Easter

This year for Easter we went over to the Shumway's at 9:00 am to search for our Easter baskets.  Everybody searched really hard and it was a lot of fun!  It took Nathan and I about an hour to find ours... a little better than last year.  Then we had the big Easter "dinner" as a brunch so we could all get to church on time.  We got to hear Kevin and Mary speak in sacrament and they both did an amazing job.  After church Sam, Kim, and their kids came over to search for their baskets.  We were there a little late so, unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of them searching.  However, we got some really cute pictures of Carlee.  We couldn't get enough of her, she is SO darn cute!  It was such a fun Easter, we love being with our family!

Hanging out with Uncle Nathan

Wasting no time after finding her basket!

Still no Easter basket

The search continues

You definitely have to be thorough in the search for Easter baskets!

Looks almost exactly like Easter last year... a frozen wasteland

23 Years Old!

I had such an amazing birthday this year!!!  I didn't think we were going to do anything special for the day, but little did I know that my Mom, Grandma, sister Kendra, and my brother Nathan drove down to surprise me!  Nathan and I went to the gym and when we came home I saw balloons and a sign on our front door and the family was inside, it was such a big surprise!  We all went out to lunch, did a little shopping, later that night we went to my brother Derek's mathlete banquet for dinner (which was surprisingly really good), and then we went home and had cake and ice cream.  For the rest of the night we played games, watched a movie, and my mom helped me make a poster for school with her awesome  Cricut machine!  It was a great birthday!

Decorations on our front door!

My mom and Nathan putting up some streamers.

Having fun with the Cricut

Mom, Grandma, Kendra, and Me.

P.J. and Alex came over for cake and ice cream

All 23 candles in one try!

Spice cake with cream cheese filling... Made by my mom, she's so talented :)

Two of my favorite people

Spring Break Fun

Nathan and I had an interesting spring break this year.  Nathan and I just stayed in Laramie.  I would have liked to say that it was relaxing... but it pretty much consisted of me sleeping and puking my guts out while Nathan worked and took care of me at home.  Nathan was able to spend a night in Cheyenne and sang with Sam and PJ for Sam's seminary class.  While he was there he got to play with Carlee.  She is SO cute and made Nathan even more excited to have one of our own soon.  I don't know if will be possible to have one that cute, but hopefully we'll want to keep it anyway.  We also celebrated our St. Patrick's Day tradition of having lucky charms for breakfast.  Fun stuff...

Nathan hanging out with me while I wait to be sick.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Such a cute girl!

Oh Baby!

We had our first baby appointment this Monday.  It was really neat, we got to hear the baby's heartbeat and got our first ultrasound!  It doesn't look like much more than a bean right now, but it is still really exciting!  Who knew that something so tiny could be making me so sick!  Our official due date is October 28... can't wait!

Good Week

This has been an eventful week for two reasons: 

1) Nathan took his first shot of Enbrel! Hooray!!! He hasn't had any pain pills since he took it and he is feeling great.  It seriously is a miracle drug! I suppose I should mention that, technically, it was me that gave Nathan his shot.  He sat there for about an hour and a half holding the pen on his leg, too afraid to push the button.  Thankfully he has a mean wife who doesn't mind causing him pain (mwahahaha).  Next time I'm sure he'll do better.  Now we just have to qualify for assistance since the drug costs $500.00 a week.  

2) The second reason this has been an eventful week is that I got a job, hooray again!  I will be working the front desk at the rec center.  I start Wednesday as soon as my background check is processed (I'm crossing my fingers on that one).

Anniversary

For our Anniversary (December 11) Nathan surprised me with tickets to visit Joseph and Lauren in Arizona and, while we were there, tickets to WICKED!!!!  It was such a great surprise! We had a lot of fun with Joseph, Lauren, and the kids.  We stayed up late to play bid, went to In N' Out Burger, went to Pei Wei for dinner before the show, and went to the show.  I'm lucky to have such a great husband!

Study Time

I've been studying in the library at the institute all morning and there have been five people that have opened the door, saw me, halted mid-step, turned around and left.  I don't get it, does my makeup look weird or something?  As Alaric would say, "Oh well".