Happy 3rd Birthday Aizlyn!!

Saturday was my cute niece Aizlyn's 3rd birthday! We had a fun party with all her little friends, some yummy cake, and lots of swimming! It's been so much fun to have her and my sister close by so we can spend more time with them and watch her grow up. Aizlyn is such a good, sweet girl, and we love her SO much! Happy Birthday Aiz!

30 Weeks!!!

We've made it to the 30 week mark...only 10 more to go (hopefully!) Here are a few belly pics for all of you who we don't get to see often enough!

Cabo...one last hoorah before the baby comes!

Matt and I headed down to Cabo with Luke and Amy for one last big vacation before both of our babies come and our lives change forever! We stayed at a resort about a half hour north of Cabo San Lucas, which was right on the beautiful beach and so nice. (Check out the view from our room in the slideshow!) Matt and Luke rented surfboards for the whole week, but since Amy and I are both very pregnant, we couln't join in the surfing this time! We were both a little disappointed about that, but it was worth it to keep our babies alive and well :) We dug holes in the sand for our belly's to fit into and read the whole time we were on the beach. We were both surprised to find that digging holes really works for pregnant belly's!

Other than surfing and laying on the beach, we did take one horrible excursion in our wonderful little Nissan Platina down to Cabo San Lucas to go snorkeling at Lovers Beach. We took what was called the "Glass Bottom Boat" (which was just an old ghetto boat with a strip of glass through the middle of it!) out to the island, which had so many boats coming in and out that there were no fish to be seen! Needless to say, we didn't snorkel very long, but the boys played in the huge waves and got annihilated...it was really entertaining to watch! After our snorkeling adventure, we went to get in our car that would not start! We called the rental company, and all they did was try jumping it 30 times, even though we knew it was not battery related. They finally took us back to the office and gave us a new Platina...silver instead of white this time! We were all starving by then so we went to what looked like a nice restaraunt, only to be disappointed by crappy fish tacos and ribs. They were so gross I couldn't eat more than one bite, so we left and went through the McDonalds drive thru!

All in all, it was an awesome vacation and we would definitely go back someday. The condo was very kid-friendly so we may go back as a family at some point! There was an awesome pool area right in front of the beach, shuffleboar which Luke and Amy kicked our butts at!), beach volleyball, tennis, mini-golf...all kinds of fun activities. And to top it off, it's only a 2 1/2 hour direct flight from Salt Lake! Thanks for a great vacation Larsen's...we can't wait for the next one!!

Happy Birthday to me!

I turned the big 25 on March 27th!! It was a wonderful birthday week, not just day. It all started on Tuesday the 25th with my ultrasound. My mom flew down from Washington for that, and then took me to lunch at the Cheesecake Factory with my Aunt Loralee, my sister Lindy, her littler girl Aizlyn, and the girl she nannies Lexi.

Later that night we went to dinner at Firehouse with Sam, Cami, my brother Brent, Lindy, and mom again. Matt and all my sisters hooked me up with gift certificates for the Garden Day Spa and Salon...which I'm SO excited about because I get to go get pampered a few times over the next few months!!!

On Wednesday night Matt and I drove down to St. George to spend the weekend with his family. We enjoyed a wonderful weekend of laying in the sun, rollerblading, swimming, yummy food, and just relaxing! It was the perfect week and I couldn't have asked for a better birthday (week). Thanks to everyone who called/emailed/text me, you are all so sweet and I love you all!

We're having a baby GIRL!!!

Yesterday was the big day of our 20 week ultrasound and we found out we're having a little girl! We are so excited!!! The ultrasound was the coolest thing ever, it's really amazing how clearly you can see everything from their little toes and legs, to their brain and heart. Everything looked great and she seems to be healthy and progressing right on track. According to the size of her head, she's measuring just a day before her due date, (August 9th) so pretty close...but I'm still hoping for a few days earlier :)

I Need Some Help!!

I'm 18 weeks...this if flying by! I decided I better start thinking about what happens after this baby really gets here. Here's my dilema...I just started looking at all these birthing and prenatal classes that my hospital offers, and I don't know which, if any, I should sign up for. There are so many of them, but they're a little time consuming! So any of you ladies who have had babies, I would love some input on what you tried and liked or didn't like. Breastfeeding, baby massage, lamaze (do people still do that stuff?!) first time mom and dad, third trimester class (?) Those are some offered, and I just don't know if these are really worth the time. Let me know if any of you have any thoughts...thanks ladies!

I'm a movie maniac!

