Time Away

We celebrated our 11th anniversary this year. One week prior, we had the chance to be in Newport Beach together. Alone. Sans kids. The only other trip we'd been on together alone in all our married life - besides our honeymoon, of course - was back in 2007 when Ryan had some work to do in Las Vegas and I tagged along. That's it. I'm tempted to say that that's pretty pathetic, but really, when you've had children like we have, it's few and far between to 1. have the courage (yes, courage) to spend the $$ on a vacation, 2. have the guts to ask someone to watch your brood, and 3. not be pregnant or nursing.

We had a wonderful weekend attending the Demarle at Home convention and spending time with our best buds, the Clarks.

We are so grateful to Ryan's parents for still watching our crew when they offered to tend 3 grandchildren for the summer. We knew they were all in good hands and would enjoy their time together.

Time at the beach - after lunch at Ruby's at the end of the Pier.


On the ferry from the peninsula to Balboa Island.

Eleven Years!

A fabulous trip, we can't wait to do it again!

Just an Update

1. I had a dr. appt on Monday and for the first time (ever!) the word c-section came up. WHAT?! I'm 33 weeks now and apparently our baby girl has no desire of getting into position (head down). She's not necessarily breech, but transverse - sideways. She still has a few weeks to 'get ready' and I'm pretty confident she will, but by my next appt (2 weeks) if she hasn't moved yet, then the NP said we could start discussing external version (where the dr. tries to rotate the baby - sounds glamorous doesn't it..?). I guess it's not done so much anymore, but if so, needs to be done between 36-37 weeks. Anyways, the NP mentioned if the baby hadn't turned by 37 weeks, to plan on a c-section. Interesting. After how many kids, and c-section pops up now? No thanks. Even at 37 she'd still maybe have a few weeks...I'm sure it was just more letting me know that it's a possibility. But really, it is with every pregnancy right? I guess I've just had early turners so far.

2. Trying to sell the van. I'm ready for an upgrade and Ryan will most likely be in Phoenix this weekend where I have a cousin who is a dealer and can get us a smashing deal. The fun part has been getting the van ready. We spent about 4.5 hours just cleaning and detailing the inside (yeah, don't take goldfish, pretzels, fruit by the foot and gogurts on a road trip!). It looks lovely inside and out now, but we've also been repairing the driver side window - doesn't help when the wrong parts are ordered) and then changing out an intake manifold runner sensor - the reason for the engine light. Wish us luck!

3. Ryan and I celebrated our 8th anniversary yesterday. YAY! I can't believe how fast time has gone by. We were sitting at dinner and discovered we've had significant events every, from BYU graduations, to buying homes to having our cute babies! Well, I guess I shouldn't say every year, we had a hard time coming up with something for 2005 - apparently it's one of the years we didn't have a baby! :) We've had so much fun together and look forward to another 80 years!