Since Monday was a holiday this week has gone by pretty fast. I worked a lot cuz a couple of my co-workers went to Disneyland and luckily work has been pretty busy lately. I took an order today for 1200 invitations! How crazy is that??? So work has been going well and I haven't been too bored/lonely at home either cuz I've actually gotten to be with other people. Amy saved me on my day off by taking me with her and her cousin Kathleen wedding dress shopping. Amy hasn't been able to look for any dresses so she was excited to go and luckily we found the Perfect one for her. Katie and I picked one out of the catalog and made her try it on and wa-la! It was "the one". It really is gorgeous, but sorry for no pics...certain people can't see it yet :)
After we found the dress we went around the mall looking for other things for "the big day". She found some great shoes, accessories and overall had a very successful day. It's always a big relief to finally get things going/fall into place! I know she was getting a bit stressed about not finding anything so yay for me and Kathleen! We were her good luck charms for the day. :) haha....
I got to go today with my friend Emma to look for wedding dresses too, and Whit came along too (I haven't seen her in a month so I was glad to see her!!! I miss girls sometimes...) Unfortunately Emma hasn't found the one yet, although we found some amazingly gorgeous ones...she looked So beautiful! She may be short but she fits these dresses so nicely! They look fabulous on her. I just hope she gets to get the one she wants! Every girl should get the wedding dress she wants. :)
So this week has been pretty full of weddingness, which I guess is ok, I deal with it at work everyday so a change in theme is good. Plus wedding dresses are so much more fun to pick out! Amy has been working on her invitations and they are going to be pretty darn cute! She's doing an Egyptian theme for her invites/reception, etc. and it's going to be pretty cool. I can't wait to see how it all turns out!
Well other than all this wedding stuff, life has been pretty good. Mark has been busy this week with school/homework/tests and work. I'm getting more of a "pregnant belly" now (which means less and less clothes fitting! ugh...)and the baby has been a lot more active. A couple of times when she's been really active I've been able to feel her if I press against my tummy a bit, Mark even said he thinks he felt her. I go to the doctor on Thursday for my next appt. So far I haven't had too many people touch my belly, just Amy...funny girl... :) I guess I have to get used to cuz supposedly a lot of people want to touch it when you get big...kinda weird/awkward I say.
Anyway, I hope I have a pretty calm relaxing week next week because the week after is bringing Sierra into our lives...eek! :) haha...joking Sierra!!! I'm pretty excited to have her come out here, I won't be so alone all the time! I just hope she doesn't get too bored following me around, going to work, etc. :) She's just going to have to deal with it, whether she likes it or not cuz that's what we're going to do! We do have some fun things we want to do with her but we no really set plans. Just going to wing it! Hope it turns out good and that she doesn't hate her visit...
I think that's pretty much everything I have to catch up on. Work is almost done for the day and I really need to look over my lesson I have to teach tomorrow. I got called to be the Beehive Advisor in my ward and tomorrow is my first day to teach. For all of you who don't have a clue what that is, it's the term we use for the group of girl 12-14 years old in each ward and I get to teach them! Yay...? We'll see how I do...luckily I only have like 3 girls to teach! That shouldn't be too daunting right?. Wish me luck!!!!!!!!!!!
Saturday, May 30, 2009
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." --St. Augustine--
Once again I'm posting a bit late but this week I was actually kinda busy so that's my excuse. :) For Memorial Day weekend Mark and I decided we wanted to get out of Provo and maybe have some fun. So we roped Calvin and Amy into our plans and went down to St. George for the weekend. Calvin's parents live down there and have an awesome house (I forgot to take a pic of it though!!!) so we stayed there and did some things around the area. Amy and Calvin wanted to do there engagement pics down there so Sunday afternoon we hiked around Snow Canyon to scope out spots and then they returned that night with his dad and an AMAZING professional Canon camera with a Massive lens on it...I was thoroughly jealous of it and wanted to take it home with me but I thought I might get in a bit of trouble for it. :( They got some great pics though, the scenery was beautiful!
We actually didn't do much else in St. George except go see the new Terminator movie with Christian Bale (so good!) and then Monday morning before we left Amy and I did a quick stop at the Outlet mall while the guys played on the four-wheelers...I was slightly jealous of that as well...I love four-wheelers! SO fun.
(This was Mark's first time to drive a four-wheeler, he wants one now...)
