Life moves so fast

Has it really been three years??  On Feb 24 we celebrated our 3 year anniversary.  it was a low key celebration, but that's what happens when you get married in the middle of the semester and your wife is 4 months pregnant. In those 3 years we have traveled a ton, bought a house and a puppy, have a baby on the way, and experienced more happiness and love than I could have ever imagined! I really couldn't ask for a better life or a better husband.
A week later my little Roman turned 1! He's no longer the little puppy that would have to stop and take a rest on the way to the mailbox, or afraid to jump off of anything higher than 5 inches. He has now graduated to being able to run a marathon, eat everything in sight, steal clothes, shoes, keys, wallets etc just to watch me waddle around in confusion. But he is very protective of me and really a sweetheart. Oh how I love my little fluff ball!
And on top of all of that I just barely turned a quarter of a century/halfway to 50. It was probably the greatest bday I've had yet. I think I'll turn 25 every year from now on :)

Watch out world! Baby Pollock is on the way!

Rewind to Halloween night when we sat at home and passed out candy while watching What To Expect When You're Expecting. Ya I had no idea I was watching the next 9 months of my life! A few days later I found myself staring at that little plus sign in complete awe.  I always imagined being able to tell Andrew in a clever way that we were pregnant and I never imagined he'd be more calm in the situation.  Instead it went like this:

Me running downstairs with the stick
Andrew: staring at it for a very long time, and finally saying, "I don't get it."
Me: "There is a plus sign man! A plus sign!"
Andrew: "Take another one!!"
4 tests later... My ego is definitely prego!

There is nothing quite like the moment you find out a human is growing inside of you and hearing the heart beat for the first time is enough to make anyone cry! Even though the past few months have been an exhausting blur with my head in the toilet for most of it, I cannot wait for July 7 to be here so we can meet our sweet little baby!  I couldn't be happier that we are finally going to have our own little family and I get to teach the little offspring everything I know!



By the way we found out.......

 :)

Disneyland 2012!

By some miracle I talked Andrew into taking a last minute Disneyland trip for Labor Day.  It was bloody hot, and busy but oh so worth it! I fell completely in love with Cars Land and can't wait to go back!  Here are some pics of our two day Disney adventure.

First ride of the day, Autopia! Can't you just see the crazy road rage look in his eyes??

You HAVE to get a tea cup picture

Spooky Tower of Terror Mansion.  Not sure why the picture turned out like this, but it fit the atmosphere!

Alice in Wonderland Tea Party!

Before we left Cali Andrew found this Honduran restaurant called La Ceiba.  We decided to check it out and they made him his favorite meal baleadas.  He was in heaven!

Thoughts

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.  - Mark Twain

Puppy!

Holy bloggage! I am so far behind so this should be fun.

Let me start clear back on Fathers Day.. when Andrew became a first time father to our little puppy Rome!  It was Father's Day Eve around midnight, I was falling asleep to a movie and Andrew suddenly wakes me up to show me a picture of a puppy he found on ksl.  He being the extreme impulsive person he is said we should go get him right away.  I looked at the time and said there is no way I am calling these people at midnight and I'm tired!  But then he showed me the ksl post that said, "we stay up until 3 a.m. and we would love it if the puppy were gone tonight!" haha that's not even a joke. So we talked about it for a minute and I agreed to make the drive to north Salt Lake to see him.  As soon as we pulled up the couple came out with the little white heavenly ball of fluff and I was immediately sold! He was the cutest thing I had ever seen! He was only $100 too so he became our little bargain puppy and we rode off into the night sky... jk we actually drove straight to Petsmart because we had absolutely nothing to take care of a dog.  

Ever since I can remember I have wanted a white fluffy dog and now I have one and I am completely obsessed with him! We went through about one hundred names before we settled on Rome. I was half asleep and mentioned Romeo and Andrew said that was the gayest thing he has ever heard, and then Rome just kind of stuck.  Now I have become one of those crazy dog people and take a ton of pictures of him, let him sleep on my bed, let him sit on my lap while I drive, talk about him like he's my baby, and I would put him in my purse if he weren't so big, and I will put him in outfits when Andrew is out of town lol. 

He is such a fun little addition to our family.  Andrew says he bought him so that I wouldn't want a real baby for a while (not working by the way) and I think he bought him so that he could have one more day in the year to get presents. Either way he's the best/cutest dog in the world!!!

He definitely needs a haircut! But isn't he a muffin?!

Home Sweet Home

We've been living in our house for about three weeks now and I can officially say that everything is put away and it is clean.. for at least a few more hours.  Andrew even managed to put only one hole in the wall!  Accomplishment!  
I must say I have never spent so much time at Home Depot in my whole life than I have this past month.  I even asked for a gift card to Home Depot for my birthday.. what??  We have already started a project in the bathroom that I cannot wait to get done!  It is so much fun to be able to make things look exactly as I want, and its going to look so sweet!  Every day my mind runs wild with the changes I want to make to this place, especially getting rid of wallpaper.. I am beyond hate for wallpaper right now.  I don't think Andrew is prepared for my list of projects, but so far he's done an A+ job at going along with it.  Although he's trying to bring all of his dressers and nightstands (yes there are multiple) and "lucky" rabbit furs into our bedroom, I have to remind him that the man cave is down the hall and the bedroom is the lady cave.  We're still working on that one!
So far our ward seems like a really great place.  Everyone is so nice and I think we will fit in nicely.  I've acutally been able to enjoy relief society.  For the past long while I've been in primary, although I do love the primary, it has been fun to get to know people my age and all of the neighborhood ladies. We have some really great neighbors too that we have already become friends with.  


Our favorite things so far:
using the grill
laying out on the patio
sliding down the banister
being able to park in a garage
having plenty of storage space
the loft
the bathroom sink (its a bowl sink that sits on top of the countertop and has a waterfall faucet, Andrew picked it out.  Its pretty awesome)
having a yard (I love this because Andrew really loves doing all of the yard work)
the lawn mower (that I guess feels like its floating on air)


I also really love that it finally feels like we're not pretending to play house anymore.  Having a real house, a real yard, and so much needed space is a great feeling.  This is like the third time we've moved in two years, so I am loving the stability of knowing that we'll be here for a while, we'll be in this ward for a long period of time, and we'll make really great freinds.  We are so blessed to have been able to find our perfect home and its going to be a perfect place to start a family.  I'm not announcing anything... yet!


 

Happy Birthday to me!

What is the best birthday gift you ask?  A house! thats right we are now the proud owners of a perfect little home. We're going back to the west side where we belong. 
I call it my little gingerbread house.  The keys landed into our hot little hands last night and we couldn't be more excited! Its a very surreal feeling but we can't wait to say goodbye to apartment life.  I can already picture the summer tanning sessions on the deck, the bbqs, new traditions and one day a little family of our own.  Yay for houses and birthdays :)