spilling the beans.

it all started at the ear doctor. 

doctor: "I'm going to prescribe you some medicine, are you pregnant?" 

my response immediately after: "no im not pregnant."

then mom says that i better double check and make sure that i'm not pregnant before i fill that expensive medicine and what not.

 i agreed because mom knows best.

the next day i pee on a test and, then i go buy another test and i actually end up buying three tests in total just to be sure. 

all positive.

there are really no words to describe finding out that you are growing a microscopic human in your belly, but i felt almost every emotion in the book. 

we were surprised. yet to say we were fully preventing it would be a lie... we just thought it would take a little longer is all. after feeling every feeling one can possibly feel i ended on 

overly thrilled!

zach and i found out just days before my graduation from the university of utah that we would be parents. my mom was on the phone with me all three times i drove to walgreens for pregnancy tests so she knew what was up. my father on the other hand didn't have a clue, and mom did a good job at keeping it a secret for a few days until they came up for graduation.

i wanted to be all cute about telling people and such... but lets me honest, i'm not super good at that sentimental stuff. 

so in the car driving to my celebratory luncheon with the modern dance department, just the four of us, me, zach, mom and dad,  i said to my dad; " how much do you think a watermelon weighs?" this is a pretty normal question coming from me, and he takes a minute to think about it then says "o i don't know about 7 lbs" (i was happy he didn't say something too outrageous like 13 lbs) because then i  proceed to tell him that, thats just about how much zach and my baby will weigh! he didn't believe me at first and looked at mom like she had betrayed him cause she knew and he didn't  but then he was all smiles, from ear to ear. it was one of those happiest moments you want to always remember. 

the spilling of the beans continues with telling zachs family while we were in california. we plotted to tell them while on splash mountain going down the big hill, but that didn't happen. so instead we told them over a nice meal at pf changs. i kept telling zachary that he needed to be the one to say something, but he wouldn't, so im thinking i ended up doing it. showing lynne a picture of the positive pregnancy test on my phone. they were all overjoyed. nothing like pregnancy test pictures at dinner.

stef and kenna yelled and did a little dance when i told them at great harvest. stef said " we should go outside so i can just scream and jump up and down" i felt like that would defeat the purpose since they were kinda already doing that.

rhett and demi did not believe us for the longest time... 

and many of our good friends had to wait to find out from social media....and although they were a little bitter about it, they forgave us, cause they are our good friends, and thats what good friends do. 

i put a sign in the fish tank at home during zachs birthday breakfast to tell my siblings the news. it read " you are going to be aunts and uncles." we had brynlie read it aloud. she was pretty excited about it, but when my mom asked her if she knew what that meant exactly, she was like no not really. then once my mom explained that i had a baby growing in my tummy she jumped into kasens arms and exclaimed "I'm so happy I'm going to die!" brayden sat at the counter with the cutest smile on his face and after a minute said;"i don't quite know how i feel... then he corrected himself and said actually i do, i feel happy. baylie and kasen were very excited as well. 

bryners even told me she could see the baby already.... being only a few months along it wasn't exactly what i wanted to hear, but she meant well. 

going along with the not really sentimental, but sorta awkward funny theme, we decided to put multiple plastic babies all over zachs birthday cake. so when we had family over for cake and ice cream that night they would see all the naked babies and know what that meant... well that sorta back fired. nobody really got it, and they were asking if they were pretzels. finally zach made the announcement that we were expecting! i was proud of him. i didn't even have to tell him to, he just did it all on his own! 

the fourth of july was when we decided we should make it official and tell the entire world, through social media of course. writing it in sparklers seemed easy enough, and it only took us about 40 tries to get it right. i was really awful at writing backwards and all my letters looked... well not like letters. but once we got it right i couldn't have been more pleased to tell all the world that we were going to have a little baby join our family in january!

some of our many attempts

this was before we realized we had to write backwards...

zach was extremely proud of his perfect BA... that dang Y got me every time.

january 2015 felt like a really long ways away then... but now its just right around the corner! wow how time flys! we sure can't wait to meet baby lloyd!

summer in the shell of a nut.

