The one time I don't mind being late!

So I always grew up being late all the time to anywhere I ever went...mainly becasue of my mom! It was always so embarrassing and we were that typical family always late to church, meetings or appointments. Even my very first day of high School was tainted by my mom making us late! yes US!!!My poor girlfriends Julie and Starla were subject to the embarrassment of having to book it to our first class and walk in late! Still a moment I'll never forget!

That's why as an adult I've resorted to being early or on time as best I can!I'm usually the first to arrive at a church party, Bunco night or book club meeting! I leave with time to spare. Now I'm not perfect but I have defiantly made it a priority to be a punctual person!

There are only a few occasions in life where being late is ok...1. When wanting to make a grand entrance at a singles event! Yes I'm guilty of this one. I had some roaring good times as resident fun girl in the singles ward! It was always appropriate to show up fashionable late to a party.I mean who wants to be the first one there when the lights are still on and veggie dip still stands beautifully piled high in the bowl! 2. When you sneak in to early morning seminary before 15 minutes passes!!! Lucky you it's still counted as an attendance and luckier you, you got out of 14 minutes of early morning seminary!!!!!( this is a department I was happy to be late in as often as I could get away with! don't tell my Sunday School kids!) and 3. When you're trying to get pregnant!

So Far in life I've been able to master all three of those exceptions!Yes I partied as a single gal! Yes I had my fair share of warnings in Seminary and Yes I mastered the art of Being late once again! For sure the first two yield a faster positive return. The third one always seems to take too long in my book to enjoy the fruits of my hard labor!!! I'll have to wait till April 6th, official due date, or a few weeks sooner, based on tradition, to see my hard work pay off!!!!! Or should I say Mikes hard work!He He!!!

A few answers for a few burning questions I'm sure! Magically I'm still as fertile as ever! I literally take my cloths off and I get knocked up! I know that's not the norm and I consider it a huge blessing! I think it's my reward for having horrible and worrisome pregnancies. I have to have all my ducks in a row in order to even consider getting pregnant. I am under a high risk ob and hematologists care to manage my blood disorder while pregnant. Numbers are down already from April but still in a very good range for now!

I have yet to Yack!!!!That's cause for a parade I tell you! The yuckiest have defiantly made themselves comfortable! I have NEVER felt so exhausted and so yuck! Still , knock on wood I keep it all down!I seriously hate that part of being a fetus host! no huge cravings...but I will say I have an aversion to candy and sweets and feel drawn to vinegar, briny things and steak sauce!Not sure what that means!

Yes I want a boy!Yes I want a mini Mike!Yes I want Blue to invade our home!Yes I'd be sad if It wasn't a Boy!Yes I'm hoping for a son! I'd rather buy a truck then a dolly! There I said it!

Ok! Sooo that's me making our big announcement! Here is all I ask from you in return...

- Don't make fun of my hair that is in such drastic need of coloring! I'll get to it in a few weeks when the 1st tri is over!

- My house looks the way it does becasue I probably didn't get a bra on until almost 5 o'clock because laying in bed doesn't make me dizzy.

- yes my kids got themselves dressed!

- Yes I was probably home when you knocked on my door but again... I didn't have a bra on!

- My hair will probably only be done on Sundays if I can talk myself into attempting church or on Bunco nights!

- I'm not a flack! I just forget nearly everything when I'm pregnant!

- And yes. My boobs are bigger. Please all try to make a mental note of what Becca really is capable of. There are only three times in my life I get to look like this! Soak it in!

Furniture hunting will be the death of me!

So another failed attempt at furniture shopping this weekend! I swear we'll have a mattress on the floor for another year! I HATE, Loath, Dread, and despise furniture shopping! Nothing out there is doing it for us! And I wouldn't say we are that picky. A black set! That's all we need! When we think we find a bed we like, we hate the dressers. Then we find dressers we love but they won't sell us just the dresser! And the lone unique chest of drawers we want to mix it up with has yet to be made! Ok so we may have a tall order trying to find a bed and a dresser in black and then a different chest of drawers.Oh this process makes my head spin!

