Boy or Girl

Boy or Girl?

Once we returned from our babymoon we had a Dr. apt that Monday to find out if we would be having a boy or a girl. I knew all along it was going to be a girl, but Chris was still hopeful for a boy.  At every apt we got to hear the heart beat and each time according to the old wife’s tale it was the rate of a girl. I tried to get him to place a bet with me, like him having to cook dinner or do laundry or clean for a week if I was right, but he wouldn’t agree. I think deep down inside he knew it was a girl too. Our apt was first thing in the morning so we both had to go  to work afterwards. We got to the office and they took us right back. The whole ultrasound probably took maybe 5 minutes. The tech was really fast which I wasn’t too happy with, but knew we would be doing another ultra sound in another couple weeks. The tech after lubing up my belly went straight for the goods… I knew right away…. And she confirmed… It’s a GIRL!  Chris’ face showed a little disappointment but then went straight to a big grin! I of course got tears in my eyes! After we left the apt I sent a mass text message to everyone I know confirming that I was right and She, hopefully Berkley Haven Horne would be joining our family in July. We still have yet to agree on this name, but I just can’t think of another name that I like better.

Because every post is more fun with pictues, here I am trying to fit into dresses before our cruise,.... so about 16 weeks.

BABYMOON

Babymoon

 In January we took a cruise down to the Caribbean. I called this our babymoon as this would probably be one of the last times we were able to be just us, soon we will be a family. We had gone to the Caribbean before we were married and could never stop thinking about the water and the beauty of the Caribbean. Because of the baby coming I didn’t want to take too much time off work because I want to save all my time possible to use when baby H gets here. We decided to fly in the same day we would be cruising out and also fly home the same day we doc. We have never done this before and now we understand why. The cruise was leaving out of New Orleans. We have never been there and should have known we would want to stay. It was right before Mardi Gras so the streets and everything was decorated and festive! But back to our flights…. THEY. WERE. HORRIBLE. the flight from SLC almost took off before schedule, we ended up getting delay in Dallas after running to find our terminal only to find the plane very small and very crowed complete with screaming baby on board. I tried to be happy but it was hot and crowded and I was starving, Chris was so cranky and stressed we were going to miss our boat and whole vacation for that matter and happy just wasn’t happening. We finally took off and landed safely in New Orleans, grabbed a cab and headed for the ship!

Once on board the ship we were much happier people and we were ready for our fun vacation to begin. We had 3 different stops on the cruise and a total of 4 days on the ship. We love cruises because in our opinion you get the best of both worlds, you get to relax and be lazy while at sea and then you get to go full throttle once on the islands!  Our first stop was, The Cayman Island we went snorkeling and also met a couple around our age which hardly ever happens on cruises. We snorkeled and rode around on this tiny little boat in the huge ocean!  I got a little sick but nothing too bad. We went and had lunch with the couple we met and ended up just walking around and looking at the city the rest of the day. I really need to be better at taking pictures, this is the only picture we have from this day.
 

The next day we went to, Cozmel. we decided we wanted to swim with stingrays, well, decided and was pretty much left with this. Being pregnant you can’t do a lot of the exciting excursion we usually do, but it was still really fun to swim with stingrays. The boat ride was about 20 min and then we were in the middle of the ocean at this big sand bar where we could stand up and the water was so clear! We also met another couple close to our age on this excursion which was a lot of fun too.

The last stop was in Jamaica. Again being pregnant you can’t do a whole lot of the fun adventurous things, but I still wanted Chris to have fun, so we went to this waterfall that you could hike up, I was able to walk along the side of the waterfall and take pictures while Chris got to climb right up the waterfall. It was still a lot of fun to watch him, but I really wish I could have gone too! But keeping this baby safe was more important. While Chris was getting ready, I talked to a Jamaican man on the beach who insisted we were going to be having girl! I had thought we were having a girl from day one, but everyone around me said boy and Chris wanted a boy so bad that I secretly wanted a boy too. Either way it didn’t matter to us because we really just wanted a happy healthy baby.

