One tired puppy

Kobe was pretty pooped out after all the excitement these past few days.

A-hunting we did go!!

The family had an awesome time hunting for a Christmas tree this past week. The day was perfect and sunny and there was plenty of snow to make it fun! (and we managed to only get one vehicle stuck....) Even little Banksie had fun exploring the snow that went up to his knees. We found a great tree and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

Right Hand Ring

I now own a right hand ring...it just so happens to be my wedding ring! My fingers have begun to shrink due to my pregnancy. It happened to my sister, too. But it's funny because most women's fingers start to swell and they can't wear their wedding rings because they'll get stuck. Lucky for me, my right ring finger is slightly beefier than my left so I can remain legitimately prego for a while longer. :)

Snow Dog!!

he looks a little demonic but the red-eye thing on my computer doesn't work on huge eyes i guess.

So its snowing. And Snowing....Kobe likes the snow, as you can see! He pretends he's a rescue-dog or something because he goes around the backyard and smells the snow. Like he's looking for something. As for me, I like the snow when I'm home. Driving in it is another story. Apparently Orem city had a few budget cuts this year, one of which was the snow-plows because NONE of the roads I traveled were plowed, and the only managed to get to the free-way by this afternoon. This morning was a joke. Anyway, it's pretty and I'm going to invest in an ice-scraper because mine disappeared...I have to make due with a sock (don't know how that got in my car) and a plastic bag. Which is actually a pretty good set-up when there isn't ice.

Today's events

sorry it's a little blurry. my camera is pretty cool and i'm too lazy to fix it.

Today was the most active I've been in a few weeks so I figured I'd let you in on how it went:

Well, after completing a day at work I was walking out to my car and completely wiped out on the grass in the snow! I fell FLAT ON MY BACK and just laid there for second laughing at myself. It was all in slow motion too, I remember saying, "Ohhhhhhhhh Nooooooooooooo!" as I fell. Good news, it was in nice fluffy snow on the grass. And I don't think anyone was in the parking lot with me, although they would've got a good laugh!

I went home and got my doggie to go visit grandpa and nanna. Mostly because I had nothing else to do. Well, on the way he accidentally rolled his window down. It wasn't that cold and I figured he'd be happy for a while so I let it go. But I was in the middle of a conversation with Brian on my phone and not paying much attention. In my head I was thinking, "gosh, its kinda loud. I better roll that window up," and I did. Kobe, however, was still hanging out of it so he pretty much screamed and I started busting up on the phone because I just rolled my poor doggie up in the window! I think mostly it scared him and he fell off the seat but he crawled over to my lap and laid there like he about died. It was sad, but mostly funny.

So I visited with my dad when I got to their house. We had cocoa and talked about stuff and it was nice. I told him about my snow angel dive and rolling up the dog in the window and he thought that was pretty funny. I hung out there for a while, talked with my mom when she came home, and headed home myself.

Then I made cookies!! Actually, I baked them because I made them earlier in the month and froze half the batch in ready-to-cook balls. And they turned out awesome! I put some in bags and now i'm headed to visit teach and give them as gifts to my two comp's.

the end.

6 Months!

I've made it to the six-month mark. Crazy, huh? So I figured I'd honor the day by taking a tummy shot. A little scandalous, I know, but I had on that dang black shirt again--its too hard to see the stomach. But so far, the little dude is doing well. He's kicking more and more and has some serious range. He can now hit me on the front side and my backside at the same time, which is pretty trippy. I've gained weight too so the doctor is happy. As I enter my THIRD trimester I think to myself, "HOLY CRAP!!!" :) that about sums it up.

LexisNexis Christmas Par-tay!

Look at those poker faces...we're pro's. It's a good thing the dealers helped us know how to play!

My company threw it's "End of the Year Celebration" this past week. It was actually really fun. They served a lovely dinner from UVU's upscale restaurant and then we got to "gamble" the night away! They gave us all 1,000 bucks worth of chips and had dealers for Blackjack, Texas hold em, and a Crap's table (is that really how you spell that?) We spent the night with Texas hold em and kolt did pretty well at first, then he lost mostly everything. The people with the most chips at the end (value-wise, of course) got prizes, then the rest of us had the normal raffle drawing. We didn't win anything but It was fun to get dressed up and pretend to know how to play poker.