Lying Low for a Little While

Sorry haven't updated in a while, but we've been sticking around town, and forgetting our camera most places. I know, you are thinking "what, they haven't been traveling?", well, we will again, but we are getting back into a routine for school and work. We've also had some fun times with our siblings, and friend's Ryan and Michelle and Tom and Kristie. Here is an update from the last few weeks:

Nathan has started carpooling, so now wakes up at 5:30am everyday to leave by six. The good news is that he leaves work between 4 and 4:30, and then gets to come home! Yeah happy day! That has been nice, and it has definitely helped us go to bed earlier.

Kendra started school again, and has four classes and three clinical rotations, yikes! But only four months to go and then done again, yeah! Taking an OB/Peds class has been interesting because all you talk about in OB are the things that can go wrong, which then led to a panic attack in the middle of class, where I had to ask how many pregnancies are normal just to keep from going crazy. 98% are normal, so I felt much better.

The bean is doing great, and even any feelings sickness I had has now gone down to about zero! Thank you baby, and we've made it to second trimester as of tomorrow (which is my first OB clinical as well, a little ironic). I had the first ultrasound a few weeks ago, and yep, we are growing a little alien. Everything looked healthy and normal:)

That is about our life at the moment. I've included a picture of all the seeds I had in one Clementine yesterday...17! Usually there are 2 at the most, so it was pretty crazy (obviously not too much is going on besides work and school if I'm posting a picture of seeds!!!).

17 seeds! From 1 Clementine!

Also check out this new blog I found, it is sooooo funny! http://itsababynotbrainsurgery.blogspot.com/

Winter Idaho Fun

On New Year's Day we went up to Franklin, ID to spend a little time with Grandpa and Grandma Haworth, and Mike and Misty Porter. It sure got cold up there, and the Kezele's (another of Nathan's Aunts and Uncles) came too while we were there. It always seems like someone comes while we visit. So we got to do some fun things, and Mike and Misty got us into rock climbing! Yep, second time we've gone while up there, and it is just getting better, looks like Nathan and I have a new sport! It was lots of fun, LOVE it up there. Good thing we like the snow too:)

We went sledding with the Kezele's and Tate

This is me learning how to belay, I did a good job, and good thing too because Nathan is up there!

We helped chop wood in the riverbottoms, not living up there we thought this was lots of fun, not a chore at all. There is Nathan headed to a dead tree with Lady

So much snow! Tate in the riverbottoms with Lady and Grandpa's Springer Spaniel, Mighty

We also got to watch the Sugar Bowl with Utah vs Alabama with Grandpa Haworth and the Kezele's. Grandpa is a HUGE Ute fan, and we found ourselves cheering for the Utes as they pummelled Alabama. It also sort of vindicated BYU's loss to Utah this year, they really are just that good. After every score Grandpa would get lots of phone calls, he was on cloud nine after they won. It was great for the Mountain West Conference as well, and hey, BYU still gets money for Utah going to a BCS bowl, so it turns out all right in the end:)

Rebekah and Tate, aka Elizabeth Swan and Captain Hook, during the Sugar Bowl, I guess they didn't like watching football as much as the rest of us so they found other ways of entertaining themselves:)

New Year's!

So for New Year's Eve we first went with Tom and Kristie out to eat at Olive Garden and then to "The First Night" in downtown SLC. It was lots of fun being with some of our best friends on New Year's! Thanks guys for inviting us:)

Olive Garden , umm, so good.

Then we went to Temple Square to look at the lights. We went into the Joseph Smith Memorial Building to get warm and watch a live performer, but it ended up being this older man on an accordion. Oh well, the lights were fun though.

Kendra, Nathan, Tom, and Kristie in front of the Temple.

There were neat luminaries all over at Temple Square, this one is highly appropriate for our family.

Happy New Year's!

2009 is here! And what a great year it will be:)

The Best Surprise Finally Revealed!

