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Last Sunday was our first Sunday making it to our ward for the entire 3 hours of church since Levi was born...yeah, it's taken a while to get the hang of doing church with this little baby, mainly because Levi was such a terrible napper (did you see that I wrote WAS and not IS...that's because things have changed, but I'll get to that) that getting there without him wanting to either eat or sleep was nearly impossible. But, we did it last week and it was glorious. Except when Levi decided to blowout. Twice. Not so glorious then.<br />
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Went to City Creek with some friends and before eating, Dylan wanted to spend the money in his bank. That kiddo is a little saver! He's been saving his money since February and hasn't spent a dime. He was saving up for a giant Star Wars X-Wing (can you tell I live with all boys, I know some of the ships from Star Wars, never thought that would happen) but then his grandparents got it for him for his birthday, so he then decided he really wanted that flying Lightning McQueen. I had him think on it since that set was $30 (most of his money) but he really wanted it. He's been pleased with his purchase.<br />
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I got it in my head that I must Microblade my eyebrows. I spent all evening researching and looking around for the best around here for a reasonable price. This girl is one that I have followed for a long time and I'm OBSESSED with how she does brows, but, she lives in Holden, that stinker! I am so bummed. I made an appointment with her but then after thinking about it I canceled it, because knowing that I would have to do the 2-hours-one-way drive at least twice in a 2 month period doesn't sound super appealing, especially since I'm breastfeeding and the munchkin won't take a bottle, and I can't bring him with me (unless Brett came, which of course he doesn't want to, and I don't really blame him). So, I found someone up here to do it instead. I'm super excited to get it done! Doing it will save me like 15 minutes each day doing my dang eyebrows. Very much looking forward to that.<br />
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Spent the entire day in my jammies letting baby Cry It Out for his naps. That kiddo has spent his entire life needing to nurse to go to sleep (for the most part) and I just couldn't do it anymore. Not that I don't love that, but I don't love having to lay with him for 45 minutes while he naps just so he can keep sucking on something (and he will not take a binky). I tried this method exactly a month ago and it was so hard and he just didn't get it. So, we started again on Wednesday and it has gone SO well!!!!!! It was hard the first day, but he got the hang of it so fast and has been a champ. His naps were still super short this day but I was okay with that as long as he didn't need me to fall asleep.</div>
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Brett took a couple of days off of work this week (well technically he took the entire week off, but he worked every dang day still because he's hardcore like that. If it were me I'd be like, Bye Felicia!) and after Dylan got home from Kindergarten (and after he got his morning work done) we decided to go take a drive up the Alpine Loop before it snows up there. It was BEAUTIFUL. Like guys, I don't think I can convey how gorgeous it was in words. Seriously.Breathtaking. I felt like I was in a movie. It was just so colorful, peaceful and lovely. It started to pour rain and hail as we were on the way down out of it, and if you saw my video on Instagram of Dylan freaking out at the beach in the rainstorm, you can guess how he reacted to the rainstorm that hit our car. It was extremely loud and he was freaking out! That one time at the beach really did scar him for life, I'm sure of it. It makes me sad, because he used to love the rain before. Next time it rains and it's not too cold, I'm going to make him come out with me and we are going to play in it. Hopefully that will help ease his nerves. But anyways, it was a fun drive and so relaxing minus the 15-minute storm.<br />
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Then that night we watched the new show "This is Us." I have been waiting for this show since the beginning of Summer guys, and holy moly, it did not disappoint. I'm already obsessed! It's my new Parenthood (if you haven't seen Parenthood, run to freaking Netflix and binge watch that sucker, you can thank me later). We both loved it and I am so glad we have a new show that focuses on normal daily life to watch again.<br />
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This was the first day that Levi took longer naps than 45 minutes. These are the times for his two naps that day! And this is still doing the CIO method. I was seriously dying!! We have figured out the best way for us is to feed him right before his nap, but not let him fall asleep (so he's full) then put him down awake and let him get himself to sleep. It's worked like a charm. And he's been taking that long of naps since. I honestly never thought this day would come...I think I cried a little.<br />
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Then we went to all-you-can-eat sushi that night. If you haven't been to Simply Sushi, you are missing out big time! It's amazing. I think I ate my own weight in food, but I didn't even care. So yummy!<br />
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This happened!! I have been wanting to do this for over a year, but was always hesitant because I wasn't sure if I'd like it, or if it would go with my skin tone or if it would damage the shiz outta my hair. Im happy to report that all my fears were for naught. I had this hair appointment set for 2 months, and up until I was literally pulling into the salon, I didn't know if I was going to do it or not. I had friends and family tell me I shouldn't, but I ended up calling one of my best friends on the way and asked her, and she was super encouraging, and that gave me the boost to do it. And I am so happy I did it! It's different but I love how it looks and love that it's a change. It was either that or cut my bangs, and I knew I'd regret the bangs after a week. So this was a good choice :) Dylan makes me feel extra great since he tells me all day long "Mom! I just love your pink hair! It's so pink and beautiful!" Lol. It's super Ariel-red in the sun, and maroon indoors, which I love.<br />
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That night I went to the LDS General Women's Conference with my mom and sister, and it was SO good! I think it's the best one I have been too. Each talk was wonderful and something I needed to hear, especially Elder Uchtdorf's. This quote from his talk resonated with me so much.<br />
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After the talk I came home (had to skip out on dinner with the girls since the babe needed to eat before going to bed) and hung out with this fella. We Netflixed and chilled :) We are in the middle of bing-watching Grey's Anatomy (my 3rd time watching, his first). It's fun when we both like the same show...it honestly doesn't happen too often (so weird he doesn't like Teen Mom or Real Housewives ;). I like that he's gotten into it, and its fun to snuggle and watch an episode or two each night before bed.<br />
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And there's my week, according to the old iPhone :) I used to do this type of post a lot, then I got busy and completely forgot about them, until the other day I was going through my blog and saw some posts like this, and thought it was fun. Just a peek in everyday life from my phone's pics.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-17473672507798632292016-09-12T00:02:00.000-06:002016-09-12T08:07:36.470-06:00Milkmaid...It's 2am. The house is quiet, and I am sound asleep. I have been for a few hours. Going to bed earlier than midnight since Levi was born hasn't happened; time with the husband is way too important to give into sleep any earlier than that. When you have kids, you take all the time you can and you take it when you can get it.<br />
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In the darkness I hear the faintest cries from the foot of my bed. I have been expecting it, and I welcome it. I am drowsy, so much in fact that I have to make myself stretch just to make sure that I can pick him up without stumbling. I finally am lucid enough to cradle my sweet baby boy. I give him a sweet kiss as he whines and I bring him back to my bed as I snuggle him up next to me, and as he eats, I go back to dreaming.<br />
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I wake again at 6am and he is crying because his little tummy is empty. I don't move him, but I crawl around him to the other side of the bed so he can eat himself back into a sleep and I can too. We cuddle as we dream and it has been this way since the night he was born. Each night, he wakes 2 times, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Never has it annoyed me or made me frustrated. I love getting him. I love having him next to me. I love feeling him wiggle. I love nursing.</div>
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I am so thankful I have come this far with nursing. I have only been doing it just over 3 months, but that's longer than I was able to do it with Dylan, and that wasn't by choice. I nursed him for the first couple months of his life, but he was extremely thin when he was nursing. As a first time mom, I didn't know that that wasn't normal. I just thought he had Brett's god-like metabolism. But once I hit 2.5 months with Dylan, my milk ran out, even after countless sessions of pumping every two hours to get it back, and drinking root beer like crazy, and taking Fenugreek nonstop to try and get it back. It went away, and I was devastated. I had such a hard time accepting that my body wasn't doing what it was meant to do; not to mention the fact that I LOVED it so much. But, it was a blessing in disguise, because once we got him on bottles, he plumped up and actually looked like he was being fed. </div>
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So when we had Levi, I was fretting that I wouldn't be able to nurse him. I loved it so much with Dylan and was scared the same thing would happen. So since he's been born I've been drinking at least 100 oz. of water every day, eating plenty of foods that are supposed to boost your supply, and making sure to feed him on demand. It's all been wonderful and I am just so grateful we are passed 3 months and he looks super healthy (not like a skeleton like Dylan did) and that we both love it so much. I love that I get to bond with him that way. It's such a unique and amazing experience, and I love it. </div>
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I think some people look at me (and other moms who nurse) and can't imagine having their kid completely depend on them for their only food supply. I'm not going to say I wish that he didn't take bottles...I totally do, but only so I could get away for longer than 3 hours sometimes. But, he doesn't, and that's okay, because you know what? This won't last forever. It can be hard and stressful at times; I am constantly worrying if he is getting enough, and he prefers to be nursed to sleep, but it's all worth it. I am soaking it up while it does because it's one of the most rewarding and wonderful experiences I've been lucky enough to have. </div>
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Now when he starts getting teeth...that could be a whole other story. I'll let you know.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-71176293872839378782016-08-04T12:54:00.001-06:002016-08-04T12:54:53.777-06:00Levi's Fresh 48Wow, I meant to blog this a couple days after I blogged Levi's birth story, then, as per usual these days, I totally forgot and time got away from me. Still adjusting over here to two kids, but I'm happy to report that it's actually going very well. Especially these last couple weeks, I have felt like this life is becoming routine and more mine, not just some brief moment that will end and go back to how it was before. This is my new normal and I can honestly say that I love it.<br />
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But anyways, after I delivered Levi they took us to our room and, since it was 4am when they did this (Levi was born at midnight), we got a whole 3 hours of sleep that night, without sleeping at all the night before. Needless to say I was exhausted the day after having Levi, but family wanted to come see him and I honestly just wanted to get that part over with so we could not worry about it and just have the rest of our hospital time to ourselves.<br />
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Although I was super excited for Dylan to meet his brother. I was dying for him to come. I missed him and knew he was super anxious to see us.<br />
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My mom brought him by at 10 that morning, and it was adorable seeing him react to seeing his new little brother. He was so excited and couldn't wait to hold him and give him "chisses" (how Dylan says kisses, and no I never correct it because I think it's super cute).<br />
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He loved holding him and seeing him and just watching him. It was so sweet, just like I knew it would be. He's obsessed with babies, and I knew he would be especially obsessed with one he could touch and hold. It was fun to be there as a full family of 4 for the first time. Dylan got to watch baby get his first bath and we got him a present from Levi so he would feel loved. It was a Hot Wheels track set which he had been asking for for forever so he was pretty excited that Levi got him that :)</div>
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After they left more of mine and Brett's families came, then we had the evening to ourselves. It was nice to be brought food, have ice bags for my vag made at my beck-and-call, to have a lactation consultant on hand to help me get the hang of breastfeeding, and just to hang out and not worry about the stresses of being home yet. We just snuggled on the hospital bed and stared at our sweet baby, watching him sleep and watched TV.</div>
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That night, Brett was dead set on keeping the baby in our room, which I hated, because the nurses come and bug you and the baby like every 2 hours and sleeping there was terrible. So that night we decided to let Levi go to the nursery since I had had 3 hours of sleep total in 48 hours and completely exhausted. I was very grateful we did, I slept really well except for when they came in to take my vitals. </div>
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The next morning Chelsea from Chelsea McIntyre Photography came and did a Fresh 48 session for us! She is seriously incredible you guys. I have looked at these photos a billion times just because of how wonderful they are. She captured us with our sweet little bundle so well, I can't get over the images of it. It takes me back to being there and soaking up Levi's newness and his teeny tiny body. She documented the love we have for him so perfectly. </div>
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Once she was done taking these we basically packed right up and went home. We were sick of being there, I missed Dylan, and I was ready to be home in my own bed and not be interrupted every 5 minutes throughout the day and night.<br />
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I am so grateful for a good experience, both with Labor/Delivery and with having a new baby to take care of. We love having Levi with us, and while it's been such a massive adjustment, we feel so extremely blessed to have him here with us and that he is ours. He is such a good baby. He doesn't take the longest naps in the world (45 minutes at a time) which I'm not used too, but other than that, he really is a very good and happy baby.<br />
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And he definitely loves to eat...he will never turn down the chance to have a meal. And I am so grateful my milk is doing so much better nutrient-wise this time around. With Dylan...oh my. The poor kid looked like a skeleton despite me feeding him all the time. I keep getting pictures of him popping up in my Facebook Memories from when he was born and the weeks after, and they make me want to cry. He was SO tiny. Levi actually looks healthy and is gaining weight well, and I am so thankful for that. I prayed so hard that I would be able to breastfeed this time around again because I loved it so much with Dylan. We just had his 2-month appointment and he is in the 40th percentile for weight and 79th percentile for height. Much better than the literal 1 percentile Dylan was :(<br />
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On another note, I am hoping to be posting more frequently now that I feel almost fully adjusted to having two kiddos. It gets easier as each day comes, which I love. I look back to when we first brought Levi home, and I really had no idea what I as in for. You really have no idea how hard and life-changing it is until you are living it.<br />
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But, despite the small hiccups we have had here and there, it's been really smooth and easy, especially now that Levi is getting on a schedule. I really am so lucky to have these boys, they teach me so much every day. Especially Dylie. He's been such a trooper through this life-change, and we couldn't be prouder of him. So grateful they are both ours forever :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-75235320871551205232016-07-11T20:43:00.000-06:002016-07-11T22:21:21.480-06:00Levi's Birth StoryHello! Since my last post was all about me being pregnant, I should probably inform you that I am no longer with child. He came! He finally came! I am a mom of 2, and it's been such a roller coaster of love and adjustment, but I'm finally getting the hang of handling two munchkins and I couldn't love it more. But more on that in my next post.<br />
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Levi finally made his debut on May 30th...Memorial Day to be exact. And just shy one day of me being 42 weeks pregnant. And what's funny about that is that he didn't come on his own...our sweet little stinker had to be coaxed out of there still, even being 41+6 days overdue! We just couldn't believe I had to be induced after all that waiting and exercising and hoping. And neither could my doctor. Oh well. He came and that's all that matters.<br />
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It was 6 weeks ago today that he made his appearance, and since I got my birth story photos back just a couple days ago, I wanted to write my birth story so I don't forget it. It was such an amazing moment in our life, and I want to be able to remember it always. </div>
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So, as most of you know (well, if you follow me on Instagram and you are a friend or family member) we took Hypnobirthing classes a couple months prior to my due date in hopes that my body would go into labor on its own this time around (had to be induced with Dylan and I hated it) and that I would be able to give birth naturally. I never thought in a million years thought I would hope to labor without any drugs...I still don't know what got into me thinking it was a good idea to be honest. Contractions are awful! But I thought it would be awesome to try for some reason, so we signed up and went to all five Hypnobirthing classes. And we loved it! We loved the concept, the affirmations, the foundations of it all (that your mind is more powerful than your body); we truly believed it all. And I am still so glad we took them, they helped immensely. And we practiced and did the homework we were supposed to do and we were truly hoping I could do this the natural way. This is exactly why I waited until 41+5 days to be induced. I wanted my body to do it's thing...but apparently I missed the line in heaven that gives you the chip that makes your body go into labor naturally. It just doesn't know how to do that at all. And I am so sad about it. </div>
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I had put off scheduling an induction date until the last possible time...at my 41+3 week appointment. We had talked to my doctor (enter Dr. Thackeray...he's basically the shiz) openly my entire pregnancy about not wanting to be induced, and he was super supportive. We knew once we went passed 40 weeks we would have to have stress-tests done to make sure the baby was okay, and he was both times we had them. So at my 41 week appointment I prayed hard that I would be dilated to an 8 :) no but really, I just prayed I would be any further along than the 1 I had been dilated at for 6 weeks. Well, I got my wish: I was 1 1/2 cm dilated and 60% effaced (that was no change). I was so devastated. And super annoyed at my vagina. Like I'm pretty sure I gave it a pep talk the next time I went potty...I was so mad! But anyways, after checking me I knew what the doctor was going to say, and I looked at Brett and knew we had to choose a day. It's so bizarre choosing your kids birthday. He told us we could come in later that night, which I immediately shot down. I didn't like knowing that that was our last day as a family of three...I wanted to have some fun first. So we set it for Saturday night (and the appointment was on a Thursday). Home we went to finish packing my suitcase (yep I'm the biggest procrastinator ever) and wrap our minds around the fact that by the time the weekend ended, we would have a new family member. </div>
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Saturday we took Dylan to Liberty Park and he rode all the rides with Brett while I waddled and watched. We ate yummy food and soaked up the warm weather. We then tucked Dylan into bed, read him stories and sang songs with him and just cuddled with him for a long time, knowing it was the last time he would be put to bed without a sibling there with us. It was sad for me, but so exciting too. I gave him one last kiss then we left him to sleep, then went and put all of our stuff in the car and waited for the phone call for us to come in to be induced(they said it would be anytime between 7pm-10pm). Well after watching several episodes of The Office, 10pm came around and still no call, so I called at 10:15pm. They said they had an unusual amount of women who came in to give birth that night (naturally of course...insert my eyeroll) and to put my phone on loud and they would call me anytime in the night when they had an opening to come in and if I hadn't heard from them by 6am, to call again. Let me tell you how well I slept that night...yeah. I didn't. I was too paranoid I would miss the dang phone call so I slept in half-hour increments and checked my phone basically the entire night. I was not happy with them one bit.</div>
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Sunday morning at 6:02am we got the call, and they told us to come in at 7am. That's when things got real. It's just so bizarre knowing you are leaving the house for the last time just how things are as they are, and when you come back through the door you will be holding a little bundle with you. It was pretty exciting and scary driving there. And no we didn't wake up Dylan to say goodbye again...we had already had our goodbyes the night before and I thought it would be too hard to do it again. </div>
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So we got to the hospital at 7:20, prompt as always. We gave them our birth plan, and they got me hooked up to the fetal monitors. On went The Office and in went the Cytotec to soften my cervix. The plan was to hopefully just get my body to make its own contractions from the Cytotec in hopes that I wouldn't even have to use the Pitocin. The first round of Cytotec didn't do anything. No changes. Oh, but they did bring me food which was awesome! I didn't get to eat at all while being induced with Dylan and was so weak from the lack of it. But anyways, the second round started some contractions that were a little intense but nothing extreme. But, they were consistent. That was the key. So they stopped the Cytotec and just let my body do it's thing for a couple hours. I was contracting on my own for a while...but after an hour they faded and didn't come back. Talk about a bummer! I was all excited and thinking I may be able to actually do this without the darn Pitocin, but my hopes were dashed. My contractions had taken my cervix from being 1 1/2 cm dilated to 2 1/2 cm. Not enough progress. I was so flipping bummed. I knew what had to happen next and it was what I had dreaded since the moment I knew I was pregnant. </div>
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Pitocin seriously is the worst guys. I would rather eat mud pies than be on that crap. I asked for the absolute smallest dose possible (they range it from 2-20, at every even number, so 2, 4, 6 etc.). So I was started at a 2. In this time my Mom and Dylan came to visit (she was watching him for us) and it was such a nice distraction from such a long process. He is a doll, and was so excited to see his baby brother, and was a little disappointed he wasn't there yet (join the club kiddo). They stayed for a couple hours, and in that time, there were no contractions. They wanted to up my dose, so we said our goodbyes and I was bumped up to a 4. Holy crap did that slight change from a 2 to a 4 make all the difference. I started contracting almost immediately, and just like I had remembered with Dylan's birth, they were hard and extremely fast. I used a lot of my hypnobirthing techniques and walked around, bounced on a ball, had my nurse give me counter-pressure (my nurse was AMAZING! I was obsessed with her!) breathed a certain rhythm each contraction and got on all fours to fight the pain, but it was too much to bear. If you have been induced you know exactly what I'm talking about. Those contractions are seriously HELL! I got to a point where I felt like I was suffocating because they were just so on top of each other, I could barely breathe. I asked them to check me after doing this for 2 hours and I was at an 8. I went another half hour and asked them to check me again with tears streaming down my face and I was still at an 8. I couldn't take it anymore, and asked for the epidural. It wasn't in my plan, but I was so proud of how far I had gotten on that damn Pitocin. I had only made it to a 5 with Dylan. </div>
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I have no idea why I even bothered going through any of the pain without drugs. Once that epidural kicked in, I was literally on Cloud 9. I think it made me a little high, the mix of the epidural and how exhausted I was...I felt like I was in a dream. I was laughing, cracking jokes, and wondering why I had waited so long to get it. It just was the best thing. I was going on almost 24 hours with no sleep. And I think that's just what my body needed; to relax. From the time I got the epidural (at an 8) to the time I needed to push (at a 10) was 15 minutes. I couldn't feel any pressure or anything. It was great! I wasn't even sad about not feeling the urge to push, they had to tell me when, and I was completely okay with it. I started pushing at midnight and he was out at precisely 12:15am. While I was pushing my doctor asked me if I wanted to feel my baby's head...it was squishy! I knew it would be, but actually feeling it was so crazy!<br />
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And once I saw him and they put him right on my chest from being birthed, my heart grew 3 sizes bigger. His little cry was the sweetest sound, and feeling him on my chest was the most amazing feeling. But after being on my chest and snuggling him for a few minutes, he started shaking a little bit, and he felt cold. It was starting to scare me, and I let the nurse know. She let him stay there for a couple more minutes, and after the shaking didn't stop and his temp didn't come up, they took him over and put a huge tube down his throat to clear his lungs. It was awful to watch. Apparently as he was coming out a huge gush of amniotic fluid came over his head and he inhaled a bunch of it. They also thought his blood sugar may be low, so they pricked his poor little heal to get some blood to test it. I hated seeing that! He had only been in the world for a few minutes and already he was feeling pain. It made my heart hurt. But after a couple minutes his lungs had cleared and his blood sugar was fine, and they gave him back to me so we could have our hour alone with him, and he was warm and calm and absolutely perfect. We just stared at him, just Brett and I, and talked about how long it took for him to get to us, and how long we had waited for him and all the trials we had to go through for him to finally be here in my arms. I loved being in that room, the three of us alone, in the middle of the night, not a sound but his little breaths and our kisses on his head and our whispers in his ear of how much we loved him and how cute he was. It was such an amazing day/night and I am so grateful he's here! </div>
