Love Story

Just had to share this:

This is for everyone who didn't read or understand the twilight books or movies. I seriously don't get the hype about Twilight, unless you are watching or reading them for a good laugh. I love the movie UP, especially the love story at the beginning, and the image above is so true.

Salt Lake City Lovin'

I LOVE living in Salt Lake. Ever since I graduated high school, I have lived in Salt Lake City while attending the University of Utah. Every year that I have lived in Salt Lake, I have lived somewhere different. My first year, I lived in the dorms on campus at the U. My second year I lived in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, which is where I met Jayden, and there were a lot of awesome adventures living downtown. My third year ( the first year Jayden and I were married) we lived on Foothill Dr. which is close to Parleys canyon. This year we still live in the same apartment complex as last year, just a different apartment. Living in different parts of Salt Lake City, we have gotten to know Salt Lake City pretty well. There are a lot of great things to do and see in Salt Lake City, and we are discovering new things all the time. I want to start sharing some of my favorite things about Salt Lake City with everyone, that everyone might not know. I will start these posts regularly, but for today, I want to share some pictures of Salt Lake City that I took not too long ago. Salt Lake City really comes alive at night and has such a different feel than during the day. These are photos that were taken at night of downtown Salt Lake City. I love the way night photographs look. I hope you like them, and I would love feedback!

Oh and they look way better if you open them up and look and them full screen sized!

When the Sweater Doesn't Fit

This past weekend we headed up to Logan to visit friends and to attend a Christmas Party. We decided we would stay over night at our friends Trevin & Randees apartment. So we packed our bags ( and threw the hospital bags in the car) in case I went into labor up in Logan. We had a lot of fun going to dinner and spending the night with Trevin & Randee. The next day we attended an Ugly Sweater Party (Thanks to Brian & Kelsey), it was a ton of fun! We even won a $15 gift card to cold stone for winning first place in the gingerbread decorating contest. We decided to do the Utes Stadium, we named it "Ice Eccles Stadium".  We knew that it would be hard to find ugly sweaters at the last minute, since they are pretty picked over this time of year. Jayden found one pretty easily, but I knew that for me the challenge would be a lot harder. When I realized that I wouldn't be able to find a sweater so easily that would fit over my huge belly, I decided to wear something different. We were at walmart picking up a few things, when we saw a rack of Christmas shirts. We started looking through the shirts when I found the perfect UGLY Christmas shirt for my belly. ( See pictures below) The shirt says "Does this suit make me look fat?" haha. The only size they had was a women's 2XL so I had to improvise a little bit, but it was the one ugly Christmas top that I could find to fit this gigantic belly of mine. Also, Logan isn't such a bad town, it treated us well and we had a lot of fun!

12 days...

Well we are officially less than two weeks away from my due date! This week I am three finals ( two tonight and one one Friday)  & Jayden has four finals this week, so we are praying that Baby Garfield won't make an appearance until after Friday. We have another doctor appointment tomorrow so we will see how much progress I have made this week. It is surreal that the baby time is actually here. We are running out of days and it still doesn't seem possible that we will be bringing home a baby in the next few weeks. We are so excited to meet our little guy and to share the name we have picked out. We will keep everyone posted!

Waiting

I am 38 weeks pregnant tomorrow

Classes are over

Finals are next week (two monday & one friday)

All of my Christmas shopping is done

Our nursery is ready for a baby

Baby could come at any time

We are now just waiting

It is exciting not knowing when Baby Garfield will make his arrival

It could be next week during finals or it could be Christmas week

I'm just praying that I won't go past Christmas

We would love to have our baby with us when we wake up on Christmas morning

My body is getting ready and gearing up for labor ( I have had more and more symptoms every day)

Now lets just get baby Garfield here!

37 + 3

This week I am 37 weeks pregnant. Today we had another doctor appointment and I have made some progress! Last week I wasn't dilated at all and 50% effaced. This week I am 1 cm dilated and 60 % effaced. It is good to know that my body is getting ready to go into labor. I am hoping we make it through finals without going into labor, however, I would love if I went into labor right after finals are done! Everything is still looking great with the baby. He has dropped down a little more and is looking good. We are just excited for finals to be over and for our little guy to finally be here with us! I hope the next 2 weeks go by fast, I can't focus on anything else besides meeting our little guy. I am still feeling pretty good, nothing to complain about too much.

Holiday Weekend

This weekend really helped us get into the Holiday spirit. On Friday night we went with our friends Alyx and Spencer out to dinner at Macaroni Grill and to the Festival of Trees. Jayden and Spencer had never been to festival of trees before, and we had a lot of fun. The only bad thing was that it was SO crowded and it was pretty slow going to see the trees. Then on Saturday night, we celebrated my Dad's birthday. We went to Temple Square to see the lights, to dinner at Tucano's and then to the movie "Arthur Christmas". "Arthur Christmas" was really cute, I would recommend seeing it!

At Festival of Trees

Alyx and Spencer

Alyx and I at Festival of Trees

having fun with Instagram on my iphone!

Cheese!

Celebrating my Dad's Birthday.

My Dad, Mom, and Drew