Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Happy Birthday, Dad O'Connor!

Today is my dad's birthday. We celebrated on Sunday night with dinner, birthday cake, and presents. It was a lot of fun! We love getting together with family.
Happy birthday, Dad! Hope you have a great day!


We had American tacos for dinner. Delicious!


Aaron & Adam dishing up


All my sibs having a good laugh


Mom & Dad


Che' & Amber


Dad gets yellow cake with chocolate frosting every year for his birthday dessert. It's his favorite!

Amy enjoying her cake


Dad always looks forward to the funny cards we get him with his presents. Everybody always gets really good ones! Can you tell he likes this card? :)

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Proof of the Pink Pants

Tyson surprised me and came to Utah with a ring to propose on September 19, 2008. I was getting ready for a dinner party at my uncle and aunt's house at the time.
So when I answered the door to find him standing there with flowers, I was wearing a
bright yellow Spongebob t-shirt
and bright pink sweat pants.
And I'm finally posting the proof!

Monday, January 25, 2010

Happy Birthday, Easton!

Our nephew
Easton
turned 8 years old yesterday.
Such an exciting age! We'll be attending his baptism on February 6th.
We celebrated his birthday with the Miller family with a spaghetti dinner {chosen by Easton} at Tyson's parents' house.

He chose chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and vanilla ice cream. Perfect! I would have picked the same thing!

Grandma Julie lighting the candles

Waiting to sing "Happy Birthday" with Grandma Clawson and Grandma Hill

Blowing out the candles
Little brother, Cooper, helping take the decor off the cake

Easton & Lillie enjoying some birthday cake

Delicious!

Time to open presents!
This one was from Tyson, Dustin, Erika & I.

We got him Mario Kart for the Nintendo DS.
He seemed to like it!

Easton reading one of his birthday cards with his mom, Angie

Dad Steve & Uncle Dustin

Cousin Bailey! So cute.

Easton got some new scriptures from his parents.
Perfect for an 8th birthday!

Clark & Kristi were getting Bailey to laugh so much with water and a straw. It was so funny!

The birthday boy reading his new scriptures

Sister Kate - love her!

And Kate loves her cousin Jack so much!

And so do we!

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Must-Have #5: the BeBand

This is one of those items that every pregnant woman needs! It is called the BeBand, from the makers of the BellaBand. I haven't tried the BellaBand, but I absolutely love the BeBand. I started using this at the beginning of my pregnancy when my pants started fitting a little more snug. I could unbutton the pants, put the BeBand on over them, and you couldn't even tell my pants were unbuttoned. Eventually my pants were fitting even tighter so the zipper wasn't going up as high. I wore the BeBand over the partially-zipped zipper as well, and you still couldn't tell my pants were unzipped. Now at 6 months pregnant, I am in maternity jeans almost 100% of the time. But every now and then I feel like wearing another pair of my jeans. And we know that zipper isn't going to come up at all! So I just wear the BeBand over it and I'm ready to go! It looks just like an undershirt most girls get from Shade or Downeast. They're awesome. And they're super stretchy so they can last all through the pregnancy. And they can go up really high on your stomach to keep everything smoothe. I plan on wearing it after the baby is born as well when my pants still aren't fitting just right. I highly recommend it!

You can purchase BeBands in black or white, sizes S/M, M/L and L/XL at Target. My first one I bought is black, size S/M, but I should have gotten the M/L. I can't wear the black one right now. But I have a white one in M/L that fits great.
They're $16.99 and worth every penney!

images via bebybellaband.com

Monday, January 18, 2010

It's Belly Time!

24 Weeks

Here it is! I have taken pictures every four weeks since I was eight weeks pregnant to show the progression in my belly growth. It sure has been fun to see the changes!
I went to my appointment today and the doctor said everything is going great. The baby's little heart rate was "perfect" at 150, and all the concerns I had this time around were normal. So I'm a happy camper!
I sure love this little baby. He has gotten to be more and more active, and I love receiving the updates every week that I get through babycenter.com to track the growth and development of the baby. So fun! It appears we're out of the fruit stage of size comparison and onto other objects. This week our little guy is the length of a standard envelope and weighs about as much as a can of soda.
I'm getting more and more excited every day for our little one to come! We sure do love him already.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Showering the Bride

Yesterday I went to my friend
Kristine's
bridal shower with Amber and Mom.
She is getting married on
February 13th
and I'm so excited for her!
She has always been a great friend and we love her.

Amber, Kristine & I