Spring Break: Vacation 1

This Spring break is JAM packed with adventures. We just got back from California and are leaving for Indiana tonight! HOLY MOLY!

Friday afternoon Spencer, Grandma, Whitley, and I left for San Elijo State Beach. It was pouring rain the whole day before we left and from what we heard from mom, it didn't stop the whole way to the beach. We loaded up Grandma's teeny tiny prius with bags, tents, coolers, sleeping bags, camping chairs, and everything else you could think of fitting in there and headed out around 3:00. We only had to stop twice on the way there (I was seriously shocked because I drank a ton and normally have to pee about every 2 hours!) and one time was just for gas. We got to the San Diego area and drove through snow. That's right, I said SNOW. It was quite freaky! Luckily my wonderful hubby got us there safe and sound. When we got there, it was raining. It was cold. It was dark. And I was really tired. Let's just say, I had a little bit of a break down while setting up the tent and ended up sitting in the car while Dad, Nick, and Spencer set up the tent. THEN to top it off, we couldn't find the cap to our air mattress. Dad let us use one that he brought and we had to pump it up every 2 hours! Oy. We finally just laid down to go to sleep and it started raining POURING. It was so loud on our tent. We also didn't stake down our tent because we were going to move it the next morning so when the wind picked up, our tent was jumping and flinging here and there and it was so cold! The condensation on the inside of the tent made for a wonderful awakening every time the tent was thrown down. At about 12:00 we decided it was just too much and we couldn't sleep so....we got all of our stuff and went into Grandma's car. There we slept in the front seats for the night.

Saturday morning it was still really cold and cloudy and I wanted to go home. This is NOT the beach vacation I was expecting or wanted. I wanted to be warm, on the beach, in my swimsuit; not huddled in my coat wanting nothing more than to just sit in the car and play Boggle. Since it was still so cold, we decided to go to San Diego for the day. We went to Seaport Village and ate the delicious Chicago style pizza that we always get and walked around, enjoying the sun. By the time we got back to camp, the sun had come out, all of the clouds were gone, so we packed up the tent (oh! we found the cap to our mattress so we got that all set up, and we got in our suits and went to the beach! It was such a nice change. That day Spencer went out in the water to play with the boys. About 10 minutes in he somehow stubbed his toe on something in the water and came in for the day. We got some hydrogen peroxide from the camp store and cleaned him up. It hurt him the entire rest of the trip. Poor kid, he never got to go back out in the water because he didn't want anything to get in the cut and make it infected. That night, Spencer was up the whole night in so much pain from his toe. Finally about midnight, I found some Tylenol in my bag and gave him 3. He was finally able to sleep.

Sunday was a good day. My family got up an went to a ward right near the beach for church. We stayed back and just relaxed for the day. When they got back we went to the Mormon Battalion museum and walked around the temple. It was really laid back and fun. By the time we got back, it was nice to just sit and chill. Spencer and I took a nap and then he had to get up and do his homework that was due that night for his dumb physics class (that's a story for another time). We slept awesome that night. Like seriously awesome. All night long.

Monday we packed up first thing, and spent the day on the beach. It was so nice. Spencer and I walked along the beach, picked up seashells, and got to spend a little bit more just us time than we had the rest of the trip. We left about 2:00 and went to lunch at some hole in the wall Mexican restaurant called Rudy's. It was actually really yummy! Spencer was in heaven though...he was so happy! We headed home and got back in pretty good time. We slept awesome that night in our own bed! I literally slept for 12 hours. I missed my bed so much...I like fantasized about it the whole trip. We have been home for about 2 days and we leave tonight for Indiana. Our flight leaves at midnight and we will be gone until Sunday night visiting all of Spencer's friends and people he knew on his mission. We are very excited to be going with Spencer's family and to spend some time with them...even though the high will be 50* on the warmest day we are there and it is supposed to snow and rain the whole time. Golly, I just can't get away from this darn cold! It makes me glad I live where I do.

