Harvesting

Our garden is growing very well thanks to all of Casey's hard work and no thanks to my non-hard work. Here are some pictures of today's harvest...

It's a.......

GIRL!!!!

The doctor says "100 percent girl", so we are VERY excited.

Benson has been saying "baby goal" for a couple of weeks now, Casey said he thought boy, and I have been off and on between boy and girl, but I've had a girl's name picked out for a while. We still have 6 months until Baby Molly comes, but it's exciting to finally know that it's a girl!

Two in Diapers? Let's hope not!!!

We are POTTY TRAINING!!!!!!

I let Benson choose which "undies" he wanted. As hard as I tried to get him to choose dinosaurs or "cars" or anything remotely boy-ish and cool, he chose ELMO!!!! Luckily a few of the Elmo undies have soccer balls and boyish stuff on them, so they aren't too bad.

Here is Benson showing us "elmo bum"

And... as I was taking pictures, this happened. Benson said "Benson pee pee floor"!!!
At least he knew what he was doing!
Any advice for potty training? I'd LOVE to hear it!

Baby Update

I am now 13 weeks along and into the second trimester with our mystery baby. I am feeling great, mostly. Just like when I was pregnant with Benson, I started having headaches really bad at the 11th week, but I'm trying to drink lots of water and it seems to help. I feel really lucky to have easy pregnancies, and I'm aiming for ZERO throwing up with this one! I can feel that my belly is getting bigger and I can't wait until I actually look pregnant instead of just fat.

Benson seems to be excited for the baby. He knows there is a baby in my belly and he always tries to lift up my shirt and kiss my belly. He is INFATUATED with babies, and anytime we see one, he makes a HUGE deal about it.

We still don't know if it's a boy or a girl. The doctor took a guess at 11 weeks, but I'm not sticking by that at all. We will find out at our next appointment if it's a boy or a girl. We would like a girl because we don't have one, but it would be a lot easier and cheaper if we had a boy since we have a lot of boy stuff already. Plus Casey says he wouldn't know what to do with a girl baby.

Anyway, I'm putting up a poll, so take a guess if it's a boy or a girl. We will find out around the 15th of July, so be sure to guess before then!

Our Ride on the Open Road

We left on Friday afternoon for our early anniversary away. Benson stayed with McKenzie on Friday afternoon and then spent the rest of the weekend at my parents' house. He had lots of fun and didn't want to come home with us when we picked him up.

We drove to Logan and stayed Friday night there. We actually got to go see a movie in the theater, which we haven't done for a REALLY LONG TIME. On Saturday, we drove to Bear Lake and that night we went to an amazing play at the Pickleville Playhouse. Then we left early on Sunday morning, trying to beat the rain home. We drove through Randolph and over Monte Cristo home. Unfortunately we didn't beat the rain and ended up driving over Monte Cristo in a HUGE storm. Luckily we had ponchos with us, even though we looked like Dorks, we stayed mostly dry. Here are some pictures from our trip.

This was my view the whole drive. Notice the rain clouds in the distance.


Us in Bear Lake. This is as close as we got to that FREEZING cold Lake.



Us and the Bike

On top of Monte Cristo. Casey's poncho tore because of the wind.

Me sportin' the Poncho.

Benson talking about the bike.

Cruisin'

On Saturday we decided we wanted to go on a motorcycle ride for our anniversary.

On Sunday we looked for Motorcycles.

On Monday we got a STEAL on this Beauty.... (sorry for the stock picture).

2005 Yamaha V-Star 650 Classic with 4000 miles.

On Tuesday we got an awesome deal on Saddlebags for it (Thanks, Dennis)

On Wednesday we sold this Classic... For more than Casey bought it for 8 years ago.

Casey almost shed a tear. It was sad.

Also on Wednesday, we conned a man into selling us his sissy bar (back rest). Thanks, Nick.

On Thursday we are getting new helmets.

On Friday we are leaving Benson at his Grandma's and we are going who knows where on our new bike. We'll see where the open road takes us!

Happy Father's Day, Casey.

We're Growing!!!!

A few weeks ago, we planted our very own garden. At our last house, we tried planting corn and tomatoes and a few other things, but of course, I killed them. So, this time Casey is in charge! And I must say that watching our garden grow is so exciting! It honestly thrills me to see new buds on the plants!!!!

Just for the record, my excitement levels are as follows:
Watching Benson grow is most exciting, watching my belly grow is next, watching the garden grow is a VERY close third and watching Casey's belly grow is DEAD LAST!!! (just kidding!)

Anyway, I thought Casey would do this, but since he hasn't, I wanted to post pictures of the beautiful garden just in case it never makes it!

The whole thing. We have 4 "big beef" tomato plants, 3 cherry tomato plants, 2 cucumbers, 1 cantelope, 1 watermellon, 2 jackolanterns, and 1 habanero pepper.

