~~ Dani ~ Alex ~ Macee ~~

..Almost 10 Months..

2011-10-28T22:10:00.000-06:00

I know I've been told this by just about everyone that has kids, but it is so true..

Babies grow up way too fast!!!

Macee is now almost 10 months old! Some things she does now:

Crawls like a mad-woman! She's been crawling since she was 6 months old, so she's pretty dang good at it!
Has 3 teeth.
Stands by herself for about a minute.
Takes steps while holding onto things. She can walk completely around our couch a few times without falling down.
Says "Mama" "Dada" "Baba" "Lala" and a few other things that I can't quite understand.
She also likes to point at things and I swear she says, "What's that?" It's in a cute little whisper too, and she does it with EVERYTHING!
Eats pretty much anything I will give her, and throws fits when I take it away.
Still refuses to hold her own bottle, or feed herself finger foods.
LOVES pickles! She sucks them completely dry!
She actually likes her carseat finally. Ever since we went to St. George, she has been so much better at car rides.
She sleeps pretty much all night, except every so often she does start crying in the middle of the night, so I just have to go re-tuck her in and she instantly falls back to sleep.

Macee has been such an amazing baby, we've been so lucky with her. She hasn't gotten sick at all, she has slept through the night since about 7 weeks old, and she's been more advanced on learning some things. I keep saying that we need to do family pictures this fall, but I think I have ran out of time to get the pretty fall colors in them. We haven't done any professional pictures of Macee yet, and I'd really like to get them done sometime.

We haven't done much since this summer. Alex has started back full time at school, and I started back full time at work, so we never see eachother anymore! I've been lucky to have all family babysit Macee while I'm at work, and I think it's been great for her to see both sets of grandparents and her Aunt Amanda every week.

I do a swap with my sister-in-law so she watched Macee on her day off, and I watch my 2 1/2 year old niece, Shaydn, on my day off. That's been interesting! I've never been around toddlers, so I feel like I was kinda thrown into it and it's been a little rough but I've gotten used to it now. And I feel like it's preparing me for what's to come when Macee is that age!

Here are some pictures of my little monkey from the past few months..

She still loves sticking out her tongue and blowing spit all over me.

Her cute BYU jersey that her Grandma and Grandpa Bunker bought her.

Us, at the Red-Blue Rivalry Classic game for Alex's birthday.

She LOVES pickles!!!

She found the toilet paper and now does not let it go!

She's like her daddy and gets into the BYU games.

Her first piggy-tails!

She loves this giant stuffed bunny! She tackles and wrestles it around.

She loves her mama!

I just love this little girl so much!!!

..Summer Fun..

2011-07-26T21:30:00.001-06:00

We've been having some fun this summer! We went to St. George for our annual Tuacahn trip with my entire family, and it was so fun! I was so worried about the car ride down with Macee because she HATES her car seat. But she did so good both ways! We got down there and had a picnic like always and then it was onto the play, which was The Little Mermaid. That is my all-time favorite Disney movie so I was SO excited to see it in real life.

So, of course it had to down pour and the play was cancelled about 30 minutes in.

I was so bummed, I almost cried! Luckily Macee had stayed back at the hotel with my dad so she wasn't in the rain at all. It was a pretty intense storm too, there was lightening and thunder all around us and the lobby at the theater flooded a little bit, so we were all standing in water and I thought I was going to die because the lightening was striking pretty close to us.

We had a pretty good vacation besides that though, lots of shopping and we went swimming in the hotel pool, which Macee LOVED. She's definitely going to be a water baby.

We had a fun 4th of July with Alex's family. Now that the firework laws have been changed, we actually wanted to do fireworks this year and so, of course, we had to get the big ones! Macee loved the lights, she was so mesmerized by them.

We just went to the Spanish Fork rodeo last night and it rained on us all night, just like the play! But this time we had ponchos and it was actually pretty fun to be in the rain all night.

Macee is now 6 1/2 months old! She is rolling all over, sits up completely on her own, and is so close to crawling! She's getting up on her hands and knees and rocks back and forth until she faceplants. At her 6 month checkup she weighed 18.1 pounds and measured 27 inches long, which is about the 85% for both so she's growing great!

Family picture on the 4th of July.

Sitting up like a big girl!

She gets frustrated when she can't crawl.

Cool baby in her new shades!

Lounging at the hotel in St. George.

My cousin Kerstin had her camera down in St. George and got some really cute shots of Macee. This one was my favorite.

In her new swimsuit!

Waiting for the play to start.

Having fun with my brother and his girlfriend.

Sittin with Grandma and Grandpa Bunker at the rodeo..They're a little obsessed with her!

Us, in our ponchos at the rodeo.

..4 to 5 Months Update!..

