A Sofa, A Loveseat and Chairs . . . Oh My!!

We finally have furniture!! Yeah!! I can sit down at our table now and have a meal with other people and then sit in our living room on actual couches instead of laying on the floor! The joy is overwhelming!!

Baby Package

Grandma and Grandpa Bruderer sent us and our future baby a love gift!! It was such a lovely surprise to find a big package in our mailbox from Texas! We got two amazing baby books to read to our little ones and teach them all of the animal sounds that grandma wants them to learn. Included in the package was a pair of awesome maternity pants for me! And yes I have worn them already, I wore them for a whole day and they are amazingly comfortable! Thanks grandparents!

Park City

Scott wanted to get away for our 3rd anniversary. So we went up to Park City for a night. We explored the outlet malls for a while. Then we crashed in our hotel room for a few hours. We had dinner at Park City Pizza and Noodle. We walked main street for a while and peeked into the cool galleries up there. I found a fellow mother to be during our wanderings and stopped for a picture. We ended the night with ice cream at Cows and a movie. It was a lot of fun. It was just too bad I was having a really bad run in with morning sickness. So sadly I just laid there most of the time. But my good husband was just excited to be with me.

Hike to the Y

In all the years that Scott and I were in Provo we had never hiked to the Y. So the lot of us decided to make an adventure of it. Kara, Amber, Scott and I made the long trek uphill. It was a lot farther and a lot steeper than I thought it would be. But it was so fun to have all of us together. The actual Y on the hill is gigantic!! HUGE!! I have no idea how they did it! It looks like the surface of the moon. We did our hike at night at with flashlights. We sat up on the Y trying to find different locations across the valley. It was a lot of fun until we found huge spiders crawling around!!! Time to go!

IHOP!

The Bruderer kids all got together to celebrate everyone being in one place! April just got back from Europe and Michelle and the girls were still here before going back to Vegas. So we all got together for some yummy breakfast. The others didn't know but Scott and I handed out our fun little cards to everyone at the table. Everyone opened them and then launched into high pitched screams! It was so fun! Hooray for having a baby!!

The Secret Is Out . . .

A baby Bruderer is on the way!! (well another baby bruderer, congrats to Steve and Michelle as well!) I am due on March 10, 2008!! Which makes me about 11 weeks pregnant. I haven't been very sick up until the last week or so. I have really learned what morning sickness is. No puking, but the constant stomach ache and nausea are really starting to get to me. Scott has been such a trooper the last week. He has been faithfully waiting on me hand and foot. What a guy! I completely crash on the weekends. I am still working full time and plan to keep working through my pregnancy as my health permits. I haven't announced it to my work yet. I am still working up the courage. I had my first OBGYN appointment last Monday. I got to see our little baby inside me and watch it's heart beat. It was amazing. It started to make it real that there really is life inside me. I am so excited to be a mom!

Nieces!!

While Steve was away at boot camp in Alabama, Michelle and the girls stayed in Bountiful with Michelle's parents. Lucky for us they were pretty close for a while, so we got asked to babysit last week! So fun!! We went to the park, played lots of dress up, had mac and cheese, played the piano, threw rocks in the lake, and horsey. We are sad they are gone to Vegas now, but are happy that they get to be with daddy again!

Goodbye Provo. . .

So Megan and I challenged each other to photograph our walks home from work (like 6 months ago), and I finally did it. After my last visit to FOV Editions I walked home with my camera. Here is what it looks like!

We are Grown Ups!!

We did it! We bought a house! And we love it. We closed on June 27th and moved in the on the first of July! (which is why there has been a lapse in blog updates!) It is a townhouse in Daybreak. Our street has the lake on one end and the new Oquirrah Temple at the other end. We have a larger front yard than most because it is part of the walking park that leads from the lake to the temple. It has three floors (we lucked out because it was already finished so we got more house than if we had to build it), four bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, kitchen, laundry, patio, garage, family and living room! I will post pictures of the rooms as the boxes go away and furniture replaces them. We kind of feel like we are camping. We got a lot of furniture from Clark and Linda since they are moving to Texas (thanks again guys!), but we hardly owned any ourselves. So we have a baby grand piano, a bookcase I put together, a kitchen table (no chairs), two stools, a love sac, a desk from ikea, tv, and a bedroom set. So if you come over in the near future you will probably be sitting on the floor! But we love it. I can't even tell you how amazing it is to be able to do laundry at my own house!! No more dragging it all over! I just have to walk downstairs!! Brilliant! (our house is the one in the middle!)

Lake Powell Bruderer Style!

How could a trip to Lake Powell be bad, really? This year we had almost everyone there (Kara was on a senior trip and Adam was working. We missed them). We also had a fun-loving guest join us! My sister Kiersten!! Hooray! Kiersten and I sucessfully dragged Clark and Linda out of bed around 6:00 am. We tried to sleep in, but our grandpa has us trained that as soon as it is light you ski. Amber, Tom, Jason, and Scott were our wakeboarding experts. Scott also mastered the knee board. April, Davis, Kiersten, Linda, Clark and I headed up the slalom skiiers. We celebrated Father's Day at Powell this year. Happy Father's Day to Clark, Steve, and someday Scott! We did an excursion to Cathedral Canyon and Rainbow Bridge. We got to a section of Cathedral canyon that was really narrow. We managed to get the boat through and we found a cool swimming hole on the other side. Kiersten, Linda and I decided to push the boat back out!! Somehow this trip ended pirate themed again. Big surprise, seeing as I married the King of the Pirates. Davis was our most faithful pirate. Otherwise known as Capt. Cut and Jump. We played in lots of pirate games, including: Pirate of the Island, and Pirate's Dice. After somebody had an impressive run they received an "AAARRRRRGGGHH" with a pirate hook hand from the crew on board. Scott had some fun with facial hair. He started with a full beard and worked his way down to a sole patch by the end of the trip. We also got to test out an air chair while we were down there. It was hilarious to watch! The trip was full of good food, lots of sun, and laughs until our last day. That is when two engines died and Linda, Kiersten and I had to brave the channel during peak hours to go to the marina to get gas. Oh man. The water almost tore our boat apart and left us with sea legs for two days!