 

 

 

 

After 3 very fun exciting days at the different islands, it was back on ship and time to head home. The time on the ship was filled with naps, lounging on the deck reading, fun shows every night, and dinner in the dining room every night! Having someone cook and clean for you was the best! The food was great and I really enjoyed the desserts every night! It was fun to get dressed up and have dinner. I love the alone time we got to have and hopefully we will still be able to do dinner every now and then. This was the view from our deck every night on the way home!  It was amazing and the best to sit out there and watch the sun set.

We got back to New Orleans early in the morning and this brigde was so neat!We had a few hours to kill before our flight back to Utah. So we walked around the town and got a little taste of the parties that were about to take place. We wished so much that we would have stayed either before or after the cruise because New Orleans is such a cool place! I’m sure we will be back some day!

To top off our trip we ended up getting stuck in Denver on the way back because again, lovely UNITED AIRLINES, was not flying into SLC because of weather, every other airline was still going in and our family in SL said it wasn’t snowing or anything. I HATE UNITED. So we got to stay and pay for a hotel in Denver and then flew home first thing the next day. AND as a cherry on top of our wonderful flight experience already…. They lost our luggage!  So to sum up our trip, we had a GREAT time once on board, we will NEVER fly in or out the same day the cruise leaves or docks, and we will NEVER EVER fly with united again!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2012 Catch Up!

 

2012 year in review

I’ve said it before but this time I really mean it!  I need to keep this thing up to date! 2012 was quite the busy year for us and its only going to get crazier here on out. Keep reading for all the fun details!  This is going to be the LONGEST POST EVER but it will be so fun to look back on it!

January 2012 We took a mini vacay down to VEGAS! Had the best time! We went to 2 plays, Phantom of the Opera and the Beatles show. We also went and did the Hoover dam tour. This was really fun! We’ve been to Vegas so many times and never done this tour! It was defiantly something worth doing.

 

February 2012 We got some news about the mountain view corridor highway being build and possibly coming right through our house! I took no pictures this month so I really have no idea what else we didL

March 2012 again no pictures this month, but we were informed sometime last month or this month that the highway was indeed coming through our house, so we would be moving!  We decided to build and probably spent most of last month and this month looking at lots and talking with builders.

April 2012 Chris turned the big 25! He’s old now! But still not caught up with meL I started thinking about how old I was getting and the big empty house we would soon have. I also started thinking about growing our family. Maybe Chris would be ready now that he was 25. we went to the zoo with my nephew Jax. This month the building of our dream home started!  We were beyond excited and ready to move! Because a road was taking our house we worked a lot with UDOT and the city because they pretty much took/bought our house.

May 2012 We continued to build and watch the progress of our home. We drove to the lot every day and watched the changes!  Mother’s day came and we went to Tepenyaki for my very first time. It was AMAZING food and fun. We decided that we were ready to start a family so we stopped preventing that from happening. To say I was excited was an understatement.

June 2012 my sister’s and I went to our sister concert for the year…DAUGHTRY! He was so good and it was such a fun night! We our house was finished and we packed and moved into our new home! It was so exciting to be in a new house with sooo much space!

 

July 2012 I got the exciting news that I could now work from home! Which couldn’t have worked out better because hopefully a little one would be joining us! I no longer have to compute to the office everyday and get to roll out of bed and start working! I miss my friends at work but thankfully we still email A LOT and I get to go in for meetings at least once month. No other pictures, but I’m sure we went boating and had BBQ’s and enjoyed the summer!

August 2012 Chris and I decided to celebrate our anniversary early and just the 2 of us went to Disneyland. I was 27 years old and never been to Disneyland!  It was such a fun trip and so nice to have just couple time away from work and friends and everything else!

September 2012 we celebrated our 3 year anniversary!  The last 3 years has been pretty amazing and I can’t wait for more! Through thick and thin we love each other so much and I’m so happy we got married 3 years ago! We went to Ruth Chris’ steak house and was SHOCKED with the extravagant prices! We decided our new tradition for our anniversary will be going to the homestead for the night! Way more fun and pretty much the same cost!

