Book Catch Up & Egg Dying

Here a few more pages of my maternity book!

Russ and I colored eggs with my sister and her family. It was a lot of fun. This is my niece Taylor with one of her eggs.

And my other niece Aubrey with one of her eggs. :)

We decided to have egg wars with the eggs I made with the baby names on them to see what we should name our baby. I think in the end the egg with Tanner on it won everything. That still doesn't mean I'm picking tanner as his name. I wish it was that easy for me :)

And I thought this would entertain a few people. I think it's hilarious. Enjoy!

March Update!

March turned out to be quite the month! My baby sister got married! It still seems so unreal! I am so happy for her though. Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Treu! (pronounced True) ;)

Russell and I took a quick weekend trip to St. George with our friends Charlotte and Matt. It was a great weekend of relaxing and eating out :)

Don't mess with the pregnant lady :)

This pregnancy I have had very few cravings. Usually I've had NO appetite but one day Strawberries sounded good. Thank goodness Costco sells strawberries that are on steroids! They were just as tasty as my mind made them sound.

One thing I don't think I could live with out while being pregnant is my bath tub. I take a bath EVERY-SINGLE-NIGHT. By the end of the day I start to feel rather uncomfortable and sitting in the bath is the only time I truly feel comfortable. If I could, I would sleep in there every night!

One day I woke up to this text message from Russ. This is a regular thing for us. I am asleep when he leaves for work so if there is anything he needs to ask me he just sends me a text and I give him a call when I am awake. So I called him thinking he would tell me he was staying late at work or he needed me to bring him something.

It wasn't quite that simple. He actually had gotten hit on the scooter while driving to work that morning! I sat right up and asked if he was ok and what had happened. I hope my drawing can give a better visual to what happened :) When you are getting in the freeway at Center St. in Provo the lane ALWAYS gets backed up and people think they can be sneaky and get in the left turn only lane and cut off the people going straight and get on the freeway faster. Well Russ actually turns left in the left turn only lane. This time some girl( that I am sure is a sweetheart in real life but for this story I will call her dumb) thought she would be sneaky and got in the left lane as Russ was driving up to the light. He honked and swerved and still got hit. The scooter slid and he hopped up and it started just fine. He was wearing his helmet (that doesn't have one scratch on it still) and because it was a cold day (thank goodness!) long pants and a jacket and gloves.

He got a few scratches but the one on his knee is the worst of it. He was most mad about the hole it tore in the jeans he was wearing that day. But don't doubt that he lived up the drama of "I am emotionally unstable, I was hit by a car" for the entire week following. :) Gotta love his humor.

The scoot scoot got pretty scratched and dumb girl (sweet girl in real life) is paying to have it all fixed. I am so grateful it wasn't worse!

Last but defiantly not least, Russell's brother and sister-in-law had their second baby girl! She is so darling and makes me very VERY antsy to meet my little babe!

The Crib!

It's offical, we have a crib...very sureal. Every time I catch a glimpse into the nursery I always have to take a second look and take in what it will be like to have a little person living in there. :) I can't wait!

We got our crib from Walmart. I originally wanted this one, but decided I would save a few HUNDRED dollars and get this one instead and I couldn't be happier with saving my pennies and finding something I still really like. :)
I enjoyed sitting while Russ put the entire thing together by himself. I helped a little but he did all the hard stuff.

Proud of his work :)

Feb. Update

The last week in January Russell had the opportunity to travel to China for his job! He got to visit all the factories where they make the tape and paper and adhesive for all of KT Tape. He had a lot of fun. I would have been very sad with out Skype! I was happy we still got to talk to each other even though he was so far away.

For Valentine's day we decided to save a little money and make dinner at home together. It wasn't anything special. We bought steaks and went to Farr's for ice cream and then watched Money Ball. It was a great day.

The last few weeks we have been spending time budgeting for baby and planning what we need to purchase. (Basically everything) We decided to go to Ikea on the hunt for a dresser. We found one that we think will work great! I can't wait!

Russ putting the dresser together! :)

All put together! The nursery is all coming together! I will do a post on everything once it is all the way done!

Then my fabulous friend Jen put together a breakfast for all of our friends to get together and catch up on each of our lives! It was way fun! We were sad that a few of our friends couldn't make it! Gotta love growing up and staying in touch with all our high school buddies!

Last but not least here are the latest pages of my maternity book! I love how it's coming together! I can't wait to see it all put together and on paper!

January 2012

I've been reading this book.

I love it! It is like a Law and Order: SVU episode on CRACK! If you can't handle reading about rape then do not read this book! It's a tough one! I really liked it though! I will deffinately be reading the rest from the series.

The highlight of this month was our anniversary. Russ and I went to Fetal Fotos and found out the sex of our baby! Such a fun anniversary present for ourselves! Our little guy is a mover! He was posing for the camera like crazy! He already knows that I will make him pose for pictures if he likes it or not!

Then we went to Ruth's Chris in Salt Lake and man is that food AMAZING! If you have the $ to spare, then go there! I absolutely loved it and so did Russ :) Don't worry, this is the ONLY picture we took all day! :( I am crazy! I need to be better about taking pictures of my personal life!

After finding out the sex of our baby, Russ and I decided it would be fun to have a gender reveal party at our apartment. We figured it would be a good way to let people see where we live now and a fun way to tell everyone the news of what we are having! It was so fun cramming everyone into our tiny apartment! We had so many people come support us! It was a blast!

I made cake pops! I was a little nervous to take on the challenge, but they turned out pretty good!

Its a boy!

Here are the latest pages from my maternity book :)

Our first apartment...

Despite the copper colored carpet, the ants, the toilet that doesn't quite flush right, the non-existent bathroom counter, the hard as concrete walls, and the three day wait for cable and Internet, I'm happy to call this place home for the next chapter of our lives. Now we will have a room for baby and a place for a kitchen table. (along with more bills to pay) We couldn't be happier! I will post pictures as soon as I find a way to hang pictures on our crumbling concrete walls! Happy new year everyone!

Baby Book

Ok we all now know, I am no good at posting on my personal blog! I will get better! I promise! (New Year's resolution!)

Well everyone, or almost everyone knows we are expecting our first baby on June 26th of 2012! We are so excited! I have been working on a baby book to keep some sort of journal of my pregnancy. ( I am hating that my mom didn't do anything like this! I am needing her opinion and she doesn't remember anything about her pregnancies!) Hopefully my girls will be grateful I've done this one day. If not, I will enjoy it :) I got the idea from Hanna Mac but all the images and designs are mine :)