Christmas & New Years Eve 2009

Warning: sorry this is a really long post due to journaling purposes.

To start off the Christmas Season on November 30th for family night Ty and I got all the Christmas decorations up and Decorated the Tree! I love decorating the tree it is filled with ornaments from Both mine and Ty's childhood. Growing up we both got an new ornament every year. My parents always gave us one that represented something we did that year or an interest of ours that year (I have a lot of gymnastics ones haha but I have a good variety). I loved this tradition and the three Christmas' that Ty and I have been married we have gotten each other ornaments and I can't wait to continue this with our children. This year Ty got me a snow globe with a baby boy in it (it is so cute he said that its our baby in my tummy cute huh?!) and I got Ty a U of U ornaments since he got accepted this year into the U of U law school.

We love decorating the tree we have so much fun doing it together every year! And there is my 17 week baby belly!

I also love decorating the rest of the house. Christmas decorating is so much fun I already can't wait to do it again in 11 months. I know I'm a little crazy haha.

I made those count down to Christmas blocks this year and I am super excited how they turned out. I also made the Mod Podge Winter sign this year and am glad I get to keep that up for a couple more months :)

On Saturday December 19th we had the opportunity to go to Salt Lake to Ty's Best Friends Wedding. Ty actually set Kylie and Brandon up. He is quite the match maker haha. Kylie worked with Ty at chilies here in Cedar and Brandon has been his best Friend since elementary and Ty just thought they would hit it off and boy was he right! They first met at a Chilies softball tournament in Salt Lake in July and they got engaged and were married in December! We drove up the night before the wedding and stayed with Ty's parents then woke up bright and early for their 8:30am Temple ceremony and it was beautiful. It is always so nice to be in the temple with Ty I love every minute of it. They had a luncheon after the wedding at 11:30 in the Joseph Smith memorial building and it was also very beautiful. Congratulations Brandon and Kylie Dennis we love you guys and we hope you had a blast in Hawaii!

They looked so happy and it was just an amazing day! Kylie looked so pretty and Ty and Brandon look very handsome!

After the wedding we visited Ty's mom over at the Lion house and then hung out with Ty's dad for a little while. Before we had to drive back to Cedar Ty's Dad took us out to dinner to Red Robin (we missed mom she had a late night at work), then we went back to the house and visited with Chris, Staci and Ayla for a while then we had to hit the road so we didn't get to Cedar too late. It was a quick one day trip since we had to come back to work for a few days before Christmas break.

After I got home from work on Wednesday Dec 30th we drove up to Murray (Ty's parents) to start our Christmas vacation. We got to their house at midnight and his parents and Mike and Jess were still up when we got there so we visited for a while and went off to bed. To start off Christmas Eve we went to the Lion House with Ty's mom and dad to help with the breakfast that mom was doing for her servers there. It was really fun and I hope we were of some help. I know Ty was cuz he was one of the pancake cookers and he did a fabulous job. It was a delicious breakfast and such a nice thing for mom to do for her workers. After helping Cleaning up we ran to Syracuse to drop off some watches I had made for one of my mom's friend cuz she wanted them before Christmas. We visited with the fam for a while and I got to see my brother Adam which was awesome since I haven't seen him since September (he has been at basic training and AIT back east).

After hanging out for a while we drove back up to Salt Lake for Christmas eve dinner at Ty's Grandma and Grandpa Kjars. It was a lot of fun just hanging out and spending time with family. First we had a very delicious dinner and had fun sitting at the cousin table talkin about TV shows, music and everything going on in our lives. After dinner we went downstairs opened gifts and played some games.

After all the fun at grandma and grandpas mom and dad, mike and Jess and the kids and Ty and I went back to Ty's parents and opened up our Christmas Pjs. In my family Edwin the Elf brings Pjs to us on Christmas eve so of course he brings them to Ty and I. Little Maximo and Gracie got new jammies too and they looked so cute. After max and Gracie went to bed we set out all the presents and then the adults hung out, talked and watched some of Mike and Ty's high school wrestling videos. It was fun watching them wrestle but it was even more fun watching the boys watch themselves wrestle. They were so excited and sooo into it. Cute!

Christmas Eve happenings. The breakfast, opening gifts at Grandma and Grandpas and new Christmas Pjs.

Christmas morning I was like a little kid and woke up way too early just waiting for Max to wake up so that we could go see what Santa brought. :) Max didn't wake up until 8:00 haha I had been awake since 5:30 fell back to sleep and then woke up again at 7:00 just waiting. I can't wait to have a kid next Christmas it will be soooo fun. It was so cute watching Maximo opening his presents he was so excited and I just loved all his excited faces and funny comments. I'm sure Gracie liked her presents too. After the kids Ty and I opened our stockings and presents.

I got a maternity shirt from Ty and Baby boy, my favorite perfume Lucky and a cool hand held sewing machine for my crafts and small repairs from Ty, and Wii Active from Santa. I also got a new electric toothbrush and treats in my stocking.
Ty got a Madden Football game for his PSP from me and baby, a shirt, the movie Forever Strong, a scarf and a beanie from me and Heroes season 3 from Santa. He also got a tie, a baby onesie, a game and treats in his stocking. And Santa brought the game Pit from both Ty and I.

After we opened our presents we got some delicious breakfast. Ty's family always has sticky buns, egg casserole, eggnog and apple cream for Christmas morning breakfast and it is so yummy. Thank you Julie it was amazing. Then Chris, Staci and Ayla got to the house and we watched Ayla open some of her presents. Then we opened presents from Ty's mom and dad. We got the game Bopit, a puzzle, the Lion house bakery cookbook (now my collection is complete) and some money. Thank you Mom and Dad U.
After getting all ready for the day and putting away all the gifts Dan and Brooke and the kiddos got to the house. So it was time to watch the kids open some more presents. Then we watched Mom and Dad open their presents from us kids. Chris and Staci were in charge of the gift this year and they got them a bunch of Rook cards from different decades it was really cool (Rook means a lot to the Ulrichs in fact I am even i the process of learning finally) they also got some treats and gift cards.
After visiting with Dan and Brooke for a while we got all packed up and met my family in Rose park at my grandparents at about 5:00. We visited with my aunts and uncles and cousins for a while and ate some yummy food. Then we drove with my parents down to their house in Syracuse. When we got to my parents we gave the boys their presents (Ty drew Ammons name and I drew Zachs name). then we gave my mom and dad their presents from us kids. We got my dad the Beatles Rock band and my mom a spa gift certificate. Then before the kids went to bed they had to find the pickle in the tree. My family has this tradition that is from Germany that mom and dad hide the pickle ornament in the tree and whoever finds it first gets a nutcracker. I loved this and want to continue it with our kids we even already have a pickle ornament. Zach won this nutcracker this year. Good job Zachy.
The next day was a lazy day at my parents house for all of us. I think we were all really tired from the hustle and bustle of Christmas because we all slept in later than normal. After we finally all got ready mom and I went to Roberts crafts for their after Christmas sale got a slushy at sonic and then went to Tai Pan for their after Christmas sale. At Roberts everything Christmas was 65% off. I got some garland and a really really cute huge snowman. Im way excited about the snowman because I can keep him up through January. At Tai Pan I got a little Penguin Family statue and oh my goodness it is so cute. Its a penguin dad, penguin mom and penguin baby! I just had to get it. When we got home the boys were planning Beatles Rock band. I think that my dads and Tys favorite thing to do together :) The rest of the night was relaxing and mom, dad, Ty and I watched Forever Strong. If you haven't seen this movie you really should its so good.

