Making It

Friday, April 20, 2012

Family Photos

We took another family photo at our get together this Easter. I haven't had time to go through all the photos we took, but here's the big group shot!

Love my family!

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Happy Anniversary!

To my incredible parents! Thank you for putting up with us :) Hope you had a wonderful day!

I haven't been blogging much lately, but I wanted to do some kind of a little update before my life gets even crazier. Springtime is one of my favorite times of year! I'm so glad this baby will be born in the Spring like I was :) The weather has been beautiful and been calling us out of doors. Mostly to the backyard - thank goodness for the backyard! I just want to garden when I get out there, but I can hardly do that at the moment. Just doing a little extra housecleaning ends up being too much for me these days - so I'm trying to take it easy and save my back, but it's hard! I would be cleaning and organizing this house from top to bottom if I could right now. One more month before little Sierra makes her entrance to the world! Mike has been pretty busy with work, but he has been helping me out more with dinner and laundry and taking care of Lily. He's such a good dad! He plays so well with Lily and reads her a ton of stories when he puts her to bed. They are so cute together. Here are some photos of us over the last week or so.

Lily and I enjoying the beautiful flowers in the backyard:

Love that face!

Lily in an outfit she picked out that morning with her Dad.

Another flower for you, Mommy!

Showing off her style - patterns galore,down to the hello kitty socks!

I actually thought it was a pretty cute combo - we went to my Dr. appointment like this.
Good job Lily, and Dad!

...and my belly.

Fluffy white clouds and a super blue sky getting us all out to play this weekend:

Such a beautiful day in my favorite corner of the backyard

All the flowers we planted by the studio are exploding in bloom

These two are so cute together!

Daddy-Daughter Love

Dad's little helper clearing out our garden boxes.

Lily is super excited for Easter to come. She asks about it every morning and night. She just can't wait for the Easter bunny, and to wear her Easter dress, and to have her cousins over for dinner. She has big plans for an egg race, but the hunt is what she's looking forward to the most! Here are some photos of her making some pretty cool Easter decorations earlier this week. She wanted to make an Easter art project while I was trying to get some organizing done, so I cut out a bunch of eggs and a few other shapes and gave her the glue stick and some colored pencils and crayons and she went to town! I helped a bit when she got tired of being all gluey, but she mostly put them together, and she came up with the idea to stick the bunny and chick faces in 'the egg cracks' as she called them. I love her little penciled in faces and all her extra touches. We need to hang these up around the house before this weekend!

Not wanting me to take her picture!

Much more cooperative with the smiles :)

The completed pictures

Check out her little hand drawn faces. So cute!

Another one of my favorite things about Spring is listening to General Conference. Lily was so awesome about it this year! All I had to do was print out a bunch of Easter themed coloring pages for her. I even heard her repeating back some of the things from the talks. She was actually listening! It probably helped that I haven't been letting her watch much TV lately. I love this little almost 4 year old!

We ate homemade cinnamon rolls and listened to the prophets and the beautiful music from the choirs. I remember General Conference seeming so long when I was a kid, but this year it felt so short! I'm so grateful for the spirit I felt and the inspired words of the prophets. I really needed it this year! Here's hoping I can make it through another month of being pregnant! And the sleep deprivation before and after...

Friday, March 23, 2012

Pregnancy Ticker

When I was pregnant with Lily I could never tell you exactly how far along I was, I'd just refer people to my due date. This time I downloaded one of those pregnancy tickers for my desktop, and one for Mike's because quite often these days I can't stand sitting down at my computer and if his is on I'll just check a few things on it. So this pregnancy anytime someone asks me - I can tell them exactly how many weeks along I am and even how many days I have left (before the due date anyway - it would be heavenly to actually be done by that date!). It's been nice to know what week I am on when people ask me - I am confused by how it is calculated, but the ticker is jiving with what my mid-wife has been saying so I'm going with it. The problem with these pregnancy tickers is I don't just want the little message about what is happening with my baby to change once a week, I want it to change every day, scratch that - I want it to change every time I look at it! The rest of this pregnancy is looking really long to me right now!

Here's my baby belly at 33 weeks:

This week has been hard. I taught my last lesson in Relief Society at church before the baby comes (Ah, nice to not have to worry about that for a while), but since Sunday my back pain has been getting worse and worse. I can't get in a comfortable position. Walking, sitting, lying down...can't do any of those things comfortably for an extended period of time. When I do and I go to change positions the pain is excruciating. Mike moved our glider chair downstairs so I'd have a comfortable place to sit in our room, and then he walked over next-door to get a recommendation for a pregnancy massage from our friend who is also a massage therapist. I hope we can set up an appointment soon - I am in desperate need! When Mike called and left a voice mail with the lady to set up a massage - he started it out introducing himself and saying: "My wife is...10 and a half months pregnant..." I busted out laughing and set him straight saying nobody is ever 10 and a half months pregnant! He was thinking it was 12 months and subtracting back on how much time he thought was left. Thank goodness pregnancy doesn't last an entire year! According to some friends and random strangers I will probably look about 10 and a half months pregnant by the end of this. It is funny how many different perspectives people have looking at the same thing. I have been told everything from I'm "so tiny" to "Whoa! you're ginormous!" I tend to agree with the latter, but according to my midwife I'm measuring on target. So that gives me some comfort, but oh how I look forward to getting back to my normal self again.

Pregnancy is such a strange experience. It is so crazy and miraculous what our bodies can do! This time it seems much more real that there is a tiny individual growing inside me because I've been though having one come out and getting to know her. I'm getting pretty nervous about being a mother of more than one! It seems kind of sad to me knowing that I won't be able to give the same kind of attention to this baby that Lily got. Not that that might not be a better thing in many ways. Sometimes I think maybe I'll be a better mother of two than I am of one. It's just going to be such a different experience. I've been a mother to one for almost 4 years now! It's a big change, but an exciting one.

Lily has been such a dear especially these last few days. I'm so grateful to have her as my little girl! She's played so well on her own as I've tried to rest my back, and given me such sweet loving attention. Not that there haven't been moments, and time outs, but she is such a sweetheart! Now if only she will go to the bathroom on her own without saying she's too scared!