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Thursday, March 17, 2016
Tanner's Homecoming
We were so excited to get our baby brother home in September of 2015! Tanner returned home from serving a mission in Peru and that meant our family was finally reunited for the first time in years!
Welcome Home Elder Olsen!
Welcome Home Elder Olsen!
September 2015...
Hunting season continues.... Russ didn't bag a deer on the archery hunt but he had a great time and lots of adventures trying.
Labor Day found us down in Sanpete County. We went shooting aka Russ and Jake site in their muzzleloaders. Grandma, Grandpa, and Nancy came with and we spent the day shooting on Orson's private property shooting range. I must admit my favorite part was watching my grandpa shoot his gun :)
Shopping with Auntie Brittany.....
September found me with lots of sick days! Luckily if I ate every 2-3 hours the "all day" sickness would subside, but I was exhausted all the time! It was not unusual if on my days off my biggest accomplishment for the day was making the bed, showering (some days blowed dried hair and makeup, other days not), and loading the dishwasher was all I accomplished. This was a particularly rough day that I spent on the couch, all day long.
Yard, yard and more yard! I swear the work is never done! this was one of the last sections of the front yard that we had yet to finish with gravel. Our dirt down here is beasty so Russ rented this big rig to dig out the dirt in order to fill with gravel.
Russ surprised me by giving my car a facelift! He kidnapped my car while I was at work one night and lifted my car, installed new BA tires and wheels! I love it so much! He's seriously the best at surprises!
Daddy doggy work day! We had to update our dogs on shots so since the Best Friends Animal Society is by Russ's work he took turns taking each of the dogs to work for the day. Needless to say his best buddy Crush was more than happy to have his dad to himself all day.
With the upcoming Rifle hunt season we took off to go site in our rifles with Ladd and the boys on Sunday afternoon. I love my 270 and it's always a good time with Ladd and the boys! (and you too Leslie!! we missed you!)
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| "I made a selfie stick and took a picture just for you of my mid day lunch and nap" |
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| SO CUTE! I love them. |
Russ surprised me by giving my car a facelift! He kidnapped my car while I was at work one night and lifted my car, installed new BA tires and wheels! I love it so much! He's seriously the best at surprises!
August 2015 Happenings...
Besides selling our first home, and finding out we were pregnant with our first baby-these are a few other things that happened in August....
Dirt Bike Date Night! We went riding up Squaw Peak one night when Russ got off work. It was the longest dirt bike ride I'd been on since getting my bike-but it was a blast and I loved every minute of it! I love having this hobby to share with my husband and one more thing to get us out into the great outdoors!
Deer hunting season started! Russ was in his final year of dedicated hunter so he started scouting earlier and then began hunting for archery season in August. He is a crazy insane hunter and hiker! When he comes home and tells me that he got awakened from his afternoon nap by rocks falling-only to look over and there's mountain goats, I know he's hunting in an area I could definitely not get too. He's amazing!
Luke Bryan Concert!! Such an amazing concert and so much fun!! Thanks for the date night Mr. Luke!... I mean Mr. Hudson :)
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| Calvin's Baby Blessing |
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| Modeling my new gear Russ got me to go with my dirtbike |
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| One Saturday Russ took a break from hiking with mountain goats to take his wife along with him for the day. Even though we didn't see anything I had a blast just hanging out with the Mr. all day. |
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Pregnancy Announcements
Back before we were even trying to get pregnant, and even more so once we were trying- I used to think about how we would announce our pregnancy. Then by the time we were expecting I'd thought about it enough and spent enough time on Pintrest I knew exactly what I wanted to do, thankfully Russ agreed : )
My Family: My brother Tanner was returning home from an LDS mission on September 8. As we talked about it Russ and I decided this would be the perfect time that my family would be together where our announcement wouldn't be expected. However, we didn't want to steal the thunder and take away from Tanner's moment. So we carefully created a plan. Following the airport we all gathered at my moms for dinner. After dinner and in between leaving for Tanner to get released we gathered everyone in the front room to convince them that we needed to get another group photo of everyone.
