Better

Life is starting to calm down a little.

At this point, funerals are over, though all my family is still in Utah (Grandma G's funeral just ended a few minutes ago). It's been hard thinking about how just about my entire family is together (all my siblings + my parents + aunts/uncles/grandpa + almost every cousin on my moms side...) because I know it has been one big party. I have hilarious siblings and my cousins are pretty darn funny too!

After the pest control guy came on Thursday I have seen way fewer ants in our house. Right after he came I saw an extra large number in the kitchen, but a few hours later... and I haven't seen one in the kitchen since! I saw ONE in the bathroom today, but only one! The number of dead ants that we find inside is also incredibly small in comparison. We are so happy with these results and hope that they continue to stay this way!

The one perk to this was that I got to reorganize the pantry and really pay attention to what we had. I was able to spend significantly less on my groceries for next week because I found some things in the pantry that I didn't know were there! That was a major bonus for me because I had extra money to start stocking up on toilet paper/laundry detergent. I've made a list of cleaning/personal care items that I waant to make sure we have plenty of before the baby gets here and at the end of the month I'm using the extra money in my grocery budget to start stock piling. I also have a list of food to stock up on that will stay good, although I'm not really focusing on those things yet. This week I also cleaned out the freezer and found all sorts of fun things in there that we can eat!

School is coming along. I've made some good progress in the last week. My class was due 2/3 but I decided to pay for the extension so my class is due 5/3. With baby girl due 5/16 I originally wanted to finish the class by 4/1, but now I'm aiming for even a little earlier. I want to have my class done a few days before Chris's birthday, so my new goal is March 22nd. That gives me time then to focus on Chris's birthday, and then really focus on baby stuff! These deadlines help me to plan my time. A friend invited me to come over next week and watch a chick flick with her while her daugher is at preschool and her son is napping. I'm using that as an incentive. I told her that I would love to, but that I need to be at a certain point in my class before I can do that. If I don't get to that point by Thursday morning then we have to reschedule. I really want to go watch with her, so I'll be doing my homework! I need small deadlines like this rather than just thinking "oh, I have 2 more months, I'll be fine!"

Chris and I have been listening to Harry Potter audiobooks. It has been so much fun! We each listen on our own during the day, and then at night we listen together! I've been able to listen as I do the laundry/clean the kitchen/organize the pantry/clean the bathrooms. It has been fabulous.

I'm so glad that January is almost over. It's been a wild month. I finally am starting to look pregnant, so tomorrow when I actually have gotten ready for the day, I'll try to remember to take a picture and post it soon. I haven't taken a single picture yet... I should probably do that.

sick of this!

Tonight I was definitely in the mood for some chocolate pudding, so I went to the pantry to see if we had any. I didn't even get a chance to look before I noticed a long line of ants around one of the corners. Then I noticed a decent line of ants from the pantry to the ceiling in the kitchen where there is a small crack. I am so sick of this. 

We had pest control come a little over 3 weeks ago to spray for ants. We've noticed less ants in some parts of the house, but have noticed more ants around some of the spots with bait. Our treatment came with a 6 month warranty. We were told we had to wait 3 weeks after treatment before we could call them back. Exactly 3 weeks later we called and had them come back as soon as we could find a good time for us and our neighbors (they sprayed the whole duplex, so we needed the neighbors to be home as well). Tomorrow they are coming back, and I'm glad. I'm making the tech clean the bait out of my pantry and get rid of those ants, and he's getting a piece of my mind. Why on EARTH did he put bait inside my pantry? Poison and food just don't mix. Stupid man. 

There is my rant for tonight. I'm sick of pulling everything out of my pantry to figure out where ants are and what they are getting into. All this because I wanted pudding. Grrrr!

Grandma K's funeral

That post about cravings is one that I wrote a few days ago and scheduled to post in the future. I didn't realize it was posting during Grandma K's funeral.

