Flashback: October

October was a good month.  I started to feel a bit better.  The migraines and puking had slowed down.  Not stopped, but significantly slowed. 

In October Penny had her first play date.  She didn't like it.  We've come to realize she's a sissy around other dogs.  We went to Sugarhouse Park and at one point, she ran and jumped into the little duck pond there in an attempt to escape another dog's attempt to hump/play with her.  

Mid-October I took a girl's trip down to Cedar City to hang out with my bestie at her Grandma's house!  It was a much needed vacation for the both of us.

We did some shopping, and some eating, and some theraputic shooting.

I shot my very first handgun ever!

Yes, I'm in a dress with nice shoes.  That's how real women shoot guns ;)

It was really nice to go visit my Amy and enjoy a little mini-vacation.

October is also the month I started to look more and more pregnant.

I dressed up like a pumpkin smuggler for Halloween and we had a little party with my family.

I always harass Steve for not dressing up on Halloween.  On the day of, I came home to find him like this:

Oh man, I still laugh about it every time I think about it.  My favorite part of this picture is his glasses. He put them on on top of the suit.  I also love the casualness of Penny's demeanor, like this is something that happens regularly.

October was a really fun month.

Flashback: September

September was such an exciting month!

Steve and I celebrated 3 years of marriage and we found out the gender of our baby!

And lucky for us, we got to do both those things on the same day!  It was pretty awesome.

On September 16th we drove down to my doctor's appointment and finally got a good look at our baby!  Even though we'd had an ultrasound every time we went, the ultrasound was never very clear.  I felt like Rachel from F.R.I.E.N.D.S. I could never see the baby very well.

The baby cooperated pretty well and we got a good shot of the little bitty bum and legs.

Prior to this visit, I was convinced we were having a girl.  Steve was too.

Looking at the screen I would think, "I think I just saw a little something..." and then he'd move.

After a few minutes the doctor said, "I'm about 90% sure it's a boy.  The only thing keeping me from saying I'm 100% sure is the fact that we didn't get a longer glance.  He just wiggled so much.

Steve and I left feeling a little dazed.  I so strongly felt like this baby was a girl that I had him convinced it was a girl too. haha.

We're absolutely thrilled it's a boy!  I honestly didn't care either way.  I want both eventually, I didn't care what order they came in.

We were just shocked. 

We didn't tell our coworkers right away.  We wanted to wait to tell our families first.

Originally we were going to do a little gender reveal photo shoot, print the pictures, and mail them to our family... but after several mini fits thrown by family members, we decided we'd text them the picture.  Here's the picture:

For our anniversary we usually go somewhere nice to eat for dinner.

Since we have Penny, we didn't want to go to work, then the ultrasound, and then out to dinner and leave her in the crate all day long so instead, we left work about an hour earlier than needed and went to the cheesecake factory before our ultrasound!  It was delicious!  September 16th was a pretty good day!

Flashback: Steve's Birthday

Steve turned the big dirty thirty this last July!

His birthday happened to be at the beginning of my first trimester and I felt like complete crap.  

Steve, being the huge sweetie that he is, said all he wanted to do on his birthday was stay home, watch a movie, and eat some take-out. 

So that's what we did.  Bless his sweet soul.

I did manage to put together a mini party for him.

We had some of his friends over, ate pizza, and just chatted.  I want to say we played some games, but I honestly don't remember if that's true or not (that's what happens when you decide to blog almost 6 months after the actual event).

We had a joint birthday dinner for him and his 2 brothers at his mom's house and my sister-in-law Claire made a pretty awesome cake.

All in all, it wasn't a terrible birthday.

Flashback: Horman Weddings

Wow, 2014 is pretty much over and I've let a lot of things go unblogged, so I'll be doing a series of "Flashback" blog posts. Let's flashback to August real quick.  I got 2 new sister-in-laws within a few weeks!  There was a whole lotta love flying around the Horman family.

August 10th my brother, Casey, got married to a wonderful little lady, Sydney.  It was beautiful.  Me, my sister-in-law, and my aunt were brides maids. Casey and Syd work with me and met at work (just like me and Steve).  It was such a beautiful day and I'm so happy for them.

My other brother, Jeff, texted everyone back in July and told us to keep August 16th available.  He had been dating someone for a few months and we thought he might be proposing to her that day.  Or announcing a wedding.  We were wrong.  He sent us an address of where to go and when we got there we realized it was a ceremony.  We thought he was doing a surprise wedding!  Again, wrong.  Turns out him and Holly had eloped on July 22nd and kept it a secret from everyone (even their kids!).  They wanted to wait until after Casey's wedding to do a ceremony for their kids.  In this ceremony they read letters they had written to the other person's kids.  They pledged as a family to be committed to each other and to love and support each other.  It was really really cool.  I cried a lot.  I hadn't properly prepared my emotions.  But even if I had, I still would have cried.  It's really hard to accurately explain it because it's such a unique thing.