October 2012 this month we got the news that our lives were going to be changed forever! I took a positive pregnancy test!  I took it about an hour before Chris got home and it was the LONGEST hour of my life! When he walked through the door, he hugged me like normal and I said, “are you ready to be a daddy?” and he just held me and said over and over, “really! really!” I cried and we were both so happy and excited! I found out about the 2^nd week of October but was so excited that on my birthday I told my parents! We were at lunch with my mom and I said, “so guess what Chris got me for my birthday?” then I said, “a BABY!” good thing she was sitting down because she went white but was so happy and excited too! I had to text my dad because he was working, but his reply was priceless, “ oh wow!  Make my heart run and jump! I will be a great grandpa!” I also got even older this month and turned 28! I got a much needed and WANTED treadmill for my birthday.

November 2012 we took a trip with Chris’ dad and little sister down to Zion’s National park and Bryce Canyon. It was beautiful and I can’t believe this is our back yard and we have never been there to see it!  At the end of this month we went to my Dr. and got to hear our baby’s heart beat and see the little bean on an ultra sound. They gave us our due date of July 8^th 2013!

December 2012 I finally got with the times and got me an iphone. Hopefully I will be able to take more pictures now! We got to put Christmas lights on our new house and it looked amazing!  So pretty! Christmas was also AMAZING and such a fun surprise. Our driveway is really steep and in the snow my car was not making it up. I had fallen in LOVE with the jeep Cherokee’s. They were 4 wheel drive, #1 safety rated,  and not to mention having a baby seat is much easier in an SUV vs a car specially with my back issues already! I had begged Chris for months that we should get one… but they were sooooo expensive!  Well Christmas morning came and I open a present that lead me on a scavenger hunt around the house and the final present…. Parked in the garage… my dream car… a Jeep Grand Cherokee!  Chris did make me compromise on the color, I would have picked white or grey, but he went with Red and I will deal with it!  I love it so much and It’s so nice not getting stuck in the snow/driveway!

And that my friends is our year for 2012… told you it was crazy! Can’t wait for 2013! I just know it’s going to be even crazier and I’m so excited!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

New years eve

New Years eve has never been a really fun exciting holiday for me. It brings on a lot of Stress and worry. I hate to think about how many people drink and drive and how many people are so irresponsible. I like to have a low key night and last year was a lot of fun, so we decided to do a repeat! Nicci and Eric and their boys came over and my little sister Ashton decided since her husband was on nights and wouldn’t be home anyway, she would come hang out with us too! We had a lot of fun, we started the night watching the Jazz game and then I made yummy chicken dip so we munched on that and talked the night away. We played games and mixed or tried to mix some fun drinks. We played the newly wed game and had Ashton as the host. That game can be really fun but can also be really T.M.I. specially with a husband like mine! It was a pretty fun night anyways and at midnight I grabbed the pots and pans and gave them to the boys and we ran out to the streets banging and screaming happy new year, I’m pretty sure the boys thought I had had WAY TOO MUCH TO DRINK but really I just wanted to do that. We watched fireworks and then went in and drank a few more drinks that we really shouldn’t have. Then went to bed. A very low key fun night! The next day I should have started my working out and eating right, but I pretty much held the couch down and Chris and I watched football and basketball all day! What a waste! But so fun to do that every now and then! Hope everyone else had a safe and fun new year and hope this new 2012 year will be the best yet! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!

Christmas 2011

Christmas…..where to start. I’m going to attempt to get this blog up to date because I have seriously been slacking! Its just the last thing I want to do when I get home from work. I work on a computer all day every day so when I get home from work I don’t want to stare at a computer for even longer! But I really LOVE to look back and remember everything. So here I go.
Christmas turned out PERFECT! We ended up leaving for my parents house on Friday “with no arguing or anything”! Which was amazing since Chris isn’t the biggest fan of Huntington. So we got there in time for lunch and then Chris and my brother in law Dustin went off to the desert to shoot guns and be boys. Which was perfect, it left us girls alone to gab and gossip the rest of the day. The boys got back and we played taboo and dominos as a family! So much fun, but I didn’t get any pictures.

