It's a baby!!

First of all, we have an amazing friend that is an ultra sound tech and she gave us an early ultra sound on the hospital's brand new equipment and gave us a picture CD of about 20 images of our baby for FREE!!! All because she's amaing and wanted some practice. We are so blessed. Thank you Ashlyn! we will have another ultrasound from our doctor in a couple of weeks.

So here are the results...we are having a perfect little boy!!!

I was always confused by ultrasound pictures in the past but those look like obvious boy parts to me!
His head was wedged really low so we couldn't get a good profile but we got to see him flailing and kicking.

This is a thumb sucking pictures, it's still hard to see the face but it's there!!

We love our little boy so much already!! Now we just have to wait 5 more months!!!

two years!

So, this post is a little late but...We got to celebrate two years of marriage on May 2nd and the weekend before that. It's passed by quick...on the other hand I feel like we've always been married. Max got the whole weekend off including Monday May 2nd. ( I still had to teach that Monday but we had the evening together.) Max got home from a long shift at 7 am on Saturday morning and crawled right into bed with me so we could sleep a couple more hours. when we eventually decided to get up I found a lovely flower just for me. We have an agreement that the flower thing doesn't need to happen very often but it is fun once in awhile. We ate a late breakfast, got ready for the day and headed out for a day of shopping. Our goal was to pick out an outfit for eachother. The goal was to then where the outfit on a date later. I was planning on taking pictures of all the clothes but we never brought our camera into any of the stores so we are pictureless. But we did find the perfect jeans for Max and we are very excited about that. And it's probably a good thing we didn't take pictures because I would have had a lot of his booty. hehe! We had a nice little lunch date and then continued shopping.

When the clothes were purchased we ate a little dinner then headed out to see a movie in our new outfits. Yeah, I know going to a movie is a dumb place to show off new clothes but we were excited.

Sunday was spent doing more homework than we would've liked. (This was the two year anniversary of Max's broken nose.)

On Monday (the official anniversary) I had to teach all day. After school I felt incredibly nauseous and had the worst headache of my life...those crazy first graders. When I arrived home Max was cooking dinner so he told me to just rest and he would take care of everything. It was great., besides me needing to do homework in my resting time. I started to feel a little better by the time dinner was ready.

He made salads and quesadillas! They were delicious...except for the one he burned. (He really is a good cook, this was just his first attempt) I felt bad that I wasn't feeling well enough to eat very much. I enjoyed it more the next day.


He then took me on a little surprise date to random free museums on BYU campus. We keep talking about going to them before we leave but just haven't made the time. We first went to the wildlife museum where they have tons of taxidermied (sp?) animals and we watched a reptile show and some some lizards and snakes and other gross things. Nothing says happy anniversary like playing with weird reptiles.

Then we went to the Museum of art on on campus and found a big pile of books. Art sure can be weird these days. But impressive.

Then we needed to go home and to bed because of early shifts in the morning but first...

Max made some incredible desserts. He bought supplies for Strawberry shortcakes and chocolate lava cakes because he couldn't decide so we decided to do the lava cakes and save the strawberry SC for another day. We weren't dissappointed

It was a weekend filled with random events shared with the most wonderful person in the world. Any time we get to spend time together is cherished and filled with love and laughter.

Happy Birthday

Today is the due date for our first little baby. Life would have been much different if that baby was able to come to our family. I know Heavenly Father has a plan for our small family and the baby we are carrying now is the one that is meant to live with us in this life. We will never forget the two babies that we have lost, they were both merely the size of a sesame seed but we learned so many life lessons from them. I don't even think they had a chance for their heart to start beating so who knows if they were classified as "living" all I know is that they were my children.

Some blessings we have noticed from our experience include:

~we know we are incredibly fertile
~This current baby will be born to a college graduate
~Our experiences help us be more compassionate (I hope)
~We have a strong love and appreciation for this current baby that may have been weaker without our past experiences.
~We received even more love and support from close friends and family rooting for us.
~We will be back near family when this baby is born.

There are many blessings that come when being complient to the Lord's timing sometimes it takes some rough times to appreciate how good life can get!