"Aunt Hayley, Your FAT!"

I've realized lately that i can no longer hide my baby bump (which is probably a good thing since i am going to be 34 weeks in a few days) The sad part is that the way i came to this realization is when our nephew Benson Yelled across the room "AUNT HAYLEY YOUR FAT!" which was soon joined with a choir of the little voices, belonging to the rest of the kids, agreeing with him. Yes i guess you could say I'm "getting fat". I am actually quite surprised how comfortable i am. My 25 sit ups a day have now turned to 50, so besides the fact i can't really get myself out of the bathtub and i only have one pair of pants i fit into Ive never felt better.

The pictures consist of the last few months. Green pants- beginning of 7 months, Blue hoodie- beginning of 6 months, and finally a normal big pregnant black belly was taken at 32 weeks.

School

Well since I've started my maternity/sick leave I really have no reason why I should be such a terrible blogger. So much has been happening and it seems like we are leaving everyone out of the excitement, so here you go folks...round two to look for a blogging addiction!
Levi has been the busy boy getting into the swing of school. We were excited to find him a new school outfit and take his "first day of school pictures." (I think he looks rather charming). He likes school but i have to admit i have to stop myself from hiding his school books for attention. :)

A Little Nugget of Goodness

As long as me and Hayley have been together we have dreamed of having a dog. Now that we are married we thought it was a possibility, however, because of our small living space and busy lives it just wouldn't be fair to the puppy. So instead, we got ourselves a cat! It wasn't planned that way, but after a a quick visit to Petland, we ended up leaving with a cat. I have never been a fan of cats but she is exactly what we needed. She has quite the personality and even plays fetch with us! It's kinda like a dog I guess, right? Anyways, we are just loving her but have been having some trouble with a name. However, I am rather stubborn so once I decided on a name I liked I just kept calling her by it. And eventually, againnst much debate, even Hayely slipped up and called her nugget. Haha, so it's final. So here is the newest memebr of our little family, Nugget!

Baby love!

Well here it is, after much waiting, the baby bump decides to "pop". These pictures are from when i was at five months and had my ultra sound, Which is a month behind where i am now so expect more! Levi and i took the ultra sound day off to make it a date. I think Levi enjoys the ultrasounds more than me. I glance at Levi every few minutes just to see his jaw droping farther and farther. "THATS SO COOOOOOL!"






Oh ya, AND, we're having a girl!

Update

Ok, so we havent been the most dillegent in our bloging efforts, but what can I say? We've just been so busy getting settled in and starting our lives together. We finally have the internet hooked up in our new place so here is the beginning of, what I hope, is a constatnt update of our little family. We are loving our new place and ward. Everything just seemed to fall into place in the last few months as we looked for a home, prepared for school, and found a ward we felt at home in. It's hard notto feel at home in a ward where we have grandparents, aunts, cousins, friends, and old youth/EFY leaders. Cooking is one of our favorite things so we love having date nights where we cook and bake and watch movies in our new home. Cinnamon Pull aparts for our date night. This was our first sunday dinner we made together as a married coupl. We love cooking and we love to photograph it. Is that wierd of us? lol oh, well.

Hayley has tried baking so many things since we have moved in but they never seem to come out right. Thats ok though, just stick to cooking Hayley, and let me do the baking. =)

Another shot of our first sunday dinner. Sitting down for one of our awesome movie nights!

MMMMMMM!!! Popcorn, chocolate bars, fuzzy peaches, peanuts, grapes, Pepsi, and my favorite.....Kiss Cookies!!!

"What Happens in Vegas"

After a doctors appointment last wednesday Hayley recieved the great news that she can start her maternity leave on only two weeks! Needless to say we are both very happy about the time we will be able to spend together. Since starting my job at Wendy's we havent got to see much of eachother since Hayley works days and I work nights. But we cant complain, cause we are still seeing more of eachother than before we were married I suppose.

In just two weeks I am heading back to school! Surprisingly enough, I couldn't be happier. I am so excited to start this new chapter in my life and to have my wife with me to encouage me along the way. I will be attending the Lethbridge College taking a General Studies Major in Psychology and Sociology. Afterwards I hope to transfer to the UofL and get me combined degree in education.

Other than that not much is going on. We are just preparing for the fall and enjoying these last bits of summer while we can. Lots of visiting family, nieces and nephews, and even animals! But thats for another time)

"Here wormy wormy wormy!"

As obedient children Levi and I decided to help my Dad out and weed the garden. I noticed the garden was packed full of worms and couldn't resist calling our niece Taylee over for a worm hunt. Levi dug the holes like a good husband and Taylee and I went through the clumps of dirt. We found a Particularly juicey worm and Taylee couldn't help but exclaim loudly "Oh! That ones pretty!!" Shes cute! The garden is now full of heeps and holes and my parents might not be tickled pink, but kids must be kids when a wormin needs a huntin.

Wedding Day!

At last we find ourselves on the biggest adventure of our lives, marriage. We had a wonderful day last Saturday June 27 starting with Nana Bissett playing the piano while Dad walked Hayley down the aisle. Even though this was all a spectacular experience we have to admit the day seemed to all be a dream. We now understand why people make comments about the new couple being on "cloud nine". Maybe our cloud just was a little too high because the day went way to fast and we don't seem to remember any of the little details. After the ceremony we snuck away quietly to suppress our craving for nothing else but diet pepsi. Hayley always promised everyone she was going to get her way and have diet pepsi at her wedding. The family dinner turned out great and the decorations were more than we could imagine. Looking back we realize how lucky we really were to have such a beautiful wedding day. The wedding reception went so quickly but we enjoyed every minute of it. Hayley's Mom was quite the little magician with providing platters of food for the reception guests. Giggity! We also found that Levi's Graduation gift of a chocolate fountain came in handy. It was a real hit and the little kids loved dipping their little fingers. We were dissapointed to find we did not get a chance to tastes our own wedding food until we found that Levi's brother Dylan made a great server as he brought us plate after plate of little tastey morsels to munch on. We thought we were so sneaky. After the reception we rushed off to our romantic honeymoon destination and lived happily ever after....or at least up to this point. Enjoy the pictures and expect more. The pictures here were taken by Hayley's dad, but we also had a professional photographer who is taking her time to edit the pictures. We hope to see/show them soon!