It makes me smile

Now that I no longer fit in my old scrub tops, my clinical director donated some larger scrub tops to me that she no longer needed. In these scrubs I am not as showing quite so obviously. As I go to some patient's houses I sit down to ask them questions and visit with them, then I stand up to take vital signs or do their assessment. The moment I stand their eyes instantly drop from my face to my stomach. (If I wasn't expecting I would be offended! Hey! I'm UP HERE!) It makes me smile because I know what they are thinking: "...she looks like she is pregnant...but is she? Do I dare ask?...nah...well...she's gotta be, though...right?" It's what happens when I go grocery shopping, to get the car registered, when I walk into my office building to get to work--everywhere people have stopped looking first at my face as it was before. No, now they look first at my stomach then maybe up at my face. It makes me smile because I wonder, did I do that when I saw someone who was expecting? Haha...I might have. But I will try not to from now on. If I must look at their belly, I will at least commit to look at their faces first! Hmm...that feels weird too though. Well, what can you do?

Another thing that makes me smile:
Monday I had my monthly checkup just to check heartbeat, my size, and to address any questions I have. Anyway, the moment my doctor put the Doppler on my stomach she kind of smiled and I wasn't sure why at first. A second later I felt a pretty good push from the little squirt and she was pushing right where the Doppler was so the doctor couldn't listen to the heartbeat. It made me laugh.

Bryan and I are doing choir at church. We have practices almost every Sunday after church. After the choir had finished practicing our songs for the Christmas program, two girls from Primary practiced a song together up at the pulpit/microphone. They sang the song very well but throughout the song one girl would pull the microphone over toward her own mouth so her voice would be louder, then a couple of seconds later the other girl would pull the microphone back over. This went on throughout the song along with some elbowing. It was so funny! They definitely were not shy about performing! It still makes me smile.

This past Sunday was the Primary program at church where children under 12 years and over 3 sing songs about the gospel and the scriptures. One row behind where Bryan and I were sitting was a little girl probably a little over 2 years old. She was excited about watching her brothers up on the stand singing the Primary songs. After a little bit she started singing a hymn called Teach Me to Walk in the Light. This is how her little song went: "Teach me to walk...teach me to pray...twinkle twinkle little star..." Bryan and I couldn't help but laugh. So stinkin' cute.

What else makes me smile: Calvin and Hobbes!



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Alright, alright

Okay, I give in. I'm almost 23 weeks, so here is one belly picture. It's amazing how silly I feel taking a picture like this so it may or may not happen again (likely not). Why do I feel silly? No clue. Because I love seeing belly pictures of my friends who are expecting. So I'll try to get over it. ;)



Oh yeah, and...we couldn't resist. We got this dress and shoes on a killer deal. I am otherwise trying to stay away from baby girl clothes because I'm afraid that we will no longer have any money in our savings account if I start shopping now! Especially when Bryan is just as weak as me in this area. He is the one that spotted both the dress and shoes by the way.



Bryan's work had everyone's little kids come to his office to trick or treat yesterday. So of course he dressed up. He wouldn't let me put makeup on him because he had meetings earlier in the day where he didn't know if it would be appropriate to be dressed up for. But luckily one of his co-workers (who happens to be from Vernal) had some eyeliner with her and she went to town.



I don't think he will be doing to makeup again tonight for our trick or treaters because before I got home Bryan scrubbed his eyes like crazy (the makeup was just driving him nuts) and accidentally got some soap in his eyes. Now for the next time he uses this costume I just need to think of a way to get a decent looking goatee on his chin.

Halloween project and a look into my MIND

The picture is a little squatty, but this is my little "masterpiece" of the last couple of days. This was just a pot that I painted...not too bad, huh?



On a more random note, I have decided that I love that Wendy's Frosty takes care of heartburn in a much happier way than Tums.

More randomness (Warning: the following statements are not meant to flow--they give maybe too good of a look at how my mind works normally)

1-I love the feeling of coming home after a crazy day at work...even if there is still grocery shopping and dirty dishes and...anyway

2-I’m thinking Halloween better come soon before we eat all this Halloween candy!

3-Mmm...Kit Kats...

4-Although I am sad to have to say goodbye to the beautiful colors and temperatures of fall, I love love love that it is snowing lightly outside and turning everything white!

