October

We finally remembered to take a picture yesterday! I wish we were able to get the huge piles of dirt that are just out of the right side of the picture. :) It's so much fun to drive by and see them working on the temple! Can you see my little belly growing? :P

Boy or Girl?!

We get to find out what we're having within the next two weeks! (No I haven't gotten my appointment set up, I need to get the number from my mother-in-law so I can do that.) We're so excited! Well...I am. Jon is still quite convinced that it's a girl and won't listen to me suggest otherwise. Oh how I love him!

So I wanted to get some input from you. What do you think we're having? A boy or a girl? I'm excited to hear what you have to say.

Other fun stuff, Jon and I decided to take a picture at the Gilbert temple site last month. Our goal is to get a picture every month to kind of document the progress. :) And while we're at it it will document our growing family as well. For the next 5 months you can watch my tummy grow and then after that our baby! Here's our picture from September. We're still working on remembering to take a picture for October.

Weekend fun

Have I ever mentioned how much I absolutely love General Conference?! It is absolutely amazing and I always welcome any chance I get to listen to the Prophet's voice and counsel. Now I have come away from a whole weekend of being spiritually fed!

I discovered something yesterday. I can no longer see my hips! Yes, that's right, my tummy has become so round that my hips no longer stick out! I am now 15 weeks pregnant. Well 15 weeks and 5 days. :) Here are some pictures to show you that I'm starting to show! I'm pretty excited!

This is a better picture of my pregnant tummy, but I look funny.

A view of how I see my tummy :)

So we will get to find out what we're having within 4 weeks! :) We're so excited! Well, I am. Jon is still completely convinced that we're having a girl. We've got names picked out though. :) Veronika Ann Zuniga if it's a girl. We'll call her Veja (said Veya) for short. If it's a boy we want to name him Joseph. But we're, well I'm having a hard time deciding on a middle name. We want to give our children family middle names. Here are our options for boys:

Jacob

Jonathan

Noel

David Lehi -or just David or Lehi

Hiram

Isac

Simon

Ammon Seth - or just Ammon or Seth

Caleb or Kaleb

Benjamin

Nathanael

Joshua

Chiam

Jaedon

Jaron

Terry

Briscoe

Cecil

Teancum

Justin

Brandon

Luke

Dirk

Charles

What do you think? What middle name goes well with Joseph Zuniga?

Lots of news...that's not so new

So...I decided to finally write another post! I know...it's about time! But hey in my defense those who I know do/have read my blog already know all of the events that have transpired between the end of May and now. For one, Jon and I got married! Sealed for all time and eternity in the Mesa Arizona temple on June 5, 2010! It was simply amazing! A beautiful, very hot (110...the hottest day so far in the summer), summer day! Sarah and Jessica came over to do my hair and take pictures of me getting ready to get married! :) Then my mom, dad, and I all got in the car and headed to the temple. We were going to pick up Jon, but he decided to meet us there. Which ended up being a good thing because he would have left our marriage license in the car and would have had to go a lot farther than the parking lot to find it. :P The ceremony was beautiful, and what made it even better was that Jon's Grandpa Cardon preformed it. :) After that my day kind of turns into a blur. We took pictures of course, had a luncheon, I packed for the honeymoon, Jon "started" packing (which consisted of realizing he didn't have any clean clothes and starting a load of laundry), then we headed to the church for the reception. It was beautiful! My grandma had done an amazing job with the flowers and thanks to a lot of help from those who came to set up the night before everything looked beautiful!

We spent our honeymoon in Wyoming and then slowly made our way back though Utah to Arizona. We stopped in Brigham City to visit with some of Jon's mission buddies. Made another stop in Provo to visit some friends. Then we went up to Lindon where we were fed an amazing dinner by the Heath's (Zuniga's family friends). Then we finally made it all the way home. However we had to stay at Jon's family's that night because we didn't exactly have the keys to our apartment yet. But that's where my birthday comes in! :) You see we got back on Saturday in the late afternoon/early evening, opened wedding presents then went to sleep. On Sunday we got hold of the Boyle's and were able to get the keys from them after church. Then we moved in! :) Wonderful birthday present!

Fast forward to mid July. I went up to Idaho with my mom and three of my little brothers for the Terry family reunion. This is where I became highly suspicious of being pregnant, however I didn't know "for sure" until after I took a pregnancy test when Jon and I were finally reunited. (Yes, I know I was brave for leaving my new husband for a whole week...I missed him terribly). That's when the real fun began. I wasn't sick, just tired and kinda weak in the mornings until I ate something. From Idaho we went to Wyoming for the Roberts' reunion, then Utah for Jon's mission companion's wedding. And then finally home!

