My January

Jan 6: Go look at a house Ross and I liked.

Jan 13: Put an offer on the aforementioned house.

Jan 14: Offer got accepted and we begin to freak out (from excitement and from being a little scared) We just bought a house! Yeah!

Jan 15: I can't sleep for a few nights because I can't stop thinking about painting, the furniture I want (but will have to acquire slowly) and having a yard and an ATTACHED GARAGE - no more lugging in groceries with a toddler from my garage that's half a block away!

Jan 16: Find out that even though we are out of our lease at our condo, we didn't give the rental company 30 days notice before we were going to move out (HELLO, we didn't have 30 days notice either). So we have to find someone to move in by February or we have to pay rent for a month in which we don't live here. Ross puts it up on KSL at 4PM and I have someone here at 5PM!

Jan. 20: I am getting really sick of people looking at my house, but not as sick of it as Anna is. People have turned in applications but it will be a few days before we know if all their references check and what not.

Jan 22: Yeah! Our condo got rented. Sigh of relief. I bought a kitchen table (from the money I made selling the stuff from 12 Days of Giveaways). Thanks Ellen for the table! Head up to Ogden to go to Time Out for Women. But first I went to Logan, met up with some fantastic friends and knocked a craving off my list.

Jan 23: Sign the loan documents. I consider having my signature made into a stamp. Our house gets appraised. Attend another day at Time Out For Women (thanks for the tickets Saundra and to my family for watching Annabelle while I was gone).

Jan 24: House inspection - everything looks good. Started cleaning our new house (the previous owners have been gone for a couple of months = dusty. Plus I am anal with cleaning)

Jan 25: Got boxes and trailer for our move.

Jan 26: Start packing - Booo! Man. We got a lot of stuff. Where did it all come from?

Jan 27: Start cleaning our condo. Packing. Clean new house.

Jan 28: Repeat

Jan 29: Closing on the house.

Jan 31: Move in. Finish cleaning our condo for the inspection.

Feb 1: Collapse!

Up To...

Anna has been having fun building little forts to play in.

We have also enjoyed having friends over to play with. This is her friend Lila that we watched last Friday night. They had a good time coloring together.

Teaching each other the concept of sharing (Anna struggles with the idea immensely).

And playing with play dough. I told them to say 'cheese' and I couldn't stop laughing at the smile Lila gave me!

Annabelle has a new favorite toy, 'my new kitchen', as she calls it.

Ross saw it at the D.I. for $10 and couldn't pass it up. It was pretty dirty though. So Ross brought it home and put it on our patio so she wouldn't see it and I cleaned it during her nap time to surprise her. It took me over 2 hours and a lot of all purpose cleaner to get it clean, but it was still a good $10 spent. She hasn't stopped playing with it.

A lot of you asked how I was feeling and how my pregnancy was going. Thank you for caring..or at least pretending to care ;) I am almost 19 weeks and feeling pretty good now that the sickness is over and the food aversions and smells don't bother me. I am sure Ross appreciates the fact that we have home cooked meals again - I know I do! I enjoy this time of pregnancy when I am not huge - I am getting to the point that I know maternity clothes would be more comfortable, but I just can't bring myself to bust them out. Maybe it was all the dreams I had of zipping up a pair of jeans at the end of my last pregnancy.... I feel the baby moving all the time, which is cool, especially since it can't kick my ribs yet ;) Plus I can still sleep at night. Oh wait. That has already started to suffer - I just can't get comfortable. What the?! Doesn't this come later? Oh well. What can I do about it really? Nothing.

One thing that has gotten a little out of control are my cravings. I don't remember them being so strong last time. When I hear or think of something that sounds good I can't stop thinking about it until I get it. Which might be for the rest of my pregnancy cause my cravings aren't for generic things like 'Chinese food' or peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches...mmm...that sounds kinda good. Anyway, they are specific. For instance, I have been wanting Hawaiian Isles Shrimp and Salmon from Red Lobster. Or five taste shrimp from The Mandarin Restaurant.

Or Chino Latino Egg Rolls and their homemade tortillas and salsa from Cafe Sabor.

In fact I told Ross I had yet to pull the stereotypical pregnancy card and tell him to go get me some ice cream in the middle of the night or what not so we should make the 2 hour trek to Logan to fulfill this said craving. He said no. Lame.

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I have no desire to blog. So until I am back, I thought I would share this video with ya'll. I think my Ross worries about my love for this Ross ;) I'm just a little sad this clip did not show his quick run in with Angelina Jolie, where he says 'Hi! I love Brad. You look gorgeous! Adopt me!' Hilarious!

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Here Is To A New Year!

Every year for New Years Eve we get together with Ross' friends, hang out and eat gumbo. However, this year the gumbo maker lives far away, then the hosting family all got sick and basically...it went downhill from there. So we decided to meet up with the Chapmans and let our kids roam free at Chuck E Cheese. Can you believe I have never been there before?

Anna had fun driving in all the cars, unless we actually put tokens in and it started moving, then she freaked out. Basically our kid is a wuss who only likes to use her imagination ;) We managed to only get one picture because the kids were running around all over the place...and lets face it, who wants to see pictures of what we ate that night...

The next morning more than made up for it. We also have a tradition of a huge New Years breakfast with my family. You know, to kick start all those healthy eating resolutions people make ;) We had homemade pancakes, sausage, eggs, hash browns, all sorts of fresh fruit, and the waffles pictured below with homemade caramel apple syrup. I think it is quite the way to start the new year! But I think everyone knows how much I like food ;)

Last night we had a get together with some of my girlfriends from USU. Once again the hostess and her family came down with the flu. So at the last minute we switched it to my place. It was so much fun to hang out together and with our husbands this time. We ate dinner and had a white elephant exchange. It proved to be a good time. Let's just say someone went home with a dancing Napoleon Dynamite figurine, one of my old Curves t-shirts that says 'I love my Curves' on it among some other hot items. Including, but not limited to:

Maxi pad slippers

A Santa riding a motorcycle


Pigs feet. This present from Ross also included $20 bucks to anyone who would take a good swig of the juice from the bottle. Although there was much debate and persuasion, no one gave in to peer pressure. It's probably for the best, I already clean up enough puke as it is.

And I ended up with this 'partially used' gift from Nate. I will just leave my explanation at that.

I had to include this picture. Per their request, I was showing the shirt I had on underneath my sweater and I did so by flashing them quickly to be funny. Little did I know that Nate was playing with my camera behind me trying to see how it worked and he just happened to take the picture accidently at that second. I think this picture is hilarious.

We missed those of you who couldn't make it and I hate you Tara for flying back home to warm Arizona and leaving me here in the bitter, bitter cold! I hope our friends are feeling better and none of you came down with the nasty flu bug that has been going around!