Just Some Random Things...

Look at me It's been like a week and I'm writing again! I'm so proud :)
Oh sad I just looked back and realized it's actually been 2 weeks.. yep proud moment gone.
Anyways, These last 2 weeks were pretty normal I suppose. We went to school and worked.. ok goodnight!
Haha I'm hilarious. Jk. But school is going well, it's pretty busy. We both have tons of classes and work and every semester I think, 'HOW the HECK am I going to get through this semester?' and I always do and it's always fine! I have faith that everything will work out! It's nice to have a Savior to have faith in right? It's sure a comfort to me.
I'm super excited for the baby! :) It's kind of like a waiting game right now, but It's exciting. I was getting all excited and getting things ready when we decided to move.. Nooooooooo! So that's kind of a pain, but it will be good. We have a super awesome little cliff right out of our door and we're worried about snow and ice and slipping down it with a baby in one arm and a backpack in the other and whatever else you have to carry when you have babies. I'm pretty sure it's a lot. So we decided it's better to be safe than sorry! I'm excited to move though it's a nice little apartment. It's still a one bedroom and the only way we can break our contract is because it's the actual basement of the people that own the on we're in now. They're really great people so it will be nice. And the kitchen is way bigger than this tiny one we have now and has a dishwasher! It's been years since I've used one of those... needless to say I'm excited to actually feel like our dishes are clean for once. Eww.. I don't know how we're still alive. (just kidding we're not disgusting I promise. I just feel like hand washing doesn't always do the trick.)
I'm also pretty sad about the move because our ward is awesome and the people that live above us are awesome and it will be sad to leave. It's just down the road but out of the ward. Hopefully the new ward is great as well, but I don't know if you can beat every sweet, elderly woman coming over to bring cookies and offering an egg if we ever need one at a moments notice. I love that the gospel makes people so happy and so close to each other! Our apartment also has a really awesome view, which i will miss... Here's a little sample that doesn't nearly do it justice.

Oh sad.. I actually don't have a picture. I'll take one tomorrow! :)

This is not the view.. but it's our cute little garden that was looking particularly nice one day! 

I also had a fun little park city work party this week! We did the alpine slide and had a barbecue at my boss's awesome house in the mountains. Shout out to platinum recall for being awesome! We have some good times.

Here's 23 weeks and my face of pure shock that my belly has expanded as much as it has. (I'm 24 weeks now but hey.. I'm not that on top of things)

Park city alpine slide! 

PR crew. Love those girls. (I stole this from one of the girls, thus the selfie that's not of me..)

Well that's about the gist of it all. I also love baby clothes and other small things and get excited about everything baby so that's exciting. Also a little ridiculous but how can i help it? There's an actual baby living in me and kicking my tummy! (which is really fun to watch, by the way, I just giggle like a 5 year old girl every time).
Now goodnight for real. So many tests this week!

News Flash!

Wow! I really failed at keeping up this blog. But Better late than never, I suppose. 
A lot has happened in the past...5 months, i think, since I've written, but the most important being... we're having a BABY! Yes you read that right! It's not really news to anyone reading this right now because it's been announced for a while.. but I'm getting more and more excited about it every day! I am 22 weeks along today and we found out a few weeks ago we're having a BOY!! :) Even in the ultrasound pics he's adorable and I love him, however alien like those pictures make them look. 

Here's an announcement for all to see. :)

When we first found out it was a boy!

Something I thought was funny :)

Well, I emailed some friends the experience of first finding out I was pregnant so I'll just copy and paste that right here to save finger cramps. Beware of the grammatically incorrect and run on sentences, as well as non professionalism. it was to close girl friends after all... 

