Tuesday, May 26, 2009
The Bump
I've had quite a few requests for updates on the preggo scene, and although I don't want this to turn into a pregnancy blog, I feel it is only fair to share some news.
Today, Ian and I went to Dr. Broadbent's office for my 20 week appt. Of course, you mom's out there know why that is so exciting!! We had an ultrasound done to find out what kind of jellybean I have in my belly!! Any guesses?!
No?
Fine, you waited too long to guess.
ATTENTION, ATTENTION!!
The jellybean in my belly is missing a very important piece of equipment. Therefore, the doctor felt quite justified in telling us...
We are having a baby GIRL!!!
Hooray for pink and purple!! Hooray for dresses and bloomers!! Hooray for bows and ribbons! Cute and cuddly! Pretty and precious!! Its a girl!!!!
(Yes, I know baby girls lead to teenage girls and pre-menstral girls, but I'm thinking positive.)
I'm so excited! Now I can use the correct pronoun when I talk about the baby, not to mention, that means we won the sweepstakes for the pretty, hand-knitted sweater from the lovely and talented Brittany!! I had to give Ian a special congrats for his little swimmer that helped us win the sweater :) Now we just have to start thinking about names....
Today, Ian and I went to Dr. Broadbent's office for my 20 week appt. Of course, you mom's out there know why that is so exciting!! We had an ultrasound done to find out what kind of jellybean I have in my belly!! Any guesses?!
No?
Fine, you waited too long to guess.
ATTENTION, ATTENTION!!
The jellybean in my belly is missing a very important piece of equipment. Therefore, the doctor felt quite justified in telling us...
We are having a baby GIRL!!!
Hooray for pink and purple!! Hooray for dresses and bloomers!! Hooray for bows and ribbons! Cute and cuddly! Pretty and precious!! Its a girl!!!!
(Yes, I know baby girls lead to teenage girls and pre-menstral girls, but I'm thinking positive.)
I'm so excited! Now I can use the correct pronoun when I talk about the baby, not to mention, that means we won the sweepstakes for the pretty, hand-knitted sweater from the lovely and talented Brittany!! I had to give Ian a special congrats for his little swimmer that helped us win the sweater :) Now we just have to start thinking about names....
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Baby Showers
***There are pictures at the end, so if you are too bored to read this, at least look at the pictures!!***
I don't know why (perhaps its my current location) but everyone I know is having a baby. In the month of May, I have officially attended 3 baby showers, and there is still one more week left- maybe I'll make it 4!!
The first one, I thought it would be great to make a flannel blanket that I had seen that a friend of mine had. You take 5 pieces of flannel (I modified it to 4 because of the crazy COST of fabric) and lay them one on top of the other. Then, you sew them all together in 1/2 - 1 inch increments all the way across the blanket. Finally, you snip the top 3 layers, leaving a fun little ruffle, and voila! Beautiful, super simple, super absorbent baby blanket!
Not really.
It took me a while to find decent fabric that was within my budget, so there went 2 hours. I found a straight lined pattern, so at least my lines were straight. Sure, it took me about 4 HOURS to get all the lines sewn, but they were straight. I sat down next to my poor husband that had forfeited one of his last few precious date nights and started the snipping (1 more hour)...I assumed 1 inch would make it ruffle, but as it turns out...it didn't (at first.) Actually, the remedy would have been to wash and dry the blanket, but since we don't have a dryer, I attempted to make it ruffle by snipping the ruffles every half inch or so to make it a little more....fluffy looking.
Anyways, long story short, 2 more hours later, I had finished everything I could do, and I took it to a washer/dryer where I work with the lady I had made the blanket for. I didn't actually make it to the baby shower, b/c Jenn had come to visit from Alaska. So I pulled it out of the dryer, folded it up, and handed it to her. I should have said, "here is 9 hours of my weekend! I hope you like it!"...but I actually left the first part out.
Baby shower #2- Maybe a flannel blanket isn't the way to go. I know! I'll crochet a blanket!!
*note- crocheting and knitting is kinda like taking a road trip. You look at google maps, and you say "yea, I can do that! Las Vegas is only 5 hours away!" But then you get in the car and you just drive and drive and drive until you feel like you've been driving all night, because most likely, you have......Yea, that's what crocheting is like.
So last week I spent allllll week working on these squares that took me about 30 minutes to crochet, and I needed 49 squares. Where is the mathematician around here....yea, that's about 25 hours. Then you have to connect the squares, then you have to make a border. Another Friday night- gone. Lost to the world of baby showers. 3 AM, and I am exhausted, nearly finished connecting all the squares, and yet, I don't want to watch the Phantom of the Opera again. So I went to bed, and ended up an hour late for the baby shower, because I hadn't finished. I felt COMPLETELY over done when she opened my gift....but she really really liked it- and I managed to use her favorite color! I wish I got a picture of it, because it really turned out great. I'll have to get one later.
