A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

It's been a little while, but up until this weekend nothing exciting really had happened. So for a quick little update: we are 14 weeks pregnant, unemployed, and hanging on by the skin of our teeth. Things are tight, but we're still eating and the house is still heated. And, as AJ always says, "it's not so bad that it couldn't be worse."

Well, because my husband doesn't have a job right now we get to spend a lot more time together, which I am really enjoying. Over the past year we've learned to mesh and compromise enough that we can be together all the time for weeks on end and we don't constantly fight. So, yay for learning that life lesson... it's been a blessing these past few weeks. My most favorite part though... he gets to sleep through my morning sickness with me. I love cuddling up to him in bed in the mornings. Well, and he's been cooking quite a bit lately and I must say he is one fabulous chef. We're eating like kings... well, kings with no money.

Our latest adventure was our trip we took to Utah last weekend. We had been talking about having pictures done at the Logan Temple for our sealing (which has been pushed back at this point, but we'll keep you posted on that). I wanted to wear my wedding dress for our pictures and I wanted to have pictures without a ginormous baby belly. My dress was already getting tight and there's an unmistakable bump where my waistline used to be, so we bit the bullet. We'd been talking about it briefly, but hadn't really looked at the calendar and scheduled anything. We got home from Institute on Thursday night around 9pm and had been talking about it on the ride. Turns out the best weekend for us was the one coming up the next day. We contacted our photographer (a.k.a. AJ's amazing sister, Tavia) and were able to set things up for the next day. I was up pretty late trying to get things ready. It was a slightly less stressful re-enactment of the night before our wedding, although stressful nonetheless.

We finally left Pocatello on Friday around 1:30pm, later than we'd hoped, but made it to Logan by 3. Perfect, just enough time to grab the few things I'd forgotten at home with a quick trip to Wal-Mart (not to mention, a bathroom break). After our quick run into the store, we drove up to the temple. Tavia wasn't quite there yet, which was also perfect because it gave me time to finish wrapping my flowers and sewing a hair comb to my veil. Tavia showed up just as I was hurriedly sewing on the hair comb. AJ and I both changed into our formal attire and were finally ready to get started.



We took several hundred pictures and they came out very well. We were very pleased. There's a few shots where I wasn't sucking in the baby bump enough and it is visible, but oh well, it was bound to happen. AJ even snuck in a hand on my tummy pose. There's a few we'll have to photoshop a little... we both seemed to have a problem keeping our eyes open. And we have red noses (and my hands are quite red too). But all easy enough to touch up a little.



After I was thoroughly frozen to the bone and 600 pictures later, we climbed back into our cars, made our way through Logan and headed still further south. With, of course, the heater cranked up. At least until all those pregnancy hormones kicked in enough to warm me back up sufficiently.

I have to give a shout out to Tavia. Thanks for coming on such short notice and for taking so many awesome pictures for us. We couldn't have done it without you! You're amazing! We owe you!

Now, we're just waiting to go inside...