Party Animals

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUSTIN!! Seriously another year has gone by and we never cease to amaze ourselves in the excitement! We went to "The Craze Fun Zone" and played laser tag and had not so yummy pizza and ate some cupcakes, which were delicious if I might add. Laser Tag was SO fun, even I played. I know everyone else was shocked too. A woman from a month of her due date and running around shooting people. But it was fantastic. I am not sure I helped our team much, but we still did AMAZING! The kids all had fun too, our crowd seemed to be slimmer than we wanted, but still great. It sure does help to have tall guys on your team that can see over the dividers and shoot. Steph and I had to stay down low. In the middle of the second game I was so over the game and needed to sit down but I lasted and than sat out the last game.

These are our amazing Laser Tag champions! I didn't get to be in a picture because someone had to be the photographer!!

Now drum roll please...check out these amazing (wink wink) cupcakes. I got this great idea to make Justin a golf cake, but it called for coconut to be the grass and I hate coconut and so does Justin so that didn't seem too logical. So I continued to research and chat with my sister-in-law and this is what we came up with. Honestly I had SO much fun decorating these. The icing I made tasted great and than the decorating was just a blast. Justin came home before I finished so he wasn't really surprised much, but he was able to get a kick out of my excitement. I want to do another party so I can decorate more. So maybe I have found my new calling in life--cupcake decorating. LOL, ok so they don't look that great, but it's so fun. I recommend everyone do it at least once. Even a guy turning 25 and "cool" college students thought I was awesome!

What will we hear today?

I must say pregnancy has it's ups and downs-obviously. Being in my last month is very interesting. Some moments I feel great and others, well slightly uncomfortable :) In the last couple of weeks I had heard the infamous words of...

1. So can I ask- are you pregnant?
2. Am I being rude if I were to ask if you were expecting?
3. How far along are you because you look uh REALLY pregnant
4. You are getting SO big (I hear this one most frequently)

Yes these are words I am sure EVERY expecting mother wants to hear. Owell this growing little girl is so worth it! She is growing like crazy and loves to move. If I ever get in a position she doesn't like she lets me know by kicking me til I move! Such a sweet little girl--she loves her momma!

We have a very exciting announcement...Justin got accepted to BYU-Idaho full-time. It isn't his 1st choice on a track, but we are grateful he got accepted. He has been working SO hard and doing amazing with school work. He is on the winter/summer track! So that means he gets to spend this summer with me and baby and even the fall semester! So exciting.

Getting Ready for Baby!

Everyday seems as though it is a new day of preparation for the baby! Reorganizing, searching for what we need, making lists of what more we need...It's so great. As you see below we have Justin assembling the crib (which took multiple days because we couldn't figure it out--the solution was very simple), stroller assembly and stroller put together. We also have one of our recent "family" photos and me as I have all of a sudden expanded like crazy (please ignore the mess in the background). This is me at 33 weeks!

Memory Lane

My parents brought up the rest of my stuff from their house this past weekend. Oh boy did my house look like a disaster and still does actually. I have to admit I don't mind going down the lovely road of memory lane because each time I have done so I have found $20. Seriously how amazing is that. I got $40 for just going through old stuff! I'm glad I am one of those crazy people that hid my money! The main reason for hiding it was because my brothers would come and "borrow" some. So I had to hide it so I would have some to use myself. Oddly enough I never remembered where I put it. In past moments of life visiting mom and dad's house and going through stuff I have found money in the most random of places. The most bizarre was probably when I found a ton of my money I had hid in a band-aid box I had in my night stand drawer. Really? Who is that crazy, but hey no one found it :) But because of my hiding I now am $40 richer from money that has probably been around for 10 years. Thank you boys for not finding it!
I have looked through so many old pictures and thrown away a lot, but still can't throw them all away. Why? Who knows. I'm never going to do anything with them. I found pictures from the beautiful beach of Florida. Definitely not getting rid of those-for a couple of reasons. One being it is so beautiful and I miss it, so I have to have something to look back at to say I lived there and it was great. Nice and warm. Another reason being I hadn't realized I was skinny! I looked great in a swimsuit. Ok maybe not great, but comparatively I did. I had to take a picture with my phone and send it to Justin and say "see I really was skinny at one point in life." :) Right now I am not sure those days will ever come again. I love being pregnant and the thought of being a mommy but when I can't even bend over it is nice to know that at some point in life it was ok for me to go out in public in a swimsuit. Right now I would rather die! Anyways...pictures are so fun to have. Before Ryan proposed to Karen he put me in charge of taking care of her ring and making sure it didn't get lost and she didn't see it! So I have to admit when Deanne came to visit in Florida we tried it on and took some great pictures! Of course it didn't look as good on our fingers but it was still fun! Also, going through these pictures I have realized that I take some really random photos. Some I look at and think why in the heck did I take a picture of that. So maybe I will do better now. Though I do believe when this little girl comes we will be taking pictures of everything!! Can't miss a moment!