18 weeks take II

Yes there I am pregnant, braces, and glasses.  Does it get any better?  I ran out of contacts and I am BLIND without them!  Don't worry a new shipments is on it's way.  My belly is much bigger in real life, PROMISE!  Although I have lost weight recently which concerns me but my belly is growing, so I guess it's probably just shifting around.  I gained around 15 my first trimester and I've lost 5 my second, it's not supposed to work that way at all.  I was stressed because I gained too much, so I stopped weighing myself and now I'm stressed because I'm loosing weight, I'm just not even going to weigh myself anymore!  Tomorrow I am 19 weeks so I thought I should get this out before then.  Our ultrasound is in a week in a half.  Time to guess boy or girl????  Of course I am going to find out because that would be like having the internet and not using it!  Although I fully admire people who wait and maybe when I have one of each I will try that out.  

I will never not use this stuff!  It makes my hair AMAZING for 3-4 days.  I do it the first day and just let my hair do it's thing till I feel unsanitary and wash it again.  No frizz, no oiliness, just wonderful hair all the time!

And this, this is a blessing to a pregnant woman, I wish I could bath my whole house in it!  I hear there is a cleaning spray so I might!  It's all natural and smells like you came out of the Queen's Garden!  Most fragrances I can handle for a day because I hate perfumey smelling stuff (Bath and Body Works makes me gag!) but this stuff is a botanical therapeutical miracle!

St George

Huds brought me this cherry blossom and called it a star

kissing the duck

Waiting outside the Bear Paw for breakfast

there was a big empty closet waiting for me to use it/how TJ travels

kneaders french toast at home

on top of the mountain outside the condo

Garrison and TJ photo compliments of Brooke

Snow Canyon sand dunes, kind of like the beach without water

sand fight!

Splash Pad downtown

Nielson's Frozen Custard, we went here twice

this and the next one are also compliments of Brooke

Sand Baby


It was hard to come back to less than warm temps after this trip, before I left 45 was warm, after freeezing!!  It was a nice break and we were so glad our friends Brooke and Garrison could live it up with us a day.  We dined at the Pasta Factory, lunched at 25 and Main twice, and got In & Out on our way out, plus the Bear Paw Cafe and Neilson's, I could almost see us living us there but I don't know that I could say goodbye to the CO mountains.

Zion National Park

rest stop along the 70, had to let Huds expel some energy on our 7 hour drive although he never made a sad peep

this gas station attendant insisted we take a fam pic, she deserves attendant of the year award

Huds was ready to take the wheel around 8pm

good morning Zion!  It was a windy sleepless night for me, I even took half a Unisom, next time a whole one, oh and I finally got the mailbox app notification at 5am after I had finally fallen asleep, I considered deleting it but decided it was worth keeping

some hike by the long tunnel 

bridge to Emereld Pools hike

Weeping Rock

yes I know my but has gotten bigger, thank you pregnancy

on the way to The Narrows

Wish we could have stayed longer, but only if I could sleep at night!

Had to add TJ's pic of us sleeping, I was awake but the flash was too bright