to score 3 online classes! I LOVE LOVE LOVE online classes! Hence I'm an online major at ASU! Online is so much better!

Why is it better you ask?
A- You have a due date and you can work on it and do the assignment whenever you want! Test are open for at least 24 hours and you choose when you want to take it!
B- It is always open book! Unless its like a math test then you have to go into the testing center but I have only cool classes and don't ever go to the testing center!!
C- There are ZERO stupied people that you have to deal with! If you have a "group" activity, it mostly means you do your part and email everyone for the rest, or group disscusions are forums and you can pick which ones you read and who to respond too! That by far is the best part online! No stupid person going on and on and on about something. No one interputting the lecture (cuz they are all power points) and not getting all the info you were suppose too! No old people ( no disrepect I mean its great you wanna continue your education... but) that don't understand something and spend half the class trying to figure it out when everyone got it the first 5 mintues! And no dumb stories that happend to them about why it relates!

Mostly I'm just anti social and online means I can do my work the way I want and not have to deal with people. Sure there are complications with the internet or dumb blackboard (the place where the class is online) but usually if something goes down you get like another week to finish!

Yes there are some classes that shouldn't be done online ie MATH! but i'm passed all those kinds of classes so online is amazing!

One class I signed up for is all about Children Literature. It will cover old and new books and all about kid books. I'm very excited for that class. It will be online and it is a pretty hard core class but i'm excited!!!

a few lesssons learned

After a fun filled weekend ( posts to come) BJ and I learned a few things

BJ learned..... Jalepeno seeds BURN and you can get an allergic reaction from them!

BJ was nice enough to help clean out the jalepenos for me so I could stuff them with cream cheese and wrap them in bacon for our big halloween dinner I was putting on. They are sooo yummy!

Well neither of us thinking, he deseeded them with his bare hands. About 30 mins later he is freaking out because he rubbed his eye. I'm trying finish all the food so i'm yelling at him, "Flush it with water! Just flush it out!!!!!"

That settles down and then I hear him in the bathroom and the water running then "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHH!"

I'm at the stove and only have an hour til people are suppose to show up and 30 mins to finish the main course and get it in the oven. BJ is screaming in the bathroom. I'm at the stove trying not to laugh out loud. Its so entertaining when he hurts himself. I can't help it! I'm trying to ask what is wrong and he comes into the living room, stands there and is SCREAMING! He is just yelling and yelling! Finally I stop and ask what is wrong?!?! He yells "It burns do something do something do something!!!" I have things in the oven, 2 burners going, a sink running, hands full of cream cheese and I drop everything and grab my phone to look up what to do for jalepeno burns. It says use milk but of course we have none left ( our mac and cheese for lunch was really thick too) but it says to use butter or oil. BJ wouldn't let me put butter on him so I grabbed the oil. We had many people say that was wrong but oh well. We run to the bathroom and I splash oil all over my hands and he is yelling " MY EAR MY EAR! IT BURNS IN MY EAR!!!!" So I grab a Q-tip rub it over my hands and stick it in his ear. I'm trying not to laugh and help him! He has me rub it for a long time then grabs the oil and splashes is it all over the sink and mirror ( people were coming in an hour!!!) I'm trying to keep it clean while I help him. He finally stops yelling so I walk back to the kitchen and the entire apartment is in smoke!!!

I run to turn off the stove and have to threw stuff away and hurry and get things in the oven and finished cooking. BJ cleaned up and the dinner party actually went really well!

BJ did have really swollen hands and kept saying they were burning along with his ear and face. He tried washing his face with his hands. Thats what started the yelling. He took a benadryl to fall asleep and the next day his hands were still swollen and he had a runny nose and headache and was itchy all over. We both stayed home from work. That part was nice!!!

I learned......if the baby say no when you smell it don't try eating it anyways!

Since we both stayed home from work I was able to eat all day and eat what I wanted. It was very nice! I felt pretty good most of the day so I figured my sickness was mostly over. WRONG-O!

I went to work today and nibbled on whatever I could because I was sooooo sick I couldn't really do much. By the time lunch came I was starving (yeah I hadn't stopped eating since i got to work but I was still hungry ok!)! I knew we were having Mac and Cheese with hot dogs. Last time we had it, it was amazing! I didn't like the smell but it tasted good. This time my stomach was churning just smelling the food. I figured it would be like last time. So I sat down to eat it and I couldn't even look at it. I put the plate far from me and ate the oranges and like 2 bread rolls.  I left it there for a bit then I figured I'd just take a bite.I was hungry and 4 orange slices with 2 small rolls wasn't going to do it.  The smell didn't mean it didn't taste good right!?!

BAD IDEA!

I took a bite and had to spit it out. I then started gagging and thinking I would just gag ( like 99% of the time) I tried walking it off. WRONG AGAIN!