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I am so grateful I have these photos. I unexpectedly had a birth story done with Dylan and cannot tell you how often and how much I obsess over those photos, so I knew I needed it with this birth as well. It brings back all the emotions and love I felt in the time I was going through this. Thank you again Morgan! You captured our sweet little love and his birth story perfectly :)</div>
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*Photography by Morgan Olsen at In Frames Photography</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-25426409260084014982016-05-05T22:47:00.003-06:002016-05-06T00:15:20.048-06:00Pregnancy #1 vs. Pregnancy #2Guys, this is insane. I will be 39 weeks on Sunday! That's like (counts on fingers) 3 days away!!!! Holy!!! It's scary, exciting, exhilarating, relieving, terrifying, emotional and crazy all at the same time. I know I say this in every blog post/Insta post, but the time has FLOWN in this pregnancy. Just flown.<br />
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He could be here any day now...that's an extremely sobering thought. And my opinion about that changes almost hourly. One hour I'll be all nostalgic and all like, "Oh man, just stay in there a bit longer. I just want more time to relax, I just want to have Dylan around being my only buddy, I love sleeping all through the night (besides the 12 times I wakeup from needing to shift my entire body just so I can lay on my other side), I love not having my vag feel like it's ripped to shreds, I love feeling Baby move all the time and seeing my stomach move too, I love not having to wear breast pads, I love being able to leave in a timely manner and go places and not worry about two children etc. etc."<br />
And then the next hour I'm all like "Oh please come, I just love you and want to smooch this little Baby and hold him and be able to lay on my stomach again and not have to waddle like a duck and not have my back/ribs hurting 24/7 and not have lightning crotch and I just want you to come out already etc. etc."<br />
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Can you tell it's a pregnant woman talking? I can't make up my mind to save my life.<br />
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But he's coming, whether we are ready or not (I think we are...it's all we talk about in our house) but the question is...when? Well, for those of you who are wanting to know, or care, I went to the doc yesterday for my 38 week checkup/check of the cervix situation...and I am officially dilated to exactly 1cm and 60% effaced. If you think I write that in happiness, you are wrong. I have been "almost" a 1 for the last 3 appointments, and I have been 60% effaced the last 3 appointments as well, so...let's just say I left the appointment pretty discouraged. I shouldn't complain or be sad, because with Dylan I was never dilated or effaced even though I went a week over our due date and had to be induced. And I know I should be happy I'm even progressing at all...I just want more progression! I want to avoid being induced at all costs this time unless it's absolutely necessary for me or the baby, so I could potentially have another 3-4 weeks (doc said I could go to 42 weeks without induction as long as everything looks good) to go if this babe decides he doesn't want to leave my obviously comfortable and spacious womb. I can't say I blame him too much...I have made him quite the warm paradise in there.<br />
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Ok, but in all seriousness, this post was/is supposed to be about my two pregnancies and how they compare. Well, let's first just take a look at the photographic evidence, shall we? Because we all know that photo's say 1000 words.<br />
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Pregnancy #1, approximately 5 years ago:<br />
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I post these in utter embarrassment, but for the sake of the post, I'm still posting. Top one is 37 weeks on the dot, and bottom is where I am today...approximately 38-39 weeks.<br />
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Here's the comparison...<br />
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Pregnancy #2, Present Day:<br />
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Top is 37 weeks on the dot, and bottom is 38 weeks.<br />
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I thought about doing a billion photos showing the progression of each pregnancy, but A) I couldn't find a ton of photos from my first pregnancy except a few (and trust me, they are borderline blackmail worthy) and B) I didn't want to take up a ton of space with just photos.<br />
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If you can't see the difference in these photos...get your eyes checked. Not only do I have eyebrows in the present day photos, but my bump/entire body looks completely different. Part of this is because I started out at a much smaller pre-pregnancy weight with pregnancy #2, but also, I have been working out my entire pregnancy this time around.<br />
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<i><b>THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO PREGNANCIES:</b></i><br />
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I know I have stressed this in a few of my Instagram posts, but working out has (obviously) made a HUGE difference. It didn't help in pregnancy #1 that I didn't workout before I got pregnant and definitely didn't during. But it was already such a habit before I got pregnant the second time, that I knew I wanted to incorporate it into my pregnancy. And I am so glad I have! It's not only made a world of difference in how much I have gained and how my body has looked with being pregnant, but it's helped me have TONS of energy, kept my lower back from getting thrown out of place (it did with pregnancy #1) made it so I have hardly swelled at all (which mostly comes and goes at night), and made me consistently want to eat well (but yes I give into small cravings on a constant every-other-day basis). And doing it consistently has been key! I think there has only been 3 weeks total this pregnancy I didn't workout, and that was because I was either sick, or we were out of town. And honestly, most of the time I have not had this massive urge to workout...I usually sit on the couch for a half hour talking myself into it, but I know how terrible I feel if I don't do it and how great I feel when I do, so that has been the biggest motivator.<br />
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A lot of friends have asked what workouts I have done throughout my pregnancy, and I honestly haven't really modified much what I normally do, except I have been doing all my workouts at home (before I was going to the gym, back when I didn't have to get Dylie off to school in the times my favorite classes begin) and I have been only working out 2-3 days per week instead of my normal 3-4 days (thanks to school). I have found a TON of workout videos on Youtube that have saved me this pregnancy, and as odd as it's been, dancing ones have been my favorite. They not only make the time fly because you are constantly doing different dances that are fun, but I burn the most calories doing them. My favorite dance videos are by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/FitnesswithJessica" target="_blank">Dance Fitness with Jessica</a>. She has fun moves and incorporates TONS of squats in her dance routines. I have a playlist of about 10 of her dance routines that I put in my queue and do those, then I lift weights for 10-15 minutes. By the time I'm done with all that, it's been an hour and I've burned at least 600 cals in that time. I'm sure I look like such a moron doing it with this basketball strapped to me, but I don't care :) I'm home and nobody sees me so it's cool.<br />
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<i><b>Other differences:</b></i><br />
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Ok enough about working out. Some other differences have been that with Dylan's pregnancy, I constantly wanted Steak. That was all I ever craved...that and fruit smoothies. This time around I have been craving ice cold Crystal Light...and I normally can't stand ice cold water because my teeth are super sensitive. But this time around, I have to have a cold water bottle in the mornings...it's seriously heaven. I've also eaten an entire tub of hummus from Costco all on my own so apparently I've been craving that as well, and pizza has been on and off for a craving. Other than that I just want regular food...anything but steak! Exact opposite of my first pregnancy lol.<br />
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I also just got done doing school this semester (and got straight A's I might add) and that has definitely made this pregnancy different, as well as being a mom. With my first I just had my job to worry about...this time I've had so much more depending on me and I think that's helped keep me on my toes as well. And it's been so fun seeing how sweet Dylan is to my bump. For the longest time he acted like he had a baby in his tummy too, and would feel it and rub it and tell me his baby's name. I think he understands now that there's not a baby in there...he hasn't done it for a few weeks. But he sure is excited to be a big brother! He is constantly touching and hugging my tummy, and loves to sing to it and talk to it. Cutest.Thing.Ever.<br />
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-I love that I can still wear my wedding ring! I couldn't wear it passed 25 weeks with Dylan.<br />
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-And I also love that I can still wear all my shoes. I swelled so badly with Dylan that by week 32 I was literally wearing slippers to work because that's all that would fit on my balloon feet.<br />
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-We are also planning on doing Hypnobirthing this pregnancy (as long as I don't induce...we will still try it then but since I know the pain of that I don't think we can avoid an epicural with that one). I am super excited to do the hypnobirthing though! It's a way of training your mind to think of birth in a completely different way, and to get yourself to relax during your birthing waves (contractions). It maybe sounds cooky, but we love the idea of it and the concepts we have learned from the classes we have taken.<br />
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-I didn't have any sort of pain with Dylan (that I can remember) except that after I had him my lower back got thrown out pretty badly. With this pregnancy, I have had some of the worst back pain I have ever felt, but in my middle-back. This baby seriously is out to dislocate one of my ribs I swear. He gets himself so squished up there that it causes my entire rib on my left side to hurt from front, side and back. It's torture at times, and the only relief is to lay down. No joke. It's made me emotional at times at how painful it is. For that reason I am very happy that my due date is fast approaching.<br />
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-I have had about 5 zits this entire pregnancy. Seriously. It's weird. With my first pregnancy I had THE worst skin ever and was constantly breaking out. And bad! This time? Complete opposite. For this reason I could stay pregnant forever. My skin is better right now than it is when I'm without child.<br />
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-I had to pee a lot in the night with Dylan...haven't really had that problem this pregnancy except for a few weeks in the middle of my pregnancy.<br />
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-I have had zero stretch marks this pregnancy (knocking on wood extra hard right about now). With pregnancy #1 I got a few stretch marks around my hips and a tiny few under my belly button but nothing that was terrible. Praying this time I get none.<br />
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-I am more myself this pregnancy than I was with pregnancy #1 (or so Brett tells me). I am much less hormonal this time around he says, and I am pretty good about managing my hormonal emotions most of the time.<br />
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-I have to sleep with my shaper pillow (it's a giant body pillow that literally encircles you except for an opening at the feet...sounds weird but man is it dreamy). I don't know how I survived my first pregnancy without that thing. It has saved me.<br />
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-I had some morning sickness with this one. It wasn't always necessarily in the morning, but I would get nauseous quite a bit in the first trimester. I never had one bit of nausea with Dylan. That's why we thought this one was a girl up until he wasn't :)<br />
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-I had an aversion to Diet Coke my first trimester...shocking I know! That stuff is like my water. It was so weird to see a can and have absolute disgust towards it. I had to force myself to go off soda for my first pregnancy and it was super hard. Yeah that hasn't happened this time around. I think the longest I've gone without a diet coke (not counting my first trimester) has been 2 weeks...and that was on purpose and somewhat painful.<br />
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-I was a lot more organized with Dylan's pregnancy. By this point I had his nursery up and set, as well as a hospital bag packed and his stroller ready and his carseat in the car. Yeah...none of that has happened this time around. Still buying stuff and we have a massive pile in our living room that is waiting to be opened and put together.<br />
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-With my first pregnancy we had Dylan's name picked out pretty much off the bat. It was always Dylan...we never had a hard time choosing his name and we both loved it. This time...this baby has been nameless up until a couple days ago. We could not for the life of us either agree on one or find one that we both felt right about. We finally nailed one down for the little munchkin. I can't believe how long it took for us...I never thought the guy would care. Oh, he cares.<br />
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Okay I think that's all...I know you wanted this post to be longer but sorry to disappoint you with only an encyclopedia's worth of info :) Lots has been different this pregnancy, and it's been so fun to see the difference between the two. And we are just so excited and scared for this new chapter to begin in our lives. It's so surreal...the waiting game. But we can't wait to meet this little boyfriend and have a baby to snuggle :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-90528093195944519862016-04-18T22:25:00.002-06:002016-04-18T22:26:18.999-06:00Spring has Sprung...Hi lovelies! Oh blogging world how I've missed you so! School this semester, while I'm taking less credits, has still taken up so much of my time on top of trying to grow a human and take care of a little human boy and be a wife to another boy too. Boys boys boys! There's boys everywhere! I love it, it's just chaos these last couple weeks of school. I'm so thrilled that the semester ends this week and finals are next week! Then I am free for the entire Summer and can fully focus on all my boys :) And have more time to blog...well, until baby gets here. And speaking of these boys, we decided to have one last family photo session with us as a family of 3. It's so weird even writing that. And since there's no hiding I'm with child these days, we made it a maternity session too. And we were so excited about the location...The Utah State Capitol this time of year is surrounded in blossoms...it's gorgeous! This post was going to be about my pregnancy thus far, and the differences between this pregnancy and when I was pregnant with Dylan, but that post will have to wait for later this week because we got our photos back this weekend and we love them, and I've had a few friends asking to see them :) Be prepared for family/maternity pic overload.<br />
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And there's your overload. Photo's were done by Aimee Crandall Photography, and I think she got so many good shots considering we only had 15 minutes for the shoot (it was a mini-session). We are pretty happy with them :)<br />
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Well I'm off to sleep...gotta get up at 6:00 to go to my last early class of the semester!! Woot woot! Can't believe it's finally ending! Hooray! Be on the lookout for post all about this baby in my tummy, and how this pregnancy differs from when I was pregnant with Dylan! They have been so different it's kinda crazy. If I didn't know any better I would think I was having a girl for sure.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-27925794227516316572016-03-08T22:59:00.000-07:002016-03-08T23:01:17.316-07:00Late Night Ramblings of a Sentimental MomI just need to think outloud for a little bit about becoming a mom again if you don't mind okay?<br />
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I once heard a quote and it honestly describes perfectly how motherhood feels for me:<br />
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<i>"Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart walking around outside your body."</i> - Elizabeth Stone<br />
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I don't know if I just got a fresh batch of pregnancy hormones, or if I am just feeling extremely sentimental just because, but I cannot help but feel a little sad. I am sad that my time with having just Dylan here to be my only cuddly baby and sidekick is slowly but surely coming to a close. I have heard that your heart just expands with each child...but it's hard for me to imagine feeling as strongly for another child as I do for Dylan, even if it's my own. He has been a dream kid since conception. A dream sleeper. Never grumpy when he wakes up, just smiley and happy. He truly is so easy-going, carefree, a wonderful balance of social and independent, and is always happy. We hit the jackpot with that one. And I am kind of nervous, because for as long as I can remember, Brett and I have always said that he has set the bar so high that we are scared none of our future children will ever be able to reach it. That sounds odd but he has been the easiest and sweetest child. He is seriously my heart. I would literally die if anything happened to him, I really feel that way. I don't think I could survive if something happened to him, like my heart would be dead forever if he were to somehow leave me or something happened.<br />
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I know how cheesy that sounds, and even dramatic maybe, but it's so true and I think that's why I love that quote I have at the beginning of this post so much. I really feel like my heart is outside of my body, and I am so vulnerable to something breaking it or taking it away from me and being left lifeless. I can't explain it. And it scares me to think that my heart will belong in two little bodies soon, not just one. I don't know if you can know that feeling unless you are a mom. I remember my mom saying that to me before I was a mom "You won't understand how much I love and care for you and worry for you until you have children of your own." It's so true. I understand it so well now that it scares me.<br />
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And please don't get me wrong, we are so excited for this new chapter in our lives to come and a new baby to arrive, but there's a mourning I am feeling that knowing our little family will never be the same as it is now. For some reason, that pulls at my heart strings a little. Is that normal? Am I weird for feeling this way? We have been a family of 3 for almost 5 years now, and it's been so much fun and quite perfect. I just don't know how it will be as a family of 4, I have no idea what to expect and that terrifies me. I keep picturing this little kid running around with Dylan, and I constantly have to remind myself that that little "kid" isn't going to be a kid for a while, it's going to come as a baby. That reminder helps me not be as intimidated. Babies are easy and cute and fun right? They aren't intimidating. It has been so long since we had a baby that I honestly don't really remember what it was like. I am hoping that once the baby comes it will all just kind of come back to me. We shall see in 10 weeks.<br />
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And I also feel like I could be feeling this way too because once the baby gets here we are going to be going through a lot of different changes, so I feel like that has a lot to do with it. Dylan will be done with preschool and be a kindergartner, I will only have one semester left of school and we will most likely be moving (not out of state or anything, just moving to a different house). Just a lot of things are going to be happening this summer, and while they are super exciting things, the kindergarten one makes me so sad. I am sad that these kiddos will be 5 years apart (if you want to get technical they will be 4 years and 11 months apart). That's a long time. And while I know there will come a time in their lives that age doesn't matter really (my brother and i are 5 years apart and we are really close and great friends now...not so much in our teen years though, it was actually the opposite then), I am scared they won't be friends while they grow up because of how spread out in age they are. I hope that worry is irrelevant and somehow that won't be the case, but it scares me. But there are a lot of positives about the age difference as well. We have had (almost) 5 amazing years with Dylan. Just Dylan. And it's been perfect. And he is old enough now to totally understand what's going on and he will be so helpful when the baby is here and he's already so excited to have a baby brother. So it's really amazing to see how much he is looking forward to it. I don't know. Again, I'm basically thinking outloud.<br />
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Well, since I have been feeling this sense of emotions about my growing little man, I have been trying to make more time to spend with him and save my homework until late at night until after he's asleep. That doesn't always happen, but it's been happening more this semester than the previous 2, so I am feeling pretty dang good. I make it a point to go out and do little activities with him, take him to movies, to museums at Thanksgiving Point, to "Old McDonald's" (as he calls it) to watch him play on the play place and interact so sweetly with the other "friends" who are there (every time we are in a public place and he sees kids, young or older, he always says "Look mom! More friends are here!") to play with him on the floor at home play space ships or star wars, taking walks with him while he rides his new scooter that he can't get enough of, going to the park, taking him to get our drinks and cookies and having him order for me (he knows my exact drink...how sad is that?) (diet coke with light ice for her and sprite zero for him), taking a longer time in our bedtime routine by singing more songs than usual and cuddling longer while he plays with my hair and tells me how much he loves me and I stare at him and we keep saying our "I love you's" and our "I'll miss you's" and almost every night a tear runs down my cheek. I just have so much love for that child! I don't have the words to fully express it! You mom's know! You get it! We have just been having so much fun lately, him and I. And for some reason I fear that it's all going to end when the new baby gets here...I get teary just thinking about it. I don't want it to change. I want us to still have our same bond, our little jokes, our routines, everything.<br />
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Please tell me I am not going nuts by feeling scared about these things...I feel like I am crazy! It's so weird being so excited for a new baby and yet being so sad at the thought of how it will change things. I am <strike>hoping</strike> sure that once the new babe is here, I will wonder why I was ever worried, that I will love him as much as I love Dylan, and life will be blissful....right? Yes. I have to believe yes.<br />
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Sorry for all the rambling. I just am trying to process how my heart will expand into two children...it seems impossible but, from the mouths of friends and family, it can and does happen, and it's like you were all together in the first place. I hope that is how it will be :)<br />
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And to close...a collage from earlier today before we left on our date to the movies, which included seeing "The Good Dinosaur" and getting popcorn and candy :) We walked out the door and before we got off the porch Dylan said "Momma, let's take a picture! " Ummm can't resist that little man's requests, especially that one. I think he just wanted to show off his new haircut and style :)<br />
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I am 28 weeks today and it's insane, and I am now starting to get a little scared. It's starting to hit me that not only am I going to have to push a human being out of my wahoo again (insert scared and terrified emoji here), but I am also getting used to the fact that I am going to be losing lots of the sleep that I love and cherish so much. Not only was Dylan an amazing newborn and basically slept through the night from the day we brought him home, he's been amazing ever since. There have, of course, been a few nights here and there where he was either sick or scared but honestly, 99% of his life he has been wonderful at sleeping. So this is going to be a huge shift for me, and I am trying to soak up every night of going to bed and not being bothered in the night for the next 12 weeks.<br />
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But don't get me wrong, we are over the moon excited about baby boy coming to our family. Besides of the being scared part, I just cannot WAIT! I feel him all day long (and starting to feel him in the night...not loving that part so much but it's okay), and it's gotten to the point where I will be sitting or doing something and I will see my stomach all of a sudden bulge out from a kick or a punch from out of the corner of my eye, and it always startles me even though I can feel it and love it. It's so much fun. And it's so fun to see how much Dylan already loves his little brother. He talks to him constantly throughout the day, will want to kiss my tummy at least 10 times a day and give it hugs, and will even bring books and toys over to my tummy because he wants to "share with baby brother." I mean, can it get any more heart-melting than that? I die every time.<br />
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So in honor of being in my third trimester, Brett and I ventured out this passed weekend and had a little mini photoshoot of me and my growing belly. If you want to see what I looked like at 28 weeks in my first pregnancy...and I think you do because I looked like a blob (and I say that with complete confidence, I can't believe anything about that picture...the hair...the outfit...the photo editing...the weight gain!!! Ugh, you live and learn right?) you can find that post <a href="http://brettandkatiehancock.blogspot.com/2011/03/babys-first-of-many-trips-to-st.html" target="_blank">here.</a> Feel free to laugh and be embarrassed for me back then...I am right there with you lol.<br />
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Here's to kicking off being in the third trimester!!<br />
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For this photoshoot I wore two cute maternity dresses from <a href="http://www.pinkblushmaternity.com/" target="_blank">Pinkblush Maternity</a>, the <a href="http://www.pinkblushmaternity.com/" target="_blank">cutest maternity boutique</a> and I love them both (and ps if you haven't shopped there...even if you aren't pregnant...DO IT!!!! They have such <a href="http://www.pinkblushmaternity.com/" target="_blank">cute maternity clothes</a>!!! Not only do I have dresses from there but I have cardigans and tops too. Such a cute place if you want to buy <a href="http://www.pinkblushmaternity.com/" target="_blank">trendy maternity clothes</a> :) I love the orange one because it's not a usual type of dress I would've normally chosen, but I love how I could either pair booties, wedges or heels with it. It's such a versatile piece and I love it.<br />
