The verdict is........

It's A BOY!!!!!!

That's right everyone! We are having a little baby boy and we could not be any more excited!!!

Dustin knew the whole time it was a Boy and I had a feeling it was a boy too and it looks like we were both right! We had the joy of being able to find out about a month early and there was definitely no mistaking it was a boy!!

[[Here is the evidence]]!

ps--if you want more detailed updates of the pregnancy check out:

Baby Brandon Blog!

Baby Time!

Ok, so I am sure most of you who read this already know I am pregnant, but I couldn't forget to add this to my blog! Yep, It's true. We are having a baby!! At this point we are 14 weeks, and are ecstatic to find out the sex!! I really have not a single clue as to whether it will be a boy or a girl, so we are just anxious to finally find out!!

I have actually been feeling great. Granted I am now entering my 2nd trimester and most people start feeling great right about now, but I actually have not been sick one time throughout the entire pregnancy thus far. I don't want to jinx it by any means, but I am just being honest. During the first 6-8 weeks I had little to NO appetite. Felt sick occasionally, but my biggest complaint was my lack of wanting to eat. Well, that is no more. My appetite has come back with a vengeance. However, I have now encountered lots and lots of horribly annoying headaches. That is probably my biggest complaint currently. I do feel quite lucky and am grateful for this pregnancy thus far.

We are so excited to add another member to this family and can't wait for all the adventures that are right ahead of us! We are due August 29th an

d can't wait for that day to come! (Or somewhere around there)!

Here's a pic of my very first ultrasound when the baby was 10 weeks and 1 day!:)

Christmas and other end of the year Festivities!

So, this year we were able to spend Christmas in Georgia with my wonderfully amazing Dad! It was a great time. We were there about two weeks and it was so good to be able to just relax, hang with family, and see old friends. We were so busy with all the people we wanted to see there were still so many things we wanted to do but did not get a chance. Ah well. Such is life, right? Well the first week we were there pretty much consisted of nothing but SHOPPING!! Yes, we procrastinated our christmas shopping so we didn't have to travel with so many gifts! But we did get to enjoy the Mall of GA once again and I definitely loved every minute of it! :)

Christmas eve we all enjoyed decorating gingerbread houses and decided it has become the newest tradition of our family. Dustin and I by far was the best.... in our opinion of course! But we had tons of fun doing it!!

Christmas was loads of fun full of lots and lots of exciting surprises! I enjoyed yet another Christmas in the South. The best part was getting to have a WHITE CHRISTMAS!....in Georgia! That is not something you hear about every year. In fact, that was the first white Christmas in Georgia in almost 100 years! So, it was really cool that we were able to be there for that! It was too bad my Mama had to miss out. :(

The next week we spent a majority of our time seeing old friends. I really enjoyed seeing all my good ole' Georgia friends. It had been almost 2 years since I had seen most of them so it was nice! For new years we just spent it with my family. It was the night before our torturous drive so we just thought it would be best to have more family time and we enjoyed every minute of it. We played Rummy and just hung out until the peach drop! :) Can't wait to go backkk!

Thanksgiving

So, I'm almost a week late, but who could forget about Thanksgiving? We had a great, relaxing Thanksgiving. We spent it yet again, in Arizona. Yeah, it definitely was not quite as cold as here in Utah but definitely not as warm as I had anticipated. It was still enjoyable though. We spent lots of time with the Family and enjoyed much relaxation, cute pups and kitty's and shopping that didn't get very far. Oh and food...lots and lots of food.

We also got to once again attend the temple lights at the Mesa Temple. Every year for the past 3 years we have had the opportunity to attend the turning on of the lights and we enjoy it more and more each year. Here are a few pictures from the showing of the lights in the past 3 years, and this year we got to see Max Hall be the special one who flipped the switch!

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I just wanted to post some of the many things I am thankful for this year.

• That my Mom is still alive and enduring her (hopeful) last treatment of Chemo and healing.
• That my Dad has been re-baptized and become my prime example of who I would like to be more like.
• My Amazing husband and all the hard work he puts into our family.
• The Gospel and all the blessings it brings into my life.
• My warm, cozy apartment.
• My Arizonian family and all the support and love they show me.
• That my Dad is still alive and feeling more positive about a transplant.
• That I get to spend Christmas with my Dad.
• That I get to be in Georgia for two weeks.
• That I have a job.. (even though I dislike it...alot)
• My friends that have been there through thick and thin, and no matter what. *You know who you are*
• My brothers and sisters who always find a way to make me laugh.
• That we made it back home safely.