2011-06-19T16:43:00.002-06:00

So I could say that I try to blog, but that would be a lie. I'm horrible at keeping updated on things!

Macee is now 5 months old!!! How in the world did that happen?? She's rolling and scooting all over the place, sitting and standing up with assistance, and getting a bigger personality every day.

We finally blessed her on June 11th, which was also mine and Alex's 2 year wedding anniversary! It was a perfect day, and Alex gave her the most wonderful blessing! Since she's older, she hates to lay down or hold still for very long so I was so worried that she would scream and cry the whole time but everyone in the circle did a great job at bouncing her enough to keep her satisfied. She also got a hold of Alex's tie during it, so she kept herself entertained by trying to eat it.

She is now eating baby food, which is so much fun for me to feed her! I love the faces and sounds she makes. She's started to say "Mmmmmm!" when she takes a big bite. I don't know if it's just a coincidence or if she's copying what I do and say.

She is starting to copy some things I do, like when I stick out my tongue at her, she'll stick hers out right back! We finally did get her ears pierced! Well, I was at work and my parents came to get her, and about 10 minutes later my mom came back in with the parental consent forms for me to sign, so my mom got to hold her down and get them done so I didn't have to! They look so cute! And they make her look more like a girl, since she's pretty bald and would look like a boy if I dressed her like one.

At her last doctor's check up (which was a month ago) she weighed 14.9 pounds and measured 24.5 inches long, so she's gotta be at least 16 pounds by now. She's my little fatty, and I love it!

We took her swimming for the first time last week, and she LOVED it! We're going to St. George in 3 weeks with my whole family and I can't wait to be out in the pool all day with her, it's going to be so much fun!

She doesn't do well at all in her car seat still, so if anyone has any suggestions on how to make the 3 1/2 hour ride down easier, PLEASE let me know! I'm really dreading it.

Okay here are some pictures from the last month!

After her 4 months shots..still happy!

Little photo shoot at my Grandma's house.

First time in a restaurant high chair!

On her blessing day. Her dress is about 53 years old. My great grandma made it for my Aunt Karen, and my mom, Aunt Chris, and I all wore it for our blessings!

First time swimming!

Mmm..sweet potatoes.

She loves to sleep like this, and I always have to go fix her so her legs don't get caught in the side of the crib.

That's my girl!

I love my baby girl!!!

..Cereal, Easter, and Random Stuff..

2011-04-24T14:21:00.000-06:00

Happy Easter everyone! It's Macee's first Easter, and I got her a few outfits, a cute little stuffed animal that sings, and some rice cereal and bowls and spoons. We've tried to do a rice feeding through a bowl and spoon, and it didn't go over very well. She loved the flavor of it, but couldn't quite get a hang of eating off the spoon. It was messy, but really funny!!

She is almost 15 weeks! Holy cow, it has gone by SO fast! She's grown out of all of her newborn stuff, and a lot of her 0-3 month ones too! It makes me kinda sad! She'll have her 4 month appointment in a couple weeks, and that means more shots..which make me so nervous! She did awesome last time, but I'm just a paranoid mommy!

This is what happens when we try tummy time...FAIL!

First time with cereal..she just smiled the whole time.

Easter outfit!

Without the jacket..

With Daddy on Easter.

With Mommy on Easter.

..Isn't She The Cutest Thing You've Ever Seen??..

2011-04-16T23:21:00.000-06:00

So this is my little munchkin, screaming and happy as can be! She's finding her voice more and more and loves to have conversations with us. She still sleeps next to me in her swing, and this is what she sounds like when she's trying to wake me up in the morning.

She is now 13 weeks old. I cannot believe how big she is now! I always tell Alex how sad it makes me that she's growing so fast, and he thinks I'm crazy. I know we won't have another baby for a long time so I want to enjoy every minute I have with her, but it's going too fast! Alex can't wait until she's around 1 1/2 or 2, when she can actually play and run, but that just makes me sad to think about.

I've been debating on when to get her ears pierced. I used to work at Icing and had to pierce ears all the time, so I know what to expect and it scares me so bad to do it. But I would rather get them done early on so she doesn't bother with them and infect them or anything. I'll take pictures and tell about how she did when I dare to get them done!

..Loving This Life..

2011-03-31T20:54:00.000-06:00

I wish I had the internet at home to keep up with my blog!

I'm finally getting the hang of this mom thing. I absolutely love it!!! Macee has been such a great baby. She's 11 weeks this week, and for about a month now, she's been sleeping about 8-12 hours a night. Straight. Yeah, pretty dang good baby! I never thought the littlest things would be so cute or such a big deal, until she did them! She's such a smiley little thing, and almost giggling, it's only a matter of time before I can get her to laugh. She's doing awesome with keeping her head up and looking around by herself. She's rolled over from her belly to her back quite a few times, but that's mainly because she HATES being on her belly! Over all, she's just great, I love her SO much and can't wait to see her grow and develop more.