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And the pastel blue one...it just says Spring all over it, and we all want it to just come right?! I love the colors and how bright and Springy it is! I love both of these dresses and it was so fun get all dolled up to get my pictures taken with baby boy jumping around inside of me.<br />
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And isn't my husband an amazing photographer?? I kinda gave tips and such as we went along, and I did the editing and some poses, but he got all the settings right and posed me a little all on his own. I am a super proud wife considering he's never really done a whole lot with photography except of landscapes and usual family outings stuff. Super proud of him, I love how they all turned out :)<br />
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So since I love these dresses so much, I am teaming up with <a href="http://www.pinkblushmaternity.com/" target="_blank">PinkBlush Maternity</a> and giving away a $75 gift card!!! I am doing it over on my instagram, so if you don't follow me @simply___kate (there are 3 underscores there), you totally should. It's going to be going for a week. And seriously guys, you would be crazy not to enter. They have such <a href="http://www.pinkblushmaternity.com/" target="_blank">cute maternity clothing</a> and <a href="http://www.pinkblushmaternity.com/" target="_blank">maternity dresses</a>, and the price is just right on their apparel, which is awesome. So I highly recommend you enter...I am jealous of whoever wins. You will have a super hard time choosing what to buy!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-47546526169038389492016-02-15T17:37:00.001-07:002016-02-15T17:41:15.266-07:00Sometimes you just gotta be nerdy...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy Monday!! I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's weekend with your loves and got to spend some time relaxing. The husband and I had a wonderful date day/night all day Saturday and it was so dreamy.<br />
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I wish I could say we are all healthy and well over here...but we are all battling a nasty case of Bronchialitis (translation: a mini version of Bronchitis). Dylan has had it for a little over a week (and has acted like a champ the entire time), and I think Brett and I caught it from him. It hit us both pretty hard yesterday, but today it was so terrible for Brett it kept him home from work. That man doesn't miss work, especially in busy season, for anything. So you know it's bad when he does...poor guy. He's snoozing away as I type, and Dylan is still in his pjs and has been loving watching shows all day and drinking fruit juice and eating treats. He's pretty much over it, but since we both don't feel that great, he gets a day to just chill. He's in his own little Paw Patrol heaven over here.<br />
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I felt okay enough to get ready today because I had a few errands I needed to run, and I wanted to tell you guys about these nerd glasses I found that I am a little obsessed with. I have a pair of glasses that are prescription, but I lost them and I can't find them anywhere. So sad, but oh well. My eyes are pretty close to being normal so it's not like I'm blind without them. I mostly wore them because I liked how they looked, but since mine have up and walked away somewhere, I decided to get a new pair that weren't prescription. I found these baby's on Amazon <a href="https://jane.com/deal/174003/fancy-frills-winter-cardigan-grab-bags" target="_blank">right here</a>. They were a whopping $3 and that's with shipping! The kind I have are the Leopard print. They took about 5 weeks to get here but it was so worth the wait! I love how big they are (my prescription frames were more square and a little smaller) but I am loving the roundness and neediness of these. They are fun and different, and can complete a lazy day look or a fancy look (I wore them with a sweatshirt and tennis shoes today...as lazy and comfy as they come) and I added a pink lip and I felt like it all went really well together. Not something I would normally choose but it is fun to mix things up and I liked the end result. It just adds a different vibe to the overall outfit.<br />
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Oh, I just wanted to add one more thing. Can I just say THANK YOU to all of you and your sweet comments from my last post?? You have no idea the love and support I felt from so many of you! So thank you!! Also, I have gained a lot of followers in the last few weeks, and I just want to say welcome and also thank you for following my little online journal of randomness and lifestyle living. I am trying and wanting to start to posting more, and I hope you continue reading. It's so fun to have this blog to be a creative outlet and journal. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-17720773710193336172016-02-08T20:13:00.001-07:002016-02-08T20:14:58.487-07:00Please don't leave me...<i><u>Disclaimer:</u></i> This post is extremely raw and personal for me. I wrote it a couple of weeks ago and writing it took a couple days because I had to leave it alone when the memories became a little too much. There is raw emotion and a little bit of graphic dialogue at times (I tried to keep it as least graphic as possible). Also, I wrote this very late at night both times I added to it, so please disregard any spelling or grammar errors. Just letting you know before you start.<br />
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I have been having a huge impression to blog about this for a while, but haven't because it was such a private and personal experience. One that, for a long time, I couldn't even think about without bursting into tears. But now that it's been over a year, I feel that I can finally write about my experience and hopefully help others who have either gone through the same thing or something similar, or will in the future, because apparently, every 1 in 4 pregnancies turns into a miscarriage.<br />
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They tell you that statistic after you have had your ultrasound when there isn't a heartbeat. Like that is supposed to make you feel better or something. But the technician doesn't tell you, your doctor does, because for some reason they like to make you wait another 20 minutes after your ultrasound in your doctor's room feeling anxious, scared, terrified, crumbling and feeling extremely vulnerable.<br />
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But I will get to this. Let me start from the beginning, because, like all posts on my blog, I write to remember things and so I can come back and read about it later. Most things are joyful and happy, but some are hard and terrible. And I want to remember it all, even though it was one of the most painful and traumatic experiences of my life.<br />
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A year ago in early February, I had just started my second semester back at UVU. I had 4 more to go after that one. I was happy, Brett was in busy season and we were adjusting to it as we always have to every time it comes around, and Dylie was happy and peppy and loving school just as he does now. I remember the distinct night that, out of nowhere, I had a pretty strong feeling I was pregnant. I didn't really have any symptoms (anyone who knows me knows my periods occur about 3 times a year). I just had a feeling. Brett and I had gone out on a date (a rareity for us in busy season) and we went to see American Sniper. After the movie, we were driving to dinner to meet up with Brett's sister and her husband, and I told Brett that before the night was over, I wanted to pick up a pregnancy test. He was shocked to hear me say that, since we obviously weren't even on the verge of trying because I had so much school left I wanted to finish before we had another baby. I was shocked too, but I wanted to put my mind at ease and prove to myself that I wasn't and stop the tricks my mind was playing on me. So after dinner, we stopped and got a pregnancy test along with some treats because we were going to have a slumber party and eat gummies and chocolate and drink soda and cuddle while we watched a movie in bed (those are our slumber parties). I forgot all about the test we had just bought.<br />
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The next morning we had 9am church, so I got up and was about to go to the bathroom before I got ready and I saw them sitting there on the bathroom counter. Brett was still asleep and the house was quiet. It was pretty early but I had gotten up early on purpose so we weren't late (I'm usually the reason we are). I remember thinking that I should just take it to put my mind at ease so I could move these crazy thoughts out of my mind to make room for school and life. I took it and honestly, I was so chill about it that I forgot I had taken it because I started getting ready, as it just sat on the counter next to me. 20 minutes later I dropped a bobby pin on the counter and I went to grab it and I saw it. And I saw the result. I had only seen those two lines once before, and I knew exactly what they meant. I remember grabbing it and just staring at it, then back at my opened-mouth face in the mirror, then back at the test for what seemed like an hour. I was completely stunned...no, shocked is a better word...and not in the best way. I went from pure calm to terrified in about a millisecond. My whole mind shifted in that instant. One minute before I really didn't have a care in the world, and peeing on a stick had literally changed my entire plan for life. What was I going to to about school? What about finishing? How would I make that work with a newborn? What about our plan? We had this plan. I wanted more than anything to just stick with the plan. That was the easiest route. Why now? What now?<br />
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I remember that I came out of the bathroom and I felt like I was floating. It had thrown me for such a loop. I thought about telling Brett in a cutesy way and started thinking about how I would do it, but right when I saw him when I came into our bedroom, I woke him up to tell him. I needed his soothing and comforting words. There was no way I could be alone in this. I scared him because I woke him up crying. He, of course, thought something had happened or something was wrong. I showed him the test. He couldn't see because he didn't have his glasses, so he felt around on the nightstand, put them on, and stared at the stick. Then looked at me with complete joy and tears in his eyes. His reaction was the exact opposite of mine. He grabbed me and held me and listened to my worries as he kept saying how happy and excited he was. Brett is the calm to my storm. He always knows how to react in times when I'm in distress. He helped me see that, while it wasn't planned, it wasn't terrible either. School would work out. Life would work out. Our family was growing, and that was all that mattered. He changed my rainy storm cloud into a ball of sunshine. By church we were both smiling and giving each other our secret "sign" to say how happy we were (a peace sign, because this child was #2 and we were having ANOTHER BABY!!).<br />
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We kept doing that sign to each other for weeks. We would do it in private, public, over text, anywhere. We just couldn't handle the excitement of a new addition. And we even told Dylan, and Dylan kept feeling my tummy and kept talking about a baby. We were in heaven for a month after I took that test.<br />
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Then we went to the doctor.<br />
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And everything changed.<br />
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There was no heartbeat. Just a yolk sack. But we didn't know exactly how far along I was because I couldn't remember when my period had been, so the doctor said not to worry, and to come back the next week for another ultrasound, that we probably had the dates wrong for my period and that by the next week there would be a heartbeat. We left the ultrasound with a few pictures of a tiny ball and a new-mom bag they give you with samples of formula and coupons and things new mom's can use. The drive home was full of reassurances and worries.<br />
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We prayed and worried for a solid week. That was all I thought about, dreamt about and slept about for 7 days straight. We held out hope, but deep down I think I knew. Looking back, I think I did. I kept telling Brett I wasn't sure, but he would reassure me and I would be okay again. This was a cycle for seven long days.<br />
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Then back to the doctor we went. The ultrasound went exactly like that part in Marley and Me where Jennifer Aniston's character goes in for her ultrasound. I tried so hard not to cry that my bottom lip shook uncontrollably. Tears streamed down my face but the lip shook. I wouldn't give into the sobbing until I knew and heard it from the doctor.<br />
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And then came the news, and the start of a heartbreak that I never truly understood until I experienced it myself. Confusion fogged my mind. Anger tore at my heart, and sadness misted in my eyes and down my cheeks as the doctor talked about different procedures and ways of taking out what was once meant to be our future. Something that we had just barely known, that we never got to know, was leaving us. And there was nothing I could do to stop it.<br />
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We left empty-handed. No pictures. No next appointment card. No heartbeat.<br />
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We went and picked up Dylan from my best friends house (she was watching him for us) and I had texted her in the car ride over that there wasn't a heartbeat. I didn't say anything else, except that I didn't want to talk about it. We got him, and the car ride home was silent. Tears streamed down my cheeks as we both sat in silence while listening to Dylan chatter away about the sun and the cars and the clouds.<br />
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The next few days were okay. I decided to let my body run it's course and do what it needed to do on its' own because we didn't want to pay for the procedure to have it removed from me (for some reason with our insurance it's more expensive than the actual labor part). The doctor had told us that it would be in the next week or so. And in that week I was sad, but I was okay. Okay because I still carried our little dream around with me everywhere I went. Even though it wasn't viable, it was still with me, and for that time, it was enough to keep me okay.<br />
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Then the day came. I was out grocery shopping with Dylan and we were having so much fun (back when he would still sit in the cart and when it was fun because I didn't have to chase him everywhere like I do now) and I hadn't really thought about it that day like I had the days before. As we were leaving the store I started getting extremely lightheaded. I didn't really know why, I just thought I needed to eat. As we were driving I got a phone call from my father-in-law asking if Dylan and I wanted to go to lunch. I told them I wasn't feeling well, but they were more than welcome to take Dylan. They were happy to have him so I took him over there before I came home.<br />
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That phone call was divine intervention. As I took Dylan to the door it occurred to me what was happening. They answered the door and they said I looked pale, and I told them what was going on, and they gave me hugs and I got in my car and had no idea what was going on. From what the doctor had told me, it was a pretty painful process and one that would put me in bed for a few hours. I had planned on doing some homework that afternoon, but instead I stopped at Panda Express because Chow Mien sounded comforting and delicious, then went home. I started having some cramps but nothing I couldn't handle. I got in comfy clothes, took some Tylenol got in bed and put on Pitch Perfect and ate my chow mien. I was good and okay for an hour or so. Cramps were uncomfortable but not awful.<br />
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Then the awful came. I had contractions that I only remember having when I was having Dylan. And they were hard and extremely painful. I remember needing to go to the bathroom but didn't want to get up for fear of what would be underneath me. I called Brett and told him what was going on, and told him to stay at work because he couldn't do much anyways and that Dylan was with his family so he was okay. I can't even express how grateful I am for that divine intervention. I remember sobbing loudly through the pain that my body was putting me through, emotionally and physically. Knowing I was getting rid of something that I didn't want to get rid of was physically heartbreaking. I remember thinking over and over again "please, please don't leave me."<br />
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I eventually got up because I couldn't not go to the bathroom any longer. My body was pushing and I couldn't fight it anymore. What looked like a thick pool of red paint filled the entire spot where I had laid. I ran to the bathroom in fear of getting it everywhere. I can't even express in words the excruciating pain of what happened next. I sat down on the toilet and started to undress because I was covered in my own blood. What I heard and felt come out of me will never be able to leave my memory. Hearing and feeling what was supposed to be #2, our peace sign and the reason we had both been so giddy over the last few weeks leaving me was the most traumatizing experience I have ever experienced. I screamed as it happened. Loud, raw, tear-filled screams that I didn't even know my own voice could make. I cried uncontrollably and shook and just let myself feel the emotions for what felt like forever afterwards.<br />
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It was gone. It had left me. Even though I had begged Heavenly Father in every prayer for a couple weeks before this that it wouldn't leave me. That something would change, a miracle would occur and this nightmare would be forgotten. It was gone. Like it hadn't even been there in the first place. It was gone, and so was a piece of my heart.<br />
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I don't remember getting back to my bedroom, the rest of that day was kind of a blur. I remember telling Brett and he left work early to get Dylan, and he brought me a cookie from our favorite place, Village Baker. I was dressed and was in bed with the bloody sheet on the floor and towels under me and a pad. The doctor had told me that I would need to wear them for about a week afterwards. I didn't speak, I held Dylan and Brett held me and I didn't do anything but cry until I fell asleep.<br />
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The next day I woke up and as I got up, I looked at my phone and I had texts from some friends and notifications from social media. I don't know why, but for some reason I didn't want to talk to anyone or see anything on social media. I immediately deleted Instagram and deactivated my Facebook and didn't respond to the texts. I didn't want to talk to anyone or do anything.<br />
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Those next couple weeks are a blur to me. I didn't talk to anyone but Brett, Dylan and my mom. I didn't really leave the house unless I absolutely had to (groceries or whatnot). I went numb and turned into a zombie. I remember just being extremely sad, feeling alone and being a little angry at God. I had never in my life felt that way towards Him. I have had family members taken from me and been through some tragedies that a lot of people don't go through at such young age, but never have I felt angry at God. It was a new experience for me. I was angry. I was pissed. How could He do this to me? I had had my "plan" in place, been so terrified that that plan was changing because of another baby, then wrapped my mind around how great it would be and was so happy about it and wanted it more than anything, and He took it from me. What was the point of that? I didn't understand.<br />
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They say time heals wounds. Speaking from experience, it does, at least for me. Maybe not entirely, but it does help. After those couple weeks I started feeling like myself again. Slowly but surely, I started seeing the sun again in my life. I left the house to go take Dylan to do something fun finally, I started texting friends who, by the power of the spirit I am sure, knew something was wrong. A few separate friends had texted me and asked why they were having a feeling they needed to contact me. I started telling close friends about what had happened, and I started praying again. As I did these things, I started healing. Talking about it was so hard, and each time I did I broke down. I still do sometimes. The support I had and the love I felt was so touching and freeing for me. I got back on social media and started doing normal day-to-day things like do playdates and workout and homework. Throwing myself back into life was how I best felt I could heal from it. That may not be the same for everyone, but it was for me. It took time for me to be able to do that, but once I did I started to see the sunshine in my life again.<br />
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We had another miscarriage 3 months after the first one. I won't go into all the details of it again because this post would be so long, but the second time around was like the first where we went to the doctor and there actually was a heartbeat, but it was faint so they wanted us to come back the next week and we did and the heartbeat was gone. It was another trial that we had to face, and one that I hope to never have to experience again. I was excited about that pregnancy then went through the motions of being sad and extremely angry at God. Why would he let this happen to me twice in such a short period of time? Did He not see how hard that first time was for me? Why would He give me another chance only to take it away so suddenly again? I remember feeling like He was torturing me. I really can't explain it other than that. I remember sobbing to my mom and saying those exact words and saying how mean He was for doing this to me again. Like He was playing a sick game and the result was complete anguish and despair on my part. And I was terrified of going through such a traumatic experience like I did the first one. I wouldn't wish that experience on anybody.<br />
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But the way that my body got rid of the second one was a testament to me of what a loving Heavenly Father I have. It was in the middle of the night and I felt no pain; I was extremely calm and I was able to go right back to sleep while a few tears streamed down my face. I felt angels with me that night, and I believe it happened when it did for a reason. I woke up the next day sad, but okay. And my anger at God had gone away (for the time being, it came back in waves for a little while but I feel that is a normal part of grief for some). But I was able to still live my life normally and talk about it freely. I didn't hide and I didn't want to just sleep away my sadness. I feel I knew how to better handle it because I had done it just a few months prior. It was a big test of faith for me, and while those experiences are ones that are still so painful to think back on, I am grateful for the growth I have had because of them.<br />
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Not a day goes by that I don't think about what could've been. It's weird to think that if that first pregnancy had gone through, we would have a 5-month old right now, or if the second had we would be due any day. And even though we have one on the way now, the pain from those two miscarriages is still very real and painful. I can think and talk about them and not get emotional, but if I'm alone and think about them, the tears still come. We will never know them until we are in heaven, and that breaks my heart a little bit.<br />
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I wanted to write about this to remember this experience, but to also maybe help those who have been through the same thing or are going through it that you aren't alone. And you will get through it. And it's okay to be angry, pissed, sad, confused and not know how you are going to keep going. It's amazing to me that two little pink lines can automatcially have so much power over your heart and your mind. You lost what could've been, and that is such a heartbreaking thing to think about and wrap your mind around. And this may sound odd, but I have felt that I need to add it to this post. If anyone needs to talk about what they have experienced with someone who has been through it, I am more than happy to talk about it with you. Because sometimes it's hard to talk to someone who doesn't know exactly how it feels, and sometimes it makes it easier when you can talk to someone who does know.<br />
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We will never forget our two babies we lost. They are forever in our hearts and we look forward to when we get to see them again.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-17472029082623312472016-01-26T08:00:00.000-07:002016-01-26T08:00:02.172-07:00Welcome to New York...So before I dive into our trip, I just need to point out that I stole the title of this post from one of TayTay's songs on her best album to date. She opened her concert with this song so it's only fitting that I open my blog with the same title right?<br />
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Okay, let the trip and the pictures and videos begin. And a sidetone of forewarning: it's a long post with lots of pics. Feel free to take a break in the middle and come back later, or if you are really up for it, grab a cup of cocoa and stay a while. Either way works :)<br />
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A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to get to jet along with Brett on a "business trip" to Manhattan. Let me just fill you in on why I put "" marks around business trip. He had to go there to work at a firm to do an end-of-year inventory for 5 hours. 5 hours people! And his work was paying for his flight and hotel for this half-day work venture. And since we knew he would only have to work half of a day, we decided to take advantage of family being in town for the holidays who could watch Dylie, buy red-eye plane tickets because they were hundreds of dollars cheaper than regular flights, book an amazing hotel right smack dab in the middle of the city (and by the middle, I mean 2 blocks away from Times Square and one block away from Rockefeller Center), and make a trip out of it. I was planning on doing this with him next month when he has to go there for a solid week for work (now that's a business trip) but I didn't want to explore the city alone. I'll explore St. George alone...NYC on the other hand is a little scarier to me. And plus, this trip proved to me that my sense of direction in that place is worse than a toddlers. Brett and I were constantly bickering about which way to go to get to where, and he was ALWAYS right. Always. So after about the second day of this happening I decided to keep my mouth shut and listen because the boy knew exactly what he was talking about.<br />
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Anyways, so we found out Brett had to go on this trip in late November, and he had to be there on the 28th of December. So in order to make it work, we decided to leave Christmas night. Kinda sad for Dylan, but kinda not. We put him to bed at my in-laws before we left and explained we were leaving, and I almost wish we hadn't done that. There is nothing that will pull at a mom's heartstrings more than hearing your sweet 4-year old say "can i come wif you mama? I want to come wif you!" Heart wrenching, but also felt good knowing we would be missed. And after lots of cuddles, hugs and kisses we left him to drift off to sleep as we crept into the night to get to the airport for our 11pm flight.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times";">Now, let me give you some advice. If you can sleep
like a rock, anywhere you are, red-eye flights are made for you. Or, if you
don't need sleep at all, take the red-eye! You will be so happy you did and
happy with the money you saved. But, if you are like me and have to sleep in a
place that's deathly quiet, with ear plugs and a head mask and you actually
need to sleep laying down, this plan NOT for you. Well, let me clarify. If you
have a nice hotel bed waiting for you at your destination, take the dang red-eye.
