Cheese Ball

Best prescription I've ever gotten from a doctor happened yesterday:

"This weekend sit down with a big cheese ball and eat the whole thing!"

For A Good Laugh

1. For the first snow fall I decreed Spencer and I would need to make snow angels.

The boy snow angel is on the left

The girl snow angel is on the right. You can tell which one is mine because my back is now in a permanent arch.

One of our neighbors then referred to us as the snow angel people.

2. In October we went to a Pumpkin Walk and we couldn't pass up the opportunity to take these award winning photos!

3. One morning Spencer had to be at a seminary class at 6:00 a.m. to observe the teacher. He opened the front door and then ran back into the our bedroom to announce that I had to come see something. There was this duck at our door. We live in a basement apartment and apparently the duck just didn't want to fly/walk up the steps to move onto his next destination. We don't know how long he had been at our door but we figured he had been there for quite a while.  After Spencer left for the class I decided that our new pet was hungry to I gave him our last piece of bread (like the bible story of the widows mite).  He was so excited about the bread you had never  seen a duck eat so fast before, when the bread was gone he then spent a long time searching around in the leaves for more of it. He was just so happy!

A few hours later Spencer drove me to work and on the way he named our duck ALBERT. 

We also realized maybe Albert was a sign from God. You see we had just gone to tithing settlement the night before and you have all heard stories of people paying there tithing when they don't have much and the next day food miraculously appears at their door. Well maybe Albert was a miracle  that just happened to "land" at our door....

Throughout the day I texted Spencer to see if Albert had left us, or if he was dead, or if he was happy.

At one point the lawn care people came and I was so worried that they would hurt/scare our poor Albert but be rest assured Albert just stayed put and he was just fine.

Another time I told Spencer that Albert might be thirsty. So Spencer got out a pot and put water in it and sure enough Albert drank and was happy.

So Spencer picked me up from work and Albert was there to greet us. But we were worried that we would wake up the next day and we would have a dead duck at our door. Besides Albert had pooped and puked all over! I mean one has to really watch where they step so no remains of this duck gets on their shoes!

I was a little embarrassed to call animal control to tell them I had a duck problem But I called animal control and the conversation went like this:

Nicole: So I have this duck problem and we don't know what to do with it. There is a duck out side our front door and he has been there all day

Operator: If it's a wild animal don't do anything, just leave it a lone! (her tone of voice said that I was stupid and that it was just a duck)

Nicole: But we did leave it alone all day and it's still here. What do we do?

I was then put on hold and then she informed me that animal control would be out soon to get my duck.

We decided to take the pot of water away from Albert so We wouldn't look so weird even though calling animal control about a duck is pretty weird. When we tried to take Alberts water from him he just growled and puffed up his feathers. See I told you he was thirsty. 

An hour or so later we checked on Albert and he was no where to be seen. Animal Control had come and had taken our duck without even letting us say goodbye! 

Albert puking out the bread he loved so much. I googled what to feed ducks and it says  DO NOT feed ducks bread. Bread causes heart disease and other bad things to happen to ducks. Instead feed them greens. 

4. We went a Christmas/White Elephant Party at  the first of December. My friend Alycen brought the ultimate while Elephant gift. She said it was pure inspiration because only God could be that funny. She had crocheted a thong out of blue yarn, and then had a candied necklace be the waste band of which she also attached by crocheting it onto the crotch part of the thong. Amazing and inspired I think So!

She began to tell us she tried it on...over her clothes so see how big the string needed to be. 

One word to describe this present: 

EPIC 

5. Now I wish I could have a picture of this crime scene but I don't. A lawyer I work for is representing an insurance agency who is suing a man for starting a fire at a house which is not his. The story the man gave the police goes something like this:

-You see officer I started this fire at this home because a little bit ago this guy held  a gun to my head because he said I owed him a 40 dollar debt. This man then shot my girl friend and she is now dead. So I ran away from him and entered this house and then poured gasoline fluid in there art studio shed to set off a smoke signal  for the police to better find me. -

That's right he set a random family's art studio on fire to put a smoke signal in the air for the police to find him to protect him from the man with the gun. First off there is no girl friend dead. Second the man that was supposed to have a gun didn't have one but he did have several warrant's out for his arrest so the cops were able to put him in jail. When the lawyer told me about how stupid this man was I asked him if this man was on meth, and in fact this man told the police he had been high on meth for the past two days. 

