New Car, round 2.

Yesterday was a good day. We went to the BYU game (which was awesome!! BYU 55 - UNLV 7). Then we went and got me a NEW CAR!!! My other one died about a month and a half ago (the engine went out and would cost more than the value of the car to replace), and we have been having to deal with only one car ever since. But we found this great deal on KSL.com, and we ended up getting it. It's a 2003 Honda Accord. We feel so fancy in it!

The inside looks like this, except with leather seats:

I love it!

After we got the new car, we went and finished a project we were doing at my mom's, redecorating my sister's room (we started it on Friday)! It looks amazing! I'll post pictures later. I didn't take any last night.

I have a lot more things to blog about, but don't have pictures for yet. But be excited for more posts coming soon!

We're having a...

GIRL!!

We were so surprised when we went to our 20 week ultra sound. I was positive it was a boy! In fact, I was a little embarrassed, because the technician said "we've got a trend going on today! You're having a little girl!", and I said "wait....what?!". :) Totally was not expecting that. I tried to act more excited after that.

See? Proof.

Anyway, the baby is measuring about 2 weeks small, but they didn't change the due date (Lucy measured small the whole time too).

The baby was being a stinker. Super wiggly, with her face turned into my back the whole time. We were in there a long time and didn't get many good pictures.

We are going back for another ultra sound in 4 weeks (this will be the third one). They want to be able to see her face to check for a cleft palate and they couldn't really see a few other things this time either. I also have placenta previa, which means that the placenta is way down low, blocking the opening where the baby will have to come out. They're not really concerned about it right now, but the midwife wants an ultra sound every 4 weeks until the placenta moves out of the way (which it usually does). If it doesn't, that means c-section. But we still have plenty of time!

Here is a picture of her little foot and her legs.

We're so excited to have another little girl! Lucy will (hopefully!) love having a little sister.

What the wedding crasher?!

Okay, so we had an insane week this week:

Monday-Bridal Shoot

Tuesday-Engagement Shoot

Wednesday-Wedding (Reception) Shoot

Thursday-Wedding Day Shoot

Friday-Hosted a Halloween Party with sister-in-law (full post to come later)

Saturday-All day Wedding Shoot

I'm all pictured out. For like a week. :)

Anyway, we had pretty much the most awesome experience ever yesterday. We were at the buffet dinner for the wedding yesterday. Kyle and I sat way in the back so we'd be out of the way. Well, at one point I noticed this man come in.

*A little background, this wedding was for a cute hispanic couple. Pretty much all their guests were hispanic. This man that came in, he was this 60-something white man with a grey beard. And by himself.

So, when he first came in, I pointed him out to Kyle. He stood out so much, and I thought he looked like some crazy college professor. So he came in and put a card on the gift table, then went and got himself some food. He then went and got an alcoholic beverage from the open bar. And then, he came and sat at our table. Which was weird, because there were tons of seats.

Well don't worry. After he ate his food, he stood up, went back and got his card, and left. And he never came back! You can imagine my excitement! We were probably the only ones who noticed the real life wedding crasher!! Isn't that cool?! Oh, and he stole the cup his drink was in.

Yeah, it totally made my day.

Dear Blog...

Dear Blog,

Today Lucy was a very bad baby. She woke up on the wrong side of the bed. She fell off of our bed. She made as much mess as possible before nap time. After her nap, she re-messed all the placed I had cleaned. She figured out how to open lids that twist. We very nearly avoided catastrophe when I found her painting her face with nail polish (which took 20 minutes of screaming and scrubbing to get off, but luckily none on the floor). She found and emptied all of my face make-up onto her own face. She dumped an entire package of chips on the floor, then stepped in them to make them tiny crumbs. She found a chocolate Easter bunny and happily ate half before I found her (umm, where has that been hiding the last 6 or 8 months. Gross!). Then, just before dad came home, Lucy was trying to retrieve an empty bottle of hair spray out of the garbage can, tripped, and blackened her right eye. After dinner, we had to take pictures at a wedding reception. Lucy was whiney for mom the whole time. On the way home, I looked back to discover the grand finale to the day. Lucy had kindly taken the poop from her diaper and rubbed it all over her face and arms. Can I say SICK?!?

Dad is currently bathing Lucy himself, so that I don't barf. I have a nice husband.

Oh, the glamourous life of a mom.

Sincerely,

Rachel

The Zoo

It was Fall Break for my siblings last week, so on Friday we went to the Zoo. My grandma was babysitting a couple of my cousins, so they came to. It was a lot of fun! Lucy loved the giraffes and the elephants. The dumb thing? The Zoo didn't have hippos, zebras, lions, bears, or penguins. Rip off. It was still fun though.

This picture just makes me laugh.

Sooo....

Yeah, it's been a long time since I updated this blog. Sorry about that.

It's because we're going to have another one of these:

And I have been sicker than a dog.

Yup! We're expecting baby number 2! I'm 17 weeks along, due March 25! We're super excited!

We find out if it's a boy or a girl the end of this month. We're guessing boy, because I've been so much sicker this time. Anyone else have a guess?

Nursery

Yup! Lucy started nursery last sunday! I can't believe she's already old enough. Neither can she. As long as mom was with her, Lucy did great. As soon as mom left to go help dad with the Sunbeam class, Lucy flipped out. They'd bring her back to me. She'd settle down. And then we'd head back.

After the first time I left her, we came back in and her nursery teacher said she was super impressed by how well Lucy could talk. Huh? She talks a lot, but not in English. Or so I thought. Apparently, after Lucy realized I had left, she started bawling. When they asked her what was wrong, she yelled "I WANT MY MOM!!" What the?! She's been holding out on me.

Hopefully it gets better. I've heard the first month or so is a little hard on the little guys.

A few other funny things from the first two hour nursery block:

-Kyle came in to see if I could come back and help him. When he closed the door, Lucy started crying for "DAD!". Then all of the other kids in the nursery started crying for their dads. Classic.

-Lucy was the only friend who sang during singing time. Only she liked to sing loud solos at the end, after the song was finished.

-Lucy refused to color with only 1 crayon. She wanted more. The kid next to her colored her picture.

-Lucy doesn't like animal crackers or goldfish. But she nicely shared hers and another boy's with one of the other girls.

-Lucy is getting "thank you". She said thank you to her teachers every time we left the room.