And the winner is...

A little princess pie! We went to the doctor yesterday and found out we are having a sweet little girl! I am afraid that our little girl is going to be a shy one. The ultrasound tech had to sit there and rub the little thing on my tummy to try and get her to move her leg so we could actually see what she was. And then when we tried to get a picture of her cute little face she wasn't going to have any of it. She put her arm up over her head and turned her face to my back to hide. The little stinker! But, luckily, the tech didn't get all the measurements that she needed so we have to go back in 4 weeks and try again. Hopefully she will let her mamma see her little face next time around! I have been so busy looking for deals to buy stuff for our little girl and I must say, so far I have been pretty successful! I can't wait to get her here and dress her up in all sorts of fun outfits!!

Princess Pie...... Or a Star Athlete?

We are so excited to find out what our little babe will be. We get to officially find out on May 17th and Rian is counting down the days. Almost literally. We went to the doctor a couple of weeks ago and got to listen to the heartbeat. It was so much fun to be there and listen to it. Rian wasn't able to come to the first appointment and so he was super excited when he got to hear it. He wants a boy so bad. All he talks about is having a little buddy to play with. Sometimes I think that is exactly what he doesn't need! I don't really care either way. I just want to know so that I can start planning things. We have officially started buying diapers for our little one. And dang they are so expensive! Hopefully we can get our little one potty trained fast! Haha. I am starting to show and it doesn't look like I am pregnant. I definately look fat! It is awful! My clothes are starting to not fit anymore and I really don't want to go buy nasty prenant people stuff. So instead I try to use rubberbands to hold my pants shut because it's the next best thing I can think of. Rian thinks that it is funny and he tries to tell me that my fat stomach is cute. It doesn't ever make me feel better. Hopefully soon I will get past this stage. I am almost half way done though, and I must say so far it hasn't been too bad. My little babe just thinks that it is a good idea to sit on my sciatic nerve a lot so every once in a while I almost fall to the floor in pain. But that is something I would much rather handle than throwing up!! I'm just sayin!

So very....

Sickness

This last week I have been crazy sick. On Sunday I went to the Instacare because I thought I had an ear infection. The doctor told me that I had fluid on my ear and that I was fine. He said to go home and take a few hot showers and I should be ok. Well as part of my becoming sickness I had a cough, sore throat, and was beginning to get sinus pressure. Monday morning I got up and went to work as if all was fine. Tuesday morning I did the same thing. With my job I always have Wednesdays off and at this point I was very grateful because I felt as though I was getting worse. All day Wednesday I laid around sleeping and coughing. That night I started to get paid in my left eye. It was red and was putting out some pretty nasty goopy stuff. So I went to bed hoping it would go away. The next morning my eye was so swollen it looked like I was in a fight with Rocky! My eyelid had swelled up so tight that the skin was shiny and very red. My eye was glued shut and I could even keep it open. I grabbed a hot washcloth and put it on my eye thinking it might change something. I called into work and said I would not be coming. During the day the swelling went down and my eye was starting to look a lot better. It was still very red, but it didn't hurt and was on the mend. Later that night at about the exact same time my right eye did the exact same thing! It started to get red and was doing the nasty goop thing! I couldn't believe it. So this morning I decided to go back to the Instacare to see what the heck is going on with my eyes. I didn't think it was pink eye because that is supposed to be very painful and make your eyes really red. Mine only hurt when they were doing the goop thing and then they were just red. So this morning the doctor proceeded to tell me that my oxygen level has gone down 6 points and I need to be careful because that could lead to pneumonia, and I have some something with conjunctivitis. That is why my eyes are all red and swollen. He gave me a Z Pac and also a prescription for my eyes. He said to only take the Z Pac and if it doesn't start to get rid of the redness in my eyes to fill the other. I told him I have to go to work tomorrow and said I wear contacts. He told me with the eye drop prescription he gave me I would have to take my contacts out to put the meds in, and then said he didn't know how much better I will be by tomorrow. Thanks a bunch doc! Now I just have a bunch of worrying to do and still have these crazy red eyes and what feels like the whooping cough!

Almost a year!

So this weekend Rian and I will have been married for one year! WOW! I am not sure how time flies by so quickly. I keep thinking that it was just last month that we were making wedding plans but really that was a whole year ago. Everyone says that if you can make it through the first year then you can make it, Rian and I looked at each other not to long ago after being told that and said,"Well dang this will be easy then!" Haha! We have had a great year. Mostly ups and some downs. We have both had trials in finding jobs and trying to make enough money to afford our very inexpensive lives, but it is all for the better. We love where we are at right now and we couldn't be happier with our life together. It sure is fun hanging out with your best friend every day!

I looked out the window and what did I see.......

.... Wait a minute! Snow flakes falling on the apricot tree!


Spring has brought me such a nice surprise.... SNOW flakes falling right before my eyes!


I could take an armful and make a treat.... A snow cone ball? I guess that works for me!


It wasn't really so.... Oh wait, yes it seems to be!


SNOW FLAKES FALLING ON THE APRICOT TREE!


So it's not really an apricot tree. It's just a peach tree, but it still works right? Winter isn't officially started until December 21st so I guess this is just a little preview! Happy Fall!

Our peach tree!

Lots of snow!

Much too long!

So it has been much too long since the last time I have posted anything! I feel really bad about it. And I keep thinking about posting stuff and I get lots of ideas about posts but then I just don't ever find the time to actually post my idea! Since my last post we have had a lot of changes in our lives! I got a new job at a Credit Union and I am now working 6 days a week between my two jobs. Rian has gotten TWO new jobs and he is staying busy with school. He works at the school as a lab aide and so he gets to use his computer skills everyday. His other job that he recently got was for a company in Spanish Fork. He edits already drafted houses. The plans get sent to him and then he goes in and makes changes to them so then they company can build the house! He is absolutely LOVING his job and he loves that he gets to use his drafting skills. We are getting so excited for the holidays and can't wait for Christmas to come. It has been fun shopping for all of our family members and trying to find ideas for gifts that they would want. This is our first Christmas being married and we are looking forward to it. Rian was super excited to have our first tree and put up Christmas lights up on our house. He kept telling me "I have never had my own Christmas tree.......... Christmas lights." He makes me giggle. He took pictures of the tree as I was putting it up. Just a little under 4 weeks ago we took Rian's little brother to the MTC. It was so much fun to see him get ready for his mission. He has been so cute sending us letters each week and keeping us updated on the new things he is learning. He is going to the Michigan Detroit mission. We keep teasing him that he better not get shot! Rian and I got the privilege of taking him to the temple when he was receiving his endowment. The little old ladies were so cute and so excited to have us there. They kept coming over to us and making all sorts of cute little comments. Rian's grandpa is a worker at the Manti Temple and that is where we had gone. We were getting ready for Riley to go get his stuff started and so one of the ladies said she would take me upstairs. So she was leading me up the stairs and saying hi to everyone and we came upon this one lady so we started talking to her and I stopped. The little old lady kept going. So when I came around the corner I heard her telling other temple workers that MY SON was going through the temple for the first time tonight. I ran around the corner and peeked my head and said, "Umm..... He is not my son. I mean he is a really good kid and stuff but he is my little brother-in-law!" The lady was so embarrassed. She appologized to me like 10 times! I was trying so hard not to laugh my head off. I then later was thinking geez how old did she think I was? Haha! So I guess I look like I could have a 19 year old son. We are going to try and do better and post stuff more often on here! I really love to read other people's blogs and I know that I need to keep mine updated too! I hope that you all have a wonderful holiday season!
This is our Merry Christmas Tree 2010!