creeper status

this girl has been creeping the internet today entering every mom/baby giveaway known to woman.

how else am i going to pass the time on a saturday while will is off snowmobiling with scouts...

here's to hopefully getting lucky at one of these things!

PINK!

it's hard to believe we're almost halfway through this pregnancy.

our baby is growing right on track and doing great. we feel so incredibly blessed!

here is a late belly picture and a few we took to announce the gender this week. yay!

this last one was my favorite because our dogs are a big part of our family too.

we're going to have our hands full with 3 dogs and a baby, but i can't imagine it any other way!

we are so SO grateful for the huge blessing of a healthy, growing baby girl.

we can't wait to meet her and love on her.

will's looking forward to lots of cuddles, reading bedtime stories, and teaching her to play sports.

i'm looking forward to holding hands, dressing her up, and singing primary songs together.

knowing the gender makes this all feel so much more real and exciting.

we love you baby girl and can't wait until August!!!

st. george weekend

this weekend our awesome friends kyle and cassie invited us to st. george with them.

our mutual friends mike and bailee came too, and it was a super fun time.

we did all of the typical things to do down there:

ate yummy mexican food, golfed, got our nails done, and hiked the red rocks.

i put together a video of some of our adventures.

click HERE to watch it on my youtube channel. :)

(thanks again for the invite you guys!)

10 weeks

10 week update:

-we switched our dr. and are so grateful for the referral, him and his office staff are great!

-we had our first ultrasound and heard the heartbeat for the first time. everything is normal. :)

-they measured baby and he/she is on track with our original due date. august 7th is still the day!

-oh and we even saw the baby wiggle his/her little arms and it was the cutest thing!

our little "peanut" is doing well! we are so so SO in love with him/her and excited to be parents!

(can't wait for the gender reveal so we can start calling baby a he or she!)

new year, new changes

2014! you're here at last!

we have been looking forward to this year for the last couple of months for several reasons.

1st- WE'RE HAVING A BABY!!!! august 7th is our due date and we couldn't be more excited!

2nd- we'll both be finishing our associates degrees this spring.
will starts his bachelors program this fall!

we have both taken some time to get through our schooling not because we don't value education,
but because we've had other opportunities and needs that we put first. now we're bound and determined to get our degrees (i'll obviously be taking a break though when our itty bitty arrives). 

3rd- our new year's resolutions. we both have several areas we want to improve on, 

and we're motivated to make these changes even more so with a baby on the way.

we wish you all a happy new year!

and good luck with your own resolutions!

a gift and temple lights

will surprised me with the best early christmas present... a piano!

it is so beautiful! we had talked about maybe starting out with a keyboard,

because the price tag on those are much smaller...

but will went above and beyond and had this beauty delivered right to our living room!

i came in from a photo shoot and he quickly blindfolded me and led me in to see it.

i was so happy! he is the best gift giver, always blows me away with his gifts!

i've been playing christmas music on it everyday since the beginning of december.

i can't wait to teach our kids to play someday and sing songs together on family night. :)

earlier this month i was downtown when they turned the christmas lights on at temple square.

it was packed but such a pretty sight so i walked around and took some pictures.

if you live near salt lake or are just driving through, make a stop to see these!

you will be happy that you did. :)

grandmas and a date night

in our ward, i work with the young women (12-18 year old girls).

this past wednesday the girls put on a "grandma appreciation night"at our church building
and they invited some of the elderly women in our ward.
i picked up one of the women who was absolutely adorable.
she has lived in this area for over 50 years and is the original owner of her house.
(that's amazing because in our area most of the homes were built in the early-mid 60's.)
talking to her during dinner i found out that her husband passed away in january...
she told me how they fell in love at a church dance, were snowbirds in arizona every winter for the past 18 years, and how she is struggling to put up her christmas tree this year
because it will be her first one alone.
my heart just broke. i can't imagine the pain of losing your spouse,
especially after so many wonderful years together.
she was so open and honest though about the things she has experienced in life.
i love that our ward is full of a lot of elderly people. they have SO many stories to tell!
it was a great night and the soup and brownies we were served were delicious!


last night, i surprised will with a night out on the town.
he is going to be in san fran all weekend with his dad so I wanted to do something special before.
he was working so we met downtown at CPK for dinner then grabbed some hot cocoa. YUM!!!
then we tried to hunt down the "jingle bus" which goes through downtown during the holidays.
(it's a free trolley bus that picks people up and drives them past the big light displays.)

 while we were waiting for the jingle bus, trax stopped in front of us.
we were so cold that we just decided to be spontaneous and hopped on.
it took us through downtown, past temple square and the malls.

we got off at the "Off Broadway Theatre" in downtown salt lake and picked up tickets to this play.
it was called "It's a Wondrous Life" and was a comical version of "It's a Wonderful Life".

they performed in this cute little theatre that even had balcony seats.
it brought back so many memories of the high school play and musical i was in.
drama is such a fun thing to watch and participate in. i would love to do it again!
it was such a fun date night!