Random Catching Up

Well, I'm a little behind so here we go. Last month was the Utah Dental Association convention in Salt Lake. Our office went up and our wonderful Doctor Thompson treated us to dinner at Benihana and a night in the Marriott.

I have so much fun with these cute girls that I work with. The next day we went to the Ortho meeting which was fun and motivational. I love anything that makes me want to be a better person and this was a good pick me up!

I got spoiled to the max for my birthday!

My handsome husband treated me to a night out at Kingsbury Hall to see Romeo and Juliet by Oddessy Dance Utah. This is the only picture that I took, and I love it! It is one of the coolest dance concerts that I have ever seen. I absolutely loved it. Marc knows me so well. I called him when I heard an advertisement on the radio for this concert and I asked him if we could go. He was a little ticked because he had already bought tickets and was planning on it... apparently he's on their mailing list and he knew about it way before I did, so I kinda ruined the surprise. Then on my actual birthday, we went to Tepanyaki which is my absolute FAVE! It was the best!

I also got spoiled at work! They decorated my office, treated me to lunch at PF Changs, gave me presents and made an amazing rainbow cake just for me! Everything made me feel so special!

So as you can see, I LOVE food and I got LOTS of it for my birthday!

I also got a gardening basket and gift certificate from my mom. We are working on putting in our backyard and I really want to plant some flowers in the front. I have no idea what I am doing but I am excited to learn from the best! (that means you mom)

And, wonderful friends stopped by with birthday wishes and gifts too! I really am so grateful for all of the amazing people in my life! And not just because you brought me presents.

We have been loving the warmer weather that we get here and there. Griffin loves to be outside and it helps get lots of his energy out!

I think that this was the first day that Griffin discovered his shadow.

It's pretty hard to get him to stay on the sidewalk or to keep him going on a walk without lots of exploring so we do end up picking him up and carrying him so that we eventually make it back home!

We celebrated our 7th Anniversary this month! We dressed up and went to Flemings for dinner. It was fabulous! Again, a night centered around food... I see a dangerous pattern here. Then, for old times sake we went to Clark Planetarium and went to a laser show. It had been at least 10 years since we have done that. Man there are some weirdy's at that place.

Oh, and I got my braces off!!!! Hallelujah! Thanks Dr. T!

And FINALLY, Marc's buddy Joe got married! This is only a few of the bro's that met up at our house before the bachelor party started.

The party involved shooting guns and eating steak. A good time was had by all, I guess.

This Little Guy

I am one lucky lady to get to chase this little leprechaun around all day!







Man he's Cute!

He is a little ball of energy that NEVER stops! He runs and dances and spins and throws himself around, all while his mouth is going a hundred miles an hour!

Oh, and he hides too! This is one of his favorite spots.


Griffin is lucky to have a dad that can not only keep up with his energy, but can also turn a simple diaper box into the coolest little car in town! Marc pushed Griff all over the family room in this box and kept him entertained for like 3 minutes!


Griff is going through a "no-eating" phase, but he loves to share a smoothie every morning with his dad. Luckily it's packed with healthy stuff!

We just got Griffin some shades and he LOVES them! He wears them everywhere!





He's super cool!

Luckily, at the end of the day, he holds still long enough for a bottle and a couple stories before bed. This is our nightly routine.



And sometimes I'm lucky enough to get a little snuggle.

He is so dang smart and learning new things everyday. Here are some of his new words.

tee (teeth)

hair

Meeee (which is Mottley, the dog next door) Griff begs to see him all day

side (outside) he begs to go outside all day too

heeee (horsey) LOVES horsies

byboo (diaper)

The list goes on but of course I can't think of any more right now. He really is such a good little talker. He is starting to put words together too. Like, "Bye Dada." He is so stinking fun!

Boy Oh Boy!

Is this inappropriate to post? Oh, well!

Isn't this the coolest picture? Most babies are all crunched up, but this one was showing us what he's got! I can't believe how much I love this picture! From his cute foot right up to that little round bum! I already wanna squeeze it!

We are thrilled to be having another little guy around here. I can already picture Griff and his little bro playing together.

I also have fears of the teenage years...

