Update

so i know i haven't updated my blog is like a week but that's b/c there hasn't really been anything going on!!! i had my last few days of class and one of my two finals. yeah to getting an A in the class.

my belly is getting bigger and bigger...i can't even zip up my normal pants yet but yeah to the tummy sleeve being designed to hide that fact ;)

i've only felt little Lowe move twice so far...tyler was able to feel him once which was really exciting for both of us. people tell me that i'll get sick of it after a while, the moving that is, but i honestly don't think i will. i've waited a long time to get pregnant and now that i am, i love it and wish i could feel him more. tyler does too!!! he loves the fact that i'm getting all pregnant and also wishes Lowe would move a little more...hopefully he gets more active here in a little bit.

i'll get tyler to take some belly pics tonight and we'll get those posted so everyone can see how pregnant i'm looking (granted i don't look as pregnant as say Lindsey who's like 7 weeks ahead of me but still)

Maternity Clothes...

So I finally went out and bought some maternity clothes on friday. I made my friend Kathie come with me and we went to the maternity store. They did not have any cute clothes...I take that back. I found a cute skirt that I bought and then I got a 'tummy sleeve'. It's pretty much a little tube top type thing that you wear over your belly instead of your torso so you can wear your normal pants and this thing hides the fact that the pants aren't buttoned (or zipped...)...hehehe.

The jeans that they had at the maternity store were all about 3 inches too short for me...So I didn't buy any there but we went to Old Navy because our friend Heather said they had good maternity pants and they did! The had the pants in normal sizes (instead of just small medium and large) and they had short, regular and long too. I was very happy!!!

So there's my saga of maternity clothes so far...the tummy sleeve works wonderfully over my non-pregnant jeans and if it sticks out from under my shirts it just looks like a tank top.

Kathie and I ventured into Mervyns and all it's going out of business glory looking for maternity clothes (this was before we made our way to Old Navy). They did not have a maternity section anymore but we noticed that all the baby clothes were 70% off...so of course we went over there. I got about $75 worth of baby clothes for only $30!!! It was awesome! And no mom and dad...I didn't just buy things for Lowe! I bought some stuff for Dave and Lindsey's baby too!!! Kathie on the other hand bought stuff for Lowe and was like "Alright, I'm almost done shopping for your baby shower!" It was pretty funny...especially when she told me I was going to just forget about it between now and the baby shower!

So there was my fun friday of shopping at the mall...yeah to sales and maternity clothes that are cute and baby clothes for our little boy!!!

The House

So I finally got around to taking pictures of our house...so here they all are!!! I'm not sure what order they'll show up on the post so there's the living room with the couches, the kitchen, dining room, backyard (with grass and lemon tree), the room with the futon in the office and the other one with the fish tank will be the baby's room, the upstairs hall bathroom, the master bedroom, master bath and walk in closet!!! Yeah to our house!

Baby Boy Lowe!!!

So here are our sonogram pictures of our little baby boy!!!! He was being stubborn and stayed in one position for like 7 minutes!!! The sonogram tech kept trying to get him to move but he just stayed there.

The first two pics are just side views of our little boy. He's so cute!

The third pic is the position he would not get out of. Little weirdo is already doing yoga...yeah to downward facing dog.

In the fourth one, his head is on the right hand side and that's his little hand up in the center in the middle.

He's obviously a little boy as you can see in the last picture...hehehe how embarrassing!








So we are extremely excited and cannot wait for him to come. Yeah to having a little boy!

Thanksgiving!!!

Every Thanksgiving our mom makes us wait to eat our delicious turkey dinner until we've all said at least two things we're thankful for. All the food is out on the table, everyone is at the table waiting...and waiting...and waiting...so mom pulls out the corn kernels and puts two on everyone's plate and than we go around the table and say things we're thankful for...of course we're not supposed to repeat items that have been said so the first kid is always like "I'm thankful for the food and my family." So the rest of us have to actually think about the things we're saying we're thankful for!!!

So here are some things I'm thankful for:

Tyler
Family
Health
My pregnancy ;)
Our house
Friends
Church

Just about everything I've been blessed with!!! Yeah to being thankful!!!

Tagged by Holly

You made me laugh sooo much Holly!!! So here's my picture...I'm sure my friend Kathie and her husband Nate will be sooo excited to know that this picture got posted!!! ahahaha

So I tag:

1. Ben
2. Dave and Lindsey
3. Savannah
4. Angela

26 days to know...

So we went to the doctor today and everything is going fine with the pregnancy. We get to find out on December 1st whether our baby is a boy or a girl!!! AND WE CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!!!!

The appointment is at 330pm...so it's in the afternoon and I'm going to have to wait until after school to find out! I hope the day goes by quickly!

