The joys of life

You know what I have finally realized makes life so much easier? Just going with the flow! I am such an organized person, I usually get quite miffed when my plans are ruined or rearranged. Today was a crazzzzzy day that did not go according to my planner at all:

1. Went to my ob checkup: they lost my glucose test and hematocrit results. The nurse kindly told me "it's not a big deal...we'll just do it again!" Ya, not a big deal...that stuff is sick.
2. Decided to get the H1N1 vaccine last minute. My sil Rachel told me yesterday the health department was giving them out today.....2 HOURS in line, a bunch of crying kids, and one sore shoulder later....
3. Jess's car battery died when he was on his lunch break so my super sweet kia had to come to the rescue with all its power to bail him out.
4. After class this evening I walked all the way down the hill of death to my car that was parked WAYYYY off campus to find out my keys are not in my backpack but in the computer lab WAYYYY on campus.
5. Sore hips, pinched sciatic nerve, and a pregnancy waddle to add to the mix.

BUT life is good. I am home. Got a LOAD of homework to do.

P.S. The silver lining: the nurse called me back and they found my glucose/hct results and they are both normal! Wahoo!

Just a couple things.....

28-week pregnant shot. I am still feeling as good as always. I don't really like looking at these pictures, so I will refrain from commenting.

Jess and our sweet niece Payton. We love her.


Jess had a mustache contest at work where I totally thought he would win!!! BUT...I guess the other guys at his work grow a pretty mean stache, so he didn't win the 100 dollar prize. He looks so creepy. and mexican.

Update on life: Still in school, but on the bright side I am half-way done with the semester!

I don't like getting big

Ok, so to catch up with some of our August/September milestones:

We had our 2nd Anniversary on August 16th. Jess and I splurged on a new sectional because we totally deserved it for being married 2 years and all :-) I hope you like the lack of decorations on the wall...I am officially boy-cotting decorating due to my indecisive attitude. I already got sick of my pillows I made in my last post.



And even though I keep telling my husband that I really don't care for flowers...I secretly do and I was so happy when he got them for me.



Jess turned 29! Happy Birthday to Jess! We went out to Los Hermanos with a bunch of friends and then had a family party for him.





His lovely wife gave him a Braves hat and a cool preppy vest...he thought I was going to be lame and just get him a tie.



This is me at 24 weeks...I look freaking huge!!! It's disgusting actually...gaining "good" weight is a mental mind warp and I don't like it at all. On the good side though, the babe is alive a kicking (literally)and I only have 16 weeks to go (ONLY 16...how much bigger am I seriously going to get?).



We also started school about 3 weeks ago and life is already crazy! I just finished my labor and delivery rotations at the hospital and was really disgusted and not looking forward to getting all liquidy when my turn comes...gross.

BOY or GIRL?

Its a BOY! We couldn't be more excited! (Especially Dad).

There's a FIRST for Everything...

This week was full of firsts:

-My FIRST time making stuff for my house! My lovely friend Lyndsey helped me make some pillows for my living room. Although the seams and lines are not straight AT ALL, I still love them! I bought this really cute canvas material at Joann's and covered some pillow forms. Here they are:

I covered the back of the pillows with a tan color:

I also made a wall-hanging for above my fireplace. I saw this idea on HGTV where you stretch material over a frame made of 2 x 4's. Don't judge the rest of the mantel...I'm not done yet :-)

-My FIRST time being 20 weeks pregnant! We find out in one week what we are having!

-My FIRST time buying maternity clothes. They are not officially maternity shirts, but just bigger sizes. The Shade store at the mall was having a good sale! I got all these cute shirts for 10$ each.


-My FIRST time having a 2nd anniversary! I love you babe!


With all of these "firsts" I did have one HUMONGOUS LAST....my LAST day at the BYU Bookstore! "WHAT?!?" I know...crazy. It was about time to move on. It was a wonderful place to work for all of these years. I met so many wonderful people who will be my life-long friends. I love you all :-)

*Update*

This is me at 19 weeks. I finally actually believe that I have something growing inside of my body (weird). Although I haven't felt the baby kick yet, I guess everything is going well because I am getting rounder, gaining weight, and the baby's heartbeat is nice and strong! I don't know why, but I am so very anxious that things are not going to go right and there is going to be something wrong. It stresses me out so much that when I go to the doctors office my blood pressure is sky-rocket high! I have to start calming myself down before appointments, otherwise I will probably be put on bed-rest at 20 weeks..haha. We have our ultrasound in 2 weeks so I think once I see that everything is good to go, I will feel more at ease. ANYWAY, for those of you who are interested in seeing me get larger: hope you enjoy :-)


This is Jess at 19 weeks. Its been really stressful for him too...he's taken to eating for the three of us to cope.

We BEAVED it up!

Last weekend we spent some time in Beaver. Every summer the Baldwin family gets together for a reunion on the 24th of July. This year, however, there was no formal reunion planned, but we went down for the day and camped out for a night. We started out the day at the Beaver parade which really is one of the funnest parades for kids. The parade participants throw out a TON of candy and the parade ends with the famous fire truck that sprays everyone with water. Later that night be got to camp and I'll be honest, the highlight was definitely roasting hot dogs and making Rolo smores (Haley and Tyler's creation). It was a fun weekend. Next year I'll be camping with a baby...weird.

Here are a couple of pics of us hanging out in our Beaver sweatshirts.