jon bon jovi

For my birthday this year Joe took me to a Bon Jovi concert! It was a blast but keep in mind I'm 5 1/2 months pregnant and still a little sick. While most people were rocking out standing, I was bobbing along in my seat! I didn't mind. I could still hear everything!

(I stole this from the Salt Lake Tribune)

beatrice eudora beck

Joe's grandma turned 100 in February! Joe and his sister did a little research and found out that she's older than penicillin and income tax! Joe, Corban, and I drove to Green River to celebrate her 100 years on this earth.

Beatrice with her kids: Milt, Mae, Ron

The birthday girl with her cake.

Just as sassy as ever.

Here are a few things I love about Beatrice:

• She leers out at you from between her fingers. She doesn't want you to know she's looking, but she is!
• She doesn't like getting her picture taken and will tell you that she's gonna break your camera. I think she might jump out of her chair one day and actually do it!
• She sometimes thinks there are farm animals around her in the house. I've heard barking and mooing.
• The day of her birthday, she kept looking at her flowers and smiling at them!
• Someone was helping her into the car to go to her birthday party. They kept referring to her as "honey" or some other endearment. "Stop calling me hon!" she yelled. "What should I call you?" "How about jackass? That seems more appropriate."
• Over Christmas she was eating some cheese crackers. She got up and came back to her chair in the living room where she saw all those cracker crumbs in her chair! She proceeded to yell at those crumbs, "Why are you sitting in my chair? You know better than to sit in my chair!"
• She still loves kids.

Happy Birthday great-Grandma Beck!

I feel like a ...

... and I've got four months to go!

in love

I am in LOVE with this machine but I don't have one! It can do virtually ANYTHING and I mean ANYTHING! And the best part of this baby is that you hook it up to your computer and it adopts all your fonts that you have on your machine! How sweet it that? AND you don't have to buy additional cartridges ... like some other machines like {cough} the cricket. It is half the price from it normally is but I'll probably have/need to wait until that price is cut in half. Unless ... all of my many MANY many blog readers all pitch in! I would then make you the most ADORABLE thank you card. What a great deal, huh?

simple pleasures

My dad took everyone who was at his house out to A&W. Corban drank an entire mug of root beer and his hot dog and fries. Thanks Peggy for the cute picture.

happy valentine's day

In honor of Valentine's Day, here are 14 of the things I love right now.

1. My Man.

(He wasn't cooperating so he gets this picture of himself posted for always and eternity!)

2. Harry Potter.

(Part 2 of the Deathly Hallows comes out right about the time I'm supposed to give birth. I told Joe that no matter what I'm seeing this movie when it comes out, even if I go into labor in the theater!)

3. Crafts

4. Fruit ... this picture makes me hungry just looking at it!

5. Jesus Christ

6. Family

7. Bedtime

8. Homemade Oreos

(I had a plan to make these delicious babies with pink frosting for V-day but I don't have any shortening or apple sauce! Oh, the pain. Now I have to go down town.)

9. Netflix

10. flip flops

11. ice water

12. Zofran

13. Sunshine

14. Corban

(He's excited--can't you tell--because he climbed the rope ladder by himself. )

a little thing called ...

I started writing this post about all the things I'm hating about being pregnant and felt kind of bad. It's a good thing for the delete key. Instead, I'll write the briefest summary of what's been going on.

Joe is working and going to school. I think his schedule finally caught up with him and he's getting sick. I don't think the single digit temperature outside helps anything either. He usually works Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 11am-9pm. He also is going to school Monday-Friday. His Tuesday and Thursday days start at 6:30a.m. and don't end until after 9 p.m. I feel bad for him, but I'm still sick and need his help at home. We just started going to a new ward and I think he's praying not to get a calling!

I am sick. I am tired. I gag/dry heave with anything tight, so I spend most days in workout pants or my pjs sans bra! Today neither Corban nor I got out of our pjs and it's almost time for bed again. I'm 14 weeks pregnant and barely starting to show. I look more like I'm overweight than pregnant which is just gross. But I did make dinner tonight so that's a big accomplishment.

Corban has had quite the bought of sickness. He's been getting his molars and with each molar came an ear infection. He's now on the tail end of pink eye. He loves his blankets and wants to go everywhere with all three of them! Our mornings usually consist of me getting us both a bowl of cereal, turning on "Dora" and me going back to bed. He has now learned how to switch off Dora and play Mario Kart. And he's actually quite good.

I couldn't just not leave a picture, so here you go. This is Corban at Christmas time with his great-grandma Beatrice who's turning 100 in February! She was awake but was just looking at us through her fingers (more on her later).