Good News!

I know my mom already announced it to the world on her blog, but for those of you who don't read it...I'm pregnant!! Sam and I can't believe it, but are very excited! My due date is April 29th. I think the best part about all of this is that MY parents are going to be grandparents!! If you have any good old lady grandma names for my mom you can make your suggestions on her blog. My little siblings are also very excited and would now liked to be referred to as Aunt Lucy, Uncle Will, and Aunt Molly.

We will definitely keep everyone updated! Yay!!

I've sold my soul to the vampires

Lat night I jumped on the bandwagon. Yeehaw.

Our Anniversary

Our anniversary was a couple weeks ago (September 3rd), so Sam and I spent the weekend in Washington DC. We headed down on Saturday for a temple trip with our youth. That night we went to dinner in Alexandria with Sam's sister Meg and his cousin Robert. Of course we had to go to Bertucci's...Sam loves it.


The rest of the weekend was full of sightseeing and seeing family. It's been a long time since I've been to DC, so it was fun to go see the monuments. Sam randomly had a lot of family in town that weekend so we visited and ate with them. We did get to have some alone time for an annivesary dinner in old town Alexandria.

We also got to see one of Sam's old roommates, Eric Carlson, who is a laywer in DC. We went to brunch with him and his fiance! We haven't seen him for two years, so it was great to visit.

It's official...

I'm 12 years old.

I had a High School Musical 2 party at my house with people whose moms had to drop them off. It was awesome.

i heart new york

Sam and I just had an awesome weekend in NYC visiting Jenny! We did tons of fun New York things. First Sam and I went to Canal Street and I bought some new perfume. We met up with Jen Jen for lunch in Little Italy. Then we went to Times Square and stood in line for half price tickets. Sam's plan: "I'll stand in line. You get me food". Genius. Then we walked to Serendipity (another genius plan by my husband), which we waited outside of for like 2 hours to get seated. It was worth it for this.

Then came the best part of the day...

It was amazing. I really can't say any more. It was so good. Anway, it was a great weekend. So glad we got to see Jenny!

Hill Cumorah

Last week Sam and I went to the Hill Cumorah Pageant in Palmyra, NY. We headed up to New York in the morning and stopped in Ithaca on the way--Sam wanted to check out Cornell as a business school possibility. We checked out the campus and the town for a couple hours then headed up to Palmyra.

We got to Palmyra a few hours before the Pageant started so we checked out some of the historical sights. We took the tour at the Smith farm and went to the Sacred Grove. Unfortunately it rained all afternoon, so we didn't get to do as much as we would have liked. Here are some pics from the farm.

The Pageant was great though. I'd never seen it before, so I was pretty excited. It's amazing that they get 700 people together, audition them all in a day and spend a week rehearsing for this huge production. It was very impressive. There were quite a few people from church here in State College that perform in the Pageant, so it was fun to see them up there. I didn't get any good pics from the show, but here's one of Sam and me sitting in the rain.

I Don't Want No More of Girls' Camp Life

So I decided I just join the 21st century (don't worry...I had to think for a few seconds about what century it was) and start a blog. Not that Sam and I have very exciting lives, but maybe someday we will. And when we do, I want to be prepared! But for now you're going to have to deal with our boring-ness.

I did just get back from Girls Camp here in Central PA. It was fantastic. It's pretty fun to go back as a leader...it's like being a camper without having to do all the certification. I don't really think I'm mature enough to be a leader, I felt more like one of the young women. This year I was with the 4th years again which is the best. We went on the 4th year hike on Monday. The hike was fun--it was pretty short, so that was a relief because it was super humid out. The 4th years camped in tents that night. We cooked dinner over our fire and made S'mores, of course!

The rest of the week was fun. We ate, did certification, played games, did crafts, and sang camp songs! I taught the girls the Buzzard Song, which I think they really liked (thanks Jenny and Kristin for a reminder of the lyrics). I was really glad to get home though and take a shower and sleep in my own bed! Here are some pics!