Our Secret is Out!

It's a GIRL! And we can't wait...Duke has been doing all the shopping and is loving the idea. I'm 25 1/2 weeks pregnant, so I have a week and a half until I'm in the 3rd Trimester. It has now started to go so fast. I can feel her a ton more, it is so fun!

We're Back!!

Our quick update:

So we've moved back home, and boy does it feel good. We had a good trip back stopping to see family on the whole way back. After a 9 hour drive we got to Jan's and had FHE with her and Angie and Mom and the rest of the bunch. It was fun. Then up to Mom's. I had a great sleep and ready for more visiting. We saw Grandparents, Zina, and Duke's parents. It was exciting and I'm looking more pregnant which is more exciting. We stopped to see Duke's mission president on the way out of SLC. Good guy but doesn't wear a belt, a little weird. We met him at his law office downtown.

After getting home Kendra and Jeff came down for the weekend so we could celebrate what we are having! I won't tell yet because the siblings all don't know and won't for a couple weeks. I'll give you some pictures to try to guess because I'm too excited to completely keep it a secret :)

I worked Saturday, which was good but being on my feet for 8 hours was a stretch after my relaxing summer.

We start school today and are looking forward to a crazy busy semester!

Holy cow! Every time I look at this I can't get over how cool it is and crazy too!

Aren't these perfect little feet!

1st Anniversary

Cheers to our first year and to a wonderful husband!
It has been a fun filled year and things are definitely different from what we expected, but probably better. We couldn't imagine our life any other way and love having a best friend to always have around. The last couple of weeks have been the best, with the summer coming to an end we've had a lot more time to spend together.

Enjoy the memories from our special day!

Mormon Night!

Very clever idea and the best turn out the Dodgers have every year. Last night Duke and I went to the Dodgers game and had a blast! I think it's the best pro game I've ever been to. We sat in the all-you-can-eat pavilian, the back right side of the field, and had all the nachos, peanuts and popcorn we wanted plus all the other game food.

Duke lovin' his Dodger Dog!

It was a really good game and the Dodgers won in the bottom of the 9th, so very close. The rest of the game the Atlanta Braves were ahead pretty much 2 points. The ending score was 5-4. Crazy FUN! Oh, and Elder Ballard pitched the first ball of the game and our man, Andre Ethier on the right outfield, made the homerun that won the game with 2 others on base!!

20 Weeks!

We are half way there and getting more and more excited! We'll find out what we are having in a couple weeks and I'm pretty sure it will just get even better after that. Duke and I are getting more settled here in California but will be leaving in 2 weeks. The next few weeks will be tons of fun, we have to fit in all the things we don't have back home, but we will be happy to get back to normal life again.

Site Seeing Weekend

Every weekend Duke and I try to do something here in California that is a little different from what we normally can do. We were told to go see the La Brea Tar Pits, which are in the middle of LA. The cool thing about it is they are continually finding more bones that are from thousands of years ago continually searching in the different tar pits around their site. The tar pits are natural and trapped animals and preserved there bones perfectly.



While we were in that area we thought we would look for more to do that would be different and we found a place called Griffith Observatory. It is on the mountain that says "Hollywood" that looks over the city and is more exciting when you go after dark. It has discoveries about the universe and different ways that men have used stars and planets for different things. It was pretty cool.

LA a night, looked beautiful

We were able to meet up with my cousin Mandy and her husband Brad for our little outing. Between our two stops we were able to venture through an art museum next to the La Brea Tar Pits. We also stopped by Wahoo's for some fish tacos. I never had had them and never really wanted to, but thanks to Mandy she talked me into it and it was great! We had a great time and our legs were exhausted by the end of it.

These were made out of tupperware, pretty cool

This was pretty funny...they had 5 cement blocks set up as "art," so I decided to make it "real art"

Duke thought this looked like the lighting section at Home Depot, just lamp posts instead...again "art"

Happy Birthday Duke!

Today is Duke's 23! As tradition growing up we always got to pick our favorite dinner. Well, Duke loves breakfast so that's what we did. He normally gets up way before me, so I'll sleep good tonight. I made him his pancakes, hashbrowns, over-easy eggs and bacon. He loved it and we have lots of left overs for tomorrow.

Also, growing up we always got a cake that we wanted and so I asked him, thinking he'd say fudge brownie sundays or a basketball or something along those lines. Nope, he wanted a spider cake...I think he's just testing my abilities. So it is and I hope he likes it. Long skinny legs are hard to make stand up, so I hope it doesn't tumble over when he blows out his 23 candles!