Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!!

So obviously this post is a little late, but better late than never! :) This year for Christmas was really low key! We were about to have a baby any day and were trying to save money for when I went on maternity leave. Everything we did was super fun though! I love all the family parties and spending time with family and friends!

This year I decided to be a little creative with two of the gifts I gave. I was preoccupied with baby things and decided to let my friends pick out something for themselves...... in other words I got gift cards:) Well with the help of the lovely PINTEREST, I made gift card snow globes! It turned out pretty cool and much better then just a normal gift card. It was fun for me too! I hope they liked it and got something nice for themselves:)

That day was a day full of pinterest! I made these treats (TRIX balls) to take to some Christmas parties we had with friends. They looked better then they were unfortunately. They turned out really hard:( but oh well...

We had lots of Christmas parties this year! The first one was with my mom's side of the family. We normally have it at my parents house, but this year we did it at their church! It turned out really well and was lots of fun with a great turn out! Then my dad had a work Christmas party at their house! That was really fun too and nice to meet all the people he works with! Then we went to a Christmas party with some friends from the ward! I love our ward and love spending time with the friends we have made in it! The next party we went to was Lance's work Christmas party! This was the party I was most hoping to make it to! I love getting all dressed up and going to a really good dinner with good entertainment! I look forward to it every year!! We then went to a party with all my high school friends! I love this group of girls and love spending time with all of them! (This was the only party we got pictures from... I'm really bad at remembering to take pictures!)

The next party was with our close group of friends at the Birds house! That party was a blast and so good to get everyone together! I love all our friends:) The last Christmas party we went to was with the Andreasen family on Christmas eve! It was fun to get together with everyone! I love all of our family and all of our friends and I'm so glad that we were able to spend time with them during this holiday season!

On to Christmas morning! Like I had said... we tried to keep things low key this year. But alot of the time we always end up spoiling each other! We really need to do better! This is a picture of our Christmas tree. Same as the other years, but we had to put it in front of our back door this year because our house is so small and for some reason we got such a big tree!! haha..

This year Lance got COAL in his stocking!! haha.. He was on the naughty list I guess! :) (don't you just love his morning hair due?)

We take turns opening presents. Its so different just being the two of us on Christmas morning. It will be lots of fun next year when we have our little guy to share in the Christmas spirit and morning! We cant wait!! But here is Lance with all of his presents.....

And here I am with all of my presents and in all my ugly morning glory....

This is a picture of Lance in his new Ute's underarmer polo shirt! These suckers are pricey... so he should feel lucky! haha..

Here I am in my new boots! This picture doesn't do them justice! I love them:)

And I had to take a picture with my new exercise ball! I was super excited about this present! A funny side note... Lance says as he gives me this present to open, "Now, I don't mean anything by this gift! I just remember you saying you wanted one!" haha... as in he didn't want me to think he was giving it to me because he thought I was fat and needed to work out! :) I really wanted one to use to help with the back pains from being pregnant and to use during labor!

After we open presents and get ready for the day we go over to my parents house and exchange gifts and eat CRAPES!! I LOVE crapes and love that we have made this a family tradition! They are so bad for you, but oh so good! We then go over to Lance's parents house for lunch and to exchange gifts with them! I love Christmas and the holiday spirit and love spending time with everyone that we get to spend time with!
HAPPY NEW YEARS!! For new years eve this year we just hung out with our friends Ron and Stephanie Brown at their house. I was hugely pregnant and didn't feel like going out and doing much of anything. We made a yummy steak and shrimp dinner and played games! It was fun to just hang out and relax!
For this new years resolution, I made the goal to be on time to things. I have a problem with being on time (except to work) and it drives Lance crazy! And so far I am doing very well!! But..... I also have not been going to many places! :) And for Lance.... I made the resolution for him to drink less soda pop! I think he drinks way too much and want him to be healthier so I went ahead and made that goal for him!
I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas and New Years!

The nursery...

I will be 38 weeks tomorrow, December 19,2011!! I can't believe this pregnancy is almost over! Any day now... but nothing different is happening besides some cramps... so I'm thinking later then sooner. Oh well! As long as he doesn't come on Christmas, I don't care! I have three more shifts left at work before I go on maternity leave! I can't wait for them to be over and just spend time with my family, clean my house, and let this little baby come!!

We have finished the nursery and did the 'theme' in jungle animals and sports! It was fun and stressful to get this nursery done. But I'm super glad we are finally finished! Its a relief to have it all ready:) (minus the newborn pics we are planning on putting up!) Here are a few pictures of the room..

My wonderful friend, Chelsie Montoya made me these super cute block letters for the babies room! I love them and they look so cute in the room:)

Here is two pics of our cute UTE car seat cover! I got it at a boutique and We absolutely love it! WE had such a hard time finding a car seat cover that we both liked. Lance did not want anything 'too girlie' and alot of the ones i thought were cute... he did not! The other one i really loved was a dear john tractor one! It was super cute, but this one was cheaper and i didn't have to pay shipping!