I wasn't able to attend in person, but because technology is a beautiful thing I was able to hear it and see what it looked like. Right as the service was starting my sweet sister-in-law, Kristi, called me so I could listen to the graveside service. I got to laugh when everyone laughed, and cry when everyone cried. My brother-in-law, Dennis, texted me pictures of my brother giving the eulogy, my uncle making some remarks, and of my dad saying something. I don't know which part of the service the picture of my dad was from, but I think it was from him welcoming everyone. I saw the casket, the program, the people attending, and the flowers as well.

Grandma K's service was a short (I was on the phone with Kristi 35 min) graveside service. I have been to a few funerals in the past, but never to the actual graveside part. It was wonderful to hear my siblings memories of Grandma, and to hear about Grandma and Grandpa meeting. Since I never got to meet Grandpa it was really nice to hear a little about him. I had never heard a grave dedication before, but that was a beautiful part. My dad was able to do the dedication and it was a wonderful thought to have the site protected until the resurrection.

For being 2000+ miles away (google maps tells me it's about 2163 from my house to the cemetary) I felt a lot closer today.

Cravings

I wish I had done this post a long time ago, I really do want to have some of the details of my pregnancy on my blog. I have written some in my journal, but I'm sure it will be easier for me to search my blog for pregnancy posts in the future when I want to reference things.

During my first trimester especially I had some pretty intense cravings. I wanted hamburgers all. the. time. Not just any hamburger though. It had to be the Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger (JBC) from Wendy's. I remember when I was 15 or so JBC's were on the dollar menu. I remember them then going up to $1.29. Most recently when I ordered one it was $1.69 and I'm pretty sure the patty has gotten smaller. I will say one thing though, the bacon has definitely improved!

There was one day that I was out running errands and got really hungry, the type of hunger that I knew if I didn't eat within 5 minutes, I would be throwing up. I tried to think about where my closest Wendy's was, but knew it would take me at least 15 minutes to get there. That's when I ended up at Burger King. I ordered what used to be my usual at BK, the Whopper Jr with no onion or pickle (I hadn't had a whopper in forever, but back in the day I would also get it with no tomato... I've repented of my ways). After I started eating it I still wasn't feeling better. It just wasn't fulfilling that craving. The french fries were better, but the burger itself just didn't cut it.

I also tried a Whataburger one day, but that burger was just HUGE and still didn't have the bacon that apparently I so very badly needed. McDonald's just didn't cut it either, neither did any burger from Sonic. I learned my lesson. The $1.69 JBC was worth the drive because I actually felt better after eating it.

Another thing I've craved was Tots. Not just any tots though, Sonic tots. I don't know of any other restaurant that I actually could get tots at though, so I never was too disappointed. I didn't even buy the bag of frozen tots at the store, it just wasn't worth it... I wanted hot and ready tots from Sonic.

Now that I'm well into my second trimester (23 weeks!) I don't have any real cravings... I do have a huge appetite though! I eat breakfast when I wake up, then a second breakfast a little while later (like 10 or so). Lunch is at 12, then I'm hungry again at like 2 or so. Then comes dinner! I don't normally need another meal after dinner, but I do eat a snack! Sometimes instead of second lunch I can get away with having some ritz crackers with cheese on them, or a string cheese and some fruit... but sometimes I really do need more leftovers from the fridge! We certainly haven't been wasting our leftovers anymore... although I find that now I have to make dinner more often because I can't rely on having leftovers for dinner since they're already gone! Whoops!

Grandma, take 2

I feel like I just wrote this post, yet I didn't.

Earlier this evening I got an email from my mom letting me know that her mom was starting to take a turn for the worse. The gist of it said that her nurses said her heart was slowing down and her digestive system was phasing out. I should be prepared to lose my grandma within a few days.

Five hours later came the text message from my brother (mom is staying at his house before the funeral) letting me know that Grandma G had just passed.

