Easter Fun

We had such a wonderful Easter this year with the boys. The weather wasn't the best, but it did cooperate long enough for us to do a couple of egg hunts outside with the boys. Usually Easter weekend seems to be nice weather, but it was kind of rainy and windy with only a little bit of sunshine in-between.

I got the Easter stuff out about tuesday or wednesday, and Owen decided he's conduct his own egg hunts around the house and outside if it was nice. This has been going on for days. Even on the days where the boys did a real egg hunt, we'd come home and he'd be hiding eggs around the house and then finding them on his own. It has been so funny to watch but he is highly entertained by it, so I figured why not.

Easter morning, the boys woke up and searched for their Easter baskets. Brad and I had fun on saturday night putting their baskets together with little toys and candies. We put a picture of Christ in each basket and talked about Jesus when we tucked them in bed. Easter morning we read the story of Christ's death and resurrection. We have the kids scriptures on our ipads with pictures that go along with the stories. Owen especially looks foreword to reading scriptures with us before bed.

Church was wonderful too. I love seeing everyone in their pretty spring/Easter dresses and outfits. And our Easter program was so beautiful. I got to sing a solo and be in the choir this time for the program. It made it seem more spiritual since I was involved in the music. And I put together a fun Easter singing time together for the primary kids. 


We also had a wonderful dinner with Brad's Mom and Step-Dad. My sister is also staying in Fernley, visiting from Arizona, and came to spend church with us. It was a great to visit with everyone and enjoy the afternoon together.

Owen conducting his own egg hunts outside

 Both boys having fun looking for the eggs Owen hid outside

Getting ready to frost some yummy Easter cookies

The boys helped me make some really cute cookies, and Chase of course loved eating the sprinkles and frosting!

 Owen did a great job of helping me frost the cookies

Some of our pretty cookies

Cheese!

Dying eggs with friends

 Owen's works of art

 Chase had fun getting messy

 He didn't seem to know what to do with the egg after it was all blue

 The real egg hunt! The little kids got to go outside first so the older kids were anxiously waiting for their turn to go outside and find the hidden eggs. 

Chase did a great job since he had already been practicing with big brother all week. hehe

Hey! Are you guys looking for the same things I'm looking for?

My cute little Easter egg hunter

 Owen learned to be fast or someone else would snatch the egg up first!

The race is on!

 Chase abandoned the hunt after a while for something better, a slide!

28 Weeks

This month has really flown by. I am still feeling pretty great with no major issues. Right now my belly feels so tight like there's no more room to stretch. But of course the growing will continue. I am always amazed at how huge my tummy can grow during pregnancy. 

This last month or so I took up some reading, something I haven't done in a long time. I just started with some fun novels and signed up on goodreads to follow up on what everyone says is good. It helps me kick my feet up at the end of the day and relax after the boys are in bed. It's also nice to have something to do while Brad is gone most nights with classes.

The yoga instructor at my gym is leaving soon to go back to work full time, so I'm a little sad about that. Doing yoga twice a week has helped with my sciatic nerve pain so much! Not to mention all the other great benefits it has had on all the other aches and pains of my changing baby body. They don't know if they'll have another instructor to replace her for a while so I may have to get some yoga videos or something. 

Sleeping has still been pretty good, for the most part I sleep awesome, it's just sometimes the winding down and getting to sleep part takes me a while. Brad has been very generous with his willingness to scratch or rub my back when I need it or rub my neck when I get headaches. I don't get headaches a ton, but every few days there seems to be one lingering, not terrible but just enough to being annoying and make me not feel my best. I think pregnancy headaches are semi normal due to all the changing hormones and I remember having them with the other boys too.

I am excited for summer but not excited that I won't be able to enjoy it as much since I will be getting so big. But hopefully it will give the boys some more fun things to do and I can try not to get heat stroke. hehe. Another month down!

Brad took these pictures of me the other night before going out. I'm not sure why blogger is making them look so fuzzy once uploaded.

 The side profile amazes me when I compare it to last months picture

Baby:

-Weighs 2 1/4 lbs and is about 14.8 inches long

-Can open his eyes

-Getting more fat on his body

-Brain is very active now, lungs are still maturing 

-Beginning to wake and sleep at regular intervals

Mama:

-Belly now measures 37 inches! That means my belly grew 3 1/2 inches in the last month!

-Back to gaining weight this month, probable due to all my glorious food cravings. I gained between 4-5 lbs. this month. Kind of teetering between 139 and 140 right now.

-Total weight gain 14-15 lbs.

-Feeling this baby move like a regular little soccer player, he is extremely active. When Brad has a chance to sit and feel him, he totally freaks out the whole time, like "woah, oh my gosh, that was crazy, what is he doing in there?" It always makes me laugh.

Some Nice Weather

Off and on over the last couple of weeks, we have enjoyed some nice t-shirt weather and some beautiful days. There is a trail on the hill behind our house that leads up to a little park. The boys love to hike the trail and to play at the park for as long as I'm willing to let them. I took them up to the park after dinner one night since Brad was at school and it was still nice and warm out.

