Our Weekend

Ava (aka Lewskie) actually enjoying the water
Beautiful Brooklyn
This was Ava's expression the whole morning

Brooklyn, Ava and their cousin Trey

This weekend I got a call from Sandi saying she, Brooklyn and Ava were in Chandler with her mom. Chandler is only about 20 minutes from where we live so I was very excited. We drove down there Saturday morning and watched the girls swim. They were so cute. Brooklyn didn't last too long in the pool though, because she got it in her head that we would think their hotel room was really cool and she wanted to show it to us. So the whole time she was asking her mom if they could stop swimming and go back to the hotel room. I bet about an hour after we left she was begging to go swimming again.
After we left them we went shopping at an outlet mall in Tempe...which was very nice. There were so many stores. We walked around a lot!!! Colin likes to take me places where I have to walk so maybe I will go into labor. He wants me to have the baby on the weekend so he doesn't have to use as many sick days. Everyone has the perfect scenario of when the baby should come. Up until last night I have been fine with her coming whenever she is ready, but I was so uncomfortable last night. I didn't go to sleep until 12:30 (if you know me, that is very late). These next two weeks could be very interesting!!!

One Year

Corney Posing...I know!
Aren't I just so cute...less than three weeks!
Not a very good pictures, much prettier in real life. That little book next to the flowers was my gift to Colin, it is a miniature scrapbook of our year.

Our one year anniversary was last Friday. I cant believe it has already been a year. I guess time flys when your having fun & pregnant. We thought and thought about what we were going to do to celebrate, but were just pretty limited due to my condition. Colin got off work early because he had too many hours for the week (I love his job) and brought me home red roses that were really pretty. We finally decided we would go to Tempe and ride the paddle boats (supposed to be really fun). We got there and the park was closed because they were setting up for some event. So it we went to plan B.

We drove down to the temple and walked around. That temple is really pretty and the grounds are really nice as well, but the area that it is in is a little bit sketchy...scary! While we were on the temple grounds we walked off the side walk into the trees because I wanted to see what kind of fruit was growing, while we wandering around in the trees Colin spotted a couple that is in our prenatal class so he yells "hey, you guys are in our in our class." It took them a while to recognize us because we were hidden, but as we made out way out they recognized us. We thought it was pretty funny... especially because the previous week we had suspicions that they might be LDS so after class we hid out and watched them walk to their car to see if they were from Utah. Now it was like we are hiding out in the bushes, waiting for them to come out of the temple.

That evening we went to Black Angus for dinner. We had a coupon, you got a four course meal for two and it only cost $30. We got so much food and it was all really good. We ate leftovers for the next two days.

Well that was our anniversary. It was a lot of fun. I am so grateful to be married to Colin, he is the best husband I could have ever hoped for.

We Will No Longer Be Mistaken For Smokers

Our very messing apartment. Just some of the laundry waiting to get done
There are a few weird things about this apartment. I am taking this picture from the front door. If you cant tell that is the tv in the living room and right through those double doors is our bedroom. We feel like we are living in a hotel!!
This is the other strange thing. This is our tiny kitchen with no room for a table and there is not a dining room area. We are still trying to figure out what to do about that.


Saturday we were able to move into our new place. We are so happy to be here and to be out of that other house. Not only was it stinky, it was too big and we just didn't feel comfortable in that area. Colin had his first "commute" to work this morning. I'm guessing it must have been pretty quick because when he got to work he text me and said it was the greatest commute ever, it almost made him cry!:)
A few guys from our ward helped us move in on Saturday and turns out one of them lives in our exact same building with his wife and brand new baby...I was so excited to hear that. By the way we went to church yesterday and I have had a change of heart. I think I am really going to like this ward.
After we moved in, the first thing we started to do was laundry. In the past two days we have done probably 20 loads. We are not even close to being done. We have about 30 more to go. We have to wash every item we own that can be washed to get the smell of smoke out. Hopefully by the time the baby comes and people start to visit us, the smell will be completely gone. By the way I have posted some pictures of the our apartment complex...I hope they make everyone want to come and visit us, especially when it is freezing in Utah. I also posted some of what the inside looks like right now...don't let these pictures scare you away!!!

I Need Help

Can any tell me how to make a cute header. I cant figure it out. Also lately I have been doing a lot of research on immunizations for babies and I had no idea how much controversy there was about it. I watched Oprah the other and Jenny McCarthy was on talking about her son with autism and how she believes it was caused by the vaccines he was given. There are many people out there that believe the same thing. Has anyone looked into this?

Tucson

This past Saturday we spent the day in Tucson. We had to go down there to pick up a bike for Colin's parents. It actually worked out really well because we have friends that live down there and they happened to only live about six miles from the where we got the bike. So we spent the day with Colin's friend Steve and his wife Callie. We went up to the mountain near Tucson and Barbecued hamburgers. It was a lot of fun and was so nice to get out the heat and the desert. It was about 30 degrees cooler up there.

Yesterday we went to our newest ward. It seems like a pretty good ward. A couple of funny things did happen to me. In relief society I was sitting by a lady and the first thing she said to me was how much she liked my dress. I thought that was very nice of her, but then she followed up the compliment with asking me if I made it. I didn't really know what to think of that.
After relief society a lady came up to me and asked me if I was having twins, she said she thought thats what she heard me say. I said no, I'm just having one. While walking away and laughing a little she said "just one big one huh?" I have never been complimented or offended so many times as I have while being pregnant.

Thats our weekend.

Beautiful Morning!

This morning I was able to get outside and go for a walk. Since we've been here its been to hot to go outside at any time unless you have too. This morning was different...there was actually a chill in the air. It felt so good, I decided to go for a walk. Now I am sad we have to move. We have the nicest little walking path right next to our house and about a block down there is a cute park. I will really miss it. Also, as I was walking into my house I heard a lady say good morning. Turns out she is in our ward and lives right across the street. It is so funny, before we were going to move I didn't like living here at all and now that we are for sure moving I start seeing all the good things. But to get out of the stinky house and be closer to Colin's work is defiantly worth it.

Weekend in Blanding

This weekend we went to Blanding to visit my family. The trip there was a bit long. We got in a little bit of construction on our way out of Phoenix and about 30 miles south of Flagstaff our car started getting really shaky & bumpy. We tried to tell ourselves it was just the road, but as we entered Flagstaff it got even worse, so we knew it was our car. We pulled over into a parking lot, looked for a long time and could not figure out what was wrong. Finally we saw that we had a huge bubble on our tire. Luckily we had a full size spare.... and Colin. He was able to fix it very fast, I went to the bathroom and when I got out he was putting all the tools away...what a
man! :) So we made it to Blanding in just under eight hours.

Saturday we went up on the mountain with my family and Sandi's family. It was very nice to get out of the heat and up into the mountains. We had a picnic and rode four wheelers. The reason I only have pictures of everyone sitting on their four wheelers is because the campground is as far as I made it. Sandi and I were not allowed to ride due to our "condition. "Kind of a bummer, but my mom was nice enough to stay with us so we had fun just relaxing and talking. Colin had a lot of fun on the four wheelers and said it was worth the 14 hour drive to be able to ride.

It was Brooklyns birthday yesterday. She turned 4. We missed out on the cake and opening of presents, but I did see the cake and yes Sandi it was very cute. It was a Barbie cake, I bet Brooklyn loved it.

Well we hope everyone had a great weekend!