Long Update

Wow we have been really busy it seems! I am horrible at keeping up on the blog, that is for sure! Here are a few highlights from the last month...

BRADY, LAUREL & PAISLEY LEAVE
This is the worst part of the whole last month. My best friend, Laurel has moved away! Brady is in medical school in Pittsburgh. I am so sad to not have her here but I know it will be a wonderful adventure for them! We got to have a fun little party with our friends before they left. Brady and I also got to go out to treats with Brady and Laurel right before they left. They are such good friends to us! Brady, Laurel, and Paisley, we miss you and can't wait for you to come back and visit!

(We have pictures of the party but they are on my parent's camera.. I will put them up soon).

BABY SHOWERS!!
I am such a lucky girl. I have had three fun showers so far. The first one was with my job at DBH. I work with three other ladies so they had a little shower for me. It was so much fun! We made a quilt for my baby and just ate and had fun! The next shower was my friend shower. My sweet friends Laurel, Steph, Emily, and Shelby did it for me. It was SO nice! I got so many fun gifts. The girls went to so much work and it was just perfect! Thanks you guys SO much for doing that for me, especially when you are all so busy! The next shower I had was the Hess family shower. My sister-in-laws and mother-in-law did this one for me. It was also a perfect shower! They did such a good job with everything. It was so fun to just get to talk with the girls and eat yummy food! So, thanks to everyone that came and everyone that has done so much for me! I love you all!

LINDSEY GOT MARRIED
My beautiful friend Lindsey got married August 8th. She was such a beautiful bride! I can tell that she is going to be so happy with her new hubby! Congrats Linds!

FALL CONFERENCE
For my work at DBH we had to go to a conference down at the Grand America. It was a three day conference. It was so nice to get a little change for work. There were some really interesting classes that we went to, along with some really interesting food! Okay, the food was okay except for the first day. They gave us pretzels, corn dogs, and nachos for lunch. It was very interesting. But, the other two days it was much better. It was fun to get to hang out with the girls from work and just have fun together. The only part that was rough was sitting for so long. By the end of the day my feet were always so swollen. Oh, and the second day we were there, my car got wet drywall all over it from that parking garage. But, that got fixed and all is well now. It was a good information and good company!


JEN HAS BABY BRISTOL!!
My sister, Jen, had her baby on her due date! It was so crazy! Jen went into labor Saturday August 22nd in the early morning. Jen and Scott became Jen, Scott, and Bristol at 7:40pm. She is SO beautiful! She is such a good baby and was wide awake and aware from the time she was born! It was SO exciting for my family to get the first grand baby! We were all being a little dorky, waiting outside the room listening for a cry. They named her Bristol June Read. She was 7 lb. 2 oz. and 19.25 inches. She has tons of brown hair and big beautiful eyes like her mom. We are so excited that Jen and Scott have her and that Jen and Bristol are doing just fine! That just made Brady and I even more excited to have our little angel!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CHRIS!
Brady's brother had a birthday the same day that Bristol was born. We were sad that we didn't get to see him that day but we hope it was a wonderful birthday for him. We celebrated his birthday as a family this past Sunday. Chris, we love you and hope your birthday was awesome!

"WORLD'S FAIR"
Okay, no we didn't go to the real "World's Fair", but Brady and his family calls the Box Elder County Fair "The World's Fair". I think that Brady's favorite thing about going to that fair is the food. He thinks the hamburgers are yummy. So, of course, we all got some of the yummy hamburgers. It was fun to go to the fair and see the animals and the booths. But, it made it fun because Travis and Sierra brought their adorable little girls. They loved to see the animals and ride the rides. How cute are they!?




FIVE MORE WEEKS UNTIL OUR BABY WILL BE HERE!
Well, I have five weeks left! We are getting so excited and a little nervous! We have a pretty good start on the nursery. We have the crib, dresser, bedding, glider (almost), and some ideas for decor. If anyone has a good idea for decorations for her room, let me know. The room colors are red, pink, and turquoise. Anyways, we don't have a name for sure but are working on it. I have some belly pictures but they are on my camera so I will have to wait to put them up. My feet and hands are permanently swollen. I have to shove my wedding ring on, but at least I can still get it on there, right??? :) But, other than getting swollen, things are going great. We get to have another final ultrasound next week to make sure she is in the right position. Hopefully she is all ready to go and in a month after that we will have her here, safe and sound!

Well, there is the update. Hopefully I will keep up a little better in the next month! Oh, if anyone knows some good photographers, let me know. I am looking for a good one for when we have the baby. Other than that, thanks for reading (if you made it all the way) and hopefully we will have some good updates soon!

Birthday, vacation, and a baby update

This past Sunday was my older sister, Jen's birthday. She turned 25! I can't believe we are getting so old! It seems like we were just playing house and doing all those kind of little girl things! It is crazy. I am just glad that I get to see all of my siblings still (well other than our missionary, but that won't be for much longer). My sister Jen is such a sweet person and I can't wait for her to have her sweet baby girl this summer! She will be a great mom! Jen, I hope you had a wonderful birthday! Love you!


The next thing that I forgot to blog about is the fun family trip that we went on! We went to California with Brady's family. We rented a house that was right by the beach. We were there for about a week. It was so much fun! Brady's brother, Justin served his mission there in the Vietnamese area. It was so crazy to see how all of a sudden everything was in Vietnamese. All of the stores and restaurants in this area were Viet. It was great! It was so fun to see where Jubb (Justin) had spent his time while he was on his mission. We were able to go to church and it was fun to hear them speak that language. They remembered Jubb and were so excited to see him. They love him so much there! One crazy thing that happened while we were in Huntington Beach was Brady's dad got mugged. Well, they didn't actually get anything but he got hurt pretty bad. They smashed him in the head and put a really big gash. Luckily, Brady's dad was able to turn around a deck one of the guys and scared them away. It was really scary because he was all alone and when he came back we could tell he was freaked out and that he was in pain. He didn't go get stitches (even though he SHOULD have). But, he is doing well now and we were just so grateful that he was okay. From then on we used the buddy system at ALL times! It was so fun to spend some time with Brady's family. I think we all really enjoyed everything we did! There are pictures from the trip at the bottom of this post.

