Lots of New....ton

Haha, I'm so funny....well I think I'm so funny.  It's tons of new stuff..."New-ton"

Anyway......

I'm finally bloggin since I haven't in like I don't know...FOREVERRRRRRRRR!

We've had a few exciting things happen in the last couple of months.

First of all we're PREGNANT!  yay for a new member of our family!

Second, Doug finished another semester of school. Yay for that cause Douglas hates school...haha!

Third, Doug decided NOT to go sell alarm systems with APX which I'm really glad about so now I have a husband for the summer.  That's exciting.

Fourth, we found out our baby is......A GIRL!!!!

We also just went to Zion National park after we found out.  It was my Mother's Day present kinda.  It's funny though because I want everyone to know that hiking in Zion is FREAKIN hard.  Especially when you're pregnant but we had tons of fun!

Gorgeous huh?  Anyway, it was way awesome.  Thanks to Tim for the trailer and Justina for coming so me and my belly weren't the only girls!

And just so everyone knows we do have a name for our baby!!! SHE WILL BE ELOISE ALEXIS NEWTON!

(Douglas picked it out)

Well those have been our adventures over the past while.  We'll see if I can keep up with life on the blog now :0)

Stuff that has happened

Sorry, I haven't posted in a while.  I know how that feels for people who are like me and blog stalk other people and hate not seeing something new everyday :0)

I'll blog about my birthday.  It's so funny cause I just asked Doug what i should blog about.  When I said birthday, he said 'wow i didn't take any pictures of your birthday....i'm sorry.'

Haha he's so funny.

I got fun presents.  Gift cards from Cheryl. Perfect things from my sister :0).  A mini straightener from my mom and dad and a massage chair.  My massage chair is the bomb.
I got a giftcard for nails from Mitch and Jennica and a massage from Scott and Kimberly.
My favorite present was from Douglas.  He got me an ipod touch and he even got it all uploaded with music and games for me.  What a sweet husband I have!

I just love all of my family and I want to say thank you very very much for all coming and for all of my presents.
Love you guys!

Grateful

I just wanted to blog today about how grateful I am for all of the things I am given.
I'm grateful for my husband and how much he does for me everyday. No man likes doing laundry or dishes, but he does it because he knows how happy it makes me.
I'm so grateful for family who is always there.  I know sometimes it seems like I don't love you enough, but I promise you are always in my prayers.  I wouldn't be anything without what you give me.
I'm so grateful for doctors and nurses who finally understand I'm not crazy.  Thanks for giving me medicine that helps me feel better.

Mostly today I want to say I'm grateful for how much my Heavenly Father loves me.  He sent me all of these beautiful guardian angels.  My family, the doctors, my husband, my ward, even the little lady at Walgreen's.  He brought all of these people along my path to help me and I love him so much for that.

That's all.  Take that Satan :0)

Sometimes Satan is Annoying

I've decided today that Satan really  likes to throw curve balls at you.
I'm not sure if it's to humble you and they are lessons from the Lord
or...
if Satan just thinks it's freaking HILARIOUS to make people cry.

Why is it do you think that I need to feel as miserable as he does?
I'm not sure I need to have that in order to feel the joy.

I cried today at work, thinking the whole time, "I've been doing so well lately. You have no power to make me feel this way..."
And yet,
for some reason he does.
I felt miserable.....all day.

I've decided that no matter what, sometimes the world really gets you down....
But then a glimmer of hope....

My dear sweet cousin Jessie reminds me with a simple status update on Facebook
"That did not go as I'd hoped it would. Ah well, I have many more blessings than I do trials, so we are all good! :o)"

I have more blessings than trials............yes I do.
Thank you so much for my life, even when it is hard.

Love
Elise

Off the beaten path

Most recently we went 4-wheeling with my 2 favorite people...Tim and Justina! Here are a few pictures of our adventure. Don't forget to check out the one of Stina and I looking sexy in our cold weather gear. Oh and the bike jumping is by Tim and Stina. Douglas and I were on a borrowed bike so we weren't about to jump it. (Thanks again Jed and Kallie)

Hear

I'm sorry for my actions
My weakness, my words
I know it doesn't make it better
It will probably just make it worse
But I just want to tell you
Even if you don't believe

I know that I love you
I know that you care
I promise I hear you
Even when I'm not there
I want to always do right by you
As a friend, never a foe
Please just understand I'm doing what God asked me to do

Your Mom.

I wrote this poem because I feel that anyone who reads it will need it just as much as I did when I wrote it. Current and future mom's need to be able to say all of these things and sometimes they just can't.......kids , she's only doing the hard task that God gave her
to protect you.

Love you all!

Recent Adventures

This is my tap recital that I didn't tell anyone about....because well it's kinda silly that I dance with the little kids, but I had TONS of fun. It was our Christams concert and so yay for our santa hats and red and green.

Also, we had lots of fun the other night with Mitch and Jennica and soon to be born baby Rice. We got to go to the Jazz game and it was AWESOME! They had an extra set of tickets on the fifth row and it was great! I could see the Jazz players face sweat! It was an awesome game because the Jazz came from behind and WON! That's because of our awesome karma there with Mitch and Jennica! Thanks again Mitch and Jennica!!

Yay for adventures...more to come soon.