NEW YORK CITY! Sunday

For my spring break I went with my mom, Brittney, Paul's mom and Annie (Paul's youngest sister) to NYC! We were there for 5 nights so I'll break it down into days. This is more for my own record cuz it's going to be an overloaded blog!

Saturday- Flew out of Boise, layover in Denver, on to La Guardia. We got there at about 8 and had to get a taxi (not as scary as I thought it was going to be!) That night we ate at the Park Cafe (just the restaurant at the hotel) and hit the sack. We had to use 2 fans to cover the noise of the sirens and traffic below!

Sunday- We didn't get out early because that wouldn't be like the Williams family, now would it?!

We started the day by walking through Central Park.

We walked past the ice rink and the Balto statue and found our way to the zoo (home of Alex the Lion).

We ventured further north to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the steps fromHitch. The museum is huge so we didn't go through all of it. We visited the Greek & Roman wing, the Egyptian wing, and wandered through the Medieval wing.
In that wing there was an old piece of a church. It divided where the choir was from where the congregation was. I can't remember the year but it was around 1700. It was HUGE! It went up 5 or 6 stories. This is us looking imprisoned by it.

After the museum we caught a cab back to the hotel to grab more layers before our night tour on the Double Decker Red Bus. We went on an 1 1/2 hour tour of the city, crossing over to Brooklyn to see the skyline. I learned some very interesting facts about the history of the city such as where the name SoHo comes from and things about the original Macy's. Mary Ann and Annie joined us that night and we went to Roxie's at Times Square for dinner. More days to come!..

What would it mean if I had a fetus in me?

I am almost 11 weeks pregnant (will be 11 on Friday) and am due September 23. We told our parents on Valentine's day and it has been trickling to family and friends since then. Today, however, I told my students. I delayed for a couple of reasons, mainly the possibility of miscarriages. This rate goes down significantly after the heartbeat is seen; we saw it at the 8 week ultrasound. Also, in science we're studying reproduction. We don't discuss how the egg gets fertilized but we do talk about a sperm fertilizing an egg and then it's a zygote, then an embryo, and then a fetus. So today during our discussion I asked, "What would it mean if I had a fetus in me?" A silence followed... then one little girl waved and wiggled almost out of her seat saying, "I KNOW!" so I asked her what it meant and she said, "That you're pregnant!"
Correct she was! This receiving an applause from my entire class :-) Cute kids. Later a student told me my face got really red while they were clapping!
This announcement was followed by a 10 minute Q & A as well as some sound advice. Here were some of the things they asked or said:

• Do you know you're not supposed to drink while you're pregnant?
• Would you like a natural birth or a C-section?
• Will you name him after me if it's a boy?
• "How long have you known?" "about 7 weeks" "You kept this from us for 7 weeks!?" To which I explained a bit of the chances of miscarriage and that I wanted to wait a while. They forgave me.
• I can make great baby blankets, maybe I'll make your baby one.
• My mom craved whoopers while she was pregnant.
• Tell your husband you're going to have mood swings and he's going to wonder how this happened! (I particularly liked this one!)
• Can I tell my parents?

So it's in the open now. No one in my ward knew before today, but I have some students in my ward so now their parents will know. All is going well. I don't have morning sickness-Thank goodness! I've been blessed to not be sick because I have no idea how I could teach if I needed to throw up!

Bacon & the Bachelor

So our usual Mondays consist of dinner and watching the Bachelor. I guess you could say that's our FHE for the season. Anyways, it's something we do every Monday. Tonight I was going to make Hawaiian Haystacks but I didn't have Cream of Chicken Soup (how do I not have that?!) anyways, I wanted breakfast for dinner. Paul prefers crepes so I made the crepes and he cooked the bacon. We actually used 1 of the eggs from our chicken! Paul decided to name her Dorothy; he said she's the fattest one. Currently, Paul is making a "jamba," otherwise known as a smoothie while we paused the Bachelor so we don't have to watch commercials.

I know this isn't the most exciting post but considering I haven't posted anything else yet this year, I needed to add something. I also found the pictures we took on New Year's Eve after we swam at Paul's grandparents house. We have done that every New Year's Eve (4 years) since we've been together. That was our first weekend we spent together in Twin back when we started dating, so it became a tradition.

This year we left right before midnight and were pulled over at 11:50ish! Kenley was driving but the cop saw us coming out of the canyon and thought we might be partying and having some alcohol (we weren't). Kenley got back in the car at 11:59, just in time to give his wife a New Year's kiss; it was a close one!

