Baby Bump contest!

Ok, so I entered this contest with a local radio station here for the cutest baby bump! If you win you get the nursery of your dreams, as well as a 3 hour pregnancy photo shoot and a 3 hour newborn photo shoot! Even if I'm a runner up I still get pretty good prizes and some nice money as well! So Please go to this website baby bump and vote for me I'm entry #3!!!!!

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8 weeks to go!

Well I've officially hit my 32 week mark! It's kind of crazy, the past few months have flown by! It's crazy to think that I have 8 weeks until this little man decides to come into the world.

Jess finally came home on Saturday night! He was such a stinker he wouldn't tell me where he was or how much longer he had, so he completely surprised me! I had decided to make him brownies, well more like I really wanted brownies and said they were for him haha! What? Gimme a break I'm pregnant!
So, I had just turned on the oven and the back door flew open. I looked up completely shocked and there was Jess with my FAVORITE orange roses in hand! I was so stunned I didn't have time to react! We hugged for a long time and I was still in complete shock that he was finally here, and he was so excited to see my belly! We haven't seen each other since July 4th so I am pretty huge compared to what he last saw. It has been nothing but pure bliss since he's been home, and now we're getting prepared for our next great adventure that's only 2 months away!

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Joy

Jess comes home today!!!!!!!!!!!! He should be here in a few hours!!

Ohh joy :)

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Book Worm

So I have been reading alot this summer which has been fantastic. I used to be the biggest book worm, but once I went to college I just never had time; I always would rather go play and do things rather than read. So I'm finally getting back to my good habits of reading! I've read alot of book this summer, some good, and some TERRIBLE. One actually gave me nightmares so I could no longer read it. I wanted to be like Joey from that one episode of 'Friends' when he was reading the Shining and got scared so he put it in the freezer, but I decided to just give it away, so to DI it's going!!

My most recent read was a book called "Marley and Me" by John Grogan. I am such a huge dog lover and this book appealed to me as soon as I saw it on the shelf in Target. I'd heard some things about it and I know they're currently filming a movie after it but I wanted to see what it was like for myself. Can I just tell you that I am in LOVE with this dog and never knew him? If you have ever owned a cute pooch ,so much of what this lovably awful dog does in this book will just make you laugh out loud! So I highly recommend this book! I thorougly enjoyed it and it makes me so excited for when Jess and I get our next dog. Obviously we're going to have to wait a while, probably until our son is at least one, but I still can't wait! And although I loved Mr. Higgins, (for those of you who don't know who he was, he was a Pug/Boston Terrier we adopted who was CRAZY. I had to sell him when I got pregnant because I was too afraid of what he would do to a baby!) , we will definitely be researching our next dog alot more before we get one! We want a dog who's going to fit our lifestyle and unfortunately Mr. Higgins just didn't.

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Update

So just to update on the craziness that has been my life of recent.

First of all, my Mom is doing so much better! She had a rough go for a while, and we were all horribly upset when her doctor told her she had to stay in Salt Lake again for the duration of her treatments. So starting the third week in August I booked us a hotel room at the Residence Inn in downtown Salt Lake which was so much nicer than that cave of a place the Marriott turned out to be before. This room actually had a full kitchen, dishwasher, washer/dryer, a kitchen table, and a living room with pull out bed (which is where I slept). So, I mostly went up during the weeks, and Aly came up when she could get off of work, and Dad on the weekends. We were all ready for the long haul.
The treatments did not go as well this time, and Mom got really sick. And by saying really sick, it's actually an understatement, but I'm not going to go into the specifics. We had several very scary nights and Mom got two blessings, one from her Bishop and one from my cousin Melissa's husband Cory. Both were much appreciated and so heartfelt that it brought so much peace into the room, as well as the very prominent spirit letting us know it was going to be alright.
But reguardless, my Mom is such a tough lady. She roughed it out, all the horrible side effects and all, and was actually able to finally come home this past Saturday night!! Her numbers were finally high enough that she could be home and didn't have to be within 15 mins of the hospital, and we all are so grateful.

The weekend she came home I came home a day early because my Dad was there with her, and I wanted to get the house ready and clean, because it was kind of a pig stye, (oops!). I also went to go get her dog Scooter out of the kennel we had boarded him in during the weeks when no one was home. I was so happy to see him, and I brought him home. No sooner had I opened the door and put his food in his bowl and gave him some water did he walk right over to the freshly cleaned carpets and made that sound that all you dog owners out there know quite well: Gaaaaaak!! I didn't even need to turn around to know that he had just puked all over the carpet. But I did anyway, and there he was standing next to a pile of chartreuse colored vomit wagging his tail just pleased as punch with himself. Great. Reguardless, I figured he had had just as bad a week as I had being cooped up in a kennel, so I wasn't mad for long.

But Mom is now home, and we just need to go up to Salt Lake every few days to see her doctors, which is so much better than staying in the hotel room! She's getting better and stronger everyday, so we are all very very optimistic at this point.

I am also so grateful that my summer away from Jess is almost OVER! He flew to Baltimore on Labor day and will be there until next Wednesday, but then he flies back to Kansas and comes home!!!! I never ever ever want to be away from him again..EVER! I have had so many horrible days missing him so badly, and could not count on my fingers how many nights I have cried myself to sleep. But it all worked out miraculously somehow, because I was able to be here and take care of my Mom. I was mostly the only one who had the time to be with her and take care of her, because Dad now works in Bonanza, which is 3 hours away, and Aly has a job and just started school again. So although this summer has been probably one of the hardest of my life, I'm so grateful that everything worked out perfectly. And now I actually have days when Jess will be home and not weeks or months...DAYS!

Me and the baby are also doing quite well. I just hit my 30 week mark..ahh! I'm feeling really great besides getting tired doing the simplest tasks. And I can no longer sleep at night because I cannot get comfortable, but my new best friend is now Tylenol PM..works great. It's fun for me to just lay there and watch my stomach ripple and move with every wiggle, kick, punch, and somersault the little guy does in there! I am simply amazed that I actually am carrying a human inside of me, we women are amazing creatures, and the blessing of being able to carry our children inside astounds me. I am so grateful for this experience and cannot wait for the adventure motherhood will bring in November!

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