Then on Saturday we all headed out to the south fields to shoot more guns. Chris shot my dad’s muzzleloader for the first time! This gun is amazing and I will never forget when I was 5 years old and shot it for the first time! It is such a heavy gun and the force behind it is like no other gun! It was fun for my dad to teach Chris how to load and shoot the gun.

My mom tried really hard to have fun while all of us were shooting guns, but that is just not her idea of fun. She would much rather have stayed home and painted her nails or read a magazine. But she was a tropper and it was a nice family building memory!
Then on Christmas morning we got to wake up with Jaxson and that was one of the funnest things EVER! I was taking pictures of how cute he was and how much he freaked out when he seen his rock and roll Elmo, but I wasn’t taking the pictures with my camera. So I will have to post pictures later.
After the excitement of Jaxson was over, the rest of us began opening our presents. Chris and I hadn’t really talked about Christmas and presents for each other and we really should have! His Santa was horrible compared to mine. I was thinking we were not going to do much for each other for Christmas considering, we had just bought our new washer and dryer and we also went Hawaii so I was thinking that was pretty much our Christmas. BOY WAS I WRONG! I got Chris a few shirts and a lame helicopter. He is really hard to shop and by gifts for because he never wants anything and when he does want/need something he usually just goes and buys it! One of the things I really don’t like about him! So after he opened his lame presents, he gave me a tiny little box to open… my heart started racing as I ripped the paper off and open the box only to see “THE SHANE COMPANY” and a pair of sparkling diamond earrings inside!


He is such a great husband and always finds a way to completely take me by surprise! I love it, most of the time! He also got me some new clothes and a pair of much needed running shoes. I hate to admit this, but it is now January 17 and I have yet to put them on! My motivation didn’t come with the new year like I wanted it too and I have just been busy and also have been making A LOT of excuses! We all had a very merry Christmas and maybe next year Chris’ santa will be amazing like mine was this year!

Hawaii

We headed for paradise on December 10th. It was the longest flight ever! Really it was nothing compared to Argentina but I was so excited to be there it seemed like it was way longer! Plus we had a 3 hour layover in LA and that didn’t help much! We woke up early and didn’t get there till way late because of the lay over and the time change and everything. We stayed right on Waikiki beach! It was so nice! To say we did everything there is to do on Oahu would be an understatement. We didn’t stop moving the whole time we were there which really how often are you in Hawaii, why would you just want to sit around and do nothing.
We hiked Diamond Head in record time might I add. Chris is all about going, going, and going!
Pearl Harbor, was interesting and sobering. It was really sad to think about how many people were involved and died for our country.

Minoa falls, was defiantly they BEST waterfall we seen while there. And it was the only one that we didn’t have to pay for! We hiked through the rain forest to get to this waterfall, we were soaking wet with a mix of sweat and rain by the time we got there and I don’t think anyone could have been happier.

We walked through tons and tons of bamboo which I am now completely set on having that in my back yard at some point.

North Shore, was really neat to see and to watch all the suffers, but I couldn’t help but think about sharks and if we would see a tragedy happen, thankfully we didn’t.

Dole Plantation, where we ate the most amazing pineapple ice cream in the entire world! We went on a train ride through the plantation and learned that it take a REALLY REALLY long time to grow 1 pineapple.. over a year if I am remembering correctly.

The Polynesian cultural center was squeezed in at the end of one day, so we weren’t able to go to the different islands and learn about everything. Here we had our first authentic luau. Then we went to watch the show, Ha breath of life. It was really amazing to see how the Hawaiian culture evolved and how everything works. Really neat!

We went to another place where you were SUPPOSE to be able to swim at the bottom of the waterfall but because of the nonstop rain they wouldn’t let us in the dirty muddy water.

Here we walked through flowers and flowers and plants and trees and I even found a flower as big as my head!

