catching up

I figured I better blog again before new years! We have been rather busy with christmas, Zac's birthday and now new years coming up! sheesh the end of this month has been a busy one!

First of all Christmas was great, on Christmas eve we went to my grandmas house for white elephant gifts which is always a riot. We have a tradition, other than a porcelain white elephant thats gets brought every year we have a specific shirt. "THE SHIRT" whoever gets "the shirt" has to wear it to Christmas breakfast the next morning. It is HILARIOUS! something I honestly look forward to every year, I dont think I have had it yet {knock on wood} but this year my cousin Jake got it...again! He honestly wears it the best, but this year instead of wearing the shirt he WAS the shirt....

It doesn't get better than that....and I hope he doesn't mind me posting this on the internet! haha.SO that was Christmas eve, Christmas morning Zac and I opened our presents for each other then went to my grandmas again for more presents and breakfast, afterwards we went to my parents for MORE presents and to spend some time with my siblings. I have to rave real quick about the present my sister Kelli got me, DOTERRA OILS! {lavender, serenity, and clary sage} WHY HAVE I WAITED SO LONG TO HAVE THESE IN MY LIFE?! I use the lavender every single day, on my skin, before bed, when I have a headache, in my baths...everything! it will be gone so fast, I use serenity to help me sleep and clary sage is the ultimate pregnancy oil. Unfortunately Zac hates them....but that sure isn't stopping me {sorry not sorry} so thank you thank you thank you cheech for the most amazing/useful Christmas gift ever! and my mom got me a massage! aaahhhhh I can not wait to use it! I am trying to find the best time to, when I will need it the very most ya know? except every day I swear I am in dire need of a massage....good thing I have such a sweet husband who will rub my feet and back for me. My sisters also got me some adorable things for the baby! Man is baby shopping the funnest thing or what!? well...buying the clothes at least. After we spent some time with my family we went to Zac's parents house for presents, yet again. I truly believe I have the best in laws in the whole wide world. They have been such a blessing to me in every way possible, I love them SO much my mother, grandma, and sister in law all know exactly what to say at exactly the right time. Since no one in my family has had a baby yet they dont really know what to expect or tell me {cant blame 'em!} but it has been SO amazing to bond with my in laws over this baby, they are so encouraging so helpful and sweet it brings me to tears just thinking about them.

 This is our attempt at a Christmas photo...the sun was so bright + Zac HATES taking pictures so I usually default to making him kiss me and we call that good.

On the 28th we celebrated Zac's birthday {yay for it being a Saturday!} we slept in then went to denny's for brunch, we did some shopping, and some laying around, cleaned the house and made treats for his party that was later that night then we went to dinner with a bunch of his friends, we went to chili's, one of our favorite restaurants! it was a great time, then everyone came over to our place for more food and games. I felt so lame sneaking away to go to bed just after midnight....I just can't stay awake that late! But it was a really fun day, my man is 22 years young now!

              Instead of breakfast in bed...presents in bed.

Then on Sunday we met up with his parents and grandparents at Texas Roadhouse for lunch, then we went up to his sisters house to see his grandma who is dog sitting while his sister and husband and niece are in Mexico till the 8th. They have a litter of pitbull puppies that are just adorable...and crazy! haha.

Literally a dog pile! 4 pitbull puppies snoozing on top of grandmas lap.

 

updates and mushy love notes

No news from my heart monitor yet, but I should be getting test results back later this week. I have a doctors appointment tomorrow though so that is always exciting. Once you are in your third trimester and you start seeing your doctor every 2 weeks it makes the time fly by even faster! I am 33 weeks now! I can't wrap my head around it, that due date is RIGHT around the corner! I am just dying to meet my baby girl! Also Zac works 14 hour days {cringe} 8-10 so not only do I not get to see him very often but I am stuck at the apartment by myself, BORING! plus the people who live above us drive me insane, and I have seen everything I want to on netflix believe it or not! So after work I will clean, nap and do whatever but once 6 rolls around I am just dying. I dont always like to be alone, not ALL day at least, so I have been spending quite a bit of time at my parents house...you would probably think I live HERE now, sheesh {sorry mom, dad} but my family really is full of my best friends. Whenever me and my brother Kyle get together its just a bunch of immature humor, laughing till we cry and speaking in accents. I wish with all my heart that my sisters lived closer, they live in Ogden and Herriman, but we always have fun, we are all so alike and they are my best girlfriends! And I feel like I have been getting so much closer to my parents, especially my mom. It is SO nice to live so close to my parents they have been so helpful as well as Zac's family. I hit the jackpot of in-laws no joke. So tonight is one of those nights where Zac is working late and I cant stand to sit alone in our apartment so I came over to my parents house to help my mom make sugar cookies for our neighbors. There is something about homemade sugar cookies that is so festive and fun....I dont know what it is, it makes me feel like a kid again but me my mom and kyle sure had fun making them and they are DELISH!

