POLL

Hey everyone I put a poll up so if you want to guess what we are having!! Yeah, we find out may 20!

Weekend getaway

Nathan and I went away for a couple of days to one of our favorite places, Estes Park, CO. We stayed in a nice suite in a lodge. Which is unusual for us because we usually stay at the YMCA when we go up there. But it was fun. We went fishing (we got a few bites, and Nathan got a fish but it got away) then we went to the Rocky mt. national park. We also did a lot of relaxing. It was nice to get away but we wish it was longer, went by way to fast!


Rocky Mountain National Park

Nathan Fishing at Lake Estes

Windwill lodge

Elk outside our lodge

Stanley Hotel where they filmed the movie "The Shining" supposibly its haunted

A view of Estes as we arrive

Ok so here's our Big secret!

It's taken me awhile to start telling people. But we are 13 wks pregnant! We are due October 15. We are very excited!! Because I am a diabetic, I am a high risk pregnancy. So theres a lot of stuff that goes into that. Some of you may be interested in knowing about that and if your not oh well. So Nathan and I wanted to have a baby for quite some time now, but since we were in school and we couldn't afford good maternity insurance we had to wait a year in order for Nathan to get insurance through work. Then when we got that taken care of we had to go see my diabetic doctor and have her start montoring me to make sure I was healthy enough to start having kids. After we got the clear from her than we started trying in August. After I got pregnant, in my 1st trimester I have been to 6 dr. apts. Even though I am used to seeing doctors all the time, I'm kind of sick of going to doctor visits already and I know I have a way to go. BUt anyways, I am able to go to a regular OB doc that is actually friends with my diabetic doc, because I am a well controlled diabetic. But I had to go meet with a highrisk ob doc to take a first trimester screening to screen for abnormalities and things like that. The pictures from that are on here. We got to see so many things and it's only 13 wks old. So anyways, even though I am having to do a lot and worry a lot and make sure my Blood sugar levels are where they need to be, I am very grateful to be able to have kids. Back when I was first diagnosed with diabetes a lot of women with diabetes weren't having kids. They usually induce diabetics 36-37 wks, so really I'll be having it in september. But so far everything is going good, and I'm feeling much better now that I am past the first 12 wks. I was 11 when I was diagnosed with diabetes, and my doc says that if I had diabetes for twenty years (like if I had gotten it when I was 3) because of the stress and everything it does to our bodies than they would have recommended that I adopt but since I have til I'm 31, I just have to try and have as many as my body can have. So I'm very excitied that everything is going good and everything looks normal.

My crazy Sister!

So this is my crazy eight year old sister Brooke in the top of the tree in the front yard. She decided to climb to the very top and being a responsible chaperone that I am I took a picture instead of yelling at her to get out. BUt wow, I think it would have hurt climbing a pine tree. It may not look that tall in the picture but it really is.

Blushing Buttercream Pettiskirt GIVEAWAY!!!!

Blushing Buttercream Pettiskirt GIVEAWAY!!!! If I win I'll give mine to my niece Alaina and when I have a little girl they can share!

My Redneck day!

So I had a few interesting people that I cut their hair today at the Salon. One in particular that I thought was funny, maybe you'll just think it's stupid but hey I need something to blog about. So this guy came in with blonde hair almost down to his butt and a big bushy beard. He looked a lot like my picture. His name was Woody. He wanted me to cut off only about 1.2 inch of his hair and trim his beard. So I took him back to the shampoo bowl, and his hair was so strong with cigarette smell that I wanted to vomit. When you are washing someones hair that is dirty it is one of the most disgusting things, the water and everything makes it ten times worse. It still smelt bad after I had washed it twice. Most guys who have long hair, its actually really gross because they don't take care of it like women do so its usually brittle and rough. So anyways, I cut his hair and then he wanted me to take my trimmers and trim his beard with a #1 guard. That was really gross too. He said he only trimmed once a year. So I was doing that and I go ok I need you to lift your nose up so I can trim your mustache better (he was kind of an air head), so he did the pig kind of nose and all the hair that I was trim off all went up his nose. I really didn't start laughing until I got home and was thinking about it because he just acted like such a blonde. It was pretty funny/ disgusting experience. So anyways, I think I would rather change a dirty diaper than cut his hair again. I had more redneck people come in but thats a way longer story. I also asked him how long hes had long hair and he said since high school, he wanted to be like an oakridge boy. But he used to paint and would get paint in it and then he used to lay concrete and would get that in it. So nothing like having terpentine in your hair.

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!! I hope everyone had a wonderful night. Sorry, I haven't posted anything in awhile, mostly because I had nothing to post. So for our valentines day we got up and went to the temple, then we went to 3 different grocerie stores trying to find ingredients for Nathan's appetizer, then we came home. We decided to stay home this year and make our own fancy dinner. My parents and sisters are in Cancun, so we decided to take advantage of them being away.
Our Menu:
Appetizers:
Bruschetta on Baguette bread
Cut up pineapple
Ceaser Salad
Main meal:
Mashed Potatoes and
gravy
T-Bone Steak
Drink:
Cold Duck (Sparkling grape juice)

We had candles and Faux ( as it says on the package) rose petals! It was fun and then we watched a movie. For our gifts, I was cutting a guy's hair one day when he was telling me about his wife's company. She makes organic fresh spices. Those of you who know Nathan, knows he likes making food with fun ingredients. So I decided to get him some of these special spices. They were Saffron, Thyme, Cumin, Rosemary, Basil, Tarragon. So we'll see how he does. Nathan got me a dozen pink roses, my favorite and some Cozy crocs. I've been telling him for months I really wanted some because they look so comfortable. So anyways that was our Weekend!

Our beautiful Meal and Table

Nathan's Spices

My pretty Flowers and Crocs

My valentine's socks