Valentine's Day

Yay love!

I've always loved Valentine's Day. But I like simple Valentine's Days. This one was perfect :)

I woke up to Nathan and Sadie making breakfast.

And some Valentine treats for Sadie and me! :) (Nathan got some too, his were much more manly though).

Sadie's first roses!

And her first chocolates! 

I got her a little Valentine gift too. Pink bubbles, a pink light up ball, and two little toy cars

And she colored a picture for daddy!

Sadie loved her flowers. She carried them around forever before beating them against the floor until all the pedals came off, haha.

Nathan made red, heart-shaped, chocolate chip pancakes which were amazing. (If you've never had his pancakes, I'm sorry). We also had raspberries and diet coke, of course.

We got ready after breakfast and headed to a park we love. It was still kinda cold, but we wanted to give Sadie a chance to get out. Sadie had to pose for a photoshoot first because she looked like a freaking Valentine's model and I wanted to eat her.

Eating snow

1st Valentine's and second. I cannot believe how big she is.

Then Nathan finally gave into my months of begging. We are too poor to pay a photographer to take professional pictures of us, but we have a decent camera so I just wanted to a do a few ourselves before this baby comes. I want to remember our family just the 3 of us. I have been telling Nathan I want to do this since I found out I was pregnant, so I am really glad we got to do it. The wind picked up and it got freaking cold so we only took a few (which means Nathan will have to do this again with me later), but I like them. Poor Sadie wasn't having a lot of fun, but she's still perfect.

We got lunch and went on a drive after.

Sadie went down for a nap and I went down for a nap while Nathan did home work. Sorry Nathan. I'm having insane pregnancy brain, but I really can't remember what we got for dinner. I think maybe Noodles and Co? Whatever it was, Nathan picked it up and brought it home and we watched Inside Out. It was the first time we put on a real movie for Sadie, and she LOVED IT! She sat and watched the whole thing besides a small break in the middle to go play. She also did not like when the girl was upset. She would cry every time.

Sadie went to bed and my Valentine and I got to watch Netflix and eat dessert. It was the perfect way to end the perfect day. I love this guy and the life we have.

afternoons with my lady

Last night was rough.

We knew we had to get up early to get to the Provo temple at 8 for the open house. I am already not a big fan of getting up early, but somehow I knew the night wouldn't go well. And I wasn't wrong.

Sadie woke up crying at 2, and she never wakes up at night. I went into her room and could instantly tell she was burning up. She's been working on 2 molars for a couple weeks and I am sure it's what caused her fever. The rest of the night bounced between tylenol, bringing her to our bed where she poked my eyes and picked my nose, drinks of water, rocking her back to sleep 4 different times, more crying episodes, and some very tired faces when our alarms went off a little after 6am. I probably got 3-4 hours of sleep. I was looking forward to nap time today, but poor girl is teething so hard, nap didn't last long and I'm sitting here feeling like a truck hit me. I imagine Sadie is feeling like a truck hit her gums. Dang molars.

I don't have much room to complain, because Sadie has never had a night like this before. She's been sick once in her life and we've been so lucky. But this afternoon has been filled with snacks and laying on the couch and watching Barney so mom doesn't have to do anything.

We've had lots of lazy afternoons lately. Somedays these are exactly what we need. With winter and pregnancy, I have had -54684 percent motivation. Sadie has been such a trooper. Even though I can get frustrated, I really love how she never wants to leave my side. These past few months as she's started to become her own little person, she's really become my best little buddy, and she's just the gosh dang love of my life!! She's definitely the only one who can get me smiling and taking pictures on my hit-by-a-truck days, I can tell you that.

It's funny to think that this little human, who I now spend my entire day with, didn't even exist just a few years ago. She is my day-to-day. She's my pastime. My whole day revolves around her, and although it's hard, I wouldn't have it any other way. It's a blessing being her mom, and the best job I could imagine.

In a few months, there will be a second human that my life revolves around. Right now I can't even imagine that, but I couldn't imagine it before Sadie came either. I know he will be his own little person and fill places in my life I didn't know were empty, just like Sadie did. And while I say I am ready for that, I am so enjoying this Sadie-as-an-only-child phase. I want to soak up every last second, even the ones where we feel hit by a truck.

Because gosh I love this lady and our afternoons together.

a mini reunion

I kinda had the best group of friends in high school.

We did everything together. There was really never any drama. A lot of them felt just like siblings to me. After graduation, we were all spread out for the most part, but I have kept in contact with everyone. Being in Utah, with no home in California anymore, has kept me from seeing them very often. Plus, being Mormon in a group of non-Mormons, almost none of them are married (2 are), and none of them have kids. (Jenna you don't count, haha). So I am definitely in a different phase of life, haha. But I still love these guys so much. 

I haven't seen any of the boys since my wedding! 4 years ago!! My ladies came to my California baby shower last summer, so that was wonderful. But I have been looking forward to our 10 year reunion to get to see so many faces that I haven't seen in forever. But theeeeen I got knocked up.

I am totally so happy to be pregnant and this baby was definitely planned, but I just didn't think my due date and my reunion would line up so perfectly, haha. I've been bummed and pretty hormonal about it. It doesn't help that when everyone found out I wasn't going, they all sent me messages and texts begging me to figure something out, haha. But I have accepted my fate. A 10 hour road trip with a newborn and a a toddler while recovering from birth does not sound fun. 

In the midst of my bummed-out-ness, Utah got some visitors in the form of 3 of my very best guy friends from high school! I was so excited!!! Ryan and his wife actually just moved out here, which always makes me laugh because why do non-mormons move to Utah? Brett and Brandon came along to see their new place and go skiing. They brought their lady friends (one is a friend from high school as well), and a couple other friends. They invited us over for dinner and hanging out the first night they got there and I was so excited!

Brandon took me to Homecoming our Senior year. This was not at homecoming. I don't know where those pictures are. Stop asking about them, okay?!

Brett and I at a football game being really cool.

Ryan took me to Senior Prom

One of the things I loved about my group of friends is that although we all had boyfriends and girlfriends in high school, and people would filter in and out of our group, none of the core of us ever dated each other. So I went as friends with them all to dances, and we would all just switch off. And it never was awkward and isn't awkward years later! Yay!

Anyway, they came and we had so much fun!

Cute little Barbara is a high school friend but she was a grade younger and I didn't get to know her well until after high school when she started dating Brett, so sorry, I don't have any awesome flashback pictures. I know you're sad.

It was such a fun night. We got caught up on each other's lives, we laughed about old crap that happened, and I got to know all their girlfriends/wives! Ryan's wife is so cute, and it will be fun to have another friend in Utah. This helped ease my bummed-outness over the reunion. There are still a million people I want to see, but at least I got to see a few! And it gave me hope that non-mormons actually visit Utah sometimes. So now all my old friends just need to come to me!

Sadie was a total ham the whole night, and it was really special to me to see my little girl interacting with people who were such a big part of my growing up. I better go before I get too hormonal and sappy, but I am thankful for old friendships!