nested

at 37 wks i hit my nesting stage and was a cleaning/organizing maniac!! I even enlisted josh's help in cleaning the garage and the closet underneath the stairs. I washed ALL of the babies stuff and really just cleaned everything and couldn't stop myself. it was crazy!! BUT...... now last wk at 38 wks i have absolutely no energy and can't get my ballooned body off the couch. i feel like this coming week will be no different. Maybe that's a sign that he's coming soon! we can only hope!

one last date?

josh took me downtown to PF changs for what we hope was our last hot date before the baby comes and who knows when we will do it again. we had to wait a really long time, but i was dressed and feeling pretty good about myself so we weren't leaving! The date was much needed and i loved spending the time with my joshy like the good ole days of being young.

mom does it all

after since the first grandbaby my mom has bought and refinished old dressers for the baby to have. so this time around it was no different for me. She stoked craigslist and found nothing, but we ended up getting a free dresser from Josh's sister. it was pretty ugly and we were positive that we'll just have to paint it, but mom worked her magic and it turned out beautiful.

after she sanded it down
i knew from the moment i found out i was pregnant that i was going to make the bumper for the crib. i'm just too picky and i didn't want to spend the large amount of cash on a crib set when all i needed was the bumper. I took the design from my nieces bumper and found the boy ribbon i liked and my mom sewed it all together. i absolutely love love love how it turned out. the colors are perfect and the outside of it is just a plain navy. the picture doesn't do it justice!

my mom also makes blankets for the her grandbabies and she didn't fail to create two ridiculously cute blankets for my little man.

if only i was as good on the sewing machine as her.....maybe one day!

Done

This is our nice looking fridge that has been unused for the last almost 2.5 months because of ding dong repair man! But now after 3 different repair man and months later it's finally fixed! i'm so so excited to finally go grocery shopping and have food in the fridge before the baby comes anytime now!

Sweet Love

as yesterday was Valentines day and we don't really celebrate the holiday, but I still want to express my love and gratefulness for my wonderful marriage and my best friend Josh! sometimes it takes and event to realize how amazing my marriage is.

I love you Joshy and grateful i get to spend all of eternity with you by my side.

Sundays

Today josh and i went to Miss Henley's baby blessing. Nothing can bring a tear to my eyes like a father priesthood blessing! She looked like a sweet angel fresh from heaven. So Innocent and sweet. Warning gross feet picture

Sunday's also brings me sitting for 3 hours straight at church. Which equals my little cankels to become massive swollen calfs/cankels/feet! besides it being totally unattractive, it's also painful for my skin to stretch and swell like that. My one real big complaint about this pregnancy is my swelling.

by that night they were even more worst, if you can even imagine! Oh and my tailbone get extremely sore from sitting in the hard church chairs, that between me not being able to get up and my swollen legs we end up leaving church early because i'm in so much pain!

count down

i'm officially full term at 37 wks pregnant! it's really hard to believe that in a few short weeks we will have this sweet little boy and the stress of being great parents to him. We are pretty much physically all ready for him to arrive, but emotionally i'm starting to freak out a bit about everything labor/baby! i'm still measuring pretty big and my dr. is pretty sure that i'm not having a baby anytime soon. well at least not on my own. So we'll see when he decides to actually arrive. Josh and i both had dreams that he was weighing in the 9 pounds....yikes...lets hope not!

i'm just now starting to feel uncomfortable and real front heavy. i'm getting slower and more sore with any activity. We've started taking long brisk walk to help maybe get this process moving along. As much as i'm ready for him to be here, I will be sad to not have him all to myself and feeling his foot jab up into my ribs or his massive rolls across my belly.

