Love It!

This song reminds me of my childhood, fishing every summer with my Venable side of the family, and having my dad take all his kids fishing, and all my uncles taking their kids fishing up in Bridger, Marsh, and Stateline.  Good memories, and I can't wait to go up again this year.  I am getting the itch just to be up in the Uintah's.  Love that place!

The Big One

Today was our big ultrasound for our 20 week appointment, technically we are 21 weeks along, and baby is measuring 21-22 weeks, so that is great! It was so much fun to see our little baby for like 20 minutes. The tech measured the brain, and heart, looked at the babies kidney's bladder, stomach, pretty much all the organs. Baby is still a boy and we are so excited for this little guy to join our family. This is a picture of the side of his face, we kept trying to get one that was just his face but the little guy just kept his hand in front of his face the whole time. Hopefully next time he will be a little more cooperative. So enjoy this side view of his face and his left arm.

As for me and Riley, nothing is really new, Riley is getting ready for this semester to be over, and I am just working as much as I can, which lately has been quite a bit. Another good thing is, I have never done this good on my bracket like ever! Both teams that I chose to play in the championship game are playing in it. I have Kentucky winning and lets hope that they pull it off for me! Off to watch the basketball game! Go Kentucky!

And the Verdict Is.............

When me and Riley found out we were expecting a baby, I wanted to surprise our families with such a cute way to tell them what we are having, a boy or girl? My friend Lyndee Lloyd, has a cake decorating business called Harmony cakes, and I decided to do a gender reveal cake. I called her up and said as soon as we know, and asked her if she can make a cake to tell our parents. We wanted to do it while my in-laws were down here (because sending a cake to Canada, would not work out so well) unfortunately the baby didn't cooperate with the ultrasound so we couldn't do that, I was so bummed out, because I wanted both our families to find out together. We found out what we are having on Thursday, and it was my father in law's birthday that night, so we texted him and told him ( I think that is a pretty good birthday present), then we called my mother in law and let her know, since it was the middle of the day and they weren't together at that moment. I just wish that I could have done something so cute for them as well to let them know. It is kinda hard having part of the family 700 miles away. I then called my friend and had her make this wonderful looking cake, and made plans to tell my family at Sunday dinner.

And the verdict is..................

A BOY!!!!!!!

We are so excited to be having a boy! And the cake tasted amazing! She did such a fabulous job, if you want her number to get an amazing cake, just give me a call and I will give you her number!

Cross Country Skiing

A couple of weekends ago Riley decided he wanted to do some skiing, knowing that downhill skiing was pretty risky for a pregnant lady to do he decided he wanted to do some cross country skiing. So that Saturday late morning, we went up to North Fork campground in the valley, they have a place to rent cross country ski's there and groomed trails for $15 dollars a person. Pretty sweet deal for a day of fun. We got all our gear and since it was a absolutely beautiful day outside we didn't have to wear coats or anything, then we started on the trails. Since the last time I cross country skied was in the 6th grade I wasn't quite pro but I only fell once and was very careful to not to hurt anything on the way down. Riley also only fell once, I didn't see it though he was behind be. It was so much fun, the only downside to it was this dang nausea associated to pregnancy. I had to stop a few times and just try to calm it down, Riley was great though and just supported me. Also side note, everybody was so friendly up there on the trails they all stopped and said hi, if they were going slow enough, there were some pretty intense people there on the trails as well, we just let them pass us. When we decided we had enough of the skiing we went to this great little restaurant in the valley and had a delicious pizza. (Normally I haven't been able to eat pizza with this pregnancy it makes me gag but it just smelled so good at that time). All together though it was such a great date! We enjoyed it so much! It was just nice to get away for the day and not think about school or work. Here are some pictures of our adventure.

The cute couple!

Riley looking pretty pro at this!

Me at the top of a hill!

Finishing up with our skiing! So fun! I totally recommend it to everyone!

And Baby Makes Three!

We are so excited to be announcing that we are having a baby! We are currently 12 weeks along, and baby is doing great! We are due August 13, 2012. We couldn't be more excited. The big goal before having a baby was for me to be an RN, that happened in September, and we found out we were expecting right before we went to Mexico in December! We kept it a secret for 8 whole weeks (if you know me that is a very long time to keep a secret), and told our families by showing them this picture that we had taken on the beach in Mexico. So excited to have a this little spirit join our family!

