Nursery time!

Luckily for us we have a spare room in our apartment which allows for the little one to have her own room.. Mostly.. Some of Kris's stuff will still be in there, but can't complain because he so willingly gave up the bedroom closet for me:)

The bedding:

 

We are choosing do things a little different. We are doing white crib with a couple other different aspects. We are getting help from my friends who are way better at decorating than myself and of course there are a lot of DIY projects on the way.

 

One picture that we love for direction is:

 

My amazing sister in law Jade is superrr crafty so last night we put together some cute onesies and now that we got one our demo done we ae planning on making more cute ones. Yay for crafty family members!

 

This week :) :(

This week has been bitter sweet. Like I had mentioned in an earlier post my better half would be leaving me for a week to go soak up the rays in Mexico. Well..... it turned out it is a lot harder than I was expecting. Given its only 8 days and I know some people go months and even years without seeing their loved one (definately not my thing and happy to know I will never have to do that), but I have gained such a greater appreciation for everything that Kris does while he is home.

He :

-greets me whenever I walk in with a big kiss
-listens to me whine when I don't feel good and goes out of his way to find something that will help
-watch my ridiculous shows with me and actually begin to like them
-go with me on late night food runs
-listen to me vent when something doesn't go my way
-cuddle me at night when I am cold and can't warm up
-hold my hand when I sleep so I know that he is by my side
-run errands with me
-vacuums (this became a big deal this week on account of I found like two baby spiders galavanting on our carpet)
-eats my meals even when they don't turn out good
-will drive me to my destination when I don't feel like driving
-at the end of his long day tell me everything that happened (yes, I love hearing all the little details about his day)
-lets me ramble on about all the little things I want to get for our baby
-listens to my worries and reassures me that we are going to be just fine.. not fine. GREAT!
-Does little gestures with his nephew that make me see how amazing of a dad he is going to be to our munchkin
-will let me be my stubborn self and usually cave first on things

Needless to say I miss him and am only three nights away from having him by my side again!

On another note I have gotten A LOT done this week. I have been with Jade almost everyday running errands and having a blast going on adventures. We are going on a shopping date tomorrow to get some new fall clothes:) I got some of our wedding pictures printed so now every time we walk in our cute little apartment we will get to think back to our special day. One of my best friends and her hubby have been helping me redo some of our apartment. I have became obsessed with spray painting! (I wear a mask so baby anderson won't have three fingers, but if he/she did I would love those three little fingers:) ). I have been cleaning, scrubbing, and washing. On saturday I plan on taking the day off and spending some time with my family watching the Utah game:) Then Sunday I get to pick up kristoffer blaine! All in all a bitter/sweet week, but thanks to my amazing friends and family it has been a fun one:)

Baby update: We go in three weeks to find out the gender and as of monday I will be four months! Time is flying with this pregnancy and I am getting so excited for the day I get to hold my munchkin in my arms. Both grandmas are counting down too:)

Emotional.

Forgot to add in the last post. Anything can make me cry these days. Up to date I have cried over a million different songs, tv shows (greys anatomy, up all night, and the biggeset loser), kris smirking at my pot belly, flowers sitting on the table, a clean apartment, going on a drive.... and anything else that has any sort of sentimental feeling to it. Kris deserves an award to handle my up and down moods, but thats what they are there for:)

First trimester.... CHECK!!!

You were great.... but not that great!

  The first trimester consisted of.....