If you don't and you have to wait until 3pm to check in, DO NOT TAKE THE
RED-EYE. I repeat, do not. It's the worst idea ever. Sure, you get there at 3am
your time and 5am NYC time and that means you have a few hours of a city that
never sleeps to yourselves, but that gives you 10 flipping hours to kill before
you can sleep and not look like a drunken rat who has lost its way. If we ever
take a red-eye again, there will be a bed waiting for me when we get to our
place of travel. Mark my words. We didn't book an extra night at our hotel to
save money. Trust me, we were wishing like mad that we had bit the bullet and
booked another night. It would've been worth so much more than any penny we
saved. And just our luck, the hotel was completely booked so buying a room once
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<span style="font-family: "times";">Ok, so I may be over-exagerrating a little. And once we got in our Uber
and out on the town after we dropped our bags off it wasn't terrible. It was
actually nice to drop our bags then walk the two blocks, passing Saks 5th
Avenue and all their fashion windows to see Rockefeller Center and THE tree
that I have always wanted and dreamed of seeing in person. We were walking
there and I was so busy looking at the windows and keeping an eye out to make
sure we weren't going to get mugged because the streets were dead except for a
few creeper looking people, that I completely didn't look across the street.
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longer we were in NYC, the more we came to really appreciate being out there
that early and having nobody around so we could have a peaceful Rockefeller
experience, because there was not one other time that we went passed that place
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looking around and seeing the 30 Rock building, we saw that the Today show was
filming (they film there and we had no idea) and we saw a crowd starting to
gather, you know, like they do when it's on and there's people with signs and
stuff outside the windows? So we decided that since we had hours and hours to
kill, we may as well go over. We had to be security-checked, then we were led
to where the barricades are, and since it was the morning after Christmas, and
a Saturday, it wasn't too crowded. The regular weekday anchors weren't there,
but it was still such a fun experience! We got on TV twice just waving as the
camera went by (I cannot for the life of me find a video of it, I tried that
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<span style="font-family: "times";">We got a selfie with this anchor, no idea what her
name is but she was on for the entire time they were filming so I am assuming
she is on her way to take Matt Lauer's place when he retires :) She was very
nice and she was wearing the shortest dress and I am not sure how she didn't
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<span style="font-family: "times";">After this we decided we wanted to eat so we went
to a little bakery that my sister had recommended (her and her husband had gone
to NYC just a month before) and got some banana pudding that was divine, then
headed to a McDonald's because the bakery (and almost every other place we
would learn on our trip) had zero seating. Zip. The McDonald's had a 24-hour
security guy there just guarding the seating area, making sure you had
purchased food to sit. If you didn't buy food, you didn't eat. So we bought just
so we could sit. We had been standing the previous 4 hours straight. The
tiredness started to creep in here a little bit. We both kept passing out while
we sat in our booth eating, and we must've stayed there for an hour just trying
to wake up and get the energy to stand up again and walk for who know's how
long. I am surprised the security guy didn't kick us out, we totally looked
like bums, and we basically were that entire morning. We had nowhere to go, it
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<span style="font-family: "times";">The rest of the time was spent killing time by
going to The 30 Rock building where they film Jimmy Fallon (sadly he wasn't
filming for 3 weeks and part of that time is when we were there) and they had a
cool gift shop full of stuff from his show, The Today Show, Friends, and other
popular ones throughout the years that have been on NBC. They had tours you
could take of the studios, and I wish SO bad that I had thought about that
before our trip. They were all sold out the entire time we were on our vacation.
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shopped for a bit where we found matching hats, and we both got gloves and
scarves since we didn't bring any and figured we would need them. And luckily
we found a massive ottoman that wasn't occupied that we could sit on and rest
again. I am telling you, when I say there is no seating anywhere, there truly
is no seating. It's pretty sad that this ottoman was the best seat we could
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<span style="font-family: "times";">After resting a bit we walked around to a bunch of
stores they have around Rockefeller like The Lego Store, The Nintendo Store, we
went inside Saks 5th Avenue just to see what it was like, and I am happy to
report that there is no way, even if I was a millionaire, that I would shop at
those places. I think the cheapest thing that was in there was a Chanel
Lipstick which was $69, and all the stores ranged from Chanel to Jimmy Choo to
Kate Sommerville etc. It was nuts, and we felt extra awesome because we looked extra
awesome :) We were getting stared down left and right in that place. It was
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I've ever seen. St. Patrick's Cathedral. It's just right by Saks and it is
beautiful and huge! You could walk around inside for free and it was beautiful!
A bunch of people were lighting candles for loved ones and worshipping, but
there were tons of visitors like us just walking around looking at the
architecture, the gorgeous stained-glass windows and the massive nativity they
had in there. For some reason we didn't take advantage of sitting down in
there, not sure why. We left after an hour of admiring and kept
window-shopping, then I started to get extremely sick and tired (pregnancy will
do that to you, as will lack of sitting and sleeping) so we decided we needed
to sit and rest. We went to Rockefeller and inside where the shopping was and
down to the second level where they have tons of fancy schmancy restaurants
with a big open area full of tables you could sit at. Not one place to sit in
there. Not even the floor. It was crawling with people. People everywhere! I
wanted to die and so did my back! So we thought and the only place we could
think of was the Cathedral. So we made our way back to it and just went inside
and found our own little bench and rested. I fell asleep while Brett kept an
eye out for a good while. That Cathedral was the worst part of the trip. I had
a massive headache and stomach ache and just wanted to lay down and sleep. I don't
think I have felt that tired since I gave birth to Dylan. Then after a while we
decided we should probably eat because we hadn't eaten since 8am and it was now
2. One hour to go before check-in and sleep time. The only place that was
around that was close was a TGIF's. We gave in and went. Most ghetto and
disgusting TGIF's ever. We shared a meal and it still cost $40 and, as Brett
puts it, it tasted like thrown-up Spaghettio's with burn chicken in it. Not
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<span style="font-family: "times";">I am not sure if I mentioned this but, as it so
happened, the East Coast was going through a huge warm-front that is not normal
at all for this time of year. It was warmer there than Utah was (NYC: 45
degrees, Utah: 15 degrees), so that was really nice. A couple of the nights it
got super chilly, but this night wasn't one of them. We were really lucky to be
there when we were. I don't think I would've wanted to leave my hotel had it
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<span style="font-family: "times";">And of course, Times Square was just as crowded as
everywhere else. It was really neat to see though. They were busy setting up
for New Year's Eve so there were a bunch of stages being put up and there were
barriers everywhere already. It was cool to see it all being put together. And
we went shopping at the American Eagle there at 11pm since I accidentally only
brought the pair of pants with me I had been wearing all day. Gross. I needed
another. We walked up and down it and saw a bunch of things, but we knew we
would be going back and we were starving so we made our way to an Irish Pub we
saw on our walk to Times Square, and it was sooooo good! And way cheaper than
TGIF's. We really liked it a lot. Then we went back to the hotel and crashed
for the night. We did so much in one day that it was awesome, but being that
tired is no fun at all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">We woke up super early to go see the 9/11 Fountains and the Memorial Museum. That was the #1 thing I wanted to do while we were there, so we didn't waste any time. We woke up, got ready, grabbed breakfast at the Dunkin' Donuts that was right next to our hotel (the #5 on the menu was what I got every single morning...so yummy) then walked the few blocks to get our subway passes at Grand Central Station to head to lower Manhattan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times";">Grand Central Station is super gorgeous! It's amazing how many people were there, and especially how many armed soldiers there were all around that place. From when we walked in to when we got on the subway (which was only an hour since we got lost in that place 4 times before we actually found the right way to go, it's deceivingly small but it's HUGE!) we saw at least 30 of them standing around, with huge guns, and most with dogs too. It made me comforted and super nervous at the same time. Not sure if that's how it is all the time there or if it was just so close to NYE that they were taking extra precautions? The entire city was like that but with policemen. There were literally cop cars and armed cops on every corner. But anyways, I loved how historic this building was and how beautiful it was to look at, especially the ceiling! We kept talking about how much Dylan would've loved it because it had a ton of different star constellations on it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">Then once we finally had our tickets and finally found the right subway, we hopped on and rode the 15-minute ride to our stop. It was a small walk from there to the 9/11 site. It was so crazy being there and seeing all of it completed. The first time I went to NYC I went with my mom and my sister, and that was in 2004, so not too long after the attacks. Where the fountains are now there was just one massive hole in the ground, it was fenced off, most of the buildings surrounding the hole were under construction from 2001 still, and there were still signs family and friends had made to find missing loved ones from attacks. It was devastating being there the first time. I remember bawling as I read all the papers and seeing all the pictures. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">It was so surreal being there. It makes it so much more real when you see all the names that are engraved on the sides of the fountains. Seeing them made my heart ache, and seeing some that had "and her unborn child" next to them made me tear up. And seeing that someone had put a rose inside one of the names...these were all someone's sibling, friend, son or daughter, spouse and co-worker. So heart-wrenching. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">Trinity Church is known not only because it's extremely old and beautiful, but because it wasn't really affected when the attacks happened. It didn't need to have any cosmetic work done to it after the attacks like most of the buildings surrounding it, and it's just beautiful. It was cool to walk the grounds there. </span><span style="font-family: "times";">Wall Street was pretty neat too. I am not sure if you can even find "The Bull" in that last pic above, that thing was constantly surrounded by tourists taking pics with it's head and it's behind. this is the best shot I could get of it. We walked passed it a couple days later a few times and it was still just as nuts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">We spent a full 8 hours in there, and it wasn't enough time (and my back was killing me by hour six, so much so that I literally laid down on the floor at one point and did some lower-back stretches a couple of different times. I looked like an idiot, but I honestly didn't care by the time I actually did it). We had to rush through the last few rooms because they were going to close soon, so if you ever decide to go (which you NEED TOO!) I suggest going in the morning so you can have all the time you want. It's just incredible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">I will be forever haunted by some of the stories, voicemails and manuscripts I heard and read while we were in there. It was just tragic what those people went through. Words could never describe it. I loved how they put it together though. You could either go with a group that had a guide with it, or you could download an app that the museum had and follow along that way. We chose to do our own thing and just walk together. The way they have it set up is so perfect. I can't believe how many things they had from the attacks there. We weren't expecting to see and hear so many tangible things, much less expected to listen to voicemails from loved ones who were on the planes and in the towers. I just kind of thought you would see some things then mostly just hear narrations of everything from a third party. No no. they make it so real and so sobering that you can somewhat imagine being there and being in some of their shoes just for a small second. It's amazing and extremely heartbreaking. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">After we were done it was 9pm, and it was pouring. And we had no umbrella's. And I was starving! A side of me came out that evening that has never made itself known before. I didn't realize I could be such a monster when I am tired, wet, hungry, pregnant and have an extremely achy back that needs relief. I apologized profusely to Brett later that night. Poor guy. I became extremely onry extremely fast. I blame my pregnancy hormones for my impatience and behavior of being grouchy. It didn't really happen until after we got off the Subway at Grand Central Station.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">So we planned on waking up early to go to the Statue of Liberty this day. Didn't happen. That day of walking for 8 hours in the museum really did us in. We ended up sleeping in till' 10am (8am our time, we never fully adjusted to EST) then just took our time getting ready. My feet KILLED! I was extremely glad I only packed my white tennis shoes. They aren't the most stylish but I would've died in anything else. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">So after getting ready and grabbing our usual breakfast, we headed back down to the Wall Street stop to go get tickets to get to the Statue of Liberty. Before we did that we stopped at a little Asian cuisine restaurant right on Wall Street and it was super yummy. And we were super lucky to find a seat in there since there were only 4 tables and there were at least 50 people inside eating...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">Once we were finished eating and we got to where you buy the tickets, we waited in line at one of the places we looked up online, and they wanted $40 per ticket. It didn't say that price online (it said $27) and we tried telling them that but they didn't care since there was an entire line behind us willing to pay the $40. We didn't want to pay that, especially since we had both done it before on previous family trips. So we ended up bagging that idea and went to the Brooklyn Bridge. I have always wanted to walk it and see it, and it was so fun to walk hand-in-hand with my sweetheart and see the city from a far. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">This day was super chilly, probably the most chilly day of all the days we were there. But, it was still so fun. But, be warned if you ever walk on this bridge though. There is a lane for bikes, and a lane for people on foot. There were multiple people we saw get run into by bikers because they were in the bike lane, no joke. It was hilarious but super sad at the same time. So I was paranoid and made sure we stayed inside our lane. Another thing you may notice if you go to the Brooklyn Bridge, or any part of New York City for that matter is that everyone and their dog owns a selfie-stick. Everyone but us that is. I actually wanted to get one the first day we were there because I thought it would be helpful, but Brett refused. I am glad we didn't now because they got super annoying to be around and that everyone had them, but it was pretty amusing. We ended up only walking halfway on the bridge because it's massive and I didn't want to go the whole way, and I wanted to warm up, so we headed back to go to our next destination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">China town. That place is one of a kind. I don't really understand why there's an entire "town" that is full of the same 5 shops that just keep repeating themselves? There were purse and bag shops, perfume shops, jewelry/belt shops and little trinket shops. That's it. Pretty funny and EXTREMELY ghetto. Brett says that's the place he felt most unsafe, which is odd because I didn't. I mean it was pretty darn ghetto, but there were so many people that I was okay. We got a Starbucks hot chocolate then set out to do some shopping. I can't tell you how many times I got hounded to buy a purse as we walked down the street there. At first I was totally cool saying "no thanks," but after the 22nd time being asked to buy brand-name purses, I got a little curious. So I finally told the lady that asked that I wanted to see them. She pulled out a huge pamphlet and inside were Calvin Klein and Michael Kors purses. Anyone who knows me knows I LOVE Michael Kors. And the bag I have been wanting for 3 years was in that pamphlet. She said she wanted $60 for it, and I am surprised at how well I bartered with her. She wouldn't budge below $50, so I said I didn't want one and we walked away. An hour later we were getting ready to head back to the subway and the same lady came and I said she would do $40. Sold! So I said I wanted to actually see the purse in person before I bought it. You would think I told her I wanted to buy drugs...because the next thing we knew was she was taking us to a small corner that was somewhat secluded and she called a number and we waited for 10 minutes. Then all of a sudden some dude in all black came with a bag in hand, handed it to the woman as he walked passed her and slid into the night. It honestly looked like a drug deal. It was bizarre. Then she pulled the purse out of the bag and sure enough, it was legit, or at least it felt and looked exactly the same as the one I have been coveting. The name was spelled correctly, the coloring of everything was the same as the ones I had seen in the store, it was heavy-duty. It was gorgeous. And it had to be mine. It's now siting in my room and it's my favorite. I don't care if it's not legit, it looks like it and I just love it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">After China Town we hopped on the subway to another place my sister recommended called Eataly for dinner. It's an Italian shop/restaurant that's massive and it was AMAZING! It's right by The Flat Iron Building and had an awesome view of The Empire State Building. After walking around inside of it for a while we decided we were starving, so we sat down and ordered what the waiter recommended, which was a meat and cheese platter with unlimited bread. It was cheaper than any of the other meals we had ordered (besides the pub) on our trip and it was BY FAR the best thing we had eaten yet. Fresh, yummy, filling and divine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">The waiter kept asking if we wanted wine, and he thought we were super weird because we kept saying we were okay with just water. It was so good though. Mmmmmm. Then after that we were pretty pooped so we headed back to the hotel to chill and FaceTime Dylan until bedtime, especially cause Brett had to go work his 5 hours the next morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">This was my favorite morning. The morning I got to sleep in and just watch reruns of the Kardashians and Housewives while Brett went to fulfill his work duties. I didn't love wasting time in the hotel, but my back and feet were in dire need of a break at this point. We were wishing we had saved the museum until one of the last days of our trip so our feet had time to get used to all the walking...I think by doing it our second day our feet were never the same. So it was nice to just chill in my jammies, watch some of my favorite shows and eat Peanut Butter M&M's that we had brought from our Christmas stockings. I did end up going down to grab lunch at a little cafe that was a little down the street from our hotel. All alone. I felt like such a New Yorker doing it all by myself :) And the cafe was Delish!!! It was like Zupas but about 10x as fancy but the price was the same. I was pleasantly surprised by the food. I took it back with me to my hotel to enjoy while I finished up an episode of RHOBH before I got ready for the day. And by the time I was ready, Brett had come back. It was just the perfect morning/early afternoon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">Then from there we left to walk down passed Times Square to go Ice Skating in a place called Bryant Park. Oh! This night was one of my favorites! Ice Skating in New York City has always been a fantasy of mine, and it was so fun to live it out with my sweetheart. We decided to skate here because A) it was close to us and we could walk there B) because it was only $20/person to skate and C) Bryant Park is amazing and the rink was surrounded by the most quaint little shops and a carousel. It was amazing!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">And we didn't know this until after we filmed the videos below, but it was super off-limits to do that while skating. We saw 2 separate people get kicked off the rink for filming videos while they skated...not sure why? It was extremely crowded but I don't think it called for getting kicked out. Luckily we were sneaky and we didn't even know it. And ps sorry there are a billion videos, I just wanted to add them because I am journaling this trip for us to look back on :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">It was honestly the funnest 2 hours! We weren't cold and we just had so much fun! Afterwards we walked through some of the shops then decided to get sushi for dinner. There was a pretty famous sushi restaurant across the street called Koi, and we decided that since Brett had perdiam that day that we would splurge. The place was super fancy and the sushi was divine! </span></div>
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And what was really cool about it is that there was an entire massive section that was full of the LDS church saying "A Savior is Born" and had the links people could go to to find out more about us. It was so cool! I wonder how much the church spent to have it there. It wasn't part of the electric signs, it stayed the way it looks below 24/7. Most of the signs there are either for the Broadway shows or they are electric billboards that shuffle through a bunch of different ads and videos. Not these, they were there to stay. It was awesome!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times";">This day was SO fun! I mean it was all fun but this one sticks out to both of us. We woke up, checked out of the hotel (they held our luggage for us for the day) then we headed on the subway down to the Staten Island Ferry. I read the night before that if you wanted to see The Statue of Liberty but didn't want to pay, to take the Staten Island Ferry. It's completely free and you sail right passed the ol' broad. So that's what we did. It was so fun and a quick ride there and back, about 20 minutes each way.</span></div>
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Then after our little ferry boat ride, we booked it up to The Freedom Tower because we had a call time on our tickets for 11am. If you don't know what it is, it's a tower that was built on the 9/11 grounds and you go in and you can go to the very top and see the entire city from the top. It's the tallest building now in NYC. And it's gorgeous!</div>
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It kind of stunk because it was pretty darn cloudy that day, and they kept warning us that it was and that we could exchange our tickets for a less-cloudy day, but since we were flying out that night, we didn't have a choice. And we could still see, but not nearly as far as you normally can (which is 30 miles out by the way). </div>
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After this we went and ate at one of the places I've always wanted to eat: Shake Shack. I see it on movies all the time but have obviously never been because it's not in Utah. It was worth the 40 minute wait in line. It was SO good!!!!!</div>
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After this we went and jumped on the subway to do our last and final rendezvous but one of the funnest things on our trip: A petticab around Central Park. This, my friends, was worth every penny. It was so fun, extremely informative (our guide was awesome) and we saw SO much of the park we wouldn't normally see because that place is HUGE! It was so fun to be able to sit and ride around while we learned about so many monuments and saw so many historic and famous sites and places. And our guide/driver was awesome and made us jump out and wanted to make sure we got pictures of us at all the sites he thought were the most famous and beautiful. It was so great! Sorry for all the pics in advance, it was just so beautiful and we loved it!</div>
