New things!

Fun, Fun, Fun!

Cute little Halloween Monkey!!

Wow! We have so many new things going on! We're very very blessed. Dev just got a new job with L-3 Communications! He'll be making more money plus getting benefits as an intern! My sweet little boy is five weeks today! It goes by too fast. Devon got a new calling, he's the Young Men's President! With that, work and school, he's very very busy! He doesn't get to play with the baby as much as he'd like, but he's finding little ways. The other day he was reading his textbook to Matthew, haha! He also got a new truck! A '99 F150! He is way excited! We're just loving having Matthew in our family, he is so adorable. We're very happy.

Baby Matthew is here!!

Here's our cute little baby boy! He came on October 12, 2009 at 1:10 after about twenty hours of labor!!! He weighed 8 lb 7 oz and was 19 inches long. Here's a pic I'm sure more will be coming :)

Our Life Lately

I have not blogged for a while! We've had a lot of fun things going on lately. Devon celebrated his 25th birthday. For Father's Day/Devon's birthday I sent him on a scavenger hunt using Brad Paisley song lyrics and at the end he found out his present was tickets to the Brad Paisley concert. I planned a surprise party for him, it was really fun. We played volleyball, ate, played yahtzee, danced and watched fireworks. We have such great friends and family. It was just a great night. We also went on our annual trip with our friends. This year we didn't go to Fish Lake like usual. We went to Devon's cabin. We had lots of fun playing games, eating, swimming, eating, fishing, eating oh and did I mention eating?? :) I'll try and get pics up of all these fun events :) In the baby department I am now closing in on 29 weeks! Crazy how slow and fast it goes at the same time! We bought new carpet for the baby's room, we're just waiting for it to be installed. Then we can get the crib up, decorate, etc. Everything is going great so far with the baby. The doctor says everything is looking good! Yay! Sad, but still fun, Sean left for the mtc yesterday. He is going to do awesome! I'm going to miss him, but I am so excited for him. That about sums up the past little bit of our life in a nutshell. We're doing great, oh! We celebrated our three year anniversary! We went to the Styx concert for our anniversary present and went out for our anniversary. All in all, we're doing great! :)

Nursery!!

Here are some pics of our nursery! Dev built a little shelf on the wall, it's so cute. He's been working hard on it. Now we need carpet, furniture, crib bedding, decor, and baby!!! :)

It's a Boy!!!

We had our ultrasound on Tuesday morning! It's a boy! We're really excited! His name is going to be Matthew Devon Newman. :) It's so fun to actually get to buy stuff now that I know the gender and we're getting the nursury ready to paint, so fun! Four and a half months doesn't seem like a long time to me, I have a lot to do!! :) I love his little foot! It's so cute! (The pics are from my phone so they're not too great sorry, we need to get a camera!!!)

Frustrated

Okay, so I got on my mom's computer and looked at my blog and it doesn't look the same as on my computer! I'm really frustrated, so if you think my blog looks crazy and the pics and text are in weird places, that is not how it was supposed to be :( Hopefully I can figure out how to fix it.

Life lately with the Newmans!

Well, there are so many fun things happening in our life lately! To start off, baby update! I am seventeen weeks today! In sixteen days we find out what we're having! I had a doctor's appointment this past week and everything is looking good. I got to hear the heartbeat and also see the baby on the mini ultrasound. It was so cute.

This weekend Devon went to Washington and Oregon to race the Baja car that he and his team built for their senior project. Here are some pics of the car he built and the other car they took up from last year. I'm so proud of him, he's so smart and talented.

I stayed at my parents most of the time. Friday night I scrapbooked with my aunts. Saturday morning I went to Jazzercise with my mom. After, we went to Blake's soccer game. Wow, watch out, he is amazing! I sure hope he plays in high school because he is great at it. My dad took my mom and I to lunch for Mother's Day. We went to Goodwood! Mmm.....Yummy! My mom and I scrapbooked a little after we got home. That night I went over to Matt's house. He cooked us(Dan, Elise, his date and his roommates) chicken and potatoes in the dutch oven. We ate outside on blankets, so nice to have good enough weather to do that. Today was my first Mother's Day! My gifts from Devon haven't come yet, I picked them out of a catalog and asked him if he wanted to buy them for me. :) My mom gave me a fun little kit for the hospital complete with a nightgown, gum, socks, etc. My grandma gave me a cute bar of soap. I'm so excited to be a mom! I'm also so excited for Dev to get home. He gets home tomorrow!!!

