false alarm

we didn't find out what we were having yesterday.

:(

but did hear the sweet heartbeat and doc said it sounded perfect.. i'm happy with that for now.

but still DYING to know. understatement 

stay tuned.. 

going back in 2 weeks and he promised we'd know "FOR SURE".

i GUESS i'll survive til then.. 

i could use a lesson of patience anyway.

happy weekend my friends.

happy birthday Kamryn

Our cute little niece, Kamryn, turned 1 last weekend

Its always a good time to get together with the CALL crew,

its been so fun to be close to both our families the last few weeks!

All my CALL GIRLS

CALL sista's

Kam went to town on her birthday cake. Hilarious.

Love that sweet girl.

Happy Birthday!

**babe update**

have a mentioned we are so excited.. ecstatic.. thrilled?!?!

this is going to be the longest pregnancy of all time.. yes.. longer than any of yours ;)  ha.. kidding.  

but we are just so ready to have our friend here with us and to meet him/her already.

i'm so impatient already.. i know.. not good right.. cuz we still have a LONG TIME.

everyone says to just enjoy the last few months we have as a couple.. and i'm sure we are slightly naive.. but we are so ready to take on this responsibility and to see our family grow. 

i can't read enough about this miracle of a process.. 

the more i am educated about pregnancy and what happens each day/week with our little person, the more i am blow away at how incredible and "not of this world" it truly is. 

 (i know.. i've joined that group that is pregnant and can't blog without mentioning something about it.. and i'm not gonna lie... that probably won't change... its pretty all-consuming, and i'm in love with it all) 

... we have an appointment tomorrow and they are going to try to tell us what we are having ...

ahh.. i haven't been able to sleep for a week thinking about it!! 

i'm going to go ape wild if they can't tell us tomorrow.. 

i'm not sure i could wait even another day!

so stayed tuned and i'll update y'all tomorrow ;)

Jeremy says he's 100% sure its a girl

I'm 100% sure its a boy

and we have absolutely no preference either way.. 

just feelings we both have..

so.. we'll see who is more spiritually "in tune". ha. can you imagine?!

any guess on what it will be??????? 

the holiday fever and weather is in the air isn't it?! oh.. there is NOTHING like this time of year.. LOVE! 

cruisin'

Another year of summer sales has come and gone.. 

can't say i'm ever too sad to say those words.

But I do want to say GREAT JOB to my husband for finishing a GREAT summer, our BEST summer by far.. in SO many ways! Not everyone has it in them to do this job, and do it as well as Jeremy does... so so so proud of him.

 He deserves to be bragged about.. and i'll be the woman for the job.

We just got back from a company cruise with NorthStar to the 

BAHAMAS!

....ahh.... 

being there is truly like escaping reality

The whole Northstar crew on formal night.

what a ridiculously fun group!

northstar ROCKED the freakin boat on halloween costume night. 

such awesome costumes all round

germ & me 

.... aka .... 

mr&mrs INCREDIBLE 

oh.. but there wasn't just 2...

nothing crazy was about the go down on the fascination carnival ship with us

  6 incredibles on board!

(cassi, caleb, cameron, betty, me, jeremy)

A few of us took a sail boat ride out to snorkel for the day. 

Other than my 3-4 x-large gulps of sea water through my snorkel mask.. 

the tropical critters and the whole experience did not disappoint. 

amazing. 

oh the water. i could stare all day. 

that is the ATLANTIS hotel behind us.. beautiful.

and of coarse the cute towel animals cruises are famous for..

a few girlies on formal night

Cam & Jeremy made betty & I a siamese mermaid fin 

we did one side of the egyptian pyramid sand castle.. betty & cam did the other

we had a good 5-6 hour lay over in Atlanta on our way back to Utah.. 

so we took a cab with meradith and jason to see 

"cloudy with a chance of meatballs" in 3D

... lets just say we are glad meradith is still with us after the cab ride back to the airport...

we almost experienced the movie "taken" first hand

glad you're okay girl.. glad you didn't die choking on your water... and glad we didn't wet our pants from laughing so hard.. wouldn't want to contaminate that mr.clean cab seat.

oh good times. lots o' laughs. great friends. fantastic weather. out of this world scenery. mediocre food. raving drunk lunatics. good shows (minus purple rain, "my girl" karaoke guy, and bare bottom dancers) 

all in all..

we couldn't have asked for a better time.

