An Update!!

Per the request of MANY I am FINALLY updating my blog! I've been so busy/lazy to update it :) Things are going great with us! We've been busy remodling the house that we are going to move into in a couple of weeks and we are so excited! Those before and after pictures are coming soon. I just want to wait till we're moved in and everything is pretty before I take the after pictures. It was really fun painting the baby room the colors I liked and it turned out really cute!We can't wait to move from our 1940's adobe house, but we'll also miss it :). We're also really sad to leave our sunbeams. They are really what makes our Sundays so busy/fun. Everyday after church is a new story that we are laughing so hard at. I love 3 year olds!!

We can't wait till this little girl finally comes! I'm 30 weeks now and i'm kinda freaking out I only have 10 weeks left. I know that's still a lot but it doesn't seem that much to me cause it's been going by so fast. This baby is SO SO active. She moves around ALL day and I love it! (except for when i'm trying to sleep of course). Her new thing is to start the abolute craziness at 10pm and it doesn't end till after midnight. So i've been going to bed late for the past couple weeks. Any time I'm sitting down, 10 min later she's rolling around and kicking. I feel really lucky i'm carrying her low so she's not having fun with my ribs :). She's having more fun with my bladder. :) And no, I am still not having any cravings :). My friend Sierra asks all the time what my cravings are so she can serve them at my baby shower and all I have to say is ice cream and cookie dough! All I know is that i'm not the biggest fan of italian food....eh.

Well that's what's new! We can't wait to move in our house, Shane to graduate, and to have this baby! And at the request of many I took a belly shot :). I probably should have taken one a long time ago for documenting but I kept putting it off.


There you go! The bandaid on my arm explains me getting the H1N1 shot :) No swine flu for me!

The end of summer..

To end our summer we took a big trip to Lake Powell!! This just happens to be one of my most favorite places to vacation and I was so happy to be feeling well enough to jet ski, mildly tube, and eat lots and lots of food!


I asked Shane if he would drag Madi and I on the tube our last day there. I had been missing out on all the activities cause of the little one in my belly and little did I know he would not take it easy...he must know we've got a strong child cause he gave us a good ride! This smile on my face is the shock and fear after the ride.
Also my sister Madi was OBSESSED with comparing our bellies. She had planned out the exact day that she would compare with what dinner we were having that night so that she could take a picture. She tried as hard as she could to eat a ton and drink lots of soda and yelled at me to suck it in! In other words, my sister is crazy....but I love her!
There was a tiny rock island that we floated to!
The only watersport I could participate in. But I can't complain cause it's my favorite!!


But enough of the vacation, our biggest summer news is that we're having a GIRL!! And yes Shane is doing just fine :). We are both way excited and are having so much fun preparing and just got the crib of our dreams! We got a SMOKIN deal designer crib that came with matress and bedding for $75 bucks!!! And after searching on the internet we found it was going for $850 bucks!! Shane works with furniture liquidation on the weekends and he spotted it and hoped it wouldn't get taken, and once it wasn't taken his boss gave it to us for a STEAL. Now I just have to get used to the color pink because those of you who know me would never EVER put the colors pink and purple to my name, which is probably why i'm having a girl :). So I had a little fun and posted our baby pictures so you can imagine our new baby parra lady!

Our awesome summer so far...

We've had an awesome summer so far! It's most definitely been busy. For starters we went golfing for my birthday and it was so fun! HOT....but fun. I got a wicked farmers tan that day (and so did shane) that it took about a week of 5 hours at the beach to get rid of (and I'm sure it's not gone yet). And yes...Shane beat me...but I did have my good moments! We had two old men strangers golfing with us that gave me many compliments (that I didn't deserve half the time).


This is after a flawless drive on a par 3 that I did and it landed right on the green! I was so proud that I took a picture. One of the compliments that the old men constantly gave me was that I was an awesome putter. I will have you know that it took me about 3 putts to sink this ball creating a bogey for me. Shane couldn't stop laughing.
We also go to sit in the TGIFriday's section at the Diamondbacks game! Free endless food and a crappy game made up an awesome night.
We recently just got back from a week vacation in Oceanside and it was SO much fun! Beach every day with Frisbee, Harry Potter and paddle ball is the life for us (well except no Harry Potter for Shane....Glen Beck is for him). Shane and I decided to get creative with the Frisbee throwing so we caught it between our legs and behind our backs! Not so successful but I bet it was entertaining for those who were watching...

Well that's it for now. We're going to Lake Powell next week and we're really excited for that. I'm about 15 weeks now in my pregnancy and I am sick no more! It's so nice to eat food and enjoy it. We're excited to find out what our baby will be and it's coming up really quickly! January 5th seems forever away but I know that will come up quickly too :)

Drum roll please...