As a good friend put it...thanks Heather..."You have a belly!". My nursing school friends all agreed that I had grown a belly over the weekend. It's funny because I really have grown a little tiny pregnant belly it seems...over the weekend. Tyler tells me not to stick my belly out but I'm not sticking it out ever anymore. I think that I'm just getting used to being pregnant and don't care that I'm getting chubby! Now in reality, I've had the blessing of the "Joslin Genes" and have never had a weight issue so gaining weight and having a belly are very foreign things to me but I am enjoying them beyond anything in this world!

So vote on what gender of baby you think Tyler and I are going to have!!! Yea to babies!!! (Just to be clear, both our NP and the MD say there's only one baby in me so sorry dad...no little triplets or any sort of multiples!)

We're 13 weeks and 2 days along...

YEAH!!!! So to everyone that didn't already know...Tyler and I are expecting our first baby! We found out back in late August, early September and we are so excited about it. We won't know until early December whether we're having a boy or girl and we definitely want to know what we're having!!!

I am due on May 1st...two weeks and a day before graduation!!! AHHH!!! But it's perfect timing I think. I'll have time to recouperate before my one final and then there will be lots of family around to watch the baby while I walk during my graduation from nursing school!!! Oh so exciting!!!

We will post some pictures once I start to get chubby and some of the ultrasound after we get it in December...yeah!!!

Poor Tyler!!!

So Tyler emails me to let me know that when he was downtown today getting some paperwork signed for work...he got caught in an elevator!!! He said the power went all out and the lights were all off and that the elevator stopped!!! HOW SCARY IS THAT?!?!?!?!? He didn't say how long he was trapped but I'm thinking it wasn't too long and who knows too if there were other people in the elevator but still...super creepy and scary!!! Poor Tyler...I'm just glad that it wasn't me...


P.S. That is not a picture of Tyler trapped in the elevator but I'm sure he was probably doing that...

New Favorite Game

so tyler's new favortie game is Scrabble...and i decided that i despise that little checkered gameboard and all it's happy letters! tyler said he had never played scrabble before in his life (which i find hard to believe b/c i know i've played with ben and sarah and tyler...there in their tiny little apartment on the living room floor...)

so in the first two times that he's played he's beat me soundly...Sarah...i really need you to come and play a game with him and score like 500 points or something! i like playing it better when it's me and ben just being stupid and trying to keep sarah from getting so many blasted points!!! but when it's just me losing by a ton of points to little mr i've never played this game before it makes me feel like my vocabulary is that of a two year old!!! he always steals the places i want to put down letters...like tonight...i could have scored like 39 points on a three letter word and he took the spot so there went my big score!!!

but he likes playing the game...it's nice to find a game he likes to play...it's a step towards having people over to play games!!!!!!!!!! yeah!!!

once again...the next time we're all together sarah...i would like for you to play scrabble with tyler...it's make me feel better (but then again, now i know how ben has felt all these years losing scrabble to his spouse...albeit i'm sure sarah's words are always these non normal words like all the rest of the world uses...they're all really smart words!!!)

Rocky Point, August 2008

so i'm finally going to get to put up pictures and tell about our awesome trip down to rocky point!!!

There we are on the beach! But moving on, we had this awesome one bedroom one bathroom condo. If i can ever figure it out i'll put the video of it that i took on here...the balcony had a perfect view of the ocean which we were right on...well, we were right on the beach.

We got there on friday night, the first of august and we left there on the 6th, the wednesday following. it was so nice not to have anything to do but what we wanted to do! and we got to eat all the mexican food and panaderia bread that we wanted to!!! this bread is the most delicious stuff i've ever had in my life! i've found one in tucson...well, at least the address to one so tyler and i are going to have to check it out sometime.

saturday morning we went and got full body massages at the spa inside out resort. so nice and relaxing!!! we then went and played on the beach for a bit. it was slightly windy and so the waves were nice and high! i wish i coud have gotten a picture of this one time when tyler was in the water playing in the waves...he got hit by this big one and got tumbled in the water. i saw him get hit and then the next thing i saw was his feet up and out of the water! we were laughing so hard it hurt!

one of the nights we went on this dinner cruise...it was okay until i got really kind of motion sick...i just felt really sick and the water was really choppy so that didn't help at all! one of the guys on the boat cut up a lime and saturated it with salt and told me (tyler really since he was speaking in spanish) that i needed to eat all these little salty lime pieces and i would feel better...it kind of helped but i still felt bad for the rest of the time. it wasn't really fun at all for either of us even if i hadn't gotten sick. they served all the beer and margaritas people could drink free of charge (so you can imagine how many drunk people there were on this boat) but they charged us for our waters!!! stupid but oh well, we won't be doing that again!

we went parasailing, those pictures are on a disposable waterproof camera i have yet to get developed...so check back later for some of those images. it was really fun though b/c tyler and i went up together and we were really high above the ocean. it was so nice and peaceful and the view was great!!! tyler and i were debated whether we'd be able to get my dad to do that (if we're ever able to convince him to come down to mexico to begin with!!!)