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We only paid for an hour, but it was perfect, and our guide was nice and took us for 80 minutes and didn't charge us more (so we tipped him extremely well to make up for it but it was worth it). And if you didn't recognize that last pic, that is The Plaza, the hotel from Home Alone 2. It looks the exact same, at least on the outside and where the guests go in and out. They have security guarding the entry and only those staying at the hotel are allowed inside. But it was so fun to see it! And, if you couldn't tell from the pics, the park is just insanely gorgeous. It was nuts how many people were running there and just how many people are there in general on such a chilly day. I guess it wasn't cold for NYC though so that's probably why. It was so fun and one of the highlights of our trip.</div>
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After this we had to go back to our hotel and get to our Uber to get the JFK in time for our flight. It was so fun to make the most of our last day and not have to worry about traveling until later, although by the time we got back to the hotel and picked up our luggage and were driving to the airport I was more any than ever just to be home and see Dylan. We left on the 30th, and the streets were completely packed with people gearing up for New Year's Eve. We were so happy to be getting out of there by that point. It took us 40 minutes to walk to our hotel from Rockefeller Center (where we got off the subway) when two days prior it took us 10 minutes to get there. The streets were NUTSO! </div>
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This trip was one that both of us will never forget and one we are so grateful we had. Not only was it fun to do so much in so little time and see so much and experience so many things, but it was fun to have a little baby moon before our second little one comes. Although we missed Dylan like crazy, it was such a blessing knowing he was in good hands and having fun, and that we were able to have so much fun with just each other for a few days. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-55234394959325897442015-11-01T20:42:00.000-07:002015-11-01T20:44:21.875-07:00What's been going on...Oh hey there! <strike>You probably have been wondering where I've been </strike> you probably don't care where I've been, but I'll tell you anyways.<br />
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I survived Summer semester. I LIVED!!!!!! I know, right?! I still can't quite believe it myself. I truly didn't know if I was going to make it, especially at the end there. It was honestly the Summer from Hell. And I am not even exaggerating. Doing math all day/every day for 3 months straight is not the way to live life if you don't want to be borderline suicidal folks. Just sayin'. It was so bad. You don't even know. And there is no way I can express it in words to do it justice how awful it was. So glad it's over. So, so glad.</div>
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Fast forward to the present. I have been in Fall semester for a good 9 weeks now, and life is crazier than it's ever been before. I am taking 15 credits (my last math class, Statistics, included) and on top of those credits I am taking two internships, which are two separate nights each week. I go Tuesday and Thursdays in the morning while Dylie is at school, drive back home in time for him to get home, then I drive back down to Orem both nights to go to my internship. Then I am there most of the day Saturday for my weekend classes. Yep, I am officially and certifiably crazy. And I feel like a recluse. But somehow, as crazy as it sounds, this semester is still way better than summer was. I don't feel like I need to be in a straight-jacket so that's a good feeling. I feel super overwhelmed, and burnt-out and just want it to be over, but I'm not crying every day from wanting to kill myself. And I am also happy to report that I've been able to get back into my gym routine that I completely lost over the summer, so that's good. I go 2-3 times a week (that's all the time I have) but I am there for longer than I usually was before so its good. I lost a lot of stamina since I wasn't able to make it this summer, but it is a good stress reliever and it makes me feel healthier so that's nice. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dylan</span> has been back in school which has been amazing. He loves going (he goes 4 days a week) and he is constantly telling me everything they learn about and sing about while he's there, and the littler friends he plays with. He is getting better and better with his speech and sentences. He is really starting to be better at answering questions he's asked, and using full sentences, which has been awesome to see! We are still trying to work on how clearly he talks sometimes (he likes to talk so quickly at times that you can't catch what he says) but he is improving so much and we are so grateful for that. It's awesome be be able to communicate with him almost fully! We are so proud of him. And it's so good to see him love school. I know that won't last, so I will eat it up while I can. He has been SUCH a trooper with my crazy schedule. It's amazing how patient he has been with having to drive down to Provo with me several times to meet Brett (if that's where he's working that week) or to just be good to entertain himself while I am planning lessons for my internship or doing homework or Face-timeing with study groups. He's one in a million. We just couldn't love him more or be more thankful for him.</div>
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So don't worry. This post was first titled "Halloween 2015" cause I wanted to blog about halloween, but then it turned into an update post. So I'll just leave it as is and post about Halloween in a few. I hate that I haven't been keeping up on here. I need to be better so I can remember, especially this time in our lives. It's so hard and it sucks majorly, but it will be so nice when it's all done to look back on it all and relive it and think "if we made it through that, we can make it through anything." That's how I feel right now. I don't know what I'll do with myself when this is all over. I am so used to being so jam-packed with stuff going on, that when it's all done, I don't know if I'll love it or if I'll miss it. I guess we will see next Summer :) And if you made it to this point, you are awesome! </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-56665290260497826332015-07-28T22:58:00.000-06:002015-07-28T23:55:27.667-06:00life moves pretty fast...There's a movie that I enjoy way more than I should. You may have heard of it. It's called "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." For those of you who haven't seen it, do it today. Not only is it hilarious, a classic, and not to mention one of my favorite movies of all time, but it also has some really good points and really good advice (and also some very poor advice and terrible ideas...but don't let that stop you from seeing it, cause it's basically amazing). One of the best and truest quotes from the movie is the very last line that Ferris says.<br />
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"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around every once in a while, you could miss it."<br />
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I have not known the true meaning of that quote until today.<br />
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You may have noticed I haven't blogged for a while. Like 2 months while. That wasn't planned, and I am sad it's been that long. I started getting on a roll again...then life happened. School happened. Math happened (Damn you whoever invented 1010!) STRESS up to my eyeballs happened. Taking way more credits than I could handle at once in a Summer semester happened. And no, I am not out of the woods yet. I am 2 weeks away from finals. Let me just tell you how excited I am about that...like so excited I would rather buzz-my-head-than-go-through-the-next-two-weeks excited. Seriously. It's going to be Hell. As if I haven't already been in a personal one for the last 9 weeks. My gym routine has suffered. My waistline has suffered. My eating habits have suffered. My mothering has suffered. My allegiance to The Bachelorette was completely non-existent. My body has suffered. My social life has suffered. My sex life has suffered. My free slash me time has suffered. My time to make meals for my family every night has suffered.<br />
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I am telling you. This semester has really thrown me for a loop in basically every way possible, and sadly, my families too. I never knew it was possible to have THIS much homework. It's endless, and I do not use that word lightly. It's so endless that each day when Dylie and I get home from school (he is up at the daycare/preschool up there with me) and we walk in the door he says "Are you doing homework now?" You know it's bad when your kid notices and knows exactly why you are pulling your computer out of your backpack. That's how much it's overtaken my life.<br />
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Well today, for just a tiny moment, I remembered what it felt like to feel normal, free, and like myself. Not like the robot I've become. I woke up and went to the gym (haven't done that in 2 months. I've worked out at home twice this summer, but going to the gym makes me push myself way harder). Burned 700 cals running and lifting. I cannot tell you how wonderful that felt. I felt like a new woman. Came home and showered, got ready, then Dylie and I went to meet some of our bestest friends at the park for a playdate.<br />
Karlie and her family moved to Arizona last month, and we were devastated. They were our buddies we would hang with at least once a week, usually more, for the last 3 years. Karlie and I are super close, and are basically the same person in two separate bodies. We have the same humor, and can talk for days without stopping or without not having anything to discuss. She is that type of girl, and you don't find those very often. And her kids, Bentley and Chloe, are 6 months older than Dylie. They have been friends since they can remember. We started hanging out since they were under a year old. It's been hard on Dylan not seeing his best friends each week, and since he doesn't quite get the concept of "moving," it's even harder to hear him asking to play with "Benny" almost every day. So seeing them today was the biggest TREAT ever! We were together for 4 glorious hours, and there was non-stop laughter and hugging and playing and soaking up the friendship we all have.<br />
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Then it was time to go, Dylie and I stopped and got Swig (can't not do that when I'm in Draper) and came home. Cooked Dylan dinner since Brett wasn't home yet, put Dylan to bed, then videochatted with my sister for a bit. Brett got home with dinner. A welcome home hug and kiss quickly turned into a much-needed rondezvous, then we had dinner afterwards (if you haven't had a salad from Village Baker you are missing ouuuuuut!) and watched an episode of Grey's (we are on Season 8 right now and are both addicted....so good!) and instead of doing one of my 99 sections of math that are due on Saturday (yeah you read that right, 99 sections. That's over 300 math questions. Barf), I am writing this blog, because today was too special not to document.<br />
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Now it may sound like my day was just you average day to some of you. It used to be for me, so I get it. But you see, that's what was so special about it. For the first time in 9 weeks, I didn't think about my homework or stress about it. For the first time in 9 weeks, I didn't say to Dylan "Mommy's gotta do homework now...what show do you wanna watch?" For the first time in 9 weeks I didn't think about the two miscarriages we have suffered through in the last 5 months, one being just a few weeks ago. I didn't wake up and immediately start doing math. I didn't rush home from whatever I was out doing so I could get to my homework.<br />
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I was me. I was Kate. I was a mom. I was a wife. I was patient. I wasn't stressed. I was alive. I laughed with one of my best friends, and not just laughed, but cried laughing several times. I made love. I worked out. I kissed bruises. I sang songs with my son in the car. I read a story and cuddled with him before bedtime. I read my scriptures. I enjoyed my day. I didn't put my homework above what is most precious. I became familiarized again with who I am, and how good my life was before school came into the picture and corrupted my easy-street day-to-day life. I was smiling. I was happy. I was ME.<br />
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I wish I could just fold up today and put it in a tiny box to open whenever I am feeling nervous the weight of school on my shoulders from homework, school and tests. I wish I could open it and see the person who I was today and remind myself that she is still there, deep under the stress and the emotional roller coaster of emotions she is feeling on a daily-basis, she is still there. I am still here. My carefree bubbly happy self is still here, and I hadn't even realized I had lost her until this evening.<br />
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I am grateful for today. I am grateful for the answer to so many tear-filled prayers, and I am grateful to a friend who truly helped me feel myself again. I am grateful to a husband who is my absolute rock, and does anything and everything to put me first and to support me, even when he takes a big brunt of the endless stress I feel. I am grateful for a son, who, even after having to live through a lot of mood swings that have been caused by my intense school schedule and it's affects and have had nothing to do with him whatsoever, still wantse to hold him, play with him, cuddle with him, never leave him, is the most polite and sweet boy and calls me his best friend. He shows me what unconditional love really means. And I am grateful for friends, especially ones who go out of their way to make you feel special and loved. More on that in another post, probably my next one.<br />
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Today was a gift. I needed today more than I ever could've known. Taking a day to just be me, and to feel like me put so many things back into perspective that were so out of focus. School is important, but I am more important than the homework. My son is more important than the homework. My husband and my friends and being a mother is more important, and I now realize that it's okay to choose sanity and wellbeing over deadlines and homework once in a while if it means you are going to be happy with yourself in the end.<br />
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Danke schön, Ferris. Danke schön.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-48794235004122340202015-05-28T10:23:00.003-06:002015-05-28T16:33:56.283-06:00just keep swimming...So i am going to be really optimistic here. If you are a mom (or anyone for that matter) and thinking about going back to school to get your degree, don't do it. Just..don't. Stay away! Stay far far away! Save yourself the time, energy, the money (oooooh the money!) and stress and just stay home with your littles (or your tv) and live your life and love the fact that you didn't put yourself through an absolute fire full of misery,<br />
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Okay, i may be exaggerating by a tiny hair, but honestly, not really. What am I doing? Why am I doing this to myself? I truly feel like I had some sort of death wish and this was my perfect plan to bring it to life. I am on week #3 of summer semester and I am, and have been since day 1 of the semester, feeling like I am going to drown. It's taking all I have to stay above water and to be able to breathe; sometimes I lose air. I am losing air with each massive assignment that keeps coming my way and that keeps piling on. In those moments I honestly curse the world for not giving me a brain like Steve Jobs or Tony Stark or Bill Gates...just able to do anything and everything and feel and be super smart at everything I do. Oh what I would give to have a brain like that. But no, I feel like my brain is the size of a marshmallow and absorbs all the information I am learning about like a marshmallow would...hardly at all.<br />
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I have talked to several of my classmates (and new friends :) who are all in the same boat as me and all agree with the fact that this is definitely the hardest semester of our college careers. Not only is the block (there are two in the semester of Summer, block A and block B, and both are 7 1/2 weeks long) almost halfway over (that thought only makes me want to pee a little...it terrifies me) the courses that we are taking are the <b>exact</b> same courses as they would be in a regular semester, they are just almost 1/3 of the time. Same course, same curriculum, same assignments. What they don't tell you is that the stress level isn't the same as a regular semester...it goes up by about 100 fold. They don't take out any assignments, tests, readings or lectures. It's all there, and I am left sitting here each night wondering why I decided to torture myself in this way.<br />
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But, as miserable and as lousy and as hard as the last few weeks have been (and will continue to be), something amazing has been happening. I have been proving to myself that I really can do more than I thought was possible to take on all at once. I am somehow (by the grace of God) making it all work. I am getting A's on assignments that are ridiculously hard, I am ahead of schedule in my math class (WHAT?!), I have made friends and have been able to learn from them and grow from them already (I never used to socialize in college classes, probably because the classes were ginormous, these classes have an average of 15 people in them which is so nice), I am attending each class (driving the 35 minute drive down and back 3x/week in terrible construction) and feeling really good about what I am learning and understanding at least some of what I am learning. I am in the 4300 level classes, and those are not easy my friends. And they definitely aren't easy in a block semester, so I am kinda rocking my own world for a hot minute. And on top of all that, I am actually reading my assigned readings. I have never before done this (and I somehow wondered why my grades weren't so great). I am not going to sugarcoat it; reading them sucks, and being quizzed on them (hence why I am reading them) sucks even more. But, it pushes me to get my booty in gear and make time to do the reading and highlight and soak in what I am reading. I have never, <u>EVER</u> been like this before in my life. Not in middle school, not high school and most definitely not in my first few years of college.<br />
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Something has changed in me...maybe it's that I've actually matured in the way of education, and seeing how my time and money are super important to me, I don't want to screw it up. I want this to be a good experience, and I want to do the best I can. I even cancelled a family trip we had planned over Memorial Day to the Grand Canyon because I had a buttload of homework and I felt that was more important than my fun family getaway. Like, who does that? Nerds do, that's who! And I am proud to have become one. It feels so good to stay on top (and ahead) of my classes. It was so worth canceling. It would've been amazing, but I got so much done it was well worth the wait, and to know when we go someday I won't have homework in the back of my mind the entire time stressing me out. It could wait. The homework, as sad as it is to say, couldn't. When I was in college before I never would've made that decision. I'm telling you people...Growth! Maturity! They have finally found me. Oh, did I mention that I got straight A's last semester???? Yeah, I couldn't really believe it myself so I am not surprised if you can't either. But it's true. What is happening? I'm getting A's, running in races and getting up at 5:45am 3 days a week. Something is not the same here. A switch has flipped.<br />
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Something is driving me. I am not sure what it is....Brett gave me a blessing before this semester started because I was terrified of what was to come (oh if only I had known the sheer terror and horror that lay before me, had I known I wouldn't even be in this mess) and since then, in the last few weeks, I have had a drive and a force pushing me to be better, do better and try harder, all while feeling tired, stressed and like I want to give up at times. It's such a weird and crazy feeling...feeling both happiness and stress in the same moments. I truly am so stressed out of my brain that I honestly at times swear I can feel it frying like bacon, but I am so happy at the same time. I wish I could explain it. I have a love/hate relationship with it. Maybe this is what it feels like to be pulled and stretched like they talk about in General Conference? You know that something called growing and how they say it helps us reach our full potential one small step at a time? Maybe this is what that feels like. Such a strange but amazing and hard feeling to feel all the time.<br />
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The one thing that has suffered is my consistency at the gym. Sadly something had to be bumped while I adjusted to school and the reality of how much time it takes from my life, and that has been the one thing that I have needed to incorporate back into my routine. I was going 4-5 times a week before I started this semester, and I have now been exactly 0 times since I started school. I plan on getting back into it at least 3 times a week starting next week, but it's also been a learning experience to know that I can survive and still feel okay if I don't make it to the gym all the time. But what I miss about it is how good it made me feel and how much it helped me cope with stress (and boy I could definitely use a stress-reliever right about now) and how much energy I had because of it. I have found myself getting much more tired these days, and I know it's because I have not been getting any sort of workout in. Gotta get back to it! Even if I need to wakeup earlier or stay up a little later, I know it will be better for my brain and stress levels.<br />
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I do not write this to boast or brag. Trust me, I know I could be doing this with a happier attitude most of the time and could be doing much better in both the mom and wife department. I am working on that; juggling both time for school and family. It's not easy but I am starting to think I am getting the hang of it all.<br />
I am writing this because I want to remember this, and maybe encourage those who are either going through something they feel is impossible, or thinking of embarking on something they don't think they can do. I am sitting here in my piles of homework and laundry and telling you YOU CAN DO IT! I truly think that if I had known beforehand how hard this summers courses were going to be, I don't think I would've done it. I think I would've taken time off and taken a year longer to finish school, even though that would've stunk too. So in that regard, I am so grateful and thankful that I didn't know what I was getting myself into. And I think thats how it is with all the hard things in our lives...we don't know how hard it's going to be so we do it anyways and realize if we would've known how difficult it would be before we maybe would've thought twice first.<br />
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I am so grateful for this time in my life, as hard as I am making it for myself. I am grateful I am able to do all these things, and push myself to limits I never thought I could both mentally and emotionally. As hard as it is, I like feeling myself stretch a little bit. I like feeling like I am accomplishing more then I thought I could handle, all at the same time. I am by no means perfect at it, but just being able to keep above water is making me a little thrilled. And I know it will come to an end, and I will look back and be so happy I did it, and be a little in awe I juggled all of this and somehow managed to survive.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-75868136729047470372015-05-22T14:09:00.000-06:002015-05-22T14:11:02.670-06:00take me to the city...has it really been 6 years? how? i don't understand how time can feel like it goes so slowly, but at the same time feel like I can't catch up with it? anyways, 6 years ago my man and I got hitched! Well, technically it was 6 years ago three days ago, but you get the idea. Oh how I love that boy more and more every day. Yep (saying with a long sigh), I am one lucky girl.<br />
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Anyways, I won't bore you professions of love and romance; I will instead tell you about how we chose to celebrate our love and romance this year: by going away! We were thinking St. George, maybe Vegas, or Park City even? But if you don't live under a rock and are within 200 mile of the Salt Lake Valley, you would know it's been raining, cloudy and cold the last few weeks, and there is no sign of it stopping. We thought St. George would be a safe place to get some heat, and Vegas for sure would get us out of this frumpy weather. Nope, they are getting hit by the cold rainy streak as well. And then when we looked at Park City and it said there was a chance of snow in the forecast while we were planning our trip, we definitely deleted that thought out of our brains right then. The point was to go away to get warm, not get colder. But, no such luck. So we decided to be easy and go to the capital of the beehive state: SLC. So we booked a room at the brand new Holiday Inn Express (the old Shiloh Inn for those of you who know your Salt Lake Hotels) since it had just opened a couple weeks previous, and they were having steal of a steal deals.<br />
