I want to quit my job and go back here...

I loved Maine. We had such a perfect honeymoon. Maine was so beautiful, and our bed and breakfast was so cute and perfect, and I just loved every moment of being there. I've been missing it a lot lately, probably because work has been so awful and the pregnancy stuff has been getting me down. Someday... probably waaaaaay far down the road... but someday, I hope we can go back.

Baby Names

I was thinking about baby names quite a bit today... we had a new nephew born at some point today, who has yet to receive a name (last I heard). Then one of my friends found out today that they are having a little girl, and as far as I know they haven't decided on a name for her yet, either. Although their daughter has her heart set on Pocahontas... I'm pretty sure they're trying to talk her out of that one.

Jacob and I have had our names picked out since about a week after we found out we were pregnant. In fact, I think we had our girl name picked out before we even got married... just for some point in the future when we would need one. And for the boy name, I think we were just laying in bed one night going through the alphabet thinking of names, and we found one that we both liked. And both names have stuck. So for a girl--Naomi Rose Romney (Jacob originally wanted Aurora Rose... like Sleeping Beauty... but I shot that one down. Aurora is pretty, but Aurora Rose is just toooo much.) And for a boy--Noah Aaron Romney. We like them. :)

Now we just have to hope that our baby comes out actually looking like a Naomi or a Noah, or we'll have to start over.

Labor Day Weekend

Sorry for the belated weekend post! Our weekend was just so busy that it has taken me most of this week to recover. Luckily, I was quite ill last night and had to call off work today, so I have had a day to rest and relax, and I have been enjoying it! Other than the being sick part, of course. But I'm feeling pretty decent right now. :)

Friday night I had a girl's night out with some old roommates. We went to dinner at Shoots in the Riverwoods, and it was DELICIOUS! I loved it. Someday I am going to take Jacob there. After dinner we went to Color Me Mine and painted pottery. We did the same thing for a night out when we were still roommates a few years ago, and it was way fun. You have to pay for your pottery and then a studio fee to paint, but you can stay as long as you want. So we sat, talked, and painted for a few hours. It was so great to catch up with friends that I haven't seen in such a long time. Katie took a few pictures and posted them on her blog here, so check them out!

On Saturday, Jacob and his friends Craig and Eric hiked the Y, so the wives all hung out. We went to the mall to get maternity clothes for Sarah. The outing completely wiped me out. I was so tired, I couldn't stand for 10 minutes in the store. I kept having to sit down. I am just not used to this pregnancy exhaustion. I don't like it. :( Even simple things like going to the mall are too much for me.

The rest of the day was full of cleaning and getting the house ready for company. Jacob's brother Benjamin was coming to stay with us until Monday from BYU-Idaho, because his mom was bringing Mary out for school. Mary is starting this semester at BYU-Idaho as well, so Benji came down to pick her up. Which worked out well because we were going to have cake for Jacob's birthday on Sunday, so his mom, Mary, and Benji ended up all being in town for our little celebration. I say "little", but we ended up having 12 people over. It was fun to have so many people over, but the get-together was really draining for me. It had been thrown together last minute when we found out everyone was going to be around, and I wanted everything to be perfect so I tried to do too much. I ended up having an emotional breakdown in front of most of Jacob's family that was here. So that was fun. Hopefully they don't all think I'm nuts. :)

On Monday, Jacob worked and I cleaned up the house a bit from our party. Then we went to an early dinner at Tucanos. It was sooo yummy. Jacob's been wanting to go since we first started dating, but we just didn't have the time or money until now. We splurged and even got dessert. He got some kind of Raspberry cheesecake, and I got the Snickers cheesecake. Yum! But my favorite part of the meal was the sirloin steak. I am not even a steak lover, but oh my goodness! Theirs was so delicious. Our meat guy was so great, he even tracked down well done steak for me (I can't bring myself to eat bloody steak, it's just gross!). Even our drinks were fabulous. I had a Strawberry Brazilian Lemonade, and Jacob got a Passion Fruit Brazilian lemonade. All this talking about our food is making me want to go back! The whole dinner was just superb!

We went mini-golfing Monday night at Trafalga in Orem, which ended up being a pretty sad excuse for a mini golf course. But it's the only place around we knew of, and it was still fun. We went with our friends Craig and Sarah. Craig won the first game and tied the second with Jacob, so he won the honor of being declared "Mini Golf Master of the Universe".

And finally, some pictures!

Jacob & Me at the mini golf place

Jacob doesn't like to look at the camera... or smile!

Jacob eating at Tucanos
And another one at Tucanos

Oh, and on Wednesday afternoon we also went to see the movie 9 for Jacob's birthday. I think Jacob liked it, although he seemed torn as to whether he really liked the ending or not. I liked it, too, which surprised me, because I am not at all a Tim Burton fan.

Christmas Already?

Last night I bought our plane tickets to visit my family for Christmas. We were originally planning on actually being in Pennsylvania for Christmas day, but we decided to fly in the day after Christmas and then fly back on the 31st so that we will be home in Utah for the actual holidays. One of our reasons for this decision was Jacob's job--he is working on-call right now for Provo Canyon School, which is a school for troubled youth. Because the students live at the school, they always need people to work on holidays. So whether Jacob is still on-call or if he has a full-time position by then, he will definitely be able to get some hours over the holiday season.

The second reason I wanted to be here for Christmas day is that I'm really looking forward to our first Christmas as a married couple. My parents always tried to have Christmas Day just with our immediate family. We visited our extended family during the season, but Christmas day was always just us. I want to try to do the same with Jacob and our little family (right now, just our family of 2!). I want to be able to start our own Christmas traditions and do Christmas our own way. I'm SO excited to decorate our little apartment and to actually be there for Christmas. I LOVE decorating for Christmas, and I go all out every year. I've had my own Christmas tree since my freshmen year, and I now have two trees--the little 3-foot tree that I bought when I lived in the dorms, and the 6-foot tree that I bought last year for my apartment. Just thinking about Christmas has gotten me excited already to decorate, which is sad since it's only September 4th. *sigh* I'm going to have to decorate for Halloween again this year to tide me over until it's socially acceptable to decorate for Christmas... Not that November 1st is really socially acceptable... but we all know I don't like to wait much longer than that. I think I start wishing for Christmas earlier and earlier every year.

Just a few more months...

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Unisom

Last night I slept beautifully for the first time in a long time. I woke up about 3 times less than I have every other night because I had to pee. When I got back to bed, I fell right back asleep. In fact, most of the time that I was "awake" and walking around, I was still half asleep. I didn't even have ten minutes out of the whole night that I had to lay in bed whimpering because I hurt or didn't feel good and couldn't get back to sleep. It was great!

The only thing I wish I had done was only take half a pill, because I've been sooo groggy this morning. It made me think of that line from You've Got Mail:
"I use a wonderful over-the-counter drug. Ultra-dorm. Don't take the whole thing, just half, and you'll wake up without even the tiniest hangover."

What a great movie. Maybe I'll watch that today when I get home.

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