Tender Mercies

One night as we were brushing our teeth, my husband took out a white board marker from our bathroom drawer and started to draw on the mirror. It was his idea for a baby mobile that he wanted to make for our baby girl. My first thought was, "that's ridiculous. We will never make something that is worth putting up and looking at." His drawing was creative and I liked the idea, I just figured it was a random idea that would never see the light of day. I secretly hoped he would forget about his drawing, but one week before the semester started, he mentioned needing to go to Hobby Lobby and get materials. So it began.  What I love about this imperfectly adorable mobile is that we did it together. He came up with the idea, I drew out the patterns, and we both sewed the pieces together. I am always surprised when I see my husband excelling in random talents such as sewing. His example teaches me that I shouldn't be afraid to try anything new! We chose a fish b...

These are Marshall's actual eye color--no filtering or editing. Look at how blue they are!  Kansas City Temple, US Figure Skating Championships at the Sprint Center, Ethiopian food for dinner. It was a full day of birthday fun--my 27th birthday, and last birthday without children.  Ladies, you know those moments where you start crying for no real reason whatsoever, and then five minutes later you are back to being your awesome self again? Whatever you want to call it, be it hormones, pregnancy, fatigue, PMS, or just being a woman,  I had three of these moments during my birthday. Oh it could have been a miriad of things, but I think the main reason was that I was exhausted, with not sleeping well for too many consecutive nights. I wanted to say I ruined the entire day, but my sweet man reminded me that I had more "thumbs-up" moments than "thumbs-down" moments, so the day was a success, and not at all ruined. How right he was!  My birthday was a ...

With my sister in town, I knew I needed to take the opportunity to have her be my photographer for my maternity shots. Unfortunately, the 50 degree weather of last week disappeared and we were back in the chill of winter. The weather man said it was going to be in the teens on the day we decided to take photos, as well as a chance of snow, but I wasn't going to hold my breath...the weather man is often wrong. Not today. It snowed all night and this morning we braved the 10 degree weather to take my maternity shots. Thank you, sis! I think they turned out great.