May was a pretty fun month!

The first week, Nate and I got to swim in his parents new pool for the first time. It was sooo nice and relaxing. It was kind of strange being in a pool while being 7 months pregnant...it kind of made me feel I wasn't pregnant anymore because all of the weight felt as if it disappeared. 

It was nice, but at the same time it made me want our boy to be here so he could really swim with us! We are excited to take him in the pool :) Meanwhile, Nate and I get to be silly in the pool and act like little kids!

Also that week, the wives in my cul-de-sac threw me a baby shower! They were so sweet and generous and I had such a good time :) I love these ladies!

(Emily, Vari, Me, Sarah)

The following week, Nate took me to one of our favorite places: The Wild Grape. The Wild Grape is a bistro in Salt Lake City where we have some great memories. This is the restaurant Nate took me for my birthday a few months after we started dating. It was such a romantic date that ended with an amazing gift of a matching sapphire ring and necklace.

Our second trip to the The Wild Grape was the night that Nate proposed to me a couple of months later. You can read that post
Here.

Our third time at The Wild Grape was on our wedding day. This is where we decided to have our wedding luncheon because it is so special to us. It was perfect; we had a great time!

So it was really nice to go back and visit since we hadn't been there since our wedding. I love love love this place for so many reasons. One reason being...Prickly Pear Lemonade:

This is what I had to drink on my birthday and I fell in love with it! So much so that is was one of our drink choices at our wedding lunch. I was pretty excited this time to order a Prickly Pear Lemonade, it was just as yummy as I remembered. I hope this restaurant never closes and we can visit there with our children.



That Sunday was Mother's Day. The days leading up to it Nate would say "It's almost your big day!" It was so cute and funny because he says this to people, usually being sarcastic. But when he said it to me t felt like he meant it. Saturday night when it was time for me to go to bed, he said "Tomorrow is your big day!" and then turned on some music on his phone. He turned on "You Are So Beautiful" by Joe Cocker and sang it to me. It was so sweet and I don't even think he knows how happy it made me. He really is the sweetest person I could ever ask for. He makes me smile so many ways and goes so out of his way to make me happy. The next morning while I was eating breakfast, he went out to the car and came back with a gift for me. He handed me a Sego Lily box! He opened up the service pamphlet and showed me what I was getting...a Maternity Massage and a Facial!

I was so excited and surprised at the same time. I wasn't expecting anything this Mother's Day but he must really love me :) He told me how he appreciates what I have gone through to bring this baby boy to our lives. It's definitely exhausting (and hot) at times but I feel blessed that I have had a fairly easy pregnancy.


The next day I was sitting in Nate's recliner watching TV and I felt baby's hiccups for the very first time. It was the cutest funniest thing ever! Most people don't know this about me but I LOVE getting the hiccups. They make me laugh so hard and then when I do that, my hiccups get even more intense. So when I felt baby's hiccups I couldn't help but laugh. I wonder if he will follow in my footsteps with that? (Nate was able to feel his hiccups a couple of weeks later. It was pretty neat.)

The following week was pretty busy. Tuesday was my 1-hour Maternity Massage...UH-mazing! Man it was so nice. I was worried that it wouldn't be as good as a normal massage since I obviously can't lay on my stomach. It was still just as good though! They had me lay on my side with a body pillow.

 Wednesday, which is Nate's day off, we went to McKay Dee and took a hospital tour to get prepared for being there for delivery.

It was nice to see the different rooms and learn the procedures for when we get there. Afterwards we went to lunch at another one of my favorite restaurants here, The Oaks. It is a indoor/outdoor place nestled in the tree's of the Ogden Canyon right on the river.

