Revenge is Sweet

So I nominated my neighbor and dear friend Kori to be the photographer at my shower. I recently invested in a fairly decent digital SLR and have had some separation anxiety letting anyone use it but realized I wanted pictures of the day, so passed it over. When I got home and uploaded my pictures I had found that Kori, my Sister Rebecca, and our other neighbor Alisa had decided to have a little photo shoot with the camera. How they managed to take these pictures without anyone noticing is beyond me but just to embarrass them I wanted to post a few and say "Thanks" for the laughs.

I would like to add that these are only but a few of the incriminating photos that I have of the ladies. If you would like to see more feel free to comment and I will send you a couple. I only wish they would have invited me to participate. Funnest girls around.






As an FYI Rebecca saw this post and asked that I include this final picture of her.. apparently it is one of her favorites.

Better Late Then Never

So I know it was a couple of weekends ago, but I still wanted to write about it. A big huge thanks to Nikki, Kay and Susie for throwing a fantastic shower! I was not expecting anything this fabulous and was definitely grateful and pleased with everything. It was so much fun. I had already had a ward shower a month earlier so this one was mostly old friends and family. My mom flew in, and all the Morphy girls and spouses came out too. Minus Jordan who we missed. It was a perfect weekend weather wise so all the kids from Arizona and Utah were loving it. Here are some pictures from the shower. I totally realized that I didn't get a single one with the Morphy girls. A little depressed about that. Next time right? And by then little Emmy will be here!

All the Box Ladies.. Me, Becca, Vanjo and Kathy

Could Mere and I ever take a normal picture? I don't think that is possible.

My Sisters, Mom, and Mom's sisters.

Not my most flattering angle, but sweet little Pete was loving all this baby stuff.

My friend Lindsey Wall Wall.. I call her that because not only is her married name Wall, but so is her maiden name.. I'm putting 20 bucks on her being the next pregnant one!

So I have some other pictures that I would love to post but blogger doesn't seem to be wanting to do any of that for me. It already has taken me about all day to do this one post. Once I can get it up and running I will get some more pictures of the shower up. It was a great day and thank you once again to Nikki, Kay and Susan for everything! Also thanks to everyone else for coming. I can't wait for our little girl to get here!

It's Offical

I am a stay at home mom! Today is my first day away from the office and in the home getting ready for baby. I am scared out of my mind. As excited as I was to get a break from work (I have been working full time since I was 17) I am so scared, happy, excited, nervous, and so many other things of what is to come. Now it's real. I am actually going to be a mom in just a few short weeks. Ahh. Already I feel a bit overwhelmed with what needs to be done, but honestly can not wait for our little girl to get here. She already has been such a blessing for us and she isn't even in our arms yet. I'm so anxious to see and meet her. So, let the nesting begin right?

Happy Sweet 16!

Can you believe this girl turns 16 today? Look at her. Just wanted to say Happy Birthday to my sister-in-law and wish her luck on her first date. Mom even let her ditch school for it. It really pays to be the youngest. I keep telling her that. Anyway Mere, Happy Birthday and thanks for keeping us young. We love you.

Thanks Boss... for Nothing

This was my ticket to the Ellen show today.

I show you this for two reasons.. 1. Persistence pays, and after many emails and photos sent to the show they finally caved in and gave me one on Monday of this week. 2. It is the current bane of my existence because I didn't make it to the taping.

I have exactly 9 days of work left, and I couldn't be happier. It will be great to be able to be home and get the things done that I need to before the baby comes. Well the Ellen show taped today was her mothers day special. She had the entire audience filled with first time expectant mothers. Hi, thats me. I missed the cut off for tickets but somehow got my hands on the personal email of the audience coordinator. She got me on the standby list (after she told me she was doing me a huge favor). I was determined to go so I was so excited. As long as you got a standby ticket you got in the door, and worse came to worse you watched the show in another room, but still got to participate. AKA you still got all the gifts.

Well I don't know what it was about today at work, but the boss man decided that today would be the day that he was going to be the boss from Hell.. thats right I said it sorry. He has ignored my requests to talk to him about maternity leave after 5 attempts, he has canceled, rescheduled and changed the date of the meeting I am suppose to have scheduled before I go 3 times just today. He swore and yelled all this morning at me and others and was basically a mad man. We really think he is getting senile or something. He managed to use the S word, the F word(twice) and a couple less harsh words in a one lined email all over a LIGHT FIXTURE at our new building. He last breath was " tell him that if the light is not in until Monday I will withhold the rent check until he dies." Seriously?

