Date Night

A couple of weekends ago, we had our monthly date night with the fam! We went to Billman's and had dinner. They had karaoke and a dance floor! Talk about a super fun time!

I just love my family so much! They are seriously the best in laws that anyone could ask for :) 

Me & Eli

 Justin & Shar

Katie was the first out of all of us to get up and sing.

 Go Katie! 

You have such an amazing voice!

 Hanna and "Chris" (Sharla) singing their duet! :)

 Me and Eli doing a duet to Moulin Rouge. 

So much fun!!!

Shar and KK! Just chillin'

 Hanna & Chris

Most of the group

 Just being our crazy selves

Funny story: While we were all out on the dance floor with our hunnies, Katie goes "Eli, why are you so far away from Sav? Oh wait...her belly!!"

Haha plus there was a short joke included too...I was trying my hardest to reach around his neck. :)

 Cameron and Katie's duet to Greece.

So much fun to listen to them!

As we were walking out, some guy says, "Seriously, who brings a pregnant chick to a bar?"

Haha well I didn't know it was exactly considered a bar, and apparently Eli brings a pregnant chick to the bar!! 

We had such a great time. I definitely wouldn't mind doing this again. 

I heart date nights. <3

Update!

Last Saturday we made the move out to Iona! We didn't think that it would be until that Monday, but we are so happy that we are out here finally! We had so much help from friends and family. Moving all of our stuff and cleaning and organizing the house! I am so grateful for the people that helped us out!

It was a very long day! We started moving stuff at noon, and didn't get done until 10:30 pm. We pulled our mattress out onto the living room floor and slept there for our first night. Since then we have pretty much unpacked everything.

The yard has definitely been our favorite part so far! We brought a picnic table from our old house and also a fire pit. We build some boxes for our garden as well! Hopefully we'll be planting it sometime this week! Eli has mowed the lawn and we got the trees trimmed up! He has loved having a yard! He is always out there working on something. ;) Our dog, Barney has definitely enjoyed it out here! He does a really good job at staying in the yard. He could run out there for hours and hours!

We attended our new ward on Sunday, and we felt so welcomed! I had a great time. We are in Eli's sister's ward and are so excited about that!! Being close to family has definitely been great! We are able to visit them and spend more time with them. It will be especially great for when Remington gets here.

Last night, we had my mom and two of my sisters over to make smores for FHE! I have been craving smores, and they definitely hit the spot. There is just something about sitting down by the campfire. It makes me SO excited for camping this summer. Eli and I are also proud owners of a pop up camper from my parents! We got to set it up the other day. It is going to be so much fun!

I have been feeling an overwhelming feeling of gratitude lately to my Heavenly Father. We have been very blessed to be able to move out here in time for the baby and to be surrounded by our amazing family and familiar faces. We are so blessed to have the gospel in our life, and to have felt the spirit so strongly in our home as we strive to study and pray as a couple. I am so thankful to have had conference this month and to feel so rejuvenated to be better.

April 9th marked 1 year of Eli being home!! We celebrated by going to our favorite place, The Great Wall, and The Hunger Games. We had such a great time spending this time together. We can't even believe it's been one year!

(This is where it gets a little cheesy...) :)

Today marks 10 months that we have been married!

 I am so blessed to be married to my very best friend in the whole world. We have grown so close over the past ten months and everyday I can't imagine my life without Eli. We have had our ups and downs, but our trials have really made us stronger. I am thankful for his positive and uplifting attitude that helps me each day. When i'm feeling down and like an oompa loompa haha, Eli is there to tell me how beautiful that I am to him. I can't wait to see what else life has in store for us as we start our family. I am so thankful for the temple and to be able to be sealed to him forever.

We can't wait for Remington to be born! I have never been so excited for anything in my entire life. I am thankful that the Lord has entrusted us with one of his spirit daughters. I can't wait for this opportunity to become a mother and hold her in my arms. I especially can't wait to to see her in Eli's arms. :)

I went to the doctor today, and I might be induced next Wednesday! ONE WEEK! (Hopefully!)

I will get some pictures up of our new house very soon.

Moving? With a baby almost here?

On Monday, I had my doctor's appointment. They checked everything out, and I was already 80% thinned. She said that she is SO low, and gives me a couple of weeks max. She said that I will definitely not make it to my due date which is the 28th...CRAZY! And oh so exciting! I just can't wait to meet our baby girl. 

So you know how we get to move out to Iona? Well it couldn't have been a more perfect time for this to happen...Yes, that is a little bit sarcastic ;) 

I didn't think that this close to my due date we would be packing up our house. I had the house all ready, and I pictured just relaxing and waiting for her to come. Well, looks like that won't be the case.

We will be able to move in on Monday, so hopefully we can get semi-settled in before she is born!

No complaints though. I could not be happier to move out there. 

We have so many fun plans for the yard and house this summer.

 I can't even wait!

I never posted pictures of our house right now so I decided to take some before I started packing up. 

Don't mind the mess in some of the rooms... :) 

Our living room

This is what you see when you first walk in.

Kitchen

Bathroom

Baby Room.

BTW...Eli made the curtains. Don't be jealous of my amazing hubby anyone! 

Our room...

ooo probably should've made the bed haha.

Eli stuck his Batman up there...

Weirdo...

Anyways there was our first apartment together. We have had amazing memories here and have liked living here! It has been nice to be close to town, but we can't wait to be back out int he country!

