New Year

Wow, it's been a long time since my last post. Sorry about that all who read this.

Well for My birthday and Christmas, Ryan and I went to Oklahoma to see my family. It was so nice to be able to relax for 10 days and not worry about cooking or cleaning or our dog. (We left her with my w0nderful in-laws)

For my birthday, we went out to the Cheescake Factory. I'm sure we all ate way too much, but as always, it was great food.

To my surprise, My old Co-workers, and dear friends, threw my a surprise baby shower. I was genuinly surprised, (which is hard to do, I have a tendancy to snoop) My Mom and sisters were all in on it, and waiting at my friend Shala's. I'm sure they got a lot of pictures of me laughing, I was so surprised. I got my first baby things from the shower and they are waiting in the to-be nursery.

Ryan and my brother in law Aaron helped my Dad saw down several tree limbs from the ice storms they had. They did my parents backyard and that of another member in the ward. my sisters and I spent a lot of our time shopping and watching movies. Overall it was a nice relaxing vacation.

Onto baby talk, I had another Dr. appt yesterday. We got to hear the heart beat again. Everything is going well, although I am getting bigger and gaining weight. On Friday night, at our friend's Mark and Annalee's wedding, we felt the baby move for the first time. I had felt other movement but this was significant. Ryan and I had a good time feeling my tummy.We find out next thursday what the sex is, so watch for a post next week about that, and more name suggestions. I'll try to include more pictures from our vacation in the next post, so you can see my tummy and all.