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So we booked 2 nights (lucky for us Brett's awesome parents were in town and gladly offered to take Dylie for the weekend), got a substitute for our Sunday School class, got through a week of work and school, packed a whole lot of clothes (and a whole lot of lingerie that has been begging to be used since I am too exhausted with school to even think about touching it), and I worked my booty off to get the homework that was due over the weekend done before we left. And I'm telling you, once we got on the 1-15 freeway Northbound, we were free, and we knew it; we could feel it! Brett had just gotten back from Logan after a week of traveling (over his birthday no less:() the night before for work, so this was our first night back together after 4 nights apart, and what do you know, we were kidless! For a whole 48 hours! I was so excited I could've peed my pants. It was our night to paint the town red.<br />
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And we did alright, we painted it red. And maybe not the town, but our faces. From fighting. Couples do that sometimes ya know? They fight. And sometimes, in all their rareity, they sometimes happen n the most annoying circumstances. Like this one. Here we were on our one getaway we get a year without a child, and we were arguing. The details are not important but we had a fun little tiff that began in our car and lasted from precisely 9:30pm (just after finishing up dinner at an amazing BBQ restaurant called R&R BBQ, try it, it's a must) and didn't officially end until 12 hours later, and yes we did sleep in the middle of it. All great trips start out with a good fight...said no one ever. But, every couple does it, I am just choosing to be honest and open about it because that is how our weekend started, and it was good and fine and it was much needed. And then it was over and we came to a conclusion and we moved on from it and the rest of the weekend was pure bliss. Let me just tell you :)<br />
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Saturday morning we had a couples massage scheduled at A New Day Spa. It began with strawberries and bubbly...<br />
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Those strawberries are AMAZING. I need to call and ask where they get them from; I dream about them. Anyways, I have been there before for a massage and it was great. I even had a guy do it that time and it was fab. No weird things he did, didn't feel uncomfortable, and I was kinda hoping to get the same guy again. So our therapists come and greet us, take us to the room where the two beds are, tell us to get undressed and get under the sheets face-down...yada yada yada. One of them is a guy (not the same one I had before) and one's a girl. Brett would die before getting massaged by another dude, so I was fine taking the guy, and with him having the girl.<br />
So they come in and the massage starts. I don't have on any undergarments whatsoever (I never normally do) but oh my gosh do I wish I would've worn some! This guy wasn't weird by any means, but the massage I had was, I can't think of another word for it but bizarre. He was lifting up and moving my torso from side to side (think of interpretive dancing, at least that's how I picture it in my head) and pulling on my toes so hard I swear they were going to come off, then not to mention he didn't tuck the sheet under when taking my legs out to be massaged, and let's just say I could feel the sheet loosely flopping around. I am sure he saw my Britney. I may be over-exagerating, but it's hard to tell when your eyes are shut. Should I have said something? Probably, but it's awkward. Had he been an all-out creep I totally would've and wouldn't have thought twice, but, I don't know. Thinking back I wish I would've. Oh well, you live and you learn. Brett said he looked over like 4 times because he heard so much movement from my table. I have never before had a massage like that, and I hope I never do again. All that happened in the last like 15 minutes of it. Before that it was great, but man the last little bit I just wanted it to be done. It was bizarre. But, on the bright side Brett said his was amazing so I am glad he had a good experience.<br />
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After that we went and got lunch at City Creek's food court, took it back to our hotel and ate it in bed while we watched some Kardashian reruns on our TV. We don't have cable at my mom's right now so having TV was fun and new lol. Then we took a nap.....and then since it was pouring out, and had been since the morning, we decided to go down to the pool and hot tub. There was a sauna as well and that was really fun. What made it so fun was we had all 3 to ourselves, and not only that but the hot tub was massive! You could've fit like 3 regular sized hot tubs in there. It was awesome. So we hung out in the heat and played in the pool for a few hours.<br />
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Then that evening came so we showered and got ready, went and had an amazing sushi dinner at Simply Sushi (all you can eat sushi?? yes please!) and then had plans and a reservation to go hang out at a piano club, but we both felt a little lazy, and decided it would be funner to do that when we had more energy.<br />
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So instead we went to see a movie we have both been wanting to see ever since we saw the previews for it months ago...Pitch Perfect 2!<br />
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I had too. It wasn't easy since there were about 20 people watching me do this pose as Brett took my photo, but I just had too. I love these ladies, especially that blonde one to my left. Hilarious.<br />
This movie was so funny! We both loved it. There was a funny something every 5 minutes of that show I swear. It was so good! We highly recommend it. And then by the time we got back to the room it was midnight so we went to bed.<br />
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i kind of have a new obsession with Urban Outfitters. it came about the day we went in there. i am pretty sure i could hang out in there and buy everything that store possesses. mmmm so good. it was nice to be out and about, and not trying to hurry through the bad weather. it didn't last though, which was a bummer. it started raining mid-outing, so we decided that was a sign to head home. but it was a nice note to leave our getaway on...being out and free and just being together. such a fun, relaxed and easy weekend just enjoying each others company. i can't think of a better way to celebrate an anniversary.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-10835934432684918752015-05-13T23:24:00.000-06:002015-05-13T23:27:26.712-06:00just do it...so i run. i'm a runner now. in the words of TayTay, i never ever ever ever (<i>like </i><u style="font-style: italic;">ever</u>) thought i would ever say that sentence in my entire life. i run and i like it. i run! i.....run. i kinda keep saying it to convince myself that it's actually true. honestly, even 3 months ago if you would've told me that i was going to start running, and actually running long distances (in my opinion) i would've lol'd. so this is kind of a big deal.<br />
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for as long as i can remember, since the good ol' days at Jordan Ridge Elementary, when it was P.E. time and we had to run the mile (which was exactly 4 times around the rectangle shaped-field adjacent to the school) i would get sweaty. and not sweaty as in anxious and excited; my palms would be wet from the fear of knowing i couldn't do it, and knowing i hated it, and wishing with all my heart i had stayed home that day. i still remember running in the hot sun and thinking i would rather die then be doing what i was doing. same thing for middle school, and same thing for high school. running the mile was the absolute worst thing ever in my life; actually, anything that had to do with physical exertion made me want to hide and do anything but.<br />
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then, almost 4 years ago, i was fat and pregnant. before i got pregnant with Dylan i was already 25lbs heavier then i was when Brett and i knelt over an alter and promised eternity. let me tell you how good it felt to add another 30lbs with pregnancy. awesome i tell ya. no, it was mind-blowingly annoying and frustrating. after i had Dylan, i was still 35lbs above where i was when we got married. and for some reason, i don't know why, but laying around all the time eating fast-food and snowcones and ice cream and candy just wasn't helping me lose weight. my mind was boggled.<br />
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so after being sick of looking in the mirror and putting on clothes everyday that were much bigger then i wanted, i decided to join Weight Watchers. that program is the bomb! honestly, i highly recommend it. i never thought i would need a company to help me get to a size that i wanted; or, at least one that i recognized and could feel good with. before i got married, i had always eaten whatever i wanted and didn't bother to do any exercise ever. well actually, i would walk up the to go to my room after school....does that count? so it was honestly a shock for some reason that after i had Dylan 80lbs didn't just instantly drop. oh how niave young Kate used to be. i was never a stick before, but i was comfortable and confident in how i looked, so i never really cared to try and change my diet to look better. so thinking i would actually have to work for it seemed overwhelming. but when you hit a certain point that you just want to make a change, you are willing to do anything to achieve it.<br />
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Weight Watchers helped me drop 25lbs. in a few months. i was ecstatic! but, i still had 10lbs to go to get to my starting weight when we were first married. i am sure i could've lost more if i had kept 100% on track with it after that, but i got to a point where everything fit again that hadn't fit in a long while, and it was good enough. and what is so good about that diet program is that it really is a lifestyle change, so i was used to eating well and knowing about how many calories i should be eating to lose or stay where i was. but i wanted something to do during the day, so i decided i was going to get a gym pass to my local rec center and start working out. to this day i still have no idea where that idea came from, let alone my desire to do so, because remember that girl i told you about 3 paragraphs up? yeah, she was still there. but i wanted to and needed too. 3 years ago i stepped into that gym, and i have been going ever since. and what do you know? i lost those 10lbs, and have stayed within a 3lb. range since. but not only did i reach my goal, i love to exercise. it helps me deal with stress and relieves my body of it. i always have such a high after going. it's not always easy, and it's definitely not something i always want to do, but i always remember the feeling when i'm done and that drives me to keep going.<br />
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so after 3 years of going to the gym and trying different workouts and things, my best friend Katie, who knows i do this, is a runner. she runs half's, races and is doing the Ragnar this summer (<i>you go girl!!) </i>and we have always talked on and off about me doing a race with her. i've always laughed and given her the same response every time she asks "i hate running!" i would do any and every exercise at the gym but that. you know why? because when i thought of running, my mind would immediately go back to Jordan Ridge and remembering the exhaustion and dread i always felt when i did it. but after telling me she really wanted me to try it, and assuring me that i would just love it, i gave it a good thought for a couple weeks, and then, for some reason, i said i would. and just like that we signed up for a 10k that was a month and a half away. and since i was not a runner and had 6 weeks to train for a 10k, i knew i needed to get started fast. running and doing other exercises are in two different spectrums, and i knew this.<br />
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so i started out small. i did 10 minutes on the treadmill. by the time i got the clock said 00:00 i was ready to DIE! no joke. i couldn't believe i had already bought and paid for that race! if i had tried running before i signed up, there's no way i would've, so i guess it's a huge blessing i didn't. so after running 10 minutes, i ran another time a few days later and had a goal of making it to 12 minutes. i did and again, exhausted. but i kept doing that and adding 2 minutes until i got to 20 minutes then decided i would try to get to 30. it took a couple tries but i got there. then, Katie told me about an app called Nike + that tracks your miles and tells you when you hit a mile and....and i could go on and on. just get it, because that app was a lifesaver. my first run with it i ran 2.6 miles. after one time of using it it changed the entire way i looked at running. no longer was i trying to just make it for so many minutes, i was trying to make it for so many miles. crazy!!!! so the next time i ran i wanted to see if i could get to 3 miles, no longer caring about how much time i spent running. well 3 miles came and went, and i didn't feel tired, so i got up to 4.5 and i was shocked! then the next time i ran i wanted to hit 5 miles and i hit 6.5 miles! the craziest thing ever in my life i tell you. when i told my mom i did that she laughed in my face guys, that's how much everyone around me knows i <u>used</u> to hate running. but after doing it so much and hitting and smashing goals i never thought i could, i absolutely LOVE it! now i get on the treadmill and it's like "i will just run a few miles and see how i feel" when before that sounded like climbing Mt. Everest: impossible. now it sounds like a breeze, and i love that. but anyways, so i wanted to run a couple more times before our race and push myself a little more, but i caught Brett's cold and decided rest was better for me then pushing too hard a few days before the big run. i did run 2 miles the day before and felt like it was a breeze so that had to be good enough.<br />
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well, the day of the 10k arrived. oh, i should probably tell you that all my running before this race was a on a treadmill. A Treadmill people! thanks to my dumb cold i never got a chance to run on pavement even though i had planned on it knowing it was completely different then the road. and on top of that, the day of the race was 40 degrees and pouring rain. not just a sprinkle. like you need an umbrella type rain. so not only was i not used to running on pavement, but i definitely wasn't used to running in the cold with water spilling on my face the entire time. so i knew it was going to be a very interesting treat. but, being the changed woman i am with all this running loving, was excited and pumped for it. i was ready!<br />
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sidenote: i look less then happy in a lot of these pics. remember it was raining and freezing :) i was definitely happy to be here.<br />
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so Katie and i and her sister and her sister's friend who were doing it with us all got to the starting line, and the feeling of them counting down to the start was crazy! it was so thrilling, it's hard to explain. i got my music playlist i had made just for that race ready, said a prayer then the announcer said "GO!" and our whole race was off to run, in the rain in which we were all drenched already. Katie and i stayed together for the first mile and a half, then we hit a massive hill that i was not expecting and, since i hadn't ran on pavement, was not used too. so i told her to go ahead and i speed walked up it. we didn't run together the rest of the time, i was by myself for the next 5 miles. i ran the majority of it, but i did stop and speed walk a few times for a couple minutes or so, but then someone would pass me and it's crazy the motivation that gives you to start up again. and what was really great (enter sarcasm) was that it was raining so hard, that water obviously got into my ears and my headphones got soaked and stopped working halfway through. i NEVER run without music. so you can imagine how happy i was about that.<br />
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but i kept on keeping on, and one hour and ten minutes later i was crossing that finish line (which Brett and Dylan met me at by the way, how sweet are they to hang out in the cold and the rain? talk about heart-melting. so lucky to have their amazing support) and i have never been so happy to do something in my entire life. Katie and her sister and her friend were all there at the finish line waiting for me too. it was so fun to see them and hear them cheering me on as i got there. we hugged and had a little pow-wow about how amazing it was and how good we all felt we did. I was stoked that i got 1:10, because Katie, the avid runner she is, got 1:01. i was shocked to hear that i was only 9 minutes behind her, and only 4 minutes behind her sister and friend. wow, such a rush! **ps the first pic below you can see Brett behind me holding the orange umbrella.<br />
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gearing up for this race and doing it has changed my outlook on so many things. i can do hard things. i can run 6.5 miles, and like it! i can run without music and still make a good time. i can run outside and in the rain, and chilled to the bone. i can change my attitude towards something if i give it a chance (in most but probably not all things, but considering i never thought i would change my mind on this i would say i could probably on most anything i set my mind too). i am a runner, and i love it. i did it! i did my first 10k and didn't die! it was amazing. so incredibly challenging, but amazing. maybe the half in September? i'm debating it.<br />
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so... hello. my name is Kate and i am a real stinker when it comes to blogging. ugh. i really need and want to do this more regularly. i think about it almost every day but do i rarely sit down to post. that's what school does to you. i promise i am going to get better. i need too. i will so regret it later in life. </div>
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but on with the post. lots and lots has been going on around Hancock manor. here's a small update on us all:</div>
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<b>Brett </b>is in busy season. guys, i don't know how the H i am going to do this every spring for 4 months. it is the absolute <u>worst</u> having Brett working 50-60 hour weeks. i know that doesn't sound like a lot, but when you are the one at home waiting for him, it wares on you. it's a dang good thing that boy is obsessed with his job. it makes me happy that he is happy about it and doesn't mind going to work. with his last job he really dreaded it. it's so nice to see him be happy with his career. when he's not being the breadwinner he is being an awesome hubby and daddy. it's been so hard having him gone so much, but it does make the time when he is home so much sweeter. it's very true when they say that absence make the heart grow fonder. we started the Breaking Bad series a couple weeks ago, and that darn show has consumed every free minute we have after Dylan goes to bed. but it makes for some good cuddling and makes us even more grateful for the life we have.</div>
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<b>I</b> am in another semester of full-time university study. most of my classes are online again like last semester (such a blessing), but i have one class on Saturday mornings for 3 hours and it's been so weird being back in a classroom. it's been really good actually, and a nice ease into actually having to go to school, since i will have to go for every class after this semester ends. i can't believe how fast time is going. the semester is over in 5 weeks. eeeeeeeeek! then its on with summer semester. 20 credits this girl is taking! <b>20!!!!!</b> ah, i think i am in over my head but it should be good. right? the faster i am done with school the better. oh, and a few weeks ago i got rid of my Facebook account and took Instagram off my phone. i had been thinking about it for a while and finally i did it. i have LOVED not having them, especially Facebook. i honestly don't see me ever reactivating it. i spent so much time on there wasting away hours and hours of reading news stories that didn't matter and before i knew it, i was ignoring Dylan and homework and housework to read and be updated about things that don't matter. i haven't been tempted once to reactivate it, and i am so happy. Instagram on the other hand, i may put that back on. but, it's been nice to be out of the social media world for a while. i have needed a cleanse from being so involved in other peoples lives and just being focused on ours. other things have been going on, and i will blog about that soon. for now i just wanted to do a quick update. oh, one more thing. i bought a hat (photographic evidence below). i've wanted to for a while but thought i would never wear it, but one day i found one for a steal and couldn't resist. i'm kinda in love with it, and am not sure why i didn't buy one a long time before now. if you don't own one, go make the purchase. take the plunge. you won't look back.</div>
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and <b>Dylan </b>is just loving being in school three times a week. he is learning and growing so much because of it, and it makes us so happy to see his progress. we are still working on full sentences (using connective words. example, instead of just saying "have some snacks" we are helping him to say "can i have some snacks"). he is still so fun and so sweet, and loves playing with his little friends. i am so lucky to be his mom and to have him as my sidekick all day each day. the only thing that drives me a little up the wall is that he says "mom" almost every 10 seconds all day long. i don't mind when he has something to ask or tell me, but half the time he just says it out of nowhere for no reason. thats when it drives me a little mad, but it's really helping me to exercise my patience. i'll miss it when i am in school 3 days a week this summer and he is at daycare. it's going to be weird, but good for him i think. he loves being around other kids and he learns so much from them. hopefully i don't go through too much separation anxiety. </div>
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and <b>all of us together</b>, we had a fabulous weekend. Brett didn't have to work Saturday (a rarity around these parts in the season of business) and class was canceled for me, so it was amazing to wake up and just cuddle and be lazy all morning. then, with the warm weather, we grabbed some lunch and headed to West Jordan park and spent all afternoon there. Dylan was red and sweaty after hours of playing, and he wanted to keep going and going. it was so fun to be with all 3 of us outside in the fresh air, and to have a family day. it's been a while since we have had that, and it was much needed. and Sunday was spent at church being fulfilled and energized spiritually and emotionally for yet another week of homework and work, then having hours and hours of cuddle time in our bed while watching movies and having tickle fights and singing songs and telling stories. ugh, i wish i could go back and relive it. it was one of those weekends. too bad it is now cold again and raining. </div>
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that's all for now. just wanted to do a quick update. there's more to write about and tell about, but for now just wanted to make sure i got this weekend put down in writing.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-66129512095793076682015-02-07T07:00:00.000-07:002015-03-23T21:58:31.074-06:00this little boy...yep. you could probably tell from the title, but this is going to be a mushy-mom-post. if you are a mom, you totally get it. your kids are your entire world, your everything. for those of you who aren't mom's (or parents), you probably get sick of us mom's writing and saying stuff like this. but we just can't help it! these little munchkins take up so much of our time, energy, sleep, thought processes and dreams that we just can't help but gush over them sometimes.<br />
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posts like this help me when I'm having hard mom-days. you know those days where everything is going wrong, you feel like a complete failure as a parent and you look up at God and whisper for the millionth time in that same day "i am a terrible mom." those days, thankfully for me, are getting rarer and rarer the older Dylan gets, because the older he gets, the more independent he gets, and that, in turn, gives me less opportunities to screw up throughout the day. but, those days happen. they happen to all of us. and when the good days come, i feel like i appreciate them so much more because of all the screw-ups, mess-ups and blow-ups my little guy has had to endure one time or another. i cannot express the guilt i feel on a constant basis and thinking "how did i get such an amazing kid? i don't deserve this little ball of unconditional love with a set of lips that spouts never-ending kisses and a mouth that constantly states "HI MOMMA!" and "I LOVE YOU MOMMA!" and has hands that constantly reach for mine whether we are in the car or on the couch." </div>
