PREGNANT!!!!!

So we are not officially telling people. I am 14 weeks pregnant. We wont find out if its a boy or girl until I am 20 weeks though. Tyler is really hoping for a boy. Which I guess thats how most husbands are. So they can go hiking and catch bugs and do man stuff. I wouldn't mind having a girl either. No matter what we are pretty sure it will have a lot of hair and fat checks. Which was what we both had when we were babies. The morning sickness has its good and bad days. I eat peanut butter, milk and dairy to help my stomach. It seems like since I have been pregnant my sence of smell is really good lately...a little too good actually. There are certain smells like fish, that make me really sick. I use to really like cherry tomatoes too , but because they smell wierd I cant eat them anymore :(. I am hoping that will go away once im not pregnant anymore. I am in the 2nd trimester now so i am hoping the sickness will start to go away. It hasnt been as bad as in the begining luckily. But we are really exited. I am due around march 3rd.

Washington/ Canada Trip!!!

So tyler's parents invited us to go on a trip to Washington and Vancouver Canada. We were gone for about a week. We stopped in Seattle Washington and went up to the space needle. We were going to go in the morning but it was super foggy . So we bought our tickets for the space needle and then went to the fish market. There were so many little stores people were selling flowers, and jewelery. The fish market had all kinds of fish . When someone bought something they would through it in the air and then wrap it for the customer. Some of of the little crabs were still moving around even though they had ice all over them. We walked on the pier and saw all the freighters carrying crates from china and all over. We got up pretty early so when we were walking around there were hobos everywhere. Some were laying in the park and stuff. We had our map out and one kept asking us if we were lost and needed help. Later that day we finally were able to go on top of the space needle. Luckily it had cleared up quite a bit so we were able to see out a ways. We also took the underground tour in Seattle. It burnt down and they wanted to rebuild it higher. But the businesses didn't want to wait that long to rebuild them. So they decided to build some of it and then they would just level it off once they had finished building the rest of the city. It was pretty cool to see all the old buildings. After spending some time in Washington crossed the border into Vancouver Canada. I was really exited because I have never been to Canada before. Tyler served his mission In New Newfoundland and that area and has always really loved Canada. There were tons of HUGE trees. Which were covered in mushrooms and moss. It was cloudy pretty much every day and it even drizzled a little once. It was a really nice break from the utah weather. I loved all the trees and mountains everywhere it was so beautiful. We went to the Vancouver aquarium which was really cool. They had shows where the dolphins, seals, and beluga whales would do tricks. The seals would always growl whenever they wanted fish. It was super crowded with people around the otter tanks. But he decided to swim up and say hi to us. We went on several hikes some you had to walk on a boardwalk they made because the ground was so swampy. Tyler tried to find some bugs. Which he was actually pretty successful. He found a really cool moth which had red winds and a green body. He also found a pretty cool beetle. Because it was so damp and swampy there were tons of banana slugs...and they are huge. I almost stepped on them a couple of times. They are yellow and black and we saw some other kinds of slugs as well. Just crawling on the ground getting ready to get stepped on. On one of the hikes we saw some deer. They were just walking around the parking lot waiting to get fed. I guess they were so use to people feeding them so they weren't very wild anymore. We also saw a bear. Someone pointed it out to us on the hike. Luckily he was far away. But I still didn't want to stick around very long. Some people told the ranger but she didnt seem that worried about it. She said as long as the bear wasn't hurting anyone it was fine. While we were out hiking we saw the largest red ceder. I could barley put my arms around it. The tree seemed like it needed a hug so i did since i am a tree healer after all! After that we took the ferry to Vancouver Island. Tyler saw some dolphins and the fin of a whale... Its really hard to tell with all the waves in the ocean...I wasn't able to see anything but I did see some fat harbor seals. One of my favorite parts was the beach! We were able to find some pretty cool shells and even saw some critters. There were tons of star fish all over the rocks, which were super slimy. So you had to be really careful so that you wouldn't fall in. We also saw some crabs which we think were probably dead. Since they were on there backs. And the remains of some jelly fish...which the birds had half eaten. We saw quite a few otters off in the distance. They would stay on top of the surface and then dunk back down. We went to the butchart gardens which was really cool. They had all kinds of flowers and plants. There were waterfalls and ponds. In the garden there were Chilean rubbarb and the leaves were huge. There were also some little multi colored flowers which I was exited to see because I had seen them in Chile on my mission. On the was back to Seattle we stopped in Forks home of Twilight. There were so many dazzled by twilight stores. I was surprised by how many fans there were walking around with Twilight t-shirts. They even had tour buses. We stopped at on of the stores and Tylers mom bought some souvenirs. We also stopped by a free museum. They had really cool shells from all over the world. But what was the highlight for Tyler was the alligator man. They had a little ancient alligator with a shrunken mans head on it. They also had just a shrunken head. Which was "real" supposedly. I really had my doubts about that one. We would stay at a hotel and then see some of the sights around that area and then move to a new area the next day. Some of the hotels even had pools and I was able to talk Tyler into sitting in the hot tub with me :) The drive home was a 13 hour trip. Tyler and I took turns sleeping on each other. I probably shouldn't have slept so much because that night I had a really hard time getting to sleep. It was a really fun trip. We saw a lot of really cool and interesting stuff.

