Birthday, a New Job, and Valentines

February is usually a busy month for us, with Neight's birthday on the 8th and Valentines on the 14th. It is especially busy this year with Neight also starting a new job!

For Neight's birthday I tried so hard to set up a surprise for him, and as hard as I tired to keep it a secret until his birthday he still found out. See, I had been planning this birthday surprise for him since November so in theory it should be flawless. Well, it wasn't. Far from actually. I had planned to take him out to dinner at his favorite restaurant, Happy Sumo, and then to Anniversary Inn for a night away before the baby comes. Well, the Monday before his birthday he was asking me some questions about it and said "If we're going to stay someplace over night, what are we doing with the dog?" I FORGOT THE DOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so upset and rushed through the different people I could pawn her off on ;) Luckily Neight thought of my parents and how she could sleep in their backyard that night. Zildjin loves to spend time outside so I figured it would be a good plan, but I was still terrified that she would bark all night long and my parents would decided that they never wanted to watch her again. Luckily my mom was gracious enough to let us drop her off for the night, my dad was kind enough to put carpet in her kennel and a tarp over it to keep it warm, and THANKFULLY Zildjin didn't bark all night long. I'm so lucky to have such awesome parents :) Even though I couldn't quite pull off the surprise it was still a nice night and Neight says he enjoyed it. The weekend after his birthday we went to Rodizio Grill with some friends and had a really great time. One of these years I'm going to tell the restaurant that it's his birthday so they can play the cool drum for him :) The meat was delicious and the grilled pineapple was heaven. It's pretty fun when I can eat just as much as the men do, I just hope it doesn't stay that way after the baby is born.

Neight started a new job on the 13th and loves it. He tells me it's completely different from Geek Squad and very much laid back, which is better for his stress level right now. Especially while he's trying to focus on school. Speaking of school, my due date is June 10th and Neight's graduation ceremony for his Associates Degree is June 13th, talk about nerve racking! Anyway, this job is a foot in the door to his ideal career and will help us out in the long run, I hope. I'm not sure exactly what  he does, he comes home and tells me about the activities of his day, but 90 % of the time I don't understand anything he's talking about, but I still listen and ask questions when I think I will understand the answer :) Neight is trying to stay at Geek Squad a few nights a week, but by the time he has a day off he will have worked 21 days straight between his new job and Geek Squad. I don't know how long Geek Squad will stay if it's a continual thing where he doesn't get a day off for three weeks. I do appreciate all he is doing for me and the baby, but I need him to stay healthy and sane ;)

With Valentines day being in the middle of the week Neight worked all day and I had school all day so we didn't do anything super special, which is fine with me because we should be expressing our love all year long, not just on Valentines day. Although, when I got home from school that night Neight did give me a present :) It was a box of rice crispy treats that leave a space for you to write on the wrappers. Well, in this box of 40 Neight went through and wrote Valentine's sayings (kind of) on all of the wrappers for me :D It was the cutest thing! It is a much more thoughtful gift than flowers or chocolates because he actually had to think about it :) It made my day. I am one lucky girl :)

That's our update for now. I have a doctors appointment tomorrow to check on the baby. Neight and I are still trying to decide on a name. We've come up with a few that we like, and I think I even have a favorite picked out, but I don't want to say "that's her name" and then find one I like more. I still have 4 months to figure things out, although, those four months are going to FLY by! Now I need to get moving and clean the house, make the grocery shopping list, and I should probably work on my homework, even though it's super hard to find motivation this semester.

Here's a picture of me last week at week 23

Catch Up

It has been a VERY long time since I have posted anything, so for now I will just upload some pictures. There are stories behind all of them, but I won't give all the details. I will just post a short, sweet, and to the point caption :)

A delicious vanilla cake with strawberry filling I made for work.

A side view.

Beautiful Cascade Springs. We've made it a tradition that each year we go up and take pictures with my family.

