PREPARING NOT WAITING

We have now been married for half a decade... how nuts??

This year has been pretty basic but we did have some fun adventures.

May 2018

I was able to go to the Women's Conference at BYU with cousins and aunts. One of my favorite traditions!

I attempted my first color "run" (we mostly walked) with my friend Amber.

Visited AZ over our Anniversary and got to spend time with our favorite peeps!

Anniversary date to Tempe town lake and dinner at Culinary Drop out!

The Real Reason we were in AZ in the month of May was for Erics Grandmas' funeral. It was a lovely time, and I'm so grateful to have met more cousins from his mom's side. Family is the best.

June 2018

We spent most of June Enjoying the outdoors.

We attended a fun "farmers market" type event. Eric sure loves his kettle corn!

We started in a summer softball league with some of our friends.

Pretty Pitiful but this is the only picture we have :/ After Game Treats! (sorry Steph!)

Spent lots of time hiking and enjoying the cool June Weather!

Drove to California and were guided by google through some sketchy part of the dessert... sure glad we took my car... I think google was taking a lot of people this way cause we were not the only ones... I think it was major back roads that google maps wanted us to take to avoid the CA Traffic... Ugh.. typical. It was a fun adventure though. Hopefully my video works.. if not, here is a screenshot of Eric 😂

July 2018

Our Crazy google map adventure led us to the beach. We spent the whole week of the 4th soaking in the sunshine and working on our white Utah Body tans. Again, here is a video of how crazy the beach started to get. The video doesn't even do justice. There was hardly any walking space by the end of the night, but it was awesome to watch the fireworks on the beach.

Our Cousin should be a professional cartoonist because he drew this hilarious picture of Eric enjoying the beach life!

We brought some strays back to Logan with us so they could attend EFY. It was super fun to have them visit even if we only got to see them the day before and the day after EFY.

The sad reality of the temperature inside our house... because no AC.

Despite the temp in our house we still enjoyed some bonfires in our backyard with friends.

I went on my annual MK trip to Dallas. It was a blast as always!

Erics mom also came to Logan for a visit!

August 2018

We loved living in Logan. This place was a 7-minute drive from our house and about 3 minutes into the drive we didn't have cellphone service. We loved coming up here to forget about our worldly worries and enjoy our undistracted time together!

We went to one of the Royals Soccer games, thanks to my work (Conservice) for the tickets!

We enjoyed the Logan Rodeo. Mutton Busting was our favorite. If you don't know what that is, I highly recommend you youtube it!

Met up with some of our favs (Adam and Stacie Russell) in Salt Lake.

Witnesses our Largest Hail Storm to Date. Glad no one's windshields broke.

September 2018

Went to Bear Lake with some friends.

My BFF Christina came to visit in Alpine so I met her there for some FIIZ and Dinner!

Realized we had a couch problem on our hands. Decided we needed to try to break it!

Date Night Pics!

More hikes with Friends!

October 2018

Always one of my favorite months!

Linder Farms in Boise with Friends.

Inappropriate butt spanks from the dog.

Visits from My Nieces and Sis Jess!

Women's Session of General Conference with Sis Jess in Salt Lake!

The Beginning of Winter Snow....

Team Costume at Work.

Our Annual Murder Mystery Party! This year was Alice in Wonderland. (Sad I don't have more pics!)

Logan's Annual Pumpkin Walk with friends. The pumpkin walk is a super cool tradition they do in Logan where families or businesses come up with scenes using pumpkins and carve or paint the most amazing things. There were scenes created from movies such as Shrek, Finding Nemo.. ect..

November 2018

Spooky Demon Dog, a little late for Halloween!

Found out we were pregnant with our first Baby!

Created a video to tell Richie since they were putting together a big Christmas thing for the missionaries.. turns out.. they never got it :(

December 2018

Conservices Annual Party. This time was a concert from Walk the Moon. It was really fun.

Eric went to AZ to start fixing up our house to sell...

Had our First Ultrasound

I bought a ticket for Ginger to come visit me for her birthday. I bought her a plane ticket before I knew I was pregnant and I was so sick when she was there. We hadn't told anyone yet so I tried to very discreetly throw up and I think she was onto me.

Played in the Snow!

We told our families for Christmas and I don't have a picture or video of it which I'm really sad about, because the reactions were priceless. My family gets ornaments every year and so we decided to make some for our family saying things like "Promote to Aunt" - "The best parents get promoted to Grandparents." For Erics Family, they have a tradition called Cheers where everyone has a mug of hot cocoa you say what you are grateful for and then you say "Cheers" and everyone takes a sip so we incorporated it into that. It was super fun!

January 2019

January brought lots of Snow and a lot of cuddles to try and stay warm!

Deer Frequently just roam the neighborhoods in the winter.

February 2019

Sold Our AZ House... which was totally bitter sweet!

Consisted of getting over the worst of pregnancy sickness and letting work know since it wasn't easy to hide this bump anymore!

March 2019

We found out we were having a girl so the shopping started to begin!

Annual Mckay Girls Trip! - This time to San Diego.

Yes - that is throw up all over the tar mat at the airport... it was awkward and disgusting. I tried to get people to move but they wouldn't... that's a whole story for another day.

April 2019

Still snow on the mountains.

Baby Shower for Miss H. (The only pic I have of the whole thing :( )

Babysat Nieces and Nephews while their parents went out of the country. It was super fun and had lots of curious questions about the baby and how she was living in my belly!