Faith's Blessing...

Faith's baby blessing will be this Sunday...our sacrament starts at 9am. We will be having a luncheon after church at 12:30 for family only. If you want the details email me.

Just a few pictures...

I have a ton more to post...but I have to finish editing them.

Just born...

After Delivery with Mom...

In her basinet...

Just hanging out at the hospital...

After eating...Yummy!!

When we got home...

Close up...

Hanging out with Daddy...

Christmas Eve with Grandma Andrews just before she went back home to PA

Christmas Eve...

Merry Christmas everyone!!

It's been a while...

I know I still haven't posted any pictures of Faith. Believe it or not they still aren't on my computer...they're all on Steven's but his comp won't let me post pictures on here. I'll try to get some on soon.

Her birth stats were 6lbs 9 oz, 19", born at 4:25 am (23 hours 45 min after my water broke!)

Tires!!!

So today, I was out running some errands and I was about to go and drop something off at my cousin Ashley's house. I called her to see if it was ok to come and I told her I'd be there in about 15 minutes. As soon as I hung up the phone I realized that my car was pulling pretty dang hard to the left and that something was wrong. Not 5 seconds later I heard the horrible sound that comes with having a flat tire on the freeway. I hurried to pull over so I could asses the situation. Just as I thought...my driver rear tire was totally flat. So I called Ashley and told her I 'd be a little longer than expected and what was going on. She asked if I needed help and then I said that I'll check it out and see how hard it is and if I need help I'll call Steven. After I hung up the phone with her, I figured Steven would kill me if I tried to do it myself. So I called him. When I left he was outside doing yard work and didn't have his phone out there with him, so I crossed my fingers that he would pick up. To my surprise, he did. I told him what had happend and he came to my rescue (I also told him to bring the camera so I could take pictures!) I called Ashley to tell her that he was coming and that I'm learning what things are ok to be super independent in and what things are not.

Lesson 1: When you are 7 months pregnant, don't try or even think to change a tire, on the side of the freeway, by yourself! I thought about it, but quickly realized how hot it is in Arizona in the middle of September!!!!

Lesson 2: Always buy road hazard when you buy tires!!! It will save you lots of $$$$ in the long run!!!

Lesson 3: Don't buy Summitomo Tires. They wear out way fast! Stick with Goodyear or Michelin!!

Funny Story...

So...first of all...I decided that Lisa is the only person who reads my blog. But that is ok.

So, Lisa:

Today, I was out for a walk and I stopped and the gas station to get some water and go to the bathroom (I know oxy moron). When I left to head back home there were these two teenage boys who were hanging out just outside of the gas station. One of them said "I'd kill myself" and I just walked by like it was none of my business...cause it wasn't right? Wrong...next he said "if I were 17 and pregnant I'd kill myself." Then I turned around, told him I was 22, and walked away. I just thought it was kind of funny that he thought I was 17. When I told Steven the story I decided to take it as a complement...because he thinks I look 5 years younger than I actually am.

I've always had people tell me I look younger than I am, and I used to hate it when I was younger, but I knew one day it wouldn't bother me at all! Haha...I guess that day has finally come - with really good timing too, cause some days I feel really old and tired!

Well...Steven is supposed to be rubbing my feet now...so I better get off to take advantage of that while I can!!!

Profile Shots

As promised, here are some profile pictures! Thanks to my rice cooker, I can make dinner and blog at the same time!!! YAY!!!!!!

This one was a long time ago...I was only 16 weeks.

Camouflaged Belly at 29 weeks

Here you go...here's a good shot! This is also 29 weeks.

So I have a friend who lives in Wisconsin who asked me if I had a huge belly yet? I don't know if it is. Steven said that it's huge, but I don't know? What do you think? Haha...don't worry, you won't hurt my feelings!

I know...It's been forever!!

The other day Steven and I were talking and he said something really funny! Well funny to me.

So...I decided that I don't have to have kids to have a section of funny things that they said. My husband says enough funny things that he can have his own column. So...we were talking about tri-athelons and he was talking about the different events in and IronMan. And Steven said that Bikeling (bicycling) was one of the events.

Ok...so I'll admit...it doesn's sound as funny now as it did before. So, maybe, I won't start a column for him.

My mom requested a profile shot of my belly. I've been avoiding posting any on here, but I guess I'll give in...so in a couple of days I'll get one on here.

Venting...

FYI...some people don't want your advise about pregnancy, babies and everything else that goes with it. So unless the person who is pregnant brings up the subject, please be content with just asking how they are feeling and leaving it at that. And if you just can't keep the comments to yourself don't talk about it in front of everyone. One persons comments at a time please. Most people don't care or agree with your opinions anyway. Just because it worked for you and your children, doesn't mean that it will work for everyone else. Last time I checked every woman is different. So give it a rest. And remember that you are not a doctor...I have a doctor...and if I have questions I will ask her!

BTW...I don't think this applies entirely to anyone who reads my blog...but you can still take it for what it's worth.

This one's for Lisa!