Okay clearly it's been awhile since I've posted because I can't think of a creative way to tell my good news!.....I'm PREGO!! Yep I'm about 8 weeks now. And actually feeling pretty good! I'm nauseous all the time but it's really tolerable. I've been expecting to be on the bathroom floor and it really hasn't happened more than just a couple times (knock on wood). Shane has pretty much decided that it's a boy because "he doesn't make anything else." Which is why I really think its' going to be a girl cause things just happen that way! So it seems that the common question when I tell people is "are you craving anything??" And so let me just keep you updated....

Am i craving anything?? No. Never. In fact it's kinda the opposite of crave but I still try to shove food in my stomach to keep the little tike healthy and happy.

Things I am really not liking right now...
Keith Urban and Rascal Flatts (i know sad) but I like all other country!
Sweets (Cakes, cookies, etc) even more sad....
Waking up (I've never liked it but it's harder than ever)
Not liking food (cause it's so not like me!)
Cleaning (I have to seriously push myself to get things done right now)
Seeing baby clothes and not able to get them cause I don't know the gender!
Constant nausea.

Things I am really loving!!
Country songs that make me cry (shane thinks its funny)
Salad.
Salty chips and crackers!
Grilled cheese sandwiches
Sleeping. Can't get enough. Shane thinks it's ridiculous how tired I am.
Playing softball! (it gets my mind of the nausea and I've been hitting phenomenal! cause I'm batting for two of course)

Well there it is! It's kinda crazy thinking about me with a big tummy. Shane can't wait! Neither can I actually...cause I pretty much feel fat right now...not too prego. But it'll come!

The wife he always wanted me to be :)

So if you ever knew me in high school you would not put the word "domestic" to my face. Even Shane knew what he was marrying into but slowly but surely I am proving him wrong! With my cooking he even admitted that he had doubts but I have been blowing him out of the water with my BLT's, Mexican rice, and Chimichangas. I also have one more thing to admit, lately I have been.....crafty. Crazy I know and I'm sure you can't see it now but I have a couple pictures of my most humbled creations. I have others but these two I'm the most proud of...and Shane I think is STILL shocked!! I'm hoping these pictures do them justice. And I still have more crafts I'm working on.

Okay first of all I have to give credit to Jess for both of these. We have been getting tons of invitations for weddings lately and we don't have any refrigerator magnets and so I wanted a cuter way to display them. So in Jess's house she has one of these behind her couch in the family room and it turned out cute so I made one! To tell the truth I was winging it the whole time but it turned out really well! I love staple guns....

I made this one at Jess's house and it was her wedding gift to me. We made it together and I realized how AMAZING mod podge is!! And it turned out really well and looks great in our house!

Some others is I did letters that spell PARRA over the arch in our house, and block letters that spell Te Amo over our bed (eventhough it kinda looks like I spelled the word TEAMO.) but i try...

Well I hope you are all amazed! Even my closest friends do a double take at me and say..."wait you made what?" or "wait...kelci I never knew you could craft!" I still have a long way to go but if any of you have any ideas just let me know! Cause it turns out that I love it!!

Lately

So this past weekend we threw a bridal shower for my friend Christine who is getting married next week. Even though before the shower it was slave work we had so much fun!! Britt came down and came to the shower and we were so stoked to see her cause it's been so long. WE LOVE BRITT. Anyway here's some picures!


The set up was so cute! We loved her colors. You can't see the centerpiece very well but sierra and marla were the artists.


Sierra: the Slave driver if you will. This bridal shower would have been nothing without her.
This was my job. Sweaty job. Cooking the paninis. Making them , toasting them and burning my fingers while cutting them into tiny triangles. I've never felt so productively domestic.
The gang!!
And last but not least...the bride! Congrats Christine!

Fun Times

Well nothing is too new with us but here are a couple things we've been up to...

Shane and I went to the suns game and we had awesome seats! They play little games during the time outs and for one of the games they picked the guy right behind me! So we were on the big screen and the gorilla was right behind us. Shane tried to get the best picture he could. It was so fun!
So Shane and I are on a co-ed softball team and it's been so fun so far. One game a guy hit a ball hard at me and well...it hit my leg instead of my glove. It hurt so bad but Shane and I decided to get a picture to always remember how big and nasty it was. It was super swollen the day I got it. And yes....i am afraid of the ball now. Shane says we need to do practicing drills :).


We went to Mexico for spring break and it was so fun! Shane's sister Shelby begged us for about a month to go and I think that we have her to thank for that trip :). I did have a picture of her too to put up but I think she would murder me or never trade with me in settlers if i put it up. I think she looks cute but she thinks otherwise. I wish I took more pictures of this trip but that is my weakness that Shane is trying to make my strength (taking pictures). I swear I'm going to try to be better. We love you Shelb and had so much fun! Basically all we did was eat tacos, play paddle ball, and play settlers. All you need in a trip. We'll be doing that again!