Sucking on Daddy's finger.

Hanging out with Mommy.

Smiley little girl!

Watchin tv with Daddy.

..Just A Little Test..

2011-02-19T21:20:00.002-07:00

She's Finally Here!!

2011-01-22T22:31:00.000-07:00

Macee Ann Long was finally born on 1-11-11 at 9:03 pm! She weighed 6 pounds 6 ounces, and measured 18 1/2 inches long. I was induced 6 days early because of high blood pressure, and I was perfectly fine with that! I got to the hospital at 8:30 that morning, and was only 1 cm and about 60% effaced and by 9:30 had my water broke and pitocin started.

Then the fun began.

The contractions weren't too horrible until about 2:00, when they had to put an internal monitor in, and OH MAN! They started up good then! By 2:30 I had my epidural, and was asleep till about 5, was awake for an hour and got checked at 6...Only at a 4! So I took another dose of my epidural, and slept till about 8, when I thought my epidural was wearing off. I told the nurse I was starting to feel stuff, so she checked me and I was at a +9 and 100%!!! I thought the nurse was joking! She said if I feel the need to push, to tell her and they'd check me again. About 45 minutes later, I really was feeling it! The nurse checked again and I was ready! I was in shock, I didn't know if I could do it. They got everything set up and at 8:52 I started to push, and only 11 minutes and 4 pushes later, I had my baby girl on my belly!

It has been the most amazing, difficult, frustrating, entertaining thing I have ever experienced in my life. I never EVER thought I could love something as much as I love this little girl!

..Absolutely Incredible..

2010-10-28T11:58:00.000-06:00

So I had my 28 week check-up and got another ultrasound! Last time when my doctor said she wanted me to do another ultrasound, I was so excited. She didn't say why though, so I thought it was just routine. I get into the ultrasound room, and the techs ask me why I'm getting this one done. I told them I had no idea, I thought it was normal. They looked at my chart and said the last tech had wrote down that Macee's size was small for how far along I was, and my placenta was low. So of course I get super freaked out. The tech at my 20 week ultrasound didn't say a word about my placenta, but did say she was measuring 5 days behind my due date, but that's nothing to be concerned about.

So that was the reason behind this ultrasound. I wasn't going to complain about it though, most women only get one ultrasound in their pregnancies so I was ecstatic to be able to see my baby girl again before she actually gets here!

At my 20 week one, they did a little of the 4D ultrasound, but her umbilical cord was in her face the whole time so we didn't get any good pictures of her. This time, the 4D one was about all they used, and Macee was such a little poser! They took all her measurements first and said right now she weighs 2 lbs 9 oz, but couldn't really tell me how long she is. Everything is looking absolutely perfect. She's still measuring the same, 5 days behind, so I'm not expecting her to come anytime before January 24th, which is a week after my due date. And my placenta is exactly where it should be, which eased my mind.

After the ultrasound, I went up to meet with my doctor for my actual check-up. My blood pressure has been a little high the last 2 visits, but luckily it hasn't gone up any from last time, so my doctor wasn't too worried about it. Besides that, everything has been looking and feeling great!

Her nose isn't really like that, it was just squished, I think. And she had just finished yawning, so that kinda screwed up the picture.

She looks so perfect already!

Her little nose/profile is all ME!!! And the chubby cheeks have already started! Which is totally fine with me, I LOVE chubby babies!

I think in this one, the tech had just poked my belly, and she moved her hand on her forehead, and her lips kinda quivered.. She didn't want to be disturbed!

She was stretching back in the top picture, and yawning in the bottom! The yawning one is pretty freaky looking!

And, she has HAIR! I was bald until I was about 2 years old, so I'm excited to see how much hair she has, and what color it is! Me and Alex are COMPLETE opposites in the way we look.. I'm short, naturally red hair, green eyes, and pale. He's tall, dark eyes, dark hair, and nice olive skin. That is one of the things I am most excited about, is to see who she looks like more. I think she'll have more of my facial features, like my nose and cheeks, but her hair and skin will be more like Alex's. But, you never know!

Now I start going to the doctor every other week! I've only got 12 weeks left, it is so crazy how fast the last couple months have gone by! I just hope the next 3 will be just as fast, if not faster!

..Long Time Coming..

2010-10-25T19:50:00.000-06:00

So I've been debating on whether to talk about my past on here. Sometimes some people's blogs I read get a little too personal, but I get sick of writing the same stuff. Plus I figure not a lot of people read this anyways so it shouldn't really matter, it's more for my own memory.