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i have been thinking about writing this post for a couple of weeks now, and it always occurs to me to write it after we put Dylan down for bed and we have done our sweet bedtime routine of brushing "teefies," reading a story and Dylan saying our family prayers (we say them and he repeats what we say. cutest.thing.ever) then hugs and kisses and some tickles, then putting him to sleep and as we walk out we say "goodnight" "love you" "see ya later" over and over as we walk out slowly and turn the lights out. he says each phrase back to us as we walk out. we have done this as long as i can remember (well, as long as he could say the words) and i fall in love with him all over again every night as i hear him say those phrases back to us. my heart literally melts. maybe it has to do with the fact of knowing we have 3-4 hours of free-time to do whatever we want before bed. or maybe it has to do with knowing he doesn't fight bedtime so it makes it much easier. whatever it is, each night as we walk back downstairs to continue our night while he lays in bed and drifts off to sleep, we, without fail, talk about what an amazing kid we have, and how we can't get enough of him and how we can't imagine life without him. every. single. night. that conversation happens. it's a renewal of love for our little man, who knows how to both drive us absolutely bonkers and make us melt in puddles of oooey-gooooey love for him. </div>
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so as i said, this is a mushy post (captain obvious) and i just wanted to say some sweet things about him that we love right now, and that we are proud of, and that we absolutely go crazy for about this kid. this is my favorite time right now. i honestly wish there was a way to freeze time, even if it was just for a moment, because if i could, i would do it right now. he is so fun, so sweet, so talkative but not to a point where he knows how to talk back, so hilarious and so darn cute. want to hear how crazy i am? i have literally thought about setting up cameras all around in each room and video for all hours of the day just so i can watch them in the future and remember how darling he is right now. yep, I'm a crazy mom. but i know this time is so short and it goes by so fast. i don't want it to stop. i don't want him to keep growing. i don't want him to change. wishful thinking. so instead of being a crazy psyho mom, i will just post a few favorite and fun things about him.</div>
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-loves school. mondays and wednesdays cannot come fast enough for this kid. the bus is his favorite thing in the world and on the days it doesn't come, he asks for it constantly. so grateful he loves learning and isn't afraid to be without me and is learning skills i can't teach him here at home. he constantly talks about his school "fwends" (friends) and how he loves to play with them.</div>
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-has the capacity to watch the same show over and over for weeks on end. nothing but the same.dang.show. no idea how he does it, but i would go bat-crazy. whatever floats his boat.</div>
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-has been potty-trained for over a month now. he basically learned all on his own and did it in one day. no joke. one day. in one month's time he has had 2 accidents. he is day and night trained. so grateful it wasn't a painful process and that he was finally ready, and once he figured out he was, it was a cinch. so freaking proud of him i could (and have, multiple times i might add) squeeze him until he grunts for air! </div>
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-loves babies. is obsessed with babies. acts like a baby just to make me laugh. can't get enough of every baby he sees. he.loves.babies.</div>
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-is starting to love to cuddle. yeah, i can hardly handle my excitement myself. he loved to cuddle when he was a baby, but for the last couple years he wanted nothing to do with cuddling. now he is on my lap all of sacrament meeting (and i don't have to force him, he actually wants to be there) and on the couch he just climbs on my lap. it's probably the best feeling ever.</div>
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-is talking more and more every day. i think it coincides with the being potty-trained thing. in the same week as the potty-training happened and was a success, he started saying SO much more. full sentences. and they just keep coming and coming. we are so happy and excited about this. it's so fun to talk to him all the time.</div>
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-still has strawberries and yogurt every single morning for breakfast. this has been his staple breakfast since the boy could eat solids. he loves it, and i love it because it's healthy. sometimes i feel bad that's all he ever wants for breakfast so i make him pancakes and he likes them, but given a choice, he always chooses the yogurt and strawberries. </div>
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-really really really really loves superheroes. it's all he talks about, thinks about and wants to be when he grows up. i guess its fitting since he pretty much is one in his own right.</div>
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-is a sucker for candy. will do anything and everything for it.</div>
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-loves to think and say everything is beautiful. "those trees are beautiful!" he says. "those lights are just beautiful!" he exclaims. oh you should've heard him every time we drove at night around christmas time. for hours that's all he would say in the car while we drove passed houses and businesses. "those christmas lights are so beautiful!" i had soup for a heart every night when we'd get home.</div>
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-has a fetish for waiting until i least expect it, then backs up as far as he can and then darts as fast as he can, making a b-line for my legs and giving me the most ginormous hug around my thighs while almost knocking me over in the process. one of my most favorite things he has started doing.</div>
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-says the funniest phrases (like point above) and i have no idea where he hears them. maybe i say them and don't realize it and he says them a few days later? maybe he gets them from movies he watches or from school and the other kids? no idea. but we love it.</div>
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-still goes to bed early (6:30 or 7) and wakes up around 7:45 each morning. we love him for this. we know that's not the norm for most kids his age, and we constantly thank him by not changing the routine in hopes it doesn't change anytime soon.</div>
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-likes to put himself in time-out. no idea why. but when he's done something he knows he shouldn't have done, he will go put himself on the stairs and serve his full 3 minutes in silence until we come get him. </div>
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-wants me to hold him all of the time. this i don't mind at all. i soak up every time he asks, and sometimes even beg him to let me do it because i know, since he is already half my height, the time is limited i will be able to do this. i am sure we look so silly, me holding what looks like a 5-year-old while we walk through the store or a museum, but i love it way too much to care. he's my baby, and i love holding him. i'll hold him for as long as he will possibly let me.</div>
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-loves to sing songs. his favorites are "let it go" (no idea when he will actually let that one go), Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, twinkle twinkle and the eensy weensy spider.</div>
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-has a sixth sense for when i'm sad. he can be anywhere in the house doing anything and when i cry, that kid has a radar and comes running to save the day and wipe my tears and to give me a get-better cuddle and hug. this has happened multiple times. and it's not like i'm wailing or anything. he senses feelings. i love that about him.</div>
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-was a jedi in another life. every time he gets out of the bath he has to have his "jedi-cloak" or as the rest of us call it, his towel. he has to have it on his head and wrapped around him while we (he and I) hum the Star Wars theme. then he has to stand on the toilet so he can have a full-body view for himself with his jedi-cloak on and he sings the song again while he smiles and looks at himself. most entertaining part of my morning.</div>
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-and finally, this little boy is patient. he's a teacher. he's a lover, not a fighter. he's a friend. he's brave. he's so well-mannered. he's a momma's boy. he's Brett's doppleganger. he has my eyes, and he has Brett's heart. we are so blessed and constantly amazed at how much we love him and how much he makes us laugh and we are always in awe of how we really don't deserve him. we have no idea where he came from. we have a piece of heaven in our home with us, and we know it. i always say to Brett "he has set the bar SO high, almost too high, for the rest of our kids. i don't see how they will ever measure up in cuteness or personality." i know i say that only because he's all we've known, but that's how i feel. i don't see how another kid could be as cute or as good or as sweet as him (basically how every parent feels about their own kid). hopefully i am pleasantly surprised when the rest of them come along :)<br />
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so on those bad days, you know those ones we all go through where we feel like the worst moms in the world? i will look back on this and hopefully it will remind me that, although he may have given me H that day, deep down under all of those tantrums, fits, crying and wailing and gnashing of teeth, there is a sweet little boy who means more to me then i could ever express in words. he's there, and i need to remember that. and i need to remember that he is so patient with me, and he deserves the same. because we all have bad days, what matters is how we handle them and how we get through them. </div>
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you guys. i know it's been a while. let me just tell you, the holidays kicked my butt! i got sick over both Thanksgiving (barfing and a tummy ache the whole weekend) and Christmas Eve through after New Years (Bronchitis is the worst!!! don't get it). and on top of all that, i was finishing up my first semester back at school. i am happy to say it was a success :) so i am sorry i have been MIA. i have been so busy i haven't even been able to make sure my legs are staying shaved haha (sorry Brett ;) </div>
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but, i just had to blog about this AMAZING session that Brett and i had with Lisa Miller Photography. i had been thinking about maybe getting photos taken for our 5th anniversary (which was back in May) but we were so busy this summer moving and getting ready for school to start for two out of the three of us, that i kind of just forgot to do anything about it. but then, my good friend and incredible photographer friend had a giveaway back in October for a free portrait session, and i entered, and i won! i was so excited, especially since i never win anything ever! it was the perfect opportunity to not only do the photoshoot i wanted to do, but to do something completely out of the box and something i have never done before. i wanted a more timeless and old-hollywood type feel for our shoot, and to say we succeeded is an understatement. Lisa was amazing at helping me pick out the perfect outfit and helping me bring my vision to life. we just got our photos back a few days ago and we love love love them!! </div>
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a special thanks to Tori Plant for doing my makeup, and to Bottles and Blooms for my amazing flower crown. i was obsessed with that thing and wore it the rest of the day. so sad real flowers can't last forever. and the biggest thank you and shout out to Lisa Miller Photography!! i have loved her stuff for so long, and she just gets better and better with every shoot she does. i was so thrilled to have her shoot us. we couldn't love these any more. thanks again girl! you are the best! we will treasure these forever!</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-55160176379835356862014-10-28T08:30:00.000-06:002014-10-28T10:09:21.738-06:00Florida part lll: the beach, Disneyworld & going homeso if you thought the last post had a lot of photos, you ain't seen nothing yet. this post probably has triple the amount of photos. we took lots and lots of pics. i am only sharing a few of the hundreds we took, so it could be worse right?<br />
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so after we finished Universal Studios, we were definitely ready for a day to relax. we researched beaches that would be good to go to, and decided on a beach in Titusville by Cape Canaveral. It is a National Seashore Park so it's really clean and bathrooms and well-kept. It was about an hour drive from our Marriott, but we didn't mind the drive with the windows down and the humid air blowing in. We stopped and got Subway to take to the beach, and also a gas station for gummies, drinks and candy.<br />
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We got there and, the way the park has it set up is, about every mile or so, they have a parking lot and number associated with the parking lot and it has a walkway to the beach (you can't see the beach from the road, you have to walk up a walkway to get to the beach). basically it's just super organized and very clean. so we are driving and each number we pass the parking lot is dead empty. like no cars whatsoever. keep in mind, it was a Tuesday, the day after Labor Day so school is in and it's the middle of the day in the middle of the workweek, so we knew it wouldn't be super crowded (that's why we planned it for that day) but we didn't expect it to be that dead. so we kept driving just to explore, and as we get to the last beach in the park, #13, the parking lot is PACKED. all the parking stalls are taken, and cars are lined on each side of the road. we are thinking, wow, this is where the party is at! and by this time Brett had to pee, so he ran into a stall and i decided to go up and check out why this beach was so popular. and keep in mind that we couldn't see the beach from the road, and the bathrooms are on the road part so Brett couldn't see anything either. so i walk up the walkway expecting to see a bunch of families with their kids building sand castles, frolicking in the water and enjoying the nice weather. ummm wrongo. i get up there and see this:<br />
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and about 50 other bare bottoms and, i'm nauseous to say, full frontals. oh my gosh! and they were frolicking all right. frolicking all over the place and their bodies were frolicking as they moved. i wanted to claw my eyes out. not even kidding. i wish i could've seen my reaction, i got up there expecting to see a completely sweet and innocent scene, then to my surprise i saw bare body parts that nobody should have to see without being warned. couldn't believe what i was seeing, decided to take an iphone pic to have proof in case Brett didn't believe me, and hightailed it back to the car like a bat out of Hell. that place was crawling with people in the nude. they seemed quite comfortable in their nakedness. but i, for one, wanted to dig my eyes out with a spoon for a few minutes after witnessing what i witnessed. more power to them for being that comfortable with their bods. oh man, even as i write this my mind needs a little scrub-a-dub-dub. so many bits and pieces i want to rip out of my brain.<br />
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so anyways, i get back to the car and Brett gets out of the bathroom and he is about to go up to the beach because he didn't expect me to be by the car. i shout to him with all my might, stopping him so he didn't have to witness what i had. i wanted at least one of us to go on living without having those images stuck in their head. and what do you know, he didn't believe me. i knew there was a reason my first reaction was the take a pic. so i showed him and just like that, we were back in the car, heading straight to beach parking lot a few miles away from the nudists. safe and sound. we were thrilled to be the only ones in the parking lot. no surprise bums were going to be at the top when we got there, and i was very happy about that.<br />
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so we get up there, and oh my gosh, it's BEAUTIFUL!! (i'm sure the other beach was just as pretty, but the surrounding objects kind of stole my view of the water and its gorgeousness). just see for yourself:<br />
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oh isn't it beautiful? oh my gosh, i would give almost anything to go back. and it was so great because we had the entire beach to ourselves. it was awesome. it was so hot, but the good thing about it being so hot was the water was extra warm too. if you know me, i'm not a huge fan of getting into the ocean. i don't like the saltiness, i especially don't like the cold of it and the rocks on the bottom that hurt your feet. this trip changed my mind about getting into the water on the beach. it was like hot-tub water. it was SO warm. it was almost like someone filled up a gigantic bathtub of perfectly temperatured (is that a word?) water and dumped into the ocean that day. it was perfect. we swam in there for almost an hour, jumping waves and just talking while we swam. we thought about maybe even becoming nudists ourselves for a minute there, then realized maybe we were getting carried away with how good the water was and decided not to scare the fish.<br />
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i have missed getting wet, then laying out, then getting wet then laying out. with a little boy running around you can't really do that so it was a special treat to just relax on the beach, read, listen to the waves, and just chill. what isn't so relaxing is going to the beach without any sunscreen. do you see that last pic of Brett with his back facing the camera? he is burning to a crisp by that point. you can't really tell, but i made him put his shirt on after being at the beach for 3 hours. even in the sun i could tell he was fried. i didn't have any on either, but i had been in the sun so much this summer that i knew i would be okay, although i ended up putting a shirt on too once i felt the tan turning into a slight burn. so our day at the beach got cut short to 3 hours once Brett could feel the sun had melted into his skin. but 3 hours was plenty of time.</div>
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this is not edited people! he was as red as a lobster. he may as well have been one. he was burned worse than he has ever been burned before. yeah not the smartest move. (to be fair, and so i don't look like i am irresponsible, the day before at Universal i kept seeing people putting on sunscreen and i commented to Brett that we should probably get some. he replied "oh i'm fine. i don't need sunscreen. i only tan". yeah, that's a real nice red and pink tan you got there). so i didn't even bother saying we should buy some on the way there because i knew he would say the same thing. so, this one isn't on me. </div>
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well after i showered and Brett took a nice little sprinkle in the shower since he couldn't really handle anything touching him (i'm not sure how he even wore clothes to be honest) we went on a date to a jazz club where they had a live jazz band playing and you have dinner and listen to the music. it was SO fun. we have wanted to do it for a while and i was so glad we found this club that was just a little way from where we were staying. and by this time i had gotten used to the humidity so i was able to start wearing my hair down and not feel like i had to put it up 8 seconds later.</div>
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the food was amazing and pretty cheap. and the music was so fun! the band was really cool too. they asked the audience questions and were pretty funny. we were way impressed. we wanted to go back once more before we left but didn't have any time. then after dinner we went shopping for a little bit and i got some stuff at Charming Charlie's and we snapped a pic there since our room at the hotel didn't have a full size mirror. and Brett was a way good sport and didn't hardly complain at all about his sunburn, </div>
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the next day (and day after) were the days i had been waiting for the most this entire trip. DISNEYWORLD!!!! i won't go on and on about my love for this place, but let's just say something in me changes when i go there. i turn into a 6 year old. i want Minnie ears. i want cotton candy. i want to find Mickey and Minnie and give them big hugs and kisses. i want to ride Space Mountain 9 times. i want it all man. Brett was so sweet to oblige my childhood fantasy. he took me to do all those things, some of them even twice. what a guy :)</div>
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Space Mountain. my favorite ride. i laugh the entire time on this thing. it's the best. and again, there were hardly any lines peeps. we walked on this one 6 times then the last two times had to wait 20 minutes (that was later in the night).</div>
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then it was the moment i had been waiting for. Mickey. they actually got smart at Disney and decided to just have the most popular characters in a certain spot the entire day so you can meet them whenever you want (and so you don't have to roam the park searching for them). and what was cool about this Mickey is he blinks and his mouth moved as he talked. i was in complete awe. it was magical. see, i tell you. i'm 6.</div>
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oh man we were absolutely pooped by the time the day came to an end. we loved every single second of it though. and it was cool what they've added, like the village in Beauty and the Beast, Gaston's tavern, a new Little Mermaid ride, Rapunzel's tower. it was fun to see it all. and we rode pretty much every single ride in that place. twice at least.<br />
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our second and last Disney day was Hollywood Studios...<br />
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okay so i need to explain something to you guys. i was excited for this day, but my most biggest fearful ride ever is there, and i knew i would have to go on it. Tower of Terror. i was avoiding it as much as possible for as long as i could. but Rockin' Roller coaster is right next to Tower of Terror, and luckily the Disney app tells you the wait times, and lucky for me, the Tower of Terror had no line at all. yay. I knew it was inevitable that i would have to go, but i was super scared, as you can tell by the photos. i posted a photo from when Brett and i went with his parents back in 2008 of us on the same ride:<br />
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yeah you see that guy peeing his pants at my expense? that's my father-in-law. here's 2014:</div>
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as you can see, not much had changed between then and now. if you can't find us, we are the bottom left. but then, after riding it, i figured it wasn't so bad so i said we should go again, so we walked right on it again, and this is what happened the second time:</div>
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the Toy Story shooting game was SO fun. we used our fast pass on it (you can only have two per day, yeah they changed that too) and we were so glad we did. i won Brett the first time around and he beat me the second.</div>
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then after a few other rides, it was time to hit-up Tower of Terror again. i was the one to suggest it. who was i? i didn't even know. all i knew is i was starting to love that ride.</div>
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the first time back on after a few hours i was pretty scared. Brett and i had planned on making silly faces, and i did it, but before the camera took it so it got me scared out of my pants.</div>
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this stunt show was awesome. they showed us how they do fast car scenes in movies and it was way entertaining. we have a video but it's way long so i won't post it.</div>
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oh what a treat it was. we loved it all. and i was happy that i ended up loving the Tower of Terror. it's now my favorite ride. that night we got back to our hotel and packed and dreaded going home, but were so excited at the same time. we were dying to see Dylan.<br />
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our layover was in Dallas and they had some pretty cool stuff at their airport:</div>
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that candy shop was amazing. i was tempted to buy until we heard some guy saying the prices. 1lb of gummy candy was $4. ridiculous. but it still deserved a pic. then that's us waiting for the train they have around the airport. and that benefit vending machine? most amazing thing ever! i wanted to buy something just to feel special, even though i am stocked up on most everything i use. i loved it.</div>
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i started that book on the plane ride out to Orlando, and finished it on the plane ride home. it was SO good. no i didn't cry on the airplane. well, kind of. it was so good. i need to see the movie now.<br />
