My Birthday weekend

This weekend has been nice also. It was my birthday weekend, so I pretty much got to decide what we did. On Friday, we went to Borders so I could spend my birthday gift card from my mother-in-law. I was able to get 2 books that I wanted. Then we stopped for ice cream on the way home. On Saturday we went to the temple in the morning, which was a nice way to start the day. Then we drove to Salt Lake for my birthday lunch. I have always wanted to eat at The Cheesecake Factory so we finally did. The menu is huge. It's literally a book. They couldn't decide what kind of food they wanted to serve, so they serve it all. The food was pretty good, but the cheesecake was delicious. Next time I am going just for dessert. I got White Chocolate Carmel Macadamia Nut cheesecake.

Then we went shopping at the mall next door to help us walk off all of the food that we ate. We went in to Carter's to look at baby clothes. They had 50% off of all of the clothes, so I couldn't resist getting some adorable onesies and a pajama sleepsack. In our shopping trip I was also able to use my birthday money to buy some nice makeup. Meanwhile, Brian was a trooper and let me go in all the makeup and baby stores that I wanted.

It was a great birthday weekend!

Me with my birthday presents! An awesome jelly belly candy dispenser from Brian, a fruit bowl

to match my other kitchen containers from my parents, and the books that I bought with my

gift card!

My craving

I haven't really been craving much during my pregnancy, with the exception of cinnamon rolls. I always want one. After spending a lot of money for one at a bakery, I decided to make my own. They actually turned out pretty well, I'm sure I will make them again, maybe next week;) But I decided I needed to add about twice as much cinnamon and sugar next time, to make them truly fantastic.

Also, here is my 22 week baby bump picture, for those of you not on facebook.

The big news

The big news from this week, that most of you probably already know, is that we are having a girl!!! I am so excited because now I can actually buy the cute girl outfits I see in the stores.

The pic below is a closeup. You can see her yes, nose, mouth, and even fingernails!

This week I also had 2 days of training for the new math program I will be teaching. I will be going into school everyday this week to get things ready in my classroom. Teachers start back on Friday. My summer is practically over.

In other news, I learned Brian can pick a lock using a bobby pin and screwdriver. This discovery came when we somehow locked the lower lock of our house (the one we don't have a key for). After realizing that every single window and door were locked we knew we were in trouble. To make matters worse, our landlady is out of town for 2 weeks, so we couldn't get the key from her. Then Brian decided to try picking the lock with the one bobby pin I had in my hair. 20 minutes later he finally did it. We were able to get into our house!