So this pregnancy has been such an emotional rollercoaster for me. I've wanted to be a mom so unbelievably bad, for I can't remember how long. For those who don't know, I was married before Alex. I got married right out of high school..like 6 weeks after I graduated. His name was Ryan and we met working at Sizzler. This was probably the biggest mistake I have ever made in my life. I don't regret it, but it was still a mistake. I learned and matured so much from that 22 months of marriage to that man. I had to grow up fast. He was almost 10 years older than me, and I guess he thought he had authority over me. He had all the symptoms of being bi-polar, but never got help for it so he was never on any medications or anything. I felt like I was walking on eggshells the entire marriage. I never knew what would set him off and what wouldn't. After the first few months of marriage, he became very verbally and emotionally abusive, and I knew it was only a matter of time before it became physical. Luckily, I got out before it did.

This was going on while we were dating even, and looking back on it now, I don't know why I didn't run as fast and as far away as I could from him. But like I said, it made me grow up fast, and afterwards actually was a blessing in disguise. I knew what I wanted in a man after that, and I knew what warning signs to look for, and that helped me get away from a lot of bad guys while I was dating after my divorce.

And it helped me to know that Alex was the absolute right man for me, and that feeling has never ever changed.

Ryan and I found out I was pregnant the first time 5 days before we got married. I was ecstatic, I always knew I wanted to be a young mom, and Ryan had moved on from Sizzler and had a steady job that paid well, so we figured why not start right away on our family? The first 16 weeks went well, I was so sick though. Then one night, I started bleeding. After 6 hours in the ER, we find out that I had miscarried at about 12 weeks, but it took a month for my body to recognize it and start the miscarriage process.

I was devastated. Ryan, on the other hand, wasn't very religious or spiritual and he pretty much just told me to get over it. It wasn't a living thing, it didn't have a soul. That is when I knew things wouldn't work out with him.

But, being young and stupid, I stayed with him for another year and a half..and through another 2 miscarriages and one ectopic pregnancy.

For those counting, that means I had 4 pregnancies in a little over a year and a half, and under the age of 20. I had no idea what was wrong with me, the doctors could never figure it out. The ectopic pregnancy was the last straw on our marriage. That happened March 1st, 2008, and we separated on April 13.

So, you can kind of see why this pregnancy has been so emotional for me. I've tried my absolute hardest to not let Alex see me get emotional when I think about the bad things that can happen. This is the reason why we kept it a secret for the first 20 weeks. I hated telling people, and then literally the next day miscarrying. I was terrified when I found out I was pregnant. I knew I couldn't go through another miscarriage. It would kill me. Alex gave me a wonderful blessing when we found out, and that helped calm my nerves for a while. I went to the doctor for the first time in June, and they did blood work and background checks and stuff. This time though, since it was my 5th pregnancy with no successful ones, they ran a few extra tests. We come to find out that my progesterone levels were lower than normal, and this could easily have been the reason behind my 3 miscarriages.

Luckily, it is also easily treated with medication I had to take 2 times a day for the first 14 weeks.

Words cannot describe the relief I felt when I first felt her move, and every time I hear her heartbeat, and when I saw her on the ultrasound, and when we found out that it was a girl!! All of these things I had never experienced before, the amazing things about being pregnant. I had always related being pregnant with sorrow, pain, sadness, and never knowing what was going to happen.

Alex knew my past when we met, he knew my troubles with my pregnancies, and he has been absolutely amazing through this pregnancy. Every time I feel freaked out by something, like if I don't feel her move for a while, or if I just feel like something is wrong, he is right there to let me know everything is okay. He reminds me to say a prayer and to rely on our Heavenly Father, that he knows and will do everything that is right for me, and I have to trust that no matter what. And every time I do, Macee instantly kicks me or rolls over to let me know she's okay.

I am so thankful for the Gospel. I wasn't active while Ryan and I were married, and I know that was a sign to me that things weren't right. I need the Gospel in my life, and in the lives of my children. I need a husband that holds the Priesthood, who can give me and my children the blessing we need. Alex helped me get back to the church, and we were able to be sealed together in the temple. That to me, strengthened my testimony so much. Just knowing I could be forgiven and be given a second chance at a happy life and eternity helped my testimony grow almost instantly. I am so thankful and so excited to bring Macee into this world and to have her be raised in a happy, healthy family.

I have been writing this blog post for a while, and editing and deleting and re-writing things. It might be a little too personal, and some people reading it might not have known all this about me, but it does feel really good to get everything off my chest!

Well, here I am at 28 weeks. I get to have another ultrasound tomorrow, and I am so excited to see my baby Macee again! I can't wait to see how much she's grown and changed, and hopefully they do another 3D one so I can put a little face to this little dancer in my belly!

