Finally Have Pictures

So I finally got the pictures from the Half Marathon Bush ran!!!

Enjoy!!

Yes next time Bush will wear nip guards so he doesn't bleed from his nipples!!

Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012

It is the time of the year to make resolutions and new resolve to be better.  I have only a few things on my list that I want to accomplish this year but first I want to recap our last year.

It has been a CRAZY year and every year from now on will only get crazier...

January: We started/continued our adventure on remodeling.  It was a slow process.

February: We are still remodeling.  We took a break from "life" and went to Salt Lake a did a weekend of pampering ourselves.

March:  We finally got our kitchen cabinets!  This was very exciting for us.

April:  We got all the flooring done and FINALLY moved into our home!

May:  We found out that Jake and Sabra were expecting!!

June:  We ran the Dirty Dash, which I hope we can do every year!! We also (unknowingly of course) began our own family!

July:  We went to Boulder and met my cousin Caitlin for the first time.  We found out that we were expecting!

August:  Nausea set in overtime and was not the greatest month, however, we had our first appointment and got to see and hear the babies heart beat!  We also told our families about the new baby on Bush's birthday.

September:  We went on a cruise with family and friends.  Bush ran a half marathon and did really well. We also has another niece born on Bush's side, Zanea Hazelbush.

October:  Well my birthday is quite the big deal in itself this month but the biggest news was finding out we are having a GIRL!!

November:  We had a great Thanksgiving and I finally started "popping"!  It felt like it came overnight and hasn't stopped since!!

December:  We had the arrival of our niece Hannah Jo Allred!! We had such a busy month with Christmas and a Baby Shower.  Bush had 11 days off work which was AWESOME!!  I also started my 3rd trimester which was a funny reality check to Bush when I told him only 90 more days... needless to say his eyes got big and said wow that is so soon!!

So for this year I want to write down a few of things I want to accomplish this year...

1- Exercise a minimum of 3 days every week
2- Have a painless birth!! Ha Ha, I know this is impossible but I can dream!!
3- Take a week long vacation to Rhode Island
4- Go to Texas after Jake and Sabra move there and get settled
5- Lose all my pregnancy weight plus some extra to get back down to where I was and want to be
6- Oh and of course navigate the journey of being a parent
7- Stick to our budget that we have made so we can start the journey of becoming debt free

Hope everyone has a wonderful year!!

A Busy December!!

On Tuesday, December 13, my "first" niece was born!! She is technically not my first niece but she is the first niece on my side of the family.  Jake and Sabra had Hannah Jo Allred around 6pm that night!  I was so happy to be able to be there for her birth.  She was a tiny little girl at only 4lbs 8ozs, but she was 18" long!!  It was amazing at the instant connection you feel with your siblings kids.  I have never been a kid person and didn't really care to be around them unless I had to be.  I have really only liked a couple kids up to this point but little Hannah sure overtook them right away!  I just wanted to give Sabra HUGE props for doing it all natural.  Although I do have to say it freaked me out a little when I went down to her room to check on things right when she was giving birth.  I don't think I will be as tough as her, or the many others out there that do it all natural.  The whole experience of seeing Jake and Sabra with their daughter made me quite emotional, due to pregnancy hormones.  It was like a HUGE reality check that this will be Bush and I in just 3 months... or less!  Although like anything else we will just take it as it comes and try our best to figure it out.  This is one of the cutest pictures of a newborn I have ever seen (although I am biased)!

Hannah came out with red hair, which is funny just because Jake and Sabra are not red heads.  Jake joked and said maybe Sabra and I got too close while she was still pregnant and my babies red hair transferred over! So we will have to see if Bush and I have a dark haired baby!  

On another note I am so excited for Christmas this year!  I basically get two full days to celebrate... We will be here on Christmas day spending it with Bush's parents then that night we will head out to Provo where one of my closest friends in the entire world, Kimmy, is throwing me a baby shower on the 26th!! Then we will be celebrating Christmas with my family that evening at Jake and Sabra's!!  I am super excited for the baby shower because I get to see Kimmy and my other friend Kimber, plus I get to have some other close friends and some family there to celebrate me, ha ha!!  Oh and I get to spend some time with my hubby, which is rare these days with him living at Nate's 10 days straight and only being home for 4 days.  Sometimes his job really sucks but I am still very grateful to have a steady job with insurance.  

I also had my last week at H Dentistry in Parachute this month.  I was super sad to leave but Bush and I felt that driving that far and on those bad roads during the winter and being in my 3rd trimester was not a good idea.  I will miss working there very much.  It has been the best work place I have ever been a part of!  The staff was amazing and there was never any drama, ever!! So to anyone who needs dental work or a cleaning I HIGHLY recommend H Dentistry!! I really got to know my patients and that was amazing in itself.  

I sure just love this time of year even though I don't feel like I have really had anytime to celebrate it.  We have been so busy between traveling, working, our dogs and family but feel so truly blessed for our many blessings!!  I hope everyone enjoys their holidays and always remembers the Christ is the reason for the season!!  Merry Christmas!!

IT'S A GIRL!!!

So on October 25th we found out that we are having a 

GIRL!!!  Bush had a pretty good idea that it was a girl

and he felt pretty good about himself that he was right!! 

Everything on the ultrasound looked good (or so they 

said) so that is good!  Now we are officially looking at

names and getting the babies room ready... which is not

a cheap thing to do.  But oh well it is worth it!!   

More Cruise

We then went to Ensenada Mexico.  That was a bit of a disappointment.  No good beaches and it smelt like pee.  They did have a cool blow hole though.  I could have sworn we had pictures, I will post them when I find them.  Then we had a day at sea.  Which was basically they parked the boat and sat there.  But the bright side of being sea sick all day was that we got to see Dolphins swimming.  We saw hundreds of them!  Ok so the below pictures were not of dolphins but a ton of sea lions.

Then after our few days at sea, we headed home.  It was a long trip with a lot jammed into it but good none the less.  I was really glad to be on land, even though I was pretty sure it kept moving for the next few days.  For anyone out there that wants to go on a cruise just pay the extra money and go on a better cruise line than Carnival!! 

Mexico Cruise

So after the Half Marathon we headed to Vegas for a day and then headed for California.  We stayed at a hotel right by Disneyland.  Which was a bad idea, cause I really wanted to go but couldn't because being pregnant you can't go on rollercoasters.  That is so stupid in my opinion, ok maybe not but it still sucked.  Then the day after that we headed out on our cruise.  This was our ship:

Bush found all the off shore rigs super neat so we got a picture of one.

Our first stop on the trip was Catalina Island.  It is a small little island that basically you can only drive golf carts around in.  We rented a couple golf carts and toured the city.  That was pretty fun.  Some of the golf carts people owned there were pretty neat.  The one picture was like a classic car golf cart.

Bush's Half Marathon

So we went on a cruise to Mexico the second week in September.  It was a fairly fun trip.  I am sure it would have been better if I wasn't pregnant.  It was a week and a half of a lot of stuff jammed together.  the trip started off in Price, UT.  Well actually Huntington, UT for a half marathon.  Bush and I started training for it back in June but after I found out I was pregnant I stopped training.  Bush kept training and had only ran 8 miles total up until the race.  A half marathon is 13.1 miles.  Brian Weirich took my place and ran with Bush.  They did awesome!! Bush ran it in 1 hour and 53 minutes.  He took 24th out of around 160 people.  When Kenna and I met them at the end of the race poor Bush had blood on his shirt.  I was very confused as to why but soon found out that his shirt rubbed his nipples so raw they bled.  I use to have a picture of it but I don't now.  I will post pictures when I can get some from Kenna.