random ramble session, BEWARE!

again i am going to complain about not having internet! everytime we go to get it something comes up that delays the process!!!!!!!!!!! i think i have finally reached my breaking point, so it shouldn't be too much longer...right?.......

we are in orem yet again for another dr apt, a friends baby shower, and a friends baby blessing. i look forward to my weekend trips every month. i always wish we could stay longer once we get here. we were planning on comming up on fri night after greg got off work. well.....jax got a fun little cold and spent the night in our bed tues night. wed mor. i woke up with that same lovely cold! i thought for sure we would get over it faily quickly. so when greg came home thurs afternoon and said he got the rest of the day off we thought...what the heck lets just go to provo today! FINALLY i got a WHOLE EXTRA DAY in the big city!

when we got to provo, half of my family was sick. seeing how we usually stay with them, we all got worse and not better! i barely made it to the baby shower (TAMI: awsome job! and THANKS for let greg and i stay with you at the last min!! ) and we missed the baby blessing!. poor little jax is hacking up a lung, can't breathe, and has decided to not sleep at night! therefore daddy is starting to get sick and mommy has had a congetsion headache that is out of control! for me the worst part is with all the amazing technology out there no one can make a good cold/headache medicine for those of us that are pregers! i am sorry but tylenol does NOTHING!!!!!!!! and then there is jax who also can take NOTHING and is MISSERABLE! at least daddy can take some niquil and get sleep AND releif of cold symptoms!

WHATS NEW:

DAD: greg is getting busier as the days go! the tourist season is begining. we have a lot of tour companies that bring busses of foreigners that have dinner, stay the night, have breakfast and then leave. we have had a couple of those each week and quit a few people off the road. starting april we will have much more and it looks like there is no end in sight! we will have more and more busses and walk in's as the summer goes on. and that is why i am SO GREATFUL my parents ROCK! they are delaying their move to texas so that i can stay a few weeks before and after baby. that takes a lot of stress off of me. i will have lots of help during my recovery!!!! and greg doesn't have to worry about me and work and trying to do it all.

MOM: i am trying to take things easy. the less i try to do everything, the better i feel! i am still huge and uncomfortable but that goes with the baby territory! BABY GIRL is still an acrobat and never stops moving.....one night while trying to sleep she was going crazy. i was positioned such that the tummy was against greg. she was not stettling down so finally i asked greg if he could feel her kicking. and he says "YES and could you make her stop!! " i just laughed and said "well now you have a small tast of what i feel ALL the time plus for me it is a lot more intense then what you feel" i think he got a good glimpse into what prego's go through! and why i have such a hard time sleeping!

JAXON: he is the same old crazy, never slowing down, bundle of joy 22 month old! he is talking in more sentences and longer sentences! i am constanly amazed with how much he understands and can comprehend! for example last night at 12:30 am we thought he was going to finally going to go to bed so we all get into bed and then a few min. later i hear: i wan ta get out! mooommm, come on! i wan ta get out! refering to getting out of bed, he wanted to "play twains ustairs" he has grown another 2 inches in the last 4 months! and is getting so big! his sense of humor constantly cracks us up! especially when he says "momma i so funny!"

well that is enough of a novel for now! i am going to try and get some sleep before the bundle of joy wakes up!

26 weeks and counting

so just a quick little update on the pregnancy so far. i am constantly exhausted, constantly painfully sour, and constantly uncompfortable! i don't think chasing after a VERY ACTIVE 21 month helps the situation. not that i am complaining or anything, but this pregnancy has been quit different from the first! i am ready to have this little girl!

our last dr apt. went really well, except for the fact that i an gaining wait like there is no tomorrow! nothing like "feeling" you are fat but then to see the proof in numbers......... :( baby is strong and healthy. i have decided that she is an acrobat! she never stops moving!

since we are having a c-section again we got to pick the date. so her official delivery date and birthday will be June 18th! yea!!!!! we cant wait!

Pay it Forward

i saw this on another friends blog and LOVED the idea! what wouldn't brighten your day then to recieve something in the mail just for you that is NOT bills! hopefully we will all be more inspired to think of others through out the year. so here is the deal : the first 3 people to leave a comment on this post will receive a hand made gift from me during this year. When and what will be a surprise. There's a small catch...You knew there would be didn't you? Post this on your blog then come back and leave a comment, telling me you're in. Fun, huh? Remember, only the first 3 comments receive the gift. Let's see who looks at my blog!

what's in a name?

for some reason i feel like this little girl of ours needs a name ASAP. greg doesn't feel the same urgency as i do on the subject. the good thing is that we have both come up with a name each. we like each others name, however the problem comes with that we both want OUR name and do not want to give into the other. so i thought i would open the discussion to you all and get your opinions. so PLEASE leave us a comment on what you think.

