One day of Nice Weather!!

It reached 60 degrees on Sat. So we decided to go to the park with Daddy and have a picnic!! It was so nice to be able to enjoy nice weather. It never seems to come fast enough. Delia was so excited to go play she only ate 1/2 her snadwich! She loves playing at the park. I can't wait until we have grass in our back yard so she can go out and play to her hearts content! unfortunately the weather for the month of March is going to be a roller coaster going up and down in temp. It is supposed to snow 1 inch sunday night. I hope they are wrong!

My Birthday and V-day Gift is here!!!

So I have really been wanting this stroller, the Tike Tech City X3 Double in black, since we were anticipating having another child. once I actually became pregnant, I knew I would be needing it soon. But the unexpected early announcement that we were indeed having a baby came at a very inconvenient financial time!! that's how life works I guess. Lucky for us though, Christian still has a good job. We are buying into a new practice that was built in Bloomfield, NM, part of the other two dental offices christian works for. It is official now, but now we have an extra loan to pay that is twice the cost of our mortgage!! Yikes!! So thus here we are starting essentially at the bottom with a 2nd child on the way...and it's a boy, so many new things need to be purchased. I told christian that is is what I really wanted to be able to get active again after the baby is born. He really wanted me to get it, but we just couldn't afford it, at least at that time. Even after Christmas we still were not in a place to spend so much for a stroller..(yes..it costs $420) I have never wanted to splurge on a specific item before. Nothing we own except a new house, couch and TV downstairs has ever been really nice or cost much and never been put on credit..expcept for the mortgage of course. I looked all over the internet tryng to find a better deal on this stroller and didn't want to settle for a different one that was much less. I told Christian that for my birthday, V-day, and anniversary even, that I wanted this stoller, but smiled and said to wait and see how the next months look. Sooooo..

On my birthday I wanted to do something fun. So I walked to the office to get the car and pick up chicken salads for dinner since I knew he wouldn't have time afterwards to go and get something, he rarely does. After I got back, christian had walked home and we were getting ready to eat when he told me that he tried to get away at lunch to go and get me something, but was too busy(as usual) so he was going to go after work, but then I showed up to get dinner and that he was sorry and told me he could give me a hug! Awww..how sweet! Just that he was tinking about me the whole day was enough for me! I told him that I still wanted that stoller and that would be a fabulous gift! So therefore kept looking. Then after coming across a website that sold it which you wouldn't think would sell something like that, I came up with a plan!

The website was Bed Bath & Beyond! My parents had given me a $75 gift card there for chirstmas, of course which I couldn't use enless used online or next time I was in Utah again and my sister works there and gets a 20% discount. So I would be able to save a lot with what I had. There was a shipping and tax fee, but still was better than paying full price somewhere else. Also 1 week before coming up with this plan we received a check in the mail for $180 for a doctor refund, which we were not expecting, and Christian said I could put it towards the "stroller fund" so once all was said and done, we only ended up paying $130 for it!! So excitied. Christian couldn't argue with that! And I have just recieved it today! I can't wait to get outside in this beautifu weather and try it out! Yeah!