Happy Mother's Day!

Hope everyone had a happy Mother's Day. Kurt got the waffle maker out and made me waffles for breakfast for my first mother's day! And they were tasty!

We spent the afternoon at my brother's house.... and we had a houseful. It was me and Kurt, my brother, his girlfriend Heidi and their two kids, my mom and dad, my grandma and Heidi's parents. We ate a lot of good food, went swimming and just played all afternoon.

Bailee even got to go bye-bye. She loves riding in the car. There were actually 3 dogs that got to play together... ours, my brothers and my parents. When we have a party, we really have a party! Dogs and all :)

Here's my grandma and Tanner

These are the yummy steaks we grilled for dinner! If anyone went home hungry it was their own fault. There was a ton of food! (steak, twice baked potatoes, pasta salad, rolls, beans, veggies/dip, chips/dip, shrimp, cake). What more could you ask for? :)

This is my mom taking Tanner (my nephew) for a cruise in his car. He just loves that thing! (and that's Tanner's dog Shelby helping out)

Tanner in his hippo in the swimming pool. He was having a blast in the water. It was a little cold but he didn't seem to mind. He splashed around all afternoon until his little arms started to turn blue. Auntie Shannon was the one taking all the pictures and making sure to stay out of them!

Bailee taking a dip in the pool. We had all 3 dogs swimming with us. They were too funny. But hey, they were having fun too!

And after all that swimming, what's left to do but take a nap! That's hard work!

Here's Sage with her slip n slide.

Tanner got a kick out of it too!

And here's the little guy shoving his face with cake. He had to go in the bath after that one. It was everywhere!

All in all, we had a great day! Everybody will sleep good tonight, including me. Hope everyone else had a wonderful Mother's Day too!

Pics from our Anniversary Trip

Our anniversary was the 17th. We spent our first few vacation days in Laguna Beach. We actually got the same exact hotel room we stayed in on our wedding night. It was so much fun.

We had a great time in Laguna. Ate alot of good food. Took lots of walks. Kurt got me these beautiful gerber daisies at one of the cute little flower stands on Coast Highway while we were taking one of our walks. They brightened up the hotel room for our trip!

This was the beach we were married on one year ago. We took a walk down by the ocean and hung out there on our anniversary. It was romantic.

Then we went to The Cottage for dinner. This is a cute little restaurant w/ a lot of Laguna charm. It's where we had our reception dinner after the wedding.

Instead of freezing the top layer of our wedding cake, the bakery provides you with a complimentary anniversary cake for your first year. It was so delicious! It was a lot bigger than I thought it would be. We ate it for 5 days straight. And they did such a great job w/ the detail, especially for it being a free cake! Our real one had fresh flowers on top, but other than that, this was a perfect match!

After we left Laguna, we went down to San Diego for a few days. We were going to go to Sea World the first night we were there, but the pregnant lady took a 2 hour nap instead... so we ended up spending the first night down on Mission Beach. Had dinner on a rooftop restaurant overlooking the ocean, walked up and down the boardwalk... and found this cool wave place where they have a neverending wave that everyone was surfing, or wake boarding on. Kurt loved this thing. He said it's his goal to someday have one of these in our backyard when we get our dream house! We sat and watched the guys surf for quite a while. It really was neat!

Saturday we made it to Sea World. And of course that was the day it was cloudy and COLD all day. I didn't even take my sweater off the whole day. Guess I didn't have to worry about getting a sunburn and being uncomfortable the rest of the trip! Here's Shamu doing a flip!

And this is Shamu splashing the crowd. He could get it up to the 16th row. Everyone was getting soaked. We sat in row 16, but luckily didn't get wet. It was too cold to walk around wet!

Here's one of the dolphins. They were so beautiful.

And I have to admit... the sea lions were my FAVORITE. They were the funniest act of all. We actually watched them twice since they did a nighttime show as well. They were cracking me up. It's amazing how smart these animals are!

I just had to take a pic of this. When we got back to our hotel in San Diego, this was the license plate on the car in front of us. This is our wedding date. I guess it was an important date for someone else too!

We spent an afternoon at the USS Midway Museum, which is on a huge 968 foot Navy aircraft carrier. It was pretty interesting. We toured the whole place.

Kurt even got thrown in the brig :) He must have been a bad boy!

This is me on the runway where the planes would land. All in all, we had a wonderful trip! It was nice to get away for a few days. When it was all said and done, I was happy to be home in my own bed though.

Time Flies When You're Having Fun!!!

