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5 Years

by on May 19, 2011 in me, things i love, think back

Sometimes when I think about it, I can’t believe it has really been five years since this day:

Our Wedding Day

Five years seems like such a long time, but it still seems like it was just yesterday that we entered the temple together and made sacred covenants and changed our lives forever.

As I was reading through the Ensign this last week and with the thought in my mind that our anniversary was coming up, I reread Elder Richard G. Scott’s talk from the Sunday afternoon session of this last General Conference, The Eternal Blessings of Marriage. As I read the talk and thought about my own feelings about the blessing that marriage is in my life, I was touched with something he said.

I have no power to describe the peace and serenity that come from the assurance that as I continue to live worthily, I will be able to be with my beloved Jeanene and our children forever beacuse of that sacred ordinance performed with the proper priesthood authority in the house of the Lord.

I echo Elder Scott’s feelings and know that words can’t fully describe how wonderful it is to know that our family can be forever. I feel so thankful to know that I can be with Bryan for all eternity. As we sit together on the couch and talk about the mundane things that happened during the day, I am filled with such a peace and wonder knowing that as we live worthy, these simple yet joyful moments never have to end.

I love Bryan more today than I ever have, and know that our love can continue to grow in the many many more years we will spend together.

The temple sealing has greater meaning as life unfolds. It will help you draw ever closer together and find greater joy and fulfillment.

-Elder Richard G. Scott

 

 

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We love Blue!

by on May 6, 2011 in me, things i love

We went to the doctor this morning and found out that a beautiful baby BOY will be joining our family!

(Okay, the 3D image that they showed us did not quite look beautiful, it looked like my baby’s face will be made of oatmeal, but I know he’ll come out beautiful. (I’m not a fan of the 3D images… at least not this early in the pregnancy.))

We are excited. James is going to have a best friend to be with and help him make messes and pull everything out of every drawer in the house. They are going to be the best friends and I’m sure the worst enemies. Now we’ll have two tornadoes crashing through our house instead of just one. I’m sure they’re going to have so much fun together.

While we were in the ultrasound office the tech showed us a lot of different things that I don’t remember seeing with James, so it was pretty cool. She asked if we had any feelings about what gender the baby was and Bryan and I both kind of felt like it would be a girl (the lack of crazy morning sickness had me wondering if a different gender was brewing in my belly). So she stopped and had us look at the screen. “Well, can you tell what it is?” she asked.

I looked and there it was: a little boy.

After she showed us a few more pictures to make sure we were seeing what we thought we were seeing. James was going to have a little brother. Bryan pointed to the screen and told James to look and he looked up and clapped.

It was so cute. I guess he knew all along and is excited for his friend from heaven to come and join him. :)

It’s going to be a great adventure.

We will be going back around week 34 to get another ultrasound to check something on me that could have a possibility of complicating labor, but nothing to worry about.

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Scary Movies

by on May 5, 2011 in day by day, me, things i don't love, think back

I’m not a big scary movie person. I never have been.

When I was little my older brother and younger sister watched Gremlins and it scared me so much. I spent most of the movie behind the couch, hiding. I think since then, I’ve never really enjoyed scary movies.

I’ve seen a couple here and there, but things just hang in my mind for too long and without a doubt, if I see a scary movie, I’ll have nightmares about it. And it always seems that whenever I watch a scary movie, something frightening happens in my life to go along with it and make the whole situation worse.

Example:

In college, my friend Ashlie and I were invited to join my cousin Ashley and her friends for a movie night in Smith Park. When we got there, the sun had set and the park was dark. We sat on blankets and pillows and watched Poltergeist. Now, it would not have been my first choice of movie, but we were already there and stayed for the whole thing. After the movie, Ashlie and I went home and got ready for bed. As we were chatting, we flipped off the light and climbed into bed. Seconds later, the light turned back on…by itself. I don’t remember exactly what happened next, but I am sure it included screaming like babies and running from the room. That was probably just me though.

We discovered that there was a short in the light switch. As a makeshift solution until the apartment complex could fix it, we used tape to hold the switch all the way down so we could get some sleep. Although after the movie and our mysteriously turning on light, I don’t think that I slept very much.

That taught me to watch a scary movie in the park.

Another example didn’t happen to me, but I was an eye-witness.

My family was still living in Orem and my older brother decided he wanted to watch The Blair Witch Project. He spent the evening with his friends watching the movie. After it was over he came home and was telling my parents about how much the movie frightened him and how freaked out he was. I was sitting on their bed listening, but not paying too much attention because even him telling them about the movie scared me. After we were all done chatting, my parents told us to go down and go to bed. I followed Rob into the hall, but stopped to get something. He had already made it down the first flight of stairs and was getting ready to flip on the dining room light, so I stood at the top of the stairs and waited for the light. Just as he flipped the switch, the light bulbs flashed and burned out.

