Star Trek, car wreck and I’m cranky!

It was nice having a long weekend. Normally we’d go up to Bear Lake and go camping but that wasn’t happening this year! Although I’m sure I could go, there is no way that my pregnant butt was going camping. I have to pee every ten minutes just sitting here, and just thinking about doing that in the woods didn’t sound appealing!
I had a doctor’s appointment on Friday afternoon and everything is still all sealed up! I’ve gained the biggest chunk of weight in the last two weeks than I have my entire pregnancy. I can’t help but to drop my jaw when I see that happen! I know its all for a good cause! But its just hard sometimes seeing the scale go up. I really don’t have room to complain, I’ve only gained 16 lbs total. Anyway, the doctor said that he would be surprised if anything happened anytime soon. And hey, lets be honest, that is good news to us right now! Although we can’t wait to meet our little guy, we have to move before he comes. I would really like to be settled in before we bring him home.

Did I mention that I get cranky in the evening?! Joe is such a trooper!

We rented the movie Seven Pounds on Friday night and I thought it was an awesome movie.

On Saturday night we ordered the UFC fights and had some friends over. Just in case you didn’t know this, Joe hasn’t missed one in 3 years. Do you know what that does for my cable bill? Ha-ha. And they totally put me to sleep these days! Maybe because I’m just so tired all the time!

We slept in together on Sunday (so wonderful!) then made breakfast, then I took a two hour nap, and it was so nice! When I woke up we went for a walk on the trail. Do to the rise of water that walk didn’t last long! One part of the trail was pretty flooded but we didn’t want to stop and go back home, so we ran through it! The water was up to the middle of my calves. I can’t even begin to tell you how Diesel got through that! Poor little girlie! I do have to admit that it was pretty fun! I think Joe thinks it’s more fun to watch me hold my belly and attempt to run!

It was so nice being able to sleep in two days in a row with Joe! I usually only get one! On Monday we got up and got ready and we were on our way to go get some lunch and to go see Star Trek. On the way there, this lady stopped at a green light on Bangater Highway for a fire truck. We luckily stopped in time as to NOT hit her, but the lady behind us had other plans, and hit us which made us hit the lady in front of us. I’ve never been in a car accident until yesterday and I’m going to have to admit that I was pretty shaken up. My bumpers are a little banged up and the bumper in front of us that we hit was a little banged up too, but all in all everyone was okay. When we all got out of our cars, everyone seemed to be really worried about the 8 month pregnant woman, but hey I’m fine! I do have to admit that I thought it was pretty retarded of this one onlooker driving by. As I’m standing outside the car with the other ladies and Joe, a guy who was in the other lane stopped asked me when was due. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind people asking but hello do you not see that we just got in an accident and you are asking me when I’m due then telling me when your baby is due…hate to break it to you dude, but I don’t care. I honestly just looked at him with the “are you freaking kidding me” look.
We still went to lunch afterwards because I was starving! Then we went to see Star Trek. Not going to lie, I really, really did not want to go see that movie. I told Joe the only reason I would go was because I love him and I think the main actor is smoking hot! And guess who loved that movie…me. I would definitely go see it again!

Things are starting to come together (kind of). We meet with our new landlords on Saturday, and hopefully we can start moving in on Sunday. Champ now has bedding for his crib thanks to G-ma Lisa! (She is my boss and more of a mom/friend than anything else).

(So this is his bedding. I know you can barely see it but I love it. Very classy!)