-The biggest part. Finding out our blessing in disguise when the test came back positive:)
-After a couple weeks of panic/shock realizing it is a blessing
-Getting to announce it to our friends and family
-Seeing the little lima bean sized baby on the ultrasound and hearing the heartbeat
-Realizing that humans can at times have a better sense of smell than dogs
-The bathroom floor isn't that bad of a place to hangout
-Smelly candles. No scent will smell good to a pregnant woman after more than an hour (50 dollars later)
-My husbands nose can take ALOT.
-Pregnancy glow. HUGE myth. I have broke out too many times to count worse than my middle school days. I have a happy trail that is comparable to Kris's. I shave and the hair grows back in a day. Skin is blotchy.
-Being called a drunk teenager when I had to throw up in a garbage can in a hotel lobby because the bathroom was out of my reach.
-My dads pot belly and mine are starting to look very similar
-Some days are just better spent in bed doing nothing

It was an exciting 13 weeks, but was very ready to be on to the next one. So far.. a week into the second I have been plagued with headaches. Also, doesn't help I may or may not be addicted to Dr.Pepper and am really trying to go off of it. The doctors advice for headaches. Drink a coke and take a tylenol (the only medication approved for pregnancy). Sooooo that backfired, but oh well:) I can feel my belly growing over night. I have yet to purchase fat pants so if you see in the next couple weeks and notice my pants are unbuttoned (possibly unzipped) don't judge. I will try to post a pic of the baby bump soon:)

Other updates from this wonderful time of year:
-gardner village with jade and cars
-hot chocolate from maverik
-attempting to steal marshmallows from maverik
-pom pom tutorial
-Spending lots of time with family and loving every second of it
-getting to wear my boots and leggings (heaven sent)
-frantically putting together a surprise party with my sister in laws
-missing my husband daily because he is such a hardworker and dedicated student
-still getting ideas for our apartment, but now waiting to get the funds to do them
-getting so excited to find out the gender in a month
-finding great deals at old navy (who would have thought)
-realizing that sometimes eating out is cheaper than actually cooking
-already getting excited to decorate a christmas tree
-planning a trip to the corn maze
-learning how to use pinterest to get cute nursery ideas
-**and the  most exciting one.. I start water aerobics on tuesday with another prego friend. It will be an adventure in itself due to the fact I am an awful swimmer. Get winded walking up stairs (not due to the baby, but I am JUST that out of shape), and cant go underwater without plugging my nose. On the hunt for a good looking one piece or tankini so any suggestions let me know!

Well.... that is it for now! Going shopping with Jade this week sometime and will finally be able to breathe when sitting down in some nice stretchy band waist pants. If they are comfy enough I may just wear them after too:)  Will post a picture soon when the bump gets a little bigger;)
Also, for my friends who have style and can actually put clothes together and make them look cute. Please help me to look as cute as this girl when I am big bellied...http://www.thedaybookblog.com/. I am obsessed with her clothes and she makes them look better than people who are not 35 pounds overweight!

Happy Weekend! Looking forward to family time. Dreading sending my hubby off on a cruise for a week. Bitter sweet weekend, but know he will have a blast and hopefully bring back a souvenir;) See ya!

Baby Anderson:)

Baby Anderson at 9 1/2 weeks!:)
Estimated Due Date: April 11

Surprises!

Life is known to throw you curve balls. When it does these days I usually learn that it's for the better. I like to plan, but when 99% of my life plans don't work out the way I plan them I am understanding it's for a reason. So far the man above hasn't led me astray so I will trust him on this one too;)
For example:
My life plan: do gymnastics in college. His plan: quit gymnastics and do cheerleading and led me to have a fun high school experience and stay close with my best friends
My life plan: med school. His plan: Go to the U of U and switch your major three times and end up majoring in exercise and sport science
My life plan: move out when I was 18. His plan: move out for the first time when I got married
My life plan: not get married until after I graduated. His plan: Meet the man of my dreams and get married in 8 months and never look back. (I especially like this plan of his:) )
Sooo....... With this next upcoming surprise I have a feeling it will work out just fine:) I actually couldn't be more excited!

Wedding Pictures!

Here is picture overload from our very special day thanks to our wonderful parents! They were so amazing in planning everything and getting it ready:)

The #1 man in my life before my husband came along

*My best friend *

My parent-in-laws:)

The best friends since fourth grade!

