"Our" Saturday

After weeks of day after day non-stop going, Spencer and I decided to do whatever we had to this week to free up our Saturday. We dedicated it as "our" Saturday, a day to focus on spending some relaxing time with one another with no worries about homework, housework or grocery shopping. We took the opportunity to start the day with a yummy breakfast at a packed IHOP. They may be unhealthy, but oh, I love their Cheese Blitzes! We decided to explore the new Wally World in Centerville and amazingly enough it was pretty much empty. So, we did a little bit of shopping there and at other stores entirely for baby stuff. (Do we seem excited?) Look at the cute stroller we found today! It even came with the car seat and base. Wahoo! We ended the day with a fun ride on the Trax to the Sandy Expo Center. While walking around we found a little pumpkin patch. I couldn't resist buying these little pumpkins to use to decorate my work area. I think they will make a festive addition to the spooky decorations that my co-worker brought in to share. Did I mention that Halloween is almost as big as Christmas at my work?

Our Little Aine

Without a scanner, this is my lame attempt to take a picture of an ultrasound picture. I just couldn't resist putting it up on our blog. We had our first ultrasound on Tuesday. Both Spencer and I were excited and nervous to find out if the baby was going to be a boy or a girl. Of course we both had our preference, but most of all, I was excited to just be able to call the baby by name instead of "it". I will admit, I was so excited and nervous that I was shaking the whole way to the doctor's office. For those who haven't heard yet, we are having a baby girl. (Yeah! I'm looking forward to dressing her up in adorable pink dresses and doing her hair.) The plan for now is to name her Aine Bonnie. Although it was wonderful to finally know that we are having a girl, it was even more amazing to watch the ultrasound and see the different parts of our little baby and to watch as she moved. I got a little emotional watching it. At the beginning of the ultrasound the doctor did the standard measurement and our little Aine is right on schedule. So the due date is still February 27. The picture above is one of the first the doctor was able to get after the measurements and Aine is looking straight at us, like she knew we were watching. Although it is hard to see, there are two eyes, a mouth and nose and even some little fingers in that picture. To help, the crown of her head is right next to were the flash is on the picture. I am about 20 weeks along and yes, Dan, I'm finally starting to show it. We took a picture as evidence. :)

Conference Weekend

It seems that every Conference weekend Dad always had some kind of road trip planned for Sunday. I think his original idea was to get us stuck in one place where we would have to listen to at least one session of Conference, but it became a tradition that many of us loved. This Conference Mom and Dad where preparing for their trip to Missouri and had no plans for the Conference road trip. Spencer and I, on the other hand had planned in advance to take a drive to Midway to visit his grandparents grave. So, we invited Catherine and Abraham along for the ride. The roads in the canyons where beautiful. The pine trees had a fresh frosting of snow and they were complimented by the gold changing leaves of neighboring trees. After arriving in Midway we decided to continue on driving. We made it out to Duchesne where we stopped at a park and had some lunch. At that point we decided to stretch some legs a bit and held a race between Abraham and Spencer. It was fun to have Abraham and Catherine along for the ride.

Midway Visit

Conference Sunday we drove up to the Midway Cemetary for the first time for me and the first time for Spencer since he dedicated Grandma Schueller's grave. The weather was cool but clear.

KeyBank Implosion

We went for a walk last night to see the aftermath of the Key Bank Building Implosion. I was surpirsed by the height of the pile of rubble that they are sorting through now. They have started to make piles of salvagable steel that they can sell or use elsewhere. The building fell into a relatively small, compact space and left the rest of the space where Crossroads mall used to be wide open. We woke up early Saturday morning to watch it all happening on the news. They imploded the building around 6:35 am. This was about ten minutes earlier than planned due to an incoming thunderstorm. They advised people in the downtown area to stay in the homes until around 10:30 to allow the dust to clear. But due to the storm coming in the dust was all settled within the hour. The church headed up the giant task of imploding the Key Bank Tower to begin making room for the new City Creek Center that is projected to be complete in 2011. Although the new City Creek Center looks like it will be beautiful, for now the task is just to clean up the mess.

School is Here!

Congrats to Spencer! He has been officially accepted to LDSBC and is now registered for three classes. That's right, he's made the decision to go back to school and I am so proud of him! He is going to do a good job. We both will be starting school again this Monday and we're excited! I admit balancing work, school and pregnancy is going to be a challange but I love it! I'm in the race to the finish to graduate from school. True I won't have reached my goal of getting my associates before we start having kids, but at least our baby will only be a couple of month old when I do, if I can make it. :) I've missed sitting in a classroom with other students and friends and learning new things. I'm excited to have Spencer along for the ride this time around. Now he'll be understand when I'm trying to do homework, hehe. He will be taking some general classes that I have already taken and I have given him a heads up on what to expect. He is excited to give school another try.

No Turning Back Now :)

Well, we met our OBGyn at our second doctor's appointment. She seems to be a pretty busy women, after waiting an hour to get in we talked shortly about how things were going, she answered a few of my questions and then she checked for the baby's heartbeat. We didn't get to hear it at our first appointment with the nurse practitioner (sorry I don't think that is spelled right), but she said it was probably to early. But we did get to hear the baby's heartbeat this time around. I can still hear the fast paced rhythm. The doctor seemed relieved to be able to hear it and said it was a sign that we had passed the miscarriage stage. Then she announced that there would be "No turning back now". Were we going to be able to turn back before? :)