A Chick-Fil-A Family, and Dan the Cow!

Both Dan and his sister Becky have been involved with Chick-Fil-A since they were teenagers and worked there for an after school job. A few years ago Becky was able to become an owner/operator of a store inside fashion place mall. Last year she was given the opportunity to become an owner/operator at a new free standing store at the District shopping center (across from the new daybreak temple). After the building project has been pushed back several times, its finally ready to open!!! They do a whole week of opening events, starting with today. Today and tomorrow they will hand out 10,000 free sandwiches at the store, next week she will have a fancy dedication dinner with employees, family, and friends. then the next night she does a ribbon cutting ceremony with dinner at the store for the same people, then on wednesday night they do an all night party type thing (i dont really know, ive never been to one) where thursday morning when they officially open the first 100 people in line get one free meal a week for a year! Becky has worked so hard for her career, and is so good at what she does. i know Dan looks up to her leadership a lot, and we are so excited to be here while the store is opening!

Dan had the day off today and went to help becky with her giveaway. Becky has him standing on the side of the road in a HUGE (he is like 8 feet tall) cow suit to get people to come in for the sandwiches. He is such a trooper, its like 80 degrees today! I know he was really happy to go help her and be involved!Dan and Becky at the new store
Dan and his cousin Rachel, who works with Becky

Emmas Sleepover

Last week while my mom was here Emma got to come over and have a sleepover with just my mom and me. We let her stay up WAY late! she is so good to just play and hang out while she is over. The next day her and i went and had our toes done with the popular "sparkle toes" (its in between acrylic and polish and it is pretty much just glitter covering your toe nails, plus it last 4-6 weeks without chipping). the whole time we were getting our toes done she kept saying everyone else is going to be so sorry they didnt come with us! (my mom, mandy, and lindsey being everyone else). I think when everyone saw how cool our toes were they were sorry! Emma got a lighter purple and I got a magenta color, dan says it is way me!emma playing with nellieemma at the nail salon

quick update

I went to the doctor yesterday for another ultrasound and to find out what day i will be induced. The ultrasound looked good, they guessed he is at 8 pounds 2 ounces (which i thought he would be a lot more by now) and everything else looked good. they called to schedule me at the hospital but the hospital cant fit me in until thursday may 22 (my due date)! the whole reason to be induced was to insure dan will be there, but now if i go a single day early chances are he might not make it. im also a little worried about more than a week left for him to grow, but im sure whatever happens it will all work out. im on a waiting list at the hospital for tuesday and wednesday so im really keeping my fingers crossed that a bunch of people who are scheduled to be induced next week go into labor on their own this weekend!

i was really upset yesterday about the still waiting stuff so dan went to home depot and picked up a few box planters. i have really been wanting to do a little garden but i dont really have a space for it and they are in the middle of laying sod in our yard so i cant plant anything on the ground right now. he set it all up at the kitchen counter so i can plant what i want then he can carry it out and put it on our patio. im really excited! im going to plant yellow and red tiny tomatoes, beens, radishes, and red bell peppers. ive never really done any planting before so hopefully they dont all end up dead! i will post pictures when im done!

Big Boy

So I think we should quit calling the baby "little guy" (as my sisters have named him... did we wait to long to pick out a name?). We went to the doctors on tuesday and I told the doctor (like I do every time) that Im nervous he is going to be huge. Dan weighed in at almost 10 pounds and I was like 7 pounds but a few weeks early. Every time I tell him he says he feels pretty normal, except this time! The Dr. said he is feeling a little big so we had an ultrasound done on Wednesday to check the size. I am 36 weeks right now and his body is measuring 37 weeks 1 day (not bad, just a little big) and already weighs 6 pounds 11 ounces. The only thing that measured really big was his head, measuring in at 39 weeks!!! We see the doctor next Wednesday so I am anxiously waiting to hear what the Dr. says about the ultrasound and we should also get a date of when he will induce me (he is inducing me mainly because then we know Dan will be there and not flying around the country somewhere). I will keep you updated!

MS Walk 2008

On April 12th Dan and I went to the MS walk in downtown Salt Lake. Our family goes every year to honor my brother in law Tyson who has MS. This year I didnt make the 3 mile walk (I waited at gateway with my mother in law who couldnt walk because she was having surgery on her knee the next week) but Dan took nellie on the walk. this Dans sister Katie with her husband TysonDans family who came, including nellie!

for Aunt Debbie

I noticed you wrote on my moms blog that I look hardly pregnant. I dont think I look ginormous, but I feel like I have gotten even bigger in the last week!!! Here is a picture to show how I really look!taken at 34 weeks on my 25th birthday

Baby Shower and Family Visiting

Sorry I havent updated in so long! I quit working last week, so I really have no excuse not to blog. I had my baby shower last weekend, it was great. I had my mom, Aunt Marcia, and Whitney come from California. Cortney drove down with Kyle from Idaho. It was so nice to have everyone here! I got lots of great stuff at my shower, now I just need to organize it all and get it put away. I didnt take any pictures, but maybe I will have my mom put some on from her camera.

I also turned the big 25 today... doesnt that sound so grown up? I dont feel like a grown up! Ive been married 5+ years and I will have my first baby this year, I guess that sounds grown up... even if I dont feel it! I was thinking today if you had asked me what i would be doing on my 25th birthday on my 24th, I would not have said about to have a baby and not working! My life has taken such an unexpected turn this last year, but such a great one! I cant wait for all the exciting firsts I will have between now and my 26th birthday! This year will be full of growing my family and doing what I have always wanted to do, be a mom. I also think it will be a year where I do a lot of learning and growing myself, and a year where Dan and I will grow together as we start this new adventure.

Last bit of big news... I have had 2 engagments in our family since I last blogged!!! Dans brother Steven and his girlfriend Tara got engaged in March. Dan and I love Tara and we are so excited for her to be part of our crazy family. They are planning a wedding for June 14th (3 weeks after our little baby is due).
My sister Lindsey and her Boyfriend Matthew got engaged on April 4th. We are also really excited for Matthew to join our family... but we wonder if he knows what hes getting into!
Lindsey and Matthew (he goes by Matthew, not Matt) are planning their wedding for 6 days after Steves on June 20th (only 4 weeks after our baby is due!)... it is going to be a crazy month but atleast both weddings are here in Utah and we wont need to travel.

We are now just looking forward to our little boy making his entrance... especially me! We are planning to be induced about a week early, but wont know an exact date until the end of this month. We will have one more ultrasound at 37 weeks to check his size, Im really nervous he will be huge! Dan was almost 10 pounds! Im glad we will have him a little early, especially because that will give me an extra week to adjust before the weddings!

I hope everyone else is doing well, even though I havent blogged I have been reading everyones! Hugs and Kisses!