Sunday just consisted of going to church, napping and relaxing with some family time.

Monday was another relaxing day we just kinda got up whenever we got up and then just hung out. At about one oclock Chris and Em and Parker came over to visit and see the rest of the fam. They also announced what they are having. They are having a GIRL. I am finally going to have a niece on my side of the family and my parents are finally going to have a granddaughter after having 3 grandsons and 2 more boys on the way. They gave my mom and I both a pink stocking with pink and purple candies in it and neither of us got it at first haha (we are slow hahaha) and then we finally realized they were announcing it is a girl. This was a big surprise to us because they were tricky and told us they weren't getting their ultrasound to find out until January 5th but they actually had already found out and were waiting until Christmas to surprise us all. Cute guys! After my dad got home from working we all watched Parker open all his presents from my mom and dad and Zachy because he had his name. Its so fun watching kids open their presents I can't wait for that with our kids. After visiting for a while Me, Ty, Amanda and Adam went to the mall really quick to try to return somethings and to have some lunch. We ran into Chris and Em and Parker their too. After the mall we went to Target and got the CUTEST Bull dog outfit for our little man that we have been wanting to get for a while I'm glad they had the right size this time. Its so cute. I love buying Baby stuff. When we got home from the mall Ty and I drove down to Salt Lake for an Ulrich extended family Christmas party. The Party was at Grandma Ulrich's house and it was so much fun we had pizza and treats and just talked to all the cousins, aunts and uncles all night. It was so good to see everyone I can't wait until we live up here and get to see them all the time. I got so many complements on my cute baby belly from all Tys aunts it made me feel so good :) After the party we went to Ty's parents house just to hang out for a while and play some games. First we played golf (which I won :) ) and then Ty, Julie and Dave started to attempt to teach me Rook again. It was fun and I am getting it a little more but I still need a lot of practice. Thank you Julie for being so patient with me while I'm trying to learn. After some games we drove back to Syracuse to spend the night because Ty was going to be waking up early the next morning for snowboarding.

The Ulrich Cousins with Grandma

On Tuesday morning Ty got up bright and early to get ready to go snowboarding with My brothers Chris and Adam and my sis Amanda. I'm not going to lie I was a little jealous I couldn't go but I am happy I am preggers so it is worth it :) They left at about 8 am and when Ty woke me up to say buy I couldn't go back to sleep so I decided to just stay up and go downstairs when I went downstairs Zach and Ammon were the only ones awake and they were playing playdough so I decided to play with them. I made a little man out of playdough it is pictured above. I was very proud of my project and didn't let the boys wreck it until my mom and dad saw it first haha. After getting ready for the day me and mom were off to Target to go more After Christmas sale shopping. Target was having a sweet sale everything was 75% off. I could have bought sooooo much more than I did pretty easily but I was trying to be good. I got a really cute mini tree, some Christmas bags and tissue paper, some big ornaments, and Christmas cards for next year. My mom got a lot of sweet stuff too. After target we check out Michaels I got a few tree picks there and then we went to Big lots and I got another mini Christmas tree there. I love Christmas sales.. Thank you mom for going shopping with me so much and for showing me all the sweet deals. My mom loves her deals so I guess I am learning from the best even though Ty thinks her shopping obsession is a bad influence on me haha what can I say I am a lot like my mother :) When we got home the boys and Amanda were back from snowboarding and Dad and Ty were just in the front room talking so we had to show them all our sweet buys. I don't think they thought it was quite as cool as we did. Before the kids went to bed Ty and I and the kids played our new game Pit and I think the kids really liked it mostly because you get to yell in that game. Ammon was so funny playing it I think he is a little too young to understand it all the way but he did pretty good and it was just so cute watching him. My cute little brother Zach loves games we always have to play atleast one game with him every time we visit. So cute.

On Wednesday mom, Emilee and I went shopping again. First we went to the DI to try to find a small dresser I could redue for the babies room but no such luck this time they were pretty empty in the furniture department so my mom said she will keep checking for me. Thanks mom. While at the DI we did find a few treasures for some projects for both mom and I. We then went to the Distribution Center and then to Savers. After Savers we went to Hobby Lobby to see if they had any deals on Christmas findings. I got an ornament for baby boy next year :) and we looked around at a lot of cool stuff I love that store. When we got home I fixed a few of my moms watches and then my family decided that before Ty and I left they wanted to go laser tagging and out to dinner. So we went to the Family fun center and played a round of laser tag it was soooo much fun and I think me, mom, dad and Ty got into it just as much as the kids did. We have got to go do that again together soon it was super fun. Ty got first place, mom got second, dad got third, and I got third to last :( Then we went to dinner at the Pizza factory. Thank you mom and dad for all the fun we had while we were up in Syracuse and all the fun we had on Wednesday together I didn't want it to end. After dinner Ty and I drove down to Murray to spend one more night with Ty's parents. We hung out and watched some TV when we got there and then played some more Rook. I can't believe I am finally kinda learning that game haha. Thanks Mom and Dad Ulrich for all the fun we had with you guys during Christmas and throughout the break.

Thursday (New years Eve) we left Murray after running some errands at about 10 am to get Ty back in Cedar in time for him to go to work at 3:30 boooo. I was so sad that he had to work New Years Eve and that I would be home alone. When my dad heard that I was going to be home alone on New Years eve he thought that was so sad so he convinced my mom to come down to Cedar for a quick one day trip to keep me company. So my mom and dad, Emilee, Zachy and Ammon left Syracuse at about noon getting to Cedar at about 4:00. Ty and I got to Cedar at about 2 ran to Walmart and I unpacked everything before my family got here. My fam got to Cedar after Ty had already left for work . I was so excited and grateful that they drove four hours for only a day to spend some time with me and to keep me company. They are sooooo sweet and I was so excited to spend one more day with them before the break was over and we all had to go back to School, work and our everyday lives. Once they got here my mom and I went to the cute little antique store here in Cedar (my mom loves this place!) and we got some really cool stuff. I got a cool plate that I have a project in mind for (thanks mom for Chilies and see Ty. Yum Yum I love me some Chilies and I especially love me some discount. After dinner we went back home made some muddy buddies, played some games, ate some treats, watched the count down, banged some pots and pans and shared some midnight kisses. Ty got home right before midnight so I got my special midnight new years kiss...thank you honey for hurrying home for me.

