Life is Good

So an update on me first off for those who are really into my pregnancy story. This last month we went to the doctors and heard the heard nice and clear. Very strong, hopefully as in its a boy :) Like to give you an idea, before she even put the ultrasound thing on me, we could hear it. But now I am into my second trimester, started out a little rocky when I got the flu, but I am doing pretty good now. I wake up early in the morning starving, but luckily I can sleep through the night without having to get up several times to go to the bathroom. And the best part is, I still fit into my jeans and other pants. Woo! I'm already starting to show, which is not the best because it just looks like I eat too much and have a pudge, oh well. Hutch likes it. He seems to be more excited about the baby than I am.
But enough about me, on to Hutch. He is having a fun time playing football for the Hawks here at school. We started our season undefeated until the team had a bad week where no one showed up for practice and they lost the game following that week. Now they are just in a bad rut. Everyone is losing heart and the quarterback has yet to figure out how to throw the ball to hutch because he is so fast. It always ends up short or too far because hutch expects it to be short like always. So their record is 3-2 and they are heading into tournament. Hopefully they can do better. Fingers crossed. Also, we just found out from some x-rays that hutch might have a fracture in his sternum. He got hit a little to hard with a helmet in this last game and it's really hard for him to breathe and such. So if results come back that it is a fracture (or a chip) he is done for the season. Well hopefully it all works out for the best.
Life is great, can't complain about much, or anything at all. only 5 more weeks left of school, hallelujia! We have another doctors appointment Thursday so I will try to do better at posting. Have a great day!

Looks like I got some growing up to do

So I am trying to stay more on top of my blogging since I have nothing else to do at work, and from a little nudging from friends, I'm going to do better. So here is what is going on in our live for the month of September.

Hutch is finishing up a great season of work including 20+ driveways in a housing division. He is also actively hunting to pass the hours away while I'm working and is trying to get a big buck he has had his eye on, we'll see how that goes. Also I will be doing an active update of Hutch's football season which is coming up on us pretty fast with tryouts this week. The league changed to and 11 man team this year instead of 9 which I think a lot of the boys are excited for. Good luck honey!

School has started for me and it is going well thus far and I'm taking an easy 12 credits so I can still qualify for my pell grant. 12 more weeks and counting. Work is going well, it just feels like I never get to be home having 18 hour days 3-4 days a week, I'm starting to feel it. But right now, its a job that is good in a town where there aren't any. Another piece of news that we are happy to announce is the arrival of Baby Thompson in April 2010. It was a bit unexpected, but its nice to have friends and family who are pregnant at the same time, so I can get some pointers. Hutch and I joke that God is giving us this child in order for us to grow up and be more mature. We think we will just be the same and our kid will have parents they can relate to :) So I will try to keep an update on the little peanut and the baby too :) Until next time!

Where there is an end... There is always a beginning

This marks the end of softball season for Hutch's men's softball and our co-ed season. The men's team did very well during the season, tied for 1st with 2 other teams going into the tournament. They played their hearts out and ended up getting third, which is not bad. A little upsetting, but Hutch was glad to have it over with. In co-ed we had a rockin team this year. You could not ask for a more rambunxious group of friends. We had so much fun, I'm kind of sad to see it over. We did awesome in the season with a record of 16-4, putting us in first place going into the tournament. We clinched out our first game and lost by 1 or 2 our next couple, we just couldn't get our A-game on. So overall, we took third. During the season, Hutch hit a record of 30-35 homeruns! During the tournament, we were only allowed 2 homeruns, progressive, and Hutch didn't know and hit a third one out of the park. So it was an out.. no worries though, he got a prize. He got a shirt that said, "Short bus softball" - what he always wanted. So it was a great softball season and in 9 months, I'm sure we'll be antsy to be playing.. for now.. its the end.

But for every end that marks a beginning. It is now the beginning of football season and school for Hutch. He is so excited to start football, he keeps running 40s and says he is slow.. which he isn't because I was the one timing him. He got a 4.3 consecutively, which was an improvement from last year. He is going to be playing for the college up here in a intramural team. Last year his team was amazing and pretty much tied for first the whole season until the last game where they played the other first place team and lost by a couple points. So he's hoping to get on a good team again this year. It will definitely be something worth traveling for to see. He also has finally declared his major which is going to be exercise physiology. He wants to be a physical therapist or sports trainer. Basically he wants to stay in sports as long as he can, even when he can't play anymore. So he basically has to start all over and get his head in the game so he can get done fast and get a good job.

As for me, there isn't much else going on. I recently got a new job thanks to my friend Scott Peterson, and I am a front desk clerk for a couple of hotels in town. ( so if you ever come to rexburg, I can probably get you a good deal) I am going back to school in the fall to start my junior year and I am so ready to be done. 4 more semesters, thats all I have to keep telling myself. Well, not much else going, when something happens I will let you know. As for now, I am so grateful for my wonderful family and the awesome addition that I am going to be getting from my sister, little angel baby from heaven, as my niece aisy calls her.

And for now, this is as good as its gonna get.

