OH Brother...... and Sister;)

Our baby girl's spine

Our Baby girl's bum shot... apparently very obvious to anyone who reads ultrasounds (not me) that she is a girl:)

A spine shot of our little guy.... he was "breathing" through the whole ultrasound which the nurse said was good, because they don't actually have to breathe until they come out, but he was getting some good practice in.... we want STRONG lungs!:)

A profile shot of our little man... look at that cute little nose and mouth!!:D

Face shot of our little guy.... he was much more cooperative for good pictures:)

And a bum shot of our little guy.... again... was supposed to be very "obvious" the nurse said she was 100% sure on both of them.:)

Take your best guess!

So our appointment to find out what we're having has been moved from the 19th to the 27th which should give us better luck. We're hoping for no crossed legs and really good positioning.:D I added a poll to the top of the page and would love to get everyone's guesses! If you have a guess but also have some really clever reasoning don't hesitate to leave a comment. We'll keep you updated:)

Our little SurprisES:)

We went to the OBGYN for our first doctor's appointment today and he started laughing during our ultrasound. We knew that wasn't a good sign.... and then he showed us heartbeat number 1 and heartbeat number 2. We were VERY surprised!

Double Date Day!

We had a wonderful day last Saturday full of Tucanos, shopping, Temple Square and..... a wonderfully fun couple that just so happened to be my sister Lauren and her new boyfriend! Just so everyone knows, he is WONDERFUL and we love him. He's a great kid and we're pretty impressed with Lauren's college taste in boys. :)

We started with lunch at Tucanos (me and Justin's favorite of all favorites) and then played at the Gateway mall for a little while. After that, we went to Temple Square and to the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. (There happened to be a bridal show that day IN the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, and we missed it..... it was so depressing.)

After Temple Square we headed back to Provo for some dinner at In-n-out..... wasn't quite as good as the California ones, but it came close. Then it was off to Shannon's where we played in the game room for the last time, and had a blast spending time with family. We get a little lonely up here in Logan sometimes so far away from everyone.

Lauren and Austin at the Gateway

Me and Justin at the Gateway

Temple Square... we love it!

Hey look! We got married there a year and a half ago!

And the four of us.... it was an incredible day! I love being grown up and friends with my sister:) There's nothing better than that:)

Poor blog....

We had too much fun over Christmas break and did too much relaxing.;) My little blog got forgotten and neglected for my husband. During this time of year, my husband goes into depression mode. He loves Christmas and when it is over he kind of feels like all happiness is taken away from the world.

Saturday I finally talked him into taking down the Christmas tree so we could bring our new rocker/recliner home. We took down the tree and all of the decorations and set up our Christmas presents. (A BEAUTIFUL new television and blu-ray player) Our living room feels like a new place and we're very excited for our Bachelor/Castle night with the new TV.

School has started again and we're not quite sure how we feel about it. Spring semester always seems harder than fall semester. I have four online classes this semester and two are from the same professor, and I think he has forgotten that he has online classes. I'm debating if I should e-mail him and tell him to get on the ball because I'm paying for these classes, or just wait because I love not having a million things to do when I get home from work.

Justin is finishing his instrument rating this semester. (Cover your eyes and fly an airplane? Yeah... that sounds like great training.... boo. It makes me nervous) He is also taking the dreaded math. He's got 4 semesters of it to finish and I'm feeling bad for him.

That's the update thus far. Hope my husband begins to feel better about 2010 and I can get back to updating our blog.:)

November

Well November definitely flew by for us. Its going to be nice to have some time to spend together after we finish finals this week. Who knew only working full time could be such a wonderful vacation?:) Anyways, here's our month of November in review:)

For Thanksgiving we headed down to San Diego with my Dad's side of the family to celebrate my grandparent's 50th Wedding anniversary. It was a blast to see cousins who we hadn't seen in a while, and to just get to play and relax. (If you want to see any pictures of that portion of the trip you can visit my mom's blog here)

We forgot to take out the camera for most of the trip. But we definitely did not forget it at the Midway. It was an aircraft carrier that we visited on Wednesday in San Diego before we headed up to the house in Oceanside.