Our cute server :)

Emmy, me and mom waiting for our food while watching the Jazz game

Our New Years Fun! Oh and that picture of the candy bars has a funny story to it. When we got home from being up North for a week we found these on our doorstep just like this. haha I think a critter enjoyed our Christmas treats.

Midnight Celebration, sleeping, kisses and just hanging out.

Thanks to all of our Family our Christmas/New Years break was amazing and will be remembered forever so Thank you Family!

It'S a.......

....Little man. We are so so happy to tell everyone that we are going to have a little boy!

Ty is so excited to be daddy to our little guy.

First we had our eighteenth week appointment on Friday December 11th. The appointment ran fairly smoothly we just had the routinely check up and got to hear the heartbeat again of course and of course I was again relieved to hear our little baby's healthy heart. I just love hearing our babies heart it reminds me how blessed I am to have a healthy baby growing inside of me. After the routine stuff we were talking to the doctor and getting answers to some of our questions when the fact that I had been spotting a lot came up. I know spotting is somewhat normal in pregnancy but I still worry and I still don't like it so I brought it up to him. Since I am RH- he decided that I should get the RhoGAM shot (shot to prevent my body from attacking the baby) immediately he didn't even want us to wait until Monday just because he wanted to make sure the bleeding wasn't coming from the placenta having to do with RH-. When he said he wanted us to do it right away it worried me even more, Ugh I am never going to stop worrying am I? I guess that comes with being a mamma.

So after our visit with Dr. Gatherum we went to get my blood work done and then we had to wait a few hours for the results before they could give the shot so we went home, I called in work telling them I would be a little late and we waited for the phone call to go back in. At aboutt 1:00 we got the call to go back in and I got the shot on my hip and can I tell you it hurt BAD way worse then shots in your arm haha my poor bum was sore for a few hours. So hopefully the shot will do its job and my baby will stay healthy and the spotting will stop.

Then on Monday came the FUN appointment. Monday December 14th at about 9:30 am we got to find out the gender of our little peanut. First of all with the next pregnancy when I go in for my ultrasound I am not drinking the water and hour before my appointment a half hour would have been so much better and would have been fine for the ultrasound readings. OH my heavens I have never had to pee so bad in my life. haha. At about 9:30 they finally called my name to go back and get our ultrasound. The first ten minutes the technician didn't have anything on the screan for me to see she was just doing all her measurements while I laid there with Ty by my side holding my hand anxiously waiting until we could see our baby. Finally when she was done with the most important stuff to the doctors we got to the part we were most excited about seeing our baby and finding out the gender. I can't even explain the most incredible feeling that I felt when I saw my little peanut just a wiggling away up on that screen. AHHHH It was the coolest thing I had ever seen or felt at that moment. After she took a few pictures and videos for us to take she asked if we wanted to know the gender and we said we of course wanted to. So to the bum shot she went haha right when that little bum shot came up on that screen we knew what we were having. A BOY!!!! Oh my goodness he was soooooo active he was wiggling all over the place. The technician kept saying how wiggly we was haha I was so happy to see how active he is in there! He was so wiggly in fact that it was hard for her to get a really good 3D picture. I still think she got some good ones but she was getting frustrated haha as soon as she thought she got a good one he would move hahahaha. I loved the ultrasound! I loved this experience. Ty was so cute the whole time he just had a permanent smile and kept squeezing my hand. I love you sweetie and I love you baby boy!

Her is our little man. Doesn't he have the cute profile you have ever seen. (hahaha I am already a bias mommy, I love it). Look at that cute little nose! AHHHH I can't contain myself it is so cute to see him.

This is one of his active shots that is why it is a little blury. He is punching me haha

There is the boy Shot! This is when we knew.

This is one of the 3D shots. His little hands are up by his face. And you can see his nose mouth and eyes pretty clear. I love how his little foot is over his other one. It's so cute.

What a great day that was. I will never forget Monday and the way that I felt all day long. After the appointment we went down to St. George with my brother and sister in law to celebrate and to do some Christmas shopping. Oh and you bet I bought some baby stuff although I was good and only got one thing for now until after Christmas. We bought a Pink Floyd onesie and it is soooooo stinkin cute I can hardly contain myself. Chris and Em and Parker also bought our baby another onesie that says 'Big show off just little daddy' haha cute! Thanks guys. I can't wait to buy our little man some outfits and get everything ready for him to come into our family. I am so glad I had that time with Ty and some family after such good news. Ah What a great day.

This is my pregnant belly on Monday after the appointment. I am nineteen weeks here. I can't believe how much my belly is growing already. I feel so big and I know I'm not even that big yet haha.

Finding out the gender of our baby and getting to see our little guy moving around was such a blessing and a perfect Christmas present! I even put our 'It's a Boy' sign underneath the Christmas Tree!

ThAnKsGiViNg 2009

Thanksgiving was different this year. Ty and I actually had two Thanksgivings. It was my parents year to have us but since my little brother Adam was graduating from basic training in Kentucky the day before thanksgiving they spent some time with him and we had thanksgiving dinner with my family the Saturday after when they got back.

Our thanksgiving break started when I got off work Wednesday at 6:00. I got home we finished packing we got some Wendy's for dinner and hit the freeway at 6:30 pm. We had such a fun ride up. A lot of times I sleep pretty much the whole way and Ty drives. Poor Ty. Well this time I stayed awake the whole time we jammed out to the Glee soundtrack and just talked. I loved it I love talking on our rides up North. Thank you Ty for such a good ride up, it was good you and me time. We got to my parents house in Syracuse at about 10:30pm pretty good time considering we stopped in Nephi for a potty and treat break. When we got there my parents weren't there they were in Kentucky at Adams graduation. We stayed at my parents and watched the kids while they were gone.

Thanksgiving day my Mom wanted the kids to pretend it wasn't thanksgiving because they were doing it Saturday haha my mom is funny. Well Ty and I decided to go to Ty's grandma and Grandpas with his mom and dad for thanksgiving dinner since my parents were out of town and we didn't want to leave the kids at home so they came with us. I think they had fun and liked the food. Whats not to like about having two thanksgiving dinners. Ty's family made a delicious dinner thank you for letting us come and bring my siblings. After we ate we went downstairs to hang out and I had my thanksgiving nap of course. Ty said his nap was turkey coma and my nap was pregnancy tiredness. I think he was right I get exhausted soooo easily being preggers.

