Valentines Day 2012

I know this post is like... way late but better late than never right?  We had a simple day yet to me it was still a meaningful celebration of our love!  I wish we had taken a picture together... but we didn't.  Dang.  Here is a synopsis of our day.

I tried to start the day off right by making Ki Valentines Day french toast with buttermilk syrup and fresh strawberries!  Only.. Ki is allergic to fruits so the strawberries were included for my enjoyment only :)  Then Ki had to go to work, but I had hid a few Valentine treats and surprises for him to find throughout the day.  Then I spent the rest of the day finishing his "gift from the heart"  a little book called the ABC's of what I love about you" - I didn't buy him anything besides a few treats because we had decided to go cheap this V-day seeing as we have upcoming baby expenses and house expenses.  Then Ki got home from work early and surprised me with a BIG present!  He got me a little video camera to use when our cute baby boy is born to document fun milestones.  I was BLOWN away... and felt really spoiled... and sad that I hadn't gotten him anything, but he said that he just had to get me something because I always win in the department of gifts from the heart :)  But what I loved even more then the camera was his cheesy card about how much he loved me.  It made me cry, I loved it, every single word :)  The best gifts can't be bought folks! 

After eating Honey Lime Enchiladas, Ki's favorite, for dinner we headed out to see The Vow.  Only apparently it wasn't meant to be because we drove to three theaters and it was sold out in all three!  Major bummer.  We were even there an hour and a half early...  but I guess we should have expected that on Valentines Day :)  So instead we went to the movie Chronicle.  I HATED it.  It was much to depressing/melancholy for my liking.  Ki thought it was pretty good though.  Luckily when you have a Valentine as great as mine its ok if you go see the most un-romantic movie ever because it doesn't make him any less fantastic ;)

I am grateful for the day of love so we have an excuse to go overboard on showing our loved ones how much we care :)  But I am even more grateful to have such an amazing husband to love every single day of the year, who loves me back.  Being in love is the greatest.  Thanks friends and family I love you all!  I am one lucky, spoiled, blessed girl.  Knowing all of you makes my life so full of love and happiness!  Thanks for being a part of that :)  

Just a glimpse of what we've been up to lately

Baby boy:

• He seems to be growing bigger every day because I swear my belly gets bigger every day.
• We still haven't decided on a name but we call him baby boy, little buddy, and little cub for now.
• He got his 21 wk ultrasound done on January 25 and the doctor says everything looks good.
• When I rest heavy objects (e.g. my ipad) on my belly he will kick them until I move them off. 

Baby Boy's profile

Baby Boy's cute little feet

Me:

• Still doing yoga everyday although it is starting to get frustrating that the things that were once simple for me to do are getting SO difficult haha.  My center of balance is DEFINITELY changing.
• Love feeling baby boy move around inside my belly.  Feel like I am in the good stage of pregnancy.  Big enough that I feel pregnant instead of fat and bloated, yet not huge enough that my mobility is affected or that I feel too uncomfortable.
• Not loving the fact that my belly button has been pushed into an "outie"
• Have meant to take an updated "belly pic" but never really feel like it whenever I think about it :)
• Avoiding driving as much as possible, which is fairly simple considering we are currently down to one vehicle :)

Ki:

• Passed his kidney stone and is hoping to avoid the Emergency Room for at least a little while :)
• Reads baby boy a story every night before we go to bed and likes to push on my belly until baby boy kicks him haha.
• His grandma died and we were able to attend her funeral this past weekend.  It was great to learn more about his grandma through the stories told and to spend time with his family.  Grateful for the gospel and the knowledge that we will see her again someday.

Our Future Home:

• It is almost done and looking so good!!  woo hoo!  We are getting so excited to be able to unpack our stuff and have a place of our own again :)
• We should close on the house this Thursday and be able to start moving in on Friday.
• We won't actually start living in our house until the beginning of March since we will be babysitting my cute siblings while my parents are on their 25th wedding anniversary trip in St. Thomas.  I wish I was going with them!  A tropical beach sounds pretty awesome right now.  Other than I don't think I have any swimsuits that would currently fit so... its for the best that they leave me behind ;)

Sorry there aren't more pictures to make the post more interesting but like I said I never feel like taking belly pics, Ki doesn't like his picture taken, and we've forgotten our camera the last few times we've been up to Cedar Hills to see how the house was coming along :)

Feeling very grateful...

This morning around 12:05 a.m. I was driving myself and my cute husband Ki back home from the airport.  I was so excited that he was back from his business trip, that I wasn't paying as much attention as I should have to the road.  I had the car (our blue mazda) on cruise control at 68 mph... the roads were wet... it had been raining.  We were on I-80 E and next thing I knew we were in the sharp curve just before merging onto I-15 when I suddenly panicked as I realized I was going WAY too fast around the turn.  I hit the break harder then I meant to which caused us to hydroplane and start sliding sideways... I then panicked even worse and tried to correct which only made matters much worse.  We ended up hitting the cement wall on the right side of the road then did a 360 across 3 lanes of traffic before slamming into the median on the left side of the freeway which finally brought us to a stop.  All I remember was being so so terrified as I realized we were about to hit the first wall that I closed my eyes, then I pretty much don't remember much other then being hit by the airbag and being so so scared that Ki and my baby boy were hurt.  After the car came to a stop Ki said I was pretty dazed for a couple minutes and wouldn't open my eyes.  When I finally opened my eyes, all I remember was that I was shaking really badly and all I could keep saying was that I was so so sorry as I hysterically sobbed after seeing that Ki was ok.

We feel so blessed that as hard as we hit, and as bad as the accident could have been that we both are okay.  It was so lucky that we happened to be the last car in the pack when I lost control of the car.  We were lucky that even though we were sticking out into the left lane around a blind turn when we finally came to a stop, that no cars hit us.  We were lucky that like the 3rd car that drove past us after we crashed was a police officer, who promptly put out those firecracker things around the car and made a safe perimeter.  The firemen were so kind to me as they took my vitals and were making sure everything was ok.  We were lucky enough not to need the ambulance that came to the scene.  We went to the hospital after my mom and dad picked us up and our car was towed away to check on our sweet baby boy.  I was so scared for him, it was all I could do to keep my emotions under control and to stop shaking.  But they monitored us at the hospital for awhile to make sure I didn't start having contractions and to make sure that the baby's heartbeat was ok, as well as to make sure he was moving.  I was SOOOOOO relieved when I heard him kick the monitor over and over.  I can't even imagine how hard it would have been to forgive myself if anything had happened to Ki or our baby boy last night... I cry pretty much every time I think about it.  They are my life and I am so thankful to still have both of them..  an event like last nights makes you realize how quickly life could change and made me re-discover just how much I have to lose because of how blessed I have been.  I hope that after this experience I will not only be more careful, but that I will show my gratitude more in my daily life to my Heavenly Father by living the way he wants me too. 

Other then some pretty severe whiplash and bruises from my seat belt and the airbag I am ok.  Ki banged up his one leg pretty good, but is also ok.  How could I ask for more?  I am grateful for a husband who was WAY more concerned about the safety of our family then the fact that I crashed and totaled the car that he loved and took VERY good care of.  I am so lucky.  So blessed.  I still keep replaying the accident over and over in my head like a bad nightmare wishing I would've been going slower, or that I would've done something differently so that I didn't wreck the car, but Ki just keeps telling me there are more important things than the car and that we have all the important things still.  He is right, but man why is it so hard to be ok that I made a mistake?  I feel so GUILTY.  I would've been way worse off if anything more serious had happened, and that leaves me feeling grateful that I still have the most important people in my life.