Baby Chambers

Well, we had our first Ultra sound today and we were able to find out the sex after about 45 minutes. He was being very stubborn with his legs crossed and knees together. I think he was embarrassed and didn't want us to see his goods! She had me turn on my side and my back several times before he actually moved his legs.

This is his face... I don't really see the features or anything but I have a hard time reading these things. I am sure the lady was sick of me because I kept asking her what everything was.

This is his little arm. He had it curled up near his face and you can see his little fingers.

His profile is so cute... she said that he was right up against my placenta. You can see his chin and nose and lips a little bit if you look closely.

FInally after a lot of waiting we are finally able to spot his penis... The long thing under "it's a boy" is his leg and right above that are the boy parts. I was nervous at first because they said that the ultra sound machine was having issues and that they may have to postpone our visit... I was just praying while we were waiting that we would be able to see our little guy. But they were able to take the back up machine out and give us the ultra sound. We will have to go and get another one done in 4 weeks to monitor a "bright spot" she saw on his heart. Hopefully it will be gone and we won't have to worry about any heart problems in the future.

Ryan knew all along that it was a boy since he has had several dreams about a little boy with dark hair... so I guess we will see if this little guy has dark hair or not. It is nice knowing that we can call the baby a him now and not just baby. We are really excited and look forward to getting everything ready for him to arrive in April!

Exciting News...

WELL, if you haven't heard our little secret yet I figured we should let you in on it... Ryan and I are going to have a B-A-B-Y!!! I know a lot of you are thinking... "well it's about time!!!" and it is since we have been married for 4 YEARS! I still can't believe that. We are both done with school, have a house, and a dog and cat. SO the next step was a baby.

I am 14 weeks along, so I just started my 2nd trimester. I haven't gained any weight yet so don't expect any bump pictures because it is non-existent... well expect for the flab that was already there to begin with but I don't think you want a picture of that! It's weird to think that I even have a little person in me since I haven't gained much yet... I have actually lost 6 lbs, but I am sure I will gain it back AND some! I haven't been TOO sick... just nauseated and tired a lot. I have thrown up once... and it was on the side of the road. It was a lovely time!

I keep expecting to see a Belly since my best friend is 10 weeks ahead of me and proudly sporting her baby bump... I just have to keep thinking that mine will come eventually and that I should be happy that I can still wear normal clothes. Ryan says that it will come soon enough and that by the time February rolls around I will be sick of being big and want my normal body back.

I don't have any "feelings" on what sex the baby will be... I really will be fine with either as long as he or she is healthy and cute. We should find out on my 20 week appointment which is a week before Thanksgiving, which is perfect for hitting all those after Thanksgiving sales. ANyway I will try to keep the blog updated better with pictures of me growing and with how I am feeling. At our first appointment the Dr. was saying that it's typical to gain 25-30 lbs during a pregnancy... Ryan was nice enough to point out that I would weigh more than him if I gained that... THANKS HUN that makes me feel real great!

My friend had this posted on her blog and I thought it was pretty funny! Its all what were thinking every day but never say it out loud!

• I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.
• More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can't wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that's not only better, but also more directly involves me.
• Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
• Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.
• That's enough, Nickelback.
• I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
• Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the "people you may know" feature on Facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not to be friends with?
• Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.
• There is a great need for sarcasm font.
• Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what was going on when I first saw it.
• I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it.
• How are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
• I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
• I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
• The only time I look forward to a red light is when I'm trying to finish a text.
• Was learning cursive really necessary?
• Lol has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say".
• I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
• Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.
• My brother's Municipal League baseball team is named the Stepdads. Seeing as none of the guys on the team are actual stepdads, I inquired about the name. He explained, "Cuz we beat you, and you hate us." Classy, bro.
• Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart.”
• How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?
• I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent an idiot from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!
• Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using 'as in' examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss's last name to an attorney and said "Yes that's G as in...(10 second lapse)..ummm...Goonies"
• What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?
• While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it...thanks Mario Kart.
• MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
• Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
• I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.
• Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
• I would like to officially coin the phrase 'catching the swine flu' to be used as a way to make fun of a friend for hooking up with an overweight woman. Example: "Dave caught the swine flu last night."
• I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
• Bad decisions make good stories.
• Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if I do!
• Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every year?
• If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.
• Why is it that during an ice- breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from, this shouldn't be a problem....
• You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you've made up your mind that you just aren't doing anything productive for the rest of the day.
• Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection.
• There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.
• I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
• "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this ever.
• I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren't watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'
• I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dang it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?
• I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
• When I meet a new girl, I'm terrified of mentioning something she hasn't already told me but that I have learned from some light internet stalking.
• I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.
• Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles...
• As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.
• Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
• It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.
• I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
• Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn't know what do to with it.
• Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey- but I'd bet everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time...
• My 4-year old son asked me in the car the other day "Dad what would happen if you ran over a ninja?" How do I respond to that?
• It really ticks me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and the link takes me to a video instead of text.
• I wonder if cops ever get ticked off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.
• I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
• The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words, someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think about it, and then estimated that there must be at least four people eating to require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by myself. There's nothing like being made to feel like a fatty before dinner.