I love being able to watch the water go by as I eat. It is SO pretty! We went mainly to get a gift card for one of Nate's amazing co-workers, Laurie, and her husband Greg. These two people are so cool! They are from Boston and just the nicest people ever! One day when Nate and I were out shopping for a rocking chair/glider/lazy-boy for the nursery, we stopped in to his work to look up some places on the internet (since we hadn't had any luck with the places we already went to.) Laurie walked in to his office and asked what we were up to. We told her and told her what we were looking for, and she said to us, "I have one just like that, you guys can have it." We were kind of blown away at yet another generous offer, since we had been given so much already from friends and family for our baby. Laurie insisted we take it because it was just sitting in her basement wrapped up not being used. She said Greg got it to sleep in after his shoulder surgery and has never used it since. That night she sent us a picture of it and it was EXACTLY what we were looking for. We are so blessed to have such great people in our lives that are so willing to help us out!
The next day, Thursday, about 20 of the wives in my ward got together for an "Activity Bag Exchange." Here is where the idea came from. It was great and I am totally ahead of the game as far as activities for our little boy!

Friday I made an appointment to see a family doctor (since my OB wasn't in) because I had been experiencing some pretty stabbing chest pains for a while. I ignored them for the most part until a couple of nights it was unbearable. Nate suggested I see a doctor, which I hardly ever do, but with Long QT Syndrome running in my family I figured it was better to be safe than sorry. It turns out the doctor doesn't think I have Long QT (which I still could - he didn't want to harm the baby by doing an EKG) but he diagnosed me with Costochondritis: Costochondritis (kos-toe-KHON-dri-tis) is an inflammation of the cartilage that connects a rib to the breastbone (sternum) — a junction known as the costosternal joint. Pain caused by costochondritis may mimic that of a heart attack or other heart conditions. Yeah..pretty darn painful.
And Saturday was the Hill Air Force Base Memorial Weekend Air Show: Warriors Over The Wasatch. We live super close to the base; we hear and see jets fly over our house every single day. I had never been to an air show before so I decided I was going to go. By myself (well, and baby boy.) If you know me well, you know I don't usually enjoy doing things like this alone, but I was determined. Nate had to work and I just really wanted to see it. So I headed up to Maverick, got a Caffeine-Free Diet Coke (my first time, I kind of loved it), some Sun Chips, and headed to find a place to park my car and watch. I had a perfect view in the parking lot next to the runway thing (I don't know what that place is called.) It was pretty cool watching the planes.

 I loved seeing the sky-divers jump out and all leave red smoke trails behind them as they came down. Pretty cool!

Lastly, the following Thursday, the 3 wives in our cul-de-sac and I got together for lunch for Vari's birthday. She didn't know if was for her birthday until we brought out a gift for her! Her, her husband, and their 5 kids are all taking their first trip to Disneyland this week and so we thought of putting together a Disney Trip Survival Basket for her. It consisted of 2 magazines, gum, soda, trail mix, an eye mask for sleeping, lotion, a mini first aid kit, ear plugs, migraine medicine, chap stick, tissues, hand sanitizer, heath bars, and sun glasses. It was great because when she opened it she said there were a lot of those things she actually still needed to get for her trip! And, the sun glasses looked cute on her :) It was fun sitting on her porch having Kneaders lunch (SO yum!) I love those ladies, I love that I live in such a great place with great friends!

I just finished reading the book, Heaven Is Here, by Stephanie Nielson (aka Nie Nie). 

I really dislike reading, but I love reading about Nie's story through her blog and watching her Mormon Messages video. So, I was optimistic that I would one day finish this book if I bought it. I bought it Saturday and finished it today. Yep, three days! It only took me three days to read because I couldn't put the book down. I almost felt like I knew her as a friend with how personal her feelings that she shared were. I felt as if I went through the experience with her and felt so sad for the physical and emotional trials she had to go through. I found myself crying along with her at parts throughout the book, throughout her life. She is so real and the fact that she was wiling to share her most vulnerable experiences in this book made for much needed reading. It's tragic that some people have to face challenges this drastic, but it is a blessing, as her inspiring courage and determination helps so many people to stay strong and overcome trials in their lives.

