Blessed

Lately, especially since it is Christmas, I have been feeling overwhelmed by how blessed we are! Kurtis and I have the best families in the world, we have great friends, good jobs, we have everything we could ask for and more. I love this time of year, (except maybe the mall parking lot and all of University Parkway!), I love Christmas music, Christmas lights and being with family so much. I love the opportunity we have to think about the Savior and how much he and Heavenly Father love us. I can't even express how grateful I am for the amazing gift of the atonement. I am so so so grateful for the knowledge that whenever I am completely overwhelmed and stressed about whatever it may be I can pray and I instantly feel better. Again, just so blessed. I don't think I say that I appreciate it enough. With this really big event coming up in our lives I am so grateful for everything that we have and that we are going to be blessed to have a baby girl come into our lives. I am so thankful for an amazing husband who I know is going to make an amazing father. I can't wait for the next step!

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

I realize I have been a total slacker of a blogger lately. And you know what, Im not even going to apologize. :) It is pretty crazy how busy things have been. To give you a little example...we decorated our house on December 1st for Christmas and everything got done but the decorating of the tree. Last year when we took the decorations down we noticed that half the lights on our prelit tree were out and we didn't want to deal with it then so we decided to wait until this year. Much to Kurtis's dismay it took him about 6 hours to figure out which lights needed to be replaced and restrung. He was not very happy about it but when all was said and done it look great. Now if we could just find the time to decorate the tree! Seriously, its kind of ridiculous how busy we have been. We go to work throughout the week and come home and it seems like we are immediately off to something else. Oh well, I guess that is how is goes this time of year. We are excited for Christmas and especially excited that both of our schedules for work mean we get home in the early afternoon of Christmas Eve and don't work the rest of the year! That sound so good to me! I'm about fed up with work. My feet hurt after like an hour of flying and I get cranky a lot quicker. But, that said, after talking to my doctor about how long I should and can work I am going to try to make it through most of January. Hopefully I can stick it out for 3 weeks in January. If anyone knows where we can get a money tree then I can stop working now! Yeah, I keep hoping for that but so far to no avail. :) I am so excited to have some time before this baby comes to get the nursery all ready and everything prepared. We can't wait for our little girl to be here!

5 month Prego Pic

Here it is. Me at 5 months. I guess I should just be glad that its starting to look like a baby in my tummy and not just that I have a gut or am getting fat!

We are having a baby GIRL!

WE ARE HAVING A GIRL! My 20 week ultrasound was yesterday and can I just tell you how crazy I was going waiting for it to come!? Pretty crazy! We went in yesterday about 3 and found out that our baby is a girl. We are really excited. Kurtis was hoping for a boy but is just as happy with a girl. He even admitted he kind of knew all along that it would be a girl, plus he says he gets along better with girls anyway! It was so amazing to see our little girl move on the screen. She kept putting her little hands up in front of her face. Its amazing how much she has grown just since my last ultrasound a month ago. Everything looked good, she has all the right parts in the right places so we are very grateful for that. Its amazing what they can do with technology now! After the appointment we went straight to the Baby Gap and bought the cutest little knit dress I have ever seen! I can't even express how happy and excited we are. Now, I can get working on decorating the nursery, that should keep me busy and then before we know it she will be here! It really is so crazy to think that soon we will have a little human that we are in charge of. Sometimes I still forget that this baby is going to come out soon and our lives will most likely change dramatically. We can't wait! For right now, we are getting all the sleep we can and going on some pretty cool trips (which I have been lazy about blogging about but will soon post pictures!)

Painting some walls and beautiful Fall!

So, recently I decided I wanted to do some painting in our house. Kurtis was super excited about it! :) Anyone who knows my husband very well knows that he is a perfectionist to the max! So, he wasn't thrilled with the idea but he went along with it because he loves me so much. First we took on the front wall in our living room and then when that was finished I liked it so much and was so thrilled with it that I decided I wanted to paint a wall in the kitchen the same color. Again, Kurtis was really happy about this. But, it is all done now and I love it! He does too actually! Now I just can't wait to find out what this baby is and then we can start on the nursery.

This last weekend we went to my families cabin at Fish Lake and we couldn't have picked a better weekend! It was so beautiful. I thought for sure it would be fairly cold but it was so warm, not a cloud in the sky and the colors of leaves on the mountain were amazing. We also went to Capital Reef on Saturday and that was also amazingly beautiful. We are so spoiled to have so many beautiful surroundings so close to where we live! Today we are headed to Park City for two days and apparently we will be in the snow the whole time which will be fun for a change and then we are going to Costa Rica on Sunday for our 1 year anniversary! I'll be sure to posts pics from that amazing place. Oh, and just a random side note...I felt the baby move last night for the first time and it was probably the most amazing thing I have ever felt!

Sick and tired...

So, I really don't have anything that great to blog about. I was just bored sitting here and thought I would. I have to admit too, this might not be the most positive blog I've written. Last week was a really hard week at work. I had a 4 day trip that lasted forever and I had to get up at like 3 am for 3 days in a row! I thought it would be okay because Im so tired all the time anyway that it usually isn't very hard for me to go to sleep early. Anyway, I did go to sleep early and got all the rest I could but obviously that wasn't enough. I started bleeding again Thursday and by night it was worse then its ever been. Needless to say, I was totally freaking out but knew there wasn't a lot I could do about it at 11 pm. So, I called the doctor in the morning and went in to check the heartbeat. It took the nurse like forever to find it and we heard it beat like 3 times and then we lost it again. She said we could do an ultra sound but she felt good that we at least found it. I said I trusted them and if she feels okay then I feel okay too. They said I should take it really easy all weekend and pretty much do nothing. So, thats pretty much what I did, Nothing! It was hard to just watch movies and stuff when I had a lot of things I wanted to get done but it was worth. Im doing better today and trying to decide whether or not to call in sick tomorrow of just suck it up and go to work at 6:30. Im really looking forward to the next few weeks when I should start feeling better. Oh, yesterday I tried to put some pants on and they were a bit tight. Yes, I wore them with the top button unbuttoned all day! But Kurtis and I decided to take our first prego pick so I sucked it in best I could so I could at least have my pants done up in the picture! Let me just add how thankful I am to my amazing husband. He really goes above and beyond what he should have to do for me!

First Doctors appt.

So, today we had our first doctors appointment. Although, we kind of cheated a little and got an ultrasound last Monday. Okay, I guess I should back up a little bit even though I won't go into too much detail because that part is all over now. Lets see...last weekend I got a little paranoid about some bleeding that I had been having so I called the doctors office and they had me go in a get a blood test done on Friday and again on Sunday so they could measure my hormone levels and make sure they were going up like they should. So, we got that over with and then they had us come in for an ultrasound last Monday. Everything looked really good and we even got to hear the heartbeat! It was the most amazing sound ever and made me feel so much better after I was trying not to think the worst all weekend. Then today was the official appointment. It went really well. I really liked the doctor I saw and everything looked good. We also found out why there was some bleeding going on which was really reassuring and nothing to worry about. I also got a prescription for hopefully some pills that will make this morning sickness (pretty much all day sickness for me!) at least a little better. Oh, and the doctor said that even though the ultrasound showed that I was not quite as far along as they thought I was he said it wasn't a big enough difference to change the due date. So, looks like it will be March 24th! I kinda have a feeling it will be a little later than that but who knows. Kurtis and I met on April 1st so that would be pretty funny if that is when the baby was born. Our whole life would be a joke! Okay, lame I know. Well, thats it for now.