I think the most exciting thing we did while there was….. SWIM WITH SHARKS! I still can’t believe that I did this! It was THE MOST TERRIFYING, exhilarating, amazing thing I think I have ever done! I mean really, how many people can say they swam with sharks! Too bad I was to petrified to take many pictures!! At one point we were able to count 10 sharks circling us! I literally thought my heart was going to jump out of my mouth! Best experience EVER!!

Chris by the shark tank before we left at 6:30AM!


On our last day there we took a catamaran boat along the coast where we see the black pearl from the pirates movies.

We watched whales and the dolphins put on quite a show for us! They would come right next to the boat and jump up and spin. We snorkeled and swam with sea turtles, one of the many things I was able to cross off my list! Sea turtles are pretty amazing creatures and they don’t mind swimming right next to you either. Chris was even able to touch one! Really really neat!
And to end the trip we went to none other but Senior Frogs. I had never heard of this place till I met Chris. My first experience here was the first time I went to Mexico with Chris and his family. Senior frogs is a one of a kind dining experience. The food is really nothing special but the entertainment is really why you go. They make these very inappropriate hats out of balloons. I’ve seen waiter dance on tables and sing and dance again very inappropriately. But it is such a good time!


The good time did come to an end and the flight home was a lot shorter than the way there. It was really fun to come back and relax for a day before going back to work. We defiantly needed to slow down and recover. Hawaii was amazing and so much fun! Its always fun to come home, but chris and I both agreeded, if our dogs could have been shipped to us, we probably could have stayed a few more days to soak up some sun and hang on the beach!

Thanks

I’m sitting here alone on thanksgiving night… my last post said how interesting this day would be and I’m happy to report everything is well. Thanksgiving was my year this year, a.k.a. the year we spend with my family. Well because of schedules and everything my family decided it would be best to plan our family thanksgiving dinner on the Saturday after thanksgiving. Well, because my husband is not a planner and every time I mention something further than 2 days away, he disregards, I never mentioned to him that thanksgiving this year would be celebrated with my family on Saturday. So one night about a week ago he plans a golf weekend…yes the weekend of my family’s thanksgiving dinner. There were SEVERAL talks about what is right and what would make everyone happy, what is the best thing to do. I messed up because I didn’t tell Husband the plans. He messed up because he made plans before checking to see if anything else was already planned. We went back and forth about what should be done, and when it came down to it, we made each other happy. I am happier to spend the weekend at my mom’s without worrying about how to keep him entertained… he is happier golfing… so I’m sure we made some people mad but we did what was best for us. I HATE fighting with Husband, I HATE trying to make him do things he doesn’t want to do, I HATE trying to please everyone, when really in the end… does it matter that much? There will be other holidays, there will be other years, and there will be other things that are more important.
I’m watching “P.S. I Love you” tonight and I must say, the first 20 minutes of this show makes me laugh! I can relate to this so much! Husband and I FIGHT and sometimes over the stupidest things… but after all is said and done… we are still WE, we are still TOGETHER, we are still a TEAM, and we are still PARTNERS. I know he will do ANYTHNG to make me happy, and I know I would do ANYTHING to make him happy and the most important thing is, I know even if we fight, we are in this FOREVER. I am so happy to sit here alone tonight, enjoying MY TIME. I thought this Thanksgiving was going to be such a wreck, but in the end, I know I have family that loves me and understands, I know that there will be MANY more years to do “my year, his year” but right now, we are doing “OUR” year. We were together on turkey day, but for the weekend, I am happy to spend it without him, and he is happy to spend it without me… absence makes the heart grown founder…… right??
I am THANKFUL, that I have a Husband that loves me, I am THANKFUL that I have THE MOST AMAZING FAMILY, I am THANKFUL I have a house to be alone in, I am THANKFUL that I am not alone in that house and that I have my kids, Brody and Tink. Maybe someday we can add to our family and I can be THANKFUL for so much more, but for right now, I LOVE that we can do what WE want to do without having anything to tie us down. I am THANKFUL that we are able to TRAVEL right now, I am THANKFUL that we have the money to travel and do the things WE want to do, I am THANKFUL that WE work HARD for that money and I am VERY THANKFUL that WE are SMART with our money and can manage and do the things we want to do!