Things I'm Excited For

There are a lot of things coming up that I am super duper excited for!

1. Thanksgiving!

Zach and I are going home on Tuesday and we cannot wait to escape the cold and see our families.

2. Baby Shower!

While we're home I'm having a baby shower at my house on Saturday at 10:00 am if you want to join us. I can't wait to start getting baby stuff and rearranging my house so that it will all fit somewhere. I'm still on the lookout for the perfect white crib. I really like these ones from babies R us.

Which one would you vote for?

3. The end of the semester.

While this semester has been really great I'm excited for it to be over. I've had amazing classes that have really pushed me and helped me grow and my professors have been awesome. But with the end of the semester comes christmas break, and a little later baby brough!

4. Christmas

nuff said

5. Our baby boy!!

I've just reached the third trimester and I have a feeling that February 2nd is gonna get here before we know it... hopefully.

6. And the last one that won't be here till next year is...

Hunger Games!

Check it out

Homecoming

We had a bunch of fun this weekend at the Homecoming game. It was pretty chilly but we are true cougars now so we stayed and cheered on our team!! woo hoo!!

And we've been meaning to put up a belly picture for a while

so here ya go! Right now I feel like I just look kind of chubby

and not so pregnant, but give it a few weeks and hopefully

I'll stop making people feel awkward when they can't

tell if I'm prego or not.

Have a great week!

It's a Boy!!

Thought I should finally put up our babies first pictures.

We had soooo much fun at the ultrasound!

My favorite part was seeing the baby move and feeling it at the same time.

The picture above is the original and the picture below has

my drawings all over it to help explain.

And we are so excited that he's a HE!!!!

Our baby boy is already so cute. Can't wait to meet him in February.

Getting ready to Get Ready for Baby Brough

I love the look of this nursery I found on ohdeedoh.com through Pinterest. I think I'm going to try and go for light yellows and grey for the baby's room with accents of either blue or pink (to be decided in about a month, yay!).

But I wanted to show you the sweet rug in this room! The owner said it was a super special gift from an aunt or something and it's from, of course, Anthropologie. Which means it's gonna be way too expensive to put in a baby room, or any room of mine for that matter. Then I came across this other inspirational blog with the coolest project ever!!

Vintage Revivals has some seriously awesome stuff! And can you believe that she created this rug herself from two separate rugs?! I couldn't believe how great this rug turned out. So I'm hoping that maybe someday I can make my own rug patterned after the one above with the rug creating genius of the one below. Time will tell... Actually I guess D.I. will have to tell because that's probably where I'm going to get my rugs from.

So dang awesome.

Organized Clutter

Zach and I have recently decided that we're going to stay in this apartment for at least another semester sooooo I've decided to spruce some things up before school starts. Sometimes it can be really hard to make a boring, yellowy walled, student apartment look cute and feel like home, but here's one way that's super easy!! I've been seeing a lot of awesomely (?) organized bookshelves and wanted to try my own hand at it, and this is what I got. I actually Love it:)

I added the mirror and frame and flowers recently.

And we always had a clutter of books on top because

those are the ones we are currently reading so I just stacked them...

I know, I'm a genius to think that one up.

Then I gathered together the book that

had similar coloring and stacked those ones too.

I was surprised to see that I had any

that went together at all. I have to say that it

was way more fun than

putting similar heights together.

Then I found some fun nick knacks that I'm always

trying to stuff in some corner or side table

and placed them on top of my stacks.

(The wooden flowers we got on our honey moon to Costa Rica.

So glad to finally have a place for it:)

oh! And this little cup had my ring

in it when Zach proposed. :) Such a cutie.

Any way, thats my latest! And I didn't even have to go

out and buy ANYTHING! But I love how it turned out.

Hope others like it too.

Headbands and Pony Tails

So Zach and I don't really care what the baby is, but... we would looooooooove a little girl!! I really don't want to miss out on headbands and ponytails :( These headbands are so cute especially the bottom left. You can find these and more on Etsy.

This is Pretty Funny

Check out this Colbert Report. No matter how many times I watch it I always laugh. But if you don't like Mormon jokes then fair warning.

How cute are these two back to school outfits for little boys! I doubt that my kids will ever look this chic but I'm sure gonna try!


You can find a great list of 15 back to school essentials for boys at babble.com. So cute!

You've gotta see these guys!

E3 Imagine is a new Education company who create children's books of beautiful pictures of children from all over the world. P.S. I don't know why my lines are double spaced.And for every book E3 sales, they're going to donate a book to a child in need! So far they've been on one trip to Boston, Jamaica, Costa Rica, and Ecuador. This company is seriously inspired. If you don't believe me check out these photos then go check out their website HERE.

P.S. I don't know why my lines are double spaced.

Doctors Visit

This morning Zach and I got to go to another doctors appointment!! We love going because we're still in that stage where nothing has really changed except my diet and come to find out I lost 3 pounds since our last visit so we love getting more proof that we are indeed pregnant... And today we got to here the heart beat and a few little kicks!!! It was crazy. It kicked like 3 times within the 2 minutes while we were listening. I started to create this crazy scenario in my head that maybe they just have some recording they play while they put some fake microphone on my belly and we really aren't pregnant... but I'm sure thats not the case right?

So now I'm in my 14th week and starting to feel A TON better. Less nauseous and way more energized. Which is great because school starts in three weeks and hopefully we can squeeze in some last minute summer to do's before we never see each other and it gets cold and dark.

Here's another picture of what baby might look like right now.

Big difference right? Doesn't look like it but baby has grown a ton and has little eyebrows and ears and fingers and is now the size of lemon! A small lemon.

That's all for now. Let me know if you're pregnant and how it's going for you. Or if you're not pregnant and just want to leave a comment.

Cute and Easy Bracelet

Since I'm probably going to be holding off on making any new clothes for the next little while, I thought I'd try making some jewelry since I hardly have any anyway. And I also thought that when I'm all big and pregnant it might be easier to feel pretty if I have some little accessories.

So here is my first bracelet.

It's super easy and fun. And I love the way it turned out. I'm totally gonna make a some more.

I found the tutorial for this from Ucreate. This blog has it all. I love it!! And here's the link straight to the tutorial.

Hope you're having a wonderful Wednesday!! It's raining a beautiful here in Provo.

I want...

One of these bikes!!!


But with my name on it of course. How fun are these?!

Check out these cuties on babble.com

YAY!!

As you can tell from this little picture Zach and I put together, We're gonna have a baby!!!
And we are so excited! Feb. 2nd is the due date which makes me about 10 weeks a long so far. We found out June 19th which was really lucky because we were on vacation in arizona allowing us to announce it to our families in person. So fun!! Everyone is very excited for us.

I didn't know when it would be appropriate to blog about it but I figured that I'd rather announce earlier rather than later so that I can blog about everything thats going on right now. So here we are.

Baby is about the size of a prune right now and may even have little fingernails!! Crazy huh? I took this picture today so you can see what he/she looks like so far.

We're so proud of our little alien. And besides being a bit nauseous every day and a few other things I haven't felt that many changes. I think I actually lost some weight from throwing up the past couple weeks so my clothes still fit perfectly normal.

Anyway that's about all for now. There might not be any changes for a while but I'll try and keep you updated on our journey through pregnancy the next 7 or 8 months.

Yay!! I'm gonna be a Mommy!!!!

Disneyland!!

This last week was filled with a crazy Porter family vacation to Disneyland!!

Here's bunch of Pics!!!

We love hand clap games... a lot.

Love all the live music.