Pregnancy Update! Baby is on his way...

 

This lovely picture is from 36 weeks!

Well I haven't posted on here really about how the pregnancy has gone.  We have had many ups and downs this pregnancy, with the biggest thing being our little guy has been well.... little.  We have had to do quite a few ultrasounds to really watch his growth because it has been a worry.  At our last ultrasound in the end of February, he was right on track and things started to not look so scary.  

Well now fast forward to yesterday.  I went to my 36 week appointment (not my favorite appointment because you get checked for the first time) and my uterus was measuring 4 weeks behind.  Many of you have commented on how small I am... well that is because I haven't grown in almost 4 weeks.  (However I still have been gaining the weight just fine!)  We got sent over for an ultrasound, and the ultrasound confirmed that baby is about 3 weeks behind in growth and estimated to be about 4 lb 7 oz.  We were sent back over to our doctor where I just figured he would tell me to take it easy and load up on the protein.  Well come to find out, we are going to be having our baby boy next week at 37 weeks.  Baby has slowed growing, and they think it will be better for baby to be here and getting nourishment because it could be due to my placenta either starting to decay or just not  being able to keep up with the baby's needs.

I will admit, I am terrified about having things end up this way, and was not expecting our little guy for at LEAST another 2 weeks.  I will be going in Wednesday night to get induced (Brett's last final is that morning), and hopefully baby will be here by Thursday.  We could really use prayers during this time for a smooth delivery (my cervix was high and closed yesterday) and a healthy baby!  We do love you all, and appreciate all that you have done for us throughout the last couple of years following our baby journeys!   

28 Weeks of Baking So Far!

As many of you know, we are expecting a baby Boy in May!  We are so excited, and couldn't be happier.  It has been quite the journey, and it still terrifies me at times, but as of now things are going well!  I will do another post with more detail on how the pregnancy has been, but I just thought I'd put the news officially on here since I've been meaning to for about 2 months! 

Here is a picture of 28 weeks!

Christmas 2012

This year for Christmas, I didn’t really get a whole lot documented in pictures. It seemed like school got done, and the business just took off from there.

Here I am with our lovely tree before it got cut down…

 

I hate to admit, but this tree never got any decorations on it other than the lights!

This year for our neighbor gifts, we made sugar cookies. They turned out so fun, but ended up being a lot more work than I thought. Luckily, my smart, handsome man took over the frosting part, and did such a wonderful job. Brett is so amazing, and I would never get anything done if it weren’t for him.

This year, I was able to join a choir, and for two of our concerts we were privileged to sing at Temple Square in the North Visitors Center, and the Assembly Hall. This was a fantastic experience, and I enjoyed being in a choir again.  I even was able to sing a solo at the Assembly Hall which was so scary, but I loved it!

This pictures is at the Visitors Center performance.

After Temple Square, we headed down to Beaver to spend Christmas with my parents and Melodie, her last Christmas before her mission. It was an enjoyable time, but Brett and my Dad were both sick with a flu bug. I guess one nice thing about this was that we didn’t indulge too much into holiday treats because they weren’t feeling up to it. Even though we didn’t have the healthiest Christmas, it was still just nice to hang out at home!

Remodel

This post has been in the making for quite some time now… I keep promising it, and am finally getting around to it! This summer we were able to remodel a trailer home that we can call home. We started the beginning of May and got finished sometime in June. We are still making updates and repairs, so it is still a working project, but it’s nice and we like to call it home.

I'm going to post the pictures as before, during, and after. I tried to set up pictures as before and after to compare them... but obviously I'm not smart enough!

BEFORE

Front Room

Extra Bedroom

Kitchen

Our Bedroom

Our Bathroom

Now these next pictures show just a little bit during construction.  We had to tear up probably 90% of the subfloor and redo it which was tough work.

DURING

AFTER

Front Room

Extra Bedroom

Kitchen

Our Bedroom (I don't have one of the finished finished product)

Our Bathroom (same with the bathroom)

This project took a lot of time and effort, and moving is always hard work.  Brett snapped this picture during the moving process.  All I can say is moving is tough work!

After about a week of being moved in (for the most part), I really wanted to decorate, so we got all of our decorations out.  This is how we were able to decide what to put where. ;)

In the decorating process, I really wanted to make a special corner for Hailey.  We were able to use the whole top portion of this book shelf and make a Hailey corner!  Love and miss you baby girl!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween to all! Hope yours was as fun as ours! We even recieved the "Funniest Costumes" award!

Summer '12

So… I should be doing homework right now… but updating my blog sounded much more appealing, so here it goes! I know I have slacked all summer… and fall, but I will try and catch up our boring lives! To start off this summer, we remodeled a mobile home. I don’t have pictures of the remodel done, but hopefully will have it up in a week or so… don’t count on it. We had to totally redo all of the sub floor, plumbing, and the master bathroom. Now it is so nice, and we love living there! One weekend my mom and I went to a surprise birthday party for my Uncle Scott who lives in California. It was so fun to see him be so surprised, and enjoy his birthday with the family. My favorite part is the glasses! As most of you know, we had some fires down this way this summer. Since Brett is a volunteer firefighter, he got called out on some of them. On the Maple Canyon Fire, we got to tour this helicopter, and Brett thought it was so cool! One thing that we always like to do is go on 4-wheeler rides. These aren’t very good pictures but some of the only ones I had from riding this summer. My most favorite thing this summer, was this car at the car show on the 24th of July. This will be my car someday! The last thing I have pictures of is my Grandparent’s 70th Wedding Anniversary. Now they are both 90 years old as well. WOW! They are such good examples to all of us, and have left such a great legacy! I love them both so much. Aren't they so cute? Well that about sums up our summer, and pretty much life to date. Hope all is well with everyone!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to our Little Angel Hailey June! We love you and miss you! Can't believe it has been a year!
 
We will be together someday!