Anna's Room

I haven't been good at this but I did want to share our big project of recent weeks. We have turned Matt's old bedroom into our little Annalee's room. Last week we finally finished the floor and moved what stuff we have in. I have to say that it just makes me happy. I'm at about 30 weeks now and looking forward to these last 10 weeks being done. Luckily the holidays are upon us making this all a little more fun.

Here's my chair that we've had for a long time and a few of the big butterflies.
The corner with the bassinet that we have right now and the butterflies going up the wall. My husband did each and everyone of the stenciled butterflies and designed it. So amazing. Also, I have to draw attention to the items in the bassinet. The pillow was made by Matt's mom. The quilt was sent to me from Texas and is absolutely amazing!
Detail around the door and light switch.

And I realized none of the pictures showed the awesome floor. I'm too lazy to go take one right now, but here's an idea, although this is before we refinished it. It looks the same only clean and shiny and the trim is now pink.

So that's been our big project and its fun to see it done.

Millions of Peaches

Yes, its been over a month and yes I should write about other things, but I wanted to post something and I'm very proud. I recently bought a ton of peaches and I just finished putting the very last bag of peaches in the freezer. They look all beautiful! So now I have a freezer full of peaches.

(and sorry, somehow this picture insisted on being big even thought I told it to be small!)

P.S. pregnancy is going good. Little Anna is extremely active and according to the ultrasound technician has big feet.

Its official!

And we're very, very excited.

What's it going to be?

I plan on doing a really nice girl's camp post sometime. It was really fun and so awesome to see many of the girls grow a lot. Most seemed to have a good time. I loved all of them and had the added blessing that besides some sore, out-of-shape muscles, I felt really good the whole time! I can't begin to express how grateful I am for that.

So this post is for an official tally. Any and all who read it, I want predictions on what the gender of the baby is going to be. I have to give you the facts. My sister and two sister-in-laws with children all had a boy first. Out of my close friends in high school, the four who have already had children also had boys first. The fifth who is expecting has not been able to get a clear answer yet. Of ex-roomies that have children and I've kept track of, three had a boy first, one had a girl first, one is expecting a boy and one is expecting a girl. A clear majority of boys, but a few girls thrown in. My chinese zodiac predictor or whatever says its a boy and I'm carrying low. Matt, my mother and I all have had dreams it was a girl. I've had lots of morning sickness. Hopefully I will know on Monday and make the reveal. Let me know what you think it is.

Other News

While on our trip on the farm there was a goat. I don't know if you can tell, but we sure could in person. There is something unusual about this goat.

We didn't think the wide hips were just some extra weight. And so I use this goat expecting some kids to make an official cyberspace announcement of what many/most of anyone reading this already knows.

We are expecting a new baby. Baby is due January 13th, 2011, so I am just over 16 weeks along. We do not know gender yet, but we do want to find out and hope to in two weeks at my next doctor's appointment.

Now for me just a word about being pregnant. I believe it is the worst thing ever. I miss liking food, I'm tired of my body ruling my life. I can't ever ignore it, even just for a little while, because it will rebel and make me wish I hadn't. Pregnancy has not been kind to me in any sense. One of people's issues is the weight gain, and I will be very excited for that. Right now I feel like I'll be lucky to get to my pre-pregnancy weight before I have the baby. I've lost somewhere between 10-20 lbs, depending on how you measure it. I do not like that Sam-I-am. It gives you an idea of how I've felt. But I am grateful for drugs, which allow me to keep any food down at all. I'm also grateful that finally I think that second trimester promise is starting to kick in. Although just when things seemed to be getting better, I had to go and get the stomach flu. Luckily when the flu went away so did morning sickness. I've actually felt completely human for most of this week.

Alright - enough complaining. Things I sort of like. I have already felt baby move. Its sort of early on a first pregnancy, but I'm pretty darn sure. And its nice to have that reassurance that baby is healthy. Its a slightly uncomfortable feeling, but sort of fun.

Baby is cute. The following pictures are from my first appointment, so I was only about 10 weeks at the time, but they are pretty good.

This one causes my husband to call the baby "Wave." But it really does look like baby was waving :)

So there. I'm very excited to be a mom. I'm excited for this journey. And I'm already looking forward to January when this whole prego thing can be done with!

Our Trip

I know. Once again its been a long time. But I make up with a blog post and pictures and good stuff.

Last week Matt and I took our summer vacation. We were planning on going to Colorado, and then Matt couldn't get the time off work. Unluckily I had paid for a conference there and it was too late to get a refund, but luckily I procrastinated and had not made any reservations. Maybe I was inspired. So, we decided to still take a trip, but with only three days where to go? So we toured Salt Lake City and had a ton of fun.

So as to not go in to too much boring detail I will just list all the cool things we did in Salt Lake. We went to Liberty Park, Tracy Aviary, Wheeler Farm, Temple Square (including Relief Society building, Church Office Building (for the view), one of the organ concerts, Salt Lake Temple, Brigham Young Historical park and the church history museum), Welfare Square, the new aquarium, Wedding Singer at Hale Center Theatre, and Fort Douglas.

It was a lot to pack into three days. My biggest happy surprise was the Relief Society Building. I can't believe I've never been in there. It was way cool and I got some good stuff and inspiration for girl's camp. Poor Matt was a good sport while I looked at all the ideas. I also was proud, I took the initiative to talk to Richard Elliot after the organ recital, which I never do. I was glad I did, learned some interesting things. We had fun with a very trunky missionary at Welfare Square who was probably on her last transfer, because she said she's starting at BYU this fall. In general we had a really good time together.

Here's pictures in no particular order. Camera had died on the third day and we had no back up batteries :( But hopefully the videos of us milking a cow for the first time will work :)

Matt liked bigger fish. I'm pretty sure these guys were native.

Feeding ducks and tractor ride at Wheeler Farm

The penguins at the aquarium.

And I think its going to be tradition to find a frog on every trip. I have so far.

Me milking

Matt Milking

Keep reading the next post as well :) Its worth your time.

Past month in one sentence

Wow. Its been a long long time since I've written anything. A full month tomorrow. So here I am catching up in a not very good way. I'll do even better with pictures soon, since its been a while from that. Life was just crazy.

So in the past month we've had the Durrants all come and visit, family pictures taken (which are beautiful thanks Heather), school ended, I started a new job, I'm quitting said new job, I'm teaching a piano class at our local fine arts center, I turned 25, Matt just finally finished his class and will soon be getting a diploma, we've been busy cub scout leaders and we've planted a pretty nice garden and enjoyed a lot of yard work.

There now with more questions than answers that's what we've been up to and its now here.