Weekend with Family and Week 12

Jolyn and her family came to Idaho for a week and our family got the weekend! It was perfect since we wouldn't have been able to come over as much during the week.

We had a busy busy weekend! We played games, we played at the soccer fields, C climbed up REALLY high on the chain link fence, we watched a silly movie, kids got naps… it was a good weekend.

Here, Gpa's playing with the marble track with the two grandkids.

We went swimming, too!

Jolyn and Todd love watching Jimmy Fallon a lot. One of the things he does is Lip Sync offs. You come with a song you are prepared to lip sync to. You mouth the words, dance to it, and then there is a winner at the end. 

This one below is the best example.

So we did it! It was a secret from everyone what our song would be until we announced it, looked it up on Spotify, and lip synced to it. 

I loved it. We were all surprised by how much fun it was. I think we'll be doing it again sometime!

This is John admiring his bride who was singing a styx song. His face is just so cute here admiring his bride. :)

I am kind of awesome. This is "Me" from Beauty and the Beast Broadway. Love this song.

J did Raining Men

So hilarious

J's Dad 

Todd's dancing is the best part of his. :)

Jolyn also brought her Jamberry nails with her. It was fun to do nails together, but I wasn't impressed by them. They're supposed to stay on for 2 weeks, but by day 2, I was dying to rip them off. I think with practice, they could be better, but since they're stickers, I didn't have many options for which sticker went on which nail. They sure are cute, though!

Mine are the mint with gold stripes.

My new week is on Sundays, so here's the beginning of Week 12! (June 22)

My adorable boy reading books

I love how he really likes sitting in his carseat when he doesn't have to. Why is that?

My friend had a baby girl and C wanted to kiss her before we left the baby shower for another friend who was having a baby soon.

Heart-melting stuff right there!

This was what I gave the mommy from the shower. I started the blanket and it became HUGE! I don't use patterns, so I had to start it over. It turned out cute… Hopefully I got a picture of the finished project on the real camera...

C started to line stuff up all the time. I loved this one.

Vacuuming. He was so proud of himself.

This is a tiny pill box upside down. I found it all situated like the deathly hallows by my cute hubby.

Pretty sure he was being a punk right before this picture… :)

11 Weeks and Father's Day

I found the tummy picture I took for this week!

Such a teeny bump!

It was this cute guy's father's day. His present from me (and definitely my mom) is his car quilt that I mentioned earlier. His cereal of choice that day was Pops for the pop. :)

J is an awesome dad. He's patient, loving, plays with C, helps him, provides so willingly for him. I'm so excited to bring another little human into this family!

We both have wonderful dads, too.

J brought home some donuts -my FAVORITE when I'm pregnant.

Mowing with Daddy.

He was mowing barefoot, so he got some green toes. :)

Gangsta boy

I love our random excursions to Olive Garden. And I think this boy does, too. 

Playing Dungeons and Dragons that weekend, I rolled a natural 20! hoorah!

10 Weeks

This is from the beginning of June at 10 weeks. 

At this point, no one thinks I'm pregnant, but I definitely could see a difference. 

After only a week of growing underground, my garden started to sprout!!! Oh man, I was soooo excited! There's just something amazing about seeds actually sprouting.

He's a cute boy.

My sweet friend, Janet, from Arkansas lives in Rexburg and her job sometimes brings her out to Nampa! She was here for a barbecue at work and invited us to join her and chat a little bit. At this point, we were telling close friends that I was pregnant, but hadn't put it on Facebook yet. So we told her we were pregnant. :)

I love this girl!

First harvest of my garden: Basil!! 

I think they're watching a soccer game from the World Cup. C loves his daddy.

A little blurry, but I love this picture.

Swimming in Gma and Gpa's FREEZING pool. Apparently the HOA in their neighborhood didn't realize the heater wasn't working for a while. Boy that was a cooooollllld pool!!

Camping!

The weekend after my mom went home, we went CAMPING!

We got a place together with two other couples and their babies. 

J, C, and I got to the campsite at about 7 (when we all planned on getting there) and set up our tent. 

 The other two couples were caravanning their way to us, so we didn't expect it to take too long. They got there at 9… So J worked on making a fire (one couple was bringing the firewood) and C and I found wood for him. When the fire was barely going, they all got there! Yay!

This is J setting up the telescope he borrowed. There were so many trees and such a bright moon that we couldn't see much especially since the telescope moved tons with the slightest touch.

Best part of this picture? The fact that he could see what he was doing and decided to make that face… goober.

The site was lovely! Lots and lots of pretty pines, a lake wayyy out there past the trees, and some pretty foliage.

The night was…. interesting… We bought C a sleeping bag for him to grow into. We had him sleep in it in his crib for a few days before the camping trip, which helped a little so he wouldn't be scared. Then I brought tons of other blankets, the cushion from our play pen, and lots of layers for pj's.

I had expected to put him down when it got dark enough. That was at about 10. (worst part of the north is late sunset in summer…) 

I put him in his bed and tried to walk away, but by the time I had walked 20 feet, he was at the tent door crying.

So I went back in, laid him down, and laid with him singing and humming. He was lulled to sleep about 30 minutes later, and I was able to sneak out.

When we got to bed at about 12:30/1, he then woke up about 5 times between that and 6 am when he decided it was time to wake up.

Ugh….

But hey, I expected the worst, so at least he didn't ruin my expectations!

Since I was the first Mom up, I got our breakfast going. We made a casserole concoction with hash browns, bacon ends, eggs, and seasonings with cheese, of course. :)

It was really yummy. 

This was our campsite view that morning. So beautiful.

Miriam, Andrew, and Salem.

Amanda, Brady, and Tessley.

Our three tents

We hung out, played games, had breakfast, cleaned up, and packed up to leave before lunch. We weren't staying there Saturday night since it's 2 hours away from home, so we headed out. This is the pretty lake. We had plans to find a park across the way to eat our hoagie sandwiches at and play.

My very tired boy fell asleep about 2 seconds onto the dirt road… :)

We found a cute park across the way and on our way home where we had lunch, let the kids play, and rested our aching bodies. :)

It was a fantastic experience. I loved it. We had taught C to point to my tummy when we asked him where the baby is, so that's how we told our friends that night. 

We drove the 2 hours home, unpacked, and showered. C got a nice little bath.

He went to bed on time and then J went to play a long game with Brady and Andrew… So at 9:45, I went to bed. The picture below is what it looked like when I decided I was too tired to stay up any longer. haha!

I'd say we need to do it again, which we do, but I don't think it's happening until after the next baby… which will be an entirely new adventure!! :)