After we woke up from our naps we went over to Tys mom and dads house to hang out for a while. It was soooo much fun Dan and Brooke and the kids were there, Chris and Staci and Cute baby Ayla was there and Mike and Jess and the kids were there. We were all there and I loved it that doesn't happen very often since some of us live in southern Utah and some in northern Utah. We had a blast with everyone there we played games, talked a lot and Ty and I played with the babies and puppies. My siblings were entertained too since other kids were there to play with. I even watch Brooke play rook so maybe someday soon I will join in. Ty wants me to learn how to play rook soooo bad because its the Ulrich thing to do :) I just don't think I am smart enough for that game. After hanging out until about 9:30 pm we decided we should probably get the kids back home and in bed although we were sad to leave. What a fun day. Thanks mom and dad Ulrich for letting us hang out.

The next day on Friday the kids and Ty and I made sure the house was all clean before mom and dad got home. then me, Amanda, Emilee and Ammon went shopping. Yes it was crazy because it was black friday but I really needed to get some Christmas shopping done and it was the only day while we were up here I could do it. So we pushed our way through crowds, got bad parking spots and stood in long lines but I got almost all of Tys presents so it was worth it I think :) When we got home from shopping mom and dad were back home. The kids were so happy to have them back and Ty and I were excited to see them and hear some stories that Adam told them from his experiences at basic. At 4:30 we all went to the movie Planet 51. My family has a tradition from since I was little that we go to a movie on thanksgiving so since my parents were out of town that day we went the day after. It was fun to all go to a movie together. Thank you mom and dad for taking us all! It was a really cute show I liked it a lot and I think Ty did too we both laughed a lot and there was adult humor in it too which is always good! The rest of the night we just all hung out together.

Saturday was our second Thanksgiving and it was such a good day. We started out the day getting all ready and cleaning up, watching the movie Home Alone, then mom and dad started making dinner and I helped too while the kids played and watch TV. Ty played with the kids too. My mom decorated the table all cute with decorations she had around the house and she made cute leaf name place cards that I wrote our names on and tied to the rolled silverware. At about 2:30 It was time to grub It was all so delicious! One of my favorite things on thanksgiving is my moms cranberry salad and Ty's favorite was the noodles and potatoes. It was so much fun to have most of the fam there.

The pretty table my mom decorated.

Ty, Amanda, Parker, Chris, Emily and Zach watching TV while dinner was cooking and being prepared.

This is what Ammon did while he waited for dinner to get done. Gotta love olive fingers.

Ty and I so happy right before the thanksgiving feast.

Later on that evening my mom and sisters and I went shopping. Mom and I wanted to go to Roberts to get some Vinyl for some projects we wanted to do with her cricket that night and Amanda and Emilee wanted to look at clothes at Rue 21 so we went to roberts and my mom got some new cute cartridges (which I was happy about cuz I can use them :) and we got the vinyl we went out to get then we went to Rue and Seagull book and tape. When we got home we played a game before the kids had to go to bed because Zachy really wanted to play a game before Ty and I had to leave. We played his spy game it was really fun! I am glad I had Ty as a partner because he is a smarty pants but I did feel like I was just doing whatever he said instead of being a team so now that I understand how to play we will have to be a better team next time athough we did win so that was cool. After the kiddos went to bed my mom and I did some vinyl projects. She made some Merry Christmas vinyl for me for my front door and then she made some snowflakes vinyl for my windows. Thank you so much mom for doing those for me they turned out so cute. (pictures to come on the next blog about decorating for Christmas). It was fun hanging out with my mom and just talking all night while we made those on her cricket. After mom went to bed Ty and I packed up all our stuff and put it out in the car so it would be ready for when we had to leave in the morning.

The next morning on Sunday we left at about 8:15am after saying our good byes to the fam and drove back to Cedar. Usually we would have stayed and gone to Church with my parents and leave later that night but this time we needed to get back to Cedar to go to our ward at 1:00 because Ty plays the piano for choir and they were performing in sacrament that Sunday and then he also had to work that night after church. We got back to Cedar just in time to hurry and change and fix our hair before church started. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving break and loved all the time we had with both families! Thank you family!

This is a picture of the fall sign that I made in September to put in my living room for all of fall. I loved how they turned out it was the first time I had ever done mod podge on something like this before. First I painted the letters then mod podged paper on the front and then embellished them like so. I loved how they turned out and I am going to make one for every season. (I already made the winter one picture to come)

Yes that is a picture of a scrabble board. There is a story behind this. A couple weeks ago I had a day off and Ty had the morning off so we decided before he had to go to work we wanted to make the most of the time we had together and we would play a game. Ty picked scrabble. I like this game but I am not very good at it because all my words are three and four letters long is all. haha I don't have a very big vocabulary. But this game of scrabble was soooooo much fun I am so glad we had this time together. We were talking, laughing and being silly the entire game. The reason why I took a picture of the board after is because we were able to use every single tile without cheating, combining letters and still took turns back and forth like you normally do. It was awesome that we used every tile! We were very proud of ourselves at least. The last two letters I had were 2 g's so I thought we were doomed luckily ty found that e and the last word of the game was egg. haha. Love you honey thank you for playing scrabble with me and for always making me laugh I love you! Oh and just for the record Ty killed me this game I can't remember the exact score but he for sure won haha. Good job babe!

NEW MOON

YES I am one of the crazy ladies that had to go to the midnight showing of New Moon and you bet I will be in line at Walmart when it comes out on DVD as well. I know there were even earlier showings up North but since I live in Cedar City midnight was the soonest I could see it. I know what your thinking....Why can't you just go see it one or even two days later it's the same movie? Well because I am a very impatient person so I didn't WANT TO wait! I love the Twilight Saga and just had to see it as soon as I could. I wish I didn't have to wait so long in between each movie. I am already getting so excited for Eclipse. I NEED to read the series again very soon.

My good friend Britney and I went to the movie together. We went and got in line at 10pm because I wasn't about to be in the cold for 11 hours like some people at the front of the line did. We still got good seats waiting until 10 to get in line. at 10:40 they let us in the theater so we were only out in the cold for about 40 minutes thank goodness.

Brit and I going out the door about to drive to the theater. Yes yes I am of course wearing my twilight shirt I wore it all day long. Ty made fun of me for it. My mom also made fun of me for going to the midnight showing but just wait I am going to make her go with me next year and she will love it!

In line. We are soooooo COLD! Good thing I had that fuzz hood and that excitement to keep me warm.

Finally sitting in our seats just waiting!

It's just about to start! We have our popcorn, treats and drinks and we are sooooo ready. I was so tired right before it started but once it started I wasn't thinking about sleep at all.

