Holly Joy Spann 8.35 lbs, 19.5 inches

She's finally here!! After moving from our town home last week, I had been having crazy pain all week, but she decided not to come until Monday. Everything went so smoothly and quick, Devin and I both couldn't believe that I had just had a baby. She's very healthy, and has a cry to prove it. :) Tyson is very excited to have a new baby sister and loves to look at her. He says, "Baby sister is so cute," then he does a silly laugh and grins. We had our first night home and Devin was instantly reminded of why babies make you so tired! Because things were so easy this time, I'm still full of adrenaline and don't feel tired at all. Hopefully I can get some more things unpacked before the exhaustion kicks in!! My dad took some better pictures of her that I still need to get off of his computer, so there will be more pics a little later!!

Palm Springs

Devin's boss was kind enough to take us to Palm Springs as a thank you for all of the hard work he and his coworkers had done for Ken Garff. Granted I was 6 weeks from delivery but it was still beautiful and relaxing.

Memorial Day

It was so nice to have Devin around on a weekday! In the morning we went on a hike in Battlecreek Canyon with some of the Hemmert family. The little boys had a lot of fun throwing sticks and rocks into the river. I was really proud of myself for not dying on the hike. I can't tell you how much of a difference working out has been during this pregnancy!! I was in better shape and had an easier time hiking it at 8 months pregnant than I did when we tried it two years ago when I was just totally out of shape.

Tyson kept looking for the Big Bad Wolf in the cave. We never found him...

Cousin's and uncle Matt. :)

The party.

Yes, I am a master at hiding my big fat prego belly behind a two year old and a black bag. Woot woot!

We had a bbq at the Spann's house for lunch. Devin, Emma, and Tyson had a lot of fun playing with the snowball tree in the backyard. I remember doing that at my grandma's house when I was little!
Funny story: During lunch I caught Tyson doing some funny things with his arms and sticking his lips out at Emma. I listened closer and overheard him say, "Look at my triceps! These are my triceps!" Like father like son, he was trying to impress a pretty girl with his muscles. :) There's a first for everything.

scrapbook page

So I've been really bad a blogging lately... But here is a little scrapbook page of Devin and Tyson playing basketball in St. George a few weeks ago and another pic is of him in our little backyard. I promise I will be better at updating our lives!! Can I just say I love digital scrapbooking? This page took me 5 minutes! If I had done it in real time it would've been at least a half an hour and that's not including cleanup!!!

Early Mommy's day

I snuck (if that's a word...) into Devin and Tyson's bedtime ritual and decided to film it. I edited the clip down a lot, but it's just something that makes me smile and happy to be a mom. Here is the shortened version. Whenever Devin Stops singing, Tyson fills in the word to the song. He got a little camera shy and decided to whisper instead, but it's really cute. And yes, he falls asleep in his rocking chair now... It works... don't mess :)

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Official Decision

It's official! Devin got accepted to BYU and after some serious pondering we've decided to go stick around Utah Valley and go to the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. It really was hard to choose between something we are so comfortable with and the fun international adventure that South Carolina had to offer, but we just couldn't justify the cost vs the level of education Devin would recieve at BYU. I'm excited for selfish reasons so I can help when our little baby comes in July!

AAAHHHHH!!!

So Devin has officially been excepted to the International MBA program at the University of South Carolina. It's structured in a way that if we chose to go there we would live in Columbia, SC for about 6 months, then go international (possibly Germany or SOuth America) for 8 months, move back to SC, then international again for another 4 months. It's an incredible program, I'm just getting a little anxiety because Dev and I just found out the program starts June 30 which is right when our next baby is due!! We still don't know if we are going to South Carolina yet because we are waiting to hear from BYU and ASU. Regardless, all of this school, baby, and moving stuff is starting to become a huge reality to me. If anyone knows anyone who wants to buy a two bedroom townhome send them our way!!!