First of all, shortly after graduating we got kicked out of BYU housing and got to go through the super fun process of trying to find housing in Utah Valley. We really lucked out and some friends of ours needed to get out of their lease and had the cutest place!
It's a house of our own, with a big front and backyard. It really feels like a mansion compared to the places we have lived since we got married. Not to mention no laundromats. My favorite part is the jetted bath tub!
Spencer is still working at Vivint and loving it. I worked there for most of the summer but now work for a Chiropractor in Orem. In October we got to go to a Chiropractic conference in New Jersey with the two other girls I work with. So obviously we spent all of our down time in NYC!
I have zero good pictures from the trip but the frozen hot chocolate from Serendipity is seriously to die for!
We found out that we are expecting a couple weeks before the trip, and I was really concerned because I had morning sickness really badly. It was a miracle because I wasn't sick the whole trip! It was just for a weekend but Spencer gave me a blessing that I could get through it. Of course as soon as I got back it was right back to sick everyday. A few weeks into my second trimester I got over my morning sickness, and at 16 weeks we decided to get an early gender ultrasound done. We were both really anxious to find out because it didn't seem real yet to us so we went to an OB office in Provo that does early checks for $45. Spencer wasn't with me but was going to meet me for dinner right afterward.
That's when we found out we were having a girl. I was a little bit concerned because not only was it four weeks early, but she never really showed me any girl parts, just that she couldn't see anything between the legs. The ultrasonographer assured me that she was 100% sure. We both wanted a boy, so I was a little worried that Spenc would be disappointed. He was so sweet and way excited when I told him. I tried to be sneaky and show him all the other pictures first and not show him the gender until last. But I totally screwed it up and said "Here's her little hand!" Whoops.
It was really fun to know the gender and we started to plan things out. We her name picked out and we both loved it. We bought a couple outfits and got a really nice pink stroller as a Christmas present from Spencer's boss. My Mom had a really hard time not showing me all the Christmas presents she had for her. Fast forward a month and we are at our 20 week ultrasound. We told the ultrasonographer about our early gender check but she asked us not to tell her. After going through a ton of things on the ultrasound, I think Spencer must have gotten bored because he was looking down at his phone when she pulled up this photo and typed B-O-Y. I immediately started crying and asking if she was sure. She showed us a couple more shots and it was definitely a boy. (I really should stop asking ultrasonographers if they are sure.) Spencer was so happy and just laughed as I cried and said "Oh no!" over and over, but eventually started laughing along with him. Of course this would happen. That night I got to tell everyone that I was not, in fact having a girl. I can already see my brothers teasing my poor little guy when he's in high school for this one.
That definitely threw us for a loop. My Mom showed me all the outfits she had to return, and we still need to exchange our pink stroller. Luckily as I shopped around for baby outfits I didn't like hardly any of the girl stuff. It was all to pink and frilly. I think baby boy clothes are way cuter. Not so luckily we have had a really hard time deciding on a name. There are a few that I like, but none that I really love. So I'm stressing way hard about it.
Yeah, we have 20 nike onesies, 26 pairs of nike socks, and 2 pairs of nike shoes. Overboard? Nah.
So that's about where we're at now. We got spoiled at Christmas and got lots of baby stuff that we really need. Even though the ultrasound pictures are pretty clear, I still have a really intense fear that at my next ultrasound they will tell me its a girl. That would be so humiliating to go through again. Oh, and I just turned 23! That feels like a good age to have a baby, right?