These are the moments that count in life...

My ultra appointment was the most amazing thing that I have ever done. It was so amazing to see my little guy and what he does in my tummy all day. The first thing we saw was his beautiful spine like a ribbon of pearls. He kept squirming around and kept kicking me but up to that point I was not sure what I was feeling when he was kicking. So when I saw him kick and felt it I knew what it was. Our technician was really so good at showing us everything and that he was a healthy baby boy. It took her about 5 mins to let us know that he was a boy but I saw his little stuff before she told us. We had her check twice just to confirm that there was something between his legs and sure enough. After the ultra sound was done Aaron looked at me with his happy and proud eyes and I thinking he would lean down to kiss me and make it a gentle moment. No instead he high fives me and says good work babe, that’s my boy. He was so proud that we were having a boy so that he could go fishing, hunt, teach him chess oh and not to mention wrestle. He already has this little boy’s life planned out and he is still in my tummy! After we met with Dr Lloyd and our little guy measured 21 weeks instead of 20 weeks so my due date has moved up a week. Dr Lloyd asked me if this could be the first day of my last period and told him I guess I really don’t remember that well and then I turned to Aaron and said….”I promise you’re the Father” :)
We are very excited that we are having a boy and have already started his nursery and can not wait to have it all done and waiting for him. Seriously these moments in life are what count and I’m so grateful for everything in my life. I think this picture of him is so cute and I’m so proud to become a mom. I can’t wait for his arrival in August.

BABY RENNAKER IS A.........

BOY!

First baby purchase

Aaron thinks this chair is his... I told him if he can breast feed the baby he can use it! He said he will try his best!

5 YEARS... But who is counting

Aaron gave me this little surprise for our 5 Year anniversary and boy was I surprised! I can't believe that we have been married for 5 AWESOME years. Later that night we were reflecting on the last 5 years of marriage and I asked Aaron to share one happy experience from the last 5 years that popped in his head. He said "I loved when we decided that we wanted to get a dog and that Saturday morning we stopped to look at the puppies at Bird World in North Salt Lake. We were making our way around the puppy area and saw Jackson (our dog) and at the same time we just knew that he was ours, no debating convincing required. We picked him up and got to hold him for the first time and he was so sweet and such a cuddly thing. When we set him down on the floor he started running around and sliding all over the floors. We love our little man so much." Mine was when we stayed our first night in our home (over 3 years ago). We slept on the couch because our bed was not setup yet, when I woke up the next morning I looked around and I was thought....THIS IS OURS! I am glad that we have milestones in our life that help us reflect on some good memories.
Look at us now, 5 years later preparing to welcome our first baby in August. We could not be more excited!

I love Aaron so much and love him more and more every day!

Going down memory lane... These are some pictures from our engagement photo's that we took. Crazy how much we change in 5 years... Our hair, our style, our clothes...

Wedding day March 10, 2005

GIFT

My cute friend Kelly Samson gave me this beautiful expecting mothers necklace. It was kind of a funny story because I just happen to log onto her etsy website and saw this necklace and showed Aaron how cute it was. With our 5 year anniversary on the way Aaron jumped on the wagon and decided that he would order it for me. I didn’t know he had ordered it until I got this text from Kelly asking me why I was paying for the necklace that it was a gift. Me being confused text back and told her I didn’t know what she was talking about. Long story short she had mailed me the necklace as a gift and told me that I was the inspiration to this piece of Jewelry she created. I ran home at lunch and got if from my mailbox and opened it. I really got so emotional for many reasons:
1. It was so beautiful and thoughtful
2. I started to think of my little baby on the way
3. What a good friend of Kelly to think of me and to send it to me as a gift
4. I’m pregnant and emotional :)
The necklace has my little baby’s birthstone in the middle, Peridot which is a yellow green for the month of August. I put the necklace on last Tuesday and have worn it every day since. I just love it and it goes with all of my outfits.
Kelly is so amazing and talented with all of her Jewelry please take a look at her Etsy account and see all of the beautiful stuff she makes.

Sadly Aaron gift was ruined and now he has to go back to the drawing board and find another gift for me for our anniversary. I told him diamonds are a girl’s best friend!

