GIRLS NIGHT!!!

So I'm a little late in writing about this (what's new?) Girls Night, but I wanted to wait until Sarah posted about it so I could get some of the pictures she took on her phone. Well, just over a week ago, Darren was having a Guys Night with a bunch of guys in the ward. They played games and went to see the new James Bond movie! I took this lovely opportunity to hang out with the girls! Sarah has been trying to get me and Bailey together to do pedicures forEVER and finally we were able to do it! Although our condo is amazingly fun... right... :) we decided to do the girls night at my parents house! We started off with some pistachio chicken salad (probably one of my favorite meals!) and then got on to pedicures. Sarah had a special kit that she was kind enough to share with us! After soaking our feet we put on an exfoliating masque which made our feet feel really cold! Naturally I had left the camera downstairs and I couldn't let this photo opp. pass me by so I went on an adventure! Since I had the masque on my feet I couldn't walk on the carpet... so I crawled. Not the easiest thing to do when you're pregnant and your feet can't touch the floor! But the girls got a good laugh out of it! This was the view I had when I returned:

Bailey's look explains it all!

Sarah kept trying to eat her feet... :)

Feet shot!

Ok so it's not the cutest picture, but you can see my belly nicely!

Washing the masque off

So after our feet were all exfoliated, we put on some amazing lotion stuff. Sarah, being the sweetheart she is, massaged my feet with it. I don't think my feet have ever felt so soft! After the amazing massage, we topped it off by painting our toe nails (I discovered that this too is no longer as easy as it used to be!). Once the pedicures were done, we headed downstairs. After gathering as much junk food as possible, we headed down to watch a movie in the theater! What a blast! Thanks Bailey and Sarah for the Girls Night! I had so much fun!

Oh yeah, see http://sarbear0616.blogspot.com/ for more pictures.

26 Weeks

Recognize this shirt? Fits a little differently from the last time you saw me in it huh??

Ok, I'm late AGAIN! But this time I have an excuse... our internet has been down since last Thursday morning. SO... this is a picture of me at 26 weeks (6.5 months), but now I am 27 weeks. My body couldn't have changed that much in just one week right?? :) Actually, that's probably wrong. However, I just looked at last months picture that I posted and I kind of look like I haven't grown that much. Well, IN PERSON you would notice the difference! Bailey (my younger sister) seems to think I get bigger every SINGLE day... and I agree with her! School is starting to get a little weird though... being that I'm not at any BYU school, I'm the ONLY pregnant person on campus. I'm finally to the point where I can't hide it under my fleece anymore. More and more people are realizing that I'm pregnant. I try to make sure I always have my wedding ring on so they don't think I'm just another teen pregnancy! :)

Things are going smoothly and I'm mostly feeling great. However, it's getting much harder to sleep and my back aches more and more every day! Luckily I have the best husband in the world! He gives me back massages whenever I ask and doesn't complain one bit! How did I get so lucky?!

Halloween Part II

It's Darren again! Since I finally got Brandi to start blogging, she took over as I expected so it has been a while since I have posted. This post is about the Halloween party we had down south with my brother and sister-in-law Cory and Lindsay and my parents. No fire alarms were set off this time! So you will notice that there are no pictures of Brandi in here. She was a really hot pirate but apparently she doesn't think that the pictures we got emphasized that so I was threatened that she would erase any post with pictures of her on it from that night...unfortunate. As you can tell all the costumes were thrown together very last minute but it was still fun. I wasn't sure when else I would use my Google stuff so I thought it would make a good Halloween costume; I made a pretty good (very accurate) software engineer. My dad was a Polynesian which brings him back to the days he spend living in Samoa as a young child. And Cory's outfit earned him an extra picture. His wife just had a baby so he was a pregnant lady this year. Wow. The last picture is of the cake that Lindsay made...yes, cake. As good as it was, it was kind of hard to stomach due to the incredible resemblance. Good work Lindsay!

So our ward had a Halloween party last Saturday. Darren and the young men were in charge of a Spook Alley so our house was very busy before it started. We couldn't think of what to dress up as, so Darren grabbed some of his snowboarding things to be a Snowboarder. I know... good one, right?? :) I was planning on being a Power Puff girl, but after searching the house up and down I realized I had given it back to my parents to put in their costume box. What a letdown! I had no idea what to do. My backup plan was a pirate, which I was last year, but with no other options, I started to get ready. I put on my pirate tights (black and white stripes) and started to run around the house to find the rest of my costume. Darren saw me and busted up laughing! He told me I looked like a Who! And it hit me. Why didn't I think of that before?! I have been a Who a number of times. In college, my roomies and I would dress up as Who's around Christmas and bring cookies to our favorite boys and sing them a little Christmas Who carol :) Oh how I miss those days! Don't worry Darren, I love these days too! But they might be better if you dress up as a Who with me :)

Side note: The party was great! We had a blast! Even though my husband set off the fire alarm...

What IS that thing?! Not gonna lie... it's a little different being a married pregnant Who...

Oh the good old days! I simply HAD to show a picture of my roomies and I dressed up as Whos! Favorite memory of this night: Tallie sticking her head out the window while she was driving because she couldn't fit it in the car :)

I miss you girls!!!

