Invasion

Let me tell you a little story about my parents. I'm not sure how old i was when this happened, but i know this is a famous story that they have told among us a few times because it describes my parents personalities perfectly. many years ago in a land right here where we live, my parents were watching a movie called "invasion of the bodysnatchers". If you ever saw the 2007 movie "the invasion" with nicole kidman than you know the story cuz it was a remake. anyway. one stark difference between the two is that the first one had zombies that would stare and point like the next picture when they would find someone who hadn't been converted to a zombie yet. in case you didn't know this is considered one of the scariest moments in scary movie history.


So to continue with the story. my parents finished watching this delightful movie and walked into their closet to get ready for bed. my parents clothes face each other, so to get dressed for bed, they always are faced away from each other. as my dad was just starting to change, he thought to himself, "i really should turn around and do the body snatcher face until suzanne (my mom) turns around to scare her." he thought it would be too mean so he decided not to. so he finished getting dressed not thinking of it further. when he finished and turned around, there was my mom the body snatcher staring with mouth open and pointing at my dad. needless to say it scared him really bad.

so when me and missy started dating, i was hanging out with her and her siblings and i told this story because it was late and dark (we were outside in back on the patio chairs) and it was funny. anyways, when i did the face i scared johnny pretty bad, even though he had never seen the movie. so it has been kinda like an inside joke to all of us. last week we were sitting around doing nothing and i told robbie, do the zombie face. he did. i took a picture. and i went around the room. the results is below.
my zombie face.


Robbies zombie face


pregnant lady's zombie face


and johnny's zombie face (not sure how he smiled and did a zombie face at the same time, but he did)

Brothers

Tyler was such a stud this last weekend. I decided that it would be fun to take my brothers for a long weekend. Tyler had Friday off and Saturday was my parents 22nd anniversary. He thought that sounded good, so Thursday night we went over and spent the night at my parent's and then left with Joe & Robby on Friday. Johnny had to work, but met up with us later.




















First stop was at the beach for a couple hours where Tyler and the boys played with the football and in the water while I slept and rested till everybody was dead, then to costco for Polish Dogs (the baby telling me she wanted them) and then home where I crashed in the bedroom and Tyler entertained the boys. Next we went to the pool for a couple hours, then came home and watched TV with the boys while Tyler made us Hot Wings -SO GOOD!





















All the boys ended up falling asleep on the floor and couches even though there was a perfectly good bed for them.
Saturday was pretty low key consisting of Tyler making breakfast, march madness, Wii games, Tyler making lunch, the pool(where I rested & tyler played with the boys), I started making dinner and Tyler finished. (Notice a theme?)
I can't believe how good Tyler is to me, I really couldn't ask for more.
On a side note- It has really been fun seeing how carefully my brothers are with me now that I am pregnant. I was always the sister that thought she was a brother and would play football and wrestle with them(I always won). Now they won't let me carry anything and when I get halfway through washing my car and then realize that I'm too tired and need to sit down, they finish it for me and grab all the towels so that I can't help. On top that, Robby (the one I would carry to bed until two years ago) just got taller than me this last week. I can't wait to see how they are with their new niece!
Tyler

Shopping!

Thinking back, I can't believe that I'm heading into my 7th month and have to wear my jeans around the house for an hour before I can button them...don't get me wrong, I can't wear about half of my jeans, and the ones that I do will maybe last a month before I have to start wearing a bellaband all the time.(it's like a tube top that you wear around the top of unbuttoned pre-prego pants- pretty awesome if you ask me) My shirts are all starting to fit a bit more snug and are working their way up to the point that even with an undershirt, it's gonna start looking a little funny. I just can't believe I've been able to sneak by with my regular clothes for so long!

So yesterday, Suzanne (Tyler's mom) and I went shopping for maternity clothes. I don't think I have ever been so excited to wear all of the things I got! And might I add that I have never ever shopped at the gap before and I absolutely love it!
These are just a few of my favorite new outfits. I was really surprised that I really liked the prints. Never really been much of a print-wearing girl. So glad Suzanne grabbed them for me. I was amazed how many cute things there were. I don't think I'll be ready to give them up in 3 months. So if you see me wearing them again in 6 months, it's because I missed them!