This news hit me very differently than the phone call last Sunday. This was completely expected. Grandma G has been in so much pain recently, and I know she is no longer in pain. I am so happy for grandma, she is free from the cancer and other illnesses that have been afflicting her. She can see again, and move around so much easier. At the same time I am so sad for my grandpa who just had to say goodbye to his wife.  I know that he has been so worried about her and that it was really hard for him to see her in so much pain. I don't know how this will affect his health. I know sometimes spouses don't last that much longer, but other times their health improves because they now are not constantly worrying about the other.

I honestly haven't had a lot of time to process this one. I literally got the text message 20 minutes ago. Already though my thoughts have turned to the game Hand and Foot. I can't count on my fingers and toes the number of times I played that game with my grandma. Or the number of times that I so badly cheated at that game so that I wouldn't lose by thousands of points-I don't know if grandma ever caught on to me cheating.

I remember that they always had a little bowl of candies and a bowl of nuts. Most of the time when i was around there were just nuts because my brother was quick to eat their chocolates.

I remember that grandma (for a long time) made birthday cards for us. On my 14th birthday my card said "so you're 16!"  I got excited, hoping that my parents would let me start driving and dating... but they didn't get confused like grandma! Pretty sure she sent the card meant for a cousin who is just older than me. I know I kept that card, but I think it's in a box at my parents house.

A favorite Grandma memory is her quilting. Grandma was an amazing quilter. She made a quilt for each of her grandkids when they got married. I remember seeing my siblings get their quilts when I was little, but it got more real for me when I was 12ish. I think it was Janyse getting married, and as she was looking at fabric stores to pick out the fabric she wanted for her Grandma quilt, I found one that I liked. A hunter green 8 point star print. This was during my green phase. At this point, Grandma's vision was starting to fade a little (due to macular degeneration) so we got the fabric I wanted and when she had time she made my quilt as well. I remember it sitting in my closet for years, not being able to touch it til I got married. Tonight as I type this post from my bed, I think of the hours and love that Grandma put into my quilt. I am so grateful I have it as a frequent reminder of her.

I don't have any pictures of us together on my computer, I may have one somewhere else, but I'll need to do some hunting. So here is a picture of her when she was younger that my mom just shared.

Grandma, I love you and will miss you. 

Endo Follow up

I have a whole list of things I want to blog about, but decided to break them up into separate posts. Partially I made that decision because I could say a lot on each topic, also because then I won't sit and blog as long at one sitting. There are other things that need to be done besides updating my blog (weird, right?).

Yesterday I had my rescheduled Endo follow up. I know I said I was going to fire them, but I figured I at least needed to go get the results from my bloodwork and talk to the Dr about what happened last week. Interesting turn of events.

When Dr B walked into the room she looked at me and said "well, your bloodwork looks perfect, and you don't need to come back!" My response was "oh awesome, because I wasn't planning on coming back to this office again!" She asked why, and I was more than happy to oblige her with all the detesails. She let me tell her the whole story of last week before she responded. Here was what I learned.

The office has a 3 strikes, you're out policy.

1. The day that I was there happened to be that nurses last day working for that office. She got fired for having too many complaints from patients. I think she knew it was coming and she was upset which is why she was less than helpful with me.

2. The lady who "called me" to reschedule my appointment would get a firm talking to at their lunch break (a couple hours after my appointment) and would receive her second strike. My guess is she'll start being a little more careful in the future.

3. The Dr is going to look into the problem of them turning the phones off early, and back on late. It's really frustrating to call and hear a recording that I am calling outside of office hours, then hear the office hours, look at the clock, and realize it is absolutely during office hours. That's unacceptable in my mind. It's fine if nobody answers and I go through their automated system and get put in a queue to talk to the department I need. I understand they are an office with many doctors and patients and that they are busy sometimes... but turning the phones off is unacceptable. I'd rather wait on hold for 10 minutes then have to call a million times until someone picks up.

