Time To Get Cookin!

Ok I guess I have procrastinated enough. Time to get to my list. First off I'd like to be a better cook (or at least learn how to make something besides mac and cheese). So I am going to learn five new recipes and add them to my box. I am leaving it up to you what those five are. Leave a comment with a recipe that is popular in your home and I will try them and choose the five favorites for our family.

Here are the requirements: 1-must be easy! (my cooking skills are to the extent of boiling water) 2- can't have onions, celary, mushrooms, tomatoes, squash, brocolli, dog, cat(just checkin;)), most fish, coconut, or peppers. Have I mentioned I am the pickiest eater on the planet? That explains the mac and cheese right?

So anyway, submit what you think would be a good addition to our collection of easy dinners and I will let you know what I choose. If I had any money, or anything cool, I would put a prize on the winning recipe, but the best I can do is offer service. Paul and I like to trade payments for service where we can. If you need any spring cleaning, yard work, babysitters, or anything at all let us know and we will oblige for your yummy dinner!:) So... LET'S GET COOKIN!!

My "Night" In Shining Armor

So here I sit at 3:20 AM just finishing off a bowl of Ramen Noodles that my amazing chef of a husband whipped up for me in under 4 minutes. Why am I eating Ramen Noodles at 3:20 in the morning? Well it started at about 2:00 when I flew out of bed (grabing a hair tie off my nightstand as I ran) dashing for the bathroom toilet (not to be confused with the kitchen toilet, or even the closet toilet). Luckily I made it in time, but not in time to get my hair tied back. So as I held my hair, I sent what little food was in my stomach into that porcelin pit I have grown so used to in the last three months. Paul sat near by rubbing my back as I tried in my shaky voice to convince him to go back to bed and get rested for his 8:00 class. But of course, Superman doesn't rest when a damsel is in distress-especially HIS damsel. So he proceeded to get a package of Ramen out of the pantry, fill a pot with water, and fix me up a small meal to re-nourish me and our growing baby. So as I slowly ate, he sat near (finding all the spanish channels on our new subscription of cable) and staying by my side.
I am so grateful for him and the amazing husband he is and the great dad he will soon be. I try not to let myself realize that I don't deserve him, but will always know I married way above myself. I love you babe!

Moved in with a FEW problems!

Hey everyone! This is Paul and I thought I'd give this blogging thing a try since my wife thinks I should be a part of it. So here it goes.
Well we did it! We signed the papers for our condo and moved in. Of course that was after waiting an extra month for the government to get off of their vacations!! What an amazing feeling it is to own your own place. But after signing the papers Kaylene and I said to each other,"what did we just do?"
After moving in we have run in to a few snags. As my mom puts it, "welcome to being a homeowner." Let me give you a list of things that has been eventful since being a home owner. Our dryer broke the day after the move, the washer flooded the basement, the neighbors car is broke down in our parking spot, can't turn on the vacuum without flipping the breaker, can't turn on the light in the master bedroom without the fan coming on and at a high speed, (Kaylene is cold enough as is), having problems with the dishwasher, and to end this exciting list the fridge is falling apart.
On the upside of things that we enjoy about our new place is that we now wake up in the mornings listening to birds chirping in the tree instead of semi's going 75 mph down the freeway. I can now put as many holes in the wall as I want to and don't have to worry about filling them in to get a deposit back. I love that one. We live next to a good friend of ours and we now have regular visitors. We also get a nice tax return. But the best thing above all is that IT IS OURS!!!!
We will be fixing up quite a few things, as you can tell from the list above, so if we don't update real soon you know why. We want to thank all the help we have received and for the support many of you have given us. Thank You!

The Beginning

In October Paul and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary and later that month decided it would be a good time to start trying to have a baby. But anyone who knows me knows I grew up such tomboy that I didn't take the time or the chances to learn how baby making is possible. I obviously got the idea, but when the best times to try are and so on, I had no idea. So I found a book here at the Cedar City D.I. that I bought to educate myself. Well, apparently I'm a fast learner because it didn't take long. I guess I'm what you call "fertile myrtle". At first I couldn't believe it, but 4 tests later, and I guess I had to.

So yesterday was my first appointment with the doctor. I'm seeing Dr. Gatherum here at Valley View Medical Center where Paul works. Paul has seen him around and said he is such a nice guy, and I agree. He was awesome yesterday. The highlight of the appointment was to hear the baby's heartbeat. It was amazing! If I feel like this after just the heartbeat, I can't imagine what the ultrasound and actually holding the baby will feel like. Paul had the biggest smile I've ever seen on his face! This morning I woke up to him mimmicking the sound of the heartbeat. He is going to be such and amazing dad!:)

Welp, that's all I have for now. I'll start working on my "to-do-in-the-next-6-months" list. Stay tuned....

Julia & ......Kaylene??

Paul and I recently watched the move "Julie & Julia" and we were inspired to start a blog. If you haven't seen the movie, this is how it goes: Julie is a hard working girl living in New York who hates her job. She decides to start a blog and cook her way through Julia Child's cookbook in order to add some interest to her life. She sets the deadline of 1 year to cook over 500 recipes and writes about her experiences in her blog. So... In August we will be having a baby and we thought it would be fun to start a blog about things we would like to do or goals to accomplish before the baby arrives. We are so excited to be parents, but we know that life will never be the same once we have a child. So this will be a good chance to do those things we've been talking about doing for the past two years of marriage that may be a little more difficult with a baby.

We will also include news and updates about us and the pregnancy of course. So we hope you visit us often and see what projects or goals we accomplish.