It's Go Time!

Part One:
October 18th 3:30AM-I wake up from a dream of a little girl crying to her mom because she's in pain, little did I know that was me in pain! Dreams are funny. I was having contractions...first of all Do I even know what a real contraction feels like? Nope. But whatever was going on hurt real bad and was coming every 6 minutes. Count it out for about an hour. Finally Kameron is awakened by my moaning, and from there on they get further apart..6, 7, 8, 9 minutes. Talk about a let down! Kameron was able to go back to sleep-lucky-but I would fall asleep for a few minutes than be woken up by pain. This goes on until Kameron's alarm at 6:45am. Get up-just have very irregular "contractions" some strong and some not.
Part Two:
Finally get about 45 minutes of sleep, but once again pain wakes me up so I just lay there wondering why I have to go through this and why is this not the real thing?! But I do have a Dr. Appointment at 11:20 to check the baby and talk about "options" So finally I am at the Dr.'s and she asks if I'd like to be induced. Let me tell ya, I was so prepared to hear "Go home, wait it out" But the little guy scored an 8/8 on his well-being test! And she says I can be induced Tuesday at 5am. I'm so caught of Guard I start rambling about who knows what. Thank goodness Kameron was there to help me sort my thoughts and make the plan to be Induced on Tuesday Morning!
Part 3:
So now I'm having menstrual like cramping that intensifies..contraction? every so often and getting more and more nervous that by tomorrow night I will have a baby in my arms. A little helpless person I am responsible for. Why have I been pregnant for 9months and this is just coming into my head?

Well the next couple of chapters of this adventure are yet to come! I thought "I am ready for this!" now I'm like "Whoa I don't know what I'm doing!" Probably one of The most scariest things I've ever done. But I just know it'll be worth it in the end!

TWISTER

No, not that twister....

Yesterday Four tornadoes hit Bellemont, about twenty minutes outside Flagstaff! The whole town was on alert pretty much all day. The girl I work with, her house was damaged. I cannot even imagine! I am terrified of tornadoes. When we drove through Kansas a long time ago, I stayed on the car floor the whole state. No Thanks!


Now the skies are clear but these poor people have lost their homes! Four tornadoes in Flagstaff's backyard...never would've thought.

Baby Shower!

I begin to Blog with a dirty house all around me...this cannot become a bad habit, I will clean I promise! I have put this off too long anyways and now I can't remember everything I wanted to blog about.
So the fun thing that happened in September was my Baby Shower! Kameron wasn't able to come down with me because of work (Boo!) So I drove myself down early Friday morning and met my mom at Ikea and did a little shopping for a changing table. That was a success! And the most important- I didn't get lost in the big city even changing driving plans and takeing different exits All By Myself. I'm pretty proud of myself for this accomplishment because I've had some pretty bad experiences in the past, anyways!
It was Janel's Birthday! So we went out to eat and funny story, I come back to the table, grab my moms purse to get by and between my belly and her purse I proceed to dump over two, count 'em Two glasses of water All over the table and onto Emily. Can we say embarrassing? So the waiter comes and is like "okay who needs the sippy cup?" Me. So this picture is displaying me and my cup with a lid. Thanks waiter guy!

The baby shower was on Saturday, everyone was working like crazy Friday night and Saturday morning. I seriously have the awesomest family ever! To see everyone working so hard to give you a party. Wow! And since Emily was here from Utah she got to do my hair, which turned out awesome! I sat in the salon most the time and held Killian. No complaints here! And trying not to swell and cramp which happened because of traveling at 35 weeks.
I'm still waiting for pictures...So there will probably be another post relating to the baby shower, but this is what I got:
Cute Onesiese. Including a Jeter onesie, SO cute!!

The awesome sport diaper cake! And notice the baseball cake balls and delicious cupcakes!

The entire food table made up of all kinds of dips! Yum! Cheese ball, fruit dip, spinach dip you name it, and it was probably on the table!!

The banner was awesome! And I got to keep it and it's going up in Jeter's room! Love it!!