*Me and my better half*

My Sista:)

........ and then our life begun together:)

Here's to the endless possibilities

So. Due to my lovely job downtown I almost always get stuck in 5:00 rush hour. Pros: thinking time. People watching. Tanning my arms out the window. Cons: I hate traffic. Awful drivers don't do good in high risk situations. I am terrified of switching lanes during a busy time so I find myself in the slow lane 90% of my drive.
Thinking time: My thinking time on my drives usually consists of what me and the Mr. will be eating for dinner, what I want to wear the next day, good music, things to do on the weekend, and randomly will get these big ideas in my head and run with it.
For example: My thoughts yesterday driving home. I always have said I would love to go to med school and become a surgeon or go into oncology. Up until tuesday they were just thoughts that have gone in and out of  my head. Tuesday because there was an accident and I was stuck for about an hour.Sooo...... tuesday I actually put together mine and kris's life with me in med school, he goes into commodities, and we live back east, and have a cute little home in the suburbs of a big city. He works in a big building and I run in the city. Literally googled houses on craigslist for new york and chicago late that night. Thought of a timeline for how this could happen. I was confident in my ability to take the classes and not actually just take them but be excited to study (rare occasion). I was so determined and giddy about the fact that me and kris are so young and that we really have the ability to choose how we want to live our life. Ever since I was younger I always wanted to be different and never wanted to just brush by through life not living it and just simply getting by. Not my style. I have always wanted to be the best at what I do. Experience new things. Push myself to achieve my goals. This post is really random and not really relevant to anything but since its my blog I can vent and share. Kind of like my journal, but at this time don't have one so sorry.  Going back to my daydream. Marriage was a term I never thought I would use until I was thirty. Really. I never wanted to rely on somebody else. I was taught to carry my own and do the best with what you have. Well I don't handle change well but  Kris changed my world around and I am so grateful for it. I am aware I bring up him a lot but well its OUR life now and he is in my every thought about the future. So of course I told my other half about my vision. Not only did he not even laugh at me or shoot it to the crapper within the first 30 seconds. He smiled and said "why not". Why couldn't I go to med school? Why couldn't we move somewhere and have an adventure of our own before settling down? I had no answer. That actually could be our reality one day..I love him and honestly couldn't have asked for a better husband who knows me inside and out. I am grateful for my parents for raising me to never doubt myself and making me know that there is nothing that couldn't be reality as long as I am willing to work for it. Now I just have someone else working with me!:)My life may never take me back east or to med school or on any crazy adventures, but the fact that I know WE COULD makes me smile:) Fact about me: I don't like being told I can't do something or that it's not possible. So someone please tell me that we could never move. I would love the challenge:) Random post, but oh well:)

Got wedding pics back and will sort through and post my favs!

*JLA*

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have some power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

- Louisa May Alcott

Shout out

Kristoffer Blaine Anderson

This is a shout out to my wonderful husband. He is smart, funny, hardworking, stubborn, sarcastic, sweet, emotional (at the right times), sincere, thoughtful, goofy, not very good at impressions but makes me laugh when he does them, a taxi driver to me on the weekends, my future kids father, shoulder to cry on, chef, takes care of me when I am sick, adventurous, and most of all..... he is mine. We met in august. Engaged in February. Married in April. We moved fast and I wouldn't have changed a thing. I knew I wanted to marry him about after a month of dating. Creepy I am aware. I get excited everyday going home from work because I get to see him. A text that is from him makes me smile. Our new favorite thing to do is shoot hoops and my new life long goal is to beat him. I love him and it just keeps growing. I am so excited to see what our future holds:)

Out of my control.

1'st John 3:18

"Let us not love with words or tongues but with actions and in truth".

Birthdayyyyy

So. As I have stated before my birthday is one week away and I am sooooo excited. I really don't know why because it's not like it changes anything but just to be 21 will make me happy:) These days I find so many cute things I want or clothes, but I don't like to shop anymore. I just feel like there are soooo many other things that me and kris need or that money we could spend together. So therefore my birthday list consists of:
1-New clothes


2- Fun Jewelry ( I want turqoise jewelry sooo bad!)

