Mothers Day ||

I got to celebrate my first Mother's Day. I've always dreamed of being able to celebrate and I'm so blessed to be able to be a mom.

When you first get pregnant you never anticipate the actual love, hardship, and gratitude you have when you have a baby.. Everything changes. The way you look at your spouse, the way your day goes, even going to the grocery store.. Everything changes. But I wouldn't want it any other way. I'm extremely blessed to have a healthy son here with me and an amazing husband who helps me with everything. 

Back to Mother's Day, t was gone with the military. I was a little bummed cause he wasn't here but all in all it turned out okay. We celebrated together a couple weeks ago and in reality Mother's Day is just a day.. He didn't fail to make me feel special though. I awoke to a cute poem he sent me, and I had two packages that had arrived. He got me a baby Bella which I've wanted since my friend Bailee informed me about it, and also a poloroid camera. I think I've sent so many hints to him that I wanted one. I love taking pictures and I absolutely love it!  He is such an awesome man and I am so proud to call him my husband.. Everything he does makes me so proud. I am so excited to see where life takes the two of us along with Archer. 

We are getting ready to take a small road trip down to NM to see our best friends. We have seriously missed them so much and are so excited to let them meet archer! We are heading that way the last weekend in May! Wish us luck!  I am so excited but nervous for a 12-13 hour drive with a 3 month old! Luckily, Archer is the easiest baby and I hope he won't be too hard to handle. 

Big plans are coming our way. We aren't sure yet, but we've been praying about what our little family needs to do and to help us have a sign in where to go. I hope to get answers soon, because this not knowing really sucks.  I like to have a plan for everything, and while I love Saint George and everything about it I just don't know if that's where we need to be. Hopefully we get answers soon. 

Weekend Rewind || APRIL 17,18,19

Another weekend came & gone. I swear weekends fly by and never last long enough. This weekend was laid back but we still had fun. Friday started off with my mom coming down and we went to minersville, UT because Archer and I had a photo session with the lovely Morgan Slade.  We came back to cedar and spent some time with my brother and his family and then T joined us.  We had his drill buddy's wedding reception to attend Friday evening.  From there I went back to beaver and T headed back home. He had to work on Saturday and I had a bunch of photo shoots in Beaver.

Saturday came and after I was finished I headed home. My mom and dad came down to go to dinner with us and hang out for a bit. Later that night we went and saw Paul Blart mall cop 2 with some friends.  It's a pretty funny movie & I thought it was better then the first one.

Sunday came and Ts brother came down to spend the day with us and see Arxher. We went to lunch at Texas Road house, hit up target and Home Depot, and planted some flowers. T went golfing with his brother while I stayed home and watch arch & planted some flowers.  

This week, we are planting a garden. Love weekends spent with my little family. 

Weekend Rewind || April 24-26

There is something about Thursday that I get all excited.. Thursday means Friday is the next day which means the weekend is here! This weekend we kind of celebrated our Mother's Day. T will be gone for Mother's Day for two weeks for AT so we decided have a little getaway.

We went to Salt Lake and shopped, ate good food and met up with our awesome friends. It's so much better having friends with babies.  We can shop for our babies, talk about babies, and your somewhat on the same Scedhule with feedings, diaper changes, naps, etc.  I've already realized that it's hard to be friends with people who aren't having kids or don't have kids because when you become a mom everything is about yor child. I hardly buy my self anything anymore, everything is for archer. 

Anyways, back to the weekend. We met up with Cameron, McKinnah & Kynzlee and went to gordmans to look at some baby clothes. I've heard good things about gordmans but I wasn't too impressed with their selection. Afterwards, we went to Brazilian steakhouse. It was so yummy! We were suppose to go to the Payson temple open house but there wasn't any tours available so we decided to bag it. 

We headed up to Salt Lake to babinski baby and I found archer the cutest, softest blanket! It's an Aden & Anais bamboo blanket and he loves it. He's never bonded with a blanket as much as this one. It was worth the heafty price  tag. Haha! You can't go to Salt Lake without hitting up City Creek Mall. We walked through and talked, shipped, and had a great time.. 

We ended up staying at the Double Tree by Hilton and it was so nice inside! It was archers first time in Salt Lake & a hotel! We ordered pizza that night and just bonded as a little family! 

Sunday came and we were heading back home. We had to make our annual IKEA stop. T and I are kinda obsessed with ikea. Then we hit cabelas to buy archer some camo... And let's be honest I really just wanted the fudge! Lol. After all those stops we headed south. 

Little getaways are always fun to go on. Even if it's such hard work and takes time, we enjoy getting out. I was super bummed cause I wanted to go see the Salt Lake temple on Sunday, but it was too cold for archer so we bagged it this time.  

I love getting out with our little family. T and I love to travel places and I hope it rubs off on Archer someday. We have big traveling plans in the future & I can't wait to take little Arch along with us. 

We are blessed. T has a great job that allows me to stay at home with Archer, and I'm actually considering going to get my bachelors next year after we decide if we're moving, staying, or what. We just take each day at a time. We have time to settle down, buy a house and decide where to live. For now it's nice to be able to one day decide we want to move across the country & not have any obligations.. We will see where life takes our family.