catch up

Even though I have not posted during my pregnancy, we have been plenty busy!  I have felt so sick and tired all I could do was the necessity, which did not include blogging.  But finally at 19 weeks I am starting to feel better so here is a recap of the past 4 months. 

In April, Mike and I took a quick trip to Austin to visit the family.  We ate lots of good food (BBQ and Mexican) and hung out with the family.  

Cute little Izzy stayed in Utah with Aunt Derdle and Uncle Danny.  She had a great time, despite that frowny face she has. 

When we got back from Texas, Louise, Catherine and Abi came to visit for a week. We all went to Women's Conference together, which was a lot of fun!

We had a BBQ, it's always fun to get together with friends. 

Izzy and Abi had a great time together. 

They went to gymnastics together; it was so cute watching them. 

As you can tell, they played hard and wore each other out. 

In May, I headed to NYC for my sister, Celeste's, graduation.  She graduated valedictorian from her college, how could I miss that?!!  I am so proud of her-she is a great example of pursuing your dreams and working hard til you achieve them.

I had felt TERRIBLE the week leading up to the trip and even considered not going, but I am so glad I went.  I even felt a little better while I was there.  This is at her graduation dinner. 

She had lots of fun stuff planned-we got manis/pedis, ate at great places, and even found time to go to a Dr. Oz taping, plus attend all her graduation stuff!

At the beginning of June we went to Tahoe with Mike's business partner, Stephen and his wife Denise. It was beautiful there, but unfortunately I spent most of the time laying in bed because I felt so sick.  Mike went golfing and seemed to enjoy himself. 

June 8 & 9 was my high school reunion.  As the class president, I had the joy of planning the whole thing!  It was like a full-time job.  It was great to seeing everyone and I had a really good time, but thank goodness it is over!

Izzy lived in the pool at my parent's house.

Even Dude went swimming with her.  She loves Dude.  The first night we were there I heard her downstairs in the kitchen.  I raced downstairs and she had let Dude inside (he sleeps in the garage) and they were running around the kitchen.  I didn't even hear her wake up or go downstairs.

She didn't want to go down the big slide so Grandma set up a small slide for her.

Dad, aka Papa, gave Izzy ice cream everyday, maybe twice a day.  She loved every minute of it.

After the reunion we went to the lake house in Austin.  Celeste flew in from Seattle to hang out.  It was so great to see everyone.

We went to a zoo, which Izzy loved.  It was a drive thru zoo-the best part was the ostriches coming up to the car and watching my dad feed them (everyone else was too scared).

There was also a petting zoo section.

Mike turned 30!! I felt bad because I didn't do anything big for him, but he kept saying he didn't want a big thing.  So we got him Magleby's cake (his favorite) and black flowers.  Izzy and I took him balloons earlier in the day.