You'll never guess what I heard...

...my baby's heartbeat! Yes, that is right, I am pregnant. I just had my first ultrasound and heard the little Kumquat's heartbeat. We are very excited. It was such a relief to know that everything is perfect and developing right on schedule.




Here are a few answers I know you will ask:

10 weeks.
November 17.
No not really, just tired. I feel lucky to not be puking my guts out!
Yes, we are excited.
No, we aren't too scared.

Mel's reaction to the pregnancy test: "I knew it!" And then I had to tell my baby niece McKenzie. I had to tell someone that wouldn't tell everyone else!

Ben's reaction to the cake in the fridge: Open fridge. Shut fridge. Nervous laughing...open fridge again. "Are you serious?" More nervous laughing... "I better go finish the garage so I can build a crib!"

Jan's reaction to the Golden Easter egg: Near tears. Very excited and shocked. I don't think she said much other than "Ooohh! Congratulations!"

Luanne's reaction to email of Ben's cake (of course I am on the phone to hear her reaction): Scream! "You gotta come see this! Come here, come here, come here!" Then laughing and excitement turned to a little bit of scolding... "Did you know when you were down here in Utah?"

And yes we did know but we had to make sure it stuck! Well, there is definitely a little baby in there with a strong little heartbeat.

Can you believe Ben is gonna be a Daddy?

Nobody likes a tease

Get your minds out of the gutter. I am talking about Washington Weather! What the? We have had 70 degree weather for the past three days but I wake up today to 40s? It is dark, cold and wet. The sun is gone. Spring is gone. I still walked Sadie but the flowers were closed and the cherry blossoms are freaking out. Half of the blossoms have fallen off and the other half are hangin' on by little threads.
I was hoping to celebrate Earth Day outside but I am back inside with the heater on. I can't believe I was in shorts getting a sunburn less than 24 hours ago. Sadie was swimming in the lake and today even she doesn't want to get up out of bed.

Mr. Weather don't tease us. Please give us back the sun.

Nielsen Hawaii Trip countdown: 1 month, 1 week and 4 days!

"Is your refrigerator running?"

Do you remember when phone pranks used to be funny and innocent? Remember, when kids in school rarely cussed and if they did they didn't dare do it in front of adults.

It wasn't that long ago that I was a kid. One of those kids, prank calling trying to be funny. Some of our jokes were a little dirty but compared to now they were sweet and innocent.

At midnight last night I got a phone call. Of course, I get up out of bed if you call my house in the middle of the night. It might be an emergency, right? Well, it was not an emergency.

Me: "Hello"
Punk Kid: "Hey, baby"
Me: "Who is this?
Punk Kid: "We just met outside, you still want to F#@*?"

I was so bugged! If that was a prank call that was not funny and if he had the wrong number, how degrading!

I just hope the next generation of women have more respect for themselves than to go out with stupid punks that treat them like a piece of meat. I hope my young women don't give in to a booty call like that.

Just makes me sick.

You are never too old...

for a Princess Birthday Cake!

I love to drag out the celebration as long as I can. Saturday I went shopping with Jan and then went out to dinner with the Mortons (which I like to pretend is strictly for my birhday although it really is just a traditional after-the-Priesthood session meal and ice cream.) Then Sunday we had ice cream cake and Jan cooked us dinner. It was a relaxing day watching conference and laying around.



Monday I got my flowers from my sisters. Thanks Sisters for the loverly springy flowers. Then Ben got me a new camera! He is so sweet. Now we are going to go shopping and spend the evening together.

I got lots of love, calls and cards. Thanks for all the Birthday love!