Baby Alice

I recently spent the day at my sister Michelle's house. We had a fabulous lunch and I took a bunch of pictures of her new sweet baby girl Alice. She sure does move a lot! I have some pretty funny pictures with the faces she was making, but here are a couple of my favorites!

When ever we laid her down she never wanted to look at the camera but I think this one looks great.

Our Big News!

On December 17th I took the test and it didn't take the full 3 minutes to see that I am pregnant!

We are clearly super excited about this news. A question everyone has been asking is if we were trying and YES! We didn't want to wait any longer to make an addition to our family!
On January 27th I had my 12 week appointment and got to hear our baby's heart beat. For me that made it real and official. I'm really having a baby no doubt about it! So two days later on my birthday we told my family when they came over for cake and ice cream. I was surprised to see our clueless everyone was to our news. I don't have any pictures of that because John just took a video of there reaction. I'll post that soon.
Then January 31st we got to pick Max up from the airport after returning home from a 2 year LDS mission to Argentina! We spent the day catching up with him. We saved his christmas presents so he opened all of those and he gave us the souvenirs he brought back. One of the weirdest things he had was a mug made out of a cows hoof..

But after all of that we broke the news to the family and they were just as surprised and shocked as my family was! But finally what a relief the world knows!

Just about one week later when I was at 14 weeks I started to show! Good thing we told everyone when we did. Here's a picture of me at 14 weeks. I look bigger in a dress..

Happy Thanksgiving!

I just wanted to take this chance to let you all know some of the things I am grateful for. I'm grateful for my husband and that he is always understanding and loving. I'm grateful for my job and the people I work with. There are a lot of people without jobs out there and struggling to support there families. I need to remember that when times are hard and we are struggling that we really have a great life. I'm grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ and the knowledge I have of the Plan of Happiness! And the knowledge that I am sealed to my husband and family for eternity! What a great blessing! And I'm also grateful to go thru trials so that I can learn the good.

I hope everyone has a great Thankgiving!

Fitness..

So me and John decided that we are fat... haha We have just noticed that in this past year we have put on the pounds and we hate it! We have both gained about 20 lbs, individually.. It's amazing how much 10 lbs can make a difference. So we've decided that we are going to work out every night, because we are to lazy to get up early, and do some kind of workout. And we've decided to take turns being in charge of the workout. It's been pretty fun and sucks at the same time. The first night I was in charge and we did dancer-stretched and push ups, sit ups, crunches, etc... And I have to say I never thought John would be so open to stretching like that. I couldn't stop laughing the whole time the look on his face was awesome. I felt like I was back on the team and the girls were always watching the boys cry when doing killer splits! Not that John was crying he actually never complained, but I could tell it wasn't the most pleasant experience for him. I just have to say I have the most amazing husband! He will do anything for me to make me happy! And this work out was proof of that!

Halloween

This Halloween was a lot of fun! My sister-n-law Michelle had a little party with the family. We made carmel apples, watched a scary movie and had some yummy pizza.

David dressed up as Luigi..

John just looked like a zombie or something gross... haha

On actual Halloween day I did my mother-n-laws make up! It looked so real. She is a school nurse and she said all the kids thought it was real and really creepy! I think she had a lot of fun with it.

I just did some fun make up..

We had a pumpkin contest at work again and finally this year I won!! Got me some movie tickets! I did the three little green alien toys from Toy Story. All the little kids new exactly what they were.

John painted his pumpkin as an infinite Mario game. The old classic Mario! I think he did a really good job!

We also carved pumpkins with some friends. Mine is the cat and John's is of course the jeep!

Mini Pizza Dinner

Tonight me and John experimented on a new thing for dinner.. They are kind of like mini pizza's. They were so good! As soon as John ate the last one he said he wanted more.

All we did was take Pillsbury crescents rolls put whatever topping we wanted, rolled them up and cooked them according to the package of the rolls.

Her are all the toppings we put in our mini pizzas. Each roll is a little different.

-sausage

-ham (deli)

-mushroom

-olives

-onion

-cheese

In the time it took John to cut all that cheese and..... stack it.. I cut everything else. haha

We could have put spaghetti sauce in it but I think it would have been really messy to roll them up. I was thinking of using it for dipping sauce but we forgot to get it out. We used ranch instead.
It was a fun dinner to make together and super delicious!! Well definitely make this a regular meal at our house!!

Mission Reunion

This last weekend we had a mission reunion for my President and Sister Smith part of my mission. I had some great memories with them and loved seeing them again! It really feels like being with family when I'm with them. Here are a few pictures of some wonderful people from my mission.

In this picture is President and Sister Smith and some of my favorite sisters including some companions.

Sister Smith (my other mother)

President Smith (mi papi)

I love the reaction on their faces when Gaby jumped in the picture. Please ignore the face I'm making, yuck!

Elder Colton and Elder Merchant (it's still to weird to use their first names..) They were in my MTC district. Best district ever!! They are like brothers to me.

Me and Gaby De Alba. We were companions for 9 months in two different areas!

I love them!

I love mission reunions! I didn't get to say hi to everyone I wanted to, there was so much going on it seemed. They had a contest for the best Texan. And there was an announcement that Elder Lusk is engaged to Garnet Smith!! Wahoo!!