Baby is MOVING!

The baby is MOVING, as of the 22nd I realized those movements down there are actually the baby moving around. I think actually feeling the baby move makes it real to me. Feels like little bubbles popping in my stomach, or gentle tapping. So weird and so very cool. I just thought I would share, I am 18 weeks so far and we will be able to find out the sex of the baby on our next doctor visit in less than a week. So super excited, I need to go shopping and it is hard to shop when you don't know the gender, although that doesn't stop me from buying cute stuff anyways. Yeah!

I have still been feeling really good and love being pregnant. Although I HATE shopping for pregnant clothes. Especially pants, I have a hard enough time when I am not pregnant, so I have just been wearing my normal ones with an elastic through the button and that might just have to do for awhile. Oh well! Here is an update on my belly, doesn't look that much bigger.

Has anyone else seen spiders in their houses lately (BIG ones), we found one the other day on the wall as you go downstairs and then another one the next morning just before I got in the shower upstairs. Ugh!!! Every 6 months we clean really well and move everything away from the walls and spray for spider and bugs. I guess we need to do another treatment, cause those little buggers are back and so disgusting. They just give me the shivers, and I especially hate finding them myself in the morning before my Robert is awake, so I just smoosh them with the fly swatter and he cleans it up when he wakes up. It must have been because the weather was cold and they decided to come inside. I have not seen any for a few days now, ewwww, they are so gross!!

Popped Out!

When I hit my 15 week mark last Wednesday, I swear my belly all of a sudden decided to pop. (I am 16 weeks now, but have not taken a picture yet.) I put on one of my shirts, and there it was. It was the strangest thing. It is a little strange having your belly stick out like that and you can't do anything about it.
Rob still thinks it is the funniest thing in the world to watch my belly get bigger. He just points and laughs, it doesn't bother me though. He is so cute about it, it makes me laugh as well.
Here is an updated picture:

We find out the sex of the baby on September 2, and I am so excited. I asked Rob what he THINKS it will be and not what he wants it to be. He thinks it will be a girl, and for me, I think it will be a boy. Although, I want a girl and he wants to have a boy. So, we will see.
I went maternity shopping with my sister Kerri the other day, I can't shop for maternity clothes by myself so I took her with me. I tried about the whole store on, it seemed like. I got three shirts and a cute skirt. Kerri also thinks I am having a boy, because she says it looks like I am carrying low. Who knows?
While we were in Motherhood Maternity, there was a woman trying on some things, her husband didn't want to stand around in the maternity store so he went wandering the mall. The lady peeks out of the dressing room and asks if we can go look for her husband, because her water just broke. She was very calm, she put her shirt she wanted to buy on the counter and just said this is the same thing that happened with their first child, so she wasn't worried. She had no contractions or anything, so she went to the bathroom. The lady of the store called security, and Kerri went off to look for her husband. Security came, but she didn't proceed to do anything. Kerri came back with husband in tow, and he was also just calm, he paid for her shirt and when she came out of the bathroom, she thanked Kerri for finding her husband and they left. Something that doesn't happen every day.
Thanks to everyone for all the advice on where to buy maternity clothes! I also found a website from Giveaway today, that I purchased a bunch of cute stuff from. I have not received them yet, but I emailed the owner back and forth and feel like they will fit well. Hopefully!
It is just an online store called Milan Maternity, she is located in Rigby, Idaho. Check her stuff out, so cute. That is, if you are pregnant!

Does anyone want Zucchini?

I picked 3 more zucchini tonight, I am in serious need of people who want zucchini. I can't eat this many. I don't know why I planted so many, but I did and I don't want them to go to waste. If you or any one you know want any yellow zucchini, please let me know and I will gladly hand them over.

The Short and Long of it!

Back in January, I got my hair cut like I always do every month. Except it was just that little bit too short. So, I was annoyed and told Rob not to let me cut my hair again. Well, he held me to that and said I could not get it cut until we have kids. Well, I was not pregnant at the time and it has been really hard not to get it cut, but it kind of is a challenge for me now to wait to get it cut.

It has been seven months now since I have cut my hair and I have 6 more months to go, (a year with no haircuts) although after we have the baby I might just like my hair long and not want it cut, we shall see. I really do need a trim though, my ends are split and breaking off and I could also use a shape. I would not consider that getting my hair cut thought, since it is just to keep my hair healthy. So, this is a picture of when it was short:

And now, this is how long my hair is today.

My hair could grow quite a bit in the next 6 months. Now, I just need to find a cute hair cut so I can wear it down, I always wear it in a half ponytail because it is easy.

Celebrating Birthdays!

Rob's birthday was on the 9th of June and mine is on the 30th. I will start out with my birthday, the day of my birthday we did not do anything, we went to my sisters to help her move. Fun right, that is okay, I did not feel like making my own cake so when my sister called to wish me a happy birthday, she asked when we were having cake and I told her I did not make one, so she volunteered to make me my Jello cake, and we would celebrate the next day. So on July 1, we went to my parents at 7:30p.m. to have cake. Since it was a beautiful day, we headed outside. My sister put 27 candles on the cake spelled out in the number 27. That is a lot of candles to light.

They were new candles so I lit the torch and proceed to light the candles, the wind was blowing a little and before I even got finished lighting all 27 candles the first ones were getting really small from the wind blowing the flames.

