sweet honey

I've been on a toast, butter, and honey kick lately. No matter how careful I am, I can't seem to keep all the honey on the bread! Even if there were the smallest hole, the honey finds it and leaks all over the place.

This weekend is Stephen and Anna's wedding and the Beck Family Reunion. Yippee! I've been doing pretty good with taking my camera to places I go. My next goal is to actually take out the camera and take some pictures. Who knows, I may be able to catch vandals in the act of decorating a certain someone's car ....

sleep talkers

Do any of you talk/walk in your sleep? I know I do, but I'm having a harder time convincing Joe that he does, in fact, do the same thing. It's always fun the next morning to explain what the other one said or did.

Joe's been going through a burrowing stage lately. I don't sleep as deep as I once did .. stupid potty breaks .. and get out of bed quite a bit. When I woke up once, I was taking up about a foot of the bed. Joe was sleeping with his back right next to me with his feet sticking out, almost off his side of the bed. I nudged him a little and asked him to move over.

"Ugghhhh," he groaned quite angerly.
"Move over, please." I thought my asking nicer would improve the situation. Nope.
"What? I'm sleeping."

In his defense, he did end up moving once I again nudged him a couple more times in the ribs with my pointy elbows.

**SIDE NOTE: I think God made women's elbows pointy for this very reason of getting husbands to move over. Even after I've gained all this baby weight, my elbows are still a good weapon for my defense. =)

movie review

Joe and I watched "Get Smart" last Saturday. We laughed pretty dang hard. I kept thinking that this movie is an American version of the Pink Panther. Anyhoo ... there were a couple of parts that just didn't need to be in there and because of them I will not buy the movie. Steve Carell is so good in all the movies that he plays in.

marks of motherhood

I will spare you pictures of this post and you'll soon find out why. I guess I have officially been inducted into the realm of motherhood. I have stretch marks! They are little, but they are everywhere. Yikes! I'm starting to get more uncomfortable and I'm starting to get sick to my stomach again. My dad advised that women have to get to a point where they are uncomfortable and WANT that baby out of them or they could be pregnant for a lot longer than is necessary. Yeah, whatever.

A man's wife brought in her 3 day old son into the office yesterday. He was so teeny! That is, if you can call 8 pounds teeny. I looked at him for a while and then promptly left. I'm excited, nervous and scared to become a mom, to be responsible to this little human for the rest of my life, to teach him about being a gentleman, to teach him about the gospel ... Needless to say, the responsibility of being a parent is a bit overwhelming to me.

which disney princess are you?

I am Belle!

Intelligent and kind. Your beauty goes much further than your apperance. Also, you make judgements of people based on their personality and not their looks. Attaining all the knowledge that you can is one of your major goals in life, but you are also a person who can make things happen.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

scattergories - it's harder than it looks!

Directions:
Use the first letter of your first name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things - nothing made up. Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same first initial, which by the way is hard if you already have read their answers! You cannot use your own name for the boy/girl names.

1. What is your name? Amber
2. A 4 letter word: Arch
3. A vehicle: Avalon
4. A city: Atlantic City
5. A boy's name: Adam
6. A girl's name: Annette
7. A drink: Ale
8. An occupation: Artist
9. Something you wear: Amethist Stone
10. A celebrity: Adam Sandler
11. A food: Artichoke
12. Something found in a bathroom: Aroma Therapy Candles
13. Reason for being late: Armed Robbery
14. Something you shout: Are you crazy!
15. An animal: Anteater
16. A body part: Arm Pit
17. Word to describe yourself: Adventerous
18. Name a flower or plant: Aloe

i'm a Honda S2000

You live on the edge, and you live for the adrenaline rush. You don't need luxuries, snob appeal, or superfluous gadgets. You put your top down, get your motor revving, and take all the curves that life throws at you at full speed. So what if you spin out occasionally?

Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

pictures

As promised. Pictures are posted below.