I am now 15 weeks pregnant and getting so excited to have a little one of my own! I know I still have a long way to go, but March 23rd is 6 months away! :) Jon is completely convinced that we're having a little girl. I don't know what to think yet. I guess we'll find out in 5 weeks or so. :)

I think that's all for now... hopefully I won't be too incredibly slow at writing the next post. :)

So much to do and so little time!

So much has happened and so much still needs to get done! 10 days until the wedding and I'm so stinking excited! Last week was an incredibly busy week! My mom called the photographer to see if we could set up a time to take pictures at the temple before the wedding so that we don't have so many to take the day of. Well she set up a time...7 in the morning on Saturday! And I didn't have my veil, or my flowers, or Jon's ring! And Jon didn't have a tux, or his tie! Needless to say we spent a lot of time getting everything together so that it would all run smoothly. And it did! We got everything done and I can't wait to see how they turned out!

You'll probably laugh, but Jon and I are only halfway registered at Bed Bath and Beyond. You see when we went the first time we had to stop because I got sick to my stomach. Since then we haven't had an time whatsoever to go and finish registering. And now Jon will be working 12 hour days up until the wedding...so we may not have time (or the energy) to finish registering! Ahhhh!!!!
Did you know that there is a very small and limited selection of orange dresses? I want my bridesmaids to wear orange and boy was it an adventure to try and find orange dresses! My mom and I spent lots of time shopping just trying to find dresses that are orange! Well we had no luck...but we did find some amazing white dresses. And guess what we did! We bought them and decided to try to dye them orange. It worked! :) Now many hours, orange hands, and lots of water later I now have 4 orange bridesmaids dresses! Here are some pictures of the process:

Here is the dress in the dye bath. That's some orange water!

Here it is on it's first rinse. You're supposed to rinse it until the water is no longer orange...I can't say I've ever had that much patience. The water will be orange forever!

The dress. It's still wet and not done rinsing. It drys a lot lighter.

Yes, my hands did indeed turn orange as I stirred the dress in the dye bath to make sure it dyed evenly. You should see my nails...they're basically all orange!

Here's one of the finished dresses. They turned out pretty good :)

Last week was my bridal shower and I had a lot of fun! There were lots of people there that I really wanted to see! But not everybody could make it...I am still sad that Jess is in Utah and can't be here. At least she'll be here for the wedding. That's the most important part right?

Engagement Pictures

Cherie Mask took our engagement pictures for us on April 24th. We absolutely love all of them! So I decided to share some with you.

29 days and an update finally!

So I'm a little behind on updates. Haha OK...a lot behind. But can you blame me? I've been slightly preoccupied with my fiancé and planning a wedding. That's right! I'm getting married in 29 days (June 5, 2010) to the most amazing man ever, Jonathan Jacob Zuniga! So I think I owe you the whole story.

Hmmmm where to begin?! Well I guess we can start from my last post. We never officially started talking about marriage. It was more along the lines of I told him how I was feeling and that I got my answer that I am supposed to marry him without going into too much detail because I was afraid that I was completely off base. Well on March 20, 2010 Jon was dropping me off and we were saying goodnight at my doorstep when I told him that I love him a lot. He asked me just how much I love him and the first thing that came to mind was "I love you so much that I want to spend the rest of eternity with you!" But I couldn't say that! He had yet to really tell me anything relating to his feelings on the subject, so I skirted around my real answer and made something up. After a long hug (probably so that he could build up the courage) he got down on one knee and took both of my hands in his and asked me to marry him. Needless to say I was in complete shock! Here are some of the thoughts that shot through my mind in a couple of seconds: "Is this really happening?!" "Did he really just say what I think he said?" After I took a second to compose myself I realized that he needed an answer. And of course I said YES! After which he stood up to hug me and kiss me. Then he had to tell me that he was serious...to which I told him that I was as well. He told me that he loved me so much that he wanted to spend the rest of eternity with me, to which I agreed. It was only after all of this that he went and asked my dad for his blessing.

Since then life has been wonderful! We spend every moment that we can together and are getting excited to start our life together! June 5, 2010 is the day that I will become a Zuniga and be sealed to the man that I love for time and all eternity! I'm so excited to go through the temple as well! The Mesa Arizona temple has been my favorite temple for a long time and I can't wait to go through!