This book makes me want to be a similar mother as she is to her children; I hope I can be. Her kids are so blessed to have such an amazing role model. Well, I should say role models. I also loved learning about her husband, Christian, who was by her side and helped her through this time in her life. He was there for and took over her motherly responsibilities until she was able to back to it. Not only did he, but he did willingly, and was happy to. What a wonderful husband. 

I highly recommend this book, especially to mothers that are struggling with trials in their lives. I don't feel I have any major trials at the moment, but it is nerve-wrecking knowing I am about to become a mother for the first time, here in less than two months. I have so many concerns about it, wondering if I will be able to be the mother my children need and deserve. Don't get me wrong, I am SO excited for it, but I think everyone gets nervous before their first child. It will be an amazing experience and I am so thankful that I am finally able to fulfill my dream of being a mother.

I loved laying in bed on my back with my book on my tummy reading, and feeling my little boy kick around. It was the first time I saw that he was completely on one side of my stomach...it was lop-sided. It made me laugh. 

Last night, out of no where, Nate said "I want our little boy to be here, I just want to hold him." I said to him, "I want to hold him too." He replied, "You've got to hold him for the past 7 months. When he comes out, I get to hold him first!" That made me laugh too. I told him, "I'm sure you will, then you can hand him to me."

I so look forward to that day that we get to meet our little boy. I can't express it enough how excited we both are to be starting our family. We already have so much love for our peanut and I know it will only continue to grow as he does. 

Yesterday I got to finally take advantage of an "Expectant Mothers Parking Only" parking spot at the mall. I was pretty excited, I took a picture on my lame phone...

I have the most thoughtful husband. He really is the best.

Last week I was SO uncomfortable at church for the last two hours because I teach primary and have to sit in the hard metal chairs. I don't think I have ever been more uncomfortable sitting before in my life. I'm pretty sure it bruised my tail bone because for the next several days I could not sit properly due to the pain the chairs had caused me on Sunday. I started to wonder if I permanently hurt something or if if it was just taking a while to recover. I didn't realize pregnancy could do that.

This week I decided I would take a big cushy hoody to sit on so that I didn't have the same problem. Nate said to me, "Why don't you just get one of the cushion chairs to sit on?" I told him I didn't want to draw attention to myself and have to explain the reasoning.

Well, a couple of minutes after Nate walked me to class and I had layed out the hoody to sit on, Nate walked in with one of the cushion chairs for me. It was so sweet of him to take the time to do that for me. What was even sweeter though was as I walked my class to Sharing Time for the third hour, I saw Nate in the hall way. We said hi and got back to what we we were doing. He walked to Priesthood and I went into the Primary room. He had gone in before class (as to not draw attention) and switched me chair out with another cushion chair.

 It was soooo nice of him and I was so appreciative! It helped so so much! He got tons of brownie points from the Primary Presidency who was looking at me and smiling, saying "your husband is so sweet!" I feel very blessed to have such a selfless husband who always takes care of me. Now I don't have to deal with painful sitting all week.

I love my hubby!

In the beginning of March, Nate and I had our first lesson on Family History. We learned a lot about www.new.familysearch.org and were able to link ourselves with long lines of our ancestors! It was so amazing to me to actually see the names, birthdays, and countries they came from. I am so excited to be able to take family names to the temple and do their temple work. Below is a screen shot of the line of ancestors I am connected to. Now I've got to do the hard part and find names that are not yet linked.

We missed our 24 week doctors appointment had our 24 week doctors appointment a couple of days later than planned, but we made it. My doctor doesn't do an ultrasound every appointment but she does check the baby's heartbeat and measures my tummy. This appointment the doctor said he was measuring a little bit bigger than what he was supposed to so I got a bit nervous that baby was growing faster than scheduled. I've kind of been anticipating him to be a bit bigger than average because apparently Gailey's have larger babies. I guess we'll have to see once he is born :)