It was heaven for my husband, I don't think I'd seen him this excited and happy since.... oh wait, when we went to disneyland for his birthday two weeks before. November was a good month for him;) They had lots of airplanes that you could sit in and play with all of the controls.... I think Justin sat in all of them:)

Me and Justin on the top deck of the carrier by an airplane..... his favorite picture of us. He could tell you what kind of a plane it was, and a lot of different things about it, but I can't:)

Just before we left for Thanksgiving we decorated our house for Christmas. I got really lucky and married a wonderful man who loves Christmas and Christmas decorating as much as I do, I still need to get a picture of our outside lights, but these are our inside decorations. This are my cute little bookshelf decorations.
.... and our tree that we had room for in our living room this year. We bought a big tree last year and had to sit about a foot away from the television to fit it into our living room, this year everything fits and it is so beautiful:)
After we had finished moving around furniture and decorating.... it definitely puts us in the Christmas Spirit to have our house like this:)

Just before thanksgiving I also finished my Phlebotomy class. I'm still waiting to hear back on how I did on the national certification test, but I'm feeling pretty confident about it. :)

At the beginning of November we got to go to Disneyland for Justin's birthday. Thanks to a wonderful Aunt Diana and Uncle Derek who made this possible and let us hang with them at their house, we had a very wonderful trip:) The hat in this picture is a birthday cake hat. It has candles hanging off of it and lights up. Justin loved it. My cousin Haley and my Uncle Derek picked it out.... very fitting I think;)
I had to DRAG Justin out of Disneyland and California Adventure to get him to come check out Downtown Disney shopping with me. He ended up loving it after he found a store with a bunch of model airplanes and a LEGO store. He realized that this was really one of the happiest places on earth... even when your wife drags you shopping.

This is us in front of Main Street USA! We definitely are Disney people and love going there as often as we can. I love being married to a guy who begs me to plan trips to Disneyland rather than dreading it every time I want to go. Justin definitely had a very happy 24th birthday:)

We're getting excited to head into December here. We're jumping in head first with finals this week, going home in about two and a half weeks, and just taking it easy after we get home from work for Christmas Break! We love you all and hope you are having a very Merry Christmas Season!

This Saturday the love of my life turns 24. We're headed to Disneyland and to visit my Aunt and Uncle to celebrate. Justin had never been to Disneyland and absolutely loved it. I'm so glad that I have a husband who loves to go do fun things with me.

I married my best friend in the entire world, and it shows. There are so many things that I love about him. The best thing I have ever done in my life is marry this boy. Marrying your best friend is something that I strongly suggest:)

He is such a stud that I am so grateful that I caught him. When we were younger we used to refer to him and his brothers as the "Skinner boys" because they were the incredibly cute nephews of my neighbors the Skinners. We would all make sure we were looking our best when they would come visit, and sometimes I still can't believe how lucky I am to have married a "Skinner boy."

He is the kindest and greatest husband I could have ever asked for. He love to surprise me with a clean house, and he knows exactly how to make me happy and how to de-stress me, and that is no small feat. He puts up with all of my craziness, knows everything about me, and loves me anyways.

He is my rock. It takes a lot of guts and a lot of strength to marry a girl with my health issues, and to put on a happy face about it and assure me constantly that everything will be OK. He is always the tough one during hospital visits and keeps us realizing that life can still be happy, even at the hospital.


He loves to take me out on dates. He makes me feel so great about myself, and I love that he wants to be with me all the time. I am so lucky to have a husband who adores me so much.He is up for anything. Anything I feel like doing, he wants to go along. Anything I ask him to do, he is up for. When I am crazy and change my mind about stuff every ten seconds, he thinks all of my ideas sound great and he believes that I can do anything.
He has the greatest sense of humor. We spend most of our time together cracking up. Even when I don't think something is funny, his laugh is enough to get me rolling on the floor laughing. He has such a happy-go-lucky disposition that I consider myself incredibly lucky to get to be around him all the time.
He is easily the most handsome man that I have ever seen in my life. I love to be able to look at him and know that I totally scored. I lucked out being able to find a man so good looking and wonderful who loves me too.
He is incredibly driven and smart. I am so excited that he is getting to do what he loves every day and excelling at it. He knows what he wants to do the rest of his life and he is going after it. It won't be long before he'll be flying the skies and be the best pilot the world has ever seen.

I love you sweetheart. I hope you have a very very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!