Photography Galore

Sorry for our absence. I got sick of that explosion picture, too. But, this will be a short post cause I still got some papers to cook up by Monday!

A few updates:

We've been taking pictures every weekend. It's so fun. I especially love being outside to take them! Yahoo! Of course, it's been fun to have a really good reason to put off all the papers I should have been writing. I don't know why I feel like I have to put papers off in order to do them. It's weird. But anyway, you can count on not seeing much here for the next week. Two papers to go. Then, life will be officially less scheduled between normal working hours.

Saturday we went to the temple. It was like our goodbye trip for a little while while we get ready to have a baby in the house. It was beautiful, and it was a very hot drive. It got up to 95 degrees this Saturday!

I think this is the type of tree growing just outside our apartment! Pink Flowering Dogwood. I'll get some pictures and then I'll get your appraisal.

We finished our childbirth education class tonight. Very interesting. Some good information and sometimes more than I bargained for, but it was very educational.

Scott got a bike! He'd been wanting one so he could go on bike trips with the scouts, but the prices went up quite a bit since Christmas. Monday, his friend asked him if he knew anyone looking for a bike. $40 later, Scott has a snazzy bike!

I'm down to ONE WEEK of this crazy busy semester. Wish me luck on these papers. I'll be chuggin' along all weekend!

Explosions in the Kitchen

This happened to our pyrex two weekends ago. It was traumatizing for me. A little. The sound was SO LOUD! Scott was a wonder-man and got every last bit of glass from everywhere. You know what was the biggest bummer, though? We had to throw away the tasty french fries we were frying because they probably had glass slivers in their little potatoey-selves.


The moral of the story: don't put pyrex containers on the stove top to cool and then accidentally heat the wrong burner and then not move the hot pyrex from off the hot stove. (hint, the pregnant lady did it!)

Photoshop: Bringing Families Together

For those of you who were at our wedding, there was one major thing missing, my little brother Eric, he was on a mission in England...or was he...

Rain Rain Go Away

I know that April showers bring May flowers, but I could use some sunshine and accompanying vitamin D. Not to mention it would be easier to wear sandals and not have to tie any shoes.

My brother goes into the MTC today! Go Gordon, Go! We got to video chat with him Monday night which was fun, sweet, and as usual, hilarious. My mom even took pictures of Heather and Gordon next to the computer screen where Scott and I were pictured. So silly!

One of the best things about Easter-egg dying is having boiled eggs for the next week. What life-savers for such a hungry pregnant lady as I. And they're so colorful.

Happy Wednesday! Only 2.5 weeks left of school (I'll need every minute!) and then we can start going hog wild on cleaning up and getting ready for the baby to come!

*Note: in case you missed it, Gordon is going to the Mexico Tuxtla-Gutierrez Mission

28 Weeks and Pictures to Prove It

Scott and I had a lovely photo date this weekend. Here are a few of our favorites. Of course, my favorites are of him and his of me, so this isn't vain at all. :)

Happy Easter!

Here is a lovely Easter video to help us commemorate this special day. Enjoy!

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Finish Something

I finally did it. I finished a quilt. This is a major event, people.

I have participated in many quilts over the years—baby quilts we used to make as a family, big quilts we tied at family reunions, and service project quilts in a variety of settings. I have started several quilts of my own such as the Noah's Ark themed rag-quilt of high school and the great big free-fabric sample quilt of my sophomore year of college. Both of these remain in various stages of quilt-dom and are cramming our minimal storage space as we speak.


This quilt, however, was begun just before Scott's birthday at the end of February. And, please note, it has been less than two months between inception and completion. I think this new record may have been influenced by Scott's challenge, "we have to actually finish it, though." And so we did.