I barely made it to the trash can in time! I was so mad! I was hungry and just threw up cuz i took one bit of food! GRRR!!! I then got a plate of carrots and more bread and ate that. Now i know that the baby was not liking the smell and did not like the taste either! Its just better to cut your losses at the smell!!

few days shy of 2nd trimester!

Our oh so cute baby!!!!

We had our doctor appointment yesterday (where i also got to see my cousin Arla!). I'll be in my 2nd trimester starting next week!!! I was hoping to get an ultra sound because I saw someones 10 week ultra sound and you could see that the baby finally looks like a baby. We went in and my doctor said Ultra sound or just hear the heart beat? We of course picked ultra sound!! We had to wait like an hour extra because someone else was in there but it was oh so worth it!! This shot is soooo cute!! The baby was waving to us!!! I'm always super nervous to go to the doctors so I'm always very quiet. I look forward to seeing the little heart beating! It makes me feel so much better to see it pumping away!! BJ was excited that it looks like a baby now. The doctor commented that the baby is really long. Maybe we'll have a tall kid?!

It finally has hit home that I'm pregnant! Yes I've known and yes I've seen it but now its a baby baby!!!! The umbilical cord is functioning. The baby is growing and developing! It makes me oh so happy! I've been so worried to make it to my 2nd trimester! I've kind of been waiting for that milestone to really believe I was having a baby and to stop worrying so much. Now that I've seen the baby and the doctor says everything is great I'm soo overly excited. I want to go buy something for the baby. I don't have anything! Its hard not knowing the gender but I'm pretty sure I'm going to buy something for the baby soon because I'm just so excited!! We are getting a baby bouncer thing and bath tub so thats something but I'm ready for the baby stuff to pile up! We will prolly wait til idaho to get stuff but i want it all now!! =]

Things are getting better too. I'm hungry again! Which is an amazing feeling! I never thought I'd be excited to be hungry! I'm not really eating bigger portions but I am wanting to eat more often now. I have to get back to eating healthy stuff again. I got to the point where certain things made me feel better ie roman noddles, salty chips, that I would eat those and not really eat that much at dinner. Now I need to focus on meals and not so much the nibbles to get me through the day. I have so much more engery now. Its amazing how all of a sudden I'm awake and want to do things. I can make it through work without getting sick if I don't over do it. I still get sick at night but it has started later like around 7:30-8ish instead of 4.  I still want to be in bed by 9 every night but I can stay up later if I have too. Each day is different but so far I can see and feel and change which is what i've been waiting for. And thank goodness because this is going to be an action packed weekend! (Friday is a chili/trunk and treat with maybe a scare farm, Saturday is boating all day, Sunday is huge halloween dinner!)

Yesterday I had a really good day and had a very normal work day where I think I over did it too much so by the time I got home from the doctors I felt blaha and tired. We were watching our Friends disk and I didn't feel good at all. BJ was rubbing my tummy and asked how I felt. I made the comment that we should be able to take turns. I'd be ok if he got sick one day and me the other. He chuckeld and said " I feel like the number of kids we planned on having is slowly slipping away to a very small number." hahaha I said I'd be ok with lots of kids if he could take a turn or two! Everyone keeps asking how many we are shooting for. I just want to make it through this one first! In a few years we will talk about the next but i'm not throwing any kind of numbers out there. What ever happens happens but I'm just thinking of this kid for now!!!!

Oh and we found a name that we really like if its a boy! BJ made up his mind that he does not want to have a third! WOO HOO!!! He met a third and made fun of the guy for it and realized he would be doing that to his own son so he doesn't want to do that anymore. I was more then ok but then I got worried because I've never thought about boy names before. I have plently of girl names so if its a girl that wont be a problem at all. But a boy?!?! I started going through names and then a friend of mine made a comment and I fell in love with the idea. I'm not going to say what the idea is until we know for sure because its one of those things where I'll say it and everyone is going to give me crap for it. So until we know if its a boy or not I'm not saying what it is but If it is a boy I'm like 90% sure we will name it this because I love love love it!! I don't care what crap people will give me when they find out because it just too cute not to use! And if my kid hates me I'll just say well your dads name is BJ and I'm Krystal Balls so get over it! hahaha And to be honest no name I ever pick will make having the last name Balls any better! =]

Sail Boat

 ( yes tom saw me taking pictures and flexed his oh so amazing muscles and he pretended to keep working)

Isn't she a beauty?!?! Bj's sister's fiance Jack, gave the 4 boys a sail boat. Its been sitting in the yard since before we got married. Now that its not really boating season but the weather is nice we are taking a family boating trip on Saturday. The boat was super oxidized and needed to be waxed and buffed. BJ's mom put the boat in her and BJ's name since we are the only ones taking care of it and are the most likely to ever use someday later. BJ skipped class so we could go make the boys help us wax it up and get it all ready for Saturday. His dad bought a buffer which made it so much easier to wax. Some day BJ and I are going to strip it and paint it a dark green and make the wood on the inside all pretty. But we don't have the time or money to do that now. Jack is bringing up his brothers boat and is going to let everyone ski and teach us how to sail our boat. We also are taking up the dune buggy. Idk how much fun I'll get to have fun at least the weather is nice and we will be able to have a day of fun at the lake!

