plug....

for bb....

he has a new photography blog...check out his latest stuff at....

http://www.artbybilly.com/

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on a side note...on etsy i just made the cutest new purchases for the arrival of our little one...

oh i am soooo excited!

his heart on christmas...

after opening 10 individually wrapped tootsie rolls on christmas morning i finally got to a little blue box with the following note....

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yes that's right....a high-tech, ultra secure, retna scan, dna testing lock....:) one of my favorite parts....they couldn't fit billy on the card...so a whole separate card came with the ly...

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we spent christmas 2009 with the bush bunch and we loved it...christmas eve was spent with the entire extended family and papa bush's accordion versions of every christmas song there ever was....it was quite entertaining....the whole gang got into it and everyone played their own little instruments.... bells.... drums.... you name it, oh boy, we had it...and we weren't half bad either! christmas day was quiet and spent just with the padres and siblings....the usual christmas stuff...opening presents...late breakfast, the boys playing with remote control everything...and hanging out until the evening when we went and saw the new sherlock holmes...good movie.

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billy and i feel truly blessed to be able to spend our holidays with friends and family....it helps us to remember the true meaning behind the season and makes our christmas that much more fulfilling...so merry christmas to all of our fellow bloggers and we hope you have a very happy new years too!

photo by Billy Bush

timi&leslie...

so i bought the diaper bag today....my mother in law showed me the cutest convertible diaper bags....the designer is timi&leslie...i love them...

the inside is the cutest too but it won't let me capture that image so check it out.... the bag comes with a bottle tote, a changing pad, and a dirty clothes bag and the inside is vinyl for easy cleaning...i can't wait til wednesday when my new baggy comes in!!! they have lots of other designs too so if you don't like this one you can check them all out by just googling timi&leslie...

merry christmas....

remember the meaning...

oh christmas tree....

i set up the tree ahead of schedule this year...which goes against all of my ethics...but i guess you could say the nesting kicked in and so i wanted it all set up and ready to go when i walked in the door from california....so one week before thanksgiving...up went the tree....

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i loved walking into our home from vacation and seeing all of the decorations all set up and waiting for me....but....billy and i have noticed an oddity with our tree this year....it took me 4 strands of lights to clothe our entire tree....and we noticed 3 sets are on a blinking schedule....sort of....we turn the tree on...and it randomly decides which section to let blink...sometimes it will be the bottom....sometimes the second third and sometimes just the middle....never do all three sections blink together....and it only chooses one section a day to allow this oddity to occur in....i have searched that tree...trying to locate the sole light that is allowing this atrocity to occur, to no avail....i can not locate that dumb little blinker....so every time i plug in our tree it's like it laughs at me....i sit there staring at it waiting to see which section it chose today....sometimes it likes to mess with my head and take an extra long time in between blinks...just to make me think maybe today i won my little battle with our christmas tree....and then about three hours after being plugged in....my little tree will give up its fight and stop blinking all together....the lights will shine so pretty and bright and i don't have to feel like i'm going to rip every single bulb off that tree individually....patience is the key with our tree this year....maybe next year i'll find that stupid bulb....

getting closer....

while in cali....billy and i had a little fun with the warm weather, the sunsets on the beach and my pregnant self....so fun!!

when we came home from our 70 degree home away from home it was of course snowing....and so we have been confined to light christmas shopping and finishing up the baby's room!!!! horray! here is a sneak peak...

thanks bekah for getting me to post more! :)

making up for lost blogging...

i know...i've been horrible at keeping up with things...so a warning to my readers...it's going to be a long one....

well lets go back to the bush family halloween....oh yes....that far.

The bush padres and jordan, lindsey and chaser too came down for a fun halloween weekend with us in October....they took us all to thriller and frightmares....it was loads of fun and we couldn't have been more excited for the events!

images via yahoo image search

apparently when you are 6-7 months pregnant everyone thinks it would be fun to get a family photo in...so here is the first of the families...the bush's, i tried to hide myself behind the children in each photo :)

zooming ahead a little bit to our week in cali over thanksgiving! since it will probably be our last trip out before the baby arrives my parents got together and threw me a fun baby shower! It was great...i got to see all of my family from my dad and mother's side as well as some friends from high school and college....

thanks again to all who made it out...billy and i loved seeing everyone and can't wait to share the little one with you soon!

the night before the shower...billy and i got together with my two besties to see NEW MOON...yes i said billy went too...and shhh...he secretly love it....haha.....although still a little cheasy i was much happier with this one than it's prequal....

the lovely lynzi...in halloween garb...

and whitney...beaching it up...

i love those girls....

thanksgiving weekend we went to the beach house with my daddy's side and spent our november day in 75 degrees watching the boys surf and prepping yummy food....could you ask for anything better? by far one of my favorite holiday traditions....whit and al came up to join us too and we loved having them!

family photo #2....

billy and i always love our time in cali and it's always so good to see everyone!!! love you all!

bump update....