Moral of the story: If ever you are trying to run away from someone with a gun just send a smoke signal in the air I'm sure the police will find you much faster, plus you will end up in prison for the next 5 years to life.

6. I was introduced to this blog by my friend Lauren this past week. It is a must read! 

http://itjustgetsstranger.blogspot.com/

I recommend reading Sleeping With Sergei

Now it might be because it was late at night and I always have to pee  but as we read that entry I almost peed my pants from laughing so hard!

7. We are visiting my parents this weekend and this morning my dad asked if  I had heard something last night. I told him I had not. He then told me  he had a dream that an elephant was chasing him and as he got away from the first elephant he didn't notice there was a second elephant and so as he was running away from it...he woke up as he fell out of his king size bed onto the floor.

Caroline

So pretty soon after I started taking pictures of Caroline she decided she was done...but I'm glad I got a few good shots.

*for more of Caroline visit: www.photographythroughalens.blogspot.com

24 weeks!

So our sisters told us that it was about time We post a belly shot. 

 Although Spencer has to try really hard to stick out his stomach that far, but doesn't he have a cute baby bump! 

I on the other hand can do a magic trick

Look you see a baby bump...

....And now you can't see a baby bump.

See it's magical

Looking For...

Thought I would just put it out there that if anyone sees any good deals on car seats/high chairs that you should let me know.
Also if you have any suggestions on car seats it would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

Thoughts From Work This Week.

If you didn't know I work at a law firm here in Logan. It's a small firm with only 2 lawyers. I work as the Legal Assistant which means I answer phones, type up documents, mail everything, take things to the court...you get the point...oh and occasionally I do lawyer things, meaning creating documents which only someone who has actually gone to law school should do. And why do I do these sort of papers? It's because one lawyer likes to listen to terrible opera/Ozzie Ozborn, watch reruns of I love Lucy and play Farmville on facebook all at the same time. So of course he doesn't have any time to prepare these documents.
So here are just some thoughts from working at a law office:

-Don't make the father of your child do a drug test when the judge will also make you take the same drug test and you know your test will also come out positive

-If you don't want to be charged when asking a question to your lawyer just ask the secretary

-No your Mormon lawyer will not tell you when or how you will get your temple divorce

-No your Mormon lawyer will not counsel you in matters of sin, but he might just tell you to talk to your bishop

-Don't think just because you don't want to pay your garbage pick up bill does not mean you can sue the city you are living in

-If your neighbors tree limbs are growing onto your property maybe the best thing to do is to actually ask your neighbor if you can cut those limbs down that are on your side instead of going to a lawyer first

-If you want your wife to go into premature labor just sent her divorce papers when she is 8 and 3/4 months pregnant

-A father can get completely drunk then try to molest his 15 year old daughter, he is then sent to prison and after only 2 months can get out of prison because he wants a work release. While a woman who was raped and is now being stalked by the man who did it and his wife, will not be able to press charges because right after it happened she didn't get a test done and he is good friends with the police.

Introducing...

Oh look he's a BOY!

A Ladder And Some Ketchup

If you ever need a good joke to play on your spouse just ask my dad he has performed hundreds of them. Last Saturday was no different. He had decided that the side of the house needed to be looked at  to see about the water which has been dripping off of it and onto the driveway. In order to look at it though you have to climb onto a very tall unstable ladder. My mother gets so scared that he is going to fall and break his neck one of these days. So on Saturday she told him she would hold the ladder for him before she went to a movie with my sister. In the morning she held the ladder and then he got down, she thought he was done doing what he needed to do that morning so she went back in and got ready to go to the movie.
When she came out of the garage in her car where was my dad? Yup back on the ladder with no one holding it or there to witness when or how he was going to kill himself. She yelled out the window for him to be careful, knowing my dad I'm sure he just rolled his eyes at her and didn't think twice about what he was doing.
When my mother got back from the movie she noticed the ladder was laying sideways on the driveway and there was a red pool next to it.
My dad thinks he is so funny.
He had tipped the ladder over and poured ketchup all around it and the driveway to make it look like he had fallen and there was blood everywhere!
I asked him where he got this brilliant idea and he said, "It was inspiration."
This is why I heart this man!

Remember when...

Remember those times on the mission when your investigator would express interest in going to church on Saturday night and they tell you to come to there house on Sunday morning to see if they can still go. So you go over on Sunday morning...you knock once...you hear someone inside walking to the door but that someone never quite turns the door knob. You say to your companion do they really think we can't hear them inside. So you knock a second time...this time a little bit louder. Again you hear someone by the window, but never see them peering out making sure it is you trying to get them to church. Again you say to your companion, they are not sneaky, and yes we can still hear them. They never end up coming to the door, and that Sunday they don't end up coming to church.

