Father's Day

This month Garrett officially qualified for celebrating Father's Day. Although I've always bought Garrett a present for Father's Day as the Future Father of our children, I usually did it just because I love any excuse to surprise Garrett with a present. This year he has graduated to Expectant Father, so I decided to surprise him with something to prepare him for that role (along with the dvds I bought him). During our usually one-sided discussions about baby gear (I bet you can guess who does most of the talking), Garrett mentioned that he didn't like the Moby wraps or sling carriers because they look too "girlie." So I showed him a slew of other baby carriers, and he decided he liked the Beco in Panthers the best as a more manly but still fun baby carrier. Before Father's Day, he really enjoyed holding my cousin's little baby, and when I asked him what he was most excited to do with our baby, he said he couldn't wait to hold the baby. That was just so darn cute! So I bought him his beloved baby carrier. He's going to be such a great dad, and I can't wait for him to be able to use his present. I wish I had a picture of Garrett wearing it with one of Lanna's baby dolls in it, but I still haven't unpacked our camera so you'll have to enjoy the stock photo.

It's a BABY!

Today I had my ultrasound! I don't know what I expected to see in there, but I was completely surprised to see a baby. Last night I was thinking about all the possible horrible things they could see on the ultrasound. Maybe the baby would be missing the top of its head, or have pterodactyl wings, or be some sort of weird misshapen lump. I know those are all pretty ridiculous, but I was so relieved and surprised to see this cute busy baby in there. We have officially dubbed the baby "Bob Baby" while it is still in utero. Bob Baby was rolling around and stretching and playing with its hands and knees. It was so surreal! I am so excited.

Just to put your minds at ease (or to drive you crazy), Garrett and I did not find out the gender. We are keeping it a surprise; though if you are really intent on trying to find out, we do have the ultrasound on videotape. Feel free to stop by, watch the video and try to spot the baby's genitalia. Good luck!

Back in Bountiful

Where the people are nice and the mailmen are just a little too helpful! I've really been enjoying living back at my mom's house. My mom and I get to hang out in the evenings, and Mom's a great gym buddy. But there is one hugely annoying problem with being back in Bountiful... the mailman keeps delivering our mail to the wrong places!

As most of you know, I married my neighbor. My mom's house and Garrett's parents' house were on the same street, two houses apart. When we lived at my mom's house the first time, the mailman always delivered our mail to my in-laws house. Rather than delivering the mail to the address on the package, he would always take to my in-laws because we have the same last name.

This time the process has become much more complicated. In the past couple years several things happened: Garrett's brother and his family moved in with my mother and father-in-law, then my mother and father-in-law moved into a new house and Garrett's brother and his wife moved into another home in Bountiful. Confused yet? So was the post office. Now they are delivering our mail to Garrett's brother's house! Garrett called the post office, and I hope we don't have any more problems, but I wouldn't count on it.

The mailman wasn't the only one who messed up though. I'm sure you can imagine the expression on my face when I pulled this movie out of the package:

Mom and I thought it was pretty funny to tease Garrett about his secret love of cheesy romance novel movies. Here's the movie Garrett ordered:

If you haven't seen this movie, I would definitely recommend it. It was really freaky!