30 Weeks!

It's hard to believe that I'm 30 weeks along already! I'm starting to get a lot of anxiety about giving birth, but I guess that's normal, right? I feel like there is still so much I need to get ready! I've been making these little hats and booties for her. I plan on making a lot more booties in a lot more colors. That way she'll have some to match all her outfits :)

And here is a pic of me. Some people have been requesting to see the bump, so here ya go!

Good bye my love!

So we did it. We bit the bullet and traded in our beautiful Infinity M35X this past weekend. We're both pretty sad about it.
When Spencer initially got it, he was a manager with Platinum and they were giving him a car allowance. Half way through the summer, we were informed that if Spencer's office didn't hit certain sales numbers, the allowance they had been giving us would be an advance. So we pretty much got the car with the expectation that the company was going to pay for it.
We got the car when the economy was great. Since it's gone down so much over the last year, so has the value of our car.
We decided to cut our loses and trade it in for a 2004 Honda Accord. It was a long afternoon and evening, and I'll be honest, it ended in a few tears.
(it's not hard to make a pregnant girl cry when you've been at a car dealership for 5 hours with no food, talking numbers and the amount of money you are losing)
but we feel like we did the right thing!
Just thought I'd let ya'll know about our big decision this last weekend!

Labor Day weekend

For Labor day weekend, this guy that my mom has been dating offered to take us all down to Flamming Gorge in his RV. Those of you who know Karen, are probably like, "Karen, going out camping in an RV? What?" Ha ha! But it was good for her and we really like this guy she's been dating. So if you see her, tell her how much fun it looks like we're having on this trip. And say "wow, he must be a really great guy if he wants to load your whole family up and take you on this trip!"
Spencer couldn't come cuz he had to work. We're sad about that, but we still had a lot of fun!

This is us going down the Green River (above: me and my mom, Karen. Below: my sister, Alyson, and her husband, Andy.)

We went to the Mountain man Rendezvous, That was pretty interesting! We decided to get some pics with some of the die-hard's! (we didn't get any with the guys in loin cloths, they were a little too authentic. -- if you know what I mean.)

This is Alyson overlooking Flamming Gorge. She'd be mad if she knew I put the bottom picture in, cuz it was supposed to be a joke. But she doesn't read my blog and I thought the rest of you would get a kick out of it!
This is me at the Flamming Gorge lookout. Some of you have been requesting some pictures of my belly. Honestly, you can't really tell. I feel like I'm just getting really beefy. But you decide. Here, I am 21 weeks.

I accidentally put these pictures in. It wouldn't let me erase them. So I just made them really small :)

This is, sort of, a profile shot. Can you tell I'm pregnant in this one?

Drum roll please....

It's a girl! I'm so excited! When I found out I was pregnant, I made a cute little purple hat with a flower on it and little purple booties to match. About three weeks ago, I realized that I better prepare myself in case it was a boy. So I made a little boy beanie.

Not that I would be sad of it was a boy. I was just so convinced that it was a girl. Plus, almost everyone thought it would be a girl (except Spencer and our brother-in-law, Andy)

So now it's official! We're gonna have a little girl!

We have a few name ideas, but we are open to suggestions. We'd love any ideas because we are having trouble agreeing on anything.

What do you think?

Wow it's been a while since I posted anything! Probably because it's been a crazy month! I flew home from Dallas on the 5th (in case some of you didn't know, we moved to Dallas at the beginning of July cuz sales were not good in New Jersey). However, for some reason, sales were not good in Dallas either. I flew home early because I had a wedding video job that weekend and also, one of my best friends was getting married.
Spencer was planning on staying in Dallas until school started on the 24th. But since sales were not going very well, we decided that it would be better for our family if Spencer left early and got a full time job in Logan before all the other college kids come back and there would be more competition for jobs up here.
So the day after I flew home, Spencer packed everyting up and drove home. Poor thing! He drove all 20 hours by himself. He only stopped for a couple hours to sleep in a parking lot in Parachute, Colorado. I told him that's how people get murdered by truck drivers, but he was adimate that he didn't want to spend $50 to stay for a few hours in a hotel.
Since we've been home, we've been busy moving into our apartment and looking for jobs. Luckily, the job search has gone pretty well and we've been able to spend some time playing, too! we've been able to spend a lot of time with my sister and brother-in-law, Alyson and Andy. And Andy even took Spencer out wake boarding the other day. I think Spencer is enjoying having a little bit of the summer left, since he's missed that last two and half summers!
Great news! Spencer got a grant from the government for his tuition! So all we had to pay was $90. And it will be the same next semester! This is a huge blessing!
Also, we both got full-time jobs! Spencer is going to be managing a cash loan store, and I'll working at Qwest. We are both so excited that we were able to get jobs up here only after looking for less than a week. We were nervous because some of our friends said that there were no jobs up here.
Also a plus... my job has benefits! I'm sure how it will all go down with the pregnancy, or what exactly will be covered. But it just gives us so much more peace of mind. We're also waiting to hear back from the medicaid people. Just in case my work won't cover my pregnancy because it was a pre-existing condition when I started working.
The lord is definately blessing us right now!
I thought that I would be able to get my sonogram by the end of this month to see if it will be a boy or a girl. But since we just got into town and I've never seen this doctor before, I have to wait a little longer to find out :(
So I thought it wold be fun to do a little poll....
What do you think it will be?
Write a comment to tell me what you think!

Well guess what...?!

A lot of you already know, but I thought I'd do the traditional blog post saying, I'm pregnant! I'm twelve weeks along and due on January 24th. We got to listen to the heart beat yesterday and that was fun! The doctor would find the heart beat and then she'd loose it and have to find it again. She said the baby was swimming around! I thought that was cute!
I've been doing good! For a little while I was feeling sick on-and-off throughout the day. Going into New York everyday didn't really help. I would feel sick on the bus and every ethnic food stand I would walk by would make me feel like I wanted to throw up. But I've been feeling pretty good the last couple of weeks. So that's good! I've also tried to still work out everyday. I'm planning on still teaching aerobics in the fall, so I have to at least try to stay in shape!
So we're doing good and we're very excited!

NYC

We been making trips into the city every once in a while (well I go everyday for work, but this is for fun) to do some sightseeing . This is us at the Castle in Central Park.

This is us in Times Square. My work is only a few blocks from here, so I get to see it all the time! But Spencer had never been to New York before we moved here.

The Tony Awards were happening that night. So that's what all the chairs and ropes were set up for. The reason I am diplaying my candy bar is because, just before that in the Hershey's store, I got our whole group free Hershey's bars by singing the Kit Kat jingle in front of the whole store! (I don't know who she is, but I really like the lady on the left side of Spencer)

This is cute little Bridget! My friend, Brooke Hallows, came to visit from Rochester one day and this is her little girl. We covered a lot of ground around the city that day and Bridget was so good! She was like this for quite a bit of it :)

Woops! This is Brooke, Jaime, and me in central park the day Brooke came to visit. Sorry, I forgot to switch the orientation before I uploaded it.