Does This Answer Your Question?

Lately we've been the recipients of questions and jokes about our lack of reproduction. 

As I scrolled through some pictures on my phone the other day, 

I realized the reason we haven't been blessed with babies yet... 

we would most likely kill them. 

See below: 

Those chairs have no backs...

I'm not sure where he got that red vine...

One word: Salmonella ...

Playing with knives...

..... no words....

Inches away from death by fire....

Seconds away from electrocution.... 

Brain turning to mush...

....another brain turning to mush...

Turtles carry diseases that can easily pass to children...

...and we don't understand that he doesn't understand what "turtles are dirty, don't touch" means....

Child labor laws...

...again...

Our kitchen counter moments before they arrived - 3 uncapped needles... 

(from Nate practicing IVs on the straw and me practicing Botox injections)

(on a doll)

It's hard to believe they made it out of here alive...

and even smiling....

Beth - so sorry for putting your children in mortal danger while you were in labor....

As I was looking at these, I said to Nate, "oh my gosh, what if we had killed their kids!?"

Nate's reply: "oh, they just got another one..."

Any more questions?

Beach Day!

The other day our friends invited us to the beach. I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to practice with my new camera since my only subjects so far have been Nate (studying) and Speedy (mostly sleeping).

Though I have gotten some pretty great shots of Speedy (I'll post them later), it was nice to practice with real moving people for a change. 

Hudson exploring.

Nora chillin'.

The Nerf ball in Nate's Easter basket came just in time.

Nate's work - (in automatic mode)

These guys made some sort of bet about standing in the midst of all the seagulls with hot dog buns sticking out of their mouths.

When that didn't work they laid down.

There should be a sign put up - "don't tease the birds"

We didn't get a group shot, but this was pretty much everyone:

Next I'll post pictures of my photo shoot with Speedy! 

First World Problems

Nate and I inherited this beauty in December. Since then I've been trying to learn how to use it. 

It's really hard, and sometimes I get frustrated.

Like when I finally figured out how to use the aperture, but couldn't get the right subject in focus:

I was trying to get a CLEAR picture of Leroy (my photography class teacher who told me during the last class that he thinks I need to take another one...) and make the back of that guy's head fuzzy.

IT'S BACKWARDS.

I am a little ashamed that my biggest problem right now -

(besides of course my 60 job applications and 0 job offers)

- is not knowing how to use my new really expensive camera.

Which led me to investigate other first world problems. It's good to see I'm not alone. 

I found this one on Pinterest: 

I can especially relate to that last one. Happens all. the. time.

Then I typed "first world problems" into Google images. 

Here are a handful of favorites:

(can you imagine!?)

(now that Nate uses rice milk, this is modified to

 "without checking to see if we still had COLD milk")

(this is sad)

(thank goodness for Chrome's recent history tab!)

What would the pioneers think of us!?

April Fools!

I have been looking forward to this day for weeks! Ever since I saw this blog post on Pinterest.

(Also, ever since Nate completely ruined my St. Patrick's Day by starting a 2 week cereal (and therefore milk) fast that very morning. He JUST discovered his rice milk was green YESTERDAY, which turned it into an extra April Fool's Day Joke - so it all turned out OK.)

On Saturday I made sure Nate saw me painting my nails on the living room floor. The next morning I woke up early and placed this on the carpet:

Here was Nate's reaction:

I had also set up this classic prank...

...and made EXTRA sure to not accidentally use the sink. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's made that mistake before. :-)

I hid around the corner and waited for, like, 10 whole minutes before Nate finally used the sink. 

But I got it on tape. :-) (I mean on phone...)

I also put Icy Hot on his toilet seat, but didn't get video of that one...

Nate was nice - he didn't prank me at all! He did, however, make a delicious candlelight conference breakfast!

mmmmmm.....

And made this (more complicated than expected) model boat while watching conference. 

And Midway to Heaven* after.

Because it took 6 hours.

(*still love Michelle Money!)

I helped. So did Speedy.

Nate, so proud, and his finished product-

Now it sits proudly on our piano. 

The only thing disappointing about this day was no April Fools Jokes during General Conference. 

If I Had Only Known... and Happy Pi Day!

Is it embarrassing to admit I was a Mathlete in 5th grade?

Yeah. We went to STATE people.

It wasn't long before I gave that up for other (way cooler) pursuits... like band, theater, Key club, and writing the advice column for the school newspaper...

If I had only known what could have been, I might have stuck with math, and gone on to find fame and fortune as a BYU Mathlete.