Holiday Highlights

For Christmas break we were able to go up north for 2 weeks to spend time with our fabulous families. Here is a brief cap of our break.

A fabulous Mellor Family baby shower....

Brett snowboarding with his siblings...

Grandma B Mellor's birthday party....

Delicious girls lunch at Roosters....

Josh playing with Lucy and Mia....

Mom and Dad lounging around with us...

Brett and me enjoying the break....

Brett and my bros in an epic battle of NHL 3 on 3....

The "woodsy" shower at my moms house... :)

The Annual Christmas Break Dustin Shoot-Out in the West Desert....

Brett and his brothers in their battle of NHL 3 on 3....the game of the break...

As you can see the break was full of overall fantasticness!!!

1. Little man coming soon!!!!

2. Christmas Break!

3. Wonderful baby showers with fabulous gifts-thank you!

For Posterity's Sake

Here is proof that I am pregnant on Christmas Day.

37 weeks. :)

2 Wonderful Years

Over Christmas break, Brett and I went out and celebrated our 2 year anniversary on the 27th of December. We both can't believe how fast the time has gone!

To celebrate we went down to Salt Lake and went to Ruby River for dinner. It was delicious! After we went and saw the lights at Temple Square. Sadly, since I had received our new camera days before, I had forgotten to charge the batteries. Thus, this picture is the only temple square picture taken before the loss of battery...so sad. It was so fun to see the lights with Brett. I have been asking him to take me since we met and it was the perfect way to celebrate our anniversary.

Since Brett's birthday fell on a Sunday this year, the 26th, we partly celebrated on Sunday and on Monday. Since Brett is such a piano lover I got him some new fun books to jam to along with a stand for his keyboard. He is always finding some creative way to put up his keyboard in the apartment somewhere, so hopefully now it will be easier to jam to his favorite tunes. :)

What a wonderful 2 years that I have been married to my sweetheart! We are so happy and have so much fun together. We can't wait for our little boy to come and increase the size of our family.

1. Brett

2. Little man Mellor

3. The temple

Christmas

Christmas this year was so amazing! We were blessed with more than we ever dreamed!! We are extremely blessed to have our families live minutes away from each other, so we got to split up Christmas day between families. We spent the night at my parents and did Christmas morning with my family. It was SO much fun to watch Lucy and Mia react to their Christmas gifts from Santa :). Lucy got a Beauty and the Beast castle that she asked Santa for and Mia got an adorable tent that was just her size. I can't wait to have this little boy and celebrate Christmas with a little man.

The boys playing games that Santa brought.

Holly, Andrea and I looking through the fun things that mom and dad got us-thanks so much!!

Brett got me the greatest gifts! He got me a much needed new camera! It takes awesome pictures and I can't wait to use it more! He also got me a new BYU shirt along with a matching onesie for the little man. I cried! I'm so excited to see our little man wear it-it's adorable!! I got him some clothes, games, a basketball, movies and a couple other things.

The Christmas morning damage being unraveled at the Dustin home...

After our traditional Dustin morning breakfast superb, we went over for another fabulous meal at the Mellors! The grandparents and all of the Mellor family was there and it was so fantastic!

Jackson, Nick, and Candace Christmas morning-they are so adorable! Candace is one of the most pleasant babies-I hope it's genetic! The boys got Toy Story toys and they couldn't have been more excited. Buzz is their ultimate favorite, but Woody and Rex are awesome too. :)

Eating lots and lots of yummy food!!

Brett, Bob and Michael

We were also blessed with gifts at the Mellor home!! We had such a fabulous Christmas this year and we couldn't have been more blessed.

1. Christmas traditions.

2. Lots of yummy food!

3. Being able to see our siblings that live far away-Michael and Staci and Holly and Jansen!

Hello!!

So today I am working on my computer trying to finish a paper due in Biology tomorrow, minding my own business and thinking the little man is asleep inside me. Well, with the laptop on my belly, a kick from down under sends my laptop off my belly where thankfully I catch it saving it from crashing on the floor below. I think he was sick of my fingers bopping the computer up and down right on top of him. But what do I know?

If I was going to write him a letter today, this is what I would say about being pregnant and what I think of him:

Dear little man,

I desperately want you to come out of me soon. I want to meet you and see if you look like your dad or like me (hopefully your dad :)). I am getting very claustrophic and I feel like a human tank. I struggle to bend over. I badly want a pedicure by a cute Vietnamese woman. I love taking baths and turning over in the tub, the water makes me feel weightless. You move so much in the night you wake me up and then you kick my bladder making me feel like I am going to wet the bed if I don't go to the bathroom immediately. But, even after all of this I still love you and can't wait until I meet you 5-6 weeks from now. I can't believe you are finally going to come. It feels like we have been waiting for so long.

Love, Mom

p.s. please be nice to dad when you come out so he won't be scared of you. thanks :)

Josh Gets His Mission Call

My brother Josh got his mission call this last week to the McAllen, Texas Spanish speaking mission. I couldn't be more excited for him!! He is going to be such a fantastic missionary. He leaves February 2.

1. Ward Christmas Party (Brett played Little Drummer Boy with the bishopric with his piano and drum stuff....it was hilarious!)

2. 6 more weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3. School will be over after this week!

I love him

I just want to say that I adore my husband.

We have way too much fun together.

I love when he gets home and we tease each other endlessly

and talk in silly voices and say our silly phrases to each other.

That's all I wanted to say.

Fall Sports

Fall Sports are coming to a close for Brett. He has been on two ultimate frisbee teams and a soccer team. All have been so fun for him and fun for me to watch.

The team discussing strategy....

(Sorry for the bad lighting and photography and bad camera...)

This is Team Lightning Tron. It was an ultimate frisbee team that the Electrical Engineers put together and was so funny to watch. The games were complete with matching blue or black Lightning Tron shirts. (And yes, the name is supposed to be nerdy ha ha.)

Brett also was happy to join Steven's soccer team. Soccer is Brett's favorite sport to play and he was so happy to play with them.

Classic kid soccer pic....

Cooling off....

1. Snow!

2. Holly comes soon!!

3. My sweet husband.

Oh Christmas Tree!!

OH Christmas Tree!!!

This year I decided that we needed some sort of christmas tree....and with the budget that I allowed for it this is what we ended up with.....

It is the most wonderful, tidy, odorless, pine-free and most wonderful looking Christmas tree in the world. ;) I love it!! :)

1. Fun day with my mom.

2. It's December!!!!

3. The christmas tree, porch lights, and christmas wreath that grace our humble abode.