California Trip

Almost 24 years ago Matt was born into the world by a woman that he has not known anything about while growing up. He was adopted at 3 months old. One thing he knew about her was that in a letter she wrote to his parents she wrote that she wanted him to serve an LDS Mission and to get married in the Temple. Matt had not thought much about ever finding his birth mom when he was growing up. When he got closer to serving his mission he started to think about her more. He wished that he could tell her how well he had turned out so far. Then he returned from his mission and met the love of his life (ME). He wished that he could tell her that he was going to be getting married in the temple.
One day last April Matt received a call from his dad. He told Matt that he thinks he found Matt's birth mom on Facebook. They new her maiden name and luckily she had put her full name on her Facebook page. After a few messages back and forth they came to the conclusion that she was who they were looking for. Since then they have had many long phone conversations getting to know each other.
Last week we took a quick trip to Southern California. The main reason that we went was so that we could meet Denise (Matt's birth mom). It was really fun to spend a few days with her and get to know her better. We are looking forward to getting to know her better in the coming years. She took us to this cool restaurant in Malibu and also took us to Santa Monica.


We then met up with my family in Santa Monica.

Friday we went to Disneyland Yay. This trip was a bit different then my passed trips to Disneyland because there were a few rides I was not able to go on because of being pregnant and I spent a lot of time sitting on a bench not feeling really great. But its ok I was just happy to be there. Halloween time is the best time to go to Disneyland with the fun decorations. The happy atmosphere at Disneyland it enough for me.



Yay for a Disney Halloween!

Yummy food. And yes Noah's cotton candy is glowing.

They have a new water/light show in California Adventure and It was so so cool. I am so glad we went and waited. It was for sure worth it. I loved the whole thing. This picture was taken while we were waiting for the show.

Then this one was at the end of the show. I know you can not see our faces but you can kinda see some of the colorful water things in the back ground.

Then the last day was beach day. We started the day with a little breakfast at Ruby's. And then spent most of the day at the beach.



My mom has all the other pictures on her camera so this is all you get. But that night after the beach we went to a mall. The mall has a Vans Skate Park in it so while Camden spent his time there skating we all go to shop. It was a great get away. I always love vacations even if I am a little sick. It is always fun to spend time with the fam.
Tomorrow we are leaving for St. George. Matt is running the marathon there on Saturday so I will try and update you soon. Until then bye!

I'm Having a Baby!

So this picture pretty much sums up most of what I do now. Sleep. Growing a baby inside you is tiring! We are 9 weeks and 4 days along. We were going to wait longer to tell everyone but I have been pretty sick so we were having to tell people and we just decided to tell everyone.

Some days of being sick are really hard but I try to think about how I am not the only one who has ever gone through this. Actually I am pretty lucky that they have medicine that I can take that makes be feel better. I know some amazing ladies in my past that didn't have that luxury and if they would not have gone through their sickness I wouldn't be here.

My mother was very sick when she was pregnant with me. She had to be hooked up to an IV for the first trimester. She told me that once the precious baby comes to your family you forget about the sickness. I have a letter that she wrote my dad when I was born and a few things she said in it makes me know she is telling the truth.

"She was so beautiful all I could do was sit and cry."

"I cannot believe how much I love her"

I also read a book that I have about what my grandmother felt when my mom joined their family.

"Dixie Lee is the name of our precious, lovely baby girl! I am so thrilled with her that I am giddy! It was worth it all, in spite of how miserable I felt. Now I am flying high. When I have a little new baby, I feel like I'm on a little toot!"

So I am not really sure what a little toot is but it sounds like she was pretty happy. My mom and especially my grandma did not have the medicine that I am able to take. So let me tell you I am thankful to be having a baby in this day and age where that have medicine to make it bearable for me to go on with my everyday life. Other wise I would have been living on my bathroom floor for the last few weeks.

I don't mean to complain. I want to be clear that I am so so excited. I know that anything that I go through in the next 7 months will be well worth the joy our child will bring. I am also so so thankful for my wonderful husband that has been taking such good care of me. I spend a lot of time laying on the couch when I am not at work and he has been so good to keep our house clean and making food and pretty much everything else. I don't know what I would do without him. I am so lucky to have him as my husband.

If anyone has any suggestions on books I should read or anything. Let me know now because it will take me until the baby gets here to take in all the information that I should. I am not a very quick reader haha.

Well this is turning into a really long post but I am excited to become a mom and I will make sure to keep everyone posted.

New Church Building

So as you know we moved a few weeks ago. We are a block away from our new church building and it is super old and super cool. Here are some pictures.

Stanton Reunion Aug. 20-22

We had a reunion last months with my dad side of the family.

It was really fun. We spent lots of time at the pool.

We also got to see my brother Camden play in his baseball game!

He did so great! He hit the first hit of the game and brought 3 runners in.

We played some fun games and ate some yummy food!

It was good to see everyone and catch up.

New Place

In response to my post a few weeks ago about about not liking looking for apartments. Well a few days after that we found a place that we both agreed on. It is very cute and has lots of space. It is on Capital Hill like a block away from the capital. My work is like 2 miles from it and Matt's work is even less then that. We moved in last weekend. Thank you to everyone who helped us! I can't even tell you how much better it is to not have to drive half an hour to get home after work!!! I love it! We are still working on getting settled but things are coming along perfectly! I will post some pictures when we have things more put together!

Bye Bye Johnny

My good old cousin Johnny left on his mission to New Jersey last week.

He will be greatly missed by me and Matt but we are so excited for the adventures that he will experience while serving his mission.

Gordy's Wedding

Congratulations to the new Ryan Family!!!

One of Matt's best friends from high school got married on Aug. 14th. He married a beautiful girl named Emily. We couldn't be more happy for them. We will miss them though since right after getting married they moved to Davis CA.

Just waiting for the newly married couple to come out of the Temple.

They had a fun reception and the JSB.