Little Secrets...

Victory and I have had a little secret for the last few months. The friends and family that we've visited this last month are well aware of our situation (for those of you who we haven't seen and don't know our news or have heard it through the grapevine....I'm sorry for keeping you in the dark for sooo long.) Maybe next time we will be able to share our news in a much more creative and exciting way so EVERYONE can know when we are expecting. Yes, that's right, Victory and I are expecting a new little addition to our family. We are due October 19th. We don't know the sex of the baby yet but we will find that out in June. If you can't tell by the pink playlist music player on the left...I'm hoping for a girl. :)

Little Secrets....

I started playing with this post on Thursday but didn't pubish until Sunday night. So I re-posted it so it would show up with today's date but I didn't want to lose the comments.

Temples

This is an awesome video about why we build temples. I know there has been a bunch of hype about the tv show "Big Love". We have been quick to be appalled and offended (and rightly so) but I love the Church's statement concerning their recent episode depicting the temple endowment. It will not hinder the Lord's work, it will continue moving forward. With this video, the church is using what seems to be negative attention as a teaching moment to really teach what temples are about.

Enjoy.

1 year

It's been quite awhile since I've told a story from the not very long ago past but since we passed our 1 year mark of when Victory proposed to me, I thought I'd share the story for those who haven't heard it before. :)

It was a Saturday afternoon, and at the time I was still working Saturdays at Younkers. Each shoe associate was going to be receiving a free pair of crocs that they would then have to wear to work during the croc sale, in order to promote them. So, I was there trying on crocs to decide on a size that would fit me best since my long toe stuck out the stupid hole in the front. I was so completely distracted by the stupid shoes I didn't realize that my manager was there (who was not working) and a few others who just happened to be hanging around the shoe dept. I was still debating and adequately complaining about the stupid crocs when our friends Aaron and Whitney came along.

I started talking to them for few minutes and then I started to realize there were quite a few people in the shoe department and that I probably should get back to work. I was about to leave to help other customers when Whitney, said she wanted to try on a shoe. She showed me the shoe, and I said, "Hey, the style of that shoe is named "Victory!" So I went to the stockroom to retreive the shoe and while I was back there I opened the box to make sure I got the right color and size, well, inside the shoe box was a ring box. I thought to myself, "stupid customers". You can find the most random things in shoe boxes. I opened the box and saw the ring (still thinking it was costume jewlery). I walked out of the stockroom and turned to my co-workers and said, "Hey look what I found! And just as I did so, Victory Haines, dressed in a suit and carrying a bouquet of flowers came around the corner and took the ring from me and said, "that's mine" and got down on one knee and asked to spend eternity with me. I obviously said yes and as I did so everyone in the huge crowd that had gathered began clapping. And we are living happily ever after!

Proud Aunt of 41!!

Two posts in one day, I know! But I actually have stories to tell today. So all my life I think I've been fairly reserved about the size of my family. Whenever someone asks me how many siblings I have, I answer the question and almost prepare myself for all of the comments of "OH MY GOODNESS!" "From the same parents?" "Any adopted?" "How old are your parents?" "How old is your oldest sibling?" "Can you name all of them?" etc....I've always wanted to be proud to say "Yes, I come from a family of 12 children, the best family in the world" but whenever I mentioned the size of my family, I would just quitely and quickly say the number and try to make it seem like it was nothing because I didn't want people to over react and make it a big deal since I don't necessarily like the attention...sometimes anyway. :)
But yesterday, as I shared the news of my sister having her baby with my coworkers, it finally dawned on me, I'm now an aunt of 41 neices and nephews (36 from the Randalls and 5 from the Haines side)! That is truly amazing, especially at the age of 25 and gosh darn it, it should be something I'm proud of because I truly am! I love all of my neices and nephews and they make me soooo happy!
So GOSH DARN IT!! I'm Proud of my HUGE family! I wouldn't ever wish to be a part of a different family! NEVER!

What is that smell??

Victory may not like that I'm blogging about this but I he knows its coming. :) I would have had pictures but he destroyed the evidence before I could get my camera.
Last night I made cookies, really yummy ones, and I put a batch in before I left for a visiting teaching appointment. I asked Victory to take them out in 10 minutes. I left in good faith that he would finish up with cookies while I was gone. I get home about an hour later and walk in the door and say, "Victory, what is that smell?" He tilts his head to the side a bit and sniffs, instantly it registered, "COOKIES!" The cookies were FRIED!! BLGHH! They were completly black all the way through and our poor house smelled HORRIBLE!
I was just amazed that he couldn't smell that overwhelming burnt smell. When I asked him why he couldn't smell it, he said, "I thought I smelled something but it just didn't register."

What a silly boy but I sure do love him!

After our cookie episode, Victory left to go play basketball. 15 minutes after the game started I got a phone call. I knew that couldn't be good. Turns out that he got elbowed in the mouth by his teammate and had to go get stitches. It was a 2 1/2 cm cut on the right side of his mouth. He'll be fine, he'll get the stitches out on Saturday. I feel kinda sorry for him, he was having kind of a rough night.

Love true love.....

In light of Valentine's day I thougth I would share this video here.