Update

Some people have reminded me that I haven't made a post in forever. That is because life in our home has been insanely crazy! In addition to the craziness of jobs, Sheldon's school and preparing for baby we are trying to finish up the house remodel. For those of you who know us well and visit us often you know that our stairs have been ripped up for OVER 6 months! I guess I am admitting this has been a source of frustration to say the least! Sheldon got a little ambitious and ripped up all the carpet on the stairs over 6 months ago and then his busiest school semesters and intense (but wonderful) job hit. So, progress is slow but finally moving forward. We keep running into glitches with the hardwood but the glitches are almost worked out. Here are some pictures of our most recent construction. This is actually the best they have looked in 6 months and they are still missing the wood treads! Hopefully I will be able to show the final result in my next post....knock on wood. They are a little dangerous right now with no treads or spindles...good thing we don't have kids running around yet!

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Moving on from the construction chaos! In February some close friends and I threw a shower for our wonderful friend Bree. It was so fun helping Bree and Tyler prepare for baby Tydan. It has been so fun having such a close friend to experience pregnancy with! I believe I am about 24 weeks and Bree is about 30 weeks in this picture. I love these girls! (L to R Danielle, Bree, and Nicole) So, Bree and I were supposed to be about 6 weeks apart but baby Tydan decided to make his entrance into the world about 3 1/2 weeks early! He was born this past weekend and is such a beautiful little baby with the cutest head of hair. Nicole, Jake, Sheldon and I were lucky enough to get to visit Bree, Tyler, and baby Tydan in the hospital. Bree is such a beautiful mommy and Tyler such a happy daddy! Only two of the pictures on my camera worked out so I don't have a close up of baby Tydan or any with Tyler.

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Next, a baby shower of my own! A couple weeks ago my in-laws threw me an awesome baby shower with Sheldon's side of the family. I just want to say THANK YOU to my in-laws for all their hard work and everyone who came to support and help us prepare for our baby Crew. The support is greatly appreciated and we love all the gifts!

After the shower with some of Sheldon's family and my mom.

I had to include a picture of these adorable little party goodies Amber made for the shower. They were chocolate covered rice crispy treats with the baby's name and anticipated arrival date. They tasted as good as they looked too!

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Finally, more baby bump pictures! (Krista, these are mostly for you because you begged for them when we talked on the phone and they will prove to you that I AM growing BIG! Hopefully we can see each other soon so you can see for yourself in person!)

This is around 26 weeks...right around time time my belly seem to quadruple in size over night.

This is around 27 weeks.

And most recently, 30 1/2 weeks.

Time is flyin' by! I can't believe we only have a couple more months to go but at the same I can't believe my belly has to expand for that much longer! Despite the discomfort I want him to be healthy and full term so I will not complain :)

Baby Crew

Baby Crew deserves an update post of his own so here we go...

This is a pic from our first ultrasound at 10 weeks. He looks like an angel with a halo, I love it! We were so excited to see our peanut at the first ultrasound, but Sheldon and I were even more thrilled when we saw him for the first time and he was flapping his little nubs around like crazy. It was such an amazing thing!

Right before Christmas we went to our 16 week appointment to find out if our peanut was a boy or girl. I will never forget the grin that came over Sheldon's face when we were told it was a boy. I really thought we were going to have a girl first but Sheldon said we were going to have a boy. We didn't care if it was a boy or a girl, but Sheldon just wanted to be right. The ultrasound tech, kept saying "Looks like you have a boy" and we just had to trust her expertise because we couldn't see it but we were so happy!

I loved seeing his profile and his little body. Turns out he is quite the hyperactive little one.

Everybody, including myself, thinks this next picture is a little scary of him but Sheldon LOVES it. He says it is his favorite of all the pictures we have of him. YIKES! I guess his little skeleton is kind of cute though.

These are from our 20 week (technically almost 21 weeks) ultrasound. This is a picture of his face with his hand up to his mouth.

And now we can see for ourselves that he is DEFINITELY a BOY. Haha, he put on a pretty good show!

