Giving Thanks

I feel so silly blogging my thank you's and thankful fors! But I thought it would be a great way to let those that I am grateful for see it! I have had a fun Thanksgiving weekend. We had dinner on Thursday at Ben's brothers house out in Riverton, we had fun and the food was excellent. On Friday, I set up Christmas at our humble little house, and was caught doing a bit of hair. My Dad and Patty took Mitchell along with the Tyler and Trish's girls for the weekend. So I dropped him off on Friday and I am going to go pick him up around 2 today. We also had another Thanksgiving feast yesterday, and that food was also delicious, and so was the company! I had to teach today, and I am now getting a chance to say my Thankful's! I have more than can fit on a hard drive to a computer to be thankful for! This list could be a couple of day's of reading. But to save any of you who are bored enough at work from becoming even more bored:) I will narrow it down a bit!
1- I am so grateful for my membership in the LDS Church. Each day I become more and more acquainted with the gospel, and I am so lucky to have the very very small amount of knowledge that I have. But more than that, I am grateful to still be learning more about it, and gaining a testimony of it.
2- My Ben. They are the light and life of me. I am eternally grateful for Ben, and how hard of a worker he is. Which in turn allows me to stay at home with Mitchell! I love my mommy job. I would NEVER trade it for anything. I am grateful for commitment to the fix the challenges that we are faced with everyday!
3- My Mitchell! This weekend has missed something, and that is the very presence of my baby boy! First, I have NO idea what I did with my life before I had him. I had NO quality of life before he came around! Second, I complain about the very small things that this weekend I actually missed. Third, he is so beautiful, I have missed seeing his big smile the past 2 mornings. I love him, and I can't wait to see what the future holds for him.
4- My Family. I lived out of the state for a short time. This enabled Ben and I to develop our own family, and have a foundation to add to as we have kids. But I am so very grateful for all the family that I have. I missed them a lot, living out of state. But I did not appreciate them as much as I do now! They are very helpful in times of need. Or just for fun, or dinner, or shopping or chatting! I miss seeing my Sister every couple weeks at family dinner. Or stopping by her work just because I am downtown. I miss seeing my brother Joe, and watching the latest show, or shopping for the greatest gifts for parents. I miss the sense of humor that my brother Tyler brings to the table, he always has an interesting story! These are the family members that live out of state. But I am also so grateful for the family that is here in good ol' Utah! Each one of them have a part in my life.
5- My Parents- Yes ALL of them. Can you believe that I actually like all of my 4 parents. My Mom and Dad, take precedence because of there place in my life.... they are my Mom and Dad! I am in eternal debt to my Dad for his sacrifice he made while raising us, and how hard he worked. But never a day he complained! I am so grateful for his membership in the church. I am so grateful that although he NEVER forced it, we were at church most every Sunday! I am in eternal debt to my Mom, she along with my Dad, Patty, and well everyone on the planet. Are very far from perfect! But has still persevered through some very tough times in her life. And she is the Best Avo we know! That is what Mitchell calls her:) She is such a hard worker, and I am so grateful that she has become a more important part of my life. Patty, well she married my Dad in a very difficult time of all of our lives, so she probably got the short end of the stick. I am so grateful that she has stuck with this Step-Mom thing and helped my Dad raise 4 more teens along with her 4 teens. I don't envy the position that they were in. But Patty made me realize that you just make it work. As long as your spouse does the same! I learned so much from her as an outside source to my life, and I am so lucky to be apart of her and her kids life! Rick, Rick is married to my Mom, and they were married shortly after Ben and I...(I have been married longer than my mom hehehehe) Anyway, Rick is the light of the party, and has a heart of gold. He is such a great person. I admire him for all that he can cook. I know, that sounds so funny....unless you have eaten his dinner...or lunch...or breakfast:) He is a master chef, and I sometimes believe that he should have been a chef on the cooking channel!
6- My Health, whew, that is a big one. I am so grateful that I am over all Healthy. I have the best kind of Kidney disease, that really does not give me much trouble. I am so grateful for the health that I have. I am so grateful that I have a healthy husband, and child. We hope to find out that this new baby will be just as healthy! I will never be able to put in to words the gratitude I have for all of our health!
7- My Friends, where would I be with out a girls night out! There is no comparison for a good yummy dinner with Lexy, Lauren, Tama, Amber and Adrienne! I am so lucky to have such great friends. I know that they play such an important part of my life!
8- My Life, I have so much. I have a home, a car, a family, a healthy body, food on my table for at least 3 meals a day, knowledge of the true church, and my Father in Heaven. The list will never end if I don't stop now!

I have so many things, and people to be Thankful for! And if you read this, I am sorry to bore you:) My next post will be more entertaining!

I've Been Tagged

I've Been Tagged
8 Shows I Watch:
1. The Bachelor - when it is on
2. The News
3. Biggest Loser - barely!
4. Thomas the train
5. frosty the snowman
6. cars
7. the polar express
8. nemo

8 Restaurants That I Like To Eat At:
1. Café Rio
2. The Pizza Factory
3. Souper Salad
4. Rubio's
5. Hot Dog on a Stick
6. Olive Garden
7. Chilis: Chips & Salsa… YUMMY and Fajita quesadilla
8. The Pizza Factory:)

8 Things I Did Today:
1. Went to the Gym
2. Took a Shower
3. Raked the Leaves
4. Went to the fabric store
5. Folded Laundry
6. Prepared my Sunday lesson
7. Read "New Moon" yes again!
8. This

8 Things I Am Looking Forward To:
1. Thanksgiving
2. Christmas
3. Finding out the Sex of the baby
4. Spring
5. New Moon Movie
6. Eclipse Movie
7. Breaking Dawn Movie
8. Finding another good book, or series to read....any ideas?

