An inkling of snow...

As you know, we are living in Portland. We got 2 inches of snow on Sunday and the hills got about 5 inches. We got a call Sunday morning saying church was canceled because of snow. I looked outside and the roads were not even covered yet! Growing up in Iowa we needed white outs, blizzards, or 2 feet of snow to ever get cancellations! I was extremely surprised. Tyler informed me that it usually does not snow here and does not get this cold. Turns out they haven't received this much snow since 1996! So, why the first winter that we move here? I wish I had taken a picture of it... but you have all seen snow before. However, because of the lack of snow the whole city shuts down... literally. They do not salt or sand the roads, or even plow them. Most of the streets are complete sheets of ice. Tyler did not have school on Monday because of this snow and it's finals week! They are expecting another 6 inches tomorrow! I am not sure what will happen, but I just find it odd that people do not know how to react to snow! It's a natural thing.

Our Little Peanut!

Yesterday we were supposed to find out what gender our little baby is! However, when we went to my ultra-sound they told us that I am actually only 13 weeks and 5 days along (according to the size that the baby is)... putting the due date on June 13th, 2009... mine and Tyler's birthday! I will have it induced if it's in the small percentage of babies that are actually born on their due date. We got some really cute pictures of our new little baby! It was so neat to see it moving around! It was doing flips and turning and really active. It's so weird to think that it's growing inside of me, but so cool! We were able to see and hear the little heartbeat, and the doctor said it sounds very healthy! That is so good to hear! I am so anxious to have this baby and meet it! I just love it so much!










Our little baby waving to us!











Sucking it's thumb! Soooo cute!











A great profile view! The ultra-sound tech said that our baby is very photogenic and loves getting it's picture taken! It was so good for the camera! :)











And another profile.


Hope you have enjoyed seeing these as much as we have! We are just so excited and happy to be having a baby!

DS 1 Christmas Party!

Our friends Willie and Anne put on an amazing Christmas party this past Sunday. We had a baked potato bar, an ugly Christmas sweater contest, and an ornament exchange. There was a really good turn out and it was so nice to get to know some of the other DS 1s. There were some great Christmas sweaters, but Anton was the winner! His was truly the ugliest Christmas sweater there! Way to go Anton!










Anton and his wonderful sweater! (Also, Stevenson and Tyler Scott)











People mingling before dinner.










Tyler and Megan Scott and Steve and Danielle Jackson.










Ornament exchange!











Tyler and me!


It was a great party and everyone had tons of fun! Thanks to Willie and Anne for putting it all together and making it happen! Merry Christmas everyone!

Lots and Lots of food!

This year we spent Thanksgiving with Tyler's family! It was so nice to get away from school and work for almost a week and just relax with family. The Bendixsens had lots of family over for Thanksgiving, so it was a busy house. More people just means more food! We had all kinds of food... turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, 12 layer Jell-O, spinach dip, artichoke dip, rolls, and of course lots of dessert. It was so very delicious! We were eating all this food for a few days! Unfortunately our camera battery died, so I wasn't able to get very many pictures of this blessed event. However, the few that I got or stole from Cameron will be included.
Here is Cousin Mary and Dad (drooling over the food).



The girls on Thanksgiving day. (Tess, me, and Cam's fiance, Camilla).

On Friday, most of the girls, (cough cough Milla) got up early and went up to Tri-Cities to do some Black Friday shopping! It was fun to shop with the girls! It has always been tradition that just the girls go shopping on Black Friday, but this year the boys came up and had lunch with us and finished shopping with us. It was a loooong day of shopping! I don't think I bought anything for Christmas, but was successful in finding a shirt for family pictures! :) It was lots of fun!

On Saturday we took family pictures and then headed somewhere in Washington (Walla Walla maybe?) to find the best Christmas tree! Apparently it takes a lot of people to find the best one ;), but we did manage to agree on one. It was beautiful and smelled sooo good! It fit perfectly when we got it home! It was about an inch from the ceiling!
Thanks for a wonderful Thanksgiving mom and dad!

Happy Hour!

