Baby Shower/ Amarillo Weekend

Kris and I flew home to Amarillo about 3 weeks ago and I had a baby shower while I was there. It was such a nice shower and I had such a great time seeing everyone. Kris and I are so grateful for everyone's generosity towards us and this little boy! I only wish I had taken more pictures..

My mom and I at the shower

My awesome hostesses minus Torrie and Kelli.. I never got a pic with them :(

Torrie made this AMAZING diaper cake.. she's a natural!

I got to meet my newest neice, Finley, SO cute!

My little brother Collin recieved his mission call a couple weeks ago to Hawaii. This was my last time to see him before he reports to the MTC on October 12th. I'm actually going to be keeping a blog of his mission though while he is gone, please follow it at

http://eldercollinhall.blogspot.com/

The family outside right before we left..

I'm sure going to miss him!

ONE YEAR!

This post is 2 weeks over due.. BUT we haven't had internet because of moving and silly internet companies.

Kris and I celebrated our one year anniversary on July 31st. I honestly can't believe it's been a year! So much has happened, I almost feel like we have been married longer!!! I will say that marriage is even better than I imagined. It is the best!

The best day of our lives.. July 31,2010

One year later.. we went to eat a Salt Grass. YUM!

I was 29 weeks that day.. I swear this dress makes me look bigger than I am..

We are in Amarillo right now and Kris's mom saved the top of our cake!

WE did eat a couple bites.. it was just okay

LUCKILY there was this for dessert instead... MMMMMM! Thanks, Nancy!

What we've been up too..

I know it's been FOREVER since I've updated. And the truth is it's because we are boring aka super busy with boring stuff. This pic above was taken at 24 weeks. I'm 27 and a half now. Getting excited to enter the 3rd trimester on Sunday! We will be moving next weekend to a 2 bedroom 2 bathroom town home to make room for our little boy coming in less than 3 months. I'm SO excited to have an extra room so I can start setting it up his stuff. We have bought nothing besides diapers and a couple outfits for him b/c we have NO room right now. Going from 630 sq feet to 1100 is going to be awesome!

Kris is in his 2nd summer semester with school and it is kicking his booty! He still has a 4.0 but cramming in all that info, along with being the hearing aid specialist at Sears 20 hours a week, is a lot to fit in. I'm am so proud of him and his sacrifices he makes for our family. I'm one lucky girl.

I have been working on average 50 hours a week at Buckle. My manager was out of town for meetings and took a week of vacation so I got to feel the pressure and responsibility of a 3 million dollar business. No thank you. She can keep her job. There is so much to do and I can never get it all done. I do have to say though that is always something new everyday and I'm thankful for the management experience that now where else can teach.

We are excited for upcoming events that I promise will produce more photos. Moving next weekend and my Amarillo baby shower in 3 weeks. Stay tuned!

IT'S A.....

BOY!!!!!

You can definitely tell it's a boy! Our little stinker was being shy though and wouldn't show his face.. O WELL! We will see it at my next ultrasound which is in the first week of August. Everything else (heart, brain, and spine) looked great though! AND even though I haven't gained that much weight YET (yet, being the key word) our baby is on the chubby side.. haha! I'm hoping its all in his cheeks, just like my cute Hubby's!!!

More good news came our way too because they moved my due date up a week!!! YAHOO! I'm due now on October 16th! I'm 19 weeks and 2 days :)

Couponing..

Lately the show Extreme Couponing has gotten me in the mood the save money! It is crazy how these ladies get hundreds dollars of free stuff just from using coupons. SO I've been buying the Sunday paper and cutting out coupons of my own.

Today Kris and I went on the hunt for some deals! We bought $55 worth of stuff and only paid $32!!! Here are some of the best deals we got today that I was SOOOO excited about.

Scrubbing Bubbles Toilet Cleaner priced $4.00.. I had a $3.00 coupon plus a $.75 coupon on the box= $.25 for this! CRAZY!!!

Oral-B toothbrush priced $1.50.. I had a $1.50 coupon... FREE!!!


This lotion was priced $2.50.. I had a $3.00 coupon.. SA-WEET! They paid me to take it home!
Everything we bought tonight was with coupons including, diapers and 170 oz of laundry detergent. I don't want to buy anything with out a coupon now and have definitely caught the bug! . I only had one coupon for each of these so it looks like my next hurdle is figuring out how to collect more Sunday papers.. If you don't use yours feel free to send it my way!

The Burp..

I will be 17 weeks pregnant tomorrow and I have to share this story. This might be TMI but most of you know that I over share by now. K, so this just happened...

Kris and I were on a drive looking for a nice park to take a walk in. Well, we couldn't find one so we decided to look at all the huge homes in the neighborhood we found. BUT I guess all the turning around and U-turns got to me because I started feeling nauseous. Nothing out of the ordinary for me lately though thanks to all the horomones. And then it happened...

I burped and threw up ALL over myself!!!

In my hair, all in my lap, all over my hand and face too because I tried to catch it. I didn't get any in the car though! I guess that is the positive way to look at it...

Kris was great and grabbed me napkins out of the glove box and we both starting laughing SO hard! You know you've got a good one when doesn't think any less of you with throw up all over yourself at 26...

1st Mother's Day!

I had the best 1st mothers day! My hubby was SO sweet and surprised me with the cutest card..

AND a gift card to THIS local medical spa.. I think I'll get a facial and pedicure! O yes.. I shall!

For mine and Kris's amazing mothers, I started making this aprons back in December.. They were supposed to be Christmas gifts but I didn't have my sewing machine yet and the loner from my SIL Kat was on the frits.. SO I finished for Mother's Day and I think they were a hit!!

Note: These are the mannequin's in the back room at Buckle.. I wish I had one of my own!