Pregnancy

Being pregnant so far has been a neat experience as well as a bit of a challenge. It is not what I expected to say the least, but life is fun like that and full of unexpected surprises, right? Honestly, I was hoping to have a similar pregnancy as my sweet mom and sister, but so far its been quite different.

I cannot tell you what a blessing it was to get pregnant without even blinking. Well... maybe it took blinking a couple of times.

We consider this a huge blessing from our Heavenly Father and feel so lucky to get a sweet angelic little girl in a few months that is growing and is super healthy!

I feel our sweet angel inside me doing somersaults and karate chops and think what a fun party she must be having most of the day. Sometimes while I am teaching or talking to somebody she will start doing something crazy and I'll have to stop, and make a funny face or sound because it is the neatest yet weirdest feeling. Sometimes I just start giggling and cannot stop because it is such a cool feeling.

Throughout this whole thing, Nick has been the sweetest husband and gives me so much support each and every day. He is the greatest and I am the luckiest girl in the world. I love him so much.

Life is still exciting and adventurous as ever!

Fall, How I Love You!

Fall is my favorite season and it is HERE! Living in Utah their is a vast difference in the season change from summer to fall. The trees are gorgeous, and I tell my students almost everyday how much I love the fall!

Teaching 5th graders started the end of August and has been the highlight of my life! I love what I am doing. I am convinced that I was born to be a teacher because I love waking up and going to teach 28 children each day.

I figured I would never see my amazing husband this year, but I was WRONG! We both get home around 6:00PM and then usually I am still preparing for another hour or so, and then we spend the rest of our evening together. It works really well. Its crazy that both of us work around 11 hour days, but we cannot complain when we both love what we do.

We still manage to have amazing weekends and fit really amazing things in. Instead of trying to update you on the past months, I will just give the highlights.

For my birthday, we went down to St. George for the weekend and saw "The Little Mermaid" at the Tuachan Theatre. It was and incredible show. My parents saw the production on Broadway and then saw it at the Tuachan and said that their was no comparison and the Tuachan production was a "must see." They were absolutely right. WHAT A PRODUCTION!

My husband is always such a trooper because he always goes to things like this with me even if he doesn't want to and then usually ends up liking it in the end.

Here we are with some shave ice enjoying the intermission of "The Little Mermaid."

We also wanted to do an endowment session at the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints St. George Temple, but it was closed unfortunately. We got a beautiful picture though!

One of our favorite spots in Provo is Bridal Veil Falls, and the bike paths they have the majority of the way up Provo Canyon. We got some bikes and headed up and down the path. If you have not done this and you live in Provo, it is a must!

One weekend, we headed up Lamb's Canyon to our Grammy and Grandpa Anderson's cabin. Some of our best friends came with us and we enjoyed breathtaking views, endless amounts of delectable food, and hiking!

Nick and I try to do this each year and we absolutely love it.

HOCKEY SEASON HAS STARTED! WOO HOO! That means my amazing brother has games each weekend that we get to go NUTS over!

I am pretty sure that hockey, soccer, and water polo are the most difficult sports to play! Some people would probably argue with me about that, but this is how I feel so you won't be changing my mind any time.

My brother and his amazing girlfriend Lauren! Love them both!

I am sure you have seen some of Nick's art work at dinner before, but here is his most recent art piece. If we ever have extra time on our hands he usually creates something crazy out of the food we are going to eat.

Lastly, this past weekend we went to the "Hee Haw Farms" in Pleasant Grove with our friends. It is a really cute place with a corn maze, pumpkins, pigs, haunted hay rides, and amazing slides.

I couldn't figure out why my flash on my camera wasn't working, but here is Nick and this massive pumpkin. It was ENORMOUS!

They had these guns that you shot ears of corn out of that were powerful and loud. Nick and Jared thought they needed some moving targets out there. We didn't volunteer for that job.

Thought this was a cute little farmer! HEE HAW!

The Haunted Hay Ride! Yikes!

I was wrapped all around Nick the majority of the ride because I was freaked out!

That is pretty much the gist of the past few months. Hope your Fall season is going amazingly well because ours sure is.

Bye Summer

Last weekend we went on a trip to Vancouver, Washington to end our summer with a bang. Some of our family lives up there and we have not been able to visit them yet.

We did all of the things we love which include: being with family, being outdoors, and hiking. My sweet grandma owned a farm in Eugene, Oregon, but had to sell it when she got older and could not take care of it by herself. That is really the only part of the North West I have seen of the United States. The whole time we were in Southern Washington I could not believe how GORGEOUS it was. I am sure I annoyed everyone around me by constantly commenting on how breathtaking the views were.

Our nieces and nephew are the cutest things and are the most incredible children. It was so much fun to play with them for four days!

This hike was gorgeous and gave us some spectacular views of the Columbia River and the gorgeous mountains. I think ever since we have moved to Utah our breath constantly gets taken away by the gorgeous mountains! These mountains were covered in trees and different than our Utah mountains, but they were magnificent.

One day we went spelunking in the ape caves. This is one of the coolest things I have ever done. It is a massive lava tube under ground where you have to scramble over huge piles of lava rock. It was so dark in the caves that when we turned off all the lights, you could not see your hand directly in front of your face. We all had headlamps or flashlights. I want to say we were in this long lava tube walking and scrambling for about 1 1/2 miles. It was so neat, and I was incredibly impressed with my nieces and nephews who had to rock climb an eight foot wall at one point in the spelunking adventure. They did great!

It was really cold down there.

Nicholas and Annalise riding razors together. I now know what Nick wants for Christmas. He loved that thing.

They live in such a nice neighborhood and live at the end of an awesome culdesac.

We were all ready to go down "Blackberry Lane" and pick wild blackberries.

Annette, Kilee and I.

There were so many delicious huge blackberries at the very top. Don't worry we figured out how to get them with Annalise's help!

Vista Point. One of the coolest state parks I have seen.

This is totally a model picture of Nick. Actually both are. He wasn't even trying.

This state park has tons of waterfalls along the Columbia river. I am not sure what this one was called.

Priceless Kian face!

Kian loved hanging onto Nick's leg on one of the hikes. It was really cute.

I love this family!

We are sad that the summer has come to an end, but what a terrific way to end it! We will definitely have to do this as much as we can. Annette and Kimball, thanks for the greatest trip.

School starts tomorrow! I am so excited!