I've decided it's about time to let everyone know about the greatness of Happy Hour here in Portland! For those of you not familiar, "Happy Hour" is very common in restaurants all over Portland. The "Happy Hour" menu is discounted a lot! The restaurants intentions are to make all their money off alcoholic drinks. However, since we are a bunch of LDS people we just get cheap food! It's amazing! We can usually eat dinner for $12 or less for the both of us! We have a group of us that usually go to enjoy it while we can! There are about 5 or 6 couples that go and we are always squeezed around these little tables. It is quite the sight! We will have to take a picture sometime. We usually get weird looks when we all order a round of waters (or pop if they make you do a drink purchase), but we're okay with that! It has been a lot of fun to try more expensive restaurants at a very cheap price! I would recommend looking into "Happy Hour" at your local restaurants. However, I don't think you will find any in Utah.

6/6 Tag

My friend, Heather Harris, tagged me! What I'm supposed to do is post the 6th picture from my 6th picture folder. I arrange my folder's alphabetically, so this is from my "Birthday" folder from this past June. It was our first birthday celebrated together! Tyler decorated our apartment with streamers and balloons to surprise me when I got home from class. I think this picture is actually already on our blog. I tag Danielle, Megan, Malorie, and Marissa! Have fun girls!

Big News!

I think we have waited long enough to announce our big news! We are pregnant! We are so excited for this little baby! I am ready for it to be born now, but we will have to wait until the end of May. I have had some pretty bad morning sickness (but it's all day long and worst at night). I am hoping that it will subside in a couple weeks when my first trimester is over! Tyler and I both have a hunch that it is a girl, but we won't find that out for a while longer. Tyler has been great at doing pretty much everything around the house on top of his school work because of how I have been feeling. I'm so glad he's amazing and willing to do all of it!

All Hallows Eve!

This Halloween was a blast! Our friends threw a rockin' Halloween Party! We bobbed for apples, ate dough nuts off a string, watched the Balzer's game, played some Wii, and ended the night with the greatest movie ever... Poltergeist II! (haha not really the greatest movie ever). Tyler and I had a few ideas for costumes, but finally settled on the easiest idea. It turned out great! I was a laundry basket and Tyler was static cling! So... here are a bunch of pictures!

Me and Tyler (obviously!)

Dr. Cameron and Dr. House AKA: Danielle and Steve Jackson

Biker Stud and Biker Babe AKA: Willie and Anne Fugere.

Cutest witch and die-hard UTES fan AKA: Megan and Tyler Scott

A scary clown and skeleton AKA: Jon and Malorie Hall

Obi Wan Kenobi, Princess Leia, and Yoda AKA: Stevenson, Marissa, and Spencer Smith
(PS I stole this from their blog because they didn't dress up for the party, but Spencer was the cutest little Yoda, I had to put it up here!)

The group of 1st years at the party!

Willie won the dough nut eating contest... he ended up eating off the floor! haha It was great entertainment to watch these guys!

My Tyler eating a powdered dough nut off a string!

And Tyler bobbing for apples with his head totally submerged in water! He got beat by Willie by .5 seconds! It was soo close!

Thanks for a great party Megan and Brittany! It was a blast!

I am Now the Bread-Winner of our Family

I finally have a job! After 2 1/2 months of searching, I got a job with KBC Management as an apartment manager. We will get free rent, plus salary. I will show apartments, collect rent, and keep the complex clean. The guy that was doing it before said it only takes about 10-15 hours a week, so that's something easy, and worth it! We are extremely excited to finally get income! However, this also means that we have to move! I am not looking forward to this. We just moved, and now we have to do it all over again. Hopefully we will stay put longer this time! So, mom if you want to come help us pack (like last time) I would love it! :)
We move in the weekend of the 7th and 8th of November, so in like 2 weeks! That's super soon, but it will be good for us. Luckily, we have friends that agreed to help us with the moving part.

The Life of a Wonderful Man

This past Saturday, Tyler's Grandpa Oldroyd passed away. We were lucky enough to be able to spend some of his last moments on Earth with him. He went very peacefully with all his children around him. His funeral is this Friday and all except 1 grandchild will be there. I think that is pretty neat!
Grandpa is the one that sealed us just 8 months ago in the Manti Temple. We are so lucky that he was well enough at that time to share that special day with us.

He is a great man and left a legacy here for us to live up to! We love and miss you grandpa!