Thank You!

I just wanted to do a post this morning and say thank you to everyone. I had my baby shower on Saturday and it was absolutely amazing! I will do a post later today about the whole shower, but right now I just want to say thanks. To Sarah and Trish for putting together the funnest and most amazing baby shower ever! Not to mention how absolutely overboard you both went in making it a fun and exciting time and all of the amazing things that you guys gave me and baby Anders! I love you guys! No girl ever had two better friends!
And to everyone who came, I am absolutely spoiled! Thank you all for the gifts and for the support that you showed!
I wish that I could get my family and friends together like that more often. It was so fun! I couldn't have asked for a better day! Everyone was so happy and enthusiastic and it's so fun to see all of my family and friends interacting and getting along so well.
Thank you everyone for making this a weekend that I'll never forget! It was one of the best ever!

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34 weeks

On Saturday I had my first baby shower. My awesome neighbors decided to throw one for me. How sweet is that? We had a great time chatting and man did I get loaded up with some great stuff! I'm so greatful to have neighbors that include me in things and do things for me when I'm not one who's always on top of things. So, a big thanks to Tammy and Laura for throwing me such an awesome shower with great food and friends. And a big thanks for all of the gifts that I received. Anders is one lucky little guy! And he will be so lucky to have great friends around the neighborhood that will be close to his age! I can't wait for the weekly playdates!

I'm throwing a lot of little stories and things together here because I've been meaning to add these but have put it off, so bear with me.

Next thing that I want to say, and I won't go into too much detail here. You don't want to hear the maximum grossness of it anyhow. Let's just say that unfortunately I won't be going swimming again anytime soon. On Friday night Trish, me, my sister Chelsy and my niece Kenley decided to go to Crystal Hot Springs because I wanted to go for a nice dip again. It didn't turn out to be half as nice as the first time I went. There were twice as many people as when Cam and I went and when there's floating poo in one pool and the other pool (you're told) "you don't want to get in there, somebody just got sick in there" it doesn't make for a relaxing time! So no more swimming for me unless I can find another nice place to go to. And I'm beginning to wonder if there is such a place around here. Why doesn't Cache Valley have more places to go swimming?!

And last but not least, I went to my 34 week appointment yesterday. Everything's still going well and this week when she measured me I was back to normal again! Baby's right on track! I go back to the doctor in two weeks and from that point on I will be going in every week! I can't wait! It's getting so close! So me and Cam were wondering a little while ago (not that we haven't been wondering for a long time) what little Anders could look like. Of course there's no way for us to know but we decided to break out our infant and baby pictures and take a look and compare. Here's a heads up as to what our little guy could look like.

We sure can't wait to meet him!

Birthday number 27

Yesterday was my birthday and what a great day it was! Best one ever! I woke up fairly early and went and got my haircut. I love it by the way but the guy who did it thought of himself as pretty amazing and told me so a couple of times. It was so relaxing that I almost fell asleep.

After that I made Cam go out shopping with me. We bought a couple of jackets for the baby at Old Navy and then met up with my mom in town and she bought me some super cute clothes. And I bought some new shoes :). After that we went over to Crystal Hot Springs and spent a couple of hours in the pool. If I thought the haircut was relaxing, I had another thing coming. It was so nice to just relax in the pool for a while and it was super warm over there too. They had no snow which just amazed me since we're still covered over here. I know now that I'm going to want to go over there almost every weekend until I have the baby!

The most amazing thing to me was getting out of the water and for the first time ever, feeling the effects of having a big belly. It's been so gradual of course that I hadn't noticed what a toll it takes. Until after lounging in the pool for an hour, I stood up to get out. I almost thought that I would fall forward because of all of the weight in front of me. It was crazy! The drive home was nice and quiet and we both thought that we would fall asleep.

We got home and I decided to run to Sarah's to show her my new cute clothes. Went and hung out with her and Trish for a little bit and then I got a call from my sister saying that my grandma was at their house with a gift for me. I headed over there and had a nice time talking with my grandma. I sure found out some interesting things. As I said in my last post, I'm obviously a lot more like her in the pregnancy department then I am my mom and for the first time I got to ask her some questions. My grandma's babies were 9lbs 7oz and 8lbs 9oz. VERY large babies. Which prompted me to look up exactly what size 85% was for a newborn baby. Turns out that the 85th percentile means a 9 lb baby! Then she told me that her mother had an 11 lb baby and her grandmother had a 13 lb baby. My grandma always went over her due date with her babies and was in labor for 27+ hours. Woohoo! So I guess we'll have to see how things go. Of course there's no way to know and that's the hardest part for now!

All in all it was an awesome birthday! Thank you for all of the gifts and well wishes! Now I just can't wait until Anders birthday!

Honest Scrap

It is called the honest scrap award and these are the rules...A) First list 10 honest things about yourself--and make it interesting even if you have to dig deep.B) Pass the award on to 7 bloggers that you feel embody the spirit of Honest Scrap...

1.If I could do anything... I would be an author. I love to read and I LOVE to write. It's been quite a few years since I've even tried to do anything but my dream is to write a book one day. I would love to write childrens books and/or novels. And I am planning on one day writing a book for our kids. Too bad I'm not any good at it though!

