So, to start, here is a picture proving that I least wore the cap and gown! :)
Ok, this next part is going to be pretty much completely random. Lately, with the baby coming, I've been reminiscing about our wedding. I'm not really sure why, except probably because that was a huge milestone in my life, and right around the same date, two years later, I'll be reaching another milestone, the birth of our first baby. I am so excited for her to come, and with the approaching birth, I find myself with a lot of the same thoughts and feelings that I had two years ago when my wedding was approaching. I am so excited for this new stage, for another level of love to enter into my life, but am so scared at the same time. Before it was, "what if I'm a terrible wife... what if I'm not actually a good cook and he starves or something... what if his family hates me... what if.. what if... what if..." Now its more like "what if something goes wrong with the pregnancy or labor... what if she never sleeps... what if we don't know how to get her to stop crying..." and so on.

Anyways, I've been looking at our wedding photos this week, and I realized that since we started the blog so late, we never really put any on here. So, here are a (very) select few.

And as nervous as I am, I really am soooo excited, and I know deep down that everything will be fine, but what kind of mother would I be if I didn't worry, right? And I'm so glad that I didn't let any of the wedding nerves scare me away, because I am so glad to be married to Mike. He is a wonderful husband and friend. I love spending time with him and surprising him with things (and I love it when he surprises me with things :)) He's being remarkably patient with me through my pregnancy mood swings and cravings, which I'm very grateful for, and he's going to be a great father!

Visits from family

So, graduation was the 13& 14 of August, and it was a blast! Both sets of parents, plus my two oldest brothers came out for it. I don't have pictures yet, since I was rather preoccupied with, you know, graduating and all... But hopefully they'll come soon! Mike's parents were only here for a few days, but it was great to see them again, especially since we won't really see them again until the baby comes. Mark, Shauna, and Jackson came down for the actual ceremony as well. My brothers were also here only a few days, but again, it was great to see them. My oldest brother caused a little bit of stress because he went missing for about 8 hours, but, it'll make for a good story later, right? I also witnessed my first accident, and was glad they were in the car right behind me and knew what to do! My parents made a vacation out of it, and were here for a week and a half. It was so nice to spend the time with them! I only see them about twice a year now, so it was great. My mom and I did massive amount of shopping for maternity clothes and for the nursery. We got a glider and ordered a changing table, and I'm really excited for it to come!

My parents also wanted to do a little sight seeing, so we went to Promontory Point (isn't that super old-western sounding) which is where the Golden Spike is. Here's where East met West: Here's a belly shot for those who were wanting to see it. I really just feel like I look fat right now, not pregnant...

Here's West:

And East:

And double East:

And East meeting West again!

There goes East. I thought it was pretty cool that the trains actually run, even though they're just replicas of the originals.

So, the 19th was my parents anniversary, so we went out for dinner (actually, we went out for dinner a lot... I haven't eaten that amount of food in a loooong time) to Los Hermanos. Our waitress was my freshman roommate, Kelly, and we finally met her new husband as well. Just to warn you, if you ever feel like getting nachos there, make sure you have about ten people to share with. You will never finish them by yourself, even with your husband helping you!

After my parents left, we had one day of down time, and then Kim (Mike's younger sister) and Kelly came to visit with their kids. It was also great to see them again, since it's been a year since we saw them last. We went to the zoo one day, and had a great time. Here's Mike as a turtle:

And wrestling an alligator:

And here's our mascot about to pounce at us. He seriously sat like that just staring at me for like five minutes!

Me, Mike, and baby with the cougar.

And that's all for now! Hopefully I'll get pictures of graduation soon, so that I can prove I walked!

Cupcakes and weddings

So I'm not the most creative person ever, so when I do something that is relatively creative or cool, I have to share it with the world. Our friend Brent's birthday was this week so I made him these cupcakes:

Aren't they awesome? I wanted to get cool colorful sprinkles to go on top, but Macey's has a terrible cake decorating section, apparently, and I didn't want them badly enough to go to more stores.... But anyways, I was very proud of myself, and I won't mention the number of cupcakes that I ate...

This month is a month of weddings. On Friday my old roommate, Jenn, and a boy from our freshman ward, Nick, got married. It was pretty cool because it was the first temple wedding Mike and I have actually been to, besides our own, of course. We're very happy for them, and she looked absolutely beautiful!

