Gardening & Graves, Quilting & Gilmore.

Well... I have been quite the lucky girl these days. Everything I love can be summed up into the title of this post, gardening, graves, quilting, and Gilmore. Ok, I love a few more things than that. Such as this little baby growing in my tummy and my wonderful husband and my wonderful career, BUT! I talk about those loves of mine a lot. And today I want to chat about some other loves!

Gardening! I don't know if I love gardening because I get to play in the dirt, or if it's because it reminds me of my grandparents, or being in the sun, or what but I love it! It has its ups and downs of course. Finding a new weed that looks easy to pull out and so incredibly innocent only to find out it is obnoxious and terribly prickly is a down. Eating a salad that consists of lettuce you grew, a definite up!

 I blame the love for graves on my mom... and Corey... and myself. I don't just love grave sites and cemeteries, I actually really love family history and the word "graves" is just more catchy than family history. I have been doing a lot of organizing of files, searching for ancestors, and reading to get to know my heritage and by background. Here's the update: I'm a Mexican, Canadian, Scottish, English, Irish, 6 generation Mormon, with a long family history of baptist on the other side of the family, who's ancestor's kicked my other ancestor's butts out of Missouri. I've learned a lot more than that too! Like I have family buried in the town and all over the county that I am living in now! And! One of my ancestors had 29 kids! And about 20 lived to adulthood! See! Family history is exciting! :) And graves are exciting too! Especially when your mom drags you along with her on Halloween night to sneak into a locked cemetery to look at all the pretty graves... when you're like 10!

Quilting and Gilmore are two loves that go hand in hand. Whenever I quilt, I must watch Gilmore, Gilmore Girls that is. It is a must. The only bad part about quilting for me is I get distracted and obsessed. I can spend hours watching Gilmore Girls and quilting and get a lot done and still want to keep going, completely disregarding the fact that I need to eat, or pee, or clean, or pack (since we move in less than 3 weeks). But, this quilter now has a baby in her tummy and not eating or peeing is a big no-no so this go-a-round with quilting has been a very different on for me. But very good! However, this 4th of July quilt has been hanging over my head for years now and I am happy to finally be working on it so I can use it this year instead of just looking at the fabric, but the distractedness in me has now changed focus to other quilt ideas, such as an autumn quilt, a girly cute quilt with scraps from aprons I made, a country Victorian quilt, a Halloween quilt, and a room themed quilts, like a kitchen quilt. Focus woman! Focus! I will get this one done, and then once I am moved in to my new house in 3 weeks I can decided which quilt I want to work one next!

Let's Drive.

For some reason when I am driving in the car is when I realize how blessed I am. Every day that I leave the valley and drive through Sardine Canyon I can't believe how pretty it is. On a rainy day is gorgeous, on a sunny day it's remarkable, in summer, in fall, winter, and spring it's a unique, unmatchable beauty.

Today Corey and I drove to Wellsville, something we do often! And we just can't believe that we are about to move to Wellsville! It is so pretty! Perfect little town! It's green, small-town feel, friendly, pretty homes, and just the perfect place to settle down and start our little family. I just love where our life is right now.

Corey and I got overwhelmed, in a good way,  today. That's an understatement actually! We went to the doctor for the first ultrasound, the week 10-12 one. I thought I was at the start of week 12 today, turns out I was 10 weeks and 6 days and week 11 starts tomorrow... I gotta do week 11 all over again! Not a big deal though :) The important part of the doctors appointment was when all the sudden the monitor went from hovering over the bladder to this little gummy bear shaped thing... MY BABY! It has a head, a body, two arms, and two legs!! Looking back at the pictures we got from today, I realized the baby even waved! I got teary-eyed. And Corey did too! I cried, but he didn't. I am going to be a bawl-baby this whole pregnancy! (Side note: We went and watched What to Expect When You Are Expecting, HILARIOUS, but I cried so much! I then realized that I was watching actors have babies and I then knew that I was going to be a bawling mess my whole pregnancy!) And then he said it was time to hear the heart beat... Holy Moly! It has one strong heart beat! He had it turned up all the way on accident and it was so loud! Way to go baby! You are growing strong!!! Ugh! We are just so excited! I was distracted the rest of the day! All I could think of today was BABY!

