A change in plans

First, let me say I had a great weekend. Many video games and cuddle sessions.
Next, I might as well announce our potential change in plans. So I've really stressed my whole 3-phase plan, but it looks like we added another phase, perhaps: instead of moving to Texas (or wherever) in August of '08 after Kenny graduates, we may hang around Utah for at least another year. Our baby plans are the same, we'll start trying at the end of next summer, and the baby will hopefully come just after Kenny graduates. At that point, I get my 3 months maternity leave and Kenny can work full time.
The problem is that I really REALLY like my job. I never thought I would be a career girl. And still, having kids is my top priority (an all-consuming thought, as a matter of fact). But it just wouldn't make sense to pull me out of work so soon. So I had thought "if I could work for one year more, we could put a significant chunk into savings/Omniture stock... but I won't put off baby plans for money. I wonder if Kenny would be willing to be a stay-at-home daddy for 9 months or so." I quickly put the thought out of my mind, thinking it was selfish of me.
I ended up asking Kenny all the same, in a purely hypothetical sense, if he would mind, and he completely surprised me. He says that he would love to take some time off to be a stay-at-home dad and it would make so much sense for our situation. Here's the clincher: I asked him what he would do with that time at home and he looked at me like I was being dense and said "catch up on video games of course!" And there you have it. Kenny gets time to be a daddy and play video games, and I have time to save up money and solidify my usefulness at work so maybe someday I could work from home. I've already planned it all out in our budget (all expenses up until august of 09) and it looks like this new plan is the best goal for now. Now, if only my brain would stop mumbling "baby baby baby pregnant baby baby" at me all the time... I got to wait 6/7 more months til we can really think about such things!

Love Weekend

First of all, let me apologize for being so long in between posts. I have no good excuse.
Second, I posted many pics on my google gallery a few days ago, including pics from the engagement, wedding, honeymoon, my 05 trip to Europe, and how cute we were as kids.
Third, I must say that last weekend was AWESOME. We celebrated "love day"- the culmination of Valentine's Day, the anniversary of kenny's proposal, and our 6-month-iversary. We celebrated all three on Saturday.
First we exchanged gifts. Kenny got me a $50 gift certificate to a spa so I can get a massage, and I got him some lawn gnomes (he collects them), a calendar of his favorite artist (Brom), and, most importantly, made him a Nintendo-themed apron (see the graphic I made for it here). Both of us LOVED the gifts.
Then Kenny became the man of mystery and managed to keep secret from me the plans of the evening. We went to PF Changs (one of my favorites), then to BYU for a Kalai concert. The concert was a bit of a bust- it was a 7 o'clock show, and we came at 6:30 and ended up leaving at 7:30 when the show STILL hadn't started and the line was getting obnoxious. That's ok, though, cause the next activity was great.
We started driving North and I said "hmmm, north... we must be going to the Riverwoods shopping complex. But the only thing there that we could do is Color Me Mine" (a pottery-painting place I had wanted to go to). Kenny didn't say anything so I continued, "Hm, that must be where we are going. If not, then too bad, I'm getting my hopes up for it", to which he said, "Well, didn't we go there once to check it out and we didn't see anything we wanted?"
So I was totally shot down and clueless as to where we were going.
Turns out, Kenny managed to deceive me for the first time ever. Seriously, I was more surprised and pleased with his deception than I was with the activity itself. We did go to Color Me Mine and I painted a penguin and a spoon holder, and he painted a Cookie Jar to look like an original Nintendo system. Then we came home, had a lovely evening together, and went to bed at like 2.
We slept through 9 am church the next morning so we got to spend the whole day together at home, except for a brief while we went Frisbee-golfing with Ben since it was a pretty day. Monday was a holiday for me- I was planning on being productive and lonely, but instead Kenny stayed home and kept me company. It was delightful. All in all, I'd say I love Kenny more every day and I couldn't be happier with my life right now. Hooray!

New couch day!

Yesterday we got our new beautiful couch and entertainment center, and I am thrilled! Pics:

From 2-9-2007

From 2-9-2007

From 2-9-2007

I also posted some other pics on picasa- go here to see more.

Hard-worky husband

Friday night Kenny was supposed to work (he theoretically has to get 30 hours a week) The thing is, he is a good manager, and the shop is entirely caught up- there wouldn't have been anything for him to do at the shop, he just feels like he needs to meet that 30 hour mark.
So anyways, I was having a hard time with the idea of him working on our date night, and I worry so much about him burning himself out. But at the same time, if he decides to stay home because of me, then works extra long on Saturday to make up for it, then I feel horrible for not letting him meet his obligations.
I told him he works too hard to please everyone but himself then, before he had a chance to speak, said "and don't think I don't know what goes on in your head when I say that. Some switch just turned on in your head that said "Jen is sad because she thinks I work too hard. In order to make her happy, I need to work even harder at showing her I don't work too hard! I need to work hard and make it look easy!"
He smiled and said "you know me too well." So he decided, for his own sake, to stay home and relax and take care of himself. We ended up wandering around the mall together (his pastime of choice) and he got to buy a mario t-shirt and a new settlers of Catan game ("histories of catan").
It was a delightful weekend. Other highlights: shopping with lori on saturday, having friend Ben over multiple times to play our new Catan game, watching the superbowl (and the puppy bowl* on animal planet), shopping for a potential couch (we're thinking of this one, though it is cheaper at the outlet here than the price you see online.)

*The puppy bowl= on superbowl sunday, animal planet puts a bunch of puppies in a miniature football arena and tapes them playing with each other for 3 hours. They then play that from 1 pm until midnight or so. One of the best shows on television- and don't miss the kitty half-time show!