Bird is 26

Ryan turned 26 last week. It was a fun weekend. Friday night we went to dinner with friends and fam in Salt Lake at an authentic pizza place that Ryan loves. Then we had a delicious strawberry cake that I prepared. I was so excited to make it all week, I bought all the stuff like 2 days ahead, and searched EVERYWHERE for the perfect pans that my mom uses. The pans were no where to be found (not Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, Wal-mart, Macy's and not even Williams and Sonoma), so it ended up being in a regular old 13 x 9. But I took my sweet time on friday, enjoying every minute of making the cake.

Sat we spent the night up at his parents house, went to church with the rents, and ate a delicious steak dinner which Pam prepared. My doctor told me that being pregnant I was going to crave light foods and lots of chicken. He was wrong. All I want, all the time, is red meat. I think Ryan is enjoying my desires for red meat every day even more than I am.

Anyway, here's a blog to say that I'm grateful that my dear husband was born. I love being married to him.

The Rumors are True

We are having a baby in June, and its a boy! Some members of Ryan's family discovered the surprise earlier, but the official announcement to my family (none of whom had any idea) was christmas day. I tried posting the video we took catching everyone's reaction, but couldn't get it to work. We made the announcement on the Vellinga side when we came back from Seattle.

My brother's girlfriend's mom is an ultrasound tech, so we went in after hours and found out that it was a boy at only 15 weeks. Lucky, I know. I was convinced it was a girl from day one, but Ryan had 3 dreams that it was a boy. He would always say, "Well, this will determine who receives revelation for our family."

We are very excited. Going on 17 weeks come monday, and feeling much better in general.

A Joyful Evening

My husband just called me from San Fransisco. After eating a nice dinner, paid for by someone else, he is on his way to do this:

This is me. This is what I have been doing since I arrived home from work, and what I will continue doing until I go to bed.

Take A Stroll Down Vellinga Lane

As of November 17, 2008 I have a darling new nephew. My brother Kyle and his wife Rachael had their first, the first grandchild of the Havens clan, Chase Dwaine Danger Havens. Yes, that is his real name. He is such a dangerous little baby. And he's dang cute. I haven't gotten to meet him yet, but I will very soon and I can't wait.



On another note. . .

I'm an amateur blogger. Jana came over and blogs came up. Somehow we started talking about how you can comment on blogs. Funny thing, she mentioned how she had commented on one of my blogs, and I was surprised. I had never read a single comment that anyone had made on my blog - until she told me that I had some, which was just last week. Reading the comments was so fun!

I think about blogging often, but I rarely do. And usually it is because I don't really have any new and exciting things to blog about. We pretty much go to school and do homework and work. Our lives are not extremely exciting. Sometimes we do something fun that I could blog about, but I never take pictures. I don't have a single picture from thanksgiving :( I really gotta work on that.

THE HUBBY TAG

*What is your husbands name: Ryan Michael Vellinga

*How long have you been married? 4 months and 24 days

*How long did you date? Dated 9 mo. Engaged 3 mo.

*How old is he? 25

*Who eats sweets? Me, and I get mad when he doesn't want to indulge with me.

*Who said I love you first? He said he thought he loved me first. . . ha ha

*Who is taller? Ryan - 2 inches

*Who can sing best? Ryan, but I can dance better.

*Who is smarter? Ryan

*Who does laundry? I would say 65% I do, 35% Ryan does. He had plenty of practice doing his own, so he's pretty good. And he ALWAYS does it if I ask him.

*Who pays bills? Both of us

*Who sleeps on the right side? I do

*Who mows the lawn? Don't have one

*Who cooks dinner? I do, but he's not a bad cook either

*Who drives? He usually does

*Who is first to admit they are wrong? Ryan is much better than I am.

*Who kissed who first? Ryan

*Who asked who out first? Ryan asked me first, sad we can't remember our first date

*Who wears the pants? See picture below.

He carries my purse a lot. Its kind of funny because we went to my mission reunion and he was carrying it around the whole time on his shoulder - and my mission companion was taking pictures of it to show me. I didn't really realize that this might look funny to other people. I never ask him, he always just grabs it for me. Anyway, that's my little bro with his woman's purse.

That's my little tennis player!

I tag Jami!

NYC and Pumpkins

BEWARE

Yes, this is our pumpkin. Its pretty cool. But its already kind of dying because we carved it a little early. I was pretty excited.

Our dear friends Adam & Katie came over and schooled us with their sweet grave pumpkin. it was all shaved and carved and everything. Then we tried to make pumpkin seeds, cooked them too long, and they were really dry. We went to NYC because Ryan had a medical school interview, and my parents happened to be in town that weekend. It was good to be with the fam again. We went to central park and it was kinda raining. Didn't really get any pictures downtown, but we went to the ESPN store for yummy dessert and got to see the little mermaid!

I couldn't resist posting this because my parents are so stinking cute. This is them on the train while we were heading into town. They were taking pictures together.

Waiting for the train.

A Sweet Seattle Summer

A few pics to highlight some of the activites of the summer.

Hiking Index Falls

It was gorgeous.

Vancouver BC

This was also definitley a highlight. In vancouver on the teeter totter.

Boating with some New Yorkers

John Smith and Pocahontas.

It wouldn't be boating on Lake Stevens without tandem surfing.

Family Gymnastics.

It was an intense game of broom ball at the church.
My mom wins the medal for most aggressive.

And there is my bird towing the U-Haul.

On our way back to Utah!