harry potter lovin



just came back from seein harry potter and the deathly hallows (part 1)!!

i'm a hardcore fan since the beginning, more a fan of the books than the movies.  the movies are just something fun for me to watch and see how they adapted the book.

i'm usually one of THOSE people who love going to the midnight showings (never did dress up though) but this time being with child i'm learning that the baby doesn't really let me do a lot of the things i used to do before and it controls my sleep schedule now.  that's pretty much how parenthood's gonna be huh?

anywho, the movie was really good i thought and i won't give anything away telling you about it.  but this penultimate segment of the series was more of an explanation than a lot of action.  i dragged brett with me and we also had steve and gwen along with us.  they all haven't read the book and i could tell with them that the movie seemed a bit slow.  def reading the book has helped, knowing it's gonna be action packed and in your face in the next segment, which is coming out next july 15th!!  so yeah this film did pretty good explaining the story as to what the deathly hallows are and the characters' involvment with them.

effects were amazing, which seemed to get better with each movie.  one thing i'm a little tiffed at is this one scene featuring 2 of the main characters harry and hermione.  it's a scene thats totally in the book but it's just how they portrayed it and i thought it was a little inappropriate and weird.  i'm sure a lot of you have heard of the "controversial scene" already.  i'm not really offended, just annoyed the producers felt the need to film it that way.  i read an article saying that perhaps the last harry potter film needs to have the same "stylized and romantic" crap twilight has i guess.  lame, yeah i've never seen twilight but from what i've heard about it, it sounds lame.  also with the harry potter movies, i think harry could've been a lot hotter.  and i've felt that way since film one.

now that the final HP movies are coming out i want to get the WHOLE set (ALL 7 films) on BLU-RAY.  we don't have a blu-ray player yet but i know it's gonna be so sick watching it on one.  i know the HP set's gonna cost like, a million dollars, but that'll be my year present-birthday, mother's day? , half birthday, and Christmas.

nerd signing off. 

thankful for my parents

today, i'm SUPER grateful for my darling and cute parents.

they love my sisters and i so much and they were and still are the best parents.

anytime i need help they're there for me.

my mom ALWAYS answers the phone when i am in dire need, such as what i should make for dinner that night or when i have an urgent question pertaining to my rapidly changing pregnant body.

when my parents first had me my dad worked 2 jobs so that my mom could stay home and take care of me.  they also didn't wanna have to put me in some kind of daycare. 

and i will always be so grateful for that.

and now that i'm pregnant i look back often on how my parents raised me and i hope to be as good a parent as they were.

i have such hardcore dedicated parents and have always felt truly blessed to have them.

(i can't wait to see them as grandparents, i know for sure they're gonna spoil the crap outta my kids.)

a little heartbeat

15 weeks.

today i had a baby appointment and it was my third one so far.  we didn't do an ultrasound this time but we got to listen to the heartbeat again.  and it feels SOO good to hear it.  it was fast and really healthy.  we could also hear some other thumps which turned out to be the baby kicking!  i couldn't feel the kicks at the time but i swear i've felt a few at night when i'm lying still in bed.  one time i sneezed and right after were these 3 little "knocks" in my tummy.  the feeling of being pregnant as of right now i would describe as a really big toot that just won't come out.  sleeping has been really uncomfortable.  nausea isn't as bad now that i'm in my 2nd trimester but i still have my barfy days.  seriously i'd rather have it once in a while than every freaking day.  also as of right now the random bouts of dizziness has been sucking.  next baby appointment we find out what we're having. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

being the month of thanks, everytime i blog i shall end with something i'm thankful for.

and today, i'm extremely thankful for a healthy fetus and its strong heartbeat.  ♥  

well the rabbit has died...

which was an old school way of saying,

I'M PREGNANT

if we're friends on facebook then i'm sure you've already heard the news.  if not, we should be friends.

i am about 14 weeks along and hitting my 2nd trimester.  and the first trimester was truly brutal.  we found out at the end of august and i still hadn't gotten my "monthly gift" and didn't think anything of it.  i still had the last week of august for it to come but i started having really bad pains in myyyyy....well lets just say i honestly thought i had breast cancer and we went to the health center on campus to get me checked out.  the doc asked me my symptoms and she said, "well, perhaps you're pregnant and lets have you take a preg. test before we test for anything else."  pregnancy sure does sound a lot better than the cancer of the breast.  and before i knew it i peed in a cup and sure enough there was a something a-cookin in my womb.  i was about 5-6ish weeks along at that point.  i remember feeling so nervous and in disbelief.  i've been wanting to get pregnant but when i actually was, it's just the craziest feeling when you find out.  brett and i couldn't stop looking and smiling at each other the whole day.

