Tagged

Well, this is my first time ever being tagged (thanks Becky). I hope I do okay. :)

8 TV Shows that I love to watch (I don't know if there's really 8 that I love to watch, but here's a few I enjoy:

1. Biggest Loser: Families
2. Lost (we just started the first season online, it's pretty good!)
3. The Office
4. SNL Weekend Update (have you seen the guys that play Obama and McCain? They are hilarious, watch the "debates", and Tina Fey sounds just like Sarah Palin)
5. Jeopardy
6. Eli Stone
7. Wheel of Fortune
8. Bones

8 Favorite Restaurants (this one's easy, I like food):

1. Macaroni Grille
2. Cafe Rio
3. Jason's Deli
4. The Mandarin
5. Olive Garden
6. Carrabba's
7. Mimi's
8. TGI Fridays (have you ever had the fish tacos? surprisingly, they're delicious)

8 Things Happening This Week:

1. 16-week check up on Wednesday!
2. Teaching
3. Halloween (I hope we get trick-or-treaters!)
4. Ward Trunk or Treat (the day after Halloween, whatever)
5. Heidi hopefully coming up for dinner on Sunday
6. We had a great choir practice yesterday!
7. Family Home Evening
8. Scheduling my next doctor's appointment when I find out boy or girl!

8 Things that I am looking forward to:

1. Thanksgiving at Tahoe
2. Christmas
3. Finding out the gender of our baby
4. Having our baby (not really labor/delivery, but the outcome!)
5. This weekend when I'm going to make pumpkin pie
6. Visiting Amy in Boise (if she ever has her baby, just kidding!)
7. Decorating for Christmas
8. Holiday food

8 Things I love about this fall:

1. Being pregnant
2. The pretty colorful drive on my way to Park City every Thursday & Friday
3. Our house, each new season is exciting
4. Eating the last of our successful garden
5. The weather
6. Apples & cinnamon (just in general, they're very fall)
7. The impending holiday season
8. Going on walks with my hubby

8 Things on my wishlist:

1. Healthy baby
2. Easy labor (Jeremy suggested that one, I think he's nervous too!)
3. Baby gear
4. New camera
5. Christmas decorations
6. More home decor
7. Good outcome of the election
8. Humidifier (it's really dry here)

That was harder than I anticipated. Whew!

People I am tagging: Sister Amy, Cousin Melarie, Friend Rachel (yes, that's you Cox)

It's....a BABY!!!

We are happy to announce to the world that I am pregnant! Our siblings and parents already know this (which means almost everyone that reads it) but for anyone else, there's the news!!! We're super excited. I am 13 weeks along (tomorrow) which means through the first trimester! I'm due April 18th. We're excited for our little spring baby and grateful that everything has gone so well so far.

Another great weekend!

Last night we got back from a very fun trip to Idaho Falls. We stayed with Amy's in-laws along with Amy & Rob, Rob's 2 sisters, and one of his brothers (plus 10 of their 15 grandkids). We had a very good time. We drove up Thursday night after work and Friday we played some games, did some shopping, and played with the Wii Fit and Wii Sports. I had never played the Wii Fit before but it was really fun. They have this board thing you stand on and there are aerobic exercises you can do and a bunch of things to test your balance. You can even weigh yourself and find your BMI to see if you're overweight or whatever. The funniest though was watching Jeremy on the hoolahoop thing. You have to circle your hips like you're doing the hoolahoop and then people throw hoolahoops to you that you have to catch. Anyway, his hips were goin' crazy and his arms were pumping to help him. We were all cracking up and I had tears streaming down my face. Unfortunately I didn't get the camera until after I finished, so I don't have any pictures of him, but here's one of Rob doing the hoolahoop:
And Jeremy doing a Yoga pose: haha! He actually has very good balance. At first you just stand on the thing and it tells you how good your center of balance is. It asked him if he had trouble walking without tripping because his center of balance was bad. Haha! But then on all the exercises (ski slope, ski jump, hitting soccer balls with your head, etc.) he did really well. So who knows.

Then on Saturday we watched Conference and in between the sessions all the girls went out to lunch (Rob's mom, 2 sisters, sister-in-law, Amy, and me). We went to this cute little bakery in celebration of Amy's coming baby. She's due with #4 in less than 3 weeks! They had this amazing Raspberry Cream Pie that we shared. Wow, it was incredible. Then we played some more games that night and had a fun time.

Sunday, we again watched Conference. All the sessions were so good! I might need to reread a few because there were a lot of distractions, but I was happy with how much we were able to get out of it even though there were 10 kids. During the Sunday morning session Amy had most of the kids playing Conference Bingo, so that kept them watching for that whole session. It was really fun. They had words like "Atonement", "Missionaries", "Baptism", etc. and if someone said one of those words you got to mark it. So we had a good time with that.

Here's little Grant during the Sunday afternoon session wearing Brenna's hat. He's so cute!
And Jeremy and I with Brenna asleep on us.
And Amy, Rob, Seth, and Rob's parents.
It was a great weekend and it was fun to see family! I'm going up to Boise to help Amy with her baby in about a month so that will fun. Life is great! Thanks for reading. :)

Canning!

Well, we decided to brave the canning world. Yikes! Monday night, we spent some time in the garden picking tomatoes, pulling up our zucchini and bell pepper plants (they were dying) and weeding, you know. So, we ended up with a whole lot of tomatoes. So we decided it was time to do something with them. We canned salsa and spaghetti sauce! Woohoo! We did it last night and of course it took forever and it didn't even use half of our tomatoes and didn't make nearly as much as we thought it would. But, I guess we'll just have to do it again.

I had never canned anything before in my life (except for jam with my sister, but that was really easy), so this was an adventure. I just got on Google and looked up some recipes and we decided to go for it! I was too chicken to try the spaghetti sauce, I think I was worried it would be disgusting, but I tried the salsa and it was quite delicious. So we ended up with 2 pints of salsa and 5 pints of spaghetti sauce. Like I said, a small batch, but we're proud we actually did it at all! We don't have a canner, so we used a big pot with hot water and everything so it would have taken forever to do a lot because we couldn't fit more than 4-5 cans in there at a time. But we had a good time and we're excited for our small contribution to our food storage!


Salsa
Spaghetti Sauce: