Thank you!

The latest prego pic....

I just have to thank everyone for their amazing support. I know Heavenly Father definitely uses other people to answer our prayers. I was starting to feel like I was crazy to just give up my job until I read your loving comments. I don't know where how I ever got so lucky to have such great family and friends. Now if anyone would like to show me how much of a true friend they really are, they would email me an incredible, top notch, knock them out of the park, talk to give next Sunday! HA HA JK! Today, Nate and I just got asked to speak in church next week. I am actually excited about it and don't really mind giving talks. It'll give me something to do this week. My husband, on the other hand, is dreading it. He's so cute when he gets nervous he gets red in the face. I thinks it's endearing, he he! Anyways, all jokes aside...I truly love you all and grateful for the part you have all played in my life!

Mac and Cheese! and a forever summer!

What in the WORLD am I doing up...yes it is almost 3 in the morning. Does anyone else have a window of opportunity for sleep? I feel like if I pass that tiredness, then I just CAN'T fall asleep. Maybe it has something to do with me being fat and can't focus on sleep cause I keep thinking about how good Macaroni and Cheese sounds. Of course I tried to eat a few other things, but it didn't cut it (I should've known and just made it in the first place!) To make matters worse, half our crap is still in boxes and the Kraft just happened to be buried away. I am digging around in boxes in the garage at 1:30 am. Nate is working tonight is dying that he is still getting texts from me this late. It's now 3:30 am...yes still up! I thought the whole "nesting" thing was a bunch of crock...but here I am folding baby clothes in Kade's room in the middle of the night. HELP, I have gone nuts!So I just made a pretty life changing decision this weekend. My friend let me borrow a book called "Baby Wise". I was starting to get a little nervous that I have no idea what to do with a baby. I don't have a hospital bag packed. And it seems like everyone keeps asking me questions about how I am going to do this or that... and I have no clue what they are talking about. So last Friday I pulled another late night and stayed up the whole stinkin night reading that crazy book. It started to make me freak a little. I called Nate at work and was asking how in the world am I ever going to get a baby on a schedule when I am at work full time. Plus I still didn't know what I was going to do about a full time babysitter. I was also worried about starting out the year when I can hardly walk. I had so set in my mind that I was going to teach one more year to help us financially. Nate is now working full time, but he is continuing his education, and we just bought the house. Well, LONG story short.......I am going to be a stay at home mom. It was a weekend FULL of prayers, and freaking out, and more prayers trying to decide what to do. I was SOOOO nervous to call my principal because school starts in less than a week! YES I am crazy! I hated to do that do them at the last min...but it just felt so right and it still does. I thought that after it sunk in what I did that I would start to have second thoughts. But I can't be more excited about it. I already love this little guy SO SO MUCH and I just hated the thought of leaving him with someone else. I am going to start subbing and teaching aerobics again when i recover to help us out. But we both think it will definitely be worth the financial sacrifice for me to be home. It's so weird to think that I have already taught 4 years of school and now I am just done for a while. I don't know if Nate loves the idea that we have to now go take down my classroom when our garage isn't even all the way unpacked yet. Hey, at least we already have boxes! I am so grateful to Nate to support, and encourage me to make this decision. We were really worried about how the stress of both of us working full time, Nate going also going to school full time, and having a new baby was going to do to us. I feel HORRIBLE that I had to all of a sudden think about this a week before school starts, but we had to do what was best for our family. I guess it was better now than half way into the year. So I guess I am going to have to step up my game as a housewife. If that is going to be my job now, then I better learn to cook and clean and take care of a child or I am going to get shipped back to school.

Finally an update!..4th of July/Moving/Utah Trip

These first two pics are out of order...this is Nate and his sister painting our bathroom
One of the amazing blankets my mom made for me! Brandi made the cute diaper cake.

I swear once you get backed up on blogging...it's SO hard to catch up because you know it's going to take forever. Plus, we have been without Internet for quite a while during the moving process. I can't wait to spend some time checking up on other friends and families blogs to see your updates! We'll start with a new belly pic...yes it has gotten bigger. That picture was a month ago in our old house. I feel like my belly hasn't gotten much bigger since then, I am just getting fatter other places :). I still have had weekly doctor apts. this past few months and now until Kade gets here. My polyhydramnious has gone done tons! My levels went from extreme down to just high fluids! That was great news...now the only problem is they think Kade is huge. I know it's hard to tell for sure. Put at the specialists they have top of the line equipment for ultra sounds. On June 23rd he was already measuring 5 lbs 1 oz...and I was only 30 weeks. I guess most babies at that time are 2.5-3 lbs. I have another specialist apt. this Monday to check growth and fluids again. I love to see pics of my chubby little guy.

