Valentine's 2012

Valentine's Day was so much fun! Although it really wasn't fun until I got off of work. I had PARENT/TEACHER conferences that night. I don't mind meeting with the parents, but staying at work for 12 hours is not my idea of fun OR relaxing, especially being 8 months pregnant.

That morning, so Spencer would have something to keep him in the Valentines spirit until I got home, I decorated the bathroom with hearts and wrote on the bathroom mirror. He woke up he texted me and said "Happy V-Day. Thanks for the surprise it was really cute!"

I endured the long day of work, being overly tired and SO ready to be home. On the way home I called Spencer and he pretended like he was doing nothing, just playing games on the I-POD. He was like "so what are we doing tonight...what do you want for dinner?" And I was like "I'm not that hungry, and you said you were going to have the evening planned." So he had me all worried that we were going to have a boring Valentine's night (the little stinker). He called me up later on my way home and told me he had fibbed.

When I got home I was completely surprised with a beautifully clean house, dinner completly prepared, and flowers and a cute Valentine's card all prepared on the table. There were even candles lit! My, what a guy. I came prepared with some Martinelli's, chocolates, caramel cadbury eggs (his favorite) and a home made Valentine's card I had made the day before. It was a great night!

On the menu: New York Steak, diced potatoes, salad, pineapple, and Marvin Joe's. It was the best dinner Spencer had made in a really long time. And it tasted so delicious!

After dinner we opened up gifts and headed off to Blockbuster to rent a movie. We ended up getting Soul Surfer and Wall Street. We were pretty tired that night so we didn't even finish the movie. It was such retty relaxing and romantic evening. Valentine's day is so much fun, even if you can only celebrate it for a few short hours.  

Thanks Spencer for a great night and for the wonderful meal. You are a true star!

He Got In!

That's right, Spencer Brad Bagley got accepted into BYU! I am so proud of him and we are both very excited and feel so blessed. He starts Fall 2012 and will be studying Civil Engineering. It was so hard waiting every day to find out, but it was well worth the wait.

Say goodbye to UVU and hello Brigham Young!

Now all those cute BYU baby clothes I have will actually be legitimate now!

(If only Jimmer were still there).

St. George

Ok, so this is probably the most random thing we have ever done together. On February 3rd (Friday afternoon) Spencer and I had just gotten off of work and school, and as soon as I came home he said "let's go do something!" So I said "ok, let's go!" We often get out of the house not knowing what we are going to do, but usually end up doing something pretty fun. I was still wearing my PE teaching clothes and didn't even bother changing as I thought we'd be back home soon. So we started heading South on I-15 and made it all the way to Provo where Spencer pulled off to show me some of the construction work he had been doing on a trailer park last summer.

As we were driving down he said "want to go to St. George?" I was like "yeah, let's go!" Not really thinking he was serious or that we'd really go. We had talked about going for Lincoln's holiday in a couple weeks, but the house we could stay in was going to be reserved. We knew this weekend it was free. So as we started to get back on the freeway to head wherever we were going to go, Spencer asked one last time "do you want to go to St. George?" And at the last second when he was about to head back North I said "yes, let's do it!" So he began driving South. I couldn't believe we were actually doing it. Reality set in and we soon realized we had NOTHING PACKED, nothing was planned, but we had nothing to do for the next 36 hours so we took off and let me tell you it felt really nice to do something spontaneous.

The drive down was so much fun. We talked A LOT and listened to some fun music. We arrived at 8:30pm and ate some quick dinner. We were pretty tired and popped in a movie "The Holiday" with Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet which was pretty cute! The night quickly wound down and we hit the sack at about midnight. We woke up the next morning at 8:30am and Spencer surprised me with some breakfast as I showered and did laundry since I had NO change of clothes lol. After breakfast we headed over to Tuacahn, a huge outdoor musical theatre. We have yet to attend a show there but we like to visit it and hang out (plus we needed an ATM to have money to get into Snow Canyon). They will be showing "Aladdin" this summer, so as you can see Spencer will be the genie and I will be playing Jasmine. You should come, we are great actors.

