One Day Getaway

The day after Easter I headed to St. George with Heather, a girl I work with at CHA, and her roommate, Marcy. Casey has to work this week and it is my schoool's spring break so I said peace out to him and went on a girls only getaway. On our way down I felt bad having to make a couple stops to use the bathroom (darn pregnancy bladder) and we stopped in Beaver to get Marcy some squeaky cheese. I had never known there was a cheese factory there and apparently the squeaky cheese is a really big deal because the line was super long and everyone had multiple bags of the cheese. Me, I'm not a fan of the texture and don't really care for the stuff.

When we got to St. George we checked into the Crystal Inn which from the outside looks a little sketchy but it was actually a really nice hotel with a great breakfast and nice pool. We hung around the hotel for a bit while Marcy took a cat nap and Heather and I went and stuck our feet in the pool. For dinner/lunch we went to Taste of Asia which is delicious and if you haven't eaten there in St. George I highly recommend it. I tried a coconut chicken curry that I loved. After eating we headed out to do some hiking around Dixie rock. I showed them where the "birth canal" or the "crack" was and went in for a little bit but soon realized there was no way my pregnant belly would fit through the crack. So I sent Heather and Marcy through it on their own and I headed up top to see them get through it. They went a second time and climbed up the hole that's near the crack. I remember it being a little easier but I think it's because I have much longer legs and could reach up to ledges a lot easier than my short friends:). I had to just offer encouragement without being able to tell them how to actually get up because I couldn't see anything from the top and eventually with shaking bodies they were able to figure it out and felt very successful reaching the top of the opening!

Since it is nicknamed the birth canal we decided to get a picture of me re-birthing them:)

We did a quick shopping trip to Target and Ross where I found $12 maternity capris (score! I haven't found cheaper than $30 anywhere else) and then we headed back to the hotel for a dip in the pool. Pool was a little cold so we wanted to get into the hot tub where a big group of high school boys were hogging up the whole thing. Heather decided just to go and get in anyways and when she got there they all decided to leave which was nice for us! After the pool we needed another little outing where we got some Jack in the Box food and icecream at Dairy Queen. To top off the night we rented a chick flick and went to bed.

The next day we had a decilicous hotel breakfast, then headed to the St. George temple to walk around and visit the visitors center so Marcy (who got back last summer from a mission in France) could talk to the sister missionaries who spoke french. We were in luck because there was a sister who not only spoke french but was from France.



Unfortunatley the pictures taken from Heather's iphone aren't showing up very well on the blog, but even though you can't see our faces you can see the beautiful white temple!

 They hadn't ever seen Brigham Young's house in St. George so I took them there and we were going to go on a tour through it but the group before us was taking too long so we just took a picture in the trees and left to go eat some lunch at Honolulu Grill.

After we ate we went up Snow Canyon and went on a short hike to a sand hill. We didn't stay for long because it was windy and sand isn't very fun when it is stinging your legs and getting in your face. Heather and Marcy hiked to the top and ran down once while I took pictures.

After that we decided to go take another dip in the pool where some more annoying high school boys were in the hot tub and left when we went and sat in it again haha, (guess we have that effect on young boys) and then we jumped in the pretty cold pool, went back to the hot tub, then layed out and got a little bit of sun to dry off. We made one last stop at the Rocky Mountain chocolate place and got some fudge and carmeled apples, yum. We headed home and enjoyed games of name that sound and guess the disney song! It was a great quick trip and I'm sure glad we came home only after a day because as soon as I got home I started feeling really nauseous from my family's pass around flu and didn't have a very fun rest of the eveving.

Baby Shoes

I've already made some of these shoes and posted the picture but this time I decided while I was going to make one pair, I might as well turn it into four pairs. They are lots of fun, they just require a lot of pinning and I got better at serging them by the last pair!

The boy ones are for my nephew Harrison soon to be born and the black paisley ones are for our little girl when she finally decides to come.



I'm sad it's grainy, I had to send it from my ipad to my e-mail and use my laptop to write the blog. Why does it have to be so difficult!

To find the tutorial for the shoes go here.

Easter and Maternity Chevron Skirt

Easter was great this year but it could have been a little bit better had my husband been able to be there. His work has him working Saturdays and Sundays and he has Thursdays and Fridays off. I do not like this schedule in the least! They told him he'd be able to change it after working there for a few weeks....it's been four months and they still haven't let him change it. It's a bit frustrating but I'm able to go spend Sundays at my parents house which is ony fifteen minutes away.

This year we had all my siblings and two of my aunt's familys with us for an Easter meal. It was so warm on Sunday we got to eat outside and enjoy the beautiful weather and time celebrating Christ with family. After dinner we headed over to my aunt Kathryn's house where they had hid over 200 eggs! My mom didn't want me to feel left out from my younger siblings and niece and nephew so she hid eggs for me too. She's so sweet but I think I'm past the point of caring if I get Easter eggs or not. It will be fun to have our little girl with us next year!

The only problem with our family get together was we all decided to swap germs with each other and two days later half of my family, including Casey (which is weird because he wasn't even around the family) and I, started throwing up and other unmentionables. There are still members of my family that are catching it and are being added to the list of at least 13 people that I know of.

For Easter I made my own skirt following this lovely tutorial. The only problem with mine was the back where the ties are supposed to sinch it together, it tends to droop a lot and make my skirt look like it was supposed to be a high-low skirt which I guess is in style but it wasn't my intentions. I'm hoping it fits me and my growing belly for a long time! And after this pregnancy I'll probably shorten it and wear it at my hips.