Finally, my first baby bump photos! I have not been taking pictures and documenting as often as I would like to but that is what happens when life is so crazy! This is me at 14 weeks (excuse the construction in the background, that is to be explained in another post all on it's own)

(I am not sure why I have such a weird, mischievous look on my face??? Just pay attention to the bump, not my face :)

This is at 16 weeks

This is me at 19 weeks. I think I felt him move a little bit prior to this, but I definitely felt him move at 19 1/2 weeks. It was January 11th to be exact. I was sitting in court for work and all of a sudden it felt like someone had flicked me from the inside. At first I was startled and then when I realized what it was I just smiled. I am pretty sure people around me were wondering why I was randomly smiling in court regarding a very serious case...oops!

And finally 22 weeks

We can't wait to meet our baby Crew. Time seems to be going by so fast and everyday it seems more and more real as he kicks me and moves around like crazy. Sometimes, usually at night, it seems like he is having a little dance party in my belly. Although we can't wait to meet him we have plenty to do to get ready for the biggest change of our lives. We finally have some baby gear and a room for his nursery. I will post pictures of the house construction and the nursery soon (hopefully).

The Holidays (better late than never :)

I am finally getting around to posting about the holidays. The holidays are so long gone I debated even making this post. It is an understatement saying I haven't had any time and even less energy. But, my baby in my belly and the stresses of life are making falling asleep difficult these days so I figured instead of laying in bed wide awake doing nothing I should at least be productive. So, here is a brief glimpse of our 2010 holidays.

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Miss Harli knows how to spend holidays! She does enough sleeping for both Sheldon and I. Yes, we envy her.


Looks like she has such a tough life huh? She actually should be in trouble here because she is on my carpet and not on her bed, which is like 5 inches away from her! I swear she lays on the carpet instead of her bed to spite me. Anyway, I couldn't get mad at her...she just looked so comfy and cute.


Again, Harli knows how to celebrate the holidays! (don't worry, we don't give our pup eggnog just the empty bottles:)

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We kicked off the holiday's with Nicole and Jake's annual Ugly Sweater Party. We helped out by holding the party at our place and we had so much fun! We are so lucky to have such an amazing group of friends!

Sheldon and I in our ugly sweaters (and Sheldon's gangsta hat??? not sure what that was about)


Playing Minute to Win It

We also had a Wii dance party. I love the faces on these girls in this pic. They all look like they are experiencing pure joy! Especially Danielle there in the front, she is having too much fun :)

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We spent Christmas Eve with Sheldon's family and had tons of fun watching the excited little ones. Here they are opening their Christmas jammies.

My darling niece, Scotti and me (and Dave, her daddy there in the corner of the pic)

We spent some time with my family on Christmas. This pic is of my handsome nephew Kyson and my mom. I just love Kyson's face of surprise as he is opening one of his presents in this photo.

My brother Andrew and his family.

We gave Kyson Gator Golf for Christmas and I am pretty sure Sheldon played with it more than Ky did.

My dad cutting the prime rib...yum!

My handsome hubby and me on Christmas day.

My siblings

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And finally we brought in the new year with our good friends, Nicole and Jake and Danielle and Alex. We went to a nice dinner at Bistro 258 (I think that is what the place is called) and then we celebrated at Jake and Nicole's.

Jake and Nicole's satellite froze (why do we live in Utah again?) so we couldn't watch the ball drop on TV. We thought of the next best thing which was to watch the ball drop online. So, right before midnight we started setting up the computer to get live footage to watch the ball drop. Shortly after we realized we were looking up LIVE footage of the New Year's Eve Party in New York and the ball had already dropped long before because of the time difference...oops. So, about 5 or 10 minutes after midnight we did our own count down and then jammed out to Mariah Carey's awesome New Years song. It was pretty funny...but maybe you had to be there.

Our first kiss of 2011!

Jammin' out to Mariah Carey...we are awesome :)

We hope your holidays were wonderful and you are having a good 2011 so far!