annoyance

I am so annoyed right now. Why are we still having to hear about Michael Jackson?!? Everyone deserves their day to be remembered, but this is getting absurd! I think the world has had enough time to remember the king of pop, now lets move forward.

My cousin wrote something on her facebook status about celebrity worship and I want to share it..

"why are we interested in them when they don't even care about us?" brynn whitney

Serious?!? Why do we care about them? I don't want to model my character after them, or learn anything from them... it is nice to see a movie or listen to music, but I don't care what they did last night, or what they "ate" for dinner. Why don't we want to fill our lives with more important information and focus more on ourselves?

home safe.

Chuck is home safe after his high adventure canoe trip with the young men in our ward. For those of you who don't know, Chuck is the 1st counselor to the young men in our church and I am so grateful for a husband who can fulfill his calling and be such a great example to all the youth in our ward, and happy that he is so willing to do anything he can for them. I love Chuck and it makes me happy when I see that others feel the same way. Almost every Sunday someone comes up to me and praises Chuck, weather it be a mom of one of the boys, the bishop or the stake young men's president. He is amazing and I just wanted to publicly praise him. Love you babe!

Before I finish my praise, I have to mention that Chuck took a nationwide chemistry exam and scored within the 99th percentile, that means he is smarter than 99% of people that took the same test across the nation! Let's hope he passes some of those brains down to our offspring.

treat someone you love...

Chuck gets home from his four day canoe trip this evening and I just made a big plate of these to welcome him home with. I wanted to try a new recipe and they are honestly the best chocolate chip cookies I have ever made! Make them for someone special.

cravings..

I have not had very many serious cravings since getting pregnant, and when people ask I can never really put a finger on what I have been feeling for. But lately I have not really had that problem and some serious cravings have been coming my way. Cravings, in my opinion, are one of the fun things about pregnancies and I want to document my road through my personal food heaven..

Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Banana Milkshakes..I have to make them myself or they are just not the same. Chuck tried once and I could not even drink it because he made a chocolate strawberry shake. I think I hurt his feelings, but it was not what I wanted.

apples with peanut butter, yum. This is a snack I usually have every morning around 3am(that's right, when your pregnant you have to snack through the night, I usually have a bowl of cereal or apples and pb)

pb&j, but not how I usually have them. My pregnancy pb&j is with cheap bread(which I NEVER eat normally) and tons of cold jam and a cold glass of milk.

The Double Decker... I don't even know how many of these I ate early in my pregnancy. The DD was the only thing I could think of eating when nothing sounded good and nothing stayed down.

Spaghetti..I don't know if this really counts because I loved eating it all the time before my pregnancy, but now it is a staple meal, I have it at least 3 times a week.

ICE CUBES! I love eating ice, I am usually crunching away on it all day. It has to be the perfect texture, so I fill a cup with ice and then water that is room temperature and let it sit in there for about 5 mins, then it is perfect for crunching on. I know this is horrible for my teeth but I can't help it!

Fabric Softener.. This is my weird pregnancy craving, fabric softener. Of course I don't drink it or anything like that, I just put fabric sheets all around the house and in my car because I love the smell so much. I know I am really weird but I would bathe in it if I could.

So there, judge me if you want but it's what I love. If anyone has weird cravings or any cravings in general leave a note about them so I can feel better about myself.

As I type, Chuck is canyoning down the green river with his young men.. he left yesterday and wont be back until Saturday evening. I have made a to do list of everything I want to get finished while he is gone, but I have no motivation to do any of it right now..

happy birthday to us!

Chuck and I celebrated our 24th and 26th birthdays this past week. Our birthdays are only one day apart so we always get to party together! We went to one of our favorite restaurants, Thai Ruby, with some friends and enjoyed good food and good company. It will be sad when everyone graduates and moves all over the country and we can't do stuff like this anymore.

I am already starting to see what motherhood is all about.. this year I made my own cake and all the money I received for my birthday is going towards baby... nice.

The cake is a s'more cake and it was delicious!

on a side note, 24 can also be known as the last year you only need one box of candles..

Here is to another year of life and the year I will become a mommy!

private

With only a couple months left of my pregnancy, I am finally getting around to making my blog private. I can not fathom posting pictures of my precious baby and not knowing if some creep is downloading it for their viewing pleasure, maybe I'm paranoid, but I want to know everything I share is with people I can trust. If you already posted your e-mail on my previous post about going private then don't worry about posting another comment with your e-mail unless it has changed.

On an semi-unrelated note, Chuck accidentally deleted my blog roll and now I don't have some of your blog addresses so please, please, please leave me a comment so I can have a link to your blog and add you back onto my blog roll. Thanks!