And, it was a beautiful day, which is great because it's been upper 90's for like a couple of weeks here.

Saturday my freshman roommate, Kelly, got married, although I had to miss her reception because the store was crazy and I couldn't get out. This coming Saturday another girl from my freshman ward is getting married as well! Tis the season!

It's a Girl!!

Don't you hate it when the title says everything you wanted to say? But yes, it's a girl, and we're super excited! Everything was there and functioning that was supposed to be there and functioning, so everything is going well!

July 3rd & 5th

Who celebrates the Fourth of July? Not us! We celebrate the 3rd and 5th! It's much better that way, makes it last a little longer and you don't feel like everyone else. Not really. In reality, Mike worked for just under 24 hours on the fourth, so I spent a very lonely day watching movies and taking naps and then watched the fireworks with my friend Jill. Mike and I haven't spent a Fourth together yet, but hopefully next year....

On the 3rd we had a really fun day, though. The Fourth of July is a big day in Provo and they set up a mini carnival/festival thing in the middle of town from the 2nd-4th. We went this year and it was really pretty awesome! We saw a little petting zoo:

And Mike liked the turtle

Then we saw some stocks and couldn't resist:

And of course, Mike had to play with the cannon:

Before hand we had gone to Five Guys which I have been trying to get Mike to try for months because I knew he'd love it. And he did :) At the festival thing we also saw Jericho Road, which was pretty cool because I used to listen to their cd all the time in high school. We got a caricature done, which turned out really nice, and I got a pretty little dream catcher.

On the 5th we had a bbq in the park with our friends Brent and Tanya and played wiffle ball. Kind of. Mike was pretty much dead, and so was Tanya who works with him. So we managed to have a pretty good weekend despite the 4th and have had a great week since then, but I'll update about that later!

A post!!! Finally!

Sorry about the long lack of posts, but I've actually had a pretty good excuse for not doing it. One really bad thing (for me) about having a blog is that I feel that if anything exciting happens, I should immediately post about it. Sometimes, though, I can't. This was one of those times. Mike and I found out about two months ago that we're (why do people always say we're? He's not, it's definitely me...) pregnant. But, we were only a month along at that point, so we decided to wait to make the announcement. But now I'm at about 13 weeks, so it's pretty safe to talk about.

Actually, I'll clarify a little. We talked about not telling people until the first three months were past, but it appears that basically everyone knew thanks to Mike. I guess the good thing is that at least it shows that he's excited. I keep finding out who else knew and was told not to tell me they knew. I did well though, I only told my family and people at work since I kept calling in so much. Yeah, I was pretty sick for the two months as well. It wasn't fun. But, I've gotten a lot better, so hopefully everthing goes well!

Besides that nothing else has really happened lately, except in the past two days our carpet was replaced in our apartment. It was a huge hassle and the carpet isn't even attractive. We're getting used to it, but it really is pretty ugly. Think about the church carpet that's thin, hard, and really rather purple. That's what we have, exactly. It has however, given me opportunity to go through things and get rid of a lot of stuff and clean and organize everthing else.

I promise now that I'm not keeping any big secrets I'll post more often!

Easter

A couple of days before Easter we made Spring-ish sugar cookies. I wanted to try out a recipe, and I figured it would be a good time to do it! They turned out pretty cute. The ones on the wax paper were the ones we were especially proud of and were keeping for ourselves! :)
We made our Easter baskets. Mike had a ton of candy in his (including a lot of coconut flavored things that I usually avoid) and mine had Newsies (YAY!) and a purple bunny in it. The bunny was a tradition in my family since my very first Easter. My first basket had this purple bunny that I became very attached to, like most people's blankets and things. Each year my parents would get me another bunny to try and replace that first one because it was getting kinda gross. It never worked, but it became tradition, and Mike being the awesome guy that he is, has carried on that tradition the last two Easter's!

I hid the eggs for Mike in the afternoon (he had to work in the morning). I his some really really well! It took him awhile to find all of them.

And Mike took and Easter nap, and I thought it was cute so I took a picture and am now posting it online for everyone else to see:)

So, we had a great Easter, though we were sad Mark and Shauna weren't able to come. I hope everyone else had a great one, too!