Woo hoo!

Welp, I hit 28 weeks today and out of the 2nd trimester and into the Last! WOO!
I am so ready for it to be June! And not because I am sick of being pregant and getting bigger and yada yada, but because I want my baby! I want to be a mommy!
I can't really complain about this pregnancy thus far. It has been great and I feel so blessed that it has been. We are both so excited. We bought the crib and changing table back in January-and if I remember right, Phil put it up that week :)
He is going to be the cutest dad, I just cant wait. We also have the room painted already too! He did that over spring break. I also keep buying cute clothes whenever I think she would be so cute in them. Yes I know, I shouldnt buy to many because I am going to get tons for my baby shower, but its my first child. And if I think something is cute (and cheap, always cheap) I will get it, especially if its 1.99! Come on! I had been worried since we found out the gender that the doctor was wrong since we found out so early. But no worries, I had a doctors appointment last wednesday and she is 100% girl! Good thing because her room is going to be SO cute.
She weighs just over 2 pounds and had a good time showing off for me and my mom at the appointment.
Now that I have hit my last trimester I think my body hit a unknown button or something and decided to shut down. This last week I have been so exausted, for no reason at all. And I can feel all the wonderful back pain too along with Heartburn, but I have had that since January. Poor phil has to deal with me complaining all the time about it. But although I do complain, is it wierd that I also really like all these symptoms? Im sure they will kick up here even more, but everything just reminds me that I am pregnant and have a baby coming soooon! Its just an amazing feeling to know that ever since I was little I have always just wanted to have a family and now its actually happening. Oh and I never really shared my experience about how excited I was to find out its a girl. If you are bored by this time, you can totally stop reading but I have not written any of this down so I might as well do it now.
I am the youngest in my family and never had a little brother or sister. Me being the girly girl I am have always wanted a little sister to do her hair and dress her up all cute. Well thats the whole reason I wanted a little girl so badly. Does that sound dumb? Thats why I talked myself into the fact that we were having a boy. I did not expect to hear it was a girl. Now I am not an emotional person, at all. You can ask my husband. I hardly ever cry. At movies, books, anything really. Don't get me wrong, I do cry, just not a lot. Well guess what, I was that happy when I found out it was a girl that I actually cried haha. Not expected. That was the only time I have cried during my whole pregnancy too. So I hope this little girl knows how special she is. Phil always ask's "can she play sports too?" haha he makes me laugh. He thinks that she is doomed to be "girly" girl because thats what he claims me as, since I did dance in high school and not sports baha. Oh I love him.
Well if I have not bored you with this yet I do not know what will. I just figured I havnt expressed how excited we are for June. Yeah, the sleepless nights, frustration and all. I know I might not be as excited then, but at least let me have my excitment now. We don't know what Exactly is ahead, but know our lives are going to be changed dramaticlly, and can't wait.

28 weeks ladies and gentlemen.

Couples Retreat.

For spring break we went camping with some of our friends and it was a blast. We did all the fun "camping" things. I probably ate too much food-but worth it. We slept in our tent for the first time since we got it from our wedding. FUN! Although it was freezing and we didnt have sleeping bags, just two blankets. I think I wore every shirt I brought along with phils and still froze. So we both didnt sleep much, but i really wanted to sleep in our tent haha. And if you ever want to go camping with us, you can. In our tent. We have about 7 person tent, that thing was huge-too bad I didnt get a picture. We were only there 2 days and 1 night. We just relaxed and ate and went shooting.

Me and Lo having fun with our guns.

The Husbands.


I even took our baby to go out shootin with us. She was great the whole time.


Thanks Lo lo and Don don for going camping and bringing your trailor so we didnt have to use the wilderness for the restroom-(cept that one time I woke up early and didnt want to wake you up haha). And for the caramels you brought that I ate most of. OH and the Killer Bunnies game. Yep.
We also had another couple there for a day, but they left before we went shooting and obviously thats when I took pictures. But it was fun to get out and take a break from everything.

As of yesterday...

I am one year old-and wiser ;)
21 years ago I made my entrance into the world.
About 16 years ago I had a "cat themed" birthday party. Which included crawling around on mats meowing and literally pretending to be cats. My friends probably thought I was so weird.
13 years ago-baptized.
9 years ago-Graduated from Primary and became a young woman
5 years ago-I went on my first date ever.
3 years ago-officially became and adult.
2 years ago-told the first boy ever that I loved him. (yes I ended up marrying him)
1-year ago-did too much homework.
This year was great! I got at least a call/text/email/fb message from EVERYONE in my familieS. Along with all my friends. At work they even brought in a cake, had a card and a present for me!! Did I mention I LOVE working there? Had a perfect grilled chicked dinner at home-exactly what I asked for. And, finally, my Wonderful Husband to me to see Mary Poppins!!! Holla! One of the best things I have ever seen. Loved it. Wished I could of gone down and done supercalifragilisticexpialidocious with them. And NO I did not look up how to spell it. We did that song in college for choir. Ask me about it sometime-I will happily sing and do the whole dance for you.
Great Birthday. Thanks Babe! And thank you everyone for all the birthday wishes!