And this picture is for Brittany. I can't even tell you how excited I am to see you this Christmas! All I wanna do is play! I'm thinking we should, perhaps, try to fit in a Who outing... what do you say? :)

Getting bigger - 22 Weeks

Ok, I'm a week late in posting this, but the past week has been crazy! Anyways, here I am at 22 weeks (5 and 1/2 months)! I am now 23 weeks and I can almost guarantee that I look bigger now than I do in this picture! It's crazy how much your stomach can grow in just one week! The past couple of weeks have been a BLAST because I finally realized what it feels like to have a baby kicking inside of me. Now that I know what it feels like, I realized I had felt it a number of times before... but now, I feel it ALL the time! Darren has even felt our little guy kick and he just loves it! Yesterday was the first time we SAW him kick... what a trip! We are so excited to be experiencing something so amazing! What a blessing!

It's a Boy!!!

Ok, so we got the ultrasound last Friday. I was DYING to post and let everyone know, but Darren insisted on being the one to blog about it... well... it's Wednesday now and nothing has been posted so I'm taking action! This is my favorite picture we got (above)! He looks so cute already! :) For the first half hour or so of the ultrasound, we didn't know the sex. He wouldn't move and we were mostly just seeing his spine. So she had us go run around the office (in the hopes of waking him up and getting him to move around) so we did. We went on the elevator, ran up and down the stairs, did some jumping jacks, and got a lot of weird looks when we started dancing all over the place! Turns out that it worked! As soon as we got back he started to move and we were able to get a lot of good shots!



So she printed off all of our pictures and we were wrapping things up. Darren, being the proud future-father that he is, asked if we could get a printed picture of... his... you know. I couldn't believe he asked that! She laughed and said he wasn't the first guy to want one. So there you have it! Whether the world is ready or not, in less than 5 months, there's going to be another little Darren around!

Dates

Ever since we've started telling people that we're pregnant, we have heard the same two things over and over:

1. Go on as many dates as you can!
2. Go to the movies every weekend!

Apparently these are rare occasions once you have a kid. So after months of getting this advice we decided to take it. Don't get me wrong, we go on a date usually every weekend. However, our dates typically consist of Wendy's or Taco Bell and a red box movie rental ($1 a day baby!). So I guess you could say we decided to go on a REAL date last weekend... and still managed to spend about the same amount of money! I'm not a huge fan of Italian food, but we had a gift card to The Olive Garden that we needed to use. So the night started there. Dinner was delicious and Darren discovered that his favorite drink in the entire WORLD is Olive Gardens Orange-Vanilla Italian Cream Soda! Not gonna lie, it was dang good! After dinner we discovered that my parents and younger sister Bailey had come South for the evening for a little variety in their shopping outing. Bailey was brave enough to join her old and boring married sister (and husband) and came to the movies with us! We saw Traitor, which was pretty intense! Don't worry, we didn't have to pay for that either! We had free movie tickets that we had gotten for a Christmas present last year :) I don't remember the last time I PAID to see a movie... maybe it was Harry Potter...? Unfortunately, our "Free pass to the movies" friend just moved to Idaho for school :( What a let down! Anyways, after the movie, we went home. Darren worked on who knows what in the office and Bailey and I watched What Not to Wear and Say Yes to the Dress! It was nice to have someone watch those shows with me who actually likes them :) Thanks Bailey! It was an extremely enjoyable evening! I just wish I had taken pictures...

18 Weeks

My younger sister, Bailey, always complains that moms-to-be refer to their babies in terms of weeks. So for those of you who don't speak "Pregnant Lady", that's 4.5 months. This is the first of our monthly pregnant shots! Unfortunately, we've been putting it off for no good reason. I've actually been showing for a really long time, but my doctor said that I wouldn't start showing until about 15 or 16 weeks... so I was sucking in until I no longer could :) I swear I'm actually bigger than this picture shows... maybe the camera takes off 10 pounds...?

Sleepover in Magnolia

So... for the first time since we've had this blog, I (Brandi) am posting something instead of Darren! I know that's totally backwards, but he's the technology nerd and I just haven't taken the time to learn how to blog... but it is now being forced upon me! Well anyways, this weekend Darren and I were able to go and watch the girls I used to nanny overnight! They live over in Magnolia and have a cute little community just down the street from their house. We went and got some Mexican food, played at the park (the girls kept asking me how the baby was doing whenever I was on a ride that bounced haha), ate some ice cream and watched "Barbie and the Diamond Castle" before bed. I think that was Darren's favorite part of the night, though he'd never admit it. He was supposed to go do some work on the computer, but I think he got too involved in the movie! According to him, he was "dead tired and comfortable"... yeah right Darren! Anyways, needless to say, we had a blast! I love those girls and can't wait to have some kids of my own to play with!

You just had a feeling didn't you

Yes we are pregnant! Now, I have had a few people say, man "I just had a feeling you guys were!" Yeah right! Ok, I know one certain coworker did for sure so maybe it's possible you did too. Anyway, we are due in February and more thrilled than you could ever imagine! Brandi and I are debating the gender as most couples do. All I can say is that HE is going to be one great athlete! Maybe I just jinxed myself. Anyway, that is our big news for now! Holy crap another little Litchfield is coming...scary stuff!