(I may not have gotten a pic of the house but I did get a pic of the pretty corvette in front of it!!!)
Saturday was our big adventure day. We drove the two hours to Vegas and spent the day there walking the strip and looking at all the cool/crazy stuff that makes up Vegas. :) First we ate at In-N-Out burger cuz Mark had never been. We all decided that their burgers were pretty darn good but the fries just ok. After we ate we went and walked it all off on the strip. We spent a lot of time walking through the casino's/hotels which was nice cuz I didn't get burned! I got a smidge red but I'm ok with that... Anyway, I'm not a huge fan of Vegas--way too crowded and busy and dirty for me, but it does have some cool stuff to look at.
The hotels are amazing but I think it's so sad that they're all pressed up against each other and just run together. It kinda makes them lose their grandeur because they're all crowded together. They'd be So much more impressive out by themselves with space around them! But they're still pretty cool to look at. I think our overall favorite was the Bellagio. It just seemed so classy and nice compared to some of the other ones, but not overly so and not completely confusing. Some of those places are SO hard to find your way out!!! We got lost a few times trying to find an exit.
(This is THE coolest chocolate fountain ever!!!)
(This was in the Bellagio garden...cool place)
(And how cool is this ceiling???)
One pretty cool hotel was the Luxor, I've only ever seen the outside but the inside is pretty neat. We snuck on the guest elevator and went up as high as we could so we could see it from high up. The elevator ride almost made me sick (it goes up at an angle instead of straight up...man is that awful feeling!!!), but the view was almost worth it! Calvin threw a couple airplanes off the top (we didn't hit anybody, don't worry) and then threw some change down the inside slope of the stairwell-which is pretty crazy to look down/up cuz it's all sloped. Don't worry if that makes no sense. I think everyone's favorite part of the Luxor though was the gigantic Transformers image on the outside...how cool is that? We're all pretty excited for that movie to come out.
So we mostly just walked around in Vegas cuz we were too poor to do any of the shows, etc. We went to the M&M factory, walked through lots of shopping, saw lots of good looking food/dessert places, and of course saw lots of casinos... We ended the day with eating at a buffet (next time we'll pay the extra $10 and go to one of the really good ones, the one we went to was just ok...) and then we took this monorail to where we parked and pretty much almost died...seriously...this thing was SO scary to ride on! Mainly because it was SO packed with people...way too many for it to hold so it would sway and lean on the turns...I was so scared and SO glad to get off of it!
(This was at the 3-D movie at the M&M factory, aren't we attractive?)
After that we headed over to the other end of the strip to watch the volcano erupt at Treasure Island (?) and see the water show at the Bellagio--so cool!!! Probably one of my favorite things to do there. Mark was fascinated because of the "engineering" behind it all, he's been learning about things like that in his hydrology class.
We were all really glad to get back to the car and sit down-walking the strip sure tires out your feet! We enjoyed a nice ride back to St. George with thousands of stars glittering in the sky and playing stupid car games...we got back really late and went right to sleep- I haven't slept that hard in so long! It was kinda nice... :)
We only stayed in St. George til Monday afternoon, I had to work that night :( so we headed back at 2:00 and I barely made it to work on time. We had a nice clear, easy drive all the up to Utah Valley and then we hit this massive traffic jam, I don't know what was holding it up, but it was SO lame. I got kinda frustrated cuz I was late and traffic is annoying and I was tired so Monday wasn't too fun for me, but we made it back in one piece and all alive so I guess we did ok! Anyway, this post is long but I have more to say so I'm going to post a few more pics and then post another one about the remainder of the week for you. So stay tuned!!!
(This one is for you Momma! It's as close to Maria Osmond as I got in Vegas :)
We actually didn't do much else in St. George except go see the new Terminator movie with Christian Bale (so good!) and then Monday morning before we left Amy and I did a quick stop at the Outlet mall while the guys played on the four-wheelers...I was slightly jealous of that as well...I love four-wheelers! SO fun.
(This was Mark's first time to drive a four-wheeler, he wants one now...)
(I may not have gotten a pic of the house but I did get a pic of the pretty corvette in front of it!!!) Saturday was our big adventure day. We drove the two hours to Vegas and spent the day there walking the strip and looking at all the cool/crazy stuff that makes up Vegas. :) First we ate at In-N-Out burger cuz Mark had never been. We all decided that their burgers were pretty darn good but the fries just ok. After we ate we went and walked it all off on the strip. We spent a lot of time walking through the casino's/hotels which was nice cuz I didn't get burned! I got a smidge red but I'm ok with that... Anyway, I'm not a huge fan of Vegas--way too crowded and busy and dirty for me, but it does have some cool stuff to look at.