..Just A Little Update..

2010-09-29T16:44:00.001-06:00

So I have hit 24 weeks in my pregnancy! Everything has been going great so far, I'm finally out of my sickness (except for random days) and I'm now starting to get into the painful stage. Working has gotten a little harder, just having to be on my feet for 6 or 7 hours a day, and I'm hoping it doesn't get much worse, but I'm just kind of expecting it to anyways.

She has been moving and kicking like crazy! She knows when I'm about to eat something because she gets so excited and starts doing flips anytime I eat. I love feeling and seeing her move, it's such a comfort for me. Even though at 2 am it's not as cute, it's still an awesome feeling.

I go back to the doctor in 4 weeks and I get another ultrasound, which I am so excited to see my baby girl again!

Me at 24 weeks

I feel like I am huge for only 24 weeks, but I figure since I have a small torso, the only place I have to grow is out!

We haven't been up to much lately, I still have a hard time being out and doing a lot of active things. But we did get to go to the zoo with Alex's family, which was so fun for me because I haven't been to the zoo since I was probably 5 or 6 in kindergarten!

If I didn't do hair, I would definitely be doing something involving animals. I never really used to be an animal lover until I got my dogs, and that changed everything. I'm still not big on reptiles, but anything cuddly and furry, I fall in love with instantly. It kind of drives Alex crazy sometimes!

Us in front of the zoo

Surprise!!!

2010-08-30T15:14:00.000-06:00

So I didn't really have anything to update on for a while, but now I sure do!

We are pregnant with a little girl!!!

I am 20 weeks along, and the due date is January 17, 2011.

We are SO excited, I cannot wait to start shopping and getting ready for this little one!

Here I am at 20 weeks.. Half way there already!!

Here's her cute little face and hands with the 3D ultrasound

And she's definitely a GIRL!!!

I will definitely update my blog a lot more, now that I actually have something fun to write about!

Home Owners!!

2010-05-17T17:38:00.000-06:00

We are FINALLY home owners!!! Hooray!!!

We were able to finally close on Tuesday last week, exactly two weeks after our original closing date. We are all moved in, and now we just need to do the finishing touches, like painting, and buy our couch, kitchen table, and entertainment center, and then we weill be all set! It feels so awesome to finally be in our own house, and I'm so happy that I didn't give up, even though there were plenty of times when I wanted to! Once I get painted and everything set, I will put up pics!

Cali and Homeless-ness

2010-05-10T15:54:00.000-06:00

So I'll start with the fun stuff, before I start complaining..

Our vacation was AMAZING!!! We had so much, very deserved, fun! Starting in Vegas, we stayed at Planet Hollywood, which is by far the best hotel we've stayed at in Vegas so far!
Alex was convinced we'd get upgraded again, since we did on our honeymoon too. I told him not to get his hopes up, but as we're checking in, I was eating my words! The very nice man that checked us in said they randomly upgrade people and that we'd be pleasantly suprised as we walked in. Which we were more than suprised!!

This was the first thing we saw as we walked in our room.

This was the second thing we saw.. And I also kicked butt at foosball!

Our amazing bed.. I haven't slept that well in a long time!

Our view from our room..

We did the typical Vegas things, gambled a little (lost it all), shopped a little, and went to the buffet!

Then it was onto Cali!! When we got there on Friday, we just went and explored around Downtown Disney, and found out that it was only about a 5 minute walk from our hotel room to Disneyland, which was awesome!!

Our view from our balcony in Cali.

Got to meet Mickey! He kissed me right before that, but they didn't get the picture fast enough.

Alex and Captain Jack!

At the entrance.

I was SO happy I wasn't sick this time!!

Okay so now to the complaining...

We still haven't closed on our house. We most likely won't close till Friday of this week, which will be two and a half weeks over our original closing date. The thing that frusrates me the most, is when the people we're working with promise or tell us a date and then it never ends up happening, because of some little tiny legal thing that they failed to tell us needs to happen first. We could have closed on Friday, but since it's bank owned, they have to have their lawyers or someone look over all the documents, which take 48-72 hours, and they didn't get the docs till this morning. And it would've been okay, except for the fact that we had to be out of our apartment yesterday. So for now, we're living in my parent's camping trailer in their backyard!

Fun way to get back to reality after a vacation, right?

Yet another setback..

2010-04-28T14:09:00.000-06:00

So I am frustrated beyond belief. We were supposed to close yesterday on our house, and turns out we won't be able to until NEXT Wednesday AFTER we get back from vacation.

