Halloween Costume

The decision to wear a Halloween costume this year came a few months ago when I saw this t-shirt being sold on KSL by a lady making them in Provo. I laughed hard when I happened upon it and so I ordered one.

Little did I know what a commotion I would stir up. I wore it to work on Friday because I wasn't working on Halloween and immediately was a hit. All the nurses loved it. Then when I started walking the hallways patients and their families were commenting on it. I was a celebrity!:) To top it all off I had four, that's right four people take a picture of me. Our unit secretary, one of the social workers, an nurse practitioner and trauma doc all took a picture.

Later on that night, me, Chad, my sister Kelli and Nate her husband went out to McGrath's for dinner at the gateway. I continued to wear the shirt and still had many people point and laugh at it. Even in the restaurant people commented on how they loved it. After dinner we went to a Halloween movie (Macfisto) that Kelli's friends make every year. It was at the Rose Wagner theater in downtown SLC. So of course they have a costume contest and I was very much coerced to even enter. We're in this huge packed theater and I have to make my way all the way down to the stage. No freaking way. I've had quite enough attention for the day. They go through all the contestants and I get sent up on stage first. After a few more contestants go up, the crowd cheers for the winner. Guess who one? Yep me! I was completely embarrassed the whole time. But very proud that my baby bump got me a prize! Woot! Woot! Kelsie will be so proud one day. When we were leaving (waiting for Kelli to stop her social butterflying), a worker at the theater asked me if he could take a picture. He loved it but thought it was creepy! So if you see my picture floating around the Internet you know why!

The infamous t-shirt!

My loot! The box is caramels from V Chocolates!

The t-shirt has the star of the movie Macfisto in the left hand corner!

Happy Halloween everyone!

That's right another post! What? I'm a little bored.

This is the nursery. We are not totally done with it yet. It took us forever to find a crib set because we can never agree on furniture. I was trying to stay away from dark wood. If you've been to our house it's all over the place. But they didn't have this set in vintage white anymore so I relented. Plus we got the converter kit so someone can take the whole thing to college someday. And if they don't they can buy their own bed!!! Take that. I thought maybe it would be a better fit in a apartment than vintage white. Below you will see the frames I painted and then put paper/paper flowers/brads in them. Really easy. Let's just say Wood Connections is probably my favorite store right now.

The changing table.

And the crib. We want to put a big rug down in the center of the room and then a really comfy chair where our dining chair is in this picture. I also painted the "K" on the crib and then put glitter all over it.

Hope you like it.

Fine....I'll post something...Megan says I only post when you know what freezes over!

A pregnancy update that is a long time coming....

• 35 weeks prego (5 weeks to go, what! what!)


• Have reflux pretty much all the time, not heart burn, just extra gastric juices coming back up which is as lovely as it sounds. Zantac you are my friend!


• Feet and hands swell on occasion, but not since I've been lying in my sick/death couch for the last few days. Thank you H1N1.


• Gained quite a bit of weight. You can call me and ask me but I'm not publishing that info over the internet. Less than Jami's first child and more than Kelli's first. I seem to always be in the middle.


• Sleeping is of course so freaking awesome.


• KELSIE, that's right, KELSIE, does somersaults and probably a few back hand springs in my belly so I'm pretty sure she'll be a gymnast.


• I'm super ornery. No patience for anyone.


• I can't eat as much, which is weird 'cause I've been stuffing my face for months now.


• I've had two showers. One was my friend shower which Lacey and her mom did for me. The other was my family shower which my mom and Kelli threw. Thanks to all of you and to everyone that got Kelsie a present.


• Don't get me wrong. I do think pregnancy is amazing. It's a little crazy to think about a little human being that's growing inside me, that will eventually come out. Weirder.

And for those of you who've been asking for a picture of my belly here it is:)

Naked belly.

Clothed belly.

SUCKERS!

New Baby Name

We have decided on the name for our baby, but are having some trouble agreeing on the spelling of her name. So we thought that we would put it up for a vote. We have seen multiple spellings for this name, and I have listed them below. So that we do not bias your judgement we are not going to say which one Beth likes or which one Chad likes. Thanks for your help!!

