Happy Anniversary to us! Last Monday was our first wedding anniversary!

After years of dating, months of planning, we finally got married. Now it is 1 year later and we can't believe how time flys! It's just really incredible how fast life really is. I have learned that you really have to make the most out of each and everyday because before we know it, Josh and I are going to be 80 years old, feeding each other jello and apple sauce and trying to remember were we put our false teeth! Back to now, I just wanted to take a minute to write out our memories and thoughts about our amazing day so that I don't forget any little detail because it truly was the best day of my life. It certainly wasn't with out a little stress and chaos but I look back and laugh at it now. It really is quite the story

It took us and some of our friends and family a whole day and a half to decorate the church. We had our wedding and reception at the same church that I have gone to since I was 6 years old, so it was really special to me to have it there. It looked like absolutely everything I dreamed it would be and more, I LOVED the decorations.

The ceremony was very small, just family and very close friends. I remember I was standing in the hall with my Dad and I was just thinking how calm and collected I felt and how I knew that this was right. I guess the best word to describe how I felt was peace. But then the Bishop kept saying "Josh and Sarah" during the ceremony, that was a little stressful, but I really do look back a laugh a little, not a lot, just a chuckle, maybe in a few years it will be a knee slapper, but for now, it's still kinda sucks, but I'm slowly getting over it. When ever I'm feeling a little cranky, I let Josh know by telling him that his wife Sarah isn't in a very good mood. Then we both laugh and it kinda makes me a little less cranky actually.

The cake was amazing and delicious. I was really bummed that I only got that small peice that was more on my face than in my mouth (thanks Josh). But I must say that after carefully freezing it, a year later it actually tasted really good! I was VERY impressed!

I had an great photographer! She's very good, professional and experienced. Her name is Irene Jones and her website is www.ijphoto.net She walked around and got pictures of my whole reception, not just my guests, but the gifts, the decorations, the food, just all these little things that you just don't think about. And I'm so grateful that she did that because I want to remember every piece of our day.

The food was absolutely delicious! My father-in-law was so incredible, instead of having a rehearsal dinner that the grooms parents pay for, he paid for the catering at the wedding. It was catered by this little Italian restaurant in Kent called Paolo's. Oh my goodness, I'm not kidding you, the best Italian food I have ever had! Everyone loved it! I didn't hear one bad comment about it. Thanks Shelley (my mother-in-law) for booking such a great venue!

The day went by SO SO fast, and we loved every minute of it. But no contest our favorite part was the very end. Josh's step mom Tina got us a limo to take us to our hotel, so at the end of our reception, all our guests went out side before us and as we left the church they were all standing on each side of the limo waving and saying "good bye" and "congratulations" "we love you" and it was so perfect, so amazing! I have a little tear just thinking about it. We are so blessed to have such supportive friends and family!

Update on me and the baby

It's been a long time since I updated everyone on what is going on with me. I want everyone to know that I'm doing very well. I've had a very easy pregnancy so far. He is growing SO MUCH and betting so big. I LOVE to feel him move and kick inside of me. It's an unbelievable feeling and I feel like we are bonding in those moments. Sometimes when he is really active, usually in the morning, I will press down on my belly with 2 fingers and then he will kick that spot and follow me around. His record is only 5 times in a row, but it's still an amazing feeling. Maybe he is playing with me or maybe he is saying "get out of my space." =)

Here's the belly shot at 25 weeks and 4 days.

I'm really hoping and planning on natural child birth. We'll see what happens, there is no shame in saying enough when the time comes. There is a slight chance that I might have to have a C-section because my placenta is low, which means that you can't deliver the baby if the placenta is lower than the baby. We will find out in a few weeks. I'm really hoping not because I'm more scared of the idea of being cut open (while awake) then dealing with the pain of natural child birth. And the placenta being low is just something that happens. It's not genetic and it doesn't mean that it will happen with all my pregnancies, it just means that the place were the baby attached itself was low. So it's not that big of a deal these days. Medical science has come so far. It's called Placenta Previa if you feel the need to google it for more information. Well, I think that's everything. Me and the baby and baby daddy are all doing great! I'll try to be better with updates. Thanks for reading and checking in =)

I'm seeing Blues and Greens in my near future!

It's a BOY! We had our ultrasound yesterday and everything is looking great and healthy. Sigh, such a relief! It was the mot amazing the I have ever seen!!! I wanted to keep looking at him all day. I know he is inside me, but I miss seeing him! =) She started at the head at worked her way down, when she got the the arms, which where squished tightly in front of his face most of the time, she said "your baby has long arms," I'm thinking WHAT is there something wrong? She said there was nothing wrong, I'm just farther along in my pregnancy than we thought so I'm now over 20 weeks pregnant. So that means my due date is now November 5th. I had a feeling I was sooner because I felt him move sooner than people said that I should. Anyways, when we got down to the feet and legs he was crossing this legs tightly across his tummy so for a while we couldn't tell if he was a he! I offered to do some jumping jacks to see if that helped! =) But she said not yet and did some more measuring stuff and we came back to the gender later. She was wiggling the thing on my belly to get him to open up his legs, and he did and sure enough we found a little something. 