it's a girl

No not me, but my bestie Jill finally had her baby! Henley Rue was born 9 days late on Feb. 1st. I was so shocked that she had a girl, but she's super sweet and so cute. look at those lips! I see a future crush for my little guy! 8lbs 9oz

raining gifts

PICTURE OVERLOAD AND NOT A LOT OF WRITING

I had two great showers for the baby and I. First i'll tell about the one my sisters and mom gave us. A lot of people came, we played great fun games and it looks like babies r us through up in my mom's living room. So greatly appreciated for all the great and much needed baby things.

my great mom and I!

getting larger and larger! 9months/36wks

Josh's uncle Ted made us this beautiful rocking horse. We are so excited about it and so is madelyn.

my girlfriends all came. Jill came even though she was barely 4 days out from having her sweet baby girl.(no picture of us together, don't know how that happened!)

my yummy yummy cake!

i got everything i need for the baby and more.

shower #2 was at my work. I've been working for the same Dr for so many years and lots of the girls there i have also know for years.

two of my co-workers, Holly, Tracey and I.

again another yummy yummy cake.

both showers were amazing and i was able to get pretty much everything i need. The Dr's I work for bought me our car seat and stroller!

Now all we need is a baby to use all the stuff. He should be here anytime, I only have 4 weeks left and then our lives will change forever.

Fridge

our fridge/freezer has been on the fritz for i think a month or so and no repair man seems to be able to fix it because of the fancy brand. LAME!! one repair man said he can fix it and that was 3 weeks ago and we still don't have a working fridge. anyways...i'm real tired of not having food or being able to have left overs because nothing stays cold! today I caved in a bought some milk. i'll just stick it outside because that will keep it cold. there are a lot of foods i can't eat without milk so i'm super excited to have it back in the house. except we'll have to use it real quick before it goes bad. LAME again! I think we'll have to buy a new fridge.

i hate change

after three years i thought maybe just maybe i'll change my background. I did and now none of my side items are showing up!! hello...someone help me please!

went back to the origianl until i can figure this new background thing out!

Another month bigger

8 MONTHS or 32 wks!!! baby boy really is getting so close to arriving. We are really starting to get anxious now. I only have 8 wks left, give or take....hopefully not longer! but if i'm like my mother i'll go late and have a large baby! speaking of large baby i've been measuring about 2.5 wks bigger! so either i'll go early....have a sum what bigger baby or there's a little baby in a lot of fluid! I've really grown over the past month and i really don't see how i can get much bigger, but i know it's going to happen. the last few months was awful in the fact that i could've ever sleep!! i was constantly getting up and finding things to do in the middle of the night. I also seemed to have gain a tremendous about of weight as well. since i have only a few weeks left i've already been sleeping perfectly and settling into my weight gain!

Josh and i went and registered for my baby showers that i'm having in a couple of weeks. I was so exciting to go and do it, Josh on the other hand was not so excited but he went and was a good sport about it.

Josh picked up this super cute super soft giraffe for baby boy to have! we call him Geri the Giraffe and we hope that baby loves him.

cookies

since we've moved in to our house our oven just doesn't want to work correctly. The oven just doesn't' want to cook anything i put in it. I either have to turn the temp up real real high or just let the meal cook for twice as long. very annoying! I was in the baking mood the other day and thought what the heck I'll try to make cookies knowing in my head they won't turn out good. Well to my surprise they turned out pretty darn yummy! I was trilled, now only the oven will cook my meatloaf in less then 2 hours!

New years

besides celebrating Kole's birthday we had a big family new years celebration. I had bought hats and the amazing 2011 glasses, we eat tons of food and stayed up late playing games.
only the girls would wear the hats, but i think we sure look cute.
some of us playing Settlers after we spend hours playing the Wii.

first kiss of the New Year together!

