7 Peaks @ 8 Months

Today was a blast! Ryan dragged me to 7 Peaks for a day of fun in the sun. Buying a maternity swimsuit was not a fun experience. It's hard buying a swimsuit with a regular body, it's very taxing to buy one when your body has been taken over by a baby. So needless to say my attitude at the beginning of the day was not pleasant. Lucky for me I have a husband who ignores my moodiness and just goes about life with a smile on his face.

After getting there I had so much fun, even though I couldn't do anything except the lazy river and the wave pool. It was fun being outside in the shady trees people watching and being the unofficial official photographer of the boys' fun. I am seriously so grateful for my husband who pushes me to do things that take me out of my comfort-zone.

We met up with Ryan's brother Mark, and his roommate Parker. The boys had so much fun together and I loved capturing it on my camera. So without further ado here is a photo-dump of all our fun.

"I love me some husband" Ryan commented. 

What a stud! 

Playing with the zoom on our new camera. 

The boys at the starting line. Mark is so ready to win.....

Too bad he lagged behind. 

It was a close finish but Parker won by a hair. (not a mustache) 

Mark's faces all started to look the same...but they still had me laughing. 

See what I mean about Mark's faces. 

These boys have so much fun together. All the other little kids were doing the two-man waddle with their tubes so Mark & Ryan decided that would be the best way to carry their tube too. Too bad they are a tad bit bigger than the 10 year olds. 

I ended the day with no sunburn (BOOYA!) and a smile. I love me some husband! 

Father's Day Weekend 2013

I took photography in high school and absolutely loved it. I have a weakness for photos (just like my Mom) when I told Ryan I wanted to get professional pictures with our baby (not as many as Mom did...she took me every month for the first 1.5 years of my life) he decided it would be cheaper to buy our own nice camera so we could do higher quality pictures ourselves.

We decided to start saving and maybe we'd have the money by the time we moved out to Notre Dame. We also decided to give the Woodbury's back the truck that they gave us for a wedding gift. The truck has been through it all with Ryan. High School til now but seeing how it would cost more to transport the truck out to Indiana then the truck is worth we decided to part with it.  The Woodburys are very generous people and decided that they'd trade us a new camera for the truck. That my friends is how we got our new camera which we love!

Here are some of the first pictures we've taken with it. Ryan is having so much fun learning all about ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperture. I am also benefiting from doing a quick review on them. I don't mean to brag but I'm pretty excited with how these pictures have turned out.

 For Father's Day we spent Saturday at the Woodbury's having a good ole fashion BBQ & Lasso Golf. Fun stuff.

For actual Father's Day Sunday we got to skype with Marie in the Philippines. She told us 5pm Utah time so we were logged on the computer waiting at 4:30. She finally logged in at 6pm. She had forgotten about daylight savings. The hour and a half wait was worth it. Man I love my sister. It was so much fun. Marie has changed a lot yet at the same time she is exactly the same.

She was amazed at how big I was and wasn't afraid to tell me. Good thing I love her.

Look at this studly father to be.  

After skpying with Marie we went up to Grandma Davidsons to chill on the back porch with family. Ryan got the Father's Day song & dance so that means he is officially in the Fathers club even if his little man-cub isn't here yet. 

Monday after Father's Day we traveled down to St. George with my dad to visit Jill & the girls and see Mary Poppins at Tuacahn. It was marvelous as always but oh my HECK it was HOT!!!! I broke down and had bought a frozen lemonade halfway through the show just to get some relief. I was dying. 

Look at this SWEET Welcome sign Kela made us. 

We took up a whole row! 

My dad is busy working on his condo this month so we dropped him off in Beaver on our way back to Salt Lake. He recently bought himself a father's day gift of this on-road/off-road dirt bike. He let me take it for a quick spin ;) 

I've accepted the fact that this summer is going to be super lame due to this baby coming. ;) I'm either too close to my due date to go anywhere (Jackson Hole) or my baby will be too small to go anywhere (Lake Powell). I am so glad we got a little mini-vacation down to St. George to visit family and see Mary Poppins. It will be my only trip this summer. 

All my complaining is done in complete sarcasm. I am so grateful for this opportunity to be a mom soon. I honestly can't wait until the days when my vacations are more about watching how my children react then me relaxing and getting away. 

End of a chapter

This week has had me thinking a lot about how this point of my life is an end to one big chapter and a beginning to another.

On Thursday I closed up my classroom for the last time. Ryan came to school with me and really helped me pack up and clean up so I could leave at the end of the day with the students. It was a very emotional day for me. At the end of each school year the whole school meets out on the front lawn to say the Pledge one last time. By the end of the pledge I was teary and then my students all came up to give me hugs and say goodbye. I kept thinking this is the last group of students I might have for awhile and boy were they amazing.

I'm not planning on teaching in Indiana at least not this first year. We'll re-evaluate once we get there and settle down. Right now we have no idea what to expect with this new adventure. We don't know what our schedules will be like or our budget but we're excited to get there and figure it out.
Thus I'm closing the book of teaching for the time being.

Another big change coming up faster then I ever thought it would is the birth of our baby boy. It boggles my mind how fast these 8 months have gone. I am currently 34 weeks and since they plan on inducing me, we only have 5 more weeks before our baby comes. 5 weeks is all that is left to prepare. I feel like a huge procrastinator I feel so unprepared. We have our last echo on Tuesday. If this echo looks like all the others then we won't be having any more until baby boy is here. That blows my mind.

The last big change coming up is our grand exodus to South Bend. We have that all finalized and its crazy to me to finally have a plan. Ever since we found out that Jr. has a hole in his heart all my careful planning went out the window and we've been stuck in limbo. I thought that was tough, not being able to plan for the future but now that we have a plan it is really baffling me how close we are to so many big changes.

Most people space out the big changes in their lives, Ryan and I we just get them over with all in the same season.

Here is the tentative plan for those of you who want to know. (all of these are tentative because we're dealing with so many variables that can't be controlled)

Baby will be here July 15th-ish. I'll be induced around that day so he can get surgery later that same week.

Baby will be in the hospital until about August 15th. (we're planning on a month hopefully its shorter) Folks are more then welcome to come visit us at the ICU while we are there. Only a couple can be around his bed at a time though.

Baby will be blessed August 20th in the evening at my Dad's house.
Ryan and the boys will head out August 21st for Indiana.

Baby and I will stay behind only until he is cleared for take off. Then we'll fly out to meet Ryan and start our new adventure.

Are we crazy? I think so ;)