Our new blog

Hi guys!
So, I've added a blog to our website. The two aren't connected very well yet, but I'm still working on it.

For anyone that's interested, here is a link to our website,
and here is a link to our blog.

Monumental Moment

So I hope you guys aren't sick of me posting, but I had an interesting experience today! I was going to a wedding tonight with another couple tonight. (Jake is in Utah, so he couldn't come!) So I met Joe (the husband) at the mall so we could go pick up his wife from work. It was about 70 out and gorgeous and I was feeling great today! Hooray! But I had a lot of phone calls to make for my 3rd church calling that I just got! (want more info... check out my blog!) Anyway, so I was calling all the young women and the car was kind of warm, so I put the air directly on me. I started to feel a little sick, so I leaned my seat back a little in hope of feeling better. The traffic was awful, a LOT of stop and go and that motion was definitely NOT helping. I apologized to Joe because I wasn't feeling good.. then proceeded to tell him I was pregnant in hopes he would then kind of understand. At this point I'm not feeling good at all! Jake called and was talking to me and I was not really responsive and asked if I could call him back. He of course said sure. Joe, knowing I wasn't feeling well, said, "If you need it, we've got doggy bags for Cady." (their dog!) I immediately asked for one and TOTALLY THREW UP in his car! Talk about embarrassing! Luckily I had the doggy bag and after that I felt wonderful! But.... ugh! It was awful! Sorry if this is TMI!!!

BABY HAWKINS MAY 11th 2008

Hi Everyone,
I just wanted to let you all know that I'm pregnant! I'm almost 11 weeks along, but I wanted you all to hear from me instead of crazy rumors my mom started at church on Sunday! :) I'm super excited, and have been feeling pretty good for the most part. I've had a few tough weeks, but nothing to complain about! I am already showing, it's crazy! Anyway, YEAH!!!

Leaving for London

Inspired by Karen's amazing microsoft paint skills, I created this in honor of Emily, who leaves for London tomorrow:
Good luck in London Emily!!!

Just thought I would share this cute photo with everyone. I ditched my friends during half time to go up and say hi to Karen and Bryce. Aren't we cute! Go Utes! (Karen I must say this is quite picturesque with the stadium to the left of us. Just US!)

Molly Nicole Pendleton

Here she is! 2 days old.

Hi everyone! Molly was born Sunday, October 7th at 11:07 am on her due date (this happens only 3-4% on average in the US!). She is 7 pounds 6 ounces and 20 1/2 inches long. Saturday night at 10:45 pm my water broke as I was about to pick Justin up from work. He got a ride home and my water just slowly broke for a couple of hours. Contractions started at about 2 am and I waited for them to get closer. We went to the hospital at 5 am. After 4 tries I finally got an IV in my arm and I got an epidural at about 8 am (we think, can't quite remember the time at that point!). At about 9 am I was at a 5 and completely thinned out. At 10 am my nurse told me I was ready to push! So I pushed for an hour and Molly arrived! I had a small episiotomy since my doctor said I would probably tear, but other than that, it was pretty smooth.

I was in the hospital for 2 nights and I came home this morning at 11. I am feeling pretty well, obviously just sore, but not too bad. Justin is home with me during the week (we're so glad he isn't in class this semester!) and my mom has come and helped (and will probably come several more times) and my mother-in-law is coming this weekend. (My in-laws left the morning after to get back home for work)

She is a pretty good baby. We think she's had some acid reflux or gas in the past couple days where she'll just cry and you can't really soothe her, so that's frustrating! But that's just how it goes sometimes! Tomorrow we're going to get some drops to help. She nurses pretty well also, but she likes to fall asleep! I'm sure as the days go on she'll be able to stay awake better! But for now we always have to poke and prod her to remember that she's supposed to be eating! :)

You'll have to vote and let us know who you think she looks like. My mom says she looks similar to how I looked when I was a baby. My brother and his wife think she's a mix of both...so who knows! But we sure think she's pretty cute and we love her so much!

Don't you love all of that hair?

Grandparents for the first time!

So precious!


Our happy little family! (taken right after she was born)

Just me again!

I had to show you all a picture of my new Harp. I just love it. I started lessons again and I have a recital in November, and I am playing in a Harp ensemble with 8 other harpists in December. That is it I won't post any more pics for a while.

Jane

Disneyland in October

Last week my mom, sister and her two girls and I decided to go to Disneyland. Just a last minute thing. It was so fun! We flew to Cali. on Wednesday, went to Disneyland Thursday, when shopping Friday and came back Saturday. It was a quick trip but nice to get away. Disneyland was all decorated for Halloween. We spent the day in Disneyland then that night we had tickets to go to California Adventure and go Trick-or-Treating. My niece Addie loved it. She was Snow White as you can see from all of the Pictures. I have never stood in so many lines to meet princesses, but Addie had to meet them. If any of you get the chance go to Disneyland in October you should definitely go.





Sorry the pictures are all crazy I am still trying to fugure out how to do this.

CONGRATS!!!

