Oh BOY!!

Yesterday we found out that baby Donaldson is a BOY!! We went in for our appointment and My parents, Jessica, Jordan and David all got to be in there! The first words out of Duskin's mouth were "HA!!" He was right! I was so sure that we were having a girl! But I am BEYOND excited to be having a sweet little boy!! I was so nervous that if I found out that we were having a boy that i would be sad but I wasn't AT ALL!! As soon as the Tech said it was a boy I was still just as happy and not sad or disapointed at all!! I can not wait for him to get here!!!

Celebrating One WHOLE Year

Its been a year already!? How is that even possible! I cant believe that we made it a whole year! To celebrate Duskin took off work on Saturday and we had such a fun day! To start off Duskin went to a Bolivian place to grab us some "brunch" and it was SO good! I was a little skeptical at first but it was delicious! 

Saltenas

Then it was off to Six Flags for us! Neither one of us had been before so we were both super excited! How ever there was one little thing I was worried about the whole time and I had to be super careful on the rides. (I'll get to that later.) But Six flags was such a blast! It was SOOO hot though and that was not so fun but over all it was so nice to spend the day with Duskin! 

After that we went home to freshen up for our COUPLE MASSAGES!!! Man was that an expierience. Duskin had gotten a groupon for them and we were super excited...that was until we pulled up. The place was hidden and there were no cars in the parking lot. Either we were lost or somethine bad was about to happen. Just kidding we were fine the building was just strange. But that wasn't even the worst part. We opened the door to the place and all we saw were some sketchy old stairs. Did we dare go up? YES! It lead to this beautiful spa and then we knew we were in the right spot. The Asian ladies took up back into our room and they told us to get ready. We both looked at each other like do we get completely naked? Neither one of us had ever gotten a massage and they didn't explain anything to us. Good thing we have watched TV shows and movies that explained it to us! Well we undressed and got ready and shortly after they came back in and got to work! AMAZING! We both loved every minute and that hour went way to fast! After when we were walking down the stair we both just laughed and were glad we decided to endure the sketchy place and give it a chance!

The pictures are WAY better than it actually looked!

Now time for dinner! Duskin also had found a groupon to an Asian BLANK place. It was so cool to have them cook the food in front of us and they would toss it in our mouths and stuff. It was really good food too! (As you can tell we really like groupon.)

Now to the BEST part of our anniversary! Sunday marked one year since we have been married and we woke up to the best new ever! I had woke up that morning and went to the bathroom but this wasn't just any normal time. I was about to take a PREGNANCY test! And lo and behold it was POSITIVE!!! As I waited for it to actually tell me i was EXTREMELY nervous!! This little test could change my whole life! Well Duskin didnt know I was taking it that morning so I was super excited to suprise him with it if it had been positive! Which it was so I ran into our room and jumped on our bed and shook him and said WE'RE HAVING A BABY!!! He didnt believe me until I showed him the stick!! EXTREMELY happy to be starting our family and cannot wait for our little one to get here in March!! I totally think its going to be a GIRL! Duskin thinks BOY! Can't wait to find out!!

A "Rocky" Start

Friday nights are date night but since the new year we haven’t been able to go on a date yet. But this Friday was going to be our first date in the new year and we were determined to do something. Our original plans had been to go out and see a movie since we got gift cards to go from one of my sweet coworkers. We looked up movies we could see and we couldn’t decide on one. We almost didn’t go out because we couldn’t think of anything else we could do that wouldn’t be a whole lot of money but we wanted to go out. Then I had an idea! Of course! Why didn’t I think of this earlier!

For Christmas Duskin’s sister and her husband had given us both something called a “POGO PASS”. It’s a pass that gives us a ton of different things to do for little to no cost at all for a year. I started looking through the list of choices we got to choose from and rock climbing stood out. We discussed it and FINALLY decided that’s what we were going to do and it was close to our apartment! A win win!! We both got ready and left for the rock gym. We got to the gym and we were super excited to get to go. We got our pogo pass ready and we walked inside to see like 50 people in there all over the walls. It was packed. We didn’t even get to the counter and Duskin had already decided he didn’t want to stay and try. I told him I was okay with leaving but when we walked back to the car I really wasn’t okay with not going. I mean what are we going to do now? My excitement was shot and I was not happy. We started to drive home and he could tell I was not happy he told me that if I wanted to stay then I should have told him that but I thought that if I made him stay then he would not enjoy it because there was too many people. MISCOMMUNICATION from both of us! Mostly me. I shouldn’t have assumed and made up this story in my mind that he wasn’t going to have a good time. We could have had a great time if we would have stayed but we will never know. So now I was not happy with him for making me leave and he wasn’t happy with me because I didn’t tell him what I wanted. This whole marriage thing gets kinda confusing and we are definitely still learning. Lesson learned! We discovered that we need to both just take a moment and instead of making up these stories in our minds we need to tell each other what we really think…mainly me. I always try to please him when really I’m not pleasing him I’m just making stuff harder for myself and him. But all in all we worked it out! WOoHOO for communication!! We ended up going home and watching The Fast and Furious and decided that we would try again tomorrow. Which we did! And it was a success!!

We got there later than planned and only had about an hour and a half to climb but that was well enough time! We got tired! Duskin was a champ though and was really good. I’m more of a scaredy cat and was having trouble at first but thank goodness for an awesome husband who talked me through it and helped me get to the top and conquer my fear! He even got me to try harder walls that at first I was completely terrified of. But I sure loved the whole experience…I mean who doesn’t like staring at their husbands butt for most of the time as he climbs the wall and I hold the rope below. It was definitely a win win the entire time! Yay for the pogo pass and the much needed date and most importantly yay for forgiveness and communication!