Gumby!

This was the very first clay animation video by the creator of Gumby. Did anybody watch that show?! I did, it was amazing!

Over Achiever?

{for some reason achiever does not look like it’s spelled correctly}

Today, I was called an over achiever by somebody I go to school with. that is not me. at.all. I am such a procrastinator it is ridiculous. but I decided that while I am at school, I needed to put my procrastinating ways aside and get my stuff done ASAP so I don’t have to stress and worry about it anymore. yay me! and because of that, I have good grades in my classes. So, maybe I am an over achiever. but only with school.

but on another note, josh and I are still trying to conceive. it’s so ridiculously hard. and now that I am doing school I almost feel like baby making should be put on the back burner {not the actual baby making itself, but actually trying to create a baby}. I know that I will not be able to concentrate on school if I get pregnant because I will be so excited about said baby. BUT whenever I start to think that way, my mind says, “NO LARA! don’t be silly. you should have a baby.” so we try and try and try. Anddddd it’s fine. and fun. and it really brings Josh and I closer together as a couple when we talk about our future family and baby stuff. it really does, we rarely disagree on baby things.
SO, I go to this website {well, a couple of them really…} thebump.com it’s really awesome. I enjoy it a lot, and there are all sorts of good things in there to read. But today there was an article that was emailed to me from that website about good advice on TTC. {trying to conceive} and I feel like I was really supposed to read that today. Here is one that I really enjoyed, and can totally relate to:
“The best TTC advice I received was to realize that it can take even a healthy couple up to a year to conceive. If I hadn't learned that, I may have believed I was infertile after three months of trying because everyone else in my family got pregnant so quickly. I am now on cycle eight of TTC after coming off birth control pills, but I know that I am still well within a 'normal' time frame for getting pregnant.” – SarahL77
The above story is like the story of my life! My sister, and my mom, and even my sisters-in-law, have been able to get pregnant without really trying hard. It might take a month or two, but seriously people, I was/still sometimes am starting to think that there MIGHT be something wrong with me. But I don’t worry because I read things like this and it brings me hope. yay! hope!

I don’t think that I am pregnant, but I don’t really know what’s wrong with me… my ladies are hurting SO bad. I can barely wear a bra. I can’t even roll over in bed without wanting to gasp in pain. It’s totally weird. I did have my girly time and everything last month, it was 5 days late, and it lasted for my usual 7 days {I know. freakishly long}. But it was really a lot lighter than usual, only one “normal” day, that wasn’t even that normal. And now my ladies are hurting. So ridonculous.
I just had to share this little lovely piece of info because my blog is about trying to get pregnant, and my ladies are tied into that somehow, and maybe somebody somewhere out there who quite possibly reads my blog knows that the h-e-double hockey sticks I am talking about here. and why this is happening.

ANYWHO! have a great night!

p.s. I found this picture while googling random things. It made me laugh. I love Chuck Norris.

This made me smile

I know that this is SUPER long and really tiny… but if you click here or on the picture itself you should be able to read it. It seriously made my morning. I am tired and sick and I laughed a lot harder than was probably necessary. My husband thought I was going crazy. :o)
Anyhoo I hope that all of you had a fantastical weekend. I did!

Happy Friday

10 things that have been making me smile this week

1. Getting a phone call to work on Saturday {tomorrow} yay!
2 Skyping with my best friend two times this week {click here to see}
3. Getting told by my teacher that my honesty is refreshing. ha!
4. Texting my sister-in-law like everyday. She has been gone this week and I have missed her terribly!
5. My husband telling me how badly he wanted to hang out with me this week. {we have been so busy lately we have hardly had any time to see each other}
6. Being told by a three year old that we are going to get married. So.Cute.
7. Getting ahead on my homework. Go me!
8. Pizza for dinner TWICE. So good. Haven’t had that happen in a LONG time.
9. Snuggling my cats. That makes me smile every week.
10. Finding out an old friends sister met with the missionaries and was baptized this summer. So amazing.

Have a good weekend everybody!!!!!!!

School, Work and a Sore Throat

Tomorrow is FRIDAY!!! I am so excited!!! :D this week has been fast and long. does that make sense?