Lisa has been driving me crazy trying to get me to make another post since the day after my last one. So I guess I can do it now...

I guess things have been somewhat more interesting than normal around here. Last week we had my sisters 4 children, ranging in age from 13 months-9 years. They were here from Aug. 2 - Aug. 6. Luckily, for me, Steven was here to help with them the whole time. It was kind of nice cause we took turns waking up with the baby in the night and then waking up with the kids in the morning. Steven was much nicer than I was though...cause the morning he got to sleep in I woke him up at 9:30 and when it was my turn to sleep in he let me sleep until I woke up...at 10:30ish? We spent a lot of time with Steven's family while they were here cause he has two young sisters that the kids could play with. One day we spent swimming ALL day and the next we went to Chucky Cheese and McDonald's. I think they had fun. Joanna came to pick them up Tuesday night...but didn't want to drive back home in the dark, so she spent the night and they left Wednesday morning. When she got here the kids had a total melt down and she was kind of embarrassed. I told her that it's normal for kids to do that when they go back to their parents after a long trip. I reassured her that they weren't like that at all while we had them. Needless to say it was interesting to go from being 5 months pregnant with no children...to 5 months pregnant with 4 children. I don't know if I'll ever want to do that again though. It was a lot to handle. Steven and I are glad that our children will be coming one at a time!!!!!

Because we drive a Honda Civic we had to trade cars with Joanna and Ryan so that their children, Steven and I could all fit. I guess when Joanna and Ryan were on their way home they stopped at Target to pick up some things and they had a friend who needed a jump. So they were good Samaritans and helped jump this friend's car...but this friend of theirs apparently is ignorant or something and put the cables on backwards to our battery (he had the negative terminals hooked up to the positive terminals). Which, if you did not know, only drains out both batteries and can short out both cars, frying the computers and costing thousands of dollars. He finally realized something was wrong and switched it to the proper way to jump a car. Somehow both cars started? Then on Wednesday when Steven went to work, he said that he had some trouble getting the car to start. Luckily, I bought a Mighty Mite a few years ago. A Mighty Mite is a self battery jumper. It's great for people like me who hate to ask for help! So we've been using that for a couple days now. Steven's dad also had a battery charger that we tried and it has helped some, but not enough to where we don't have to buy a new battery. So we finally get paid tomorrow (a week and a half after the incident) and will be making a trip to Auto Zone for a new battery. We are just praying that the new battery fixes the other electrical problems that have gone wrong with our car since this incident. So Steven and I are praying for a miracle that we don't have to come up with thousands of dollars to pay for a problem on our car that someone else made. I bought a new car so I wouldn't have to spend time worrying about this kind of stuff. We will never be trading cars with anyone ever again. I am grateful though that our car is at least running. I'm crossing my fingers that this experience does not ruin my car that should have been fine with tires and oil changes for the next 5 years. We'll see.

So on to another tragic story...I'm only 5 months pregnant and my feet, ankles and hands are super swollen. My hands aren't too bad...my wedding ring just doesn't fit anymore. And as far as my feet go...they barely fit into the crocs I just bought. But let me tell ya...Crocs make a world of difference on my sad swollen feet. About 2 weeks ago my feet were so swollen and throbbing that I basically cried myself to sleep. I didn't know how bad my feet could hurt just from being pregnant!

On a happier note...I will soon be getting a new ring to cover my naked finger. I have one picked out...but won't get it for about a month. It's pretty though!

And on the HAPPIEST note...Steven has next week off from work! We're super excited because he's been working A LOT of overtime so we can get ahead and actually get some nice baby things! YAY! But we are very excited to have some more time together. We're gonna totally clean up the back yard...It's super high on weed! Haha! It's so bad I think I'm finally going to order a green bin.

Ultrasound Pictures

Yesterday I had an ultrasound and got some baby pictures. The baby wasn't really cooperating so I have to have another ultrasound next week so the doctor can see the head and spine better. We were pretty excited to see the baby. Steven saw the hand right by the baby's face and just thought it was the coolest thing ever. He's really excited to be a Daddy! The baby was moving like crazy during the ultrasound too so that was kind of cool to see. It's kicks are getting stronger and stronger everyday.

This is the baby's face and arm.

Here's the baby's foot.

Profile shot...face and belly.

So...I'm totally new to whole blogging thing, but I decided to give it a try!

Steven and I are expecting our first child, but that's probably the only exciting thing going on in our lives. Our baby is due on December 10th...so right now I'm only half way there. Somedays it feels like I've been pregnant forever. Around the time I found out we were pregnant, Steven got a really good job, and I decided to quit mine. I had every intention of getting a new job, but the morning sickness set in REALLY BAD! So I didn't really try to hard to get a job and now I don't think anyone would really want to hire me anyway. Oops!

Anyway...I'm sure I'll come up with something interesting to share one of these days.

Oh yeah, really quick...we aren't going to find out the gender of our baby. We decided to go old fashion and let it be a surprise. (And I like driving everyone crazy with not finding out!)