After Tuacahn we went on a short hike to Snow Canyon and took in as much of the scenery as possible. I LOVE St. George! It is so beautiful. The red rock is magical in my eyes. I ran my marathon in 2010 right down Snow Canyon so we drove part of that route back to the house. It was cool re-living the run and remembering certain parts of the race. I still can't believe I ever ran a marathon. Thinking about running 3 miles right now would be so hard! I can't wait to be able to run long distances again.  

My map navigator. Nice face Spence.

As soon as we got into the park he turned into a climbing monkey! I have a video of him climbing up a rock wall. He is pretty adventurous and that's why I love him!

Love the geologic formations down South.

Happy warm Saturday! The weather was so nice. I loved not having to wear a jacket! I am 30 weeks here.

Later that day we went to Texas Roadhouse (our favorite restaurant) and stuffed ourselves silly. We then went back to the house, watched ANOTHER movie, and then crashed for 3 hours. Boy were we tired! When we woke up we went out to Baskin Robbins and stuffed ourselves again. There should be no rules on vacation about how much you eat or sleep I say! We came back to the house and watched ANOTHER movie! It's amazing how lazy you can be in just ONE day. Haha.

 It was such a fun trip and I wouldn't trade it for anything. We stayed one more night and then headed back the next morning (early) to make it back to our ward. Spencer drove the whole way while I tried to sleep and we made it home by noon. What a fast, fun, and fabulous trip! We hope to make it down again before the baby comes. Viva la vida baby!

BYU Basketball

This season Spencer and I have been lucky enough to see a couple BYU Men's and Women's Basketball games. The first one was against Loyola Marymount. We lost 68-82 but it was still a lot of fun to watch. We randomly got to see Chelsea, Jed, and Andrew during half time which was a real treat! They even gave us their half time snacks.

Spencer has become such a big BYU fan over the past two years, which is pretty unbelievable since he used to be anti-BYU everything when I first met him. Oh the power of the Cougar!

Funny story with this picture. We kept trying to get a good angle of us (above) so we took a ton of pictures. Finally this lady came up to us and said "here, let me take a picture for you." So she got this much better picture angle of us (below) with the court in the background where we are not so close up. Sometimes it doesn't hurt to ask for help! Thanks random lady :)

The second game we went to was on a Thursday night. I surprised Spencer for our date night and he loved it! We watched the women's team play against Gonzaga and they tore them apart. We had so much fun even though it was the girls team. They are actually really good and pretty fun to watch. Go Noble Steed! (the point guard)

I have always wanted to share my love of BYU with my husband. I always enjoyed going to all the sporting events when I attended school there and I'm so glad Spencer can share that with me now. We are still waiting to hear if Spencer has gotten into BYU or not. It has been really hard waiting! I am hoping he gets in, but if not, I'm sure the Lord will have other great plans for our family. Either way, I know Spencer will be successful with whatever he does in his life. He is a hard worker and will excel at any university. I am just glad he is leaving UVU since so many of the classes there are pretty much impossible to get into because of the increasing student body.

Hopefully we can get to a couple more games this year. Go BYU!!

Oakland Temple

During my trip home this past Thanksgiving my family and I visited the Oakland Temple the night they turned on the lights for the very first time of the season! I forgot to post these in my Christmas/Thanksgiving blog post. I have always loved the Oakland Temple as it is the first temple I ever did baptisms for the dead. I always thought I would get married there, but turns out I had other plans. I have seen several people get married here (my brother, Trevor and Katelyn, Sherry and Robert, and I think it is one of the most beautiful temples there is. We walked around for about 30 minutes and then headed to the Christmas Music show, which was incredible! This was also Spencer's first time visiting this temple, since his mission was the Fresno mission and he would always attend the Fresno temple. We had a great time and I am really glad we were able to visit the temple this year.

My cute nieces Kate, Lily, and Lainey

So beautiful lit up at night! 

You know you're in California when...