March 17th, Nate and I went to the Boyce Avenue concert in SLC; he was so sweet to go with me even though it wasn't his kind of concert. I didn't really know what to expect though, I just like their music. We were probably one of the oldest couples there, it was a bunch of teenie-boppers. We ended up having to wait in a huge line just to get in and it was cold and rainy. Nate was the best though, he kept me warm and in his arms! Once we got in, we were able to go upstairs (21+) and get a perfect view away from all of the young-ans. Secondhand Serenade opened and I was so excited. I think he is great, and I love where he got his band name. It was so fun to see Boyce Avenue in concert; I hadn't been to a concert in years. However, I think it was my last concert for a while, especially while being pregnant :) Afterwards, Nate and I went to Wing Nutz for a late night snack. They have these "wings" called Hog Wings, which are actually small pork ribs covered in your choice of sauce. These were my favorite kind -  we got a sampler of the different wing types. They were pretty darn yummy!

The following Saturday, the cul-de-sac wives and I went out on the first Garage Sale-ing adventure of the season. It's nice that the weather is so great now that we can actually do things outside. We went to a few different garage sale's and I totally scored on baby & maternity clothes and things. I got an Eddie Bauer Pack & Play, a highchair, booster seat, Boppy, plastic and wooden baby blocks, and I'm sure some other stuff I am forgetting about. It was great! One of my favorite finds was a couple of pairs of Converse shoes. One pair of high tops and one pair of low tops. SO cute! I am so excited to see baby in them :)

Towards the end of the month I think I caught some kind of flu. Everything ached: head, body, throat, stomach. It was miserable. I ended up having to stay home from work to try and get better and Nate came home with gorgeous flowers and dinner. I love him so much, he always knows how to make me feel better!

The last weekend of the month/first weekend of April was General Conference. We started a tradition last conference of making homemade crepes with homemade peach jam. They are so so yummy! There were so many great talks this conference, a couple of my favorites included:

"Teaching Our Children To Understand" by Cheryl A. Esplin

"And A Little Child Shall Lead Them" by Boyd K. Packer

"How To Obtain Revelation And Inspiration For Your Personal Life" by Richard G. Scott

"The Merciful Obtain Mercy" by Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I love watching General Conference; it's exciting to hear the words of the leaders of our church. They always know what to say.

A couple of days after conference I had another doctors appointment, where I had to get my blood drawn for my glucose test after drinking The Drink (which actually didn't taste bad like I had been told.)  I was pretty much freaking out. I really can't stand being stuck by needles and knowing they are taking blood out of me. I can't watch, and I have to squeeze hold Nate's hand. It's kind of crazy to think that I can't do that, but I will be giving birth in less than 3 months. HA. We'll see how that goes.. Needless to say, I'm terrified. Oh well though, I think it will make me stronger. I hope so at least. Oh by the way, my test came back great - no Gestational Diabetes :)

That Friday I had scheduled to be off work because I was leaving for AZ Thursday night. Little did I know, Thursday would be my last day at my job. Wednesday my manager brought me in the office and told me that the owner needed to cut me back again to part time due to the lack of incoming work. After talking with Nate that night we decided together that the driving distance verses the amount of pay is not worth it to stay working there. The next day I told me manager that I would be putting in my 2 weeks if I am not able to get at least 6 hours a day. She spoke with the owner and they weren't able to grant that. I respectfully offered 2 weeks, however, they let me leave after Thursday since I already had Friday off. It was a really weird feeling because it was so sudden. I was planning on working all the way until the baby came. We figure its a blessing in disguise though :)

Thursday night I caught the last flight to AZ for Easter weekend! My mom and sister threw me a baby shower on Saturday and I had so much fun! I loved every part of it and everyone that was able to come. We played a couple of fun games prepared by my sister, had some yummy food prepared by my mommy, and enjoyed an adorable cake that they got! Everyone was so generous and I am so thankful for everything :)

On Sunday, my sister, Tre and I went to her ward then we all went over to Cindy's house for some yummy Easter dinner and egg hunt! 

*Cindy's sister, who is a hair dresser, gave my dad the "Jersey Shore Blow Out" hair-do! HA :) love it!

