The Buhr Family

The Buhr Family

Thursday, March 16, 2017

Treasuring moments

"I constantly go between wanting you to stay my baby forever and being excited about all of the amazing things you will do in this life"
This quote describes how I feel right now perfectly. I am trying my hardest to treasure all of the moments we have left with just us and Brylianna before baby brother gets here, but I know our hearts will just grow and we won't be able to picture our life not as a family of 4 soon!

Brylianna has been a momma's girl a lot lately which I love but is also hard somedays. She wants to be held a lot and my back is starting to hurt and I just got into the 3rd trimester of pregnancy yay! But I am going to try harder to appreciate little moments and soak them in because I know she won't always fit in my arms or want to sit on my lap and I want to enjoy those precious times.

These pictures are from when Brylianna was only 10 months old! I don't think I ever posted them and I just love them so much. It is just crazy how fast kids grow since she is 18 months old now.









Showing her the ducks




And here are some good ones that my sister took :) 












Thursday, January 26, 2017

Alaskan Inn

What do you do when you really want/need a getaway?! And you can't go anywhere warm because of the darn zika virus and those trips are generally expensive?
You celebrate your anniversary 4 months early and do a getaway anyways :)

Pat and I decided to take a one night little getaway in celebration of our Anniversary this year since I will be 9 months pregnant in May and Pat will be graduating and we could possibly be packing up everything and moving depending on where Pat applies and gets a job to in the spring.
We always take turns planning our Anniversary every year and this year was my turn ( I think this is such a fun tradition to take turns planning!)
Also when you are parents it is a LOT harder to be spontaneous lol! You can't just go anywhere whenever you want to. So we decided to go to a cute little Inn in Ogden called the Alaskan Inn. It it in Ogden canyon and it is a super cute little bed and breakfast! Some of our good friends watched Brylianna.
They have these cute themed rooms and if you get the more expensive ones you have your own little cabin. They are all themed in Alaska and outdoor themes like the Northern lights, Fishing, or wildlife. We stayed in the Bears den. It was adorable and they had all these cute bears in our room!
Also they have the most amazing breakfast, it was the only place I have been to that serves eggless pancakes! They were super fluffy and good too! This is a big deal for a prego lady who is allergic to eggs. It was delicious. They also had some super yummy hot chocolate.
Normally I am all for warm weather and palm tree vacations, but I actually really LOVED the cozy cabin in the winter and snow coming down the whole time we were there.

I am so grateful for Pat and all that he does for me and our little family. He is really the sweetest guy in the whole wide world and I don't tell him that enough and I am so grateful for his patience with my pregnant, crazy mom, moody self. I am so glad that he is such a good sport and up for doing things like this with me and building memories and going on little adventures.
It snowed all night it was very appropriate weather for being at the Alaskan Inn








I love this man right here 


Cheers! With gatorade cuz we don't drink alcohol or sparkling cider lol 
We went out to dinner at this fun Mexican place called the Sonoro grill.
This was a chimichanga but with sweet pork and coconut rice. I actually like what Pat ordered better!


Hot chocolate with breakfast :) and it snowed 1 foot overnight and was still snowing. They ended up canceling classes for USU and Logan canyon was closed, and Pat didn't have to go to class that day so it was awesome.
Here is a better view. I just love the big snow covered trees, I think they look so pretty!


Breakfast! 

We saw a waterfall in Ogden Canyon on the way out and some of it was frozen but some was still falling, it look gorgeous. I got an awesome picture of it close up but accidentally deleted it! 

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

January 2017

Brylianna is 16 months old and as cute as ever. She is starting to have some tantrum moments. She giggles so good and her laugh just gets cuter and cuter. She is so smart. We counted the other week and she has a vocabulary of about 22 words ( in baby calendar) and that list grows every week. She loves the grocery store and waves and says Hi to everyone, sooooo cute! She finally got brave enough to take a bath in the tub instead of the sink this week, hallelujah. She was starting to splash way too much and get water everywhere in our tiny kitchen.
She loves her momma and her daddy.
I am 19 weeks pregnant and we get to find out the gender this Friday yay! I think I am starting to get a bit of sciatica on the left side. That is a new experience. Also sometimes when I bend down while holding Brylianna or walking with her to the car etc I have a pain in the right side of my stomach, I think it is just moving that way with weaker abdominals, but I will need to be careful, a hernia or something would be horrible. All in all this pregnancy has gone pretty well just like with Brylianna's. I am still able to be active each day.
Weight gain about 9 lbs
Maternity clothes all the way. I live for comfort when pregnant lol
Starting to wonder when I should take my wedding ring off so my fingers don't swell, I did earlier with Brylianna but was pregnant all summer with her.
Missing walks outside
I think I had heartburn the other night
Having vivid dream ( weird pregnancy symptom but common)
Baby is super active at night especially right before bed and we can feel those kicks. Pat felt quite a few the other day.
I'm still going back and forth on the gender. I really feel like it could be a boy or girl, but it changes like daily lol! Most days I feel like it is another girl though, but I will put in my final guess before Friday when we find out :)

This little girl loves being outside. All her snow stuff is a tiny bit too big for her right now though

We took the Christmas lights down this month finally



We tried making homemade baby safe play dough and this recipe wasn't the greatest so we will continue trial and error with that

 We went over to Tom and Wendy's and they had this adorable play kitchen and Brylianna absolutely loved that she could reach everything!! :) So cute!

Watching daddy shovel snow



Last January and this January. She has gotten so big!! 

18 weeks!

For one of my health coaching challenge groups I encouraged everyone to take before picture, so as their coach I had to do it too lol Even if the only thing that can be seen will be my growing belly!

Sunday, January 1, 2017