Ok so I LOVED the movie! I know I know they are never as good as the books but I know that going into it I just love to go for fun and to see how well they do following the book for the most part. My only complaint about the whole movie is the same complaint I have for the book it messes with my heart too much :( haha I love the love triangle but I hate it at the same time. I am team Edward when it comes to Bella and Edward being together but i also love Jacobs' character and for the split second of the book/movie New Moon I love Bella and Jacobs' fling. They have the perfect actor for Jacob because he has those sweet puppy dog eyes that you can't help but fall in love with. not to mention his gorgeous face, his tat, his biceps and that freakin' 8 pack! The part where Jacob is standing in the middle of the road and Edward and Bella get out to talk to him is the saddest part to me. I cried yes I cried because he loves her so much and has the biggest heart so I just felt so bad for him. I also cried when he is begging Bella to stay when they are about to leave for Italy. Poor Jacob but Bella is meant for Edward, don't worry you will find your true love soon :) I loved it I loved everything about it yes I wish it could be a four hour movie and have every detail in it but it was amazing non the less. I also really liked that they had a bigger budget with this one because everything was better because of it: the lighting, the acting, the special affects I loved it I just can't say that enough.

I will be seeing it again with Ty and my little sister because Ty is an amazing husband and I told my sis I would see it with her. Plus hello like I could turn down seeing it again? I think not! I hope I like it just as much the second time or even more would be better. Ok Ok I really need to read them all again I love the feeling I get from this story. I am Crazy oh well!

So now that I have spilled my soul about loving the movie what are your thoughts? Did you like it?

OuR nEwS!

Ty and I are going to have a Baby! I have been baby hungry pretty much since the day we got married 2 years ago but the timing just never felt right until now. We had a good feeling that it was time to start our family. We are both so excited I could shout it from a megaphone to everyone. We have known we are pregers for over two months now but didn't want to announce it to everyone until we had gone to a few visits and gotten through our first trimester just to be safe.

We got the clue we might be pregnant the first of September when I wasn't feeling well and I was just really tired, but we still weren't positive and didn't take a test yet because we had just been up north and my mom had been sick so I thought that maybe I had just gotten sick from her. After two weeks of not feeling any better I finally convinced myself to take the test. I made Ty look first because I was scared it was going to be negative. Ty looked at it and had no reaction which told me it was negative but he told me he was just trying not to give it away. As soon as I saw it was positive I freaked out I was so excited Ty and I hugged each other like a million times and kept saying how excited we were. And of course I started bawling haha im such an emotional person haha. Even after the test said yes and after I went ballistic from excitement I still had to be sure so two more pregnancy tests later I was convinced it was real.

Here is the proof I know you all want to see the pee stick. It is pretty sweet cuz you dont have to guess with the faint lines it just says pregnant or not pregnant. Then I did 2 more a couple days later and they were all positive :)

This is Ty and I the night we found out we were just about to be mommy and daddy to our little peanut. This was Tuesday September 15th. We are soooo HAPPY!

I wanted to call my mom and tell her right away but I some how was able to wait a couple of weeks so we could tell them in person since we were going on vacation with them just a few weeks later. We also wanted to tell Ty's parents in person but we weren't going to see them for a while so we decided to call them and tell them the same week we told my parents. It is so exciting to tell people I love it because it makes it seem more real to me that I am really pregnant.

We went to our first doctors appointment October 16th when we were ten weeks and five days along. We got to meet the doctor for the first time he is so nice and I am very happy we decided on him to deliver our baby. Also this appointment is when they told us how far along we were and our due date which is May 9th 2010! The very most exciting part about this appointment was at the end we got to hear the baby's heartbeat. Oh my heavens can I just tell you that that was the most amazing thing ever to hear that little things heart. I really am pregnant and there really is a baby inside of me. CRAZY! Because we were only 10 weeks it took a little bit of time to find the heartbeat and I was kinda freakin out until the doctor saw my panic face and reassured me that it can take a while to find it at first as soon as he was saying that he found it and I was so relieved and happy.

We just barely went to our second doctors appointment this last friday November 13th. Our appointment went so well. They talked about my blood testing results. They said everything was good but informed us that since I am A- and Ty is O+ they don't know if the babys blood type is going to be negative or positive so we don't know how my body is going to react depending on the blood type so they will give me the medicine at 28 weeks that will prevent my body from attacking and rejecting the baby. The nurse assured us we had nothing to worry about and that it can get all taken care of . I am a worry wart so I still worry a little bit in the back of my mind even though I know it will be ok. At the end of the visit we got to hear our baby's heartbeat again! Yay I was so excited and relieved to hear it again knowing that we have a healthy baby that is growing and doing well like it is supposed to. Gatherum found the heartbeat really fast this time because we are further along and baby is growing. We also got our unltrasound order form so that we can call radiology and get our appointment for our ultrasound in about five weeks to find out what the gender is! :) I can't wait to find out what we are having! What do you think we are having?

Today Sunday November 15th we are 15 weeks along in the pregnancy and we are in our second trimester. Throughout the pregnancy so far I have felt really nauseated and the most tired I have ever been my whole life all the time. I get so exhausted so easily it is so weird how different my body works now. I haven't thrown up at all but I have gotten really sick sometimes. These past few weeks I have started to feel a lot better still just as tired but not as sick. Now I just get sick when I don't keep something in my tummy. For the most part I feel pretty lucky since I haven't thrown up and I'm not too sick. I am still working but have gone down to part time. I feel like I have a little tiny baby belly and am soooo excited. To people who don't know I am pregers I probably just look like I have a gut but it is for sure a baby bump it is hard and pokes out further than it used to. I can't wait for a big belly haha I know I am weird I think they are cute. I also can't wait to feel the baby move around. I have only had a few weird cravings I dont like crab salad but at work when I make it is looks really good so I usually just have to try some weird haha. I have been craving del Taco cheddar quesadillas, Einstein bagels (which is a problem because they don't have them in cedar) and I ordered ribs at chilies the other day which is really weird because I have never ordered ribs EVER. The ribs and the crab salad just show that I am carrying Ty's child haha. I also want spaghetti, cereal and tomato soup with grilled cheese all the time.

15 weeks tiny belly!

It is also fun because my sister in law Emily is pregnant and is only nine days behind me so our babies will be really close and my older sister Traci is pregnant and due in February so her little boy and our baby will be close too! Yay lots of babes in the fam! Ty and I feel so blessed to have this opportunity to be parents soon. We can't wait for May 9th but we are excited to experience the rest of the pregnancy journey. I already feel like I have created a bond with this little baby. Ty is going to be such a good daddy and I can't wait to see him hold our baby for the first time and I can't wait to be a mommy. Neither of us have a feeling of what it is going to be my guess changes everyday so we will just have to wait for 5 more weeks until we are 20 weeks along to find out.

