Let's Dance!!!

I don't know why I put these pictures up. It's just I haven't posted in a while and I don't like posts without pictures. It was just one of Nate and I's moments.

This picture dose show you all that are not in this state how much of a belly I'm getting. I'm glad baby is growing so well. Most of the time I'm okay with my mommy figure. It dose make dancing interesting. I sometimes forget when I'm teaching and I'll try something to show the girls what they need to do and of course it doesn't work and I suddenly remember oh ya I'm very pregnant. Nate's doing great with school and work. He got our first Pharm. school application in today!! That's what's going on in this Stout home.

Happy Birthday my wonderful Nate!

Okay first I'm going to play a little catch up. Sorry we haven't written for so long. The batteries in our camera ran out the week before my family got to Hawaii. We just recently found the recharger so now we have pictures again. But our trip to Hawaii was wonderful we were sad to leave such a beautiful place and dear friends but we were also so so so excited to be home and with family. Since then Nate has started school and working at the pharmacy again. I am back at the dance studios working and we found out that baby is healthy and happy and very much a girl. Yahoo! These pictures are of this last labor day weekend. We started it out with the Stout family and had a wonderful birthday celebration then we went up to the Frandsens for a family sleepover. Grandpa took us up in his plan.

I was crazy enough to go up too. It was fun. These are some of my favorite memories of my Grandpa Frandsen. He loves to fly!

This is Nate flying. Grandpa let Nate take the controls for a bit.

After the plane fun the slip and slide was set up for the little kids. But of course that means Nate and my Dad, my brother Brad, and cousin Johnny and Jackson where right in the middle of the fun.

Lastly Dad and Nate finished out the day with a bit of Labor. They did some jobs for Grandma winter.

But lets face it this guy right here is what this blog post is all about. NATE THE GREAT!!! It's his birthday today and sadly the day is full of school from 8 in the morning to 9 at night. We were still able to get a little birthday in this morning and we will have a great and grand birthday dinner tonight when Nate gets home. I'm so grateful I have Nate in my life.

Thanks to everyone, I had a wonderful birthday!

No pictures this time. Sorry, our camera's battery ran out yesterday morning. Good timing don't you think. Oh well. I had a wonderful birthday. Thank you to everyone for the phone calls and the well wishes. Especially thank you to Nate. He's the best. He made my day really special. Also the Diopolous Family made it eventful and fun. I like this birthday thing!

What's up with baby?

Some of you have asked about the baby and how far along we are. Well.... This week is my 19th week so we are well into the fifth month of pregnancy. Baby from head to bum is two and a little bit Nutter Butters long, also known as six inches. I started feeling things in my belly last week and this week I'm pretty sure it's baby moving and kicking around down there. If you have any other questions about baby let me know.

What we have been up to....

Well Eric and I have been having great times at the beach. Eric is the funniest to go to the beach with. He hardly gets his "slippers" (flip-flops) off before he is running full speed at the water and then belly flops into the on coming wave. After he has his fill of water he crawls onto the beach and makes a sand pillow and takes a nap. What a fun kid. By the way, Dad I'm expecting a similar reaction to beach time from you. As for me I've given up completely on the swimming suit thing. As you can see why in this picture. What a woman!

As for the boys Eric has been a great help making sure Nate is hydrated by getting him water. He's also shown a concern about baby getting thirsty. What a sweetheart taking care of us. Landric has been.... well.... sleepy.

But Nate is working hard and having so much fun doing it. The deck is a lot farther than it shows in this picture but I wanted a good action shot. Rena and I started painting it today. She's so nice to chill with. It's looking like we are going to be all done with these projects before the Winter family gets here. So sorry girls you will not get to work on your Hawaii vacation. You'll just have to do with lounging about at the beach.

Mangos and Ding Dongs please.... eat your heart out Brad

Nate thinks it's funny the kinds of things I want to eat sometimes. Last week I wanted anything not Hawaiian. That means with all the tropical juices here, the juice I just had to have apple juice. This week I'm on a Ding Dong and Mango kick. It's not like I'm having cravings so much as when we are in the store I see something that sounds good at the time and with a little puppy dog face...Nate gets it for me. I kind of like this pregnant thing. But the thing I am definitely in want of is a good tomato. I'm the kind that will eat tomatoes like apples. But I have learned Hawaii tomatoes hold nothing to Utah tomatoes. Oh how I long for that red, juicy goodness.

Valley of the Temple

Well, I'm getting close to finishing the Hawaii house project so I'm making sure to give Aubrey more time to sightsee between the few remaining projects. I just finished the stairs and I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out, despite having no idea what I was doing. One more clueless project then I'll be on the home stretch, just finishing up the back appartment. We took the weekend off and went around to places on Aubrey's list. It was a fun weekend, a good break. (Frankly I'm just glad to take a day from sweating and being covered by heat rash from the sweat + heat.) This is what the stairs ended up looking like. I used pine boards and stained them. Then caulked the edges cause I didn't know what to do with them.

These giant Koi were at the temple. I just included this picture to get my Dad's attention.

The gardens around the temple were beautiful and peaceful. It was a very inspiring place.

The temple we visited was called the Byodo-In. Its a replica of the Byodo-In in Japan, built in honor of the large number of Japanese living in Hawaii. The building was quite a sight.

We're loving being here but both of us are excited for the Winter family to get here, it will be fun to be with everyone.