The Duke's: November 2014

Saturday, November 22, 2014

This week's happenings...

This week has been quite the eventful week for Mike and I....

I have been sick all week; with this, that and the other, but mostly a stuffy nose and a cough. It's been kind of miserable. (because if you know me I NEVER get sick). Mike has also been a tad sick, working hard, trying to apply for school and trying to take care of me.
He's such a wonderful husband :)

This morning we; Mike, my sister and I; ran in a local fun run -The Turkey Trot and had a blast! I started off running but once I stopped I had to use the facilities! All bathrooms at the park were closed :( next option Jimmy John's,...the door was open so I ran in! I think we scared the girl working alone. I got half way through the race and needed to go again!! I just had to make it to the end. I did. Barely. Oh pregnancy.

My sister did AWESOME!!

During the race...

We finished!! (with no accidents)

Even though it took us forever and I held us back it was fun to get out in the crisp air and exercise with my husband :)

Yesterday on the other hand was the biggest day we have had in awhile and were looking forward to it for several months.

Yesterday was our Dr. appt. to find out the gender of our little person growing so well inside of me :)

It's...........

It's..................

It's....................................

A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!

Mike will be a little out numbered...sorry honey

BUT WE COULDN'T BE MORE EXCITED TO MEET OUR LITTLE PRINCESS!!!!!!

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Happy Halloween

This year has been a very busy one for us and I'm so behind on our blog, but it will get better soon :)

We are still in the process of downloading and organizing all of our pictures.

We have been on a Caribbean cruise, been to a Carrie Underwood concert (with some adventures mixed in), The Piano Guys, and many other fun things in between :)

This Summer we were busy driving back and forth to Boise for some reason or another :) We love to be busy and spend time together but we also like to just be home and get things done at home and enjoy being lazy....

Again ALL pictures coming soon! :)

About two weeks ago Mikes car decided it had had enough so we had to hurry and find and buy a car; we were lucky and blessed to find one we liked and get approved and have all papers signed in about three days :)

Toyota Avalon '08

Every morning on the way to work I get the pleasure of driving down Main Street and seeing the sunrise with the beautiful Tetons in the foreground of the sunrise :) I wish I had our nice camera every morning to get all the beautiful sunrises in this gorgeous part of eastern Idaho.
This one I just couldn't pass up not taking, so I took my phone out and snapped a picture while at a stop light :)

I just love this scene every morning,

You can't really see the Tetons very well but they are right on the horizon in the middle of the picture.

Sometimes I drive forty minutes to work and get to see this...

After months of hard studying the day finally came for Mike to take the LSAT (law school admission test) back on Sept. 27th. This is him the night before the test doing a few minutes of studying before going to bed early. He has his test bag packed and ready to go...

And finally,....one last catch up post...

Last night for Halloween we were going to carve some pumpkins, make pizza and watch a scary movie. But as we got to the store we decided it was a little too late [in the season] to carve, so we got some food and two movies.

We made a yummy Halloween pizza and watched The Fault In Our Stars (which Mike really enjoyed) and then I went to bed while Mike watched his scary movie.