17 Weeks

This week was a very special one for us because we got to take out long-awaited anniversary/baby shopping trip to Salt Lake and Park City! The thing that I was most excited for was to get out of the 107 degree weather, I mean I know I complain about the heat EVERY year, but I swear it gets a little worse EVERY year.  Here I am at 17 weeks, this was the first week I got comments on "showing" and lots of tummy rubs which are kinda fun and sweet...

Our shopping ventures were very successful. I was very proud of Devin for being such a trooper.  Like a lot of men he hates shopping but I could tell he was having fun at all the baby stores.  We we went to a store called Buy-Buy-Baby and we were in HEAVEN! It's like Bed Bath and Beyond, baby style. Everything was so organized, prices were comparable to BabeRUs and I swear every employee in there had a PhD in Early Child Development!  I hope we are able to make it back up to that store soon. We also made a stop at Ikea, and I have to say we were very disappointed. I think I had hyped Ikea up in my head so much that when I got there I was let down, or perhaps just overwhelmed by the selection... one purchase we did make at Ikea were these bullys: one for Otto and one for the baby...

The next day we drove up the mountain to Park City.  We did some shopping(Devin participated this time as well) at the Outlets in Kimball Junction afterwhich we went to Historic Main Street where we spent most of our day eating and browsing through the shops.  The most enjoyable part about the trip was being able to be outside without suffering from heat exhaustion! While we were there we had some reminders that made us miss our little buddy...

We got to experience a couple of firsts on this trip...For dinner I got a had my very own live Main lobster, and it was everything that I had hoped and dreamed it would be! That lobster definitely makes you earn your meal with all of the cracking and digging for meat, but that was all fun and part of experience.  Devin tried a piece and said it tasted like cheese... 

We took a chairlift ride to the top of the mountain and got to see the entire Park City valley.  The cool temperatures and clean air made us both miss being in the mountains, and made me really not want to come home to the desert heat. 

Another first was paddleboarding (SUP-stand up paddleing)! I have wanted to go ever since our honeymoon in Hawaii and while in PC we saw lots of advertisements for SUP so off we went to Jordanelle reservoir to give it a whirl.  The weather was PERFECT and the water was PERFECT and I just wish we could've stayed all day! Towards the end of our session Devin started goofing off and trying to head stand on his board, so I joined him (babies like being up-side-down right?).  It was so fun that I am determined to buy some boards and become a SUP family!

Well done Dev because I dare say this was the best anniversary to date.  We got to do a lot of unexpected, really fun things and it was great to just be with each other.  Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end so we traveled back south, picked up our little buddy at my parents house on the way, got home, and crashed!