4th of july

You gotta love Cache County. Hryum City doesn't want to compete with Logan City's fireworks and Logan City doesn't want to compete with Salt Lake's and Provo's fireworks. So what do they do? Hyrum has their fireworks on the 2nd and Logan has theirs on the 3rd.

Joe and I went to Hyrum City's firework program. I work with a lady who's house is a couple of blocks away from where they light the fireworks. It was amazing because the echo of the fireworks rumbled down Blacksmith Fork Canyon, making is seem like we were in the middle of a thunder storm. Very cool.

The next night we watched Logan's fireworks from my grandma's back lawn. The kids dog-piled Joe and Carly (my 2-year-old niece) ended up laying on or next to him for the rest of the night! She would call out the colors of the fireworks as they exploded and would even turn around at us with her mouth wide open and her eyes opened wide and exclaim, "Wow!" Very cute.

The next day we then went up to Boise for a nephew's baptism. Little did we know that the 4th of July is our brother-in-law's favorite holiday. He probably spend over $100 on fireworks. He went to a store that had a room partitioned off where the "good stuff" was being sold. It was a good firework show though, very memorable with the drunk neighbors too.

Joe's sister loaded us down with lots and lots of baby stuff when we left. Our car was so packed, we could hardly see out of our back window! We got a pack-n-play, a swing, a vibrating chair (I'll have to post a picture), a kick-and-play thing (the baby lays on its back and plays with things that hand down in front of his face and by his feet), a humidifier, an umbrella stroller, a johnny-jump-up, a crib, and much much more. We got back to Logan around 7:30 last night, but spent the next couple of hours assembling everything. I'm kind of excited to use everything now!

Happy belated-4th of July! We hope you all had a fabulous holiday.

zion national park

Joe and I went camping to Zion National Park the last week in June. We went with family who came from California, Idaho, and Utah. I have to say that I did pretty darn good for a 7 1/2 month pregnant woman can do. It was around 5 or 6 when we got there the first day (we had to stop every 1 or so for me to stretch my legs and use the bathroom) and it was still UBER hot! Luckily we have a smaller tent and were able to squeeze in between my sister's family and Wayne's family under the most shade. We hiked around for a little bit that night and ended up in the water to cool off. As we were walking, we met this huge stink bug. He kept positioning himself so that his backside was always pointed to us.

The next day we all went up to the Narrow's. The shuttle we got on was apparently running late and the driver was a little stressed out. She was going to make my brother, who is in a wheelchair, wait for the next shuttle. She wouldn't put the ramp down for him admist all of our protests. My bro told the lady that he was getting on the bus, got out of his chair, and walked up the steps. Joe grabbed his chair and they got him on the bus. The lady couldn't stop apologizing.

I think everyone thought I wouldn't be able to hike for very long in the Narrow's. Joe pointedly told me that he was going to leave me to hike up as far as anyone wanted to go. We all stayed together for about an hour and then the women and most of the kids turned back. One of my sisters had a hold of my arm like I was an old woman. She finally gave me a walking stick and told me that I needed it more than she did! When we got back to camp, we all went to the river to cool off. I found a little spot in the middle of the river where there were three rocks; one on either side of me and one to sit on. The water was moving fast enough that it felt like a cold hot tub!

The next morning we packed up and drove home. Good weekend, but very hot.

My favorite wild animal that we saw. One of my nephews picked up the goldfish after we took a picture and for a second I thought he was going to eat it. Crazy boys.

pregnancy rant

Just a bit of advice for you all out there in blogger world: if a pregnant lady is putting on a few pounds, please PLEASE don't tell her. And if she's having seconds or thirds, let her eat in peace; you may walk away with a bloody stump for offering your bit of advice.

I've been retaining a bit of water, and consequently, am blowing up a bit. Don't believe me, just look at my feet, hands and face the next time you see me. The funny thing is, I know that I'm blowing up. I can feel it!

A friend of mine told me the other day that she saw me and Joe driving down main street on his scooter and told me that I was too fat to ride on that any more. A lady at work even told me that I looked heavy! Thank you.

I'll end before I get too carried away, but please be kind to the pregnant ladies.