Best Birthday present!

This year for my birthday Tim got me the best present, and I also got it early which is an extra bonus! I am a very impatient person, I'm embarrassed to admit it, but most of you know this about me already. Last Friday Tim took me to go see an ultrasound tech so we could find out the sex of our little baby 20ish days early! I was so excited because when I'm looking forward to something I pretty much obsess about it. And you can say I was definitely obsessing about the sex of our baby, our ultrasound appointment was Oct 25th which seemed like FOREVER far away. It was such a great experience, not only did we get to see our little one but we also got to find out we are having a GIRL. I had a hunch it was going to be a girl for quite some time. The typical stuff like my dreams, intense morning sickness, blah blah blah. But for Tim I think this was quite a shock! Boys run heavily in his family! He basically thought it was impossible for us to have a girl, haha. I think it took a couple hours, maybe even days, for him to come to terms with this reality. It was very funny to hear him talk to his family about how we are having a girl, not a boy!


The ultrasound tech was so nice, she made the whole experience so much fun. She was so excited for us, our little Squirm moved around a lot and the tech thought it was the neatest thing. She really took her time to explain everything and she even would rewind or pause and point out little movements we might of missed. It made the whole experience feel so special! I love every minute of it. It was also a lot of fun because my family had no idea we were going to find out super early so we were able to surprise everyone with the news.

We got to take home 17 pictures and a video of the whole thing. Here are some of my favorite pictures:


In this picture Squirm is extending her leg, she was kicking a lot during this whole process.




In this one she decided to roll over so we could see her spine and her little bum, so cute!



In this one she is showing her hand, looks like shes waving. We were able to see both her hands and both legs, and even a glimpse of her little bum. It was so exciting. We don't really have any names picked out, it's hard for us to agree on anything. I guess there aren't any names we are just absolutely in LOVE with. Well actually there is one name I'm in LOVE with but I don't think Tim likes it very much. I'm not going to share it because if everyone hates it I'll probably cry, and that will give Tim validation for not liking it.

I don't even know what to say........

Wow! I've been feeling guilty for not posting and it just seemed harder and harder to try and catch up with all the stuff we missed. But we have internet again so I guess its time that I catch up. A quick run down of what has happened since my last post.

We moved to Portland: Tim went to school, I worked as a Gymnastics teach and was a sub at a daycare. I LOVED my job at the gym. I miss it tons. When summer rolled around we got ready to move to Dallas for Tim to be a tech....again, sigh. We were all ready to go and then last minute, literally 3 days before we moved, we decided to move to Folsom, CA instead. One of my sister was planning a summer wedding and another sister was pregnant and due in July. I really wanted to be involved in the family festivities! As some of you know, from experience, working for summer sales makes it very hard to get any time off, and I just couldn't risk missing these awesome events. So Tim found a job, thanks to my Dad, with my brother painting and doing odd jobs for a property management company. It was a lot of long days but they were their own bosses which was really really nice. I on the other hand couldn't find a job so I stayed busy helping with various weddings. Then in July we found out we were pregnant! I found out the same day my sister had her second baby, Bridgette. For the rest of the summer I had horrible morning sickness and was pretty much a bum. Now that summer is over Tim is back in school and I am kinda feeling better, which means I don't throw up everyday. Well there is a little preview in to our recent activities. No one probably even checks my blog anymore because I haven't updated in so long. Oh well....

Last week in Pleasanton

I am a little late in writing this post.We have been out of Pleasanton for 2 weeks now but we have been super busy moving. We have not moved to Portland yet but we are really close. We took a detour to Hawaii and now Tim is finishing working in Southern California to finish out the summer. It has been a busy month but a really fun one too. For our last week in Pleasanton we finally went to San Francisco and to the Oakland temple. It was my first time going to this temple and I was really excited because I hadn't been in a long time. When I was younger I would go there for baptisms. This is the temple that my parents were sealed in so I was really excited! It was very pretty. After we were done with our session we wanted to take a picture and I wanted the whole temple to be in the picture so I jimmy-rigged a place for me to use the timer on my camera, and it was kinda difficult. Let's just say it involved Tim's wallet and our keys. Well after I finally found the right angle these two guys come up and ask if they can take it for us, I thought YAY now it will actually be a good picture. Ugh! I thought wrong, before they even tried to take the picture they decided the sun was in the wrong spot and it would not turn out. They wouldn't even attempt the picture! It was really annoying and a waste of our time, I mean what do they know really? So then we proceeded to wait for them to finally walk away so I could re-set up my contraption. I got it at the perfect angle again when this nice woman came and asked if she could take our picture and she took a really good one...the first time! I had to really focus on not giving my annoyed smile, I do this more often than I realize and it always ruins the picture.


On our last Sunday we finally went into San Francisco, we were living so close to the city but we just never had time to go. Basically we just drove around to all the main touristy spots. We didn't have a lot of time and we really didn't want to have to find parking on a weekend. We drove through china
town then Lombard street. of course it was crowded and it was really intimidating having to stop and go on such a steep hill. After that we went to the golden gate bridge. I read online that there is this light house not too far away, where you could get really good pictures of the bridge so we went there and it was really pretty but since there was fog it was hard to see the bridge. It was definitely a fun trip. I will have more posts coming but I forgot my camera in Hawaii and I'm waiting for it to come in the mail so I'll write more once I get that...hopefully it comes soon, blast you Matsumoto shave ice!!!

Weddings and Camping

Two weeks ago we went to Portland for America and Tyler's wedding and also for Steve and Michelle's baby blessing. It was a super busy weekend and way too short of a vacation! America's sealing was really sweet, I have only been to a few sealing's but I especially enjoyed this one. I don't really remember what was said during ours but it is so nice being able to go to our friends sealing's and relive how special the ceremony is.

Last week we were able to go camping with my family. We went to Sunset beach which is in between Santa Cruz and Monterrey. My family picked that campsite because it was close to Pleasanton where me and Tim are living for the summer. Tim wasn't able to take any time off work but he came every night and was able to stay most days till about 4pm. It worked out really well, because we weren't sure how much time he would be able to hang out with us.

The beach was so much fun. Our campsite was really close to the beach so it was nice being able to wake up and have the beach be 2 minutes away, we could've walked there but we always drove. Some days were kind of cold but the beach was always sunny. Each day we were also able to see seals in the ocean. It was really weird seeing how close they would come up to the shore. We also went to Natural Bridges which is a State Park that is close by. It was rocky and cliffy, but really pretty. It was really really windy as you can see in the pictures.

My family planned in advance some new s'mores for us to try. My favorite was oreo, white chocolate, and raspberry....so yummy!!I loved being able to hang out with my family, play games and eat s'mores!

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