HAPPY 4th of JULY! This is by far one of my most favorite holidays. We had a BBQ swim party with the Ivins', Lameiux's, and the McBride's. It was much more mellow than last years 4th with the same group of friends. Last year we had an all night softball tourney, all day volleyball tourney, carnival, and ended it with a trip to the Colorado Cattle Ranch. We still had a blast this year. Now we have two more babies in the group, and two on the way! It was fun for the boys to rough each other up in the swimming pool. I don't know how they have so much fun beating each other up playing basketball in the pool. I get my kicks off laying in a chair or a raft, gossiping with girls, or ignoring the world and reading a book.

Kade is a little fatter than cute Aspen... and they are only supposed to be 4 days apart!

Trying to watch fireworks...

I was stuck in the darn pool...my back has been SO SO bad lately. My back has really been bothering me for the last 2 months..but I was always able to grunt through it. I might of started over doing it working on this house the last little while. My back got to the point where I couldn't walk at all for a few days. The worst was getting into a car, and getting out of bed because I was laying flat. I had to sleep in a chair for a few days. I truly think that this has been Heavenly Fathers way of humbling me. I thought I was some tough girl, and it got to the point where I just couldn't move. I had to start to be a lot more dependent on my husband and other people to help me with things. It stunk having Nate have to help walk me to the bathroom and get me drinks of water. I didn't know that my love for Nate could grow even more in this last few months. It has been so patient and loving towards me. Every time he does such a little act of love and service for me, my love for him grows. I am so lucky to have the most caring husband in the world.

Happy 2 year anniversary! We stayed at Nate's parents for a week while we we were getting a head start on painting and waiting for carpet to get in. Well...We had our anniversary on June 22nd. We thought it would be cool to spend our first night, and have our first dinner in our new house on our anniversary. So we dragged the mattress into the living room and flopped it on the floor. We bought a grill and steaks for a BBQ. Only problem is we had to assemble the grill. The instructions said 35 to 40 min. assembly time. We started putting it together at 6:30 and to make a long story short...we ate dinner at 11:15 at night!!! We were missing a piece so had to go back to Home Depot...we put one of the screws in the wrong place and had to re due half of it...the worst part of it all is later we found out the Home Depot puts together the grills for free every Wednesday. Wish we would've known that sooner! Actually, it made for such a funny memory. By the end of the night, after we got over being frustrated and mad...we were laughing so hard how dumb we were.

Me and Greg (Nate's dad) Painting....We had a lot of help from friends moving in and Nate's parents were great to come over most every night to help with projects. We wouldn't have been able to do it without them. I can NOT believe how much work we have put into this house. We really love it so much. It's been such a different summer for us. Because it's been a lot of work, and not a lot of play. I have been having a hard time because I want to work so much more, but my body doesn't cooperate. So I take a lot of breaks.

Nate is such a hard worker...every single day he is doing a new project. This is just a little list of the things we've done: Painted (every square inch of the house/doors/ceilings/baseboards. The colors are really fun. Some people may not agree..but we love them! VERY COLORFULL and different themes for each room), we installed blinds, ceiling fans/lights, fixed dishwasher, hauled in a new fridge, grouted the bathroom tile, pulled the huge weeds, sprayed for bugs, tore out the old hardwood flooring, carpet in all the rooms put in, put up curtains and rods, put in new deadbolts throughout, fixed the garage door opener, and put together our porch swing.... We are still in the process of unpacking boxes, and fixing the sprinkler system. We love to water our grass, and we have to take turns because we both love it. Oh the simple things that we love about having our own home!

I was able to go to Utah the first part of June. The specialists said I shouldn't go, but my OB gave me the okay so I jumped at the chance. I was bad and didn't take any pictures at my baby shower. It was SO fun to see my Utah friends. Leslie and Jill threw me a great shower. And my mom did one with family and ward friends. My mom made him such cute quilts and loved buying her grandson cute outfits. We got a lot of nice things for Kade, it was very thoughtful of everyone. Of course one of the best parts of going up there is seeing cute Dylan. He cracks me up so much!

Everyone at my Dad's softball game...

One pizza for me....and one for everyone else!

It was such and awesome experience to go to the open house of the new temple. It was really beautiful. It was such a windy day that day.

It was nice to see Mark and Nat before they leave to Iowa. He got a soccer scholarship for next year, so we won't see much of them. I love hanging out with them and miss them a lot.