**and thank you to ALL my cute cute friends for you're sweet comments. we are just overly excited about our lil one on the way ;)    i can't even talk about it without tearing up a bit... 

what a blessing...what an out of this world experience it has been already. 

 

 

we can't wait...

..to meet our little friend 

the beginning of May!! 

...almost 12 weeks...

birthday boy

Happy Birthday Germany!

27 years old... you ole toot.

I was looking through pictures today and ran across these treasures..

and realized I've never shared them before.

Before we moved to Indiana Jeremy had one of his sweet/thoughtful moments and had rose petals up the stairs leading to the bathtub with flowers in front of a bubble bath ready just for me! (bubble baths = my obsession)

cute/romantic right?

that's what i thought ...

until he asked to get in with me.. 

before i could answer him.. he jumps in ...

shirt, shorts, socks and all.

I of coarse fly out of the tub with disgust that his dirty socks were in there with me.. and leaped to grab my camera.

.... when i came in to get a picture of him.. he had proceeded to put shaving cream ALL over his face/body (cloths still on). 

to sum it up.. 

he completely lost his mind.

one of the funniest things i've ever witnessed.

Lil' birthday celebration..

So we've been planning on hitting up the Melting Pot all summer, so no better occasion that germs birthday. Cassi and I both remember not liking the main coarse, so we decided to swing by our beloved TACO BELL  for dinner and then go to the Melting Pot for cheese/dessert.

But after enjoying a chalupa and taco...

 the boys looked at the menu at the melting pot, and decided we better try IT ALL.

to say the least..

WE ATE WAY TOO MUCH TONIGHT.

but it was delicious.. and the company was fabulous like always..

thanks for going with us Cassi & Caleb!

 

(our taco bell run right before melting pot)

hope you had a great day my friend. 

happy happy birthday.

i love you.

too much.

our little friend..

the praying mantis...

jeremy caught him and brought him home today and we played with him for a bit.

isn't he so cool?! 

the BIGGEST one i have EVER seen for sure. 

OTHER than spiders OF ANY KIND... 

(most)insects, animals, mammals..etc.. are probably in my top 5 love interests

ANIMAL PLANET

DISCOVERY CHANNEL

PLANET EARTH

... it all just amazes me ...

FUN FACT

 (that most of you already probably know..)   

Father penguins are the ones that sit on the eggs as they are waiting to hatch as the mothers go out and hunt for food.  Well, in Antarctica when the retched snow storms come in sheets of like 10 feet of snow (sometimes all in one night), the fathers continue to sit on the eggs instead of saving themselves, so are therefore buried alive in the snow. These fathers have a natural instinct to protect there little friends come rain or shine (or snow)... even if it means death.  So when the snow melts there is just literally MILLIONS of father penguins skeletons where they sacrificed their life for their babes.  How sad.. but how cute?  I have to admit they have had that documentary on the animal planet twice, and I watched it just as intently the second time around.. just in awe of those cute, yet stinky little critters. If you haven't seen it.. its worth watching (despite what jeremy would tell you!)

ok.. 

well we went from praying mantis's to penguins .. pretty much sums up my random mind. 

(stay tuned next time for my obsession with dolphins! oh i love! Just to give you the magnitude of my passion.. i cried at the sea world dolphin show.. just a serious sensory overload.. with all the dolphins, trapeze artists, cockatoos all blazing at the same time! You know what i'm talking about! 

Then not to mention swimming WITH them on our honeymoon... okay.. i'll stop, or i'll be here all night telling you how they are therapeutic mammals, and therapists honestly do SEND people and REQUEST them to swim with the dolphins as therapy sessions. true story.)

 

you bored yet?

not me.. my adrenaline is just a rush'n just talkin about this goodness.

Until next time on ... THE "CALL" OF THE WILD....

have a good one & ta ta 

oh Idaho..

it was good to see you!

I must say, this was the lamest picture-taking trip to Idaho, but oh... it never disappoints to revive my spirits to be home!

met up with some of my girls for dinner

(we missed the rest of you.. we'll give you more notice next time!)

michelle, ness, chels

sweet kami & lanae

roast'n mollow's with the girls at the calls

Kamryn

innocent water balloon toss with the fam turned into this..... poor nancy

trapped bw her two sons

 

 my mom in action.. she is a librarian at Iona Elementary.. and she is the cutest ever.

She decorates her whole library and 3 bulletin boards for EVERY season. 

isn't her 3D tree cute.

The kids LOVE her... what's not to love.

how about that chilliness in the air?!

happy FALL  friends!