Beautiful tomatoes (my favorite!)

The cherry tomato buds (I can count 8 here, see if you can find them!)

Our big tomato... I call dibs!

Casey's pride and joy, the habanero plant. It looks like it might have bugs, though. Hope it lasts long enough for me to see tears in Casey's eyes when he takes a bite!

What we've been up to...

Casey went to be fitted for a tux for his friend, Jake's wedding. He decided to take Benson with him, so here I am all alone, which is REALLY strange. Folding laundry is getting old, so I thought I'd write a little about our lives. Sorry it's LONG and BORING.

Things are going really well around here. I'm getting bigger, which may or may not be a good thing, but I still feel great, so I'm thankful for that. I have been pretty hungry, but that's normal. Last night at about 11:30 I mentioned to Casey that a PB&J sounded really good, a few minutes later he brought one into me and let me eat it in bed. He told me that whenever I craved anything, even if it's really weird and he has to drive really far to get it, that if I REALLY want it and as long as I'm not just being crazy, he'll get me anything I want and do anything for me.... what more could a pregnant lady ask for?

Benson is LOVING summer! He loves to be outside and screams whenever we have to come inside. Sometimes I think he sabatoges me because today after we came in from outside he dumped this entire bag of chex mix on the floor. After that, we went outside where messes don't have to be cleaned up. Good thing it only cost 60 cents.


Benson has found a DEEP LOVE for "teats"... He is always asking for them and trying to sneak them behind my back. The other day, Casey gave Benson this chocolate bunny that has been hiding since Easter. Benson loves his chocolate "munny"

We feel really lucky that Casey is going to work this summer. His contract is to work 9 months out of the year, but his pay is pro-rated, so he gets a paycheck all year long. If he works during the summer, he'll get 2 paychecks, if not, he just gets the same pay as usual. Luckily, his boss asked him to work this summer, and has given Casey a lot more responsibility, which is wonderful. It would have been fun to have the summer off and to play for 3 months, but it'll be better to get 2 paychecks. Also, they have every Friday off, so we'll still play a lot.

We are really lucky to have pools to go swimming in. There are pools at both grandparents' houses, and Benson LOVES SWIMMING. Usually he doesn't wear hot pink floties and goggles, but he almost always has a gun in his hand. We have to be super careful with him because he is really daring and will just jump off the edge of the pool or walk off the stairs even if there isn't anyone there to catch him. He loves jumping off the diving board, going down the slide, and putting his head under the water.

We joined a bowling league with Tami and Nick. It is a TON of fun! Casey started out doing amazing, and the rest of us are working our way up. Even though we basically suck, it's a lot of fun going on a date once a week and getting out.

We went with Casey's parents to their cabin last weekend. We drove to Hardware ranch and then took the 4 wheeler and rhino into the cabin. We made it about 1/2 a mile away from the cabin before we hit snow. After getting stuck a couple times and forcing our way through a few more snow patches, we decided to ditch the 4 wheelers and walk into the cabin. It was a lot of fun. We didn't stay for very long, but we had a TON of fun! Benson LOVES the rhino and now everytime we go to Grandma and Grandpa's, Benson begs for the rhino. He even started calling his Grandpa "Rhino Mike".... so cute!

On a side note, we are really glad to live around both of our families. It is really nice to call either Grandma or Benson's aunts to watch him whenever we need him to. I'm glad that Benson is able to know who his grandparents (and great-grandparents) are. I love that he has some cousins to play with, but we really miss the cousins that are far away. We get to see everyone so often and we really love it.

We have an announcement to make....

We're pregnant!!!!

I am about 7 weeks along. I'm feeling really good except for being very sleepy and wanting to eat a lot, but I feel like that usually when I'm not pregnant! We had a doctor's appointment last week and got to see the baby's heartbeat. Our doctor said that everything looked normal and that our due date is January 3rd, hopefully by that time we can teach Benson how to stop being a bully so he doesn't beat up his little brother or sister.

Just as a reminder, here's how HUGE I got with Benson. Hopefully this doesn't happen again...

Here I am at 34 weeks.

Here I am at 39 weeks, the day we went to the Hospital to deliver Benson.

Open House

I have never been involved in an open house or boutique, but my sister-in-law, Candace asked me to set up a Photography booth at her's this week, so we'll see how it goes. I am going to have a few different examples of my photography, some prints available for purchase (temples and such), and gift cards for whatever...

Saturday, May 9th
From 10:00 am-2:00 pm

5360 S. 4300 W.
Hooper

(call me for directions)

Some of the different people setting up booths will be Me (Natalie Dalpias Photography), beaded watch bands, wood crafts, Pampered Chef, Scentsy, Homemade Gourmet, Usborne Books, hair bows and much more!