I just wanted to say congrats to Nicole and Justin and new baby Molly! I cant wait to see her! And for anyone else who cares Ben and Andrea Luikart and their new baby Brady.

I have real stuff to share this time.

Adam and I continue to experience the joys of Colt's development. He has found his face. It started with his ear, and now he slaps his hand against his forehead and cheeks and rubs around. He also loves to hang on to his toes and to reach for anything in sight. He talks more and more, mostly by "ahhhh"-ing for long stretches. It is hilarious!! And then my favorite: When I'm holding him (facing outward) on my lap and talk or kiss his head, he twists around to look up at me. Once he sees me, he breaks out into a huge grin. Oh, he's cute!! Yesterday a friend of ours said while holding Colt, "You are a high-maintenance baby. You can tell that your mama stays at home and plays with you all day." Well, such is the case. I guess now you are all forewarned that Colt likes attention and may fuss if you don't play while holding him!

BELLY TIME.

WHAT CAN I SAY? HE'S OFFICIALLY A COUGAR THUG.

MAN, HOW HE LOVES THOSE FEET!

COLT AND MOM AT A BABY SHOWER IN ST. GEORGE.

And a story to conclude:
When you hang out with other mothers and their children, it is necessary to prepare for adventures. I went to the gardens at Thanksgiving Point with my mom, Colt, my sister and her two kids, and my sister's two friends who each had two kids... So 5 adults and 7 kids. It was beautiful and peaceful, and I loved the walk and the secret garden (which looks very much like the one in the movie). However, our day consisted of a near-miss from a golf ball, a potty break in the bushes for one of the three-year-olds (at this age all requests for a bathroom must be immediate and taken very seriously), a 45-minute wait for lunch at the restaurant, another 30 minutes to get our food once seated (because there were only two servers during the lunch rush!), Cru wanting to climb on everything, Adi being given fermented apple juice, Dillon not wanting to nurse and then crying, Cru squeezing his flourescent green gogurt all over the white linen tablecloth and the floor and his mom's clothes, Adi writing with pen all over the white linen tablecloth, Hayden having to go to the bathroom, then Adi having to go to the bathroom, then Colt crying. Even though we mothers were feeling quite frazzled, it didn't take long before we were all laughing hard about the situation and running out the door to get home. What a colorful day!

Funny Mom

You guys should check out the description on this ebay item.

I told Brooke I'd send this to her via email, but it's so funny that I thought I'd share with everyone.

Reunion

Hey all, I was wondering if anyone went to the reunion? If so how was it? Had anyone changed? If you did go, fill me in!

Summer 2007

Hi guys,
It's been awhile since I've posted. We're home from our summer adventures and back to real life. I'm working as a hydrologist intern at the National Weather Service, and Jared is working on his MBA at Westminster and getting a business started. He travels to China next month with his school, but I am home to stay for awhile.

I thought I'd post a few photo highlights of our trips to Europe and Southeast Asia this summer. Sorry if this is a really long post, but I figure I haven't posted in so long, I've earned it!! (: (:

We began our adventure in Europe with my family. We visited Italy, Switzerland, France, and Austria. We then flew home for a week, and then went back to Southeast Asia, where we traveled through Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Here are some pictures:

Us at the Grand Canal in Venice
Bayeux, France (did I spell that right Christine?)
Hiking in Switzerland
Riding scooters down a mountain in Austria
Hiking through a rice paddy in northern Thailand

Arc d'Triomphe........Laos??? The US gave concrete to Laos to build an airport, but instead built this monument. Laos was occupied by the French for many years, and the influence is still obvious.

Outside of Angkor Wat, Cambodia. One of the most spectacular things I have ever seen.

Inside the CuChi tunnels in southern Vietnam. The Vietcong spend the whole duration of the Vietnam war living and fighting from these tunnels. And they weren't even this big! They made this one bigger for tourists to walk through. Crazy!!!!Northern and Southern Vietnam still feel like 2 different countries. Saigon, in the south, has 10 million people driving 4 million scooters. Hanoi, above, is the capitol of the north and is clean and quiet. We are standing in the center of the city, which is a huge lake! The city has a midnight curfew. At 12, police drive around with horns making everybody go inside. It was so wierd!!We ended our trip relaxing in Southern Thailand. It was so nice!!! Jared's sister, Alisa, was along for the adventure

climbing above the ocean in southern Thailand

And last, but not least, the wonderful, sanitary, toilets of Southeast Asia. By the end of the trip, we were thrilled if a toilet had toilet paper available. If there was soap and water, we were truly ecstatic!

So, I hope I haven't bored you all with our pictures. We don't have our own blog yet, but I am working on writing us a website, hosenfelds.com, so hopefully that will be up soon!!

I hope that everybody is doing well!! I love reading about everybody's lives, so keep posting!!

Big Belly

I'm just going to vent for a few seconds here...so if you don't want to hear it, don't read this!! Ha ha! I just have to say that with two weeks away from my big day (or baby's big day I guess) I am about to the point where I am a little tired of the belly comments!! It's totally fine from a friend or family members, but from random people or people at work who see me every day, it's getting to be OLD!

