Rise and Shout!

Well football season is upon us. That's right folks. Our lives once again revolve around BYU football. Every single one of my Saturdays from now until the middle of November is booked. I had to rearrange my work schedule so that when there's not a football game then I'll be at working so that I can go to the games. It's fun, don't get me wrong. I just hate that the game takes up the whole day. Also in their attempt to cram as many people in Lavell Edwards Stadium as possible it feels like you are sitting on top of all of the people around you. Also, I know I'm not huge yet, but I do get uncomfortable sitting for long periods of time and I had to get up a couple of times and just walk around a little.


OK sorry I didn't mean for this to be a rant. I really do enjoy the games and love how much Nate gets into it. He is so cute how he has to be there for kick off. We were literally running to get there on time yesterday - he made it though so we lucked out. I love how he gets so annoyed by the dumb fans that sit around us that don't know the rules or think they should be the coach. He really is a smart guy and knows his stuff.


This year Jake and Sylvia and Tori have season tickets. We weren't able to get tickets right by them because apparently people hang on to their season tickets until they die, but they are in the same section as us. Sylvia had Tori dressed up so cute for the game. I had to steal this picture from their blog, but she's just too darn cute! We are working on her "Ra Ra Ra! Go Cougars!" She just smiles. So cute!

It's Raining Men!

Ok so I thought I'd put you all through a little suspense. Sorry forgive me in just getting to the post to reveal the big news. It's been quite busy these past couple of days. Well -

It's a BOY!!! Yeah! We are super excited. We would have been happy either way, but we're excited to have a boy. I think I was leaning slightly towards liking the blue shoes better anyway. My dad has always worn slip on shoes like that since I can remember (without the blue argyle). He says that he just keeps wearing them and they just keep coming back into style. We tease him that they are prison shoes because they're like the shoes they give the inmates. Well any way Baby Morley will have some Grandpa Wayne shoes. :)

To explain the title of this post - I have a couple of friends from high school (Tawny and Angie) that are also pregnant and we are all due within 1 week of each other and we're all having boys! It'll definitely be raining men in January - well it'll probably be more like snowing baby boys! Ha ha! Sorry, that was lame.

So anyways let me get to the part you've all been waiting for - the giveaway. I've been trying to come up with somethings - and am still gathering some things but the theme seems to be headed towards some of my favorite beauty products. And now to reveal the winner - Nate will attest that this was done fairly and squarely. And the winner is.... Emily Judd! - Emily, you must have some good blogging karma because didn't you win Shelly's giveaway? Well congrats! Give me a week or so to finish gathering somethings. I think I have your address but I'll email ya just to make sure and I'll get this out to you as soon as I can.

Thanks to everyone for all of your love and support!

What's it going to be?

We find out on Tuesday the 26th what kind of baby we're having. The suspense is killing me! I've tried to tell the baby if it know's what's best for it, it will show us what sex it is - and if it doesn't show us, we just might not have anything for it come January. :) I really think if the doctor would have known what good knowing what kind of baby we're having would do for stimulating the economy she would have scheduled the ultrasound weeks ago! I'm not sure who's more anxious - my mom, my sister or myself! The only thing that I've allowed myself to buy is a pair of boy shoes and a pair of girl shoes. They were both the last pair and were even on sale so I couldn't pass them up. Plus I figure that which ever we don't need will make excellent gifts! :)

So what's it going to be? I would love to hear your guesses. I know some of you already put a guess on the previous baby post - but if you put a guess in the comments on this post by Tuesday at 12 noon Mountain Time and you guess correctly - you'll be entered in a drawing for a giveaway. I'll put together a package of some of my favorite things. :)

Thanks!

The Big Read

The Big Read, an initiative by the National Endowment for the Arts, has estimated that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. How do you do?

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
I added this next one because apparently I'm really bad at not finishing things -
4) Books (or series of books) I’ve started and not finished in red

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen – just last night!
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 The Story of Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


I found this on someone's blog and thought it was very interesting - It actually surprised me how many of them I've read and how may that I should have read.

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!