Uh Oh!!

Ok- So, tomorrow is the day that we call the hospital and they tell us when to come in. I have been getting ready for this little boy to come for months and still have things to do! I made a bunch of wall decorations out of those cheap picture frames at Michaels and some other things to hang. I have washed his clothes and rearranged them according to sizes. The car seat is installed, the bassinet ready, stroller up and running, baby bouncer ready to bounce...I'm still trying to figure out how to stop the swing...but all in all, I think that I am there.

Then Travis said, "Wouldn't it be funny if he came out and was really a girl." I was dumbstruck!! First of all "if he came out" seems to be a little less dramatic than I am thinking it is going to be, but what if he is a she? What would I do? I have taken the tags off of and washed everything!!! I went back to look at the ultrasounds and I am pretty sure that he is a he considering the 3-D pose with "extra parts" hanging down...but they say that they are sometimes wrong...

Needless to say, if we do have a little girl, she will probably be wearing a lot of blue, we will not be circumcising her and she will be enjoying a very green room with safari animals, whether she likes it or not! But please know that we are not bad parents...just too trusting in technology! :) The next post will most likely answer these very questions!!

Love ya'll!!

He's Coming Soon!!

I just thought that I would share that our little Jack will probably be coming a little sooner than planned! At my last appointment my blood pressure was still elevated and the doc wants to try and get him out before I develop Toxemia...so on Thursday...yes, this Thursday we are setting the date and I will be induced!!! Ahhh!!

We're not too worried because he is considered full term now anyway. He will not be too early and this means that I get to dress him up for Halloween!! :) I think we are going with a "Jack"-O-Lantern!! Wow, we are so clever! Good thing that I spent all those years in college!! :)

I've been tagged!

Since when do you get to tag more than 1 person in the game of tag, Beth? Just kidding! Here I go!

1. What I was doing 10 years ago....
Well, I was a senior in high school...wow...am I that old? I was singing in our high school's all girls vocal jazz choir "MissAlayneous". Tons of drama there!! Way too much estrogen! I would always hang out with my very best friend, Kamaile and we would sing "Summertime" in the bathrooms and down the hallway because it echoed and sounded very cool!!! (We actually had Choir practice in the boys bathroom often! Our choir director was a guy and it really helped to hear how all the notes blended!) I was working with adults with disabilities and a Special Olympics coach for the Evanston team! I was also the co-director of a 4th and 5th grade choir that was directed by my very awesome voice lesson teacher Ann Guiliani-Curry!

2. What I was doing 5 years ago....
I was in college up at Utah State starting my Special Education classes and studying my butt off...well...not literally...obviously! I was writing to a dear missionary and hoping that he wasn't falling in love with a little Iowan farm girl with pigtail braids and several teeth missing!! I think I was living in Old Farm at that time with some very fun and crazy roommates. I was 22 years old and my bathroom was decorated in rubber duckies!!

3. What I was doing 1 year ago...
I would have been just into my second year of teaching special needs preschool and loving it much more than the first year!! It takes a while to figure out what you are doing with those little ones! I'm sure that I had already set up my Halloween decorations and they had been up for a month...it probably drove Travis crazy!!

4. What I was doing yesterday....
Yesterday, I cleaned the entire house from top to bottom and mowed the lawn. The neighbor came and yelled at me because I am 36 weeks pregnant and shouldn't be doing that...what she doesn't know is that the lawn mower is self-propelling and I was really dragging behind it! I have been practicing with mowing the lawn because Travis makes fun of me because my lines are not straight....I can't wait for next week when I totally mow the lawn in wavy lines!! My aunt and two cousins came and we made cards and laughed and chatted! It was tons of fun!!

5. 5 ways I would spend $100 million....
1. Pay off debt
2. Buy my future son a 6 foot tall stuffed giraffe
3. Buy Travis a big screen tv, telescope and a weather station
4. Eat the expensive meal at a restaurant once
5. Put the rest in an IRA, money market, or education fund

6. 5 Locations I would run off to....
1. Glacier National Park... there are tons of waterfalls!!
2. Ireland... pretty, pretty, pretty
3. Austria... to sing "The Sound of Music"
4. Canada... just so I can say I've been to Canada
5. Iowa...to see the Tulip festival in Pella

7. 5 Bad Habits....
1. Biting my nails
2. Not putting the toilet paper roll in the dispenser
3. Popping my knuckles
4. Judging myself
5. Being crabby at times

8. 5 things I like doing...
1. singing when nobody is listening
2. scrapbooking
3. reading
4. Spending time with my hubby
5. Hiking when not pregnant!