I guess they have staff meetings every week or two and she is going to address this issue at their next staff meeting.

But, I don't have to go back! She does want me to get blood drawn once in the middle of my third trimester, and again once 6 weeks after I have the baby, but I will get the results of those blooddraws over the phone. If something looks bad then I will schedule an appointment, but the doctor is pretty sure everything will continue to look better now that I'm over my morning sickness.

And there you have it. My follow up appointment went much better than I anticipated, and I was glad the doc took my complaints seriously. Also, I didn't have to pay for parking today because the office validates one hour of parking... and I was in and out of the parking lot in 52 minutes. Beautiful!

Grandma

I've started writing this post a few times, but never really knew how to adequately express my thoughts and feelings. This won't be the most eloquent post (but when do I actually write eloquent posts, come on!) but I need to get it out there.

Sunday morning I was getting ready for church when my phone rang. I saw it was my parents calling and instantly became concerned. I know that the time before church at their house is usually busy-- choir practice, other meetings, prepping dinner, actually getting ready for church... there is always stuff to do. My instant thought was "did Grandma G pass away?". You see, my Grandma G is ill. She has cancer and a bunch of other health problems and recently was told she had a few months left to live. She is my moms mom, and used to live two doors down from my parents until she and Grandpa moved into a nursing home.

When I answered I was surprised to hear my dads voice on the other end. This concerned me even more. Dad doesn't call very often. He told me he was calling to let me know that Grandma K had passed away in her sleep. Grandma K. Not Grandma G. My dads mom passed away. She was a few days shy of turning 91, but this was fairly unexpected. I guess as unexpected as it can be for a 90 year old to pass away. Apparently some bug was going around her nursing home, she caught it, and couldn't get rid of it. She passed peacefully in her sleep.

At first I was confused. Grandma G was the one that a funeral was being planned for anticipating her passing. I had just talked to my mom days before about how she and her sister were shopping for caskets because they are cheaper if you buy them in advance. But this wasn't Grandma G who was gone.

After the confusion wore off, I was sad. My grandma was gone. But then I realized that it had been almost 29 years since my grandpa had passed away, and 29 years is a long time for someone to be alone. Because I have a testimony of eternal families and the plan of salvation, I know that Grandma and Grandpa are together again. What a happy reunion this must have been for them, after nearly 30 years of being apart!

I started thinking about Grandma K and some of my memories of her. She stored her cereal in the oven (at least before she moved into the nursing home) because she never used her oven and was easier for her to reach the cereal down there. I learned that lesson the hard way when I stayed with her one week when I was about 12. I went to make cookies and found boxes of cheerios in the oven. I remember fighting with her in a department store over who was going to buy this shirt I liked. She ended up winning, and I was disappointed. She sent us three separate cards for our wedding, and none of them were cards that actually said anything about a wedding. My favorite was one that said "Thank You" on the front and the inside said "This isn't a wedding card, but it will work. -Mildred T. Krumperman." I'm pretty sure I still have that card, it should be in my box of things to scrapbook, and someday when I pull that box out I will find it and treasure that card forever.

My favorite memory of her is from a time when she was up in Seattle visiting us. We had just been at one of my brothers high school graduation ceremonies and we all stopped at Wendy's on the way home for some dinner. I'm pretty sure I ate a Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger, and fries, but I KNOW I drank Dr. Pepper. We were back in the car, and after a few minutes I burped. Not a super wimpy one, but not anything spectacular. It was loud enough that dad heard it from the drivers seat and got mad at me. Grandma turned to me and whispered "If you want to impress the boys sweetie, you need to practice a little more" then she smiled at me. I thought she was the coolest grandma ever after that statement!

