we have pictures!

the promised pictures have arrived! i know, finally something to look at! with that, here's a litle update of our current life:

the weekend after mother's day we drove all night to north carolina for a quick trip to see the brewer fam. all the siblings, nieces and nephew made appearances, even grandaddy brewer showed up! we had a grand time, some delicious food, and some time to not think about work. we drove back that sunday night, and went back to work and have been working ever since.....

here are a couple pictures of niece sierra. i promise we love all of laura's kids the same, but we only have video of jamison and a weird picture of sierra and me that i would rather not let the world see...... and si-si was just being a little cutie pie!

we took about fifty takes of this picture. she was all cute with the teddy bears all around, but we could not get her to smile!

this girl loves to play dress up! her current fave at ya-ya's house is this gray wig. it cracks us up!

today was such a great day. we slept in, had some yummy french toast, and had a really great sacrament meeting- because joe spoke! (but i didn't- thats what made it soooo great!) we spent some time just relaxin' and watching a movie, making dinner, and now we are down in the internet cafe, catching up with what goes on in the rest of the world!

soon to-be-daddy. i made a cake. it wasn't that good. so depressing.

we spent some time making calls today to family and friends to catch up, and then i pulled out the camera to document the fact that we are alive. we get so happy to actually see each other longer than five minutes on sunday.

we are so silly.

at last! baby bump picture! i have basically reached the stage where i look pregnant and not just a little chubby around the middle.... kinda. it really actually depends on the angle. we are hoping that i pass up joe before the end of the pregnancy..... i think i will. what do you think???

okay.... i promise this was an accident. i just deleted the picture of us comparing tummies, and i can't get it back.... i will update this and repost it later.

baby update! we are heading back to the doc in couple weeks for the ultrasound that will tell us the gender! definitely looking forward to that appointment! this little wiggle worm reminds me that he is in there all the time, and i can't wait to 'see' him again sooooo soon! my mom and little sister are driving out here to visit and will get to be there to see it as well. basically we are having a party. anyone else who wants to attend is more than welcome to come join the fun! okay. time for bed.

ps- i love you!

i've said this before, but really, this is further proof that joe and i were meant for each other.

if you have not seen ps i love you, you must do it now. it will make you cry. unless you are a heartless soul like myself.......
so i had heard that i needed to watch this movie a million times, i borrowed it and was promised i would cry. i pretty much didn't even think about crying. but i knew that joe would. so, on sunday, i took a nap while he watched it. two hours later, i was woken up by him putting his arms around me, and somehow through sobs he said "don't ever leave me" in my ear. i was a little confused because i was still coming out of sleep, and then i saw his face. tears streaming down his face, all he could do for a half hour was sniffle, snuggle up to me and tell me how much i meant to him and that i could not ever leave him. he didn't just cry. he bawled his way through the whole thing. you would think it would be the other way around, but seriously, i snagged a good one. he has a heart!

and ps joe- i love you!

woot woot!

finally made it to a doctor! by some miracle i finally convinced someone that i have real insurance, and they in turn agreed to see me, even though i wouldn't be delivering with them. it took about an hour to get there and an hour to get back, but getting someone to listen to the hearbeat and draw some blood for me made it all worth it. what was funny was that it was actually a certified nurse midwife who saw me.... wasn't sure how that would go, but had i not known she was a midwife, i would have guessed she was a regular doc. we were able to make another appointment, and we will hopefully be able to find out the gender on july 2, when my mom and sister come to visit!

every night now, joe and i have 'baby time'. we lie down and see if we can feel the peanut move. we have been trying to feel it move the last week or so, and two nights ago we both felt him give a little bump! it has become my favorite part of the day- sleep is coming and we can just lie there and have a happy little moment to ourselves. we don't get to see each other that much lately, but when he comes home and we just sit and talk, it makes it all worth it. along those lines..... today we have been married for nine months. sometimes it feels like longer, sometimes it feels like it happened yesterday. and we love each other more everyday. :)

we are making a quick trip down to north carolina in about, an hour, and i need to go finish packing real quick and go pick up joe and his sister jill so we can drive all night, sleep for a few hours, meet our newest niece, and drive back up here for work on monday. its a good thing i can sleep in cars....

i'm sorry this is so boring....

but there is seriously nothing going on in our lives but work right now! i'll give you some "updates" but they are pretty boring....

