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!

Las Vegas!

A couple of weekends ago Mike and I took a mini vacation down to Las Vegas. My parents were flying out for my cousins wedding, so we drove down to see them and the wedding. It was a lot of fun, although waaaaay too short of a trip for both of us. We left at about noon on Saturday and left Sunday evening so that we wouldn't miss any school. My parents made the trip a lot easier on us financially because for my birthday present they booked our room for us. We stayed at the Hilton, which we were both really impressed with. This was our room, at least most of it. We had a huge walk in closet and a big bathroom too. Mike's favorite part was showering without one arm against the wall and the other against the shower curtain. This was the outside, and the view was amazing from our room on the 18th floor.

We're terrible at taking pictures together, but this is one that we did get!

These are my wonderful parents, who I can't wait to see again in August:

You might think that this picture didn't turn out very well because it's dark, but thats exactly the point! I have a certain luck with Vegas, which I'm sure Mike will blog about at some point because he finds it hilarious. Anyways, Saturday night all of Las Vegas was participating in a Wildlife conservation thing and everyone turned off all non-essential lights from 8:30-9:30. We were very impressed with how many people did it.

We went to MGM to see the lions, which were alseep pretty much the whole time...

And, of course, we went to the M&M museum!!! It was pretty awesome!

My cousin got married in a little garden at Cesaers Palace, it was very nice. *In a completely unrelated side note, I just had a heart attack. I was innocently typing, and all of a sudden, all my internet windows closed, so I thought that I'd have to redo this whole post. Thank goodness for autosaves!*

On our way out, we stopped an In-N-Out to experience the wonderful things we had heard about. It was pretty good, but not great. I think that Five Guys is better, so I'm going to take Mike there sometime so he can compare. The trip was a blast, and I'm so glad we went. A little longer would have been nicer, but any break is a good break!

YAY!

So as it turns out, I'm terrible at blogging. Half the time I don't have anything to blog about, and the other half I have things to blog about, but no time to get to it. Having said that, I do have things from the past two weeks to blog about, and hopefully I will get to it either later today or sometime this weekend. This post is simply to say that it's official: I will be graduation in August and Mike will be graduating in December but will be walking with me in August. YAY!!! We're really excited to be done with school and moving into the real world. It also gives him more time to find a job and such. It will also make this summer a lot more relaxing with not having to find a place to live and moving within a week after graduation! so, again, YAY!!!!

My birthday and other things....

Sooo, my birthday was a week ago, and it was pretty sweet. I got some awesome stuff and got to go to Tucanos for the first time (although I think it was more of a present for Mike than for me). I got cards from both sets of parents, and Mom Bevans, this is what your present was used for:

Thanks so much! This is my new toy, and hopefully I'll use it really often once Mike oils it up for me. I got it off craigslist and it squeaks a lot, but should be easily fixed. This is the other stuff that I got:
Mike and I went to Bed Bath and Beyond in the morning and got the cooking stuff with a coupon I had. Our friends Tanya, Brent, Melia and Devon got me the Sims game which I got addicted to a couple of weeks ago, and the card and M&M's are from our neighbors, April, Eli and Andrew. We also stopped at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory after Tucanos and I got chocolate covered oreos! Yum!

Two of my old roommates Jenn and Jill came to Tucanos, as well as one of Mike's old roommates, Brett.

This is Brent and Tanya, Mike's boss :) They're pretty awesome and helped us know what to try there. Although, they also made us try the chicken hearts, which were in fact pretty gross. But now we know what not to get from there! Mike absolutely loved the place, and I thought it was pretty great too! They have the best pineapple ever! So, all in all it was a great birthday!! Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes!

And for amusement, this is Mike drinking water upside down to get rid of hiccups. He hadn't heard of that remedy before, but it worked! I had never thought of doing it this way and thought it was pretty funny!