My guess

In light of tomorrow's ultrasound, I thought it would be fun to put in my last guess. I really have no idea. I'll be thrilled with either, but think it is a boy. My friend had a funny theory yesterday though. I told her how emotional I've been (crying at stupid songs on the radio) and she thinks that I might be having a girl and so all of my girly emotions are being increased. I guess we shall see. I've already been suckered into a few really cute boy outfits and a few really cute girl outfits.

What's up, Doc?

Well, I went to the doctor today for the first time since I've been in Colorado. The baby had a nice strong heart beat and they said that I'm measuring closer to 22 weeks than 21. It will be interesting to see what the ultrasound says about the baby's size and of course, the gender. I'm scheduled to get my ultrasound this coming Friday afternoon.

Cute bag

This is the picture of the bag I made a little while ago. I'll be teaching the girls in my ward how to make on at an enrichment activity. I made it from a placemat and it was really easy.Instructions are on my profi frau blog.

Freecycle

Okay, so my new ward here has a freecycle list for things that people want to get rid of that others may want. I thought it was a pretty good idea and then I found out that yahoo has a site called freecycle.org. Some of you may already know and love this site, but I thought I would pass the word along to others who may be clueless like I am. It works like Craig's list, only everything is free. Of course you wouldn't want EVERYTHING on there, but who doesn't love the occasional awesome thing for FREE.

One note. Emails come in as things become available, so if you don't want a lot of emails I think you can choose to just look at the message board when you want to.

How DOES your gardner grow?

I thought today might be a good day to give an update on all of us.

Today is Justin's first day of school. He had work this morning and then has a class this evening. We have LOVED having him around so much for the last month and already miss him. On top of school, Justin has a position as a research assistant/class assistant and a job with the Dean of the veterinary college doing some accounting type work. The work is a blessing and should keep Justin busy. (but hopefully not too busy).I heard a story yesterday of a vet that told one of his technicians that he didn't know they had had two kids during vet school until he graduated. (So silly).
Today marks 20 weeks for me- halfway there. Along with my belly growing, I've felt my appetite really picking up. We are hoping to find out what we are having next week, so stay tuned.


This is our "cheeser". She has been quite the handful the last few days. Yesterday at church she was really acting up. Justin and I looked at her and said, "do you need to go outside?" in a threatening tone. She smiled back and said, "yeah, I do". How did she get so cheeky?
This was today while Gracie and I were watching Sesame street. I just loved how she was lounged on the couch with her pretty shoes and curly hair. Oh, and she's also biting her lip. Babe- a- licious.

Phase 10

The other day it was raining and we were BORED to tears. We decided to play phase 10. This is about how it went down:
J- Remind me again how you play this
M- It's really easy. All you do is try to get what the card tells you for the phase you're on AND the first one to lay down wins.

Well, Gracie didn't lose any time and before we really knew what was happening, Gracie was lying down on the floor. I guess she won. It was pretty cute.

Let's call the whole thing off

"You say tomato, I say tomahtoe..." I love that song, but don't you think that's sometimes awkward? We have really nice neighbors who invited us over for dinner. We had a great time. The husband is from Missouri and the I think the wife is from Michigan. Anyway, the husband was telling me how he lived in Utah for a little while working at All-ta ski resort. (*time out* did he just say All-ta? Everyone in Utah calls it Alta... including me).

This is a situation where you don't want to make a big deal about the pronunciation but you also don't feel comfortable using their pronunciation so you both just continue the conversation using different pronunciations. I personally think it feels a little weird, almost like you're correcting each other.

Other examples of this are when people say
Ont instead of Ant (aunt)
ahmen instead of aymen (amen)
Colorahdo instead of Colorado
You get the picture.

To tell the truth, I think that the way people from the East speak sounds more sophisticated but I can't quite adopt it. Sometimes I do cave in and say Ahmen if the person saying the prayer said it. What do or do you not pronounce differently to fit in, or what new and different words do you find people around you using?