Craziness

I have to remind myself on a nearly basis that I am not insane.  This may sound a little foreboding, and or like I'm losing my mind (which I may be).  I just didn't realize how much I was getting in for when I decided to work full time, take classes, move into a new house (and try to organize/arrange said house) and be pregnant.  I come home exhausted, start on my homework, pay the bills, attempt to clean (which takes a lot longer when you can only bend certain ways due to an ever expanding stomach), and think to myself that I am crazy.  I then remind myself that I had good reasons for deciding to do each of the things I am doing and that I am thus not insane, just potentially a little too ambitious.  Spencer and I are finally not living out of a suitcase anymore, as we unpacked our clothes and put them in the dresser last week, this is in part due to my grandmothers appalled expression when we told her we had been living out of a suitcase for two months...familial pressure, even more effective than peer pressure.  All in all, in all its craziness life is pretty great.  A bit fast paced, and if the last sentence is any indication a little to full of all's, but wonderful.

Behind the Times

I am going to be a quarter of a century on June 3, which is next Friday.  This makes me wish to pause and reflect on my life.  In my lengthy reflection (all of 30 seconds or so) I decided that I take a little longer to do important life things...graduate...marry...have kids.  I am a bit behind most of my friends and loved ones in these and other areas.  However, I always catch up eventually.  I got married at 23 not a world record, but I certainly wasn't early in the game.  Spencer and I are in the process of looking for a home (as we've been pre-qualified for a mortgage).  I am, finally, going to graduate in December.  And not long after that (or before graduation as fate may have it) I am going to have a baby.  I have been going crazy wanting to tell everyone about my life changes, especially about my little one who is moving around rather vigorously, but haven't.  I told myself that I wouldn't tell anyone until 14 weeks, but at week 11 my resolve is crumbling.  Thus, I have now documented the fact that this is happening without officially breaking my word to myself as all my faithful friends--followers of this blog-- may not even read this before week 14.  Life is wonderful.  Thanks for sharing my news, or not, as the case may be.

Senioritis

I have a very severe case of senioritis.  I can't even begin to describe how much I want to be done with school already.  I am currently waging an inner war with myself, as part of me just wants to drift through the rest of school, do a little less than the minimal amount of work, and be happy in my laziness.  But the infernal good student that seems to have lodged itself in my existence just isn't satisfied with that.  This goody goody two shoes self insists that I must do all my homework and attend all my classes, and not only must I do all this work, I must do it well.  So in essence my life consists of trying to not do my homework, not wanting to do my homework and then doing it anyway and being upset that I used up so much time to do it.  Its a fairly conflicted and stressful way to live.  I wish I could just decide to be a lazy or good student and just do it, but I have a feeling that I will continue to do both at the same time.  In one of my time wasting (not working) fits however I managed to watch Around the World in 80 Days with Peirce Brosnan, which I did not even know existed.  Apparently it was a BBC miniseries some years back.  There are a couple of risqué scenes, but it was all in all quite delightful...skip France and the trip around the world was perfectly worth watching...even though I should have been doing homework...

Fall Pictures

Now, there are several reasons for posting these now instead of when they were taken in the fall.  Reason one, in the dead of a nasty, smog infested, Utah winter it is nice to remember that there are warmer and more colorful seasons at some point in the year.  Two, they are the pictures I used on our Christmas card, thus they have integrated themselves into the Winter season.  And lastly, I like them, and it's better to post them now rather than never.  And with that lengthy introduction here they actually are:

It's very important to have a kissing picture (otherwise people would wonder if you still like each other).

I love this picture for several reasons.  One my hair looks awesome, and two Spencer looks awesome.  The last reason is it's just a good picture.

I'm peaking at you from behind Spencer, and he's trying to figure out what I am doing.

This was the fastest photo shoot I've ever had.  We took pictures for a grand total of fifteen minutes, and we got some really good ones.  

Happy Fall/Winter!

New Followers

I began this blog as a means to personally motivate myself to document my life... From the overwhelming amount of posts, you can see how effective this motivation has been.  Now, however, some of my dear friends may be following my family blog...perhaps documenting for them will be more successful than just doing it for me.

Family Pictures

Spencer and I had Carollee take some pictures of us for our 2010 family photos.  Don't we look great!

The How and Why of it All

I realized that Spencer and I were a week a way from having been married for a full year and yet I had no real record that that year had actually taken place. I had no photographs, no written records, all I had was very fond memories. I want more than that. I want a record, with pictures and stories, of our life together. We are a family now, the Pyper family, and as our family grows, if indeed it ever does, that can be recorded too. I, not being naturally inclined to document things through journal writing or picture taking, need an excuse to take pictures and record events, otherwise it will never get done. Thus, we come to the why of this blog. It was created for the express purpose of giving me a reason to record my happy life with my dear husband and potential future offspring. I don't know that I'll actually go into the how of it because truly that is not terribly interesting. But we have a start, and hard though it is I have been told that "a hard beginning maketh a good ending."