I didn't take many pictures on this trip because I didn't want my camera out in the rain. Took a couple kissing pictures at the temple but nobody wants to see that! :)

A new little PRINCESS

It's true! In just a few short months we will be bringing a new little princess into the world!!

I am so stinking excited!! Lucky for me, the days just before the ultrasound went really quickly so I wasn't waiting in agony. Wednesday morning my appointment was at 9:10. Spencer and I got up at like 7:30, he made french toast (you have no idea how big of a deal this is. I had been waiting to eat these amazing strawberries I had on french toast since like Sunday. It was terrible!), and we headed out to the doctor. We had a short wait and they took us back. The ultrasound was so fun. I know it was pretty much the same as every other one, but it is so fun seeing our little baby on the screen. It is also fun because she is a lot farther up now and closer to my tummy so the technician didn't have to push very hard to see her :). She checked the spine, the kidneys, the bladder, the brain, the length of the bones in her legs, the heart (that part was really cool. You could see all 4 chambers and could see them moving....crazy!!), and measured the heart rate. After all of this she tried to find out the gender. Our little lady decided she didn't really want to open her legs (I guess I should be happy about that, but it made it quite frustrating!) After a little bit, the technician had me roll on my side to try and get the baby to move. Shortly afterwards she started to cooperate. The picture was finally clear enough and the technician said, "It's a girl". I was so happy! I have been thinking it was a girl the whole time!! And so had everyone else. It would have been a sad day if everyone and their dog had been wrong; even though I would have loved him either way if it was a boy. She finished up the ultrasound, printed some pictures, and gave us a disc of all of the pictures from the entire ultrasound. This is really nice because now the pictures will be perfect and clear, not blurry and off color.

It's crazy to see how much she looks like a human just from the past 6 weeks. You can see her little face and her fully developed arms :).

Right after, we went in to talk to the doctor and had a short little wait. In that time, Spencer told me that he didn't know why it took her so long to say it was a girl. He said, "I saw the little lines and went...'oh no....there they are....it's a girl' but it took her so long!!"  I proceeded to tell him, "That's so funny because I kept seeing one long line and was like...'oh crap....it's a boy...' but then she pointed out the lines and I thought...'oh, ok! that's what I thought!'" Spencer is really happy to have a little girl too :).

After the doctor, we went to Walmart to get a dress and shoes (That's all I could talk Spencer in to buying). We got this adorable little dress, shoes on sale, and we got a picture frame to put the ultrasound pictures in. I think Spencer even had fun picking out this stuff, even though on the way into the store he said, "I don't know if I can handle all of this frilly stuff" to which I replied, "Oh. Just WAIT!!" haha. We also went to Party City and got some little girl balloons. We met my mom and sister at Freestone park to take pictures of us with the pink stuff that we bought, and surprised them with the news. We took pictures and it was really fun. We had some camera troubles and it was pretty hot, but we got through it in good time and ended up with some cute ones! And now, for the moment you have all been waiting for...the pictures! I know I posted these all on facebook but I want to have them on my blog for future.

We love our little Princess tons already and can't wait to meet her! She is going to be perfect, I just know it :) <3

We are one proud mommy and daddy!

Life is SO good!

I repeat...Life is SO good! We are some happy campers right about now. Everything seems to be working out perfectly for us. I know it's probably bad luck to say anything but we cannot complain! We have been moved into our new apartment for about a week and a half now and are seriously loving it. I am one of those people that doesn't like to live out of boxes, suitcases, etc. When I am somewhere for good, I want to be there....for good! I don't want to have to search through boxes to find a fork. I don't want to trip over boxes because I haven't found a place for their contents yet. I don't want to look and see bare walls when I have boxes and boxes of pretty decorations and picture frames. I don't want to look around and feel like I wouldn't want anybody to come over because I would have to explain that we just moved and haven't quite figured out what we are doing with stuff yet. So here we are, all set up!! We love having the extra space EVERYWHERE. We have room to walk, we have places to put things, and we have color on the walls! I'll go back to the move though.