My mom, me, and Katie. Not pictured: Dustin, Laura, Travis, Bryan



Baby Update

I am officially 32 weeks, only 8 more to go! And in two days I'll be 33 weeks. I can't believe how fast the 3rd trimester has been going. I have been very anxious lately about the baby coming, but I'm also trying to enjoy it as well. I have had a lot of heart burn this past week, and it makes me very uncomfortable, but I have also had some relief the past two days. So far I have really enjoyed being pregnant. I love the fact that I am growing another human being inside my body and that one day, I get to meet her and feel her and watch her grow. It is the most incredible experience being able to create life. I love it! And to be able to share that with my husband has made it all that more special. We have decided on a name, but it's not for sure yet until she's born so we are keeping it under wraps for now. Spencer says the name reminds him of everything that is beautiful. I have been trying to keep up on taking weekly photos, but I'm sure I have missed a few weeks.

A lot has happened since school has started, but at the same time, not much has really happened either! I am still teaching full time, with a sore back and all. The hardest part about being pregnant so far is my sore lower back. It has become so debilitating that I often times have a hard time walking and going up and down stairs. After a long day of teaching, and being active with my students (as much as I can), I come home and have to lay down for an hour just to rest my muscles. I usually take a nap after work just so I can get rejuvenated for the rest of the evening. This past week we had parent teacher conferences and I was SO tired from it, and Valentine's day being the same night, that on my day off today I slept until 10am! It felt so nice to not wake up at 6am. I love the weekends! It is so nice to rest and get caught up on sleep. I have been counting down the days until the baby is born. I only have like 28 days left of teaching, and 50 more days until my due date.

My mom bought a plane ticket to come out a week before the baby is born! I am so excited to have her come. It will be a big help I am sure, since she is so good with kids. Seeing her with my brothers kids has only taught me positive things about mom's super ability to take care of grand kids. I have also signed Spencer and I up for a birthing class at the Central Utah Women's Clinic in American Fork. I wanted to get familiar with the birthing process, the hospital, different breathing techniques, etc., so I thought it would be a good idea to take a class. We start our first one on Thursday! I hope it will be helpful and alleviate any fears I have about giving birth. I want to do natural child birth, but I'm also open to an epidural if I really feel like I need one. Hopefully the class I attend will push me in making the right decision for me.

We have started putting the baby room together and I am getting really excited! We have been painting our dressers and they look really nice so far. There are a few more things we need to purchase before the baby arrives, but I'm not too worried as we can always buy things as we see needed. One thing I did buy that I really love is a Petunia Pickle Bottom diaper bag (Indian Summer). I bought it really cheap off of E-Bay. Thanks Chelsea for introducing me to those bags! I am really excited to use it in just a few short weeks. I have a ton of cute baby clothes already. It is so much fun shopping for a baby girl! There are so many cute things out there. I usually get all the clothes for a really cheap price at Sears Grand or from Kid to Kid. So much of their stuff is barely used and in great condition. I am also really looking forward to my baby showers that will happen in March. I am going to have a friends shower, and a family shower. I feel so blessed to have people willing to throw me a shower.

My doctor appointments have all been going smoothly. I took the blood glucose test and everthing came back normal. The midwife says her head is in the right position so unless she decides to move, there won't be any C-Sections (cross my fingers)! I love hearing the heart beat of our little baby girl. She is very active mostly in the evenings right before I go to sleep and I feel her periodically throughout the day. She sits mostly on the right side of my body and has no problem kicking my ribs :) Last night I had a dream that she was already born but I had no memory of her even coming out! She looked so precious and I loved her so much. It still seems like so far away until she gets here. But 7 weeks really isn't that long, right? I'm sure she will be here before I know it.

Here are some pregnancy pictures that we have taken. Some of them are good, others, well, you can be the judge. I feel rather big in a lot of these pictures, but that's all part of the process, right?

28 Weeks

29 Weeks

30 Weeks

32 Weeks (Valentine's Day!)

More updates to come! Thanks for reading. Comments are welcomed!