We just got some stuff that his Grandpa Les and Mi-ma sent, and we’ll also have his car seat and stroller tomorrow that his Papa Robert sent! My dad is also putting my little sister on a plane and sending her our way. Ang will be here Wednesday night. She is coming to help us…well me…put the place together and to stay with us until Champ is born. Not to mention she gets to get away from the step-sister, so it’s like a vacation for her! And hey, we could use the help. Having Joe help unpack and put things away is like pulling teeth. We are also going to have another roomy for awhile. Being that Cory graduated from USU this year, he has been wanting to move on and out of Utah and he actually got a job in Massachusetts. He planned it out so he doesn’t leave until August because he wants to be around for Champ. So Cory will be living with us for the summer. And even though I have a hard time letting people live with us, there is no way I could say no. Joe and Cory have been best friends pretty much forever and they are going to go from seeing each other every couple weeks to a month to maybe once a year. And plus I think it’s adorable that he wants to be around Champ before he leaves! It will be nice having that extra bit of help, but you better believe it when I say I’ve set ground rules for living together! Which kind of makes me sound mean and controlling but these boys together I tell you…they will stay up all night just talking and hanging out and laughing and drinking beer and eating, and they are loud. It’s almost like having two teenage girls in the house :) But I love em!

Did I also mention that my hips are killing me? But I still love every minute of being pregnant!

So did I mention that I’m 35 weeks? Only less than 4 weeks until my due date. Holy cow batman!
So going off of what else is new in our lives since the weekend of April 25th!...
We found a house to live in. I would like to say that we are buying but we aren’t and we are completely okay with that, so don’t judge. Everything kind of happened so quickly with getting pregnant and our lease being up that we needed to be sure that we had a place lined up to bring Champ home to. We are excited. It’s super nice and pretty big, and our land-lords rock & we will buy when we are good and ready to buy.
Now that I’ve gotten that off of my chest…
We are really hoping Champ will stay in his water balloon until at least the second week of June. We are moving the first week, and as much as I love Joe and Cory, I don’t trust them to pack. Boys just can’t pack! Well at least not Joe.

Mother’s Day was a couple Sundays ago. And I was really, really homesick, not to mention physically and emotionally tired. The night before I slept like crap and didn’t really go to sleep until 4 in the morning because my back hurt so bad. That sucked like a leech on your leg! So Joe bought some Tylenol and I finally broke down and took some. That day (like every year!) we went to Spanish Fork to the God Parent’s house. They always have a BBQ that day and Kathy planned another baby shower for us. We got lots more awesome presents that once again we are super grateful for. To add to the “Champ” collection, Kathy got us these cute little socks and they say “Champ” on them. Now it’s like a fun thing to find things that say “Champ” on them, and come on, how can you not buy the stuff?! Our friend Chelsey bought us a little outfit and it says “Champ” on the butt…so cute. We found a blanket that says “Daddy’s Champ” on it and hello of course I bought that, and these little shoes that say “Champ” and Joe said we had to get them, so of course they’ve been added to the collection! Even though it’s fun to find stuff like that, I’m pretty sure we’re done! You can only have so many things with your name on it until you become weird, or become weird parents!
Anyway, when we got to Kathy & Gayle’s house we were super duper surprised to see Stacy here from Japan, who by the way has made my new favorite game to play Mexican Train Dominos. I fully intend on buying that game before I go into labor and I fully intend on taking it to the hospital with us for that slow labor everyone keeps telling me about.

So pregnancy at 35 weeks… I love being pregnant. People keep saying “I bet you’re anxious to get that baby out of you” and I look at them and say, “No not really, I like him in there and he’ll come out when he wants to.” It kind of shuts people up.
I don’t feel any bigger. The bottom of my tummy is kind of sensitive. It might be because I keep bumping it on the stupidest stuff. You don’t realize how big your belly actually grew from before you were pregnant until you can’t sit the same way at your desk at work. Sleeping hasn’t really been an issue for me. I do wake up to pee in the middle of the night, but I go right back to bed.
I get super exhausted easily. Packing is going to be a nightmare. I think that the dogs can sense that we are getting closer. Their whole attitudes changed recently. They are even more protective and neither one of them will leave my sight. If I’m on the couch they are either both sitting next to me or one next to me and one on the floor by my feet. If I’m in the kitchen they both lay there and watch me until I leave then of course follow me to where I’m going. I love our dogs and hopefully Champ will love them too.
I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow. It’s kind of crazy that I’m going to start seeing the doctor every week. Can’t believe we are already to that point. And we found out that Champ will be one of the last babies that our doctor will be delivering. He is retiring on June 30th, which is great for him, but it kind of bummed us out. We really like him.

