while jon was having the timeeeee of his life on his annual moab offroading trip, i spent monday-saturday slaving at work, wishing the days away so that i could be in beautiful utah with my babos and so many of my loved ones!!!!!!! luckily, the week wasn't that bad for me as i revert to deployment/self reliance mode quite quickly and i actually enjoyed the free time i had to take the dogs on walks and talk to myself in our bedroom.
finally saturday evening came when i was landing at the salt lake airport to be picked up by jon! the weather was perfect. the mountains were perfect. and the streets were perfect. (i mean, where else do people know how to drive and are spoiled with really nice freeways/roads?) we met up with kalie and spencer at cafe rio right before they spent ten days (the whole time we were in utah) in mexico, lucky!
the next day we went to church with jon's family and shared the good news! then my babies came over and we all got to enjoy gary's cooking and the dog/poop free backyard. a couple notable things: i asked gary to make his infamous beef jerky that he hasn't made in 10 years and when i walked in after jon picked me up from the airport, there my dad was making me jerky. another, audrey pretended to read me a story/note and said "dear aj. you are the best, greatest aunt ever! i love you sooo much! love audrey." i have the best niece and nephews in the whole world because they make me and my sisters all feel like we are their favorites. they've mastered that early on and i love them for it.
about 15 weeks.
(in my new dress and necklace from my sisters on my dads perfectly manicured lawn!)
monday morning jon and i thought it'd be super fun if we drove up the canyon and hiked to lake mary. jon was yelling at me because i was 'running late' and i was getting mad because i kept telling him we had no where to be so why are you rushing me!!!? he said "i want to beat the heat!" you guys, he really said that. we are so not used to winters. we got up to brighton and the ski lift was obvvvvvvviously covered in snow and our attire obviously didn't work with that. jon quickly apologized. i understood since we usually really do have to 'beat the heat' here in texas. we found a little trail to hike called dog lake. we only walked for a hiked for a little bit as we had things to do, people to see. it was so nice to soak up the view of the mountains from the mountains and see the wildlife. we saw two deer so close to us that didn't mind our presence at all.
food photo #1: i meant to send this to emma but now she gets to see it here. i know corn dogs aren't the greatest for humans/pregnant women but my goodness had i craved these and she understands.
food photo #2: Maceys? never heard of it but best <$2 i've ever spent.
huge!
this was the almost end result. we shared!
the next day was cutie girls preschool graduation. she was so cute singing her songs and although it seems like a little thing, i was so grateful to be able to go to it since we've missed so much living far away.
we celebrated afterwards with rita's custard which was good not great but i couldn't handle watching this baby eating my ice cream with such joy.
katie claims she is done having babies which breaks my heart but at the same time makes me happy because i can't imagine spreading my love to one more of her adorable children. it is a good thing for me because she saved all of her maternity clothes and baby clothes/items for us and i am so happy!!!!! we aren't going to find out the gender of our little one which makes buying clothes for him/her interesting. she sent us home with a tub of girl newborn clothes and a tub of boy newborn clothes. (along with blankets, hats, burp cloths, accessories…i could go on and on)
so what will we be donning on little hagerman? these:
or these:
audrey was cute about our baby/my belly the whole time we were in town. she would come up and rub my stomach and ask about the gender. she thinks the birds are going to have a boy and we are going to have a girl. we'll see!
speaking of the birds!:
we spent a night restaurant hopping with them and had so much fun. we started with apps at the dodo which i couldn't be happier about. kim on the other hand thinks it was the culprit of the night spent tossing her cookies.
our next stop was up the canyon at ruth's diner. jon and i shared a burger and we all shared fried pickles and okra which we obviously didn't love. our final stop was A&W for root beer floats/freezes. mike was making me absolutely sick with his driving but was surprisingly sweet when he let us go to a&w instead of where he wanted to go for dessert. maybe he won't be such a bad father after all…….
more to come on the rest of our trip!
more to come on the rest of our trip!
