It's a .......

k.... So the doctor told me that I'm not as far along as he thought I was so the baby isn't as far along as we thought I would be. As far as we can tell it looks like our first is going to be a boy!!!! We're super stoked and now you know!!!!!!!

Blue or Pink?

Actually.... Ben and I were hoping for a puppy but instead it looks like we're going to have a ....




ok, I can't put it up here yet because I've been waiting for Ben to call the rest of his family and let them know before everyone else reads about it but Ben hasn't called yet..... so yes, Lauren, expect a call tonight :)


Isn't there some kind of unwritten blog rule about this stuff? I don't know.... but here's a hint: I have NO IDEAS for baby names yet!!

Oh My Baby!

First of all, since I found out I was preggers, I've already bought my unborn child tons of clothes and other very important, very necessary (Ben doesn't think so) commodities. Yes, my child already has his or her first pair of indoor soccer shoes.... baby size! Our family is going to be stylin'. It is seriously so hard not to buy stuff for baby (or me) when I go out shopping....

In other baby news, the next time I post, I'll let you know what we're having.... we're hoping for a puppy (or a boy or girl...) AND I've been feeling the baby move around (I'm 16 weeks right now but I felt it around 14-15 weeks!!). It feels like there is a bubble in my stomach that I need to pop but I refuse to pop my baby bubble. And I feel like I'm showing but everyone says I'm not.... everyone lies.

Finally, I'm sitting in the computer lab at BYU and there are some hecka-funny people in here. The couple to my left are both sitting at separate computers, listening to Lion King music on YouTube (separately) but totally rocking out at the same time.... do you not realize how retarded you look? And for funny person #2 (I'm going to type fast because she's sitting right next to me....), this girl is seriously right up on the computer screen reading whatever it is she's reading.... seriously, her nose is touching the screen and I'm not lying cuz I just checked again.... and, yup, touching.

The end.

I had to go to the doctor.......

I haven’t been feeling that good for the past couple of months. I’ve been sleeping a lot more, feeling a little nauseous, not able to eat a lot, and even throwing up some. I thought I could just handle it all by myself (trying to be tough and all) but Ben and I figured it was about time I went to the doctor to see what’s up. Basically I have a small growth in my lower abdomen area and it’s only going to get bigger and bigger. No, it’s not cancer so don’t worry. There’s a heartbeat to this growing phenomenon (I’ve heard it twice!) so it’s definitely something alive. According to the doctor, I’ve had this growing in me for about 12 weeks and believe it or not, this is something normal. Looks like I’m going to be stuck with this… growth… for at least another 6 months but hopefully it’ll come out sometime in September, so the doctor says. And I have to go back and see him in a month just to make that everything is ok… But so far, so good!

Oh yeah, I guess what I have is something called...Pregnancy?

Embarrassing Moment #534

You know that awkward phase when you are semi-new at work and you do lots of embarrassing things?

Here's Embarrassing Moment #534 (since I've done plenty of embarrassing things...)

Volleyball season. It was my first practice with the girls and the coach wanted the girls to be able to play while the fans/other team yell mean, awful things at the girls.... I was playing with the 2nd string girls on one side of the net while the 1st string girls were trying really hard to concentrate on the game and not at what the 2nd string were yelling at them. These girls are from the streets. They know how to talk and diss and get under people's skins. I couldn't think of anything to yell so I was pretty quiet. Finally, I get my courage up when the coach brings in the 1st string for a huddle. I yelled really loud something to the effect of "You girls have really big butts!!" right when it was completely quiet.... Is that really the meanest, most hurtful thing that I could say to distract them from the game?! Everyone laughed (at me).

Awesome.

Belated Anniversary Post.....

(read: please just look at the picture and save me from the embarrasment. Appreciate it! haha)



I can't believe it's the 3rd anniversary of yet another sappy love post........ and as promised, here's a pic of what we got to do! Fun and FREE (which makes anything in this world 10x better.... especially when your team loses but OH WELL! I got to see Iverson and even though he isn't the greatest player anymore, he is still more famous than I will ever be!!! Plus his hair is awesome.... if I were black, I totally would do that! Maybe.... )









Ben is the perfect husband ever.... I can't believe we've been married for 3 years already. Time goes by so fast when you're having fun together. You are SO ridiculously patient with me and so dang good lookin' too! :) Haha! Thanks for everything hun-bun-face!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU! CAN'T WAIT TO POST ANOTHER SAPPY LOVE POST NEXT YEAR THAT YOU PROBABLY WILL NEVER READ OR LOOK AT... Oh well. I still love your face! :)

Long and Boring Christmas Post

First off, I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas!! Ben and I went up to Oregon this year. We were going to leave Tuesday morning around 8:00am until we realized that a snow storm was heading towards Utah and since we were driving, we decided to leave at midnight (basically right when I got home from working a double shift at work.... phew!) As soon as we crossed the Utah/Idaho border, we hit the storm. I've never seen so many accidents in my life. We were going about 30 MPH for a few hours. There was at least 40 miles of a single sheet of black ice....As we were driving, Ben decided to change lanes.... ends up that Ben didn't decide to do anything! The wind was so strong that it made the decision for us and pushed us right into the next lane!! After that, we decided that maybe it was getting a little dangerous to be driving (with the wind, the snow, oh yeah, and not being able to see the road since it was so dark outside....) so we pulled over at a rest stop and took a long nap in the car (did I mention that there were 5 of us in our little Corolla? we were not in a good mood....). We made it okay although there were a few slick spots. And when we finished our road trip, we seriously pulled into our garage, parked, got everything out, unpacked, then my dad comes home and says that we have 2 flat tires.... ends up the tires were completely shredded on the inside (whatever that means..) Good thing we made it home! And thanks mom and dad for the 2 new tires.... :)

Christmas here has been great! All the K-moku kids decided not to buy anybody Christmas presents because we were going to go to the Nike Employee store here in Oregon. Everything there is at LEAST 50% off which is awesome for us because we were in need of some soccer cleats. Nike has a limit on how much money you can spend at the store and let's just say that Ben and I came close to having to put stuff back on the shelf....... At least we won't need to buy cleats for the next year! :) The next picture is JUST the shoes we bought....And if your name starts with a "J" and ends with "acob", don't look too closely at the next picture.....









On Christmas Eve, my dad decided we needed to start a new tradition(it's never too late!) and I think it's one that is going to stick around. We challenged another family in our ward to a game of basketball. It was fun just to play around and goof off. Riena and I just wanted to try out our new basketball shoes (which I think are pretty sweet). Ben had to join the other team because one of their sons had to work and I think that's why my family lost. Don't let Ben ever fool you anymore.... Soccer is NOT his only sport!!









Day after Christmas, we headed to the Oregon coast for a day of crabbing! It was fun but so frustrating! Oregon has these crazy laws about only getting a certain size of crabs and you can only get males.... after a full day of crabbing, we had a TON of little crabs that we had to throw back and only 1 crab that was the right size.... but it was a female! Nevertheless, we had lots of fun. The coast is beautiful and we got to eat at Moe's. Seriously, the best clam chowder in the world!!










For our 3rd year anniversary, Ben and I aren't going to do anything big.... I can't believe it's been 3 years! I'll have to post pictures later since this post is going up before we actually go but we're going to go to dinner and then to the Blazer's basketball game(free tickets, good seats....awesome!) And during our trip to the coast, we found this!!









We're heading back to Utah on Tuesday.... don't know what time yet but we're going back to work and school. Hope you all had a great year and will have an even better one this next year!