Baby Shower....

The baby shower was great. I got so many fun and cute things. Great food, great games, great company. Thank you so much to all of my friends who put this together for me; Aleah, Jessica, Becky and those who helped with food. I had a really awesome time. Aleah made these really cute invitations! Rexanne and Arriann (Brocks mom and sister)
Kelly, Jamie, Lisa M., Lisa P, and Becky

Frances, Dawna and Lisa

These were just some of the people that came. Thank you again everyone so much!!

I have a really funny story I have to share, so my mom called me about a week before my shower saying how sad she was that she couldn't be there but she wanted me to have a least one little thing from my own mom to open. She then asked a few times if I would have someone video tape me opening her box she and my sister sent. They made a few receiving blankets for him. She then called me again reminding me to tape it. I was thinking "wow these must be some really cool blankets." Well to my surprise, lets just say I was taken off guard a little. :)

Here I am opening and not having a clue and then I saw this....

This was the first blanket I opened. I had the back to me first so I wasn't sure what everyone was screaming and laughing about. I quick flipped it over and started cracking up. I have to say my face turned a little red too. I thought it was so funny and still do. I can totally picture my mom and Brittney laughing at the fabric store as they thought they were so funny.There is a little piece of the back, dalmation print. My mom was so nervous what people would think of her, she wants everyone to know it was just a joke. A really funny one I might add. She said "please don't you ever take this to church". I thought that was funny because as soon as I opened it at the shower I said this was my new nursing blanket for church. :)

BIG MAMA IN DA HOUSE!!

Well yes that is me! I am not proud to say it but it is true. That picture was taken at 33 weeks. I am now 34 weeks. Yeah only 6 weeks left. I am really starting to feel ready but I know I still have a little while. I just wanted everyone that is far away not to feel left out because they haven't seen my belly size!! Besides my back trouble and normal pregnacy pains, I can't complain. We are getting excited for the new little boy to join our family. Some friends are throwing me a baby shower that I am pretty excited about on Friday so I will post about that next week for all my family and friends who couldn't be there.

Happy Fathers Day!

Just wanted to wish a Happy Fathers Day to my husband, my dad and Brocks Dad. Our family is truly blessed to have such great fathers in our lives. I am very thankful for my dad and father in law. They have been great examples and role models for Brock and I. My girls are sure lucky to have 3 great men in their lives! We had a great day with Brock and tried to spoil him and give him the day off. I don't know how relaxing it really was for him, when you have 2 daughters that just want to play games and climb on him and a very pregnant wife with not much energy to do anything. But I am sure he still knows how much he is loved! The girls with their Daddy before church. I could not get a good picture so don't mind Kamdens eyes closed, she said the sun kept getting in her eyes. What do you do? I guess just close them for every picture!! :)They sure love their Daddy. Just looking at those three smile and laugh together makes me so happy. I am a very lucky woman to have them in my life.

Silly Girls!

I was looking through my pictures and found some cute random ones that I thought I would post. The first picture is of our "HOMEY G" daughter. That hat is one that Kamden decorated at school, it is just a really odd shaped hat but they both love it. :) If any of you know Brock he has a huge sweet tooth. I know he will thank me later for the picture but he loves his milkshakes. Well we know one thing and that is he passed his sweet tooth to our daughter Kamden. She will ask me at snack time if she can have JUNK! Like father like daughter. Both with their milkshakes.

Below we have the girls making silly faces. They really thought they were funny. They asked me to take some pictures! And some more faces, Gotta love Em!The next picture is my favorite, I was upstairs doing laundry and came down to my girls lying like this. I thought it was so sweet. Kamden is such a wonderful big sister.

Memorial Day Weekend!

We got to go down to Rupert to see Brocks family and go to his cousins wedding. We had a really enjoyable weekend. The girls had so much fun. They got to play with their cousins, have sleepovers with Grammy, take a jet boat ride on the snake river, ride 4 wheelers, look at a baby calf, and jump on the trampoline. Kamden loved the wedding, she has never been to a wedding before and thought it was just amazing. At the end of the night Kamden went missing, I got a little nervous but then I found her. I should have known where she was. She was front and center with the bride and groom and their parents while they were opening up their gifts. She never gets bored with weddings, baby showers, ect. Aspens highlight was probably petting the baby calf. She just sat right by it and pet the calf. She thought it was really neat that it sucked her finger. The mom cow came walking over just mooing really loudly but that didn't scare Aspen she just sat right there still petting away. She said she loved its ponytail on its bum! (Don't worry Brock and his Dad were standing right in front of Aspen in case the cow started charging) It was a great weekend spent with family.Aspen, Deagon, and Kamden jumping on the tramp. Kamden would jump all day if you let her. It will be nice when Aspen has a little more confidence to go out into the middle by herself. Aspen and Jack the dog! Brocks siblings, Skye and Arriann. The girls at the wedding. I think they look so cute in their Hawaii dresses.Cousins Dodge and Deagon with the girls at the wedding. Aspen is trying to show me she is 2 years old.

Love the Sun!

I can't remember a time that I have appreciated warm weather more that right now. This winter was way to long for me. The girls and I have been outside as much as we can the past few days. I just love the sun and so do they. They wore shorts the other day and were so excited they tried to start going outside to play before 8 in the morning. Here are just a couple of cute shots of the girls in their sunglasses. Aspen likes hers so much she even wears them in the house quite often.

Echogenic Focus

I am not sure if any of you know what this is, I didn't know until just about a month ago. I was at one of my usual doctors visits for my pregnancy when my doctor said "oh did we talk about your abnormality of your ultrasound at your last visit?" I responded NO as my heart stopped for a couple beats. What it is, is a spot that they see on the baby's heart and is a little denser tissue than normal. It is associated with down syndrom. I was trying not to cry and worry and we discussed all of my options. I went home and talked with family and friends about it as well as do some research. That made me feel a lot better. My doctor said she is not worried because it was the only thing they saw that could be associated with down syndrom in my ultrasound. Everything else looked perfect. That was a little more comforting. She said she didn't even want to bring it up because it might cause a lot of worry for nothing but she had to talk it over with me because the radiologist found it. In the reading I have done it says about 7.4% of all women at their 20 week ultrasound have this finding but less than 1% are born with a down syndrom child and that is usually the case when you are 35 or older. (When the echogenic focus is your only physical symptom) That too made me feel a lot better. I have been feeling more at peace with a lot of prayer and research. I know that if this baby boy has down syndrom or not he will be loved just the same. I am prepared to take a paper I found of all the physical signs they look for in an ultrasound to see if there were any other physical signs that were border line. I haven't decided if I am going to get another ultrasound for them to look closer or not. What would you all do?
I am posting this post only because I want to know if any of you have heard of this or dealt with this personally. Sometimes talking to people and hearing their stories help out. I know that there are a lot of cases now where they tell you something might be wrong with your baby and then they are born perfectly healthy. I do understand they have to cover themselves because people are sue happy these days. But sometimes I just think it would be so much easier not knowing any of this. Anyway if any of you have stories or advice I would love to hear it.