I feel like I've been to SO many movies lately, so I'm going to do a little recap for anyone who's thinking about going to see any of these and wants my review! Remember, just my opinion on all of them, but let me know what you think!

August Rush-***** I LOVED this movie! I thought it was such a powerful movie that everyone should see. I loved the music and the story line, but I do wish that the end would have given me a little more closure. If you've seen it, you know what I mean, but I won't say too much!

Enchanted-*** Cute movie, definitely one to go to either with kids or girlfriends! Entertaining though...made me laugh and smile most of the way through.

Fools Gold-*** I liked this movie pretty well. It was definitely not as good as their last movie together, and not one I will buy or watch over and over like I do with How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, but cute and worth seeing for sure.

27 Dresses-***** I really liked this one a lot. I love Katherine Heigl, and James Marsden. They were so cute together, and made me laugh alot! I didn't go with Matt, but I don't think he would have hated it like he does some chick flicks. I'll probably buy this one.

Over Her Dead Body-*** This was cute, Matt would have hated it if I'd made him go! Has some funny parts, but kind of a different story line...reminded me of Just Like Heaven with Reese Witherspoon a little bit.

PS I Love You-**** This was a good chick flick. I went twice and both times, everyone I was with was bawling throughout almost the entire movie! Take tissue, but so cute. And it's the guy from Phantom of the Opera in it!

The Other Boleyn Girl-** I didn't like this much at all. It was just the same guy sleeping with different women then leaving them throughout the whole movie. Cool story line because it's history and where Queen Elizabeth came from, but really didn't like the movie. I heard the book is better.

Juno-**** Great movie! A little crude at times, but very funny and just a well done movie.

A little update...

So being the very nice and supportive wife that I am :) I let my husband go to Maui for a week without me last week so he could visit his brother who lives there! Everyone thought I was crazy, and don't get me wrong, I wanted to go SOOOO bad, but it just didn't make a whole lot of sense. Here's why: Matt flew for super cheap on a buddy pass, and I would have had to buy a ticket the day before, which would have been super expensive. Matt stayed at his brothers house and slept on the floor, and I would probably have wanted to get a hotel so I had a comfy bed, which would have been super expensive. They were planning on surfing pretty much the whole time, which I love to do, but can't right now because of this little baby growing inside of me! So it basically came down to it would have been very expensive for me to go and not be able to do what they were doing. He had such a fun time though, and his brother was very happy to have a visitor for the week! I missed him SO much, but it felt good to be supportive about something that is important to my husband. He never complains about my girls weekends (aka JAMM!!!) and is always very supportive, so it was the least I could do to let him go have some guy/brother time!

After being home for a whole 4 days, he's off again to San Francisco today (sunday)!! But this time it's for work, not pleasure. He'll be home on Tuesday afternoon, and then on Wednesday afternoon.......I'm off to Vegas to spend time with my mom in the warm weather! She's there visiting for hte week, and I'm so excited to be in the sun, but I'm not used to being away from my husband for this long, I don't like it. But we're trying to get lots of vacations in before the baby comes in August!

Hill-Billy!!

This just made me smile...she better not win or we're moving to Costa Rica for awhile!!

I've Been Tagged!!

What were you doing 10 yrs ago: Wow..10 years ago I was 14 years old which means I was a freshman in high school I think. I was just hanging out with my friends all the time and doing gymnastics, and going through a really "fun and interesting" time of life!

5 Things on my to do list Today: Work, go register our new car at the DMV, go get my food handlers permit, watch my cute niece Aizlyn, and I should probably make dinner...we'll see if that happens :)

Things I would do if I suddenly was a Billionaire: I would get completely out of debt, build my dream home, and set some aside for traveling the world, and then invest the rest of it in real estate projects probably.

3 of my bad habits: I guess I'm vengeful...Matt tells me that all the time :) I wish I blogged more and was more creative as far as scrapbooking and decorating goes. I need some help in that department!

Places I have lived: Kennewick, WA Salt Lake City, UT Holladay, UT Farmington, UT...I haven't lived in very many different cities, just a lot of different houses in Utah!

Jobs I have had: Hot Dog on a Stick, Zions Bank, California Pizza Kitchen, Utahbrides.com, Paychex, and U1st Financial

Things most people don't know about me: Most of the people who will read this probably know most thigns about me...I went skydiving one time and would love to do it again! I am pregnant and due in August!! I have run 4 marathons now, and would like to pick it back up after the baby comes, or at least 1/2 marathons. I like to be busy and have things to do, and I am super excited to be a mom!!