Back tracking even more, Paul's grandma collects Nativity sets, so for Christmas Paul said we should make her one... (when he said we he meant me.) I made her one using containers from oatmeal, vitamins, and koolaid, with paint and fabric. They're a bit elementary but I think they were still pretty cute!

Christmas!

This was on our drive home. We headed out kind of early so Paul could get to his mom's and learn how to play with the tablet he got. The furry black spot behind us is Jack. Luckily he does well in the car for our 2 hour drive. (P.S. I took him to the vet and he's 60 pounds now!)

I haven't updated in a while, our computer at home has stopped working. The computer turns on but there must be a short with the screen, it's to the point now where it stays black. I hope I don't have anything too important saved on there.

I have 2 weeks off for Christmas break. I'm not sure what I've done this past week. Today is Saturday, Christmas and we're all playing with our new gadgets. We are at my parents house this year, we came over on Thursday and will leave tomorrow after church. I'm glad I have another week off; I have tests to grade and seats to rearrange.

Christmas is quite different at my parents house than at Paul's. We have a snacky dinner on Christmas Eve and went out to a Christmas program put on by my parent's friends, the Wards. Then this morning Summer woke up at 7 but Dad convinced her to wait until 8. By the time we started presents it was closer to 9. At 10:30 we went to Uncle Bruce's for the Williams family brunch. It's getting smaller now that most have grandkids and do stuff with their families.

We were both very spoiled this year for Christmas. Jack came with us but we didn't get him anything for Christmas. It's just another day for him. I got Paul tickets to a Jazz game but my dad topped me with a season ticket to the BSU games for next year. :-) Paul got me a Bosch, since I only have little hand beaters. I'm excited and now I can get ride of my blender and food processor since it has those too.

playing with our presents...

Snow, snow, snow

I have this week off of school for Thanksgiving Break, and guess what it did? SNOWED! It snowed a lot on Sunday and some more on Monday, but it wasn't too bad. I am very glad I have all-wheel drive this winter, but the roads were very doable. However, today (Tuesday) it was a blizzard! Literally! The news kept saying, "If you don't need to be somewhere, don't drive." So, I had to cancel lunch with my friend and schools were cancelled.

Jack and I were outside for a bit today. We didn't build a snowman but we did check the mail. I shoveled our front porch and attempted to shovel the steps. We don't have a side walk so I just smashed the 6"+ of snow to make a path through the snow. I shoveled the porch this morning at 9 then had to do it again at 12! It was completely covered again!
Jack LOVES the snow. He's definately a snow dog! Shadow, however, hates snow. Don't all cats?

My family is supposed to come up tomorrow night for Thanksgiving. That's could be a slow going drive. The turkey Paul got for work is in his office fridge. The road to his office was closed today! Hopefully we can get to his work before Turkey Day!

Park City & Birthday 2010

We went to Park City for the weekend as my birthday celebration. We stayed at Westgate Resort, at the Canyons. There was a little bit of snow but it was really nice weather. The first night we went to a haunted house that was "6 feet under main street!" All I can say is I was ripped off, and it was only $7.

We hit up the outlet mall the next day and went ice skating! I tried to do a fancy arabesque and ended up on by stomach, with a bruise on my knee. I guess ice skating isn't like riding a bike...

(He fell and I was wiping the ice off. I promise!)

We got some Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory on Main Street (<3>

When we got back Paul's mom was making dinner and homemade spud-nuts in lieu of a birthday cake for me. They were so good!

I could have sworn I took more pictures! : ( But I know Megan did! So I'll just have to get them from her.

A trip to rexburg and Butter Braids

Our school did a fundraiser to raise money for our dance department. Particularly in need of a new dance floor since we've moved to a new school that doesn't have one. Any-hoo the students raise $11,500.50! Amazing! The top seller sold 51 butter braids and a student in my class sold 50, needless to say she was bummed. BUT! My class took 1st place in total sales! (Woo hoo my class!) I would love to say I encouraged but I didn't; I did by 2 from a student in my class though. So we won an ice cream social at some point!

This past weekend I went to Rexburg for a bridal shower. It was also an excellent excuse for us old roommates to reunite. Catherine sent her love from VA but the rest of us were able to get together!
First we got our nails done. I had a little girl take our picture while her mom was getting her nails done. Her mom kinda ripped on her afterwords for talking to strangers (she lacked class as she got after her 7 year old). Haha I wanted to say something but I couldn't think of anything snarky enough to say. But that's why Kami's head is cut off.

Again, this was taken by a little girl. I got tired of waiting and just closed my eyes.

The shower was at Lindsey's house. The crown on her head says "Girls Night Out." She loved it.