Hayley's 28th birthday

So remember how I was kind of sick, and Mason was getting over being sick, and I was kind of whiny in my random facts post a couple weeks ago? Well once I finished work that day, things got better :) Sean left for the class he TA's for around 4:45, as I was finishing work, and said, "There is a new dress downstairs for you, put it on and be ready in an hour!" So he came home, I put on my new dress, and we went out to celebrate my birthday!

 

(Almost) 9 months out!

P.S. $15 dress from Walmart. Love! 

We went to Red Robin (umm, hello free birthday burger!) and ordered some cheese sticks and fried zucchini, our entrees, and an oreo milkshake. Soooo worth the extra calories. Hey, it was my birthday!

The only bad part about dinner was the bridal party in the booth next to us that smelled like smoke and swore like sailors. And the restaurant manager was standing flirting (or trying to flirt) with them the entire time. Ah well, at least our food was great.

The BEST birthday present ever! I've been wanting something to track exactly how many calories I burn while working out, that was more accurate than the machines at the gym, and after seeing a few friends with this one, Sean got me one! I love it!

The other BEST birthday present ever: how sweet is this little book? Sean found it at this little boutique and I leave it random places for him to find and then he fills out a few pages and then I read them. Love it! (Ladies, tell your husbands about it. It is such a sweet gift... and mother's day is coming up!)

I also got this really pretty nail polish from Sean (maybe from Mason? he's not really old enough to understand gift giving...) but I love it. Looks like my favorite Easter candy - Robin's Eggs :) Mine is the Oh Splat! color, but they have a lot of cool options.

It ended up being a great birthday! Thanks to Sean for my awesome gifts. He's fantastic :)

Thankful Thursday 4/17

-Thankful for our tax return, and for it boosting our savings up again.

- Thankful that it's finals week, and Sean can help with Mason most of the week. I'm getting done with work by 3pm and its great!!

- Thankful for WIC, and that I don't have to pay for formula out of pocket. Really wanted to breastfeed but that didn't work out, and I'm glad there are resources to help pay for the expensive, hypoallergenic formula.

- Thankful for KSL deals, and the night away Sean and I are going to get tomorrow! Happy (two months late) anniversary to us! And thankful for Sean's family for helping us with Mason so we can go.

- Thankful for a happy, healthy, hilarious little baby boy. He has figured out that fake laughing will make us laugh, which makes him laugh, and keeps us in a laughing cycle for a few minutes :)

Besties and bumps and bruises

Now that I am working again, it's no secret that my days can be rather boring. Sometimes the most exciting thing I do is wash my face. Or go to the grocery store for diapers or sweet potato puffs. But the last week I actually did some exciting things!

Tuesday was a particularly exciting day: I had not one, but two visitors! First, my wonderful friend Ally was in town, and she and her mom came over and hung out and chatted for about an hour. Ally and I used to live next door to each other in college, and we loved playing dumpster ball (a.k.a. throwing our full garbage bags over the balcony and trying to land them in the dumpster. Sometimes we missed...). Now she lives in Northern California with her husband and they are expecting a little boy in July! Mason was so cute, he kept crawling to Ally and putting his hand on her baby bump. He knew that there was a good friend in there!

After they left, Mason went down for a nap, then about when he woke up my friend Nicole and her baby boy, Bentley, came over! Nicole and I worked together for about 7 or 8 months, and our babies are a few months apart. They were so cute together, smiling and giggling at each other.

 

Getting two babies to look at the camera=impossible.

Also, Bentley is 3 months younger, but Mason is smaller since he moves around all dang day.

This weekend was a good one for bumps on the head apparently too. Poor Mason had a good go at this. On Friday he fell off the bed and hit his head on the dresser, then Sunday he slipped in the tub and has a little shiner on his left eye. And we ran out of Advil Saturday night, so no relief for him. Poor guy. What a trooper, even without pain meds he still put on a happy face most of the time.

 

There is a bruise under his eye and a red mark right above his eyelid

 

Scrape on his head, and a bruise on his forehead. Poor guy

In other news, I went through a lot of the PA schools in the country (90 of them to be exact) and listed what classes Sean would need to get in to each one. There are a lot that are going to get crossed off because some of them have ridiculous requirements (like 9 different credits of psychology/sociology), but there are quite a few that he will be able to apply to and probably have a fighting chance of being accepted once he finishes his prerequisites in December. Sadly, some of the applications are due in September or October (like Duke's for example) so we have a lot to do this summer: GRE prep course and the actual exam, medical terminology, and a couple of classes. Then in the fall he will finish up two more classes and then we will finish applications over Christmas break. Woo! We are so excited to possibly be starting grad school next fall!

What a birthday!