Initially it looked like her funeral was going to be this Saturday, but got moved to Monday. Because of things already on my schedule (like my rescheduled follow up with the endocrinologist-that's a post of its own, be excited), not being able to take time away from doing my school work (another post of its own), and needing to save the money to buy a crib, carseat, and other furniture/big baby purchases, I realized it would be a huge stretch for me to attend the funeral. I know I will spend all of Monday thinking about Grandma, and Dad, and my aunts, and my siblings. I probably won't get a ton done, but I think it's important for me to take the time to think about Grandma.

Here is a picture of my grandma when she was younger

And here is the most recent picture I have of us together. I am so glad that she was able to come up to Redmond for my wedding reception, and that Chris was able to meet her. I'm glad that we have this picture, as well as a picture of Grandma with all but one of her grandchildren that was also taken that same day.

I have a few other topics I want to blog about, but I didn't feel like I could write them until after I had written about Grandma. She is where my thoughts have been all week, and I needed to get them down on paper. Love you, Grandma.

WOAH!

Today I got an unexpected bill in the mail. A medical bill for $1200. I had no idea who the lab was that was sending the bill, it didn't sound familiar. It was not either of the two labs that I have had blood work done at (one lab for my ob/pcp, one for my endo). I saw that the referring physician was my OB but couldn't for the life of me think of any thing she had done to this point that would be costing me $1200. I found the phone number and called the billing department for this particular lab.

I first asked the lady if she could tell me exactly what "Laboratory Diagnostic Testing" I was being billed for since that was pretty vague. I just about choked when she said it was for my Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening, this IS a bill I was expecting, but about $1000 more than I was expecting it to be for. I said to her "oh, yikes! I wasn't expecting the bill to be that high" and her response was "Well, then it's a good thing you called. Since you called to ask about it I can enroll you in our Patient Assistance Program. I can reduce your bill to $25 if you pay via credit card right now with me." I made sure I heard her correctly. By making a simple phone call to clarify that the bill was accurate all of a sudden I get to save $1175? For real? I was excited since I was told by my doctor that this test should cost me around $200. She took my card info and ran it through, then emailed me the receipt that shows that my account balance is $0.

I'm super grateful for this. This was a test that I couldn't pass, regardless of the price. Knowing that one of my siblings (at least one, maybe more?) is a carrier of CF my OB and I both felt like it was important to get me tested. Now that we know that I am not I won't have to take this test again, which is a relief because it's sort of an unpleasant test. I had to take a cotton swab and attack the inside of my cheek for a full minute, on both sides... and cotton swabs taste gross for a full minute, especially when you already are dealing with morning sickness.

My question is this... how many people get this bill and just automatically pay it without questioning it? Is that why I was able to only pay $25, because they make a ton of money off the patients who don't pay attention? My next question is how much have I been over paying on other bills by just paying them when they come? I will definitely be making more phone calls and scrutinizing my upcoming medical bills before paying them just on the chance that I can reduce the amount.

Life goes on

I'm a little more calm now about the stupid doctors office. I'm still firing them, but I'm not totally livid anymore!

I finally got a phone call back from the lady who will be proctoring my midterm for my class (the class that is due on 2/3) saying that they received my exam, and when would I like to take it? They aren't open on Friday, and I decided that tomorrow was too soon, and Monday would be rough since I wouldn't be studying on Sunday... so Tuesday it is! I'll be taking my midterm on Tuesday afternoon and then as soon as BYU has received my test I can start submitting my next few assignments. It's also probably time to just pay the $20 to extend my class, then I'll have til 5/3 to finish it. Since most of my lessons remaining are quick speedback lessons (meaning I just have to take a short online quiz at the end of the lesson rather than submitting a paper or worksheet to my teacher) I can finish by 5/3. Ideally by 4/1. It's nice to have a date for my midterm now, it pushes me to really take the time now to sit and study for it.

And then Wednesday I'm seeing my peeps, the ones I have hardly seen since I got pregnant, and before I got pregnant they were all pregnant in their first trimesters, and before that Chris was sick, so really... I haven't hung out with them since May. Oh man am I looking forward to spending some time with my peeps! I guess I did see them all once in December when we went out to breakfast right before one had a baby, but still... that wasn't quite the same.

