I love Christmas

First of all, I love this time of year. Second, I hate my camera. It is so temperamental. And I can't figure out when to use what feature and blah, blah, blah. They need a really good camera that takes magnificent pictures but is easier than cake to operate. Don't you agree?
I love the idea behind this picture though. George made a fire and earlier today he set up the tree for me. He took the picture and then said that from this angle it looked really good. I agree, all warm and Christmas-y. Well, I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. FYI on the baby, in about 2 weeks (December 10) we will hopefully find out if it's a boy or girl!! So exciting. Oh and any suggestions... a boy name that is older fashioned, possibly ending in 'n' and sounds good with George as the middle name. We found out that Aiden is like, number 4 in popularity in the US now. We don't want the poor kid to be one of 6 in his class. So we're working on that. And a middle name for Charlotte. Let me know. Oh and for those of you here in Vegas, leave a comment and I'll check it... but.... THE WHOLE MONTH OF DECEMBER, BRING A FRIEND WITH YOU (or family member, just someone who needs some hair therapy :) ) AND RECEIVE A 10% DISCOUNT OF A RETAIL PRODUCT OF YOUR CHOICE, OR BRING A FRIEND AND GET $10 OFF A SERVICE. Let me know which you want when and if you leave a comment. No pressure! Just giving you the opportunity to get all gussied up for the 10 million Christmas parties going on!

1 YEAR!

WOW. This is really crazy. Today is our one year wedding anniversary. It really has flown by. Last year a couple days ago was Thanksgiving and because I wanted to make sure my dress fit perfectly, I had salad and green beans. Lame-o. This Thanksgiving will be great! This will not be mushy because I doubt George will look at this anyway. But for my sake only, I'm grateful for the past year and the life lessons I've been able to learn. And I'm so grateful to be married to George. He's a wonderful husband.

I'll blame it on the pregnancy

Forgetting EVERYTHING that is!!!!!! GRRR..... I'm actually getting angry about it now. Someone will tell me something and I focus and listen and seriously two minutes later they'll ask me what I think about what they said a minute ago and for the life of me I cannot remember. Yesterday the girl we visit teach asked if we knew anyone that could lead the music in sacrament meeting for her husband. I volunteered and she was so happy and grateful that it was something they didn't have to think about anymore. Oh yeah so who led the music today? Definitely not me. I'm sitting there singing the sacrament hymn and my VT partner leans over, "Weren't you going to lead today?" BAH!!!! It was also my turn for sharing time today. Now, I've known about this since the beginning of the month... but YES forgot about it until Thursday night at 2:37am. I remember the time because that time fluctuates about 4 minutes every morning for me to get up to go to the bathroom. Man, I love being pregnant.......... :(

Cabin Trip, Early Thanksgiving!

YAY!!! We made it! Here is the fabulous cabin we were able to stay in this weekend. It is so wonderful. Seriously one of my favorite places EVER! And yes, that's snow. SO FUN!!

This is George and my brother, Logan and their snowman. They are about to "hurl it over a cliff".

Poor guy.

My mom with my cute brother, Kevin... toothless!!


And this is George and my sister, Emma.... This was pretty much both of them...the WHOLE TIME!! Emma had a blast after George taught her how to play chess.

SCARY DAD!!!


Our scrumptious Thanksgiving feast!!

George, my sister, Tara and my mom, laughing about something clever Tara said, I'm sure!
Playing Apples to Apples. We love this game because of the little kids. Kevin-not these.... no, not that one.... :)

George and I with the snow OUTSIDE.

George and I with snow all over us!

Lots of pictures, I know. We had so much fun and really wished we could have stayed longer. Jobs, who needs em? Thanks Mom and Dad for such a fun time!!

Preview to Early Thanksgiving!

Today we are going up to Utah with my family for an early Thanksgiving! We are so so so excited!! I'll have lots of pictures to post later. This morning I baked two pies and some corn muffins (thanks for the recipe Stephanie!) for while we're up there.



I was so sad. This cherry pie's crust broke off. :(

And my pregnant belly now at almost 13 weeks! I'm getting more and more excited now that I'm not really sick anymore.... Thank you Zofran!!!!

Ants and Egg Sacks...

One of my pregnant friends can totally relate to the following story. For the past couple of weeks I have been having REALLY weird/creepy/petrifying/funny/drug-addict-like dreams. Two nights ago (Halloween) was one of the drug-addict-like dreams. We had some friends over and watched Disturbia (scary one, mom says it sounds like Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window") and ate some food. It was nice to just lounge around and watch a scary movie with our husbands. Now, I absolutely HATE scary movies or really anything scary in general. But, I've seen this movie multiple times so it doesn't give me nightmares anymore. Or so I thought... We went to bed around 11:30 and at 1:15 I remember feeling something touching my arm and it itched and I thought there was a bug on me. I was kind of in that so asleep, yet kind of awake at the same time thing. I opened my eyes and because they were all out of focus I "saw" little bugs all over the ceiling. This next part I don't remember, but George said I jumped out of bed all panicky and I go, "George, get up! There's ants and egg sacks all over the ceiling!!" George, all groggy- "Becca, no there's not." I guess I ran over to the other side of the room by the light switch, "I'm going to turn on the light, LOOK!" I turn on the light and George is snickering a little. This is when I completely wake up. I rub my eyes and look around, "Oh, sorry. I'm going back to bed." Ha ha ha. I was so embarrassed when he retold the story to me in the morning. Ants and egg sacks???? Weird. I sounded like a hallucinating drug-addict. I'm not, don't worry. Just pregnant. :)