Quick updates...

Wow, I just realized how long it has been since I last posted! Yikes!

A couple of weeks before Christmas:

The girl I visit teach with threw me a baby shower here in Colorado, with the ladies of our ward. I had such a great time, and the baby got such adorable things! The women in this ward are phenomenal!

That same day, actually about half an hour after the shower ended, my sister opened her mission call! I made it home just in time to turn on skype so I could watch. She leaves in April, and will be serving in the London, England mission!

Christmas update:

We were planning on going to Utah for Christmas, but the doctor changed her mind and we stayed here in Colorado. Jason's parents were able to come down the week before Christmas so we got to spend some time with family. We were also able to skype with my family on Christmas, which was really nice.

New Years: um... We ended up watching House all night, and then changed the channel to the ball drop at midnight.

After New Years:

We had some friends stop by on their way back to Utah from Christmas with family out in Kansas. We went to a hotdog stand and it was delicious! They even had fresh lemonade, YUM! We had such a great time!

Recently:

Jason has been studying and I've been keeping the apartment clean and watching tv.

I'll post a better update soon, hopefully.

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Thanksgiving

We went up to Montana for Thanksgiving. On Wednesday the 23, we flew in. As we were beginning our descent, the pilot came over the intercom to tell us the weather in Billings, "it's a balmy negative 12 in Billings today." GAH! It was cold! After we settled in a little bit (dropped our bags off at Denny & Rita's) we went to Jason's favorite, El Burrito, for lunch. Later that night we had Lobster for dinner. The next day was spent preparing for Thanksgiving dinner. I made chocolate mousse pie, Jason made my uncle mark's sweet potatoes, and Denny made everything else. Everything turned out sooo good!

Later that night... Jason and I stayed up for Black Friday sales!We were at WalMart at midnight for some of their great sales! We got everything we were looking for! Then we went back home, toyed with the idea of staying up until our next outing, decided against it, and went to sleep for 2 ish hours. Then it was time to go to Target. We got there and waited in line for maybe 10 minutes, luckily we weren't looking for a tv or anything. We got in, found what we were looking for. Jason got the last hard-drive on the shelf and some lady wanted to get one so she asked if they could scan the barcode to see if they had any left in the back. They didn't and Jason let the lady take the hard-drive. It was really nice of him. We found a couple of movies that were on sale and I got in the electronics line (because the normal line wrapped around the entire store and most of the people in that line had tv's and a lot of stuff), Jason went to see if he could find the Simpson's season that was advertised and when he got back he had found it, and he said he found where the rest of the hard-drives were hiding, so he got one of those too.

After we checked out, we went back home again to sleep and then Jason took me to Jo-Ann's! They were having a killer of a sale! So much stuff was 50-60% off and they had some fleece for $2.99 a yard (normally 10ish a yard) and snuggle flannel for $1.29 a yard!!!! Oh my gosh I stocked up!!!! I got A LOT of fabric! I even went back later that evening to get more!

The next day Jason and I went with Rita to get Sams club cards, and then we picked up a couple of things for the baby shower up there. Rita and I dropped Jason off and headed over to Quita's for the shower. She had just finished putting up the decorations when we arrived and we quickly assembled the food items just in time for the shower.

Adorable diaper cake Quita got for the shower! (The bottle in the background was filled with skittles, can you guess how many?)

Rita working on the food in the kitchen before people arrived. (I LOVED the decorations!)

I had so much fun at the shower! We ate good food, played some really fun games, and then opened presents. Everyone was so generous! This baby already has more clothes than me, and they are so much cuter too!

We had a lot of fun up in Montana! It was great getting to see lots of family, and eat lots of good food we didn't have to cook!

Home-made

I made this way back in August, my first quilt!

I made this either in September or October... My second quilt!

And I made these in October and November.

November 19-21... Don't you want to know what I did?!

We got to fly down to Utah to see my sister Kate as the lead role in her high school play South Pacific. We arrived in Salt Lake on Friday the 19th, Jason's parents drove down from Montana and picked us up from the airport at around 4ish. We drove down to J-Dawgs and had dinner, then hurried to the play. She was soooo good! I was very impressed. It was really weird seeing Kate looking like an adult, and especially weird seeing her kiss a boy!!! It was really weird, I had to cover my eyes!

The fam right after the play.

The sibs right after the play.

The next day was going to be BUSY, so we went to bed around 10 or 11 in order to get up in the morning. We woke up and got ready for the day. Jason and I ran down to Provo bakery and got smiley face sugar cookies and some doughnuts, then headed over to my parents house for breakfast. After breakfast Jason and his parents went out to lunch with Denny's cousin. I spent that time helping prepare for the baby shower. I made cream cheese frosting for the red velvet cupcakes, YUM!

Frosting the cupcakes.

Jason relaxing before the football game.

At around 3 people started showing up. I had such a great time! I really loved getting to see and spend time with friends and family. I had so much fun! I completely forgot to take pictures, luckily Janna took a couple before the shower while we were getting ready. Everyone was so generous and the baby got so many things we weren't able to fit everything our giant suitcase! There was nothing in the suitcase but baby things (mostly clothes)! Luckily we are going to be able to drive down to Utah for Christmas so we will be able to pick the rest up.

After the shower I got to open my birthday present (my mom didn't want to mail it so I had to wait until we went to Utah to open it)

My diploma! All framed and pretty!

Even though the shower was over, the party kept going until later in the evening. My cousin even showed up with pregnancy massage cushions from her massage school and I got a massage! It was so nice! Those cushions are so comfortable!!!!

Getting a massage in the middle of the living room.

After all the partying was done, it was time to go to sleep and from the time we woke up the next morning until we had to leave for the airport, I spent my time trying to fit all of the gifts into our giant suitcase.

We

get to see family and friends this weekend! Oh, and my sister Kate is the LEAD in her school play, which we get to see while in Utah!

A bit of rambling on Project Runway...

If you haven't seen the finale to Project Runway, you might not want to read this... I do mention who won.

After I took Jason to school and dropped a check off at the bank, I was listening to the radio. It was a different station than I normally listen to. There are some very stupid songs on the radio these days so last night as one of those stupid songs began to play, I got a little frustrated and changed to a random preset. LUCKY ME I didn't change it back to one of the two stations I normally listen to. On my way home from the bank the radio people announced they had a special guest with them, MONDO, from Project Runway! I am trying to find the audio clip but I don't think they have it online yet. It was very fun to listen to. I personally thought he should have won. Anyways... My favorite thing he said on the radio was in response to one of the hosts asking what she should wear to a holiday party, the other host said he suggested she wear a potato sack... Mondo said something along the line of, "If you want to go with a potato sack, look into Gretchen's line." Hehehehe! Oh so true! I just thought I would put this up here before I forget. Oh and Mondo was selling his line on mylifetime.com or something and it sold out the next day. He also gave kudos to Gretchen because she sold one... One of the hosts asked how many he sold, all 10! Take that Michael Kors and Nina Garcia, looks like you made the wrong choice!