3- New bed comforter with cute pillows



4- New home decorations ( I want cute pillows for our couch sooo super bad that are bright colors)


5- Perfume

6- Workout clothes

7- and last but not least..... an entire day with my other half without him having to work!!!

New blog design

I would really like a new blog design, but am really not tech savvy. If anyone wants to explain how I would appreciate it!:)

Here are a few wedding pictures that my friend's mom took! We should be getting the rest back shortly..

 Both sets of our parents

 My lovely parents

 Cake that we never got to eat

Slow dancing:) Wasn't a fan of people watching so glad it only happens once, but I loved it!

Going...going....gone...

That is my summer in a nutshell. It will have came and gone all before me and the hubs had a chance to soak it in. I atleast get to see some daylight from my cubicle and am often off work in time to sit in the rays, but the poor mr. is always working. So. I am thinking of a way that we will be able to just take off somewhere warm for a couple days. I am leaning towards vegas. I turn the big 21 in a couple weeks and am just dyin to finally go see thunder down under. Joking. But knowing the opportunity is available to me tickles me. Love it. So vegas????? Shopping... sun... pool....Yes:)

We have been staying up superrrr late because nights seem to be the only time we get to just relax with each other so mornings are becoming that much harder for me. Never will be a morning person. I try but fail 99% of the time. Sooooo... I decided to set some goals that include waking up at least 3 days a week before 8:30.

Goals:
1. Pass my summer classes with good grades (a b+ of better)
2. Cook dinner more than once a week
3. Try a new recipe once a week
4. Keep in touch with all of my girl friends. Seriously. Girls nights are still needed even after marriage.
5. Plan random little things to surprise the hubs and remind him how much I appreciate everything he does
6. Start volunteering somewhere to help others
7. Improve my golf swing (which right now is starting from scratch. Getting the ball in the air would be a more realistic goal)
8. Get more hours at work
9. Go to Seven Peaks at least once
10. Develop a tan instead or repetitive burning
and...... Keep reminding myself how lucky I am to have all of the things I do:)

Wonderful week ahead:)

Garage Saling!

Yep. Not sure its a word, but it just became one. Garage Saling. This summer I will be going out saturday mornings and looking for anything that I could possibly redo into something miraculous. Even if I just start a collection now and do the renovations later... well its a start. For example:





Pillows. I want super cute pillows in our place. I love them! Birthday is just around the corner and they are definately near the top of my list.

Love

Favorite quote of they day. "If I didn't love him. I'd hate him"

Love this because Kris will say something that just drives me through the roof, but then about five minutes later I will look up and see him doing the dishes or he'll grab me and wrap me up in his arms, take me on a drive to nowhere just to be together, grab my hand randomly, or just say I love you out of nowhere. So if I didn't have so many reasons to love the boy, I would probably dislike him. Married life is going great. Keeping busy with school and work and spending any free time I get with the Mr. He has been super busy with work. Another thing to add to the list of reasons why I love him. He is the hardest worker I know. By far. Last week he worked on an infomercial with his friend Russel. He LOVED it. Who knows? Maybe one day my superstar will be doing that for his job. Over the weekend we went camping and needless to say it was very different from my "normal" camping. The rents have always had a camper or a trailer so my camping consists of watching a dvd before bed and popping popcorn. This camping was very much different as we slept on gravel. I did love sleeping next to my love listening to nature and roasting smores. All of the legit camping spots were taken so we improvised and turned a gravel patch with a fire pit into our own:) By far better than the real ones! This week we are both finalizing our fall schedules. We will both be very very busy which is okay. I keep reminding myself all of our hardwork will pay off:) So keep the busy, long, boring, hard days coming!

