Oh Baby Oh Baby!

You guessed it! Cole and I are expecting our first baby!! I am about 14 weeks along and doing well! I am due on New Years Eve. That should work just perfectly with teaching. I will teach the first semester, have the Christmas break for the end part of my term and to deliver, and then take my leave the beginning part of January. So it will be like a long extended break. Then I will continue teaching out the rest of the year. That is the plan so far but, as always, things could change. We will find out on August 1st if it is a girl or boy and yes we want to know. Cole of course wants a boy and I want a little girl! But we will be excited for either one. We have had a lot of fun thinking of names and such.

I don't quite have a distinct bump yet but I am definitely getting a bit thicker and things are fitting tighter. I went shopping the other day for "baggy" clothes and it was so much fun. There are a bunch of shirts now that are really popular that are fitted around the bust and then baggy all the way down. They have been perfect to wear! Pants are getting harder but I am not big enough to wear maternity pants so I am resorting to stretchy stuff. It has been really nice because I wear scrubs practically everyday for work so they are baggy and comfortable. It will be hard to switch from those to nice teacher wear. As for morning sickness I really haven't had any...but I do feel pretty sick and grumpy in the evenings. During the day I always have to keep food and water in me. If I let myself get too hungry I get very dizzy and sick feeling. One time on Sunday while I was still keeping the pregnancy on the "down low" I brought crackers to eat during Relief Society because I knew I would not be able to make it all the way through church without eating something. So I sat down next to my mom right when it was starting and started to get my crackers and my mom totally freaked out. She was like, " unless you want everyone here to know you are pregnant, you better go eat those in the bathroom." I totally had not even thought about that. But yeah in a room full of women I guess it would have been a dead give away as a newly wed to be eating crackers during Relief Society. So went to a bathroom stall and quietly ate my crackers to myself!

The Big Screen

Ok not really-but I had the opportunity to be in a commercial this past week and it was really fun. I work for Apple Orthodontix as an assistant and they were shooting a new commercial. I know alot of the people in the company (including my dad) and so I had the chance to be in it. I played as an assistant (even though I really am) and my little sister played as a patient (and she really is too!) Cole even came on the second day of shooting and was able to play as a patient. It was really cool to see how everything gets put together. They had real hair and make-up people there and directors really saying, "Action", "Cut", and "That's a wrap!" It should air by the end of July but only in the DFW area of course. Here's a few pics from the shooting and look for me on TV!

The set was in one of our offices

Me pretending to talk to a patient

Cole and I waiting around-there was lots of waiting!

Help

So I am not very blog savey. I really want to have links to go to everybody else's blogs instead of always going to Shan's and using her links. Lame I know! SO could somebody or everybody who knows how leave a comment giving very simplistic instructions how to do so? I have tried to look and figure it out but I have failed. I would greatly appreciate your help! Thanks!

Memorial Day

For Memorial Day my family and Cole and I went to IHOP in the morning for breakfast. This is one of my most favorite things to do-go out for breakfast! ( I always fall into the same old habit of getting my favorite-french toast.) That afternoon we had the whole zone of missionaries in our area come over for fun, games, and grilling. At first things were going well. There were boys everywhere playing ping pong, pool, and volleyball in the sand pit. While we were eating it started to rain, well, down pour actually. But that didn't stop the boys. A select brave, Cole included, found this as an opportunity to take turns diving for the volleyball and landing in puddles of mud and sand. All the elders said this was the best P-day ever! My dad got some great pictures and I couldn't help but post them. Cole was so sore the next day.

Happy Birthday Cole!

Last Thursday was Cole's birthday. He turned 24-way old! It is a tradition in my family to have a pancake breakfast the morning of someones birthday. Everybody's first pancake is always in the shape of the first letter of their name. I don't have pictures of that because we basically rolled out of bed for it. We had to do it at like 6:40 in the morning because it was also the last day of school for my little sisters. Then later that day we had cake and ice cream and presents. Alyssa made Cole maracas with pictures of his muscles on them so that is what he is holding in one of the pictures. It was very original. I made the cake so that is way it looks very homely! That night we went to the Rough Riders game-the minor league baseball team around here. We were suppose to go with Alexi (best friend from high school) and her boyfriend but he ended up not being able to come so we were a threesome! It was really fun but surprisingly cold. We have had nothing but rain since we got here so it has cooled everything down.

Summer Plans

Cole and I survived our 22-hour drive to Texas! Woo hoo! We are very excited to be in TX with my family this summer. Cole has an internship with the Children's Advocacy Center in Plano and I will be working at Apple Orthodontics as an assistant. We will be living with my family. Cole served his mission in LA so he is excited to be back in the south. I am thrilled to be back in TX but I really didn't miss the humidity. Just hours after we arrived a huge TX size thunderstorm hit-the kind that just does not happen in Utah. The kind with buckets of rain, 80mph wind, and threats of tornadoes! Cole loved it but I was scared! I don't think I will ever grow out of getting scared of those storms!

Graduation

Me with Carmen and Taryn-fellow Elementary Education majors. We have been through the whole program together!
Dick Cheney sitting next to Elder Scott!

I am an official BYU alumni member. How strange is that?! I am so excited to be graduated but it is also so weird to have that part of my life over. I am going to miss being on campus and doing the "BYU thing". I loved it. I had a wonderful BYU experience.

The graduation ceremonies were excellent. I thought Dick Cheney's speech was very well said and it was so exciting to see President Hinckley there! No one really knew that we was coming so that was a fun surprise. The next day each college had their own ceremony. I know a lot of people don't care to actually walk and receive their "diploma" but I felt like it was the end of a big accomplishment so I wanted to. Here are a few pics showing the weekend. Thanks to everybody who came and supported me!!