While we were at the mall, we had fun looking at Pottery Barn Kids and Jack & Janie. I can't wait until I get to dress up a little girl. There are so many darling little summer outfits, and little shoes, and cute bows and ribbons, and the bloomers to dress up diapers, and hats. Can you tell I've been thinking about this? Anyway, trying to hold off going crazy for a little bit longer...We'll see how that works out.

brainstorm

Okay, so for now i have left the title up top blank before i figure out what i'm actually going to write about.

so i started reading a book today and i'm already 75 pages in. i'm actually enjoying it so far except for one overlydetailed part. it's actually a movie that is currently in movie theaters nationwide. Let's just say i wish i could be this kid.

the book and movie is called jumper. how awesome would it be to teleport to anywhere you have been before instantly? i won't spoil anything so don't worry about reading below. but what he establishes in the first chapter is he can transport anywhere he has been before. how much fun would that be? like one second i'm typing this, the next i'm in ecuador visiting families i used to teach. then i'm back up in utah hanging out with brit ali and gibby's. than i'm up in san francisco looking at the golden gate bridge at night. how freakin fun would that be? i would take a month long road trip and see every major city in the states so i would no longer have to travel at all plane. my traveling would consist of site seeing only. anywho. i'm not that far into the book yet, but so far, its pretty good. but just so you know. skip the part about the trucker he meets. (that just can't be good ya know?)

Another 1

her name: Melissa Irene

how long we've been married: nine months y pico

how long we dated: 6 months

her age: 21

who eats more: have you seen me? (and she is the pregnant one remember)

who said "i love you" first: i did:)

who sings better: she does by far. although she won't sing alone.

who is smarter: i'm more analytical but she is much much smarter on the fly.

whose temper is worse: i wouldn't say she even has a temper. i don't think i have one either. i think i have only exhibited a temper with maybe 2 people in my life.

who apologizes first: it's pretty much always a contest who will do it quickest.

who does the laundry: mainly missy, unless she is sick, than i do it.

who does the dishes: we both do.

who pays the bills: she does

who cooks dinner: sometimes i do and she helps and sometimes she does and i help. changes day to day.

who is more stubborn: plead the 5th :)

who drives: she does most the time because it's thereaputic for her and me and also she gets less car sick while pregnant if she drives.

who wears the pants: i wear shorts and she wears a skort. (we kinda share it)

Tagged

I've been tagged by Aubrey

2 NAMES YOU GO BY: T.O., Tyler

2 THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW: wedding ring, smile

2 OF YOUR FAVORITE THINGS TO DO: Touch Missy's plump bump, and go to the beach with my babalicious wife!!

2 THINGS YOU WANT VERY BADLY AT THE MOMENT: A Career and decent paycheck

2 FAVORITE PETS YOU EVER HAD: Muffin the cat(dissappeared for 6 months than came back as a lioness. she would kill stuff and leave it on our front porch. one time it was a jackrabbit.) buddy the dog (default cuz i don't remember the names of any other pets we had.

2 THINGS YOU ATE LAST: frozen grapes and california rolls

2 PEOPLE YOU LAST TALKED TO: Missy before she fell asleep, and my dad i think.

2 THINGS YOU ARE DOING TOMORROW: going to church and watching "bones" with my brother in law.

2 LONGEST CAR RIDES: Atlanta,GA to Laguna Niguel,CA and then Provo, UT to Cleveland, OH and back.

I now tag anyone who read this and wants to do it too. boring but not bold. hehe

new stuff

Okay, so there are two things new in me and missy's life. we are enjoying both very much.
1) fresh produce
2) iHome



So because i have been a little health conscience the past few weeks, we start buying a few more fruits and veggies. after a week of that, we went to costco and went nuts buying only fruits and veggies. so that's pretty much all we eat with an occasional side of meat here and there (for protein). and it has been so good! we usually get stuffed with about an orange and half, and we can't eat any more. then in an hour and a half later we eat soething else like broccoli or edamame or strawberries. tonight it's gonna be artichokes and 8 piecies of california rolls.



we just bought an iHome from bed bath and beyond and we LOVE it. we both absolutely love music but haven't had a way to listen to it in our home (our 10'x10'x10' cube). we spend a lot of time when getting ready for bed, but we are super stoked to kinda of just chill doing stuff as we listen to music. like right now. we are listening to iron and wine as i type this and missy reads the warranty instructions about the iHome. (yes we are that exciting) haha.

