May 2012

May was a pretty eventful month which means...a lot of photos!

I started off the month making a BIG announcement, that I was pregnant! I told a few close friends here in Moscow back in February cause I just couldn't keep it in, but I decided to wait to tell my family so I could tell them in person during my trip to Utah and just totally surprise them - I'm all about surprises. Well, that didn't quite happen as planned. My trip kept getting delayed so I ended up taking this photo and sending it to them. Still fun.

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A Visit with Abby

I did finally make my way to Utah and instead of stopping at Allie's house in Melba where the sickness was, I stopped in Burley and stayed the night with the Muirs - Ashley, Alex, and Abby. It was so fun to be with them again and the girls had great time playing together. They danced, played with toys, we went to a bounce house, and then out to lunch before I took started heading to Utah again. I didn't have my camera unpacked so all these came from my phone, so handy!

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Utah

Bailey and I made it safely to Utah and tried not to have too much fun without Mark. We were there for a week, then Mark came down after finals for another week, then we all drove back together. While we were there it was Bailey's actual Birthday - May 9th. I wanted to do something on her actual day, so my mom got a little cake and we let her open her "big" present from my parents, a bike!

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City Creek

My mom and I took a day and spent it at the new outdoor mall in Salt Lake called City Creek. That place is amazing! Fountains, shiny new stores with tiles and walls that sparkle (Nordstrom), a creek that runs through the entire place, a sky bridge over Main Street with a nice view of the temple, and an awesome kids play area at the food court.

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Children's Museum

Mark made it into town and we spent the next few days cramming as much fun into one week as we possibly could, and even got to go on a few dates just us! We started off at the Children's Museum at the Gateway. We used to go the old museum when I was a kid and I loved it, so I was really excited to bring Bailey to the new one. She was a little young for a lot of things but we still had fun.

We got to explore a life flight helicopter, play "Weatherman", and explore the toddler area where they had a house, cars, grocery store, balls, and water table.

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The Park & Nana's House

One night we went to the Bountiful City Park to play and to see the Chalk Festival. We were a little early for the Chalk Festival, usually they have a bunch of really cool chalk artwork everywhere, but the artists weren't ready yet.

We spent another day of our trip at Mark's parents house just playing all day. The girls (Bailey, Rora, Addie) played outside in the pool, the swing set, played in the playhouse, and of course ate lots of watermelon! I love the photo of the Bailey and the phone and watermelon, it just screams "SUMMER"!

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Trafalga

Another day of our trip we spent at Trafalga with Mark's family. This is always a favorite of ours, and it gets more and more fun as Bailey get older. The spray gun boats were probably the highlight of the night, I hadn't laughed that hard in a while! You just go around in your boat spraying everyone! Bailey was in my boat with me and she didn't have that great of a time, but spraying Mark and was a blast! We also did the swinging boat ride, go carts, Dip & Dots ice cream, the "Frog" ride, and arcade games. Can't wait to go again!

"Avoid the Lasers" Game, this is also Bailey's "trick"/cool dance move

We couldn't get her off the "Frog Hopper"! She rode it like six times in a row!

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Bailey's Birthday Party

While in Utah we had a little family birthday party for Bailey with both of our families. We all met at the Walsh Farm and had dinner, presents, cake, and busted out Bailey's new bubble machine. What a great toy. I think every kid needs a bubble machine, just look at those faces! They loved it!

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Utah Playtime

Here are just some random photos of our playtime in Utah.

Time with Grandpa, sprinklers, and playing with her new Birthday toys

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Melba

We stopped in Melba on our way back to Moscow. My original plan was to stop at Allie's house on the way down for about a week, but due some sickness going around we bypassed Allie's and went straight to Burley to the Muir's house. Unfortunately, we were only able to spend about 24 hours at Allie's before we had to go back to Moscow for Mark to start his internship. During those 24 hours the kids played in the dirt, we went on 4-wheeler rides, and they blessed Aubrey, so we were happy to be a part of that. Always a good time in Melba!

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It's a GIRL!

Soon after we got back to Moscow, we had our ultrasound to find out the gender of our new baby. I was so excited, nervous, and had all sorts of emotions running through me! Not only did I want to find out the gender, but to know the overall health/status of the baby. It's a big appointment! I totally thought we were going to have a boy and geared myself up for the words "It's a boy" but the tech said it was a GIRL and I was so surprised! I started to cry right there, not sad tears, just happy tears. I love that Bailey will have a sister and they can be best friends. Mark and I were also very grateful to hear that everything was ok with the baby and she was in good health.

Waiting for the doc, and our baby GIRL!

(as of right now, 5 weeks before my due date, we still don't have a name)

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Farmer's Market and Dinner

One of our favorite things in the summer in Moscow is the Farmer's Market every Saturday. This was our first time going this season. That donut stand gets us every time, plus the fun entertainment and the playground makes for a great day.

Another favorite of ours is Sunday dinner with good friends! We really got to spend some quality time this summer with our friends the Puffpaffs and Bailey still talks about them today. This day the kids played outside with squirt guns...Bailey loved it! And I tried a new recipe making apple crisp in jars.

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Moscow Walk and Instagrams

Lastly for May is another Moscow walk, I love the all the green in the Springtime here. It doesn't last for too long before the fields turn golden and get cut down, so we take advantage.

Last but not least are all the Instagrams from May! Here's the month in a mini recap of photos.

Whew! May was busy!