9. 5 favorite tv shows... (We don't have tv right now)
1. House
2. Bones
3. CSI
4. Cold Case
5. Are you smarter than a 5th grader

10. 5 things I hate
1. snakes
2. spiders
3. teryaki sauce
4. People who don't use their blinkers
5. rude people that work at the grocery store

11. 5 greatest joys at the moment
1. My dad made me bracelets out of electrical wire once...I was on cloud 9!
2. Getting married
3. Driving around in my cute green car
4. Finding out that I was pregnant
5. Seeing my husband at the airport after he had been gone to a conference for 5 whole days!!


I have nobody to tag....yet!

Where'd they go??

Well, it is official! I can no longer see my feet! I realized this last night, although...they have probably been missing for a week or so. Fortunately, the cankles that I have by the end of the day are not that pleasing to look at anyway! Last week, I thought..."Wow, this whole 8 month pregnant thing is not that bad." Well, this week I feel like an elephant and everything that I do takes about 4 times as long because usually I have to get up and move somewhere to do it! Only 5 weeks left...I hope!! My bladder is not going to make it much longer! I've started crossing my legs when other people sneeze, just in case I pee my pants!!

On another note...
Travis and I are really enjoying being in our new ward. There are tons of very amusing kids around and we have fun activities! We went to a corn maze on Tuesday and I made it through without giving birth or having to run out into the corn to go potty! Yea for me!! Tomorrow night we are going to a barbecue at a fish farm where people can fish if they want. And in two weeks there is a "craft night" where I can learn to be crafty...I can't be a housewife and stay-at-home mom and not learn to be crafty...right?

Hope all is well with the world out there! We love you all!!

Sadie Mae

Well, we dug out an old digital camera because our newer one is still missing in action. I wanted to post some pictures of our new dog, whom I am going to say nice things about even though she just chewed up my camping chair that was sitting in the back yard! I usually take an hour or so to sit and read outside so that she is not alone. I read and she gets her belly rubbed...it's a win-win! Needless to say, she did get her hour long belly scratch because I didn't notice the missing fabric until I got up! The mama was not happy!!

Anyway, here are some pictures of our normally sweet girl. She is such a silly dog! She loves jumping very high, but is not so graceful on the way down! She loves her belly rubbed and will practically give herself a concussion plopping on her back so you can rub it! She is spoiled...but she doesn't think so now that she spends 24/7 outside...well, almost 24/7! :)

The Final Roadtrip!!

Travis and I went on a southern Idaho road trip as our last as irresponsible non-parents! Southern Idaho is VERY dry! It's not too often that you get to see tumbleweed caught inside dust devils!!

We went to Crater of the Moon National Monument. It was very interesting and the wind was blowing so hard that I rarely got hot...which is good for me! I've been having hot flashes since the beginning of my pregnancy!!



We even hiked up "Inferno Cone" and Travis didn't even have to push me! He did pester me all the way to the top though. There was a great view from the top...even if I didn't appreciate it until I caught my breath! It's steeper than it looks!! We went climbing through some caves! The temperature was great! It was nice and cool and I didn't even get stuck climbing out!


We also went to Bruneau State Park and spent some time at the observatory and looked at the stars through one of those huge telescopes. It was really cool! The following day, we went on a 2 1/2 hour trainride up near Horseshoe Bend, ID. It was pretty boring...We did see some of the rafters on the Payette River tip over though! It's the little things that count!

We had a lot of fun! It was nice to get away! Now onto the next chapter of our life...PARENTHOOD! AHHHHHHHH!!!

New House, New Dog and Baby coming soon!!

Well, we have moved from college student living to family living all at once!! We moved into our new house and absolutely love it! We just adopted a new dog. She is a border collie mix and is the funniest thing ever!! We named her Sadie and she keeps me company during the day while Travis is at work! No picture, because we lost our digital camera in the move. :(

Travis is enjoying his new job at ATK Launch Systems (Thiokol). He is even in a "van pool"! We have really nice neighbors and our mail comes by 9:30am! How cool is that!?!

Baby John Isaac "Jack" is coming very soon. Less than 10 weeks now! We are very excited, but I am starting to get a little nervous about the who labor thing!