The hotels are amazing but I think it's so sad that they're all pressed up against each other and just run together. It kinda makes them lose their grandeur because they're all crowded together. They'd be So much more impressive out by themselves with space around them! But they're still pretty cool to look at. I think our overall favorite was the Bellagio. It just seemed so classy and nice compared to some of the other ones, but not overly so and not completely confusing. Some of those places are SO hard to find your way out!!! We got lost a few times trying to find an exit.
(This is THE coolest chocolate fountain ever!!!)
(This was in the Bellagio garden...cool place)
(And how cool is this ceiling???)One pretty cool hotel was the Luxor, I've only ever seen the outside but the inside is pretty neat. We snuck on the guest elevator and went up as high as we could so we could see it from high up. The elevator ride almost made me sick (it goes up at an angle instead of straight up...man is that awful feeling!!!), but the view was almost worth it! Calvin threw a couple airplanes off the top (we didn't hit anybody, don't worry) and then threw some change down the inside slope of the stairwell-which is pretty crazy to look down/up cuz it's all sloped. Don't worry if that makes no sense. I think everyone's favorite part of the Luxor though was the gigantic Transformers image on the outside...how cool is that? We're all pretty excited for that movie to come out.
So we mostly just walked around in Vegas cuz we were too poor to do any of the shows, etc. We went to the M&M factory, walked through lots of shopping, saw lots of good looking food/dessert places, and of course saw lots of casinos... We ended the day with eating at a buffet (next time we'll pay the extra $10 and go to one of the really good ones, the one we went to was just ok...) and then we took this monorail to where we parked and pretty much almost died...seriously...this thing was SO scary to ride on! Mainly because it was SO packed with people...way too many for it to hold so it would sway and lean on the turns...I was so scared and SO glad to get off of it!
(This was at the 3-D movie at the M&M factory, aren't we attractive?)
After that we headed over to the other end of the strip to watch the volcano erupt at Treasure Island (?) and see the water show at the Bellagio--so cool!!! Probably one of my favorite things to do there. Mark was fascinated because of the "engineering" behind it all, he's been learning about things like that in his hydrology class.
We were all really glad to get back to the car and sit down-walking the strip sure tires out your feet! We enjoyed a nice ride back to St. George with thousands of stars glittering in the sky and playing stupid car games...we got back really late and went right to sleep- I haven't slept that hard in so long! It was kinda nice... :)
We only stayed in St. George til Monday afternoon, I had to work that night :( so we headed back at 2:00 and I barely made it to work on time. We had a nice clear, easy drive all the up to Utah Valley and then we hit this massive traffic jam, I don't know what was holding it up, but it was SO lame. I got kinda frustrated cuz I was late and traffic is annoying and I was tired so Monday wasn't too fun for me, but we made it back in one piece and all alive so I guess we did ok! Anyway, this post is long but I have more to say so I'm going to post a few more pics and then post another one about the remainder of the week for you. So stay tuned!!!
(This one is for you Momma! It's as close to Maria Osmond as I got in Vegas :)
Monday, May 18, 2009
"True love stories never have a happy ending, because they never end!"
Since Mark and I didn't really do much to celebrate our anniversary or Mother's Day (for me anyway), we've been doing little things throughout the week. One day I made him a delightfully sweet card, which I put on his desk for when he got home along with some candy. He then had to go get his hair cut and came back with flowers for me (some fuchsia carnations with a fuchsia gerber daisy in the middle, so pretty!). Then one night we went out for ice cream, although we were both being indecisive and wanted different things so we went to Jamba Juice and got a smoothie and then to Cold Stone to get some delicious chocolaty goodness and had both. :) Yummy stuff. Another night we rented a movie and got a yummy sub and had that for dinner while we watched our movie.
The best day was on Thursday though. Mark had to go up one of the canyons to measure the flow of a stream for his hydrology (?) class so we decided to make a whole thing of it and ate dinner at a pretty park nearby, then took a couple walks through some paths up the canyons, and then we went to a park by the Provo River where we made a fire and had s'mores. It was pretty great and SO beautiful! The river made it so nice and cool and everything is still green and pretty (not for long though...ugh). It was just such a nice, relaxing time together and so fun! Unfortunately, soon it will be way too hot to go on nice hikes during the day and everything will be dried up and brown. So I'm glad we thought to do this now instead of later!!!
