The week so far

Not much going on..I got to go see an advance screening of Harry Potter on tuesday afternoon. Thanks Deb! That was awesome. It got a bit rough near the end when I started to get tired of sitting, but it was much better than trying to go to a late show. I was just glad that I got to see early. It was awesome, I can't wait for the next two!
Today my mommies group was on Good Things Utah, which was way fun. I got to go be in the audience. It was a little sucky though because the audience just sits on bleachers and by the second commercial break I was fidgeting around and my legs were going numb. I finally had to stand up during one of the breaks, but then the hosts of the show told me my belly was cute and started talking to me. They asked when I was due, and if baby was just done with sitting on those bleachers, and then someone brought three extra little pads for me to sit on Of course I got all red because I hate having attention drawn to myself. It was a lot of fun though, and the ladies were really nice.
I have an appointment tomorrow, so I am looking forward to seeing if I am any further along than last week. I hope so. We have started the process of trying to move things around, so hopefully we get that done before the baby comes.

once a week

I am already down to appointments once a week. On one hand, I am so ready to have this baby. I see people with little babies and can't wait for mine. On the other hand, he can hang on as long as he wants. I have a lot of things to get done before he gets here and not enough time, energy, motivation, or opportunity in which to get it done. We need to move our room downstairs and move Mara into our room. In order to accomplish that, I need to clean out my craft room, which kind of became the "catch all" place, and Tim needs to clean out "his" room, aka the place where he has all of his toys and which will become our room. Asher is such a handful that I can never get much done. He sees me being busy as his opportunity to get into all the trouble he wants. By the time I ever have the opportunity to do things, (like once the kids are in bed) I am way to tired to get it done at that point. I keep waiting for nesting to kick in. I will welcome it. I did clean and rearrange the living room the other day though.

I did have an appointment today. I am offically at the point (with the pushed back due date) where they will not stop me if I go into labor, which is the worst waiting period EVER, knowing it could just happen at any time. My doctor is going to look over my dates and info, since they pushed me back three weeks. We both don't want there to be any issues or problems that arise from going too far past my due date. Since I had a c section last time they won't let me go past really, so we need to make sure we have an accurate-ish guess of when that really is. But I am almost at a 2, which is really nothing, but at least it's something, ha ha. And it should move along faster since it's my third. I just keep waiting and willing for my water to break. I hate the "any day now..."

Splashy fun

I took the kids to a splash pad on monday. It was a lot of fun. Not too mch to say about it, just some pictures to share.

Asher enjoying his fruit kabob. He wouldn't play in the water. He just wanted to sit at the table and eat all the snacks that I brought.




The kids playing. I watch a friend's kids, which would be the extra ones in the pics.






It was a great way to pass the day. The kids had fun and we stayed nice and cool. I wish they had a splash pad closer to us.

Our Fourth

I haven't updated in forever, so I figured it was time. I'll start with our Fourth. South Salt Lake has fireworks and a carnival at Granite High School on the 3rd, so we walked over to that. I love that they have them. One, it's great that they always do them before the fourth, and two, they are so close to us that it's nice to not need to worry about parking or anything because we just walk over. Asher really enjoyed the fireworks. It was fun to see his reaction to them. On the 4th in the afternoon we went to Tim's aunt's house. We had a barbeque and there were cousins for our kids to play with. In the evening we went to Jesse and Anne's house. We had another barbeque. Jesse made delicious shishkabobs. Just a small group of friends. It was nice. When it got darker, Chris had brought some fireworks to play with, that the kids just loved. When those ran out, he and Matt went to get more. Asher just loved that again. We decided to forego the fireworks at Sugarhouse, which was our original plan. We'd already seen some and it was going to be crazy busy because it is the last year they are doing them there, and the kids were going to be too tired. I think that was a good idea to skip them.

The kids got home pretty tuckered out. Asher fell asleep in the very short ride home, as Jesse only lives a few blocks away. I managed to bathe them both (and they were FILTHY) and get them in bed with no fussing or meltdowns, which is saying a lot considering they stayed up way past their bedtimes two nights in a row.

All in all, it was a pretty fun weekend. And not too hot, which was nice.