Birthday * Halloween * Nikki's Baby Shower

First of all October 20th was my 23rd Birthday! I know I can't believe it I am 23. I have graduated high school and gone through 4 years of college and graduated that makes me feel so old. I know 23 isn't old but I just feel like I was just barely 18. Where did those years go? My dad used to always say that the older you get the faster time flies by and that is sooooo true I feel like years go by so fast now. I'm not sure I like that life is going so fast haha. Well on a happier note I love birthdays. I love the month of October sooo much because it has my birthday and halloween in it and it just can't get any better than that. I don't just have a birthday I have a birth month and I take advantage of it just ask Ty haha. I had such a fun birthday to start the day off at 12:00 midnight my cute husband was of course the first one to wish me a happy birthday and he got me a cheesecake to enjoy right when my birthday first started. He is so cute he also let me open one of my presents at midnight. Before I opened it he told me that he was excited to give this to me and couldn't wait to see my reaction. That made me nervous a little but when I opened it I just laughed. I LOVE my snuggie I just had to laugh because they are so funny. I used to make fun of these and then I suddenly really wanted one and cute Ty got it for me. They seriously are spectacular I don't know how I lived without it before.

These pictures are me at midnight thats why I look so blah haha. That is me with my cheesecake and blowing my candles out. Also Me opening my snuggie and the best is me showing off one of the many things I can do while wearing my snuggie haha I should have been on the infomercial :)

When I woke up the next morning I woke up to a birthday message from my mom and little brothers. I called my mom back and talked to her for a while. She is seriously the best mom ever! After I got all ready for the day my cute friends Kari and Runge took me out to lunch at pastry pub just us girls. It was so fun just to go and talk and relax they are so sweet and I just wanted to tell them thank you and that I had a blast. In Cedar it was raining and it was awesome i thought it was such a beautiful day. When I got home Ty and I were off to St. George just to shop and chill. Right before we left for st. george he gave me another present to open. It was the New Moon Sound track! Yay honey thank you sooo much and he even let me listen to it on the way to st. george. St george was sunny and also very beautiful. I got so many birthday wishes phone calls and texts from family and friends and it just made me so happy. Ty was so sweet to me all day (he is alwasy sweet to me but he just made me feel extra special on my special day he is so amazing to me).

When we got to St. George we went to a bunch of stores. We first went to Rue 21 and just looked around for a while I love that store. When we were at Rue 21 my little sis Emilee called she is so cute just to tell me happy birthday and talk for a while. Thanks Em! Next we went to Old Navy! I got a really cute green scarf for the pictures we were getting later and we got Ty a new pair of Jeans and I love them they look sooo good on him and the style is sweet. We also went to target, Krumpets (I got cute BOO blocks that were on sale), Ross, and the mall. At the mall we also got a little snack because we were hungry but not quite ready for dinner. We were going to try to go to the pumpkin patch while we were done there but just ran out of time. After the mall we were off to Dan and Brookes house.

Brooke took some pictures of us. We like to get pictures around our anniversary and these were our two year anniversary pictures. I think it is so fun to get couple pictures and see how much we change each year and eventually they will be family pictures when we get some little chitlens running around. We wanted Brooke to take them because she is soooo stinkin talented! Her company is called Snatch and Snap Photography I have her button on my side bar you should check her out. We also like to use these pictures for our christmas cards. I can't wait to see the finished products when they are all done and edited. Thank you Brooke! After we went to a ton of really cool places around St. George to get our pictures done we went back to Dan and Brookes for a while. It was so good to see them and the kiddos and just visit for a while. Ty and I miss having them just down the street so much but it is fun to come visit them in St. George in there new beautiful home. They are always so welcoming and the kids seem to like when we visit :) Connelly and Oaklyn both made me some handmade birthday cards they were so cute thank you kidos.

Throughout the day Ty let me open my other presents I got a really really really cute skirt from downeast that I just love and House season 1 which I was so freakin excited about. Thank you honey for such fun presents. After Dan and Brookes Chris and Em met us down there and we all went to dinner together at the Olive Garden I love that place so of course it is where I went for my bday! It was fun to have Chris and Em and Parker there to celebrate with us. I got my favorite dish cheese ravioli with meat sauce and they gave us the best most delicious cake for my birthday dessert. I highly recommend getting that cake next time you go there for a birthday Yum! We also went to a couple stores with them after. By that time is was time to venture on back home to Cedar. On the way home I got a happy Birthday call from My mother in law and My father in law and also my dad. Thank you!

When we got back to Cedar we went over to Kari and Runge's house and Mike was there too because not only was it my birthday but it was also Tuesday which means biggest loser was on and we always watch it with Kari and Runge. It was cool that one of my favorite shows was on on my bday. And you bet ya I had my snuggie over there while we watched the show haha. It was such a perfect day Thank you everyone for all the birthday wishes and love. Thank you Ty for being such an amazing husband and making that day sooo special.

I also got this sweet present from my mom and dad and siblings :) My talented mom make this freakin awesome earring holder. I LOVE IT!!!!!! She makes these so if you want one let me know or go to her website. I have her button on my sidebar it is Organize and decorate everything. Thank you so much mom and dad and thank you mom for making it for me. Also my cute siblings made me some birthday cards and my mom got me something else She got me a really cute hat with a flower on it I love it too! It is so me!

The next event in October was Dan and Brooke's famous Pumpkin carving party on the 30th. Dan and Brooke LOVE pumpkin and they have the most amazing display of atleast 50 pumpkins each year with different carvings on Halloween night. People come from all over to see them and they really are amazing. I haven't really carved many pumpkins but after being in this family and going to these parties the last 3 years I am getting a little better and it is a lot of fun. At the party you just bring your own pumpkin or you do one they have and carve it and then they have yummy treats and you just carve and visit its a lot of fun. This year mom and dad Ulrich came down which was so fun and also Ty's aunt DeAnn and Uncle Scott and Zach came down this year. Also this year they had something special Ty's Uncle Charlie grew these HUGE pumpkins and Dave and Julie brought two of them down for them to carve. They were each like 250-300 lbs. CRAZY HUH they looked sweet though especially all lite up Halloween night. I had to work that night so we didn't get there until about 7 but we were having such a good time chatting we didn't leave until about 2:30 am. Thank you Jess for letting me hold Gracie as much as I wanted :)

Our pumpkins we each carved two. Ty carved a creapy guy with its tongue stiking out and the other one was the joker. I carved Sally from the Nightmare before Christmas (All three years I have gone to this party I always carve someone from the nightmare before christmas) and my other one was a mummy skull creapy guy.