Here's some pics we took during our outing together.
(What a monkey!)
(Bridal Veil Falls)
(Provo River)
(Mark making fire!)
(Oh, looks like it's working...)
(He did it!)
(How Mark toasts a marshmallow, nice and slow til golden...)
(How I toast a marshmallow, nice, slow, impatience, burn! :)
(SO GOOD!)
The best day was on Thursday though. Mark had to go up one of the canyons to measure the flow of a stream for his hydrology (?) class so we decided to make a whole thing of it and ate dinner at a pretty park nearby, then took a couple walks through some paths up the canyons, and then we went to a park by the Provo River where we made a fire and had s'mores. It was pretty great and SO beautiful! The river made it so nice and cool and everything is still green and pretty (not for long though...ugh). It was just such a nice, relaxing time together and so fun! Unfortunately, soon it will be way too hot to go on nice hikes during the day and everything will be dried up and brown. So I'm glad we thought to do this now instead of later!!!
Here's some pics we took during our outing together.
(What a monkey!)
(Bridal Veil Falls)
(Provo River)
(Mark making fire!)
(Oh, looks like it's working...)
(He did it!)
(How Mark toasts a marshmallow, nice and slow til golden...)
(How I toast a marshmallow, nice, slow, impatience, burn! :)
(SO GOOD!)
"It's so good to know that wherever you are, a Mom is with you in spirit and in love."
So I totally meant to do this post sooner, I said I would and it's not like I didn't have any time to do it last week...I just didn't. Oops. :) I guess I just have to have something to procrastinate in my life, it it's not school/homework, it's something else!
Anyway, now for catch up time. Last Sunday was Mother's Day of course! My first "official" one too I suppose. We spent the morning going back up to SLC to go to see "Music and the Spoken Word" with Mark's fam before they left. I just have to say once more, the MoTab is SO awesome! And the orchestra too. They're fabulous. It was especially cool on Sunday because, well first of all, it was a Mother's day special and then as a treat after the broadcast was over the choir and orchestra did one more song. The author David McCullough was there so in honor of him they performed "Battle Hymn of the Republic", which is one of THE most AMAZING songs to hear the MoTab and Orchestra perform...seriously...sends chills up your spine to hear it. They won a Grammy for it so you know it's gotta be good. :)
I was SO mad though because I wanted to record it on my camera, which I did bring and brought extra batteries cuz they died the day before I didn't want that to happen again, but this time I forgot my memory card! Argh!!! So annoying...I can't seem to go anywhere now without forgetting something. No one else had a camera either so I was kinda bummed out. So that's the reason for no pics this post.
Right after the performance we said good-bye to Mark's parents and headed back to Provo where we took a nice long nap (unfortunately it wasn't very fulfilling, these devil dogs across the street ruined it for us...stupid dogs), and just chilled for the rest of the day. Or at least I did. Mark had to catch up on homework since we were gone all weekend so I watched some movies, made dinner, and lazed around. Not a bad mother's day I suppose, the only one I haven't had any kids around to deal with too! :)
I do wish I could have been home though! I'm just glad I got to see my Momma that week, since I didn't get to on Mother's Day. I guess I was just jealous partly cuz they had a brunch for their meal and I love brunches! That's one thing I miss the most about being away from home, no Sunday Dinners with the fam! :( I did go and make some cinnamon rolls though to make up for it and make myself feel somewhat included in what the fam did. They were yummy too! :)
Well I guess that's all for Sunday. I have another post I'm going to work on for last week which includes pictures so be excited!!! :) I'll just end with a belated Mother's Day to everyone and a big I love you and I miss you SO much to my Momma!
Anyway, now for catch up time. Last Sunday was Mother's Day of course! My first "official" one too I suppose. We spent the morning going back up to SLC to go to see "Music and the Spoken Word" with Mark's fam before they left. I just have to say once more, the MoTab is SO awesome! And the orchestra too. They're fabulous. It was especially cool on Sunday because, well first of all, it was a Mother's day special and then as a treat after the broadcast was over the choir and orchestra did one more song. The author David McCullough was there so in honor of him they performed "Battle Hymn of the Republic", which is one of THE most AMAZING songs to hear the MoTab and Orchestra perform...seriously...sends chills up your spine to hear it. They won a Grammy for it so you know it's gotta be good. :)
I was SO mad though because I wanted to record it on my camera, which I did bring and brought extra batteries cuz they died the day before I didn't want that to happen again, but this time I forgot my memory card! Argh!!! So annoying...I can't seem to go anywhere now without forgetting something. No one else had a camera either so I was kinda bummed out. So that's the reason for no pics this post.
