Polar Bear Plunge

I meant to write about this a really long time ago but just haven't done it.  So Ty is always coming home from school with things he has won from all these little contests they have at UVU.  He is always super excited to show me all his free stuff.  He has won shirts, sleeping bags, backpacks, shovels, camping chairs, water bottles, the list goes on and on.  Ty honestly is always so proud of the things he wins.  So a few weeks ago Ty was at school and he saw a big swimming pool set up.  He immediately ran over to see what was going on and they were doing the polar bear plunge.  They had filled the pool with freezing water and ice and put 100 pennies on the bottom.  To win the contest you had to get into the pool and try to collect as many pennies as you could off the bottom of the pool.  So Ty being the crazy that he is strips down to just his shorts (of coarse he had shorts on) in the middle of December and jumps in this freezing pool of ice.  Ty said the water was so cold he was having a hard time grabbing the pennies with his hand because they were shaking so bad.  A few of the people gave up after going under the water once because they couldn't take the cold.  Ty ended up with 23 pennies.  There were 12 people total in the pool and the next closest person had 13 pennies.  Ty was the winner!  Now here is the greatest part...he won an ipod touch!!!  Ty had been saving up his plasma money for months so he could buy one and he got one for free!  Ty was the happiest guy ever and he loves his ipod touch more than anything.

Thanksgiving

It was so wonderful to just be home and relax during Thanksgiving Break! On my first day home I got to go to an assembly at Centennial (so wierd!) to watch Kirstie dance. She was amazing as usual.

Around the holidays my family always does puzzles. This year every time you got a puzzle piece you got to eat one M&M out of the bowl.

Kirst and Me

Me, Dad and Kirst

Kirst, my mom and Me. (Check out that belly!) My family couldn't believe how big I have gotten! It is so fun to be having the first grandchild in my family because everyone is so excited. Everytime I would feel the baby kick everyone would run over and put their hand on my stomach. Zach couldn't stop kissing my belly.

Here we are about to eat Thanksgiving dinner. Oh it was so delicious, my mom is the best cook in the world!

The Saturday after Thanksgiving Sarah and I threw Juliana's bridal shower. Yah Jules, less than two weeks and she'll be married!

22 Weeks

Here I am at 22 weeks!

Our Fun Weekend in Rexburg

We decided to have a continuation of our Halloween celebrations up in Rexburg this weekend. Friday night we drove up to a cabin in Island Park to stay the night. On our way as we were driving very late at night we noticed some kind of animal running on the side of the road very close to our car. When we figured out that it was a big black bear I started to scream hysterically! Everyone wanted to turn back to get a better look at the bear and I just thought we were all going to die. Despite my screaming Ty turned back and we saw the bear cross the street and head back to the woods. Ty was yelling at me to get the camera but I really was just too terrified to move at this point. I really never knew I was so scared of bears until I was so close to one I could have reached out my window and touched it!

At the cabin we made haunted gingerbread houses.This was me and Ty's house with the corn maze made of candy corn, Ty was very proud.
Matt and Sarah made up a spooky story to go with their haunted house. This is Matt telling the story.

Saturday morning Me, Ty and Beau went to watch Zach's intramural soccer game. Zach did awesome and his team won!

Me, Ty, Matt and Sass were also able to fit in a quick trip to Rexburg temple. This was my first time seeing the temple and it is gorgeous!

On Saturday night we had another Halloween party at Michelle's house. It was so fun to see her new baby and her house out in Mud Lake. She is such an amazing mom and she wowed us all with a delicious dinner. I hope someday I can be as great and amazing as she is!

Happy Halloween!

This year for Halloween I dressed as a cat and Ty was a lumberjack.
Ty and Tinkerbell (my cousin Daniella). This is the little girl that finally got Ty to admit that he would love to have a little girl (This party was the night before our ultrasound).

Sarah and Matt the Koreans

My class on Halloween, they all looked so cute!

It's a GIRL!!!

Ty and I went to my ultrasound last Wednesday and found out we are having a girl!!! We were both totally shocked because we were so certain we were having a boy. We've been calling our baby Briggs all this time. I was very pleasantly surprised though because I really did want a girl more than anything. I just never thought I could get something that I wanted that bad but I guess I am just really blessed and lucky! Ty was a tad bit dissapointed at first but now he is just as excited as I am to have a baby girl and he'll be the cutest dad ever. We are also just happy that the baby is healthy and doing well. It was so amazing to see her moving around inside of me and to see how much she looks like a little person!

Me, Ty and Sass made tons of pink cupcakes and we took them around to all our family to tell them the good news! Me and Ty both dressed in pink!