Progress...

Well, it's 4 AM and in an effort to not throw up for the eleventh time tonight I decided to be a little bit productive. The dishes are almost done and now I think I'll work on a blog post that I've been meaning to do for awhile.

Pregnancy pictures!

20 weeks. Half way there!

(October 3rd)

23 weeks (October 24th)

27 weeks (November 19th)

31 weeks (December 19th)

I'm finally starting to show enough that people actually know I'm pregnant and not just eating too many donuts. My favorite comment was a couple of weeks ago... "I didn't know you were pregnant. You look the same." Really?! I've gained 20 pounds!!! How do I look the same?

It has been a blessing to not have to buy very much maternity clothes yet though. I'm still going strong with just a couple of pairs of maternity pants and shirts. Of course I have to use a rubberband on my old pants but as long as no one else can tell I don't care :)

Projects

I thought I would share a couple of the projects we worked on this summer. Can I just say that I love having a husband who is willing to try stuff out and be crafty?

This thing used to be brown and ugly but with some spray paint and glaze it's now my favorite piece of furniture. We also did the same thing to our coffee table but it's a little messy right now and I really don't want to clean it up.

Here it is again with a little something we picked up at the Hob Lob :)

And just in case you forget where you are we put up a sign.

Oh Hey...

I almost forgot I had a blog... Ok not really. I've been using my SD drive as an excuse to not update. It really is broken so I haven't been able to upload any new pictures but I guess that pictures aren't completely necessary... The last year has been really good to Ben and I. We have been blessed in many ways, the biggest of which is that I'm pregnant :) I'm already 5 months but I really don't feel very pregnant. I'm not showing very much (which I'm kindly reminded of almost daily at work) and I haven't really felt sick. The only thing that's different is that I can definitely feel the baby kicking. I'm pretty convinced that he/she was having a dance party today because it was non-stop for awhile there. It's all very surreal actually. I have another human inside me? What? I'm hoping that when we find out if it's a boy or a girl things will start to sink in a little more. Monday is the big day! Hopefully baby cooperates.

Oh look! I found a picture from this year. This is us at the Race for the Cure.

Summer Fun

What can I say? I'm a lazy blogger. Mostly because I never take pictures and really that's the best part about a blog. So, since it's October, I figured I better catch up on the summer stuff. We mostly worked this summer but there were a few fun things mixed in. We went boating a few times with our good friends Tyler and Natalie (no pictures, of course) and I got to go rafting on the Payette with the Mia Maids which was super fun (again, no pictures). But I did take a few photos so here's a short recap.

My sister, Marcia, and her boys, Ayden and Brady, came to visit my parents. So, Ben and I drove down to spend a day with them.

This is one of the few times I could get them to both face the camera at the same time. Ayden was not too happy about having his picture taken and Brady was in his own happy world.

We went to Shoshone Falls and it was amazing this year. Ayden kept calling the mist "fire" and somewhere he picked up the phrase, "Oh my goodness, this is terrible!" so the whole drive down the canyon he was saying that.

The 4th of July was fun as usual. We went to good old Middleton and got to sit right under the fireworks. The best part was that halfway through the sprinklers came on! At first, all we heard was the noise. It was a familiar sound but we couldn't quite place it and even after we started feeling little drops of water hitting us it still took a second to register. It was funny to see 30 people scrambling to get off their blankets and save their belongings. I've never seen Ben's dad move so fast!

This picture was when it was all over. We were still glistening a little.

Ben's sister, Tiffany, and her family visited this summer from South Carolina and to start their vacation off right we all went camping at Baumgartner Campground.

We were right on the Boise River and it was freezing!!! We jumped in but it was the kind of cold that hurts so we had to jump right back out. It was fun though!

We took a little walk on the nature trail they had near our camp. It was beautiful and this tree was my favorite part. It was really old and really leaning.

There were a few more undocumented (by me) adventures:

My friends Tiffany and Chris came to visit on their Temple Tour.

We went camping for Labor Day with Ben's family.

I got a new job - not really a picture taking moment but definitely worth a mention.

And my parents went to the Azores for 3 weeks! (OK, so that one has nothing to do with me but I did get a postcard so, I feel like I have the right to mention it).