Blossoming Tulips and Growing Bellies

Springtime has finally arrived, and THANK GOODNESS! You'd think by now I'd be used to the crazy changing weather around here, where one morning you wake up to sunshine and by afternoon it's blustery and raining (or worse, Snowing!). But I shouldn't complain on a beautiful day like this, when I've been spoiled enough to sit out on the swings and soak in the sun for as long as my heart desires.

One of my favorite things about this time of year is all the tulips! Brick and I decided that we are going to have to plant those cheerful flowers in our new garden because, even though they don't last too long, when those tulips pop up, you know it's SPRINGTIME!

Speaking of our new garden, we finally closed on our house and will be moving in on the 12th of May at the latest. I am going stir-crazy thinking about making the house homey, and all the things I want to adorn the walls with and all that fun stuff, that two-and-a-half weeks seems like an eternity! I even went out and photographed all the tulips to frame them for living room (or baby room, if it's a girl like Brick insists it is!).

I have my 16 week appointment in two days, and I always get a little anxious as my appointments approach, but I'm sure that all is well, especially since my belly seems to be growing (maybe I'll get brave and post the obligatory baby bump pics soon). We will find out the sex of the baby around the end of May!

Now for my embarrassing moment: the other day I was shopping for house decor at a little ma and pop store, and as I was standing in line to make my purchases, I suddenly felt very light-headed and hot. I've fainted five or six times before, so I knew that's what was coming on, and all I could do is sit down on the floor, right there in the store. The ladies at the register looked at me funny, so I told them I was just feeling light headed, and just like a couple of mother hens, they swooped me up, sat me down, and started bringing out all kinds of food and drinks for me. They guessed I was pregnant, and sat down with me to tell me all their war stories, keeping a keen eye on me to make sure I ate everything they sat down in front of me. I was dying to get out of there and, well, die of embarrassment once I was out of their sight, but they wouldn't let me leave until they were sure I was ok. I think my mom would be glad to know I am being taken care of while she's away, but man I must have been bright red in the face. I've been in the store a couple of times since, and they recognize me every time, and call me their "little pregnant girl."

And so it starts.

Anyway, happy springtime everyone, and here are some more of my tulip pictures to get you all in the mood for happy weather (and hopefully help you forget my embarrassing moment).

Big News!

I promised we would have some news within the week about a house, and we do! We got our first pick, an adorable house in Foxboro, UT, right in between where we are now and SLC! I will post pictures as soon as we have some, but first...



Even better news...

One Last Look at the City

I know this is a little late, but I promised pictures, and we all know that nobody really looks at this blog to read the novels I sometimes tend to get carried away writing! Our last week or two in NYC was perhaps the busiest, and we had no qualms about leaving the city because we definately felt like we took advantage of the food amazing sites and food, not to mention the fact that Madison Square Garden was right down the street the whole time.

One of my favorite places in the city was Little Italy (when the weather was right), where we ate the best Italian food we could ever imagine. Seriously, HEAVEN. This particular night, the weather was beautiful, and so I met Brick at his work and we walked until we ended up finding Little Italy. The streets were lined with lights, vendors were displaying their scarves and sunglasses, and the restaurants had their fronts openned up to the sidewalks so that the conversations and the smell of food filled the streets. It was one of those nights that you wish you could take with you and remember every little thing. Really, though, I mostly just wish I could take that restaurant with me back to Utah.

The most beautiful parts of the city, as gloomy as it sounds, were the cemeteries. All the cathedrals had these old cemeteries where the graves were so crowded and so old that the names were worn off the headstones. There was something really entriguing about them, and I always had to stop for a few moments to admire them.

Brick was so excited to finally be inside The Garden, and the game between the Knicks and the Nuggets was actually a really good game. Before we got there he even bought himself a NYC style hotdog from a vendor, just to feel legit.

A week or so before we left the city we were blessed with a beautiful SUNNY day, and we took advantage of it by going to the boardwalk on Coney Island. If I had to vote, this would be my favorite place we visited while in NY, but that may just have been my homesickness coming out. It was the first place we went since being in the city where you could see and feel the sunshine coming from all directions, and the openness was so refreshing!

One really funny part of Coney Island was the "Shoot the Freak" show. The freak was on vacation, I guess, because we couldn't see him anywhere, but the sign was really funny so we took a picture.

On one of our last nights in NYC, Brick brought me home a bouquet of flowers just for the heck of it. He's so funny, because he refuses to get flowers when I expect them, like Valentine's Day, because he says they mean more when they are a surprise. Such a romantic.