prince or princess?

We are happy to announce that we are expecting a little

GIRL!!

Measuring right on track and kicking away like crazy! 

The ultrasound tech had a hard time at first 

because she was hiding "the goods" with her cute little foot, but after some prodding 

she relented and let us know she is, in fact, a she. 

We are over the moon!

To celebrate we ate pink ice cream (wearing a pink shirt was purely coincidental - or foreshadowing... either way).

She weighs about the same as this bowl of ice cream (5-6ish ounces) 

Just about 4.5 inches long from her cute little head to her cute little bum - 

She's growing so fast!

Cinco de Mayo, grocery deals, baby shower, & question #11

Sorry for the lapse in posting - honestly my mind has been elsewhere! But, I thought it was time for an update and a few photos at least! First of all, price matching at Walmart is way more fun than I thought... we got 10lb blocks of cheese for only $7.50! And not just any cheese... Cache Valley cheese! Mmmmm queso! Along with that we got lots of other fruit (watermelon at 6lbs/99cents and oranges for 5lbs/99cents, strawberries 1lb/99cents (we bought lots and lots and lots of strawberries) and felt pretty good about our deals. Not trying to be boring with a grocery update, but come on, the cheese was a great deal! Oh, and just so you know, if you wash your strawberries in 1 part white vinegar and 10 parts water, rinse them, and dry them well, they won't mold for a long time! The vinegar kills the mold-causing spores and makes your strawberries last :). Either that, or you can just freeze them and use them later for smoothies (which is what we did with all the ones that weren't going to the baby shower).

You can see 1/4 of one of the cheese blocks that was grated by our handy kitchenaid in the corner of the photo. And all those strawberries!

Andrea had her baby shower this weekend (so excited for her!) and I decided I wanted to make this because I was in charge of the fruit:

Fancy, huh?! 

Well, it turned out great (thanks to Brian's efforts) and it was tasty too. The baby shower was lots of fun and Andrea is just the cutest pregnant girl ever. She could have this little girl any day now! 

We also celebrated Cinco de Mayo this weekend and had some friends over for a fiesta. We started the night by making mustaches, ate lots of Mexy Food, and watched Nacho Libre. Good times.

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Oh, and the next question on my 30 questions project is: Describe 10 pet peeves you have
First ones that come to mind:

1. Loud chewing
2. Having to repeat myself more than once
3. Bad driving
4. Dirty dishes left to rot in the sink
5. Spoiled, snotty children
6. No toilet paper in the bathroom
7. Excessive use of the words "Like" and "you know" 
8. Traffic
9. Rude people
10. Getting my pants caught in the back of my shoes

never do this.

So... this weekend Brian and I decided we wanted to go camping. Unfortunately, Friday night came and it was getting pretty dark before we ever even left the house. So, we decided that instead of setting up our tent, we were just going to sleep in Brian's geo. 

His geo.

Don't know what that is? Well, it's a very small car that has the engine of your average go-cart. Here is a picture of one in case you were wondering....

Now, Brian's geo does not have tires quite that large. In fact, he had a flat tire once and I honestly couldn't tell which tire was the donut and which ones were just normal. Hehe - I love that carrito!


Anyway, so we took his geo up into the Sundance mountain range, parked it and camped out in his car. I think that Brian described that night's experience perfectly. We were like rotisserie hotdogs being cooked on flames of pain. Let me explain... every way we turned it hurt in different ways. So, throughout the night we just slowly turned circles so that different areas of our bodies could hurt (we had to be fair!). Anyway, it wasn't a very restful night and when we woke up we were ready to go home after a short walk through the canyon. I think next time it will be worth the effort of putting up a tent :)


Other events from this weekend... transporting our new couches (new to us anyway) with a minivan, finally went to our new ward for the first time, pioneer day in the park (so fun until I got food poisoning again!), pizookie night with Rebecca & Chris, and a delicious Sunday crockpot dinner and homemade bread made by my wonderful husband! Love him!


Yep, it was a good weekend. Just don't ever try and sleep in the back of a geo metro.

April showers bring May flowers and what do May flowers bring...?

PILGRIMS! Anyway... sorry for the lame joke.

So, I haven't done a regular post in quite some time... Pretty much just been posting engagement photos lately! There are still more of those to come (as soon as I get them), but I thought that I would give the world a little update on life!

• We signed for our apartment today! (photos to follow...). One bedroom, new carpet, nice paint, big and open, storage space, underground parking... and about the cheapest deal we could find! (minus the $500 scary basement apartment that felt like someone had been murdered there :/ - no gracias!)
• 51 more days until the BIG DAY!... and so much to do still! Ahhhh!
• I started spring term! I am taking Global Nursing, Marriage Prep, and Wedding Prep (my own personal course that I am trying to fit in somewhere ;) ). I like my classes lots so far!
• Brian got 2 internships for this spring/summer - one with Aflac and the other one with Sears corporate. He'll be busy practicing those business skills! We are so happy that the Sears one is paid and he'll get 40 hours a week starting June 6th!
• I have 2 new roommates and they are super sweet!
• Easter was fun :) Brian and I cooked dinner and invited friends over, we made tasty chick cupcakes (not as cute as the Martha Steward photo from which I received my inspiration, but what can you do?), broke LENT - yes, we had dessert for the first time in FORTY DAYS - heaven! Don't worry, we didn't overdo the lent thing though... we only had pie, shakes, cupcakes, ice-cream, and chocolate ... not too bad, right? Hehe.

He's so great to support me in my wild cupcake baking schemes! Or maybe he just wanted to eat some...

sort of cute... sort of creepy. We accidentally bought HUMONGOUS chocolate chips... we were supposed to get the little cute ones for the eyes and chopping up the big ones just didn't quite have the same "cute" effect as the little ones would've. Maybe next year.