It's a .... we don't know yet!

For those of you who don't know yet, Ryan and I are expecting! I am 12 1/2 weeks along and feeling great. It's been fun so far learning and reading about all the amazing things that are happening to my body. It will be an exciting journey : )

Apologies...

I'm such a slacker! My last entry was at Easter! So Jenn, you're doing better than me :) I have some pictures to post but am currently at school on my computer, so I'll load those up later. There are 9 1/2 days left of school and I can't wait! My kids are starting to not be cute anymore. They are bordering on obnoxious and I am starting to get that burn out feeling. Last week my family came out to Arizona to enjoy our freakishly cool weather for this time of year. It's currently cold and cloudy outside now and tomorrow it's suppose to rain. Very random, but appreciated! Anyways, I took my mom and sister to get their first pedicures and I think they enjoyed it. Jenn's feet are very ticklish and apparently my mom's are too! They couldn't handle the pumice stone.

Ryan and I had a gorgeous reception and, like I said, the weather was perfect. It went by a little to quickly though. I feel like I wanted to do it over to enjoy it more. I promise to post photos soon!

Easter

The Easter bunny knew just what to bring me this year... a whole bag of Ghiradelli DARK chocolate : ) Ryan and I had our first guests since the roommates moved out and they stayed in our newly remodeled guest bedroom. After church and an Easter brunch of massive french toast smothered with fresh strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries, we took a little nap. (Hey, Sunday is the day of rest, right?) Then Ryan and I headed over to his mom's house to celebrate family style. We had lots of yummy food, including a coconut cake that I made for the first time. We were watching the Sound of Music intermittently throughout the night and I was shocked to look over and see Ryan and all of his brothers singing right along with me during the puppet song (or as we all know it, the "Yoda-lay-whoo" song) My mom remembers when I used to watch that scene over and over again. I probably wore out the VHS tape in that part!

DISNEYLAND

Spring Break just kind of crept up on me. It seems like the 3rd quarter of school goes by the quickest. Ryan and I were lucky this year to have our spring break overlap, so we headed out to California...where else? It felt like sooooo long since I'd seen my niece and nephews...and sure enough, they were all taller and Carson was much fatter. He is so happy and smiley and such a good baby! Ryan couldn't believe how little he cries (I'm sure Jennifer is thinking otherwise right now because he's been teething). Anyways, we went to California Adventure one day with my sister and the kids. My dad came too. We couldn't get him (or my husband) to go on the roller coaster, however, the rest of us enjoyed ourselves. (Although Bradley insisted that it did not go upside-down.) The next day Ryan and I (big Ryan) went back to Disneyland by ourselves. It was such a perfect day...70 degrees and NO lines! Peter Pan was our longest wait at 20 minutes, but even Space Mountain was only 10 minutes...it was great. Although, not as much fun without little Ryan holding the map pointing saying, "we go here, and here, and here..." but fun enough for two big kids like us : ) Ryan did have to work a little bit on over spring break. He had some homework and he had to take a fire test for LA County Fire Dept. where my brother in law Steve works. We hope that he did well because that would be a dream for us to be able to move back to California. Jenn and I could be in the same ward! And I could see my cute little ones every day! Check below for some more Disneyland photos.

Counting Down...

I never thought I'd be counting down to Super Tuesday...but, with a husband who is a political science major I guess it comes with the territory. He's on the phone right now calling for the Mitt Romney campaign to encourage voters to vote on Tuesday. I have never followed an election so closely in my life. It's actually interesting! I have seen all of the debates and listened to more talk radio than any human should be allowed to!

I have been doing a lot of cooking and baking recently. I've been experimenting with some recipes of mine because I've decided to write a cookbook. I realized the other day that I make up recipes all the time and am always being asked by friends for the recipes (which I always have to guess at because I just sprinkle and pour...I don't measure). So Ryan suggested that I write a cookbook. He seems to think it will be a big hit. I guess all of you will be the judge of that.

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Happy New Year!

Well, it's 2008...I can't believe it! Ryan and I graduated from high school 10 years ago. Let's take a look into the past:
10 years ago...
Gas was .99 a gallon
It was $5.50 to see a movie
Min. wage was $5.25
The avg. home price in Temecula, CA was $120,000
Pretty depressing, huh?

Ryan started back to school today. He has 4 classes this semester, but one is online. Of course all of his classes are at night so we're back to hardly seeing each other. We had a great Christmas break though and were able to visit lots of family in California and Utah. I am having fun at school trying to teach my kids about place value. It's so hard for me to teach things that are so simple to me! I just expect them to understand it. I wish I could get into their little heads sometimes and see how they are thinking about stuff. I have also been teaching them compound words which is pretty hilarious. Because of their first language being Spanish they were putting the words together backwards, like "cagebird", "housedog", etc. The best one was something out of a horror movie...They were suppose to match up "lady" and "bug" but put "buglady". Cute!