Tuesday, December 15, 2009

More Christmas Time


My mom sent us a couple Christmas packages full of presents. This box was Guster's favorite present.

We made gingerbread houses with our friends and Coy's and the Olson's. Ours looks more like a gingerbread barn but I still really like it. Steven made the lovely thatched roof and the beautiful pine tree. He made it so there's a bunch of gummy bears dancing around the tree.



Friday evening we went to a Christmas party at our friend's Meg and Mike Suiter. I stole this picture from Jen Gibb who is the one on the floor so everyone can see all the friends and their baby boys. I'm glad that our little one will have 3 buddies all ready and waiting for him!

Monday, December 7, 2009

Christmas is All Around


I just love Christmas time. It's so beautiful and everything just feels a bit better. My mother-in-law have me her old tree so now I have a nice big pretty one instead of my ugly Wal-mart special. The bad thing about such a big tree is I don't have enough ornaments to decorate it with!

We went down to Temple Square the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Deneal flew into town so the whole family went to pick her up and after a good dinner at the Red Rock Cafe we went over to see the lights.




It's quite difficult to get a good picture of everyone, but this is Denise, Deneal, Gavin, Katie, Paul, Neal, and myself. No Steven.

Guster really loves Christmas too. He loves all the boxes full of decorations I get out and tries so hard to be sneaky and get inside them. You can barely see him in this picture peering through the tree branches. He doesn't seem to realize that the tree isn't real and always tries to eat it. He's also knocked off a bunch of ornaments and batted them around and shattered a few of them. I don't really mind on the little cheap ones; at least he's getting some exercise which he is in dire need of.

My living room this year. It's much less blurry in person.

Even though it is so cold outside right now, it's nice to have a warm little house to get all comfy in. This will more than likely be our last Christmas in this house. I like it a lot even though it doesn't hold the heat very well, the doors kind of stick, the carpets are all stained and worn out, there's big stains on the wallpaper in the kitchen, the toilet handle has to be lifted up after flushing, the countertops are just so very ugly and gross with a permanent dirtyness to them, and every once in a while it smells like old people. It's mine and Steven's first home together. We've had our first Christmas there and will be our baby's first home as well, even if it is for a short period of time. I hope everyone enjoys their Christmas in their homes everywhere!

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Baby Boy Yeip


Our camera isn't really the greatest thing in the world with which to take a picture of a picture, but you can get the basic gist of what he looks like. The above picture is his profile and you can see his perfect little face. It looks pretty cute to me!

And this my friends, (above) would be the picture defining his gender. It took a lot of staring at it for me to figure out what exactly I was looking at. The arrow is pointing right to his boyhood. To the right of that is his left knee and his foot and to the left is his right foot. Click to enlarge and see if you can see that too. The ultrasound technician was able to tell right away that it was a boy and so we're quite sure that he's not going to pop out a girl. She had a hard time getting this picture for us though. When she went to his bottom, he was sitting indian style and we couldn't see his boyhood at all. She used the little periscope thingy and tried to get him to move and she got that quick shot.

This picture is one of those 3D ones where the baby looks like a demon. It's really hard to tell what this is and if she hadn't been pointing everything out for us I'd have no clue. But this is part of his face. On the right edge is his nose and mouth and the rest of his face is being covered up by his hand. Most of the time during the u/s he had his hands up to his face; it was quite cute.

This, the technician said, will probably be the last full shot we'll be able to get of him until he comes out because he'll be too big to fit into a shot after this. But this is his back and it's just so amazing to me how I've got this perfect tiny little person just curled up in there! Steven and I are so thrilled to be having a boy. I've wanted a boy first for as long as I can remember because I think that every girl needs a big brother. We were so convinced that it would be a girl because we both wanted a boy and were very surprised when she told us it was a boy. I'm, also very excited that I'm going to be able to use this for our boy!

And this last little picture here is of my dear friend Wraggles modeling a baby hat I made just last night. I love to crochet, keeps my hands busy while I watch movies and whatnot. Yesterday after my appointment I went online and found a bunch of cute patterns for baby items and this is the first one I made. I was pretty excited that it turned out to look just the way it was supposed to look! So for maybe $3 or possibly less, and 1 hour of time, we have our first baby hat!