It Has Begun!

Well, Ashley advised me that I should post more things more often, so hopefully this is worthy of a blog.

Hutch has started his softball season officially!  He is so excited, you have no idea.  He is in a men's softball league and his team also does tournaments and this last weekend he had his first one in Blackfoot.

His team is absolutely awesome and they all are great softball players.  Unfortunately, they weren't able to come out on top, but they did take second.  The one team they had to play to win, they played 3 times, but only when they did about 4 games back to back, so they couldn't quite pull it off.  Also, the weather was close to 80 degrees so the sun had a big impact on their playing too.  I, being the cheerleader that I am stayed all day in the hot sun and suffered my skin for a really bad sunburn and blistering (Yes, I put on sunblock).  So now with a face and feet all swollen and a husband with a hurt arm and sore legs with a little bit of a sunburn, we are trying to recover and take on another week of work, softball, and cleaning our house that never seems to be clean.  I wonder what it will be like when we have kids, oh dear. 

1 year Already?!

Wow! I cannot believe we have been married one year already!  Well, on April 12 it was.  Not gonna lie it has been the best year of my life so far.  It is so great being able to have my best friend on hand and being able to spend eternity with him.  So let's just flash back about a year and a half to when mr. Hutch proposed, just to show that he is one of a kind.

It all started when we went to Utah in December 2007 to look at rings.  We went to a family friend, Dave Hoer, and we found the perfect ring.  Dave created it himself and it was one of kind, so we thought we better take it.  On our way out Hutch said that the ring wouldn't be done for another couple of weeks.  That bummed me out because I was leaving for home after the semester was done in a couple of weeks.  I wanted to have my ring before I left.  All of this was on a friday or saturday.  We got home and life went back to normal.  Well, wednesday came around and Hutch wanted me to come over to his place before I went to work, he wanted to go scouting for places to hunt.  We did this a couple times before so I was all in.  When I got to his place he dressed me up all in camo clothing and sprayed me with deer scent, oh yes, deer scent.  We set out the woods across the street and we walked around for a bit.  As we were heading back we stopped at our place where there was like a man made waterfall and we just stood there watching it  and hugging, because it was kind of cold.  Then Hutch decided we should get going so he told me to go ahead of him in case I slipped going up this little hill.  As I started up the hill Hutch asked me, "Hey Elise, can I ask you a question really quick?"  And me being so naive and totally unaware, turned around saying, "Ya what's up?"  He was on his knee with the ring in his hand.  He then proposed and no I didn't cry.  In fact I kind of slugged him in the arm because he said he wasn't going to get the ring for another couple of weeks.  It's a good thing he's a tough kid.  He then told me that he drove to Utah and back the day before in a snow storm in his little 1988 ford escort piece of junk.  Poor kid, took him like 9 hours or so.  

So there is that little flashback for anyone who didn't know how he proposed.  Now we are living in Rexburg, wanting to move into a house and ready to get goin on our lives.  Sorry, no kids any time soon.  Probably in about less than 2 years.  We can guarantee that.  We are heading into summer, well at the least 1 day a week of summer.  Hutch is trying to get work, but with the economy, no one wants anything done or to spend money.  But we are doing great and life couldn't be any better, if it were we'd be dead.  

The beginning

Well this is my first time doing a blog, so it's not great.. Yet.  But the only reason we got this blog is to share with family and friends what is going on in our neck of the woods.  So for the first post, it won't be long:

Hutch is still working for his dad at Thompson paving and working on getting some work for the summer.  Since the economy isn't doing so well and the price of oil is going up, no one wants to get anything paved or seal coated.  He is in school right now and is taking a whopping 5 credits.  Because of his job he can only do that many or less during the summer, and during the winter when he doesn't have work, he doesn't want to get out of the habit of that many credits.  He has decided he wants to be a Physical Therapist/Sports Trainer and is going to try and get his degree for that, it may take a while, but he's determined.  He is getting pretty antsy about the spring coming because that is when softball starts.  His men's league/competition team is going to be amazing this year and hopefully they can get far.  Other than that you can find him at the gym trying to get up to 190 - his ideal weight, we'll see how that goes.

I'm in school too for the moment and with only ten days left, I'm gettin pretty anxious.  I'm a major in Communications with a PR emphasis and minoring in Human resources.  I still have 2 years left and can't wait!  I am also the manager of a store called Uptown Bagel.  For those of you who know, it is like an Einstein's bagels, just not franchised.  I love it!  It has its ups and downs, but the employees are great and my boss is awesome!  That's all you can ask for.  He has currently asked me to just work on the marketing scheme for the place and put the rest of the duties onto my assistant manager, so again, we'll see how that goes.  The weather up here is so unpredictable you can't even put away your winter clothes until the end of June.  We had a nice warm front come in, it got up to the 60's and now this whole week has been snowing.  Good old Rexburg.  For those of you who have seen Jeff Dunham, "We love it here!"  Well there is not much else going on and we try to live day to day as the Lord would have us do and it hasn't steered us wrong yet.  So until next time...