Allison's Wedding

Another plane flight! We have been quite the travelers lately. Since November, March was the only month we didn't fly anywhere. And we are set for two more trips before things settle down in May!
This weekend was wonderful. We had tons of the family fly in for the wedding and the Tenneys, Holbrooks and Perrys made it as well. Friday we all hung out at the Henry Ford Museum. Taylor and I took the Rouge Factory Tour where they assemble the F-150 trucks. Pretty sweet. We had everyone over for dinner Friday and of course all the wedding celebrations Saturday.
Thank you Kathy Tenney for the awesome photos.

 The in-laws. It was great to get to know them more and see how much they love Allison

What do the existing brother-in-laws think about addition number three?

 Nothing better than a happy bride

 Leave it to Kathy to get a great photo of Dad. No cardboard cut out here

 The baby bump

The dinner was at Coach Insignia located on the 73rd floor of the GM Building. 

Doesn't get much cuter than this

Taylor and I were lucky to stay through Monday. The rest of the crowd headed out Sunday night. It was sad to see everyone come and go so fast, can't wait to see everyone again in May. 

They Bloomed!!

Had to share the joy :)

The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow, Right?

I've been spoiled. We have had a very mild winter, until recently. I grew much to accustomed to seeing the sun at least once if not twice a week. However, Seattle has recently let go of all the rain it was holding on to. Which has left me booking tickets to Arizona to visit the lovely Calvert family :) I guess it's not a bad trade off.
In the meantime, I've attempted to cultivate a little bit of Spring.

 The crocus actually opened, once three weeks ago. Since then they have remained decidedly closed.

We had our Relief Society Activity and I was put in charge of food, as always. I went for something festive, we were having an art appreciation night, so I figured I better try and make the food fit. Lemon Curd Cupcakes, delicious. 

 These were the rejects, ran out of lemon curd. 

 This cake was my real goal for the evening. I thought it would be the perfect Pop Art tribute! A Snickers Candy Bar Cake. I have to say, I was impressed with myself.

And how could I resist this!? Adorable. Boy clothes are so much better than girl stuff. None of the dresses were this cute. I'm sure it won't be his size when next spring actually rolls around, but he'll look adorable even if it is December. 

It's a ... !

As most of you know, Taylor and I are expecting little Millett number one in July. This weekend Taylor's cousin Tyler who works as an ultrasound tech (not really sure what the job title is) walked us right over to the hospital and did an ultrasound for us! It was awesome :) My mid-pregnancy ultrasound isn't scheduled until March so we were both really excited to find out what our little baby is a whole month early.

Here is the adorable profile, with a little hand in the corner

Another profile. Apparently our little one has quite the head, measuring a week farther along than I am, but  rather short legs. Sounds like mine and Taylor's baby for sure.  

I love the little fingers!

A 3D image. I already love this little nose.

And the moment we were waiting for as Tyler measured the head, checked out the kidneys etc etc. 

The money shot. No denying that, it's a boy! He gave us a 99.8% guarantee little James Taylor Millett will join us in July.

Thanksgiving

I always think I'm going to be awesome at keeping the blog updated. And it never really happens. Dommage.

We had a great Thanksgiving! We went with the entire Millett crowd to Hawaii, it was beautiful. We spent the whole week on O'ahu close to the North Shore and right next door to BYU-Hawaii, the La'ie Hi Temple and the Polynesian Cultural Center. Kris, Taylor's Mom, found a great beach house that was able to sleep all 10 of us! Lucky for us married folks we all got our own bedroom and the 4 boys shared the bunk room.
Hrm...It uploaded all the photos in reverse. So, I guess you'll have to see the trip from end to beginning.

All the boys, can't get a serious photo. 

Our last night we headed to Waikiki, I was thrilled to lay on the beach and get as much sun as possible (the north side was a little cloudy). To our very not great surprise the boys were bored in about 5 minutes. Sweet Taylor stayed with me for a good hour, but when he got the text they were playing football, I had to kiss my serene moment goodbye and go watch him join the game. It was so fun to have them all together, they are one funny crowd. 

Setting up the plays, this is serious. 

Haha, Taylor being Taylor... Making fun of the tourists, when little did he realize he was standing right in the middle of a narrow dock completely oblivious to someone trying to get around him :) 

This was the story of our Vacation, Boggie Boards. 

The USS Arizona. It's hard to see, but a group had come and dropped a bunch of flowers into the water. Also, I had no idea, the ship is still leaking oil, about 2 gallons a day. It's expected to leak for another 50 years. You can see small button sized drops float up from the ship and disperse when they hit the water surface.

Snorkeling at Hanauma bay. 

We went for a hike, about 5 mins up the walk Taylor decided he was done. So we turned around and let the rest go on without us. I had already gotten about 20 bug bites, so I was fine to not go any further.

View from the Hike

November-March (?) is when Hawaii has all the big surf competitions on the North Shore. Just down the beach from us they were setting up a huge seating area for the competition that took place the week after Thanksgiving. The waves were HUGE! You can't really tell in this photo, but the waves were apparently about 10-15 ft, and these were "small". It was awesome to watch the surfers, every time I thought for sure they were gonners, but they always seemed to pop back up and hit another one. 

Both Matt, in the grey, Lindsay's husband, and Brad served in Brazil. And they are obsessed with Acai. Apparently they eat it all the time there. Well, they found a stand that serves it right by the beach, sweetened condensed milk and everything. This is them enjoying their spoils. 

Ben wanted to be buried and turned into a merman. Thanks to Lindsay creative genius we got ourselves an excellent merman costume. 

The Lu'au at the Polynesian Cultural Center. We went to the dance performance/show after called Ha, the breath of life. It was incredible! And of course the fire eater/twirlers and the large Tongans who sat right on the fire were the highlights. 

One morning we were able to do a session at the Temple. It is beautiful inside! 

The Dole Pineapple Plantation. Brad, was shocked to learn pineapple grows in the ground. It's true, there is no such thing as a pineapple tree :) The fresh pineapple ice cream is to die for!

Turtle Bay, we headed there our first day. Yea sunshine!

This is just outside the house, you can't see the beach in this photo, but it's right there, I promise. Also inspired from Brazil Matt and Brad love fresh coconut. Here Matt is scaling the tree like a native Samoan to grab the fresh fruit. Delicious :) I had never had fresh coconut before. The nut is full of water, then you scrape out the white meat and ring it to get the milk, then dry the meat for the dry coconut we are accustomed to eating. Yum 

Sunshine and BYU

This last weekend we headed down to Portland, well really we were in Vancouver then headed to Corvallis for the BYU vs OSU game. We had all the best plans to hang out in Portland, neither of us have been before, but as the cards came down all we did was drive through on our way to the game. Oh well, there is always another weekend.
The game was awesome. Taylor has had quite the positive effect on my view of sports. I cheer, I get into it, I debate about whether or not the Refs' call was legit. Yeah, I didn't even get bored and want to leave before the 3rd quarter ended! This could be due to the fact that the sun did manage to break through the clouds and the weather was gorgeous.

The weather has stayed beautiful and the last two days I've taken advantage of it and walked down to the beach and around Green Lake. I didn't have a camera or my phone, so these photos are from a friend's phone. 

Beautiful Seattle...