we rode the banana boats, that picture is on the waterproof camera too. i took it from the water after i fell off! tyler told the guys we wanted to go fast so boy did the driver of the boat go fast! we both fell off once each and it was so much fun!

we watched movies at night, went out to the beach a few times to lie down and look at all the stars. i know tyler didn't believe my but i swear we could see part of the milky way! it was awesome! so many stars!

we had all the street tacos we could eat! those things are delicious and i'm having a craving for them right now since i'm talking about them...we know of a little van we can go get some out of here in town if we need to...which we might need to tonight b/c those sound really good right now!!!

i can't think of much else about the trip. it was just a load of fun and i am so glad that melissa introduced me to the Sonoran Spa resort there in rocky point. it's awesome and so beautiful there!!! so now i'm just going to add some more pictures from the trip!

Random Update

so my mom says that i don't update this thing as much as i should...i'm not sure what all i could write on here seeing as how all tyler and i are doing right now is working and working...

i got to go to a long time friend's wedding reception last night and it was so good. angela went with and it was pretty funny b/c the reception was literally at this castle! the invite said it was as the castle at ashley manor and we had no idea what this place was. i was driving and as we came around this corner angela was all "so i'm thinking that that's probably it", i looked over and there's this castle all lit up and off to the side. we laughed so hard for a while b/c it's so random!!!

angela introduced me to the ikea store today...i cannot wait until tyler and i have a house of our own that i can decorate!!! they've got so many cute things there that i would love to use...someday!

Happy Birthday!!!

So yesterday was my birthday...yeah for me!!!

Tyler got us reservations to a really nice place called The Melting Pot. It's a fondue restaurant and it was excellent! We had some carribean style cheese that they had apples, bread and fresh carrots and califlower to eat with it. Then we had our main course...we picked the mojo style of cooking and it tasted really really good! They have the fondue pot there at your table with the cheese in it at first. Then when you're done with that and your salads, they bring you the fondue pot with the flavored stuff if it to cook your meat and stuff in. The picture is of our main course before we started eating any of it. Boy was it good! You skewer a piece of food on your fondue fork and let it sit in the boiling liquid until it's done and then they have a billion different delicious dipping sauces for you to enjoy.

Then came the best part ever...the dessert. I of course went for the pure milk chocolate. I didn't need any fancy stuff (they had a limited time dessert called bananas foster or something like that so it was white chocolate with some banana stuff and caramel I think in it...) I just wanted the good ol' plain milk chocolate! And it was the best part of the night!!!! Strawberries, rice krispy treats and sponge cake! Oh it was sooo good!!!

Tyler is such a good hubby to me! I'm so glad I was able to share my 23rd birthday with such a wonderful man! Yeah to eternal marriage!!!!!!

It's been a long time coming

So I know it's been more than a month since I blogged but things have been kind of crazy here in sunny Tucson. I got through the last semester just fine (when I say last I mean the most recent one not that I've had the fortune of being done with school...) and onto my new job just fine.

I love working with the infants and toddlers at the hospital. It is such a fulfilling job!!!! My nurse preceptor is awesome and has taught me so many new things! Yeah Nicole!!!!

Tyler and I went to his brother's wedding up in Denver, Colorado. It was a very, very nice wedding there at the Denver Temple. It was also gorgeous temperature and scenery wise so I am jealous of that fact. I do like the winter weather here far too much though at the moment for us to move any where in the future to somewhere like Colorado because I don't think I would deal well with the coldness and snow! I know how to deal with the summer heat here so that's not a factor!

I learned how to to phlebotomy this week...for those of you who are not Ben, this means I now know how to draw blood!!!! So it's pretty fun and I'm pretty much awesome at it so no worries.

I cannot believe that it is past halfway thru June!!!! 2008 where have you gone?!?!?!?!?!?!? I still have so many projects that are not finished yet and I thought I would have more than plenty time to do them in this summer...sorry Tyler but it looks like they're not going to be getting done!!!!

I can't think of anything else to add...more updates later I guess when I actually have something interesting to say!

Just A Little While Longer

So things are still pretty mellow around here. I've got only one more final to take for the semester and then things'll be all done and over with! So as you can see...I'm so not studying but blogging instead!

I cannot wait for this summer. I've got that new externship job and there are so many projects that I have that I can't wait to get started (and hopefully finished!).

I can't think of anything else new that's going on...oh well!

Almost there

So school is almost over this semester and I just cannot wait!!!!! 6 more days of school spread out over the next 3 weeks. I've also only got 9 days left in the job that's I've had for the last 3.5 years. Crazy to think I won't be working in the staffing office at UMC anymore but that's alright...I get to do patient care up on the infant and toddler unit and it's going to be awesome.