A New Job!!!

Today I, Britta, got a job offer to be the studio manager for Silver Pelican Photography! Hooray!! This is as close to a dream job as it gets for me! I will be making appointments / calendaring, taking care of customers, viewing appointments, wedding consultations, sales, phones, advertising, studio management, front-desk, re-touching, and associate photographer. I will be able to have my hand in almost everything that goes on there! I am so excited!! As an associate photographer I will be first in line on shoots after the full time photographers! And I will receive a commission off of the shoots and print orders I am involved in! Silver Pelican Photography is located in Salt Lake in Foothill Village! Check out their website: www.silverpelicanphotography.com. Hopefully I will be on there very soon!!!

Paparazzi?

Well Capree and I quit our day jobs and decided to commit our best creative efforts towards pursuing Hollywood Celebrities!!! Psych!! We heard about this shoot for a "movie premiere" that needed people to pose as paparazzi. It was paying $30 an hour so why not, right? And we didn't have to actually shoot. There was no film in our cameras! They just wanted the visual effect of the flash and the "impression" that we were taking pictures! HA! We were under the impression that we were either posing as paparazzi for an actual movie premier or that we were extras in a scene for a movie involving a movie premier with paparazzi. Once we arrived on location however we we totally confused. Only one other paparazzi member had an SLR with external flash (which was in the requirements for the shoot). The others had little point and shoot digitals! We were told that we needed to yell at the people coming into the party like they were celebrities and we were paparazzi. Hilarious! Then we realized that it was a Hollywood / movie premier themed party! And who was throwing the party was very unclear. All we could tell was that there were a lot of senior citizens and a lot of alcohol. So the first thing we assumed was that the sweet senior citizens were getting scammed out of their money. But that guess was also very wrong. Capree and I googled the company name the next day and found out that the host company made external bladder bags for those who no longer had control of their bladders or bowels!! AWESOME!!! Talk about a photo adventure!!

The Last of the Trio!

Ben was the last of the amigos (but certainly not the least) to find an excellent woman to stand by his side. We were so glad we could be there with them to celebrate.We will miss you! Of course Ben and Scott had to trade jackets at some point in the evening. Nice. Now we just have to convince Ben and Nick to come back to Utah so that we can get our three houses all in a row!!! Ben and Lexi are heading to Chicago and Nick and Alisa are heading to Austin, Texas. Good luck guys!

A Farewell To Bachelorhood!

The boys made sure to send Ben off into married life with one final party. The celebration took place at Nick's house. Things got a little out of hand once the root beer kicked in. The sugar rush prompted superman impressions over the couch and onto the love sac. Boys will be boys!

California Here We Come!!

Well we had the fastest trip in recorded history!! We were supposed to leave Thursday morning and stay until Sunday, but my sister had a wedding she was a part of and Scott had that HUGE job interview. (Good thing we didn't miss that!) So we flew in around 8:30 am on Saturday morning. We got a sweet rental van and drove to Universal Studios. We hit the essential rides: Back To The Future (luckily Scott didn't get sick), Jurassic Park (Kiersten and Erik got soaked), and the Mummy Returns (we went on it twice! If you are ever there definitely ride it. You won't be disappointed.) We left Universal at 1:00 pm and drove to the Pantages theater in LA to see WICKED!! Yeah! We grabbed a quick bite to eat and then went into the most amazing theater I have ever seen and saw my favorite musical of all time. Some of us grabbed some sleep in the car on the way to California Adventure and Disneyland. We arrived in Anaheim around 6:30 pm. We went to California Adventure first. We rode the Tower of Terror, and the Screamer. Scott got front row on the Screamer! It was awesome. We stopped to eat some deliciously massive burgers before continuing on to Disneyland. We rode the "new" Pirates of the Carribean ride. All that was new was that they changed some of the dialogue and threw "Jack Sparrow" into a few scenes. We shopped for pirate apparel, but found we didn't have enough booty. Before the park closed we manged to ride the Matterhorn, Space Mountain (which has been updated and is absolutely amazing!). While the Nilsson clan went on Space Mountain Scott and Wayne discovered the "Buzz Lightyear" ride, which ended up being Scott's favorite ride! You ride around in carts and shoot bad guys for points! Right up his alley. We made it back to the hotel around 1:00 am. We all crashed out pretty fast. Believe it or not, we all slept in until 10:30 am California time. Which means 11:30 am Utah time. Wayne had to put on his reading glasses to make sure he was seeing the clock right. He NEVER sleeps in later that 6:00 am! We had a fun Mother's Day breakfast at noon before we jumped on the plane home! Whew!! What a trip. We decided to never try to top this trip. Because it is impossible to do more or have more fun in such a short time! We did three theme parks and a Broadway play in 14 hours!!