Apartment.
This is a weekly debate at home. I am having such a hard time not being able to decorate it just how I want and do everything, but I am slowly adapting to Kris's philosophy. It is temporary so there is not point in spending a lot of money on it when we can use it for other things at the time being. So I just have to keep reminding myself that one day I will have my home with painted walls and hanging decorations everywhere, a big big clock, a fancy mirror, and last but not least. A happy laundary room. I feel like launday is an awful but necessary chore. It is worse when you are cramped in a small space and that room is dark and just blah. So when I am doing laundary in the future for my hubs and future kidlits I will be doing it in a large, open, bright, designed laudary room:) I realize that I could fill our empty walls with some things if I get crafty. 1st problem. I am not very crafty. 2nd problem. Every time I get an idea I slowly realize that my time gets taken over with school. 3rd problem. I would so much rather spend what little time me and kris have alone not doing crafts, but just simply being with him. So another in the future goal: put all the craft ideas I find on the internet to real life in my own living space.

Happy Tuesday and I really will try to post pics asap of the honeymoon ! Also, we got our wedding pics back and can't wait to look at them:)

Marriage Update

It has been four days of being married. This is my update:

I smile every time I see the ring on his finger because I know he is all mine and for forever :)
I am always cold and he is the perfect heater
Baths. Best natural stress reliever.
He tears the sheets off the bed. All while he is asleep.
Grocery shopping. He's a sucker for deals and I am a sucker for the brand names.
We sometimes wake up holding hands .
A kiss in the morning from your best friend may be the best way to start the day.
Sitting on the floor when you don't have a couch is actually fun.
I get the butterflies when he refers to me as his wife.
Coming home after work has a whole new meaning.
Cooking is easy because my man is way too sweet to ever complain.

Love
Mrs. Kristoffer Anderson
xoxo

Family Reunion

We have not seen my sister in over a year. She and her husband live in germany and have had to wait on the government to get an airplane ticket home for the wedding. Well... she got it and will be here in one week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO excited! It will be the first time Kris and her will meet:) We are two weeks away and life just keeps getting busier. A good busy though. I have now decided that I despise picture taking. Some people live for the camera and getting all dolled up. I am not that person. I prefer my jeans and a t shirt and little to no makeup. Definately was not the case for my bridals. Our photographer is amazing, but I just felt like a pageant queen. No bueno. Oh well. My second shower is tonight and am so excited to see old neighbors. The family shower went wonderful and we got a lot of kitchen supplies.... Crock pot, cookies sheets, an iron, a blender, food, gift cards... and much more!:)

Mother nature may or may not be on drugs... just sayin. I don't know anywhere else where it goes from sunny and 70 degrees to storms left and right and snow storm. Oh well. I will embrace the snow and take it as that much longer I can cuddle up by the fire!

*Life*

I am not sure anybody even reads this, but thats okay:) It's a good place to vent. I am starting to get the picture that life never slows down. I keep asking myself when will I have time like I did when I was younger to just go outside and soak in the weather (not currently because utah loves the snow. even when its supposed to be spring), hang out with friends whenever, take random shopping sprees and not worry about bills, plan vacations and just take off, and..... SLEEP IN. I think about summer and think how it's just going to be as busy as the fall or spring. Same routine. School and work. I realize now though that even though I will be on the go and have sleepless  nights and early mornings.. its okay:) I get to be on the go and have sleepless nights and early mornings all with my best friend by my side! Moving on...

Apartment. We finally found our apartment! I don't think I have ever been so excited! It is such a relief to know that we can stay in south jordan by our family and friends. The carpet is teal... eek. I have already decided that our apartment for the first while will be like a rainbow because we will have all sorts of colors throughout, but rainbows always make me smile so if I smile every time I walk in the door I will be A okay with it:) We have been furniture shopping and all of that jazz. I never knew how expensive things were, but luckily we were able to get everything we need. I will post pics of the new place as soon as I can.

Honeymoon.
No words can explain how excited I am for our honeymoon! My sweet sweet husband-to-be gave in and agreed to go to Harry Potter world for a day in orlando! What a gem. I can NOT wait to go be a nerd for a day. At the top I talked about being a kid again and for that whole day I will be going crazy like a kid. I plan on drinking butterbeer, playing quidditch on the ride, and definately purcahsing a wand! Yep. Love it. Love the books even though once the pages hit over a 1000 I gave up and turned to the movies. I blame my generation but oh well. Got the job done nicely:) ALso, we will be going on a cruise to the bahamas. I got very spoiled!