Our condo had been winterized since the owners didn't live there this winter. And we didn't know it had to be de-winterized until the inspections people came to inspect, and couldn't since the water didn't turn on. So they had to get someone out there to fix it, which took longer than expected, and ended up backing everything else up in the process. The inspections went well, there were only a few major things that needed to be fixed. Which didn't end up being fixed at all, even though they had a deadline of last Friday. We went through our final walk through on Monday and nothing had been done to it, besides the water being turned back on.

So, needless to say, I am done with this process. I am done careing, I am done worrying, I am just done.

I'm just going to pack my things, take my hubby, and run away to California and hide away with Mickey and Minnie..

They'll make everything better, right?

House update!

2010-04-22T16:23:00.000-06:00

Well as far as we know, everything is still set on us closing on Tuesday!! We got the inspection done this week and there were a few things wrong with it that the sellers have until tomorrow to fix, but nothing too big. Part of me is hoping the sellers go over our closing date because if they do, they'll owe me and Alex 100 bucks a day they go over! I wouldn't mind that one single bit! Ha ha..

But hopefully everything goes well and we'll get the keys on Wednesday, then on next Thursday we're going to Vegas and Disneyland for a week!!! I cannot wait, we've needed a vacation so freaking bad!

We're kind of re-enacting our honeymoon because well, ours didn't go as planned. We did go to Vegas and Disneyland for our honeymoon, but I was extremely sick with a sinus infection when we got to California, so we only went about a half day to Disneyland out of our 2 day pass we had. So this time around, I'm making sure we get our money worth and actually have fun!! And I'm really excited to stay in Vegas on the way down, because we're staying at Planet Hollywood, and it's attatched to the Miracle Mile Shops and that is like heaven to me! So I'll let Alex play in the casino for a bit while I go shopping!
What a wonderful vacation this will be.. and pics will come soon after we get home!

FINALLY!!!!!!

2010-03-22T22:25:00.000-06:00

Well, we finally got a house!!! We are so excited! Our closing date isn't until April 27th, and then we leave for Vegas and Disneyland 2 days later, so we really won't get to move in until about the second week of May. It still needs some major deep cleaning and painting in every single room, but overall, it's in pretty good condition!
It's a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom condo in Eagle Mountain, and I love it! Once we get paint and furniture in and everything, I'll post pictures as soon as I can! Here are some pictures just from our realtor's website...

This is the living room/dining room. The arch is my favorite thing in the entire house!!!

This is our kitchen..I'm so excited to finally be able to move around and cook for Alex in this!

And this is the master bedroom..And like I said before, it needs a ton of painting!

Frustration..

2010-03-12T17:16:00.000-07:00

For the last month or so, Alex and I have been looking into buying a condo. The $8,000 credit has been extended till the end of April, so we figured we'd take advantage of it while we can. And let me tell you, it is not a fun process!!!

We've been looking out in Eagle Mountain mostly. We just love the area out there and have a really good feeling of living out there. We've put three offers down on three different condos. The first one was a bank-owned one and it went to the highest and best bidder..which wasn't us.

The second one was great. In our price range, had everything we needed. And just like a lot of things, was too good to be true. Our offer got accepted, which was great! But turns out, the lady that owned it dropped her price too much, without thinking of all the closing things she would have to pay for, and it turned out it was considered a short sale, which are pains in the butt!

SO..We've put another offer in on another condo out there, and it's been the one I have loved the best. It needs major painting and putty work on the walls, but other than that it's in great condition. We're just waiting and waiting to hear back from the bank to see if we got it or not. Which patience really isn't a quality I posess... ha ha.

More to come on this subject when we hear more info!

Wow..

2010-02-23T21:09:00.000-07:00

I have gotten bad at this thing again!

Well, a quick run-down of the past couple months.. (nothing's new so it won't take long!)

December...

Christmas was great! We got to do a lot of running around on Christmas day, but it made it so much fun for our first married Christmas to get to see all of our families! We didn't get to have a very big one, because we were saving for Alex's tuition that was due two weeks after Christmas...great present, huh?

January...

Alex has been back to school since the beginning of January. He's doing great, even though he hates getting up that early to do his morning classes!

February...

We had a pretty mellow Valentine's Day. Alex gave me a pass to go get a pedicure, manicure, and facial..that I still haven't used. But it's the thought that counts!!

I'm still just working and doing my thing with hair and loving it! Two girls at my work just had their babies 2 weeks apart and it has made me crave a baby...like insanely bad!!! But we're still loving being able to do whatever we want, whenever we want, without dragging the whole house and kid with us, so it'll be a while till we have kids I think!

Something new for us is that we put an offer in on a condo in Eagle Mountain and should know by Thursday if we got it or not! It's so nice, and it'd be awesome to get out of this place we're in, out of renting, and into our own house! It's a 3 bedroom, 2 full bath 1300 sq. ft condo, with a walk in closet that I could live in!! We really hope we get it!