Although the weather has been nicer, it's still kind of teasing us and getting cold again every other day. So until Spring really decides to get here, we will be looking forward to more fun evenings outside like this one.

Heading to the park

 The view coming back down the trail to our house

 Trying to get a cute pose out of the boys

FOOD, Glorious FOOD!

Okay so I don't know what the deal is, but somehow food is on my brain a lot lately. For some reason I dream about it at night, and throughout the day I have to constantly argue with my brain that even though everything sounds amazingly good, I don't actually need to eat nor am I hungry.

I've always liked food, cooking it, smelling it, enjoying the yummy combinations of flavors....however my mind is playing games with me now and is making everything seem soooo much better than it already was.


I'll dream about textures and combinations of food. Yummy warm pancakes with butter and syrup, or the way chocolate feels in my mouth when I eat it.
If I make something sweet or pull warm bread out of the oven then it's totally all-down hill from there. :)


It's funny to me that I am like so enthralled with food lately that I had to write about it! I don't know if anyone has gone through this while pregnant or if I went through this with my other two, but I am really finding it hard lately to take it easy when it comes to food. lol.


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Fun in the Mud

Brad responded to a local geocacher who got himself pretty stuck in the mud in the mountains near us while he was out planting a new geocache. At first I was telling him I thought it was weird wasting his time by helping this guy out who he didn't even know. But then I realized that maybe that could be us and we'd need a little help sometime too. So I decided we should all go and make some fun out of it.

The boys loved the mud of course. And after getting the guy out, we went to get a first to find cache. 

 A picture of the guy spinning out. He was completely high centered and buried pretty deep in the mud.

 I thought this was a funny face

 Owen being his silly self

 Getting ready to jump in

 They had more fun throwing pebbles and rocks in the pools of water floating down the road

 They ended up jacking up the jeep as far as they could, then putting tons of rocks under the tires

 It took like an hour of just placing rocks under the tires and getting the guy all hooked up to Brad's jeep

 The two jeeps hooked up and ready to pull the guy out of the mud

 The muddy spot that remained when the jeep was out!

24 Weeks

So the happy pregnancy update.... this month has a actually been a really good one. In a way I can hardly believe I'm already at the 6 month mark, it seems like it got here so fast. But then I look back and remember those 2 1/2 months of misery and realize those didn't go by quite so fast. 

I've been feeling really good. Energetic, for the most part, and able to pick up the routine I am used to doing without any problem. This pregnancy has been different in so many ways, and it has taken me awhile to get my head around the fact that I was so wrong on the gender prediction. However, since I came to grips with the fact that we are having another boy, I am excited and looking foreword to adding another sweet boy to our little clan. 

People are still saying that I don't look that pregnant. But compared to the previous months, and depending what I'm wearing I think I definitely look pregnant! I of course feel pregnant, and I always joke around that this is as pregnant I want to be. I obviously know I'm going to get huge, but right now I feel like I can still do everything, including being able to still see my feet. So if only this is where it stopped. haha.

And contrary to how much I feel like eating most days, in nutrition class I learned that pregnant women don't need any additional calories in the first trimester, only about 350 extra calories in the 2nd trimester, and 420 in the 3rd trimester. I feel like I want to eat a whole other serving more of everything all of the time, if only my body would feel like it only needs a tiny bit extra. But somehow I always feel like eating a lot more than that extra amount they say!

Luckily this month my cravings and sweet tooth curbed quite a bit though and that helped me get back on the healthier track. I started making fresh vegetable juice every morning with our juicer and found some great combinations such as: carrots, spinach, celery, broccoli, apples or oranges. The carrots and fruit make it sweet and everything else enjoyable. So maybe that is helping fill my nutritional needs and hopefully curbing my cravings a little.  

So for some details...

Mama:

-My weight gain slowed quite a bit this month, I gained 1 lb. 

-Current weight: 135, total weight gain 10 lbs.

-Waist size: 34 1/2-it's crazy to think my waist has already grown almost 5 inches!

-This month I get to look foreword to the glucose screening test to see if I have gestational diabetes

-in the last month, my uterus has risen above my belly button and they say average size by now is about the size of a soccer ball

Baby: 

-Is kicking up a storm

-Weighs over a pound now

-Brain is growing quickly and taste buds are continuing to develop

-His lungs are developing cells that produce a substance that will help him breathe when he is born

Me and this little un-named baby boy (we still have no Idea what we are naming him) at 24 weeks.

First Camping Trip of the Year....

Who says you have to make a big trip to go camping. When there's your living-room! haha.
Today was a long day at home and we decided to get creative and at first I thought about building a fort, but the ones I make always seem to fall over, so then I opted for a tent instead. The boys have been playing non-stop and Owen was soooo exited to set it up with me that I thought he would burst with excitement. I think it's safe to say we are all getting the summer camping itch.