I have never seen my brother jump so high in his life.

And he squealed like a little girl. Thinking back about it, I still laugh.

So I think I’ll stick with comedies and romance for my movies of choice.

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To Wait or Not to Wait

by on May 4, 2011 in me, things i love

Our five year anniversary is coming up this month (May 19, if you’d like to send gifts just let me know). We have been debating what to do to celebrate. Because it is a big year, we thought maybe we should go on a vacation and get away somewhere.

We looked into shows in Las Vegas and thought about other places we could go.

Or… We could stay around here and celebrate by going to dinner or something and buy a new mattress.

In the end, after many long debates, we decided to get a new mattress. We found on last Saturday and decided to get it now. We upgraded from a queen to a king and it is WONDERFUL!

The first night we slept in it, Bryan climbed in bed and asked where I was. He reached over and touched my arm and said, “oh, there you are, at arms length away, just where I like you.” I laughed and laughed. We are not cuddly sleepers, we have to have our own space. The king bed does that so well we can both stretch out as much as we like and he still won’t be in my foot or elbow space…both of which are very important for me to have in order to sleep.

Our big problem is that we don’t have any bedding (we just bought a set of sheets and are using various blankets for right now).

I fell in love with this bedding that I saw on Apartment Therapy:

The post said that it is available at Bed, Bath and Beyond in stores but not online. So I looked in the stores here in Utah valley and had no success. I’ve checked online and it is nowhere to be found so now i have to decide if I should wait and hold out for the bedding that I know I love, or should I just go out looking for something else that I can love and buy that for our bedding instead?

Hmmm.

What do you think? I’m kind of picky about things like bedding, so it might be better for me to hold out. Technically, the whole bedding set is going to be my mothers day gift, so I would love to have it before mothers day.

Hmmm.

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Easter Fun!

by on May 2, 2011 in james, me, things i love

We had a wonderful Easter Weekend. While much of the weekend focused on James’ birthday, we still managed to squeeze in some Easter fun.

On Friday night, we were able to attend my dad’s concert for the Temple Square Choral. It was a beautiful concert. The songs and the order of the songs were reflective of our Savior’s last week on earth. A few of the songs were completely in Latin, but the Spirit was so strong. I am so happy that my dad is able to live his dream of singing with the Tabernacle Choir and sharing his Testimony through song. One thing that was extra cool, is even though we were pretty far away from the choir in the Tabernacle, we could still clearly hear my dad’s voice through all the other voices (probably just because we knew what we were listening for and we are so familiar with it (Bryan said he couldn’t hear it)).

On Saturday after James birthday party, we went over to my Grandma and Grandpa Walker’s for our annual Easter Party and Egg Hunt. It is always so much fun and there is always so much yummy food. This year we had sloppy joes, potato salad, watermelon, chips, dips and, of course, jelly bean jello salad (no jelly beans in the jello, just jello in the shape of jelly beans with whipped cream).

Much to my dismay, there was some spice in the sloppy joes that I had an allergic reaction to and I ended up needed to take some benedryl, so much of the evening is a little lost to me. But we did go out for a wonderful egg hunt and James was able to get in on the action.

Found it!

Got it!

Look Dad!

Because I was a little bit out of it, I didn’t get pictures of all the cute kids finding their eggs, just my own. But you can check out my aunt Kelly’s blog for more pictures. She’s more on top of it than me.

He only found two eggs before he was done with that game (and then we gave the eggs to someone else, he didn’t even get to enjoy the candy).

The Easter Bunny did join us Sunday morning. When I was little, the Easter Bunny always came on Saturday, and we celebrated with all the candy and things on Saturday, then Sunday the day was solely devoted to the Savior. I loved that. As a child and teenager, it helped me to recognize and remember that the holiday was about so much more than just the candy and pretty dresses. (It was actually later in my life that I realized that the Easter Bunny didn’t visit everyone on Saturday morning instead of Sunday.) Because of how it helped me to see the holiday, Bryan and I talked about it and that is how we decided we would like to continue to celebrate Easter with our kids. Because of the birthday party this year, it didn’t quite happen that way, but next year… the Easter Bunny will join us on the right day.

James did enjoy his Easter basket Sunday (okay, because of the benedryl trip I was on Saturday night, the Easter Bunny didn’t even visit us until after James nap… so it was about 2 pm by time we pulled out the chocolate).

