The Road Less Traveled

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

and sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

Looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh 

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that had made all the difference

         --Robert Frost

     I'm not sure why, but I woke up this morning with this poem on my mind. I used to have it taped to my closet door and would read it often, back when I was planning on being this exotic world traveler (well, I still plan on that actually). Whenever I think of this poem, I imagine Robert Frost in the quaking tree forrests up by my grandparents cabin, the leaves turning yellow, and him standing there with a book and a pen in hand. I picture him getting that tingly, warm adrenalin feeling that starts in your lower back and rises up through your head and down your chest and into your hands that comes with that excitement when you know something exciting is about to happen.

  I'm feeling a bit adventurous today. I can't explain it. I just woke up and thought "Today is going to be exciting! There's an adventure going to happen!" Maybe I've just got that traveling bug again...

     Now if you'll excuse me, my two biggest adventures are still asleep (sleeping in on a Saturday? Who does that?!) and I need to go wake them up, I've decided we are going out to breakfast to start our day off right!

Whats your adventure going to be today?

Happy Saturday everyone!

The next big adventure!!!

I always thought that marriage was the biggest adventure in the world. And who doesn't love a great adventure? It's an adventure because love is exciting and frustrating and happiness all rolled into one. Marriage means that you and your best friend in the whole world are living together, working on building a life together. You suddenly have to deal with not only your own problems and worries and fears, but also those of your spouse.

As with all adventures, there is a certain amount of danger and scary things and uncertainty that comes along, but the best part is that you're not going on this adventure alone. Your spouse is always there to help get you out of a sticky situation.

Bryant and I are two Indiana Jones and we are about to embark on our next big adventure!
(Drum roll please.....)

I'm Pregnant!!!

Yup, preggo!

We found out a few weeks ago. I was so nervous and I wanted to know right away but I gave myself a date to wait for. Finally, that day came and I pulled out the pregnancy tests that I bought the night before. So that big "pee on a stick" moment came and what did the results show?


One really dark line and one super light line. (It was actually a bit darker than in the picture)

I couldn't put my faith in a super light line. So I started to chug some milk so I could take the second test. About an hour later and I've taken the second test. The results?

Another dark line and another light line...

Bryant was convinced that meant I was pregnant but I'm sorry, this was the next BIG ADVENTURE in my life that I was basing on two light lines.

I ran to the grocery store and decided that I would just get those digital ones. You know, those ones that say weather you are pregnant or not pregnant. In words.

Well, the results were in...Pregnant!

We were both really excited! We were leaving for Jackson Hole that afternoon to go river rafting so we decided to wait until then to tell our parents. It took everything I had not to spill the beans though because not even an hour after I took the tests my little brother came up and told me that he wanted me to have a baby because he wanted to be an uncle.

You want to hear the funniest part? The DAY BEFORE, my mom shows up with a bag full of baby shoes. They were on sale for a dollar a piece and her and my dad had bought boy and girl shoes and in different sizes "just thinking ahead" my mom said. Little did we know that those shoes are going to come in handy in about 7 months!

They are all so cute! I can't wait to get to use them!

We went to the doctor, just to get and "official" pregnancy test and to get a due date. We are due March 24th! They said we didn't need to make a real appointment until at least 10 weeks since you can't hear a heartbeat or anything until then anyways. So here I am, at 9 weeks and I still need to find an OB. I might actually go with my mom's OB that delivered my youngest sister Sage because my mom said they are a team of about 5 doctors and you see all of them throughout the pregnancy. That way if one happens to be gone when I go into labor, there is always a back up.

So here I go! On to the next great adventure!
Lets consider this my "before" picture:


I took this when I first found out so this may be the last time in a long time that I'll look tiny in a photo haha!