We have a new blog site! This will be the last post on this blog, and all future posts will be on our new site. I have been wanting to move our blog for a while, but just haven’t had the time to set up another one. We are moving from this one (WordPress) to Blogspot. Blogspot is so much easier to use and we can add cute backgrounds!

Our new address is www.golladayfamily.blogspot.com. We will be adding pictures of our baby soon! She will be here in less than two weeks! (Well, hopefully!)

It has been fun decorating our baby’s room. Since I posted the last pictures of her room, we added curtains, a pink rug and some pink decorations. Now we just need our baby! Only a couple more weeks!

Sheyda and Brian

Brian, Patrick’s brother, married Sheyda about two weeks ago. It was a beautiful day for a wedding! They were married in the bountiful temple and had a ring ceremony, dinner and reception that night. It was fun to be a part of it. Last weekend they had another reception in Arizona. Patrick went, but I am too far along in my pregnancy to fly. Patrick had fun. I’m glad he could be there.

Congratulations to Sheyda and Brian!

Evangeline, Kali and Jacqui

My friends Terri, Evangeline, Beth and Jacqui had a baby shower for me a few weeks ago. It was so fun. I can’t wait to dress our little baby in all of the cute clothes she got!

It was neat to see friends and family I haven’t seen in a while. I was so happy that so many could come. It was a fun night!

It has been a while since I’ve written on our blog so I thought I would write an update.

We are getting very excited to have our little girl! She will be here around June 17, which is only a few weeks away! I have been feeling a lot better lately. So hopefully, I will keep feeling better the rest of the time! We are going to name her Allison and call her Allie. We are naming her after a special lady I met on my mission in Wales. Her name is Allison.

Patrick and I started going to a prenatal class at Utah Valley Hospital. The class is once a week for four weeks for a two hours each time. It has been helpful. We have learned a lot. We have one more class left.

We visited Patrick’s family for Easter. It was fun to visit them. We ate lots of good food, went shopping, had an Easter egg hunt, went to a Brazilian dinner, and relaxed! It was a nice break.

Patrick is enjoying his work at Wells Fargo. He has been there since the beginning of December. It is going well. I am also enjoying my work at Paragon Wealth Management. I am going to try to work up until I have the baby. I might take a week or two off before she comes, but we’ll see.

My sister, Katie, graduated from UVU yesterday with her bachelor’s degree in business and psychology. We were all very excited for her! She did it in 2 1/2 years, which is pretty amazing!

Patrick’s brother, Brian, is getting married in couple weeks. We are excited for him and his future bride!

Well, that’s a little update for now. We are doing well, and are excited to be parents soon!

Since we’ve been in the “pink” mood lately (well mostly me!), I thought we could decorate our blog pink too! I know it is very girly, but we’re excited!

We put up our baby furniture this week! It has been fun going shopping and getting things ready. Patrick’s parents gave us baby furniture for Christmas, and we went shopping to pick it out a couple weeks ago when Patrick’s mom came to visit. We are so grateful for the furniture they gave us. We love it!

Here are a few pictures of everything. We still need to add a few decorations (drapes, a rug, lamp shade, etc.), but it is starting to look like a baby’s room! It’s going to be mostly pink with green, white and a little brown.

Only three more months! We’ll have our cute baby girl somewhere around June 17! We’re excited!

Her cute crib!

The soft chair and dresser

A close up of the bedding. It has cute pink flowers!

Patrick and I went to Midway last weekend for Valentine’s Day. It was a fun, relaxing trip! We ate lots of good food, watched movies, went swimming, worked out, got massages, etc. It was fun to get away for a few days!  Most of these pictures are from our trip. There are a couple of my niece, Kali, and some others that were taken a few weeks before, but I thought they were fun pictures.

We found out we’re having a girl! We were so surprised! We totally thought we were having a boy! We had the ultra sound on Jan. 27. It was funny because the nurse was going through everything, telling us about what we could see on the ultra sound. She said, “Here are her girl parts, here are her feet, etc.” Then, I said, “Wait, so it’s a girl?!” She said, “Yes, it’s a girl. I can double check if you want me to.” She double checked, and sure enough, our baby is a girl! 

We were so happy to hear that she is healthy! The nurse said everything looks good so far. We can’t wait until she comes! These pictures were taken the night we found out after the Draper temple open-house (in the post before this). I am 20 weeks along now.

 

 

Last week we went to the Draper temple open house. It is such a beautiful temple. I’m glad we were able to go. Here are a few pictures from that night.

My mom and Kelli

Patrick and me

My dad and Austin

Ester (Patrick’s mom) and Patrick

Ester, my mom, my dad and Austin

Me and Patrick on the bus going back from the temple

Talan and Kelli

It was a fun night! We went to dinner at Goodwood BBQ in Draper and then to the open-house. There were lots of people there. There were three churches that you could take a bus up to the temple. The temple is beautiful inside and out (like most temples are). It was neat to be there. It is the 12th temple built in Utah. 

 

 

I am just over 17 weeks now. Everything is going well so far. Patrick and I went to the doctor last Wednesday, and he said the baby is doing good. He has a small ultra sound in his office, and we looked at the baby. He or she (we’re not sure yet) is growing! 

We set an appointment for January 27 when we will find out what we are having. I will be 20 weeks by then. We are excited to find out! Any guesses?

Most of our family members think we’re having a boy and a friend I taught on my mission has told me I will have a boy first for the past five years. So we’ll see! A few have said we’re having a girl (well, Patrick’s brother is the main one, and a girl in our primary class). I’ll post when we find out.

We’ve picked out a few names. If it is a girl we like Allison (call her Allie). This is after the lady from my mission that I taught that I mentioned above. We’re really close, and I’ve always wanted to name a girl after her. We also like Samantha. If we have a boy, we like Tyler. 

Here is a cute story… A few weeks ago in our primary class (we only had one girl that day) we asked Anna what we she thought we’re having. She said, “A girl.” Then we asked her what we should name her. She said, “Allie.” We were surprised because she had no idea what names we’ve picked!