AND... were shopping for anew mattress!The one we have sucks! Luckily we can take it back but the next one we buy will for sure not have that option so I better Love it! I thought I loved the one we have now but after one nights sleep I was ready to toss it! A year later I'm still hating it and finally insisting we upgrade!

What I wouldn't give to walk in to my bedroom and see it furnished and have the softest bed ever to welcome me each night! Oh that would be such a dream!!1Instead I live a nightmare!!!!

Bunco= Happiness!!!

I love love love Bunco night! Once a month I get a chance to join the funnest group of girls and just relax, eat amazing food and get our bunco on!!! I have missed the last two months so I was craving a Bunco get together! Last night did not disappoint! I meet this group of girls almost exactly a year ago and I can't thank Erin enough for inviting me to my first night!!!

Kim hosted and she's such a great host!!! Her house was to die for first of all!!Such a great decorator and dinner was so good! I had two helpings and snacked all night on the salad! Her prizes were adorable!She recently got hooked on Fly Lady so her prizes all had cleaning themes! How funny is that! Thanks Kim for a great night!

I love the conversations we have! We talked about "yeah right those Chinese gymnasts are 16!!," Swingers in Utah, cleaning "zones", points and What everyones been hearing about peoples take on Bunco!

So what's the local buzz on Bunco in your area? People think it's a good thing? too clickie? like gambling? I would love to hear what you all think!

I love it so much!!! All of us who come are for it obviously. We pay $5 each time and get a wonderful meal out of it and possible a prize! HELLO!!!! who can get a meal for $5!!!! I see no harm in it! Especially becasue this group in particular is made up of so many girls who in one way or another know someone but not necessarily the entire group when they started!Maybe becasue I'm sooooo not easily offended I hate to hear the excuse that people don't like it becasue it excludes people! WHO CARES!!!!! People need to understand that not everyone can host 45 people in a home just to not hurt feelings! I have to admit... I too have put off having a party because I just couldn't narrow down my guest list without hurting feelings! I need to get over that at some point...'cause in the end I DON"T have ANY party and where's the fun in that!

If people don't get invited it's not becasue they weren't liked! It may have just been space or the group dynamics that helped make up a guest list! Again....I could care less if I got invited to the ladies movie night or lunch with the girls or not! I know that's not always the case!Anywho... That was sort of a rant!Forgive!!!! I tend to do that some times!

ok... I'm done!

Slowest week ever!!!

Last week seemed to fly by and now this!!! Slower then slow!!! I swear it felt like Friday should have been here three days ago!!! I'm hoping by saying this this week that the universe will pay me back and have fast moving weeks in teh future!!! For sure it makes a slower week when I have a 4 year old asking me every day if preschool is starting today!!!Talk about cute but annoying all at the same time!Poor thing!She just wants to start already! And with Mike having school this weekend it feels like my weekend really won't feel like a weekend!So my Thursday actually feels like a Wednesday!ARGGGG!!!

Nothing new to report! I still hate cooking in the summer! I try my hardest to not use my oven so that limits my creativity! What on earth are you guys cooking for dinners these days!!! I need some help!!!

I got all my baby cloths up on my blog and my etsy shop so check 'em out!boy stuff to!!! I'm pretty excited at how the boy stuff turned out! I love my little tie onsies!

I'm feeling the need to chop my hair!!! NOOOOO!!!!This in the past has proven a hard thought to kick!!! I'm sooooo wanting long hair for once in my life and I never get it past this length!!! I itch for a change and good by locks!!! Send me good vibes for not chopping!!! I should hide my scissors! Honestly I'm a freak when it comes to cutting my own hair!My sister and roommates can all attest to that! ok... off to occupy my mind!!!

Friday already!