This one you can see the tie in the back a little bit. I need to remember to get things from all angles!

I'm a little obsessed with coral right now because it's one of the colors I'm doing for my little girl's nursery, and I have enough of this material left to make an outfit for her! Prepare to see many coral items on the blog as I start posting the things I've been making for the nursery.

Little Movements

I started to be able to feel my baby girl around last Friday so almost a week now. I'm just about 19 weeks so I've been anxiously waiting until I could feel her! Most the time I can feel little bubbles down lower where she is at right now but nothing much more than that. I feel her especially when I'm getting ready for bed and am reading in bed while on my back. I have to be focusing on trying to feel her otherwise I miss it! I've tried putting Casey's hand on my stomach but of course since it is just tiny flutters he won't be able to feel her for a while. It's just a little miracle that only mommy gets to enjoy:) can't wait to really be able to feel her and see my stomach move all over the place!

Mixed Media Paintings

I've been taking an online class from Jeanne Oliver, an artist who inspires me so much. She is everything I want to be someday! She not only paints but she designs clothes and sells her clothing, and bag line and also vintage jewelry and items. I love her mixed media paintings and I was excited to take her class. I want to one day have a business like hers where I can sell my paintings and also clothes and crochet items that I make! I haven't gotten a ton of painting done while watching her videos but here are a couple that I did using some of her techniques. Check Jeane Oliver out here.



Backgrounds not my favorite on this one, but I like the girl and roses

Valentine's and Anniversary Getaway

We left February 13th in the evening to go on our Valentine's Day and 2 year wedding anniversary getaway. We headed to Midway to stay in the Worldmark condos there and I loved the little town. It was such a cute place I had never been too and we enjoyed driving on mainstreet and visiting some of the little shops on Valentine's Day. Also on that day we went swimming in the Midway Crater which neither one of us had ever done. We didn't rent snorkles because my sis said it wasn't worth it so we just enjoyed floating around and I loved that it was warm water but not too hot for the baby since I can't go in any hot tubs for a while. There was only a family of four, another couple and a single guy there so we had plenty of space and we got to watch a few scuba divers swimming below us. It was a neat experience!




Our two bedroom condo where we each got to sleep in our own beds. Just kidding we haven't been married quite long enough for that! We stayed in Valentine's Day night and cooked dinner there. Casey said it was the best meal I had ever made.





Baby's first swim! I think she liked it...I still haven't felt her though so who knows



Happy Valentine's



Outside of the condo



After Midway we headed to Park City for a day and visited the outlet stores there and drove up and down mainstreet to look at the houses and shops. We found great deals on some sweet jackets that we got two for $20 score! After that we headed to Salt Lake where our bed and breakfast was. We stayed at Wildflower Inn in old Salt Lake. It was a cute old house that we got to explore every room of because we were the first ones to arrive. Our room was adorable, a little small, but still really cute. It had an old fashioned tub and the doors were ones that opened from the middle and they didn't close all the way. We even later found out that when they were locked you could still push them open ha but nobody tried coming into our room while we were there. It was a cute place that if you want a little get away to I would recomend it! We thought you would be able to hear everyone but we really couldn't, it was almost weird because we figured since our door didn't close all the way people could hear us but their doors were thick enough (or they were all weirdos who didn't talk) that it was a quiet stay.

We walked around the gateway mall and went and saw the movie Beautiful Creatures which was a little weird but I liked it, I'm a weirdo who likes fantasy and I was excited to know it was based off of a book afterwards so I could read it!

Doors that didn't quite close



If you stay here, bring an extra blanket, it get's really cold at night, at least in the winter!



It's a Girl!

At 16 weeks I went to my aunt who is a delivery nurse and she did an ultrasound to try to see what our baby is. The baby was super uncooperative and had her legs crossed, held the umbilical cord between her legs, and was just in a position that we couldn't see in between her legs, just mostly her profile. It was so fun to watch her moving around in there! She was laying with her head down and her legs up abover her and she kept arching her back and putting her head back to stretch. I could have watched her all day! My aunt thought she was a girl but went to get a second opinion. While she was gone I held the ultrasound to my belly and got to continue watching her:). The second nurse thought she saw a boy part for a second but wasn't able to find it again so we came out of that ultrasound unsure of what the baby was for sure.

Yesterday I was at my sister's house hanging out and she has a girl in her ward that does ultrasounds and so we decided to call her up and see if she was available. She wasn't at home but she told us to come on over to her office. So we just did a gender reveal ultrasound and right away we were able to see that there were absolutely no boy parts and she was very much a girl! Casey wasn't with us at the ultrasound because he was working so I put a sign on the outside of the door saying It's a...and then when he walked in I had a pink girl sign with pink treats and a drink and her cute outfit we bought while we were on our anniversary get away. He didn't seem too surprised since we had already figured she was a girl but we are both happy to know for sure. Now I can get sewing!! I already have a ton of girl fabric because I won $100 worth from Skye Reve Fabric and can't wait to get crackin.

We had a boy name picked out but we havn't decided on a girl name yet. We have ones that we like but none that we are in love with and certain that that is our baby's name. I'm one that likes to have things decided and ready so I'm sure we will come up with her name soon!



He noticed it when he had already opened the door





Nursery colors and fabric from Skye Reve