Baby Evans

Baby Evans is due July 25, 2012!

     David and I are so excited to welcome this precious little one into our lives.  Pregnancy so far hasn't been too bad for me.  Of course there have been days that weren't so great but overall I have no complaints.  I would mostly just get nauseous in the evening so I would just lay on the couch and watch TV or I would go to bed and sleep it off.  Now that I am 14 1/2 weeks along, I have less and less nauseous moments.  

     We found out I was pregnant on November 22, 2011.  We both had mixed emotions of excitment and thoughts of, "What are we doing!?"  As each week went on we got more and more excited.  I had my first prenatal visit on December 20.  David took the day off of work to come to the appointment with me.  We met my doctor and talked with her for awhile.  We love her.  She is so kind and calming.  We were able to get an ultrasound at that appointment.  At that point I was only 9 weeks along.  My doctor reassured me that there was a baby in there, even though to David and I it just looked like a jelly bean with a heart beat.     

     We had planned to announce the big news to our families during their Christmas parties.  I had bought picture frame ornaments to put a copy of the ultrasound in and then wrap it up.  I was so excited to give these gifts.

     My parents decided to have Christmas Eve dinner and then open gifts that night since Christmas Day would be busy with church and visiting the grandparents.  Here is the picture of my family opening the frame.  It's a little blurry but they were all really excited for us and for their first grandchild. 

     David's family didn't have their Christmas party and gift exchange until the 28th.  It was hard to keep the secret from them after we had told my family but we did it.  I didn't get a picture of that because I had the camera set on the wrong setting when the frame was being unwrapped.  They were all excited for us also.  This will be grandchild number 8 for David's parents. 

     My second appointment was this past Friday, January 27, 2012.  David wasn't going to be able to go to this appointment with me due to work but he ended up not feeling well Friday morning so he called in sick so I dragged him along to the appointment.  I was so excited to have another ultrasound and see how the baby has changed in the last 5 weeks.  I don't think my doctor was going to do an ultrasound but I asked her if she would and she was more than willing to do that for us.  We were able to see the head, the spine, the arms, and the legs.  It was so neat.  The baby was holding really still during the ultrasound so my doctor kept moving the ultrasound wand and pushing on my stomach to try and get the baby to move.  Finally the baby started to kick it's legs and move it's arms.  It was like he or she was throwing a tantrum and saying "Leave me alone!"  After that my doctor used the doppler so we could hear the heart beat.  The heart beat was so fast and steady!  That is when it really hit me that there is a real person growing inside of me.

     Today in Young Women's after the lesson I announced it to them.  I had decided a couple of weeks ago that I was going to play a game of Hangman with them to announce it.  The phrase that they were guessing letters for was, "I'M HAVING A BABY!"  The girls were so funny.  They had guessed all the letters for BABY but none of them got it.  One of the other leaders said, "Really girls?  You don't know what it is?  Look at the last word."  They still didn't get it so I told them to keep guessing letters.  Finally one of the girls put it all together.  They were all excited then I gave them a pack of Sour Patch Kids to celebrate.  

     My next appointment is March 1 and we will find out if the baby is a boy or girl.  I'm really excited for that appointment so we can start planning the nursery and everything else.  It's going to be a long month. 

     Here is my first baby bump picture.  14 1/2 weeks! 

Tai Pan

     So, I started another new job last week.  I'm getting kind of tired of starting new jobs but it keeps things interesting.  My current job is at Tai Pan as a cashier.  My interview was an interesting experience.  They called me to schedule an interview and luckily my day off of school was the next day.  I went in for the interview and about 5 minutes later they asked me if I could start the next day.  Wow, that was easy!  I was only in the office with the managers for a total of 10-15 minutes and that was mostly just me asking them questions about the job.

     I have only worked 3 days so far but I have really enjoyed it.  I worked 11:00-7:30 last Saturday and it was crazy busy ALL day long.  It never slowed down.  I've heard that black Firday is crazy from some of the other cashiers that worked at Tai Pan last holiday season.  I'm not really looking forward to this Friday and Saturday because I have to work 11:00-9:30 both days.  I hope the time goes fast. 

Halloween

     Growing up my mom always did a Halloween dinner.  She would name everything with creepy or gross names, print out a menu for all of us, and then when it was time to eat we would guess which food was what from the menu.  I loved our Halloween dinner nights but I haven't ever done it for just David and I since we have been married.  This year I was just going to do a simple dinner and not worry about naming everything.  While I was driving home from school today I decided that would be no fun...So I decided to really get into it.  Here is the menu...

