The reason I don't have a Christmas post.

I've been reading all of our friends and family Christmas and New Year's posts and I'm glad everyone had happy holidays. This year I got a horrible cough/cold sometime during the second week of December and spent most of the month in bed. I'm not over it yet, but I am trying to go to work and stuff again. The doctor said that because I am pregnant sometimes a cough can just seem to linger forever. Everything is still fine with the baby even though I lost 10 pounds between my first and second OB/GYN appointments. My Christmas decorations never really got put up. But now there is a lot less to take down. So that is a plus. Our Christmas cards never got written or sent so we'll have to do that better next year. Teddy was a good sport and made the desserts that were needed for my family Christmas parties and went to the parties by himself.

I was a consistently good couch potato for the month of December. (If you ever want a review of any Christmas movie on the Hallmark channel or ABC Family I think I saw every movie multiple times). I also know when all reruns of Extreme Home Makeover play. I'm a little nervous about this baby coming after watching a few too many episodes of The Nanny. I hate everything in my closet (that fits me anyway) because of watching too many episodes of What Not To Wear. And I am thrilled that I'm only expecting one child after watching Jon and Kate plus 8.

My house needs a desperate deep clean, and I have weeks of laundry to catch up on. My Mom came over a few times during the month to help out with some of the laundry and cleaned up my kitchen. I think my only New Year's resolution is to get my house clean and semi organized.

Now that I am slowly starting to feel better I'm more optimistic about the new year and hope every one's 2009 is a great year.

Tagged by Elisha

A survey brought to you by the number 7...

Seven things I can do:
1. Quote most Classic Disney movies verbatim, especially the songs.
2. Eat and use scissors with either hand.
3. Ride a sky ski, or air chair (whichever you happen to call it)
4. Tap dance (It's been a long time and my style has always been lacking but I can)
5. Dance in pointe shoes. (I haven't in a long time...but I can and did at one time)
6. Make my Great Grandma's secret chocolate chip cookie recipe. (Not everyone can make them right)
7. whistle (not everyone can ;) )

Seven things I can't do:
1. Keep the house clean (well I probably could if I tried harder but currently I can't)
2. Scuba Dive (Ted just got certified, but I can't and don't know if I want to)
3. Garden, all plants that I touch seem to die.
4. Speak with an accent...oddly I can sing with an accent sometimes.
5. roll my r's, never figured that one out.
6. fix a car (my husband can though)
7. sew, I probably could if I had help and I tried harder but I can't make the dumb sewing machine work.

Seven Things that attracted me to my boyfriend/husband:
1. His height
2. His love of reading
3. His sense of humor
4. His smile
5. His eyes
6. His love of dogs
7. His athleticism

Seven Things I say often:
1. I don't know
2. I don't care (both 1 and 2 are said mostly in reference to "What would you like for dinner?" I'm a very indecisive person)
3. I'm tired
4. I'm hungry
5. I don't feel good (3-5 are mostly pregancy things)
6. Sorry (I have a bad habit of apologizing for just about everything)
7. I love you (mostly directed at Teddy)

Seven people I admire:
1. My Mom
2. My Dad
3. Teddy
4. Tammy
5. Grandpa Smart
6. Grandpa Eves
7. Ryan

Seven favorite foods: Heh heh, favorite before or after being pregnant? ;) I'll list what sounds good right now. Most still apply to me in a non-pregnant state.
1. Fresh peaches (most any fresh fruit)
2. Fresh blueberries (most any fresh berries)
3. Cookie dough swirl ice cream
4. Chocolate Chip Cookies (with semi-sweet chocolate chips)
5. Homemade peach ice cream (though any homemade ice cream will do)
6. Butterscotch trifle (without nuts) Raspberry trifle is good too.
7. Rainbow Roll

Now I am probably supposed to tag seven people...hmmm. I don't think I will tag that many but I would like to know some of my friends answers of these same questions. So I'll tag...
1. Kaydee
2. Helena (if the new Mommy has time)
3. Erin (I don't think she posts enough....hehehe)

Exciting News!

I am pregnant! The doctor says my due date is July 3rd. Ted and I are definitely excited and scared. In seven months we will actually have to be (or at least pretend to be) adults. For something I have wanted my whole life, now that it is coming I'm really nervous. Luckily I still have several months to wrap my head around the idea.

BYU

Several weeks ago my friend Brittnie invited me to fly to Colorado and go to the BYU vs. Colorado State game at Colorado State. So I left Ted at home and went to visit her. It was a quick trip, I flew to Denver Saturday morning and flew home Sunday evening. Here are some pictures from of us from the game. Thank you Brittnie for the ticket, for giving me a place to stay the night, for feeding me while I was there, and for sending me the pictures. Happily, BYU did win that game though it was stressful for a while. I love BYU football!!

Whimsy Floral & Design

Today I was looking through my cousin's work blog. She was the floral designer for my wedding and she actually blogged my wedding twice. She has some great pictures, her flowers were probably one of my favorite parts of my wedding reception. I couldn't be happier with what she put together. She was even 39 weeks pregnant at the time, thank you Liz.

Here are the links:
http://whimsyfloral.blogspot.com/2007/09/stephanie-and-teddy.html
http://whimsyfloral.blogspot.com/2008/01/stephanie-revisited.html

Our Anniversary

Teddy and I decided we wanted to do something fun to commemorate our first anniversary. So Teddy made reservations at the Anniversary Inn and at Five Alls for dinner. He wanted to do something more as well and so on Saturday morning, September 27th, (our anniversary is actually on the 28th) we hopped in the car and drove down to American Fork canyon and went to visit Cascade Springs.

Teddy had been to Cascade Springs before but I hadn't. It is very beautiful.


It was a beautiful day to be out in the sun and enjoying nature.




The leaves were changing to their brilliant colors for the fall.


After Cascade springs we started to drive down Provo canyon and then headed through Heber to Park City where we had lunch. We ate at a restaurant called Good Thymes, they have amazing banana cream pie.

Then we drove back to Salt Lake to check into the Anniversary Inn. We stayed in the Treasure Island room and while we waited until it was time to go to dinner, we watched Muppet's Treasure Island. Cheesy...yes! But it totally fit the room. I'll go into more about the room later. We then went to dinner at The Five Alls. We had heard about this restaurant but neither of us had ever been there. It has a very cool Old English feel to it and they serve 5 courses. It is pretty expensive which is why we chose to go there for a special occasion. Check out their website at http://fivealls.com/

This is a picture from just inside the entrance to the restaurant.


Now back to our stay in the Treasure Island Room. The whole room is a ship. Here we have Captain Teddy.


I went straight for the treasure.


I also tried to climb the rigging.


Here is a picture of Ted sitting on the Starboard side of the bow. The seagulls were awesome.


But then he started to lose his balance.


And plummeted head first into the water.


This is him after he got back on board. He was very wet.


Thanks Teddy for a wonderful first year of marriage. Thank you for making me laugh and putting up with my quirkiness. Thanks for all your planning to make our first anniversary memorable. I love you so much.

Reminiscing

I was looking through the many blogs of my friends and family and I found Tyson and Julia's blog (Julia is Ted's cousin). Anyway, they took some amazing and beautiful pictures at our wedding. Here is the link. http://www.tysonandjulia.com/blog/?post_id=62
I think my favorite is the one of Ted showing off his ring.