Fun week

This week we got a new car! It's a 2006 Nissan Altima. We're so excited to have a four door car for our baby. It's very roomy. I had a great day on Tuesday. Dev and I went to the doctors and got to hear the baby's heartbeat! It was such a relief to me and so neat. After, we were at home and were looking through the drawer for stamps and found a Cafe Rio card with four stamps on it! I looked in my purse and I had exactly ten stamps so I had a free Cafe Rio meal for lunch!!! At my work we get surveys back concerning how well we helped the members and I got a bonus of $25.00! Yay! Friday night we went on a date with Matt and Dasha. It was fun, we ate at Olive Garden and went to Fatcats after and played pool and bowled. Anyway everything is going really well for us. We gave eachother Easter baskets yesterday. I gave Devon boring things; deoderant and chapstick. I did also give him candy and fishing lures to make up for it. He got me new socks which I needed soooo badly! He also gave me pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, reeses, chips and nacho cheese and fruit leathers. :) We went to my parents first. My brothers got electronic monopoly so we played that for a while. My mom and dad gave me and Dev an Easter basket with Reeses pieces, Sprite, candy, moola, and a cute PINK bag of resess for the baby and a cute BLUE Easter bunny for the baby. I will try to get pics up. We went to my Grandma Butterfield's house for an Easter egg hunt. We had a barbeque and enjoyed our time not having to be out in the cold with the kids, it will be soon enough, lol. My Grandma bought these cute sacs for "bunny hop" races. It was hillarious. We also went to Grandma Newman's house, had some food and visited with everyone. It was fun cause it's been a while since we've seen them. All in all, a great week. :)

New Boat!

For those of you that don't know, Devon is very into buying boats and fixing them up. We had a really fun little yellow boat last year that we enjoyed so much! It was a great investment and such a fun thing to do on weekends. We sold it during the winter and this year, we looked for an upgrade. We found it! It needs a lot of work, but that's been part of the fun. Devon and Matt have been using the spare time they have to work on the wiring and order seats and carpet and vinyl. They just bought a motor for it which should come next week! I imagine we'll be out on the water by Saturday knowing them :)
The fun features we're excited about:
1. Open bow!!! I love being in the bow of a boat, our last one was closed. Wahoo! So excited.
2. Bigger! Our last boat fit about four adults comfortably. This one should very easily fit 6+!
3. We could wakeboard on our old boat, but not tube. This one we can tube too!
Don't forget these are before pics :)
Any suggestions for names for the boat? Let us know!! :)
P.S. Ten weeks tomorrow! We're so excited for our baby!

First Appointment

We had our first doctor's appointment today! He said that everything is looking great! We also got to see the baby and heartbeat again on the mini ultrasound machine! We're so grateful everything is going well!

Exciting News!!

Devon and I are so excited! We are going to have a baby in October!! I'm due October 18th. Two days before my birthday. I woke up early and couldn't sleep and told Devon that I wanted to take a pregnancy test. Luckily we had one at home. I looked at the stick and got so excited cause I could see the second line. Dev didn't believe me at first, but I kept telling him, it's there, it's there!! Finally he believed me. We were so so excited! Of course I did the Jessi thing and had to go get another test! We headed off to Albertson's and found out they don't open until six. There we are in whatever clothes we could throw on waiting outside Alberton's at five fifty six in the morning. The second test confirmed it and we are just so thrilled. I called my doctor and went in for a blood test that day. They monitored my blood for the next few days to make sure my levels were rising. Once they reached about 2000,(5 1/2 weeks) we had our first ultrasound. They could see the sac was in the right place, but couldn't see the baby yet so we had to wait around ten more days. When we were seven weeks along we had another ultrasound. We got to see our little itty bitty baby and it's heart beating!! I was just so happy it was in the right place! We told our parents and a few people for different reasons around five weeks and told our close friends and family yesterday.(8 weeks!) My mom is so excited to be a grandma! She got us some cute little white onesies and a willow tree statue with a mom and dad and baby. It's so cute! Devon is just so excited to start on the nursery. He already has plans of how he wants it to look. I picked out an armoire and dresser that I liked and he's already started building them. We are so so excited to have a new addition to our family!!