Updates

Stuff has been going on, but nothing seems very exciting. I thought I would update anyway, since it has been so long since I have posted. Thursday we had the privilege of going to my cousin Scott's wedding. He got married in the Logan temple. They had a space issue, but we were able to go and it was really nice. Scott is one of my favorite cousins and Tim really likes him too. It was fun. His new wife seems really sweet, too. I am incredibly happy for him. He got divorced not too long ago and the whole thing was just kind of a mess, but that's a whole other story that I'm not going into. So I'm just really glad for him, and so grateful that he has found someone to make him so happy.

On friday we were supposed to have a barbeque. We were kind of going to host it, but at our friend's house. We ended up postponing it because there were a couple of people that couldn't make it that Tim really wanted there. So we ended up having my cousin Jacob over for dinner instead. He was going to go to the barbeque so we just made him come hang out instead. It was fun. We had dinner and played Rock Band. Jacob is fun and Tim really enjoys having him around.

I actually can't remember what we did on saturday, so it must not have been important. I think we probably just hung around the house. Same with Sunday. Monday we went out to breakfast with Tim's mom, and then relaxed the rest of the day because I wasn't feeling very well. Then Tim's brother came over for a yummy dinner or ribs, corn on the cob, cheddar and bacon potatoes, and pasta salad, with chocolate pudding for dessert.

Everything else is well. I feel like this baby should be due way earlier. I feel like I'm at the end, not two months away. I can't imagine things getting much more miserable. I get faint daily, can't walk for long periods of time, and the nausea seems to have come back. Joy. But oh well, it is all worth it. I have an appointment on friday, and am down to 2 weekers after that. The finish line, yay!!

Cinco de Mayo

We had an awesome playdate at our friend Lori's house for Cinco de Mayo, through the mommies group I am a part of. The kids had such a blast. I did as well. I love when Lori has playdates because the kids can't escape, lol. She has a nice fenced backyard with lots to do. She usually has a jug of kool aid for the kids to drink, and Asher remembered this from the last time we were there and went right for it. He pretty much camped out there for a large chunk of the afternoon. I think a small part was that he liked the juice, but he really enjoyed that he could just get it himself. You could see his red mouth from across the yard. We had tacos for lunch, the kids played, and then we had cupcakes and got to break open a pinata. It was so much fun.

This is Asher and some of the kids eating their lunch.



Some pictures of the kids playing.




Starr, Mara, and Asher enjoying their cupcakes. Starr is a girl I watch during the day.


Asher really enjoying his cupcake.



Asher's fruit punch and cupcake inspired face.




The kids hitting the pinata.




I love these two because you can see in the background just how much Asher is loving the pinata.



Asher loves to help, and after he watched the pinata for a bit he was quick to run over and help Lori pull the rope to raise the pinata.



The kids grabbing the candy.


Lots of pictures. It was a great day.

Mara's Birthday

Mara's birthday was on thursday. She is 5 already, I can't believe it. On friday she got to go and pick out a birthday present with her money from her great grandpa, which she was just so excited to do. She picked a Littlest Pet Shop Clubhouse.
We decided to have a kind of impromptu party for her on saturday. We had a nice little indoor barbeque with just some of Tim's friends. Of course once it started I thought of all these other people I should or could have invited, but it was just a small little thing to make her feel special without really having a huge blowout. Just some hamburgers, hot dogs, fruit salad, cake and ice cream. She had a great time. Tim's friends all brought her presents, even though he didn't call them until the night before. (He is so last minute on everything, drives me nuts) And they totally didn't have to but of course she was thrilled. Jesse and Ann had their new baby Sagan with them, who was just born in March. Mara doted on him and even Asher was enthralled. And Sagan just stared and stared at me when I held him. He's a cutie. Tim accused me of being baby hungry..7 months pregnant dude, the jig is up. Then we all played Rock Band for a bit, and I sent Mara on a treasure hunt to find the present I had for her. She really enjoyed that. I just had ten little clues that led to her present, which was just 5 bracelets that I made for her. She has been getting a little into wanting to wear jewelry, so she was excited. She wore all 5 of them together for the rest of the day. That was pretty much the day. I bathed the kids and they went to bed. Mara said it was the "bestest, most funnest birthday" she's ever had. She's pretty easy to please sometimes. :)