Getting Excited

Who is more excited than I am?!

Think Pink

And the winner is.... ME! Of course! Was there ever any doubt? :) Actually Richard pretty much thought it was a girl too but had to be opposite of me so that we could have a fun bet. So yes, we are having a little girl! It seems slightly more real now, but is still pretty unbelieveable. The ultrasound was really cool. Iwas scared that I was going to be disappointed with it like I was with hearing the heartbeat for the first time (I just had super high expectations I guess), but it was SO fun to actually see our little one. She had her hands up, crossed over her face the whole time. I told Richard it was because she was annoyed with us and wanted us to stop poking her. That's not good news if we're already driving her nuts :) We've actually started thinking about names now too. We got a fairly big list of names and narrowed it down to 5. Richard thought it would be a good idea for both of us to list those 5 in order of what we liked best. Unfortunately, our lists were almost exactly opposite of each other! And so the "fun" of trying to decide on a name begins. We still might add others to the list but right now we like Starlee, Bella, Amberlee, Bailey, and Adalyn. What do you think?

In other news...

My belly also popped pretty good while we were in AZ. I swear I doubled in size overnight! So I guess I officially look pregnant now. Or at least I'm assuming that's what it means when every single female in the family comes up to me, pats my belly, and goes OOHHHHHHH!!!! And tomorrow we'll find out if the baby is healthy, if my due date is right, and what gender the baby is! Richard and I have a bet going so I'll keep you updated on who wins :)

AZ Trip

You'd think by looking at my pictures that all I did was stare at this cute little boy the whole time:

And you'd pretty much be right! He was the reason most of the family was able to drive down and spend some fun time together in AZ (well, Holly and Chase were a pretty good reason too...).
On Saturday morning, Emery was sealed to his parents for time and all eternity. It was VERY special to watch. Chase's grandpa did the sealing and got all of us crying as he talked about what a special gift Emery was and as he thanked the birth grandparents for allowing us to have Emery sealed in our family.

Isn't he the cutest little chub-a-dub you've ever seen?!

It was SO fun to see Holly, Chase, and Emery and to be with the rest of the family on vacation- thanks Hol for giving us a good excuse to come visit again! However, I don't think I will be spending time apart from Richard again any time soon. I had to hold back tears quite a few times on our trip thinking about him being lonely back in Provo and how much I wanted him to be with me. And all I could do when I got back to Provo was give him the biggest hug ever and tell him never to leave me. Who knew it was so hard to be away from your spouse for even that little of time?! Maybe that's just another thing I'll blame on the pregnancy hormones... ;)

It's a-me, Mario!

With my cute wife Princess Peach.

What do you think?