Sugar and spice and everything nice....

thats what little girls are made of!!

We found out yesterday at our ultrasound that we are having a GIRL!!!!!!! We are so excited. The ultrasound went great, our little girl is growing just as she should and everything looks healthy. It was so amazing to see her little hands and feet moving all around and see her tiny heart beating away. We are so thankful for the opportunity we have to be pregnant and be parents of this special little girl! Now that we know what we are having I guess I can start shopping for all the darling girl stuff!!!

Girl's Trip to Chicago!!

My mom has been wanting to do a girl's trip with me and my sister for a while now but we have never actually got around to doing it. So last week was my mom's birthday and she decided for her birthday she finally wanted to do our girl's trip, so the three of us headed out for CHICAGO!! We had a blast! We stayed at the Wyndom Hotel in downtown Chicago, it was way nice and close to everything. The first day we went shopping along Michigan Avenue, there is a mile stretch that has tons of stores called The Miracle Mile. We found lots of good stuff of course, and had a chance to see more of the city. That night we went to the Broadway play "Wicked", it was really amazing. The next day we went out to a HUGE mall about an hour outside of the city, it was seriously the biggest mall I have ever been to. There were tons of great stores and all three of us were in shopping heaven. We also ate at the Cheesecake Factory while we were out there, it was delicious. We took some cheesecake back to the hotel with us and while we ate it we watched a movie and just hung out. It was a fun way to end the day. The next day was Saturday and the city was celebrating St. Patrick's Day. There were thousands and thousands of people that came out to see the river which they turn green and watch the parade. It was crazy on the streets, everyone was dressed in green and already drunk and it was only noon. But it was fun to see the green river and the excitement of all those people. We also went to the Art Institute of Chicago Museum that day. After that we headed to "The Blue Man Group" show, it was a crazy, funny and very random show but very good. So as you can see we stayed very busy and had an incredible time. It was fun to just spend time together and get away for a few days!! Thanks mom!!

Expecting!

So I have been really bad at keeping up on this whole blogging thing, but in checking out so many of your blogs I am inspired to try again. Life has been a whirlwind for us the last few months but like I said it is full of wonderful things. The most wonderful of them being that we are EXPECTING!!!! Thats right we are pregnant. Most of you probably already knew but for some it may be a suprise. I am 18 weeks along (thats about 4 1/2 months for those of you who do not measure by weeks), my due date is August 18th! We are so excited to have a baby and expand our little family. The first 16 weeks I was very sick and it was a pretty rough time but I am feeling so much better now and feel so blessed to have the opportunity to be pregnant and be a mother.

This is me during the first part of my pregnancy feeling pretty yucky. I spent a lot of nights out in the rocking chair. Glad that those days are past.



We announced our "news" to our families for Christmas. I wrote them a poem and we wrapped it up and gave it to our parents. For my parents I wrapped the poem along with some bibs and a little book about grandparents in a huge box and there were several smaller boxes wrapped inside. It was so fun to tell our families and see their excitment. That was definitely an unforgetable Christmas for everyone! I love these pics of my parents opening their present, their reaction was so fun.





This is me and Shane on Christmas 2007-the day we told our families that we were expecting. What a good day.



Here I am now about 4 1/2 months along, I am starting to show. In a few weeks we will find out what we are having!!!

Mom for a day

So on Friday I tended our nephew Miles. I had him from Friday around 4:00 until Saturday afternoon. My sister-in-law Trish keeps telling me thank you but really I should thank her...I had so much fun pretending to be "mom" for the day. Miles is such a sweetheart and he really got attached to me (I'm sure because I was giving him all the attention he could ever want and pretty much anything else he wanted too.) My mom came over and Miles was pretty much attached to my leg, he was squeezing it like his life depended on it. She took this picture cause it was so funny. If I went out of the room he would yell "Hey" and come look for me. He was also totally amazed by my cell phone and would not put it down. I had to take it from him once to answer a call from Shane and he got this sad little puppy dog look on his face like I had just broken his heart...too funny! When Shane got home it took Miles a minute to warm up to him but he soon did cause Shane is lots of fun and in no time he had Miles laughing and playing. Aren't these pictures cute...that was a fun weekend

Home Sweet Home

So like I have said Shane and I just built a house in Marriott-Slaterville. Building a home was an experience like nothing else. It was fun, exciting, nerve wracking and stressful all in one! It was very interesting to watch the process of our home being built each step at a time. We checked on our house pretty much daily for all six months of construction and took many, many pictures to remeber each step. Here is our house from just the lot through foundation, framing, brick, painting and finally moving in. It is a great home that we have put a lot of thought and time into to truly make it our home just the way we want it. People say if your marriage can survive building a home it can survive anything...I guess Shane and I have no worries from here on out, right!?! (We only had a few fights over it, the rest was a lot of fun and I am glad we were in it together!)

To get things rolling...

Okay, so this whole blogging thing is really totally out of my element...I really don't do things like this but with pressure from my friend Kerstin at work and the fact that I do think it is a fun way to keep people in touch I guess you could say I am now a "blogger". To start things off here are some pictures of some fun moments over the last two years since Shane and I have been married (they are in no particular order). I kind of feel like I do every time I start writing in a journal again...where do I start so much has happened.

Honeymooning in Mexico...


Shane's first Century!!

Moab Half Marathon 2006 with the fam


Me and Shane at Kenny Chesney Concert-Summer of 2006

Cheescake Factory-Trip to Vegas with Blake and Mckelle

Montanna Trip-The water is always glass!!!!



My first Parade Home-Northern Wasatch Parade of Homes 2005

Christmas 2005


Hitting the slopes in Sunvalley Thanksgiving 2006

Sisters! Me and Mandi...Lookin' hot