Happy Mother's Day!!!

Today is May 13th, 2012.  It is my first legitimate Mother's day:)    Today in church, we were at Skyler's singles ward and I thought to my self...hmmm I am the only mother in this whole entire room! :)  It kind of made me happy.

I was glad that my mom was able to visit last weekend.  Every time we spend time together I realize even more traits that I have because of her.  One thing we are really good at is laughing together and I love this picture taken at my wedding because it portrays it perfectly.  I'm so grateful for the things my mom has taught me and I can't wait for her to become a Grandmother!!

On the topic of being a mother, I get closer and closer everyday.  Unfortunately because Sky was in Guatemala, I didn't get a 15 and 16 week picture.  But here is my 17 week picture:)...still lacking in the belly department but I'm working on it!

My Belly:) P.S. I'm Pregnant!

12 Week!
Skyler and I found out we were pregnant on Valentine's day this year:)  It definitely made for a very happy day! Here are pictures of my belly, while others say I'm hardly showing, to me I feel huge already haha. 

13 Weeks!

14 Weeks!

Idaho Ballroom Academy

Here's the crew!  Yes we are wearing wigs, no you can't tell anyone apart, and yes the guys are wearing makeup.

This is my makeup all done and my hair ready to get a wig!

Did I mention we had to get a spray tan...

These are the manly men getting their hair and makeup done, poor guys.

I have spent every monday night for the last 7 months practicing for our competitions in Logan and Stanford where we would perform for a total of 10 mins.  As crazy as that sounds, it was totally worth it.  On April 14th both of our adult teams performed at a high school in Logan where we took 1st and 3rd place.  On April 21st, the next weekend we performed at Stanford University where we took 1st and 2nd!!  We, in other words swept them:)  It was super fun and even though our makeup and hair was absolutely ridiculous, it was fun to all get ready together.

Our Epic Outdoor Adventure!

In the coming of the new year, Sky and I decided to make some New Years resolutions.  We decided that we want to go the temple every week and to read our scriptures faithfully everyday.  We also decided that we want to be more "outdoorsy"....yup we want to be true Idaho outdoors folk:)

My Preparations:)

As the date planner this month, I took the bull by the horns!!  I went to the BYUI student outdoors activities list and found TONS of activities.  Seriously, if you live in Rexburg, you have no excuses for not going out and doing things outside.  There were a lot of intense activities but there were also some whimpy ones.  I feel like I found a happy medium.  I signed us up for "Get Connected Outdoors."  I like to compare it to a sampler plate of food; instead of eating a huge plate of one thing, you can have a little taste of everything.  So, we got a sampler plate of outdoor activities, we did cross-country skiing, snow shoeing, and sledding.

We cross-country skied to this yurt and had donuts and hot chocolate

I am a gangster skier, watch out!

We made a friend up at the cabin:)

 I am so glad we made this goal!! We had an absolute blast!  First off, it was dirt cheap.  For $10 a person we had bus fare out to Victory, ID (30min from Rexburg), Lunch(chili, roll, cookie, and unlimited hot chocolate), and full access to skis, snow shoes, and an awesome sledding hill with a lift and all.  It was so fun...we had so much fun that we have officially booked "sleigh ride and dinner" through the school and we're going skiing at Targhee Resort.

Snowshoes

GQ snowshoer

Feliz Navidad

This year was our year to spend Christmas as the Smedley's.  It was so fun:)  I love wrapping presents so I volunteered to help.  Little did I know that I would be wrapping 4 hours worth of unwrapping bliss.  Haha but seriously I love wrapping presents and I was in heaven wrapping all of them while watching chick flicks.

On Christmas day, we woke up, went to church, came home, ate dinner, and then opened presents.  If it was up to Sky, we would have been up at 4 am tearing into those things but he had to learn the gift of patients on Christmas:)  I was glad that we opened them last because it ended up taking 4 hours!!

Kenra is really good at noticing what people like so needless to say, we all had a blast opening our presents.  Skyler on the other hand gets the award for the husband who spoiled his wife the most award.  He surprised me and got me a macbook pro!!  I've been wanting one really bad and he bit the bullet and got me one:)

After Christmas, we drove to Oregon!  I love being home, especially since it doesn't happen very often.  We loved enjoying the Oregon winter weather and spending time with my crazy family:)  You know you're always in for a laugh with the Brendle's.  We got extra spoiled this year because we got to open our Christmas presents that my mom had got us.  She got Skyler a watch that he loves and got me some really cute cloths and accessories.

I love Christmas and that it means we get to spend time with our family's.

My Dancing Queens...and King

This Fall I ventured into making all of my wildest dreams come true.  I'm teaching dance!!  I teach 4 jazz classes and 2 clogging classes.  My clogging classes are what make me laugh the most.  I have a total of 18 clogging students ages 5 to 9 and they are hilarious!  They say the funniest things ever and definitely keep me on my toes.

In December we had our heavily anticipated Christmas performance.  The reactions from the students were so varied.  One student was basically having a panic attack before asking what to do if she forgot what came next, another was begging me to not make her perform because she couldn't remember it, and others were ready to strut their stuff and shine.

I'm glad that we made it through with all alive and that all my little ones survived despite their anxiety:) haha  It was so fun and so cute!

Halloween

Yay for Halloween!! For some reason I really like this holiday:) I don't know why since I don't like the fact that it's apparently an evil holiday and I don't even really like candy all that much BUT I do like dressing up and pumpkins so I guess it evens out. 

Peter Pan, Tiger Lily, 50s boy, 50s girl, Mary Poppins, Chimney Sweep

Captain America and his assistant

This year for halloween we had a party!  It all started on Saturday night when I got off work at 5 and came home to Skyler who had completely converted our apartment into a haunted apartmet.  He put spider webs everywhere, had made homemade root beer that was bubbly out the sides like a witches cauldron, and used his Boise state shirts to put over the lights so the lighting was all orange.  I love that Skyler gets into holidays:)

People started coming over at 5:30.  We had pumpkin shaped pizzas, a pumpkin carving contest(prizes included that Sky had picked out), a costume contest, and after we went to the corn maze. It was a really fun night and I loved that everyone got in to dressing up.

Also, in the spirit of Halloween I had a party with my two clogging dance classes.  We played "Trick or Treat" where they either picked a treat or had to do a clogging trick.  It was really fun and I loved seeing them all dressed up :)