Happy soon to be Easter!  It's always difficult to focus on Christ on Good Friday.  It's too hard to truely understand what he did and why.  It's a simple concept, but beyond my human understanding of love ( Read more... )

I can feel the baby move!!!!  I can finally tell!  I felt it last night, and Steve even felt it, and I felt it on the drive to work this morning!  It's so cool!  When I felt it this morning in the car I turned the radio off and started talking to my little one-- not sure if he or she can hear yet, but I think the hearing is developing, and then I ( Read more... )

Steve and I just got back from the doctor's and everything is great!  I had an ultrasound and the baby's heart is beating at 157 bpm!  He/she is also right on schedule, with a head to rump length at 2.5 inches, so my due date is still Sept. 13th.  Here's an ultrasound picture-- our little bean!!!!  It makes me want to cry!  I am so unbelievably ( Read more... )

How was everyone's Christmas ( Read more... )

I deleted the last entry because I remembered you can't search for a user on livejournal anymore, so it wasn't going to work.  Anyway, our wedding pictures are on Kodak's website, so if you would like to see them, send me your email and I will email the photo album to you.

Why I am super excited:  I just signed up for an online course through the ( Read more... )

If the wind is blowing 28 mph with gusts up to 36 mph and you are driving a truck up an enormous hill and you litterally don't have the strength to push the gas petal any harder and you are flying all over the highway...

You might be in Wyoming!

If you can't tell if you are sliding on black ice or the wind is pushing you into the next lane...

You ( Read more... )

There is more electricity in the dry winter air than there are sparks on the 4th of July!  Steve and I have had sparks when we kiss-- but it isn't fun, it hurts ( Read more... )

Well, I did it!  Turkey day turned out great and we had all the yummy fixens!  Our tree is decorated and there is one present under it already.  It is really starting to feel like family life, except we'd love to have a dog, and it makes me miss Hazel terribly.  It still hurts to think that after taking her to the shelter someone adopted her and ( Read more... )

As a new wife, I am going to make Thanksgiving dinner for my hubby and I.  It will be my first time.  I am determined to use the dutch oven my boss and coworker gave me as a wedding present and I can't find a turkey dutch oven recipe-- so I mixed and matched advise and what recipes I could find and this is what I came up with:

turkey breast
Kosher ( Read more... )

We are now ONLINE!!!!  If you love me at all, you will check out the website I created for my place of work-- I ROCK!  It took stinken forever to do, and it isn't nearly done (you'll notice many pages are under construction) and one picture is screwed up and my technical defficiencies are hindering me so I have no clue how to fix it, but I'm ( Read more... )