So it's a boy! I'm so grateful that I have the opportunity to conceive a child and give Josh a son. I hope that our son looks just like him and thinks of his dad as his super hero! I have never been so excited about anything as I was for this ultrasound. It was like a million Christmas mornings combined! =) And keeping all the water in was really really hard for me. I was in the waiting room on the edge of tears cause it hurt so bad and because I was afraid that because it hurt so bad that I wouldn't enjoy the whole ultrasound process. Luckily in the ultra sound they look at a few things with the full bladder, then they let you go pee and do the rest. 

Josh was so funny looking at everything, he was asking so many questions and trying to see everything that her trained eye was seeing. He was so cute! He's going to make an amazing dad! I'm pretty sure that both of us were floating on a cloud the rest of the day! It's true what they say that most men are very visual cause seeing our baby made it so much more real to him and he has never touched my baby bump so many time as he did yesterday or talked about babies so much! His first words after she said it's a boy was "Now we can go ride dirt bikes!" The we meaning him and the baby! Okay I'm going on and on now, sorry! =) I'm just SO excited! I can't wait to feel him kick more, and I can't wait to hold him... I'm SO happy! 

Thanks for all the love and support! Oh and thanks for voting, that was so fun! More people voted that I thought would, so thanks! =) Once I figure out out scanner I will post his ultrasound picture.

Excitement

Our ultrasound is this THURSDAY!!! We have been waiting SO LONG it feels like to find out if we are having a boy or a girl. We are kind of silly and we haven't gotten ANY baby stuff yet. Josh knows that if we are having a girl everything will be PINK!!! So I think that's why we are waiting. Oh man we are SO excited! Did you know that I have to drink a liter or water an hour and a half before the ultrasound and NOT go to the bathroom!?! Yeah right! I don't know how I'm going to keep that in! It's because when your bladder is full, it raises your uterus so that you can see the baby better on an ultrasound.  I will have to tell the ultrasound tech not to press to hard cause I might just pee a little! lol It's worth it! My mom is going with us, she is SOOO excited for her first grandchild! I have really enjoyed being about to share this pregnancy with her, it means so much to her. Every feeling I get, every movement I feel of the baby, all of it. This is a little personal, but my mom never had the incredible experience of being able to be pregnant. So she is experiencing it through my pregnancy. She loves to feel my ever expanding belly and hear about everything I'm feeling. I love that I can share that with her. She is an amazing strong women! I'm so lucky to have her in my life. I'm so grateful that we live so close to both our families. Everyone is SO excited and have been waiting so long to find out the gender. Lets cross our fingers that this sweet baby isn't going to be shy and hide from us on Thursday. =)

Disappointment

For those of you who are LDS might remember the movie The Singles Ward and The R.M. I was just watching T.V. tonight with Josh and we saw one of the lead actors from both of these movies in a beer commercial. What's that about? I'm not trying to gossip or anything so I'm not going to tell you who it was, but I am just so saddened and disappointed that a well known LDS actor would SELL OUT like this! What ever happened to standing for what you believe in? Not making money off things that "we" the church say not to do. Truly disappointing and disheartening. I really enjoy watching the movies he is in and I really hope I can see him in more cause I think he's a great actor, but it will be that much harder to get into his films after this I fear. =(

Twilight series

You NEED to read these books! It is seriously the best series NO the best books I have ever read! I highly recommend them. It's hard to say what the books are about with out giving anything away, but it's about a girl who lives in WA and it's the greatest love story EVER! I couldn't put these books down! There are 3 books out, the forth is coming out in August, it starts with Twilight, then New Moon, and Eclipse. I seriously read these for books in freakin 4 days!!! That's how good they are! JUST READ THEM, YOU WILL LOVE THEM =) 

                                                    

Time for an update

So some of you may or may not know... I'M PREGNANT! I'm 16 weeks and in 2 weeks we find out if we are having a boy or a girl! We are SO excited! Oh and both are families are just over joyed! I'm starting to "show" which is making it more real for me and Josh. As of now my due date is November 11th, but as those of you who have been pregnant, sometimes that changes after this next ultra sound. I know that it's a bit early, but I swear I have felt the baby move 3 times! If felt just like there was a little gold fish inside me to a quick 1 second swim by. But if that's what it was, it felt amazing! I cant wait to feel more! We have no idea what to name this child. It's hard naming someone! You hope that it's the right name and that they will like it, and we don't agree on very many. But there is lots of time. We are very blessed and very excited to be parents! I will be sure to update our blogging friends on how everything is going. Any guesses on boy or girl??? =)

This is our babies first picture! I can't believe it when I saw it! =)