OUR NEW CAR! :)

We are so excited- we got a new car! It's a 2007 Nissan Murano. We LOVE it.... I hope that's not bad haha. Since I got my job a year ago.. we started to save money to buy Dallas a truck for graduation. Well.. we got pregnant along the way and so we got thinking that it is more practical to buy an SUV, they are a lot safer than my car and since I'll be driving with the baby more often, my sweet hubby decided to sacrifice his truck.  We found an awesome deal on this Murano, the internet sells guy messed up and posted it for the wrong price (~$5K less than they were selling it for) but they said they would honor the price...we had sold the tiburon unexpectedly (we put it on craigslist thinking that it would take a few weeks to sell and it sold in a few days, so as a side note, if you need to sell anything, craigslist is awesome) and then with the money we had saved we put down a good down payment on it. One of the greatest things we love about it is that it's an AWD and since we are going back to Utah, we felt like that was a must have. Once we bought it, Dallas begged me to get the "baby on board" sticker, he was really cute and excited about it. Long story short, we are really grateful to now have a car that we feel like we can trust our new baby in and we're hoping it will be a great car for a very long time. 

It's a BOY!

We were so excited when we went to do the sonogram. It's so cool to think that there's a little baby inside my belly. I finally felt the baby move like two weeks ago and it's awesome. The nurse said that the baby was very good size, he is a little over a pound now, so he is growing really good and according to the schedule. It was very easy to tell his gender! She showed us on the screen and asked us.. "So what do you think you're having?" It was SO obvious. I turned around to look at Dallas' face and he was so excited. He wanted a boy so bad. He just wanted to make sure that he had his boy. Before we found out it was a boy he kept making comments that we were not going to stop having kids until we get a boy. Yeah right.. like he is the one going through pregnancy! haha It was so fun to look at him move. We got a perfect picture of his arm and hand, it looked like he was waving. We also got a picture of his foot. It was very exciting to see our baby! Now I can't wait until he is here!

Here is a picture of our baby, sorry is so blurry, we took with our camera, I was too lazy to scan it. Sorry..
Here is me at 21 weeks which is exactly today. I know I'm not showing very much but the midwife said that the baby is definitely growing and everything is good. I am just waiting for my belly to pop out from one day to another. 

My Valentine

For Valentine's Day my sweet husband prepared a very romantic dinner. When I got home from work he had the apartment full of candles and he had a 3 course fondue meal ready! It was so cute and romantic! He put a lot of work into it. We started with the cheese fondue. It was sooo good. Then we continued with the meat part. He marinated chicken and beef and cut some vegetables so we could fry them. He also prepared the sauces were you can dip your meat after is cooked. The last part was the chocolate fondue. Of course we were so full by then but I couldn't say no! We dipped strawberries, kiwi, pineapple and mango. Everything was so good. Since it takes so long to eat, he thought of everything and he surprised me with one of my favorite movies so we could watch it while we ate. I loved everything that he did and it was a really fun night. I have to say I wasn't as romantic and didn't do something cool like he did but I gave him a cool present that he loved =) that makes me feel a little better. 

Update

I know, I know.. I'm horrible at updating the blog! I promise I'll try harder to keep up with it. 

I'll start with Christmas.. almost two months ago. For Christmas we went to Utah to spend it with our family. The drive was not fun AT ALL. We decided not to drive just to save money because flight tickets were so expensive. Not too far away from Dallas, around 4 hours, I was driving and got pulled over!! The officer was so rude! and said that I was driving faster than I really was. Anyhow, I got my first ticket ($200 worth). I felt soooooo bad! I didn't save us very much money at all. We drove non stop from Texas to Utah which is a very LONG drive (20 hours). Before we got to Monticello it was snowing really bad. The roads were horrible and we had to drive less than 40 miles an hour all the way through Moab. We were so tired and glad when we finally got to Dallas' dad's house. 

The last time I saw my mom before that was for our wedding.. almost two years ago. My mom and my siblings came up to Utah and it was so much fun. It was shocking to see how much my brothers have grown. My 15th year old brother is now taller than me! It was so fun to see our families. Every time we go back we realize how much we miss it there and how much we miss our families. Dallas' brother Dusty had guitar hero and it was the first time me and Dallas played. It was so much fun! my brothers also got addicted to it. 

Dallas' mom took this picture of us and my family and it is one of my favorites. 

(P.S. anyone in Utah looking for a good photographer Dallas' mom is really good and gives family and friend discounts.)


