Where are you Mr. Postman?

This week hasn't been too eventful but it has been full of online shopping news! Several weeks ago Daniel ordered a 3000 piece puzzle to put together. It came all the way from Germany, and it is going to be huge (3 ft by 4 ft) when it is all assembled. It took a long time to deliver because they had to airmail it to America and then it had to come to our mail box through the postal service. We have been waiting for 3 weeks!

Because Daniel wanted to hang up the puzzle when he was done, I got to help pick it out.  (It is so big that I don't know where we will hang it though!) We decided on this cool old-ish map because it had some cool boats and no half naked Renaissance mermaids. (We had no idea how hard it would be to find an old timey map puzzle without half naked people, but we quickly learned that is is hard to find!)

I also ordered my first batch of maternity clothes early this week, and , they will be here early next week thanks to the miracle of online shopping! We'll see if I like them when they get here. If I do, you will probably get pictures of me in them at some point! I also made a different order on Amazon.com and it should also be arriving soon. So all I can think is "Mr. (or Ms.) Postman when are you going to bring all my stuff?"

Nothing Much

This last week hasn't given us too much to talk about, so this entry will be short.  It was Employee Appreciation Week at work, and this year they decided to give everyone a t-shirt celebrating their 14th year in the Fortune 100 best places to work (that's right, I picked a good workplace!).  It's nice to finally have an NI shirt (of course, I could have bought one any time if I had wanted).

We've been craving lemon bars for a couple weeks now, but kept not having ingredients when we thought about it.  We finally decided to specifically buy ingredients and make them.  I think you'll agree they turned out well.  I offer anyone coming to visit from out of state a free lemon bar*:

*offer limited to supply on hand.

I guess the last thing I wanted to mention was that I found a book (thanks to people here in my ward) called "The Disappearing Spoon", which I thought sounded really boring and 'sciency', but which I would actually recommend to anyone who would enjoy anecdotes about chemistry/science and the elements.

No More Secrets

So, if you any of you know my extended family then you will know that my Grandma hates keeping secrets. So, now that she knows my news, I am just going to tell everyone I can so she doesn't think she needs to keep it a secret!

Here is how Daniel described the situation to me. (at the hospital in a text message):

Guess what -- my girl is growing a healthy baby :D

The text makes more sense in context. We had just gotten out of the 13 week ultra sound, and we had just gotten the same basic news from the ultrasound technician. We even got to take home some pictures for our fridge to compliment the ones I got a 10 weeks.

Oh, in case you didn't guess, I didn't find out until ten weeks that I was pregnant, and even then it was a total surprise to me.  I went in for an annual exam, and the doctor came in and said "We can't do your exam today because you're pregnant!" So we got a dating ultrasound with some pictures instead. Total surprise.

So last week with these pictures on the fridge, I teased Daniel "Hey, did you know there is baby in here?" (Then I pointed to my abdomen.) He shook his head and said in a teasing voice, "Oh, I thought those pictures on the fridge were just baby mock ups, and I was supposed to pick my favorite!" I assured him that he did not have to pick because they were all the same baby and that baby belonged to us.

Weekend Adventures

Last Friday we decided to invite one of my coworkers (and his wife) over for pizza and games.  We had a lot of fun playing a game called Munchkin with them (I'm pretty sure this is one of those 'party' games designed for late night college hang-outs, but we wouldn't know anything about that because we're boring married people...).

Saturday we got to work on our house and put up a couple more shelves (I think we're done with shelves for now).  We also made delicious scones (not like the un-delicious scones you'll find at Starbucks).  This was our first time making them and we were mostly successful.  The important part was that they were an awesome treat.  (This picture of an excellent scone, was not ours).

Sunday morning I got a call to report my home teaching for January.  Only thing is, I didn't know I had an assignment!  Well, it turns out that they had just assigned me, but not told anyone.  With that, came home teachers assigned for us too.  They came by and we got to know them.  They seem nice.