baby-ish update:
i have been trying to find a doctor since we got to dc, and i had found one, had some problems with insurance, got that straightened out, finally was able to get ahold of the office again to make an appointment and after being on hold for twenty minutes i was told that i couldn't be accepted as a patient because i wouldn't be delivering with them. confused, i asked why that mattered, and they told me that because the doctor makes most of their money from the delivery, the other appointments wouldn't be worth it to them. so, frustrated and ticked off that all they cared about was the money, i spent the next two and a half hours calling doctor after doctor trying to find one that would take me. and they all said no. so i called my insurance, and they couldn't help me. bawling my eyes out i called my mom, and she said she would call a couple friends who have friends from the area to see if they had any recommendations, and i have finally found one that i think will take me. its kinda far away, but its better than nothing. wish me luck, i am calling first thing tomorrow.

another baby-ish update:
this babe is growing like a weed! it is doing everything it can to make some room for itself, and has a monsterish appetite! the first week we were here i realized i had a headache for a week because i wasn't eating enough, even though i felt like i was snacking constantly. so all meals are large, and i keep snacks with me at all times, and eat in front of everyone. (the baby- i hate calling him 'it' and although we don't know if its a boy or girl, i will be calling it 'him' at least until we find out the gender. besides which, we both think its a boy, and we have the name picked out. ) supposedly i should be able to feel him wiggling around within the next couple weeks..... he has definitely made his presence known though, and some of the twisting and turning i used to be able to do, i can't anymore. i have developed allergies again, which has brought on sneezing, which he does not care for.

work update:
last week i made more money than my husband with all my over-time hours i worked, which was approaching more than my normal hours. my office job has required me to take on a little more than i planned, and we had to get someone to help me out and lessen the load. i am the "inventory manager' for our office, which means handling all shipments of equipment that come in, and distributing it to the technicians. our office is doing really well, which is awesome, but it means thousands of pieces of equipment coming in and out..... and lots of work. it can be fun though, and we have a lot of really great people working with us.
hubby is doing pretty well with the selling, and has seen some good days and some not so good days, but overall its been pretty great. the opportunity to be working with such great people has been awesome, and we know that this summer will be great!

really, other than that, not much has happened. i'll try and get a picture of the baby bump soon.....

lets see....

we are in dc. life is crazy. i am deaf in one ear, and i've had a headache since i woke up yesterday. i have already worked in the office well over what is allowed in order to set things up for my job, i have to go back in tonight, and i still have two days to go this week. thank goodness for over time. the hubby is doing really great on sales so far, and hasn't bageled (gone home without a sale) a single day yet! we are living in really great apartments across the parking lot from ikea, but we have no internet in our apartment and can only use the internet cafe provided in the clubhouse, and we will likely not have too many pictures for the next few weeks at least. i am officially showing according to joe, and i'm pretty sure that the baby has doubled or tripled in size in the last two days, hence the headache. i can't eat enough, even though i feel like i am snacking constantly. i still need to find a doctor (i told you i've been busy-any time i leave the ofice to go home and get some things done, i'm in the door for about ten minutes before i have to go back, and by the time i'm home for the night its too late to call anyone). anyone know a good ob/gyn in dc? i have to pick from a list, but its a pretty big list, and i don't mind going a little ways if it means going to a good doc. okay, break is over, time to the office again, and then hopefully make dinner. :) poor hubby has probably lost some weight, not because he's better, but because we i couldnt go to the grocery store until about five days after we got here. yuck.

documenting the journey...