Finally, a quick update on the baby.... we went to the doctor on Monday. We got to hear the heartbeat. It was so neat to hear that! We got to see it the first time but to actually hear it is just incredible! Brady said after that he didn't realize how cool it would be. It was so fun to look over at Brady and see his big smile on his face. He is going to be such a wonderful dad! He has been such a trooper so far taking care of me and fending for himself when it comes to food. I am so glad that I have the most amazing husband to take care of me and comfort me when I need it. We also have the best, most supportive family and friends. They are so sweet! We love you all! Anyways, we go back to the doctor at the end of April and hopefully in the middle of May we will find out what we are having! It will be so exciting! So, that is the update for now! Sorry that was such a long post, but if you are still reading, I am proud of you!

Baby Shower!

My best friend Laurel is going to be having a sweet little girl in January. We had a shower for her last week. It was so much fun to be with the girls and celebrate Laurel and baby Paisley. We had some yummy food, decorated bibs, opened presents, and just had fun talking. She got some really cute things for baby Paisley. She is going to be a spoiled little girl, I can tell already! Laurel, your sweet baby is going to be so much fun! I can't wait to see her! Love ya!

Into the Woods we go. . .

This past weekend Brady and I were able to spend some time with some of my family. On Friday we went to see Ky and Shelby's babies (SO cute!) and then went to dinner with Laurel & Brady and Steph & Ty. After dinner, Brady and I drove down to Salt Lake to meet my parents and little sister, Karlee. As soon as we got there we went for a little swim. Then we ate frosties from Wendys and then went to bed. I got up bright and early so that I could take my test for my license (see post below). I passed so it was a great start to the day. Anyways, then everyone met up with me and we went to IKEA. If you have never been there, you need to go. That place is amazing. It is HUGE! My mom was crying the first time she went there because she didn't know how to get out of the place! (My mom cries a lot so this wasn't weird for her to do.) (There are arrows on the floor to follow out, but she still was lost. Ha ha.) Anyways, it was neat to finally go there and experience that. I had been looking at some chairs there and wanted to check them out! Brady didn't really like them so I am going to get some off Ebay. After IKEA, we headed to Gardner Village. It was some kind of kid day there because there was a million people there and like three million kids! It was crazy. So, we didn't stay there very long. I did get a Halloween decoration there. After we left there we got some lunch at Hires. They have the best rootbeer! Then we headed up Little Cottonwood Canyon to the temple granite quarry. It was SO neat! It was so beautiful and so amazing to see where they got the temple stone from. It made us all realize how amazing those people were. It was SO far away from the temple but somehow they managed to get these extremely heavy stones down the mountain to the temple. I can't even imagine the labor it took. It makes me feel SO grateful to live in the times I do. So, after we left there we headed to a theater in SLC (I think it was the Hale Centre Theater). We went to the play "Into the Woods". It was a cute little play. The playhouse was a little weird but it was fun to be there and hear the songs and everything. After that we headed home and just hung out for the rest of the weekend. Thanks mom and dad and Karlee for a fun weekend! We love you guys!

Anniversary Weekend... 3 years!

Yesterday was Brady and my anniversary! We have been married for three years! I really can't believe that it has been that long! It has gone by so quickly! We have had so much fun together. We lived with my parents for the majority of this time but are finally in our own house having so much fun! Brady really is the sweetest guy and is sol patient and caring. I know this sounds like a cliché description of my husband but if you know him you know how incredible he really is. For our anniversary Brady surprised me on Friday and took me up to Inn on the Creek in Midway (Between Park City and Heber). It was so beautiful there! We were in the honeymoon suite and it was so pretty! We had a great dinner at the Inn and some yummy chocolate cake. We watched a little Prison Break while we finished the cake in our room. The next morning they brought us breakfast to our room. We had juice, muffins, and fresh fruit. It was really good. After we got checked out we went to Park City and did a little shopping. Brady and I both got ourselves some running shoes (so now we HAVE to start running). After shopping we went and got some lunch and went on our way home. We stopped and went golfing at Glenn Eagle. I have never played that course so it was fun! It was really hot but we got a cart so it wasn't too bad. After golfing we went out to dinner with our friends Ky and Shelby and Kynnady, Laurel and Brady, and Ty and Steph. It was fun to get together with all of them! After dinner we went home and watched a little more Prison Break. Yesterday, our real anniversary, we went to church, watched Prison Break (yeah we really are addicted), had dinner and brownies at my parent's house, went to Travis and Sierra's house to watch Travis's skydiving video (while I got to play with Skylar and Sailyr), and then went home and watched MORE Prison Break. It was a really great anniversary! Brady got me four pair of shoes this weekend! Three cute pair of pumps and my running shoes. I got him an X-Box 360 (I know girls, dumb idea). Here is my reasoning for getting him that. . . He only wants to play with his buddies online so that means that we are going to have to get the internet. So, I will be able to blog and he will be able to play. We will see how that goes. . . So, overall our anniversary was fantastic. Thanks Brady, I love you and can't wait for many more fun years of memories to come! I don't have all of my pictures with me right now so I will put some more pictures of the weekend on later today. But here are some wedding pictures from that perfect day three years ago.

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