"just blog about the summer kylie, and then you can begin writting all about this baby you are growing." these are the words i have been telling myself over and over for some time now. since we have made it to october, i am doing really well on blogging about the summer.....not. 

 still feels like summer outside to me today anyways so i'm really not doing all that bad right? where are you fall? i want to wear a sweater!

here we go, summer in a nutshell. 

 the first of june zachary took the mcat down in st george. four hour tests are not my cup of tea, but zach nailed it! what a stud. and he turned 25! yay! veyo pools was a fun way to celebrate on a hot june day in st. george. 

25 sure looks good on you.

We had a fun vacation down in duck creek with the wright clan. we stayed in a beautiful cabin in the mountains, went on hikes, explored, fished, ate good food, played games even had a family baseball game with a plastic bat and wuffle ball. everyone hit home runs! we did an insanely intense puzzle, met a crazy bird that dances and just enjoyed one anthers company. everyone said i was a "bear" on this trip, so i don't know how much they enjoyed my company, but o well. i was in the first trimester.... and those can be hard. i was a bit cranky, and irritable, and anxious and sick on occasion, but i was nice sometimes.... sorry about that family. 

bryce canyon

just snap back-in it.

this is pete. he dances. 

pete liked brynlie.... haha i don't know if she felt the same way

her first toasted marshmallow was a success!

zach recently, (as in this summer) became obsessed with hiking, and the great outdoors. well thats a great obsession really, but for this girl who was battling being more tired than i have ever been in my life, hiking up mountains didn't always sound appealing. (growing a human is harder than i thought, especially in those first few months). never the less, our summer was filled with beautiful hikes, a few camping trips, and lots of outdoor adventures. 

camping in style at reedmen campground

tiny tee-pee

this is how i felt about most of our hikes... I'm a bit of a bum.

but the hikes were always so pretty. bells canyon.

we made it to kanaraville falls! it was a family affair.

zachs a professional photographer... thats all. 

he loves the outdoors so much one night at about 10 pm he said to me "want to drive up the mountain and look at the stars?" as much as I wanted to climb into my comfy bed, I said sure. it was pretty magical.

another highlight of the summer was sleeping on our mattress in the kitchen. yes, because of the intense heat and lack of air conditioning in our humble abode, we moved our bed onto our kitchen floor. breakfast in bed everyday! (wish i had a photo of this)

we took haebrie to the zoo for the first time and boy does having a little one make things so much more exciting! she was thrilled about everything. i think she liked the walls and the ground more than the animals.... figures. 

once again photo by zachary.

one of these is not like the other.... 

brynlie turned 8 and got baptized. ah my baby sis is growing up so fast.

sun valley idaho was just as fabulous as always, i was literally counting down the days until we got to escape to our annual vacation. it was a much needed break from work and life. we even experienced a glimpse of winter. i haven't seen hail balls so large in my whole life! watching baby wyatt experience all the fun of sun valley was definitely a highlight of the trip. other highlights included floating/crashing (and don't forget screaming) down the river with zach. like i said before it wasn't all that warm, so we decided to wear sweatshirts... bad idea they were real soggy by the end.  i also loved our bike ride through the mountains. i hit the half way mark with this pregnancy and baby l loves sun valley already!

wyatt was pretty content kicking back in the pool.

huge hail balls.

brrrrrrr...

rosie and kenny got married, and due to her photographer not showing up on the big day i shot my first wedding. terrifying really, but so much fun, and i was just glad i could help out. they really are perfect for each other. yay love.

 well that sums up our summer.. sorta kinda. it was an awesome one! this is long and probably fairly boring, so i will stop. but i do feel good, now that i have documented a summer to remember.