If you guessed boy...

You were wrong! But it's okay, I was wrong too. We're having a baby girl! Joel guessed right. We are so excited, I'm especially excited for all the pink and dresses we get to buy. Or, borrow from my sisters who have girls. Joel's more excited about the clothing from my sisters than shopping. But either way we're so happy! Her official due date is June 23rd (or June 28th depending on which doctor) but she is measuring a bit big, closer to June 18th (which was my original guess). But I guess she'll come when she feels like it. This last month she has gotten very active. I think she rolls around a lot because most of the movements don't really feel like kicks or jabs, they feel more like rolling something across my insides. She loves the sound of Joel's voice. When I get home at night and he starts talking she gets really active. Especially when he is reading the scriptures. She must like the cadence of his voice when he reads. Maybe she'll like reading. That would be neat. She does not really move for me though. She has started responding a little bit when I tap on my tummy, but for the most part she responds to voices. Some of her favorites are: her daddy's voice, male voices with similar tones, Grandma Wenerstrom's voice (we discovered that last Sunday), and someone at work. I think the work voice is Torey, since I'm around her the most. It's fun to see her starting to respond to things. Our last ultrasound she was faceplanted into my back and would not roll over. The ultrasonographer was banding on my tummy where her head was with the ultrasound paddle and she just batted at it with her little hand and reared back with her head but didn't roll over. They have to repeat it so that they can see her face. I was told to drink soda or juice next time so that she'll be awake. We're over the halfway point (I'll be 23 weeks tomorrow) so we get to meet her soon.

Valentine's Day 2009, Part 2

On Valentine's day Joel and I did my family's tradition of heart shaped pizza and pink milk. Every year growing up mom would make home made pizza dough and we would make heart shaped pizza and dye the milk pink using red food coloring. I decided when we got married that I wanted to continue that tradition. We missed it last year, but this year we decided to do it and have Torey (a friend from Arielle's work) join us for dinner. My mom e-mailed us her pizza dough recipe and Joel and I made the pizza dough. Because I don't like getting my hands dirty, I got Joel to knead the dough, which it seemed he quite enjoyed.

For the pink milk we decided to have strawberry milk instead of just dyed milk, because Joel wanted the strawberry milk. So it looks like our pink milk will be strawberry milk. I thought that the amount of dough didn't look very big so I split it up a little more to make "personal" pizzas. They turned out quite a bit bigger than I expected once we rolled them out (using a beverage glass because I didn't think to buy a rolling pin), so we each had about a medium sized pizza and I had extra dough to put in the freezer for next time. Overall it was a fun tradition that I hope we keep.

My Pizza

Joel's Pizza (he started eating before I could get a picture)

Torey's Pizza
Drinking our pink milk

Valentine's Day 2009

For Valentine's this year Joel and I went to Chef's Table in Orem. We decided we wouldn't do well as rich people because we're really awkward in fancy restaurants. It's very pretty, and the lighting is very romantic. When the seat you they unfold your napkin and place it on your lap. And if you get up to go to the bathroom they refold your napkin. Crazy. Right when they seat you, after taking your beverage order and giving you water, they bring lemon sorbets out so you can cleanse your palate. I always thought those were supposed to be between courses, but I guess our palates weren't clean enough to even begin eating. We had to ask the waiter the proper protocol for eating it, then after he left I wished I had also asked which spoon to go for (we decided on the top spoons since that's where they put the sorbets). Well, dinner was very good, I had Alaska salmon with a dill holandaise sauce and Joel had tenderloin Marsala. The waiters and everyone were all way nice, the waiter even folded up table clothes to put behind my back because my back was hurting. Kind of funny. We should have had someone take a picture of us, but instead we took a picture of ourselves.

Guess the Gender!

We're finding out the gender of Baby Wenerstrom soon, so if you want to guess what the sex is we're putting up a poll.

New Projects

When Joel and I were shopping for Christmas presents for his family (we had Christmas at his family's 12/19 because we are going to Texas for Christmas) he found a strange fascination with the cooking aisles. So while we were looking at jars I thought that I could use them and add vinyl lettering from my Cricut for Christmas gifts - at least for Mike and Nikki and Joel's mom. We picked out a cookie jar for Mom Wenerstrom and Oil & Vinegar dressing containers for Mike & Nikki. So here are pictures of my newest projects with my Cricut (which is almost all my projects since school has taken so much of my time this semester).

"Grandma's Cookie Jar"














"Oil & Vinegar"

Happy!

So I thought I'd post a happy blog today. I'm in a really good mood today even though I have a cold and I'm pretty tired. So I took four classes this semester, a pretty light load. If I had realized that if I took one more I wouldn't have to go to another semester I would have done that, but oh well. So yesterday marked the first day of finals and I gave them a running start. Because I am a senior most of my finals are scheduled. So I had a 7 am final and a 2 pm final yesterday, then a 7 am final today (my last final isn't until Friday, yuck). So anyways, at my 7 am final this morning my professor returned our research paper. While I'm normally decent at writing, lets just say this semester hasn't really reflected that. So I didn't have very high hopes for the paper. But I looked at it...and I got an A! Yay! It made my week! All the time I spent on that paper actually paid off! So I was really happy.
And another thing to be happy about...about a month and a half ago Joel and I found out that I'm pregnant. So there will be a little Wenerstrom coming to our family next year in June. After being unsure about how we felt for a while, we've decided that we're excited. We're officially due June 23 (just two days before my birthday, which was one of my many due dates). So we are thirteen weeks along today (well, really it's just me who's 13 weeks along, Joel's just along for the emotional ride).