Friday Fail

So being a kid-less stay at home mom has been interesting! I don't want to say I am bored because honestly I don't even know where my days go, I cook and clean and sew and decorate and just try to get ready for the baby! But sometimes while Troy is gone to school I get a little lonely around the house by myself! So I was really looking forward to Friday because we would get to play!  I had decided we should take his new Jeep, Dozer, out and go Jeep camping! So I spent all day Friday getting prepared, I baked treats for us, got our tinfoil dinners all ready, loaded up the sleeping pad and sleeping bags, packed yummy breakfast for the next morning, I was very proud of my ability to be a camping wife... because I sooo do not camp! But I was sure everything was going to be perfect! Troy ended up getting home a little later than usual, so we didn't make it out until about 4:30 but I was still certain it was all going to be great!! So we head out to the mountains, we turn off onto this snow covered dirt road and start heading up, when we get to the road we where going to go up to camp there is a big gate and apparently the road is closed for the winter! So then we where trying to turn around and we got stuck in a huge snow covered ditch!! So Troy gets out the shovel and starts digging us out in every way possible but nothing is working! We where really, really stuck!! So I got out of the car and started trying to help, in whatever way a 35 week pregnant lady can help! So Troy has me sticking the shovel down under his front tire to get traction while he slowly backed it out. Well one time in during our many attempts to try this somehow the shovel spun under the wheel and the handle came back and hit me on the head!!! It didn't hurt that bad it was really just a light tap, but I fell to the ground and looked up at Troy and just started bawling... again 35 weeks pregnant, my emotions are a little out of whack OK? But it was dark, and cold, and we where stuck, and nothing was going as planned!! Troy got out and hugged me and made me laugh at how silly I was being then got back in and on the very next try we got unstuck! But by this time it was too dark and late to find any place to camp, and we where both just exhausted and ready to give up so we went off roading for a little bit then just came home.

Off Roading with Dozer, it was very cold!!

 Once we where home and unloaded everything we had just loaded up I tried to cook our tinfoil dinners in the oven... that didn't work! So we where stuck with a frozen casserole out of the freezer! While we where eating Troy could see how sad I was that nothing was working so he went outside and brought in our little tent.  We set it up in the living room, popped some pop corn and watched the X-games until we fell asleep.  It ended up being perfect.

Living Room Camping and watching the X-games

  So even tho everything was a huge fail, it worked out better than I could have planned, and I was mostly just happy to be with my cute hubby all night.

Jeep, Jeep, Jazz, Jeep, Jeep

So the other day I pull back the covers to go to bed and the entire bed is full of $20 bills...  I don't know why but my first immediate thought was pure fear!! I think it's because whenever you see that much cash on TV or in movies, it's usually a bad thing, like drug money, or murder, or bank robbing something bad and scary! But my fear quickly turned to anger as I realized Troy must have sold his Jeep without telling me!! Turns out I was right, he had sold it a couple of weeks before and just kept it a secret all this time until he could get the money out in cash for us to play with!!! The reason this made me mad was because I had been stressing about it for the whole time he hadn't told me!! I had asked him about it a couple of times and his odd answers made me just feel bad and I didn't want to stress him out so I wouldn't bring it up again for a couple of days but I was really getting worried we where never going to sell it! So after I let my anger subside I had something new to stress about.. now we had ALOT of cash in our little college apartment, Troy was insistent that he would use his new gun on anyone who tried to rob us so it was ok, but I was freaking out and after a few gangster pictures I made him take it right back to the bank!!

Gangster Trolio with his stacks on stacks

However that didn't last long because a couple of days later he found a new Jeep on KSL that he thought he might want to buy, so we drove all the way down to Salt Lake to test drive it and look at it; turns out it wasn't that great so we said no thanks and started heading home. We where looking for a place to eat on the way home and remembered that there was a Jazz game that night which meant McDonalds has chicken nuggets on sale, so we found the closest one and while we where eating we looked on KSL for some Jazz tickets we could by.  As luck would have it there was a guy giving away 8 free tickets just a couple minuets away from where we were so we went and snatched them from him, scalped the remaining 6 in front of the arena and then watched the game, which was Troy's first NBA game so I was pretty excited about that!! 