School is good.
I am still trying to find a job, but I am working this Saturday for the same company that I worked at the fair with. Probably somewhere around 14 hours. Which will be nice. :o) Josh has been working a lot, and has been working in the morning, which he likes a lot.
Baby-sister has a sore throat and I think that she has passed it to both Josh and I because we have been dying with sickness.

I am hoping that this month something magical happens. Anything. Seriously. ANYTHING! I am desperate to get pregnant for some reason. I know that I have all the time in the world, for the most part, but I am just so eager and ready to get pregnant and start a family. It’s what I want the most in the world right now. Even more than becoming a Kindergarten Teacher.

I am happy for tomorrow, though. See ya then!

p.s. I had to share this picture of my best friend with her fiancée (getting married on Nov. 12!!!!! woot!)

I love them.

My weekend

was as follows: (starting on friday)
school
laundry
general conference
eat
more conference
eat dinner
watch the relief society broadcast because I missed it last week
sleep
wake up --- shower
eat breakfast
general conference
eat lots of snacks
more conference
watch a documentary that was actually really, really good. I cried.
relax with my husband {even though I pretty much had been doing that all weekend anyways}

Then I wake up on Monday… and I am coming down from my sugar high {because let me tell ya… I ate, and ate, and ATE all the sugar in the whole house. I feel so sick now}

It was a magical weekend, though. Full of lovely talks by the leaders of my Church. It was beautiful.
My favorite talk was this one for sure. He is just SO CUTE!

Today is my brothers birthday. he is 19!!!!!!! :o) he will be soon receiving his mission call, and will be gone for two years. I love him SO MUCH! and will miss him a lot. but anyways, we are having his birthday dinner! scandinavian chicken. and rolls. and raspberry cake. so.good.to.me.

have a good monday!

General Conference, Toddlers, and running!

Today is Saturday… and tomorrow is Sunday. In case you didn’t realize it… but they aren’t just any old Saturday and Sunday. This is one of TWO General Conference weekends. The first one is actually in April, this is the second one. General Conference is where all the members of our faith that are able to watch our Apostles and our Prophet and other members of the Church speak about a topic that they felt we needed to hear. Most of the time, I always feel like whichever topic they are speaking about, is directed right at me. And that’s probably because, no matter what, whenever General Conference is on I am always going through some sort of trial. Always. But anyways, I am super excited and I will keep really good notes about what they are talking about and probably share a couple of my favorite ones soon!
 

Yesterday I got to go running with my sister, Chelsey. It was so nice. But before we went running, I went to visit her at her place of employment at the moment, which is nannying for a family whose parents are in Hawaii for two weeks. Wouldn’t that be so nice?! Yeah, it would be.
Anyhoo… they have a three year old boy. Who is to die for. Who never stops talking. And is the snuggliest little thing I have ever seen. He is so stinkin cute. And he latched himself onto me and we played and played and played until his sister got home from school, and then we played until it was lunch time, and then we played until it was time to go running (and feed the ducks in the pond. woohoo!) It was so fun. And by the time I had to go home to do laundry and some homework, he decided that we were going to get married. And let me tell you, it was the sweetest thing ever. He came and sat on my lap and said “I want to marry you.” and I almost died because it was so super cute.
It made me REALLY want to have a baby, though. Like more than ever. This month it didn’t happen because… like I said before, we were too busy and there just wasn’t enough thinking about babies. Between the fair and starting school there wasn’t enough time. I feel really bad, though. I sort of feel that if I had thought about it, and put in enough time to think about it and to spend time with my husband more when we actually had time together, then it probably would have happened. But I just didn’t want to think about it. I hardly ate for 17 days. I lost a lot of weight unhealthily. For me, the month of September was not a good pregnancy month. But, never fear. October is here, and it’s going to be a GREAT month. Pregnant or not.
Anyways, Chelsey and I went running, and it’s been far too long since we have been able to do that. A whole month. Thank you fair. And it was awesome. My leggies were so happy to go running again. I feel healthier already. :o)

It’s conference time. I am SO EXCITED!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!! Have a good weekend everybody!!!