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anyways, we got home and my heart ached to see Dylie. i was dying. it was like Christmas morning, the anticipation to see him. well we finally saw him by the baggage claim with my mom, and spoiler alert, he didn't even care to see us. he warmed up to Brett pretty good but wanted nothing to do with me. i was a little angry. what the heck? i had worried day and night about that boy and this is the thanks i get? he was spoiled rotten while we were gone. my mom warned me before we came home though that he would be that way. i didn't actually think he would because he is kind of obsessed with me (not to sound weird but you know? boys and their moms). but after about 10 minutes and by the time we were walking to the car he was hugging me and kissing me and didn't want me to put him down. that made it all better.<br />
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and there you have it. Florida in 2 posts. sorry this one was extra long. but i didn't want to split it up into 3. so thanks for those of you who stuck around to the end of this post for reading. we had a fabulous time and can't wait for our next adventure (not that we have anything planned, but when we do :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-77150139831670023612014-10-23T08:30:00.000-06:002014-10-23T08:30:01.763-06:00Florida part ll: Gatorland & Universal Studiossorry it's taken a couple weeks to post these next two Florida posts. between school, Dylan, my business and trying to keep my house looking like a bomb hasn't gone off, i have had almost no time.<br />
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warning. this post and the next one are going to be overloaded with photos. i hope you are okay with that :)<br />
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so once we got to Florida, we were exhausted. it was 11:30pm by the time we got to our Marriott so we went right to sleep.<br />
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the next morning, we decided to go to Gatorland. i am terrified of alligators, but love to look at them, and Brett is the same way. we had already planned out our trip and the days we were doing Universal Studios and Disneyworld and that left us a couple of days to do what we wanted. and yep, we decided to go see what you can only see in the south. gators.<br />
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so as we left our hotel, honestly, the humidity hits you like a wave of water, except its a wave of heat and wet air. you can barely breathe if you aren't used to it. i haven't been there since our honeymoon, so i honestly forgot how bad it is. both of us were instantly sweating, and it was only 10am. we looked at the forecast and it was 82 degrees (and rising) with 99% humidity. we were in for a treat with the exact same weather for the next week.<br />
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this place was extremely ghetto looking. it's kinda sad. i wish i would've taken a photo of the outside. but, once you are in there it was pretty nice. and oh my gosh they did not lie when they said it was a land full of gators! there were hundreds and hundreds of them.<br />
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gross huh. it was crazy. they had a feeding ground (right above) where you could buy food and feed the gators. it was crazy to just see them crawl on top of one another to get to the food. and they were super aggressive. and there were some really scary birds there too. they weren't part of the park, but they were there trying to eat the food the people were throwing at the gators. i tried getting pictures or photos of them but honestly they were fearless and i thought they were going to stab my eyes out with their foot-long beaks if i did anything to offend them. just picture deformed vultures with almost no feathers. super creepy right? </div>
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they also had a lot of different overlooks and shows that you could watch them tackle the gators, hold them, and teach you about them. </div>
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this guy was pretty much suicidal. i think he is an owner of the place because he was in all of the shows and was the host at all of them as well. but he sat on the back of this gator (there are about 100 below him in a river surrounding this sand pit) and he is holding the gators mouth open with his chin. he is flat-out crazy. but it made for good entertainment. they also had shows about huge snakes and reptiles down there. it made me really grateful to live anywhere but in swampland.</div>
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speaking of swamps, Gatorland is huge. and a huge part of it is swamps where they breed the gators and keep the ones that are injured or hurt. they have walkways and pathways around the swamps. they were beautiful and super green. is that weird to call a swamp pretty? oh well. see for yourself.</div>
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right? i told you. and just ignore my makeup literally melting off my face. that is how i looked this entire vacay. what can you do? anyways, we loved walking through them even though it was SO hot, like 10 degrees hotter than out of the swamp, it was beautiful. we spent probably half the time in those just looking around and seeing gators all around in the water. it was scary but fun. and hot.<br />
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and then there was this guy...<br />
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talk about hide yo kids, hide yo wife right? or dogs i should say. seriously this guy was massive! the photos don't do him justice. although i was quite sad for him, his little cage was like 3 feet by 3 feet. sad, but maybe that's what you get for eating people's pets?<br />
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so that was our day at Gatorland. that night we went to the hotel pool to cool off and explore the place since we had melted the entire day. we were obsessed with our hotel. if we ever go back (which we will someday) we are staying there. they had fun stuff for guests every night, and that night they brought out a huge blow-up screen to the pool and played a movie and they roasted smore's too. it was so fun. no pics, sorry.<br />
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the next morning we woke up as early as we could bare (changing time zones is hard. we never got our sleeping schedules right, so getting up at 8 was excruciating because it felt like 6am) and got on our way to Universal. another bonus about our hotel, it was only 15 minutes from every park. it was awesome. but i wanted to get some good photos of the outside of our hotel so i could remember it:<br />
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to say this place is big is an understatement. this is just one side of it. it had at least 10 different buildings full of rooms, it's own lighthouse, boats to rent to ride around that pond on, 12 different pools and hot tubs, a full spa, game room with xbox's (no Brett didn't play) and wii's and tons of games and 4 on-site resaraunts. it was amazing. granted, we were way too busy to use any of it, but it was cool they had it all.<br />
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anyways, back to our day. we got to Universal and we were so excited. the parking isn't bad at all, and we got there early so we weren't parked super far away from the park (although they rob you blind with parking rates. $20 per day. ugh). but once we got into the park, our honeymoon just came right back. i was surprised at how familiar it all seemed (besides the part that wasn't there when we went there aka Harry Potter World).<br />
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when we got to the big Universal world ball, i remembered we had taken a picture right by it. so we had someone take one of us again. we hadn't realized how much they had changed it since we had been there last (the ball was way bigger and closer to the newer fence). kinda fun to compare though. we did it with some other places too as you will see.<br />
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after we took photos (along with everyone else in the park) we headed to the Island's of Adventure part of the park (we bought one day there and the next day was to be Universal Studios. dumb how they make it two separate tickets but whatev). and they have this cool app that tells you the wait time for all the rides. and i kid you not guys, we didn't wait longer than 20 minutes for any ride in either of these parks, except for the brand new Harry Potter ride that opened like a month before we had gotten there. we waited 2 hours for that one. and Disneyworld we waited 40 minutes for only one ride and the rest it was 20 or less. if you ever plan to go on a theme park vacation, go over Labor Day weekend. it was so worth every penny since we rode each ride multiple times. it was awesome.<br />
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so we checked the app throughout the day and obviously went to the rides with the least wait times. we both had remembered going on the Storm (from X-men) ride and since there was no wait we went on that one first. i love rides like this, the ones where you spin around. Brett isn't such a fan. but he was a good sport. you wouldn't even know it from the video evidence. all he is worried about is his phone. my nerdy husband ha. i just love him.<br />
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after that we headed to the Hulk which is right next door. it's massive but so much fun.<br />
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we went a few times. then headed all around Island's of adventure and rode lots of different rides and made our way to Hogsmeade. i was dying to get there. yep i'm a nerd. i was practically skipping all the way there.<br />
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Monday (Labor Day) we went back and this time we went to the Universal Studios part of Universal Studios. oh we LOVED this park. and the best part? Diagon Alley. it was so cool! just look at the pictures :)<br />
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these are all photos from waiting in line for the Gringott's ride, and then inside. it was crazy walking in there. it was so realistic. these little goblins moved, looked around, blinked, everything. every single one of them. the one Brett and i snapped a quick pic with (the line was moving really fast at that point) he looked up and talked every minute or so. it was so realistic. i was dying. it was so cool. but don't worry, this ride was so not worth the wait time. i mean i think we would've waited regardless because it was brand new and i'm a huge Harry fan, but it lasted about 2 minutes and it was kinda boring. it was kind of cool to see all the actors acting like their characters again and doing things you hadn't seen them do before. </div>
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and this dragon here, we had no idea it spit fire. we had just gotten out of the wand shop (don't worry i didn't buy one, but i won't admit if i wanted too or not) and we noticed everyone staring up at the dragon on top of Gringott's. i got Brett's phone out and turned the camera on because everyone else had theirs on too, and just in time i got the shot of it spitting fire. it scared us because we weren't expecting it but it was cool to see.</div>
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this was so cool. this is the Knight bus that Ron, Hermione & Harry ride (i think it's the Prisoner of Azkaban). you see that little head, it talks. and it moves it's mouth as it talks. and it's head moves. just like in the movie. it's even the same voice. that "bus drive" standing by us would talk to it and told it our names and we had a conversation with it. i was really intrigued and thrilled, kinda like a 3 year old. i still have no idea how it was possible. it was magic.<br />
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my score in Men in Black. i beat Brett. i had to document that i beat him in a shooting game.</div>
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so they sold these nasty E.T.'s there when we were on our honeymoon. as you can see, we were still thrilled they still sold them. no idea how they are making any sort of profit off that guy.<br />
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i am sad they got rid of the Jaws ride. that thing made me pee a little last time we were there. but, they still had the shark.<br />
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i am sad i didn't get a picture of the Rip Ride Rockit rollercoaster (so i had to steal the one above, thank you google). but this rollercoaster was so much fun. we didn't go on it until the very end of the day, and we wish we would've gone earlier. each seat has it's own speakers and you choose a song from a list of 10 or 20 and they are all hard rock and it plays as you go on the ride. it was so cool. i chose Evanescence "Bring Me to Life" and it went perffectly with the flow of the coaster. coing straight up was slow and steady, and right as we got to where it drops you the guitar and drums came in and it got me all psyched. sounds lame but it was so cool. loved this ride.</div>
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and that's a wrap for our last day in Universal Studios. it was so much fun, but by the time the second day was done, we were ready for a day break before we started Disneyworld. we couldn't have had any more fun. we just loved it. my next post will be our beach day and our two days at Mickey's land :)</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-5099146392370441632014-10-07T20:25:00.005-06:002014-10-07T20:26:07.584-06:00Florida part 1: getting there...note from the author: normally i wouldn't do a whole blog post just about getting to the actual place i am blogging about, but it was kinda eventful so i wanted to write about it, again so i can remember it all.<br />
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so getting ready to leave for this trip was interesting. i was so dang excited about going away alone with Brett, but i knew i was going to have such a hard time leaving Dylan. weirdest feeling ever. two complete opposites at the same time, basically from the time we started packing all the way until we came home. so packing the night before, i was packing for both Dylan and myself. he knew he was going somewhere, he saw all his stuff going in a seperate bag than mine, and he was getting excited. i dreaded when he would realize he wouldn't be going with us though. but excitement was there too so that kept me at bay.<br />
the morning we left, i made sure the house was clean, laundry was put away so we could come home to a clean house. we got everything in the car, and went and bought tons of food and snacks for Dylan to have at Grandma Hancock's while he was with her. then we went and picked up Heather, Brett's sister, who was so nice to take us to the airport. Dylan was so excited she was with us, i am pretty sure he thought she was coming with all of us out of town. i had avoided telling Dylan we were going to the airport because he knows exactly what that is and what it means to go there (he has been on a plane 10 times). Brett decided to share the news as we got on Bangeter, and Dylan went crazy. he started clapping, laughing, kept saying over and over "planes! planes! airplanes!" ugh, i was dying inside. i knew he would be a wreck when we left. so i sat in the backseat with him and just spent the last few minutes of our ride there just cuddling him and taking photos so i could look at him whenever i wanted while we were in Florida.<br />
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then we got to the airport. and we stopped at the terminal, and Brett and i got out. we got our bags. then came the moment i was dreading. we opened Dylie's door, and he is just so excited to be there. he is trying to get out of his carseat because hello, we are all going on an airplane. Brett hugged him first, we just left him in the seat because we didn't want to make it harder on Heather than we had too. he didn't really get what was going on. then Brett said his goodbyes and it clicked. panic set in. he started crying and kicking and screaming and yelling "go with you mama, go with you!" i started too lose it, but put on a strong face as i hugged him and kissed him as best i could through his tantrum. we gave Heather hugs and thanked her, then we shut the door and i lost it as we walked away. i knew it would be hard to leave, since i had only been away from him a total of 2 nights in a row ever. i was sure at that point he hated us, and that 7 days would kill our relationship with him.<br />
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then we got to the counter, checked our bags, went through security in 5 minutes (there was no line. so weird, yet very convenient). we had an hour to kill. so what do you do when you aren't super hungry, but know you won't have time to eat until you get to Florida? Cafe Rio at the airport of course. once we went there and sat down to eat and just talked, we texted Heather. she said she gave him her phone a little after they drove away and he was fine and was happy as could be. i was okay then. i didn't worry, i was just super dang excited. excited to ride an airplane and actually enjoy the ride and know i could do whatever i wanted and not have to worry about keeping a little boy happy. and excited to get to paradise.<br />
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we boarded and the flight was great. except for the fact that they didn't give us any snacks whatsoever. i got my bloody mary mix just like usual, but no pretzels, no chips, not even one small peanut was served. United airlines are cheapskates, but whatevs. luckily i had packed for such an occasion and those gummy worms tasted divine.<br />
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we got to Pheonix and had about 20 minutes until our plane left for Florida. i needed to use the restroom. and guess who had come to pay me a visit? aunt flo. all over. all over everywhere. of course she would come after 5 months of not making any sort of appearance. she would of course have to come the one day i at 30,000 feet. let me just tell you, i have the most unpredictable period known to man. i never know when its coming. it's honestly a miracle Dylan was ever conceived, especially since we weren't even trying when that happened. but anyways, i panicked. i obviously hadn't packed any feminine products, didn't even cross my mind. but as i sat there looking at the mess i needed to get out of, it then struck me why my lower back was killing me the day before. i should've known. so lame.<br />
so anyway, i run out to Brett who is waiting with our carry-on, and that carry-on happened to hold a pair of clean garments that Brett had made me put in just in case our bags got lost. i didn't think it was necessary, but he insisted. ummm, talk about divine intervention. i told him what was up, we went and bought some tampons from one of those little airport stores with the most awkward cashier man on the planet (seriously, what guy says "oh boy, lucky girl. best time of the month." i wanted to punch him). i ran back into the bathroom, got my new garments on, put my nasty shorts back on and met Brett in line. then we were on a plane. then we were floating. and all was right in the world, we were heading to the land of Mickey, sun, beaches, roller-coasters and fun.<br />
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and after 4 hours of being in the air (and seeing lightning up close and way more personally than i ever hope to do again), we made it to Florida.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-60068925160017292322014-09-27T00:13:00.002-06:002014-09-27T08:51:50.181-06:00intro to Florida...so a few weeks ago, Brett and I went to Florida. alone. with no Dylan. yeah, for those of you who have kids, you understand what a big deal that is. and a side note, Orlando is where B and i went on our honeymoon 5 years ago this year, so that place has special meaning to us. and oh my stars, this trip did not disappoint. it was about 1000x better than the ol' honeymoon. not that our honeymoon was bad, it was awesome; but just between us girls (and guys i guess?), knowing what to do and how to do it makes a honeymoon-like trip go much smoother and makes things much more fun the second time around. you catch my drift? oh how i wish i could go back. i would give almost anything. almost. it was THAT good.<br />
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i have been wanting to post about our fabulous trip, but the thought of doing it seemed so overwhelming. we were there for a full 7 days. 7 glorious, amazing, sun-filled and humidified days. and we took hundreds of pictures. that's not estimating. that's actual. hundreds upon hundreds. we wanted to document every single second of our trip, as if taking photos every minute would take us back there whenever we looked at them. and they do. and i love it.<br />
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i am super excited to blog about this because while we were there we didn't Facebook, and we didn't Instagram. we just were. us. nobody else. without electronics and people buzzing in our ears. it was Brett's idea to go phone-less (except if we were calling to check on Dylie, which we did, a lot, every day) and I am so glad he brought up the idea and that I went along with it. if you know me, you know I love taking photos, (obviously, i kinda have my own photo biz) not just of others, but of me and my little family and sharing it with my friends. so you can imagine how weird it was at first for me not to share all the photos we were taking. but after a day or two, i didn't miss it. i liked it. it was amazing to be truly living in the moment, not for Instagram or Facebook, but for me and my mr. just being, and documenting just being. we made so many fun memories that weren't shared with the world the minute they happened, and i loved that feeling. knowing those times were just ours. there is something so fabulous about that thought, especially since my life has been so not that way ever since i joined Facebook. i like sharing, but this trip made me truly realize, that not sharing is almost even more special. don't get me wrong, i will still be sharing a lot. i just like too. that's just me. but probably not as much. i liked keeping our trip private. it made it so much more fun.<br />
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but, i would like to blog about it so those of you who have been constantly asking to hear all about it can. but more than that, i want to blog about it to document it so we don't forget it. we have the pictures to look back on to take us back, but lots of little things happened in between the photos or while we were taking them, that i don't want to forget. lots of conversations, laughs, cuddles, silences shared that were more intimate than words could be. so much that wasn't documented in the photos. writing it down can take us back there in a way photos alone aren't able too.<br />
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so, if you are still interested in seeing and hearing all about our trip, come back and visit throughout this next week. i am planning on breaking it up into a few posts, so i can get lots of details in. if it's sounding too mushy or boring for you, i will be back the week after to post about regular day to day stuff :) but just so you know, we are kind of cute when we are mushy. and i won't share all the mushy stuff. just a little bit of it. and of course i will share all the fun, silly, Mickey & Minnie, hilarious, yummy food and 95% humidity, and appropriate stuff, which is like, 70% of our trip ;)<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723357810329995111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809755249574830508.post-27377856786898147702014-09-14T17:06:00.001-06:002014-09-14T17:08:16.748-06:00because of Him...i just needed to share this amazing video that we watched in Sunday School today. it is only 2 minutes long, but it is one of the most powerful videos i've ever watched. watch it, you won't regret it. it's so simple, yet cuts me so deep.<br />
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i feel like lately, i've been slacking. slacking on my duty as a daughter of God, and as a member of my church. i need to be better. from watching this video and thinking about it all day, i have a renewed desire to do the little things daily that i know i should and i know that bring me ultimate happiness and closeness to my Heavenly Father. reading my scriptures, personal prayers, serving others, thinking less of myself and doing all that i can for those around me. doing these things, i feel so much better about myself, my life and my faith and my role as a wife, sister, friend, daughter and a mother. i have gotten so caught up in my stress with school, my business and my roles as a wife and mom, that i have let the most important things slack.<br />
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i have a testimony. it's simple, but it's mine. i love my Savior. i love the gospel; without it i would be lost. i am grateful for my tests and my trials, without them i wouldn't know the good, and i wouldn't be who i am. i am grateful for the lessons i learn from them. i am so eternally indebted to my Heavenly Father for my family, and for all i've been given. because of Him, i am alive. because of Him, i can make mistakes, screw up, mess up and i know that i can be given a clean slate to start over and over again. i am so grateful that He loves me, even with all my flaws and all my imperfections. because of Him, i have all that i have. it's easy to forget that sometimes.<br />
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i love this video. so glad i saw it today. i needed it.<br />
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