I can't believe it's already been a year since we were married! Our first anniversary is on the 17th. It has been an amazing first year.

This was my favorite photo on the beach. There's nothing like walking hand in hand in the sand with the one you love!

My dress! The colors went perfect with the beach theme.

My handsome groom! I feel like the luckiest woman alive to have him by my side. He is the best husband I could ever ask for and I cherish every moment we have together.


One look says it all.... I just love this man with all my heart! And he is going to be such a wonderful father when our baby comes along.

Happy times!

We are leaving this week to go back to Laguna Beach to celebrate and get away from reality for a bit. Anniversaries are so much fun! This is just our first of many!

News Update!

So, most of you already know that Kurt and I have been trying to have a baby for a year now. Well a couple months ago, we found out that it wasn't going to happen on its own. My body was actually fighting against the thing I wanted most. I was so upset, but we decided to do whatever it takes to conceive, we just needed a little medical push. Luckily we live in a day where medicine has evolved and they can do wonders! I have a great doctor and he prescribed me what I call my "magic pills" aka fertility drugs, and believe it or not, they worked on my first time around! I'M PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I took a test at home and it said positive. I didn't believe it so got another one, and what do you know, it said positive too!

I showed it to Kurt and he said, "It's OK, we'll try again next month". I had tears of joy in my eyes and said "NO, look again, you're reading it wrong"

I went to the doctor early this week and it's confirmed. We're going to be having a baby before the year is over. We are both so excited to expand our family! I know it's still really early on, but I am so happy and wanted to shout it from the rooftops!

I've known my whole life I've wanted to be a mommy and I am so thankful the day is finally going to come! I couldn't be happier. :)

Happy Easter

Hope everyone had a great Easter. I must have been slacking as a blogger though because I really didn't take many pictures. Oops :)

Here's my nephew in his Easter basket.
And here he is in his little golfer's hat. With that bald little head, something needs to keep the sun off him. (and that's my mom holding him). The baby was totally cracking up all day, but as soon as I'd pull the camera out, the smiles were gone. And when I'd put it away, they came back out in full force! Little stinker.

Obviously we don't have kids yet... so we spoil our dog instead. She got a new bone Easter morning. She is so funny... She tries to "hide" it and if we catch her, she moves it. Here she is "hiding" it on the couch...

Here there was a blanket falling over the end of the couch so she hid it under that... (then laid a few feet away just watching out to make sure nobody found it)

Here she moved it into the base of a plant in the corner...

It also ended up on the dining room chair, next to the entertainment center, on the bottom step of the stairs, etc. She would move it probably every 10 minutes to a different spot. Better make sure we don't steal it I guess :)

Here she is just protecting it. After a few hours, she finally ended up eating it. She really cracks me up sometimes. She has such a great personality and is so much fun to have around.

Saturday Fun...

I volunteered to babysit my nephew Tanner and his big sister Sage for the day. This is my favorite picture of Tanner and Bailee. He's starting to roll over and scoot around so he was following her all over the room. Here he's giving her kisses. She just loved having him over. I wasn't sure how she'd react around a little one (since she's 100 pounds and doesn't know how big she is, but she did great)

Tanner is not that little 3-pound premie anymore. He's getting so big. I think he's almost 20 pounds now and 7 1/2 months old.

Here we go... on the move (sideways that is). Pretty soon he'll be crawling instead of rolling everywhere.

This is Tanner and his big sis. She is 7 and loves having a baby brother. She tries to be the mommy and help out with everything. She can't get enough of her little brother!

My friend Misty is having a birthday next week, so we went over to her house Saturday night to BBQ. Someone brought over that game "Rock Band", which is like the guitar hero, sing star, dance revolution games, etc. for the Xbox. There's a drummer, bass player, guitar and singer. You have to hit the right notes on the instruments and the singer has to stay with the right keys, etc. It was so much fun!

This is Misty on the drums. She was doing really good. I think the drums were the hardest to get the hang of. I stunk and ended up making us lose some of our "fans" because we blew the gig. They switched me to singer after that!

Here is Kurt on the guitar. I think he was having fun playing with the kids. He's such a big kid himself. He was totally rocking out.

This is Misty's youngest son on the bass. You can tell he's totally concentrating so he can hit the right notes. He was cracking me up. He was so serious.

Misty's daughter Kayla on the drums... She was actually very good at it. She was trying to give me pointers, but I just wasn't getting it.

Misty and her son Roger rocking out...

Me and Rogie rocking out...

At the end of the night, we were all wore out. And we actually ended up getting our fans back in the game and getting some more gigs.