I am pregnant what is your excuse

Just this past week my stomach has all of the sudden decided to grow and seems to be bigger than usual. The baby has most recently been kicking at my ribs I am pretty sure that the right one is bruised. This week at school we start a new trimester so I will be teacher about 120 new students. Along with my other coworkers we have decided that when students say things like, "You look big," or all those other crazy things students say I will simply reply "I am pregnant what is your excuse!" Yes I know completely heartless and rather cruel but it gave me a good laugh and hopefully will give you one too.

Bump

I have been telling many of you that I will update our blog this weekend and be sure to put of picture of my bump. I now realize that I don't have a picture of myself and how my stomach is growing. You may not know but my weekends consist of my coming home from work on Friday changing into sweat pants and a hoodie washing off my makeup and that is about how it stays for the rest of the weekend. So I was not about to take a picture of myself looking this way and happily post it for all to see. Therefore I have found these picture taken just last week to give you an idea.

Some of you may think we are crazy but Tim and I are sure that the dog knows I am pregnant. He has always been protective but has now become extremely protective of me. It is no longer ok for people to give me hugs- according to the dog. He is always laying by my side usually with his head on my stomach if not laying directly across my stomach. The funniest part is when the baby kicks at the dog and he pushes his nose back at him. I think they find this to be some kind of game.

The Cold!

I don't know if any of you have had this horrible no good very bad cold. It comes with a complete package- congestion, sinus pressure, cough, sore throat, fever, nausea, aching, etc. This has been our past week- what a wonderful week for tim's parents to fly out for a visit.
Tim's parents arrived at our house on Saturday night and Sunday night I had a high fever. They had just got over the cold and of course now I was getting one. This probably came as no surprise to them because I am always sick whenever we go there or they come here. So I did nothing (absolutely nothing) for 3-4 days while Tim and his family enjoyed skiing and snowboarding all over Utah. It was really nice to have them here because then on Tuesday night Tim came down with a high fever. We were both sick and did not want to move a muscle. His parents helped out a ton from doing dishes, grocery shopping, running around town to pick up various things, to playing with the dog it was great to have them here.

Even Pike was sympathetic and laid with us all day long.

We never thought it would happen!!!

Well we are now finished. Minus a few little touch ups that we (meaning Tim because I cannot be around the paint) have to do here and there. Once they installed the carpet and tile it just seemed to be complete. Tim and my dad worked on the bathroom putting in the vanity, sink, tub and all. As you can see Dad busy in concentration. Did you notice he is not wearing any glasses!?! He is now enjoying the benefits of being about to see with out glasses or contacts because a couple weeks ago he had his eyes lazered and seems to be loving it.

While working on the basement Hunter (little brother) was busy creating "The Ultimate Jet" with the top speed of 1000 miles per hour. Notice the mop on top of his head? It is no longer there as of Wednesday night. According to Hunter is his head now feels lighter than ever.

TaDa...The finished product.

Once the carpet and everything was in Tim was so excited to move the TV downstairs. I on the other hand was not since the only place to sit would be the floor. But needless to say we immediately moved the TV downstairs on Saturday, Feb 9th. I did not enjoy this because being pregnant the floor is not the most comfortable place to sit where I watch a lot of TV. Thankfully Andrew (brother) let us borrow his banana chair which wasn't much better -but it was better than the floor. Then on Valentines Day I came home from work to find....

New Reclining couches!
(special thanks to our neighbor Ragnar for hooking us up with a good deal!)

We then moved the piano downstairs into the living room.

While we are loving the new room there is one member of the family that is struggling with the adjustment -Pike. He loves being in the living room sitting on top of the couch just like a cat (you can see him in the above picture as well). Tim and I will be sitting downstairs and Pike will be upstairs running from door to door waiting for us to come upstairs and play with him. We still have some of his dog toys and pillows upstairs and are slowly moving them downstairs.

It's a Boy

We are having a boy!

Proof: Just in case you need a little more confirmation.

We are having a boy! We went to the doctor today and we were both very excited to go. The doctor said everything looks really good and that it looks like I am going to be having a big baby. Don't ask we where that will possibly fit in my body. We mentioned that Tim was 10 lbs when he was born and lucky for me she said she would not let that happen. We go back to the doctor again in four weeks and they are going to do another ultrasound to check the size of him. We are glad they are going to do another ultrasound because he would not stopping moving and kept hiding his face so unfortunately she could not get the best picture. But we did get some great ones of his hand covering his face.

This last picture is the best on of his face. He is looking to the left and you can see his arm raised in the air and a pretty good view of his lips. As she was checking to make sure everything looked normal he would not stop kicking and pushing his arms all over the place. He is not even born and already he is a hyper boy. As for those of you waiting for me to post picture of myself you might be waiting a little while. There is now a slight bump but nothing much. I can no longer do my pants up- but belly bands are wonderful invention!

Finishing the Basement

We have been working on the basement for what seems like a century. Although when I say "we" I mean mostly my dad, with some help from Tim when he is not working. They have done everything on there own from the framing, to electric work, hanging sheetrock, and the dreading taping, mudding and sanding. We realized that Tim's parents are coming out in February and really pushing to get it done by then (since our two spare rooms upstairs are a little full at the time being -one is full with things from the basement and the other with baby things).

Finally finished tapping, mudding, sanding. Family room downstairs Jan 4th.

Bedroom

More of the family room.

We planned on painting sometime during that next week. But based on the rate we had been moving I don't think either of us believed that it would actually get done (and earlier then scheduled). Thanks to my wonderful friend Craig (he works for his uncle who paints homes, etc) he called Saturday the 5th and was able to come over with a sprayer and everything needed. Him and Tim painted for a couple of hours and before you know it the walls and ceilings were done! I just wish I had a picture of the two of them covered in paint from head to toe.

Bathroom (as if you couldn't tell by the shower)

Family room looking back into the bedroom on the left

We have the doors and trim that should be arriving soon (1 week) and then the painting will start up again on those. The carpet/tile people are coming tomorrow to measure and that will hopefully take just a day after the doors and trim are put in!!!!

Christmas Pictures

We finally have our camera! Don't get to excited though because I will not be keeping you as updated as my cousins. Yes Stephanie and Stacey I am talking about you, I have decided you both have too much time on your hands -even though you both have cute little babies to brag about. Here are a few picture we took on Christmas when the camera was working. We had a wonderful holiday -and still have not taken down the Christmas tree.

Christmas eve was great- although Logan was pounded with snow that evening. Tim worked all day and then we headed to my parents for dinner. Our wonderful neighbors the Hartzheim's joined my family for a Christmas eve dutch-oven dinner (his family was in Germany and hers was in Texas). As to what should have taken about 20-25 minutes to get from our homes to my parents home ended up taking a forever long 45 minutes and we were all starving. Tim and I spent the night I my parents house and somehow managed to wake up before Hunter on Christmas morning.

Boys will be Boys.

Everyone (including my parents) recieved there own Nerf tag set.
Lets just say that these three got a little carried away.

I find this picture to be quite disturbing in many ways.

Hunter about to tag Tim.

Andrew shooting at everyone from above.

Tim running to safety, he managed to get caught in the middle.