Birthday in VEGAS!

My Birthday started out with my favorite flowers arriving to my work on Tuesday! Aaron surprised me and wrote a really cute message....

This year we found some great flights to Vegas and it happen to fall over my BIRTHDAY weekend! LUCKY ME! We also found this great deal for the NEW Planet Hollywood Towers. Our room was amazing!

We definitely ate a lot of good food the whole trip! We tried out this Hot dog place called PINKS. They said it was popular in LA and they just opened up this one in August! The hot dogs and fires were really good.

And of course we ate ice cream. Aaron favorite treat!

Aaron was so good to me on my Birthday morning he ordered me room service. I have never had room service before so I was pretty excited! My Favorite thing to eat for breakfast is hash browns and a ham and cheese omelet oh and we cant forget the Dt Coke!

Our view was so amazing so it was fun to eat in our room

For lunch we ate at the Cheesecake Factory, I have been craving these macaroni cheese balls that we got last time. They were so good!

My Cousin Kenzie and her husband Joe just happen to be going down to Vegas on the same weekend as us, so we met up a couple times. Kenzie recommend us to a Mexican restaurant called Cozymels for my Birthday dinner. It was really good food, our waiter even made fresh guacamole for our table!

I has hoping i would get to wear a sombrero hat and have them sing to me but all I got was a dessert which was just fine by me!

Aaron and I shared fajitas

On Sunday we had the perfect day! For some reason everything was just working out to our advantage. We started by Shopping down and the outlets and found some good deals, then we went and saw When in Rome which I loved it and thought was so funny! When the movie got over we ran over to the Mirage to go see the baby white tigers. I thought I remember reading the the cubs would only be there until about 3:30 pm. We ran through the Mirage lobby hurrying to the exhibit and arrived there at 3:31 pm. Aaron first words that came out of his mouth to the guy we pay to get in was.... DID WE MISS THE BABY WHITE TIGERS? He said that they would NOT be out but the adult tigers would so we went in anyways and to our surprise the baby Tigers were still out playing so we got to see them. YAH!

Seating in the movie Theatre waiting for When in Rome to start!

The Start of the White Tigers

We saw Dolphins

They even jumped in the air

This White Tiger was stalking a security guard and following him. He did not take his eyes off him the whole time.

A leopard

Can you see the lions in this picture?

Here he is!!!

Baby Tigers Cubs

They were just playing with each other like dogs, it was so cute!

After they wrestled for awhile they just chilled

Christmas in Maui

Our Hawaiian vacation started out with some positive news the night before we left on our vacation. We found out that we were pregnant! Just to make sure that I didn’t take the test wrong I confirmed it with taking two test and sure enough… POSITIVE!!! Aaron and I were very excited and can’t wait to welcome baby Rennaker in August. We told my parents when they arrived in Hawaii on Saturday December 19th. We had them open a book and told them it was an early Christmas present to get the vacation started off. My mom opened it and the book read “The Gift of Being GRAND” at first they didn’t understand but then in small print it read “for Grandparents everywhere”! They all started screaming and were so excited for us! Aaron couldn't wait to tell him family in person so we called them from Hawaii to tell them the news.











Aaron and I were able to go to Hawaii 2 days earlier than my family to make our vacation last as long as possible. We were able to enjoy a Kayak/Snorkeling excursion on Friday morning December 18th, I only threw up once when we were snorkeling. I think the salt water and the waves got to me. We had so much fun and we met some really nice people on the excursion.

Aaron Snorkeling

I'm giving a thumbs up







We loved Kayaking








Okay I’m not going to go in order of events that happened in Maui because everyone knows what a pain it is to load pictures and move them. One of my favorite days we had was riding around the island on scooters. On Wednesday December 23, 2009 we rented scooters for 6 hours and rode them all over the west & northwest coast of Maui. Since we had such a large group they offered us a guide so that he could take us to a place where we were not allowed to go by ourselves. He was a pretty cool cracked up guy named Corky. He had his mouth wired shut because someone with brass knuckles punched him and broke his jaw. Apparently for no reason at all but I don’t think we were getting the full story!