I wish that title meant I had an awesome, incredible, amazingly fun birthday. But alas, that is not the case. I've had a cold for the last few days that decided to be extra awful today, I had to work my 4 hours (even though I technically called in sick: my conscience got the better of me). Sean and Jenna are asleep while I work = totally trying to keep the jealousy monster at bay. Oh and I'm turning 28. Only 730 days to the big 3-0...ugh. But as I sit here, I can't help but feel blessed (and stuffy). I have so many wonderful things in my life and I wouldn't trade a rainy, sick, still-have-to-work day for anything. And hey, I'm not pregnant this year, which means my stomach/appetite won't be halted at Red Robin tonight.

Anyway, I thought it would be fun to do 28 random facts about myself. Hopefully I can come up with that many in my delirious state...

1. I have never broken a bone, not even a toe. Nor have I ever had a bad enough sprain to merit crutches.

2. Whenever I run (or play a sport that requires running: basketball, soccer, football) I have to start out really careful because my ankles don't warm up very fast. Not sure why, but it's' been like this since high school.

3. I am a Certified Pharmacy Technician, and although I've never worked as a tech, I keep my certification current.

4. When I started my Pharmacy Tech course, I was planning on moving back to California and working as a tech to put myself through nursing school. I even talked to Samantha (my cousin) about where to live, etc. so I could be in the singles ward she was in. (She was married, but her husband was in the bishopric.)

5. I met Sean halfway through my program. Obviously my plans changed a bit...

6. Speaking of Sean, the first few months I knew him I hated that I had a crush on him because I was "going to move to CA in December". Jenny, how many times did you hear that from me?

7. I danced tap, ballet, and jazz from Kindergarten to second grade, and then did just ballet until 8th grade.  I quit because I wanted to play basketball.

8. Disneyland is my all-time favorite place to go on vacation.

9. I started piano lessons when I was six. My mom was my teacher. I now play piano for primary.

10. I started playing the flute in 5th grade. I practiced ALL the time. I was first chair in the county Honor Orchestra in 8th grade.

11. I started learning to play the guitar around age 12 or something. I haven't made it very far. Jenny picked up much quicker than I did. She's great at it.

12. Junior year of high school was very busy. I played volleyball, basketball, and swam, was in 2 different choirs. Busy.

13. When I went to Camp KEEP in 6th grade, my "nature name" was Hemlock Hayley. Now that I think about it, Hedgehog Hayley would have been so cool. Maybe not back then...

14. I've took swim lessons starting at age 5 until I passed all the levels. Swimming is still my favorite part about summer.

15. Sophomore year of high school I found a pair of sunglasses, I think on the bus. I kept them because they looked awesome. (I cleaned them, don't worry.) When we went to Disneyland as a family a few months later, I had hanging on my shirt when we were on Haunted Mansion. I was leaning forward to tap on the buggy in front of us to scare my brother, and they fell onto the track and were lost forever. I probably cried for at least an hour. That was also the first time we went to California Adventure.

16. I prefer chocolate candy to fruity or other kinds of candy. But I don't really like chocolate cake.

17. I used to paint our dog Teddi's nails.

18. In 8th grade, my friend Emily and I wanted to make snickerdoodles, so we did. And then we died the dough blue.

19. Sean actually proposed about 3 weeks after we started officially dating. I didn't want to get teased about how we were engaged so fast that I refused to tell anyone we were actually engaged, and just told them we were planning on getting married. I was also stubborn about going ring shopping, though I'm not sure why. A pretty sparkly to wear on my finger? Why did I wait so long?

20. I used to hate cheesecake, even the smell. I even tried a chocolatey one at a friend's wedding reception. I hated it until I went to NYC to visit my friend Hayley. She took me to the best cheesecake in town and it was history from there... yummy, delicious, cheesecake eating history :)

21. When Carly got engaged, I decided it was time to get healthy and happy with my body. I lost 13 pounds that summer before her wedding. I need to make that decision again and lose the rest of the baby weight. I'm at the same weight now that I was when I made the decision before Carly's wedding.

22. Two months after I started working at Career Step (where I still work today), the then-owner shut down the company for two days and flew everyone to Disneyland. My family met me there and I got a paid day to play with my family. It was great!

23. While I was in NYC, Hayley and I saw Shakespeare in the Park... with Al Pacino. We were literally 30 feet away from him. It was awesome.

24. When I was 4, my parents took me to the ER because I had difficulty breathing. Turns out I'm asthmatic.

25. In elementary school, an optometrist told my parents I needed glasses because I was too far-sighted. How is that a bad thing?

26. Sean and I took two honeymoons; one right after we got married to Moab, and one after the semester ended to Southern California (Sea World, Disneyland, etc.). Best trip ever!

27. When my parents were here for Thanksgiving 2012, my mom saw my prenatal prescriptions on the counter at my house and asked what they were for. I told her my doctor recommended taking prenatals before I got pregnant (which is true). I lied through my teeth, I really was pregnant at the time ;)

28. I love listening to classical music. That's usually all we listen to, even in the car. Mason seems to like it too.