Gotta love that! Weeks seem to creep by and then on occasion they come and go and it was all a blur! I swear I haven't stopped! I've been so busy I feel like I am working a full time job! I'm enjoying it I think but man I just crash at night! So this is the answer to my insomnia... sew two aprons, make 12 baby onsies, take the kids to the park, drop off a dozen packages to the post office, play in the hoes with the girls, work on an etsy shop, finish tote bags, pick berries, snuggle, make dinner, clean and plan your next day all in a 14 hour block!!!That ought to do it!

Today I need to go to the fabric store to get some more fabric! Because this sort of event always invokes pure joy and excitement I was up all night dreaming of prints and Heather Bailey! Fabric will do that to me! I woke up this morning exhausted because all I did was fantasies about being the umpteenth customer of the day and winning a years supply of fabric! That and treasure hunts at DI kept my mind busy last night! I know! I'm a dork!

So all you all...please forgive my lack of blog visits and comments being few and far between!I'm just swamped and I'm trying hard to keep a balance between getting all my ebay, aprons and etsy stuff to not over take my time with my family!

About the Feud! It's over! And sadly the day that it was brought to my attention they were already on the 4th and 5th show...AKA The show's I looked like crap! I was sick in my defense! So if any of you saw those ones please forgive the pasty skin, the horrible hair and the lack of life in my eyes!NASTY!!! Boo looked incredible thought!!!! Such a doll!

Everyone always asks what we did with the money we won! Remember we had to split it 5 ways and really after taxes it's not that much! We used our money on a boob job for me!!! What a waste! You can't even tell!Some may ask " was it a reduction!!!???" Just kidding! Those of you who know us won't be surprised to hear we saved it! So no fancy trip, no new "used" car!Seriously it wasn't that much cashola!! Totally boring huh!!! It was the experiance that we will always remember that's worth more then the cash or the key chain we won! So there you have it!

We're back!!!!

So I had a few messages in my face book in box and on my wall. Looks like Family Feud is running some certain reruns with a certain family you may all know!!! So if you want a good laugh, ammo for future reticule or want to see the dashing Mr. Peterman tune in!

We've had Mikes parents in town for the last few days! It's always great to see them!The girls adore them!!!! We hit up Tepanyaki last night!!!Not complaining!!!I love that place! I swear Blue ate her weight in noodles and and kept saying " I like that guy!" when ever our cooker dude did anything fancy!

I've been trying to get all my stuff ready to post on my etsy shop! I feel like I've been on hold whole family has been here! I got a few things done but I very well couldn't ignore my guests and sew all day and night! So I feel like I need to play catch up!

Lot's going on so I better get on it!


OH MY WORD!!!!!! How could I nearly forget!!! Let's just take a few moments to talk about my love of Mr. James Taylor!!!!!! I know! He's not actually in my generation and you may be questioning my actual age when I profess my love for such an" on the verge of geriatrics" singer!!!! But I HEART JT!!!!

Mike and I got a-ma-zing tickets for his concert on Monday! Front and center! I don't know what it is but every concert I have ever been to I instantly fall in love with the singer when they walk on stage. No matter how old, how over weight or how inconceivable the return affection could possible be, there I stand star struck and fantasysing about them spotting me in the crows and calling me up on stage to sing "Cha cha cha" with him!!! It happens every time!

James Taylor was no exception. Bald head, crazy eyes and I I was in love!! He put on an amazing show and even Mike loved it! So glad I went!We almost didn't!

Ok...So know I've fed you all enough dish on me for the day! You can laugh at my horrible answers on Family Feud and mock me for my love of the elderly who rock the guitar and sound amazing live!!!!

Give it a year!

That's what everyone said!Give Utah a year and we have officially been here a year! Yesterday marked our one year anniversary in our home! Time really flew by!

When all is said and done we have no regrets! We miss our beach, our family, our friends and our weather but we gained so much! Thanks to everyone who have made this last year so wonderful!!!!