34 Weeks -Ayla Moving

Catching Up

Evan and I both graduated with our Bachelor's degrees from BYU Idaho! I can still hardly believe it's true. I have practically been a student my whole life, and I have loved it! Now I have to figure out what to do with myself in the real world.
Evan graduated in construction management with a minor in business, and I graduated in art with a minor in communications. Also, somehow I managed to graduate in the top 5% of our class!
The week of finals was one of the hardest of my life. Despite getting the flu shot at my last OB appointment, I  didn't manage to escape the bug. For over a week, I am pretty sure I exceeded the maximum amount of Tylenol, just trying to find enough relief to function. But I survived! And I was able to finish all of my work (miracles happen).
Besides the flu and finals, that last week was made even more chaotic by our recent decision to move to Boise. The Wednesday before graduation,we made the 5 hour drive to Boise to look for an apartment. We found one and we love it! But I'll post more about that later...
Thursday we drove back to the burg, and Friday we spent the day packing up everything we own before attending graduation that night. My parents came up to support us, and on Saturday they helped us finish packing and cleaning our apartment (they SAVED us!) By noon we were on our way back to Boise! Monday we drove to Utah to catch our flight to Pennsylvania for the holidays. (20 hours driving in less than a week).
I didn't document our time in Pennsylvania very well, but it'll suffice to say that we enjoyed 10 days of much needed R&R. We had an endless supply of delicious foods and we got out and did some fun things! Probably my favorite was going to see the Longwood Gardens [photo dump]

We had a VERY merry Christmas, and hope you did too!

Quick Pic

A LOT has happened lately. Evan found a job, we graduated, moved to Boise, and visited Pennsylvania for the holidays.

But right now... I don't feel like blogging about it all.

So here's a picture of my belly.

28 weeks! 3rd trimester!

We are so excited for Ayla Rae to make her debut... but we haven't bought a thing, so she'd better hang in there and give me the entire 12 weeks to get ready!

A Birthday Shower

For Evan's birthday I "showered" him with compliments, quite literally.

And his favorite candy, of course.

Click here to view my source of inspiration and to find many more fun and creative ideas.

Ayla

It's was SO FUN to see Ayla in the ultrasound yesterday. She was folded in half like a taco, and she kept squirming around and waving her little hand. It filled me with all sorts of motherly love. I already think she has my lips and Evan's nose. Haha. She will be a beauty. We can't wait for March!

I [heart] U print

Once upon a time, I designed this baby nursery print. 

...And then I forgot about it. 

...And then, today I rediscovered it!

It was perfect timing because I'm obsessing about babies today. Not only is today the day that we learn the gender of our baby. It's also my brothers birthday, and guess what he's getting as a gift? TWO baby boys! His wife's water broke this morning.

Best day ever.

If any of you would like this file for print, just leave a comment :)

SF: Part One

So hey guess what? I went to San Francisco!

I went at the end of September with one of the travel study classes. Art students are actually required to take this one-credit course, which forces us to take 5-days out of school so we can travel some place awesome, walk through beautiful museums and eat delicious food.... Yeah. BASICALLY the best idea the school ever had.

We did and saw SOOOooo much, but I only caught a few things on camera. Basically, my plan to be a cool photographer chick (shooting everything manually) backfired. Auughh. Curse my pride! When I came home I discovered that most of my pictures were blurry and/or exposed wrong. whoops. :( But don't you worry, I fully plan to upload each and every decent picture I have.

Starting with... Part One: Museums

[Don't forget to check out Part 2 & Part 3]