Day at the Beach!

Yesterday was so beautiful here in Oregon! The sun was shining (finally) and a bunch of us girls decided to take a trip to the beach, which is only about 50 miles away. It was SO BEAUTIFUL! It was about 70 degrees and there was almost no wind, which is huge for the Oregon coast. It makes me really excited to have our baby so I can see how he loves the ocean and the sand!

Here's a pic of us girls: Stephanie (due LAST SATURDAY!), Mary-Anne, my bad self, and Melody.

Stephanie, Mary-Anne and I set out to find sea-shells, but there were a bunch of retirees with sophisticated equipment that took all the good ones! All I could find was half a sand-dollar, but I am still really excited about it!

Shower Time!

No, I'm not excited that I just took a shower, although that is one of the most exciting parts of my day. My neighbor Lauren threw me a baby shower this last month and it was such a great time! I had family and friends come, AND they brought gifts. Also, Lauren and her husband Nels made the BEST food in the whole world. If I had money and they were chefs, I would hire them to make me food every day; however, it is Wal-Mart and Winco from here forward.

Lauren actually made a diaper cake!

Of course I had to add photos of the food! It included so many different things, but what I liked the best was the endless chocolate covered strawberries. I'm pretty sure Stephanie (the other pregnant lady) and I ate them the WHOLE TIME! They were amazingly delicious.

We played the guessing game where people cut a piece of string that they think is the same size as my belly. Most people over-estimated, which I did NOT appreciate!

Mary actually got it right on the nose! She was absolutely perfect; therefore, we were able to stay friends.

All of these girls are former friends because they measured too big.

Christy is on the BLACK list because I'm pretty sure she measured double the size of my belly! I'm really trying to work on that whole forgiveness thing!

Here are some of the other girls at the shower. Don't know what I would do without the friends I have here in Salem!

Thanks so much Lauren for throwing me the perfect shower. It was such a blast - also, since you are my neighbor I am going to issue a premature apology for when/if Ethan keeps you up at night. My bad!

The Big 2-4!

So I turned 24 this past month (I know, I'm a little late), and my birthday was an absolute blast!

First, Billy surprised me with breakfast in bed - French Toast, which is one of my favorites. He also bought me flowers and was just super sweet to me the whole day.

Billy has been snoring a LOT lately, so we decided to get him some allergy medicine. Well, the kind he wants isn't sold without a prescription in Oregon because I guess you can make Meth with it! We drove to Vancouver and hung out at the Wal-Mart for a while. Sounds kind of lame, but the drive was beautiful, and we ended up having a lot of fun in Wal-Mart.

Then, he took me to the Olive Garden and treated me to a nice dinner. We love to order pasta to share, and this time was even better because we used a gift card his mom sent us! It's so much better when it's free food!

After dinner, we drove back down to Salem where I thought we'd just play games for the rest of the night. As I walked in the door, I saw tiny little legs on my kitchen floor and got super freaked out. As soon as I turned on the light, our friends yelled surprised and just about gave me a heart attack! I really do have the best friends in the world. They got together a gift basket of the cutest things, and made me the most amazing cake EVER - probably even better than my wedding cake.

I'll never forget my 24th birthday, and I'm really thankful for all my friends and husband for making it such a special day for me.