Weekend Adventures

My Jason! I'm so proud of him!

Let it be known to all the world... Jason is done with school for the rest of his life! Oh my gosh we could not be more excited! He lasted through all the group projects, research papers, endless hours of reading, and not having any weekends free since September. I get him on weekends now, and it is amazing! In fact this weekend we were able to do so much together, I LOVED IT!

Friday night we both rushed home from work to find ourselves excitedly on our way to Jason's graduation dinner. We were so excited to go to Logan and see our awesome friends! It makes me sad whenever we drive up there too though, because we have so many great memories of living there, and so many friends, it's always hard to go back to where we really live now.

Jason's graduation dinner was amazing! Even though I was so full from my work party at Olive Garden (where I stuffed myself again on bread sticks and salads... how can you not?), I loaded my plate and was off eating yet again. It's ok if I do it though right? Pregnant ladies are allowed to eat all the time, that's what I think. Anyways, we show up in this really nicely decorated place with some very nice looking people. Everyone was dressed up and looked really good, while Jason and I... happened to show up in jeans and looked completely out of place. We just had to laugh at ourselves and made sure to sit most of the time, to hide our lack of appearance. At least our shirts were pretty nice (Jason was wearing a T-shirt lol).

After the dinner, we made our way to see our wonderful friends Carlos and Tyana. Tyana and I are both pregnant, we both teach 3rd grade, and we are both due in April (only a week apart!). They have the cutest little girl too! We weren't able to see her though, because she had already gone to bed. It was so good to be able to see them and see how well they are doing.

We left their place feeling happy and so exhausted, especially thinking about our day on Saturday... We were to be in Salt Lake pretty early for Jason to go to work for a couple of hours and then head over to my sister's place. We figured it would be best if we just went together rather then take 2 cars. I got to sit in his office for 2.5 hours while he did his thing, and then I got to go shopping with my sister! The poor girl was dragged through all kinds of maternity stores however, and I Clarissa Osborn found the secret to being comfortable while being pregnant!! Maternity clothes!! Don't ever be afraid to buy them, cuz when you can bend over with out it hurting... it really is an accomplishment! The whole time we were shopping was supposed to be for the boys, but well we girls just can't help it.

Later that night was our ward Christmas party. I had volunteered to bring a desert and so I whipped something up real fast. I must say... it was the nastiest thing I have ever made, and Jason will attest to that! Texas sheet cake made by Clarissa Osborn... SICK! Ha ha. Luckily when we showed up about 15 minutes late for the party, they already had a kitchen full of deserts. I just hope that whoever did actually try my cake, didn't know it was me who made it.

The party was really quick and then we were off to find the frustrated Clarissa some place to get her hair cut. Sadly the only option we had was Walmart, but I sucked it up and I did. Yes ladies and gentle men I got my hair cut at Walmart and it actually turned out quite cute. SO much better then the way my hair was! I was a happy girl. Especially when my extremely handsome husband decided when we got home we needed to snuggle up on the couch and watch a Christmas movie. We ended up falling asleep to the silly background of ELF.

The Festival of Trees... Last weekend. We've been slackers at taking pictures!

Today has been a relaxing day. We were able to sleep in passed 7:30 until my hips started hurting, and then me made a delicious breakfast of biscuits and gravy! The rest of the day we attended church, hung more ornaments on our Christmas tree, ate a delicious dinner of left overs, and showed up to a wonderful Christmas concert at the stake center. Now we are making bread and getting ready for an extremely busy week next week. If you don't hear from us... we're probably dead...

Road Trip to Iowa

Jason and I mentioned our excitement about visiting family in Iowa, and that is exactly what we did for Thanksgiving. We drove 1,000 miles for me to meet Jason’s family for the first time, and for Jason to finally see them again. A thousand miles may sound a little crazy, but we love road trips and were so excited for the opportunity to see everyone!

Our road trip started right after work on Tuesday. Each of us left work as soon as we could, double checked that we didn’t forget anything, and said goodbye to our little Bandito and Jebadiah (the fish). Our plan for the first leg of the trip was to make it to Cheyenne Wyoming. Our 6 hour drive resulted in tons of laughing, reading, and eating a taco salad without a fork in the dark. We had fun, but were excited to find a hotel and crash for the night. After a full day of work, driving makes you so sleepy.

Wednesday was our big journey of 10 hours to Iowa, and it actually flew by. I love road trips with Jason J We read The Hunger Games, sang He is We and other random songs at the top of our lungs , talked about a possible black Friday expedition, stuffed ourselves with tomato basil wheat thins, stopped a billion times for me to pee, and laughed at random memories. It was pretty awesome…

When we finally pulled in to Jason’s cousin’s house, I was so excited and nervous. I really hate meeting people for the first time after driving in the car and looking rather gross, but couldn’t believe I was finally meeting Jason’s family! Two adorable little girls greeted us in the driveway and deemed they would be glued to our hips that very moment for as long as they could help it. We were whisked inside, given a very nice tour of the house, and pampered with recliners, pillows, and one of our favorite movies Despicable Me. Later we had a delicious dinner, played I spy, and played a very memorable game of hide and seek.

