Cute Husband

I had to write this before I forgot. Today is September 17th and still no baby boy. On the 19th I will be induced but today I went in for our last check up. When we went in our hopes kept going on up for the chance of going to the hospital 2 days earlier. Baby boy's movements weeent happening (once they gave me cheese and crackers he started to move) but then we heard the doc say that there was an opening tonight, he said it right in front of us) then they checked the amniotic fluid which was way low which then made us think he was going to take us in. Then they took my blood draw and then the doc talked to us and then told us no opening and he'd see us Wednesday. We were there from 1:40 to 3:40. Then later we went to walmart. As we were walking around I felt different and went to the bathroom, I was bleeding bright red which is a sign to go into the hospital. I told garrétt but he was instantly saying we needed to go to the hospital but was also distracted because he just put in a latex mask and was so worried that I would touch him, so he rushed to the bathroom to wash of his face and arms. He said he washed them so good that he was sterile enough for surgery. Well when he was washing he realized that he needed to go to the bathroom also. He then turned around and to his surprise the urinals were missing. He then realized that he was in the girls bathroom! Thank heavens no girls walked in. He then rushed out and came to tell mom and I the news then rushed back to the men's room to us the urinal. He was a little scatter brained today, mom and I decided that he is the classic excited father to be. He kept forgetting and rushing things. There still is no baby but it was super cute watching my sweet husband get a excited to see his son. Only 2 more days!

1 Year and Pregnant Pictures

These pictures were taken of me full term. 38 weeks. I don't feel particularly lovely or graceful but there are some very cute pictures of Garrett and the belly. Lacey did a good job with taking and editing them, thanks Lacey!

Moments to Remember

After the baby shower in Oregon I was anxious to make it back home to my sweetheart (I love the word sweetheart because that is what Garrett always calls me--the way he says it is so cute and genuine. Also Garrett calls me Nena. Its a Spanish endearment that kind of translates over to baby or baby girl. I love my being called both) especially after being away from him for a week! 

When Garrett picked me up he was very tricky and told me that we were going to help the Ubri's move out so we could move into that apartment sooner (This was on August 3rd-we decided to move out of our first apartment--University Gateway and move into a two bedroom apartment--Woodshed. We took over the apartment from our friends--the Ubri's because they were moving to Utah and we would still get to be in our same ward.) The whole time I was in Oregon Garrett kept telling me that the Ubri's still were waiting on their apartment in Utah, meaning we still had to wait. The day before I came home Garrett said that the Ubri's needed alot of help especially since they had a couple weeks old baby boy (named Calder, he is so cute). So straight from the airport we went to the Ubri's so Garrett we could help and for us to always bring somethings up since apparently one of the rooms was vacant for us to unload in (or so Garrett said and I totally believed him). Garrett went up first and I went to put trash in the trashcan then walked up into the apartment expecting to say hi to the Ubris. When I walk in I find myself walking into the apartment with all our pictures up against the wall and our tv up against the wall. Being shocked, I still thought the Ubris were there hiding somewhere even though I was staring at my husband recording me on his phone. 

HE SURPRISED ME AND MOVED IN ALL OUR THINGS WHILE I WAS IN OREGON!!!

I couldn't believe it. Lacey, Megan and Meta even came over and helped clean and move the things over. It all made sense then, there were a couple nights when I was in Oregon (Mostly the night before I came home to him) where I would call my husband at night expecting to have a nice talk before I went to sleep but it felt like he didn't want to talk to me. The conversation went on for only 5 mins or so. It made me sad because we were gone from each other for so long. The true reasoning behind it all was because he was trying to finish up the move late that night so I could come home to us fully moved in.  What a wonderful surprise! 

And just being able to see him again after a week of being without him, was the sweetest reunion. I hate being away from him for so long.