Okay, so I'll get around to finishing my Christmas post, but I just can't wait to post this good news any longer...we are expecting!!!! Yippee! I've been wanting to post this since we found out, but wanted to wait until we were far enough along before we started telling people. We are due August 7th, and I'm nine weeks along this week. Everything so far is going great, no sickness (maybe just a little, but then I eat and I'm fine), and of course a bit more tired than usual. We are so excited to go hear the heartbeat next week at the doctor. It was lots of fun telling family in person over Christmas. We gave some people bags of mini M&M's with a sign that said "Mini Manwaring is on the Way!". Then for my parents and Grams we got mini snacks to eat during the movie "A Christmas Carol" that we all watched together on Christmas Eve, ie. baby carrots, mini chicken sandwiches, mini snickers, baby waffles, etc. That didn't exactly get the point across, so we also gave them a card saying "Merry Christmas Grandparents" and one to Grams for the great-grandma after the movie. Then they got it, and everyone knows now. We are pretty excited for this new adventure in life:) Can't wait to see you baby!

What a babe looks like at 9 weeks

Merry Christmas!

Christmas this year we spent in Colorado with Kendra's side of the family. It was lots of fun staying with Grams at her place, playing games with the family, and most of all being together for Christmas. Here are some things we did:

The tradition of reading "Twas the Night Before Christmas"

Opened up presents and watched Patrick Stewart's "A Christmas Carol"

Played Imaginiff with the whole family, quite funny imagining my grandma as a bird:)

Nathan and I went to the Denver Temple, where we were married on May 6, 2006. It was quite cold and windy that day

Went downtown Denver with Trevor and Kirstin, and Meghan and Brandon Gardner, it was really cold that night!

On the way there we stopped for the night in Cheyenne at our long time friend's the Freeman's, but going we were caught in the biggest blizzard both of us has ever been in. The road disappeared, there were no cars besides us, and once we got out of it we saw that they had closed the highway going the other direction to stop cars from driving through it. Good thing we started out when we did or we would have been stuck in the middle of Wyoming because of closed highways! Thanks again to the Freeman's for letting us see you and stay the night! This picture doesn't do the storm justice, it was trippy staring at the blowing snow for so long!

Blizzard from inside the car, we had to stop and get new wiper blades because ours were not doing the job! Then the wiper fluid froze!!

Ward Christmas Party

So for the BYU 103rd Ward Christmas Party Nathan volunteered to cater the dinner! Yeah, wow, but with the help from Mom Manwaring getting some supplies and the recipes needed, we were able to do it, and it was a success. We made 3 large pans of green bean casserole, 4 pans of funneral potatoes, 7 spiral cut hams with glaze, salad, rolls, and the dessert was a "bring your favorite holiday dessert". It was work, the day of was intense, but it ended up tasting great. Thank you to everyone who helped bake it the day of, and thank you to Kirstin and Trevor for helping to put the ingrediants together and serving. If anyone needs a caterer, Nathan and I are now avaliable, we can do it!

Making the potatoes

Greenbean ingrediants, have you ever seen Campbell's soups cans that big?

Some of the finished product

Vail Skiing

For a birthday weekend/early Christmas gift Nathan and I got the opportunity to go to Vail, CO for skiing and relaxing! I had wanted to give a weekend away gift for Christmas for Nathan, and was exploring Park City, when a long time family friend emailed me and asked if we would be interested in using her timeshare condo in Vail. Of course we couldn't take off the entire week, but we were able to do the weekend. Then, to not pay and arm and two legs to ski, I contacted another cousin who works for Vail Resorts to see if we could get some sort of discount. Both of those worked out, and to top it all off, we asked some of our best friends and cousins, Tom and Kristie, to go with us. The end result= the best time ever skiing and a fabulous weekend! Kristie picked up skiing so quickly, and I felt like it was my best time going personally, Nathan loves it, and Tom is one of the best skiers I know, so everyone had fun, and no one got hurt! It was so great to go with awesome friends and everyone enjoyed getting into the holiday spirit. Thank you Tom and Kristie for going, you made the trip awesome and we love you guys tons!

Nathan, Kendra, Kristie, and Tom at the top of the mountain

Kendra's newly found favorite were the moguls. The snow was the best too!

Taking a walk in a winter wonderland

Tom and Kristie enjoying the winter and view