Women's Retreat

A few weekends back my stake relief society held a women's retreat in New Hampshire. I'm so glad I went. It went from Friday to Saturday afternoon. My friends Lisa and Angie rode up together which is about a 2 and half drive from Mass. We picked out a cabin to sleep in and then went to a class on jam making and organizing. We had a yummy dinner of taco soup and corn bread that had the most delicious honey butter. We then had a guest speaker talk about living with hardships. By the time it was to go to bed, it was in the 30 degrees. Angie and I were sharing a cabin and we were freezing!

On Saturday we took classes on health lifestyles and watercolor painting. Then we had a lesson on our heavenly father. We ate lunch and then drove back home. It was a fantastic way to spend a weekend where I left feeling so uplifted and loved by my sisters. I hope they have one next year.

 

 

 

 
Raspberry Jam- So good and easy!
 

Angie and Lisa

 
 Angie and I trying to stay warm!

 

The sisters that attended from my ward( missing Lisa, Zana,and Sharon)

Iphone picture drop

Some pictures from the last month that missed the blog.

still getting waves of morning sickness

cannoli for passing the 2nd CPA test / Halfway done!

Our friends got a puppy- Sunder, he is a standard poodle 

1st day of school- 2nd year! 

I had a great girls' lunch where I tried Pho soup for the first time. 

BYU vs. UCONN

One fun thing about living on the east coast is being able to see BYU play in foreign territory. Since they don't come out here all that often, BYU fans come out of the woodworks and it is so fun being surrounded by the cougar pride! The game was held in Hartford and it took over 40 minutes just to park so we missed the first TWO touchdowns of the game! It was a great game and we beat them good! 35 to 10, it was such a great game and Matt was able to have a missionary moment during half time! I also really loved seeing UCONN's marching band perform,because they had a front ensemble (pit)!!! It brought me back to my marching band days in the pit! Overall it was a great date night and we are so excited that BYU is having an awesome season! Go cougars!

On the way down we stopped at Red robin and Matt was in love with all the mushrooms on his burger

BYU

Perfect night for a football game

Cosmo!

UCONN marching band

The BYU section at the end of the game

Onesie Announcement

The first trimester went by so slowly. It is weird,because you know your are pregnant,but you don't look pregnant.So it just goes by painfully slow,because you just want to share the news and start seeing that baby bump and feeling your baby! I'm so glad to be getting out of the first trimester,because I have been so sick with no energy!

Some note able things that happened during our first 12 weeks were:
We had an ultrasound at 7 weeks and some days.
We had my first prenatal appointment and heard the heartbeat again! Matt's favorite sound.
We announced to all our friends and family!


We are so excited to be blessed with this opportunity to be parents. We can't wait to meet this baby that we are already so in love with! February 27th can't come soon enough!

                    

We had some much playing around with onesies

The proud daddy

                                                             Matt's pick

A Tuesday in Boston

This has been such a fun week for us. Monday the hall of fame, Tuesday we went to Boston, Wednesday had a doctor's appointment where we heard the heartbeat again, Thursday getting the announcement ready, and Friday- finally announcing!


Back to Tuesday, We were invited to lunch with Matt's friend Nick from BYU. Nick is getting his PHD in accounting at M.I.T. and moved out to Mass just a few days ahead of us. We woke up early and drove the hour and 40 minutes to the temple and did some work for Matt's ancestors and then we headed over to Nick's apartment for lunch. We hadn't seen Nick or his family sent moving out here even though we live in the same state! We decided that we won't let another year go by before we see each other again. It is so fun having BYU friends out here in New England and being able to compare notes on things we miss about Provo.

We had some yummy sandwiches on homemade bread and enjoyed each other's company. We wanted to tell them our good news but wanted to wait to be safe since our appointment was the next day! After lunch Matt and I headed over to Georgetown cupcakes( D.C. cupcakes on TLC) to get some. It was a perfect day with beautiful weather and friends!

our cupcakes tipped over- missing banana split cupcake 

temple selfie

Nick has the perfect arms for selfies!

Basketball Hall of Fame

On Monday we went to the Basketball of Fame in Springfield. Our friend is doing a summer internship there so we were able to get in for free! Some of my favorite things we saw was the honor ring. It the top floor and it is where they have pictures of all the hall of famers with some awesome artifacts. I loved seeing the olympic medals and seeing how the uniforms have evolved over time. The second floor has some fun interactive things like finding out your vertical leap, how to jump to get a rebound, one on one video game,and seeing if you could palm a basketball.  There is also a walk through time line of basketball. They also had some of the different jerseys and video clips. On the bottom floor they have a court where you can practice slam dunks and also play basketball with all the different versions of the hoop, including the peach basket. It was a fun afternoon spent with friends.

Matt playing the video game

He's got jumps

peach basket

Dunking it!

Our friends-Angie and Trevor