Thanksgiving Day was amazing! I love stuffing my faceJ It was especially wonderful, because of the people we spent the day with. We actually ended up going to Grandma’s house (the girls’ grandmaJ) and were greeted by the friendliest people ever. We were family right away and felt so welcome. The food was amazing, and the day was filled with football (a must for most people on Thanksgiving), a nice nap, racing outside, hitting a volleyball around, and eating more food. We also learned how to play a new game called Acquire, in which I didn’t understand and completely failed at wining. We had fun playing though.

Friday was a little sad, because we knew the following day we’d have to say goodbye, but we made the most of it and had so much fun. We spent the day with the girls playing all kinds of games and watching movies. We stayed in our PJs all day and even decorated a Christmas tree. The girls loved every minute and Jason and I loved making memories with them. Come dinner time we headed to Pizza Hut for a family dinner out and headed to the movies. Wreck it Ralph in 3D was the feature presentation, and it was so good. We really enjoyed ourselves J

Saturday we woke up early to get ready for our long drive home. We also wanted to get a head start to visit more family in Nebraska and hopefully make it to Cheyenne in hopes of a short drive home on Sunday. The girls weren’t happy with our decision to leave early, and pleaded for just one more game. We played a quick game of duck, duck, goose, and had many group hugs.  It was sad to say goodbye, but we made promises to see each other again.

On our way up to Nebraska, we stopped in Omaha to yes… do some black Friday weekend shopping. You know since black Friday is now the entire weekend. It was at Burlington Coat Factory that we made our first baby item purchase. We found a fantastic deal on a travel system for our sweet little one. Our car is now equipped with an awesome matching car seat and stroller. It even matches the color of our car!

Visiting Jason’s cousin in Nebraska was really neat too. As soon as we got there we were greeted with hugs and food. We visited with everyone for a bit (his cousin has 6 kids and all of them came home for Thanksgiving) and then taken on a pretty intense tour of their cattle farm. The smell wasn’t really my favorite, but it was neat to see what Jason’s cousin does for a living. Raising about 40,000 heads of cattle is definitely not a walk in the park. It was incredible to see all the hard work that goes into their family owned business.

                                                   

It's a BOY!

Well… This weekend was pretty epic! Not only did I get to spend some time with one of my best friends I haven’t seen in FOREVER, but we also found out some really exciting news for the little Osborn family. The idea of being parents soon has really sunk in, and we are getting more and more excited each day.

Thursday my friend Kyra came to spend the weekend with us. See we girls are Twilight crazy! Not as much as some people out there, but we have always had the tradition of going to see the movies even though they really haven’t been our favorite. We wanted to plan something epic for this last movie, but ended up taking it easy and enjoying our time together. We originally had tickets to a 10pm showing on Thursday where we would watch Breaking Dawn part I and then the midnight premiere of part II, but what can we say… we’re old and decided a late night didn’t sound as awesome as it used to. Instead with Jason out of the house for the night (at a basketball game with the boys) we grabbed a whole bunch of blanket, treats and pillows and had our very own (kind of) Twilight marathon. I must say it turned out to be a much better decision with lots of giggling and talking about life.

Friday Jason and I were so excited for our monthly appointment to see how much our little bean has grown. We were even more excited, because we were also going to find out the gender. I headed home early, got to chill with Kyra for a while, and then drove to the doctor’s office. Once we saw and heard what our little one was going to be, Jason’s reaction wasn’t all that great. It’s probably because this whole time I was telling Jason it was a boy. I think he started believing it, and that’s exactly what the doctor said. Congratulations you are having a man child! Jason just nodded his head and said a boy… cool. Kyra was ecstatic and my mom made my day when she burst into hysterics J so that made up for it.

To celebrate we took Jason out to dinner (he was the only one who ate) and waved him off to class while Kyra and I prepared for our epic Breaking Dawn part II experience. We grabbed our awesome shirts, bought our assigned seat tickets, and decided on Arby’s for dinner. I think we drove the people there crazy with all our laughing and picture taking. They probably threw a party when we finally walked out the door. It was then we walked into the theater and got settled into our seats and saw the best twilight movie EVER! I must say it blew all the other movies out of the water! We loved it J

Saturday we were sad it was Kyra’s last day, but we spent it taking all kinds of pictures. We also met an 11 year old author and decided to play a pretty intense game of Phase 10. The stakes were set high with the loser having to make no bake cookies for everyone, and just my luck guess who was the loser! Me….

Sunday we had a nice relaxing day, and were able to google chat with the fam. All of our plans for thanksgiving didn’t really include each other, so it was good to say our hellos and wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving.  So, yeah… our weekend rocked!