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I just wanted to add to my last post a big PS

We are officially back in Utah and at this exact moment moving into our new apartment in Clearfield. I can't do much hence the post. BUT YAY!!!! WERE HERE AND MOVING ALREADY!!!!

And EMRY doesn't stop kicking for a single second so he's doing perfectly!

Okay I've been tagged a few times now by friends so I'm going to finally keep my end of the bargain.....

1. Link the person who tagged you.
2. Mention rules on your blog.
3. Tell about 6 quirks of yours.
4. Tag 6 fellow bloggers to do the same.
5. Leave a comment to let them know.

Quirk #1
I smell my cup or bowl before I put a drink or food in it. Even if the cup is brand new out of the bag throw away kind that could not possibly be dirty. Ya that's one of my very weird ones and I have done it as long as I can remember. I don't purposely do it, I just do. Then one day, Suzanne, My college roommate told me I did it and we laughed a long time if I remember correctly. She also told me I NEVER close cupboards behind me. I really started to believe her when I was living by myself and I'd walk into the kitchen to find half the cupboards open. I think that ones funny. Now I have a husband that does it.

Quirk #2
I really dislike talking on the phone and I am sorry to say I avoid it as much as I can. I WILL NOT answer the phone if I don't know the number. If the person doesn't leave a message I'll block it and call back to see who it was to see if I needed to talk to them or if it was the doctor or something. Now that I'm pregnant it's gotten a little worse that I just plain don't want to talk to anyone, even when standing right in front of me. I just hide behind Devin so I don't have to think and try to focus on the conversation since I am loosing all my braincells and becoming dumb. Literally. I am NOT exaggerating.

Quirk #3
This is a pregnancy quirk because this is definately not my regular personality. I am hating being touched by another person. I don't want to hug or shake hands or anything. But don't worry I won't bite your hand off if you want to feel Emry jumping around. Poor Devin, I think I went like three days without hugging him cuz I couldn't stand him being anywhere close to me breathing down my neck. Literally! His breathing gets on my nerves like crazy right now. The joys of Preggohood!

Quirk #4
I cannot let my toothbrush touch anything. I have to have it in a bag put away or something when it's not in use. I just can't stand the thought of all the nasty bacteria that is spread throughtout the restroom when it's being used and such. Ugh I get mad at Devin if he puts my brush down on the sink or something if he can't find his own. I will seriously buy a new one and not use mine anymore. I am so OCD!!!
Oh and I used to have to have my right foot in the air while I brushed my teeth. That's just weird

Quirk #5
I won't use the towels people have in their bathroom's when visiting them. I just don't know how clean they are and I hate when your hands smell moldy after drying them off on a nasty old towel. I think a lot of my quirks involve smelling. I also won't reuse my towels if they have touched the ground or something. Especially if they haven't been hung up to dry and they get all moldy smelling. See more smells....

Quirk #6
I have a lot of routines. Like how I get into my car and start it to how I eat my food routine. I won't go into details cuz this isn't exciting or anything. I just couldn't think of a last one...oh well

I think lots have done this already but I'll do:
Lacey
Shannon
Mary
Anna/Steve
Jennie
Jenny

Emry 25 Weeks

Not too much new on the Anderson front. It's time again for Belly pics, I'm not seeing too much of a difference in size, just more rounding out. 15 or less more weeks!!! It's just crazy!!! We're still healthy and doing good, and knock on wood I haven't been too sick besides headaches. I totally just jinxed myself though.

We spent last weekend relaxing a bit and went up to Seattle and went to the temple. It was really to really go inside the temple there compared to doing baptisms for the dead every year as a kid. We watched movies the rest of the weekend and attempted to sleep in. We can't make it past seven :(

Were getting ready to pack up and move back to Utah. We've settled on the North Salt Lake Area. So somewhere between Bountiful and North Ogden. We've seen some cute places on KSL and craigslist but soon we'll be around to check them out and decide exactly where we want to be. Then play time begins!!! Unpacking our pretty things from our storage unit and getting to decorate for Christmas!! Such an awesome time of year. Yes, and weirdly I'm exicted to see the peacefulness of SNOW!!! As long as I don't have to deal with Logan winters. So we'll keep ya'll posted on when we're all moved to Utah! Love ya'll

Christmas is Coming!!

