Baby Baby Baby

I am now 24 weeks along and I'm definitely feeling VERY pregnant. 

At first Steven and I had a hard time feeling like my pregnancy was real and a hard time feeling connected to the baby. Now, Steven is constantly talking to the baby and I'm so ready to hold him! I guess it helps that the baby is constantly kicking me because it feels very real now.
We MAY have decided on a name but I feel like it's such a scary thing to name another person so I don't want to officially say it's his name until he's born probably. For right now though, we are thinking his name is:

Bentley Michael Drake

Both Steven and I have always liked the name Bentley but I'm still having hesitation with the name. However, we do know his middle name will be Michael because it's after Steven's little brother that passed away as a baby.

I have loved seeing Steven as a dad now and I'm so grateful that my son gets to have him as his daddy. I hope that our baby is exactly like his daddy, that would be such a wonderful blessing! Steven is so endearing, kind, loving, thoughtful, extremely handsome, hilarious and he's my absolute best friend. It feels as though I've known him my entire life and yet I have no idea how I ever truly lived without him before. Seriously, baby Drake and I are the luckiest people alive to have such a wonderful man in our lives.

I love my little family, I could not ask for more.

Surprise!

I haven't posted at all lately and partially it's because I am super busy but mostly it's because I didn't want to let the cat out of the bag. 

This is the cat:

Steven and I are so thrilled! 

We are 14 weeks (3.5 months) pregnant. We are extremely nervous but mostly just grateful, grateful that we have baby Drake in our lives now.

((A huge thanks to Kelsey for taking these pictures for us))

Texas

(This post is very late....because I have a busy life and don't blog every day)

Steven and I went to Texas for Christmas and spent lots of quality time with the family. 

We made tons of Bunuelos and Empanadas and played lots of games!

It was so hard for us to come back to Utah to real life but thankfully

we got to come back to more family and spent some time with Steve's family.

On our way back to SLC we gave up our seats for $800's worth of flight vouchers and $80 worth of airport food vouchers. We flew for 12 hours though! We flew from Dallas to Minneapolis, from Minneapolis to Los Angeles and then from Los Angeles finally back to Salt Lake. Needless to say, we were extremely exhausted but at least we got to fly first class on every plane....free full meals and movies?? Any day!

(I look really tired in this picture because I was)


Oh and my husband is very handsome and he likes to be thoughtful.

BIRTHDAY BOY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE MOST HANDSOME MAN OUT THERE!

I'm eternally grateful for the birth of this man. He's been the biggest blessing to my life. Thank you Bonnie and Richard for having such a wonderful son and for raising him well. Especially Bonnie, for going through what mothers go through to bear and raise children. I hope to one day be even half the mom that you are.

Steven and I are going up to Salt Lake to celebrate his birthday with Steve's parents and spend the weekend at their house. Ever since we got back from spending the weekend there for Thanksgiving break we have been SO homesick to go back. And then, in one week we get to go to our other home in Texas!