1. Kelsey
2. Kelsee
3. Kelsie
4. Kelsi

First Anniversary and First La Caille Experience

I can't believe it's already been a year since Chad and I got married. It seems like it was not that long ago. There have definately been many changes in this last year. I moved in, we went on a few fun trips, we got called to the nursery for 8 months, I got preggers, we dealt with the renters from HELL, the townhome was remodeled a little, we got (hopefully) really good renters, there was a big crack in our wall that just got fixed yesterday......yada yada yada....the first year of marriage!

So to celebrate, Chad and I splurged and went to La Caille for dinner. The only reason we decided on La Caille was because we recieved a gift certificate from one of the pharmacists at work for our wedding. Thanks Samir. Where ever you are:). One of the coolest gifts that we got! I've seriously driven past La Caille a million times. It's pretty close to Little Cottonwood Canyon which is pretty close to where I grew up. I've heard about it for many years and always wanted to go in. If you've never heard of it then you'll have to look it up. You have to have some serious cash flow to be eating there on a regular basis. We still had to pay an outrageous amount even after using the gift certificate. Disclaimer: Don't get the shrimp cocktail. You only get 4 shrimp and it's $19. We laughed hard when it came out!

This is the front of La Caille.

We sat outside and our waiter took this picture for us. Yes. That's right our WAITER! La Caille is well known for it's waitresses because they wear these "busty" outfits. We had the only waiter in the joint. Hilarious. Plus how we sat at our table, I could look into the restuarant and Chad had to look out at the grounds. HA! HA! I didn't even plan that!

Seriously the grounds are amazing. The pictures don't even do it justice. There are beautiful flowers and animals everywhere.

This was our unexpected dinner guest. The peacocks were kind of annoying because they would come up and try to get food from you. This guy ate the butter on the table next to us but it was their own fault. They were feeding him.

It has been a great year! I am so excited for the next year to come. Many more changes are in store. It's crazy how much more you can love someone over time. It reminds me of that Brad Paisley song. You think you know what love is and then you look back and see how far your love has grown. I'm not sure that makes any sense but oh well. I'm pregnant. Can I use that excuse for not making any sense? I know I can use it for forgetting things, well sometimes. Anyways....

Love ya Chad! Thanks for putting up with me for the last year. Especially since I've been PREGNANT!

Drum roll please........

It's a..............GIRL!!!!!

We found out yesterday that we are having a healthy baby girl who is even measuring a little bigger but due date is the same. Sorry. No ultrasound pics. The cd is not cooperating. I thought I might as well announce it and we'll try to add pics later. We are both super excited. I can't wait to find cute girly stuff to buy. Now there will be 4 little girl cousins all the same age coming within months of each other on my side! YES!

The Last Three Crafts and Some Birds

So I'm pretty much the slowest blogger ever right now. I just have a couple of updates 'cause Chad is gone and has all the other pictures on his camera with him. More is to come. Just thought I would share some of the last few months crafts.
This craft was done just this week. I really like it more than I thought I would.

And then the spring blocks were done a couple of months ago. If you want to see close ups you can go to http://www.gettinghercrafton.blogspot.com/.

This last one I did about 3 months ago. It's a scrapbooked picture frame that I gave to my Mom for Mother's Day. This is one of the last pictures taken of my Mom and Dad and it's probably the best one my Dad ever took. If you've ever seen our family pictures my Dad either has a goofy face on (not on purpose sometimes) or his eyes were closed. Ha. What a goofball! Ahh I miss him.

And this last part is for Carter since he is such a nature lover. You can't really tell that well but there are four, yes four baby birds in a nest on our front porch. I can peak through the little windows through our door and they move around and open their mouths. As soon as I turn the lock they hunch down and hide. Sadly for this group of birds, this is the last year I will let them bum off of us. They need to start paying some rent or at least clean up after themselves. There is seriously a ton of bird poop everyday from them. I've sprayed it off the last two days because I didn't really notice until my visiting teachers came by the other day and I was walking them to the door. I said "Oh you should look at our baby birds." They said "We already saw." I look around the brick and see all this bird poop. And I'm like "Guess it's hard to miss now with all the bird poop." Awesome. How embarrassing. Stinkin' birds. The novelty has obviously warn off.