Marc has a brother pretty close in age. Apparently they liked to beat the crap out of each other and his mom would call the police and make them sit on the curb in handcuffs... awesome!

Thank goodness I have a while until I need to worry about that!

I'm still feeling great! Just large and in charge, but I was that way before the pregnancy, so what else is new?

Romantical Weekend

My fantastic husband treated me to a night away in the big SLC for Valentine's day. We dropped Griffin off at my mom's and the night was ours. We had a reservation for dinner at PF Changs but we got there too late. I have been craving this for about a month and had my heart set on it. The next available reservation was for 8:30 pm so we took it, and went for a little pre-dinner snack.

This little, teeny, tiny place is awesome! We had the "torpedo, " which is a Belgium waffle with dark chocolate in the middle and a side of ice cream.

It was delicious and we can't wait to go back to try the frites!

After we checked into our hotel we walked down to PF Changs and my mouth was already watering. Unfortunately, my pregnant mind had a much bigger appetite than my stomach and we didn't even come close to eating half of the food that we ordered. Marc kept saying, "Lets just share something." I really should have listened. We were so stuffed that we practically rolled out of the restaurant.

This picture is 50% real baby 50% food baby

It was so great to sleep in and just mosey around the next morning. We went to breakfast and then spent a good 4 hours at the Gateway. After all that shopping we needed some sustenance. So, we braved the smelly food court. Any confined space with that many different kinds of food is bound to stink!

Marc was double fisting it with a cheese dog and a corn dog

I realize that from the pictures that we took it appears that all we did was eat! Well, obviously that was a huge part of our weekend, but we had such a great time chatting while we ate!

Plus I'm not gonna tell you about the good stuff anyway :)

It was nice not revolving our day around our little Griff's schedule. And we even got to take a nap of our own!

The first words out of my mom's mouth when we walked in the door were, "Well, I can see why you needed a break!"

My sweetheart surprised me with these beautiful flowers that were delivered on Valentine's Day. Flowers are awesome, flowers that are delivered just make me feel extra special!

Thanks babe for a wonderful and relaxing weekend. I love you OH SO VERY MUCH! I am the luckiest!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Walking! and other stuff

That's right! About 5 days after I told you Griffin wasn't walking it happened... and man he didn't just start out with a few steps. We're talking, he pretty much just up and walked across the room the first time! And he's been NON-STOP ever since! The funny thing is that his crawling speed has gone double time, so when he's really in a hurry (to get away from me) he drops to his knees and he is off!

Just chillin with dad, watching some Sunday football. Notice the golfball in his hand... he rarely lets it go, except for to throw it and run and pick it up again.

Sharing a smoothie with dad. As you can see, he's learned to ham it up for the camera.

Playing with cousins. He loved the doll house!

Don't worry, he only played with Ken and still had a ball in his hand... so he was masculinely playing with dolls.

LOVE LOVE LOVE what I see in my rearview mirror now! Griffin is finally big enough to be in a bigger carseat. I know that you are supposed to leave them rear facing until they are a certain weight, but this thing would not strap in securely to my car if it was rear facing, so we thought it would be safer to have it in there nice and tight.

And finally, brace face scored herself a date! We went bowling, by ourselves, and had a blast!

Ya Ya Night

Once in a while my mom, sisters, nieces and I get together for a girls night. We start out with some yummy food and then we do a craft project of some sort.

This time we had it at the Queen Mother's house. She filled our bellies with yummy soup and we were ready to craft!

My wonderful friend McKell gave me a darling dishtowel for a Christmas present. Then I turned around and made six of them for my mom for Christmas. Everyone loved them and wanted to make their own so that's how this ya ya night came about. Thanks for inspiring us McKell!


Apparently I'm a horrible instructor because I just like to read the instructions and then eyeball things and figure out what looks best as I go... well, that's not how this group of crazy perfectionists operate. They hated me for not have exact step by step instructions with precise measurements. Oh well, they still turned out great!

They are "Stay Put" towels that tie around your oven handle so that your kids and husband can't pull them off and drop them on the floor! Brilliant!

Since Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday I went red and pink fabric, which also just happen to be my favorite colors!

Here it is in action! Fabulous!