Update.

I have nothing exciting to report, I just figured it had been a while so I would give a small update:

     Nate's enjoying his job more and more everyday. He gets his first paycheck tomorrow and we are very anxiously awaiting that! He had last Sunday off which was awesome for me because I got to hang out with him all day, and awesome for him because he got to watch general conference! He also got the late shift today so he made it to church for a change and that was awesome for both of us.

   This week we also bought a new couch (technically loveseat) and it folds out into a bed so now we can have visitors!

     I think by now everyone who reads this is aware of the bun in this oven. We spilled the beans a little early but we tried just telling our families and because I'm a bad secret keeper pretty soon most people knew anyway so now this is the official announcement...baby Moeller should arrive sometime in November. 

     I have been feeling up and down all week. Usually I feel the best in the afternoons. I have been trying to walk 30 min a day and have succeeded for 1 consecutive day:) I also tried a little beginners yoga and oh my gosh that was hard! I lasted about 10 minutes and then just got mad and felt crappy so I quit. On days where I feel crappy most of the day I don't shower. The above picture is proof of how scary that can be. 

     I have had really bad insomnia this week. I have been going to bed about 11-11:30 and I usually don't fall asleep until between 1 and 2am. It has got to be the most obnoxious thing ever!!! Then I wake up every 20 minutes and it takes me another hour or two to fall asleep again! I have tried everything I can think  of! Listening to calming music (made it through the whole cd), I've tried watching tv, and I even tried listening to the scriptures and made it through 7 chapters. Last night was the longest stretch I've had in nights. I made it from 2am-7am which was awesome! I thought after a few nights I'd be so tired that I would just automatically sleep and boy was I wrong. When I wake up I am WIDE awake. I hope this is just a phase that will end soon!

     Another thing I'm already noticing is my love of carbs. All I ever want to eat are carbs. Pasta, pizza, tortillas, bagels these are my favorites at the moment. I have eaten Taco Bell 3 times in the last week (and it's 15 miles just to get there). I've noticed I feel the best when I'm constantly eating, if i go more than an hour without eating my stomach is so loud and starved that it makes me feel awful!

     I'm also VERY sensitive to smells right now. And EVERYTHING smells awful. I have every door and window of our house open all day long trying to air it out because there is some hideous odor leaking up from the basement and it makes me feel the worst! We bought air fresheners and after a day of them I had to put them away because they weren't any better.

     Although I haven't actually thrown up yet, I would still consider myself to have 'morning sickness' and I am hoping I start feeling better in May! Nate is really hoping so too because I have completely neglected all housework and it is a disaster but he's done a great job of trying to take care of everything!

     I am looking forward to going to Florida next week simply for the fact that I will have something to do every day when I get up and I think right now I need that motivation because not doing anything is adding to my feeling crappy. And I'm just excited to see my nephews and hang out with my sister!
     On a funny side note, today at church during sacrament I was not feeling well at all so I went to the bathroom. I ended up just sitting in there for quite a while not sure if I was going to throw up or what. Well apparently I sat there for so long the motion sensing lights turned off and it was completely black! I could not even find the lock on the door to get out of the stall! After 30 second of struggling in complete darkness I found it and opening the door triggered the lights back on. After my panic attack I thought it was pretty funny!

   And just for fun here's a picture of Nate trying to do pregnancy yoga...on the couch. 

You're doing it wrong!

Easter 2013.

For Easter this year we got invited to 2 different houses from familys in our ward. Since they happened to live fairly close to each other they decided to just combine and have one big Easter dinner, so we ended up going to the Bishop's house. It was actually a really good time and there were a few other younger families there as well so it was nice to get to know them as well.
They of course told me I didn't need to bring anything unless there was something "traditional" that I would miss. I decided I would try my hand at my grandma Joyce's rainbow jello since she made that for EVERY holiday ever and even the adults enjoyed it!
It was actually a big hit and I got a lot of compliments on it. And of course dinner itself was delicious! We had ham, potatoes, salad, rolls, asparagus, and for dessert my FAVORITE...strawberry shortcake, delicious!
And of course, we really appreciated the hospitality and kindness of our ward members! We had so much fun we ended up staying there just talking for hours! It was a fantastic Easter and I'm really proud of how my jello turned out...grandma would be proud!

Boo yea!

Not to brag or anything, but I just wanted to document the current standings of the "Moeller-Adams-Alldredge" NCAA bracket. Oh, did I mention I won last year's family bracket:)

Group Results

RK	ENTRY, OWNER	R64	R32	S16	E8	F4	NCG	CHAMPION	PPR	TOTAL	PCT
1	Rsbdentist 1, Rsbdentist	230	240	200	0	0	0	Indiana	160	670	97.6
2	lindseyj88, lindseyj88	190	220	160	0	0	0	Louisville	640	570	75.1
3	dallinmax 2, dallinmax	210	180	160	0	0	0	Indiana	0	550	64.0
4	Pudgy Dude 1, Pudgy Dude	240	220	80	0	0	0	Indiana	240	540	58.5
5	brettimus1 1, brettimus1	210	200	120	0	0	0	Indiana	160	530	52.9
6	pammysue6 1, pammysue6	220	180	120	0	0	0	Arizona	320	520	47.3
7	ea_adams, ea_moeller	210	180	120	0	0	0	Miami (FL)	320	510	41.9
7	moellernumber9 1, moellernumber9	210	220	80	0	0	0	Indiana	240	510	41.9
9	motherhoodroxs 1, motherhoodroxs	220	140	120	0	0	0	Indiana	80	480	27.7
10	natmoel 1, natmoel	210	220	40	0	0	0	Miami (FL)	0	470	23.8
11	amalldredge 1, amalldredge	200	180	80	0	0	0	Kansas	0	460	20.2
12	Ella "hoops" Adams, ea_moeller	110	80	80	80	0	0	Davidson	0	350	3.0
13	Ethan's Picks, brettimus1	220	100	0	0	0	0	Saint Louis	0	320	1.9

1 year!

