Wednesday, October 24, 2012

pretty fall...

anyone that knows me know that fall is my absolute favorite time of year... the pretty fall leaves, the cooler air, pumpkin everything, boots and scarves, hot chocolate... i could go on and on.

all these things really make me miss new england... especially when it's this time of year and i'm missing the prettiest fall you'll ever see. i'm pretty sure a good portion of my mission pictures are of pretty trees and fall leaves... and not to mention my huge bag full of leaves i collected while tracting. some day, some fall season i'll get back there... but for now, i'll share a few pictures of the best season ever:

brandon, vermont.

west rutland, vermont.

essix, vermont.

lake bomoseen, vermont.

and this last picture i just had to put up... this little shop has the best pumpkin ice cream ever. i'm pretty sure every wednesday when we would go up to brandon, vermont i would have to stop and get some yummy pumpkin ice cream... yummm.


and... can i just mention that i'm suuuuper excited for halloween!!! it's definitely my favorite holiday and once again, i'm making my husband dress up :) i'm pretty sure he hates that i get really into it and totally dictate his costume every year... but it's so much fun i just can't help myself! and next year, i'll have my little bambina to dress up too! makes me excited just thinking about it!
here's a picture from last halloween... and yes, austin is in tights ;) he loves me.


next up: halloweeeeeeeen post! :)

Thursday, October 18, 2012

playing catch up... again.

so... i've been trying not to neglect my blog as much lately... but i'm not very good at it. life just keeps on getting in the way. but here is a teeny little update:

the hunt's came up to visit... we went to the shakespeare festival and saw les miserables. it. was. amazing.


i snapped this quick picture at 25 weeks before we left for st.george to go to the temple. my sister-in-law took out her endowments for her big day :)


my beautiful sister-in-law michelle got married in the st.george temple. (more pictures to come)
welcome to the fam, tyson :)


the hunt's. (poor lex, 1 day out of knee surgery. what a trooper.)


the hubs and i.


and here are some of my current cravings. such is the life of a pregnant girl.


spaghetti, or sketti, as i call it. normally i hate spaghetti... and when i say hate, i mean i really hate spaghetti. but lately, i could eat it every single day. and my poor hub... he hates spaghetti too... his exact words to me the last time i tried to buy spaghetti stuff at the store were, "babe, let me tell you something ... spaghetti is the frickin' worst!!!" i almost cried. but i compromised... i took half the hamburger meat to put in my sauce and gave him the other half to make a hamburger. that's fair, right?


mountain dew. this was always around growing up... my step dad loves this stuff. and i've always been a diet coke addict... until this baby came along. i want nothing to do with diet coke. all i want it mountain dew. all day. every day. bambina is going to come out needing this stuff in her bottle.


apple jacks. or any cereal for that matter... but apple jacks are my favorite. i go to bed thinking about breakfast... and the first thing i think about when i wake up is having apple jacks for breakfast.


chili's. this one kills austin. i recently discovered their crispy chicken crispers... not the regular nasty ones... and i want them all the time. with extra ranch. austin wants me to have a little bit cheaper of a craving next pregnancy... like taco bell, or little caesars 5 buck pizza. those were his suggestions. i hope baby #2 is listening.


strawberry banana smoothies. this is the newest one. i don't even care where it's from, as long as it's strawberry banana.

alright, my last little bit is a 4d picture of our sweet (but stubborn) baby girl. last weekend, i got the opportunity to be a model (yea, who wants a pregnant lady for a model?) for an ultrasound convention. a company was demo-ing their new ultrasound machine on fetal heart development so a friend and i got to have our bellies (or babies, whatever.) scanned. when they were setting everything up before the doctor got there, they scanned my belly to see baby girls heart. she was in the perfect position so that they could see everything they needed to see... then i swear once the doctor got there... flip! she totally turned so he couldn't see anything. ugh... little turd. so my friend got to be the one they used... which was fine with me, we both got paid for it anyway... but what a stubborn little girl! Then when the doctor was done, they let us stay to get some 4d pictures of our babies... and of course, bambina was all ready for her photo shoot then.


here she is... her sweet little face... and her arm resting on half of it with her hand on her forehead (which you can't see). she gets that from austin... that's how he sleeps. and her poor little pug nose she gets from me. i had the worst pug nose when i was born... luckily it went down before i could remember.

well, that's it for now. maybe i'll get around to taking a current belly picture... 11 more weeks to go!