So Devin and I are making our plans for moving back to Utah! We are so dang excited! We've made our lists and checked them twice and decided on the North Salt Lake area is where we'll be living. So if anyone knows a great place between Bountiful and North Ogden, let me know. Oh and if anyone has any ideas to help Devin out in his job hunt, that would be fantastic too!
Baby is doing good and getting bigger and bigger. Devin felt him move for the first time, he couldn't stop kissing me he was so happy!! He also massages my tummy for me as daddy/baby bonding time and last night he asks...is he sitting right here?.....he can tell where Emry has taken up niche in my belly too! He's getting very good at knowing what's going on just by touching the tummy. We're getting way excited!!
Last weekend we decided to have a date on Friday night. We attempted to go to Panda Express because we love it and it's cheap to eat for two when you share. But our luck failed because I misjudged the location and didn't want to drive another five miles to get there so we just stopped where we were and got chinese at Safeway......we should have drove the distance :( Then we went to the mall to Christmas browse. I gave Devin lots and lots of Ideas, but since Christmas, our Birthdays, Valentines Day and our Anniversary's all take place in the same time period we decided to do one big thing for all them and just make a good dinner to celebrate the day.....did I make a bad choice? Anyway, I got lots of ideas on how to decorate for Christmas! I finally will have all my stuff back! It's been in storage since last March! So we've literally been living with what we can fit in our cars since then. I miss my pretty furniture!
Oh Oh I am getting so side tracked!!! Told you I was excited to come back!!!! So we went to the mall and walked the entire joint. We first went to See's candy because I counted out all my pennies and nickels and had exactly 1.50 which is the cost of the bestest, most goodest candy bar. So we gave her our money, watched her count out the pennies and left. Haha I laughed a lot. It was great fun. Then we hit up Target and their 75% off candy section and bought 18 bucks worth of teeth rot! So good! Then we began our hunt for our first Ornament together. They didn't have a lot everywhere we went or had them for like 25 bucks. I don't think so! We finally found a kiosk that sold the kind they write on. I did find one I like there. They had one that was a mommy bear and a daddy bear and the mommy had a big bump on her belly that said baby. It was totally Cute! But I'm not a fan of bear stuff so I didn't get that one. But this is the one I did get.
So we decided on the one we wanted and the girl told us I can put your names here and put Our First Christmas here if you want. So we said Yes! Great thanks. Then she has me write our names down. Okay.....then she turns around and says can you write Christmas for me....Sure Okay maybe she doens't really celebrate it she barely speaks english.....THENNNN she turns around and says you spell first F I R S right? lol Me and Dev really tried hard to keep in our Laughter. So then I look down and saw how she wrote Christmas all slanted and falling off the snowflake. I am sad, but I guess it will remind us of when we purchased it and we can have a laugh together. So we are now finished with our mission to find our ornament so we decide it's time to head back to the car. While we were walking I see a man that looks EXACTLY like Santa Clause. I mean Beard, Cute Kris Kringle Glasses all round and quaint, and even the belly that shakes like a bowl full of jelly!!! So I whisper in Dev's ear Hey look it's Santa Clause. Devin looks up and Screams!!!! MERRRY CHRISTMAS!!!! I about died!!! I couldn't believe he did that. I was about to get mad and yell at him but to my astonishment, SANTA CLAUSE LAUGHED SO LOUD HO HO HO!!!! and said Merry Christmas back. He just thought it was the most hilarious thing. So then I laughed and Hugged Devin and told him thanks for making it a fantastic Date night. And we laughed all the way back to the car. I told Devin that Santa will check his list off that we've been good this year now.
We spent the rest of the weekend cleaning our Apt, getting cars packed a little at a time and hung out with the kids and family. We were definately wiped out by the time Sunday night came. Oh not to mention I had the flu the whole time too!!! Yuck
I can't wait to see snow and get to wear scarves and hats and being all cute snow bunny!!!! With a Belly!!!!!!