What's this?

Neat!

There's something in here...

hmmm.

James did enjoy his first bunny peep. (The video is a little long. It took a little while for him to decide to open the egg with the peep inside, so even if you don’t watch it, just know that it was adorable. There isn’t much that James does that isn’t adorable to me though…)

It was such a wonderful day and such a wonderful weekend.

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Hot Dog Dance

by on March 28, 2011 in james, me, movie monday

We love the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse at our house. We watch it with Leyla in the morning and lately, James has actually started to pay attention to the television and even likes Mickey Mouse Clubhouse too. He gets pretty excited when it’s time for the Hot Dog Dance.

I’m so glad that he gets so excited and likes to dance.

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Change of Plans

by on February 23, 2011 in me, things i love

I had big plans for the next upcoming months…

I was going to dye my hair
a pretty chocolate brown, just for a change

For Christmas, Bryan bought me a Groupon for laser hair removal
so I was going to use it on my legs and never have to shave my legs again

This summer I was going to take a trip to California and visit Six Flags
the last time we went to an amusement park, I was prego with James and couldn’t ride the roller coasters

Bryan and I discussed going to Hawaii in September
there is an SEO conference and it would have been a great excuse to visit a tropical location

I was going to get lots of extra sleep at night
James is finally sleeping longer and longer at night

I was going to start a nice workout routine
getting rid of the nice little baby fat that has found a home on my stomach would have been good

I was going to have our family pictures taken
and not have a fat face

But my plans have changed and I can’t do any of those things now…

Because … I’m pregnant (anyone else watch 16 & Pregnant?)

and couldn’t be happier about it

We are so excited! And yes, this baby was a little bit of a surprise, but a wonderful surprise. I’m due in the middle of September (due dates seem so unexact, so I’m just going to go with a general time when the baby can come) and James and his new sibling will only be 17 months apart.

This pregnancy has been so different than my pregnancy with James. I’m sick, but not even close to as sick… the only time I’ve really had a problem with being sick is while James had some diaper problems — changing his diaper was a race to see if I could finish his diaper before running at full speed into the bathroom. Such good times.  ha ha!

Its a great reason to change plans. And now my plans include convincing someone to bring me some brownies. Anyone?

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National “Are You Stalking Me?” Day

by on January 11, 2011 in me, sharing

Did you know that today is officially National “Are You Stalking Me?” Day?

You didn’t?

It’s probably because I just made it up. (And what a great number of a day… 1/11/11. Perfect for a made-up national blog stalking day – if there is an actual day, and I just don’t know about it. Let me know, that would be neat.)

I have been thinking a little bit about security and how much of my life is online right now. With my blog, facebook, twitter, youtube, if a person wanted to, they could know a lot about me. I try to be safe about things and not post my address or phone number. I try not to announce to the internet world when I am going to be out of town and my house will be left unattended. I have even make it so my blog doesn’t show up in search engines like google when people search for my name… which is good and bad.

Undoubtedly, I do things that can be considered not safe. Posting my family’s real names or pictures of my little man. But I have chosen to do so, and have chosen to not make my blog private (yet).

Really, what I’m trying to say is that I have a love/hate relationship with technology. I love how easy it is to stay in touch with people you care about, or people you haven’t seen for a long time. I love that even though I may not talk to my friends on the phone regularly, I can still know what is going on in their lives. And I love that I can share what is going on in my life. But there are negatives to having so much easily available to the masses…

So to help make me feel a little better about it, I have declared today National “Are You Stalking Me?” Day!

Here’s what you do:

If you are stalking me, let me know.

I’m glad you’re here and don’t care if you read every time I post, just every once in a while, or if you just stumbled on my blog today. Just tell me who you are; leave a comment with your first name and (because I’m curious) how you read my blog (through a feed reader, by visiting every once in a while to see if I’ve updated, or another way). If you have a blog too, leave the address. I always love having more friends to connect with and more fun blogs to read.

If you are stalking me, and choose not to leave a comment… shame on you for being creepy.

Then pass it on. Post something like this on your blog and find out who’s stalking you. And stop secretly stalking. Say hello to your favorite blogging friends by leaving a comment and letting them know you are there (this is probably only important for personal/family-type blogs, I don’t think blogs who are trying to get followers care if you are secretly stalking them).

Thanks so much for sharing in National “Are you stalking me?” Day. I look forward to seeing who you are.

This will be great for updating my list of favorite blogs in my sidebar too. I’ve been meaning to do that for far too long.
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