Right after the performance we said good-bye to Mark's parents and headed back to Provo where we took a nice long nap (unfortunately it wasn't very fulfilling, these devil dogs across the street ruined it for us...stupid dogs), and just chilled for the rest of the day. Or at least I did. Mark had to catch up on homework since we were gone all weekend so I watched some movies, made dinner, and lazed around. Not a bad mother's day I suppose, the only one I haven't had any kids around to deal with too! :)
I do wish I could have been home though! I'm just glad I got to see my Momma that week, since I didn't get to on Mother's Day. I guess I was just jealous partly cuz they had a brunch for their meal and I love brunches! That's one thing I miss the most about being away from home, no Sunday Dinners with the fam! :( I did go and make some cinnamon rolls though to make up for it and make myself feel somewhat included in what the fam did. They were yummy too! :)
Well I guess that's all for Sunday. I have another post I'm going to work on for last week which includes pictures so be excited!!! :) I'll just end with a belated Mother's Day to everyone and a big I love you and I miss you SO much to my Momma!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
"On this our anniversary, we may not have wealth, but we do have each other and that is worth more than all the money in the world."
This weekend was SO busy! It was great, but busy. Friday night Mark and I went up to SLC to meet his family for dinner to celebrate Amy graduating. It was us, Amy, Calvin, JoAnn, Dennis, and Aunt Janet. We went to Red Robin which is Always delicious...so good...and just talked and ate and enjoyed each other's company. Afterwards Mark, Calvin, and I went to where Amy's car was parked cuz it stopped working and Mark was going to look at it for her. Unfortunately after checking it out he decided he didn't know what was wrong and couldn't fix it. So we left SLC and went home.
Saturday was also extremely busy. We had to get up at 7:00 to be at the Mt. Timpanogos Temple before 8:30 because that is when/where Amy was going through the temple. There were SO many people there! Saturdays are busy though and it's such a gorgeous temple, a lot of people go there. I saw at least 5 brides when we left! The session was great though, as always, and being there with Amy was especially great. Going to the temple is just so amazing! It's so beautiful and peaceful inside and I just love going with my family. I feel so lucky to have gone with my parents one day this week and Mark's family another! A lot of Mark and Amy's family and Calvin's family were there which was great. Going through the temple for the first time is an exciting, spiritual and somewhat overwhelming experience and it sure does help to have lots of support with you!
(I just LOVE all the tulips around the temples! They are so pretty!)
(these are the only pics I have from Mt. Timpanogos because my camera died like right away...Chris and Angie took pics and are gonna send them to me so don't forget guys!!! :)
When we were done at the temple, we went out to lunch with Amy and Mark's fam, this time to Chili's, which is also really good. This time Amy and Mark's cousin Chris and his wife Angie came and ate with us. They are pretty awesome and fun to hang out with. Unfortunately we don't see them too much cuz they live up in Ogden which is quite a drive. They have two adorable children, Lucy and Porter (as seen in one of my Thanksgiving posts), and are expecting a little girl in July(?). They're going to name her Sophie Olivia which I think is adorable.
After lunch we all wandered around Best Buy for a bit before going to see the new "Star Trek". JoAnn and Dennis wanted to take us out to see a movie and that's the one we ended up seeing. I've never really seen Star Trek before but the movie was pretty good. When that was over Mark and I decided to spend a little bit of time together since it was our first anniversary and all. :) We were with family almost all day so I think we'll do something later this week to celebrate on our own. We spend almost an hour wandering around Temple Square, reminiscing and taking pics. Reminiscing was kinda fun, we tried to think of random things we did or that happened when we were dating and with our wedding and after. It was kinda hard sometimes cuz my memory seriously sucks, especially now, but it was fun!
We don't have too many pics of us so we took a bunch just for fun and to waste time. I have to say I'm getting pretty good at taking pics of the two of us...it's hard to do sometimes! My long arms do come in handy though. :) Here's a sampling of some we took. I was more focused on getting a good one so I'm always smiling but since Mark was usually behind me I couldn't see what he was doing...funny boy. :)
(I told him to pose like a bride and this is what he came up with...)