We borrowed an enormous quilt frame and got to work this last weekend. I had hoped to be tying it while we watched conference, but the back wasn't ready yet. You see, I did a very silly thing and tried to be all frugal with the back of the quilt. Instead of getting/using one large piece for the back, I pieced together old jeans. These jeans had been following me around in a large plastic container for YEARS, and since they needed to go and this quilt needed something sturdy on the back, I just went for it. Typical Nancy-style, I didn't measure or plan at all. I just got big pieces and laid them out and started sewing them together. I ended up using the 10-foot quilt frame boards to mark a "straight line" along the hodgepodge strips of jeans. Eventually there was enough to cover the back.


The one thing we forgot when borrowing the ward's quilt frames was the clamps. This meant that our quilt was pretty loosey goosey on the boards and we were constantly adjusting it. The thickness of some of the seams of jeans made for some scary needle pulling experiences, too. Scott got out a pair of pliers for each of us and we used those manly tools to pull our dainty and not-too-sharp quilting needles through the bulging denim. Traditional? No. Effective under the circumstances? Yes.

Then came the fun part: finishing the edges/binding the quilt. (I was being sarcastic there.) We bent nearly every pin we used to try to hold the rolled up denim in place for machine binding. It was tricky because, thanks to my scant preparation, the sides were hardly even and some had major issues like pockets with grommets right along the edge! One bent machine needle and several hours later, however, we had ourselves a real, finished, happily flawed blanket.


Don't look too closely, but do admire the ingenuity, creativity, and flair of the very first quilt I ever FINISHED.

What are the worst movies?

Netflix has given Nancy and I the opportunity to watch some of the worst made movies ever. Here's a list of some of them, if you want a good laugh, get them a look see:

1. Krull
2. The Man in the Iron Mask
3. Godzilla

I want to hear about your worst movies-let me know.

Bloody Battle

I got a shot today to protect me from the baby. Apparently, when you're negative (blood type, that is) you have to take these safeguards. Also, of course, this will help the baby be safe from my blood attacking her. So, there you go. The miracles of modern medicine.

Another baby preparation. This is Scott putting together our lovely crib. He did a very thorough job (backwards once, then everything in the right place) and it looks pretty. I'll have to take a picture of the crib as it now stands. It shocks me a little every time I catch a glimpse of it and it also begs me to make it look well dressed instead of naked with just a bare mattress.

Lovely Conference Weekend

Saturday was very cold and windy. Sunday was sunny and warm. The variety is remarkable!

On Friday, Scott and I did some super errands for our date. We picked up a quilt frame set we're borrowing to try to get some projects done. Then we went to our favorite ghetto-fabulous discount grocery store to stock up on cereal and snacks. Then, we registered at Baby's R Us. Mostly for the perks, coupons, and on the off chance that someone would use it to know what we needed (which is everything/anything, pretty much the man with the scan gun went crazy). Then we picked up our crib!!! Scott put it together and it looks great. It's definitely becoming more real that a baby will be coming to stay with us and will be our sole responsibility for like ever. I'm so excited and so overwhelmed by the idea at the same time.


Here's the pregnant me at 27 weeks. Third trimester here we come!

And, on Saturday, our dishwasher attachment came in the mail. Wahoo! We ran it a few times sans dishes so we could be sure it wouldn't create a total pool in our kitchen. Luckily, everything worked great. We now have the cleanest utensils and glasses that you ever did eat with.

We loved watching conference at home and enjoying the benefits of truth and technology. The nice thing about living in Hershey is that not every single neighbor in the complex is trying to watch conference online at the same time. This means we get high quality and can watch living prophets streaming live in our front room. It's a nice thing indeed.

A Few Fun Things

New water bottles. Mine's pink. Scott's is blue. So nice to not wash as many cups!


Flowers. Scott had this beautiful bouquet waiting for me after my conference last Saturday. They are so cheery and pretty!


New dishwasher. Sorry, no picture. We got it on craigslist and really really scored (price was under $100 and the thing is in great condition). The fellow who sold it to us even drove it over to our house in his truck. Nice people actually are everywhere.

Onesie from Katie. She made my bird design into felt! It's so adorable! She's opening up her etsy site soon so you can all get one as cute as mine.