I also got to spend some time with a couple of friends, Clarissa and Mandi, as well as visiting my elementary school where my mom teaches. I had such a great time in AZ! Miss my family!

I got home from AZ on Wednesday night and was so excited to see Nate! It's hard for me to be away from him longer than a day, I just love seeing his face and getting to hug him :) Since being home, I have been working on getting our home clean and organized before baby comes. There is so much to do before then and I know I wont have the energy afterwards for a while. I love knowing I wont have to worry about it when the baby comes. So far, I have sorted and stored all of the baby clothes (with the help of a wonderful friend!), washed all the 0-6 months clothes, organized his shoes by size, cleaned out the dresser he will use, cleaned all of the donated or garage-sale-purchased things, cleaned my rocking chair & ottoman, deep cleaned the kitchen, organized the kitchen cabinets, organized and cleaned the pantry, deep cleaned and organized the master bathroom, deep cleaned and organized the baby's/guest bathroom, organized our desk, and put together the stroller. There may be a couple of other things I'm forgetting, but I still have more to do. Lots of painting baby furniture to do! I can't believe we only have less than more 10 weeks until my due date. These past 30 weeks really have flown by. I feel very blessed because I feel like I have had a pretty great pregnancy. I'm really hoping that doesn't mean I will have rough labor, but we'll see. 

I am having such a great time with our little peanut in my tummy. I love every single time that I feel him moving around, especially since the movements and kicks are getting stronger. It is making me more and more excited to be able to actually see him make those movements when he gets here. There is so much that I am nervous for but I think my excitement overpowers any of that. We love him so so much and we're looking forward to him being in our arms!

I have been feeling our little one wiggle around more and it has been such a fun experience! Saturday morning when I woke up and turned on my side, the baby was wide awake and moving. I knew I could feel him from the inside, but I was also pretty sure he could be felt from the outside too. I woke Nate up, put his hand on my tummy, and sure enough that boy kicked! Nate was so excited and so was I! It is so awesome to be able to feel him move but even more awesome that his daddy can feel him now too. After Nate was able to feel him I was curious if I'd be able to see my tummy move when I felt him kicking. I laid on the couch and watch closely. I did! I saw it move. It was cool and funny all at the same time! I love my little growing family and get more excited every day at the thought of having our baby boy in our arms. I am so excited to meet him and just stare for hours at his cute little self. This whole experience has been unlike anything else. It is amazing and Nate and I feel truly truly blessed.

Speaking of being blessed, we have had so many amazing people around us help us out with toys and clothes. We have wonderful family and friends that are so kind and generous. We owe them so much!

Wow, it has been a great 2 months!

January 10th, Nate and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary.

We got all dressed up and headed to Sandy where we went to dinner at the beautiful La Caille. This was my kind of restaurant so I just loved everything about it!

Amuse Bouche - Puff Pastry w/ Roquefort Cheese, Dijon Vinaigrette & Micro Greens

 

Appetizer - Pan Seared Prawn w/ Tabasco Sabayon, Smoked Salmon Cake w/ Basil Aioli, and Pacific Oyster Shooter

 Palette Cleanser - Pineapple Sorbet

Kristina's Entree - Fresh Atlantic Salmon Caramelized “Aux Poivre” served Over Micro Greens with Heirloom Tomatoes, Osetra Caviar, Radish Sprouts, Buckwheat Bellini and Red Onion Confit

Nate's Entree - Cornish Game Hen Stewed in French Indian Curry Natural Jus served with Savory Bread Pudding and White Truffle Cream

 Dessert - Trio of Traditional French Confections Créme Brûlée, Beignet Française, and Baked Alaska

Sweet Plate - Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Dinner was so good and Nate and I just had a wonderful night. One of the best parts was when Nate asked "Do you guys do anything special for anniversary's? Maybe like some Apple Bee's singing?" He was being funny with the waitress about the Apple Bee's singing, but when she brought out the dessert with the fun firework thing on it, she was a good sport and started singing "Happy Anniversary to you..." in the Happy Birthday tune. She was such a great waitress, she made our special night even greater. When we were done with dinner we walked around the property. It is so pretty and someday we want to go back and stay in their cottage. 

