Baby Shower

 

 

                                                           My awesome family!

My friend, Sharon, told me she was going to give me money...I didn't know it was going to be a box of money.  :)

A sweet cross stitch for baby made by her grandma Grafel.  Made me cry.

Quilt made for baby by her great-grandma Jones......

 On Saturday, March 23rd, my mom, sisters and nieces came up from Idaho and put on an AMAZING baby shower for me.  We had the shower at Lynette's house.  Some very good friends and family members came and it was good to see them.  Everything was so sweet, little details that made it wonderful.  I received the most wonderful gifts as well.  Thank you to everyone for the lovely gifts.  My baby girl is going to be well dressed and have a sweet nursery.  Thank you to my sisters and mom who put in so much work for me and my baby.  I will never forget it.  It was great having them here and I miss them.  Thank you to Lynette for letting us take over her house for a couple of days and for making my cry at the shower with the sweet cross stitch she made for baby girl.  I am excited to have baby arrive and show her all the wonderful presents loved ones gave her before she was even here!  :) 

My mom's neighbor, Joanne Sevy, made me the most beautiful crib set.  It is so perfect!  The first thing we did when we got home is put it together.  I love it! 

3rd Trimester

Well we have made it to the 3rd Trimester!  Yesterday made it 29 weeks along! We only have a little bit to go now....it is going fast.  Baby girl is going to be here before I know it!  I am excited to meet her!  :)  Have a lot to do still to get ready for her!  Have an ultrasound in a couple of weeks so I guess we will know for SURE if it is a little girl.  I hope it is....I am excited about her and have a bunch of little girl stuff already.  :)  No names picked yet....gotta get Jason and me to agree on one!  I feel big and know that the next couple of months I will only get bigger and bigger!  I did find out I have gestational diabetes so I am managing my diet and checking my blood 4 times a day so I won't have to go on insulin I hope.  I have the regular pains of pregnant women and cankles!  But loving it!  Wish me luck!  :)

20 Week Ultrasound

I was having some trouble adding photos to my blog for awhile now.  I think I may have figured something out...let's hope.  I wanted to add these photos of our little girl!  These are from my 20 week ultrasound.  The top picture is her with her legs above her head...she was doing somersaults in my belly during the ultrasound!  :)  I am now 24 weeks along so getting closer and closer.  I will have another ultrasound at 30 weeks so we will have more photos of her.  Can't wait to actually meet her! 

20 weeks along....Half way there!

Well..it is official...I am half way there!  As of my birthday, I am now 20 weeks pregnant!  I am finally starting to show (you can kind of tell in the picture).  I have my ultrasound this Friday to make sure everything is going well with baby and to find out if I am having a girl or a boy.  I am excited to find out...it will make it more real for me.  I still haven't felt any baby movement but am looking forward to that.  :)

Thanksgiving 2012

Thanksgiving 2012 was spent with the Brown/Grafel Family.  We all went down to good 'ole Afton, Wyoming and spent the holiday at Grandpa Brown's house.  We had 22 people for Thanksgiving dinner.  The food was amazing and made wonderful leftovers!  :)  We made our Gingerbread houses of course.  This year we made a trailer instead because we wanted to try something a little bit different.  It is very stereotypical with a car in the front yard (a Toyota Landcruiser) on blocks, a satellite dish on the roof with a tarp and tires, a huge inflatable snowman, a rainbow colored awning with a grill, propane tanks, 5 dogs, and other little touches.  We had fun making it and laughed the whole time.  Not sure what we will do next year to top that!  We also went Christmas tree hunting.  There was just enough snow but not too much so that was nice.  We found a little tree that Katie and I love.  It is littler than others we have had but it is so cute we just had to get it.  Melanie got the biggest tree we have ever seen....not sure how she will fit it in the house.  :)  It was a nice holiday and we really enjoyed seeing everyone....we love you all!  Wish we all lived closer to each other so we could get together more often. 

Halloween 2012

So I finally got my Halloween photos posted!  We didn't have Katie for the night of Halloween but we were able to go to the Stake Trunk or Treat Activity at the church.  Katie was "Major Trouble" this year which went along with her dad's costume of a helicopter pilot (it was the uniform he actually wore in Kuwait but it made a great costume).  I just wore my skeleton shirt and earrings and decided to paint my face.  Jason had to dress up for work on Monday and they all went bowling together in costume which was funny.  The pumpkin is what Jason did for a work pumpkin carving contest...which he won of course because his pumpkin turned out awesome! 

Hiking up Sourdough Canyon

A couple weekends ago I decided we should get outside and enjoy the nice weather because it is quickly becoming winter here.  We went to a couple of different trails to hike with the dogs.  The dogs used the community waterdish as a bathtub to cool off because it was a warmer day.  We hiked up Sourdough Canyon which was beautiful with all the trees changing colors.  The pictures don't do it justice.  I love fall in Montana!  Then a couple days after this....it snowed!  :(  Here comes winter.