I've started doing this exercise video program thing with my friend Kathie and it's kicking out butts! You wouldn't think that a combination of kickboxing, aerobics and dance would be that difficult but I work up the morning after and could hardly move because I was so sore. It's called Turbo Jam and is just crazy! We did the sculpting workout the other day and both of us had shaky legs during the end of it...way too many lunges and squats but hey...it'll be worth it when I see a difference in my backside! (A little more toned I hope!)

The dogs are still doing well, Little Louie and Tyler had a little accident today at the dog park and so Louie is now on some a pain med and is limping a little bit but he'll be ok. (Tyler called Louie over to him, Louie sprinted off to see Tyler and somehow hurt his little front leg when he jumped up to see Tyler (Tyler was squating down) and Louie really whimpered alot and the poor little guy...he couldn't put any weight on the leg and would try biting me really hard when I would go to touch his leg). He's been able to put weight on it this afternoon and stills limps around the house but he'll be alright (yeah for pain medication for the little guy...although it's just an NSAID (like ibuprofen), I think it will be enough for him.

It's been a long time...

So it's been awhile since I wrote on here last...school has been oh so crazy!

If anyone is interested or cares I got to do a couple really cool things these last couple weeks! I got to start an IV in a patient, I got to insert a foley catheter and I got to do a rectal suppository...now that I've shared all that...no one wants to know me anymore! Oh well though b/c those were all really good learning experiences and I am so happy that I got to do them all first during school while I had an instructor or experienced nurse at my side to help walk me through the parts I was unsure of doing.

Tyler's just been working and luckily he still likes his job. We went to a play the other night that his boss' step daughter was starring in: Alice in Wonderland. The guy who wrote that book must have really been on something b/c that was about the weirdest play I have ever seen in my entire life! Boy did Disney make it a lot more understandable and give it an actual flow to it (I have decided that I need to read the book now to see what the original craziness is all about).

Spike still has not lost any weight (I don't think he has and the scale at the vet's confirms this) although Tyler swears that he is looking a littel leaner. Louie is just as crazy as ever, we don't think he'll ever stop acting like a puppy.

I can't think of anything else exciting that has gone on around down here in Tucson other then the weather has been absolutely gorgeous making it unfortunate for those of us stuck inside at work or school all day long.

Spring Flowers

Well...nothing much is going on down here. I just got some flowers planted in some planters we have had on our front porch (they were here when we moved here). I just hope I have some of Joseph's luck and the flowers don't die with in a week!!! It's really hot out right now (probably around 80!).

I cannot wait until we have our own house and can actually do things with the yards and maybe have a garden and a flower garden too! That would make me really really happy...too bad I have to wait a while until that'll happen.

New Addition

I know we're probably going to get made fun of by certain brother type people but Tyler and I got another dog today. We rescued a 6 year old(ish) dachshund from a dachshund rescue place down here in Tucson. His name is Spike and he is about 1.5 times the weight he's supposed to be so we're hoping with the right diet and some exercise he'll be down to the weight he's supposed to be! (Louie's only 12.5 lbs and Spike is almost 19!!!! And they are the same body structure and height so poor little Spike is just too big...) So far he and Louie are getting along well...such good dogs!

So Awesome!!!

So I got offered a summer externship at the hospital that I work at on one of the pediatrics floors and I am SO EXCITED about it! So I will be starting that in the end of May and I just cannot wait for that to start!!! Yeah new job and new experiences!

Did you know that...

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts

Our Little Louie

Here is our silly little dog Louie...he's pretty dang good at driving the car! He's almost 11 months now and is kind of crazy sometimes but what can you say...he's just a little tiny dog!!!

Tyler's Graduation

Well, in December Tyler graduated from the U of A with his Bachelors in Science in Business Economics from the Eller College. His parents came down from Idaho to see him graduate. Since it was the December graduation there was only one university wide graduation on Saturday morning. He was down in amongst all the graduates and his parents could find him, my parents could find him and my brother could even find him but I had some issues and was not able to pick him out...poo!

He had his college's graduation the night before and that was pretty interesting...the student speaker went off about how life was like a recipe and was doing all sorts of crazy hand motions...pretty entertaining! Then the dean or someone like that from his college spoke and that was a good speech about something! Jill (Tyler's mom) and I had some fun picking apart some of the outfits some of the female graduates were wearing...can you say inappropriate for anywhere but the club!!! And these are the business majors graduating here!!!

So Tyler is now a working man at Wells Fargo Financial and he's doing great at it! He's in like the best office down here in the Tucson area so he's having a great first job out of college experience. I'm so proud of him too!!! Yeah Tyler!

Here we go...

Well, here we go with a blog of our very own! Since Ben and Sarah had one...and a ton of other people I decided I needed one too!!!!!