Emry Devin at 23 weeks

Emry's Progress. The placenta has grown and moved to it's rightful place just above the belly button. So the tummy is looking more round. Our light in our apartment isn't good so we had a really hard time taking pictures this time?? It was weird. Anyway here ya go and......we have some more news! So some might be thinking....why is she so big already. She still has four months to go.....welllllllllllll WE"RE HAVING A GIRL TOOOOO!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAH.....uhm I'm very mean....Just good old Emry for us this time around but I felt like having fun and teasing ya'll for a few seconds...I know I'm Laughing. Well we do have some news though. We have thought and prayed, long and hard for the last few weeks and discovered that we need a better plan for our situation.....Sooooo we're moving back to Utah. Devin has a mission to find a great job with Benefits there so we can set up house and be stable before baby arrives. So We're expected to Arrive the weekend after Thanksgiving. Devin will be helping his dad for few weeks then In January he'll start his new job. So yay for moving back and not having to do it all with a six week old baby. That was going to be scary. I know what you're all thinking. WE"RE CRAZY. I promise someday we'll stop changing our minds.

Halloween!!

So I hope Everyone had a Fantastic Halloween! The best Holiday ever! Except this year I was too scared to get scared...didn't wanna pop the baby out or anything, so we took it easy.....I was sad :( Anyway, Devin had to work late everyday last week so while he was waiting to finish his pick-ups I went down and we went out to a pumpkin patch and picked up some pumpkins. It was fun! Devin was very very unsure about it. He hadn't done it before and wasn't too excited to carve pumpkins like I was. But he was definitely tooting a different tune by the time we were done carving.

Anyway Thursday night when he got home late we started carving our pumpkins. Oh and before he got home I had already cut the tops off and got all the seeds and junk out of the four pumpkins so that he didn't have to waste time doing that. Can I tell you that I had blisters on my fingers! So even thought I love to carve pumpkins, I was so totally over doing it by the time he walked in the door. But the loving husband that Devin is, wouldn't let me quit so I had to carve my pumpkins. Which turned out to be great fun, minus the pain. We carved the two small pumpkins which we decided were supposed to be our "fun" ones to do whatever and not worry about looking fantastic. So what does my lovely spouse do.....CARVES A FREAKING SNOWMOBILE!!!! Did I mention to you all that he is OBSESSED!! So he takes like two hours to do the small pumpkin, which was supposed to be the fast one. He wanted to go to bed after that one.

So with my small pumkin I just started cutting and started doing a funny face which turned into a vampire with cat eyes. I thought it looked pretty cool. I showed my sister the picture and she told me it looks like the Count off Sesame Street, which it totally does. I couldn't stop laughing. I have style, NOT!!

Alright so I forgot to mention that we started off the carving party with some good ol' fashioned Martinelli's and had some scary music playing to set the mood. OH and I dressed up in a sexy costume so when he walked in the door, he dropped all his stuff on the ground. I laughed so hard. Hence why we have no pictures of the party. It was fun and I 'm sure Devin had way more fun making fun of me than anything else. Can I say it's not entirely comfortable to dress up fun when you have a basketball on your tummy. Next time I'm pregnant Im gonna be a Nun....

We were both extremely tired by this time so we went to bed and I was going to finish the pumpkins on Friday while Devin was working. Ya that didn't happen. I planned it so we could finish them when he got home, but our plans got way messed up this year because of the whole daylight savings change thing. I was headed out to go trick or treating with my sister and brother and the kids and our really good friends. But since it got dark at almost seven instead of the usual six, we got a late start. We had a fun night but I didn't end up home with Devin until about ten. I was really sad that I didn't get to spend the night watching scary movies and eating cookies with Devin. Oh well I had lots of fun with the kids.

The best part of the night was my niece who dressed up as spiderman. She as really cute. BUT what was cuter was when she said trick or treat, got her candy. Then said thank you, your pumpkin is really pretty, and opened up her bag as to say NOW GIVE ME MORE CANDY!!! I couldn't stop laughing but I was so embarrassed too!! For only being four she is definately too smart for her own good. Gotta love them kids.

