One Year and growing strong, and big :)

Well it's official, today is our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! Yay!!! 

It's crazy to think that it was a whole year ago that we got married! So much has happened since then, but time serisously flew by. 

Right now I'm sitting in our GORGEOUS Marriott room in Kua'i (pictures to come, don't worry) waiting for brunch to settle so I thought I might as well make myself useful and wish ourselves a happy anniversary haha, just kidding but it's been a while since I posted, so I thought I'd better.

HUGE thanks to Mom and Dad Sanelli for putting this trip together for us and sending us, we couldn't have asked for anything better. We love it here, anybody want to move here with us??

Because I know you are dying to know, here are a few updates...

In case you don't know, I am about 4 months (17 1/2 weeks) prego (thats where the "growing strong, and BIG" part of the title came from) and we couldn't be more excited! We won't find out what we are having until this September 11th but so far we already have our names picked out, kinda. 

Girl Name:

Okay, this is a for sure, if we have a girl this is THE name we will name her, no doubt...

McKenna Nicole Sanelli 

I've loved the name McKenna and have known I would name one of my girls that name ever since high school, and Dom loves it too, so now all we need is to have a girl so that we can name her it!

Boy Name:

This one is a little unsure as of now, Domenic really wanted to name our first boy an italian name, but we can't really are on one because he likes the really italian sounding names like domiano or giuliano but I'm afraid the kid will get made fun of so we are struggling with this one.

So far we have agreed on Nicolas Domenic Sanelli, but Dom has a cousin named nick on his Sanelli side, so we don't know. 

I know a lot of people hesitate telling people what they are going to name their kids, BUT I really want to know what you think or if you have any ideas. Any suggestions?? Let us know!

More updates to come, in a week or so when we get home :)

Here's the countdown!!

The rest of July is going to be BEAUTIFUL! Here is the countdown (including weekends):

Last day of the semester (Halleluja) 7 Days

Our 11 month anniversary (can you believe it??) 7 days

Back in good ol' Washington 9 days

Off to Disney Land 11 days

My Best Friend's Wedding (yeah baby!) 16 days

I found this pic and realized that I had never put it up! It's a pic of my good friend Tiff and I at her wedding reception (I know, I know she's been married for almost 6 month now but I had to put it up cuz she looks so beautiful!)
Congrats Tiffy!!

Awesome Music Video, Check it Out!!

Colman's Birthday

Happy 24th B-day Colman!!

Pizza Partay

Our really good friends Colman and Carlie and us had an awesome home-made pizza party, here are some pics :)

Mama Mia Pizza Ria

The best part was that we got to go see 17 Again after dinner! It was so funny, and no I didn't just go to see it b/c it had Zach Effron in it, although that was a plus. Even Dom liked it, and he is SUPER picky about movies.

My Birthday!!

I know this is 2 days late, buuuut I thought Id better share with everyone how my birthday went!

So, it started out with school (yuck, well actually it isn't that bad but who really wants to go to school on their b-day anyways??)

But, then I went and got my hair done! I had them put a ton of blonde highlights in b/c that is how my hair was when dom and I met and I missed it, plus, its going to be summer soon (hopefully... In rexburg it seems like winter all year long), and my hair alway lightens up to almost a blonde (really light brown) not to mention I was getting super bored with my hair.

Then, Dom and I went to Idaho falls and went shopping!!! It's been a while so this was pretty exciting for me :) I ended up getting three super cute shirts, a scarf, a necklace, and a super cute dress (pics to come...)

By the time we were done shopping, we were getting hungry soooo, we decided to go to Johny Carino's (it a lot like olive garden) b/c I had never been there before and Italiana sounded really yummy (although I have been spoiled with real italian food so it might not have been as good now, thanks Dom for spoiling my taste buds!)

So we get there, sit down and after 15 minutes order our food. Then the fire alarm goes off! It keeps going for 15 more minutes, so we decide to leave. Don't worry we didn't dine and ditch, but the noise was so stinking loud that it was ridiculous.

I think the most exciting thing about my b-day was that I GOT A KITCHEN AID!!!!!!! Thanks to mom and pops! I absolutely love it!!!! Yes, I know... suuuper spoiled. (pics of this to come soon too).

It was such a fun day. Thanks to everyone who called to wish me happy birthday! And especially thanks to Dom for sacrificing his time to go shopping (of all things) with me :)!!!

You know it's good when it gives you goose bumps!

I found this on a friends blog and absolutely LOVED it! 

I hope you will too!

A Night Out

Between studying and working, Domenic hasn't had much spare time to do, well anything really, except study so tonight was a special treat. We decided to kick off General Conference by going out to dinner with some good friends of ours , Carlie and Colman. It has been a while since we have gotten out and a nice juicy burger was sounding really really good so we headed over to Red Robin! Anyways, we had a really good time, and took some goofy pictures. They are of course out of order but I still haven't gotten good enough, or had enough patience to put them into order. anyways, I hope you enjoy them, we had a blast!

What is a picture without dom pulling a goofy face?

Carlie drinking out of both of their cups

Carlie and Colman

Dom and Brit

The Gang

Feeling Better

Alright, so it has been 3 weeks in the making, but I really think that my mono has bit the dust. It was kind of interesting because I had been feeling horrible and super tired every day for the past 2 1/2 weeks and then all of a sudden this last Sunday I felt completely normal! I even got up an hour and a half before church (for all of you out there who have church at 9 a.m. you know how hard that is) and got ready! I even wore make up which was something I hadn't done since I had gotten sick (it is amazing what some foundation and mascara can do for you, really).

I was trying to figure out why and how I had experienced such a miracle and got better so quickly, but then Domenic was talking to his family Sunday evening and they told him that they had been praying for me and even FASTED for me that Sunday! Mystery solved. I feel so blessed to part of the gospel. I have been blessed so many times it is super hard to even imagine there not being a Heavenly Father. We are so grateful for the faith of others and the blessings we receive because of them.

It is also really convenient that I got better just in time to take my finals! Thank you Heavenly Father! It also means that I get to help Domenic with his monstrous work load and start being a wife again in stead of a zombie, good news or bad news, I'm still weighing the pros and cons of both :)

To all of you that prayed, fasted, etc. for me, we really really appreciate it all! Thanks a bunch, your prayers have been the best medicine.