Arizona and Mexico

Well we went on our last vacation before the baby comes! We drove down to Phoenix and spent a few days there with Braeden's family and then we all drove to Mexico for a few days. It was so fun to spend time with family and we all had a wonderful time. 

Now it is time to get ready for our little girl to come... only 8 more weeks! Here are some pictures from our trip. Enjoy!

Arizona

 

Mexico

Getting close!

I can't believe how fast this pregnancy is going! I am just keeping busy and trying to get things done around the house.

Conference weekend my family drove from Washington to Salt Lake to come visit. My brother is leaving for his mission at the end of this month and I am so glad I got to spend some time with him before he leaves! My mom and aunt also threw me a baby shower and it was so fun to get together with family and friends. Thanks for everyone that came and for all your support! Getting all this cute stuff for our little girl made me realize that she is coming so soon! I can't wait to have her in my arms :)

3-29-2012

We went and stayed in Vegas one night with our good friends Travis and Amanda. It was lots of fun!

Visiting my Great Grandpa Wood

Here are a few pictures from my shower:

My family plus my grandma and grandpa Wheelwright

Bowling with my brothers, Travis and Nathan and man was it hard to bowl! Can't move like I use to!

My brother Travis and I. Next time I will see him will be in two years!

Halfway there!

Okay so I have had several requests for a picture of me.. I didn't want to do it, but here you go! I took this picture last week after my 20 week appointment and baby girl is growing good! I can't believe that I am already 20 weeks. I just wish time would go faster though.. I want our little girl to be here already so I can hold her! Things are going much better for me though.. still have my bad days, but I am feeling great!

We moved into our new place back in Oct, a week before we found out I was pregnant and I was able to unpack most everything and then the sickness started. Yesterday I finally unpacked my craft room and now hoping one of these days I can hang up all our home decor so our place actually looks like home. Then I can start working on the nursery! Lots to do with little energy!

Happy New year!

Well we have some good news! On June 21st 2012 we will be welcoming a baby girl into our family! We couldn't be happier and are so excited to be parents! It has been a rough few months for me, this little one has been making me very sick, but things are getting better and I don't throw up every day anymore.. I'm just nauseous. I just keep telling myself it will all be worth it in the end! I am just so grateful to have a wonderful boss who is so understanding. Our families are so excited! It will be the 1st grand-baby in both of our families. Hope these next 6 months fly by!

We haven't really been up to much since the last time I posted. We did celebrate our 5 year anniversary on Thanksgiving this year and I can't believe it has been that long!

Christmas was kind of quiet this year. We stayed here in St. George and spent Christmas by ourselves due to Braeden having to work Christmas, but we were able to spend some time with family here in St. George.

I was able to see my family over New years weekend when my family drove to Salt lake for my mom's family Christmas party at my grandparents cabin. It was so good to see them! My brother just got his mission call to the Argentina Bahia Blanca mission. It was good to spend some time with him since we probably won't make it back to see him before he leaves. He is going to be an awesome missionary!

Here are some pictures for you to enjoy!

Dad and brothers

Me and my mom

Had lots of fun shooting

Hope everyone has a Happy New Year!

Adventures

Well we have been very busy the last few months. Braeden's dad was in Anahiem for a business trip staying at the Grand Californian Hotel, so we drove down with Cameron and Cassidy and had a wonderful weekend. Disneyland was all decorated for halloween so it was fun.

A few weeks after that Braeden and I went home for my sister's wedding. It had been 2 1/2 years since I had been home and it was so good to be home! Braeden stayed for a short 3 days, but I got to stay longer and spend some time with my family. Right when we got home from Washington we moved right next door to where we used to live. I am so glad to be out of our small two bedroom dungeon and now we have lots more space and WINDOWS!

Braeden just got accepted into BYU-Idaho's bachelor of nursing online program and will be starting in January. I will hopefully start that program shortly after. We are looking forward to the holidays!

Disneyland

Seattle

We took on of my sister's bridesmaids the fastest tour of Seattle. Had to show her the gum wall.

Cousins :)

My brothers have sure grown up!

Halloween
Braeden always does the best job on his pumpkins

Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Aloha

Our vacation to Kauai, Hawaii was awesome! We were there 6 nights and had a wondering time. I loved the smell when we walked off the air plane.. it smelled tropical. Yes, we did take millions of pictures and sorry I couldn't decide on a few so there are a ton!

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This was our luxurious hotel, The Kauai Sands. Ha ha it was really old.. we had some sweet green shag carpet though. It was cheap, it was right on the beach and we left early in the morning and came back and crashed so cheap was the way to go.

This was the beach at our hotel

Wailua Falls

Hanalei

Spent all day every day at the beach relaxing

We went on a kayak trip that had amazing views and hiked to Secret Falls

Secret Falls

This was tree tunnel road, it was my favorite road

Waimea caynon- they call it the grand canyon of the islands

The upper right picture is a mountain called King Kong. It was in an old Indiana Jones movie

Pu'u o Kila lookout- this was the most breath taking view we had ever seen. I wanted to just sit there all day and take it in.

This is a monk seal that came and slept on our beach the whole day. There are only 33 that come to the island of kauai. There are volunteers that you call if you see one and they come and rope it off and educate you about the animal and sit there until they leave.

Snorkeling was amazing! The fish were so bright and colorful. We snorkeled every day for hours and hours

This is Po'ipu beach, our favorite place to snorkel

The food was amazing there and especially the banana pancakes at a small family restaurant.
Our favorite place to eat had these delicious hawaiian polish dogs with pineapple relish..yum.. I still crave them. If you ever go to this island you have to go to Puka dog. More favorites were this Korean bbq restuarant, shave ice with macadamia nut ice cream, kalua pork tacos and fresh pineapple.

Hanalei Bay

Tunnels beach- also a great place to snorkel. We got to swim with a sea turtle and it was awesome.

View of the Napali coast- 17 miles of no beach

Opaeka'a Falls

I love this tree

I got up at 5:30 our last morning there and watched the sunrise. It was beautiful and Braeden sure missed out! It was so hard to leave this amazing place. Every time we drove by the hospital we wanted to stop in and see if there were any jobs, but we didn't and decided we could go back real soon! For those who want to go to Hawaii I would definitely recommend Kauai.