The next day Was Halloween! Yay Can I just say I freakin LOVE this Holiday! It is so fun I am always going to dress up even when I am a mom I will dress up to pass out the candy and have halloween parties just for an excuse to dress up. I can't wait to have little kiddos to dress up. My first project on halloween day was to finish my costume. As I started on that Ty went and got us donuts for breakfat. I don't know why but donuts sounded like the perfect halloween breakfast. Then I went hard to work on my TUTU. This thing took so much longer than I thought it was going to but then again it was a TUTU for an adult haha. It took me a about 2 hours with some breaks in there. I just watched Scoobie Doo the movie and Edward scissor hands while I made it. So here is the story about the TUTU. I really wanted to make myself a TUTU and be a ballerina for halloween this year but then Ty decided on a pirate for his costume and I thought that sounded fun. We have never been matchy costumes for halloween before and I thought it would be fun to this year but I still wanted to wear a tutu so I was a pirate with a Tutu I actually think it surprisingly worked and I got a lot of compliments on it so thats good :). After the tutu was done ty and I went and ran some errands.

After our errands and grabbing taco time for dinner we ran home and got in our costumes and ready just in time for the ward trunk or treat. The Trunk or treat was so fun and I thought we looked cute as married pirates. It was fun to see all the cute kids all dressed up and they all looked awesome. Our calling in the ward is in primary and so it was fun to see them dressed up and all excited. There were so many cute baby costumes and matchy family costumes. It was so busy we bought double the candy we did last year and still seemed to run out. Once we ran out it was dying down and time to go home. We got home and had no candy left and saw some kids coming but they didnt see us so we ran inside and made it look like we weren't home and they knocked and we didnt answer cuz we ran out at the trunk or treat I felt so bad but after they left we found some dove choclates we had just bought and so for the rest of the trick or treaters we didn't have to hide and had some candy for them haha we are such dorks.

We then went down to St. George again for the rest of the night to hang with the fam while mom and dad U, DeAnn and Scott and Mike and Jess were still down there and to see all the pumpkins lite up and displayed on there driveway taking up the whole thing. We just hung out and sat outside handing out candy and talking to all the people who came to look at the pumpkins. When it dyed down a little Dan and Brooke Mom and Dad U and Ty and I had some salads for dinner, played some games of the card game golf and just chatted. It was so fun! I love family time.

Here are our fun Pirate costumes. I LOVE my tutu and Ty looked soooo good and handsome of course we got lots of compliments yay! Love you babe Happy Halloween!

On November 7th my mom and I gave my cute cousin nikki a baby shower for her and her little girl. Ty and I drove up to syracuse on Friday November 6th. That night when we got there we had chinese for dinnerand then my mom and I were off getting things ready for the shower. My mom is a really good party planner and is so creative with decorations. First I ran to some stores to get the food and some last minute things with my dad and Ty. When we got back we got ready on some of the food and decorations. My mom made a delicious salad we call Amys salad and she also made the punch and I made the sauce for chicken salad. Then we started a movie that me, mom, dad, ty , amanda and emilee watched together. As the movie was going my mom made some cool puffy tissue paper flowers and I made some tutus :). After the movie we got the rest of the room decorated with things that we had already made. I made these cute wood letters that spelled out her babies name Mckenna and I mod podged paper over them and put flowers and ribbons on them and we used that as a decoration. My mom also made a cute Mckenna banner and a mobil that when we have a baby I want one just like it. Then we made a clothes line with onsies socks tutus and skirts and hung it across the room the room was sooo cute we were up decorating until about 2 am.

The next day we got up early and finished the last few things before the shower started. I made the chicken salad for the croissants and my mom made a fruit salad then we just cleaned got the cupcakes on the cute plates added some balloons and we were ready. At 12:00 noon the shower began! It was so fun to give nikki this shower because She is the cousin I have always been the closest with so we are also really good friends. I am so excited for her and Greg to have this baby girl. It was fun we ate lunch, watched her open all her sweet gift and chatted. My mom and I gave her all the decorations, onesies, socks, tutus, banners, signs, mobil everything as her present from us and my sisters. Thank you Family for coming and I hope you had fun Nikki. It was fun to hang out with all the girls in the extended family.

Nikole (Nikkis Sister in law), Sharon (Nikkis grandma), Aunt Marie ( Nikkis mom) and Nikki and Mckenna.

The rest of the weekend with the fam was fun. After the shower the boys were still gone (That morning they were at my brothers wrestling meets and then they went shooting) so us girls me mom, emilee, and amanda all went to a boutique and ross. The boutique was so fun they had so many cute decorations and handmade gifts. When we got home the boys were home. We were all exhausted from a long day so we had some dinner and all just wanted to relax so we watched field of dreams. After that we pretty much all went to bed pretty early haha.

Sunday we went to my parents stake conference with them. It was soooo crouded. They were getting a new stake presidency. It was a really good conference I'm glad we went. There was a freak out moment however during the conference. This old man that was sitting behind me had some sort of attack and went unconscious. Oh my gosh it freaked me out I thought he died. There was a doctor there that stablized him until the EMTs got there. He regained consciousness before they left but I think they took him to the hospital right after that. I hope he is doin well. After church we had lunch visited for a while and then we were off to Murray to Ty's parents. When we got there we visited for a while and then had a delicious dinner. Thank you Julie. After dinner Ty and I hurried and ran over to his cousins Adam and Leslie condo to visit and see there new baby Carson. He is so cute he is a month old now and he made me sooo baby hungry. It was fun to see them and there new baby thank you guys for letting us come over and hold him.

When we got back mom and Dad U, and Ty and I drove down to Lehi to visit with Ty's brother and his wife Chris and Staci and there cute daughter Ayla. It was fun to see another baby she is nine months old so she was playing with us and smiling at us the whole time. Again thank you Chris and Staci for letting us visit we love seeing all the family we can when we get to come up north. It was so good to see you Chris and Staci I feel like it had been so long and by the way you two look amazing good job. Have fun on your cruise! We then drove back to Murray for the night. We played mexican train with Mom and Dad U. Dad won then Ty then me and then mom. Julie was not having fun losing but Dave sure was having fun winning. After they went to Bed ty and I watched some TV and were off to bed. The next morning we woke up early stopped at Einstein Bagles for breakfast got some slurpies and hit the road back down to Cedar.

Thank you Both Sides of the Family for such an amazing Weekend I never wanted it to end. Love you all and can't wait to see you at Thanksgiving!