the 2 names are:
a) maycee
b) grace

copy cat

more and more i am realizing how much we have to watch what we say with listening ears! although we have not had any "bad words" repeated (not that we say any :) ) he does repeat a lot of things that we say. his latest that jsut makes me laugh is calling me and greg by our first names. the other day greg was calling for me, all of a sudden i hear this little voice.... "mee sow, mee sow," and there is jaxon calling my name with daddy! so now he calls me momma, mom, mommy, and mee sow! later on i was calling for greg and he started calling "ga weg, ga weg" it was all i could do to not laugh! it was so cute to hear his little voice calling for greg! so "mee sow" and "ga weg" really have to watch what we say..........

Sledding

i am sure most of you have heard me complain about tropic and how there is nothing to do there. one saturday greg and i decided that we would wonder around and find something to do. as we walked around the hotel/motel property we found a sled. and it so happens that there are small to big hills right behind some of the buildings. jax loves to be pulled around on one so greg pulled him all around. well he then decided to sled down some of the hills with him, which i was grateful for because i didn't have the energy or the strength to pull jax up the hills.

they both we having a lot of fun, especially jax! well greg then got the idea to jsut let jaxon go down by himself! it was steep enough to make me worried about sending an 18 month old by himself! but what does mommy know when it comes to potentially dangerous fun things!?? well i was worried about nothing! Jax LOVED it! he FLEW down that hill! he kept asking "agen, agen!" (again, again) greg and i started splitting up the task of taking him up the hill. it didn't tak long before we were both exhausted! and we had a crying little boy the whole way home! all he wanted to do that day was sled down the hill! all and all i think it was just as much fun for us 'rents as it was for little man!

our lives as of now........

i think we finally know what we are going to be doing concerning our lives! we finally got an offer from bryce pioneer village. ( they are a hotel restaurant tourist company, the owners also owned the school greg worked at ) pay isn't exactly the best, but there are several "perks" that help to compensate. during the winter months they are closed so we will be able to travel or do what ever during that time while still getting paid, greg can take jaxon to work with him when i need help or a break, we are working on some on the side business to make more money. for example we will be doing corprate retreats and scrapbook retreats so if you are interested ;) let me know! so we will deffinatly have our hands full for the next several months, ok i should clarify GREG will have his hands full!, but it will be an adventure! plus we love the owners and have a lot of fun with them so we know we will at least have fun during all the hard work! greg really has a bad taste in his mouth for therapy after having such a bad experience so this will be a nice change for him and an opportunity to try something new. SOOOO we will be in tropic for at least another year. the good news is that we are finally getting internet!!!! YEAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

jaxon is getting more and more fun as the days go on but along with that he is getting to be more and more of a handful! he talks none stop and is making sentences with always catches me by surprise! he loves music, singing and dancing! he plays on the drumset his uncle gave him for christmas constantly and sings songs while he plays. one of his favorite parts of the day is in the morning when we have dance parties. we turn up the radio and dance! if i try to do something else he yells at me to "dance momma!" he also loves to visit daddy at work and "help" him. greg has been doing a lot of remodeling and there are tools everywhere. jaxon will pick up what ever and mimmick what ever greg is doing. he loves to hammer and use the screw driver. lately he has really become a momma's boy. he always wants me to hold him and doesn't like it when i leave anywhere without him! although it is cute and i love the new attention, i am getting to big to hold him and he is getting to heavy for me to hold him! i wonder if he can sense things are going to be changing?

as for me i am feeling great! minus the horrible heartburn every night, things have been good. luckily i mentioned it to my dr at my last visit and got a perscription for previcid!!!! i am in heaven! that medicine has been heaven sent! so speaking of my last dr apt, everything looks great with the baby! no surprise the baby is measureing 9 days bigger. my due date is june 27 but with what the baby is measuring at, they could change my due date to june 18th. since i am having another c-section it doesn't matter if we change the date so we just left the date the way it is. jaxon always measured big through out my whole pregnancy so they moved my date up and he ended up comming on my original due date. i guess i just have big babies! we also found out what we are having!!!! i am sure you all noticed that we are having a GIRL!!! i had a feeling from the begining that it was a girl. everything was different this go round so i felt it jsut had to be a girl! i will be honest we really wanted a boy. a girl kinda freaks me out, they are hormonal, sensitive, all that kinda stuff where boys are nore mischevious. i can handle the dirty mischevious boys but hormonal girls.....that is a whole other story! plus we already have EVERYTHING! for a boy. but we have a girl and we are going to have new experiences with her! plus i get to shop for a whole new wardrobe! can't complain there! truley we are excited for what ever and can't wait to meet this little girl!

all the best!