I don't have any pictures to post..I haven't been as camera-happy as I usually am! But I did get one of us bowling for our Valentine's Day date, and you'll notice that my hair is a little different than before! I showed a picture of my natural colored hair to Alex one day and he told me to go for it, so I took advantage of his opinion and did it! It was about an 8 hour process over 2 days, but we got it to look pretty close to my natural color. It's so different, but I love it! It was such a good change!

Temple Square and Our First Christmas Tree!

2009-12-13T21:16:00.002-07:00

On Friday, Alex and I celebrated our 6 month wedding anniversary and our 1 year anniversary of when we got engaged! I want to start our family tradition by going up to Temple Square every year on December 11th, since that's the day and the place we got engaged. We went to dinner before to Texas Roadhouse, which was incredible!!! Dallin and Lauren came with us and it was so fun to get out and have a double date with them!

I took a pic of the temple, and Alex breathed right next to me at the same time..turned out pretty cool!

Me and my hubby in front of the temple we got married in!

In front of the same nativity scene that we got engaged in front of!

Just us again.

After we got home from Temple Square, Alex told me he bought us a Christmas tree! I was so excited because he said he didn't want to decorate for Christmas this year and it made me sad, since it's our first married Christmas. This is what he found...

He's so proud of himself.

I got to put the only ball on it.

It's an actual Charlie Brown tree..it had Charlie Brown on the box and everything. Alex thought he was being pretty funny...which he's right. :)

The Holy War!

2009-12-05T12:40:00.004-07:00

Alex and I were able to get the BYU Student All-Sport Pass for all the sports this season. This included all the home games for BYU football, which also included the biggest game of them all..

THE HOLY WAR!!!

It was the most intense game I have ever been to! I never realized how mean people can be in this rivalry, until I went to this game! Most of the people around us were okay, except for the one guy sitting next to me. He was a BYU fan, but when one of the Ute players was hurt, he started cheering about it! I couldn't believe someone could be that disrespectful that they would cheer when a person is hurt. It doesn't matter if it's on the other team, you still need to be respectful of that person!

Anyways! Other than the guy next to me, the game was a blast!! It was so insane! And the game itself was just incredible. I love close games like that, even though BYU was a little frustrating for giving up that lead they had! The last play of the game went by so fast, and then all the fans rushed the field, which made everything so chaotic! We were brave and rushed the field with everyone else, but getting down there was a little scary, with everyone pushing to get down the stairs. I'm suprised nobody fell!

We got to see and congratulate a lot of the players while we were down there, Alex was so happy!!

He kept saying "I patted Andrew George on the shoulder...I patted Max Hall on the head!!"

Before the game, everyone in the stadium got these flags.

The final score!! And Andrew George being thrown around by the crowd.

Us on the field, with the scoreboard.

Not sure who this was, but I though it was a pretty good picture!

Max Hall is my hero.

Sick Family

2009-11-20T22:55:00.000-07:00

The last couple weeks have been rough...

Alex was sick with a really bad cold all last week. Now I'm sick with something I got from his cousin, Rylie. It feels like something I got right before we got married, which turned into a sinus infection and I'm praying it's not one of those again! Every time I get one, I can't even move without it hurting!

Today my cousin got married and I felt so bad, but we didn't go because I am sick, I don't want to give it to anybody else!

Last night, me and my mom went with all of Alex's family to a girl's night to see New Moon! We got to see it the night before it premiered and it was so amazing!!! New Moon is my favorite book out of the Twilight series so I was so excited to see this movie, and it didn't disappoint me at all! Especially since myself and everyone I know thinks Alex looks like Jacob...which I think is a huge compliment but Alex doesn't think so, just because it's someone from Twilight.

Amanda (sis-in-law) Sheri, my mom, and me with our vampire teeth we got in our little goodie bags before the movie started!

Best Friends Birthday Dinner!

2009-11-18T21:16:00.000-07:00

My best friend's, Manda, birthday and mine are exactly a week apart. So every year, we try to do a dinner to celebrate both of them at the same time. This year we went to Pirate Island Pizza. It's pretty much a pirate themed Chuck-E-Cheese, but it was fun!!

There were a bunch of us, probably around 16 or so, so it was a little hard to talk to everyone but we all still had a great time together! It was fun to get a big bunch of us together and eat and play the arcade games.

Best friends since 2004!

Me and my pirate hubby.

Dal and Lauren!....And Alex trying to sneak in.

Ben and Manda!

Dani's Birthday Weekend!

2009-11-08T19:16:00.004-07:00

Yesterday was my birthday and it was the most fun birthday I've had in such a long time!! It started on Wednesday when we went to Iggy's with my family for my birthday and my parent's 25th anniversary. It's so good to get everyone together for a night out!

