22 weeks!

Here is our little guy at 22 weeks...This was from our ultrasound today! Everything looked great! We are getting so excited to meet this little guy....he already looks like his father!

I am STILL feeling great! I have no complaints. My doctor told me today that I need to complain about ONE thing by the end of my pregnancy....just to make him feel better...even if I have to make it up. I FINALLY have a little belly, which helps make it more real for me. Even though all my clothes still fit. Oh yeah, he moves all the time now and I LOVE it. :)

Open House

We celebrated my sister's marriage to Mike with an open house. My aunt was kind enough to have it at her beautiful home in Salt Lake. A yummy meal was served by a chef named Carl. Lots of family and a few close friends were able to attend. It was sure nice to catch up with everyone!


All the cousins on my Mom's side....minus the 3 from South Dakota.


My brother Brett...he is all grown up!


The boys sure LOVED the pond

Baby Photos

Here is our baby boy at 19 weeks! It was so fun to see him moving around. We caught him sucking his thumb...it was so cute! Sorry, these are pictures of the ultrasound pictures.








Legs crossed

It's a...............

........BOY! Yep we found out today on Jason's birthday actually! It was pretty obvious! He was moving around like crazy too! It was so NEAT! I am 15 weeks today and the doctor I go to enjoys doing these gender ultrasounds at 15 weeks, so that's why we found out so early! We will still have the main ultrasound around 18 weeks....so we can make sure its a boy still!

I still feel like I am NOT pregnant. I am still loosing weight and I feel GREAT! So it is crazy to see there is a circus going on inside of me. I bet in the next few weeks I will start to feel and look more pregnant! But for now I will enjoy it.

Lake Powell

Lake Powell is AMAZING! We had such a great time on the houseboat. We enjoyed wakeboarding and surfing...even the pregnant girl surfed! (I refused to wakeboard..Jason was bummed) We usually went on the ski boat for a good part of the day. Then came back to the houseboat to hangout and listen to LOTS of music. We had a large group of people so it was always entertaining!

We celebrated Jason's 25th birthday a little early over the weekend. I cooked Cafe Rio pork and made his favorite dessert, Boston Cream Pie. We all sang and celebrated him turning a year older! It was a GREAT trip except the last day. We went out on the ski boat for one LAST run....and the boat BROKE! We finally flagged a jet ski down because there were NO boats around...of course. They towed us to Lone Rock beach and then some guy drove Pat back to the marina to get truck. It took hours and we all got fried. Thankfully, it happened on our LAST day! You will have to read the next post to see what we came home to....






Jason with his favorite dessert


Celebration complete with the redneck banner!


Pat and Jason...





Jason, Pat, Cody


Enjoying the sun!





Jason and his flips!


Jason holding the boat @ Lone Rock beach....waiting for the truck

FIRE

We had a WARM welcome home after a LONG day at Lake Powell....to a driveway and street full of fire trucks. The wash RIGHT behind our house caught fire. The fire was out by the time we got home, thankfully. All my pretty plants and bushes along our back fence burned, I am thankful that's ALL that burned. Some of the neighbors got it a little worse. Now we are worried about hot spots. They keep popping up randomly. ahhh We feel like we can't leave our house!

SURPRISE!

....to say the least....

I am PREGNANT! Yep it's true! I am over 12 weeks now and due December 2. It was quite the surprise. We were both shocked for a while because it was totally unexpected.(I think there is something in the water at work.) We are over the shock now and are VERY excited! I have had three ultrasounds so far because there were twins, but NOT anymore only ONE baby! Jason wanted to tell everyone the day we found out, but I would not let him. Luckily, I have not been to sick. Just a few weeks I was sick during the evening/night. But I found if I stayed active it was not as bad! I still have a hard time figuring out what to eat because NOTHING sounds good.

My sister is also pregnant and due the end of September. It will be fun to have babies at the same time! We are EXCITED and NERVOUS for this big life change! In fact, I am surprised at how excited Jason is!

We get to find out the gender on Jason's 25th birthday, June 10th. Only a few weeks away now!

( Even better...I get to add one of those baby countdown things to the blog now!)

