"SURPRISE" Baby Shower for Brooks!

So this past weekend Stephen and I headed over to Blackfoot to hang out with Ryan and Carrie and the fam while they were visiting for the weekend, we went up to Rexburg on Saturday for what I thought was a family luncheon at Ansley and TJ's....but when we showed up it was actually a surprise baby shower for me and Brooks! So shocked....I had no idea! EVERYONE was in on it, even my mom and no-one let it slip, AmaZing! It was awesome and we got a lot of really great things!

Beautiful table of goodies! I have such talented sisters-in-law! (You can see them hard at work in the kitchen)
Me and Donnalin- thanks for the baseball outfit!
This is me with an amazing quilt made by Merilee, Ansley, and Carly I believe....(sorry if I left someone out) and I'm about to open a basket of fun from Robyn- THANK YOU!

This is me with a gorgeous "diaper bag" from Carrie- THANK YOU!

Cute little booties from Melissa and her girls!

Sisters- Thank you so much for all your time and hard work, it was a great shower, fun was had by all!

Thanks mom for the cute stuff and the pack-n-play!

Stephen wanted me to be sure and tell everyone THANK YOU from him too!

We couldn't ask for more love and generosity from all of our family and friends!

We LOVE sushi!

Stephen and I went on a date on Friday night, just the two of us! I've really been wanting to spend some quality time with Stephen because he's been studying so much for the CPA and school that we really don't sit down together and hang out as much as we want to. We tried a new sushi place and we were a little nervous when we walked in and were the ONLY people in the restaurant and all the cooks were white guys. But the food was actually really good....don't worry I ate veggie rolls, but I was really jealous of Stephen's "raw roll", it looked amazing! After dinner we went to a Halloween party for some free dessert and then we went to the movies and saw "Hancock", not bad. Thanks for spending the night out with me it was really fun, I love you Stephen!

Happy Halloween

I love that Nikki and I always want to carve pumpkins for Halloween, but the boys really end up doing most if not all of the work.....what good troopers they are, thanks boys!
Nikki and I are just in charge of picking out the designs to carve, mine is the spider, Nikki went with "Boo" this year.

Here are the boys and their finished work, yes we let Kelan eat spiders.

the belly

Here are a couple of recent prego shots.....in this one I'm 23 weeks and I feel like I've just shot out like a blimp.

I think I'm almost 22 weeks in these pictures

Gettin crafty

This is my first project with my new sewing machine (my first sewing project EVER)!

-A crib blanket for the upcoming arrival of my baby boy.

In case you're wondering what the B is for- Stephen chose the name Brooks for our first son!

Hopefully the next project will be a little neater and the lines a little straighter, but not too bad for my first try!

Courtney and Mom came to visit!

I got Stephen to Line Dance!! Miracles do happen.....good times at the ward activity!

Courtney went through the temple for the first time on Saturday! She came all the way to Boise so that I could be there with her, it was so fun watching her and being a part of it! Love you Court!

Mom took us all out to the Melting Pot for my birthday/Courtney's special day....it was so fun..but next time we're going to bring a bag full of treats to dip in the chocolate, MMMMM!

Stephen surprised me with the sewing machine I've been wanting- Project Runway Editon!!

Check back soon for some crafty masterpieces......haha, I couldn't even thread the dang thing by myself!

Stephen is so creative, we didn't have wrapping paper so he cut up my glamour magazine- so cute! Thanks for all you do for me, I LOVE YOU BUD!

Bumps and Bruises

Stephen broke his collar bone a few days ago playing softball....needless to say he has been completely helpless for the past few days. Luckily he recently upgraded our cable to get the sports package so we never ran out of football games to watch. It was nice too that Robyn and Robert came for the weekend so the girls could take a break from the sports overload and do some serious shopping! He's feeling a lot better now, but there's not much they can do for a broken collar bone besides drug you up really good and tell you to put your arm in a sling. No more softball for a while though, darnit.
This weekend we hit 18 weeks, only two more weeks until they can confirm that it's a girl! (I know these pictures are so cliche but I can't help it....it still feels like this is just a dream and I have to see it to believe it!)

More fun on our vacay in NC

This was the night of our 3 year anniversary. We ate dinner at a Brazillian restaurant- the kind where you eat WAY too much meat and chees puffs. The picture above is us before and the one below is after. (okay so I forgot to take pictures of us at the restaurant, my bad).

This is on the deck of my friend, Erika's, beach house near Atlantic Beach. Her mom wanted to make sure we didn't miss the beautiful sunset and I'm glad she was so persistent...this is one of my favorite pictures of our trip, minus the part where I'm not wearing makeup.

These pics were taken on our boat tour excursion with Erika and her family. Thanks to them we had an amazing couple of days at the beach.

Collective Soul in Cary, North Carolina!

This is Stephen's favorite band and they just happened to be in NC while we were there!

Atlanta, GA

As much Coke as you can stomach.

Too many flavors to try! I'll stick with the classic cherry coke.

If you didn't already know Stephen is OBSESSED with the Atlanta Braves, so I was so excited for him to fulfill his life long dream of watching them play at thier home field, Turner Field. Stephen was like a kid in a candy store, just wide eyed and smiley the whole time. He was excited to point out all the cool little historic tid-bits that us girls would have never noticed.

The original game we went to watch got rained out....but we stayed an extra day to watch them play an afternoon game the next day.

It was HOT!

This was Stephen's favorite player's number, Dale Murphy, and the reason his whole obsession began.

I made this shirt to tell the Anderson's that I was pregnant!