Babymooning

Last week we took a quick trip to Cabo San Lucas to celebrate the baby. I highly recommend taking a trip together before the baby comes! Our schedule consisted of:

1. Sleeping
2. Eating
3. Laying poolside
4. Eating
5. Relaxing
6. Eating

Anyways you get where that's going. We spent most of our time at our beautiful resort soaking in the sun, soaking in out time just the two of us, and soaking in the fact that this baby is coming in almost 3 months!! I took a million pictures, here are a few of my favs!

View from our room, looking out at the Hilton Resort

We loved the infinity pool right on the ocean.

Our spot we claimed for the week

Dressed up for dinner one night

This picture cracks me up. Chad thought it would be more fun to take the bus into Cabo, instead of getting a taxi. The workers at our resort said it was safe and lots of tourists use the bus. After we ran across the highway and flagged down the bus we realized we were the ONLY Americans there. It was safe which is what mattered most.

When we got into downtown Cabo we took a boat ride out at sunset to a few landmark sites.

I love how warm the nights were, no jacket needed at all.

Lover's Beach

The Famous Arch

Land's End (Last piece of land on Baja California)

The sunset was gorgeous this evening

View of our resort from the Beach

We couldn't go in the water infront of where we were staying, I thought about it but these waves scared me away.

This is where we ate breakfast every morning

Getting some sun! I could lay out at the pool all day and never get bored.

Last picture in the lobby before we headed back to real life.

PS Cabo is the perfect little getaway if you live in LA. It's only a 2 hour flight and is so beautiful! We plan on making this an annual trip.

Girl Time

It's not secret I have become a terrible blogger. I blame it on the fact that work is busy and now I'm not the only one working in the office so it's not as easy to whip out my pictures and put together a post. When I get home from work the last thing I want to do is get in front of a computer again, so there is my excuse.

 I have been looking forward to the month of May because we have so much going on it makes the time pass quickly. I got to spend the weekend with my mom, grandma and 2/3 of my sisters at the Time Out For Women Conference. We had a blast together, just girls laughing, eating, learning, growing (literally & spiritually), and photo-taking.


Never a dull moment when we are together

I Love My Grandma's Jump here!

22 Weeks

First Camping Trip Since We Have Been Married

Last weekend we headed up to Wheeler Gorge with some friends to escape the city. This was the first time that Chad and I have ever been camping together and we had a great time. I was worried that being 5 months pregnant I wouldn't sleep very well; but after hiking a few miles, eating around the campfire, roasting s'mores (and Starbursts), and staying up telling stories around the fire, I had no problem sleeping. That is until the woodpecker woke up and pecked on the trees for what seemed like hours :) It was so refreshing being outside, disconnected from technology, and spending quaulity time with friends.  Between the girls we got plenty of pictures.

The Weekend When The Sun Didn't Shine

I started off looking forward to the weekend, the forecast was 80 degrees, I pictured myself spending the day at the beach in my new bathing suit that can cover this expanding stomach of mine. Unfortunately as the weekend approached there was no sun in sight at the beach, and I was a little upset with Mother Nature. Luckily we came up with a pretty fun plan B and spent the afternoon at Universal City Walk.  Then on Sunday after church we visited my Grandparents and Uncle Ryan in Long Beach. I always make sure I call him my uncle, especially when posting on his FB wall; he is the same age as my husband, but I want him to know that I respect my elders :) It ended up being a great weekend, I'm glad that we were able to get out together on Saturday and then spend time with family on Sunday, more important than the sun not shining.

It actually got sunny once we got to Hollywood

Uncle Ryan, Grandma Zoe, Grandpa Bob

21 Weeks

Half Way There

20 weeks have come, and 20 weeks to go! Starting at week 19 my stomach started making itself known, and this week Chad told me I am now really looking pregnant. I am still feeling really good, I love the movements I feel from this little guy swimming around all day. Today at church he was really active during Sacrament Meeting ( I hope that's not a sign of his future behavior) and Chad was finally able to feel it! I'm not sure who was more excited, me or him. It's fun for me to now share that experience with him. I have had a few weird dreams, each time my baby comes out talking. I hope that means he is going to be a smart guy :)

I find myself wandering around in the baby section of Target, amazed at all the things that go into having a baby. I sure hope that I am ready when he comes. My goal is to come up with a plan of projects to do during the rest of the pregnancy. I tend to procrastinate a lot and do not want to end up at week 38 with nothing done. I am still working full time but am able to work from home whenever I need which has been great. I get more and more excited each week to meet this baby. I had a friend who had her little boy last week and I love seeing her pictures and posts adjusting to the first week of mommy-hood. That's it for this weeks pregnancy ramble!

Motherhood

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 I'm not an expert in this topic by any means but I am lucky to be surrounded by so many great examples. From my own mother, my mother-in-law, aunts, grandmas, sister-in-law, friends, etc. I have many woman I look up to and strive to be like. There are also other places we find ourselves looking to: other blogs, websites, magazines, Pinterest and the social network list goes on. My Aunt April has co-created a website called Power of Moms which is an amazing place for mothers to share and learn about this journey they are in. She wrote an article {click here to read} today about Motherhood that really hit me. I highly suggest you all, mothers or not to read this article. It's amazing, after reading it I felt so lucky that April is my aunt, I saw this link reposted all over Facebook and am so happy to see the influence that women like her are having on the rest of us.

Easter Weekend

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Easter Weekend was fabulous. It started out having some of our volleyball friends over on Friday night for dinner. I actually cooked quite the spread, vegetable appetizer, sweet & sour BBQ chicken (home-made marinade), grilled corn on the cob with cilantro lime butter, coconut sticky rice, rolls, Brazilian lemonade, Banana Cream Pie. Just typing all that makes me tired.

Saturday was a gorgeous "summer" day at the beach, we spent all day at Chad's 1st volleyball tournament this year. He played well and I couldn't be more happy this is the sport he chose to play. I can't complain about sitting outside at the beach for 8 hours!

Sunday we went to church with my family and then enjoyed the afternoon in the backyard. Landon (my 5 almost 6 year old brother) had quite the array of tricks he showed us.

 He is an excellent bubble shooter

 He can jump and shoot simultaneously

 Between the legs was my favorite shot

He can do a toe touch

 And he can "shuffle"

 We had an Easter egg hunt, where teenagers still participated

 Dad's get tired after Easter egg hunts

After Hunt Photo of us kids

Mom made a delicious ham dinner spread with so many sides and desserts that after I was finished eating everyone in my family said I now look pregnant :)

Thanks to my family for an awesome day, I love being able to spend time with them. Hayley, Alyssa, David and Meggan were sure missed this weekend. I cannot wait for Baby Boy to join us in September, he is already so loved.