When you're moving across the country the items you take are limited.
Food was one thing we were not going to mess with rotting in a car for 4 days.
That being said, we still had the top tier of our wedding cake in the freezer!
So we celebrated our "1 year!" tradition a little early (7 months too early) and had some cake.

this face says it all...even after just 4 1/2 months it was not good!

We had fun reminiscing about our wedding anyway. And we tried some bites regardless. I do wonder where this tradition originated from? I don't thing many people do it these days.

Crepes crepes everywhere!

For a few weeks now I've been wanting to try my hand at crepe making and since we FINALLY got around to grocery shopping where I could buy my favorite crepe filling (strawberries!) I figured I would give it a shot!

It was surprisingly easier than I was expecting and they were delicious! This is the recipe I used:
1 c flour
1 T sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/3 c milk
1 T vanilla
3 eggs
3 T melted butter

Can someone please explain to me why this counter to the right doesn't just extend all the way to the wall? It makes no sense and is super inconvenient as this is ALL the counter space we have!

So simple and I didn't have any issues with them sticking or falling apart or anything! For the filling I mixed half a container of cool whip with 1 strawberry yogurt cup and then mixed in half a container of cottage cheese. I cut up fresh strawberries and then topped with powdered sugar and more cool whip! Easy!
They were SO delicious and simple that I will probably be making them again soon!

Abe Lincoln.

Driving through Wyoming there is a giant Abe Lincoln head right on the side of the freeway. Naturally, we stopped and took pictures but it was windy and freezing so we didn't stay long.

(One funny thing about stopping here, when we pulled up there was a guy bent over on the sidewalk in front of us with a little black poodle. We couldn't tell what he was doing until we walked by but he was wiping poop off his dogs bum with napkins. Hahaha. It was actually pretty hilarious.)

The Temple.

We are now members of the Washington D.C. temple district and I have to say it's a little bit different than living in Utah!
In Layton, we were half an hour from at least 3 temples and had the opportunity to go to multiple while we lived there. The sessions were always long because they were so packed with people.
Here, it takes at least an hour and a half (without traffic) to get to the D.C. temple. And the nest closest is Philadelphia temple which is 3+ hours away.
I was lucky enough to get to go to the temple with a couple of sister from my new ward this week. I very much enjoyed going and was glad to have them there to show me around. We went on a Thursday morning and on the way they both commented on how it's a very underutilized temple and if you go on a weekday, especially in the morning, it goes quick because there is never many people there.
One of the sisters is a convert and very big into family history and has been very on top of getting all her family's temple work done, so she had some names for us to do which I was very grateful that she let us (and here's the side story of why I was so grateful).
She has 2 grown children who both have families, one lives in Utah and the other is in the air force and right now his family is stationed in Korea. As she does more family history and finds more relatives, she sends the family names to her grandchildren and lets them do the baptisms and confimations, and then trades off with her children and their spouse or her and her husband to do the rest of the work. So the names she gave us had been baptized and confirmed by her grandchildren in Seoul, South Korea (I thought that was pretty cool). But the fact the she let someone, other than family, do some names I thought was an honor (not that she is against letting other people do it, I think it's just very powerful and spiritual to have their family do it all including the grandkids).
We had the intention of doing a few names and then doing just one endowment session, but we only had time to get through one before the endowment so I only had one name the whole time and I thought it was neat.
The D.C. temple is gorgeous on the outside, and reminded me of the Boise temple just from the stone. It looks white from far away but up close it was similar to the old grey look the Boise one had. It is secluded a bit up on a little hill surrounded by trees. In each corner it has this amazing stained glass that is really just chunks there's no pattern or picture to it, and they go from the ground up to the very top of the 7 stories. But they look 100 times more amazing from the inside. They'rs just pieces of blues and pinks that start dark at the bottom and get lighter as they get to the top. When the sun was shining through they looked amazing inside and each corner had a staircase that just wrapped its way up following the stained glass and of course at the bottom was a fountain. Pretty spectacular.
I was warned that it was a very "plain" temple. I love the Salt Lake temple for its over-the-top beauty and immaculate designs and just the little details everywhere. I don't love the Bountiful temple for the exact opposite reason, its so plain and simple, not a lot of details or artwork.
But I thought the D.C. temple was right in the middle. Nothing over the top, but it wasn't super plain either. The celestial room might actually be one of my favorites.
The thing that stood out to me was that the men and women weren't segregated (at least not with an aisle separating you, they do still have men sit together on one side and women on the other) and both the sisters I went with told me that one of the best things about that temple is if you get their early enough, you can sit right next to your husband so that is cool and I can't wait to go with Nate.
The funny thing about this session though was that I was expecting it to be empty since they both warned me. But it wasn't even close! I think there were 5 total empty seat? But there were two missionaries going through for themselves so I think that is what filled it up, it was just ironic since I had been warned twice that it would be empty.
It was really great to go, and it is a gorgeous temple. I took a picture I took per my mother's request.

I didn't love the drive...that will take some getting used to. Half of it was winding through a "mountainous" road and the backseat made me a little carsick, but I survived and can't wait to go with Nate soon!