2 hot 2 handle

so glad we were MFEO.

you are my Hottie McTrottie.

Let's be married.


(sorry i ruined your surprise scavenger hunt by going straight to the microwave to heat up soup for breakfast before doing anything else...  working the hunt backwards was way funner anyway!)

way back wednesday

lookin' through old pics, not much else to do.

(actually i have about 12 decent sized things to do on my white board to-do-list)

here are a few old funny things to look at... sometimes this blog is just for me to look at, and then i remember that other people read it too. so hope you're having a super boring day!

the time i made kami eat 6 corndogs with me. we were moving out and needed to clean out the freezer.

the time kristi did something really really naughty.  yeah, that's a plunger. and yeah, it was just used.

the time when we couldn't take a picture at all.

the time i was gangsta and we fell in love.

the time i told them 'nobody brings tents to mmt (massive moab trip)!  we all just sleep under the stars on big ol' tarps and it's awesome!'  well, in 2009, everybody else brought tents. which was not awesome. we didn't, and not only did we not have enough blankets for 4 people in 40 degree nighttime weather, but we also didn't have any soft things to sleep on.  i also missed every single shooting star that the others saw.  on the plus side, i did get to technically have a sleepover with damon (though i was also right next to my now bro in law and another girl...)- scandal!

ahh, it's good to reminisce, friends.  

now, if you are REALLY bored, go ahead and read this. some of the comments are pretty witty. my favorite might be

"Jimmer once beat Michelle in a game of connect-4.  He won of course... in 3 moves"

or

"Jimmer was once on the Maury Povich show.  At the end of the show, Maury announced, 'Jimmer, you are the father of the 1972 Miami Dolphins!'"

poor girl, she had no idea what was coming to her. 

Dear Sara

i can't wait any longer either. 

seriously, one more night like last might warrant a trip to the bin. 

plus damon seems to think i'll go into labor any minute sometimes, which is why i just got this email:

   hey babe, I'm just emailing you to let you know that my phone is dead, so I hope you don't go into labor. If you do and really need to get a hold of me you can call jaime. He should be in choir with me. i love you and see you in an hour and a bit

he must have forgot that while we video-chatted a couple hours ago i dropped my phone in the hole.  (side storey, the hole is the place at the bottom of the crack between your bed and the wall.  i learned this freshman year in the dorms.  i may or may not have been stuffed in a hole there.)  and it is still down there. like i'm about to get down and crawl under the bed. 

in other exciting news (and to try to get away from that TOPIC for a bit (you know, watching the water boil, or something), we are fairly confident that we are going to utah for spring break.

i

am

so

excited.

thank you damon for being a student, so we can have things like spring break, and summer vacation, again... i cannot wait to get back on that grid system, eat like 22 kneaders salads, have a sweet tooth cupcake, see my sister and my lovely friends that i've missed so much, experience spring in utah (once i fell in love during spring in utah. i was one of those people... and look where it got me!)

anybody enjoy the superbowl last night? no? yeah, me much either. we got to hang out with some fun friends who aren't in our ward (woah, we're branching out?!?!) and eat a lot of great food. but the game was kinda dull. i didn't really care much for either team, and the commercials weren't worth the millions either.  but those cupcakes, and wings and diet coke with lime... mmm... we brought pioneer woman's mexican layer dip  (yeah, the same stuff everybody makes, but i like knowing that i looked at pdub's site as i made it, and also that i added hot sauce too) and it was so good!  we even brought home like a third of it, and we are having it tonight with chicken burritos and mexican rice, oh yum!

and. tomorrow the high is 6 degrees. the low is negative something or other. when is it gonna be spring?  

we live on the top floor of our building.  at least once a day, there is a loud LOUD noise above us.  like, the sound of somebody jumping off the bed. or dropping a 60 pound box on the floor, you know?  and we are so nervous/scared every time.  there are no trees that reach across our building, so no falling branches to blame.  just now something crashed again, and i'm all alone and scared. good thing the bachelor is starting, so i have something to distract me!  (ugh!  yes, i somehow got sucked into the bachelor!  i've never watched a whole season before!  and it's horrible!)

last night was a really really. really. long night. painful. every time i rolled, my pelvis cracked. something is hurtfully wrong somewhere in my middle-to-the-right back. and on top of that, the knuckle i cheese-gratered hurt a lot and the leftover bandaid marks stuck to the bed- gross.

then this morning...

i could see my ribcage. even the bottom. if that's not the most glorious thing you can see at 39 weeks and 35 pounds up, i don't know what is.  my once small wrists have gained a pound each, and my collerbone has been awol for months and the only pair of boots that fit are the ones i got at 7+ months preggo.

but.

somebody is moving down south.

stay tuned for a way more exciting post later this evening. promise.

cause this was a lame excuse of a post for #300. but i had to share.

photobooth...

 mr. mac's photobooth...

The Happy Valentine's Wreath.  

Out and hanging on our breaker box in the kitchen.  I might decorate more for Valentine's, but this year I've got something bigger to look forward to...

The first night in our apartment here in Iowa

Tang, and a free Papa Murphy's pizza.  And the toilet paper and TV- the only essentials we had. 

The best tortilla soup ever.  I feel like making some right now.  But we don't have chicken. Or avacados.  Bummer.

A swirly mouth.

