When I grew up.....

...I always wanted to be a mom.

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I guess I'm all grown up because my dream is coming true.

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WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A BABY!!

We had our first Doctor's appointment last week. My due date is April 6th, 2011 & so far everything looks good.
We got to hear the baby's heartbeat, which was by far the greatest sound we have ever heard!
This whole experience has seemed so surreal up until now (besides the wanting to puke
24/7....that's been plenty real) but hearing the heartbeat made it seem so much more real to me.
There is a real live little person growing inside of me!
We couldn't be more excited to meet this little one!

Catch up

I know I've been a big fat blog neglecter lately. The thought of blogging has not sounded appealing to me
at all these days. So here are some things we have been up to this last month or so. (In no particular order.)

*Bridger turned 2 & we got to go to his Jungle Book/pool party to celebrate.

Look how cute the cake is that Caitlin made!




*Jeff's cousin, Gregor, got married.
A few weeks before the wedding Caitlin, Brittany & I threw his fiance, Joy, a little garden party bridal shower.

*Joy & Gregor got married on August 14th in the Bountiful temple.
Jeff was out of town for work, so I went up with Mike & loved spending
the day with some of Jeff's family.

*One of my very best friends is getting married in November so we've been wedding

dress shopping!

*I dyed Melinda's hair dark brown.

She was nervous about how dark it was.

*We went to see my aunt Julie in the Music Man play at Rodger's Memorial Theater.

*We went wakeboarding on Utah Lake with Cassie & Brian.

*My cousin, Holly, was on WIPEOUT! So we had a WIPEOUT party at my parents house to watch her. She did awesome!

(P.S. My parents have a foreign exchange student from Germany living with them for the school

year. Her name is Saskia & she is next to me on the couch.)

*We went to the State Fair with Mike, Nate & the boys and Mike & Megan & their kids.

I didn't get very many pictures but this one was funny of Nate squished in the helicopter :)

We all got our pictures taken with the Sea Lions.

*We got to go congratulate Nate & Caitlin on their new little baby boy Dalton.

*We celebrated Maggie's 9th birthday with lots of family!

So, there you go. That's what we've been up to.

Chicago 2010....(continued)

On Wednesday Scott, Jill, Mike, Jeff & I got up around 6 am to drive 3 hours to
Wisconsin Dells to go to Noah's Ark, the largest water park in America.

We spent the whole day going on tons & tons of slides.




The very first slide we went on was called Scorpion's Tail.
This is what it looked like.
This was a crazy slide! If you look close, up at the top there is like a glass capsule thing that you
climb inside & they close it around you. You stand with your feet together & arms crossed on
your chest & then the thing counts down...3, 2, 1...& then the floor drops out from under you!
It was pretty intense!
Scott, Mike & Jeff went on it again at the end of the day. Jill & I passed and had a caramel apple instead. :)

After the water park we went to Ponderosa for dinner. Less than 5 minutes after we got inside the
restaurant it started pouring outside! And the guy at the front counter told us the city was on
tornado watch. YIKES!
Such a fun day!
On Thursday we spent the day in Wheaton.
We did some shopping, went to lunch at Chili's & just relaxed. We drove back to the lake & stayed there that night.
On Friday we did some more playing with Dean & Deanna's camera.
Jeff has it strapped to his leg here.

Dean & Deanna skied at the same time with the camera on Dean's head.

We also got Jill up on the wakeboard which was cool because she had never done it
before.

It was so cute, as soon as she'd get up & feel like she was going to fall
she'd scream & then fall. :)


Later that evening some of Mike & Jeff's friends came out to the lake.
We did some more double skiing :)
Jeremy & Jenny did it.

Then Scott & Haley.

On Saturday lots of the family came out & Mike bribed the little girls
with silly bands to go wakeboarding with Jeff & to try out the little kid ski.
Here's Natalie with Jeff.

And Lauren with Jeff.

Natalie on the little kid ski.

Lauren on the little ski.
Once they actually got out there & did it, they loved it & wanted to do it again & again.

Side story about the kid ski.
Earlier in the week we were out on the boat & there was a guy on a waverunner waving us down.
We stopped & he had a rope in his hand that was hooked to something stuck down in the mud.
When he tried to pull it up it kept tipping his waverunner so he asked us to do it.
We hooked the rope to the boat & started going & it pulled up this little kid ski.
It was covered in mud. Who knows how long it was down there or even how it got there. But we got a free little ski. :)

Later in the afternoon, Jeff & I had to go in & pack & get ready to go to the airport.
When we got to the airport they told us it wasn't looking good for us to get on the
flight. They had some people that had missed an earlier flight that had first priority.
We waited until everyone had boarded & there was one seat left.
Jeff's so great & told me to go & he would fly home the next day,
so that I could be at my cousin's homecoming the next day.

We had such a fun trip! Thanks to everyone who made it so great!
We can't wait until next year!