It's a Boy!

Today was an absolutely fantastic day. We started the day by taking a visit to the doctor, a much anticipated, exciting visit to the doctor. We got the big ultrasound and found out that on January 18 we are expecting a

BOY!!!!

To be quite honest I felt like it was going to be a girl after our last appointment. Surprisingly, in the last minute of the 30 minute ultrasound, he finally decided to show himself. I was very surprised but so, SO very excited!!! I was also excited to find out that I am actually 21 weeks this week (to those that have not been pregnant, giving a pregnant woman one more week off her expected waiting time is basically as good as Christmas). I cried when she said it's a boy only because it made it feel so much more real. Brett stood next me absolutely surprised and totally excited. I have been telling Brett lately how much it moves and how crazy it feels and he hasn't really understood. It was so fun to see him watch the baby move like crazy. He was really surprised to see how active our little guy is. He's going to be a jumping, energetic little guy just like his daddy. For me it was so amazing to see how developed he is. He has a heart with all four valves beating like crazy, a brain with all its components, kidneys, fingers, toes, bones, a cute little face and is so miniature.

1. My boys.

2. No work tomorrow and shopping with mom.

3. Cooler weather

What a wonderful day :)

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I find each one of these items totally and irresistibly fabulous.

FYI tomorrow we find out whether this jumping, twirling, growing little one inside me is a boy or a girl. I can't wait!!

1. WinCo.

2. Yummy dinner tonight with a scrumptious dessert.

3. 20 1/2 weeks...definitely grateful to be halfway done with being pregnant.

An Engineer Forever

This is Brett when he was little playing trains with his dad and lovin it. (If it's a boy, I hope he looks like his dad, don't you love those eyes and cute ears). Brett's brother Michael came home to visit with his family and over that weekend Michael and Brett found this train set again.

Once an engineer....always an engineer. No wonder he's doing his phd in Electrical Engineering.

1. Dinner at our neighbors, yea for not cooking!

2. Cabin with my family this weekend.

3. Made it through a 60-hour work week last week.

I Surrender

Great Harvest is better than me in many things.

1. Bread making.

2. Cinnamon Pull-Apart Making.

and the most important

3. Sandwich Making.

OH my goodness, I just love them. I crave their turkey goodness and their free cinnamon pull apart that comes with it and absolutely melts in your mouth making me and the baby crave more. This is the only thing I crave. I will surrender. I admit defeat.

Thank you Great Harvest, you made my day.

1. Brett

2. My hot husband

3. Falling asleep on my husband at 11:30 when I'm too tired to talk.

Sunday Thought

I love watching Mormon messages on youtube on Sunday mornings. I absolutely love this video. President Hinckley was such an incredible man and an amazing example.

Lake Powell Mellor Style

We recently ventured to Lake Powell with Brett's family and extended Mellor Family for a fabulous water-filled, fabulous food-stuffed, sun-soaked adventure. It was such a blast!!

Brett out on the water....

Me doing what I'm allowed to do best when pregnant....hold the flag up...

We're so cute :)...

Brett is so so so hot :)

Lizard catching with Katie, Jimmy and Jesse....

Playing Citadels in the wind-proof fort that Brett made us....

Riding with Uncle John after the big rain storm....

Boating fun with family...

Aunt Patrice teaching us gals to knit....made a sweet maroon scarf to hide my belly this winter...

And back home safe and sound :) Family picture outside our apartment.

1. Couch finally came! It's huge! But we love it :) Pictures to come.

2. Doctors appointment yesterday, love to hear that little heart beat :) Sweet little thing :)

3. Katie spend some nights with us, always so fun to see her!

Mellor Family Photos

A weekend ago we had pictures with the Mellor family and they turned out so well!!! I love Candace in the last one....she is so cute!! The main family one still needs a few tweeks, but what a wonderful family! Recent Dustin family photos soon to come as well :)

1. Temple Night with Brett on Friday.

2. Lake Powell tomorrow!

3. Trevor turned 11 yesterday :)

Being Prego...Thus Far

Before I was pregnant I heard women rave about how wonderful it is to be pregnant. That they feel so cute, sexy, healthy, and an overall sense of extreme joy.

I don't.

I feel joy only in knowing that in January we will have a baby of our own and I am so excited to be a mom and for Brett to be a dad.

When I was sick in the first trimester, my first journal entry started with "this will be an only child...". Thankfully my sickness is over and life is good and maybe someday, someday we will have another child.

Being pregnant is so different than I thought it would be. Everyday is a different adventure. Some days I feel absolutely huge, whale-like if you will. Other days it seems as though our little one hides somewhere inside me...maybe it loves hide and seek...I have no idea. I have felt it move a couple of times. It was last week when I traded a girl at work a chemical peel for a massage and after I got up from the massage it felt like the baby jumped from one side of my abdomen to the other! In a very soft, gentle way of course (It's only about 7 inches tall...)

Some of the funniest things about being pregnant are:

-going to the bathroom 3 times during the night

-zonking out when bedtime comes because I'm so tired

-waistbands of pants getting tighter

-realizing that the kid throwing a tantrum in the supermarket...could someday be this baby

-weeks are so much slower....40 is an eternity away

and just getting excited to be a mom. I'm so excited and scared.

1. Lake Powell next week!

2. Finals!

3. That I am not into the prego pants yet...I just don't know how I feel about those elastic waistbands yet...

Mom's Birthday

Last night my dad planned a surprise party to never be forgotten for my moms 50th birthday. We went to dinner at Texas Roadhouse (kind of as a decoy) and then us kids raced home to open the house and prepare the party. They got home about 30 minutes later and my mom had no idea. She walked into the family room and gave the biggest gasp I have ever heard her give. She couldn't believe it. Everyone started singing Happy Birthday and she just kept looking around and looking at my dad.

...My mom explaining how surprised she was and is...

She was so cute and it was so fun to see her so surprised. I love my mom dearly. She is one of my best and closest friends I could ever ask for. She deserved the party plus way more. I don't know what I would do without her.

Happy Birthday on Monday Mom!!!

1. My wonderful mom.

2. So excited for this baby.

3. I'm grateful that I'm blogging....even though I should be working on my homework...