So the next day was my cousins wedding in Idaho Falls. My parents drove all the way out for it and brought out all the baby shower presents at the same time (we got lucky--I don't know how else we would have gotten everything out here)

I love these pictures of Garrett. He took my mom's purse so he could get a nice picture of her with dad.

He is such a hoot, he made this stance to get the right angle of them. Of course he made us all laugh, as you can see from my mom and dad's faces. Garrett is such an amazing man, I love his fun, loving, genuine personality. He has the personality and attitude where no one could not love him. 

Another of him :) But here he is struttin' his stuff :)

This picture was awhile after mom and dad left. Garrett just got home from work (working on fences) and was very dirty. Garrett is so tan right now and has wicked tan lines but the dirt added onto the ridiculousness.

I love this pose he makes :) We call it the leg up, so cute :)

My handsome husband after a long day of work 

Above is how we sleep now-a-days haha. Since it has been the summer, it has been hot in our new apartment--especially since we have no AC. So to keep the house cooler we open the windows to let the wind blow in (if its windy outside--which it is) so we have to pull up the blinds otherwise the blinds smack against the window. Across from us is a house that has motion censored lights. The bugs constantly make the lights go on. Its on the entire night but every now and then it flickers (it gets us excited when it turns off then all of a sudden it flicks back on--depressing I know). So to make our room dark we put Garrett's dress socks on over our eyes. It works very well! 

I've been surprised to find that they stay on our eyes all night long, I don't think Garrett and I move very much at night because they always stay on. 

Here is me with my project I finished for Baby Boy. It is exactly how I feel for our son. It took me awhile to finish it (especially since I wrote out the letters with a paintbrush--very hard but so worth it) 

Garrett is such a sweetheart. He takes such good care of me. Since it is more difficult to bend over these days, Garrett is constantly painting my toenails or rubbing me feet. A lot of the time he does it without me even asking. I am one lucky girl!

We have a rocking chair now! I love it, I love to rock, so I am beyond excited to have a rocking chair now :)

For FHE Garrett and I had a fun activity to help us prepare for our baby boy. We got our bags packed for the hospital and then played some games. Since Garrett and I have been into watching Biggest Loser lately I decided to have us dress this teddy bear in our Boy's clothes. We raced each other, seeing who had the best time...but since Biggest Loser always has twists I then had us do it again but blind folded. Whoever got the time closest to their previous time won. I won this challenge (in fact I got the exact same time!)

The next challenge was to see who put the diaper on the bear the fastest....Garrett won

And the third challenge was to see who swaddled the bear the fastest...Garrett won that also

The prizes were cute Halloween onesies for baby (so he can look fly on his daddy's birthday and during daddy's birthday month) and the grand prize was lifesavors (so Garrett could have them for church since he is there all day with his bishopric duties)

Here's the teddy bear wearing baby boy's cute outfit :)

Happy 1 year Anniversary Sweetheart!

My Sweet Husband and I have now been married over a year! Since our anniversary was on a Monday (August 27th, 2012)  we decided to celebrate the Saturday before. Unfortunately we were both sick but that didn't rain on our parade.

On Friday morning I was surprised to find this on the kitchen table. I have been craving pumpkin chocolate chip bread...ohhh and this quenched my craving wonderfully! How thoughtful my husband is. (He must have discovered that satisfying a pregnant girls cravings gives him major brownie points)  Even without this though, I really do have the best guy for me. He treats me like I'm the only girl in the world. I love him so dearly. Knowing that I get to be with him for all time and eternity makes me the happiest girl ever!

Me at 37 weeks pregnant surrounded by little presents from my love. Each had something written on it, it was a very cute idea. What I loved the most was what was written in that card. My man is so good with his words, and they were so tender and loving that it immediately brought tears to my eyes.  At this time Garrett opened his first gift. I made a calender from paint samples (pinterest idea). Also for our anniversary Garrett was so sweet and treated me to  a professional 1 hour massage from a lady that specializes in pregnant message. My back has been hurting so that was amazing to get a massage.