Birthdays

Friday which is also new years eve was Kole's 3rd birthday!! Since tyson and manda are staying at my parents we all went there and the kids at a blast playing together. they played pin the tail on the donkey and that was a huge hit. He go lots of great presents including ours. We gave him his first kids shaving kit! I can't believe my little Kole buddy is already 3 years old! Amanda's birthday is on Jan 4th, but since they were here why not celebrate her as well.

my mom is always wanting to get a picture of all the grandkids together. it's very hard to get them all seated and looking at the camera at the same time, but the out takes sure do make us laugh.

skiing together

tyson and amanda came back to my parents for the rest of the week and on thursday we decided that we would all go skiing together. Kole was the only little kid since Cory and jen were in Mccall, but he is so cute to watch.

I debated and debated if i was going to ski, but at the last minute I decided it wasn't worth the money for only a couple of runs. instead I stayed in the lodge and helped my mom watch the kiddos. lucky for us all three kids fell asleep and slept most of the day! Boe is under the table, Luke is in the blanket on top of the table and Kole is fast asleep in G-ma's arms.

Amanda and I watching Kole coming down the hill. it was SO SO cold that day and my jacket doesn't really fit anymore so my belly was pretty chilly.

the sunset was gorgeous at the end of the day. I loved it! I also love that my whole family can go and do a fun activity such as snow skiing all together and have a very enjoyable day.

2010

Josh and I had such a big year in 2010 i just wanted to recap some important things to remember-

-Josh got his job back at Gensco

-bought our first home/moved out of my parent's house

-I got knocked up

-we got another nephew born, luke.

-went camping at Yellowstone

-family ski trip to Mccall

-i stopped working in Star, much happier after that

-had a cold summer

2010 was a good year for us, but 2011 will be even better with the birth of our first son and even more awesome memories.

proud uncle and aunt

Josh and i are so in love with each one of our niece and nephews and we think we have the cutest kiddos in the whole world that I had to post a picture of each of them.

Kole

Madelyn

Boe

Grant



Luke

We are so excited for our little guy to get here so he can join this bunch of awesome kids!

Merry Christmas

We stayed the night at my parents house christmas eve and was able to wake up and open our gifts to each other there. after breakfast Josh and I ventured over to his parents and opened more great gifts. when we got home everyone was back at my parents and ready to have more fun. The kiddos really really liked having all their cousins there to play with. Josh and sweet Mads. she was sick, but really excited to got a ballerina outfit and shoes.

We did a lot more playing of the Wii. My dad rocked to bowling! we kept getting strikes and then doing his sweet victory dance!

our presents to each other. we stuck to a very tight budget this year and we both got really great gifts. Josh did a great job considering he couldn't get me any clothes.

Santa got us a glidder rocker for baby sonic's room!





Every year we have a delicious prime rib dinner. cory and brent preparing the yummy meat.

Christmas day was great! I'm exciting for next year with our little guy here to celebrate with! I love my family and glad that we had such a great christmas together.
I also marked my 7th month and 3rd week of being pregnant on christmas day!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve

as far back as i could remember we always celebrated christmas eve with my aunt and all her kids. this year the families decided to do our own thing. Tyson and Amanda was able to come home for christmas. They stopped for christmas eve and then went to her family in Oregon. It was such a great day of being with my awesome family and doing a lot of laughing and eating.

here is my sweet Luke in his cute christmas jammies. I've really missed my Kole and luke and was so excited to spend this day with them.

Everyone did A LOT of playing the Wii! it was a big hit this year.

we were able to get a decent family picture with all of us in it.

My family still stuck to tradition and did our christmas eve program. it was more short and sweet this year, with a fun game, christmas story, jen and I playing the piano and finishing with the story of the birth of christ from the scriptures. then it was time to exchange sibling and cousin gifts! Cory and Jenny had us this year and they gave us a nice set up hair clippers! i'm going to learn how to cut Josh's hair!! and luke had baby sonic and he gave him some little socks and some sweet books.

during the day the kids went out back and went sledding. my parents had a ton of snow at their house and a huge rock pile which was perfect for them to sled down.


all around it was a great christmas eve. everyone had a great time and we all ate way too much! I also took way way to many pictures and wish I could post all of them becuase I think my family is super cool!