24 Weeks!

I had another appointment yesterday....things are cruising along and baby girl is healthy and wiggly as ever. It makes Aaron nervous! As we were laying in bed at about 11:30 last night and she moved 5 times in about a 30 second time period. Aaron said that if the baby is naughty then I will have to trade rooms with Porter:)

I gained 8 pounds in 5 weeks. Whoops!! I'm trying to keep it under control but I am getting rather top heavy!! I guess if I have to gain it that is probably a good place for the weight to go.

We have been ordering lots of cute clothes and get so excited when the packages arrive. We put our little baby's room together and are pretty ready and excited for her arrival. I have felt really good but Aaron has been saying I'm moving a little bit more awkward lately. It's probably true!!

We leave for California tomorrow with Joanna and Jason to jam out to Peter Cetera. I love to just listen to him!!

Hopefully I don't gain 8 more pounds this weekend!!

11th Anniversary!

My baby and I have made it 11 years and we still love each other enough to have another baby!!!

Which by the way we are getting so so excited about!!

Because we got home from Yellowstone the day before our Anniversary we decided to do something fun WITH the kids. After all, it is the day we started our eternal family. Aaron needed to work because we were gone for the days before that which I was OK with:( We did take him lunch from Taco Time!

That night when Aaron got off we took the kids to Iggy's. They had never been there and Madi said, " Mom, I just don't like white trash place". Who is raising this girl?? I told her it wasn't white trash and she would love the bread. She did end up really enjoying her meal. She got some delicious Potato Soup also.

I tried to get a picture of all the kids except for Ry cuddled up to Aaron.

I missed it and just got this one of Ry after he can't stand it anymore.

Then they all posed for a cute picture.

I love my family.

After dinner we went miniature golfing. I only lost to Aaron by 2 points!! I may be getting competitive in my old age.

I am so happy that Aaron married me in the temple and is willing to put up with me FOREVER!!

Life just keeps getting better all the time!

I love you baby!! Don't ever leave me!

Yellowstone, Day 2

This day was Valentine's Day!!

I didn't go outside once but that was my own fault. Aaron did a bunch of snowmobiling and had a good time with his brothers. I took a nap and talked to my babies on the phone. It was pretty low key!!

We did get a picture when we went down to the hot tub again that evening...

This is our beautifulness!

It was fun to spend some days with my baby and his undivided attention-well, kind of!

We had a good time and the next day headed home.

It was fun to hang out with Chase and Brianne also! They are having a baby girl right around the same time as us. It's so nice to be able to talk "Baby". I think Aaron gets tired of hearing it All.The.Time!!

Don't you worry though, this babe is going to have some dang cute stuff! Especially with the help of my freaking talented SIL Brianne!

Let's do this:)

Yellowstone!!

For Christmas this year, Aaron's parents invited all the siblings and spouses to go to Yellowstone. There were some that couldn't make it, but for the ones that did we had a good relaxing time. I totally forgot to bring my camera so I just have these pictures from my phone. But, better than having nothing!! The first day we were there we walked into town to find some surprises for my babies.

Before we started out all bundled up! I was wearing Karen's snow coat.

It was very warm!

Taylor started sliding with his 5 dollar white grandma shoes from Wal-Mart-true story:) So of course Aaron being the big brother had to show him how he's still got it!!

A view from the back with Taylor.

I wasn't fast enough on this picture but I think Aaron looks so cute:)

Here we go!! We were so oblivious to the cars.

A couple of years ago we went to Yellowstone in the summer with the Garn's. We had a blast and one of the things I remember most about that trip is how Aaron was so mad while we were eating lunch. Come to find out, Porter had thrown a rock at a bear!!

At this museum. I had to take a picture.

We got them each a shirt. Madi some earrings with a mood ring, Porter a nice little contraption with some different tools on it, Ry a pocket knife with this name engraved on it and Brayd some binoculars.

We then came home, had lunch, hung out and went to the hot tub that night. It was a relaxing day!

My Babies.....

While Aaron and I went to Yellowstone Joanna watched my monkey's for me....I asked her to send me a picture of them to put on my phone while I was away.

Cute family.

And Os too!!

It's Getting Real....

As Aaron and I were laying in bed getting ready to settle down for the night after a hot date, I put my hand on my tummy and felt our baby girl move on the outside. So, I told Aaron that he might be able to feel her move so he put his hand on my tummy and about 10 seconds later she moved and he said,

"I felt that! I was the first one to feel her move huh?"