Jazz Game, we even snuck down to the lower bowl for the second half :)

A couple of days later I had to leave Troy in Logan while I went home to Heber to baby sit my brothers for a couple of days while my very deserving parents went on a Puerto Rican cruise!! Baby sitting was a disaster!! I called Troy every night and told him how I don't think we should have a baby, cuz I am going to be the worst mom ever... hahaha too late for that!!! And my brothers called Troy every night and said, "if you where our dad would you let us do this?" Troy would usually just laugh and say "I don't care, sure" so I had no support in any of my attempts at taming three crazy teenage boys!! hahaha, no it all worked out OK, for the most part, and I was happy my parents got a little vacation, because obviously they needed it after raising those three!! Also while I was there I sewed an entire quilt!! I used the fabric from my wedding tables and did just a simple patch quilt for the bed in our guest bedroom/babies room! I was super happy about it and pretty proud that I did it all without my mom there to help or encourage me! 

My beautiful quilt!!! So in love with all the colors! It's practically an explosion of floral prints!

On the weekend I drove the boys up to Logan and we went to our cousin Kierra's mission farewell, she was so sweet and is going to be such a good little missionary in Taiwan.  We sent my brothers back to Heber with my grandparents. Then the next day we headed... take a guess, back to Salt Lake to look at another Jeep! This one he liked so after a little discussion we bought it and named it Dozer! Troy was really excited about it and we got it for a good deal, and I was happy to own a Jeep again, for fun adventures, and so we don't have to share a car, and for DI treasures!! Being in Salt Lake was nice tho because we where right next to my dad's work so we where able to go to lunch with him and hear all about his trip!! 

Troy boy with his new Jeep Dozer!

Then we headed home so Troy could play with his new Jeep... which brings us to the next Jeep! While Troy was looking for parts for Dozer he came across another really good deal on KSL for a Jeep all the way in Ferron. I have tons of family down in that area and we would have loved to have gone down at a convenient time when we could have visited them and made a trip out of it, but Troy was worried the guy would sale it to someone else so we loaded up and drove there yesterday after his classes. So you're probably wondering why we where buying another Jeep... I was wondering the same thing, actually I'm still wondering because they honestly look like twins, exact same year, same color everything! But Troy insists that the lift is different, and this is different, and the wheels, and the bumpers, and this and that and everything makes them "completely different." But it's kind of like twin babies, when the proud parents are the only ones who can tell them apart, Troy is the proud parent who knows all the little details that make them individual, but they look identical to me! But anyway, back to why, Troy wants to fix one or both up and sale them, so I just have to keep reminding myself it is for the better, and he is one of the few people blessed enough to be able to make money doing something he absolutely loves, and we get to play around in them while they are in the fixing process, so it is all good!! We named the second Jeep Gilly, it was really funny how it got it's name! On the way to Ferron I took like a small 15 minuet nap in the car and when I woke up the first thing I said was, "Gilly, the Jeeps name is Gilly!" Troy was just like, "What, where did that come from? We haven't even seen it yet!" I didn't really know where it came from, I use to nanny a little girl named Gilly but I have no idea why I thought that should be the Jeep's name so I told him it must have been inspired because I just woke up thinking it and he laughed and said "whatever we'll think about it after we actually see it and decide to buy it." But then.... we get all the way to the little small town of Ferron and the guy wants us to meet him in the one gas station in town, we pull in and right in front of us there is this huge sign that says Gilly's gas station! We both just burst out laughing and immediately agreed it's name had to be Gilly. Now if only we could name our baby girl as easily as we can name Jeeps!!