San Diego Trip Sept.30 -Oct.5 2009

In September my dad called me out of the blue one morning and told us they were going to San Diego and said they got an amazing deal and invited us to come. WE were all of that idea! San Diego with the fam? Heck yeah! It was over the kids UEA vacation from school so we left on Wednesday and got back on Monday. Wednesday we started our drive late so we drove to Primm Nevada stayed at Wiskey Petes and then got up the next day to drive the rest of the way. On our way to our hotel the first day right before San Diego we stopped at the Wild Animal Park/Zoo. It was HOT but so much fun. We got to see a lot of SWEET animals and went on a cool tour train to see all the wild animals roaming out in the open it was soooo cool. Ty's favorite animals are gorillas and they were awesome to see at the zoo. I also really loved seeing the gorillas and the lions. Except the lion looked like it wanted to eat Amanda it wouldn't keep its eyes off of her haha. They also had a cool club house thing you climb up to see a good view of the park and there was a petting zoo area where we got to pet and feed some cute deer. The last thing we did before left was the carousel and yes ty and I road it too :) We are just big kids.

These are all at the Wild Animal Zoo. Ammon and I loved the deer. Ty likes to be silly of corse I think he is a little to big to come out of that egg. We all loved the tour train to see all the animals.

These are a lot of the animals we saw while we were there along with much more. I really liked the turtles one day I want one as a pet :) We think ty likes the gorillas because he has really broad shoulders like them. We found out on the tour that the great white rhinos are distinct and there are only five left in the whole world they have two of them in this zoo. Ty thought that was sad.

After the zoo we were off to the hotel once we all got settled in we went out to dinner at dennys and then went to the hot tub for a little bit and then crashed back at the hotel because we were all exhausted from walking at the zoo. Friday was SEA WORLD DAY! We were soooo excited to go to sea world. Ty had never been before and I was little since I had been we had so much fun.

The first thing we did was go on the ride that takes you up high and spins so that you can see the view of the whole park and a lot of San Diego. It was a really pretty view.

Next we were off the see the sea otters, sting rays and dolphins. We got to pet the sting rays it was really cool they feel all spongy. I was hesitant to touch them at first but it was way cool when I did. The kids liked touching them they thought it was cool. Ty really liked it too. I liked the babies.

Next we saw the coolest show ever the Shamu show with all the killer whales. I can't even explain how cool this show was I got chills through the whole thing. The tricks with the trainers were awesome too. The relationship that the trainers and the whales had was so amazing to me they were like their pets it was so cute. Its amazing that people can train killer whales.

After the show we went to lunch and saw some more of the park.

Then we were off to the kids play area it was cute and it had a huge jungle jim that even my dad came and played in, a few rides and the cool circus mirrors that make you look really tall and skinny or realy short and stout haha it was so fun in there. Also the park was decorated in all fall and halloween decor it was cute.

Next we went to the sea lion show which was supposed to be a comedy show called Sea Lions Live SLL and it was soooo funny those sea lions are really obedient. Last we went to more of the aquariums and saw some sharks too it was an awesome day at sea world.

So when I was little I went to sea world with my fam and they got me a dolphin and for some reason I named it puppy. I LOVED that thing and I had it for a long time but I don't know what happened to it. Well since I didn't have it anymore and sea world memories meant puppy I just had to replace it so I got almost the same dolphin and its name it puppy. :) That night we got panda and chilled at the hotel.

Saturday was LEGOLAND day My little brother Ammon could not go to San Diego without going to this place he loves Legos and just had to go. Zach loves legos too so he was also in heaven. It was a really cute place and I think we all had fun.

They had big lego characters everywhere it was awesome we just had to get pictures of all of them. They even had a lego pumpkin patch for halloween. CUTE

Us with more of the characters. Sponge Bob And the pizza guy were my favorite hahaha

And these are some of the animals made from legos.

We went on lots of cool rides....

And some more rides :)

Since it was October Legoland was decorated for halloween and in the evening they invited all the kids to dress up and they had trick or treating, costume contests and entertainment. There were a lot of workers that were dressed up too. Ammon Zach and Emmy had lots of fun dressing up and trick or treating. Zach also went up on stage and danced in his alien costume to Monster Mash he was very entertaining he was cracking me and my mom up. They looked so cute in their costumes. After the haloween festivities we got dessert ice cream. We then went to this cool area called USA mini land this was sooo COOL! It was all the big cities Vegas, San Fran, Orleans, Washington DC, New York and Southern California and they were mini cities built from legos it was incredible. Im sad I didn't get any pictures because our camera battery died. But it was so cool Vegas and New York were my favorite. Washington DCs buildings were awesome too. They also had little lego trick or treaters in all the cities. This area was for cure Ty's favorite. But we all loved it. We went on one last ride and the gift shop for legos for the boys before they closed we were sad to go. We stopped and go in and out burgers and off to the hotel we went again. Just relaxed and the boys of course played with they new legos.

Sunday was the drive back to Utah but before that we had to go to the BEACH. You can't go to San Diego without visiting the beach first. We all had so much fun running from the waves, chasing flip flops in the ocean, writting in the sand and just laughing together. We all had to atleast get our toesies in, but my dad got further in and then the waves splashed him when he had to chase ammons flip flop before the waves took it away so we got a little more wet haha.

Mom, Dad, Me, Ty, Amanda, Emilee, Zach and Ammon all having a blast at the beach.

More fun at the beach. Oh and don't forget the handstand on the beach pictures its a tradition :)

After the beach we went over to the beach shops and bought some cool San Diego souveniers and road some rides on the cool pier mini amusement park. Ty, me Emmy and Zach road the roller coaster and Ammon road the carousel. We then were back on the road to Utah....only we didn't get quite there we got to Primm and my dad decided it would be fun to stay there again and prolong the vacation one more night. We were all up for that :) We dropped our stuff off at Wiskey Petes and we were off to Vegas for some family dinner at chilies. Chilies is my dad's favorite place to eat out and luckily Ty works there so we get a sweet discount. It was so fun to be on vacation and be with the family for one more night. We then drove back to the hotel and just talked and hung out together.

Monday morning we were up ready and drove the rest of the way to Cedar City. When we got there my mom and I went to some antique shops and lunch and the boys and kids hung out at home and had lunch. It was fun just hanging out just me and my mom for a couple hours. My mom loves this antique shop on main street in Cedar and always gets cool stuff there. We also heard of another one so we decided to check it out. Well it was an atique shop/animal adoption and feeding place. It was the oddest place we had ever been they had huge dogs and cats just roaming around the antiques we just laughed the whole time because it was sooo weird. We still got some cool stuff though so I guess it was worth it. Plus it was time with my mom I just love those times :) Around 4:00 the fam left to get back home up North and then a little later Ty was off to work and I was left at home alone after spending all that time with the fam it was sooo lonely :( Luckily I had some unpacking to do and I called my sis traci and talked to her for like two hours. I just never like seeing family go after visiting. I can't wait until next year when we live closer to our families :)

Thank you mom and dad for inviting us and thank you mom and dad, Amanda, Emilee, Zach Ammon and Ty for such a fun vacation. Ty and I love spending time with you all. Can't wait for the next one when Adam gets home!