It's times like this that I know Aaron really does love this baby growing inside me. He just gets to experience the orneriness of me. Not really feeling what is to come. He was cute to be excited and we are so so excited!! I am excited for the other 4 kids to feel her move.

Our Baby Girl's bedroom furniture and bedding will be here within the next few days and we are going to start decorating.

I can't wait!!!!

Neither can my Madi:)

THE Day!

The day that we had been anticipating for 19 weeks now has finally come and we got to find out the gender of our sweet baby. It started the night before when we were discussing my upcoming Doctor's appointment. Porter asked me to please, please call him at school after my appointment to let him know what it was. I told him no way because I wanted to tell all the kids at the same time. Madi made me PROMISE I would not tell ANYONE before she got home from school. So, against my will I promised and I kept it!! This was hard especially because my sisters helped me plan and prepare the whole day to tell them.

I got to the appointment and Aaron was even there! We waited for about 10 minutes, weighed myself-gained 6 pounds in 6 weeks. Got a sample and met up with Aaron in the ultrasound room to wait for Dr. Winward. I'm not going to lie, I was nervous. I just wanted my little baby to be healthy, then we would move to being nervous about Madi being upset if we were having a boy.

About 5 minutes later Dr. Winward showed up. She measured me and said I was growing "beautifully" I looked at Aaron and asked if he thought the same. He shrugged his shoulders and said, "Sure".

How Sweet!

We then got to work. Dr. Winward squeezed the warm jelly on me and we found our little babe. Everything looked great! About 10 minutes into it she asked what we were hoping for, we both shrugged our shoulders and she put up on the screen "It's A ..." I was thrilled! I think Aaron smiled. Let's be honest.....He doesn't wear his emotions on his sleeves. That is my job.

Our little baby was perfect! The only thing that was questionable was I was on the border for placenta previa. We will do another ultrasound in 8 weeks to see if I am in the clear. The worst that could happen would be that I need to have a C-section. It is very unlikely but I will take that any day over something being wrong with this baby.

When we were done with everything we made our appointment for 4 weeks and headed out to get stuff to surprise my parents and kids to tell them what we were having.

I picked up Brayden and Ryan from school. Of course they wanted to know but I had to tell them they had to wait to find out until Madi and Porter got home. Brayden kept saying it was a boy. We headed up to my parents to blow up balloons and put confetti in them with random letters. Bud then wrote up this poem for them.....

Way cute huh?

We put one on my front door also along with an It's a Girl and It's a Boy balloon.

We anxiously awaited for 3:30 to come and were so excited when we saw them being dropped off. They read the note and walked in the door with a little bit of a confused look on their face.

We got Ry and Brayden home-they were helping brother Stewart scrub his driveway. Then rounded Aaron up-he was talking on the phone-to find out what we were having. When they walked in the family room it looked like this....

Porter decided to kick a balloon just as I took the picture.

Does this surprise you?

Can you tell Madi wants a girl?

They needed to pop all the balloons to see if they could spell out "Boy or Girl"

When Madi first saw the B her face fell because she didn't think I would put any of the girl letters in the balloons at all if it was a boy and vice versa. Then just before they found the "i" she thought the "Q" was an "o". She had all sorts of mixed emotions going on.

It ended up being perfect because they had the letters B, y and G, r,l.

They now either needed an "o" or "i" and this is what they got....

They were so happy and Madi couldn't stop smiling. We are very happy about this!! I guess by my mom and Karen predicting this was a girl they are right!

I can't explain how happy I am. I love to feel her move!

She moved so much during the ultrasound. She even did 2 "poses" for the pictures. One with her hand on her cheek and the other with her cute little hand under her chin. Dr. said she is already a drama queen. We'll see:)

I love being pregnant with this little girl but I can't wait to hold her in my arms. Madi doesn't think it will ever come! It is so fun having older kids to share in the excitement. Brayden makes the comment daily, "mom, your baby is getting big" saying this while patting my tummy. They are all interested and love talking about what life will be like with a baby around.

I have a great life and I love the family I have.

Although I know there is so much I need to do with my older kids before this little lady arrives I can't hardly stand it!

Aaron can wait-he doesn't really love crying babies!