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DEAR CANKLES,

Please go away! I do not fancy having such fat,swollen ankles, they are not fun to walk on or look at. Plus, I miss getting to wear my boots to church. Oh and you can take the stretch marks and fat face with you!

Thanks,
Brittany

Done!

So as of Friday, I am officially unemployed! My last day was Friday and it was fabulous! I have loved my job, it has been such a great blessing and opportunity. But I can honestly say that when I got to work on Friday, I just felt done with it. I feel like I had done everything that I could and needed to with that job! I am really going to miss all of the friends and people that I met there... but thank goodness for facebook, goodbyes are no longer really goodbyes just more of a stalk you on facebook.
So... now with all of this free time for the remaining 20 days, I can focus on getting my classes done this semester and getting ready for our little girl. Plus, I am so excited to get more time to sew. (Kenny and I had a deal... we both had things that we wanted to get before having a family, I wanted a sewing machine and he wanted a video camera... nothing fancy for either of them, just the basics. So for Christmas this year, we got just that) But I have had a blast sewing so far. I have made a boppy pillow, burp rags, put some ruffles on the bum of a couple of onesies, mended somethings for Kenny and I, and just goofed around a lot. I am still quite an amateur but i absolutely love to sew and have tons of projects that I am excited to get too!

The Beginning of the End

It is crazy scary how quickly things are happening here... Every day seems to go by so slow being packed with so much to do to... so little time... But the days strung together are completely FLYING by.

The semester just started and I absolutely love starting new semesters. It is exciting... new schedules, new classes, new books, and new teachers. And it will all end the last week of February. So stinkin' quick... The first week has flown by and I already have a book report due next week. Plus it is Kenny's last semester of undergrad school.

Work is beginning to end to. I loved the people I worked with(most of the time... I would get the occasional crazy in my department, but thank goodness they never lasted a long time). I have generally loved my job. It always felt great to go and do a good job on a project or to figure out a problem and impress those over you. My favorite part was the rush that came when I was given a new project to set up, figure out, and work on.
I am training my replacement and having a hard time with it. I am having to give up control of the things that I have worked so hard on. Things that I have brought to pass. Things may change when I am gone... which is fine, it won't be my concern anymore, so they should change... but I almost hate to go. I want to go to work and continue to run things and do a good job.

Then of course there is the BIG end coming up... I will no longer be pregnant. The other day I was looking at pictures of Kenny and I's first summer being married and dang was I small (not to be conceited or anything, just compared to my shape now, I was a little shocked that I was ever that small). I hope, I pray that I go back to my old size (sorry if that may seem vain to some, but I have all of these cute winter sweaters that I had bought at the end of the season last winter that I did not even get to wear this year... it was very sad to have to pack them up... still unworn. I would like to be able to wear them at least once in my life which would require going back to the figure I was before). Plus being pregnant is hard stuff... your range of movement... totally restricted. But anyways, I am not looking forward to the end of being pregnant... the labor part... UGH!!! Labor for me is seen as the end all, be all of our current life. It will no longer just be me and Kenny. It will be Kenny, me, and HLK (the initials of the baby's name). We will be responsible for a kid. This is scary on multiple levels. A baby in our charge.

Don't get me wrong, we are 100%, completely excited and pumped to have a baby. It is such a blessing to have kid... but oh my gosh, it is terrifying at the same time. Normally, for us, if we are holding a baby and it starts to cry or has a dirty diaper you are able to quickly pass it back to one of their parents so they can take care of it... people will be passing it back to us! Also, the whole umbilical cord thing... freaks both of us out!!! How long will it be on there and do we really have to touch it, because we have both said that is out of the question. I remember Riley's being all black and nasty looking... I don't think I will be able to touch it. YUCK!!! Also, Kenny is not good with vomit or spit up... like bad. We were watching the movie Four Christmases last night (good movie, it was so funny... plus you can never go wrong with Reese Witherspoon... and shocker, Tim McGraw is in it) and we both laughed hysterically at the part when the baby vomits because the reaction that Vince Vaughn has is EXACTLY how Kenny would react. Here is a clip of the vomit part, you can see how Kenny reacts for yourself... HILARIOUS!!!



Right now life is leading up to one big event and change... the BABY! It is like this chain of events are counting down. I am quitting work, my semester will end, it is Kenny's last semester, etc... It is a crazy time but it is so stinking exciting... we are so stoked. Our date tonight is ice cream and going to buy a crib. It is exciting to think that now we are getting into real life. Kenny's undergrad school is ending (still has grad school but still college is ending) and we are going to be parents. Crazy big changes. The quote that comes to mind and that I think applies to my life the most right now is from the Disney movie The Emperor's New Groove when Kuzco and Pacha are tied to the tree and floating down the river...

