Utah Trip-Nathan's Graduation

Graduations are SO exciting!

This was the second graduation we went to-Tyler's cousin graduated from the U

At the new mall!

We took a weekend to go to Tyler's brother's graduation at BYU. We made quite a weekend of it! The night of the graduation, the whole family went to Texas Roadhouse, then the next day, we went to the new mall by temple square. It was gorgeous! We also went to the other mall and went to Tacanos! Tyler had never been there, so we decided to count it as part of our anniversary celebration. ;) We stayed with my sister Jana. It was quick visit, but a very memorable one! :)

Sprink Break 2012-Washington Trip

Tyler and I were able to get a ride to Spokane to visit my side of the family. Tyler hadn't met my step dad or step sister, and hadn't gotten to really talk much with my family-just quick talk at the reception. So we were super excited to get to take this trip. 

We were able to spend a whole day with just my mom. That has NEVER EVER happened. It was quite special. Tyler was so patient as we went to the mall, he just waited. It meant a lot to me to get to spend this time with my mom. We went to Riverfront Park so I could show Tyler the giant wagon slide I loved as a kid with the monkey bars underneath. :) We also went to one of our favorite restaurants, Olive Garden! It was a great day. However, I was SUPER excited to show Tyler the arcade that is in the basement of the mall with bumper cars, and the guy wouldn't let me go on the bumper cars because of my belly. I was so ticked cause 1. I knew how excited Tyler was to get to do something more fun than sitting and watching my mom and I shop. and 2. I haven't been there and done bumper cars in FOREVER! But it was still cool to show Tyler the arcade. 

We also set a side a day to spend with my brother Keric. He took us to a different mall where we picked out some pottery and painted them. They fire them and then you come pick them up when they are done. I'm still waiting to get them back, but I will post pictures when I get them! Tyler painted a plane and I did a car for Paxton's room. Keric said they turned out great. 

Then we spent a few days in the Tri-Cities. We stayed with my Grandma and Grandpa Horne. We hung out with my sister and her kids and visited. We had dinner one night all together with my grandparents and my sister and her family. As we were getting ready to leave for my Sister-in-Law's house, my sister's 5 year old got into some trouble. The pictures should explain it.-Baby powder-ALL OVER! We went to visit my Sister-in-Law and the kids (my brother is in another state working). That was really fun. Tyler hadn't met any of them yet either. Just so you know,  my Sister-in-Law, Angela, is AWESOME. :)
Then we we went back to my mom's and my Grandma and Grandpa T came and visited! It was a pretty fun visit. Tyler got to see the house I lived in when I was in Kindergarten, meet some more of my family and we were able to make some fun memories. It was great to see my family again. :)

Mom in Progress

I am beginning to feel like a wife/mom! I finally crafted something!! At our school, the business majors have a semester where they have to run a business for the semester. One of them is called "Home Interest" this semester. They had an example of family blocks that we could do, but we could do any letters we wanted, soooo...the baby's name fit perfectly with the number of blocks! It turned out so great! I got to pick out the colors of the paper and did everything myself (except for making the vinyl lettering--I told them the letters I wanted and they did it)! They had the PERFECT ribbon for us to use too since we are doing a monkey theme! Monkey See Monkey Do! haha! I am quite proud of my little mommy-craft-project. :D Had to share how cute it turned out! We will put them on a shelf in the baby's room!

It's a BOY!

I feel like it's taken FOREVER for this day to come! I went to the doctor when I was at 17 weeks and tried to beg him to let me see the gender. He refused! All I was going to get was the baby's heart beat. I thought, THAT'S IT? For a 50 dollar appointment, I expected more. He said, well, we won't be able to see much at this point, it'd be a waste of your money. In another month or so, we will have you come back in and we will get to see and measure everything. My thoughts: A MONTH!? I started to tear up at the thought that I wouldn't get to see my baby for a WHOLE MONTH! The last time I saw him was at 11 weeks. He asked me, is that ok? I bluntly said NO! I want to see my baby! I think I started to scare him and so he said, okay okay! We can't have and upset pregnant lady. We will do an ultrasound just for fun. Sooo...I that held me over until my 20 week appointment. 

