Happy Birthday Queen Elizabeth II!!

On Saturday we went with the Thueson's to the Trooping the Colour, which is the annual Queen's birthday parade. It was so fun to see the Queen!! That is her in the green in the carriage. Thanks for the picture Kevin and Jill! (I was a little slow with the camera and all you can see of the Queen is a blurry green figure)

At the Royal Courts of Justice where the barristers still wear the old wigs. Too bad Ty doesn't do litigation, I think he'd look great with long white curls.

Jill and I waiting anxiously for the Queen

Reasons to celebrate!!

My parents celebrated their 29th wedding anniversary yesterday!! They've been in love since the 7th grade and are still going strong.Happy Anniversary!! We love you!

And speaking of celebrating...my ward gave me a baby shower this week!! Thanks to everyone who came and helped put it together, it was so much fun. I'm so mad, I had my camera in my bag but never got it out...so no pictures. But we got some really cute outfits (that I still have laid out on my couch because I love walking past them and imagining our our baby wearing them) and some awesome books. I really should take some pictures of the cute things we got and post them. During the shower, everyone wrote down some advice and then read it out. My favorite piece of advice is to have Tyler wake up in the night and change the babe's diaper before I feed him. He was thrilled about that one.

While everyone was giving their advice it kind of hit me for the first time that I'm not just going to be pregnant forever but that I'm actually going to have a baby to take care of. And the distinct words came to mind "Oh crap...I have no idea what I'm doing." Then that night we watched "Juno" which we loved (thanks Jill) and I cried during the most random parts of the movie- especially during the giving birth scene...am I really going to do that?

Spain

Last weekend we got cheap flights to Spain. It was a blast. The trip started off with a bang when we arrived at our hostel in the pouring rain and the doors were locked with no lights on at all. Someone eventually showed up to let us in...apparently they don't let anything stop their afternoon siestas.

We went to Pamplona, the city where they do the running of the bulls. I can't believe people really do this.

Training on the street where the bulls run for next month when I come and do it 7 months pregnant.

Spanish Paella....the best meal ever

San Sebastian, the city on the northern coast where we stayed

The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao



Ty at a Spanish Tapas Bar

Surfing in San Sebastian

...Not surfing in San Sebastian

Off for a productive day of work...

Tyler had to leave early for work this morning to go to some meeting. As I was eating breakfast, he walked into the kitchen and took a pill. His allergies have been horrible lately with the hot weather we've had here. I asked him what it was and where he found it. He said he just found a single pill in our medicine box that said Benadryl. I said, "wait, what did it look like?!?". He said green and I just started laughing. I went in and got the 2 boxes we have of benadryl- one that says in big bold letters non drowsy and the other that is a box with a little moon and stars on it. Well, the single green pill that he randomly found and swallowed without further research had fallen out of the night time box. I couldn't stop laughing as he walked out the door. I hope he makes it through the meeting...and the whole day! At least I don't have to worry about him driving anywhere!

My friend, the genius.

Congratulations to Nanette for getting accepted to the U of U Law School!! She basically took the LSAT for fun and just applied to the U to keep her options open and of course she got accepted. She hasn't decided if she'll go yet, but it's such an accomplishment to get in. I think she may be telling the U, as Derek Zoolander would say, "she's complimented....but not interested"- for this year at least. We will see!
It was always fun growing up with a genius like Nanette. Especially around the time when ACT scores came out. To avoid telling my own scores, I always mentioned the fact that she got a perfect score on the reading section. I will never forget Nanette reading a book in the cafeteria during lunch and at recess in elementary school. And everywhere we've traveled together, we always would try to pack as light as possible, but somehow each time she finished a book- in record timing, she would pull another one she brought out of her pack. I think she can read faster than anyone I know.

Congrats Nanette, I'm so proud of you!

"When a man is tired of London he is tired of life..."

Last night I met Ty after work and we went to Evensong at St. Paul's Cathedral. It usually costs 20$ to get in, so we'd resigned ourselves to the fact that we'd only just admire the outside. But thanks to the ingenuity of Betsy and my parents, they found out that if you go there or to Westminster Abbey at 5pm during Evensong, you can get in for free...good tip for next time you visit London. It is such a beautiful cathedral!

The quote of the subject goes on to say:

" I can never understand why Londoners fail to see they live in the most wonderful city in the world. It has more history, finer parks, better theaters, more museums, leafier squares, safer streets, and more courteous inhabitants than any other large city in the world..."

-Bill Bryson

Not that I'm trying to recruit more visitors, but this is really a great city and I think everyone should come here at least once in their lifetime. I love it more and more every day.

Missing my sisters....

Heidi gave me a bon voyage package when I moved here and it had this 'grow a sister' in it. On one of her last nights in London, Betsy and I were missing Heidi so we decided to 'grow a Heidi' and do face masks for all of us. Just the 3 of us waiting for our masks to dry...you can't really see it, but the 'grow a sister' has face mask on too.
You can't tell from the picture, but the package claimed that the 'sister' would get up to ten times the size- as you can tell, this was not the case.

Now I need more 'grow a sisters' to hold me over until we visit Utah this summer!