Spring Fever!

We have definitely had our dose of spring fever these last couple of weeks! We love taking Barney to the park and getting out in the fresh air. We drove over to Tautphaus Park and spent some time throwing the frisbee and walking around in the sunshine! 

He's such a good dog!

Eli and Barney playing fetch.

Me and my Love

I love when we have visitors! Olivia came and spent the night at our house, and we had a blast! We played scrabble and farkle, she helped me do some grocery shopping, BBQ, and me her and Eli went and saw "Lady in Black" at the theater!

We have also had some really fun game nights with friends! One night we went to our friends, Karly and Wade's and played Kings Crown...I think that's what it's called? And had a great visit with them!

Josh and Katie Kunde have been over for BBQ-ing and Settlers of Catan. Might I add that I actually won once when we played. I was so proud :)

Here is my 36 week picture!

We are starting the 4 week countdown and we could not be more excited!

I have stopped working now and I am just waiting for my baby girl to get here! We are all the way ready...well I guess as ready as we can be since we are new to parenthood :)

We found out some GREAT news as well... we're moving!!!

Yay!! I am so happy! We get to move out to a house in Iona that has a much bigger yard so that Barney can have plenty of room to run around without our anal neighbor on our case! We will be out there in a couple of weeks and we are going to put a garden in too! 

We can't wait to be out in the country again and close to our families.

 We have loved this little apartment. We have made so many memories here and have loved being so close to town. (Although, I go to the D.I. basically everyday which makes the chance of me spending money much greater ;) So maybe this will be good for me Eli thinks! 

I better start packing. Anyone have any boxes? We have wayyy too much stuff for a couple that has only been married 10 months haha! 

Maybe packing  is how I will put myself in to labor?? :)

BBQ!!

Since the weather has been fairly nice this week, we decided to have our first cookout of the year! We have this awesome grill (thanks to Sharla and Justin) that we finally got to use!

Since the weather has been so nice, we also cleaned up our yard and cleaned out our cars!

It looks so much better. I love doing yard work, but it was not as easy this time haha.

Here is my cute hubby starting it up and putting the delicious steaks on.

Here is our dog, Barney. He is such a good dog, and he is so spoiled!

Me and my love.

Excuse the undid hair and no make up.

It was one of those days :)

But he still looks cute!

Here are our DELISH steaks all seasoned and cookin'!

Eli was an excellent chef, and they seriously turned out SO good!

We have a small firepit in front of our house and so we decided to light it up and eat out side by it.

Barney loves sticks. He is always trying to carry them into the house with him.

Eli was trying to make a pile for our fire, but barney kept stealing every single one that he set down.

Our fire "pit" :)

Yummy baked potatoes and steak!

We sat out by the fire and had a good talk for a while.

I love nights like these with my hubby. I can't wait for the many more to come this summer when we will have Remington with us as well!

6 1/2 weeks! :)

Tough Day!

Well...Today was a really tough day to say the least. We got another dog back in December and her name is Isis! She was only 6 weeks old when we got her, and so our days have basically consisted of potty training...
Anyways, with the new baby coming and two dogs, me and Eli just knew that we needed to make a sacrifice and find our puppy a new home. We have had multiple conversations the past couple of weeks about getting rid of a dog, but we would always talk ourselves out of it. Finally, last night I posted the ad on Craigslist :'(
This morning at 7 am we got a text and call from a family that really really wanted her. (I mean who wouldn't!? Cutest puppy ever!) I started bawling while Eli was on the phone and made him get off and tell the person he would call them back. I did NOT want to do it! But Eli is really strong and even though he was sad, he called the guy back and we decided to meet. We said our goodbyes and I cried SO hard.
This family has a couple of kids and two other dogs. They have a huge yard and offered to keep us updated on her. He even said we could visit her if we would like. (Hmmm I don't know if I could do that. I might wanna snatch her up and hide her in my car..)
I know that even though this was a really hard decision, it was the right one. We thought we would be into a house by now with enough room for two dogs, but things didn't quite work out that way. With a baby on the way, I know that 2 dogs and a newborn would be super stressful!
I am so glad that we were able to give her a home for a short time and I hope that she loves her new home and is well taken care of.

Sorry this post might be really silly to some of you, but I have always had such a tender heart when it comes to animals. I just had to let out my feelings!

I have finally stopped crying now that my eyes are totally bloodshot! And I try and smile whenever I think of my cute baby puppy Isis.

Good thing I have Eli to help me :)

Goodnight.

Happy Day of Love.

It was so good to FINALLY have Eli with me on Valentines Day this year.

He took me to lunch at Rumbi on his break and it was YUMMY!

When he got home from work, he made me leave so that he could set up his surprise :)

So of course I ventured over to the D.I.

SO glad I went, because I found another big dog kennel for Isis for only $6! Score!!

Anyways...I came home to a clean house and music playing.

This sign was on our bedroom door...

I walked in to find our room...

HEART ATTACKED! <3

Eli cut out all the hearts when he had some spare time at work the day before.

They were all over our bed...

All over our dressers...

And all over the floor...

He also left a sweet love note and a certificate for dinner, a movie, and a massage!

We had pizza, watched a batman movie (of course ;)) and played monopoly! (I got schooled btw.)

Such a great, relaxing day with my hubby. Just what we needed!

<3