For example, yesterday this girl at my work (who makes a comment about my belly pretty much every time she sees me) says, "Your shirts are getting tighter and tighter with your cute belly!!" I'm sorry, I know that is supposed to be a compliment (?) but seriously! I am completely aware of it, no need to bring it up when you tell me EVERY day!! (By the way, my response to her was I looked at her and just laughed. Then I said thanks, very sarcastically! I know, I'm such a brat...it was a bad moment for me, but really she comments on it at least twice a day and I wanted her to know my true feelings...hopefully she got it!)

The thing is, I know people are trying to be nice and maybe they really do think I look cute, but I'm just kind of done with it! I'm sure those of you who have kids know what I'm talking about and maybe it's just because I'm almost to the point where I'm totally done with this pregnancy!

In conclusion, you can comment about my belly if you see me in the next two weeks...you are all friends, so it's different. And if I've ever commented to you about your pregnant belly and you wanted to slap me, I can now say that I am very sorry and I think I am more aware of comments to say or not to say to any pregnant woman from now on!! :) Thanks for letting me vent!!

Question!

I was wondering if anyone had any contact info for Megan Fairchild. I have tried to email her a couple times a year for like the last three years and I never get a response. So either she has a new e-mail address, or she just does not want to stay in touch with me. If anyone knows anything please let me know. Thanks!

Jane

My HOUSE

So my front door was finally painted and I finally remembered to take my camera when we went to clean (again) last night. So here it is...red door and all!!! I was really nervous about the red door at first, but I think it looks really good...so I was very happy about that! We are getting our final inspection today and then we can see if we can move in this weekend. If we don't pass we'll have to wait until we can get everything done that we need to! So I'll send another update once we are all moved in and stuff! But here's the latest of what I've been up to the past 6 months or so!!!!! :)

I am finally going to join the blogging world!

I am going to try this out! I did not realize that this was the same kind of thing that I set up for Stu and I in June, until I looked at Christine's web site and saw Hillcrest friends as one of her little favorites. There, that is the story. I have spent the last two hours trying to catch up on everyones lives. I did not realize how many people have houses. I want one! My favorite blog was Nicoles about Josh Groban. Yes, the concert was amazing, and I did get to meet him. That was pretty exciting. I also love all the pictures. Everyones kids are soooooo cute. It makes me want one, but I don't have time for that right now.
The only thing new in my life is that I got a Pedal harp. That the kind of harp that you see in like the symphony or something. It lives at the Curtis's because I don't have room in my apartment, so I go there a lot to play it.
Other than that I am just going to school, doing clinicals and working. I only have 8 more months until I am done with the Radiology technologist program. Yahoo!
That is it! Sorry it took so long.

P.S. Stu and I have one of these Blogspots. The address is stuartandjane.blogspot.com I would not recommend visiting it, because I don't update it, (suprise, suprise) but I just thought I would let you all know.

It's a GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We had our ultrasound yesterday and we are having a little girl!!! It was so neat to finally see this little thing that is living inside of me. Her little hands and feet are so cute. The tech said that everything looks really good and she looks really healthy. That is always good to hear. We plan on naming her Haylee Laree Bird. (Laree is my grandma's name). Anyways, we are very excited for February to roll around. Good luck to everyone else who is expecting.

Layers no longer

So I'm sad to say that I resigned as a distributor for Layers :( It was a tough decision, but I feel it is best. Primarily I'm stopping because for all the work that I put in (which honestly isn't that much, but it's enough!), I didn't feel like the profit was quite worth it. The way it works is that with each new line that comes out, you pay for the sample line up front and then you have to make the money back through parties. So at the end of the season, you are trying to get rid of samples and hope that you've made enough commission to cover your sample line purchase. So when you only have a few parties a month, sometimes that can be hard and you're just happy if you come out even!! Plus with the baby coming, I will have more limited time (mostly in the beginning) and money!! I still love Layers and I will continue to buy their stuff, I just won't be in charge of selling it and worrying about if I'm going to come out even after the season ends!

I just barely sent my letter in, but I can tell you that their new fall line will be out October 1st. So if you are a Layers fan and have been waiting to know when they will release their fall line, that's when! I have seen their fall classic tee colors and a cute turtleneck so far and I think this week I will get a pdf version of the fall catalog. So for now I will have some info on the fall line, but soon I will be cut off! If you're interested in seeing the pdf catalog, let me know and I believe I can email it to you once I get it!

GO UTES

For those that don't look at my blog I had to write this for ALL to see! I kind of wanted to brag to the BYU fans too!!! HA! I'm mean I know but I have to be proud of my Utes for beating UCLA when BYU couldn't handle the task (and I was happy to see BYU lose to Tulsa this weekend...not that I don't like BYU, I just wanted them to have the same record that the U has to keep things even)! Now I just hope that the U can keep this momentum up long enough to beat BYU on Thanksgiving weekend! :) We'll be at that game cheering as loud as we can!