Holiday Time!

Apparently I'm not very good at blogging, maybe I'll get better when the baby is born (HA!). So we had Thanksgiving at my parents house this year. Had a great dinner and loved being around family. I went Black Friday shopping with my mom, definitely a waste of a good nights sleep. We went to walmart at 3 am, and guess what??? They were already sold out of half of their sale items. I went looking for one movie specifically and they didn't have even one copy of it. Mom wanted sheets and they were all sold out. Jennifer wanted us to get a game for her to give for Christmas and we found the last one. It was the dumbest thing. Walmart really dropped the ball this year. Anyway so we went to JC Penney's at 4. We got some good deals but, not really worth getting up at 2 to shop. Oh well.
I am now 30 weeks along. YAY!! I can hardly believe it. I feel huge, but according to my sisters I am not really that big. She kicks all the time now. I think she has come to recognize Scott too, which is awesome! Every time he is holding me or has his hand on my belly she will start to move around. She doesn't do that for everybody. Heck she does that for almost nobody. It is so exciting to think that she is recognizing her daddy. My belly button has almost popped out. Scott and I had a bet going about when it was going to pop. I thought it would be by Christmas, Scott thought it would be by my birthday on January 5th. Well it hasn't quite popped yet so I guess I was wrong. We will just have to see if Scott was right.
We spend Christmas in Logan with Scott's brother Gary and his family. We had a big party on Christmas eve with all of Scott's siblings and their families except 2 of his brothers who live too far away. We had a blast. They have a tradition called the "bean game" basically it is an auction for a bunch of wrapped gifts. You get a certain number of beans and those are your currency. Then a clue is read for each present and you bid. It is a ton of fun. I was a little skeptical last year when Scott told me about it but, it is an absolute blast. Then we watched a short nativity video and everybody went home. Except us, because we are the only ones without kids to get to bed. So we stayed with Gary and his family and had Christmas morning with them. Unfortunatelly for me I developed a really bad cold sometime on Christmas eve. I was coughing and sniffing all day. Then I didn't sleep at all that night. Needless to say I was the earliest person up on Christmas morning. Scott finally woke up at about 7:45 am and we went to find breakfast. At about 8:30 am Gary and Kari's youngest, Emily, woke up and we started the Christmas morning routine. Despite being sick I had a very good Christmas. I got lots of great gifts that I love. Later on Christmas day we traveled to Grace to spend some time with Scott's parents, and apparently Scott's friends. We went to church with Scott's parents on Sunday then headed back to Pocatello that night just in time for game night with my sister and her husband.
It has been a busy holiday season and it isn't over yet. Scott and my anneversary is later on this week, on the 30th. So we are traveling to Salt Lake City to go to the temple and have some good dinner. I can't wait. It has been a really great year. I love my husband so much, and I can't wait to celebrate the first year of our marriage.

Ultrasound

We finally had our ultrasound! The baby decided to have their legs crossed the whole time. So, the technician kept saying, "My guess is, its a girl." She never said she actually knew or that she was certain. She just kept saying my guess or my vote. It was driving me crazy. Well anyway, we will just have to take her word. So its a girl! Scott has finally felt her move too. She is getting pretty strong, sometimes you can see when she is kicking, that is if you are watching closely enough.

18 weeks

I am officially 18 weeks along (YAY!!). I figured it was time to start taking pictures since I was starting to show. I have to consciously make the decision to take pictures because if I don't prepare I wont take the pictures. So I decided it was time. We have also set the date for our ultrasound. It will be on October 20th. We are so excited!! It will be nice to finally know what we are having. I don't know how people can stand to not know whether the baby is a boy or girl. It is already driving me nuts. Scott's birthday is on October 22nd, so his birthday present is to find out what sex the baby is.

Grace

Just this past weekend Scott and I took my sister Crystal and her family up to Grace. Scott mostly wanted to go riding in the mountains around Grace with Crystal's husband Danny. So we went up to a meadow in the mountains that you can drive up to, and the boys went riding. Scott on his 4-wheeler and Danny on his motorcycle. So while the boys were riding Crystal and I cooked some hot dogs over the fire. Crystal's daughter Hallie didn't want to help cook hers, her son Carter would have gladly helped but, Mommy didn't want him near the fire. So of the 4 hot dogs Crystal cooked, she only ate one. Carter ate 2, only him and Danny got more than one, he must have been super hungry. Of course the wood we were using for the fire was dead fall from the surrounding woods. So even though Scott and Danny built up the fire before they left for their 2 hour ride, Crystal and I were fighting to keep it going. The wood was just so dry it burnt so fast. We had a lot of fun though. Scott was glad to have someone to ride with and I was glad I didn't get ditched so he could go riding.

Summer!

This summer has definitely been a long one. Our summer started out with a 7 day cruise to Mexico. I'm not entirely sure what possessed us to go on a cruise, but it was the best vacation. On May 16th we left port in Long Beach, California. I completely recommend going on a cruise, it was the best vacation I've ever had. I even get extremely motion sick, but I just got the scopalamine patch and was perfectly fine the whole time. We went to Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, and Cabo San Lucas. We went zip lining in Puerto Vallarta then went to a restaurant called Pipi's where we got the gigantic margarita you see above. In Mazatlan we toured the small towns in the Sierra Madres. Then in Cabo we just lounged on the beach, which is by far the most beautiful beach I have ever seen. The water was a light green and you could see clear to the bottom. It was so much fun.

About Us

Well, for starters Scott and I have been married about 8 months now. Scott is in the Pharmacy program at ISU. He is currently in his 3rd year, so he only has 1 year left of school then one year of rotations. Scott also works at the Walmart pharmacy as an intern. I am pregnant and expecting our first child on March 6th 2011. We are very excited.