Leah's Wedding Band Came In

(The blue diamond is for Logan.)

Leah's wedding band came in finally. It took a long time to get it in but I think that is was worth the wait.

LOGAN STEVEN PETERSEN is HERE!!!!!!!!!!!

Look at his hair. We have no Idea where that came from.

Happy Grandma and Gramdpa Mahlum

Going home

Pregnant and without a ring....

So a couple of weeks ago, we sent my ring back to Logan, UT to Tim (who by the way is amazing). He is a jeweler at SE Needham's. Before Randy proposed, Tim and Randy worked for weeks on creating my ring from nothing but a few ideas. Anyway, we recently decided to add a wedding band onto my ring, but since it's so unique, we were having a hard time finding a band that would fit without covering up all the detailing on the sides. Needless to say, we sent it back to the miracleworker and above are the pics of what the band will look like. This is just the mold, before they even pour the gold, but I'm so impressed with it! Randy had both of our birthstones on the ring, his on one side and mine on the other. Therefore, the middle stone is actually Randy's birthstone.

Hence, pregnant and without a ring...not techinically anymore cause I felt too weird walking around without at least somthing on my finger. Therefore, a girl at work has loaned me a very large fake rock where the "gold" is actually tarnished on the sides.... hey. it works.

The Progress on the Crib

Dan and I have been working on this crib for about 2-3 months now and it is just getting to be exciting now. Before it was just a lot measuring and cutting and now it is fun to see it all coming together. Here are some pics.

P.S. I took these pics with the disposable camera that we bought in Nauvoo after our regular camera died. Sorry they suck.

The wood after it was planed off ( I think that is the word for made to look better from the ruff cut) and I had make a couple of hole in it already.

This doesn't look like much but it was hard to do for me.

Yeah this was not easy either, I guess every thing needs to be straight. Yeah, who knew.

Yeah this doesn't look like much either but that light wood is Ash and I had to drill 10 screws in to it to hold it down and make sure that the heads were flush with the top so the top cap of the darker wood (walnut) would fit tightly on it. Yeah ash is hard; I guess they make bats out of them. I broke two screws off in it so I had to figure a way to it those out before the top cap would sit flush. That sucked until Dan's dad came down and gave me the best tool in the world, a screw set drill bit. It did every thing I needed it to do and more . I love that tool.

Pregnancy Dream

So I've always heard that pregnant women dream really weird things...but never had that expereince yet - until the other night. I had a dream and it went something like this:
I started going into labor but somehow slept through it all. When I woke up, I thought "Wow. Those other women don't know what they're talking about! That was the easiest childbirth ever!!! Then the nurse comes in with our bundle of joy swaddled in blankets....only our "baby" was a very well groomed poodle puppy! It didn't even seem to phase me though...I was just so excited to finally hold our "baby." Shortly after, our friends came to visit in the hospital. They walked in, took one look at the "baby" in my arms, and said "Guys, it's a PUPPY?!?!??" It wasn't until that moment that I even realized that I was supposed to have a baby and not a puppy. Then I was just upset and wanted a real baby. Then I woke up.
Totally weird dream... if anyone could interpret for me, I'd be much obliged.

28 weeks and already a Neil Diamond fan....

Oh How a Year Changes Everything...

It was just one year ago this past July 14 that Randy and I were married in my hometown church in Sacred Heart, MN. A lot has happened since then...but being married is by far the greatest blessing to my life thus far. Now with a baby on the way, we're looking forward to becoming parents and witnessing all that life has to offer.

We had grand plans for our first anniversary before we found out that we're expecting a baby, and debated the last few months whether we should go all out for a full out "baby moon" or save as much money as we can and just stick around town. As the weekend drew closer, we still didn't have any plans, but spontaneously decided that this may be our last opportunity for a road trip. The Friday before our anniversary, we just packed up the car with nothing more than a couple small suitcases, a 6 lb. bag of gummy bears, and a map and headed for wherever the wind would take us. We ended up spending Friday night in Grand Rapids, Iowa; Saturday night in Nauvoo, IL; and Sunday night in Wisconsin Dells, WI. We literally spent next to nothing, and got to hang out exclusively for an entire weekend. It was great! We watched our wedding video in the car on the trip home and were completely grateful for all that we have and everything we have to look forward to together.

P.s. we'd post pics from the trip, but our battery was dead on our camera and so we bought a little disposable one...but we really don't have many on there either, as we were a little embarrased to use it :) I never realized how loud and obnoxious those "shoot and wind" cameras are until we've moved into the digital camera age.