Holidays

We had a lot of fun during the holidays and were excited for a break from school for a bit. Here is how our holiday went.

Step 1. Christmas Decor. This is usually the first on my list and is done right after Thanksgiving but thanks to school and moving all our things into the basement apartment, our house was a plain disaster. You could call it decorating if that involved boxes and odds and ends EVERYWHERE! So I summed up some courage, cleaned and broke out some decorations about 4 days before Christmas. I always press Landon to get a tree but with three days to go I decided to improvise and go a little tropical this year. Thus I decorated our banana tree.

Step 2. Presents. Christmas is not as fun when you have to play Santa. I've got the bowl full of jelly down but as for knowing what to get Landon I was at a loss. So we just bought our own gifts then I wrapped them all. Wrapping came after I found them all, Landon liked to play with all his gifts once he purchased them so I had a little treasure hunt to find them all and wrap them back up for the big day.

Step 3. Food. This was the best this year! You know how when you have all the good food with the family that comes only one time a year and you eat until you can't eat anymore? Well I had that down pat plus I was ready to eat again every two hours. Needless to say I think the margin of leftovers this year compared to the last few was greatly diminished because of my willingness to help everyone out.

Step 5. PARTY! Landon and I had a blast this year. We were able to hang out with both families since they only live a 1 1/2 miles away. We played a lot and talked a lot. Then I was able to go with my parents to see the rest of my family in Boise. That was so fun for me. We are all getting spread out so it was good to all be together for a while.

Step 6. Post Party Depression. Well here I am at home by myself. No one to party with, no good food to eat, and a heck of a mess to clean up. It is almost a relief for things to slow down after two weeks of hard party but it is hard to say good bye to family and friends knowing it could be until next Christmas that I see some of them again. Overall the holidays were a blast, full of fun and memories that will last forever. I hope that everyone had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year!

It's true...

There is a little critter growing in my belly. I am currently 18 weeks (4 1/2 months) pregnant. Landon and I are pretty excited. It is starting to become more realistic because I can sometimes feel it move, other than that, and my pants getting tighter, things feel normal. It was not really a planned adventure but we will take it! The baby is due May 19th and I find out the sex January 8th. I bet some of you have a few questions for me...
Why did it take so long to share the news? Well I'm a little paranoid that once I share, something will go wrong, and I will have to un-share my news but now that I have a little bulge I would like to claim that as baby and not fat. (yeah right!)
How are you feeling? Things are great I can eat a lot better now so that is always a plus around all the yummy holiday foods.
Were you sick? Well I consider me not throwing up every day not being too sick. I hear about how much worse it can be for some people and am grateful for the little sickness I had. There were a few bad moments but they passed quickly.
I will post pictures when my husband is here to run the camera, I'm not sure I can get a pic of my profile alone. :) So there you have it...

Something to blog about...

Well I guess I have come up with a good blog story. So Landon and I have talked a few times about getting a heating blanket and we finally decided that we would drop the dough and get one. Landon was pretty excited and set it up and warmed up the bed and everything. So we go to bed and talk and then off to sleep. Well in the middle of the night I get kinda cold and I remember yay electric blanket! So I spin my dial (there are dual controls) from 2 to 6 and am ready for the warm fuzzies to come. Well they don't come.. Stupid thing! We paid enough for it to work for at least one night! I decide that instead of getting out of bed and finding an extra blanket I will just curl up and I will warm up. Nope still cold... I snuggle up to Landon and whine "Man your side is so warm!" He says "I know, I don't know how it could be, I keep turning it down!" I think about this for a second then exclaim "You poop! The dials are mixed up!" That is about all the excitement in the Stone family to fit in this post!

2 Years!

October 27th we celebrated our two year anniversary. It was not a huge celebration since we both had class in the morning and I had work until 5:30 but it was great! Landon bought me some very pretty flowers and made some yummy dinner and we just hung out together all night and did not worry about homework. It was so nice. We have always felt so lucky to have each other because we get a long really well. We have had a lot of fun in our first two years and are looking forward to forever.

October 27th is another special day. It's grandpa Jack's birthday! This year he turned 81. Most of the Stone family was able to get together to celebrate but none of us knew what surprise was coming. Jack is a retired air force col. He has led a very exciting life in the air flying spy planes. He is off the record the fastest man in flight. Well, last year we had a big celebration for his 80th and John Bagley, Grandpa's good friend arranged to have a few planes fly over the party. It was amazing. But this year John topped himself, he took grandpa for a ride one of his planes! This meant so much to us, the last time grandpa flew was with John just days before he was diagnosed with Parkinson's years ago. It was such a fun time for all of us!

This could only happen to me

Today at work the weirdest thing happened, I thought I was losing my mind! My phone would sound like it was vibrating but when I took it out of my pocket there was no reason for it to have gone off. Again I heard my phone buzz and took it out of my pocket and nothing.... What was going on?! Then I just happened to look at my pants and notice a little bump on my thigh. I pinched it thinking it was just a wrinkle when BUZZ! HOLY SMOKES! There was a bug in my pants! I tired to keep my cool because there were patients in the waiting area. I managed to say, in a voice much louder than intended, "I'll be back there is a bug in my pants!" I hurried to the bathroom and didn't even close the door all the way before I dropped my pants. What do you know a very angry bee flew out. With my pants around my ankles I tried to dodge its blows and managed to open the door enough for it to escape and give me time to get dressed before I made a full fledged attack back. Poor bee didn't last long down the hallway before he met his doom! I think he must have lost his stinger on his way up my pants because I never was stung. It was quite the adrenaline rush! These things could only happen to me!

School

Not only does each semester weigh on you mentally, but it really takes a toll on your pocket book! I hate that about school, its just so much debt. We are very proud of ourselves for getting this far but our work load is just getting harder through the years, I think within the first week of school I had to read 5 hours worth of material each night and be prepared to quiz in detail each day. Poor Landon has written at least 11 pages of work in the last week also. So we are very busy. But it is good for us to have the structure and to be able to someday use the knowledge we are getting. We feel so blessed to be able to attend this school and hope it will bless us in the future with job choices.

Do it yourself

When we were visiting family in UT Kamber had a do it yourself magazine that I thumbed through, I wanted some new ideas to decorate our living room. We have some really cute wedding pictures on our wall but at some point you get tired of looking at yourself on the wall for two years. So I bought some paint and some canvas art frames and used an idea out of the magazine. This is what I came up with. It is a little crazy and bright but it will be fun for a while. Then while the creative juices were flowing I got another wacky idea. I painted some branches to match the painting and stuck them in a vase... Maybe a little too much creative juice? Oh well it looks cool to us and we have to live here.