The Rubber Band Trick

So today I'm 16 weeks prego. Well, last Friday I wore jeans to work and by 10 o'clock I couldn't stand to have my pants buttoned anymore!! A girl I work with suggested I just use a rubberband to keep my pants up. I didn't realize how depressed I would feel when I wouldn't be able to wear my normal jeans anymore! So I decided it was probably time to buy some maternity clothes. :( My mom and I went shopping all day on Saturday and I must have tried on 50 pairs of maternity jeans. Guess what? They were all too short! So, in other words, I still have no maternity jeans and I'm going to have to keep using the rubber band trick until I can find some. If there are any of you that have freakishly long legs (because apparently I do!!) if you could please help me out! I need to know where I can find LONG maternity jeans!! Thanks! I will try and convince Mike to take some pics so you can all see my little pooch! :)

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone is having a great 2009 so far. The past few weeks have been so crazy in the Holst family! Between Christmas and all the birthdays in the family, I haven't had any time to update my blog. Mike and I had a great Christmas this year. It all started when we went to chop down our Christmas tree up in Kelly's Canyon. Believe it or not, this was the first year I have ever gone to cut down a tree!

We are so grateful we are able to see both of our families during the Holidays. We had tons of fun celebrating birthdays, having prime rib dinner on Christmas Eve with Mike's family, and spending Christmas afternoon/night with my family. We also decided that Christmas morning isn't that exciting when it's just the two of us. So...we are also very excited that this will be the last Christmas just the two of us! For those of you who don't know, Mike and I are going to have a baby!!! We are so very excited. I'm about 13 weeks along right now, which means we are expecting our little bundle of joy to arrive somewhere around July the 13th. Neither of us really have any preference on whether it's a boy or a girl but judging by the toy Mike recently purchased.....I think he's secretly hoping for a little boy.

Yes, that's right. This little beauty is sitting in my garage right now! I tried to convince Mike to at least wait until we found out the sex of the baby, but Bill's gave him such a good deal he couldn't refuse! haha. I'm sure that either way, our baby will learn to love motorcycles just like their Dad!

We are so excited for 2009 and want to wish everyone a Happy New Year!!

A Day in the Snow....kinda.....

Yesterday my Dad called and asked us if we wanted to head up to Kelly's Canyon with him. (FYI: our jeep is the one in the back, my dad's is the nicer one!!) We decided to go and see how our jeep would handle. Sometimes it doesn't like to start, so I have to admit....I was a little worried. So we left the house about one o'clock and met my parents up at the ski hill.


Unfortunately, there was not as much snow as we were hoping. Even though there was only about two inches of snow, my wonderful husband still managed to get us stuck. Actually, it had nothing to do with the snow. I think he was just trying to make it more exciting. Some people try to avoid the big huge ruts, but Mike decided to drive into one. I got out to push, and being the genius that I am......I stood in front of the tire that was spinning, and flipping lots of mud! I should have taken a picture, I was nice and dirty after that!

After about 10 or 15 minutes of trying to get out, Mike decided to get out the jack. We had no idea where my dad disappeared to! It would've been nice to have a little help. Haha. Thankfully, the jack worked wonderfully. We found my Dad about two minutes later!

Mike was really happy when we finally found a puddle that wasn't frozen over. We had to go through it a few times and take some pictures!

Going down the hill.....

Couldn't quite make it back up......notice we are at the top taking pictures (because we made it back up!)

If you look closely you can see my mom standing at the bottom. She got out because it was a bit bumpy on the way up.

The guys trying to show off their muscles....

The sunset was so pretty.

Jeep: $750 Gas: $20 Snacks: $6.72 View from top of mountain:

PRICELESS!!!!!

Thanksgiving in St. George

So this year we joined the rest of the Holst Family in St. George for Thanksgiving. We had such a good time. I told myself I was going to take lots of pictures. Haha. I didn't. But here are the pictures I did take.

We all went on a ride on Thanksgiving day.

We had lovely weather!

Notice I'm not in any of these pictures, I was told I had to get off. Next time I think Mike can get off and I will drive. :)

Everyone enjoying tasty turkey sandwiches thanks to Stephanie. They were so yummy!

Mike and the other guys bowling after Thanksgiving dinner.

Mike and I taking the only picture we have together from the whole week!

My Eight Alter Egos

It’s about time for an update and I thought this was funny...

1. My rock star name: *Pugz Accord*
{First pet and current car}

2. My gangsta name: *Twix PB Sugar*
{Favorite candy bar and favorite cookie}

3. My detective name: *Red Dog*
{Favorite color and favorite animal}

4. My Star Wars name: *Holas of Macro*
{First three letters of last name and first two letters of first name then the word "of" then a medication you are on}

5. My superhero name: *The Pink Pepper*
{2nd favorite color and favorite drink with "The" in front}

6. My Nascar name: *Dorothy Mardene*
{First names of your grandmothers}

7. My "lover" name: *Bella Skittles*
{Name of your favorite perfume/cologne and your favorite candy}

8. Witness-protection name: *Harker Matthew*
{Mother's and father's middle names}


Tag to Everyone!!