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So the other day Nick and I got home from going out for a few hours and this is what we found…
Zoey had completely destroyed a magazine that she pulled off the top of the toilet. (That’ll teach us not to put the lid down!) I would have been mad but I really just couldn’t stop laughing! She tore that thing to shreds! There was not page left whole. Crazy puppy!! Thankfully this is the first time she’s really done any damage, and it was only a magazine.
I’m getting really worried about leaving her at the kennel for 2.5 weeks over Christmas…I think she’s gonna go crazy! She loves attention so much and gets bored easily, I don’t know what she’s going to do! I guess maybe we’ll have to leave a few magazines for her.

Today is Nick’s 24th B-day! Happy birthday baby! I love you!!!

AND…happy veteran’s day! It’s almost been a year since he joined the army! What an old veteran!

Alright people…recently Nick has decided that he has found his “photo face”. I completely disagree…and I need a second opinion to convince him. So if you read this, please comment. (Those of you that don’t have a blog can comment! Just click on the comments thing at the bottom and comment anonymously but sign your name.)

Which do you like better? (Keep in mind that these are not photo-shopped and they may not be the best pictures photographically speaking and I look like a dufus in #2…we’re just looking at his face here.)

#1:

# 2:
Poor Zoey was freezing cold the whole time cuz she jumped into the water silly thing!

Jen, I, and our good friend Mia decided to test out Jens new wedding

Today, for the first time, we got to see the little peanut we’re calling a baby! We’re officially PREGNANT! Ten weeks and three days. So only another 208 days to go! Haha. Nick was so funny at the ultrasound…I think he cried, it was cute. I’m pretty sure some of the symptoms of pregnancy might be contagious though because I cry really easily…and lately so has he. The other day he hit a squirrel and he felt so bad he cried, which of course made me cry. I’m telling you all this because Nick laughs at me every time I cry!
So…if you look at the ultrasound the baby is surrounded by the blackness in the middle. This is a side view of it lying on it’s back and it’s head is on the left. You can see it’s little feet sticking up on the right. If you look really close you can even see little arms coming out right below the head.
It’s a baby alright!!!

This weekend Jen and I went to Colonial Williamsburg! We got there on Saturday and got tickets and checked into a hotel, then we started our vacation by going on a Tavern Ghost Walk. We heard stories about all the various hauntings that have happened over the years in the city. It wasn’t particularly scary, but it was fun and interesting. We got a good nights sleep after that, and in the morning we woke up bright and early ready to go see everything Williamsburg had to offer.

As you can see above, we got put in the stocks (very degrading). We took tours of the Governers Palace, the original Virginia Capitol, and a lot of other cool places. We saw carriage wheels being made by hand, nails being made in the blacksmiths shop, soldiers marching around town, map makers extraordinaire, wigmaking, the local jail, and of course I took pictures of everything. Here are a few of my favorites (I’ll show the ones of me and Jen shortly).

And here are the photos of me and Jen!

Anyway, we ended our beautiful day by eating at the local tavern where had wings and snippets (kind of like long croutons you dip in cheese). It was communal seating so we got put at a table with another couple (much older than us who had kids our age) and we had a really good conversation with them so we were kind of happy about the seating arrangement.

On the way home we got stuck on the freeway for more than an hour and a half because of an accident that closed two of three lanes. We found out the next day that the accident was a semi crashing through the side railing and plummeting a few hundred feet. They finally got the trucker out alive luckily.

All in all, it was a spectacular trip! Food, fun, and a healthy dose of history.

Thank you Columbus for the long weekend! We decided to head down to Virginia to check out the historic living museum of Colonial Williamsburg.

In all the rush to get ready to go to Oregon I forgot to post about the weekend before I left. Nick and I met up with an old friend of mine…the wonderful Betsy Brown…in D.C. at the national book fest. I love seeing friends I haven’t seen in awhile, it’s always fun to catch up! Betsy and I met at BYU and went study abroad to NEW ZEALAND together. So of course we reminisced about New Zealand, which made me miss it and everyone who went with us. One of these days I’m going to have to get out of the country again!
(Check out our frizzy hair in this pic, well, mostly mine. The humidity was KILLER that day!)

I spent this last week in Oregon staying at a cute little cabin on the beach in Lincoln City with my family (minus my hubby). Seeing as how I still have not replaced the job I lost over a month ago, I figured I had the time. Actually, my wonderful husband convinced me that I needed to get out of the house, which was true. Oregon was cold and rainy but still fun.
It was my first time seeing my new niece, Mersadie, who is now 5 months old. She’s a cutie!

My Mom, Dad, little brother Taylor, Sister Nicole, Her husband Dustin and two kids and my grandparents were all there. We went to the aquarium, the Tillamook cheese factory and walked around on the beach. Thanks for a fun weekend everybody! And thank you Nick for making me go and the wonderful welcome home!