Happy birthday to me!

Well to start off, hello! I can not believe I'm doing this. I never thought my life was exciting enough to blog about (and who knows, maybe it really isn't) but I'm doing this anyway, if for nothing else, to give me something to do.

I guess I'll give a little background. My husband David and I just celebrated our first anniversary.  A WHOLE YEAR!? Also can't believe that. I am currently about 7 months pregnant so October can't come soon enough. Both of us are native to Arizona, the hottest place in the world, but we recently moved up to Utah to pursue my husbands schooling in business. So this temple in our picture is the Gila Valley Temple in Arizona. Beautiful right? Now Provo. We love it here, minus the fact that we are away from most of our family and old friends.

Back to my anniversary. Naturally, we went to Thanksgiving Point where there's a Museum of Ancient History... It was my idea because being super pregnant there's really not a whole lot of fun, thrilling things to do without spending oodles of money. And for some reason I was really intrigued by the thought of seeing the dinosaurs.  Maybe because we've been watching Friends alot and I just really wanted to see what Ross' life was all about.  Anyway, it was cool and interesting but not sure it was worth the $15 a person we paid. The best part was obviously the ginormous dinosaurs that ate my husband.

After that awesome hour, we headed to the temple. We decided it would be a good tradition to keep up on our anniversary to do sealings. Kinda fits the day in my opinion. Another thing we'll try to do is obviously take a picture, and as you can see we accomplished that task.

And each year (depending on if we still live in Utah - the land of temples) we'll go to a different one. We'll have a collage of temples and tons of positive experiences. Cool right? Well we'll see.

A little later we went to a nice dinner at a little Italian restaurant around the corner from our apartment. It was delicious! There was an accordion player who sang to us and gave us free dessert. And to wrap up the night, we went to my friends wedding reception and reminisced with other friends all night. I didn't even say hello or congrats or anything to the groom we went to see... Whoops. But they won't remember that right?? It was good catching up with our college friends though. It was nice to have people who I already have inside jokes with and such. That's been a hard thing to adjust to having just moved from out of state. Everyone thought it was so hilarious that we spent our anniversary night with our friends. Well what were we supposed to do???

Fast forward a week. So my birthday is actually next weekend but I got surprised a little early. This morning when David came in to our room to tell my still 99% asleep self that he was home from the gym, he actually said "I have a surprise for you outside so hurry, get dressed and come see!" I of course wanted to just roll over and say I'd see it later but he persisted. He even helped me find shorts and other appropriate clothes to wear outside. As I'm stumbling through the room and then the hall I'm thinking that maybe he got me my anniversary present today! (He's busy with work and when he's not, I'm with him so he doesn't have a whole lot of time to do things like that.) I hoped it was a puppy or something wonderful. Well, half way through the living room he spun me around to look into the kitchen where I found MY MOM!!!! Of course I cried. Did you really almost ask?? I've been feeling pretty lonely and discouraged with the big move and not having any friends or people to hang out with while David has his friends and jobs and things to do. My mom and I frequent Skype and phone calls because I just need to talk sometimes. Who doesn't just want to talk to their moms everyday? This was perfect. David and my mom. Those little boogers are too good at surprising me! But it was the best thing for sure. Happy birthday to me!