Belly!

Okay so it may look like C was pushing out her stomach after eating too much, but I can verify that she has in fact actually begun to show. She/we are very excited.

Newlywed Travels:
As I mentioned in my last post, G and I spent a little bit of time on our anniversary talking about the various trips we took each of the first 10 months we were married. We could think of places we went every month from February till November, except for September. We then checked our computer and we could not come up with pictures for September. Anyhow this made me think that it would be fun to post pictures from each of those months.

One Year Later . . .

Just over a year ago G and I were married on February the 13th in the Salt Lake temple. It has been an absolutely amazing year filled with accomplishments, big and small, trips and other various excursions, but most importantly this first year of marriage has brought us many quiet moments to just enjoy being together.
For fun G and I decided to look back on the different memories we have from each of the first 12 months we were married. We could both come up with lots of different memories, with the exception of September, at first we thought we had to be forgetting something, but alas not even the pictures stored on our computer yield anything from September. Nonetheless I believe that we probably enjoyed a month of just hanging our with friends and family (which is something we immensely enjoy as it is a delightful respite from work and school).
We are both incredibly happy and cannot say enough good things about our first year of marriage. We feel so incredibly blessed that we will get to be together forever.
Baby Update:
Baby is alive, well and ferociously hungry. We are both very very excited to get to find out if we are having a boy or a girl (unfortunately we have not yet scheduled our 20week ultrasound).

Its a BABY!!!!

After a long absence from blogging G and I are proud to report that we are expecting, although this is perhaps fairly obvious from the picture of our little one. Currently I am just over 12 weeks along, I am due August 13th, and this is our first ultrasound done only a day or so ago. We were very impressed to get such a good ultrasound photo given the acrobatic nature of this baby. The entire sonogram, it was doing backflips, rolling over, and swimming around. It was clearly trying to take advantage of all the space it currently has (a good idea if you ask me given that in a few weeks or months it will have very little room). They measured it to be about 6 cm long and its little heartbeat (that to me sounds like a steam train engine) was a healthy 158 bpm. We plan on finding out the gender at the end of March.

We are beyond excited! I am happy to report that I am feeling great, no morning sickness, just starving all the time, and learning that this pregnancy has given me an unrelenting desire to eat boneless buffalo wings. We are so happy to also report that everything is going well healthwise with both the baby and I and as such we are enjoying telling the world our happy news.

Christmas

We are getting so excited for our first Christmas together. As soon as we returned from our Thanksgiving trip (that we spent in Highlands Ranch)we began setting up our Christmas tree and decorating our apartment. It is absolutely adorable! We are still working on getting our last couple of Christmas presents purchased. We are greatly looking forward to spending Christmas is Sandy with all of G's family. All of our jobs are working out well. G is really enjoying his new job working for BYU's OIT department managing the servers for BYU's networks an such. I probably slaughtered my description of his job, to which I apologize to G and those with a computer vocabulary. G and I both still work managing our apartment complex he helps out with snow removal and I manage the office. I also work as a nanny of two girls ages 20 months and 4 1/2. Even with G in school full time we still have lots of time to spend together and we absolutely love it.
I am enjoying my new church calling as a beehive advisor (that means I am over the 12 year old girls) tomorrow I will give them my first lesson, I hope all goes well. G still teaches Sunday school and his class still does not have a single boy in it. The only boys are him and his teaching companion.
I hope to get some pictures put up soon of our recent trip to Denver, and of our apartment all decked out for Christmas.
Merry Christmas from the C & G!

Cold and Flu Season/ 9 months of marriage

G and I had a wonderful October, filled with lots of visiting with both our families. My folks and siblings drove out from Denver to spend their fall break with us, we absolutely loved having them here. Later on in the month we got to spend a quiet Halloween at home with the Freestone clan up in Sandy. We had a blast eating chili but we were both rather disappointed that only 5 trick or treaters came to the door.
This month has also unfortunately been filled with sickness, all from my end unfortunately, G is fit as a fiddle as always. As someone who suffers from one or two colds every year I was saddened but not surprised when I came down with my second cold since the last week in September. One cold no biggy, two colds in a month is obnoxious. However, I find a third cold I cannot figure out what on Earth is going on.

Home Sweet Home

Fall in Provo has been absolutely beautiful. G and I cannot get over how gorgeous all the trees are. As such we took the time and drive the Alpine Loop which is a road that goes from Sundance to American Fork Canyon. The picture in this post is a picture that we took there.
When Fall first arrived it wasn't so beautiful, rather it was freezing and we found ourselves turning up the thermostat. Although this sounds like a mundane activity I cannot even begin to express the sheer delight I experience every time I turn on our heater. I do not mind that it sounds like a hurricane and the fact that it jacks up the heating bill.
This gratitude is the result of the lack of a working heater in our first apartment. It not only lacked a heater, it lacked a garbage disposal, dishwasher, closets, and a bathroom mirror. Nonetheless we loved it.
However our new apartment compared to that one is a palace. Although it is the same size or smaller I now have a heater, disposal, dishwasher, 5 closets, a pantry, and 2 bathroom mirrors, and two bedrooms, and it came fully furnished. I am in heaven. I know delight in cooking knowing that I will not have to clean the pans I use in a sink that is deeper than 4 inches (I wish I was exaggerating).
G and I feel incredibly blessed to be living here. In that we will live here till G graduates we have invested our time, and a little of our hard earned money towards decorating the apartment and we are very proud of the results.
G is still enjoying his classes (not the homework, but the classes), and I am loving managing and am also loving being a nanny to two adorable little girls.