So, we sang really fast and I blew them all out in one blow.

The cake suffered some damage, the frosting was whip cream, and the candles kind of melted the whip cream.

But, oh well, it was still good. Thanks Trina for making my cake.
Oh, my birthday present actually came in the mail today. I had to sit here at home on my day off so I could sign for the package. It is a Sanyo video camera, Rob researched the best one and this is it. I have been wanting one for a while and I finally have one.

Now, for Roberts birthday, I decided to use a cake mold for his since it was going to share something special. This one was for the party at his parents house on the Sunday before his birthday. I bought the cake mold from Kitchen Kneads, baked a cake and then borrowed Robs mom's cake decorating bags and tips.
The cake turned out good, and the reaction we got when his mom pulled the cover off was the reaction we were hoping for. Here is what she and everyone else saw:

My mother in law just started screaming and she came and hugged me and my sister in law hugged me, it was so fun and we are so excited. We put candles on the cake and Rob blew all two of them out in one blow. HaHa!!

Yeah! We decided rather than putting a bun in the oven, we would put a cake in the oven instead, they are sweeter.
And, for my parents we made little bottle cookies with the due date on the cookie. When we told my mom to open the container, she thought something was going to jump out at her, so Jason opened it up. I was so excited and nervous to share the news, that once they opened it up I started crying. My mom came and gave me a hug and she was also crying. Everyone was excited.

We could not be more excited, we have been waiting for this for a while. The baby is due January 27, 2010. We had our first doctors visit on July 6th, we even got an ultrasound picture, because they couldn't find the heartbeat with the doppler machine. So here is a cute picture of our little one. The little hand was waving at us, and the heartbeat was strong. The head is on the right and the hand/arm is sticking up in the middle. Pretty neat!

I have been feeling really good, I guess I am one of the lucky few who really does not experience any awful symptoms. I felt queasy for about a week and a half starting at week 7, and then from then on all the symptoms I have are, I am always hungry and eating, and I have to go pee a lot. So I really cannot complain. Here is a picture if anyone wants to see how I look(I always love seeing how others look when they are pregnant, so no matter how awful I look I will post updates to my growing belly), my pants are a little snug, but really cannot tell yet. I am about 10 1/2 weeks in this picture I think.

As of right now, I am 14 weeks and still feeling normal. I am getting bigger, but not super noticeable yet. Rob thinks it is so funny to see my belly getting big, he just laughs! He is super cute about everything though, he probably is more excited than I am. The summer has flown by, my summer bus run ends this Thursday, and then school starts again on August 20 (aaahhhhhhh!) that is way to soon, I have not even done very much this summer. That is only a 2 1/2 week break before school starts back up and one of those weeks is full of training meetings. Ugggh!
We are headed to visit family this weekend and go to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House and then to The Old Spaghetti Factory(yeah, so excited for this). We are excited to get away for a few days, so looking forward to it. I will post all the fun we have, soon after. Good times!!

First Zucchini

I picked our very first produce from our garden, a yellow zucchini. I cooked some for lunch today and then after work, I cooked the rest and ate it up. Oh, it was heavenly. I didn't even share, Robert wouldn't have cared for it anyways, so I enjoyed it all by myself. The joys of having a garden and FRESH produce. I LOVE it!!

Happy 4th Anniversary! (late)

With the giveaway I did and everything, I was not able to post anything about our anniversary on June 28. We really did not do anything special. We are kind of simple/boring when it come to celebrating, but need to change that. Anyways, we ordered take out from El Sol, the Saturday before our Anniversary, came home and ate it. I wanted to drive down to The Old Spaghetti Factory and have dinner, but did not. Before the summer is over, we will go!
Anyways, it is crazy to think I have been married to Rob for 4 years and have known him for 6 years. Time sure flies. We have had good years and a faith building year as well, I would not want to go back, we have grown from all of the experiences we have gone through. We are still in love with each other and we have had so much fun together. Rob is always so happy and energetic, he loves to sing me made up songs from some random tune he has in his head and it just makes me laugh. Crazy Man, thanks for 6 great years together and and eternity more to come!

Fireworks

We had a good 4th of July, on the 3rd they did fireworks and we usually go down the street to a park here with my whole family and relatives and we have goodies and chat before the fireworks start. It seemed like the fireworks lasted longer this year than I remember in the past. We had a great time and then we also had a barbecue with family the next day at 6:00. We saw a lot of the family we don't see very often and had yummy food and good conversation.

They also played baseball in the front, using a plastic bat and ball. It was a lot of fun to watch. I got into it more than I thought I would.

When everyone got done with the baseball, they started some fireworks. We stayed for a little longer and then decided it was time to head home to our beds. We had a great 4th of July weekend!

And the Winner is. . . . . .

Well, I put everyone's name on a piece of paper and drew one out of a bowl.

I really just want everyone to win. I think I will be doing this more often, maybe once a month or whenever I finish something I want to give away.

Well, the winner is. . . . .

Nicole C.
Congratulations! I know where you live so I will deliver is myself.

Giveaway Closed!

I have drawn out a winner, but you will have to wait until I get ready. It has been a slow morning. Suspenseful, give me about an hour and I will post the winner.