Finally feeling pregnant...at 8 months

Sad that I'm finally feeling pregnant, well not really sad more like awesome! This week I have been SO tired! I think its a combination of Being 8 Months pregnant (today!), getting back on the school routine after a long break, and having a cold this week. Last night I went to bed at 10:30 and was as tired as ever! I pretty much have no desire to teach and especially manage a classroom full of 5 and 6 year olds all day. It's starting to get uncomfortable sitting down. Like your belly feels squished into your thighs. I was testing some kids in reading today and was sitting in one of my very small kindergarten chairs like I normally do and yeah, that doesn't work anymore so I had to find a big chair for me to sit in.

I'm feeling our little girl kick a TON now! And I love it! I especially love how excited Tyler gets. The other night she had the hiccups and was moving all over and Tyler was so worried that something was wrong haha. He's been so great and supportive during the pregnancy. I'm so lucky to have him!

When we went to California for Christmas (2 weeks ago) we got another 3D ultrasound. I was so excited to see our little girl in detail. unfortunately she was not being cooperative and was hiding her face with her hands the whole time and facing the wrong way so we only saw her backside. I was pretty bummed. But everything is looking healthy and we found out that she is a fast growing baby! She was already 4.1 lbs 2 weeks ago! She's in the 95% for weight, 97% for height and 98% for Fetal Development. So yeah, I'm getting prepared for a big baby haha.

Anyways, being pregnant is so amazing. It's so crazy to think that there is a real baby inside of me just inches away and I can't believe how soon she's going to be here. It's going by SO fast. Our big debate right now is on strollers. Does anyone have any favorites? I can't decide between getting a good travel system or a 3 wheel jogger stroller that I can put a car seat in when needed. Let me know!

Christmas 2010

This Christmas must have been one of the most dragged out Christmas's we've had. Tyler and I slept in for a while thinking we would wake up from someone coming in and saying "Get up it's Christmas!" but nope. No one came and it was already 8:30 so we decided that everyone must just be waiting for us so we got up and no one else was up! Supposedly everyone was up early with the babies but then went back to sleep. Soon everyone crept in and finally around 9:30 everyone was up so we were able to start Christmas. We started opening presents and about half way through the kids started getting fussy so we had to take an intermission and put them down for a nap so finally when they were up again we were able to finish opening presents and were done around 1:30. Perfect timing for my brother to call from his mission! Is was so great to hear him and we were able to skype with my sister Kelly and her family in Pittsburgh at the same time so we had a full family gathering. Later we had a great Christmas dinner and my cousins came over for dessert. As fun as Christmas was this year I can't wait until next year when we will have our own baby to spoil and celebrate it with!

 I went over to the tree Christmas Eve and found this gift hanging on the tree. Pretty much the cutest wrapping ever!

The family on Christmas Eve

 Christmas PJ's!

 The stockings were hung by the staircase with care?

 Christmas morning. Thanks Mom and Dad for all the great baby stuff!

 My favorite part about the morning was seeing Ethan stand up and have a bow stuck to his behind. Perfect spot! haha

 One of my favorite gifts I got was a new lens for my camera. It's made to take great portrait shots. here's one I took of Kylie. I love how the person is so crisp and the background blurry!

 One of Tyler's favorite gifts was this slimy stuff that makes fart noises. He still tries to trick me every night that he's farting in the bed with it.

A yummy Christmas snowflake pie that I made.

Pre-Christmas Fun

Man, I've been so bad at keeping up with blogging! And then when I do find the time I do like a month in one post. Hopefully I'll have more time once the baby comes? probably not but I'll probably be more motivated since I'll have something great to blog about.

Anyways, we did some fun things before Christmas including Christmas Parties and even a weekend getaway...

We had some fun family parties. Here are some pictures of The Babb Christmas party with Tyler's Dad's side of the family.

They had some fun games to play including one where you had to put on gloves, race to the other side and get a Hershey kiss, then race back and unwrap and eat it. Here's the boys playing the game and below that is Kris and I racing. I felt bad because I made Kris race me and then she got way into it and totally tripped and slid across the floor at the end! It was kind of funny though.

 

 Tyler with his brother and our adorable Nephew

They also had a great game of 4 square going on.

There's a family at my school that has the coolest house set up. A bunch of siblings built houses next to each other and they have a train that goes around all of their houses. Well they are super generous and every year they have a haunted train ride and a polar express ride open for the public. I teach a couple of the kids in the family so they invited me to go on the polar express ride. I invited Tylers family to come with us but Tyler had a final that night so he couldn't make it. I was blown away by how much work they put into it! They had lights all over and music playing and we even stopped at the north pole and saw Santa. What was really neat is the 2nd half of the train ride was all focused on Christ and they had pictures blown up of Christs life from when he was born to when he was resurrected. It really reminded me of the true reason we celebrate Christmas.

Tyler surprised me with a weekend getaway in Heber which is about a half hour up the provo canyon. He actually rented snowmobiles and I was really excited to go but then I asked my doctor if that was okay being pregnant and he said that it was probably one of the worst things I could do being 28 weeks pregnant so I was really bummed and wasn't able to go so Tyler is going to take his dad and brother instead. But we still went up to Heber and we used a free stay at the Zermot Hotel that we got from babysitting a family in our ward. It's  way cute/nice hotel that has a Swedish Theme. We went out to eat at a really nice restaurant and enjoyed relaxing and using the amenities of the hotel. I wasn't going to post this picture but it's a good belly shot to see how big my belly is getting.

We had a great Christmas Party with The Nelson Side of the family (Tyler's Mom's Side). They rented out a couple of rooms at Noah's where one room had a pool table and ping pong and they rented out a wallyball court. We had yummy food and a fun gift exchange.