Introducing Fenway!

Well, we finally took the plunge and got a dog!  She is a yellow lab and full of spunk.  We named her Fenway since we love the Red Sox.  So now we have a cat, a dog and a house... all thats left is a kid!  I guess we better start working on that... Anyway that last 2 weeks with Fenway has been fun.  She wakes us up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom... or leaves surprises in her kennel in the morning.. but those are the joys of dog ownership right?    Puma tolerates her to a point.. sometimes she even eggs her on a little bit.  Fenway plays a little too rough for her though sometimes and she needs to jump up to get away.  She has already grown a lot since we got her and expect her to grow a lot more over the next year.  

She is definitely a daddy's girl! 

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She naps a lot and often time in interesting places... like daddy's shoes! 

She loves playing already... she shakes her stuffed pheasant and also loves chewing on her bone and balls... I can already tell she will be a great fetcher! 

New House

Well for those who didn't know Ryan and I bought a house a few weeks ago.  It is located in lovely Spanish Fork, about 1o minutes south of Provo.  After painting every room and spending days moving and unpacking.  We are finally all moved in and settled and can take pictures of everything.  

Our house is 1800 Sq feet, 3 bathrooms, 4 bedrooms, 2 car garage, patio, office, shed.. and lots of other fun stuff!  

This is our dining area... we are still debating whether or not to raise that light cause when the leaf is in the table and its pulled out it's a "in yo face" light... we shall see. 

Family ROom... it's nice and cozy except the fact that our dimmer lights "hum" kinda annoying. 

My great kitchen.  I LOVE working on that island.. its so nice!  Plus I now have a big fridge and a HUGE pantry! 

Our bedroom.. as you can tell we used a lot of Red in our house as accents... I guess I am in a red phase. 

OUr beautiful backyard.  We have lots of grass, a great space for a garden next year, and a huge patio! 

Our office.. I think our desk looks find there even though we had to block a window.  THere was a bush behind it anyway that was blocking light so oh well. 

THe guest room... for all those guests coming to our house, this will be where you sleep! 

THe front of the house.  Isn't it cute!? 

My huge closet!  It is already full... I don't know how we fit all of our stuff in our old closet! 

i love my bathroom!  It has a nice jetted tub! 

Upstairs bathroom... I don't think I have even used this  one yet... 

Downstairs/guest bathroom.. I have used this one.  I didn't like the blue at first but it's growing on me. 

WEll that is our house!  Anyone is welcome to stay if you are ever in UTah.. we have PLENTY of room and love to have company! 

Wasatch Back

A group of 12 of our friends decided to run a relay race called the Wasatch Back.  It is a race starting in Logan Utah and ending in Park City, Utah... about 188 miles. Each team member ran 3 legs of the race, each with varying difficulty.  I luckily had a pretty easy course while Ryan had one of the more difficult ones.   WE ARE CRAZY!  Our team started off at 7:20 AM on Friday and we finished around 1:00 PM on Saturday.  We finished just under 30 hours which was our goal.  The rain held off for most of the race but for our last 2 runners, Cat and Blake it down poured.  When we all crossed the finish line it was raining like crazy! We were just thankful to be done.... on our way out of Heber we were watching more runners with probably about 30 miles left... I was VERY happy to be done at that point!  

Ryan running his hard leg up the mountain.. and happy as a clam! 

The girls in our Van (We had 2 SUV's when we ran they would be resting and vice versa, so we didn't get to see them much)... Jessica, Bethany and Cat

Before we started running... look at how happy we look... Little did we know what was coming up ahead! 

The Mesmerizers!  This was our van... Jessica, Bethany, Ryan, Cat, Blake and Greg!  We had a blast hanging out together and still got along even after 1.5 hours of sleep! 

Give Away Today

This website is giving away tons of free stuff this weekend... all you have to do is comment and you have a chance to win.  Some of the stuff is pretty cool too I think!  

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