And now for a sappy shout out to my husband. Thank you for working so hard all day long and waking me up late at night with kisses.You are the most selfless person and you amaze me with your kindness everyday. I cant help but be stuck to your side every second I have with you! You make me feel so beautiful and important and I am so glad to be starting my family with you. Its crazy to me how in life your priorities change. I used to care SO much about clothes, parties, boys and what not, but now I care about having a clean house, dinner made, laundry done and a happy husband. The people I used to care about most were my friends who turned out to be so fake, and I lost ALL of them, then it was just me and my family but being married you are the center of my universe, I revolve around your schedule and think about you all day. I stay up late in bed listening for the door to unlock, then pretend to be sleeping so that you will crawl in bed and snuggs with me. I love how respected and loved you are by everyone you know. Everyone has something good to say about you, and I admire the crap out of that! I love falling asleep holding your hand or in the middle of the night when I am still up tossing and turning you lean over and kiss my forehead in your sleep {you never remember doing this but it is so sweet and calming} I am overwhelmed with the love that I have for you and I can't imagine loving you anymore than I already do but everyday I fall more in love.

Whats cooking good lookin?

Since being married and being a woman and all I do feel like it is my role to cook and clean etc. and I am totally okay with that! Thank heavens for pinterest or I dont think I could cook a thing! I have had my fair share of success dinners and absolute fail dinners. Quick story time, a few weeks ago my mom was telling me how she was going to make homemade chicken noodle soup with homemade noodles and everything so I told her I wanted to help her make some too because me and Zac would love it. So we made the noodles and I took all the ingredients over to my apartment to make and Zac comes home while it is still cooking so we are just sitting at the bar playing cards and then a maintenance guy came over to fix our sink because it was leaking. So we are talking to him but he was kind of RIGHT in the way of our stove so I didn't really want to touch the soup too much cause I didn't want to stand over him, PLUS the noodles were taking forever to cook so I didn't worry about it. Then something starts to smell burnt....Zac goes over to check the soup and it is SCALDED to the pot! I was mortified! Zac and the maintenance guy thought it was HILARIOUS. I burnt soup....honestly? who does that! after the guy left I broke down in tears, I was so excited for this soup I had worked on and embarrassed that I had burnt it and pregnancy hormones were flying all over the place. I swore I would never cook again! But of course I did. Anyway I feel as though I have redeemed myself after sunday when I made not one, but TWO good meals. For breakfast I made french toast muffins with a cinnamon streusel topping. And they were AMAZING! I got 12 muffins but me and Zac only ate 4 so if you aren't making them for a lot of people I would suggest cutting the recipe in half.


Ingredients:
1 loaf french bread
2 1/2 cups milk
6 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1 TB vanilla extract
1 ts ground cinnamon

Grease a 12 cup muffin tin. Add 1/2 cup bread cubes to each muffin cup. Carefully pour the egg and milk mixture over each muffin. You might want to go back and press the bread down a little bit so that you can add a little more mixture. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate 2 hours or up to overnight. {I refrigerated mine overnight} 

When ready to bake, preheat over to 350 degrees.

To make the streusel topping:
1/4 cup cold butter
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup flour
1/8 ts ground cinnamon
pinch of salt 

Combine the ingredients by hand and sprinkle over each muffin. Bake for 25-35 minutes, or until tops are golden brown. Enjoy with maple syrup, powdered sugar or whatever else you would like. I just ate mine plain they were that good!

Then for dinner I made crispy cheddar chicken. I wish I had made more because Zac and I both wanted seconds!