8 Things On My Wish List:
1. Comfortable amount of money
2. New Honda Pilot
3. To only gain 25 pounds this preg instead of 50!
4. No Bedrest
5. A Vacation
6. A LITTLE bit bigger of a house
7. The 2nd Coming .... the world is evil enough!
8. Some new clothes

8 People I Tag:
1. Heidi
2. Stacey
3. Megan
4. Amber
5. Jen
6. Ben Jones
7. Lauren
8. Anyone who wants to and is as bored today as I am!

TWILIGHT MOVIE SPOILER BELOW

WARNING TWILIGHT MOVIE SPOILER BELOW!

Twilight!

OK, I saw it, and I LOVED it! I, of course, had my own imagination when reading this book, but I felt like the movie did not disappoint! I am so happy with most of the characters and I felt like it stuck to the book pretty good for a movie. Sometimes they go way off! I thought some of the times when Edward was running was hilarious. I thought Jasper looked like he wet his pants, or just saw something he should not have. That was hilarious. I also did not like what Edward looked like in the sun....until I came home and cracked New Moon, it says that his skin was sparkly like diamonds, I totally envisioned something way different. I was pleased with Bella (Kristen Stewart) I thought she was as dull and boring as Bella is in the book. Jacob did not disappoint either! HOTTIE! All in all, I feel like a teen again. It's fun to have a silly obsession at my age. I am definitely an Edward (Rob Pattinson) fan! A bit of a Hollywood crush I should say!

Preg update!

I am not fitting in any of my normal clothes, but I am still to small for maternity clothes, so if you see me on the news for indecent exposure don't be alarmed. Oh and I went to buy maternity garments, because I pulled mine out from Mitchell and I only had 2 pair..... we can all guess why! Anyway, they don't sell maternity mid-calf garments at the distribution center anymore. You have to order them online, and you have to have your confirmation date, membership #, birthday and name. Now I am sure you are all thinking, "Why does she need mid-calf." Well my friends I have fatty thighs and when I were short garments I have a fat role. Anyway, who really has that kind or information lying around? So I am washing my 1 pair and wearing the other and so on! It's peachy:)

On the up side. I am feeling great! I am so glad to be out of the yuck! I am 17 weeks. I go to the doctor on Dec. 4Th for my checkup and to find out the sex! That will be so fun, we are so excited. I went out and bought some new maternity clothes, I just look like I am wearing a moo moo. So anyway, that is about it!

IT'S OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have not been updating because I have been soooooooooooo consumed with Young Women in Excellence! And it was last night, and that means it is OVER! As you can tell, I am very relived and very happy. It went well, but I about passed out during my talk. That would have just been great. Anyway, the night was a formal dinner, and I was setting up and taking down from 9am till 10pm. OK, not that entire time, but if I was not at the church setting up, I was at home ironing and getting gifts ready, and so on! I am so grateful for the 2 yes that is only 2 counselors that I have. They are really great, and helped me a ton. It is now time for me to tell the Bishop that I need to be fully staffed! I will survive this calling if I am fully staffed and don't have to do EVERYTHING that the other calling's consist of! Hopefully we will be getting a Secretary soon, and 2 advisers!

Baby update.......... and some stuff!

Well we woke up to Snow today! Mitchell is officially obsessed with the snow! He just wants to play in it all day. I was very much dreading snow this season. I was hoping for a drought! But I have to say, it is so beautiful, and it is a very nice change! I am hoping that it is not a very long winter though. Last year was a doosy!


I went to the doctor today, and I am 15 1/2 weeks. I am feeling so much better these days, and I am enjoying being pregnant. Especially because I lost 2 pounds from last time, and I had a dream that I had gained 10 pounds in 4 weeks! I was grateful to see that it was less than last time! I gained 45lbs with Mitchell so I would like to keep it below that. The heartbeat sounds strong and normal. I can feel the baby kicking already. I asked the doctor if I am imagining it and he says that on your second...third...twelfth.. you will feel the baby at about 14 weeks! So I was glad to hear that I was feeling the baby, not gas or something else:) I will have the big 20 week ultrasound on Dec 4th! We are going to find out the sex, but I did check out the chinese gender chart the other day and it says that we are having a boy! I don't care one way or the other .... TRULY! But I would love a healthy baby with 10 fingers and 10 toes 2 eyes a mouth and a nose! Anyway that is the latest. I will post more later!

This is all I could get! My internet is acting up, so I have a ton more pics, I will just try to do one per day or something. Is anyone else having problems? Anyway, Halloween was a hit this year. Mitchell went as NEMO as you can see! Ben and I were Dancing with the Stars! We had a lot of fun. Mitchell did not care to trick or treat, Ben and I wanted him to so we could eat the candy! He thought 1 candy was just great! Anyway that was our fun holiday!