Exciting News!

Exciting News #1: We moved into our new place and we finally got everything organized and set up.  It took us about 3 weeks.  I felt like it was taking foreverrrr. We're really happy with all the extra space we have.  Our new apartment is 200 square feet bigger than our old place and we love it.  Adding a baby to our old apartment was going to mean getting rid of some nice furniture that mine and Jacob's parents gave us and we didn't want to do that.  We found this new place and it's only $25 more a month.  And we don't have to pay gas anymore, so the cost comes out to about the same.  Eventually I'll post pictures of our new place, but for right now I have lots of other pictures I wanted to post.

Exciting News #2: We decided on a name for our baby girl and we decided we're not going to keep it a secret so here it is:  It is Marley Ann.  We haven't settled for sure on the spelling yet, it's either going to be Marley or Marli.  We have a couple of other names in mind just in case we decide another name fits her better when we see her.

Exciting News #3: I've had a break from my preschool job and I've just been working some hours at Melaleuca, but in my spare time I've been sewing for Marley!  It's been really fun for me, I'm definitely not a great seamstress but I enjoy sewing and crafting a lot, I'm pretty sure it's something I got from my mom.  Here's some pictures of some projects I've been working on:

Burp Cloths!

 Bibs

Baby Quilt

Pillowcase Dress...Hopefully it will fit her next summer!  By the way, baby girl clothes are so fun.  I'll have to post sometime with pictures of some of the cute clothes we have for her so far.

...And many more projects still to come!

At Melaleuca, we get points for the calls that we take.  I got a super cute wall hanging with my points from work:

(I noticed just now that my feet are in a lot of these pictures...whoops!)

And....one last picture.  A picture of my baby bump at 26 weeks!

Preschool/Shoe Fight!

So I have this great job as the Head Teacher for one of the preschool classrooms on campus.  I've been doing it ever since January and I love it.  I still work about 3 times a month at Melaleuca but it's nice to spend most of my time working in the preschool rather than at Melaleuca.  I'm grateful for my job at Melaleuca, but answering phone calls and saying the same thing on the phone every day gets a little old after a while.  I definitely prefer my job in the preschool.  I was going to have to give up my job this month after I graduate because you have to be a student to have the job.  
But, I just found out a few weeks ago that I'm going to be able to keep my preschool job for the fall!  I'm way excited about this.  They couldn't find anyone to replace me for the fall, so they told me that I could still walk at graduation this month, but keep my independent study class that I've been taking, so that I'm technically still a student and can keep the job!  I told my supervisor that I wasn't sure if he would want me to do it, because I'm due 2 weeks before the end of the semester in December but he said that it would be fine.


Jacob keeps telling me that I should post funny stories about my preschoolers on our blog.  I come home pretty much every day that I have preschool with funny stories about things the kids said or did, and I'd like to start writing them down so I don't forget them.  I like sharing these stories with people, but I'm not sure if they'll be as funny written down as they are when I tell them.  So, as you read them, just imagine me telling the story haha.  Soo, here's the first story:


One day, we were sitting at circle time and one of the teachers was teaching the kids.  I guess one of the little boys got board, so he took his shoe off, raised it above his head as high as he could reach and yelled, very enthusiastically, "SHOE FIGHT!!"  Then he threw his shoe across the circle.  All of the other kids just kind of looked at him...haha. Then, one of the other little boys tossed his shoe back to him, and he just put it back on and kept sitting there quietly.

Finally Posting!

It's been a while since I have posted anything...I have decided that I am way better at reading others' blogs than updating my own.  I am going to try to start posting more, and we'll see how that goes haha.


This is my last semester of school and I am super excited about that.  I graduate on July 22nd!  And on July 18th, we find out the sex of the baby!  I've been taking pictures of my baby bump but it's nothing too impressive yet.  I can definitely feel myself getting bigger; my tummy is way bigger than it was 4 months ago.  I wish I would have taken a "before" picture because I think you can tell a difference if you compare how I look now to how I looked before I was pregnant.  My clothes are definitely tighter now.  It's been kind of annoying because I feel like I'm too big for my normal clothes but still too small for my maternity clothes.  I think everyone goes through that stage though.


I went to an awesome consignment store here in town and got a few maternity shirts for only $4 each.  Sometimes it's hard for me to find things that I like at second-hand stores but I found some really cute things at this store.  Oh and I also got this:

It's called a "bump band" and it's been a life-saver for me.  (That isn't my stomach btw, I googled a picture of it and couldn't find a picture of it without a person in the picture haha)  It's kind of like a stretchy belt.  You can wear it over your normal pants so that you can wear your pants unbuttoned and unzipped and the band covers it up.  It kind of turns your normal pants into maternity pants.  It's been awesome because I definitely can't button my pants anymore and this makes it so I can still wear my pants and not worry about people seeing my unbuttoned pants!