Monday, November 2, 2009

Exciting Developments

So I had an exciting moment on Saturday. Our friend's Brianna and Wade Siddoway came up for Halloween and we went to the temple for the noon session on Saturday. Bri and I were sitting together and not too far into the session I felt 2 little nudges in my belly. I turned to Bri and whispered "I think I just felt the baby move for the first time!" I pushed in with my hand where I'd felt it move and it nudged at me again. It was so exciting to finally feel it move. I'd been waiting for that to happen for a while now and it was so neat that it happened in the temple. Right now as I write this I can actually feel it moving around a whole bunch like a big butterfly is in there. I think the kiddo likes hot chocolate!

Friday, October 30, 2009

Less than a week now

November 5 is the big day where we get to find out what we're having. We both are convinced it's a girl and have been trying to come up with girl names but cannot agree on any. So it'd better be a boy because we have names for that!

Friday, September 4, 2009

For those who don't know yet:


We're having a baby!



If you look very closely, you can see the arm.
We had our first sonogram yesterday and it was really amazing to see your little baby moving around down there. It was moving it's little arm like it was waving at us and it's little heart was fluttering at 176 bpm. It was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen and we're so excited!

Monday, August 17, 2009

Oregon '09

So Steven and I headed up to the Pacific Northwest for a week and got to see Steven's sister Deneal and our friends the Mitchell's!

Here we are on top of Mt. Spokane with a little boy we kidnapped. Just kidding. That's Lindsay and Patrick's cutie pie Nolan.


We tried to go camping here but all the sites were taken. Sad. But we cooked corn dogs over a fire and walked around a bit. It was cool. After that we went to a funpark place and played miniature golf, go carts and laser tag. Just so you know, laser tag is awesome!


After Spokane we headed over to Seattle. Above are some of the most delicious things I've ever had in my life called a pirohshky. Below is the Space needle!



One day while we were in Oregon we went over to the shore and went crabbing. 5 hours of crabbing and we caught 2 keeper crabs. We could only keep the males and they had to be bigger than 5.75 inches otherwise we had to toss it back. It was scary at first to try and pick them up but after a while we learned how to do it. Below is a video of Steven trying to grab out little crab which later became our dinner!


After the crabbing, we went to the beach and made a fire and boiled up some corn on the cob and ate our two little crabs.


Steven eating the son.

Walking along the beach.

On our drive home, Steven, Deneal and I stopped by a place called Punch Bowl Falls and hiked the 2 miles to the waterfalls. It was really beautiful.

We had a lot of fun and it was really nice to see our good friends. Patrick has such an awesome family who were so nice to us and let us crash at their place. Unfortunately we didn't take hardly any pictures while we were in Spokane, but oh well!

Monday, July 20, 2009

Honeymoon

I recently came across the memory card from the camera Steven had for the first week of our marriage. It reached it's tragic demise in the shallows of the Atlantic Ocean just off the shore of Maine. These are it's final pictures:

This is the little cottage we stayed in. It was so cute and we really enjoyed staying there. For pictures of the interior click here and you can take a virtual tour and everything as we did not get any pictures ourselves of the inside.


The harbor of Camden, ME and a very large yacht


We went for a bike ride one day that took us back around Camden then all along the coastline where there were some really beautiful houses.


This was one of our stops on our bike ride. It's called the Children's Chapel and it had really beautiful gardens all around it and it overlooks the water. A lot of people get married there which would be really lovely.



One day we went sailing on a schooner which was also the final voyage of our camera.


Steven looks so nautical.



We sailed to an island a ways off shore where we had a lobster dinner. This picture I find just so adorable. The little boy was on the schooner with us and the kitten lives on the island and begs bits of lobster from tourists.


Dinner. Between the two of us, Steven and I ate 5 lobsters in their entirety that night. They were amazing.





And the final picture our camera ever took before it fell off the railing it was sitting on into the water:

Steven actually stripped off his shirt and jumped in and retrieved it. He had a very chilly sailride back to mainland. It's hard to believe that it's been close to 2 years since that wonderful trip. We hiked, ate a LOT of seafood, looked around all the cute little villages, biked, sailed, golfed, and watched a few movies. It may forever be my favorite vacation not just because I did so many fun things in a place I love but because of the person I got to do them all with!

Friday, June 19, 2009

Trip to Californ-i-a


So last month for Memorial Day weekend, Steven and I went on a trip to southern California with our good friends Brianna and Wade Siddoway. We went to Disneyland, some beaches, San Diego Zoo and had a lot of fun. So here's some pictures in no particular order: