.25

That's how old I am now

{go ahead and ignore the cake in the photo, I'm not one anymore}

{but for your own good don't ignore that little chunky monkey sitting on the horse behind the cake!}

25

weird, right?

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.Confession...

*another image by Air from our long-distance dating era

I promised myself I wouldn't talk about this here.

But I also always "promise myself I wouldn't cry"... and I never seem to follow through with that one either.

I guess I'm a pretty private person {believe it or not}. It's always been difficult for me to talk about things I deem 'personal' to people I don't know well... so you can imagine how it is writing personal things on here, where I have no idea who's even reading.

But right now... I want to get this off my chest... and I guess this is the place to do that.

So here it is. My very personal confession:


I want a baby


Gah! That was hard!

I know it's nothing surprising to anyone. Nor am I the first to proclaim these words. But for as long as I can remember I've been excited to be a mommy. I've always loved to imagine what my kids might be like or look like.

Being a nanny, I figured out that I was sort of good at being a mom. It's definitely my calling in life. I enjoyed every minute of it. I miss it!

Once I married Air, I knew that my kids were GUARANTEED to be at least half amazing--and that only makes me even more excited to meet them!

I guess you could say that Air and I are child enthusiasts.

We love kids!

We want to start having our own before we get too old to have very many.

We want lots!

And I really hate to admit it, but sometimes when I think of all my friends who are pregnant and having babies all over the place {although I'm incredibly happy for them}, I feel a little sad.... for myself....


I'm such a baby


But alas, we must wait.

And we'll keep on waiting pretty impatiently until the time comes when we are blessed with a kid to join us.


'sides, I don't think that babies should be having babies anyway


Am I right or am I right?

right.

Thanks for listening.

*game night a couple weeks ago with two pregnant friends--Kyla and Andrea

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.year old blog

Oh my ganache!

My blog is one year old today

I remember deciding that I would never start a blog of any sort. Ever.

There was even a time when I would make fun of bloggers...
{no offense, I was obviously mistaken}

....aaaaand then I started this very blog about a week later.

Funny how our minds can change at the drop of a hat
{or anything else that you could drop}

I don't really know what changed my mind;
{its probably just an excuse to improve my photoshop skills?}

but I'm glad I kept it open enough to change--it's been real fun so far!

Real fun

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.V Day II

We had a wonderful weekend.
Went on a date Saturday night and brought home this cute little cake to eat while we watched The Lake House:


At church I got lots of loot too--thanks to my visiting teachers and RS Presidency! They are so sweet!

Church was followed by dinner at Air’s parent’s house… where we received even more loot!
They made heart-shaped ham:



sure hope you had a lovely love day too!

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.3 things

From Tuesday morning's class.

Item 1: the trees

A brief explanation:
My lesson was on Alma 37:35.

"O, remember, my son, and learn wisdom in thy youth; yea, learn in thy youth to keep the commandments of God."

I related this scripture to trees...

Young trees are easy to shape. They bend in the wind so we tie them to poles to make sure that they grow up straight and strong. Once a tree is older it's so much harder to change and fix. When it grows wrong we might have to chop off branches here and there, leaving huge ugly scars ...it could even kill the poor tree.

People are the same way. It's so good for people to learn to be good while they're young to avoid paying huge and devastating consequences from a lot of mistakes later on.

Item 2: true/false Question

A brief explanation:
"T/F -A Book of Mormon prophet taught his son to teach people to have an everlasting hatred."

This question stumped all of my kids. They thought it was False.

It was {of course} a trick question.

Alma taught Helaman to teach the people to have an everlasting hatred of sin.

Did you figure that out?

We talked about freedom from sin after that. It was awesome.

Item 3: love notes to me!

A brief explanation:

I didn't even have to write these notes to myself this time!

My students are hilarious.

When I got to the classroom the next morning I read this and smiled :)

Then I read the last one and laughed out loud! Like "LOL" kinda laughing... seriously.

Aren't they sweet?

What made this even more sweet was when Ron Patrick {the head CES supervisor} walked into my classroom to check up on us, he saw this on the board and said he was impressed that the kids love me so much.

O, what a beautiful morning!

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.Exactly what you've been wanting:

What did you say?

You really want some more volleyball action shots from this Friday?

Well sure!

All you had to do was ask


We had an abundance of friends show up to play this week! It was a really great game!



I'm still not quite sure what game Tiana was scoring... but boy those teams had lots of points!

she's so cute :)

.I wonder

*Air made me this comic when we were dating, long-distance

Since I first met this guy I've always had him on my mind.

I think of him anytime ANYTHING happens,
and I can't wait to call and tell him all about it.

He's always been the first person I call.

Things always remind me of him too.

Songs. Pictures. People. Places. Things. Conversations.

When I hear strangers speaking Spanish at the store,
I wish he were there to eaves drop on their convo for me.

When I'm watching a recorded tv show
I have to save it so he can see it too and laugh at it with me.

I used to wonder if this is all because he's so amazing and I love him so much...


......or if it has anything to do with his this:
...his name being at the top of every phone list, ever.

Probably a mix of both I'd say.

Today is our year and a halfer... but who's counting?

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.for the love of February

here's something that I love, in honor of this month

The month that I love most
The love month



love love month month love month love month love

xxooXOXOxxxooX

*should you think to wonder, I got these earrings here and here

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.the b'day

For Air's 26th we had a fun filled weekend.

It felt like his birthday spanned over three days instead of one.

It was great!

On Friday morning we were thrilled to have Air's little sister Tiana come over for the weekend.
We were like a happy little family in this tiny apartment

On Saturday we went 5 pin bowling! Must be a Canadian thing...?
It was my first time and I struggled with those mini bowling balls, but still had fun!

We ate dinner at Applebee's

On Sunday, Air awoke to Tiana and I singing loudly and jumping on him.
I'm sure he loved that!

After church (where somehow everyone knew it was Air's birthday already?), the family came over and we had dinner.
And then we had glazed sugar cookies instead of cake. Since Air's still on his strict diet I made him sugar-free Jell-O...




Before we fell asleep last night I whispered to him, "I had a really good your birthday, hunny."

And I meant it

January and February are the best months to have birthdays...
It helps me to forget how long and stale life is in the winter.

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