My Twins!

I can't handle the cuteness that is this picture! I refer to my nephews as mine, because I've always wanted twins and this will most likely be the closest to having them. So even though they are my brother's babies, they are MY nephews and therefore they are MY twins. Love them to peices and wish I could see them more than once every couple of months!

27th

I had such a great Birthday this year. Dave got me a gift certificate for a massage on Valentines Day, but I decided to wait until I started getting back pain with my pregnancy before using it. So perfect timing on my Birthday, I am just starting my 3rd Trimester, and a massage was definitely needed. I haven't had one for 6-7 years, and I definitely need to get one at least a couple times a year, it makes a positive impact on my body pain. After my massage Dave took me out to Kneaders, thank goodness Logan finally got one, it is one of my favorite places. He then took me shopping and spoiled me with some clips for my pandora bracelet and a Cold Stone cake he buys me each year. I relaxed the rest of the afternoon, and that night we went mini golfing as a little family. It's so fun taking Dylan, he just picks up the ball and throws it in the hole- no need for a club. Alot of family and friends remembered me this year, and I feel blessed and thankful for them. Excited to see what's in store this year and soooo ready for baby #2 to arrive in a few months!

Dylan's First Prayer

I have to record this moment in time. We have family prayer each night and say prayers when we eat, but Dylan isn't really super great yet at keeping his arms folded and eyes closed the entire prayer, so it never once came to my mind to ask him to say the prayer and have me help him. I just figured since he can't even do simple tasks of prayer, he probably wasn't ready to pray himself......NEVER underestimate a child. Last night I asked Dylan to say the prayer and I asked him to say what I say, and he did! It was soooo cute. During the prayer I said "we are thankful for our grandmas and grandpas, we are thankful for our food to eat..." instead of repeating food to eat Dylan says excitedly-"Pizza! Grandpa!" You see, my parents had come that evening with pizza, and Dylan loves pizza...which we don't have it that often, but when we do, he gets very excited! It was the cutest moment ever. I love my little boy. :)

Smoldering Heat

This heat is a killer. Those of you who are and have been pregnant for the summer understand exactly what I am talking about. I expected to overheat this summer, but not this much! I was hoping I could at least last more than ten minutes outside, but my body isn't handling it. Dylan isn't too happy with me either, he wants to live out there, and quite honestly there is some shade on the patio outside, but it's even too hot for me in the shade. I seriously keep wondering how I didn't kill over at the outdoor concert I went to... I have decided that if we are to have anymore kids I am hoping to have winter pregnancies. Which I know isn't "my" plan. But I would even be willing to have my first trimester for the entire summer, just not the next two. It's been difficult living in this basement apartment, even though it does stay cooler, we have no vents down here to catch any of the A/C upstairs, so it actually does get warm down here. That's one of the things I'm excited for in our next apartment. :)It will be our first place we have lived while married that has A/C! My life must be pretty lame if I'm getting excited over A/C... ha ha. Oh, another thing is we will have two bathrooms instead of one! ha ha. The little things that make me happy these days. :)

On the Move

Awhhhhh. I am so beyond ready to move, and yes, it is finally happening. Dave and I qualified for an apartment in North Logan and are so excited to be out on our own. Halleluja. It will be really tight income wise, but Dave is currently looking for better paying jobs, and possible internships or jobs that have to do with his Sociology degree. Alot of the jobs are in Ogden and Salt Lake area, which I am more than ok with, so we will see what happens with work. The place we are renting we will move into the beginning of August and we only have to sign a 6 month lease, which is so perfect in case Dave is able to get a job far away. We can move sooner than later to be closer to his work, and If I have to do hair at a salon a few nights a week it will be so much better out of the Valley for me to do that, because the pay is better outside of Cache Valley. Sorry to bash this place so much, but when it comes to hairstylists, this valley is the worst place to make money. Nobody tips, nobody wants to pay what we need to charge to pay our own bills. It makes me so sad when Great Clips or large chain salons do these $6 haircut deals, the poor stylists. Did you know that places like that, the stylists only get commission? So if you have thick hair and are super picky, and it takes 30 minutes to cut your hair, they usually only get 35-40% of the $6, so if they do two haircuts in an hour, they only make around $5 in an hour. That's less than minimum wage people! Phew, I think I'm done with that rant. Anyway, so excited to move, be on our own, and feel like we have our own life again. Trust me, if you have never lived with your parents or in-laws while married with kids, you will never understand or be able to give me or anyone advice, or be able to make valid comments about it, especially when I have lived here for almost 3 years. So please think before you do. Thank You. Man alive I have alot of prego sass this time around. So Happy. :)

Weddings

There were so many girl cousins of mine on the Purser side that got married these last few months. I am so happy for all of them and feel so blessed to have such beautiful people in my family! Here is Rachelle, Kassie, Sheena, and Shawnie!

