Trip to Utah

Mike & I went on a vacation to Vernal, UT to see his sister and family. We stayed for a week and had a blast. It was my first time in Utah. I am blown away by how clean everything is. The highways, gas stations, restaurants, etc. The trip from Bakersfield to Vernal is almost 14 hours. It was my longest road trip to date. I was able to go to Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and Wyoming all in one trip. On the way to Utah we stayed the night in Las Vegas and then headed through Arizona and stopped in St. George, UT and went to the temple. The temple was gorgeous. There were weddings going on all over the place. Arizona Border

St. George Temple

Us at St. George Temple

Beaver, UT "Mountains of Fun" & apparently cheese curds

Mike was so excited to go to Cabela's, I however was not so fond of it.

Mike & I laughed at this room in Cabela's because it was the laborador room. It was like our room accept we have the real deal.

This was a beautiful waterfall on the way to Vernal through the canyon.

When Mike and I arrived to Vernal the next morning Blake and Alisa had to go up the mountain to preg check the cows. We got up really early and headed up the mountain and this is a picture of some of the cows. I forget how many cows there were, I think something like 600 cows. It was interesting and the cows were mooing and crying because their babies had just been removed from them a couple of days before this and they were looking for them. It was really sad and I was happy to leave Michael and Blake to do the work. Alisa and I and the kids went back home and spent the day together hanging out.

Alisa & I made these amazing eclair's/cream puffs. They were so good!! Ben would only eat the chocolate sauce. He doesn't eat anything white. It's pretty darn cute!

Ben & I at a restaurant in UT.

Ben was going to be pluto for Halloween, and Brendon was going to be Mickey Mouse.

Ben the cowboy with his horse "Sissy"

Uncle Mike & Ben in the truck on the way to the flaming gorge

Group shot with our matching sweatshirts

Cutie Brendon with snow in his hair!!

The cool bridge on the way to the Flaming Gorge.

Mike, Ben & I at the Flaming Gorge

The love birds Blake & Alisa

Wyoming!! We drove to the sign and turned around. It was too cold!

Alisa ordered me a cake for my 28th birthday. She was really upset because she had ordered the Mickey Mouse kit and they called her the day of my birthday and told her that they accidently used the kit on someone else's order. So she had them decorate the cake in my wedding colors hot pink and orange. It tasted so good!

Blake & Alisa got me some cute baby clothes, pacifiers and a subscription to Taste of Home magazine for my birthday.

The day before we left Blake took us to his parents property and showed us where he grew up and the corn they raise to feed the cows. There were a ton of deer on their property. They were so beautiful and Blake wants to eat the buck!

Corn

After his dad chops the corn it goes into a dump trailor where they dump it right here and then his brother was going over it to compress it, which will then ferment and become food for the cows.
This is the corn all chopped up.

We took Ben and Brendon to the park to fly Ben's kite. It wasn't very windy so Blake and Mike ran back and forth trying to get the kite to lift. This is Brendon and Mike at the park.

This is the morning we left. It was terrible to leave.

This is the sign on the way out of Vernal. I was planning on taking pictures of the adorable town of Vernal and of Dina the dinosaur however, I was so hysterical when we left that I couldn't stop crying enough to even want to see the town or the dino. So I missed out on those pictures. It was really hard leaving them. We had such a great time and I wish they lived closer.

Snowy mountains in Utah.

In Baby News

So I am 7 weeks pregnant today. I've been feeling pretty good surprisingly. More than anything I'm exhausted. We are so excited about our news. I had an ultra sound last week and it was not a pleasant experience. The ultra sound techs that work in the office are so rude. Their machine was not working and so they had to use a make shift machine and she was very flustered and not friendly. Here I am nervous and anxious and she didn't make it any better. But she said the baby was implanted high in the uterus and that it looked good. My mom could see the heart beating but I couldn't because she wouldn't turn the cart so that I could see. Seriously not a pleasant experience! Anyway all that matters is that there is a baby there and it has a heart beat.

Michael has been hilarious with this whole thing. He is so excited and calls me during the day when he thinks of things or names for the baby. He has decided that he doesn't want to know the sex of the baby. This is something I'm trying to deal with because I will be going crazy from not knowing. Michael said that everything in life is instant gratification and that a true surprise never happens so he wants to wait. Our good friends David & Lindsey are due in November and they don't know what they are having either and it is driving me crazy! I want to know so bad. So considering I'm the one that is pregnant now, I don't know if I can handle it. Picking a girl name is such an unfortunate situation because we do not agree at all and I have no idea for a girl. Most the names we both agree on are already taken by friends or family.

Finding out I was pregnant was crazy! We did our first round of fertility medication and was told by my endocronologist to take a pregnancy test on Sept 18th. So I went to target bought another ovulation kit for the next month of fertility (because I didn't think I was pregnant) and I bought a 3 pack pregnancy test. It was only Sept. 15 and of course I couldn't resist and I tried out a pregnancy test 3 days before I was supposed to. I was home by myself, Michael was at work and all of a sudden I see this weird light line coming across the test stick. I freak out because in 2 years we have been trying that has never happened. I stared at it for a second and couldn't think who to call because if I was pregnant I didn't want to ruin it over the phone with someone. So I called Lindsey Bunting right away and told her to come over to look at something. She lives right around the corner from me and she confirmed that I wasn't crazy and that I was pregnant. I shook and cried and laughed. Then we drove to Rite-Aid and bought a digital test to make sure. I guzzled some juice and tried it out and Lindsey couldn't look and so I looked and it popped up "Pregnant". So then we went to petsmart and I bought our dog Zakk (Michael's baby) a dog tag that said "We're Pregnant" on it. So when he came home from work Dave and Lindsey were over and I told Mike that I bought the dogs new tags since we moved. I told him to look at Zakk's. He complained at first because it was shaped like a heart and the he read it and was shocked. I was laughing and he didn't say much because he was shocked. David and Lindsey recorded it on their camera. It's so funny!

The next day I took my best friend Misty a cupcake in a cute decorated box and wrote "Congratulation's Aunt Misty" Love, ??? on the box. She was at work and started crying her eyes out in her office and it was good times!! She is so excited to be an aunt!

My dad's 50th birthday was on the 18th and so we took him a picture frame that said "I heart my grandpa" with a note in it from baby McGee. My mom freaked out and was crying her eyes out and my dad was a little tipsy because he had played music with his band that night and celebrated his 50th birthday so he was tripping out. They are so excited. Misty also caught their reactions on video.

I think overall telling people has been the most exciting part!! Most people know we have had a hard time and are over joyed when they hear the news. I am just praying that everything goes smoothly and the baby is healthy and that I carry full term!