7 more weeks!

Sorry about not posting yesterday.  Patxi surprised me by coming home from his week long medic training a day early so all of my plans of blogging last night went out the window. 

Everything with baby is going great.  It was a pretty demanding week, so I had a few contractions here or there, but nothing as exstendsive as last fridays (see post enlittled: "8 more weeks").  My pevic bone are shifting like crazy which has been killing my lower back and turned my walk into a woddle.  I don't remember Valin starting to desend this early!  Thurdays night was pretty bad and I had to lay my top half on the coffee table to get some pressure off my back.  After a night's rest, though, I was feel fine again.  That's just something I've slowly come to grips with, the fact that my body needs to take rests every now and then.  I'm use to a go, go, go scheduale with my toddler and Valin's naptime is my busiest time.   But over the past few weeks, my body has been crying out for breaks during the day, and I just have to be sensitive enough to take them.  Being pregnant is not easy, especially with a 17 month old! 

While, I'm posting, here are some cute pictures of Valin to update you with:

Here my little twinkle toes in action:

 

My son, the Davey Crockett wanna-be.  He just looked so cute in his coon hat.

Here's a little smile.  I think he looks a lot like Patxi in this one.

Yup, that's a 4 & 1/2 year old cake

My mom, for some reason, decided to stick true to that tradition of freezing a piece of the wedding cake so that the couple can eat it on their first anniversary.  The idea totally disgusted Patxi, so we never got around to it.  Every now and then my mother would remind us of what was in her freezer, but somehow, the four plus years passed.  Finally, this last memorial day weekend, my mother put her foot down.  So, as the good pacifist that I am, I decided to eat it and finally be done with it.

here is the proof:

I really don't know what the fuss was about, it actually tasted just like cake.  I didn't even get a tummy ache or anything.  Silly Patxi.

Another freakin ear infection, big surpirse

I knew it was coming.  If his faucet of a nose and crankiness over the pass few days didn't give it away, then his fever tonight did.  When the doctor checked his last one, and it "hadn't totally cleared up," she just gave me a prescription knowing that it was just a matter of time.  Don't worry, Valin has an appointment with a Nose, Ear, and Throat specialist here in town.  But it's just frustrating waiting in the mean time.  Luckily Valin is pretty good with them now, but I still feel horrible that he gets them on an average of once every other month.  Poor kid! Well, please keep him in your prayers.  Thanks!

Seren's graduation

I just uploaded the pictures from my camera, so here come all of my posts.  sorry that it's either feast or famine here.

Here's pictures from Seren's Graduation and grad BBQ on June 5th.  We also went canoeing that day too.  

At the beginning of the ceremony, all of the graduates gave roses to their parents or loved ones.  Peni got the prettiest pink rose.

Valin is usually all smiles, but it's hard to request one from him.

It's official, Seren Graduated from High School, she has the diploma and everything. 

Seren and her best friend, Lacy, had a combination Graduation BBQ.  Here they are posing with the hats that came on their cake.

Next to Pilot Rock, there is a reservoir that damns the MacKay creek and that is where we took the canoes.

It was a little bit cold, so Valin wasn't in the best spirits.

Dennis and Peni had to take their turn on the reservoir too!

Shelbey dunked Stefka in and everyone joined them, until it got too cold.

It was great fun seeing Stefka, Petra, and Mikey who came down especially.  A celebration at the Waites is always tons of fun and loaded with food! Congradulation Seren!

Shanel's wedding

On June 10, one of my closest friends was sealed in the Portland Temple and I was fortunate enough to witness and share in the blessed event. It was great and I was so very happy for her! The best part was seeing Joe's face when he saw her for the first time in her wedding dress. It was so precious, I teared up. Joe has so much love for her, it makes me so happy to think about it. Sadly, though, Patxi wasn't able to come with me because we was drilling with his National Guard company in the deserts south of Boise. So it was a happy but sad event for me (though happiness from Shanel's happiness totally outweighed the sad). But here are some of my favorite photos from the wedding.  Shanel was stunning!

I carpooled with another one of my closest friends, Britney, who is on the right of Shanel.  We had a blast, we always do :)

8 more weeks

So I am officially 32 weeks along and the strangest thing happened this morning.  I was finishing my bowl of cereal (when I mean "I," I'm really mean Valin and I) when all of a sudden I started to get sharp pains from the general area of my lower abs.  I first thought that I could be gas, fighting its way out, but then it didn't let up and started to cover my whole stomach.  They were sharp enough, that I had to remind myself to breathe.  So, I decided to lay down on the couch and see if they (thinking that they might be contractions) would go away.  They had a wave effect, like real contractions do, but they were very sporadic, with no recognizable pattern at all.  After about 15 minutes (from the first pain) they slowed down and stopped.  I stayed on the couch for an hour and when I got up, though my stomach was a little tired, I felt fine.  I walk around with Valin outside, and did the normal things a stay-home mother does and felt okay.  Then Patxi and I thought it would be fun to walk to Dmitri's house with Valin in his stroller.  After a while the sharp pains came back, especially while we walked up the hill.  So when we got to his house, Patxi sat me inside a wheelbarrow and I rested.  It seems as soon as I would sit down, the pains went away.  So after 20 minutes, we went a shorter way home and up hill again.  I sat down and fed Valin his lunch without any pain and I haven't felt it since. 