I was actually in denial for a while even after Id taken 5 pregnancy tests. I was like, ok this can't be happening I'm a child.. but it is in fact happening! I'm accepting it now. Im so excited! I actually found out on my birthday, May 6th, in st George. We were going to dinner with my family and I had kinda been feeling weird, like having cramps and tender boobs even though I wasn't on my period, so my mom was like, "here take a pregnancy test!" and she whipped one right out of her pocket practically. I took it and it was positive.. BUT it was expired in 2009! So i thought, ok this can' be right. and I went downstairs to tell preston and he was sleeping, so he was half asleep, when I said in kind of a stressed, frazzled manner, "So I took a pregnancy test and it was positive." He didn't say anything, but still in sleeping position, his eyes bulged out of his head. IT was pretty funny. But I told him I don't know if it's real because it was expired! So I was all stressed because he found out in a really crappy boring way and not the cute way I had fantasized about. and my mom saw that it was positive and told my dad and no one got a cute surprise gosh dang it! But that's ok. So the next morning I took the other test and it was outdated too, but still positive.... I still wasn't convinced, but I went in to talk to my dad that night and he was so cute. He just grabbed my hand and squeezed it and made this super excited face. Matt was in there so he was trying to be inconspicuous. But I said I'd already told alani, (who was so excited. She tells me everyday she wants me to have a baby) so I told matt and he was like, What? I hope it's real! I want to be an uncle. And my dad was like tearing up and said, "my life dream is fulfilled!" He was so cute. He's just turning into the biggest softie ever. But yeah he told will who's traveling Europe with noah right now, and he was super excited. and the next morning bought another test and took it and it was positive.. so I figured i guess it was true. Sorry this is the longest story ever haha but it was just so funny. And honestly, I had stopped taking birth control so we were planning to start i guess and see what happens, but I was expecting it to take like a year! I've heard from tons of people it took them that long. But i got pregnant immediately. So like first try. It's pretty crazy. 

Anyways, That's that story! ever since then it's been, chronic nausea for the first trimester, exhaustion, overwhelming excitement, nesting and preparing for this baby! I don't feel sick anymore usually, I'm just tired. But I'll take that over being sick. Phew i can't imagine how some people who have it worse than me did it! Mine was mild yet seemed unbearable! Now I'm so excited to see that little baby in not too long. Here's a little sneak peak of his nursery (aka corner of our living room in our one bedroom apartment). 

Fun little decor I put together! No one knows the name yet, and yes it starts with a C.. but stop guessing right now! I know you were guessing... 

As for my body, (as I'm sure no one wants to read, but I'll write anyway..) It's weird and foreign. I have started to grow a bump, but I"m still not very big and if you didn't know me, you wouldn't think I was pregnant. I'm worried one day I'll just blow up like a balloon overnight! I sure hope it's a little more gradual... I have started to feel him kicking! IT's such a cool feeling and kinda weird at the same time. At first it felt like little twitches, but now i can tell more frequently and it's getting stronger. The last ultrasound I had was so cool because I could see him move, and feel him move at the same time! It was so much fun. He's a wiggly little bugger and kind of an acrobat. It's really fun to watch. 

20 weeks pic. 

In other news, not that anything else is really as exciting as babies.. but we started school again. If i didn't talk about this a while ago, I transferred to UVU and am studying exercise science. I'm not sure what to do with it, but I feel good about it and know I want to get a degree. Preston is doing great in school and started working at the MTC again. It's been a really good thing for him. He loves the atmosphere and being able to focus on something that is spiritually enlightening and that isn't school every one in a while. He's the best guy in the world and I love him so much! He's been so great throughout this whole pregnancy. He'll be the best daddy in the world! But seriously, if you didn't already think I was serious, I"m so grateful to have him in my life he's such a blessing and he makes me love life. So I should be done with school next summer 2015 and preston should be done fall 2015. After which he still has a long way to go.... poor guy. Hang in there babe. I'm super proud of him in all he does and can't wait to see what the future holds for us! 

Thanks for reading and I'll try to be more consistent! 

(key word: try...)

Here's some fun stuff we've been doing! 

Saw wicked in Salt lake with the fam

Fun little salt lake trip. Liberty park is so cool!