And then Thursday I'm going visiting teaching, assuming that I can actually get appointments set for that day... it's the day we're aiming for.

And then Friday I'll go back to the Endo.

It's time to get my butt back in gear to finish this class, and then I can take a break from school for a while, because I'm not going to be dumb and order a new class a month before I'm having a baby! It is one of my goals for 2013 to finish this dang thing! I thought I was going to love this class and I've really not loved any of it so far.

major rant

I am firing my endocrinologist.

I know that sounds extreme, but I am so not happy with her office right now. I was supposed to have an appointment with her this morning at 9:00. Her office is downtown, so I had to leave my house at 7:55 because traffic is always awful in the morning. The only reason I had an early morning appointment was because it was the only appointment she had available even remotely close to when I was supposed to have my follow up. My follow up was supposed to be LAST Wednesday but a month ago when they went to schedule it they were booked.

I left home (way too early for sleep deprived me... but that's another story) and got there at about 8:30. Perfect. I'm supposed to arrive 15 minutes early or else I risk getting charged a no-show fee, and I know it takes them FOREVER to check in patients. I sign in and the lady says to me "Oh, I just tried to call you but your phone is not able to take calls. Your doctor isn't in today so we need to reschedule your appointment." I looked at her like she was an idiot. I know my phone receives calls, my phone rang a few minutes ago when someone else called me. I asked her what number she had and she reads me some phone number. DEFINITELY not my phone number, not even remotely close to my phone number. Wrong area code, and not even the local 210. I told her that was not my number She told me I must have given them the wrong number then because that was what she had on file. Then she read me the address and asked if it was my address, and it wasn't. Then she realized she had pulled THE WRONG FILE. She called some other patient to cancel my appointment 30 minutes before it started. So she went to the back to pull my file (which was a sign that she never had my correct file anyway) and said "oh, I called this number too" to save some face. So I asked her what happened when she called that number and she said "it says this number can't receive calls". So I told her to call it again, on speakerphone so I could hear it for myself, because if thats what it said then my phone had issues and I needed to take care of it. What do you know, when she called it... my phone RANG and I answered it and was able to talk to her.

She rescheduled my appointment (the soonest available is 2 weeks from now) and asked if I wanted to talk to the nurse about anything. I asked if I could get the results from my labwork, since I hadn't been called with them yet even though I got my bloodwork drawn 2 weeks ago. She said a nurse would come call my name in a minute. About 5 minutes later a lady comes out and calls my name, pulls me into a back hallway and rudely says "What do you want?" I just looked at her, and then calmly told her that I was told she could go over my bloodwork with me. She told me that she isn't a doctor and she can't tell me the results. I told her that the only reason she was talking to me was to give me the results, so if she didn't have them she needed to tell me so I could leave and stop wasting my time. She said she didn't even have access to my results yet because my dr hadn't looked at them, and until the dr pulls them and looks at them they aren't available to anyone else. This just pissed me off. At my last appointment I was told I would get a phone call immediately after they recevied my results because we needed to take care of any problems right away or else it could harm my baby. Apparently immediately at that office means more than 2 weeks later? She told me that when the doctor comes in tomorrow that she'll have the doctor pull my results, go over them, and then have a nurse call me with the results.

Once I get those results, if things are still really close to normal I will cancel my future appointment with the endo, and just go back to my pcp about this. She can order blood tests just fine and the endocrinologist said she wouldn't even think about starting any treatment unless my levels dropped to a certain point, and now I know what that point is. The endo didn't seem too concerned about my thyroid levels, so I probably don't have much to worry about. I am going to make sure that my pcp knows what a horrible nightmare my whole experience with this office has been though so that she can stop sending people there... we had a similar experience when trying to get in to see a neurologist with Chris this summer so the pcp stopped referring to that doctor. Have I mentioned lately that I LOVE our pcps? AND my ob? Yes, I love my pcp and my ob. They are both amazing.

