My ten favorites

Things I love:

1. The weather cooling down to offset my internal heater.

2. Having a constant buddy to go everywhere with me.

3. An absolutely great husband who loves me despite my craziness. 

4. A good deal/ discounts/ money off.

5. Pina Coladas 

6. Bagels

7. Getting good gas mileage. 

8. A short work day.

9. Family hang out time. 

10. Dippidee's heavenly pieces (cookies)

So I'm a bad blogger. I feel like I don't have anything to write about lately. But when I think about it I think I can come up with five over the past few weeks, so here we go:

1. I'm getting bigger and BIGger and BIGGER by the day. Some days I forget I'm carrying the baby in my tummy because I'm pretty sure my butt is growing faster than my tummy.

2. Little buddy loves to "shake his tail feather" right as I start to fall asleep at night. (I think he's  getting me ready for the "no sleep" thing. So cute though! I find myself talking to my tummy!

3. I'm ready to spray round-up all over my overgrown garden. I swear, its the mutant garden! The tomatoes are collapsing the cages, the squash are growing up the fence and into the neighbors yard, and the corn are 8 feet tall. I feel like I step into a different realm when I walk into my  backyard.

4. We got some awesome baby furniture that retails for $3,500 bucks and we only paid $500 for all of it (armoire, nightstand, crib, and chest of drawers). Yeah... It was pretty much better than Christmas!

5. Matt is sure he's a great white hunter lately and is convinced that he needs to bring home an elk to feed the family because we're sure to starve without the meat of his kill. So we've been spending every weekend up in Strawberry waiting for him to prove his manhood!

 

Britt and Jeff's Wedding Luncheon

Brittany and Jeff's wedding day was absolutely beautiful. It ended up being amazing. They're the cutest couple! I'm so excited for them.

The big belly contest

We went to dinner with some friends for Traci's Birthday. Malea and I are both prego and about a week apart. I don't have any pictures of my big belly yet so we figured we'd start. This picture is at 20 weeks. I'm so excited for little buddy to be here. Malea is having a girl so we've decided that they need to grow up and get married!

Breaking Dawn

I've been looking forward to the release of "Breaking Dawn" for about 3 months now. I've been so pumped to read it. So when it came out August 1st at midnight I was so there, and Matt was sweet enough to be "so there" with me :)  My brother and his girlfriend met us there too. Not for her but for him. Although, if you were to ask him he'd say he was there to support her (even though she hasn't read any of the books). It took me two days to finish it but Ty beat me... he had the book finished by 6:00pm the next night. Oh so good!

This blog is a little late but I figure better late than never. It was my mom's birthday in the end of July. To understand the significance of the present we got her you have to understand my mom's devotion to her dog. She loves that dog like one of her kids. All of us are leaving and my parents are going to be "empty nesters" and my mom feels like all she has left is her dog. 

Okay... so back to the story... The dog tore her ACL and could barely walk and my parents thought we were going to have to put her down because the surgery was almost $2000. So for my mom's birthday we surprised her and we all pitched in and my dad scheduled the surgery. We went to Olive Garden for dinner and each of us gave her an envelope with a piece of the puzzle/note that told her what we were doing. She was so happy that she started crying. If you know my mom, you know that's a big deal. I think I can count the number of times she's cried on one hand. Anyway... It was pretty cool to give her something that really mattered. Happy Birthday Mama!

The day daddy met little buddy

So today is a day that both Matt and I have been looking forward to ever since i started to feel Cash kick. Matt has wanted to feel him kick so bad so when he did today it was such a fun thing. The story starts like this...

I was reading in my pregnancy book that you can hear the baby's heartbeat with a stethoscope after 18 weeks, so now that I am almost 20 I thought I'd be able to hear it. I was lying on the floor and Matt was trying to find his heartbeat with the stethoscope and all of a sudden we SAW him kick the stethoscope! You'd think that he was too small to move like that but he must have been real mad we were squishing him. So really if you want to be technical I guess Matt saw a kick before he felt it! Then after that he kicked probably 7 or 8 more times. I had fruity pebbles for breakfast and I'm thinking he was feeling the sugar high!

So the moral of the story is... If you want to see your baby's athletic ability give him the breakfast of champions!