I could go on, but couldn't we all? Those are just some of the things I am currently and especially thankful for this year.

Halloween Update!

I know I'm a little late, but better late than never, right!? This years Halloween was very fun! We had a very eventful weekend and enjoyed ever minute of it! Firstly, weekends are just naturally the best because I don't have to deal with work, and that in general makes me a VERY happy person.

Friday before Halloween we attended a Halloween party hosted by Katie and Derek. And my oh, my was that a fun party! We attended an awesome haunted corn maze which was incredibly fun! I have not been to a haunted corn maze since I was a kid! I forgot how much fun those are! After that, we went back to their place to make carmel apples and watch a movie! It was definitely a great night and we enjoyed it thoroughly and made lots of new friends which is always so fun!:) Good job, Katie and Derek for hosting an oh so fun party!

The rest of the weekend we hung out some more and played games and watched more movies! I got absolutely zero school work done and I was 100% ok with being slammed with stuff the following week. Which, i definitely was slammed with! But having a fun, relaxed weekend made is so worth it!

Schooooool the following week was as I knew it would be, crazy busy! I had so many things due all at once and I absolutely hate that! But at least when I got it all doen I got the entire next weekend to enjoy myself which I so did!:) But now, I will be even more busy from now up until next thursday. Slammed with projects, projects, and well...more projects! The joy of being an ELED major! Then, next Friday we are taking a trip down to Arizona and I honestly can not wait! Yes, I will work 3 out of the 7 days we will be there, but I will just have to get over that one!

Events of October

My Birthday was the first even of October. A big thanks for my amazing husband who always always does a fantastic job of making sure I have the best birthday yet! Despite all the negative things that occurred during that time, I most definitely had a very memorable birthday and loved every minute of it. Dustin took me to the Cheesecake factory--by far, my favorite and threw me a surprise party and every person there was who I would have wanted to be there. (besides tiff of course, but that's ok-she was celebrating her annivers

ary!) I can't say I was really surprised about the party itself, I kind of saw it coming--but I was definite

ly surprised by everyone that was there to wish me a happy birthday! I thank everyone who came. I had a blast--and thank you Alisha for saving the day and helping Dustin out SO much:)

Because my long lost bestie was out celebrating her anniversary on my birthday her and her hubs made a special trip out the Monday after my Birthday. We went and grabbed some In-N-Out (my favv) And then decided to go on a... "halloween boat ride". It was fun getting to hang with Tiff and Mitch, and the boat ride, well...it was, cute. hahah. It was so good to see them though and I was grateful that they were able to make the trip down!

And well, other than all the craziness of school there hasn't been much of anything else going on. We were going to go to Freightmares at Lagoon this last Saturday but the aggrivating rain had to rain it out. However, we still went down to Salt Lake and hung out with Tiff and Mitch again--which was alot of fun as well. Gotta love football season! And this weekend we have an upcoming Halloween party! We are still trying to figure out our costumes so definitely MORE TO COME!:)

Back to the Books

Well, it's already that time of year again. September! ... Which means back to the books! So, far I think I will enjoy my classes this semester. Minus the whole mess up I did to myself with one of my elective classes. I was silly and dropped it before I added a different class which resulted in my losing my spot in both classes and being short 1 credit. I was going to take a different 1 credit class, but again decided I did not like the class enough to stick it out....So, instead of being full time hours this semester it looks like my full time hours will have to be next semester and I will be short 1 credit this semester. Such is life's little mistakes that result in bigger problems.

Other than that I do enjoy all of my other classes. I think it will be a good semester if I can stay on the ball while still working 30+ hours a week.

Other than school, life has been busy busy busy! If we are not at school we are working, and if we are not working we are either studying or hanging with friends. I feel like we have not stopped since we were in Arizona. Ohh, how I miss it alread

y! We enjoyed a great labor day weekend full of friends, hiking, and marathoning our new favorite show! One Tree Hill! ...yes, we probably already have enough shows to keep up with but somehow we go

t sucked into it, and yes there are almost 8 seasons so we have lots of marathoning to do before we catch up!

Labor day we hiked Battle Creek Trail with the married couplettes and enjoyed it thoroughly....as you can s

ee I am sure! Enjoyed a movie at the end of the night, and my,

my, it was definitely a successful last holiday of the Summer season!! Here a

re some lovely pics of the enjoyment we had!

Can't forget our stop at In-N-Out!! :)