hiking for fossiles

The past couple of weeks Tyler and I have gone fossil hunting with his parent. I even found my I even found a cephalopod like the one above, Tyler was using his rock hammer to chip out some other fossibles and I saw something in the rock that looked like a cephalopod. Tyler didnt think it was anything at first...but I was able to pull it out and it looks alot like the picture above. The next weekend we went to another "secret" place where we found horn coral. There was tons of them in the rocks. It was alot harder to break the rock around these rocks....because the type of rock they are in is a lot harder.... We hiked up a hill and then on the side of the trail there was a huge wall of rock that had tons of horn coral in them. It was really cool. I was really surprised that I was able to hike at all since my leg has been hurting lately. I hurt it when i slipped on the ice when I was younger and has gotten worse ever since. There were even times when I couldn't walk on it at all. But thanks to the chiropractor I am hiking, running and even water skiing again. After looking for fossils that day my legs were so tired. I got sun burnt really bad on my neck and arms. Which is weird because we all put sun screen on and I was the only one that got burnt. I had to put lotion all over and that helped a lot. Karole ( my mother in law) said she found a tick. Luckily we didn't find anymore... when we got home we double checked for ticks. Tyler has become a professional fossil hunter. When we came home we labeled them and put them in boxes . Separating them from the different places that we found the fossils.

sugar cookies

Yesterday Tyler and I decided that we needed something sweet so We decided to make sugar cookies. He helped me mix up all the ingredients....and he even blended them together with our little electric mixer. We had one cookie cutter that was a heart with an arrow through it...which was all we had so I decided to try and use that cookie cutter on the last batch. At first they were way to sticky and then after we floured them down the heart turned out but after they were cooked the arrow didn't turn up at all. But they still tasted pretty good. Tyler was telling me that whenever his mom made sugar cookies she always cuts them out with a cookie cutter... so i thought i'd try it. We have these little black shelves on our wall and there use to be Christmas decorations on them. We took the Christmas stuff down and Tyler thought that his Mafia man should go there instead. He has a gun and whenever anyone walks by it he raises his gun and it makes shooting noises. Well I completely forgot about this so when I went to wash off the counter the Mafia man started making shooting noises....scared me really bad. I convinced Tyler to turn him off so I don't have anymore heart attacks.

Cephalopods

this is a picture of one of the cephalopods it was in a rock that was too big to take home. But we did find some others that weren't too bad. They are shells that have left an imprint in the rocks.

Tyler is really into looking for fossils. So we decided to go...to a secret location which i cannot say to look for them. We found some pretty good ones. But they were on bigger rocks that there was no way we could get them home. We did however find a few rocks that you could see the imprints of little shells pretty well. My leg was hurting pretty bad so I had to sit down while Tyler looked around for cephalopods. After we went to a place called "the Chilean deli" I was kind of missing good old Chilean food since I served my mission there about 2 years ago. We got empanadas. Tyler got a cheese one and I got the traditional empanada which has hamburger onions and eggs in it. And for dessert we had alfajores....which were sooooo good. And another treat which im not sure what it is called. But its in a pastery that lookes like an icecream cone with manar and coconut on top. Which was also especially delicious.

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When bobs attack

So tyler and I have recently purchased fish. We use to have just 2 Powdered Blue Guorami named Toby and Bart ( from the simpsons and the office) but Toby passed away and we had to have a toilet flushing ceremony.

We had to go to bird world and buy some new replacement fish. Which if your looking for fish bird world is a thousand times better than petsmart or petco they know what they are talking about. So we have Bart the blue fish. "the bob's" the otto cats which are algae eater and just suck on the window and plants. Patty which is the bigger red fish with darker fins and loki the little red fish. Bart has the tendency to pick on the other fish. He will sit still in the tank and start to look over at his prey and then dart at them as fast as he can. He doesnt actually bite them he just enjoys chasing them. His favorite fish to chase by far is Patty. We sometimes put algae wafers in the tank for the fish to eat. They are just little round pieces of algae that sit at the bottom of the tank. Bart likes to sit on top of them and guard them so no one else can eat them. Usually the bob's have never taken any interest in the algae wafers. But since we've gotten two they are alot more active and like eating the wafers.

One day when we had put a wafer in the water bart went to guard it as usually but eventually got bored of it. So one of the bob's started to eat it. That made bart mad so he charged him. The bob 1 saw bart attacked bob 2 and got on top of bart and started attacking him. Even patty is starting to stand up to bart. Which is good because if she didnt she probably wouldnt eat. Even though bart is a bully there are still fish who will stand up to him.

The Beginning

I meet my husband on Lds Mingle. We were both not so sure about the idea of online dating. I know for sure that it definitely made me nervous. Usually when dating online I talk to them for several months and then later meet them in a public place somewhere for dinner or something. But I only talked for Tyler for 2 weeks and he came to pick me up at my house . Which I don't usually do but he seemed like a good guy. Actually Tyler didn't have an account on Lds mingle. He guessed my email address. Because a lot of the time people just use the first part of there email addresses as there screen name. He emailed me and said " hey whats up? just seeing if this is the same Annie from lds mingle. " which it was. He asked if I wanted to come down and watch movies sometime...because at the time he was in Utah and I was going to Byu Idaho. My family lives in Lehi and I often went to Utah to visit them. I told him I was coming down the next week and would love to watch a movie and hang out. Which he later told him was really surprising that I said yes. So I go down to Utah and its the night of our first date.....and we gave him directions to get to our house....well we forgot about a new stop light that they had put in and he ended up getting lost. My mom and sister had to go pick him up. After finding our house finally we went to Texas roadhouse and watched a movie at my house. After that I came home almost every weekend. We dated about 6 months got engaged July 4th and Married October 10th in the Timpanogos Temple. He is so wonderful...I couldnt ask for a more wonderful man. We have been married for 6 months now!!!!!