Happy Birthday Adam!

Adam had his 29th birthday this week. I surprised him with some of his favorite things... twins tickets , soup in bread bowls before the game, some oatmeal raisin cookies form subway, market pantry brand fruit snacks and a few new tools. I know him so well. I am so happy that 29 years ago a little baby boy was born that would some day be my husband. We had a great time at the game even thought it was a little chilly. Minneapolis has a new baseball Field and it is amazing. The sky line of down town Minneapolis is so cool and no matter where you sit you can see everything.

The other big news of the week is that the bank finally( after 2 weeks) excepted our offer on the house we want. We still have to have and inspection and a radon test. But after that we will have to decide if we want it. I am super SUPER excited about this one and I hope everything works out. I can't stop thinking about it and I have already planed out paint colors, furniture arrangements, how I want to spruce up the yard and a hole bunch of other projects. We will have to see what the next week brings :).

Today we went to a Renaissance festival in Shakopee. It was kinda fun (would have been more fun with kids). We had some ginormous turkey legs and they look gross but they were delicious. We saw some jousting, fire juggling, and a bunch of odd people. OOOh and we also had some Carmel apples with Cinnamon ice cream. So much for my diet! Some times I just have to cheat or I'll go insane.

Labor day weekend!

We went to Nauvoo this weekend and had a great time. We went through the temple and then went down to the town and saw all of the houses and other old buildings. We also drove to Carthage and saw the jail. It has been about 15 years sense Adam was there and about 5 years for me. Wow its amazing all of the things that the pioneers did. We drove down to this spot over looking the Mississippi where they have a plaque with all of the names of the people that never made it to the Salt lake valley. We both had relatives on the it and I kept thinking about how lucky I am that I never had to cross the plains. Or ever have my husband leave and have to go on a mission after we were married for more then 2 years. I never had my family die along the way or have to leave everything behind. I am so blessed to live in this time. Also at that spot over looking the river it tells about them crossing the Mississippi while it was frozen over and we walked on the very road that they had all lined up the wagons to head west. How scary that would be..... Thank you pioneers for being so strong and brave.

I had a really spiritual experience while I was in the temple. Adam and I had been rushing to get to the 9:00 session and we got their just in time. right as soon as I sat down I started have some horrible cramps ( I think all of the fertility meds and hormones make Aunt flow 10x more painful then normal). So I was sitting there sweating bullets and thinking I don't know if I am going to be able to do this. I was almost in tears and I just said a little prayer asking Heavenly Father if he could please just take the cramps away tell I was done in the temple. The most amazing thing happened... they went away . I don't really ever get answers to my prayers so fast, most of the time I have to be patient. I am so thankful that I was able to make it through the temple and I felt the spirit so strong. I know Heavenly Father is aware of me and if it was right for me to have a baby right now he would help that happen. I had some setbacks just today with my next cycle getting cancelled until next month. It really sucks but that's just the way it is. I will survive and I guess I am just not ready to be a momma yet. Maybe it will be nice to take a break.....

My sweet husband had these gorgeous long stem pink roses delivered to my work yesterday. I was having a bad day but the funny thing is he didn't know I was until after he had ordered the flowers. I wish you could smell and see them in real life. What a sweetheart Adam is. I think I'll keep him.

Adam and I went to the Minnesota state fair last night. It was so busy and while we were there we saw some smoothies that looked so good. They were really expensive so we decided to go home and make our own. Adam smoothie had ; peach yogurt, peaches, raspberry sorbet, ice, pineapple and pina colada mix. Mine had ; peaches, peach yogurt, figs, pineapple, ice, and pina colada mix. They were so yummy and let me tell you everything tastes good when you use a pineapple as a cup! o and this picture was taken at like 11:30 last night so I look tired and Adam looks crazy lol!!! (s0 lets pretend that we don't really look this ugly all the time)

Well sorry its been so long. I can't say I have been that busy .... I'd say more lazy. Well any hoo this last round of clomid made me have 2 follicles! yahoo!!!!!!! I was so surprised because last time I had to keep coming back to the doctor to have ultrasounds to see if any follicles would grow. But this time it was the first ultrasound after clomid and kaboom 2 awesome looking follicles. So they had me do my ovidrill injection (in my stomach :( good thing I'm not to squeamish) right at 5 that day. That shoot hopefully made me ovulate and now I'm on the 2 week wait to see if I'm prego. They also have been having me do progesterone which makes me have HOT flashes. Holy cow I thought clomid hot flashes wore bad. Thank goodness all of the Lady's at my work have to the AC cranked up. Waiting 2 weeks seems like an eternity. I wish that a woman could tell right away that she is pregnant. I have been googling it to see if any ladys knew before they waited tell their Aunt flow was late. Some people acutely did know. But unfortunately for 99% of us we have to wait. I figure I have been waiting this long and I guess I will survive. Heck! I don't really feel any different and I have been doing my best to not get my hopes up at every little cramp.

We also just recently put an offer on a house!! Sadly the last 2 we put offers on got better offers and we didn't get them. I hope hope hope we get this one. I feel like maybe we didn't get the other ones because this next house is the one for us. I love it and I can totally think of all the cool paint colors and improvements we could do. Lately Adam and I have been going on dates to Home Depot, Menards and Lowes (how romantic!) to price out how much it would cost to fix things in these houses. We having been looking at houses that just need a little love and a fresh coat of paint. I am definitely going to take before and after pictures of any house we get. That was one mistake I didn't do with our last one. I am so lucky to have a husband that can fix almost anything. We both had parents that had rental houses while we were growing up and we learned a lot about remodeling. I like to think we are pretty handy and the feeling of accomplishment when something that was once ugly is transformed into something beautiful is priceless.

I don't know if I mention that I was called to be a Mai Maid teacher in young womens. I have really loved this calling. The girls are so amazing and I look forward to the lessons that I teach them. Today our lesson was on " preaching to gospel " and we had a great time learning the things Heavenly father wants us to do in spreading the gospel. The church has recently put out some new TV and radio commercials about Mormons. I know they are only doing it in select states and luckily MN is one of them. They give me cold chills every time I hear or watch one. At the end of the commecials they ask you to go to mormon.org to learn more. Mormon.org is this way cool web site that lets you as a member make a profile and share your thoughts about the church. Also you can go and read about tuns of other Mormons. It is so cool and I am so excited that the church as organized another way to spread the gospel. Our Realtor found out we were LDS and he asked us about the commercials and it gave us the perfect opportunity to share a little about us and what we believe. I am so grateful to Heavenly Father! He gives me so many opportunity's to strengthen my testimony.

Lacy came to visit a few weeks ago. The 3 of us had a great time. We had a ruff start because there was a tornado warning the first night she flew in. But we survived. We went swimming,tanning,to the zoo, out to eat, to eclipse, shopping, to a theme park, the science museum, and a bunch of other fun stuff. I love my little lacy bug so much and I am so glad she came. I miss her !! I miss everyone.