Needless to say it wasn't the best day to get out of the office early, so I couldn't make it to the taping of the show. I was sooo bummed for two reasons 1. I worked so hard to get tickets, and 2. I knew it would be a huge giveaway day. I wasn't prepared for what I was going to miss. Here are a few of the things that she gave away today to all the mothers.

A GE washer and Dryer
3 months of diapers
$500 to Janie and Jack
$400 diaper bag filled with goodies
Maid cleaning service
A Bugaboo Stroller

The list goes on and one.. It was like thousands of dollars worth of stuff. I am kicking myself for not just going. If the boss man wouldn't have been such a royal pain today, or if I didn't need the next nine days to secure my health insurance for the baby, I would have walked out. I should have. These are not working conditions that anyone should work in.

Needless to say. I am having a yuck day. So watch Ellen on Friday to see all the stuff that I could have gotten. But please please don't remind me of how cool it all is. I could have had it all.

PS The icing on the cake today was when the Boss sent out an email to the company informing us that "He had lost a lot of weight through diet and exercise", and he would be selling all of his precious Tommy Bahama shirts. He will display them tomorrow on the ping pong table and if we would like them we can pay him $20 a shirt. Are you kidding me? A garage sale at work? The guy that makes millions a year and has a fleet of cars ranging from Ferrari's, to Maserati's, and Ashton Martins wants to SELL his shirts to his own employees? We should be so honored to get such a great deal. Ha!

Time For A Change

I have been in one of those moods, I want to change everything. So here I am starting with my blog. How do you like it? Maybe next I can change our bedding.. just kidding Baker!

Time Flies

Can you even Believe it?



I had an appointment yesterday, and got all my paperwork for my Maternity Leave. Only three more weeks of work!



Look at that girl!

American Idol

So I have to admit that one of my addictions is American Idol, and this season I haven't been extremely impressed. At least not like I have been other seasons. So last night they did Bon Jovi, and the only one that really impressed me was Blake. Who by no means in my favorite. I love Jordin. But last night Blake (in my opinion) did AMAZING! I loved it. So here it is for your viewing pleasure.. in case you missed it.

Just What the Doctor Ordered

Talk about a weekend that we needed. Baker and I have been so busy the last couple of months doing who knows what, we haven't really had a weekend to just relax. Luckily for us, we have awesome neighbors who invited us up to their family cabin in Arrowhead. I am sure that a road trip doesn't sound too relaxing, but it was only a little over an hour away from the Mora Kai, so it was like driving home from work without traffic, and with gorgeous views. The perfect distance from home, and the most beautiful place I have seen in quite some time.
We spent the weekend with Alisa and Ian Clawson and their little girl So-tu-tu. Her name is Addison but the nickname stuck a longtime ago. Besides them it was just us and Kori and Brad Davis. Such a fun group. I think we were trying to out joke each other all weekend long so you can only imagine all the laughing. If my gut weren't so big and full of a baby I probably would have had a sick pack at the end of it all.
We spent most of the weekend just hanging out watching movies and talking. We split up all the meals, and I still managed to get my favorite out of everyone. It wasn't even on purpose. We had crepes, grilled cheese, cafe rio pork tacos, yummy omelette's, and only had to eat out once. The place we went was definitely questionable, but they did have great shakes that were suppose to be Malts. How were we to know that you were suppose to specify? Around Lake Arrowhead they have this little village that has so many cute shops and boutiques we walked around in and took some pictures at. It seriously was one of the best weekends. I already want to go back!

The girls at the Lake.

Ian, Alisa and Kori on one of our walks.

So-Tu-Tu is obsessed with dogs, the girl has no fear, so we watched her play with a huge black lab for a bit. It was the sweetest thing. She just kept chasing him around where ever he went and she could never catch up. I have never seen a kid that young be so into dogs and just have no fear when it comes to approaching them.

Look at that face!

Brad and Kori at the Golf Course.. this is just hours before Brad almost killed Kori and I getting in the car after Church.. if you look closely at his face you can tell he has something up his sleeve.


Caution.. quite large pregnant lady on dock. We did manage to keep the double chin to a minimum. That was nice.


So I have really been getting into photography lately so decided to save some of my lunch money and buy a new camera. It is AMAZING, and Baker and I have been playing around with it all weekend long. Lucky for me digital allows you to delete without paying for printing. So I have a ton of shots that are just experimental, but for some reason I love this one of Baker. He is just so dang handsome!

Needless to say we had a fabulous weekend thanks to the Clawsons and their generosity.
Best weekend of our lives! - That one was for Kori. Wink.