Crafts

I have found a new passion for crafts. Finding the time is a struggle and also the skills. Up to the point in my life I have never been crafts. I loved glue when I was a todler and playing with it, but as far as being productive with it. Never my thing. Now I am finding such cute things on etsy that I love and want to lean how to make ! Flowers are the first thing. So many of my friends make the cutest flowers and these are essential due to the fact that the pillows I want that have these flowers run about 50 bucks. Not happening. So I am dedicating a night each week or two to crafts. It will be nice and relaxing and something fun for me to do! My last little project didn't quite work out (look like the picture) so unfortunately I will be trying that one again. With some time and practice I will be cruisin.

Have a happy weekend! I will try to post some pics next time:)

*Wedding Planning*

Since we got engaged me and my mamma have been going crazy trying to book things, think of cute ideas, and write down places to go shop. Yesterday we both took the day off just to go reception center hunting. We went to six places and met with a photographer that we adore and spent some time with the grandparents. It was a very busy day, but it was so much fun spending time with my mamma. She is so amazing and really has been there through everything with me. When I am having a bad day she somehow feels the pain that I do and finds a way to make it better. Her and my dad have blessed me with every opportunity any girl could ask for in their life! I can't believe how lucky I am sometimes to have such amazing parents who have helped and supported me through everything in my life. Kris was busy all day working yesterday so he wasn't able to see the places, but I did take pictures of everything and sent them to him throughout the day. The best part of the day was at La Caille. It took me 10 minutes to get the guts to stand close enough to a peacock so I could get a picture for my love. I finally got closer and got the picture, but then the thing ruffled its feather and I ran for my life! I turned around only to see my mom in tears laughing so hard in the car. Yes. So I am alive and the bird never attacked, but I definately won't be snapping any more photos of a peacock. The day was tiring, but I have never been so excited! I am excited for the wedding, but couldn't stop thinking of how after the wedding I get to start my own family with Kris and that thought alone brings more joy and happiness than anything I have ever felt! Day #1 of wedding planning = a success:)

February 5, 2011.. ENGAGED!!!!!

I have never had a blog before, but thought that now Kris and I are engaged that this would be a good time. I want to have a place where I can vent and update the blogging world about mine and my soon-to-be husbands lives! What a better post to start off with than one about our engagement:) Here's the story... We met in August at a singles ward. I know one of his good friends and was talking to him, but then I caught a glimpse of Kris and immediately knew I wanted to know him. We started talking more and more and then eventually we ended up on a double date to the zoo. It was amazing how comfortable we felt with each other and how we just clicked right away:) After that we were inseparable! On saturday, February 5, Kris told me he was going to take me on a date and that we were going to Olive Garden and like a movie. I get to his house and he has flowers waiting for me. This was unusual because my love is very anti-flowers. He thinks they are a waste of money because they just die. I am working on changing his views about flowers! Lol. So then he tells me that he wants to go somewhere else and that I had better be hungry. We start driving downtown and I am superrrr confused, but excited because not only did I get flowers he was surprising me with dinner somewhere. We go to the Roof and it turns out he had a reservation there all week. We walked around the temple for a little bit before we went back and ate an AMAZING dinner! The buffet style definately was a good pick:) Afterwards we went up to one of my favorite places and we were hugging then he just dropped to one knee and before I knew it I was all teared up. He "popped the question" and the rest of the night I was on cloud 9. We spent the rest of the night visiting out family and close friends. My parents couldn't be more excited for us:) Kris's family are on a Mexican cruise so I am so anxious for them to get home so we can see them and tell them all about the night! On April 21, 2011 I will be sealed to my best friend:) I can't believe how lucky I am that I get to spend time and all eternity with such an amazing man!! He is my supprt system in everything that I do. I love you Kristoffer Blaine Anderson!