Blessed & Beyond

I have to write about our experiences yesterday. A couple of months ago I saw tickets for Chris Young for really cheap, so I asked Dave if I could get tickets for us and he said YES, thank goodness, Dave is not a country fan, and I am. :) Even though I thought it through and knew that I would be pregnant and it was a mid-day concert outside in June, I figured I would be fine and I really wanted to do something fun before I got any bigger than I knew I would be. Anyway, I read online about the concert and it said that there would be a few singers headlining and then Chris Young, so I figured it would be like any other concert and be anywhere from 2-3 hours long. Well, when we got there it ended up being an "EagleFest", and Chris Young wouldn't be performing until 8:30ish or so. I was soooo mad, because nothing online or on our tickets explained that it was a 7 hour event. Bleh! It was soooo hot and I was soooo miserable. We didn't bring any snacks or food because they weren't allowed, and there was no re-entry to the event, so we couldn't leave and grab food and drinks. We ended up paying a ridiculous amount of money for fattening, disgusting food, with no nutrition for my little baby. Thank goodness there was an air-conditioned food place with bathrooms, because we ended up hanging out in there for awhile so I could be comfortable for at least a little bit. Basically by the time Chris Young came out to perform, I wasn't even excited or having fun anymore because I was so exhausted. I really just wanted to crawl into my bed and sleep! We ended up getting home just before midnight. Oy! I must say, that my main point of this post is the little miracles that happened during the day. It kind of relates to life in one day, it's long and miserable at times, but there are blessings along the way that make-up for it. First miracle of the day was right when we got there. We layed out our blanket for a good spot and I put some sunscreen on and of course needed to use the bathroom. As I was leaving the restroom I went to move my wedding ring on my finger to wipe the excess water from underneath it and realized my ring was gone! I searched my pockets and purse, and then headed back to the sink that I washed my hands in, it was nowhere to be found! I was having a mini panic attack and Dave came out of the restroom and I told him what had happened and he also became very concerned. He checked with me where all I had checked and suggested that we return to our blanket in hopes that it was there. It was! Thank goodness nobody stole it while we were gone, I figured I must've set it down when I was putting sunscreen on and completely forgot to retrieve it. The other mini miracle was as we were pulling out of where we parked, it was time to pay and the total was $17.oo, geez, that was not the amount we had expected at all, and with our low funds these days, we had yet another panic attack. The lady scanned our card and it wouldn't work at all, so she said it was our lucky day and let us go free! Wow! What a sense of relief and we were so thankful. Our ride home went much smoother because of that tiny miracle. We feel so blessed in many ways, and ended up having some happiness during our day.

Prego with Legos

This baby is sucking the energy out of me. I feel like such a lazy bum and I feel bad for Dylan, because he has soooo much energy, and constantly wants to play all day. Me playing with him consists of laying on the floor stacking legos while he helps me out, and knocking them down once it becomes too tall to stand. I've been trying to come up with ideas to get us away from the house, so today we went to the temple and walked around. Then comes a problem, the sudden urge to pee, this is the urge I have everytime I finally get to a destination for Dylan to finally have some fun, which ends up being 15 minutes and then packing him back in the car so I can find a semi-nice bathroom close by. The joys of pregnancy. So I thought that my crazy months were over, until end of May and June came...We have had 2 cousins who have gotten married and 2 who are getting married. Then there's Father's day, we also attended my brother's suprise 30 1/2 Birthday party that Traci threw for him down in Pleasant Grove. She was close to giving birth on his real birthday so she wasn't able to help him celebrate it like you should for the big 30. It was alot of fun and I can't wait to see my nephews again this weekend for the big Purser Father's day party, and one of the weddings. I am so stoked about the 4th of July coming up, it is my favorite holiday, yes it even surpasses Christmas. There's just something about the hot weather, Bear Lake, Fireworks, the Cruise-In, and all of the fun festivities. I can't wait until July gets here, my favorite month out of the year!