An addition to the Garrett Family!

For those of you who haven't heard yet, or those who just want a little update, I am officially pregnant and Matt and I are expecting our first little one on August 15th, 2008! (Hopefully a little sooner since it's in the middle of the HOT summer!) We are so excited to embark on this new adventure of parenthood and start our family.

I had my first doctors appointment today and got to see the ultrasound of the little being that is starting to form inside of me, it was so neat! I could see the heart beating and everything. The doctor said it was still a little too early to actually hear it, but next visit we will. My appointment wasn't supposed to be till next week, but we're going to Disney World on Friday, so it had to get bumped up! Seeing the pictures today made it all seem a little more real, because for awhile there I kept wondering, "what if I'm not really pregnant and I just randomly missed two months in a row and the test showed up positive?" Anyways, now I know it's real, and I'm SO excited! I can't wait to find out what it's going to be :)

Lunch with the Girls!

Today I got to meet up with two of my best girlfriends/ex-roomates for lunch at Sweet Tomatoes and pedicures! It was so much fun to catch up after the business of the holidays and just hear what's going on in everyone's lives. It is such a blessing to have good friends, and to be able to spend days like these together every once in awhile. Ashley, we missed you today and wish you could have been here with us!

Christmas in Washington!

This year we spent Christmas up in Washington with my family! It was a long drive up, but we had so much fun once we got there. We again, ate lots of food, spent lots of time with the family just hanging out, and instead of guitar hero, we played lots of Rock Band! That was a blast and "The Kennedy's" were a big hit! (our band name)


Matt and I Christmas morning...he's getting the guitar ready for rock band!

Grandma and Grandpa with Kyson and his cool leapster! The kids are big fans of those.

Aizlyn got baby bottles for her babies for Christmas and she loves them! She kept trying to feed them to Kennedy, it was so cute.

Jacob is opening Kennedy's cabbage patch doll that walks with her!

Kyson and Landon got a new wagon from Grandma and Grandpa!

Matt and I got Paige and Ty little BYU beanies...Paige didn't like it so much, but Ty loved his!

Go BYU!

Decorating Christmas cookies!

Lindy, Aizlyn, and Lexi came over to help me decorate all my Christmas cookies this year! It was nice to have the help cuz there were a lot of them, but the girls kept wanting to eat them! Aizlyn loved all the green ones, that's her new favorite color.

Aizlyn wouldn't even touch the ones that weren't green!

Thanksgiving...little late!

This post is a little late, but I thought I'd put up pictures of our Thanksgiving trip this year! We went down to Beaver with Matt's family and stayed in these cute little condo's up at what used to be a ski resort. We played lots of guitar hero, fusion frenzy, and ate way too much food, of course, but it was so fun to spend time with the family!

Here's Matt throwing rocks at the frozen lake

We went for a little walk around the old ski lifts that aren't running anymore

It was windy and FREEZING up there!

Here's our cute nieces, Kaela, Janey, and Avie playing in the snow!

Here they are again with Lucy

Girls on the Run!

Last spring I met someone who was bringing a program called Girls on the Run to Salt Lake, and I thought it sounded really worthwhile so I decided to volunteer as an assistant coach at Backman Elementary in Rose Park. We met with 11 girls, 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, twice a week after school to have a little lesson on self esteem, honesty, staying drug free, eating healthy, or something along those lines, and tie it into running. For 10 weeks these girls are training to run a 5k. They get a running budding who also volunteers to run just the 5k with them and encourage them along the way. This last Saturday was the girls' 5k and it was so neat to see them run and accomplish their goal that they've been working so hard for! I loved getting to know these girls and it was a really cool experience to try and help them learn the importance of staying healthy inside and out. We're starting another session of Girls on the Run in March, so if any of you runners out there want to volunteer to be a running buddy and run the 5k with a girl, let me know! I'll need people around May :)

Happy Halloween!!

We got to attend a few super fun Halloween parties this year...of course, the Duckworth's bash up at their cabin, (which I have no pictures of!) as well as his mom's yearly party. She always does such a good job and makes it so much fun for everyone with her decorations, halloween dishes, (check out the menu below) and games for the kids. Matt and I dressed up as Office Space characters Bill Lumberg and Joanna, the waitress at Chotsky's! Amber came up from California as a burn victim, which everyone loved, and his sister Brooke and her husband were Nacho Libre and the nun! Great costumes, great food, great Halloween!

The witches brew :)

Amber...burn victim from southern California!

Brooke, Jed, Kaela, Jacob, and Janey