Pioneer Day 2010

I had a marvelous Pioneer Day this year. With Brigham's family we went to the Red Butte Gardens. It was fun to walk through with family. I became the navigator after finding that those leading with the maps, didn't know how to read maps. So, I snatched one and took charge. I'm good at taking charge. It was a nice walk, as long as it was shaded. It was sort of a bad decision to walk outside around noon, in the middle of July in Utah. But hey, we survived, and enjoyed ourselves. Here's a picture of the fragance garden.

Lydia really enjoyed herself and didn't get sunburned one bit. I tell you what, it's hard to put sun screen on a one-year old that doesn't want to wear sunscreen. When I told my mom of the trouble I had getting it on Lydia she said, "Why don't you buy the spray on sun-screen?" Brilliant idea! Why are moms so smart?

We were taking a shade break.

We also went to Murray Park and had a picnic, waded in the creek, played, and talked. It was nice to relax. Lydia had a blast! She ran around like crazy. This is with her little skirt flipped up on accident. She looked so silly running around that way :) She was too busy having fun to care.

We also went to Moochies for sandwiches, then to Tim and Ashley's for games and root-beer floats. I was exhausted but made it through the entire day! It may have taken me three days to recover but it was worth it :)

Thanks for the fun times everyone!

Yes it's true . . .

What was one, will now be two!!!

Yep, Brigham and I are expecting our next baby. :) It was a little harder getting this one and the timing was totally up to Heavenly Father so I'm so glad we have this little pumpkin on the way. These are the ultrasound pictures at 12 weeks. My favorite is the last one because you can really see the little monkey face. He (yes I think it's going to be a boy) was looking right at us when we first started the ultrasound and then it was if he got embarrassed, because he started kicking his little dinosaur looking arms and legs and rolled over to get away. :) It was so funny and I couldn't stop laughing. It's amazing how much I love that little jelly-bean all ready. 

It's going to be fun to see how little Lydia does with a younger sibling. I was holding her cousin in church the other day and the second Lydia noticed, she climbed over four people to get back to me. She was SO jealous. I'm sure she'll grow out of it (what choice does she have?) and she'll be an awesome older sister. Come January 8ish we'll find out. 

Well, that's our exciting news. It's hard to believe, but I've been even sicker this time than I was with Lydia. I've actually lost ten pounds I've been so sick. But hey, that means at twelve weeks pregnant, I finally lost all my baby weight from Lydia. Ironic :) Hopefully I can regain humancy soon and be able to function properly. I want to truly be able to be excited for this next child to entire our little family.

Football!

Hooray!!!!

The fall BYU football schedule has been released!!! Football season is the best time of the year. We are still debating whether we can afford the time and money to buy season tickets this year. However, how CAN I NOT GO?!?!? I'm torn. Both my brothers will be at BYU this season and as their older sister it is my duty and obligation to show them they BYU football game way! Sigh, we'll see what happens. Here is the schedule for each of you to see:

2010 BYU FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

DATE OPPONENT LOCATION TIME TV

Sat., Sept. 4 Washington Provo, Utah 5:00 p.m. MT CBS C-HD

Sat., Sept. 11 Air Force USAFA, Colo. 2:00 p.m.   MT VERSUS HD

Sat., Sept. 18 Florida State Tallahassee, Fla.3:30 p.m. ET ESPNU

Sat., Sept. 25 Nevada Provo, Utah 4:00 p.m. MT The Mtn. HD

Fri., Oct. 1 Utah State Logan, Utah 6:00 p.m. MT ESPN HD

Sat., Oct. 9 San Diego State Provo, Utah 4:00 p.m. MT The Mtn. HD

Sat., Oct. 16 TCU Fort Worth, Texas 3:00 p.m. CT VERSUS HD

Sat., Oct. 23 Wyoming Provo, Utah 12:00 p.m. MT The Mtn. HD

Sat., Nov. 6 UNLV Provo, Utah 12:00 p.m. MT The Mtn. HD

Sat., Nov. 13 Colorado State Fort Collins, Colo. 12:00 p.m. MT Mtn. HD

Sat., Nov. 20 New Mexico Provo, Utah 4:00 p.m. MT The Mtn. HD

Sat., Nov. 27 Utah Salt Lake City 1:30 p.m. MT The Mtn. HD

You should probably memorize all these dates and times because I will be unavailable during each of the games...

Wohooo! I'm ready for the football to begin. GOOOO COUGARS!!

Rise and shout the Cougars are out

Along the trail to fame and glory ....

Just for one minute

It's been a trying year. I'm tired. So tired. Really, I don't have that much to complain about so you probably should stop reading now if you don't want to hear my whining about how bad my pretty good life is. I know I should be looking for the positive in everything, but for just one minute I need to cry about the bad to get it out of my system. Just one minute of it.

I don't want to name of each individual thing that has stressed me out or that has caused such a hard year, because it'll all sound petty and stupid. All I know is that RIGHT now I just don't want to face the rest of this year. I just want to curl up in a ball, pull the covers over my head and ignore everything until it all goes away. I'm tired of wishing that I could go back home to Washington and stay with my family because that's just running away and won't take care of my problems. I'm a big girl now! Now I have a little girl that will run to me with HER problems. I just want some relief. Just one month with no pressure about anything at all. I don't want anything else to drop in my lap, or hit me in the face. As for now, WOE is ME. Wa wa wah wa wa. Sigh.

All right, my minute is up. Sorry guys. Time to keep trucking. What else can I do? Things are good and will get better. Now I don't have to whine to everbody all the time, after all, I just took my one minute. You are all relieved of your sympathetic duties :)