Goodbye Old Friend!

So Riley and I decided it was time to sell my car! (More Riley decided and I had no choice but to go along). If you know me you know I get somewhat attached to my vehicles, I give them names, this car is Samantha Mae! I love her! I am sad that we have to sell her! She experienced the life changes right along with me! She was my first NICE car, she watched me go through college, and get my education, she watched me go through countless dates, and eventually watched me meet Riley and marry him. She was there when I would have a bad shift at work, or just needed a time out. I can even tell you on one hand the #of people besides myself who have driven this car, and they are all my family. Well, Samantha has been a fabulous car and I will miss her dearly, but am excited for getting a new vehicle and moving on up in the life.

Mexico, Part 2

Well, this is pretty much our last full day in Mexico, we went on a tour to the ruins of Coba and Tulum, and also to a cenote, and a cute restaurant by Coba to eat lunch. It was my favorite day of the trip. Totally recommend this trip, it was small only 6 people where on it so we got to talk with our tour guide alot, and the other people in our group, and we also got to get to know the history of the people. That was by far the best because these people where from the Book of Mormon times, and it really brought it to life for me. Next time I think I would like to take an LDS tours just because it would be amazing to see it from that point of view.

This is at Coba, it was huge, we had to rent bikes to ride to the big pyramid or it would have taken to long to walk their, plus there was ruins all the way to the big pyramid to stop and talk about. This is the ball court, it was a game, kinda like basketball.

The bikes we rented, it was about 2 miles to ride to the big pyramid, and it was HOT!

You could also rent these, people would peddle for you and take you down. After having climbed up and down the big pyramid, plus riding down there and back I kinda wished we had done this route but the bikes where pretty sweet as well. Totally worth it to go see it.

One of the ruins on the way down to the big pyramid, I think it was the astronomy tower.

The tallest pyramid in Mexico, Coba, I can't remember how many steps, I think it was like 127 steps to the top. Totally worth it to go up and see the top, but oh my heck was it steep! Very scary to climb down! Climbing up wasn't so bad because you weren't looking down at how steep or how far down it was.

How steep it was to climb up and down, and the stairs weren't exactly big or like the stairs in my house all sorts of different sizes. This is the only one in this part of Mexico that you can still climb for now. I don't know how much longer it will be that you can climb it but totally an very sweet experience.

View from the top!

This was the ruins at Tulum, this was really cool because it has all be excavated and it wasn't to big, but had lots of buildings in it, and the beach on the other side was gorgeous! This is the main pyramid at Tulum, I think it's called El Castillo, but not sure about that one. You can't climb any of these ruins. But very cool to see the city. It was completely walled on all three sides, the one that wasn't walled is a cliff next to the ocean. Pretty protected from invaders.

One of the buildings.

The beach behind the ruins, absolutely gorgeous! Totally recommend it!

More ruins!

This was the restaurant we ate lunch at, VERY HOT SALSA! Burned my poor mouth! We had just finished the Coba ruins, and had went swimming in a cenote, which is an underground fresh water cave. It was amazing! I didn't get any pictures just because there wasn't a place to set our camera, but you could jump in from about 25 feet and me and Riley both did it, I was the only girl from our tour that did jump in from it. I ain't chicken!

More of the beach behind the ruins at Tulum, I absolutely love the clouds in the background, makes it look so mystical and cool.

View from the top of Coba, alot of trees is what you can see, but again totally worth going to the top just to say that you did. There was a lady climbing down in front of me that was bitter about going to the top and telling people the view was just as great from half way up, well it bugged me because if anybody stopped they wouldn't have the satisfaction of saying they climbed to the top. I wanted to say something but didn't I held my tongue. But I am so glad I made it to the top, it was definately worth it!

Well, that was our trip to Cancun, the airplane rides were a little rough for us but so happy that we went and got to experience this amazing area of the world. It was totally worth it! I loved the trip! (Keep reading updated with the other half of our trip).