Babies!

Okay. so at work there are 12 of us in our department. Of the people in our department, 2 are pregnant and than my wife is pregnant. Missy's sister in law is pregnant, and my cousin Rachel is pregnant. That's a lot of pregnant people! so on monday we got a call from missy's sisister in law has given birth to a healthy baby boy, Max. were obviously elated for them.

and then get this. today at work, one of the girls who is pregnant in my office is walking by my cubicle and my cubicle has one side that is a window and vanessa (that's her name obviously) stops right in front of it, and gets wide eyed. someone asks her, what's wrong? she says. "my water just broke." how amazing is that!? so she gets rushed to the hospital. now here is the thing with vanessa. she found out she was pregnant the same time that me and missy found out missy was pregnant. but missy still has 100 days left in the pregnancy. but because vanessa went so long without knowing she was pregnant, her doctors didn't know when her due date was. when she first found out. her due date was 3 weeks before missy. then her next visit they moved it up a month. than 3 weeks later they moved it up another month. than the NEXT month they moved it up again. so yeah. no one knows when she got pregnant nor her due date, so... yeah. crazy!


The other thing i wanted to write about is summed up in the photo above. the other night missy said to me, "look at my belly" and i watch for a few seconds and see a little bump come up for a second. So being the loving father that i am, i pushed down where the bump came up. 5 seconds later a kick came back. me and the baby then began a game of catch between each other through missy's stomach. just pushing each other back and forth. it was the neatest thing ever! we probably pushed back and forth for around 10 minutes before baby got tired of it. hahaha... she was probably thinking, "daaaadddd, you're so annoying!"

Just like her mom!:)

Blog Book!

Okay, so as a gift for their anniversary we created a picture book for my in-laws that thanked them for our gorgeous wedding. While reading in my cousin Rachel's blog, she wrote about a site called "blurb.com" and we actually used it. you design a book and they publish it for real. and if you want you can actually sell it from their site if you want to publish books. how cool is that? so we made a hardbound book for my in laws.

so we are now making a published book photo album of our engagement and wedding and all that for us to keep in our family. Melissa is the one doing all the work since she is home most days. and it is turning out AWESOME so far! we haven't looked at the stock pile of photos that we took for our engagement for so long that we forgot how many fun ones were in there.


The other thing we are going to do is publish our blog as a journal. so that is why most of the time the blogs i write about are not really that interesting to anyone except.... me i guess. so yeah, i really reccomend you check out blurb.com. it's a really cool idea.

Work it out!

So yes, I'm a bum. me and Missy both signed up for the gym two weeks ago. and everything was going great until tonight. i just lost all desire to go. I don't want to do it anymore. this is more verbalization of thoughts I'm having trying to understand myself.

I think a lot of it stems in the fact that whenever i try losing weight and getting into shape i go for at least 2 weeks to 2 months (which if you do everyday is a LOT of work) i went to the gym every day for the last 2 weeks, minus Sunday's. but i lost 2 pounds in 2 weeks even though i changed my eating habits pretty drastically(for the better) and was now burning at least 500-700 calories per workout. if you think about it that is a lot of hard work.

2 pounds?

seriously?

that's less than 1 percent of my body weight.

all my clothes are fitting just as tight so it's not like I'm changing fat into muscle (muscle weighs more than fat argument invalid) and i am not trying to be rude but i lose more weight in one trip to the restroom.

so in my analytically based mind I'm trying to rationalize spending x amount of dollars a month to spend an hour and a half per day (that's 9 hours a week) to just "feel" a little more healthy.

so I'm at a size in clothes i don't like and a weight i dislike but feel like there isn't much i can do to change that.



i think in my mind I'm wishing there was a regimen that didn't cost $100 a month that was guaranteed to take at least 2 pounds off a week. if you followed it exactly. if someone had such an item, i would be on that like green on grass.

that might get me to my goal in less than a year. since i'm that overweight. i'm 60 pounds over my post mission weight. so yeah. trying to psycho myself into it again.