He didn't give me the of the massage until we were at dinner. We went to Olive Garden (which was delicious, I have been also craving their house salads). He had the waitress put an envelope on the table. Garrett tricked me saying that someone must have left it and that we should open it but he said he didn't want to get into trouble so maybe I should open it. Being a rebel I did (because I sincerely thought someone had left it because I sat at the table before Garrett did). Then lo and behold I opened it to find the massage card. What a wonderful surprise!

Before we went to Olive Garden, Garrett surprised me by taking us to the Idaho Falls zoo. (I didn't even know there was one) I was so excited! Curse these pregnancy hormones because it converted my emotion of excitement to tears. Here's Garrett with the lion in the background :)

My handsome husband with the camels in the background

Garrett being silly :)

Me trying to be silly and just ended up looking retarded haha

My favorite part of the zoo was seeing all the monkeys especially this little guy. I swear he loved Garrett and I. We came over to his area twice and each time he came down and sat right by us. He is so cute! I want him! 

The lighting is bad but our friend was cute dangling there. 

He kept sucking on his thumb.

Makes me sad that he stays cooped up in a cage. 

Garrett staring at thee biggest tortoise! 

Us at the zoo, so fun. Love this boy!

Of course we had to have a kissing picture on our "Anniversary Celebration Day" :)

Us when we were eating our dinner at Olive Garden--shortly after being at the zoo

Then yes of course we had to go get dessert...so we may or may not of bought an entire cheesecake...no worries we didn't eat it all in one night

Garrett eating his yummy food 

Then we got back home (with our cheesecake) and Garrett opened his real gift that I made him. This is him opening it up

Still opening it...I wrapped it realllly good

It is the sheet music to a song that is very dear to Garrett and I. It is "Make you feel my love" by Adele. When we were dating Garrett told me that this song is exactly how he felt about me....even with me being indecisive and torn he told me was always going to still be there during the ups and downs, waiting, making me feel his love. 

This gift was difficult! I just had rotten luck. I bought the sheet music online (it only lets you print off one copy) which was like $5.00, once I printed it off, I realized that the words weren't on it! So I paid like $6.00 more for it with words. Then I cut out each music line out and then pasted it back together to make it look like it does. Then I took it to be printed off. Then to make it look rustic I put black tea on the sheet of paper (with crinkled newspaper underneath it to make it the sheet music somewhat wrinkled) by using the tea bag as a brush. Once it dried I realized that I pasted the lines on in a way that you cannot read the music! My pregnancy brain has been horrible, oh man was I mad. So then I redid all of that to make it perfect. In the end it was worth all the hard work. 

Garrett and I had such a fun day on Saturday. Then on our actual anniversary, after Garret got off work we relaxed, had more of our cheesecake, rented/watched Hunger Games and spent the night cuddling/talking/enjoying each others presence.

 I couldn't of asked for a better husband, each day is such a blessing. I couldn't make it through this life without such a strong, hard working man by my side. A couple of Sundays ago I couldn't stop staring at my beloved husband (because he sits on the stand each week because he's the first counselor in the Bishopric) I always stare at him every week, I can't keep my eyes off him because he's so handsome but this particular week I just got so emotional. I was reminded of our wedding day. Kneeling across the alter from him. The thoughts and feelings flooded back to me. I know that I made the right choice, marrying Garrett was the best decision I ever made. When we were dating, letting him be sweet to me was the best thing I ever allowed him to do, for it made me realize how much of an amazing man he is. He makes me feel like I'm important and he makes me a better person. If I had to choose again I would choose him over and over and over again.  I love him with all my being and knowing that I am having our baby boy makes me love him so much more. I want our boy to be just like his daddy.

Happy 1 year anniversary husband! It makes me giddy knowing we have approximately 9678076436790006432467990054399689900043322145677889999554356788579+ years together...that equals an eternity... :) I couldn't have been blessed with a better person to share my time with. I am the luckiest girl. I love you!