This picture is the picture of a monster hat i ordered online! I love it so much.... :) haha.. I am going to use it for some of his newborn pics. I just had to post a picture cuz i love it so much:)

Alright... I know i post so many pictures! And im sure ill just want to post more when the baby is born:) But its okay! I have two more belly pics. I cant belive i am posting these! I think that they make me look even bigger then normal! Its pretty crazy how a womans body can change! But im so ready to get my body back to normal..... well as much normal as i can get! This first picture is when i was about 34 and a half weeks.

This next picture i took tonight... So i am one day short of being 38 weeks! I look huge and have gained some weight in my face:( this is why i am ready to be done, done gaining weight! Other then that, the pregancy isn't too bad! I will get back pain some days and some days its totally fine! Just the being huge part is sucky...

We cant wait for this little guy to come and hope its really soon, within a couple days, or after christmas! We are ready and just cant wait to meet our little man! :)  We already love him so much! We cant wait to find out what he looks like... or more of who he looks like! More like me or more like Lance. Its exciting and we can't wait for this new chapter in our lives to begin!

Family/Work Baby Shower

My mom and sisters (and me alot) threw me a family slash home ward shower! My mom had some friends help bring some food for the shower! They are so wonderful for helping my mom with so many things! And the food they brought was really good:) So many of the ladies from my old home ward came and it was really fun to see them all! Two of my cousins were able to make it and it was good to have them there too! Alot of family friends also came to support us! I loved everything i got and couldn't ask for anything more:) I totally forgot to take any pics too..... DANG! I was busy helping my mom host. I do have the super cute invite my friend, Amee Bird made for me for the shower! It was my favorite invite and just super cute!

For my work shower, my amazing friend Amanda Wood planned a shower for me! The planning got a little crazy because at first it was supposed to be at our other coworker/friend's MaryAnn Parkers house, but then she went into labor around 21 weeks pregnant! So she got put on strict bed rest. So we changed the shower to Amanda's hown house. We invited all the ladies from work to come, but unfortunately, the shower ended up on the night of the super crazy tornado wind storm that we had a couple weeks ago! So not very many people were able to come:( its all good though! The Shower was in Bountiful, and most of the power was out. But Amanda's house was fine so we continued on with the shower. About 15 minutes into it the power ended up going out! haha.. It was funny. So we lighted a bunch of candles and got out the flash lights. The setting was just so cute:)

Amanda had the cutest decorations and lots of yummy food! A funny side note...... she made some punch and when i tried it, it was super sour! haha... she forgot to put in the sugar! It was much better after that! But I just want to thank her so much for everything she did! She is also pregnant and i cant wait for her to get further along! I only took one pic at this shower. Im getting bad at the picture thing! But here are some of the wonderful people from work! Thanks everyone for coming:)

Maternity Pics

I got maternity pictures taken when i was almost 31 weeks along. We got them taken at a barn out in Clinton by a friend in my ward, Brooke Bryner! She is amazing and I loved all the pictures that were taken! This post will probably have a million pictures because i liked so many of the pictures... but oh well. Lance told me that he doesn't like any of the pictures with bare bellies in them. haha.. I dunno why and he doesn't really either, but he just thinks its weird! I like them though.. :)

Sorry for so many pictures in this post! But its hard for me to just choose the few that i did for this post! Im super excited for this little man to get here! Hopefully sson... but i was only dialated to a one today. So probably not till after Christmas at least. But we cant wait!

Friend Baby Shower

My wonderful friends Terra, Lindsay, Chelsie, and Shannon threw me a baby shower!! It was so wonderful and so much fun:) It was so nice to get together with everyone and have some fun! Here is a picture of me and the amazing hosts....

Terra made me the cutest blanket ever that everyone got to help out and do a few ties on it! It was fun and made the blanket that much more meaningful:)

One of the games that we played was the game where you melt a chocolate bar in a diaper then try and guess what piece of candy it is. Some of the candy looked so gross! But it was alot of fun to try and guess what each of them were!

I got tons of super cute and awesome things i will get to use when little Cache finally decides to come! This is Lances favorite outfit that we have gotten so far! He loves underarmer stuff and cant wait to dress his little boy in something that he loves:)

They had these cute little chocolate covered strawberries that were made like little footballs! I loved them so much! And they tasted so good too! All the food was so good.. Chelsie even made brownie pops which are the best!

It was so much fun and i lived everything about it! Thanks to everyone that came and supported us in this new jounery we are soon going to be starting!

Ward Baby Shower

I have some pretty amazing friends in the ward! I love everyone that we have been able to meet because of the church! Kathy and Cadi with some help from Kaye threw me a baby shower that was so cute and fun! They are such wonderful perople that are super busy but still found time to do this for me! I feel so blessed:)

They had really cute decorations up at Cadi's house! Brooke Bryner in my ward took my maternity pics (that i will post later) and they used some of those to decorate! Kathy took a few pics....

Kathy also made me a super cute diaper cake! Its alot of work and i loved it:)

Alot of friends and neighbors came to suport me and baby Cache! I love them all and thank everyone for the gifts and for coming. It means so much to me and Lance! Here are a few pics of everyone....