This is their waterfall type thing that apparently freezes and looks way cool in the winter time!

The front of La Caille

 

 Towards the end of January I started experiencing heartburn for the first time. It doesn't really feel the way I thought it would. Luckily I only had a mild case of it, and after about a few weeks I had it no more! At least I can say I know what it's like now. But I am grateful it didn't decide to linger. Some people say that if you have heartburn, your baby is born with a lot of hair. Well what do they say about people that have mild heartburn for only a few weeks? Guess we'll have to wait for the outcome.

We also started taking guesses on baby genders the end of January. And the results were....

Boy: 47              Girl: 29 

On Nate's side of the family, it should be a boy, according to the pattern. There is Gavin (boy), Alyssa (girl), Brock (boy), Adalyn (girl), Joel (boy), and Brielle (girl). See the pattern? Boy Girl Boy Girl. But, on my side of the family, there is Tre (boy) and Kingston (boy). Not a pattern, so it could go either way. Add to the boys, or bring in a girl. Either way, we were super excited to find out the gender and finally get to start picking names and decorating the baby room. 

I had found a few Target gift cards left over from our wedding and there happened to be an annual baby sale the week before we found out the gender. I decided to go, get both genders, and take back whichever gender we weren't going to end up having. I went a little crazy! But what I found out was it is a lot hard to find boy clothes (that I like) than girl clothes. I'm a very plain person, and I'll probably have a plain dressed baby. There are a lot more plain clothes for girls than boys. So I came home with about 4 bags of girls stuff and 1 bag of boy stuff. It was a bit ridiculous :)

February 7th was our big ultrasound where we found out the gender, along with how everything was developing on the baby. I was sooo anxious and excited I could hardly sleep the night before! I have heard that it helps to have sugar right before the ultrasound to get that baby wiggling. The only thing I could find before we left the house was a bag of chocolate. I started eating and then realized..."This probably wont reach the baby by the time it needs to." So after we checked in for the appointment my wonderful husband went and got me a delicious berry smoothie with whipped cream on top. It was pretty amazing. I sipped as fast as I could but the doctor came out to get me so quick. The took us into this big ultrasound room and I laid on the (whatever they are called.) It was finally here and I could barely contain myself. Our ultrasound tech was amazing, she was 20 years experienced and it totally showed! As soon as she out the wand thing on my tummy and moved it around, we got a clear shot of between the legs. I immediately gasped, looked over at the tech and said "Is it a boy!?" She just smiled, and I knew it was. I looked over at Nate and started to tear up. I was so excited that it was a boy and I think he was too. We may or may not have been secretly rooting for a boy :) The ultrasound was so wonderful, we learned so much about our little baby boy, all good things. He is growing and developing perfectly. Nate and I couldn't be more grateful that he is as healthy as can be! It's crazy how many things they can find out by these ultrasounds. They were able to check that the heart had all 4 chambers, they could see the blood going to the kidneys, they could check the halves of the brain, and soo much more! We got a DVD of the ultrasound a long with the snapshots of our handsome little man...

The most amazing part of the whole ultrasound was that it finally let me know I could feel my baby boy moving around. Before the appointment, with how subtle the movements were, I could not tell if it was the baby or simply air bubble in my tummy. But when we were watching him on the screen and I saw him move the same time a felt something, I knew I was able to feel my sweet baby boy inside there. It was indescribable.

Nate wanted to tell his lady friends at work the gender in a fun way so we came up with the idea to bake cupcakes and fill them with either blue or pink frosting. We topped them with white frosting so they had eat the cupcake to find out what color was inside. Nate said they enjoyed it and I know I had fun making them :)

After we left the appointment we called our families and shared the news; everyone was excited!

