When it Rains it Pours

I finally have almost everything ready for the baby. We have a few last minute things we need to take care of, and we should be good. I took a tour of the hospitals labor and delivery and pre registered for my admittance so all I have to do is sign consent forms. I about near passed out when they gave us the self pay (aka no insurance) price for having said baby...10,000. Yes, you read right, $10,000. We'll be paying him off til he's 5.

Brian still hasn't found a job, so if you know of one, let us know. We could really use insurance and full time hours right about now. I'm starting to worry about what we're going to do when I'm on leave with no income for a month...sigh. I think I may ask my visiting teachers to bring me meals for the first few days when I get back, just so I dont have to worry about it, but they may think that's strange where I live with my parents. I don't know...sigh...I'll figure something out I suppose.

I"ll have to make the few things that I can make into freezer meals into freezer meals this week. I'm hoping I will have the time to squeeze it in. I'm only planning on taking 3 weeks for maternity leave, I can't really afford anything longer than that, so please pray that everything will go fine for both of us and I won't need a c section or anytihng like that.

I am stressed to the max so the next few weeks ought to be fun. My mother is after me for everything and anything lately. I get frustrated with life's crap, and my sister irritates me sometimes. All I can do is hope and pray that everything is going to be ok.

I wonder about this trial in life sometimes and what its preparing us for...No job, no insurance, and a new baby is just about as bad as it can be. I think it will be interesting to see what happens next.

Thanks for letting me vent. It soes me good to let things out everyonce in a while. :)

These pictures are from our first ever couples Family Home Evening that we did this past Monday. It was actually really fun and I think the other couples liked it too. Brian and I just set up a potluck at the park and we did a game where each couple acted out a famous couple and the rest of us had to guess who it was.

This is Jared and his wife, Makenzie, doing Brokeback mountain.
This is Josh and his wife Miley.

Matt and his wife Candace doing Mickey and Minnie mouse

Brian

And this was us doing Superman and Lois Lane

Hello There

Sunday was my mom's birthday. We all went in and got her a George Foreman grill. She's been dying to get one for awhile. Brian and I had gotten one for our wedding, and I love mine, so hopefully she will like hers.

I had to work yesterday and thought I was going to die (literally die) of boredom. It has never been that slow in my life in that store. I was doing pizza and would you believe I couldn't even get people to try it? Ridiculous...

I have been having a lot of pain in my pelvic area and I have had Cramps like when I'm on my cycle (in the front and in my back) for the last few days, and today I felt something pop where the baby is and I thought for sure my water had broken. I waited and waited for a gush of liquid or a trickle...and nothing. But the cramps sure got worse after that. I hope Spencer will be a good little boy and wait a week or two to come. 5 and 1/2 weeks is too early for my liking. I've had a few braxton hicks contractions too, but they don't hurt. They jusy make my whole belly tighten up. When the baby moves, my whole belly moves. It entertains me a lot. He sure is running out of room and I can tell. My belly is starting to grow out on the sides now.

Christy's kids are here today and they are driving me freaking up the wall. My kids will not be like that. They meltdown if you tell them no, and if you don't give them what they want. Its ridiculous. All the older one has done is scream and whine and boob all day. Holy attitude problems...

Summer

So at my last Dr's appt, he said the baby has dropped and that he could come any day. That is pretty exciting for me. Everybody says he is coming soon...he's hardly moving at all now and i can tell he is really cramped for space. All I can really feel is his feet and elbows. i just hope he will hold out a few more weeks. Right now he would be 5 1/2 weeks early. So wish us luck and we"ll let you know when it happens! :)

Maybe this will bring us up to date...

In the last few weeks since Kim has been home from college, she has had us going to all these historic sites. There are like 60 she wants to see in a month. It's a free ride for me, well, i do the driving, but she pays for me to get into places, she pays for my gas, and she buys me lunch. It's also a great way to get out of the house on my days off.

We went to Liberty Park last Tuesday and took Christy's youngest with us. Brandon totally cracks me up. He heard the peacocks and started freaking out, "it's Kevin kimmy, it's Kevin!" Kevin from UP, he loves that show. Anyway, he insisted on waving to ALL of the peacocks, male and female, through Tracy Aviary.
I have never seen such a personable animal. This bird seriously followed us around the whole cage and was close enough to take really good pictures of it. I thought it was kind of funny.

Brandon was more interested in the grass and other things than the real birds. He did like the ducks though.

Brandon didn't like that the birds were "looking at him"

The day before this, we went to the Great Salt Lake. BLEH. The smell about near killed me, so needless to say, did not stay there long. What is there to take pictures of out there except cattails and dead birds? I thought you may prefer the cattails. Kim really did take pictures of the dead birds on her camera...creepy. I took pictures of the cattails instead.

The day after Becca's wedding, and the day before we went to the Great Salt Lake, Brian had the opportunity to baptize his friend. He was very excited to do so, and I hear it was a great experience. I was unable to attend because I had to work.

Flowers flowers everywhere. Temple Square has a good variety of flowers. I enjoyed them.

I'm telling you, I enjoyed the flowers.

Brian made fun of me for taking so many pictures of Flowers at Temple Square while Becca and Steven had their pictures taken.

The main reason we were there...The Salt Lake Temple is very pretty. I like that temple, and I think we will have our generational photos taken there when Spencer is born.

Again with the flowers, sorry

I wanted a picture of Brian and I. We have so few pictures of us this year, I thought Becca's wedding warranted an excuse to have a new picture taken...i have a funky expression on my face though...

Awe...what a cute couple. I love to see how blissfully happy people are when they are first married. :) It's so cute.

And the last photo is from Easter. All the nieces and nephews at their Easter egg hunt that Brian and I setup for them this year. They had a blast, and next year Spencer will be able to do it too.

That is about all that has really happened. I dont really feel the need to go into great detail about things, but I did want to catch up with some pictures at least. Until next time...

Yes, I actually look pregnant now. I'm at 31 1/2 weeks in this picture, and I am currently 33 weeks now. Not much longer left. Though I will admit, 7 weeks feels like forever to go.

Just wanted to say hi

Perhaps I should just set aside one day a week for blogging and catching up with life. It seems so busy right now, and not just for me-life that is. oy. When I thik about the next few weeks, I get overwhelmed. The 4 is my shower at my in-laws. The 11 is my shower with my friends. the 12 is my mom's birthday. The 19 is Fathers Day. The next week we are house sitting for my in-laws. Then there will be the 4 of July. July 5 is my brothers birthday. The 6 is my nephews birthday...and in 2-3 weeks after that will be...Spencers birthday!

I have so many pictures I need to put up, but my computer is so slow to upload, I may just take what I want off it and crash it myself to start it over clean so it will run faster. I have pictures from Beccas wedding, my little field trips with my sister because she has no car and i am her chauffer most of the time. oh and i have pictures of random things. Anyway, I really just wanted to say hi...