today we had our first appointment in our third trimester...wow. so we are two thirds there which is absolutely amazing to me...and a little sad because i know this trimester will be the quickest with the holidays blazing up on us....i am sure that won't keep me from complaining every day in january though haha....

the baby is measuring a little ahead of the due date again so we will see where he lands!! everything is looking good and billy and i are sooo excited!

the boy doesn't like those ultrasounds too much anymore :) he either looks straight on or only gives us the back of his head so getting that cute profile shot is pretty much out of the question anymore....oh and the doc says the baby is head down and there is a good chance he will stay that way...please stay that way baby bush!!! :)

head on shot....his eyeball is a little freaky ya!?

belly shot at 28 weeks!

love notes...

this little story was too sweet not to share...beware...it's a tear jerker....

my little accessory....

so i was thinking the other day....that mother nature plays a dirty little trick on its moms out there....or maybe it was just me....or maybe i played the trick on myself....anyway....

when billy and i were contemplating beginning the process of becoming a family larger than two....i would see little babies and want one....not one to feed...or to change or wake up with in the night....no i just wanted one....like you want an ipod....or a new purse....i wanted a little accessory that would laugh and smile and i could dress up in the cutest little outfits and take for a walk in a cute little stroller....ya materialistic...i know....but that's how i saw it....and i honestly thought nothing of it....

then after a little while we started to say to ourselves "are we ready for that?" ...for those sleepless nights and crying little sounds, for the sudden lack of freedom that will occur....and we would say, "we can do it!"... it will be hard but we can do it....

so you might be confused at this point in time because i just went from talking about my soon to be newborn as an accessory and then to admitting that i thought about the hard parts right!? ya, here is mother nature's little trick....she prepares you slowly at first....i wanted an accessory....then i wanted a baby....i didn't look past the accessory part until we were trying....then i wanted a baby....and now here i am almost 6 months along and it has just barely dawned on me that what we asked for was not an accessory....not just a baby....but a lifetime....our lifetimes....and here we are with this little one on the way and i am just barely realizing that i have to raise this little accessory of mine!!! not just in its baby stages but all the way through....i'll have to discipline and fight with and set ground rules and worry about this little thing i thought i could just snuggle and hold for all eternity....on the first day i realized this i had a slight panic attack....i went to billy and i told him...."i thought i ordered an accessory!!!" and he just proceeded to laugh....

now i have come to the conclusion that yes...i will have to raise my accessory....yes, i will have to argue and discipline and cry with my accessory....but i am going to take this one day at a time....and enjoy my little accessory as much as i possibly can....because well, it's going to have to last me a lifetime and beyond....

and so maybe i am the only one in the whole world who felt this way....and maybe this sounds absolutely horrible to some of you....but that is how mother nature played her little trick on me....only now i have realized it wasn't really a trick....it's really a blessing that i wouldn't have had the courage to ask for if i had seen it any other way....

fall weather....

besides the freak hail storm on sunday morning...i must say i didn't mind too much our weather this weekend. bb and i went for a drive up the alpine loop on saturday while listening to conference and this is some of what we saw....

i am a little sad by the fact that it is so cold that the leaves are changing much quicker than normal :( but i am glad we took the opportunity to go see them!

photos by billy bush

we may have a soccer player on our hands....

last weekend...i was enjoying a plate of toast...the plate was plastic, resting on my baby bump and i was on my last piece when the plate jumped into the air...i guess the little one didn't like it there....he doesn't really like anything resting there....including mom's arms....it's getting tough to fold them anymore....

tid bit....

i read this quote the other day and i am pretty sure it has/is going to have, a profound impact on my life.... just a thought...

for the little one...

so i don't usually write about politics, philosophy or anything of a very serious nature on our blog...that is billy's job....but since the little one is mine i figured i could get away with this post...today we bought the little guy's first book...

those of you who know billy at all know that he can't get enough of politics/philosophy...and well i'm rather political myself so of course we would choose a child's version of ayn rand's atlas shrugged to help bring our child into the world of reading...

oh yes he did....

for my birthday billy took me shopping....and he just couldn't help but park here....

of course i threw a fit....and told him i'm not that pregnant yet....but he made me anyway!....i'm wondering now who is reaping the benefits of this situation....don't get me wrong...in the dead of winter i will love this little advantage...but until then...really? really....

really? in only two weeks...

update for you....i feel like the only thing i ever blog about anymore is my ever growing belly! haha...but that's ok because i have fun with it....so here you go....