Appetizers

Scabs
Body Parts
(Cat Eyes, Heats of Black Cat, Owl Eyes, Witches Toes, and Sliced Albino Snake)

Main Dish

Monster Vomit in a Pumpkin

Skelton Bones covered with Shredded Moon

Beverage

Ghost Blood

Dessert

Crushed Bat with Mud

     YUMMMMM!!!  Can you guess what each one is?  Here are some pictures to help you out.

 

Happy Birthday!

     Yesterday was David's 28th Birthday!  He had to work and go to school during the day but we managed to get presents and dinner at Chili's in before he had to go back to school for a study group.  I hope you had a great Birthday Honey Buns!  Love you!!!

                                      The Birthday Boy

                                     The cake and gifts.

                                      He blew out all 28 candles with one breath. 

 

Sometimes I Say This to Myself

     I couldn't help but share this.  A friend posted this to her dental hygiene blog after a rough day of clinic at the VA hospital.  At times I feel like saying this to myself.  Enjoy! 

Park City 8/20/11

     This past weekend was our last weekend before school started again for the year.  David and I knew that we wanted to do something fun and something that we haven't done before.  We have been wanting to go up to Park City to ride the Alpine Slide and Alpine Coaster and to shop and hang out.  We finally did it!  Bryce and Audrey came up with us and we had a blast. 

 Whitnee, David, Bryce, and Audrey.  Riding the chair lift up to the Alpine Slide. 

David and Bryce

 Audrey and Whitnee

 The Alpine Coaster.  This was SO much fun!  I wish it wasn't so much money to do because we would have gone on it ten more times. 

Bryce and Audrey sitting in the Alpine Coaster car. 

 Riding the Alpine Coaster to the top. 

The scenic view from the Alpine Coaster.

     After we did all our playing we headed to the outlet mall.  I hadn't been shopping at the outlet mall for probably 6 years.  Before we left home I got on the outlet mall website and found some awesome coupons for some of the different stores.  The best coupon was 30% off entire purchase from the GAP Outlet.  I was so excited for this one.  I found a hoodie that was normally $40 but was marked down to 60% off, plus I had my 30% off coupon.  So, I got a $40 hoodie for only $11.20!  I also found a really cute cardigan that was $40, marked 30% off, plus my 30% off coupon.  I got that for $19.60.  David also found some pants and shirts at different stores for really good prices.  It's worth the drive up there if you can find coupons on the internet plus use their sale prices.  After we left Park City we went back to Bryce and Audrey's place and watched a movie and ate pizza and breadsticks.  It was a great day. 



Camping-July 22-24

     I just downloaded the pictures that were on my camera and I found pictures from a camping trip that we went on in July.  I forgot I had them.  The day we got home from girls camp we hurried and unloaded everything, cleaned the tent, got showered and packed to go camping again.  It was a lot of fun.  We met my parents and Riley up in Old Canyon by Randolph.  It was beautiful up there.  The downside was all the mosquitos.  There were tons and tons.  I don't ever remember being somewhere with so many mosquitos.  We were putting bug spray on about every hour.
     David and I were just planning on sleeping in the tent so that all our stuff wasn't in the way in the trailer.  My mom was worried about us being outside in the tent because of bears and I was a little nervous too but I just thought it would be too much of a hassle every morning to take apart our beds and then have to set them back up again at night if we slept in the trailer.  The dogs were in their kennel on our motorcycle trailer about 50 feet away from our tent.  We went to bed Friday night and the wind was blowing a little bit and pine needles and little things kept falling on our tent, Josie kept barking like something was outside our tent, and I thought I could hear a little critter walking around the tent.  I was working myself up and getting more and more nervous about being outside for the night.  I finally fell asleep.  A few hours later I woke up to Josie barking again.  I wasn't too worried about Josie barking because she barks when nothing is really there.  The thing that really woke me us was when Sammy starting growling and barking.  Then we knew that something was out there.  David sat up in bed just about as fast as I did.  I could see that my parents had flashlights outside the trailer and David opened the tent door and was looking outside too.  We could hear something walking and breaking twigs and stuff down the street from our camp.  I was pretty freaked out.  Luckily we survived.  David thinks that it was probably an elk just passing through.  I sure hope it was only an elk.  We survived the rest of the weekend without any more near death experiences.  :)

The big lap dog.  Sammy loves to go camping because she knows David will let her sit on his lap. 

 Josie didn't want to miss out on the fun of sitting on David's lap. 

 Riley...He keeps things lively.

 It was extremely dusty.  We all came back from our motorcycle rides looking like this. 

Relaxing and playing a game. 

 This view was just up the road from where we camped. 

 What are they doing?  ;-) 

 Whitnee, David, Sammy, and Josie

Let's Ride!!!  Whitnee, David, Dad, Mom, and Riley