(Isn't he So sweet?)
When we were done there we met up with the fam again plus some of Calvin's fam and had dinner at Chuck-Arama, which is a buffet place and is pretty good. Mark's cousin Kathleen (she was at our wedding with her parents) came and ate there with us too so that was fun seeing her. Overall it was a pretty awesome day, filled with lots of fam and lots of food...we ate so much those two days! It was crazy, but great, it meant less cooking for me to do!
So even though we spent almost all of our first anniversary with family, it was still pretty great. We didn't have too much planned anyway since we knew his parents would be in town. We did get to spend the whole day together which doesn't happen much so that was a big plus. He kinda felt bad that we didn't do much but I told him he could make up for it and do something for me later :) Why limit celebrating to one day right? The whole week was kind of a celebration anyway with finding out that we're having a girl, seeing both of our parents and other family, Amy's graduation and endowment and then Mother's Day...I don't think we missed out on anything by celebrating with family instead of by ourselves! I am pretty darn worn out though...we got up early and went to bed late so much, I really need to catch up on sleep! Luckily this week is going to be pretty slow so I can relax.
Well, I think that's all I'm going to write for now, this is a pretty long post already and I still haven't even done Sunday! :) I'll just have to do another later and talk about that. I'm too tired to think of what else to say anyway...I'm definitely taking a nap when I get done with work!
Saturday was also extremely busy. We had to get up at 7:00 to be at the Mt. Timpanogos Temple before 8:30 because that is when/where Amy was going through the temple. There were SO many people there! Saturdays are busy though and it's such a gorgeous temple, a lot of people go there. I saw at least 5 brides when we left! The session was great though, as always, and being there with Amy was especially great. Going to the temple is just so amazing! It's so beautiful and peaceful inside and I just love going with my family. I feel so lucky to have gone with my parents one day this week and Mark's family another! A lot of Mark and Amy's family and Calvin's family were there which was great. Going through the temple for the first time is an exciting, spiritual and somewhat overwhelming experience and it sure does help to have lots of support with you!
(I just LOVE all the tulips around the temples! They are so pretty!)
(these are the only pics I have from Mt. Timpanogos because my camera died like right away...Chris and Angie took pics and are gonna send them to me so don't forget guys!!! :)When we were done at the temple, we went out to lunch with Amy and Mark's fam, this time to Chili's, which is also really good. This time Amy and Mark's cousin Chris and his wife Angie came and ate with us. They are pretty awesome and fun to hang out with. Unfortunately we don't see them too much cuz they live up in Ogden which is quite a drive. They have two adorable children, Lucy and Porter (as seen in one of my Thanksgiving posts), and are expecting a little girl in July(?). They're going to name her Sophie Olivia which I think is adorable.
After lunch we all wandered around Best Buy for a bit before going to see the new "Star Trek". JoAnn and Dennis wanted to take us out to see a movie and that's the one we ended up seeing. I've never really seen Star Trek before but the movie was pretty good. When that was over Mark and I decided to spend a little bit of time together since it was our first anniversary and all. :) We were with family almost all day so I think we'll do something later this week to celebrate on our own. We spend almost an hour wandering around Temple Square, reminiscing and taking pics. Reminiscing was kinda fun, we tried to think of random things we did or that happened when we were dating and with our wedding and after. It was kinda hard sometimes cuz my memory seriously sucks, especially now, but it was fun!
We don't have too many pics of us so we took a bunch just for fun and to waste time. I have to say I'm getting pretty good at taking pics of the two of us...it's hard to do sometimes! My long arms do come in handy though. :) Here's a sampling of some we took. I was more focused on getting a good one so I'm always smiling but since Mark was usually behind me I couldn't see what he was doing...funny boy. :)
(I told him to pose like a bride and this is what he came up with...) 
(Isn't he So sweet?)When we were done there we met up with the fam again plus some of Calvin's fam and had dinner at Chuck-Arama, which is a buffet place and is pretty good. Mark's cousin Kathleen (she was at our wedding with her parents) came and ate there with us too so that was fun seeing her. Overall it was a pretty awesome day, filled with lots of fam and lots of food...we ate so much those two days! It was crazy, but great, it meant less cooking for me to do!
