Sophia sleep over and Raging Water Madness...

Sophie is always asking to sleep over at our house. She loves sleeping over anywhere. Chris and Emily have decided only to let their girls sleepover at certain family members homes or have their friends sleepover at Chris and Em's. I don't blame them! People are messed up and if anyone ever hurt my girls I wouldn't think twice about hurting them! I can't imagine how I'll feel when our little guy wants his first sleepover? I will just make sure that all his friends want to sleepover at our house because we will have the coolest house on the block! ;)

Anyways, Bret had to watch her for an hour or so before I got off work and they colored me a picture. We let her do a Roman Candle for the 24th of July (the day Utah became a state), then we walked over to Arctic Circle that night. We went to our pool and tried to get her to jump in which she did once and then decided she didn't like it. Stella on the other hand is a fish!

My orthodontist rents out a waterslide amusement park for the day and his patients get in free, their guests get half off admission, and we all get a piece of pizza, cookie, and a drink. It was so busy, it was insane. I didn't think that many people would be there! Let's just say that we will not be doing that again! We had fun and it was funny walking around with my big belly hangin' out!

7 Year Anniversary!

Happy 7 Year Anniversary to us! We were lucky enough to receive a gift card from Bret's mom Laura and her husband Bill to, Ruth's Chris Steak House. It is sooo good! Can you tell Bret and I are major foodies? We of course got the filet mignon and the best ever sweet potato casserole. They even gave us a free cheesecake dessert that was big enough for 5 people!

Bret also surprised me with a beautiful ring that I had noticed once at a jewelry store. So pretty. He is in trouble 'cause he always spoils me way too much.

I ordered him a BYU Rugby sweatshirt. We laugh because there is no way Bret would ever wear anything BYU, but, our friends play on the team and it is so much fun to watch!

Oh and my dad kept teasing me about the "7 year itch" which is funny because our "7 year itch" consists of us having a baby! ha ha!

Don't mind all the pictures of just me, Bret wouldn't let me take any of him...

More Dinners...

Here are a few meals that I have made lately. The first is a cheesesteak sandwich made with sliced cube steak, rosemary potatoes, grilled corn salad, and the best for last...Brazilian Limeade. So good! You put the whole quartered lime in a blender and then strain the pulp. Insanely good on a hot summer night!

The next meal is one that I forgot to take a picture of, so you get to see the leftover bowl of pesto pasta with roasted tomatoes and mushrooms. It was delicious! We had our friends Heidi and John Swalberg over and then we went and saw Horrible Bosses, which was hilarious.

Then the last meal is a basil tomato pizza. I am a little obsessed with basil if you can't tell...

Most of these recipes are from a cookbook called The Pioneer Woman Cooks. I was introduced to it by Paloma Davis, my cousin Nathan's cute lil' wife. Hi Loma! This book is a must have. But let me warn you, nothing in this is low-fat.

Baby Toes!

Here is a really rare and cute picture of our baby boy. I had an ultrasound on June 2oth my b-day (great present!) and would you believe it, he was sucking on his toes! So cute! He's hungry...

I love cooking!

So I said I was going to start posting what I was cooking. I have made quite a few great dinners but by the time I remember to take pictures we already had eaten it! Which is what kind of happened last night. I made Lemon Zuchinni Pasta, Layered Salad, Rosemary Foccacia Bread, and Mini Raspberry Cheesecakes. It was super good! You grill the chicken and zuchinni which makes it taste so much better then just baking them. The bread is so easy, you don't even need to knead it. And the cheesecakes are so cute! You use a vanilla wafer in the bottom of the cupcake liner.

Here are some pictures of our half eaten dinner! lol!

And here are the cookbook's that I am obsessed with right now. They have real life food not stuff that you would never cook. Our Best Bites has a blog and they always have tutorials on how to do things.

Woah Baby!

I really have a lot to put in this post today. First things first we are having a baby! Yay! It is a little boy and I am due the first week in October. We weren't really trying, but it happens! We wanted to wait til probably the end of this year 2011 once our house was built and then I could do hair from home. Oh well...

Here is me at 20 weeks, 1/2 way chub a lub!

Speaking of our house. It has been crazy stressful trying to get everything figured out. We had planned on selling our townhome but it really isn't worth it, we would probably owe or break even on it. So we decided that we are going to rent it out. In order to rent it out you can't have 2 fha loans and we have our closing costs and mortgage on 2 separate loans. We bought this home when we were 19 so we didn't have money we were broke! haha! Anyways we are going to pay off the 1/2 acre lot we bought in West Jordan and refinance our townhome all by the end of this year. Oh and pay for a baby! Woops! Didn't plan that very well.

I have decided you can't plan out your life for a baby or you will never have one...

One of the great things about being pregnant right now is that I have reduced my hours at the salon from around 50+ to about 30+! It is wonderful! I was getting really burned out working that much and never seeing Bret. Now when the baby comes I will only need my mom to watch on Mondays from 11-3. I don't see why people work just to pay for daycare? I do get a little bored having tues-friday morning off, but I always can't believe that friday evening has come around already and it's time to work. Plus I get to see my Sophie more!

Enough boring everyone with my updates...

I have decided to blog about the meals I have been cooking also. I LOVE to cook and I haven't been able to even go into the kitchen til I hit about 19 weeks. It is still iffy... So today since I wont be home til around 8:30 I am making creamy mexican chicken tacos in the crockpot. I love the fresh salsa from Harmons and it always goes bad before we can eat it so I am using it today. You take 2 or 3 frozen chicken breasts and throw them in the crockpot, then add 8 oz. cream cheese (lowfat opt.) and then your salsa. Let it cook on low for 7-8hrs and then shred it with 2 forks and put it on tortillas with toppings. Yummy. My mom taught me that recipe. Tomorrow night we are having burgers, fries, and green beans. My g'mas green bean recipe. I'll try to remember to post that recipe. We are going to the BYU national champ Rugby game tomorrow. Our friend Mikey Su'a is playing his last game...

Susan Branch.

I should just say that this blog is all about Me "Melissa" since I am the only one who blogs on here. Because Bret is most definitely not obsessed with Susan Branch like I am. She has the most beautiful books ever! It is my goal to collect every single one. Why do I love her stuff? Because I feel like she is writing them just for me. She hand writes and paints all of them. They remind me of my grandma Davis with the country feel through out them. I always thought I would never like the country type decor and that I was more modern but I am slowly turning into my mother/aunts/grandmother.

Here are the 4 books that I have so far...

Baby Love, Girlfriends Forever, Vineyard Seasons, Autumn.

Here is one of her prints that I want to put in my guest bathroom one day! ;)

I was given Girlfriends Forever by a friend in high school and fell in love with it!