i am sparing you all by not taking pictures of us spending our first 20 hours on the road, but i will share our memorable incidents we've had along the way......
we started out on tuesday morning a little later than we hoped, but we finally got the car packed and got on our way. and nothing too eventful happend 'til it got dark. we have an ipod holder that plays through the radio, and it plugs into the cigarette lighter. so we were going along, i was driving, and the player started to fall out. joseph picks it up, and i thought there was some plastic still in there, so i reached to grab it, not thinking about it being a socket i was reaching into, and i got shocked, except for that didnt even phase me because there was a metal spring that got hot and burned my finger really well. i didn't panic, because it didn't hurt too much at first, and then i could smell the burnt flesh, and the only water i could reach was a cup of sprite in the cup holder, stuck my finger in that, and it started to tingle even more..... anyways, it was a long night for me with a burning finger. every time i've ever burned myself, i've kept cold water on it, and then it hurts worse until i can sleep and then it doesn't hurt anymore. i couldnt sleep because i couldnt take pain medication, and i didnt want to keep my finger in water in a bumpy car ride, so i found that i could keep my finger against the cool window and be fine. but imagine trying to sleep while holding your finger up to a window.... i worried that people in other cars would think that i was flipping them off, but whatever.
event number 2- we were going through nebraska, and as everyone knows, you shouldn't speed when you are in nebraska. the cops are everywhere. so joseph was driving and i had finally dozed off around 2 a.m. when i was lurched awake from the car slowing down. all i could see was bright red and blue flashing lights everywhere, and i started to flip out. we really don't need a speeding ticket at the moment, but that wasn't why i was flipping out. our license plates have been revoked in the last couple weeks because our insurance is in utah and the plates are from north carolina, and the people in NC figured it out and they became invalid. we have been trying to get it resolved as quickly as possible, but its taking some time, and meanwhile the last thing we need is for a cop to run the plates and send the driver to jail. so i ask him how fast he was going, and he had the cruise set at only five over! so the cops walk up, all three of them, shining flashlights so i felt like it was noon outside, and asks for license and registration, and then says, well you were going 70 in a 65, so you were going a little fast, so i'm just gonna write you a warning so you slow down tonight. just follow me back here for a minute so i can write this up for you. he gets out, and leaves me sitting in the car for about fifteen minutes. talk about the longest fifteen minutes of my life! i'm sitting there, trying my very hardest not to hyperventilate, because all i could think was, what are they doing??!!?!?!?!?!? why is it taking so long to tell him to slow down a little??? is he sitting in the back of the cop car????? what will happen to me if they take the car????? this is soooo dumb!!!!! all i can see are the headlights glaring at me, and i have no idea whats going on! finally, he walks back and gets back in, and i ask what happened, and they had just been talking about summer sales for the last fifteen minutes while i am having a heart attack! but in the end, i was glad that he was able to keep the cop from running the plates and getting us in major trouble. thank goodness!
we got to st louis wednesday morning, and we will be on the road again tomorrow morning as we head to dc. it has been sooo nice to have this little break here without worrying about school or work and just relax before starting work on saturday. it was espcially nice to be greeted with 75 degrees and sunshine, and to leave behind a snowstorm that happened today in utah. but i sincerely hope that nothing else too eventful will happen!

ps- the 'before the baby bump' picture will come soon for all those who have been asking to see it! i promise after we get settled down again i will post something!

forget about finals....

.....lets play some ball! okay, so we still have finals that start.... tomorrow...... but i wanted to give a little shout out to my macho hubby of a football playa! he has played flag football basically every semester since, ever, and this was his team's first winning season! it was a little crazy because they got put in a different division than they should have been, but it was still a great season and i was a proud fan at every game! he was playing with some of our mutual friends from washington, and its always good to have an excuse and catch up with old buddies.

get yer game face on!

they always wore black, and the team they played was white. hence, black and white.

a little huddle action

joseph brewer, please sign your name so i can give you a t-shirt.

you're a winner!

woot woot! the winning team!

the really funny thing about this team was that by the end of the season, not a single person could name all the players they played with. the first time they heard everyone's name was when they read off the names to hand out the shirts. its all about team unity, right?

two more things: i am quite over this stupid utah weather. its a good thing that i am already planning on locking myself inside this weekend, because i don't plan on enjoying the snowstorm we are expecting to come through. yes, a snowstorm, towards the end of april.

i'm making a public apology to my sister-in-law jill for not doing cooler things while she was here. we are boring. and we have no proof that she even visited. i'm so very sorry. :(

okay one more thing. we are moving tuesday. thats in about five days. wish us luck.

a laugh a day

yesterday was one of those really good sundays. i mean, every sunday is good, but this one was extra good. it was a GORGEOUS day outside, and we walked to church for the first time. our kids we teach were actually pretty well-behaved, and we got through our entire lesson. then we had a family dinner with joesph's siblings jacob and jill and my sister lindsay, and we played the turbo edition of cranium, and had a blast. we ate some yummy pumpkin chocolate chip cake, and our friends jake and jenna stopped by. one of the best parts of the day was that our primary kids we teach were so good, and they made us laugh throughout the entire lesson. i'll share just a few of the funny things they did and said:

we taught the lesson about the nephites being slaves to the lamanites, and they escaped because they gavve wine to the lamanites who got drunk. at the end i asked the kids what they had learned. one of the shyer kids raised his hand right away and said "don't drink too much wine!"