You can def. see that bump poppin out now.
This is my, "Im 21 and *almost 21 weeks pregnant" happy face.

All the clothing I have on-including shoes and bracelet are items my sister Summer dressed me up in. Thanks for the help summer-I wouldnt of looked cute without your help!

New Things

Lots of new things going on at our house. Phil started school again and is ready to get really good grades he says :) which of course he will. I started a NEW job (thank goodness) at a elementary school assisting in a reading class. The whole hosting thing was not going great and considering I am on my feet ALL day I knew I didnt want that job much longer. So far I am loving this one, I work with kids all day and get to sit down the whole time and I am busy the WHOLE day long! Hosting during the day all week long got wayyy to boring but this one keeps me soo busy and the day goes by so fast. Plus I am done in may and will have all of June off to get ready for our little miss. I also got a 3rd calling in our ward. Dont be confused though, I have been released from the other its just my 3rd calling I have had since July. Sunday school teacher, Primary teacher and now....YW advisor!! I am an advisor over the mia maids and couldnt be more excited!! Although I am still mistaken for a Young Women and not a leader its still fun. (those funny stories of me looking 18 and younger are for another post-there are many stories trust me)Maybe getting a bigger belly will help...I hope. Anyways, Phil is in Young Mens so its perfect, we both have mutual wednesday nights. So a lot of new things are going on and change is always fun.

My sister Lacey just had her baby girl Nelly on January 5 and I went to visit last weekend and took some pictures for any cousins or whomever want to see her...
This is Lacey's boy Dallan who wanted to ride the Elephant he saw when we were at dinner, he did just eat some chocolate ice cream if you cant tell.

And this is our daughters soon to be cousin/BFF Nelly Lynn Rawlings. She is so petite and girly. I cant wait!


Oh and I guess I just wanted to share some of the delicious food we had. Phil had the idea to make them one night (thank goodness he can come up with yummy meals-or we would be eating the same thing over and over which I dont mind but I am sure he gets bored of).

Before...

After...mine is the ALL meat one. No seafood here!

And the result is...

Could my life be any better? I think not.

Catch up, not Ketchup

Well let me catch up on whats been going on around here...
Christmas was great. We spent half the week with my family relaxing and juvst visiting and then spent the other half with phils doing pretty much the same thing. Relaxing and not having a scedule is how I like my Christmases. I had been wanting a "snuggie" for christmas sooo bad and kept asking phil to get me one. I get cold so easy and yes, I even freeze (like my teeth chatter) here in mesa. But he did so much better look at this thing...

Snuggies dont have a back, this thing is like a sleeping bag with arms haha! Phil also got me a bike so I can ride while he jogs because there is no way I will go Running. We took it out for a spin that day and took his mom's dog with us. I really wanted to take that dog home. Since I am getting my baby fix with an actual baby in little bit, we decided to wait on getting a dog. But it will happen in the future.
I also got a lot of other things of course from family and LOOOOOVE my pillows that Emily made me! Just so you know Em, everyone who has came over has complimented them and said your such a good seamstress:) I am so glad you had me this year haha.



Then New Years happened and we went over to my sisters house and partayed!! Except phil was sick and left at 9 15 to go home and go to sleep. No new years kiss for me...
Then last monday the 4th was His birthday and he turned 23. Yes, we are young I know. I got him Madden 10 and I am pretty sure he loved it. We went to dinner and then saw Sherlock Holmes. Which I totally recommend, Loved it. He didnt have to work on his birthday but I did. I asked him what he did all day and he said nothing. Sounds like a perfect birthday to me! He also got to go snowboarding the next day which he had been looking forward to allllll winter. He went with our Friend Don and about after a run each, they both got hurt and called it a day. Old men.

And last but not least, Ill be 16 weeks on saturday and have a little bump to show! woo! And even better news, We will find out what we are having on Monday!!! I have always wanted a little girl to dress up and those things but I am pretty set on the fact that it is a little boy. Either way, I am going to be so excited and happy just to know what it is!