And now I want to just change back into my pajamas and climb back in bed, but this whole ordeal took almost 2 hours and I don't think I could fall back asleep. I think I'm too unhappy. So instead I'll sit on the couch, eat some more breakfast (I'm hungry again now) and watch a movie or something and listen to the rain. And then after I'm not angry anymore I'll call the lady who is supposed to proctor my midterm and find out if she has received it yet, because I REALLY need to take that test. And I need to buy the extension for my class. Wow, this day did not go as planned.

BUT the good news is, we're having yummy sweet and sour turkey meatballs for dinner tonight and I am REALLY excited about that, because i LOVE sweet and sour meatballs.

Quick Thought on a New Year

I love the beginning of the year. I always take the time to go through everything online and get rid of a ton of stuff I don't need. Bookmarks to recipes that I marked months ago and don't know what I was even thinking. Deleting links to blogs that I don't really read. Deleting Facebook friends who I don't interact with or care to interact with. Unliking pages on Facebook so they don't creep up on my newsfeed all the time. Unsubscribing from lots of newsletter emails so that my inbox is clean. Deleting accounts on various websites so I don't waste so much time there. This year in particular is that true because I entered a ton of contests to win sweet prizes, and most of the time to enter those contests you have to "like" or "follow" a website, and sometimes I don't care about those websites, I'm just in it for the prizes. I figure if I get rid of all of those unnecessary things I won't waste as much time at my computer because I won't be sifting through things I don't care about, it will take me about 3 seconds to see what blogs have been updated, and about 1 minute to go through my Facebook newsfeed to see if there is anything new to read.

I love a good fresh start. That's also why I changed the blog around a bit. I'm still looking for a different picture for the top, but most of my pictures are on our Macbook, and I need Chris to go back to work so I'll have easier access to the Macbook.

And with that, I must go make a quadruple batch of Buttermilk Waffles from ATK because we've got some friends coming over for a Waffle and Wii party!

Someday...

I promise I'll start blogging again soon! Chris is still off work for Christmas and we're taking the time to get big projects done. In the last two weeks we've celebrated Christmas and New Years, had our big ultrasound (it's a GIRL!!), reorganized every closet in our house to make room for the baby, had pest control come out for our ant problem, filled in cracks/gaps in our house so ants will stop coming in, bought and out together nightstands (finally!! We found some that match our dresser and we love them!), went to babies r us to start looking at cribs, car seats, strollers and all things baby... We've enjoyed playing the new wii games that we got for Christmas and watched a few new movies! We spent a day doing yardwork and have been doing some other organizational stuff.

I'm getting ready to take my midterm for my class as soon as my proctor calls to say she has it. And I've been working on the lessons that will be due after I take my midterm.

The last two weeks have been super busy, but once things settle down a little next week I'll blog more about some of those things I listed above! You need to know all about the rad slippers and waffle maker I got for Christmas :) stuff like that! My morning sickness is gone, haven't thrown up in about 4 weeks now! And next week I go back to the endocrinologist.

New Year's Resolutions

Last year I set a ton of New Year's Resolutions. I don't think I actually accomplished any of them... whoops! I'm trying not to set my standards too high for 2013. I would like to...

• Finish my BYU class by April 1st (after I order an extension it will be due on May 3rd)
• Go to the doctor about the warts on my foot and get them removed
• Read The Book of Mormon
• Pick a pediatrician
• Have a baby
• Survive

Four of those six things will be done by June 1st. The class, the warts, the pediatrician, and having the baby (unless the baby is more than 2 weeks late or they change my due date). I potentially could finish The Book of Mormon by then as well... then from June 1st on all I'd have to do is survive. I think I should be able to handle these goals. And really, surviving is probably going to be more difficult than it sounds.