It's a boy!

So we went in for the ultrasound and everything looks great and healthy!

Well, it's a boy!



Isn't he so cute!






So, we're pretty excited here.
Everything looked great and healthy.

The other good news of the day is that Blake launched his wellness program today and it seems to have people pretty excited. We'll keep you posted.

Quick note

This is just a quick note to announce that by this time tomorrow, we will know if we are having a boy or a girl!

Counting Down

Hello, again. We are just recovering from our computer crashing. We lost everything, which is a huge bummer, but after a week, we finally got it back and can start rebuilding everything.

I had a job interview today. I would love this job, so we'll see. These are long days home alone, just me and the dog. I've been trying to stay busy doing yardwork, but I keep getting rained out. One day it was nice and I dug all day and we have nice little garden plot now.

Blake launches his big program on Tuesday. I'm pretty excited. Hopefully it's a huge success and doing employee wellness will turn into his real job instead of an on-the-side job while the real job is in the warehouse.

And speaking of Tuesday . . . We find out what our baby is! I am so excited! This month has actually flown by. I thought for sure it would poke along and everyday I would just wait to go into the ultrasound, but we made it.

It's nice being done with school. I gotta admit, though. I want to go back. I'm hoping we'll be in a position to do that next fall.

I'll let you know what the baby is . . .

Tree Branches

Well, the wind made a big branch fall off of one of our trees. It didn't hit the house, but it came awfully close - we're talking inches. I'll start this off by saying I'm sure glad it didn't do damage. I'm also glad that it's in the front yard because Annyong would probably try and bring it in the doggy door even though it's probably ten feet long and has a decent diameter.

Today we're at 17 weeks. On the 25th of May we have our ultrasound and we'll find out if it's a boy or a girl. I'm so excited.

I read this article about the second trimester and it talked about having crazy dreams and believe me, they have started for me. Last night I had a dream that our baby was a boy and the doctors put a blue bow on him. The doctors explained that the boys got blue bows and the girls got pink. But I was mad because I didn't want my baby boy to wear ANY bow. Kind of funny. According to the article about being 17 weeks along, the baby is 5 inches and weighs about 5 ounces. I'm starting to think that I can feel the baby moving. I'm never sure and it could be just organs rearranging, but it could be.

Now I'm just looking for a little part-time job for the summer to keep me occupied. I've been really bored the past two days without having class while Blake is at work.

Things I Love Today

It's 8:54 and so far I've had a very productive, very good morning.

Here are some things I love today:

Blake, who is at work right now working away for our cute little family and who I get to go to Salt Lake with today.
Annyong, the dog, who is outside enjoying the nice sunshine laying on our deck.
The nice sunshiney spring weather.
Our cute house, the bedroom that's being repainted, the front lawn that just got mowed, and the sprinkler system being put in back.
Our awesome, quarter acre, rectangle yard that is the ultimate yard for fetch for a dog. (Annyong loves fetch.) (Blake can throw a tennis ball all the way to the end.)
Our freezer full of strange meat packaged in butcher paper that I got from my grandma. We're testing some out today.
The thing we bought at Bed, Bath and Beyond with all the spices. It sure came in handy this morning when I needed some Marjoram. I totally had it. In fact, I had that, Basil, Oregano, and Thyme which I'm pretty sure I would not have bought yet as I do not use them often.
I love the website I found yesterday that takes me step by step through food storage and 72- hour kits. If you're interested it's foodstoragemadeeasy.net It's great.
My iPod that Blake bought me for my birthday and for all the good music he introduced me to, and for the awesome round of songs from shuffle all that have played this morning
Today, I love my baby. Today is the first day I feel pregnant instead of sick. There's a nice distinction there. I love that I am five weeks shy of knowing boy or girl and five weeks shy from halfway done.

There are many more. Weare pretty spoiled around here.

Nothing New Here

I wish I had some fun pictures to upload, but not much new has been happening.

School is out in two weeks and I am so excited. The nice summer weather has also been a huge treat. I'm recovering from a sunburn from being at a track meet with Blake all day on Saturday. The nice weather was so worth it, though.

All is well with the baby. We're fifteen weeks along now. Things have been pretty good. I'm not sick near as much anymore. I still like to squeeze naps in when I can, but I justify that by saying that I'm sleeping for two. Five weeks until we get to find out if the baby is a boy or a girl. I'm so excited. I'm ready to do shopping. I think we've pretty much got our names to our number one for boy and girl.

I keep having these weird dreams. Every time I go back to sleep after using the bathroom in the night, my dreams are pretty crazy. Last night I had a dream that I had twins - a boy and a girl and that there were all sorts of birth defects. A few nights ago I dreamed that the doctor was trying to see boy or girl during an ultrasound but they couldn't get a good view so we couldn't find out.

Last night we had a Mexican Fiesta with my family. It was fun and good to see Natee and Ty. He's such a cutie.

The biggest thing right now is just finishing up the school year. I'm so close. Other than that,there's not much new. The pregnancy has been great so far, we love our new ward, Blake's job is moving along - they're launching a program in May, the weather is finally good. We're starting on some yardwork. Our backyard is quite the mess. No complaints here.

Baby Names

For the past few days, Blake and I have been looking at baby names. We've got one in mind for a boy, but for a girl, we've got nothing! We still have seven weeks till we know, but at the rate we're going, we'll be naming her, if it's a girl, the day she's baptized.

Easter was good this year. I was hoping for some better weather so that we could do stuff outside. It was pretty cold and nasty.

Natee and Ty were able to come to my dad's house and we did a little party. It was fun. Annyong LOVED Ty! I think she's excited for her own little baby around. At one point, Ty was sitting on the floor playing with a plastic cup. Annyong sneaked up and took it from him. The look on his face was priceless. I guess nobody has ever taken anything from him before. Annyong was just a few feet away with the cup in her mouth, tail wagging, just begging for six-month old Ty to come chase her. This happened several times. We kept giving Ty new plastic cups to keep him happy and Annyong kept pilfering them.

Conference was good. I didn't listen to as much or as well as I would have liked. I think I'll have to go back and listen to some talks. There's still a long time till the Ensign comes out.

I decided I've just got to be better about some things. My two goals for this week are to make the bed everyday and to work out, at least a tiny bit, every day. I was so good about working out but then I started getting super sick and I lost it and have had a hard time getting back on track. I'm hoping that when the weather gets nicer it'll be easier to go to the Fieldhouse in the evenings.

All is well here. Good night.