23 Week Bumpdate
22 Week Bumpdate
21 Week Bumpdate
Winter Maternity Wear
We live in an amazing time friends! Maternity wear is a dream because so many things are perfect for pregnancy, and post pregnancy! I haven’t bought any shirts that are actually labeled “maternity” yet because there are so many options! Jayne Nash has some DARLING options especially for winter. I’m the biggest fan!
New Year’s Eve
The rest of our Christmas break was really relaxed, lots of time hanging with family and playing games, going to movies and out to eat.
On New Year’s Eve we got to hang out with some friends and play Couple Scattergories which was SO fun.
We were so lucky to have such a wonderful break with family. It gave us some much needed time off and I’m heading into the new year ready for anything (I think?)
I’m hoping to blog more and take more pictures, and start doing videos more regularly. I feel like I always say that I’ll do that and then I never do, but we’ll see!
Here’s to a new year and new goals, new challenges and new ways to grow!
20 Week Bumpdate – Halfway There
How in the world are we HALFWAY THERE! I swear it feels like yesterday that we were in our little apartment, shocked and over the moon that we would be having a baby. It feels like the days are long but the weeks and months have FLOWN by.
With the holidays and craziness we skipped a week 19 bumpdate, but things didn’t change a ton over that week so that’s lucky!
2018 – The Year of Me and My Boys
2017 was the year of Randy and Maddy. It was OUR year full of travels and adventures, and really figuring out life with the two of us. In so many ways, 2017 was one of the best years. It was full of some hard things, but we figured a lot of things out and it became chock full of some of the greatest memories and moments I could have ever asked for.
2017 was full of leaps and risks and lots of faith. My testimony was strengthened in ways I never would have imagined.
Randy and I grew closer than I could have dreamed and our love has never been more sweet.
In 2018 I can only hope that we keep growing and learning. I know we will, because with little dude coming we have a lot to learn!
In 2018 I hope for kindness and patience, for faith and trust, for prayer and practice makes perfect. I hope for lazy weekend mornings and lots of family-of-three cuddles. I hope for hard work and accomplishments, more books read and recipes tried. I hope for less doubt and judgment and gossip and lots more love and faith.
I’m the most nostalgic person I know (ask Randy how tired he gets of “do you remember this….” conversations) and as I reflect on the years past and on the year ahead, I’m so excited. 2018 is going to be a life-changing one for us, hopefully in more than just the big obvious ways.
Let’s do it!
2017 – A Year In Review
February – Celebrating Randy’s birthday and Valentine’s day, making important decisions, lots of praying and thinking and worrying.
March – Walks around the Jordan River trail, shopping, cooking new foods and spending time with friends. The first half of 2017 was hard for me, as we were making huge decisions and I was figuring out how to get my groove back. Randy was my rock the entire time.


April – A whirlwind week of Disneyland with my parents and sister, then straight to New York for a business trip. I HATED being away from Randy but New York was so cool! We also decided to start trying to have a BABY! Also – Randy made the DEAN’S LIST. Did I mention he went to school year round for all of 2017? And killed it?
May – A HUGE and amazing month, 2 weeks of which we spent in Japan! We had the best time ever and I can’t wait to go back. We also celebrated two years of marriage which was so wonderful. Our sweet niece was born while we were gone, and we got to see Randy’s mission and I got to meet his grandparents and cousin. Randy quit his job at the bank after 2 years which was hard, but was the right move!
June – Headed to Yellowstone and loved seeing baby animals and mountain sheep (which we had never seen before!) Our darling nephew was born and at the end of the month, came to Utah to spend the summer!
July – LOTS of niece and nephew time, Candace and Randy became best friends and we loved doing fun summer activities like picnics, cookouts, drive-in movies, and more. Also, our apartment FLOODED and it was the craziest saga in the world.
August – Concerts and switching jobs were some major memories of August! But the biggest was saying goodbye to our niece and nephew as they moved to California, and saying goodbye to Randy’s brother Sam as he went on his mission to Japan.
September – The best month of the whole year, we found out we were having a baby! On my birthday, no less. It was one for the books and some of the happiest days of my life. We also moved into a new apartment in South Jordan.
October – Doctor appointments, telling our families and friends about Baby Low, freelance work, and settling into our new place filled up our October.
November – Finding out we are having a baby BOY was the highlight of November! Lots of family time and hard work for Randy to get great grades also took up most of the month.
December – Family time, feeling little dude move around, working hard and being so happy.
2017 was hard in some ways, but in so many other ways it was the best year of my life. I feel so insanely blessed to have had such a beautiful year, and am even more excited for 2018 when we get to meet our little man. We are SO lucky and so happy, and thanks to all of you who made our 2017 picture perfect.
SHOWERED
We had a family shower for our little dude a few days after Christmas, when all our family was still in town! It was SO much fun and my sisters and my mom knocked it out of the PARK! It was SO cute and little guy was SO spoiled. We had soup and veggies and fruit and treats, had a word search and baby animal naming game (with prizes of course) and got SO many amazing gifts for our little dude. It’s overwhelming to see how many people love our little guy.
A huge thank you to everyone who came, and to my awesome sisters and mom for putting on such a fantastic shower. I feel insanely lucky (and emotional and pregnant so I’m crying while I type this – haha)



























































