SPRING HAS SPRUNG!!!!

So today was a day to celebrate the beginning of spring.  Well down in Spanish Fork Utah yes Utah and yes that is in Utah County they have the Holi festival of colors.  I heard about it my senior year and I have waited for a day I could go and today was the day thanks to my friend Cory who was inviting people to go with her to the color festival I said yes because in five years I had a Saturday open.  It was a great experience to learn of another culture and I have decided that this would be a great thing to do every year to celebrate spring.  They are all about love.  When we were there they had a little concert and they talk about why they have this celebration.  Well anyways the guy up on the stage said something that has stuck with me "Love vertically and horizontally" meaning Love God vertically and Love your fellow beings I think that is the most important thing that we should be doing they are commandments right?  It was just a great experience and I hope that I will be able to do this again next year.  Here are some pictures that Cory took I'm so thankful for them because I couldn't find my camera but right when I got home I found it.                                   

So this is the color chalk it is all organic so I didn't breathe in anything bad for the baby.   So you throw this chalk up in the air and just let it fall more pictures of that later.

This is just Cory and I playing with the colors before the color festival actually begins.  This is me starting to get messy.

This is where the color festival happens and this is only maybe a quarter of the size of the crowd.  It was packed but it was tons of fun.

  So the next picture is right after the color cloud happened.  What they have us do is count down from 20 and than everybody throws their colors up in the air.

 Cory and I still in the middle of the crowd and yes everyone is still celebrating it is just one big party.

This is me outside of the crowd and I had to put on my sunglasses to show how what they looked like I had them on in the crowd so that I had eye gear but they really didn't work out so well I was blinded.  If you look really closely you can see my baby bump!  Love you baby!

This is my friend Cory and yes she wears glasses and they didn't protect her either she was blinded also in the crowd.

I had such a fun day getting to hang out with my friend Cory and welcoming spring.  Today was a beautiful day and I could think of no other way of spending today.  So thank you to my friend Cory for inviting me to this great event.

Little Big News!!!!

Brandon and I are expecting OUR FIRST CHILD!!! I have been patiently waiting to tell everyone because I wanted to make sure that the baby was healthy and we wouldn't have another miscarriage.  I am 13 weeks along and we got to hear the baby's heartbeat today.  It was so neat hearing the little heartbeat in me.  After hearing a baby's heartbeat chances of a miscarriage is less than 2% so the Doctor said that we are going to have this baby.  Brandon and I are so excited to start our family.  The due date for our baby is August 31.  With this big change in our lives we have decided we are moving to Pleasant Grove to be closer to our families and to be closer to work and the hospital.  So get ready for more pictures of yet another apartment.  But I'm so excited we will be close to our families and closer to work.

Photo Journal Entry

         Photo Journal Entry #2- January 3, 2010

Jared and Yowan

         I went over to my families house today for Sunday dinner.  This was taken before dinner.  I took this picture because my nephew yo yo loves his daddy so much while my brother was rocking yo yo to sleep he put his arm arond his daddy. 

Yowan climbing up to my b-day cake that my family gave to me.  I know there isn't 23 candles on the cake my mom didn't have enough.  My nephew Daden's bat mobile.  It was a yummy chocolate cake from costco so there is one picture of a birthday cake.

Photo Journal Entry #3- January 4, 2010

Our apartment got painted today and so I decided I would take a picture of this because I love the color on our walls.  Our second bedroom is going to be painted on Wednesday and they are painting it a light yellow.  They don't what color they are going to paint our room but I'm so excited.   I love it!!!

My 23rd Birthday and the first photo of the New Year!!

        I'm on my way to reaching my goal well one day out of the new year I have not forgotten my goal yet.  Well It could be because my 23rd Birthday was the second day of the new year of course I'm going to have photo's.  But I didn't get a picture of my cake before we served it.  I had a wonderful Birthday yesterday so I worked the night before so I slept until noon and woke up to start enjoying my birthday!  Brandon gave me season 5 of Friends for my Birthday I now own all of the seasons yepee!!  I also got a Wii Monopoly game.  Brandon and I played a game of Monopoly before he took me out to dinner at Ruby River yum!  We than went to a BYU basketball game where two of our valuable players were sitting out but that is still okay because BYU won!!!  After the game Adam and Becca came over to our apartment to enjoy cake and ice cream and to play Wii Monopoly.  Adam bankrupted all of us so he was the lucky winner!  I had a really good day and I'm glad that I'm now 23!


Photo Journal Entry #1- January 2, 2010

Steak, Yam, and Veggies Plus homemade Root beer

          For my birthday we went to Ruby River and I got a yummy steak.   I have always celebrated my birthday with a steak dinner.  When I was younger it was our choice to pick anything for our birthday dinners I always had steak for my dinner.  So I'm just keeping my tradition going.  Steak is my absolute favorite food.

Birthday Dessert from Ruby River!

         I was really worried that when Brandon told them that it was my birthday I was going to get all the waiters and waitresses to come and sing Happy Birthday to me but... I picked a great place to eat because they don't do that.  They just bring out the dessert.  It was vanilla ice cream with a layer of carmel and than chocolate syrup with peanuts and whipping cream.  It was a good treat!

New Year Resolutions!!!

So I'm only going to make a couple but this is my big one.  I'm going to do a photo journal and use my blog as the journal.  My plan is going to be take one picture everyday and write a little paragraph about what the photo means to me.  I have already taken one picture today but I'm going to wait to put that one up.  I will blog all my photos everyday and if not I will blog it once a week.  So here it goes to me taking pictures of 2010.  I read my friends blog and got this idea and thought it was a good idea.  This morning when I was writing my year in review I couldn't remember what I did all 2009 I remembered the major things but I couldn't remember the little things so my goal is to be able to remember 2010.... wish me luck!!!