Champ’s movements are lots harder nowadays. We definitely know where he is at in the belly. And I think it’s cool to just stare at my belly and just see him move. He has been a lot more active at bedtime these days and Joe loves it. He puts his hand on my belly when we go to bed and they poke each other back and forth, well Joe pokes and pushed on my belly and Champ either kicks or hits him back! It’s like their little playtime. I have a feeling that night time will be Daddy time! Or I can only hope!

I haven’t blogged in quite some time now.
On April 23rd Joe’s mom flew in from Texas for the weekend. We took her to the Jazz vs. Lakers game that night (like the only one they won). It was a super fun game, it totally sucks that overall we got beat out by the Lakers but it was still a fun game. Over the last couple years Joe and I have really gotten into basketball, and we love that we are so lucky to get to go to games throughout the season and we can’t wait until we can take Champ next year…we just can’t decide whose jersey to get for the little guy…wait I bet they don’t even have options for baby jerseys…needless to say as soon as we get one, everyone will know!
Being that we were at the Gateway we stopped at Gymboree to look at baby clothes and they were having a big sale. We got lots of cute stuff, but my favorite thing we got was Champ’s Halloween costume. Am I such a dork that we already have his Halloween costume? He’s going to be a little puppy dog, and he’ll look like Lola! I can’t wait for fun things like Halloween!
Anyway, the next night on our way to Idaho we stopped in Logan for Cory’s art gallery. For those of you who don’t know Cory is Joe’s BFF! He just graduated from Utah State, and he has some really cool pieces of pottery. It’s really cool to see the stuff he did when he very first started and looking at his stuff now. After that we had a fun dinner with Cory, his girlfriend, his parents and of course, me, Joe and Judie.
I love Cory’s mom. She’s such a great lady.
Ater that, we went to Twin Falls. My family threw us a baby shower that Saturday. It was fun, fun, fun!
My mom also took some pictures of us with the belly. And they turned out way better than I thought they would, way to go mom!

My sister totally out did herself. She made lots of yummy food and planned some games. So everyone knows the whole yarn around the belly bit…everyone measured their yarn and I went around from person to person, and man I must look bigger than I really am. The ONLY person who was close (actually he was right on, and won) was my brother. I don’t know about you but that just cracks me up.

Now on to presents. We got lots of cool stuff. And if you know me then you know that I’m super sensitive when it comes to my family. They can make me cry at the drop of a hat. Actually my brother can make me cry at the drop of the hat, but throw in those pregnancy emotions and I’ll cry because of a present I get! So yes I’m super grateful for ALL the presents we got but there were two things that just tugged at my heart…My sister got us this hooded towel that says “Little Champ” on it! It was the first thing that said “Champ” on it that we’ve gotten and it’s just too cute, so leave it to her to make me cry! Also my grandma got us these little blue bunny slippers. They are bunny slippers and they are blue!!!
And remember I LOVE bunnies!

Let’s not forget about the cake!

Ummm, enough said. Joe said it almost made him cry! Totally a Joe cake!

So Joe did something totally awesome while we were there. NOTHING is coming out of it but it’s the thought that counts. I have told Joe that if we ever move back to Idaho I would want to move to Twin Falls. I’ve always loved Twin since I was little. Joe snuck out and went to the Honda dealership in Twin. He talked to the service manager, and let’s just say… they couldn’t afford Joe. He was NOT looking for anything, he is just such a caring loving husband! And hell, we aren’t leaving SLC anytime soon, if ever. We love it here! Like I said it was the thought, and he did it because he loves me!

The end.