Catch up

Yikes! I did it again. My goal was to be a more consistent blogger, but I get easily distracted and am technologically challenged when it comes to blogging. I love reading other peoples blogs. So when I mean to update our blog I spend all my time looking at other peoples. Anyway our lives this spring/summer have been crazy. Starting off we graduated Yeah! To celebrate we went to Disneyland. It was Brennan’s first time and I hadn’t been since I was seven. We had a blast, and I am really excited to take Dillan when he is older. Next time, I want to go when I’m not pregnant. I haven’t swollen the entire time except at Disneyland, from all the walking. We ate tons too. After all what is a vacation without tons of food? Outback Steak house, Cheese Cake Factory, and the giant covered strawberries in the park Yum! I also gained about 8 pounds which is what I wanted (I never thought I would write or say those words, but I was behind on my pregnancy wieght)
Brennan was really hot so he played in the water with all the other little kids:) We pretty much were little kids the whole time screaming and laughing on all the rides.
In this picture I think I am about 23 weeks pregnant.

After Disneyland we moved to Moab. Brennan started his job and that weekend was Grandma and Grandpa Stewart’s 60th along with the Stewart family reunion. I am slowly figuring out who people are and how we are all related. It has been really fun getting to live closer to Brennan’s side of the family, but of course I really miss my side. Especially being able to go to soccer games, birthday parties, dance recitals, etc. It wouldn’t be so bad if we could visit more often but I’m in my last trimester. I am really looking forward to Dillan’s baby blessing when they come over. We did get to go to Parowan for the fourth of July (which I still don’t have pictures of Mom (hint hint0) and for my Baby shower April and Sandy gave me (thanks again!).



Brennan participated in the annual Moab Library Cardboard Boat Race. The Elders Quorum decided to do it as an activity. I am not going to lie I was skeptical. There plan was for eight men to fit into the boat (more row power). Brennan would go up to the shop and work on it a couple of evenings a week. They started a month early which paid off in the end because they got second! They figured out the weight in the boat it was 1755 lbs. WOW! The Young Women and the Young Men both competed too. The Young Men’s boat survived, and the Young Women’s boat disintegrated within 5 feet of the shore. Its alright though because they still got a bigger trophy for the “most like the Titanic award”.


We have had tons of fun this summer and can't wait for Dillan to come!!!

Its a...

BOY! We got to see more of our baby last week and found out we are having a boy. We are going to (most likely) name him Dillan Romney Knutson. We are so excited for our little guy. He is pretty wiggly and big! He measures a week or two big for his gestational age (20 weeks (half way there!)). Brennan was really big when he was born. I am a little concerned:/ Anyway here is a sneek peek of our son.

This is him at nine weeks (he is an inch long in this picture).

Graduation Update

For anyone who is interested we are graduating this weekend! Clayton Christensen (my Mother's cousin) is speaking on Friday afternoon at 4:30, and we are walking on Saturday at 1:30, both in the Centrum. I never really thought graduation would come. It was always this far distant dream that never seemed to get closer. But WE MADE IT! I am graduating with an Elementary Education degree with an emphasis in Integrated Studies (Summa Cum Laude) and Brennan's is a Communication degree with an emphasis in Broadcasting. We went to the SUU Media Awards banquet a couple weeks ago. They gave out awards (gold, silver, and bronze) for radio, newspaper, and the T.V. station. Brennan leaned over in the middle and said, "So, I am most likely not going to get an award at this thing, but hey I have a job so...thats all that really counts." At the end of the banquet they gave two awards for distinguished service in all the communications programs and Brennan got one of them. Conclusion: Brennan is amazing because he already has a couple job opportunities and got an award for his outstanding contribution of SUU's radio, T.V. station, and newspaper. The only draw back...his name reads Brennan Knutsen.

Happy Birthday to us=D

April is a great month because we get to celebrate four birthdays, but the best part is that two of them are ours. We got spoiled this year. I got a Cricut and rocking chair (sometime in the near future), and Brennan got a book, movie, and an iPad (also sometime in the near future). We also got gift cards and money for dates. So Thanks everyone for the great gifts and cards!

Ketchup Pictures

Here are some pictures we have been meaning to post for a while:/

We finally got to eat the top of our wedding cake! Brennan has been begging me all year to let him eat it. The cake tasted really good for being a year old. Also for our anniversary Brennan bought me baby stuff and I took him to the "King's Singers" concert.

These next pictures are from Christmas. Brennan was trying to bounce three kids on a giant exercise ball...it didn't end well, but there were no tears.

Over Christmas we hiked "Bow Tie Arch"



My goal (now that I am done with school) is to be a better blogger, so look for more posts soon:)

Bwah huh?!?

Okay, lemme splain ... on second thought, too much time, lemme sum up ...

It is well past our bedtime, but Emma and I are both at the computer lab while she finishes some of her Americorp service stuff. I just finished cleaning for four hours, and frantically trying to put together a newscast.

In preparation for graduating this upcoming May, Emma is virtually half way through her student teaching (WOOT!) and I am taking a bunch of filming classes that are required for my major, but irrelevant to my chosen career path, including being the sports producer for SUTV news every Tuesday. Don't ask me how that one happened. One of the regular news anchors was sick today and I ended up taking her spot. We have half an hour to fill and were running about 15 minutes fast. After stretching my sports section, my co-anchor and I then ad-libbed our way through the final five minutes of the show. Quite spectacular. Check out the newsbreaks on suunews.com.

I am however doing a radio show every saturday morning at 10 am. I have a co-host there as well, and we pretty much run our hour like your average morning show. We made an on-air wager on our respective superbowl teams that the loser would have to karaoke to a song of the other's choice live on the show and well ... I'll be sure to record it to share. Maybe I can post it somehow.

I no longer write for the newspaper, but am the Copy chief. As such my involvement with the paper is greatly reduced, which I am very thankful for.

Emma no longer works at Deseret Book, and i am trying to balance three part-time jobs and be a full-time student/husband/home-teacher/ward mission leader. YAY! Meanwhile Emma has to deal with a bunch of delinquent second graders for 8 hours a day, and then spend the rest of her day getting ready to do it all over again. Personally i wouldn't switch places with her if offered the chance. We get to spend about an hour a day with each other in the afternoons ... usually in the form of a nap.

Tis life! Anyway, it is now our bed time. More later ... hopefully not 4 months later. =S

Writing and Teaching

So I'm a published writer! YAY for me! Jordan tried to convince me to put my stories here on the blog, but I think it will be easier to just post the link to the website. Here it is:

suunews.com

Easy enough, right? I'm pretty sure if you search my name, you'll be able to find the stories and articles I've done so far this year. Don't miss my story on the religious panel and matching opinion article, as well as the opinion article on dating and matching scathing comments from readers. I thought it was in good humor, but apparently it is easier to offend people than I thought.

Emma just finished her first practicum in the block, meaning she took over a class of 4th graders all by herself for two whole days! She is so brave. She'll be going to Price in a few weeks to do the same thing, and I won't see her for an entire week! =...(

Thankfully the newspaper has taken over my life sufficiently that I should remain fairly occupied for the duration of her absence.

I was planning on doing the newspaper thing for the rest of school, but Emma and I have prayerfully decided that I'm going to shift back to my original plan-- radio! The plan is to give up this particularly insufficient source of income/insatiable consumer of time job for a better paying one, and just do the radio practicums and gun for a payed internship over the summer. I'll still write of course, there's nothing wrong with a bit of freelance to supplement an income, but we'll see how well it all works out in the long run. That's about it for now, if we remember to update this thing more frequently we might get some more random funny stuff. Yay Autumn, BOO Winter!