And it began....

Ready or Not my house is... or has been I guess... ready for football

I really only tune in for Utah but Natey's tuned in pretty much all 48 hours of our weekend

Alas, it's a concession we make and I want him to bathe in football this fall for our situation will be a little different next fall.

About 2 months ago Nate came to me with our fall mapped out.... with football.

The second Utah game happened to be played at San Jose! Very convenient for us and Nate wanted to bring papa Clark out for some bonding time.

This 'football bond' in the Clark family is a little foreign for me, all I know is that it was the highlight of Nate's childhood and no one else but family was invited on this outing.

The quick overnighter with JayDee was so nice though... just perfect!

We took Jayden with us and he was definitely a welcome addition!

Game 3 took us to Oregon...

This comprised a weekend road trip and sleep over with Jon and Cass

Overall it was pretty fun but turns out baby Huey at 13 weeks had an opinion about road trips and I pretty much felt car sick the whole 9 hours THEN it decided to 'mist' during the game. Now this 'mist' the Oregonites talk of is nothing short of the most annoying rain. It made for a rather uncomfortable game and it didn't help that our Utes looked like trash and it was actually quite a boring game.

Jon checking out the Ute's warm-ups

Nate and Cass sitting in the 'mist' waiting for the game to begin

Enjoyable......(hesitant) yes.

What made the trip for me?

The lovely Marcia Lynn McClure book Robyn finally sent me....

Crimson Frost 

(a new addition on Paige's guilty pleasure's list)

:)

Meet our baby....

Okay okay... 

I'M PREGNANT!!!

Thrilled to the bone, 13 weeks along, and due March 24th

Se here is a short photo history of my baby's life...

The stick I peed on July 27th confirming baby's existence...

My little bean at 8 weeks when we first SAW the heart beat...

cutest heartbeat in the world I can assure you and I couldn't stop crying.

And this is little one's profile, tongue out and all at 12 weeks

:)

Same ultrasound at 12 weeks, just a little zoomed out, it looks like baby is sucking his thumb 

The gut instinct here is boy, and if it's a boy from the 5 minute ultrasound we had of our baby, baby has dad's personality :)

Only part that baffles me is the little nose?

It's probably going to change in the next 27 weeks... but where is that coming from?

You should all know the nose is a big deal for me, early on in our marriage I had nightmares of our baby being born with Nate's full size nose as an infant.... 

And here's me at 13 weeks (i got ready for the picture)

Am I showing? Depends on who you ask... many people tell me I am but since I really haven't gained any weight I just feel like I look fat. And that little tummy? Pretty sure it was there before :)

AND I'm going to say this is an awkward stage in pregnancy looks wise. I don't really look pregnant but right at 12 weeks I started REALLY feeling pregnant.

I haven't really had any problems and have been able to work the same.

BUT I am TERRIBLY homesick now that we have a baby on the way and am growing more and more averse to California living. In my dream of dreams we would make it back to Utah in a lovely little house by the end of January with a very good job for my very qualified husband.

But I probably will have to settle for a bigger apartment in a forever sunny, fall will never come, California.

But, if those are the biggest of my worries, I should be just fine

Oh, and did I mention how flippin excited I am?

Well I am!!!

3 Years....

3 Years ago (August 24th) I definitely made the biggest jump of my young little life...

I married someone I was head over heels for and wouldn't take no for an answer from him :)

And what do we have to show for 3 years?

A lot of trips

A lot of movies

A lot of growing

We're the same people but were not

I still love my man like crazy but I love him so different today then I did 3 years ago

I'm sure every year I will think this but it still is nice to reflect on

My darling whisked me off to this lovely 'boutique hotel' for an over nighter in Carmel

We love Carmel and so do our dogs (yes they were invited)

The smell, the architecture, the ocean, the food, our adorable hotel. 

I loved every bit of our 24 hours

We just roamed for dinner and we found this little restaurant called Casanova

Best food we have had in California

it was a delicious French restaurant and REALLY just plain romantic.

(really, we ate next to a candle lit tree)

So though I failed to take one photo of the people or canines involved (possibly due to my aversion to my platinum hair) in our weekend it was spectacular.

Cheers to 3 years and 1 bun in the oven :)