"Pacha: Uh-oh.
Kuzco: Don't tell me. We're about to go over a huge waterfall.
Pacha: Yep.
Kuzco: Sharp rocks at the bottom?
Pacha: Most likely.
Kuzco: Bring it on."

Those sharp rock are the labor part... not the having a child part. I am just hoping an epidural makes it all feel better! :)

Real Quick

This is just a really quick picture for my mom and Heidi. This is a horrible picture, but I will do better later.



31 weeks!

The Christmas Spirit

This is the new Mormon Message. I just love it! It almost made me cry... which is not as great of a feat as it used to be. I can cry over anything these days. Commercials, TV shows, Movies, Mormon Messages, yesterday Kenny and I were driving around and we pulled up next to this car were the two people were smoking, I thought I saw a carseat in the back and I almost started crying because I thought they had a kid in the car when they were smoking. I made myself check before I actually started crying... there wasn't one... tears were adverted. But then I thought of my mom's good friend Merleen who just passed away from lung cancer because of smoking and almost started crying, but I managed to hold it in. Being married and especially being pregnant has made me such a softy, I used to pride myself on my ability of never crying! Now I can cry over anything... it is crazy. Especially since I have not mastered it yet... my face gets way blotchy and red and puffy... if I am going to be a crier, I need to get to the point where it does not make me look like I have been crying the last 3 weeks.
But anyways, enjoy the message!

Kenny and I have planned numerous trips back up to BYU- Idaho (we plan and talk about doing this all of the time... but have still not yet done it... life is just too busy) to visit. One things that is always on the list of things to do is getting a cookie monster from Craigo's. They are so delicious! A fresh, hot out of the oven chocolate chip cookie in a round cake pan topped with vanilla ice cream, tons of whipped cream, chocolate sauce, and caramel. It is so stinking good!!!
Well, the owners of Craigo's recently opened up a restuarant in Provo called Pizza Pie Cafe and.... they have cookie monsters. So Kenny and I went a couple of weeks ago.... I was in HEAVEN!!! It is the perfect place for many reasons...



1. It is a pizza buffet. I love pizza buffets (like CiCi's from home) but we have yet to find one in Utah which always made me sad! There is nothing like getting to try tons of different types of pizza in one sitting. It is like Christmas for your mouth... getting to eat all those different kinds... So yum! My favorite at Pizza Pie Cafe is the Chicken Ranch pizza (I seriously had like 4 slices of this kind alone... yes I know that 4 slices is a lot... but I love pizza, can't get enough of it)and the regular supreme pizza. Kenny likes the barbeque chicken pizza (which is another perk about pizza buffets: everyone gets exactly what you what they want... I do not like barbeque chicken pizza so Kenny does not get to eat it that often because at regular pizza places you only get to order one kind).

2. Not only is it a pizza buffet but also a pasta bar and a salad bar. And it had a good salad bar (the only thing it was lacking was raisins... they had craisins-yuck- but not raisins). Some times you go to a place and the salad bar is horrible... the lettuce is wilted, they have no good toppings to choose from, the ranch dressing is nasty, etc... But this was a good salad bar. We never made it to the pasta bar, but we sure did make it to the pizza... over and over again(the pasta bar was located behind the pizza buffet... not a good location if you want to push the pasta)!

3. It was very nostalgic for me. I love BYU- Idaho. It is seriously 10 times better than BYU ever could be (sorry if that statement offends anyone, cough cough-Kenny. But if you ask any one who has been to both schools -besides Kenny- they will surely tell you that Idaho is better... it just a fact). So going to the restuarant and seeing that all the pizza was Craigo's ____________ made me feel closer to Idaho. I miss it.

4. The cookie monster that I previously described. So delicious.


The Cookie Monster

This restuarant was HEAVENLY! I can't wait to go again!

*Mom, so sorry it took me so long to post this. But I love you, here it is......

Check it out...

So we had our first ultrasound today... so exciting! And the big news... We are having a GIRL!!!! We are so excited! We don't have a name yet, but are throwing a couple around. Here is a shortened video of our ultrasound... we seriously cut out like half of it. But it was so amazing and surreal to see... there is actually a tiny little baby girl in there... crazy but amazing! Enjoy...