When we were driving to Wellsville, we all the sudden realized where life had lead us and we love it! Beautiful area we live in, beautiful baby with a strong heartbeat, we have each other, we have helpful loving families, and we have the gospel.

This is where we live:

Baby Cozzens!

Corey and I are having a lil' one!! And we are so dang excited!!! I am 9 weeks along which is 3 months!! And the morning sickness has been intense, probably because for the last two weeks I mixed in travel and trips in with my now sensitive tummy haha! We are so so so happy! We are so ready for this little one to be part of our family.

We sat down together and looked at our family lines and came up with some fun baby names! It was so fun to put first names and middle names together! Except we have about 15 sets of names! Haha! I guess we have some narrowing down to do! :)

We told our parents with baby balloons! Surprised mine and Corey's parents, everyone thought we were joking! Haha! :) Nope, not joking! Baby Cozzens is on its way to us!

I made this video, below, to win a contest to win tickets for my mom and I to attend an awesome event that we have been planning to attend for over a WHOLE YEAR! I tried making this video a couple weeks before the deadline and it took me like 17 takes! I couldn't get my words out correctly, I kept stumbling over my words, and when I finally got it out, it took hours and hours and hours to get it computer ready. And then it had a watermark on it! I was driving one day and all the sudden had a new idea for my short 45sec. video! I got home, got the camera out, sat down and took take one, I stumbled over my words, thought for a second and decided I wanted to change my words from "I will be the mom...," to "I AM going to be the mom..." Turns out I was 3-4 weeks pregnant and I didn't know it yet! I got the video done in that second take and it only took like 45mins to get it ready to submit! Watch the video in YouTube and "Like" in YouTube, not only Facebook. Thank you!

How Bad Do You Want It Contest Video!

We are so excited for our little baby to come December 24th 2012!!!

Namaste. Shoes. Home. Babies.

My goodness it has been a while! I always want to blog, but then I always decide to work instead. But today was my day to catch-up on things and also spend time with my awesome husband! He finally had a day off!

Namaste.

I have come to really love this phrase and this salutation and the whole movement. Honestly when I did yoga for the first time years ago I thought it was weird, everyone saying Namaste. But since doing Piyo more and putting more meaning into connecting my mind to my heart, I can feel a serious connection and overwhelming peace come over me each time. I love the stretch and then connecting my hands together over my head, bringing it down to my heart and bowing. It's a powerful connection.





Shoes.

Since Corey had the day off he wanted to go get new running shoes. And since he was still home when I got back from the gym I decided to go along! I desperately needed new shoes! And it's just not something I pay much attention to, I don't realize how much a good shoe really can help your workouts and your runs I guess. So since he was going I decided to go to. We both picked out super fun shoes! I tried these ones that looked like bubble gum, cotton candy shoes! So flippin cute! But I went with these instead for the added support because my feet are weird!! And I love purple! We are both so excited about our new shoes!! :) He's getting up at 5:00am tomorrow just so he can run to work! Crazy man!


Home.

We are house hunting! We are ready to start looking for a home to buy! We know we want to stay in the valley for awhile and we are just ready and excited to possibly have our own home soon! More on this topic later! :)









Babies.

I have baby on the mind! Big time! We are just fine with having a baby whenever the Lord sees fit to bless us with a baby, but it seems like everything I have been focusing on these days is baby! Baby names, fun things to do with babies and little kids, baby clothes, movies with babies like "Life as We Know It," baby, baby, baby. And! I had a dream several months ago about three little brunette triplet girls! In that dream I was dang shocked and just couldn't believe I had triplet girls! That's a lot! Then, a couple nights ago, Corey had a dream about three little red-headed girls! I guess we are going to be having lots of girls! Pretty sure we are going to have lots of kids because Corey says we aren't stopping with only one boy, he must have at least two! Haha! I just love lil' ones! But we are perfectly happy to let it be in the Lord's hands! :)