We are Pregnant! :)

So Dustin and I decided that we would wait until our first appointment to tell everyone, but I have been so excited to announce it! :) :) A couple of weeks ago, I noticed my period was late. I decided to just wait it out, because I was sure I wasn't pregnant. Then, at a class field trip to the Oscar Meyer bus, all the teachers were given free hot dogs. I ate mine, and a couple minutes later puked it up in front of the entire class (eww!!!)! That's when I had some suspicions! A day or two later, I told Dustin I wanted to test! He is always the one that holds me back and lets me wait for my period to come! But this time my period was late and he was still hesitant! (Because trust me, I've thought I was pregnant before and turned out not to be!!! lol)

Anyway, we purchased a dollar store test...why waste money

right? Within a couple minutes I was screaming, "IT's POSITIVE!!!" He was still skeptical even after seeing it, and we ran to Walgreens to buy a more 'reliable' test! And this was our result:

After this test he said, "I am gonna be a daddy!" It was so touching to see him so excited!

We told a couple of people right away but decided to wait until the first appointment to tell everyone! So here I am, happy as can be, tape on my arm from getting my blood drawn at my first appointment! We are really happy and excited to meet our baby who is due November 14th! So I am about 7 1/2 weeks right now but I've been rounding up to 8 :)

So far, I have been quite sick, but my sickness only started about a week and a half ago! Before that I was bragging that I hadn't gotten morning sickness yet, HAHA. Now I am regretting saying anything because it hit like a mack truck! :) :)

We are soooo excited to meet you in November, little one!!

(P.s. I think it's a boy! So if mother's intuition is right...)

Our Dinner with the Lindstroms

Dustin's mission friend, Justin Curnutt, came in to town with his wife and 3 month old baby Dominic and stayed with us so we decided to all get together with the Lindstroms (Dustin's mission president and his wife) and have dinner! We went to Red Robin and had a great time talking about the mission, our life now, and more! :) It was my first time meeting the Lindstroms, though when Dustin was on his mission I had brief correspondence with President Lindstrom to ask permission to send a surprise to Dustin. I also got to meet Justin and Ashley, and it was wonderful to get to meet them. We had a lot of fun! Sunday morning we had crepes and watched movies while Ashley went to her class. It was a great weekend!!!

Dustin's Turn

My Nephews' Banquet

So Katie my sister called me and asked me if I could be a substitute father for Dominic and Riley this week and help them decorate cakes for their scout dinner banquet. So Dominic wanted to do a cake with the Superman logo on it. I have had some experince decorating cakes so I thought that with a little coloring and the two of us together we could do it. :) It was a lot more work than I thought it was going to be. I was sweating, (not too unusual if you know me) trying to get all the colors mixed, and trying to keep Riley away from the frosting. After we finished Dominic's cake we thought that it looked pretty good, not too bad for free hand. Up close you couldn't tell that it was an "S" for superman, but farther away it looked good.Riley's cake was a little more interesting. We were pushed for time to get the cake out of the oven in time to make it to the banquet on time with the cake decorated. Riley wanted to do something a little more unique, so we looked up on the internet what the letter "R" was in the Egyptian alphabet. When it came time to decorate the cake, (pulling out of the freezer hoping that it had cooled enough) we couldn't get Riley to stop eating all the frosting and licking all the spoons and things. :) He said that he wanted the cake cut into the shape of the Egyptian letter, so we did. It looked like a football, so that made it a little easier. Needless to say we made it with both cakes decorated to the banquet. Dominic got the most "Super" cake and Riley got the most "Unique" cake awards. All in all it was fun experience hanging out with them and decorating cakes. :) My Sister Katie has some funny pictures and videos that I am sure she is going to put up on her blog very soon. Also we hope to be getting some more pictures up of Lynds and I here soon!

Updates in our lives :)

Well, it's been a while since I posted any updates! I have misplaced my camera but when I find it I assure you there will be pictures! We have been busy bees in the Wright household!

Dustin has been able to travel for work a little in the last month which he enjoys. He's become quite technically savvy which is cool, and he is faster at typing than me now! :) He's gained a lot of good job skills while working with the computer company. It's awesome to see him grow!

We both are still 'in progress' with our health. We joined the same gym and find it's easier to go with the other's motivation. I love that we can take on that challenge together instead of having to go it alone. My weight loss has stalled for the time being, but I am hoping it will pick up again soon. I seem to be sitting comfortably within the same 5 lbs or so, but it's high time for me to get back in to gear! I have vowed I will not go off for the holidays again as this has been the main cause of the stalling!! :)

I am taking a class right now toward my childcare licensing, it's called "Tearless Discipline". It makes my work days long (15 hours) but it is good to have under my belt and it's worth it to know more about the right ways to raise a family, etc! I love my job and I'm happy to have a job I enjoy that has some awesome benefits! :)

We are also excited to think about purchasing a home toward the end of the year. Dustin still likes to car shop even though he knows he won't be getting one anytime soon. lol!

In the last month we were able to see Jenae's wedding down in Utah. It was great, though short unfortunately. We got to see our niece and nephews who have all grown so much! It's great to be able to love on nieces and nephews when we don't have children of our own yet :)

Anyway, I will be posting pics soon! Love you all!

Vincente :)

We watched Katie's beautiful baby, Vincent, the other day and it was so fun :) He is such a doll!

Christmas!

We were excited to celebrate Christmas this year. It was our second Christmas as a married couple, but considerably better than last Christmas! We each bought each other presents, and then went to the dollar store and got 10 things each for our stockings! We opened our gifts on Christmas Eve, then headed over to my parent's house for celebrations.

I got an IPOD Nano (YAY!!), A spa gift certificate!!, and more! Duzzy got some of the movies he wanted, cologne, a watch, and more :) We also put a bunch of silly gifts in our stockings which were fun to open :) At my parent's house we had an authentic Mexican meal with my parent's friends and on Christmas day we had an american meal.

It was all very fun and relaxing! We look forward next year to celebrating the holidays in our new house, woo hoo :) We wish everyone a very happy New Year and hope 2009 brings you a lot of joy and that you accomplish the things you hope to! Dustin and I want to double our efforts and work on our health this year :) We also want to work on getting everything in order to buy house and we are saving $$ so we can return to Peru around the fall of 2010 ! :)

Merry late Christmas everyone :)

Thanksgiving!

Sorry this has taken so long!! We have been busy busy.

So for Thanksgiving we made Sandy's famous rolls, well, DUSTIN made her famous rolls. They were delicious!!! He was a perfectionist about it, it was so cute :)

This is us on Thanksgiving day, it was a wonderful day! Those are tests in my hand, you guys all know that story. Anyway, we had a wonderful, relaxing day. It wasn't as we had originally planned but it was wonderful nonetheless!

Dustin had a great time picking up the pies with my dad from Marie Callendars (Mmmmm) and helping out in general. We all mingled, drank sparkling cider, and played Scrabble. It was so fun. This is my dad and Dustin!

My mom and I had a great time chatting and enjoying our Thanksgiving in their brand new house! It's gorgeous!

My brother Jared was there too, which was a wonderful blessing. My mom had a fun time joking around and french braiding his long 'do'.

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday!