Happy Independence Day

Ok, so I know its several days past July 4th, but I figured late is better than never. So for July 4th we spent it with my parents. For as long as I can remember, we have always celebrated my dad's birthdays on July 4th even though his real birthday is on the 3rd. We have parties with lots of people and food and fireworks at our house. So it was a double celebration for us. So we started out our celebrations with hamburgers off the grill. It was a small event this year with just immediate family us, and my dad's sister's family, nothing snazzy. After dinner, we raided our neighbors pool. They are gone for the entire month of July so they gave us permission to use their pool. With all these triple digit days we have been having (and it looks like its going to stay in the triple digits for the rest of summer) we went swimming before we set off fireworks.

For those of you who don't know, my dog absolutely HATES water, always has for some reason, he doesn't even like to take baths. But, we torture him and bring him into the pool with us every time. Dad found that he can swim with a noodle and likes to make fun of him for how funny looking it is. But needless to say, Kaleb hates the water

It was nice being able to get into the water and just be able to chill out with family and cool off from the heat.

After swimming, we start setting up for the fireworks. First off are the sparklers, starting easy and then working our way up to the big ones. Most of the sparklers we used are left over from Jared and my wedding, I think mom was happy to finally be done with them and used up.

As the night progressed, Jared found a cool setting on our Nikon D90 camera. It took slow pictures to create these awesome pictures of extended lights from the sparklers. Needless to say, it was the highlight of the night.

It started of with just easy stuff in the beginning with squiggles and curly-q's.

Next came the roman candles

Then we were ready for some bigger fireworks and ka-booms. I just love fireworks! Jared managed to get some really sweet photos of some of them.

As mentioned before, the delay feature on our camera became the hit of the night. We started getting creative and spell out words. Kalee brought some friends over and they started to spell different words.

Love

BYUI

They got my cousin Walter into the mix.

July 4

Dad and Walter were the main firework setter offer's, the girls were a little nervous lighting some of the bigger fireworks.

I look forward to the 4th of July every year, it is such a great holiday and being able to spend it with friends and family is always great. Next year, we will be able to spend it with our newest member of the family, Easton. I hope he will enjoy it as much as my family does.

Pregnancy Updates Week 28

I can't believe I am at 28 weeks already. Just within the past couple days I can see myself growing exponentially every day. Here is an example. The picture of me in the green shirt is me at 27 weeks 6 days, I still look fairly small for being almost 28 weeks.

Where as here with me in the gray shirt I am 28 weeks 4 days. I look so much bigger, not sure if its the shirt that is making me look fatter or if Easton is just growing so much, or just a really bad camera angle. I'm hoping that I won't have too many stretch marks but after looking at these two pictures, I am pretty sure I am going to be having some. Still crossing my fingers.

Easton is moving a lot more, or at least I am feeling him a lot more. One of these days I am going to get a video of my stomach moving around. It is so crazy watching my stomach move around without my control. Its quite amazing really. I am supposedly suppose to be feeling Braxton Hicks contractions now, but I am not sure if I am. I have been getting heartburn, which is totally new to me, and I honestly don't like it. I am feeling hungry all the time, Jared makes fun of me. I'll eat a decent size of lunch or dinner and within an hour or two, I'm hungry again. I'm still trying to get used to my weight dispersement, its really weird being completely front heavy, not just my stomach, but the boobs too, (sorry if that is a little too much detail.) Sleeping is unbelievably difficult, I don't have the ease of switching sides anymore, I have to completely wake up, lift myself up and practically swing stomach to the other side. Also, giving people hugs is also awkward since I now have a huge tummy that gets in the way.

Another mile stone achievement is that I have finally bought some maternity clothes. I'm starting to outgrow my clothes. So if any of you lovely pregnant or have been pregnant ladies know of a place to find cute but cheap maternity clothes, I would LOVE to know where I can get some, so that would include (Karris, Laura, Jalei and Regina. All others are also welcomed to give me some advice in this area as well.)

Well that is all for now, more updates to come as the weeks go by.

More Baby Updates

So, I went to the specialist again for a check up just to make sure his heart is still doing well. And I am proud to announce, that he is going to be just fine! He looks healthy and strong and his heart is doing just fine as well. It is not getting any bigger, which the doctors were afraid of. On top of that, we got a 3D picture of him and he is finally looking like a baby, rather than a skinny little skeleton.

Isn't he adorable? He's got such a cute little nose! He is very camera shy if you ask me. Every time the doctor tried to get a picture of him in this 3D form, he would always hide his face, its like he knows. Last time he covered his entire face with both of his little arms, this time he only covered his eyes with one hand. Hopefully, next time we will get a full on face photo.

Our New Place

Well, it is official! We have moved into our new apartment, and we love it so far. Granted, since it is an apartment there is always something that happens that always makes us wonder why we would go back to living apartments (other than the fact we can in no way afford a home lol). Our place is still a wreck since all of our stuff is still everywhere and needs to find a spot in our apartment. I am excited to start on our nursery, I think it will be lots of fun! We are going with a jungle theme and the color green! I think it is going to turn out really cute!

Once we get the place in order, I will be posting pictures so look for updates on our new apartment.

Little Easton Updates

Sorry it has taken so long for me to post any updates. Having absolutely no internet really limits my ability to post much.

However, we went to the Specialist and Easton is looking good as far as everything anatomy wise. As for his heart, he is in the "Acceptable" range. Its a little bit bigger than where they are wanting it to be. As far as chest cavity to heart ratio, he is running at about .52 and they would like to see it about .5 and under to about .47 maybe. If he gets over .55 then that is when things could get really scary. They scheduled me to come in again in about 3-4 weeks so they can check again just to make sure. So PLEASE continue with the prayers, until we know absolutely sure. Hopefully things don't start going down from here.

I will keep everyone posted as must as I can.

Thanks for the prayers!