Week 19: It's a...

 This week was by far the best I've had during my pregnancy. We found out the gender of our little one! I wanted to share the news in a special way so since it was my birthday, we announced with a cake! 

19 Weeks! Baby is the size of a LARGE mango!

How far along: 19 weeks
Total weight gain: about 6 pounds
Maternity clothes? I wear have a little bit of maternity wear. My Easter dress was maternity!
Stretch marks? none yet!

Sleep: Bought a pregnancy pillow. It's the best ever!

Best moment this week: Finding out what we're having!

Miss anything? Not really

Movement: little kicks!

Food cravings: fruit and anything fresh

Anything make you queasy or sick? Not really

Gender: boy!

Labor signs: none

Symptoms: the usual... hungry, tired

Belly button in or out? in

Wedding ring on or off? on

Happy or moody most of the time? so happy

Looking forward to: I don't know! Everything is great! Planning the nursery will be fun.

You've had a birthday shout hooray!

It was another great birthday this year! I've convinced Brent that a birthday is not just one special day but 3-4 days of festivities. We began the celebration at The Roof Restaurant downtown. Their red velvet cake is to die for and the view is amazing! My family threw a little party for me (more cake!) Aside from the sugar coma, the best part was having my sis in town with her little boy! We all went to breakfast and of course, had to take a pic.

Over The Hill

Brent turned 30!!! We celebrated his 30th year of life all weekend long! The festivities began Friday with a surprise... mwahaha!

I sneaked into his classroom the night before and decorated his desk with crepe paper, balloons, streamers, confetti, Starbusts and a RIP tombstone ;) He was so surprised!





Saturday we ate dinner with his parents at the Red Igunana. It's one of Brent's faves!

Sunday, we headed to Kamas for a camping trip with Griz. It was a perfect night!





We made dutch oven chicken and corn. We roasted marshmallows and made s'mores for dessert. It was so relaxing to sit around the campfire just us two.





One of the best things about camping is how good the food tastes, especially breakfast! We made French toast, bacon and hot chocolate... yum!

We celebrated his birthday dinner at Ruby River and topped it off with turtle cheesecake!

Happy birthday, B! I love you!

She's 21

My little sis is 21! To celebrate this monumental occasion, we took a girls’ trip to Wendover. We stayed in a swank room at Montego Bay and that night hit the casinos in hopes of winning it big. I played roulette and blackjack for the first time. I won $4 but quickly lost it :( Wendover is also big on Keno. We played caveman keno… you can play for a penny and a dollar lasts forever! Still livin’ up the night, we ordered virgin daiquiris, the bartender said he'd have to keep on eye on us because we were too wild. We stayed up late laughing and eating cupcakes and ice cream. I am so grateful for my sisters. I love them so much!

Happy Birthday, Stef!

Twenty-6

My birthday weekend was so fun! I am surrounded with wonderful family and friends and an amazing husband.

My birthday weekend began with my work throwing a little office party. They ordered yummy cakes from Nothing Bundt Cakes. Of course, we had to sample all the different flavors (white chocolate raspberry is divine!) They even ordered my very own chocolate cake to take home!




Brent cooked me a fabulous birthday dinner and then we went out for dessert at The Melting Pot. We ordered the flaming turtle and wow, it was good!






My family came over the next day for cake, ice cream... and presents!

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." ~ Lucille Ball

Idol and the big 6-0

I absolutely love spending time with my siblings. My sis, who is up from Snow College spent the weekend at my place. We spent the night flexing our golden pipes on American Idol. (the game, not the show) We even got all decked out in costume, sort of.


The big event of the weekend was my dad's 60th birthday! Yes, 60th! But he doesn't look a day over 49. Because this was such the occasion we celebrated in style with a very elaborate, very decadent and very yummy cake from Mrs. Backers! It looked amazing!

Pretty icing flower.

Clearly, we thoroughly enjoyed it.


Cutting the cake, before the carnage.

Sisters.


Me and my dad.


Overall it was a really good weekend. :)