we are just absolutely thrilled and feel truly blessed.  again though, first trimester kicked my butt.  now that i'm a vessel carrying my child i tried eating SUPER healthy and drinking water like it's going out of style.  and i really HATE water.  i think it's boring and would be better with a cup of sugar and a kool-aid packet added to it.  around week 7 is when the dreaded nausea started kicking in.  from week 7 to week 10 i was throwing up every blessed day.  and from then on i was sick about every other day.  but every time i've thrown up it's been a little comforting to me knowing that the baby is healthy.  i've been trapped in my house, not even able to get up and walk around cuz i had really bad dizziness also.  i even started blacking out in the shower.  i was stinky and barfy and dizzy.  brett has taken the best care of me.  i'm so blessed to have him.  i've felt so bad for him though cuz he's always busy with school and work, but he takes the time to at least make me eat something when i refused and is there to make sure i didn't pass out in the shower.  brett and i thought that back in july was the best time that i left jamba.  i would NOT have been able to handle all the different smells and runnin around.  so i spent my time very productively by hovering over the porcelain throne spewing out my latest meal or glued to the couch watching the extended editions of the lord of the rings, which i watched twice, plus the 6hr special features of each one.  and yeah, that's how i spent my first trimester.    pretty sure most of my ward probably thinks i'm inactive cuz i could never make it to our 9.30 church.

i've been in my 2nd trimester for just a few days now and i can already tell a difference.  i've really only been nauseous just in the mornings till i eat something and usually i'm fine.  i hope to go out with brett a little more, go to church for once in my life, enjoy the fall weather before it starts snowing, and get a little more exercise.  i'm starting to get a little paunch for a tummy yet i've lost a few pounds due to barfing all those weeks.  i'm hoping to get more of an appetite back cuz eating just feels like a nuisance and is never fun anymore!

here's to hoping!

 and here are the ultrasounds i've been waiting weeks to put up!  i'm about 11 weeks in these pics.

brett and i think this one looks like rocky balboa, ready to box.

for the win

blehhhhh i feel like i haven't blogged in such a freakin long time when really its just been 2ish weeks.  i try to blog like, once a week but lately, ABSOLUTELY nothing has been going on.  it's brett's last semester and he's been working so hard in school.  he's doing his capstone and emphasis class at the same time and it's been kicking his butt.  it is of course his hardest and busiest semester ever.  most days of the week he's seriously gone from early in the morning to about 5pm.  then he meets with some classmates to work on homework together for a few hours in the evening.  i try not to complain too much about not getting to see him often when i think about my friends' husbands who are gone for loooooong periods of time.  i could not handle that.  

some recent and exciting news for my family is that my youngest sister erin just became homecoming queen!  i'm SOO proud of her.  she's grown up to be such a beautiful young lady who has become so outgoing in school and has become quite the popular one (darn her), which is more than i can say for myself.  we moved to WV when i was just starting 9th grade, kyla was starting middle school, and erin was in elem. school.  i felt like i was thrown into school hardly knowing anybody.  i was super shy and was just a band nerd.  thank goodness for the church, where seminary helped me to make friends with my fellow lds peeps.  but erin got to grow up with her friends and she became the ultimate band nerd yet she was cool.  she was drum major for 2 years, being head drum major for her last year of high school.  i love her so much and know that she'll do awesome things in her future.  she wants to be a fashion designer of some sort, so i can see her designing some hot stuff.      

congrats again doll.  you do the family proud.

but no matter how cool you are, i'll always know how much of a dork you were, are, and always will be.

love you tons hunny bunzz ♥

a baby shower for gwen

the time had come where i got the opportunity to throw one of my best friends a shower (a bridal or baby shower that is.) and so for my first party to throw, it was a baby shower for my bff gwen.

well i actually co-hosted the party with my other bff katie and thank freakin goodness i had her.  having someone else to plan this with was a huge stress reliever.
here's some of the delicious highlights of the partay!

we made/slaved over cake balls!  this is my 2nd attempt so i'm still working on perfecting them.  we tried putting them on lollipop sticks like the fabulous bakerella but it just didn't work! arghhhhhh it was so annoying.  whatever, perhaps next time.

check out this baby i made!  pretty sure its one of the most amazing yet annoying things i've ever made.  this is just one of those things you look at and say, "whoa i never thought i'd make a watermelon baby carriage."  i just have to say, i'm so proud of myself.  is that so wrong?

katie and i made this freaking cute diaper cake.  we tried the "smooth icing" look and it was really fun figuring it out.  and i think it worked out beautifully!  katie and i, not experienced in buying diapers, didn't realize they were green till we opened the box but we figured it didn't look too bad.

some of the games we had was the "find the small safety pins in the rice" game and it turned out to be a lot harder for the girls than they thought.  i remember playing this game at some relief society baby shower i went to years ago with my mom.

another game we did was decorating onesies!  we bought just enough onesies for each girl to decorate one.

   throwing this shower helped give me confidence knowing that i could maybe throw more of these in the future.  now all we're waiting for is for baby sienna moa to arrive!

i found it.

i just found the bestest, my most favoritest, and cutest picture i've ever seen.  (i know some of the words i used to describe this sweet pic doesn't exist but it's so true)

elephants are my ULTIMATE favorite animal and looking at this makes me wanna snuggle with a baby elephant.  the little boy is adorable too but the baby elephant has won my heart.