My Birthday & Thanksgiving!

I love November!  For my birthday this year Mark told me he was going to be out of town for work.  I was bummed, but we went out to dinner the Saturday before to celebrate.  I decided on Wingers, and it was yummy.  Luckily, Mark ended up not going out of town after all, so on my real birthday he surprised me and took me to Zupa's.  We are seriously addicted.  Zupa's is always our go to place to eat. When Mark got home from work, he brought be some flowers and a picture of the Salt Lake Temple to hang up in our living room.

 

 The weekend after my birthday, we decided to paint our living room.  It was painted yellow when we moved in, and I really haven't minded the color that much, but Mark was getting bored with it.  One day we just went to home depot and grabbed all of the supplies we needed to paint!

 

I didn't really like it at first because it looked a little orange to me, but I think it's starting to grow on me...



Mark's sister Lisa came to visit us for a week over Thanksgiving.  Unfortunately, I had to work Thanksgiving! :(  I worked from 9-6 so all of my family made other plans for Thanksgiving.  Before I went to work, I prepped my apple pie and a few other things. 

Work was INSANE!  I don't understand why so many people need to go to Walgreens on Thanksgiving day! (non-24  hour pharmacies are closed) A customer literally pried open the door 5 minutes before we opened, and everyone started coming in.  I was seriously running around for 2 hours straight before it slowed down a little.  It was such a long day.  By the time I got home, it was almost 7:00.  The turkey was almost done, and I helped finish make the rest of the food. 

By the time the three of us sat down to eat, it was 7:45.  Dinner was good, but it was really different being by ourselves and eating so late. 

I'm so thankful for..

my husband who works hard to provide for us

our little baby girl who will be here soon

a house we can call ours

our two cute dogs

being able to quit my after the baby comes

the gospel

being able to get pregnant so fast after my miscarriage

all of my family and friends

and all of my blessings!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So much to do, so little time!

I feel like I have so much more to do before the baby gets here!  The nursery furniture has been set up for a few weeks, but that's about it.  We have most of the big items (my travel system should be delivered any day now!) But there are a couple of big things we still need and lots of little stuff.  My baby shower is next week, so I'm hoping we will have a better idea of what we need after that.

 

Mark insisted that we get the Eddie Bauer travel system because he really liked them. (The depth of the cup holders and the storage had a lot to do with it--The stroller had to be good for Disneyland.)  I wanted to get a gender neutral one, but there weren't any that I particularly liked.  I decided on this gray/pink one because I really liked the colors.  If we have a boy next time I will see if I can cover it or something.   

I only have 8 more weeks!  It sounds like such a long time, but I'm hoping it will be here before I know it!  I can't wait to be done with work.. It's getting so tiring.  I still need to figure out what I'm going to do afterwards.  My original plan was to just quit as soon as my maternity leave was over, but now that I started getting my pharmacy hours in, I'm not sure what to do.  I need to get 180 hours in the pharmacy before the end of next year and it will be a whole lot easier to get the hours if I'm still working.  As of right now I only have 12!  :O

Last week at our house was spent watching the world series.  Mark was so excited for the Giants to be in it again, and I don't think he really thought they would win it all again!  Needless to say, he went crazy when they won! 


Halloween was pretty laid back this year.  I had to work that night, so Mark was left at home to pass out candy to the trick-or-treaters.  I thought I bought candy late enough for it to be eaten, but Mark proved me wrong.  (I ate some too.. but not as much!)  Luckily, we had 2 pieces of candy left at the end of the night!

Fall

I'm so excited to start this new weather! Fall is one of my favorite times of the year--not too hot, not too cold. And I swear the air is just more fresh! This weekend Mark and I are going camping again. One of his favorite things to do since buying our trailer. If he could go out every weekend, he would!

We have gone camping 5 times this year--4 times with our trailer. It is really nice to get away for the weekend and still have all the amenities of hime. (Especially the toilet.. I would die without one being preggo and all!)

Mark is sad to have to pack up the trailer for the fall/winter, but I am so excited for the next couple of months!

Here's some pictures of our adventures this summer!

It's a GIRL!

I know most everyone already knows that we're having a girl by now, but I am so excited for her to come!  I had to wait until I was 24 weeks to get my anatomy ultrasound because with Mark's new job, we didn't get insurance until September.  We went to Fetal Fotos to get an ultrasound done at 17 weeks, though, because I couldn't wait.  They said it was a girl, but I wanted to be extra sure because the ultrasond pictures were kind of difficult to see!

 

The ultrasound from the doctor's office was A LOT better quality, and since I was further along, you can definitely see a girl there!

 

Only 15 more weeks to go!