Balls commerical!

My job

Metro Tech is the LONGEST job I have ever held! It was neck and neck with Fry's, even with the months off in hawaii and summer break, but it has pulled ahead to be the longest job on my list. I don't know how people work at the same place for 20-40 years?!?!?

I'm itching to get away from this place. I'm just a need change kind of girl. I also cannot wait to be a stay at home mom! So much to be done that never gets done cuz I work full time! I promise BJ all the time I'll be the best stay at home mom ever if i never have to go back to work. Then I tell him how I wanna work at my kids schools when they all are in school. LOL

I really do have the best job even though i belly ache over it all the time. When I got pregnant the 2 teachers I work with stopped giving me stuff to do and started doing all the little tasks I always did that they could have done just didn't. At first it was nice. Now I'm bored. I sit and read blogs all day long and look stuff up online. OR I just stare at the kids doing work. Its nice that I don't have to walk and get up and down as much when I'm having my super queasy days but all I do is grade papers now. Thats not fun. Another thing is I've become super anti social. I blame it on the fact that I feel like I wanna puke and I don't want to be in a situation where I have to act all nice and fake when I just want to sit and not talk. If  I don't feel good I can't fake it! If i'm annoyed by you, you will get the ugly face not the straight i just wont say anything face. ITs so much harder to fake it when you feel yucky.

I know that sounds really really bad but i work with 2 very annoying teachers. They just aren't my kind of people. One is super lazy and other tries to take as many short cuts as possible that it ruins whatever she is doing. I've gone into my hole at work and only interact with them when need be. One asked me if she had done something wrong.  I felt really bad but I just told her I just needed my own space. Before I got pregnant i would just do whatever it was and roll my eyes later but now its sooo hard not to just be like hmm hello no! I try really really really hard but if they keep pestering me I finally break down. I know its part of the whole maturity thing i have yet mastered and i'll look back some day and realize how bratty i was but right now I'm sure its them and they need to stop being lazy and taking short cuts!!!

I do have to give a shout out to my co-worker Debby! I love that lady! I love all the ladies in the Day care. I get along really well with them and they never annoy me. They also are super hard working and are my kind of people. If I could go into the day care all day I would. I never got my finger print clearance card though so I try not to over do it.

I get free lunch every day! And its almost always is really good! Today I ate my plate and sat here wishing i had put more on because I was still hungry when Debby came in and set a plate down of more chicken and potatoes then came back with more strawberries and tomatoes! I love that lady!

This job really is amazing and I'm super super lucky to have it. The people I work with aren't really that bad, but I'm super excited to get to Idaho and either find other job to try out for a bit or not work at all!! ( lets just hope BJ can find a super good job!!)

Pumpkins!

                                                                This is my pumpkin

This is BJ's pumpkin!

His pumpkin is HUGE!!

We love halloween time! We wanted to go to a pumpkin patch but we couldn't find one where you can just pick a pumpkin. All them had fees to get in and stuff that went along with the patch. We just wanted a pumpkin! So we headed over to Fry's and found the 2 best pumpkins!

My husband really is the best! I love that he gets excited for things that I love to do as well! We got our pumpkins on Fri and he asked me several times a day when we were going to carve them. I was waiting til Sunday because we had an action filled weekend.

Here's some TMI for ya! BJ thought it would be better to carve them naked. He said it would be so much better because we could just take a shower after and it didn't matter if we got the guts all over the place. That meant NO pictures of the carving process haha. It was all fine and dandy until our home teachers came over right as we were finishing our pumpkins. We had to run and get our robes then get super embarresed as BJ opens the door for them and tells them to find a seat and laying all over the couch in plain view.... my bra, our G's, our church clothes! Yeah that was tad awkward.

We did get really good pumpkins this year! We got a ton of seeds and not so much stringy guts.  Bj is the perfect person to carve pumpkins with because when he starts a project he finishes it and does it the right way. Me, I get excited then get bored half way through and do a pretty poor finish job. My pumpkins always have stringy guts hanging down and you can see them when you light it. I never like scraping it clean. Thankfully my husband does not allow stingy guts to be left so I cleaned it until I got bored then he took over and finished it for me. I finished mine carving mine and he hadn't even finished cleaning his out yet. But that worked out great for us because that meant I could eat and watch him and then feel up to cleaning up afterwards. I hate cleaning up right as you finish carving. It took him forever to carve his face which gave me time to be ready to clean up when he was done.

Now I just need to find a copy of Hocus Pocus!!!!