Happy Birthday Dad!!

Thank you for being such an amazing example to me

I love you so much!

 

Baby Bump!

My belly is growing and boy it's growing fast!  I'm definitely showing much faster than most people but I love it!  

My 1st trimester was not fun one bit!  Brandon went on daily trips to get saltines and sprite for me.  He is such an amazing husband!  He gives me daily foot and back massages and is always checking on me. 

2nd trimester has been awesome!  I'm finally feeling good and have way more energy.  Our baby boy has been kicking a ton.  We could sit there and feel him kick all day long.  We just love it!

It's a... BOY!!

We couldn't be more excited!  We can't wait to hold and kiss our little guy!

I'm loving all things having to do with little boys...

The Past Year

Here is what we've been up to...

Last year we moved to beautiful St. George.  We absolutely love it here! The weather is amazing and we really love our cute neighborhood and ward.  Brandon and I have both been going to Dixie State full time so we've been staying busy!

We've gone boating with our friends

We've had family come to visit!

We went to Washington for the 4th of July

We traveled to AZ for softball tournaments

We went to the Grand Canyon!

We had more family come to visit!

We dressed up as pirates for Halloween

We celebrated my 24th birthday!  Brandon surprised me with 24 roses, THE best dinner and the funnest night!

And...

We celebrated our year anniversary!

We had a blast in 2011! But we can't wait for whats to come in 2012... especially to meet this little one:)

Best Giveaway Ever!!

 

Andrea James Photography
is having an awesome giveaway with tons of AMAZING prizes!!
Go check out her photography blog to see how to enter to win!
Make sure to go "like her Facebook page too!

Our Honeymoon

Brandon and I have been married for 6 months and 1 day today! 

And can you believe it? I am just getting around to posting pictures from our honeymoon?! 

I promise I'll get better!

Brandon planned our honeymoon and would not give me one tiny clue where we were going until the day we left!  I'm a pretty curious/sneaky girl... so I tried everything I could think of to try and find out where we were going.  He definitely thought this surprise through because I did not find out a thing!

I think we might hold the record for the longest honeymoon... so be prepared for a very long post! We to a lot of fun places!

For our honeymoon we went to...

NEW YORK!!
We started our trip with a fun 6 hour delay in the Chicago airport.  We really did have a great time relaxing and taking turns playing angry birds.  I think we ended up beating the whole game!

Brandon planned for us to spend the first 3 nights in the city.  He booked our room in a hotel that is right in the middle of time square.  It was awesome!  We had a corner suite that had windows around the room so we could see everything!  Our hotel was so nice they even sent us up chocolate covered strawberry's congratulating us on our wedding.

We had so much fun walking around and taking pictures!

While we were walking around we were stopped by someone who worked for the David Letterman Show and asked us if we wanted to go... of course we do! We were so excited! Russell Crowe, Quincey Jones, and Snoop Dogg were on the show.. it was really cool!

 We also went to the Broadway Show Elf... This was one of our favorite parts of the trip!  It was hilarious we loved it!  After the show we went to dinner at a restaurant called Juniors.  They had THE best cheesecake! 

The next couple days we...

Rode on one of those bike taxis through the city

Went bowling at Lucky Strikes Bowling Alley

Went to Madison Square Garden

and

Ate at Rays Pizza (The best pizza ever!)

The Empire State Building was amazing!  It was so cool being up so high and being able to see the entire city!

After 3 days in the city, Brandon planned for us to get a rental car and take a fun road trip.  I had no idea where we were going so it made it really exciting!  We drove about 7 hours to Niagara Falls..  It was so awesome there!  We had a lot of fun walking through all the cute parks and going to fun restaurants!

After Niagara Falls we headed back down towards New York City and stopped for a couple days in Palmyra.  I LOVED this part of our trip.  Palmyra is the cutest little town.  We met the nicest people and spent a lot of time stopping at each church history site.  We went to the Hill Cumorah, the Sacred Grove, The Book of Mormon Publishing Site, and the Temple.  All of these places were so amazing!  I will never forget it!

Our honeymoon was a blast! We got to see some of the coolest places together.  Most of all just being able to relax and spend time with each other made for an amazing vacation.
I am so grateful for my sweet husband, for planning such an amazing honeymoon for us!  He had everything planned out so perfectly so we could spend time together and not have to worry about a thing!
 
We have been super busy these last 6 months.. so I promise I'll catch you all up on everything!

Happy Birthday Mase!

Mason had his very first surprise birthday party.. Brandon, Mark and I decorated while Andrea, and my parents distracted him outside.  He was super excited! We had so much  fun spending time with him. We love you so much Mase!

Happy Birthday Lena!

Happy 1st Birthday to our sweet niece Lenzies!!

You are such a loving, beautiful, caring princess! We love you so much! 

It seems like just yesterday we were holding you as a little newborn..can't believe its already been a year!

We love you,

Uncle Brandon & Auntie Krista

Our Wedding Day

Saturday, November 6, 2010 = the best day of my life! 
I was sealed to my best friend in the beautiful Oquirrh Mountain Temple.  Our wedding day was the most amazing, gorgeous, and perfect day!

Our 3 little nephews were the first to run up to give us a big hug and kiss..

We feel so lucky to have such amazing friends and family that traveled so far for our wedding.  It was the best to see you all as we walked out of the temple.  Thank you so much for being there!

We love you so much!

Our Wonderful Families

The Little One's

Mr. & Mrs. Rush