So even though we spent almost all of our first anniversary with family, it was still pretty great. We didn't have too much planned anyway since we knew his parents would be in town. We did get to spend the whole day together which doesn't happen much so that was a big plus. He kinda felt bad that we didn't do much but I told him he could make up for it and do something for me later :) Why limit celebrating to one day right? The whole week was kind of a celebration anyway with finding out that we're having a girl, seeing both of our parents and other family, Amy's graduation and endowment and then Mother's Day...I don't think we missed out on anything by celebrating with family instead of by ourselves! I am pretty darn worn out though...we got up early and went to bed late so much, I really need to catch up on sleep! Luckily this week is going to be pretty slow so I can relax.
Well, I think that's all I'm going to write for now, this is a pretty long post already and I still haven't even done Sunday! :) I'll just have to do another later and talk about that. I'm too tired to think of what else to say anyway...I'm definitely taking a nap when I get done with work!
Friday, May 8, 2009
"Moms are like a box of chocolates. Good thing I didn't get a nut."
This has been a pretty busy week so far and I'm only half way through all the busyness! But that's ok. I'd rather be busy than bored :) Tuesday night my parents came into town on there way back home to Missouri and stayed til this morning. It was SO great to have them here! I miss them so much! Unfortunately I had to work almost all Wednesday so I didn't see them much then but I had yesterday off completely so we went up to the new Draper Temple to do a session. It was so great! It really is a beautiful temple. It's set up right on the hill looking over the Salt Lake Valley, which is pretty cool.
After we were done at the temple, we ate lunch and then my mom wanted to go to Ikea to see what all the fuss was about. We walked around a bit and went back to Provo and went out to eat with Mark and just talked and such for the rest of the night. It was pretty great though. I love my parents so much! They are simply the greatest ever. :) I'm so glad they came to visit!
Another thing we did yesterday was go to my regular doctor's appointment. Mom went with me of course which was nice. It wasn't a very long appointment, he just checked the baby's heartbeat and such and then talked about the ultrasound. He said that since all my measurements and everything and the baby's measurements are all around the 18 week mark, he was gonna have to change the due date. So now I'm due October 7th! oh well...better that they caught it now instead of later right? I'll have to go do another ultrasound at 28 weeks though since I was earlier than they thought but that's ok with me too! Just another chance to look at her before she comes :)
Tonight Mark and I are headed up to SLC because his sister Amy is graduating from the University of Utah today and we're going to celebrate with her and their parents. It's going to be a very parent filled week for us! :) It'll be fun though, I'm sure Mark is as excited to see his parents as I was to see mine! It's no fun when you only see them once or twice a year so you have to make the most of it when you do see them!
Well I guess that's pretty much it for now, sorry no pictures today. They're on my home computer and I'm at work right now. I'll just have to post some later! I'll post later about this weekend and our anniversary! We'll be married one year tomorrow! How crazy is that??? So much has happened this year and I can't believe how fast it went! Luckily it was a great year for us and we're looking forward to this next one even more! :)
After we were done at the temple, we ate lunch and then my mom wanted to go to Ikea to see what all the fuss was about. We walked around a bit and went back to Provo and went out to eat with Mark and just talked and such for the rest of the night. It was pretty great though. I love my parents so much! They are simply the greatest ever. :) I'm so glad they came to visit!
Another thing we did yesterday was go to my regular doctor's appointment. Mom went with me of course which was nice. It wasn't a very long appointment, he just checked the baby's heartbeat and such and then talked about the ultrasound. He said that since all my measurements and everything and the baby's measurements are all around the 18 week mark, he was gonna have to change the due date. So now I'm due October 7th! oh well...better that they caught it now instead of later right? I'll have to go do another ultrasound at 28 weeks though since I was earlier than they thought but that's ok with me too! Just another chance to look at her before she comes :)
Tonight Mark and I are headed up to SLC because his sister Amy is graduating from the University of Utah today and we're going to celebrate with her and their parents. It's going to be a very parent filled week for us! :) It'll be fun though, I'm sure Mark is as excited to see his parents as I was to see mine! It's no fun when you only see them once or twice a year so you have to make the most of it when you do see them!
Well I guess that's pretty much it for now, sorry no pictures today. They're on my home computer and I'm at work right now. I'll just have to post some later! I'll post later about this weekend and our anniversary! We'll be married one year tomorrow! How crazy is that??? So much has happened this year and I can't believe how fast it went! Luckily it was a great year for us and we're looking forward to this next one even more! :)
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
A baby girl...one of the most beautiful miracles in life, one of the greatest joys we can ever know.