Yup pretty much (that saying was for you Michele) that just happened this morning. But don't worry one day the roommate, Nina, her daughter Tasha will come to church with us, it's inevitable. Besides today would have been an awesome Sunday to come. Spencer is teaching Sunday School, I am teaching Relief Society and it's the Primary program. For once taking a non member to church I don't have to worry about any false doctrine coming out of a talk or the teacher giving the lesson.

My favorite street sign in Massachusetts 

Not complaining Just an update

I believe most every post deserves to have a photo to go with it.

Some of my posts do not have pictures because I was too lazy to put one on.

This post will not have a post for one reason...taking a picture of my hip and posting it on this blog for the world to see is not something that needs to happen

Let me tell the story of the past month and a half. Usually when my back, knee, arm, wrist, neck, toe etc. hurts, it happens because I have usually fallen up the stairs, flown over a sidewalk in a parking lot, walked into a cars side window, tripped onto a wall, or simply just stood there and I fall over. This time, yup it happened, I woke up one morning and my hip decided all on it's own to become inflamed!

Fast forward a month a half later and the Insta Care doctor tells me I might have been walking a little differently which would cause bursitis in my hip. Basically as my sister Michele says that when one has a parasite growing in them they tend to waddle because if one does she doesn't have to pee as much. So I guess I waddled, just slightly, only a few times mind you (at least that's what I'm claiming, and I can because I'm writing this). Because I started to walk a little different (only a few times remember), my body decided to hate me one morning. 

Last Saturday was General Conference, I NEEDED to be able to run to the conference center from several blocks away in order to go from our parking spot to the conference center to get in on time for the Saturday Afternoon Session (which I felt most talks were directed at me so I'm so glad my friend Emma Rae Hansen got us tickets).  I said a prayer before parking the car, asking God to let my hip not hurt and to make me be able to run. In fact I believe he even stopped time in order for everything to work out that day. Well my prayers were answered! Miracles do happen, church is true. However the next day I realized from simply running on sidewalk when physically I shouldn't have been able to one thing happened...Shin Splints! Now please don't get me wrong although I do love it lots...Again I blame the parasite.

Anyway, yesterday on Monday I went to an orthopedic guy and in spite of my father never believing Insta Care doctors let a lone a women Insta Care doctor, her diagnosis was confirmed. Later that day he stuck me with a large needle full of lido cane and cortisone. Life was awesome afterwards until about ten o'clock when I wanted Spencer to cut my leg off more than ever. For some reason though he always says "no".

Today I walk  like my leg cannot work...but i guess it doesn't. It's quite funny to watch even though its the most painful thing I've been though. Cortisone hurts the next day if you didn't know.

Everyone keeps asking how I am doing well this is my story. 

Life is good!

The Park Photo Shoot

So here are some of my favorite shots from my sister Michele's family photo shoot in August. To see more of them visit my picture blog photographythroughalens.blogspot.com

I especially like Mike's look at his oldest sister

I have seen themed albums of mother daughter shoots, this picture just might inspire me

Isn't he cute when he is crying

Orange Hi-C

I now declare that orange Hi-C will cure any ailment!

croquet match

And the winner is!!!

91 years old!

This is my Grandpa Pace. He is pretty much one of my favorite people in the entire world. Plus he tells the greatest stories. And even if you met him 80 years ago he will still remember your name. Yesterday was his birthday and today we all went to his house and celebrated. Not much was done but we just sat around and talked. Right now my 91 year old grandfather is so excited about his new automatic sprinklers and the barriers he made so that the water doesn't water the cement. He mentioned how he has now outlived all his relatives...well except one. Michael Pace. Michael Pace fought in the Revolutionary War, but he lived to be 101. Don't worry though my grandfather made it a point to tell Spencer all about Michael Pace. I think Grandpa Pace just might out live EVERYONE!

12 Hours worth of sprinklers!

So you might want to be careful  turning your sprinklers on at 9:00 p.m. and not turning them off until 9:00 a.m. the next day! 

This just might happen:

Our swimming pool front door

Poor Bob and Sue (named after my cysts of course) 

View from front door

Our neat foot prints

Good thing the parasite that lives in my stomach now needs to use the bathroom EVERY morning at 7:00 a.m. otherwise we may not have realized we were in a swamp till much later.