So anyway, here are some pictures of my baby bump:

This is when I was 14 weeks and 1 day.  

This was yesterday when I was 16 weeks and 2 days.

-Tracey :)

Cincinnati!

We're sitting in the Salt Lake airport right now waiting to board our flight to Las Vegas.  We have a short layover in Las Vegas, then we're heading to Cincinnati! Wahoo! Actually we're flying into Louisville because it's so much cheaper, and my mom is picking us up there, and we're driving up to Cinci.  I'm really excited for Jacob to see where I grew up and all of my friends and everything.  I am also SUPER excited to eat Skyline!! And we're going to go to King's Island and a Bengal's preseason game.  It's going to be really nice to have a break from work and have fun.


-Tracey :)

School's Out!

So this past semester, from April until July, we were really busy.  Jacob took 18 credits and I worked full time and took 12 credits.  I have to admit I got pretty burnt out by the end of the semester, so I was really glad when the semester ended last week.  I'm switching from full-time to part-time at work next week so I'm excited to have a few weeks to relax until school starts again in September.  Oh and our grades were posted today... I got 2 A's, 1 A-, and a B+! I was pretty excited about that.


We haven't updated in a while so I'm trying to think of what exciting things have happened since I last posted:
1. Kayla came and visited!
2. Alex had her baby!
3. Rachel and Stacy came up to visit for 4th of July.
4. Kaeli came up and stayed with us for a weekend!
5. I won Lagoon tickets at our Company Picnic haha, so we're taking a little mini vacation next weekend to go down to Utah and go to Lagoon.
6. We bought tickets to go visit Cincinnati!! Wahoo!
7. David and Olivia are in the process of moving in next door to us! 
8. And finally..........
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We got a cute little netbook for me:

It just came in the mail today.  We found a good deal for it on woot.com.  It was kind of funny because Jacob found the netbook on woot for really cheap several weeks ago, but it was only available for one day.  I told him that I wasn't sure if I wanted to get it or not, so we'd have to think about it more.  We talked about it and decided we wanted to get one, and so a few weeks later they were on sale again.  I told Jacob when we got home, we'd get online and buy it, but when we got online, there were no pink netbooks available.  I was disappointed and wasn't sure if I wanted it anymore because I really wanted a pink one.  Jacob had his hopes up though so he looked up pink netbook covers online and convinced me we could get a blue netbook and just get a pink cover for it.  Haha so anyway,we ended up getting it and it's hard to tell from the picture, but it is super cute and tiny.  I love it.  I would have taken a picture of it but our camera is really old and only works every once in a while.  Haha.  


-Tracey :)

Funny/Embarrassing Story

So I just have a quick funny story. I was wearing this cute flowy skirt today.  There is a tall skinny model wearing the same skirt in the picture to the right.  When I wear the same skirt, it DOES NOT  look the same, haha. It comes almost to my ankles.  Anyway, it was really rainy and gross outside today.  Jacob came to pick me up from work when I got off 7:00.  So I get in the car and shut about HALF of my skirt outside the car door.  You can probably imagine the outcome: I get out of the car and find that my skirt has been dragging in the gross rain water the whole way home!! Haha it was pretty funny.  I think only I am capable of something so clumsy.  And I was thinking, I'll bet it looked pretty funny to have this huge amount of material hanging out of our car door the whole way home.  But good news: The skirt was not ruined.  It was just a little wet and dirty so I put it through the wash and it came clean. :)

-Tracey

Springtime!! (Finally)

So it's finally been warming up here in Rexburg! After the crazy blizzard we got last week that resulted in 6 inches of snow, I think the weather has finally decided to cooperate and stay warm.  The spring semester starts tomorrow.  This semester I'm going to be working a lot and taking a few easy classes and Jacob's going to be working very little and taking a lot of hard classes, since I'm ahead of him in school. So it should be interesting, but I'm excited. I love the spring semester up here.  


Lately, I've done a couple spring crafts to keep myself busy:

I got this cute little "Color your own pot" kit from the craft store for only a dollar haha I thought it was cute.

I made a cute little spring wreath to hang on our door. I made the flowers out of felt and then put buttons and pom poms on them and hot glued them to a wire wreath frame.

Close up view of my wreath. (Please note Jacob creepily peering through the window in this one haha)

Sugar cookies I made for a cookie contest at work. Olivia gave me the recipe and they were super easy to make.  They didn't win...but they were definitely the cutest cookies there! :)

-Tracey