It was so fun seeing old friends and my girls from T-town! And thanks to Robyn Kleinman for sharing her house and being so generous! And thanks to everyone for the awesome gifts, Jeter is going to be sporti'n some cute outfits!

AND! Little Killian...Sleeping peacefully, sadly he had an upset stomach through the whole shower, poor little guy. I miss him, can't we all live in the same town??! Brianna is an awesome mom and I can't wait for our little guys to play together AND especially when they get to play with their other two cousins (Aiden and Max!)

Speaking of other cousins, we are so excited for Cade and Caryn And Natalie and Jacob (Kam's bro Cade and sis Natalie) to have their babies!! So many babies! His cousin Nicki is due um Today actually!

So now I'm in the waiting game. My Dr. says he is probably in the high Sixes for weight...and that was almost two weeks ago! I measure my week-belly size perfectly. Since my "awesome" job still puts me into positions to work 7 1/2 hour days, even though I'm so supposed to be cutting back, maybe the walking and working will help things along, maybe. I can hope right? :)

Kameron is doing good in school and work. Don't know how he does it. But we are both getting more and more excited for this new adventure!

labor day

For Labor Day we went to Lake Mary and camped out with Kameron's family. The weather was great and we had a wonderful weekend overall! Don't picture me camping because I didn't :) Lake Mary is about 15 minutes from our home so that's where I stayed. We actually camped at another campsite and found a picnic area be the lake. I was a horrible picture taker, so all I have is Kameron's excited face as he fishes...

The boys went wake boarding and I raised my blood pressure playing wizard, oh and we can't forget Kameron beating me in cards by one point. Can't wait for next year when we have a bunch of little kids running around!!

I'm 34 weeks...about 6 weeks to go!

I am defiantly feeling the changes going on as the end comes into sight. I have to give a shout out to my work, they've been so nice and have been very helpful. My mind is saying work! but my body says No way, so they've let me make a schedule that will work for me and I'm still planning on going back with the baby when the time is right.

The 18th is my baby shower in Mesa, I feel like it's a milestone for me. Super excited! And my boss Nicole wants to give me a baby shower in Flagstaff Oct. 2nd. If you havn't received an invite to either one and you want one let me know! I'm mostly excited to get together with friends and family!!!

My nephews asked what a baby shower was for at Brianna's baby shower and we summed it up as a "pre-birthday party" So I can't wait to celebrate this very exciting occasion!

And how could I forget! Brianna had her little baby Killian. So SO cute. I just love him to pieces! I'll defiantly get pictures of the little guy next weekend.

We are still adjusting to this "new" schedule. It's a challenge but it's not forever. I just keep telling myself that. And it really is a blessing for how things have worked out.

Before and After

Finally! I can post the finished results of the boat!!! Here are some before and afters:



And the afters:

I'm so proud of Kameron for all his hard work! He did so much and stayed consistent. Didn't give up with the going got tough. It's nice we live close to a lake (Lake Mary) so we were able to take it for spin.

Other stuff, I had a GREAT weekend with my mom!! Just what I needed. How is it that moms are so awesome? We went to some antique stores and talked and talked and we went to Real Deals and pretty much found the perfect piece of furniture for a changing table/storage/will be so fun to have when it's not a changing table! It's probably good the store is only open Thursdays and Saturdays or else I'd be there wayy to much and want to spend too much money. But we had a great time! Kameron had a good time out hunting, didn't get anything but he had a good time. He starts his new schedule this Saturday. It's going to be tough but Kam is a trooper.

We went through the hospital the other day to pre-register. Made it all so much more real! Jeter is defiantly growing! And so is the belly, we can't wait to meet the little guy!

On-Going Projects

So I went through this little craze of, marshmallows? I decided I wanted to try to make some. I messed up the first batch, but was determined to find a better recipe and try again, so batch number two turned out pretty good!

Now I just have a bag full of marshmallows sitting in my pantry! They tasted good and it was fun!