Then Friday we went to dinner with everyone from Alex's family for mine and Sheri's (Alex's mom) birthday. There were about 15 of us and the service sucked but the food was sooooooooo good! We went to this Mexican place that I'm not sure of the name..

After that, Alex and I went over to our friend's, Dallin and Lauren, house to play their new Wii and I have never laughed that hard watching people play video games!! We got done playing around 1 in the morning and then to celebrate my birthday with them, we went to IHOP at about 2 in the morning! I'm still trying to recouperate from staying up that late!

Saturday, which was my actual birthday, we went to my grandma's house for the November birthdays. My grandma makes the absolute best burritos, I could eat a million of them! Then it was off to the Jazz game!

Our seats before the game started.

Us SO excited to watch the Jazz!

Someone dunking the ball for practice...not sure who it was though.

Even though they lost to the Sacramento Kings, we still had a blast!! And now we're on our way to go play games at my brother's house with my family.

It has been an awesome week/weekend and thanks to everyone who was there to share it with me!!!

Since the wedding...

2009-11-06T18:40:00.000-07:00

So I decided to get back into the blogging world, even though my first round of it didn't go so well...

Starting with the fantastic wedding details..

The wedding day was amazing!! The temple was incredible and it still feels like it was yesterday that we were sealed. I was so incredibly sick that whole week, I'm still not sure if it was stress or just my luck but on the wedding day I couldn't eat a single thing and I was sure I was going to throw up in the temple at one point or another, but I never did!

It was pretty much a monsoon outside when we were all done and ready to go take pictures, so we had to wait about 20 minutes before it cleared up to go outside and my dress was so disgusting after taking pictures. But it cleared up just long enough for us to get some gorgeous shots! And then on our way to our luncheon just on the temple grounds is when it started to pour again and it never did stop after that.

The reception was so awesome! The Southworth Hall was such an amazing place to do it and from what I heard the chocolate fountains were so good...I'm still bitter that I was too sick to even eat chocolate!

We went on our honeymoon to Vegas and Disneyland and I ended up getting a sinus infection while in California so we only went a half day to Disneyland out of the 2 day pass we had! I felt HORRIBLE for Alex! The day after we went to Disneyland, I slept till about 4 in the afternoon! I just over did it that day. So the honeymoon could've gone a little better but it was good just to get away!

Now we're living in Provo and Alex is about to start his semester back to school in January. I'm still working at Mastercuts and hopefully will never leave there! I love that place and all the girls I work with!

We've been able to do lots of fun things around Utah lately..

We've been going to BYU football and basketball games with the season passes Alex just had to have :)

Us at the BYU football home opener.

We've also done a few little vacations..Idaho, Wendover, St. George, Mesquite. Just nice little get-aways for the weekend!

Us golfing in St. George a couple weeks ago. I got Alex a tee time at a really nice golf course for his birthday. It was so fun!

And we had a fun Halloween..Alex dressed up as Cal Naughton Jr. from Talladega Nights and his cousin Rylie was Ricky Bobby! I didn't get a picture of them together though, I was sad! I had to work Halloween night so I got to dress up with the girls I work with and hand out candy to Trick-Or-Treaters that came around the mall.

Darcie, Blakley, me, and Katie.

And tomorrow is my birthday!! I'm turning 22! So this week and weekend have been filled with dinners and parties and all sorts of fun stuff! Alex got me tickets to the Jazz game tomorrow and we are so excited to go!

So not much has happened since we got married but we have been loving our life together!!

So...

2009-03-07T21:21:00.000-07:00

So I said I was horrible at these things! I told Alex I made a blog and he freaked out because "Everyone has one of those stupid things! I don't want to be like everyone else!"--direct quote from Alex. So just to annoy him, I'm going to keep it! Ha ha ha. The wedding plans are going great. We've kind of hit the stall point where it's too early to do anything else besides the temple and reception center reservations. I found my dress and it is GORGEOUS!!! I bought if off Craigslist, which I would suggest anyone do, because my dress was originally $1000, and I got it for $300! The only thing that's stressing me out right now is getting the guest list for the luncheon together...such a pain in the butt!! But that's about all I can do right now..I think the next thing will be talking to a photographer and getting that stuff all set.

First Blog...

2009-02-11T22:22:00.000-07:00

So I finally broke down and made a blog. I usually don't keep up with these things very well, but I'm going to try! Well, Alex and I were finally able to set the date for our wedding! The big day is June 11th in the Salt Lake temple. Now comes the fun part of planning and planning and more planning! But luckily I've got plenty of time and plenty of people to help me!

~*~ Dani ~ Alex ~ Macee ~*~