Liquid Tylenol and Squirt

Ever have those 'I refuse to get out of this bed' days?

Ya know...those days where:

1. our head feels like it weighs twice your body weight?
2. your nose gets so stuffed up you feel like another planet is stuck up there?
   
3. your whole body just kind of.... locks up and you're in too much pain to move?

Well, that was me. Yesterday.

I woke up for work,

got ready,

went to work,

and had a pretty mild headache..

As the day went on,

it got worse,

but I still pushed through my shift.

I didn't notice how bad I felt till Jayson picked me up....

During that 10 minute drive home,

I could feel my body slowly tensing up...

My neck started to hurt when I looked over both shoulders,My nose would not allow me to breath...My eyes felt like they were being sucked into my head,

My throat felt so scratchy and gross...

(Maybe this was a sinus infection mixed with allergies??)

and my sinuses hurt whenever Jayson would poke them...

Jayson was supposed drop me off and go straight back to work...but he walked me up stairs and put me to bed.He massaged my cheek bones,(cause that's where I hurt most)helped me get into bed,and just laid with me.Exactly what I needed :)

But then, he had to run off to work.You know how a toddler will reach their arms out toward you if you walk away and they don't want you to?Yeah, that was what I did when he had to leave....
So I turned on some Disney movies.
But the later it got, the worse I felt..
So then I found this baby:

BEST. STUFF. EVER!!!

I literally chugged two mouth-fulls of it,

ate some yummy Ramen Noodles,and took Tylenol PM

(mostly cause my head hurt so bad that I could feel my heart beat in my head)

and let me tell you.... I was OUT!

I slept from about 5:30pm until 6:00am

and I'm sure I would have slept longer if I didn't have work..

On top of that, Jayson brought me a treat :)

SQUIRT!!

Squirt is a soda that's like Sprite or 7UP

He felt really bad that he couldn't leave work early to come take care of me,

so he came home with my treat to make my tummy feel better :)

I vaguely remember waking up when he got home to take a sip....

...but I doubt I was awake longer than ten seconds...

So next time you're sick, I HIGHLY recommend this stuff ;)

The Strapless Dress-Skirt

Being a convert, it amazed me how much clothing I had that wasn't 'Church Appropriate'
Nothing that I had was over revealing, it just wasn't long enough...
So I had to go shopping
(oh darn, right?)

Well, I found some super cute dresses that were to die for!
The only problem is, that was four years ago
and...I've grown just a bit..
So now those fabulously adorable skirts and dresses are too short.
I threw out all but three, which were my favorite..
And my Splatter-Painted Strapless Dress was now too short....

Well....maybe not....

The Strapless Dress-Skirt

....now is a beautifully modest skirt

Lesson Learned:

Before throwing out that piece of clothing that is too small or too short, see if you can make it beautifully modest again!

What have you done with your clothes?

I'll be there someday...

I've decided that I want to travel.

Not the world..

Not some 3rd world country..

Not Czechoslovakia..

Not Spain or Italy

(okay, ...maybe Spain or Italy)

But I want to travel.

I want to go with my husband on a romantic vacation.

I want to take our kids some place they'll remember forever.

Where might you ask?

HERE

Hoboken, New Jersey

...to see Carlo's Bakery, DUH!

New York City, New York

Times Square

Sydney, Australia

Thank you, Dory

Maui

Disney Cruise Line

need I explain why?

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good

The House of the Lord

Tonight, I had a meeting for work at one of our locations downtown. I had left a few minutes early for a number of reasons:

1. I wanted to get a good parking spot because our parking lots at our preschools aren't very large..
   
2. I have never been to this location, let alone driving downtown (Jayson has always been the one to drive), so I wanted to give myself extra time in case I got lost
3. If you're early to a meeting then our director picks your name out of a hat and you get a special treat
4. I hate being late to anything
   
5. I really, really, REALLY, wanted to see the temple..

I still am disappointed in myself that this month marks 5 months of living in Salt Lake City, and I have yet to actually visit Temple Square and walk the grounds. I'm more frustrated at this because when I visited over the summer for nine days, I was able to make a trip down when I was staying with a friend in Tooele, but now that I live a grand total of 10 minutes away I have not been able to visit!! Ugh.. that's frustrating. But then again, when we first moved here, I was working in a restaurant every day from 10:00am until 9:00pm, sharing one car with Jayson, got in a car accident in January, had to ride the bus for a month, finally bought a car at the end of February, and now am just working around both mine and Jayson's busy work schedules. So technically, I've only really had about a month of a sane schedule to even consider making a trip to Temple Square.

... I'm going before the end of this month. I'm making it my goal.

Anyway, back to why I had mentioned my meeting at work. Well, I knew I had this meeting tonight and I knew that it was at our location on North R. Street, which was off of South Temple Street, so I made it a point to drive past the temple, even thought I wouldn't have time to walk around. It amazes me how much peace I feel just from the sight of any temple. I guess I'm more stoked about the temples here in Utah cause the only temple I have ever seen besides the ones here is the Los Angeles Temple. Don't get me wrong, the L.A. temple isabsolutely BEAUTIFUL, but I live in a new state now...so I have to check out the temples here and enjoy being so close to so many before we one day move back to Southern California.

I just feel so blessed to live so close to so many temples. It's mind blowing that I can see two of them from the freeway on my way to work, TWO! The Los Angeles Temple was at least a 45 minute drive away from where I used to live back in California (and hour and fifteen minutes away if you got stuck in traffic on the 405 freeway)

Within a 45minute to a 1 hour drive, I can see:

1. Mt. Timpanogos Temple
   
2. Draper Temple
3. Oquirrh Mountain Temple
4. Jordan River Temple
5. Salt Lake City Temple
6. Bountiful Temple

Since I have lived in Utah, I have seen:
(either driven by or walked the grounds)

1. Provo Temple
2. Mt. Timpanogos Temple
3. Oquirrh Mountain Temple
   Jordan River Temple
4. Salt Lake City Temple
5. Bountiful Temple
6. St. George Temple
   
   
   ...I plan on getting more up close and personal with all of those temples.

Behbeh in my Belleh

Nope, I'm not pregnant... hah!

Right before conference started, I had been praying about feeling more comfortable and relaxed about actually being pregnant and being at peace with the whole process whenever that day comes.

...and then the first two talks in Conference were about parenting..haha

Ya, I'm kind of legit scared of BEING pregnant.
Not having a baby, not worrying about money or affording life things, not about parenting, just being pregnant.

Okay, seriously. Think about you. You walk around with a living body INSIDE you! Doesn't that freak you out a bit? Yes, I know it will be the biggest blessing that I can't even imagine, and that should make it less scary. It helps, I will admit, but its still weird. I'm gonna look down at my feet one day and see my giant belly button sticking up at me saying "MWAHAHA."

Even though I have that awkward phobia, that doesn't stop my massive baby hunger. It's terrible. I have 70 pins and counting on one of my Pinterest boards called "Because I'm Baby Hungry"

I feel as though a large portion of my friends want me to be pregnant. Which is fine by me :) I just find it rather funny. One of my friends says he wants Jayson and I to have kids because he wants to see 'Little Baby Jaysons' running around.

Are you serious dude?! MORE Jayson's?

One is enough...... :p

Is it weird that we already have all our baby names picked out?
Should I tell you what they are?
Or should I hold it in ;)

But I've basically decided that any of my daughters will look like this:

<3