On Saturday the 23, we got the keys. Friday night we went before they closed and signed the lease (this was a really good idea because it took over and hour to sign the lease and it was nice to just worry about packing up and getting started). Friday night we went to go get my dad's truck so we could use it to pull a trailer he was letting us borrow. Long story short: keys weren't there, trailer wasn't available, Uncle Tyler comes to the rescue! My awesome uncle Tyler offered to come and help us pack up in the morning and use his trailer. It was amazing. Saturday morning we woke up and got everything the rest of the way packed up. We didn't have to be out of the old apartment until the 28th so we didn't worry about cleaning anything, we just loaded up the entire apartment into Tyler's trailer and the back of my dad's truck and took off. We also had some little helpers! Tyler brought Branson and Jarvis to help. They were so cute and helpful. We got the keys and went back to start painting! Tyler, Branson, and Jarvis, along with Whitley helped us unload everything into the apartment. This was also the time when Jarvis stepped in some dog poop and tracked up the walkway to our door and into the baby's room. That was smelly. We thanked them and they left. I don't know what we could have done without them!!!!!!! Right about halfway through unloading the Hons showed up to help. Kathy and Tanner were a huge help in unloading and they stayed to paint the whole day. We painted, and painted, and painted, and painted, from about 11 to 6. It was a looooong day. We got most of the painting done in that day though so we could get our furniture in and sorta put together. All we had to do was to touch up here and there. The last thing we had to do that day was to go to Walmart to buy a microwave and a shower curtain for our guest bathroom. Let's just say, I slept great that night!! Besides being in so much pain ;). I had a really sore back and my hips and knees were killing me! Moving while you are pregnant is not an easy task!

It really looks amazing! It feels like a home, it feels like our home!! Just this past week we have finished touching up the paint, hanging all of the decorations on the walls, and getting all but the last 3 boxes put away (That is my fault. I don't want to put them away. That means I have to find a specific place for them and they just keep telling me they don't want a place!!).

Here are some pictures :) Don't mind the lived in part of the house, it would have been better to do these before we had laundry and dirty dishes and stuff but I wanted everything to be put up before I took them!

Front entry way

This was brown and I put it together and painted it :) Grandma wrote "Welcome Home" and Tatum colored....something haha

Guest Bathroom :)

This is the living room. We are going to get something really cute to put  up on that wall...just don't have anything yet.

My favorite wall of the house, I LOVE this color!! 

Dining Room (Need something on that white wall too, still looking!

Bedroom #2 aka BABY'S ROOM!!! I love this room so much. After some drama with the color of paint at Home Depot, we got the perfect color and I love this room. It's so quiet and is going to look so cute with baby furniture in it!

This room is almost as big as our master bedroom, you just can't tell from the pictures how big it really is!

This is our kitchen! We love all of the cabinet space! We have room for almost everything!

Another view. The big door there is the laundry room. It's nice and big but it doesn't have a washer and dryer yet and it is just sorta plain so I will leave it up to your imagination! :)

Our bedroom! We have so much room in here it is unbelievable! I know you can't see the whole floor, but really....it's almost double the size of our old room!

Those blinds open up to our big patio and storage closet!

This is my photo wall! Very proud of the way it turned out! Don't mind the random red and random people. I think I am going to wait until we have the baby to put some more pictures in there. After all...why look at ourselves when we can look at a really cute baby!!!

Just another picture of the wall so you can see it more in perspective :)

Our HUGE closet!!!! We don't even know what to do with all of this space! Spencer's mom says we just need to buy more clothes to fill it up! My dad disagrees :)

Master Bathroom. It's the same size as the guest bathroom but both are really nice and big.

I don't know if you can tell in any of these pictures but our whole apartment besides the bedrooms is this wood floor looking stuff. It's a kind of vinyl and it looks really REALLY nice! I was a little bit worried about it at first but the color is awesome, it is easier to keep clean and clean up, and it adds something a little bit different to the whole place. I am really happy with it :) It looks especially nice in the bathrooms.

Well this post is really long and congratulations if you made it all the way through! I am so excited to begin this new part of our lives. I can't believe that in August we will be living in this same place with a baby!! How crazy. I could not be happier :)