So from this I've concluded that I'm just experiencing Bracken Hicks and should take the time to sit down whenever they come.  I didn't really get them until I was 39 weeks with Valin so that's why it took me a while to figure it out.  The crazy thing was that I was sitting, eating breakfast when they first came, I wasn't doing anything stressful or demanding on my body.  Well, I guess that's just Bracken Hicks, coming solely for the purpose of prepping your body.  I just might have to take things a little slower for at least the next 4 weeks.  We would like to have her early, because Patxi is leaving 3 days after my due date, but not too early that she might not be healthy and fully developed.  But I feel that if I just take it easy for a while, everything will be fine.  I have an OB appointment on Tuesday and will talk to my doctor about his opinion then.  But I feel fine what everything.  If the pains get anywhere close to consistent, I plan to go to the hospital, but I'll just take it easy until then.

9 More weeks!!!!!

So, not much happened this week in my prego world beside some silly things.  I'm usually a human heater when I fall a sleep, but lately I've been waking up sweaty, no matter the outside atmosphere.  Is that normal? Or even is it that a pregnancy thing?

Anyway, on to less randomly akward things...yesterday I went to the sealing on one of my best friends, Shanel Olmstead -well Shanel Shaw now. It was so fun and just wonderful to see her so happy.  She was amazingly beautiful! And as soon as I get it together, I'll post the pictures.  Beside the fact that it rained and flatten my hair, I had a great time.  I love you Shanel!

Patxi left on Wednesday to play in the desert south of Boise for gunnery training.  He won't be home until the 17th and I'm missing him so much! Especially after being at Shanel's sealing.  I love him so much and I am so lucky to be his wife. How am I going to handle a whole year without him?! The Lord only has the answer. 

I'm now in La Grande visiting Jillian and her man Standley while their up for as few days.  It's been great fun but tough to fine good hangout time.  Well we still have time this afternoon.  i wish my sisters didn't live so far away! I would hang with them all the time!

Um...well I think that does it.  Love you all!    

10 more weeks!!!!

So I've decided that I would kill two birds with one stone.  I need to start a count down so I can stay sane as I wait for the last months of my pregnancy to end, but I also want to be more frequent in my blog posting.  So now I'm going to blog my prego count down. 

Hum... well.  I have 10 more weeks and since I did an update the other day, I don't have much else to say.  Alrightly then.  Have a good day. :) 

A quick little post

I know it's been a while since I posted so I'll do a quick update.  Everything in going great as I near my 30 week marker.  I am way excited to have our baby girl join our family.  I'm excited and sad at the same time because as soon as I hold her in my arms, it seems, Patxi will deploy.  So I'm excited and yet dreading the blessed moment.  But I have faith that the Lord must have known what he was doing, so...I'll leave it as that.

Anyway, the rest of May flew by and ended with a crazy weekend with my family.  Jen and Nick came up from Utah which had us all excited.  But then my mother check into the emergency room on Saturday because of stomach pain.  After 12 hours, they finally decided that she had appendicitis and removed it in the morning.  We were all very sad, but happy to know the cause of the pain.  So we spent the rest of the weekend in and out of her hospital room.  It was still a great weekend and she is on the mend.  Keep her in your prayers, though.

Valin's got another ear infection.  I think it was my fault because we washed the car together on a breezy day.  So right now we are dealing with his sickness.  He has also started to throw fits and literally squeals like a pig if he doesn't get his way.  We have been saying "no" more often and now it's his automatic answer to every question.  He is still all smiles with hilarious facial expression, but he is just moving into a different stage (I guess...I'm figuring this out as we go along). But I think the key is to be consistent, because it's hard to learn the outcome of an action if the outcome always changes.  Plus, I need not be lazy.  It's easier just to give him what he wants to stop the crying then it is to say no and remove him from the spot or show him what is right.  It's easy to do my own thing and not spend the time to interact and give positive attention. It's hard to make him learn to be patient and not laugh at his silly fits.  But I know that if I just stick to it, he'll learn and be the kind of person his Heavenly Father wants him to be.  I think that it is easier to do things my own way, according to my own philosophy.  But it is the best way to seek and receive inspiration from the One who loves him more then I do (hard to even imagine).  For He knows truly what is best for him, not me. I just need to remember this.  Not an easy thing to do.