Once we had everyone arranged I left my camera on record and Russ set his for a self timer- Russ ran back to the group and then stated " on the count of 3 say Brittany's Pregnant". There wasn't an immediate response so I followed it with "surprise". Then people started to slowly catch on. However, my mothers reaction was my favorite. It was delayed and then suddenly she realized what was going and just started screaming. It was even better than I imagined! And thankfully we had it recording so I could take screen shots of reactions, seeing as how they were so delayed the self timer shot missed most.
I seriously went home that night and cried watching the movie over and over again. I love it so much and will never forget that moment!
Russ's Family: The following Thursday after telling my family we invited all of Russ's family over for a BBQ at our house. This was a little harder and tricky seeing as how once they showed up and saw everyone was here supposedly everyone started getting suspicious and asking Russ when the pregnancy announcement was taking place. Well we made them wait until after dinner and desert before giving Mark and his wife, and Char one of these presents.
It was so nice after we told them to have the secret out a little bit- It was driving us crazy for 4 weeks keeping it to ourselves!!
Disclaimer- I was only 7 weeks pregnant when we told our families. I have a good friend who does ultrasounds that took a look at 6 weeks to make sure that it wasn't ectopic and that with my abnormal uterus nothing looked to concerning. She gave us the green light so we announced seeing as how I was getting sicker and more ornery (and more emotional) and we wanted them to be in on our secret. That being said we really stressed to all our family members to not tell anybody seeing as how it was really early.
Making it Public: we both knew that when the time came we wanted the dogs to be included in our public announcement. So we went to our 12 week appointment on October 14 and got to hear the heartbeat for the first time. As we went to leave my doctor told us that we were now less than 1% chance of miscarrying. We took that as a green light and decided to make the announcement on social media.
Instantly we were overwhelmed and flooded with support. It was so fun to announcement it, and such a relief to know that now everyone knew/could know! Such a fun part of pregnancy!
My Family: My brother Tanner was returning home from an LDS mission on September 8. As we talked about it Russ and I decided this would be the perfect time that my family would be together where our announcement wouldn't be expected. However, we didn't want to steal the thunder and take away from Tanner's moment. So we carefully created a plan. Following the airport we all gathered at my moms for dinner. After dinner and in between leaving for Tanner to get released we gathered everyone in the front room to convince them that we needed to get another group photo of everyone.
Once we had everyone arranged I left my camera on record and Russ set his for a self timer- Russ ran back to the group and then stated " on the count of 3 say Brittany's Pregnant". There wasn't an immediate response so I followed it with "surprise". Then people started to slowly catch on. However, my mothers reaction was my favorite. It was delayed and then suddenly she realized what was going and just started screaming. It was even better than I imagined! And thankfully we had it recording so I could take screen shots of reactions, seeing as how they were so delayed the self timer shot missed most.
Russ's Family: The following Thursday after telling my family we invited all of Russ's family over for a BBQ at our house. This was a little harder and tricky seeing as how once they showed up and saw everyone was here supposedly everyone started getting suspicious and asking Russ when the pregnancy announcement was taking place. Well we made them wait until after dinner and desert before giving Mark and his wife, and Char one of these presents.
Disclaimer- I was only 7 weeks pregnant when we told our families. I have a good friend who does ultrasounds that took a look at 6 weeks to make sure that it wasn't ectopic and that with my abnormal uterus nothing looked to concerning. She gave us the green light so we announced seeing as how I was getting sicker and more ornery (and more emotional) and we wanted them to be in on our secret. That being said we really stressed to all our family members to not tell anybody seeing as how it was really early.
Making it Public: we both knew that when the time came we wanted the dogs to be included in our public announcement. So we went to our 12 week appointment on October 14 and got to hear the heartbeat for the first time. As we went to leave my doctor told us that we were now less than 1% chance of miscarrying. We took that as a green light and decided to make the announcement on social media.
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