5-I'm on call tonight and am hoping that I don't get called to go out anywhere because of the snow.

6-I wish it was still light outside so I could better see the snow falling and just waste time starring out the window...instead of wasting time writing random things in this post.

7-I think it's weird they have made a movie all about TinkerBell. Guess she didn't like the way her character was painted in Peter Pan.

8-We're pretty sure Bryan had the swine flu 3 weeks ago. But I just kept saying, 'Nah, it would be worse than this and last longer'. There's no way we will ever know now because now he is all better, but from all that I have learned in the past couple of weeks I'm pretty sure that is what he had! Glad he's better now!

9-Taylor Swift makes me happy. Mostly just her cute happy eyes.

10-Okay, on Saturday Bryan and I were driving home from Salt Lake and I looked down at my stomach and my first instinct was to sit up more straight because my belly was sticking out...then I thought, "You're pregnant you dork!"

11-I was washing my hands after going to the bathroom on Sunday and looked at myself in the mirror and thought again of my stomach was thinking "Oh my gosh...my belly is so big!" Then it occurred to me the moment I thought that..."Gee, kind of like a pregnant person?" I can't believe that I actually have moments where I forget for just a small moment that I'm expecting!

12-There's nothing that brings a smile to my face more than feeling the baby wiggle around! (Yes, MUCH more happiness than a Frosty ;) )

13-Bryan just threw his trash at me again.

14-I wish the pineapple on our counter would cut itself up instead of going bad and making me feel guilty for buying it in the first place and not cutting it up right away. What an inconsiderate pineapple.

15-Alright alright. If there really are any of you still reading this randomness, you may now breath a sigh of relief. Now go do something more important. ;)

It's a...

GIRL! Yep, we had the ultrasound this morning and everything looks good. The tech just couldn't say enough about the good looking four chamber heart. We will post some belly pics soon. As soon as I can talk myself into it! I'm still trying to get over the fact that people want me to get a big belly ;) But we wanted to get the news out! I'll try not to splurge too much on cute clothes and bows and stuff, Bryan! ;)

Something about FALL

There's something about Fall and the leaves changing that makes me feel so nostalgic and peaceful. If I could I would just love to take the day off, make some soup, and look out the window all day or go for a long long walk. To me, everything about Fall is beautiful.

The above picture is our little tree just beginning to change colors. If you look closely you can see the leaves starting to change colors on the tips.

Changing tones...The below pictures don't exactly have anything to do with Fall, but just for fun take a gander at the cleaning out of Bryan's parent's winter closet/the Bryan Jack fashion show:






My life is never boring with this guy. I LOVE IT!

It's Official! (Finally!)

Nearly three years ago I was given a little doll to get me through the stress and tears that would inevitably come with nursing school. The nurse who gave me this doll instructed me on how to use the doll. When I was feeling stressed, I was to take hold of the doll...and shake shake shake until I felt a little better. When the stress level was down, I could smooth her hair to portray my feelings. Well, now that nursing school is over I would like to let you all know how life has gone for me.

For the past nine months...no, more like two years and nine months I have felt somewhat like this:



Now, as of last week, I am now finally a Registered Nurse! I passed my dreaded NCLEX. Upon finding out my results I again probably looked much like the above picture, but for much more positive reasons. I wanted to cry, scream, jump, and run laps around my building at work.

My co-workers were there to share their excitement with me. I love my work. I have been working as an LPN with the company since May. It is such a positive environment. In fact, everyone in the office took me out to lunch to a very nice fine dining restaurant.

Now, I am feeling much more like this (minus the pouty eyes):



I can hardly express my love for life at this moment. Knowing that if I want to DO something with my time (like making crafts, learn new skills, scrapbook, be better at blogging, make baby things, playing piano, reading...ANYTHING!) I can! And I have no reason to feel guilty because I need to be doing something else!

Yes, I realize that come March, when I become a mother, I will no longer be free to do such activities on a whim. And I am SO okay with that because I feel so blessed for the opportunity to be a mom.

A Tribute to Mothers

After checking out Deseret Book's website for some free book downloads (check it out! http://deseretbook.com/free) I came across this video clip. Maybe it is partially because I am a soon mother-to-be, but it really has a great message.