Our cousin's JC and Austin joined our fun!



I got the cute pink scooter!







The road to the best Banana Nut Bread stand







We all bought stuff at the Banana Nut bread Stand







Mama Kim on her Hot Red Scooter







The love ROCK!







The Blow Hole







We were so blessed with so many days of sunshine. We got to play in the ocean a lot. Aaron, Justin and JC went Skim boarding. It was fun to watch them and see them try to perfect their moves!



Aaron is trying to get the hang of it, he got pretty good after he played on it for awhile.







Justin caught in the action, what a stud.







That same day we got to play in the ocean on our tubes and catch the waves.






Domino's aka DUMB DOTS are a must on our trip, this was one of many rounds of Domino's that we played.

I seriously can not count how many times we ate at Leilani's we must have eaten there at least four or five times. They have the best fish taco's that me and Aleisha would share and then for dessert... can you say Hula Pie! So freak'n good!

Aaron and I found this awesome running trail about a mile from our Hotel. The trail took us right by the ocean and the views were amazing!







This cute Kayak were at the beginning of our run, I just LOVE Hawaii!





The Love rock!



On Saturday December 19th Aaron and I were kind of homeless for a bit until my parents arrived in Maui. We checked out of our hotel at 12:00 pm and left our luggage with the front desk and headed for the beach. My family was not going to be arriving there until about 6:00 pm so we just hung out at the beach and Swimming pool until they came to pick us up. Aaron rented a boogie board and played in the water. I was just happy to be taking pictures and seating on the beach.



This was right outside of our hotel room at Napali Shores. We got to enjoy breakfast every morning outside with the birds!



Friday December 18th

We went on a lot of adventures and exploring which was so much fun! I bought a new camera back in September and was excited to use it.



oh Maui Pineapple.... The best refreshment!



Saturday December 19th

It was so AWESOME to be able to see surfers right outside of our hotel. Aaron and I watched them for a hour or so and I had fun taking there pictures! I took like 50 pictures of just the surfers but I will only post a few :)





December 25th - Christmas Day!

Kim making us a delicious Breakfast with pancakes, eggs, bacon and yummy Maui Pineapple.





Aaron playing with Evie on Christmas morning. (singing her "peanut butter jelly time") He is going to be a good dad!



Aaron and I went on a walk on the beach Christmas morning



December 24th - Christmas Eve

The Hardy's and Robins family went to good old Cheese Burger in Paradise on Christmas Eve. It was fun because they had a live band playing while we enjoyed our food!





December 21st



Monday was a very fun and long day! We decided to drive the Road to Hana and make a full day of it! We left the house about 6:00 am in the morning so we would beat the tour buses on this cruvey small road. My mom drove us and did such a good job by the end of the day she was driving like a native (or Aaron on a normal day).




This was at the end our day we stopped at a garden exhibit and walked around.



There was these interesting ducks walking around

A peocock


Waterfall
By the end of the day we were all kinda done. It was a full fun filled 12 hour day.
The first thing we did is drove all the way to the sacred falls and did a few hikes.

Aaron even found a walking stick. (or as he called it his bow staff)









Aleisha Lou
Mom and Dad
The Family

Rocks that we found on the beach
It was so fun to watch the sunrise! It was so beautiful to just look at and enjoy!

December 26th

Whale Watching

It has become a tradition every year to do a Whale Watching excursion with the Sellers. Seriously this is one of my favorite things to do. It amazing to see these big amazing creaters come up so close to the boat.

My cute husband enjoying the sun

Oh brother, how come you are so studly?

Waiting to get on our boat for the whale watching

Whitney, Becca and Josh (Sellers)

It so fun to see dolphines swimming out in the middle of the ocean. We saw this big group of them just in joying the day in the sun. Its almost like they were being released at the right moment, it was so perfect!

Look how big this whale is just chilling by our boat!

Tuesday December 22nd

Tubing out in the ocean!

Mom!
This was the best!!!! We had no idea this huge wave was coming up behind us we were all focused on waving at Kim to take our picture and then....

The wave started to break....

and then this was us getting turned over in the Maui ocean....SO FUN!