Our New Place

Okay, so this is the kind of post that I would just skip over on someone's blog because it doesn't interest me all that much, but I know at least my mother-in-law wanted to see the apartment, so here are the pictures:Front door.
Entry way, it's a little turn to the right--and it's now where our computer is.
Living room. We have our TV and couches set up in here.
You go down a hall with the stairs on the left, the bathroom on the right, then you see the kitchen on your right and the dining room on your left, and you see our little teeny backyard. The only difference between then and now is that the bike is out there.
The kitchen
The dining room. Still has many boxes, but our new IKEA table is set up, and we like it :)
The half bath on the first floor.
Turn to the left when you go up the stairs and there's one bedroom--it now has a bowflex and a treadmill in it, and it's probably where our guests will sleep--sorry about the exercise equipment!
The baby's room. This mostly just has boxes in it so far. Since the baby isn't coming until September, we have some time.
Full bathroom upstairs. It has a door from the Master and from the hallway.
Full bath--view 2. Now we have towels and a shower curtain, and floormats, so we're moving up :)
Master bedroom. There is a huge closet with two doors--it's open in the middle, so we have somewhere to put a dresser if we want and laundry hampers.
Master bedroom--view 2, and that door leads to...
Our balcony. Which is nice and cute, and we already got a little outdoor lawn chair so I can sit out there and read. I like it.

That concludes our tour. I hope you liked it. I don't know if I'll ever have a clean enough house to take more pictures, so you'll just have to imagine how great it will look when we put all of our stuff away. :)

24 Weeks

Sorry, I actually should have posted this before our drive to Santa Fe. I was 24 weeks on June 5th, which was also my last day of work at Nature's Way. Bittersweet. Our drive to Santa Fe happened on June 9th and 10th.

The Drive to Santa Fe

This is what we saw on our drive to Santa Fe. I was surprised how much more variety there was between Provo and Santa Fe than there is between Provo and Boise or Pocatello. I was pleasantly surprised. I was driving the first day, however, and Matt was not as pleased that I liked the scenery so much because I kept telling him to take pictures. Here are a few: Windmills before we even passed Manti, Utah.

I loved the contrast of the green foliage and the red rock.

Stuff like this makes me feel like Utah must have been underwater at some point...

Seeing the lines where they put dynamite in the rock has always been fascinating to me. This wall was probably at least 50 feet high--pretty cool.

And this was the last thing we took pictures of because it started to get dark, but I think it's called Wilson Rock. When we went around the bend, we could see tiny people crawling up it. It was bigger than I thought it was. There was no turn off to get the people, so sorry there's no perspective shot.

Question...

Hey there friends. I have gone back and forth about registering for baby gifts. The stuff I really need are the expensive things--car seat, crib, stroller, etc. I have a lot of clothes from my sister-in-law (thanks Amanda!), so I'm doing pretty well on that front. My work is having a little combined shower for me and another girl in the lab at my going-away lunch. I'll be moving into a new ward and I'm not expecting a shower. So, it seems crazy to register. Then again, I have had people ask me where I'm registered and asked me for my address so they could send me presents. I never had much money to spare for people in the ward having babies, so I feel bad asking, but I thought I might as well let you opine. Should I register and post it on my blog, or just forget about it?

It's a boy!

On May 13th, we went to the hospital, to the radiology dept., so we could find out the gender of our baby. The technician also measure the head and the abdomen and checked my kidneys, etc. But for us, it was mostly to find out if the little person in there is a boy or a girl. I'm not going to post the "boy" pictures because they're not great pictures, but YAY, we're having a boy. And here are some photos to keep you going. The one where he looks like he's running really fast on all fours is my favorite :)

Halfway Day

My Halfway Day (20 weeks into my pregnancy) was on May 8th, so I had Matt take my picture before I left for work. I guess people wanted to see me with a belly. I don't feel like I'm getting a lot bigger, but at least I'm wearing different clothes :)

It's weird. It still doesn't feel very real that we're going to have a baby. Any thoughts on when it starts to feel like this is really happening?

Graduation Day

I know this is really late, but I finally took the pictures off the camera, so here it is. I actually started this post the day or two after graduation, I just haven't had time to write about it.

Matt graduated! Yay! As I was cropping this picture, I started to wonder if that guy is in a lot of people's blogs from BYU. Anyway, Matt got his diploma case and we had a great day celebrating, as follows:


We went to IKEA!

This is the table we have wanted since the first time we went to IKEA. We'll have it in this configuration most of the time, but we can also put both sides down if we want more space in the kitchen, or both sides up if we have guests.




This is the chair we thought would go best, so we got two, and his and hers cushions.
















This is the desk we liked. We just got the 2x4 bookcase, though. We saved $70 that way, so we feel pretty good. We haven't put anything together yet because we told our moving people that we will just leave them in the boxes to make it easier for them. So, I'm glad they had all of this set up at IKEA so I really know what we're getting. Should be a fun construction project when we move in too! Yay!



Then we went to a Toyota Dealership and bought a car!