Successful, and yet, RIDICULOUSLY time consuming.
And finally, baby shower #3, I was only 30 minutes late! When I was younger, my mom used to make all kinds of things for baby showers, but my absolute favorite were the hooded baby towels. She used to put appliques on them, but I decided that my first would be relatively simple. I went to Wal*mart (after work on Friday night- the shower was Saturday morning!) and picked out a towel, the hood towel, and some ribbon. The selection was actually pretty lame, but the prices were right. We had a double date already planned for Friday night, so Ian didn't lose me this time. Mom said I'd need somewhere around 3 hours to make my first one, since I was still learning. So I did some after the date (and a wonderful late night walk with my hunnie) and got up with 2 hours before the shower started. My mom walked me through it on the phone, and I felt a bit clumsy, but LOOK what I did!
I tried just taking the picture, but without a model, it didn't look right.
Use your imagination that this is a toddler, not an adult :)
If you need a model, and force your husband to BE that model, but he doesn't really want to...this is what you get- TA DA!
So now, this is my new favorite. I bet I could even get really good and bring the time down to 2 hours or less! Not to mention it isn't as expensive- and on a poor-starving-college-student budget, that's a big deal!! Its either that or I would have to get a friend-divorce from all my pregnant friends, but I'm hoping that it will all come back around someday. (I'm thinking September would be a nice time for karma to hit on this one...)
I don't know why (perhaps its my current location) but everyone I know is having a baby. In the month of May, I have officially attended 3 baby showers, and there is still one more week left- maybe I'll make it 4!!
The first one, I thought it would be great to make a flannel blanket that I had seen that a friend of mine had. You take 5 pieces of flannel (I modified it to 4 because of the crazy COST of fabric) and lay them one on top of the other. Then, you sew them all together in 1/2 - 1 inch increments all the way across the blanket. Finally, you snip the top 3 layers, leaving a fun little ruffle, and voila! Beautiful, super simple, super absorbent baby blanket!
Not really.
It took me a while to find decent fabric that was within my budget, so there went 2 hours. I found a straight lined pattern, so at least my lines were straight. Sure, it took me about 4 HOURS to get all the lines sewn, but they were straight. I sat down next to my poor husband that had forfeited one of his last few precious date nights and started the snipping (1 more hour)...I assumed 1 inch would make it ruffle, but as it turns out...it didn't (at first.) Actually, the remedy would have been to wash and dry the blanket, but since we don't have a dryer, I attempted to make it ruffle by snipping the ruffles every half inch or so to make it a little more....fluffy looking.
Anyways, long story short, 2 more hours later, I had finished everything I could do, and I took it to a washer/dryer where I work with the lady I had made the blanket for. I didn't actually make it to the baby shower, b/c Jenn had come to visit from Alaska. So I pulled it out of the dryer, folded it up, and handed it to her. I should have said, "here is 9 hours of my weekend! I hope you like it!"...but I actually left the first part out.
Baby shower #2- Maybe a flannel blanket isn't the way to go. I know! I'll crochet a blanket!!
*note- crocheting and knitting is kinda like taking a road trip. You look at google maps, and you say "yea, I can do that! Las Vegas is only 5 hours away!" But then you get in the car and you just drive and drive and drive until you feel like you've been driving all night, because most likely, you have......Yea, that's what crocheting is like.
So last week I spent allllll week working on these squares that took me about 30 minutes to crochet, and I needed 49 squares. Where is the mathematician around here....yea, that's about 25 hours. Then you have to connect the squares, then you have to make a border. Another Friday night- gone. Lost to the world of baby showers. 3 AM, and I am exhausted, nearly finished connecting all the squares, and yet, I don't want to watch the Phantom of the Opera again. So I went to bed, and ended up an hour late for the baby shower, because I hadn't finished. I felt COMPLETELY over done when she opened my gift....but she really really liked it- and I managed to use her favorite color! I wish I got a picture of it, because it really turned out great. I'll have to get one later.
Successful, and yet, RIDICULOUSLY time consuming.
And finally, baby shower #3, I was only 30 minutes late! When I was younger, my mom used to make all kinds of things for baby showers, but my absolute favorite were the hooded baby towels. She used to put appliques on them, but I decided that my first would be relatively simple. I went to Wal*mart (after work on Friday night- the shower was Saturday morning!) and picked out a towel, the hood towel, and some ribbon. The selection was actually pretty lame, but the prices were right. We had a double date already planned for Friday night, so Ian didn't lose me this time. Mom said I'd need somewhere around 3 hours to make my first one, since I was still learning. So I did some after the date (and a wonderful late night walk with my hunnie) and got up with 2 hours before the shower started. My mom walked me through it on the phone, and I felt a bit clumsy, but LOOK what I did!
I tried just taking the picture, but without a model, it didn't look right.