Holidays

Well I've basically proven to be exactly what I didn't want to be... a bad blogger!! I haven't wrote in forever but I'm going to just blame it on the holidays and keep trying!  So... where to begin, life has been great, the holidays where wonderful and relaxing! For Thanksgiving we had a very exciting filled weekend in Elk Ridge with Troy's family.  We did all sorts of activities, cooking, eating, laughing, games... pretty much everything! And me and Troy where very pleased to beat almost everybody at the "newly wed" couples game.  After only being married for 4 months we beat his siblings and their spouses, as well as his parents, and even grandparents! Once we got home from Thanksgiving, it was time to start getting ready for finals, so that was not fun and we where both ready to just be done with school! But the weekend before finals week, Troy's brother Tyson got his family's van stuck in the snow in Idaho so we took a road trip up there to visit with his cute little family and Troy helped pull him out with his winch and Jeep.  It took them quiet a long time and me and Cambria where starting to wonder if they where alright, until Troy started sending me snap chats of their new  off-roading past time called "vanning." Where basically Tyson just runs his van into snow banks! hahahaa We made it home in time for finals, then packed up and headed off for the Holidays! We drove all through the night on Friday and got to Weldon, California by like 3 in the morning where we spent a week hanging out with Troy's parents, old high school friends, and just exploring his little home town! It was great! I was especially excited about the redwood trees, because I've never seen them before and I was just really excited to walk through a tree cave!!! It was awesome!! It was also way fun having bonfires and late night adventures with all of our California friends, it made me feel like a high schooler again! The one sad part about California was we left Mr. Bigglesworth there to be sold :( We didn't have a buyer when we left but knew we could get a little more out of it in California then Utah so we left it with one of Troy's friends and caught a ride back to Utah with Troy's parents. I can't tell who was more sad about selling the Jeep, me or Troy... for Troy he will just buy another one and have just as good of a time modifying it and fixing it up, he was kind of done with that one anyway.  But for me, that was where we met, fell in love, practically every memory of us dating starts and ends with that Jeep!  and it was also my best method for getting my treasures home from the DI, I am really limited to smaller purchases with a small car!! So anyway, I was sad to leave it behind but happy that Troy was willing to give it up to provide for our family. So we made our way back to Utah a couple of days before Christmas where we spent time with my family! Christmas Eve was full of the usual traditions we had a beautiful dinner on my mom's brand new dinning room table set! It was gorgeous! Then Troy and I played Mary and Joseph in the Christmas nativity, we read "T'was the Night Before Christmas," watched a Christmas movie, baked Santa cookies and treats, did a Christmas puzzle and opened matching pajamas for the whole family!! Whoa... that was a lot!! I think even my warnings before hand couldn't have prepared Troy for the tradition overload he would encounter on Christmas Eve, but me and my mom have this problem where we can't let any of them go so every year we are faced with the same issue of way too many fun things to do the night before Christmas! It's OK tho, we love it all, Troy was especially into the Christmas puzzle, maybe he was just bored while I spent all day cooking but Troy, Treven, my Uncle Spencer, and my Grandma where very into getting the puzzle completed, it was actually really funny to see Troy and Treven sitting there for hours trying to find the correct pieces and how excited they would get when they completed a large section! After we all changed into our matching Jammies, Troy and I couldn't break tradition so we slept down stairs with my brothers and talked about what gifts would be waiting for us in the morning, just like we where little kids!! Christmas day was great, we got to watch the boys open all of their gifts, and open some of our own... my mom made adorable new stockings out of old sweaters so that Troy could have one on the mantle so we got new toothbrushes and candy in those and my parents spoiled me with some new clothes and an amazing new digital sewing machine!!! And they gave Troy a new tool set which will be very nice because as of now his tools are a scattered mess of mis-matched mayhem.  I got Troy a drill and some bits (mostly so he could help me hang pictures and decorations at our house, so it was really a present for me too!) And he took me much needed shoe shopping a couple of days before and bought me some sensible black flats as well as some not so sensible bright turquoise very high heels... which he helped pick out so I love!! After Christmas we got to see Troy's family again, and give them some of our presents and open some from them, Troy's dad spoiled Troy with the new hand gun he has been DYING to get so we where both happy with that and I was spoiled with photoshop, as well as baby clothes, and much needed kitchen appliances.  They also gave us a beautiful picture of Christ which Troy just barley hung up on our wall with his new drill!! It was all very nice and Troy and I where just overwhelmed with gratitude and love for our amazing families!! The rest of the break was great, full of lots of family, we went to the Crystal hot springs with Troy's family, which was great for Troy boy because he LOVES hot tubing, not so great for me, being 20 something weeks pregnant, but I stuck my feet in and wore a hoody to keep warm! By the time New Years Eve rolled around Troy got sick, and ended up sleeping through what would have been our very first New Years kiss :(... well I went and woke him up at like 12:05 to kiss me but I don't know if that counts! He was up and feeling better within a couple of days and we headed down to Emery county where my amazing Aunt Ashley threw me such a cute baby shower, it was pink everywhere and the food was so delicious, and I was happy all of my family could make it!! I especially had fun opening adorable little baby clothes and hearing everyone's mothering advise!! Also in Emery County was my sweet Grandma Hansen's 80th birthday party!! Setting up and decorating for that was a blast Troy somehow got put in charge of rigging up the giant balloon streamers from the ceiling, and he did great, even after being told what to do by 8 crazy Hansen woman at once! The party was super fun and sweet, we all told stories and memories of grandma and everyone was in a constant loop of laughing and bawling... Troy was just laughing, mostly at me, because he thinks it's funny how emotional I am lately! We headed home to Logan from the party with a car full of gifts and goodies and hearts full of happiness and love for our families!! We where so thankful to be able to spend the whole break visiting with all of our loved ones but we where excited to get back home to start a new year, a new semester, and a new adventure here at Utah State.