2. If I had my way I would live in a commune. Cam makes fun of me because I tell him this all of the time. Unfortunately I'm too much of a realist and I know that chances are that it would never work out. I would love to live on the land alone and have such a community that everyone did their part. If only it were a perfect world. Even knowing that I will never do that, I would love to have a cow and chickens and make all of my own milk, cheese, have eggs and all of that. I would have a whole farm if I could. I love gardens. Since we bought our house I've only planted a garden once, but I wish I were better about it and felt more capable and had more time to spend growing my own food. Let's just say that I would love to be that self reliant.

3. I love shoes! If you couldn't tell from my other post. I couldn't even count how many I have and I have a really hard time getting rid of any. I have three large boxes downstairs and a closet and a half full of shoes. I am not a pack rat at all. In fact, if anything, I throw things away too easily but when it comes to shoes, I just can't.

4.Unfortunately I'm sure that most of you know this one... I'm a worrier. Obsessively! And it's not a good thing. It's something I have been and will continue to work on for a long time. I have improved though! I worry about big things, little things, morning, noon and night. So if I tend to not talk a lot, it's usually because I have something on my mind that I'm running back and forth to try and come up with a better conclusion.

5. If I had my choice, my children would be homeschooled. I know, I know what about social skills, etc? I have looked into it quite a bit and there are so many great resources out there and groups to meet with that that is not a worry in my mind. I grew up next door to a family with 13 kids and they were homeschooled and believe me, they had great social skills. Our neighborhood was a blast! I have some pretty strong feelings about public school that I won't go into here. Let's just say that I think ideally homeschooling would be the best but that doesn't mean that public school is all that bad either.

6.This is the one that I am the most embarrassed of, so I'm really going with the whole "Honest Scrap" thing here. At the beginning of my sophomore year of high school I dropped out of school. I went back a month before my class graduated and received my GED. I somehow got in the top 5% in the nation on my test scores.

7. I am a fidgety person. I can't sit still. In fact when it comes to vehicles I refuse to drive anything that is automatic because what on earth would I do with my hands otherwise?

8.Because I am a fidgety person, I have mastered a skill. And that skill is driving with my knees. I'm good at it too. I could probably drive Nascar with my knees. That's another requirement for my vehicles is that the steering wheel is close enough that I can drive with my knees.

9. I have never been a fan of sweets, at all... until I got pregnant. I didn't like chocolate, cake, ice cream none of that! My cravings were always for salty things. I could sit down and eat a bag of chips easy! Now I can eat a bag of cookies, a cake, a pie, a candy bar AND a gallon of ice cream in one sitting (not really but I feel like I could)! I really hope that this goes away after I have the baby!

10. I've never wanted to be rich and/or famous. Although I know that being rich may make life a little easier, I find peace in being an "average" person. Don't get me wrong, more money would be great, but I would never wish to have a fortune.

I tag: Chris, Erin, Trish, Brooke, Sierra, Kathy and Candace.

32 weeks

Yesterday I went in for my 32 week appointment. Everything went really well again. The doctor did make me a little nervous for once though. Usually when I go in they measure my belly and say "looks good, you're right on track." Yesterday though, she measured it. Took the measuring tape away, measured it again and did it a third time pulling the measuring tape as tight as she could get it on my belly. I asked her "does everything look okay?". She said "Well, you're just measuring a little big that's all. Instead of 32 weeks you're measuring more like 33-34." Whew... what a relief. I would much rather hear that he's measuring big then too small. So I start calculating in my head, if from 30 weeks the baby usually gains 1/2 pound a week and at 32 weeks he's supposed to be around 4.5 pounds but he's measuring even 33 that means he's more like 5 pounds right now. Then, considering that I have 8 weeks left that means about four more pounds to go, HOLY COW, I may be having a nine pound baby! Of course these are all just estimations and you never really know how it will work out, but it makes me wonder where they told me at my twenty week ultrasound that he was in the 85th percentile and may very well be a large baby. I asked my mom last night if my grandma on my dads side had big babies and she said, "yeah I think that they were both a good 8 or 9 pounds." I think that I've come to find in my pregnancy that I'm more like my grandma than I am like my mom. My mom went into labor at 6 months with all of us kids and was on bed rest until she had us all. And thank goodness that didn't happen to me! I think I would be a nut case if I was put on bed rest (knock on wood).
The doctor then said to me, "he should start getting out of the breech position now if he hasn't already" and I told her that last week I could feel his head (or bottom) in my side and this week it wasn't there any more but he was kicking me in the ribs, so she said "well let's take a look", and proceded to push on my belly (pretty roughly I might add) and said, "yep, he's no longer in the breech position, he's head down now." I was so excited to hear that, I've been nervous for a long time that he would end up staying in the breech position and I'd have to have a c-section. Not that that rules out a c-section but it makes my chances a little better I think. So everything's looking good. Less than 8 weeks to go and we'll have our little one in our arms! We can't wait!

Um...

Is this what you call... a fetish?

And is it okay that his dresser is already filled with clothes?

Even though Cam says it's not, I think it's awesome!