Baby Girl

Well for those of you who read my blog but not facebook, we're having a GIRL! I'm way late posting about it considering we found out 17 weeks ago. In fact, I'm really just way late posting anything. I'm now almost 37 weeks pregnant.

A few important things have happened in the past few months, besides gaining 35 pounds.

• I had 3 baby showers. One in AZ, one in ID, and one in UT. I guess that happens when an Arizona girl lives in Utah and marries and Idaho boy.
• I almost thought I had Gestational Diabetes, but then I passed the second test with flying colors. I was really scared for a day though.
• I found out I'm very anemic when I'm pregnant! The doctors have me taking two prescription strength iron supplements a day! But I feel better when I take them. I used to get really faint and tired with headaches quite often, but now I feel great!
• I decided to give birth naturally with the Hypnobirthing method. It sounds weird but it's not. I took a class on it. My sister did hypnobirthing with all 3 of her children and she will be there to support me.
• We have the nursery almost ready!
• I've almost completely packed the hospital bag.
• I got stretch marks.
• I crocheted a baby blanket for her. It's yellow. It's not perfect but it's made with love!
• I'm also crocheting a few other small things for baby.
• I started doing water aerobics because I was gaining a little too much weight.
• I'm feeling Braxton Hicks contractions.
• Don't ask if we've picked a name. We haven't. We will. You'll find out her name very soon after we do!

Well as soon as I reach 37 weeks (Sunday) I will be full-term which means labor could kick in anytime. I hope I have at least another week and a half because I still have to finish school for the term and perfect a few things around the house. She's still a very active baby. I think she spins around on her head to pass the time- like a break dancer. I feel huge but I'm able to do all my daily activities with only a little more effort and discomfort. Any inconvenience is worth it because I love her to infinity and I can't wait to meet her!

On a side note- we are harvesting TONS of veggies from our garden. I don't know what to do with them!

We're Moving. Surprise!!!!

Yep. We're moving.

In 9 days.

Surprise!

We weren't even looking to move, when we got an ICRDIBLE offer from a friend of ours who owns some rental properties.

We couldn't refuse!

This is such a blessing for us because we've been looking for ways to cut back on expenses and save money while Myles and I get started working with Aflac. It takes a little while before you start seeing revenue. We were praying for ways to save money when we got this offer! And then the next day Myles wrote a few policies (signed people up for Aflac insurance) that we got paid for soon after! The Lord has definitely been hearing and answering our prayers. :)

The only sad part about having to move, besides the hassle of moving, is that we'll have to leave our garden that we've been nurturing for months! It's finally starting to flourish and we've been harvesting lettuce and spinach! I'm really sad to leave it, but We'll plant ourselves another garden at our new place.

Our new address:

290 E 4000 N

Provo UT, 84604

Also, Saturday was free fishing day (the one day of the year it's legal to fish without a license) in Utah, and Myles and I got to go FISHING! I haven't been fishing in years! I really love fishing because it's a chance to relax and enjoy nature (which is especially beautiful around rivers and lakes) while doing something productive. It's so interesting to hear everything Myles knows about fishing that I haven't learned yet, just because I haven't gotten the opportunity. We are going to get fishing licenses and go fish as often as we can! It's something we both anjoy and we can spend time together doing it!

Life is good.

Updates of Home Life (With Pictures!)

So, our garden has been growing, our fish are swimming around, and we have been doing fun stuff too. here's some photos of our place!

Tulips (mixed with some dandelions)! They're about to bloom now! I think they're Red.

Our Car.

Veggies that we will transplant.

Our Fishies!

Our Flower Plants that we will plant in our flower garden.

Half of our garden. See all the pea plants?! :)

Our home! It's only half of the building because that's the half we live in. It's a duplex.

Pictures of California and Disneyland to come!

Garden Therapy

Well, we decided not to move. We called our landlord and told him we're probably staying for another twelve months! looks like we should get a little more comfortable in our place!

With that decision behind us, we decided to take advantage of our large (for a duplex) yard and plant a garden! We woke up this morning and took a trip to Home Depot to get started. We bought some soil-enricher-stuff, a few more seeds (we bought most of our seeds at the grocery store the night before), some peat pots to get the more fragile plants started before transferring them into the garden after the last frost, an inside pot for my herbs, big and small shovels and rakes, and gloves!

With all of our tools ready, we got to work. Today we just worked on getting the soil ready to plant. We shoveled through it, raked it to flatten it out, and mixed in the soil-additive-stuff. I also planted all of the potted plants. It was so fun because I got te see tons of those earthworms and things that I haven't seen for years! The weather was beautiful, and it's got me praying that it doesn't snow again all year! However, living in Utah probably means that we'll have another snow in march, and then most of April will be beautiful except for one crazy week where it goes from sunny one day, to cloudy, to rainy, to snowy, and back to sunny.




Myles got this area ready to plant some flowers. we did similar things to the garden areas minus the rocks.
I love gardening! I'll post more pictures soon!