36/3

Starting to get painful to sleep, turn from side to side in bed, have to get up 4 times a night to use the restroom, pull those boots on (Thanks Damon)

38/2

Favorite current outfit options: this really huge target henley, and Damon's gray sweatpants.  It's too uncomfortable to try to pull on jeans, especially if Damon isn't home.  And shoes?  I can barely cross my leg over my knee to get them on- really, my leg just falls back down.  

Less than 2 weeks, right? 

Awkward:
 -typing what i'm thinking instead of what i mean to type. today i sent an email to a girl in our ward with the subject "cookie tomorrow" instead of "cooking tomorrow".  yeah, you can tell where my mind was.
 -being the only ones apparently to not get the message that there were no youth activities at church tonight. love rushing to make dinner, eating dinner in about 4 minutes, running out the door in the 8 degree cold, driving to the church and finding... an empty parking lot.  awesome. we're informed leaders.
 -more annoying than awkward: being 1 day too late in canceling our netflix free trial month (we have a 6 month membership gift that we are going to activate, we just figured we do the free month first and get 7 months out of this...)  so, we paid for this month now.  i guess we'll start our gift membership in march. hopefully i remember to cancel at the end of february.

Awesome:
 -when somebody is has headphones in and is on the computer, and then laughs or smirks about something. kinda like how when you are thinking to yourself and others are around, and then somebody asks you what you are smiling about, but you didn't realize you were smiling, and what you were thinking about is probably a) inappropriate to share or b) not something you can fit into the conversation/activity to make people think you weren't off in la-la land but were actually in the present with them.  i guess this could be awkward too. but Damon just did it, so i thought it was funny.
 -having nothing to cook and somehow throwing together a meal (casserole or crockpot usually does the trick) that actually works and you'd even make again.
 -knowing that either your baby could come at any minute, or that you have more time to indulge in any food/drink you want.  today's menu: cereal- healthy. macaroni and cheese (whole box), the rest of the bag of chocolate chips, a glass of hot chocolate with a marshmallow, more noodles with cheesy sauciness for dinner, a scoop of ice cream, 2 glasses of chocolate milk, and a spoonful of cajete quemada (burnt goatsmilk candy)... not healthy.  it's a win-win, really.
 -snl's  Miley Cyrus show.  i can't stop saying things are 'pretty cool'

quickie

Just a quick pic of what I did tonight during our little blizzard we got goin' here....

Finally made a mobile!  I've been searching etsy but of course don't want to pay the ridiculous money they charge for a simple paper mobile... So I got myself to the craft store and made this for about $5.  Though, I can't wait to have a girl, cause the girl ones are soooo cute- hearts or birds and the colors... Sigh.  I really wanted to make an airplane one but gave up after trying to draw out the airplane parts.

Such a bad picture, but I'm to lazy for anything but phone pictures.  And I still need to paint the hoop thingy white.  And I may attach it to one of the paper lanters I have still from the wedding. We'll see. Since Damon more than likely will have a snow day tomorrow, maybe we'll actually hang everything!

38 weeks down, it's about time we start getting everything actually put together. 

I'll try to do a real update real real soon... another baby shower, my big ol' picture, yummy PW recipes we've been making,  our theme dinner nights with the Barretts, etc, etc, etc. 

Baby Name Change...

We've thought long and hard about it, even spent some time on bended knee.

We feel pretty confident that this was meant to happen.

We've decided to change the baby's name, in honor of this man.

Why such a late change you ask?  Here's a little school house lesson...

Can't wait to meet our little Jimmer Demars!

On Jason Mraz and Marriage.

Every once in a while I check out Jason Mraz' blog, I don't know why, probably cause I'm just bored and he's an interesting read.  He's a super strange little man, but I sure love his music.

Apparently Jason was once addicted to Pibb also.  Now he only drinks filtered water in his pretty little metal water bottles with designs on them, made to make the owner feel like they are doing their part in ridding the world of toxic plastic bottles and helping reduce the waste going into landfills.  If nothing else, they are nice until you put drink in them and they freeze your hands or you accidentally leave a drink in them and then they are ruined forever cause the smell stain never comes out.

Anyway.

He's engaged and stuff (to Tristan Prettyman, which is cool and I like her music) and has this whole schpeal about them and their cosmic ties to the number 23... their birthdays, the day they met, the day he proposed, with a 2.3 carat ring including 46 diamonds- 23 for both him and her... and how they want to get married in 2.3 years blah blah blah.  Weird.

But apparently they won't get married until it's legal for ALL to marry.  You know, they are like, the new Brangelina, all into that stuff.

To me, it sounds like a cop out on marriage.  I mean, why put a ring on it if you aren't ready to get married now?  They are jumping on this ridiculous celeb bandwagon (along with Stephanie from full house, they just announced the same intention) putting the life "you can't wait to begin with So-and-So" on hold until this whole thing happens, or doesn't happen...  I guess if you are already living together and intimate together, it really doesn't matter though. I guess postponing your wedding like this is one way to avoid a divorce a couple years (or less) down the road.  My bet is that 2 of these 3 couples will be off before marriage is legal for everybody.

Why would you want to postpone this?

In other music.  I've been obsessed with this song for like 2 years now. I don't know why I love it so much, I just do.  1:30, 3:04, my heart stops...