Happy Father's Day!

Dad, I can't imagine a better spiritual leader, fantastic teacher, or funloving Father who raised me. You've always been the very best.

Seth, I'm so glad to have you forever as the father of our children. You'll always be their favorite, and mine, too!

I'm in Love

with this . Seriously, it's so cute! Check out their boy bedding, it's adorable. :)

I miss arlington

First of all, THANK YOU ALL so much for your baby advice comments--seriously i have the best friends and stalkers around! Keep it coming people, I LOVE hearing what works/what doesn't. Oh i'm just so lucky.

AND, this one is just too cool not to share. It makes me miss arlington, va, so so so so much. We really had it good there...and it was so safe (even though I NEVER thought that when living there...sigh)

here you go people.

All things boy!

Hi People!

Here's your chance--we're looking for great thoughts on boy/baby items! What things can you NOT live without? What do you wish you would have bought before baby was born? What could you have waited on? What are the "cool" things to get? Any particular product you LOVE and can't live without? Items including but not limited to:

--Crib
--Pack n' Play
--Clothes
--Blankets
--Quilts
--Bedding
--Safety equipment
--Pacifiers
--Swings
--White Noise Machines
--Strollers
--Carseats (anyone know one that I'll actually be able to carry?)
--Graco Snap n' go
--Jumpers
--Organic Baby Gear
--Toys
--Nursing Pumps/etc...
--Anything that will ever help stretch marks? (sob...)

Can't wait to hear your thoughts! (Lurkers and people that probably are embarrassed that you read my blog and I don't know...and don't worry, I know...feel free to join in on this one!)

And.....

it's a baby boy!!!!!

Boy or Girl?

We will find out the Gender this Friday, June 5 around 6:30 PM. I've added a poll to the side of our blog, so make your guesses, friends and family! Oh, and if you want credit for your guess, leave a comment!

More from the BBQ

My cute friend Meghan sent me more pics from the BBQ, and I couldn't resist sharing!

Memorial Day BBQ

I forgot what it was like to have a free Monday!!! Sleeping in, hanging out, laughing a lot, teasing each other, playing games, rocking out, eating food....seriously, what a great day!

In honor of Memorial Day, Seth and I decided to host an 'everyone is invited' BBQ at our place! It was so much fun!

We had all kinds of "meat" ranging from burgers to hotdogs to brats to turkey dogs to veggie patties to vegetarian dogs. Seriously, we have some awesome friends with awesome taste! Everyone came and contributed to build a fantastic feast, complete with outdoor sunshine and a little indoor guitar hero. We seriously have some talented friends, I'm thinking we need to actually start a band (or just become groupies of the people already in bands!)



It was also fun to bring friends from all different walks of life together. I had some coworkers, we invited all sorts of people from our ward, and our friend Kelley that we know from Washington, DC even came up from San Diego for the affair!

After everyone left, Seth and I just got to sit and bask in gratitude for friends everywhere (even if you couldn't come!). For whatever reason, lately I've felt really....I guess just homesick and just missing family and being with family. Nothing really can ever replace family, but it's nice to have friends who can be our local families and celebrate the holidays with us. We really are just so blessed. And lucky.

Also, I just have to note that I'm a rapper in hiding. I may need a little work on my hand movements (I believe they were described as a "pregnant mouse") but dude, I've got some hardcore rapper talent.. Seth says I might not make it in the bid'niss, but what does he know, this white girl has got some mad skills just waiting to be discovered.

American Idol....LIVE!!!

Tonight we got to go here:


To see this:


And these two talented boys:


And caught a glimpse of all of these huligans:


Which is one of the very few reasons why I could possibly like living here:


At about 3:25 Seth emailed me a link to last minute american idol tickets. We signed up MONTHS ago, and when we signed up I kept saying "wouldn't it be cool if our batch was the last batch that gets to go to the finale?" Well...we were!! Last last last last minute. We had to be there by 4:15 PM to pick up the tickets. I had to get from point A to point B:
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which is about 14.8 miles in Los Angeles Traffic. Ohhh so of course I got permission from work, wrapped a few things up, and went on my adventure in the car!

Thanks to directions from Heathy & Seth, and encouragement and excitement from the Parentals, I made it to the theater, and we were able to park right next to the theater so i wouldn't have to walk very far (still kind of on light bedrest...). We made it we made it!! (Okay, so seth picked up the tickets and I maybe didn't make it until 4:25, but still it was a Los Angeles Miracle! AND, there was another earthquake while I was driving, which makes traffic worse for some reason...so it REALLY was a miracle!)

We got into the theater and were on cloud 9! It's so cool! The music was thumping, and while I'm still never sure if I have gas or if the baby is moving, I'm pretty sure our little fetus leapt in the womb as we sat down in our seats. Seth said he/she is a little rocker and was banging on the drums already :) Our seats were the 2nd row on the balcony, which was a perfect view--far enough removed that i could stay seated and close enough to see everyone!

As you can probably tell from my writing, I'm still on cloud 9, and still just so excited. Once in a lifetime experience!! AND, Seth still made it to Bishopric meeting!! Gotta love it People, Gotta love it!

Earthquake!

Last night we experienced our first earthquake! I feel like since no damage was done, and no one was hurt, I can be a little excited about this one....so please indulge me.

Seth was playing the piano (which did not cause the earth to quake), and i was just about to head upstairs...when there was a little shake shake shake, and then another little shake shake shake, and then our mirrors kept shaking for a little bit. We stopped and looked at each other...and then I continued upstairs (bathroom break!) and Seth went outside to hear if it really was an earthquake.

Our neighbor, Beth, came out to tell us it was indeed an earthquake. I came back downstairs to call the parentals to tell them the news! I mean, it is my first "real" earthquake (meaning....I didn't make it up in my dreams and insist i felt it for weeks...)

Later that evening, Beth came over again to offer a flashlight to us--she's a very nice neighbor! We talked a bit about the whole "earthquake" thing, and Beth gave us some good advice, like "Don't run outside like you just did--look what could fall on you!" :)

The interesting thing is that on Friday and Saturday night, whenever Seth got into or out of bed, I kept waking up thinking it was an earthquake. And last night I kept dreaming about how we didn't have any food storage in the house and that maybe we should try to be a 'little' prepared (little...because our kitchen is LITTLE and storage space is non-existent).

Maybe the next earthquake will be scary and cause problems, and I'll be sad about it. But these little harmless guys are kind of cool--and a good reminder about what we need to do to be prepared!!!