As for School, Christmas is one of the crazy times of years because the kids get super hyper and excited for Christmas plus they are stuck inside most of the time due to inside recess and testing starts so I get stressed out having to get subs and pull kids out to do testing. But somehow I survived! We had a school wide performance where every grade sang a song for all the parents. Kindergarten sang "Up on the House Top". The music was too quiet so half the kids were off of the music and half were on and yeah..it was a little disastrous but I guess it's Kindergarten so it's all good. We also had a polar Express Christmas Party where the kids came in their pajamas and we watched the polar express and then pretended to go on a train ride to the north pole. We then had a class party with games and made gingerbread houses. It was really fun. I had to show the pictures of the kids on the "train ride" their faces are priceless. haha

And last but not least I have to show my 7 month belly picture. The day I took the picture it snowed a ton! So Tyler had me take a picture outside as well and I took the picture of my car to show how much it snowed.

A Turkey Filled Day

For Thanksgiving this year we went to Richfield, UT where Tylers cousins live. It's about 2 hours south of where we live. Apparently they have only been there for thanksgiving two years and it just so happens to be the two years I've been in Utah for Thanksgiving. Lucky me!

Well we had a great ride. We decided to bring the Black Friday adds to get us prepared for the next day of Black Friday shopping. That actually took me the majority of the ride over so that was a good time filler.

 In a random small town we drove by, there was actually a  flock of Wild Turkeys! Right next to the road! What are the chances of seeing that on Thanksgiving so of course I had the car pull over so I could take a picture. Tyler and I tried to get out of the car to get a picture with them but they all flew away. Who knew Turkeys could even fly?

Next the boys had to get together in 12 degree weather and play their annual "turkey bowl" football game. It actually got down to -4 degrees outside the car on the ride over but heated up to about 20 degrees that day.
Crazyness!

 Tyler and his Uncle Dave (together we have 3 Uncle Dave's!) got the honers of cutting the Turkey

We had two big tables full of people.The adult table and the kids table. You know, you'd think once you get married you wouldn't have to sit at the kids table anymore but we totally always do still because all of the kids just get older so naturally they all sit together still. Maybe we'll call our table the adult table and the other one the old fogeys table.

One of the top things that I am grateful for at the moment is having such an amazingly easy pregnancy. I haven't been sick the whole time! Well after a fun filled day with Tylers family we headed home. I realized that being pregnant and full is the worst feeling ever. I feel like I get full faster being pregnant which sucks because I wanted to eat a lot of food. Well that full filling never went away the whole ride home! When I got to bed I still had that full filling. Needless to say that night I ended up throwing up a couple of times and then I had stomach aches the whole day the next day. So I'm not sure if it was from the pregnancy or if it was something I ate but I was really bummed because now I can't say I never got sick the whole pregnancy.

Oh, I have to add a class picture. For thanksgiving I had my class make little Pilgrim and Indian outfits and we got to reenact the "First Thanksgiving" It was really cute and the kids loved it!

6 Months

Here is my 6 month pic. I feel like the last week I have grown and people might be able to notice that I'm pregnant. It's funny because I think our girl will have one week where she grows a lot and then she'll stay the same for a couple weeks and then she'll grow a lot again and then not grow at all the next couple weeks. So I've kind of been growing in spurts. I still am feeling great! There are some days when I feel "more pregnant" than other. I guess more bloated or I feel her kicking more. Time is going by so fast. Third trimester here I come!!! (next week!)

Our Baby is a........

                      GIRL!!!!!! Yay!!!!

                       
(If you look close you can see her facial features, so cute!)

When we went to California for fall break I was able to get a 3D ultra sound by a doctor that's in my home ward. He let us know the great news of us having a baby girl! And he said that everything looks great! We secretly were hoping for a girl. Tyler actually thought it was going to be a girl all along and I had no clue. It will be really fun because she will have two cousin girls within a year and a half of each other. A week later we got our regular scheduled ultra sound and the machine they used was way bad quality compared to the 3D so we were so glad we took the trip down to get the 3d Ultrasound. Our little girl was being modest for the second ultrasound for most of the time but she eventualy opened up and the other doctor also confirmed she is a girl.

We are so excited to have a little girl and spoil her and dress up in all the cute girl clothes and accessories. I was surprised that Tyler said he wanted a girl all along. I've been saying for a while that after teaching Kindergarten I can have all girls and be happy. They are little angels compared to the boys in my class. I still am doing great with my pregnancy and haven't been sick at all! I'm feeling even better than I did at the beginning and am finally starting to show just a little bit. At least I think I am and then someone will find out I'm 5 1/2 months pregnant and will be shocked and say I'm not even showing haha.  The last few weeks I've been able to feel little flutter kicks and it's so crazy to think there's a full on baby inside of me. What a miracle!

Side Note: Sorry for all the post at once. I finally had time today to upload my pictures and post about them :)

Halloween Fun!

For Halloween this year, my sister sent me a blog of the cutest Halloween costume. It was of a girl wearing a skeleton shirt with a little skeleton baby on her belly and I just had to get it. I was going to make one but then it turned out the lady that sells the vinyls lives in Utah so I was able to buy one from her! Everyone loved it!

Halloween at school was super fun (and tiring) as usual. Here's one of my cute classes dressed up.

                           

We had some friends over to celebrate Halloween. It was so fun to see everyone and their cute family outfits!

Here is some of the food selections we had for the evening...

 We played some fun games involving popping each others ghost balloons and stealing each others candy.

Here is our awesome group of friends that came. Thanks everyone for coming!!