19 weeks...........................................21 weeks

you might not see the difference...haha but i do...and it's hilarious to me how fast this little guy is growing! and a little scary being that i still have 18 weeks left to go!!!! ahhh!

on a side note....thanks to everyone who called and text and sent messages on my birthday! i am truly blessed by all of the people i have in my life! so thank you! my birthday was so fun and i was definitely spoiled!!!

billy's blog...

ok...so by popular request (amber :) ) i am highlighting billy's website...yes he has his very own website! i know, i thought i was cool with our very own blog for all to read on the internet...but once again he has one upped me and created his own website, with the help of his brother jordan of course. while on his website be sure to check out his tabs...they link to his blog, and various other things....his website has been displayed on the left side of our blog for a couple months but i do believe its time to give it the attention it deserves! so go check it out!

www.billybush.net

don't ask how he scored his own name...i have no idea....

the backyard....

our labor day excursions included a makeover on our backyard...which was very needed....it was pretty much just dead grass and dirt trails left behind from our beloved lyric....billy's padres came down for a quick weekend visit and helped us rebuild our yard! they were awesome and so hard working....i felt really bad my little pregnant self watching everyone do the hard work and heavy lifting but they were all troopers! billy has been trying to nurse our yard back to life for a couple weeks and it is doing fairly well...although probably won't be completely recovered until next year....

so the project this weekend included a flower bed, a garden area, a chiminea, some pavers and a sprinkler system! and we got a whole lot done....so a special thank you to momma and papa bush because they did an amazing job and we really appreciated all of their help....so here are some pictures of our newest updates...

the garden area....

flower bed
chiminea....we still have a lot of work to do...the garden will be planted next year and the pavers hopefully will be finished before the winter...but it just looked so nice out there tonight we couldn't help but enjoy a little bit of home cookin'....

fall weather....

does anyone else just love this wonderful, cool fall weather we have begun!? i'm looking forward to tonight...home made pizza and an artichoke enjoyed in our new backyard next to a warm chiminea fire.... mmmm end of summer beginning of fall nights....i'm lovin' it....

pictures of our new space in the back will be posted soon!

photo from allrecipes.com

go utes!

as football season sets in upon us i can't help but feel the ting of excitement in the air, the smell of chili cook offs and hot dog tailgates....we are so excited for our utes to kick butt this year!!! and i am even more excited to purchase our little guys first utah garb...because you know he'll be a ute from day one!!! go utes!!!

photo from utah.edu

he's growing....

just a tiny update for you all....we are 17 weeks along already...what!? i know! and this little boy in me is growing like crazy! this past weekend we went to idaho and that whole week prior i was dealing with a little flu bug...by thursday i was finally over running a temp but my whole body was aching pretty bad and i just kept contributing it to the flu until friday when it started feeling like little shooting pains...and then i realized my little flu bug had turned into a little growth spurt for our man...and myself! by saturday i was feeling pretty pregnant and every morning i wake up and feel like he is stretching me a bit more! so needless to say if this little rascal can stretch me out a noticeable amount in one week i'm kinda frightened to see what he will do in the next 5 months! haha so here is a little picture we took last night of all the work our little guy is doing in there....and black isn't even slimming anymore.... :) i love it!

oh and another fun update! i started feeling our little guy kick! it's been quite fun and i still have to question every time i feel it but i think i am starting to recognize it more and more! i am also feeling much better these days as far as being sick goes which is definitely very nice! so besides the aches and pains here and there and the occasional dizzy spell i am really starting to enjoy being pregnant...horray!!!!

it's a....

boy!!!! :) billy and i went into fetal photo on friday afternoon...it was amazing to see our little man again! he is getting so strong and so big!! you could see him totally stretching his little legs out and kicking up against me...needless to say i am in big trouble once i really start to feel this little guy! yikes. the tech went in from a few different angles but it was pretty undeniable that my little house guest is quite the little man! he did look a little more squished these days part of which was probably due to my full bladder and the fact that i ate about an hour before picture time. he was definitely awake though! and moving and rolling around like no other....we even got to see a couple little hiccups! so cute!

the verdict of a boy....i don't think i could have been happier....at first i won't lie i have always had my heart set on a little girly girl...but a couple of nights ago i decided to ask my little guest what it was....and all of a sudden i just got this undeniable feeling that it was a he! and in an instant a little rascal was all i wanted more than anything in the world....i even started to toss around some more boy names with billy because the feeling was just that strong...so i can't really explain how i felt when the ultrasound tech got right down in there and there he was right in front of me...undeniably a little man...i was so overwhelmed...it's truly amazing the blessings that heavenly father gives to his mommies out there....i honestly couldn't be more excited for anything else in the whole world....and billy just lights up when he talks about all of the things they will get to do together....they are going to be best buddies! and i can't wait to see them together.

here are a couple new pics of our little man...

doesn't he just look so content!? almost like he has his hands stretched back behind his head haha...oh our little man! our next ultrasound is in 4 weeks! we will be 20 weeks by then and it should be a good one! and we will get the gender confirmation from our doctor...not that it isn't obvious but hey i guess stranger things have happened! yay for little boys!

reader beware of mush...

billy planned our evening last night...and he did an amazing job!

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he wouldn't tell me where we were going....

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we ended up at snowbird...

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we took the tram to the very top peak...

and this is what we saw in every direction....

after the breath taking views we headed down to grab some dinner on the outdoor patio at the steak pit overlooking the creek...

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artichokes and fresh salmon, al fresco....yum....

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love my hubby....and its more and more apparent every day that i made the right decision with this one...we have grown together...not apart over the last three years and i am loving more and more the man that he is becoming....