A picture of the springs.... Believe it or not this was taken with my phone :)

This year we all brought up goofy glasses to take pictures with. My daddy is so silly :)

This picture was taken on the first "real" day of fall where it was super rainy for like three days straight and it got really cold.

One day Neight and I went on a lunch date after I got done with school and he was off work. Little did we know that WW III was waiting for us. Munchquen had pushed a box of tissues that were on the table on the ground and Zildjin decided it was her responsibility to then shred that box and all the tissues in it. Oh, and there was poop in the mix because she was home alone all day. Poor thing.

And finally a picture of our silly puppy. When she chews her bones she always ends up on her back... I guess she just gets a better grip on it?

A Fall Fling

So I feel like it's been forever since I've been able to update any of my blogs, but while Neight and our new puppy :) are sleeping, I'm going to take a few minutes to post this before I start doing everything else that needs to get done today.

School has been going decent for me, I'm starting to think that I bit off a little more than I could chew, but I'm sure I'll be ok. I feel like all of my time at home that isn't devoted to cooking or cleaning, or taking care of the animals, is devoted to homework. Weekends aren't too bad, it's the middle of the week, Tuesday and Wednesday, that are my problem. There just isn't enough time for me to do all of my homework assigned on Tuesday by Wednesday. I'm going to try getting ahead this week to see if it helps at all.
Neight starts school again tomorrow, I think... It might be next week, I'm not sure.

So like I mentioned earlier we got a puppy. Neight and I had talked about it for a while and finally decided that we should. So Thursday we drove all the way out to Coalville to pick her up. The drive to get there was like an hour and a half, the lady literally lived out in the middle of nowhere. She and her husband are ranchers, I guess would be the best way to describe them, so our dog basically could run around for hours in all this space. I feel kind of bad that we took her away from all of that and brought her to the city. I guess though, that Magna, is kind of like the country. We do have a decent sized yard that she will be able to run around in.
The entire drive to pick the puppy up Neight was thinking of names, he thought of two he really like, Lucee and Zildjin. After we played with the puppy he decided that she wasn't a Lucee type dog and so he picked Zildjin. Now, you're probably wondering "Where does a name like that come from?" Well, let me explain, Neight is a drummer and very into music. Zildjin is a cymbal brand that he uses, it's pronounced Zil-d-gen. So we now have a Munchqen kitty and a Zildjin doggy. Only in our house :)

She's a very cute dog and pretty good so far. I thought we were going to have a problem with her sleeping through the night, but I was wrong. I never thought I would be a dog person, but for her I think that can change. I just hope that Munchquen doesn't feel like I'm neglecting her. Munchquen is very territorial and is having a hard time adjusting to Zildjin, but every day Munchquen will wander closer, mostly while Zildjin is asleep, but Munchquen will hiss if she gets to close to Zildjin. It's kind of funny to watch, but yesterday there was a time where I had to take Zildjin to the other end of the house because she cornered Munchquen and Munchquen freaked out. Zildjin will bark at Munchquen thinking she's playing, but Munchquen sees it as being attacked. We had to buy a baby gate and turn our office into Munchquen's room so she wouldn't completely hate us.

They match!

Last week Neight went fishing and FINALLY caught some fish! He said that as soon as he put his line into the water he had a bite and reeled it in. This happened for hours and he got a nice big bucket of fish.

Luckily Neight was fishing with a friend because there is no way that we would be able to eat all of those. Neight and I are going camping in a couple of weeks and he's probably going to go fishing. I don't know that he'll catch anything, but we'll see.

It's been really nice having a house for the last couple of months. We've been able to grill (yummy) and Neight has been able to play his drum kit. I like that it's nice and quite and almost ours :) We are supposed to close on the house the day before Thanksgiving, if all goes well.

Neight's grilling area.

Neight's drum kit.

I hope that everyone enjoys the end of summer/beginning of fall, as it will turn into winter very shortly. (Don't hate me for telling the truth.)