Best Anniversary Ever!

As you know, Friday was our 7th anniversary. We dropped off Kate at Uncle Jaron and Aunt Beth's house and Dustin and I headed out to celebrate. We had reservations at The Keg Steakhouse. It's probably the fanciest place I've ever eaten at. The service was beyond awesome. When we got to our table their was a Happy Anniversary card on it signed by all the waiters. They were good at keeping our drinks filled, the manager came over to check on us, and best of all-- they gave us our dessert for FREE. The food was absolutely amazing, but I'll try not to remember that because it will be a long time before we can just drop $75 on dinner again. I had a 7oz steak that was wrapped in bacon (fabulous!) and Dustin had "The Basbeball Steak" which is a steak so thick that the most they can even cook it is medium rare. He was in heaven. The free dessert we received was the biggest brownie sundae I've even seen!  It was amazing.  After we finished stuffing our faces we headed over to the jewelry store.

Earlier in the week I had bought Dustin a new wedding ring. He lost his about 2 years ago, and we just never got him a new one. So I figured it was about time I fixed that! Well, right after I bought it Dustin's phone broke (Kate poured water on it) so we needed the money that I had paid for the ring for a new phone. So unfortunately he knew about his present before our annivesary. Well, because of that Dustin decided that we should go back to the jewelry store where I bought his ring, return it for store credit and use that as a down payment to buy ME the new ring he's been promising for years.

So after about an hour of back and forthing-- I finally found one that I LOVED and that we could actually afford. There was one better that I really wanted but, um yeah....it would have bankrupted us! So maybe in like another 10 years I can upgrade again :)  So here is my beautiful new ring!

It's a white gold band and the center is 5/8 carat diamond certified.  Which is supposed to be important :)  I love it!  I haven't taken it off since I walked out of the store.  And, of course, I just let Dustin keep his:

It's black tungsten and very cool. I knew as soon as I saw it that it needed to be Dustin's. It was much easier picking a ring for him than it was for myself!

Anyway, it was what Dustin's been calling our first "grown up" anniversary and it was awesome. I love you so much Dustin! I can't wait to see what the next 7 years bring!

7 years!

7 years ago I woke up as nervous as I had ever been.  It was my wedding day, and I was scared.  Of what?  I'm not sure, but I've never been one to handle life-changing decisions very well.  I got up, did my hair and makeup, and applied medicinal ointment to the breakout of impetigo on my lip that had surfaced on account of being so stressed.  My mom and I drove to the Snowflake temple, where we were to meet Dustin.  When I saw Dustin, he was also showing signs of stress.  A massive pimple had formed on his chin.  We were definitely a good looking couple that day!

As I look back on that day I can't help but think how young we were.  I was 19 and Dustin was 22.  Kids really.  Well those two crazy kids got married that day and started their amazing lives together.

We lived in Thatcher, where we also attended school.  We lived in a tiny, one bedroom house that was infested with scorpions.  I don't think I ever got a good nights sleep in that house.  Partly because we only had a twin (yes, TWIN) bed, but I can't tell you how many times I woke up to seeing a scorpion inches from my face.  We had no cable, so we spent our free time taking advantage of different Blockbuster plans, and playing the good 'ole Nintendo 64.

We sure have come a long way since then!  Almost 5 years later we gave birth to our beautiful daughter Kate, and now 7 years later we are weeks away from having our son Max.  I'm so grateful for our family and our lives together and I wouldn't change a thing!  I love you Dustin!  Happy Anniversary!

Counting down

Today I scheduled my c-section. Baby Max will be here no later than July 19th, 2011. I'm a little bummed they didn't let me schedule any earlier (I was aiming for 38 weeks), but I guess that's my doctors policy because she wouldn't let me. But it's good to know there is an end in sight! I'm 32 weeks now, and each day I'm getting more and more excited for our little boy to be here.

We've been working hard on his room, and let me just say, it's going to be awesome! I will be posting pictures soon, so stay tuned for that. I think we'll have it all done within the next week or two.

I had to take the 3 hour glucose test AGAIN. I had to take it with Kate, and it was the worst! This time around though I had someone really good who took my blood. She did it so fast I didn't even have a chance to feel light headed! It was truly a blessing, because I do not handle getting blood drawn well, and you have to be fasting as well. But-- I passed! No gestational diabetes for me!

He is a very active little guy and I just love to feel (and watch) him kicking me. It's my favorite part about being pregnant.

I'm getting really big. I told Dustin the other day that I feel like a boulder. That's the best way I can describe it. I haven't gained as much weight as I did with Kate (yay!) but I'm still really big and uncomfortable.

My baby shower will be June 18th 10:30 am. My awesome friend Kendra is throwing it for me and it's going to be so fun. There will be a waffle/breakfast bar so come hungry! Mark your calendars!

Well, I think that's all the baby updates I have right now. 49 days to go!

Sometimes...

you just gotta put on your prettiest dress...

and just dance!

Baking with Mommy

Kate just loves to help me in the kitchen. No matter what I'm making, she'll pull a chair up right beside me, stand on it, and insist on "stirring" things. Yesterday, it actually worked out in her benefit. I decided to make a cake, and Kate was more than willing to help me clean the beaters.

Like Mother Like Daughter

I don't have any pictures of this first incident, but I still feel like it needs to be written down. Lately I've been getting bigger and bigger, which means I have less and less energy. Translation= Kate gets into more and more trouble because she knows mommy doesn't have the energy to keep a constant eye on her. Well, two days ago, she found my scissors! Not just any scisscors-- my super expensive, super nice, hair cutting shears! And-- you guessed it-- she had cut her hair. Luckily it's not in a noticeable spot. She had only cut into the top layer of her hair and you can't see it unless you really know what you're looking for. Well, when I realized she had my shears, I immediately yelled at her

"No! Don't drop the scissors!"

Once you drop shears, the warranty is voided and they never work the same again. So I was, sad to say, way more worried about my shears than I was about my daughter's well being.

I took the shears, put them in a safe spot, and scolded Kate for playing with them. To which she looked me straight in the eye and said,

"I need a haircut Mom!".

Oh my goodness.

Incident two. Yesterday Kate was playing in the front room and I was probably on the computer. I hear Kate yell, "CHEESE!" and I look over to see this:

haha.  They really do watch everything you do!

I'm usually wearing pants though.

Tinkerbell

Have I mentioned how much Kate loves Tinkerbell? She asks to watch it EVERY DAY. It's okay really, there are much worse things she could ask to watch every day (Yo Gabba Gabba anyone?). She usually will bring her Tinkerbell doll down, and plop herself in front of the tv, and say, "Mom!  Tinkobell?"  And she's glued for an hour and a half.

I love this picture.  It says, "Mom!  Stop taking pictures!  I'm trying to watch TV!"

Last Saturday we went to the Disney store.  Kate quickly found the Tinkerbell display, and Dustin put these wings on her.  Well, of course we should've known that would be a mistake!  We couldn't get them off of her!  So Dustin, being the sucker for his little girl that he is, bought them for her and she wore them out of the store.  She enjoyed "flying" everywhere that day.

They are currently her favorite toy.