We also got on Dallas' dad hot tub. They just moved into a house in Lindon which they remodeled and it looks gorgeous. They did an awesome job.


We also went to temple square so my family could see the lights. We watched the movie about the prophet Joseph Smith and it was amazing.

Before going to Utah, the Sillito's, Hirschi's and us went to a little town not far from Dallas to watch the representation of  Bethlehem. It was so cool but I swear it was one of the coldest nights in Texas history. They were giving free hot chocolate, it never tasted so good. 

The representation was awesome, they had camels and people were dressed and acted like if there really were living in those times. Whenever we would take pictures they would say "what is that lightning box?" it was pretty funny.

 

First Christmas tree!

Me and Dallas made up our minds that we were not going to spend too much money on a Christmas tree this year. We started looking on craigslist to see if we could get a good deal but every time we found one and called, it was already gone. One morning Dallas was sitting on the computer trying to find one and he hit the refresh button and there was a listing for a free Christmas tree, the same size and type we were looking for. We were so excited, we jumped on the car and went to their place hoping that they still had it. When we got there and the guy saw our little car (mazda protege), he tried not to laugh and commented that it might not fit. We didn't care, so we just put the tree in the back seat and since the door wouldn't shut all the way, he had to bungee it shut. It was so cold that day so we were driving home freezing with the heater on full blast and the door half wide open. Good thing it was only a 5 mile drive. They were giving it away because only 40% of the lights worked on it, so we just had to buy a few strands, now it works perfect.

We LOVE our tree and we had so much fun picking the decorations and decorating it. Now we can't wait till Christmas!!

Dallas' new cleats

So Dallas has been begging me for new cleats for a year now because he said his old ones were so worn out. I kept resisting to the idea until one saturday morning he came home with what use to be his cleats. They were completely torn apart. He was so SAD! haha they were his high school football cleats from his senior year.. not that he got to use them much that year =( He still had a hard time parting with them. I seriously told him that it was just his cunning plan to get new cleats. Still to this day I think he broke them apart the night before he went and played flag football. Anyhow, I finally agreed on buying him new cleats so we went to the store, and as usual, took way too long deciding what to get. If you know us, you'll know that we're not the best couple on making fast decisions. Well this time was not the exception. Poor guys at the store stayed there 30 mins after closing hours cause my wonderful husband couldn't make up his mind! way too many choices. After a long process he finally decided to get a pair of pumas that he happened to see 10 min before we left the store. He absolutely loves them and he can't wait till each saturday morning so he can use them. Look at his face! I swear our kids are going to be the biggest pouters thanks to my hubby! Luv ya babe!

Halloween

So for Halloween we went to Scott and Connie's place. We had a blast. I don't know what me and Dallas were talking about before we got there, but he was accusing me of not being able to say no to sweets. As soon as we got there, Connie had made home made oreo cookies and that was the first thing Dallas started eating, he couldn't stop, so that made me feel a little better ;)

We had tons of food and it was very fun to hang out that night even though we had to go back to work and school the next day. 

We're becoming Stars fans

I guess one of the good things of having a super nice boss is that we get free tickets for sporting events. Last week he took the whole office and their families to a professional hockey game, Dallas Stars. It was our third time going to a Stars game. The second time we got tickets for one of the suites, it was really nice. It's so fun to have co-workers that are good friends too. We had so much fun! We were really close so that made it very exciting. It's amazing how fast they ice skate and move the puck at the same time. It was a good game, we whooped them =)

Having fun in San Antonio

We didn't really get a vacation because Dallas was studying for part 1 boards. So we decided to treat ourselves with a little vacation a week after school started. We left September 13th, San Antonio is just a 4 1/2 hour drive from Dallas. We went to The Alamo, the riverwalk, the market and Sea World. The Sillito family went with us and we had so much fun. We rode on the Gondolas and we had dinner on the Riverwalk and it was really good! Our favorite part of the trip was Sea World. We got to touch dolphins, we saw sharks and Shamu (killer whale), and lots of other cool animals, our favorite show was where Sea Lions played the roles of detectives and did amazing acrobatics, it was hilarious. San Antonio is beautiful and such a fun place to go to. On our way back we stopped in New Braunfels to see the river Guadalupe and one of the top water parks in America, Schlitterbahn. We didn't get to go in but it looked really fun. The water park is huge and some of the water comes from the river next to it. The river is so pretty and clear. Hopefully we can go back soon and do some more fun stuff there.