So since we didn't have time to finish our pumpkins on Friday night we decided to celebrate Halloween for one more day and finish our pumpkins on Saturday, or should I say Devin decided we would and forced me to do. All my spirit was gone after Friday night. I was sooooo tired. So we finished our pumpkins and yes, Devin did ANOTHER snowmobile. I do not know what I'm going to do with this man. I tried to do a cool looking scary monster bird thing but it didn't turn out so great. Oh well. So by the time we were finished we broke all the knifes and had to resort to using steak knives to finish. It was kind of funny to watch Devin stab at his pumpkin with a huge knife, and really scary. I kept having flashes of fingers being cut off. I'm too paranoid.

Speaking of paranoid. I am starting to have more and more cravings. I woke up from a nap on Saturday mumbling that I had to have a chocolate donut with sprinkles. Devin thought I was crazy cuz I don't like chocolate donuts much. Maple is the best. So he kept asking if I really wanted one and I totally did. But I have a fear that I'm going to send him to the store to get me my cravings and some tragic accident is going to happen and it will be all my fault cuz I had to have a stupid donut. Not likely this will happen but the fear out ways and cravings. So unless I want to get up myself and go get something I'm keeping the cravings in check. Oh I've been craving Chicken Noodle Soup too. I hate soup!! So this is really funny that I want this.

I think we spent the rest of the weeked relaxing, watching movies, playing games and eating. Oh not to mention lots of sleeping. We were both really sick on sunday so we had to take turns taking care of each other. Granted my head over the toilet beats his "my tummy" hurts any day of the week so he pretty much catered to me again. It took awhile for food to settle in my tummy so I didn't eat too much. I think I'm going to loose more weight than I gain during this pregnancy. That could be bad. So Nothing else exciting is happening along the lines of baby. He's still a kickin away but Devin can't quite feel him yet. But he's still growing so he'll be able to feel it soon.

We have decided for sure His name will be Emery Devin but haven't decided on the spelling. It'll either be Emry or Emery. With Emery, the older generation is turning the name into a three syllable name and its driving me crazy! Literally! So me might drop an E so people can't confuse the way its pronounced. We'll see how we feel in four months. I can't believe that's all I have left! I think we'll take tummy pictures again in a week or so. I don't feel like I'm getting bigger so it'll just look like the last picture.

Oh some exciting news! Devin's Brother Darren and Sister in-law Mandi, Had their baby on Friday. How cool to have a Halloween Baby! His name is Trayden Darren Anderson and was 6 pounds five ounces and 19 incehs. Such a small baby!!! They are all doing great from what I've heard from Devin.

That's All Folk's!!

Crazy Crazy!!

Not too much has been happening in the Anderson Household of late. Our landlord returned from Hawaii and got our shower fixed....hopefully. Fingers crossed. He felt so bad about the problem that he gave us a $50 Gift Card to this really expensive restaurant in our area. So we were looking for something to do on Saturday and decided to go for dinner. Okay can I tell you that I was NOT expecting to be going to dinner or anything. We just decided to go like ten minutes after he gave us the card. So we left the house and found the restaurant. I got out of the car and realized I WAS IN MY SWEATS!!! I looked so grubby! So we're walking in and there are people EVERYWHERE in their prom gowns and cocktail dresses and tuxes. I was embarrassed but we were starving! So we got seated in the back which has windows galore!!! The restaurant is located on a hillside overlooking the Bay here in Washington facing the west. So we ordered our food and sat and watched the sun go down. It was totally romantic! I couldn't have even imagined us getting to do something like that. Devin isn't exactly the romantic idea planner type guy....STEVE PLEASE HELP HIM!!! Oh and the food!!!!! It was soooooooo sooooo good. Devin got a 12 ounce rib eye steak and I got my chicken parmesian with fettecine alfredo. It was sooooooo good. Man I wanna go back but I would never ever spend that much money on food. So I was really grateful to get to spend the evening with my husband. Holding hands and talking. I love him so much. He is so dang sweet. He pampered me all day Sunday because I was in a lot of pain. I wish I would have had my camera with us this weekend, the sun was shining and it was beautiful!! Devin just got home so I'm officially distracted!! I CAN"T WAIT FOR HALLOWEEN!!!