Ingredients:
4 chicken breasts
2 sleeves Ritz crackers
1/4 t salt
1/8 t pepper
1/2 cup milk
3 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1 t dried paisley

Crush up the crackers and put in a bowl along with the salt and pepper, whisk together. In seperate bowls put the milk and cheese. Dunk each piece of chicken into the milk, then the cheese, then the crackers. Grease a 9x13 pan and place the chicken in it. Cover with tin foil and bake at 400 degrees for 35 minutes, then remove the tin foil and bake an additional 10 minutes.

For the sauce:
1 10oz. can cream of chicken soup
2 T sour cream
2 T butter

Combine in a small sauce pan and stir constantly until heated up. Serve over chicken.

So yummy you guys! I have been thinking about this chicken ever since we had it! I can't wait to make it again! These are NOT my recipes, they are from pinterest so go follow my board "delicious" to see what it is I am cooking over at the Morck house.

In my last post I mentioned that I have vertigo again, well...we are now thinking that it MIGHT be something more because conditions have worsened. On Tuesday afternoon {with 6+ inches of fresh snow covering the streets} when I was leaving work I started to feel dizzy and lightheaded, thinking not much of it I got in my car to drive home. I was driving down state street when my symptoms worsened, I was incredibly dizzy, I couldn't see straight, I was still extremely lightheaded, I knew I wasn't going to be able to make it across town to my apartment so I decided I would hurry to my parents house. But then my vision started to blur, and I panicked, it went from blurry to spotty to short black outs. I had this pain shooting up the back sides of my neck. I couldn't even make it to a parking lot to pull over. I pulled into the middle lane of state street, put my car in park and put my hazard lights on. I remember feeling like I was going to puke so I took off my seat belt in case I needed to jump out of my car, I also thought that maybe some fresh air would help so I rolled down my window, I also took my jacket off cause I felt SO hot! Then I laid my head back on my seat to try to calm down and regain focus but I knew I was going to pass out. The next thing I know some guy is tapping on my shoulder asking me if I am okay. The next thing I remember is being in front of Orem Elementary and my brother pulling me out of my car. I dont remember calling him, Zac, or my mom but I guess I did. Thank goodness Kyle was just down the street at school AND it was lunch time so he was able to come to me right away. I was shaking and bawling my eyes out I have never been so scared! My mom came home from work and called the doctors, they made me an appointment at the IHC in provo this morning where I got a heart monitor placed on me for the next 48 hours. I am PRAYING that this gives us some answers. I have to write down everything I do and what symptoms I have when I do what and when I feel symptoms that I associate with fainting I have to press this button on my monitor. But I honestly still dont quite get this whole set up....its frustrating, and can I just say how incredibly ANNOYING this thing is?! other than the fact that I have 6 wires connected to me which was surprisingly painful to put on because the nurse had to scrape the first layer of my skin off in 6 different areas the cords are sensitive to heat, water, they cant be tugged either I mean I feel slightly crippled. How am I going to sleep!? or work?! BUT on the plus side I did get to spend the majority of the day with my dad. He took me to the hospital because they {my dad and husband} have forbidden me to drive...feels like I am 14 all over again. Then we took my car to get safety and emissions done so that we could register it AND then we went to the DMV to sign the title over to ME. Then we went to lunch and afterwards I camped out at my parents house watching an unhealthy amount of New Girl. Happy hump day everyone. Here are some awesome quality iphone photos to show you just what kinda fashion statement I am rocking over here.

 

pregnancy mumbo jumbo

This about sums up pregnancy. If you haven't seen this movie I HIGHLY recommend it! It is HILARIOUS! pregnancy really isn't ALL that bad but I will say that hormones get the best of me. I cry all the time over everything...and nothing. I cried at thanksgiving dinner because just the simple task of eating was making me tired but I couldn't go to sleep at the dinner table..so I cried...yup. I cry over lots of stupid things, and I think it's hilarious honestly but really being pregnant is SO strange, easily the weirdest thing my body has ever been put through. Earlier today I found myself eating hershey's kisses and carrots....what? it sounded like the best thing EVER...and it was at the time that's just a weird combination of foods. Also, I did just find out that I have vertigo which summed up is a virus that attacks your equilibrium making you feel extremely lightheaded, dizzy, faint, and nauseous. I had it my sophomore year of high school and was out of school for 2 months! once you have it...you are kind of stuck with it forever AND it is common in pregnancy. Oh the joys....this pregnancy really is flying by though in 2 months our baby will be here! That is SO soon!