The Morley Clan

Well the time has come to start expanding the Morley clan. No, none of Nate's siblings are getting married yet... I'm talking about our little Morley clan. Yes, that's right. We are pregnant! The baby is due January 10th. I am just about 17 weeks along. We don't know what we are having yet and our next doctor's appointment isn't until August 14th and then they will schedule the ultrasound. We are anxious to find out what "kind" of baby we are having. Although it's probably the best for our bank account that I don't know yet or I would be out shopping all of the time.

I have really been lucky and not gotten very sick. I've gotten stomach aches, and only thrown up once (knock on wood). I should be past that stage now. I'm just exhausted! I cannot get enough sleep. I go to bed early, sleep in when I can, and still need to take a nap! I've heard that it's ok to sleep as much as you can on the first one because you probably won't get that luxury later on so I am taking full advantage.

I know it's almost unheard of to wait so long to tell people. We just told our families last weekend and they are very excited. My sister-in-law Sylvia posted this on her blog about five minutes after we told them! :) It's been fun to having it as our little secret and our little inside joke. It has been seeming more real though now that we've been telling. I hope that no one is offended that we didn't call to tell you, but it's a little easier making one general announcement. Please forgive us!

Happy Birthday Nate!

Ok so this is a day late. I didn't get a chance to post yesterday, but Happy Birthday to my amazing husband! I really can't say enough about how lucky I am to have found such a great guy. We get along so well and I love spending as much time as I can with him. I hope that he had a good day yesterday because if any one deserves it, it's him.






I made my first attempt at a birthday cake. Don't look too closely because there are alot of flaws. It was my first experience with fondant. It actually turned out better than I thought. It's made out of marshmellows, which is a lot cheaper and tastes better than the other kind of fondant. I just googled marshmellow fondant for the recipe. Hopefully with some practice I'll get a little better.

Happy Birthday Babe!

My How Time Flies!!

I cannot believe it has been over a month since I have posted. I think I get caught up in reading everyone else's blogs that I forget that people are probably curious about how we are doing. Well it has been a pretty full month but not a whole lot has happened of great significance. Work as usual has kept us busy. We've had a couple of nice weekends with family though.

A week ago we went up to Solitude with Nate's family and extended family and stayed in some condos. It was a very nice weekend and very relaxing. My weekend was almost ruined by jury duty, but luckily the case was settled and I didn't have to go in. No need to worry though my name gets put back in the random drawing so I may still get my chance! Thanks to the Buntings for a fun weekend! It was full of good food, games, swimming, and we even busted out some glow sticks. Who knew glow sticks could be so much fun?

Our 4th was too short. We went up to Paris, Idaho with my family to our property. I had to work until 6 pm on Thursday so we didn't get up there until super late. Nate and I both had to work on Saturday so we had to drive home on Friday night. It was lots of driving for only 24 hours. But it was fun. We just relaxed, played some games and even hit the parade in Paris. (Which was surprisingly bigger than we expected for such a small town - Hannah and Sylvia got quite the bag of candy.) On our drive home we went through Evanston, WY. We got to the outskirts of town at about quarter to 10 and from horizon to horizon all you could see were fireworks, tons of fireworks. I don't think they even do city fireworks. They just set off their own. As we drove through town there was a park that was packed with people and left and right they were just shooting fireworks off. It was unbelievable. I tried to get some pictures with my camera phone but the flash was not cooperating. I just thought that people went across the UT/ID border to get fireworks - but I'm pretty sure the town of Evanston pays a pretty penny for all of those fireworks.

I hope everyone had a Happy 4th of July!

Tagged by Sylvia

Sylvia tagged me so here it is:

Four jobs I have had:
1. My Family's Farm Supply Store
2. Die Cuts With a View
3. Credit Union
4. Joe Morley's BBQ

Four movies I have watched more than once:
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Sydney White
3. High School Musical - Hannah was just here to watch it w/me :)
4. The Princess Bride

Four places I have lived:
1. Hooper, UT
2. Provo, UT
3. Midvale, UT
4. (I've only lived 3 different places...sad)

Four TV shows I watch:
1. The Office
2. Grey's Anatomy
3. Jon & Kate Plus 8
4. Gilmore Girls - Even if it is only reruns... :(

Four places I have been:
1. Hawaii
2. North Carolina
3. Canada
4. Florida

Four people who e-mail me regularly:
1. Shelece
2. Kimmy
3. American Eagle
4. Bath & Body Works

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Chicken Strips
2. Fresh Hamburgers
3. Cafe Rio Pork Salad
4. Cantaloupe

Four places I would like to visit:
1. Italy
2. New York
3. England
4. The Grand Canyon

Four things I am looking forward to in the coming year:
1. Harvesting our garden
2. Spending time with my hubby
3. Moving to a house - hopefully it will be w/in a year but who knows?
4. Summer/Warm Weather

I'm not gonna tag anyone specific but feel free to do it if you'd like!

Snowie!!!

My favorite thing about summer is... Snowie's!! (Well, any kind of shaved ice/snow cone for that matter.) I got my first one of the season last week. Maui Wowi was the flavor of choice to celebrate. Yummy! Yeah for warmer weather!

It's A Small World After All

So a while ago my cousin Dan started dating this girl named Emily. I knew she was a returned missionary and older than him, but that was pretty much all of the info I had because I'm sort of out of the loop as far as family gossip goes. My mom, aunts, cousins and sisters decided to start a book club (which unfortunately I have yet to attend) and my cousin sent out an email to all of us about the book she had chosen. As I was glancing at the email addresses I noticed one name that stood out to me, Emily Kucera! I couldn't believe it. I know her! Emily, Dan's Emily, used to be in our ward at the Riv and was actually pretty good friends with Nate and I. It's such a small world. It's an even smaller Mormon world. Dan and Emily actually served in the same mission. And now they are getting married tomorrow! Congrats you guys! Welcome to our crazy family Emily! Best of luck to you both!

Garden time!

Well we are going to make another attempt to plant a garden this year. Grandpa Morley is letting us plant it in his yard again. We're trying to get a better start on it this year. This is our first attempt to grow peas. We started them in cups in the house and transplanted them to the garden. In our laziness we decided to just use tomato cages instead of concocting some sort of apparatus for them to grow on. We'll see how it works. Hopefully soon it will stay warm enough that we can get everything else in the ground.

So I've never really loved the look of Crocs. They are only cute when they come in tiny sizes. (I hope no one takes offense.) I must admit that they are my favorite gardening shoes. When we're done all I have to do is hose them off and they are as good as new!