Use your imagination that this is a toddler, not an adult :)
If you need a model, and force your husband to BE that model, but he doesn't really want to...this is what you get- TA DA!
So now, this is my new favorite. I bet I could even get really good and bring the time down to 2 hours or less! Not to mention it isn't as expensive- and on a poor-starving-college-student budget, that's a big deal!! Its either that or I would have to get a friend-divorce from all my pregnant friends, but I'm hoping that it will all come back around someday. (I'm thinking September would be a nice time for karma to hit on this one...)
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Bicycling is fun.
It is fun, but Christen is glad I have a road bike... If I had something a bit beefier I could definitely do this.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Sunshine!
The sun has been warm and wonderful over the last week or so. Ian and I decided to take a walk this afternoon. We hadn't gone far when we found something random on the sidewalk.
a transistor.
fat.
I'm pretty sure both of us were wrong.
is a transistor.
And of course, its not fat. Although, some days, I do feel fat, haha.
April in the Brick House has been beautiful month (except the random snow and rain)- and full of visitors! I really like when people stay in our spare room- it makes me feel all grown up! ...Although, I have to admit, I felt like a lame host most of the time, but I have a few years to brush up on those skills. I'm not too worried.
Winter semester was sucessful, and Ian has already started Spring classes. He'll be busy, but its good for him :) I'm starting to get used to the feelings of fatigue and ravishing, unquenchable hunger, but at least I've grown out of my afternoon naps. Vashti bird, our little parakeet, is growing her wings back nicely, and can now control her descent....that is not to say she has learned to land without smacking into her cage, or anything else in her way. Unfortunately, that one might take some time. At least she will come out of her cage on her own now. Thats fun.
Sorry for the lack of update- I've had lots of ideas, but none of them ever came to fruition. Having the idea, and writing the blog, are two completely different things. Gladly, the transistor was just what I needed :)
I called this....
a transistor.Then Ian called this....
fat.I'm pretty sure both of us were wrong.
Apparently this....
is a transistor.And of course, its not fat. Although, some days, I do feel fat, haha.
April in the Brick House has been beautiful month (except the random snow and rain)- and full of visitors! I really like when people stay in our spare room- it makes me feel all grown up! ...Although, I have to admit, I felt like a lame host most of the time, but I have a few years to brush up on those skills. I'm not too worried.
Winter semester was sucessful, and Ian has already started Spring classes. He'll be busy, but its good for him :) I'm starting to get used to the feelings of fatigue and ravishing, unquenchable hunger, but at least I've grown out of my afternoon naps. Vashti bird, our little parakeet, is growing her wings back nicely, and can now control her descent....that is not to say she has learned to land without smacking into her cage, or anything else in her way. Unfortunately, that one might take some time. At least she will come out of her cage on her own now. Thats fun.
Sorry for the lack of update- I've had lots of ideas, but none of them ever came to fruition. Having the idea, and writing the blog, are two completely different things. Gladly, the transistor was just what I needed :)
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Rex Lee Run
This morning, Ian woke me up at 8:30 in the stupid morning to go cheer on his coworkers who ran in the Rex Lee Run (cancer research!). I didn't mind the whole cheering on thing, it was the fact that I had to get up early on a Saturday! Anywho, it was freezing, we rode our bikes, and I didn't have gloves :( Ian let me use his though, so then it was better :) We rode up up up up the big hill, met up with a coworker who wasn't running (officially), and eventually had hundreds of people headed in our direction. Unfortunately, we couldn't see any faces that we knew.
So we headed to the other side of campus. Ian and I on our bikes, Jake on foot. He ran. haha. We reached the other side just in time to see a couple familiar faces! After a brief "wooohooo!" we headed to the finish line. Upon arriving, we saw another of his coworkers and congratulated him. It was lots of fun, great energy, and I even scored a tasty banana from one of Ian's old mission buddies.
And although I didn't RUN a 5K today, I did manage to RIDE 5 miles. Hoorah for my periwinkle raleigh! (thats what I call my bike, cause its periwinkle. I don't care what you say Ian, its periwinkle!)
So we headed to the other side of campus. Ian and I on our bikes, Jake on foot. He ran. haha. We reached the other side just in time to see a couple familiar faces! After a brief "wooohooo!" we headed to the finish line. Upon arriving, we saw another of his coworkers and congratulated him. It was lots of fun, great energy, and I even scored a tasty banana from one of Ian's old mission buddies.
And although I didn't RUN a 5K today, I did manage to RIDE 5 miles. Hoorah for my periwinkle raleigh! (thats what I call my bike, cause its periwinkle. I don't care what you say Ian, its periwinkle!)
Friday, March 6, 2009
Failure!
Utah is officially on my list of EX-friends. One minute I was having a picnic, enjoying the sunny, slightly breezy day....and then it snowed again! Bah! I can't believe Utah would flip flop on me like this- I thought we were friends!
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