The following week was Valentine's Day, and what a way to start it off by having our 20 week baby check up! We heard his sweet little heartbeat and everything was great :) I couldn't believe we were already half way! The time really flew by, I wonder how the rest of the time will go. After our days at work we came home to celebrate together.
Nate had called me a few minutes before I left work and told me I couldn't get home before he did. I told him there was no way I would because his work is a lot closer to home than mine (little did I know he had a few stops to make on his way.) So he tried to get me to stall by picking up a Red Box. He told me to call him when I was getting off the highway by our house. When I did he sounded pack-y and told me to pull over and wait on the side of the road. Ha, it really made me laugh. I asked him if I could just go home and go upstairs and stay there until he was finished with whatever it was that he needed to do. He told me that was okay. So about 10 minutes after I got home and went upstairs he called me and said to go start a bath but not to put anything in it (bubbles.) So I started the water and got in. Two minutes later I hear the garage door open and then footsteps running through the house up to the bathroom. He set down a Victoria's Secret bag next to the bath and ran back out. It was the funniest thing, I could just hear running steps all through the house the entire time. I opened the bag and inside was lotion, body spray, and body cream in 3 amazing scents! He came back up a few minutes later and I thanked him for the gift. He asked, "Did you see the bath stuff?" I said "no." He looked inside the bag and then got kind of sad and said "Oh no, I forgot I traded it out for one of the other things!" I told him not to worry, that I love the gift, and I had bubbles I could put in the bath. I think he was so flustered because nothing was working out the way he wanted, but to me it only made it better and sweeter. The bath water was still filling up when he yelled up to ask me "Will you be ready in 7 minutes?" Hahaha that made me laugh too but I told him I could be. So 7 minutes later I got out, got dressed and headed downstairs. It was super cute, all the lights were off besides the candles he lit. He set the island up for dinner and put a towel over his are like a waiter.

He had got my favorite buffalo wings from  Roosters, took them out of the to-go container, put them into a dish and into the oven. He pulled them out and served the first course. It was so stinkin cute, I loved it. They were yummmmmy! Then after the wings he got out the second course again from the over, delicious mac and cheese with chicken breast from Noodles & Co. We love eating it with Sriracha Hot Sauce! And finally, he brought out a box of cupcakes from Sweet Tooth Fairy.

Dinner was sooo yummy and Nate was so cute the whole time. I love him so so much! Afterwards he went through the gifts I got him, saying "aww!" to each one. It was funny!

Berry Lemonade - "I'm BERRY lucky to have you in my life"

Orange Crush - "I have a big CRUSH on you"

Trail Mix Bars - "I'd be all MIXED up without you"

Oatmeal Creme Pies - "You are the CREME of my crop"

Reese's Pieces - "I love you to PIECES"

Hot Tamales - "You are a HOTTIE"

Extra Gum - "You always go the EXTRA mile for me"

Swedish Fish - "You have o-FISH-ally stolen my heart"

Life Savers Mints - "You are my LIFESAVER"

Oh, and while Nate was at work, I dropped off a Naked Juice to his co-worker to deliver to him that said "I just wanted to see if I could get you NAKED at work! Happy Valentine's Day" It was great :)

We had a fun night together. I liked just being at home with him; usually that's better than going out to a crazy packed restaurant sharing Valentine's Day with the rest of the state.

We have had the opportunity to go to several Jazz games this year which has been fun! Nate has been able to score some lower bowl seats for a really good deal so we have enjoyed that. I got to see my guy Westbrook on the Thunder which was pretty cool. We also ran into Thurl Bailey at one of the games...can you say...TALL. Which is funny because I know he isn't even the tallest guy to play in the NBA. I cannot believe how tall these guys are. This is a picture of our friend McKenna next to Thurl. Crazy!

We also got the bedroom all cleaned out that we are planning to make into the nursery. (Luckily I had forgotten to take a picture before we actually started...so you don't get to see how much stuff was really in there! Including a spare bed and our desk. The dresser was not originally in there.)

Now we get to fill it with baby things! We are going to paint the furniture a dark/mustard yellow because that and grey our the colors for the room. Hopefully it turns out how I imagine :)