Birthday Bash for a whole week!

I decided I wanted to take my birthday off of work this year - part of that decision was because Fred came home last week and said we should get my car windows tinted before the baby comes and we made an appointment for my birthday!

After Fred left for classes, I started moving all of my scrapbooking stuff downstairs to it's new home to make room for a nursery upstairs. I got most of it done before I stopped to eat and... take a nap! Fred woke me up when he got home. We dropped off my car but only less than 2 hours before we needed to pick it up. I've heard alot about FatCats but had never been so we checked it out. We played air hockey (Fred kicked my butt! 7-3). He also kicked my butt at Skeeball - I'm addicted to skeeball and if I could, I would have one in my house! Finally, it was my turn to kick his butt at bowling - I have to brag because I got a Turkey in the 10th frame!

That's right, we celebrated my birthday by hanging out at an arcade/ funcenter! :}

When we picked up my car Fred got in the back seat and said "Yep, your baby will like it." It actually was kind of weird that first day with the windows so dark.

We ate at Olive Garden - not my overall favorite place, but we hardly ever go there and it was a nice change. I tried to bribe our waiter - I asked if they have a birthday treat. He said no, but they could sing. I told him I was just going to try to get more breadsticks to take home instead of the treat. He said he'd bring some out anyways!

For my cake I've been wanting an ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins. Since my birthday is during the winter I never get one - I had one once when I was about 8 and loved it. Fred was a good sport and let me pick one out. He even suggested we stop by my parent's to share it with them. They hadn't eaten dinner yet, so we hung out for awhile, then ate cake.

Finally at 9:30pm I got to open presents! Fred has done such an awesome job lately of picking out presents for me. (For V-day he bought me some cake decorating supplies.) He gave me a maternity sweater & another maternity shirt, pregnancy stickers for scrapbooking, the 3rd book of a church series I have, 2 other novels that I've wanted to read, and a set of alphabet stamps (he said he chose them because they have blocks around them and they'll look like baby blocks for scrapbooking the baby pictures!)

I have to mention our awesome parents too! His family always does a birthday dinner - I chose to stay in and have his dad make his amazing Chicken Parmesan. (I could probably eat it every week and be happy--fat, but happy!) His parents of course were overly generous and gave me a gift card to a spa - for a couples' massage. (Fred's rebelling a little, but I'm sure he'll go with me.) They also gave me a maternity shirt. His sister's family gave me a giftcard to Blockbuster that I'm totally stoked about because I really want to buy Madagascar 2!

My family also does a birthday dinner - my mom made an oatmeal cake that sounded a little sketchy but was Amazing! My parents bought me a maternity skirt, paid for my yearly Ensign subscription (which I love because it saves me the hassle), and some floursack dish towels so I can make more jelly roll desserts!

Of course I had to have cake at work too- thanks to Kirie. And my boss gave me seasons 1, 2, & 3 of My Name is Earl. Totally redneck, but Fred and I LOVE that show! :}

All in all- I had a pretty good birthday, which let's be honest, good birthday's seem to come around less and less the older you get!

Holy Snow!

I got home Tuesday evening and didn't dare pull in my driveway there was so much snow! All day at work, the snow fell (for only a few minutes) didn't stick to the ground. The drive home was surprisingly good - expected worse when Fred called to say they had closed the campus because of all the snow. He said it was up to his knees as he cleared it off his car.

All of our neighbors were out shoveling. I jumped through the snow to the driveway where my lovely husband had left footprints for me. I went inside and waited for him to get home from running errands so he could shovel it. :} Yep, I'm that helpful! Don't feel too bad for him, he fixed the snowblower and it didn't take him very long.

While he cleared the driveway I convinced Jasper to play in the backyard snow with me. (The snow was 8 1/2 inches deep on the driveway and 22 1/2 inches in the back yard.)

He'll do anything if you pet him!

The last snow was so heavy it broke our poor trampolene!

Scan guns are a boys best friend

We finally did it- we went and braved the Baby registry. Luckily they give you a list of recommended items to walk around with. Fred was in charge of the scan gun. I love that he’s fun whatever we’re doing! After about an hour of registering I was ready to be done and we were only half way around the store. I told Fred to just hold the trigger and wave it around to see what we get – I started walking down the isle and Fred says, “It doesn’t work, nothing scanned.” :}
There are definitely a bunch of things we need to add and a few things we need to take off – but it was a good start. He wants to read the consumer reports on car seats, strollers & highchairs before we register for any- but just looking in the store it seems we agree on the same style and for the same reasons. He’s quite the opinionated baby supply shopper, I’m glad to see him so excited about picking stuff out.
My favorite moment while registering was when we were in the bath isle. He picked up a bottle of Head to Toe Baby Wash and said “Sounds like you’re washing a car, where’s the wax?”