we were talking about being in bondage, and i joked about school sometimes feeling like bondage, and the kids heartily agreed. then joseph said we only had a few more days of it, and the little girl in our class that pretty much keeps to herself suddenly burst out with "thats not fair! we have to be in school til june!" and crossed her arms all grumpy and frowned.

sometimes the kids need a little time to get the wiggles out, and i let jill do simon says with the kids. she had them do a few funny things, and at one point she had them get on their knees. she said simon says and kinda paused while she was thinking about what to say next, and i told them to bow down, and they did it! they were kinda giggling, but they all started bowing down to jill, and we couldnt stop laughing.

at the end we play hangman til its time to go, and the kids were having a hard time guessing the word i had. i kept drawing more parts to the hanging person so they could get it. at one point, i drew some long curly hair, and joseph said "oh, we know its a girl." then, the boy who had shaved his head earlier that week said "or a boy with really long hair!"

okay, so maybe some of these were funnier to me, but i had to write some of these things down. suprisingly, we are gonna miss these kids. we have one more week with them, and i'm a little sad! we were just figurng out how to teach them. i guess thats how it works.....

here's a laugh from today. i got a kick out of this article about the new yankees stadium.

say hello to peanut!

i know you have been DYING to see our little one, because we have been too! we went to the doc today, and if every doctor's appointment could be like this, the whole world would like going to the doctor. our doc is great- thanks for the recommendation katie and jenna! we saw the heartbeat and counted all the fingers- so crazy!

he didn't give us the picture where you can see the fingers, and this is a picture of a picture and kinda blurry.... but its there! and we arent totally sure of the due date. we had calculated oct. 26, then someone at the desk told me the 27th, then the nurse told me nov. 4 (i almost tried to tell her she was wrong...) then the doc measured the baby and said oct. 22. SO. we aren't really sure still, and it will come, sometime. i'm feeling a lot better than the last few weeks, and most days are pretty great! i've got a slight bump now, but its hard to tell because of the weight i lost.

in other news..... today is my younger brother marshall's 18th birthday! he is my little brother, but has been taller than me for a few years now, and we have confused for twins a number of times (i am now the shortest out of everyone). we were pretty close in high school, went through a lot together, and had some good times. he's my favorite little brother!

this is us at before a church prom. we love each other, i promise!

we had a pretty dang good weekend too. i got to see one of my roommates from freshman year kelli hansen that i haven't seen in over a year and it was soooo great to see her again! we caught up on everything and where everyone was from our ward, etc. good times!

we also got to see my cousin rachel and her husband rob, who live in southern utah. they came up for a track meet, and we got to see them for a few minutes before they left again. rachel and i have been pretty close, and has been one of my best friends since birth practically! totally love her!

and yesterday we got to attend the afternoon seesion of general conference. it was kinda funny because it was an amazing conference but i didnt get enough sleep the night before and managed to get a little snooze in and missed some of it. i was so embarassed! after that we made a quick drive back down to orem and hung out with cousins and relatives. good times!

also, a quick shout-out to good friends matt and margaret who got married on friday! they looked so happy and they had a fun reception! congrats to you two!

anyways.... a busy but fun-filled weekend! more updates to come, a few more fun things to read about. we are moving in two weeks (holy cow!) to go out to washington dc for the summer. we are finishing finals up early and driving through st. louis to see my parents for a couple days before i start work in the office joseph is working for this summer. we are living in college park MD, which happens to be the city my mom grew up in! pretty funny how those things work out!

i got all the luck

i seem to be a magnet for bad things happening while sitting in a classroom.....

...flashback to last semestser- some guy sneezed and a fat wad of snot/spit landed on my head....

today in class: sitting there at the end of a row, lecture just started and the girl sitting next to me gets a phone call. she has to answer, so she gets up and as she is taking a step she takes a swing with her arm and pops me one right in the nose. a punch right to my nose! in the middle of class! and i never even talked to her before! i was highly suprised, and i think i must have looked pretty angry, but i was really actually just stunned. she apologized, ran out the room, and came back and kept apologizing, i thought.... i honestly was trying to listen to the lecture, and i could barely hear her anyways. i wasn't mad, but she felt bad, so she got up again (more carefully!) and went to the vending machine and bought me m&m's. i didn't want them, but i ate them anyways.

moral of the story: i wish there was one. bring on the big nose jokes, its okay i know i got a big honker.