First Baby Shower....

On September 17th i had my first baby shower! It was a shower from Lance's side of the family. His grandmother and aunt came down from Logan for it. So Lance's family didn't have to travel down for me and his sister they threw us a double shower. Lance's sister Lacey is 10 weeks ahead of me, so thats why it was kind of an early shower for me. Here is a pic of the too of us!

Here are a few pics of some of the guests that came to the shower. Some of the people were there for me and some were there for Lacey.

I invited my mom and sisters to come along as well. My mom is so excited for their first grandchild! She had to inspect all the gifts i got and loved everything! I love having my sisters there too!

The shower was a blast and i got lots of cute things! Thanks so much for Lances mom and sisters for giving me the shower! They did such an amazing job with everything! I can't wait for this little guy to show his face:)

Baby Bump...

Well.... this has been an interesting experience so far! I have enjoyed some of it, as well as hated other parts. The beginning of the pregnancy was kind of sucky. I felt pretty nausous and tired all the time. I hated food and never wanted to eat. But of coarse i had to eat so i wasn't as nausous. I threw up four times here and twice in lake powel from the boat. I think the main reason i would throw up here was after a grave and being extremely tired and then brushing my teeth. That would always make me gag and four of the times i threw up. Im so glad that doesn't happen anymore!!

As im in the subject of things i have hated..... I have hated all the things i have not been able to do. I couldn't wakeboard, tube, go cliff jumping in lake powel. I had to stop playing soccer. I could not go paint balling, and have always wanted to! I can't play other sports that are fun in the summer. Going to the gym is just kind of a bore. I can't do workouts that will get my heartrate up too high. I haven't been able to sleep as well. And i feel like im getting fat... not just a baby bump! Of course no one likes getting fat, but it has been really hard on me.

Well sorry for all that!! I guess i just had to vent a little. I have loved other things about this too. I have not felt too bad. For awhile there, i would not have know i was pregnant other then for my growing belly! I have resently started to feel the baby kick and have loved that feeling:) Lance still hasn't been able to feel the baby, but will soon! I am slowly starting to not fit in my clothes anymore. That part sucks too, but can't do anything about it.

When we first tried to find out what sex our baby was the cord was in the way! We were so sad and bumed out, but would just wait. The next appointment i was almost 21 weeks so figured that would be plenty far along to be able to tell! I have thought all along that we were having a girl, so when the doctor told us we were having a girl, we were stoked!! We started buying the beding set, cute little outfitts and cute little bows! I went up to Swiss Days with Lances mom and bought more cute little girl things. While i was there i did still have a feeling of being nervous that we were having a boy.

Well, two weeks later we went in for our target ultrasound (4D ultrasound). The ultrasound tech asked us if our doctor had told us what we were having. We said yes... a girl! WELL..... she told us and showed us that it was 100% a BOY!! I think after that i just shut down. I was so shocked and taken back! It kind of felt like someone had taken my baby girl away from me! I had bought so many things and we had already picked out a name!! I broke down when we left the doctors office and started crying! It was just so much to take in! Lance had to go take a quiz for school, so i went over to my moms and cried somemore. I felt like a bad mother for kind of being disappointed that it was a boy now. :( I think my emotions were just getting the best of me at this time.

We are super excited to be having a boy now! Just had to let it all settle in. I have always wanted a boy first to be the 'big brother' to my other children. We have no idea about boy names, so have alot to think about. But i have lots of friends who just had boys, so this little one will have lots of friends to play with!

This has been a long post, but needed to get it off my chest. Sorry if it has been a little depressing, but that is just how i have felt lately. Here are a few pics of my ever growing baby bump that i have promised a few people! The first pic is when i was about 13 and a half weeks..

The next picture is in my lovely UTE jersey:) I am about 19 weeks along.

The next picture is when i was 23 weeks along.

Well, this last picture i had Lance take today. I will be 25 weeks along tomorrow! I cant believe only 15 more weeks! It seems like that is only a short time away and we have so much more to do. We need to finish painting the nursery, find a name for this little man, and finish getting the things that we will need. Well im pretty sure that i will be huge in the end of this pregnancy because this next picture was taken about two weeks after the last one and you can noticeable tell how much bigger ive gotten. Wish i could go to the gym.. :)

Tim McGraw

I LOVE concerts and this summer the last concert we went to was Tim McGraw. We went with Terra and Daniel! It was a lot of fun and we had pretty good seats! The concert was at Usana, which i love going to concerts out there! The only problam is that its pretty far away.

When Tim first came out he came out in the middle of the two seat sessions! It would have been amazing to have been closer, but he was still pretty close for the first couple numbers. He really did put on an amazing show!!

Picking up Kathryn!

On our way driving home from Lake Powel we went and picked up my sister Kathryn in Escalanta (sp??). She was down there at a working camp for 100 days! We couldn't talk, only write letters, so i was SOO excited to get her. We tricked her into thinking we were coming the next weekend so it was fun to surprise her when we showed up!

She learned how to ride horses when she was down there. Her horse's name was Eeore. She is totally pro now at riding them! She had a horsemanship graduation and preformed with two other guys that were leaving the program too. She was the only one that didn't knock down any polls. I am so proud of her for going down there and learning so much about herself and staying so strong! We missed her so much and im glad to have her back with the family!!  :)

And Lance goofing off as usual:) This is what they practice with before really doing horse tricks.

Hot in the SUN in LAKE POWEL!!

This year we were lucky enough to be invited to go to Lake Powel with our friends Nash and Chelsie and her family. I have never been to lake Powel, so I was so excited to go. I was fifteen weeks pregnant when we went down there so i wasn't able to do much of anything. It was still fun, I just hope i can go back one day and do everything:) I have tons of pics from Lake Powel so this post will have lots!
This is a pic of the house boat that we stayed on. It was so nice! Three levels, two bathrooms, six bedrooms, the slide of the back! We were spoiled:)

Lance wakebaording.. Wish i could have tried! I will try and get up one of these days...

We were able to get this pic of all four of us! It was taken a little early, but still looks good! Its of Chelsie wake boarding, Nash and Lance jumping off the back off the boat, and me of course sitting on the boat!



Sitting on the back of the wakeboarding boat! I sure did get in alot of boat riding!

Playing on the tube 'the ION'. This tube was huge and very fun to watch everyone riding on it. I did get one ride on the tube when the rope broke and we had to tow the tube back. (going very slow!)

The women's US soccer team made it to the World Cup Finals while we were down there so we went over to the only resturant and watched the game! The didn't win.. but it was a blast to watch.

Waiting for the boat to come get us after the game!

This is Lance going down the slide off the back of the boat! It was so high and scary... i never went off it. And i was pregnant...

Going on a canoe ride. It was very difficult to have both of us on the canoe and not tip it, which made it really fun!

Lance and I jumping off the back of the boat! Everyone needs a picture like this one! :)

We got to visit some Indian ruins when we were down there. The were so cool and very interesting! I couldn't believe that people used to live up there in the rocks!

Everyone played a big game of water volleyball! I didn't feel like playing but it looked really fun!

The Last night we were there we had a treasure hunt! They do it every year and this year were got to be apart of it! It was really fun and they totally go all out! We are so greatful we were able to be invited on this fun filled trip and couldn't have asked for a better time! Thanks Nash and Chelsie:)