CHRISTMAS!!!!

Ok, just a little catch up for all you die hard blog readers out there. This blog was started by me because my wife was missing for 3 or 4 days when the last Harry Potter book came out. I don't even know how many Harry Potter books are out now so it might have been the last book or the one before that; nonetheless, that is the time our blog was inspired. Since then I think I've posted 2 maybe 3 posts, so I think I would get on and tell you whats to come.

CHRISTMAS!!!! I read Ashlee's last post regarding me being over zealous about Christmas. In my defence, I just love this time of season. It's one of very few seasons when the Spirit of Christ is overwhelming with joy and gladness. Today I am putting up our Christmas lights for the first time ever. This is a momentous occasion for us. I am drawing my inspiration from Clark Grizwalds house.

I know this may be a little extreme but what a glorious sight for the eyes of those that appreciate what this season brings, joy, peace, and comfort. I know this is going to be an enourmous task to under take so, just to let you know its our first year decorating our house for Christmas. I beg that you give us a few years, and some more after Christmas clearance sales and we should be a contender with the mighty Grizwalds house.

Remeber Christmas is not about Santa but about the Lords birth and what a great gift he brought to all of us, the atonement. I know you are thinking, if I feel that way then why am I putting worldly lights all over our house. When you look at the Grizwalds house, our house or any other house with lights; think of each light as a candle of appreciation on the birthday cake celebrating the number of years the Sons and Daughters of God have had to partake of the atonement. With that in mind, we can gain a better appreciation for the patience and mercy the Lord has extended to us. This is truly "the most wounderful time of the year" We have the biggest birthday celebration coming and i want to celebrate with a bang. The sun is up so I am going to go put that candles on our cake. MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Hallelujah!

I kind of thought it was a mean trick that everyone kept telling me the second trimester would be better. I guess it wasn't much comfort as I was puking (or trying not to puke because I was on a bus full of people!) Anyway, I believe you now! This is glorious! Now it is just the waiting game until the 19th! I hope baby cooperates and flashes the camera!

(So I know this has kind of turned into the Pidcock baby blog- but besides work, that is what I think about the most now! Oh well!)

Christmas already?

So the other day I am riding Trax and I hear 2 girls talking about how ridiculous it is that Christmas music is already playing on the radio. Funny to me because Mark wanted to play Christmas music in our house long before Halloween! We have been waking up to the sounds of Christmas since Nov. 1st. To me the Christmas season doesn't officially kick off until after Thanksgiving, but Mark thinks Thanksgiving is just a part of the whole Christmas season... I wonder what everyone else thinks?

I felt it!?

And I am not talking about the wonderful feeling you get when you are totally confident you made the right decision at the polls...



I am talking about the baby! Mark was totally freaked out by the whole idea, but I thought it was pretty cool. I guess only time will tell whether it was "gas" or the baby!

Pregnant!

Yes, it's true- despite our evasiveness or outright lying for the past few months (sorry if that was to you!) We are having a baby! Any doubts I may have had in the beginning are definitely gone now. I don't know for sure what finally clued me in- the snacking in bed at 2:00am? The paperclip/rubberband I now need to hold my pants together? Crying at least three different times in one day? (I think that is more than I cried in all of 2007) Or maybe it was the wonderful chance I had to experience what dry heaving is really about?

We hope the bald little screaming bundle of joy will join our family in April, and if Mark gets his wish it could even be for his birthday. If all goes according to plan we will know whether to buy pink or blue after November 26th. As for names, we do not have any frontrunners yet so stay posted. I joke about the less than pleasant symptoms, but in all actuality we are thrilled to welcome a new person into our family and soooo happy about all the excitement this will bring to our lives. And I could not ask for a better person to share this experience with. Mark has been a tremendous support and loving partner through it all- even when I have been far less than tolerable myself. If you will excuse me now those two sentences alone have set off my pesky tear ducts again...

Loved and not forgotten

So I think I may have become a blog stalker. I love looking at everyone else's blog and seeing pictures of their adorable children and such. I would like to say that not having adorable children or recent pictures of our exciting life is my excuse for not blogging, but that is exactly what it would be--an excuse. It is not like our blog was ever exciting or full of amazing pictures. I mean I just scrolled through it and I have more pictures of vegetables than my handsome husband! Anyway, we are still alive, I still love blogs, and I will think of something to post one day. In the meantime, we are alive and well. Working, playing, eating, sleeping--you know, the basics. Mark started the MBA program at the University of Phoenix which I think will be fantastic for him. He is loving his new job (and I think glad to be out of the banking industry right now- yikes!) I am loving our neighborhood and autumn and getting really excited for the holidays. Something about the cooler weather makes me want to sew quilts, read books & play with friends more- just a few of my favorite things anyway :)

Another Mystery Vegetable...

The last mystery was solved- a patty pan squash (very yummy by the way)

But now we have another one that is huge and we haven't picked it yet because I am still trying to figure out what it is...
I would kind of like to know before they all get that large...