 At the 20 week ultrasound, the baby was turned away as well as breech. Which made it really difficult to take a peek at the gender. (He said it is still normal at this point for the baby to flip back and forth from normal to breech position) The first picture was hard to tell which made me really scared that we weren't going to get to find out at this appointment. I had been look forward to this and loosing sleep over it! I was NOT going to leave empty handed! -I am becoming less and less pleased with my doctor anyway because he has seemed kinda careless the last couple of appointments...like he was just there to do his job. The first appointment was great! He seemed really excited and was even offering me to give him calls at 3am if needed! I thought what a great doctor!...not so much anymore!-

ANYWAY!!! He pushed even harder with the ultrasound thingy and probed around some more until we saw the DEFINITE sign of being a boy! I think Tyler was really shocked. I was just SO relieved to KNOW FINALLY!!! I was so excited to get to start shopping! But then I was told not to get any big stuff yet until I have my baby shower. I see wisdom in that. But it is SO hard when I have a room just WAITING to get fixed up. 

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We also start our birthing classes next month! I am SUPER excited for that! I think I will feel so much better to have a better education about the birthing process. I feel prepared with my knowledge on my child's development, but not on birthing. I know it will be such a spiritual experience and that it will bring me an my husband to whole other level. It's going to be great! I am loving where I am in life. I am feeling SO TRULY blessed! 

I also went to my friend's baby blessing today. That got me excited too! To just imagine Tyler up there blessing our baby boy. I will admit, I teared up a bit. I hear that time goes by faster from now on. I hope that's true! :)

Christmas Festivities!

This was our first Christmas together as a married couple. I spent Christmas with his family last year too, but this one we had our own place to get to decorate and stuff! It was so fun! We got our tree and lights and ornaments and candy canes. Putting up and decorating the tree is my favorite thing to do for Christmas. So Tyler patiently handed me each and every ornament and let me decorate it. :)

My grandma gave me a Precious Moments Nativity Scene last year and I was so excited to have it to put under the tree! We also got stockings! That was fun. In my family all of our stocking stuffers get individually wrapped, that was a new tradition to Tyler. We had to take our tree down before Christmas though because we moved out and into a new apartment on the 26th. We left on the 23rd to visit family in Boise. We had QUITE and eventful weekend! We made red and green pancakes. My mother-in-law got engaged! And we announced my pregnancy to his family. It was a very memorable Christmas! Hard to think that by Christmas this year we will have a little one with us for the ride! 

Until something exciting happens again! 

Lacie

Thanksgiving!!! Turkey...fail.

Potatoes and Stuffing

This Thanksgiving was the first we've been without family. Work only allows us to take off EITHER Thanksgiving or Christmas. So we had one of my best friends, Virginia and her husband and brother-in-law over and another couple we know from work. We started cooking our Turkey around 12/12:30 ish. I think our oven is crap cause it got to be about 7 and the dang Turkey STILL wasn't cooked. We tried detaching the legs earlier and letting out some of the juice...still never cooked...we gave up and just ate the rest of the food. We had mashed potatoes, macaroni salad, deviled eggs, olives, stuffing, veggies, ROLLS *which looked like little butts and so I just HAD to take a picture of them!*

and pumpkin pie..I think it sufficed. :) We played games for a couple hours and then we watched two movies...Fried Green Tomatoes and Shallow Hal.

HA! It was fun though. :) Definitely a memory to remember. :D

Grazing food leading up to Dinner.

Aly nice and comfy on the couch

Trying a fishtail braid on VA

Austin (VA's brother in law) pretending to be asleep

Our Turkey after 7 hours..not cool.

We gave up...

We still had food and fun and ended the night happy! :D

Halloween!

Ok...It's blog catch up time...haven't blogged since August?! WOW!!! So Tyler and I didn't do many fun things for Halloween, but it was fun to do pumpkins. I went to the ward party...Tyler wasn't feeling good, just really tired, so he stayed home and rested up. I painted a pumpkin and had a blast seeing all the cute tinys in their costumes! We had a yoda, and a bam bam, and a curious george...their parents matched them too...like bam bam had Barney and the lady...forgot her name. And curious george had the man in the yellow hat. hahaha! It was awesome! Then on Halloween we carved a pumpkin and toasted the seeds. :)