Swim Time

The long awaited swim meet finally arrived. It has been so funny to listen to Jack and Jason talk crap about each other. Jack was a swimmer in high school and felt he had an edge since Jason never swam before. Jack was not very serious about practicing, but Jason sure was! Jason ended up beating his Dad in all races they swam in together, although the 50m butterfly was very close! It was Jason's goal to beat his Dad since he started swimming in October.
Steph through a nice party for the boys at Jacks later that night. Jason called it his "victory party!" (ha ha) Steph brought a cake down with Jason and Jack's photos on it, Jason was in a speedo(looked like a diaper) and Jack had boxing gloves. I thought I took a picture of just the cake, but I guess not. The only one I had was Steph cutting into the cake!


Jason, some weird guy, and Jack in the far lane


Jason in the middle lane and Jack in the far lane...it was close but Jason won!

Easter

Easter weekend was great! Dion, Mike, and the boys came down for a visit. They did lots of "playing in the desert" and running around. We enjoyed a nice Easter breakfast at Oscar's in Springdale...we were going to hike after but Zion's was so crowded. It was and like an hour wait to get your car through the gate...so we turned around and came home.

The "Red Bull" girls came to dinner at my parents Saturday night. Jason has enough Red Bull to last a lifetime I think! (Our family firend, Mauri, works for Red Bull)





Dominic and Kyler @ Oscars


Dom loved Duke we would often find him giving Duke a hug!

Disney

What a GREAT trip we had to Disneyland this past week! :) We were able to meet Jason's family, including his aunt Cathy, Alan and their kids Hannah and Christian. However, we did miss Kristina and Scott!:( Jason and I enjoyed ourselves so much! It was a much needed break from reality! Thanks to everybody who made it possible for us to go!


Jason's first time on Indiana Jones


....yes he HAD to get a Mickey bar!


Loved the Teacups with Cathy, Hannah, and Christian!


Colby is so BIG! What a HAPPY little guy he is!


Gotta love Sully...


The Fam! minus Kristina and Scott! Heading back into Disneyland for the night!

Working Hard

...he just got his "official" swimsuit...sexy huh?


I took a few photos while I was laying out the other day watching Jason swim. He has been working so hard at swimming! Plus he still does his regular 5day/week workout...what a STUD! I also noticed the sign hanging up in the gym...it made me LAUGH!

We were invited to go to Vegas with Rachael and her friends from Salt Lake. Rachael was able to get us all into Tabu@ MGM for FREE...Along with a FREE table and a FREE bottle! We sure had a BLAST dancing the night away! Jason failed to mention we were going to a club...hence the way I was dressed! (I only had my phone so the photos are crappy!)

Then on Sunday night my Mom and I drove to Brian Head to spend Monday skiing. We had a GREAT time...the resort was empty!! Jason backed out last minute since he had work on Monday. :(

Weekend O' Fun!

President's Day weekend is always Jason's big trip to Dumont with friends! He looks forward to it ALL year. This time I told him to take the camera so I could see what is was like....he only took 3 pictures!

I had a lot of family in town. In fact, the Resse Family stayed at our house because my Mom and Dad already had a house full. Kara was in a soccer tournament, so they were busy with games and team stuff. I was able to make it to the Kayenta Arts Festival which is always a BLAST! I enjoy people watching mainly because the counter-culture of St. Geroge shows up!


One of Jason's 3 pictures!


Playing Hangman with Isaac


Enjoying Kara's soccer game with Breonna


Kara with her medals....she even scored a goal in the championship game! Her team took FIRST place in the tournament! YAHOO!

Dog Fun

We decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather this weekend! So we took the three dogs out for a run by my parents house in Kayenta. (Yes, we have THREE dogs right now while my parents are on a vacation.) I can't believe it is January and I was in shorts and tank top....AMAZING! The dogs have a GREAT time because they can run free off leash! We captured a few photos to share with our cell phones...


Jason and the THREE dogs!


My Stella Babe!


Stella all "pooped" out...she runs FULL speed than crashes in any shade she can find!

Seriously.....

.........I NEED a VACATION!!


Cruise?


Waterfall climbing in Costa Rica?


Lake Powell with Stella?


Coffee tasting in Kauai? (Brother Brett)


Winter retreat @ family cabin?


A's game?


Napa?


Poolside? (Sweet hats :)


Swinging through the rainforest? (Mom is sure enjoying herself)


...more warm weather with a ocean view?


Cozumel?


Stingray City?


I don't care where.....just a vacation!! :)