Beach Party

Lately the weather has been really nice and its made me want to go swimming. However there it is still freezing cold at times and there is snow in some places and most of all the out door pools are closed. So I imporvised. Somehow I talked Amelia into putting on her swimming suit when she got home from class. I laid our nice, big beach towels out on the floor. Got the sunscreen out of the closet, turned on some rocking beach boys music and started to watch lilo and stitch. I wanted to play some volleyball but our apartment was to small sadly :( Amelia just laughed at me when she came through the door and there I was ready to go swimming at the make believe beach in the house. Some people might think we're weird after reading this but I dont care, we had a blast together at the beach. Maybe one day we'll have enough money that we could accually afford a trip to the beach but for now make believe will have to do!

21 Weeks

Wow, the last 3 weeks have gone by fast. I hope the rest of the pregnancy will too. I'm now 21 weeks and today Paul and I got to have "the big ultrasound". It was about 15 minutes long with an ultrasound tech. We even got to see some 4D pictures. She confirmed it is a boy, thank goodness. We also got a CD of the full ultrasound, if I could figure out how to put it on here I would. The baby is in good health, he's about 13 oz. on the bigger side, and about 10 inches long (including the legs). I feel him kick so much during the day, he seems to be pretty active. The tech got lots of pictures of his face, I liked to see his little legs and hands. It is now a must that I wear maternity shirts now so my wardrobe is very limited. I've finally gained weight, Paul was getting worried, but I was happy to let the weight come on as late as possible.


This is a great profile of his face, you can see his little nose the best, and his mouth. (the picture is sideways)

He is doing some sort of trick for us here, his legs are at the top curled around so they are almost touching his forehead.


This one is a 4D picture of his face. You can pick out his eyes and nose really well to the right of the picture.

An Eternity of Love and Happiness

As a little girl I rarely dreamed about my husband being a romantic one, when I thought about what he would be like I had about 4 things on my list: enjoys sports/outdoors, will get a college degree, makes me laugh, and wants kids as much as I do. Well, I got all that plus a lot more, one including a very romantic man, and I won't complain about that!
Friday was our official 1st Anniversary. We enjoyed discussing our first year together and talk about all the changes that have happened in our lives. First and foremost the fact that just a little over a year ago we were just the best of friends with no romantic feelings for each other and now we're married and starting a family. It's so crazy where life can take you in so little time.
Paul and I decided we would take turns planning the anniversary, this year was Paul's turn and I don't think I will ever be able to beat it. I thought that our trip to the condo last week was our anniversary celebration and we would just go out to a nice dinner, but I was wrong, Paul had much more planned.
Friday morning I have to catch the bus at 6:30am for school. Paul got up at 5:30 to make me breakfast and sent me to school. When I got home Paul told me to get dressed up for a nice dinner. When I was ready he then made me put on a blindfold so I couldn't see where we were going! I got one chance to guess where, if I was right I could take off the blindfold but I was wrong. So for a car ride up to Logan I wore my blindfold. When we got to the restaurant I got to take it off. We ate at Hamiltons, a steak a seafood place and so YUMMY!! I couldn't stop talking about how good my steak and mashed potatoes tasted, Paul got creme brule for dessert and I had the best Mango ice cream ever! After that Paul said he had an "activity" planned so back on the blindfold went. He took weird roads all over Logan so I didn't know where we were. He led me up some stairs in an old house and let me take of the blindfold. At first I had no idea where we were, until I saw signs on the doors with names like The Arctic Room. We were at the Anniversary Inn!! My favorite! That's where we spent our first night on our honeymoon. It was so much fun and I was not expecting such a treat, we sat in the huge jacuzee tub, watched movies, and I even got a nice massage with massage oil and had a way good breakfast the next morning. What made this surprise even better was that I had had a horrible week and was so overwhelmed with school and work, it was so great to just relax and take two days off from reality.
THANKS PAUL!



It was fun to get dressed up, I rarely get to wear "cute" clothes because I have to wear sweats to school everyday.

Paul is trying to lick the icicles hanging from the ceiling. There were also mirrors all over and the walls looked like snow and there were panguins and seals in the room. Don't worry, it wasn't cold, we kept it nice and steamy in there. ;)

On Saturday we went up to Brigham City to hang out with my friends. Kelsey and Troy took us for some sledding behind their snowmobile. It was a blast!

Paul's face looks strained, I know. He had a hard time lifting me up. I like to think that's because he hasn't been working out, but it's probably because I have put on a few pounds.

Happy Birthday to Me

Friday was my 24th birthday, I am nearly a quarter century old. Every year seems to go by faster than the year before. I am starting to feel like an old person, my body aches more than it ever has before. I had a great birthday, I got to spend it all with the love of my life. We went up to the wolf creek condo's for the weekend. It was great to not worry about school or work, and just focus on me and my wife. We sat in the hot tub each day, we enjoyed the luxury of watching tv since we cant at our house, and we stayed up playing games and watching movies. I'm grateful for my wife and everything she did to make this weekend great. It was also a weekend to take a little trip for our one year anniversary which is on Friday, which I cant believe is already here, boy how time flies. Heres to another year!Bring it on



Trying to blow out 24 candles in one breath can be pretty hard I realized. We used the leftover frosting from amelia's cakes on mine but we only had enough for half the cake.



I had a great birthday dinner, we had steak, potatoes, green beans, grilled pineapple, fruit salad. It was one of the best meals we have enjoyed since being married.