It's official!!! We're having a girl! Well, pretty much we're sure it's a girl...the ultrasound lady right away asked if we thought we had the right timing or whatever, which we aren't really sure if our timing is right or not so I'm not surprised it's off. So she said she thinks we're about 18 weeks along instead of 20 but she said my doctor would talk to me about it more on Thursday at my regular appointment. This also will probably change my due date to the beginning of October but I'll talk more about that after I talk to my doc. Anyway, right now she said she's 90% sure it's a girl so we're stinking with it!!! We're SO excited too!!!!! Mark's pretty happy that he was right but I don't really care, I really wanted a girl so I'm so excited it's happening!!!! SOOOOO EXCITED!!!! Now we can actually start getting things for her and making decisions and such. Fun stuff!
Here's some pictures from today. Since we're earlier than we thought the pics of the baby aren't as defined or whatever but when I go back at 20 weeks (they said I have to do another ultrasound then to check vitals or something, I don't know) I'll try to get at least one good pic from that. It was SO COOL to see our baby though! She was moving around a bit during the ultrasound (we got a DVD of it, although it's pretty short) so we got to see her. It is so amazing though! And so weird to think that I have a living little tiny person inside of me...eek! She has been moving around a lot lately so I've been enjoying that a lot. Anyway, here's some pics!!!
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(Here's a belly pic from today...sorry there's not much there but I'm probably not gonna really "show" for a little bit :)
(This is Mark before our appointment, he had just gotten off work and was tired!!!)
(The baby's legs!)
(Her wee lil arms)
(And her cute lil face!!!)
(The profile shot!)
(This shot is where she was saying, it's a girl, but it's not very apparent to me, but she's the pro right? I guess I'll just trust her...)
(The proud papa to be!!! He is SO happy to be having a girl! Or it could be the ice cream....)
(We celebrated by going to Macey's which has these awesome ice cream cones for ridiculously cheap! It's great...these are what they look like after we walked around the store for a minute, and they're still big!!! :)
I do want to apologize to my dear sisters today (well mainly Monie and Emily). I am extremely forgetful and I was so excited today that it made it even worse...I completely forgot to call them!!! Well with Emily I had called Mellisa and was on speaker for all the nieces and I thought she was there so that's my excuse there. I did completely forget to call Monie though, I'm such a horrible sister!!! So I'm deeply sorry and hope you will forgive me :) As for anyone else who's not family and I didn't call, I'm sorry as well but I was on the phone so much, there's just too many people for me to call. :) I love you all though! :)
Here's some pictures from today. Since we're earlier than we thought the pics of the baby aren't as defined or whatever but when I go back at 20 weeks (they said I have to do another ultrasound then to check vitals or something, I don't know) I'll try to get at least one good pic from that. It was SO COOL to see our baby though! She was moving around a bit during the ultrasound (we got a DVD of it, although it's pretty short) so we got to see her. It is so amazing though! And so weird to think that I have a living little tiny person inside of me...eek! She has been moving around a lot lately so I've been enjoying that a lot. Anyway, here's some pics!!!
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(Here's a belly pic from today...sorry there's not much there but I'm probably not gonna really "show" for a little bit :) 
(This is Mark before our appointment, he had just gotten off work and was tired!!!)
(The baby's legs!)
(Her wee lil arms)
(And her cute lil face!!!)
(The profile shot!)
(This shot is where she was saying, it's a girl, but it's not very apparent to me, but she's the pro right? I guess I'll just trust her...)
(The proud papa to be!!! He is SO happy to be having a girl! Or it could be the ice cream....)
(We celebrated by going to Macey's which has these awesome ice cream cones for ridiculously cheap! It's great...these are what they look like after we walked around the store for a minute, and they're still big!!! :) I do want to apologize to my dear sisters today (well mainly Monie and Emily). I am extremely forgetful and I was so excited today that it made it even worse...I completely forgot to call them!!! Well with Emily I had called Mellisa and was on speaker for all the nieces and I thought she was there so that's my excuse there. I did completely forget to call Monie though, I'm such a horrible sister!!! So I'm deeply sorry and hope you will forgive me :) As for anyone else who's not family and I didn't call, I'm sorry as well but I was on the phone so much, there's just too many people for me to call. :) I love you all though! :)
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