The Boat:
So because of all the rain Kameron has had to postpone working on it so it seems to be dragging on, but he does a lot of the work at our humble abode, which means our house smells of carpet glue and there is carpet everywhere. My one project I was given was to re-do a seat cover. At first I was like yeah sure I can do that (no sewing machine) so when Saturday rolled around I was like uh yikes! But it actually worked out really good (for a seamstress of my level)

I took the back off and a side piece, by the time I decided I needed to document this adventure I'd already sewn on the side piece. The left side is the new piece.

Kameron working endlessly on carpeting lids to compartments.

This is a funny picture, but I didn't know what else to do. Here is the new back piece and side piece all put back together!

So obviously the boat project is still ongoing but we hope to have it done by the end of the week!
It's been hard work (especially for Kameron-he is one dedicated guy!) and thanks to Cade (his bro) for helping with carpeting, but I know it will be so rewarding in the end.

So this super nice patient that comes in at the Chiropractic office, mentioned how she had some baby stuff she'd like to give us. Whoohoo! Some of it's super tiny and some is 3-6 months. Shoes, and little hats, So SO! cute. I made Kameron sit with me and go through it all (one big huggies sized box!) What a sweet husband, anyways, here are some little booties she gave us (how did she know Kameron really likes Michael Jordan?!)

I can't believe how nice family and friends have been. Giving us free stuff that would usually cost lost of money and just making all this seem possible (it's a little mind boggling sometimes)

So thanks to anyone and everyone who has helped and I know will help us. We are just surrounded by such giving people. Thank you!!!!!!

ps-Good News! My mom is coming to spend the weekend with me, and Kameron will be out hunting! The best of both worlds for the each of us!

Happenings...

So this post was so supposed to be full of the boat being re-carpeted, but as luck would have it, it rained ALL day Saturday. We woke up early and we could see the clouds, but it really hadn't rained all week. So we stopped by Home Depot and by the time we were ready to head out to the boat it was pouring! And it was socked in so we decided maybe not.

Instead we went to Snowflake to the temple, so next weekend will be boat weekend. And hopefully Kameron can get some done this week and get a head start on this giant project!!

So my parents have been going through this horrible house situation and just in the past week they went to court so a decision could be made over who owes what, yadyada...and they found out the they won the arbitration! This is a huge deal and it has caused my parents extreme stress. I'm so happy for them and for being honest and I just know the Lord was looking out for them. It was a very happy day when they got the good news!

So here is my sympathy paragraph, so beware:

Pregnancy is hard. I love feeling this little baby grow inside of me, but man! I feel like a cow a lot of the time. I can't breathe. It's like he sits in my diaphragm. And recently I've been having morning sickness! I thought it would go away after a week but it just comes and goes and it just is really hard. I'm tired. Oh and can I talk about indigestion/heart burn for a second? It hurts so bad it goes up into my jaw and I can't function. It stinks when I'm laying down to go to bed and acid starts seeping up into my throat and it burns and I just want to cry. And today! So my hand were swelling and I couldn't get my wedding ring off. So I'm at church in the primary room playing the piano and decided to take my ring off and set it there. Surprise! We leave and there is road work so we have to back track (I'll spare the details) we get home and I realize I've forgotten my Wedding Ring! Yikes. Long story short I got it back in one piece. Thanks Goodness! But honestly? Okay I'm done.

Kameron finally found out he is going to be running an afternoon route + Saturdays. Boo! But we are so blessed he even gets to keep his job and insurance. And it's only for three-ish months. Kameron says he is going to go into survival mode though. It's going to be a tough semester in A lot of ways. He's a trooper and I'm so grateful for a husband than works so hard.

So this is the only pic I have and it's not a good one, but I want to keep track of my "growth"

So here's me and Jeter at 30 weeks...

Oh, and the other night it felt like he was laying horizontal and pushing on my ribs? The pain was horrible! I took a bath and that helped, but oh man it was paiiinful! Sure will be nice to just have him here with us instead of in my belly!