Here are a few pictures of my belly through out the last couple of weeks, It is crazy how it has gone from a little bump to a Belly, mostly in between months 5 and 6. I am now 24 Weeks and 2 days along and there is no denying that I have a baby belly now! Its nice to get past the "chubby stage":) Paul has also been able to feel the baby move from the outside of my belly so that is pretty awesome!

Baby Face

As many of you know we found out we are having a baby GIRL three weeks ago, It was really fun to see her in the ultrasound! Everything is formed perfectly as far as we could see, so that was awesome! She still measures exact with her due date of Feb. 11, 2010! Here are a two of her first pictures :)

Here is her profile

Here is our little Goul picture, actually this is from the 3D ultrasound but the baby was really deep inside of me and it didn't work too well.

I have a few more, one of her hand and another one of her profile with her arm above her head, and of course the picture that show's she's a little girl, but I'm not going to put them on here.

We are really excited for our little girl to get here! 18 weeks left from today if I go to 40 weeks! :)

Jamin's mission farewell, Buying our first house, Fishlake, Having a baby, California and Camping, WOW!

So the title pretty much explains the other major events that have taken place this summer. After we went to New York we came home and went up north to see Jamin give his farewell talk. He's now on his mission in Mexico!

(This is horrible picture of me but a cute picture of Jamin so I'll post it)

The next major thing was that we bought a house! We have been fixing it up and trying to move everything in!

(our new house)

After we moved we went on our annual friends trip to Fish Lake and as always it was beautiful and fun to be with good friends.

(Me and Paul at the lake)

This next big thing was actually here the whole summer but was a secret until the second week in August, the secret was that we are going to have a baby! I am 16 1/2 weeks pregnant and find out what we are having on Sept 17th!

(here's me at 14 weeks)

After we announced to all the Family, We took a family trip with Paul's Family to San Diego and L.A., it was alot of fun!

(Family Pictures on the beach in Oceanside)

To cap off our summer experiences we went Camping this last weekend at Pine valley with Kevin and Charity and their cute kids, then we went to the Enterprise corn festival and bought some fresh corn! We will be eating it for the next couple of weeks I'm sure. ;) Those are pretty much all of the major things we did this summer! Its been a busy, crazy and an exciting summer!

(sitting by the camp fire)

(me and Charity)

(our cute niece and nephew posing for their mom, I think they've got this picture thing down)

part two of our eastern trip

the view from the top of the bunker hill monument in Boston

Us with Ben Franklin, who knew he was still around! (his breath was definately cryptic)

(bunker Hill Monument, yes we climbed that after walking the entire freedom trail, I was sore for days!)

(one of the many cemetarys in Boston)

(delicious Homemade icecream at christina's, my favorite was coconut butterfinger, yummy!)

Continuing on from my last post, here is what we did the rest of our trip back east. We hung out in Boston for Mothers day. The next day we went to New Hampshire and visited Paul's brother up there, we then went to Hampton, NH and saw the beach house that Paul's bro was helping fix up to live in, lucky for him! (me and Paul at David's work, the State House)

(dave looking across the ocean to England)

(me and Paul at Dave's Beach House, yes that is the ocean so close to our window)

the Atlantic Ocean

We spend the rest of our trip in Boston went to the Blue man group for our anniversary, that was fun! we walked the entire freedom trail and saw lots of historical sites.

we went to the aquarium,

We had such a awesome time on this trip!

The first of our summer adventures

So this summer has been crazy and looking back on it we have done so much and experienced so many new things. I wanted to recap on all of the big things we did this summer since I didn't post them on here.
The first major thing we did this summer was take a trip back east. We flew into Buffalo New York, then drove to Kirtland, OH and saw the temple there and the visitors center, we drove into Cleveland, OH looking for a grocery store. Who know that kirtland was so close to Cleveland!

(us in front of the Kirtland Temple)

Next we drove to Rochester, NY where we stayed while we visited Palmyra, NY and the Joseph Smith Farm and the Sacred Grove, we got to see Paul's Mission President and his wife who are the directors over the Palmyra sites, we also ran into a friend of mine from high school who was serving her mission out there. It was the first day of her transfer there, how lucky! (me and Paul at the Joseph Smith farm with the Palmyra Temple in the backround)

(Paul in the Sacred Grove)

The next day we drove back to Buffalo, NY and then we went to Niagara Falls and got to ride the maid of the mist and walk around the beautiful park! (us in right before the maid of the Mist)
The Next day we flew from Buffalo, NY into New York City. It was such a shock to go from sweet peaceful Palmyra and Niagara Falls to the hussle and bussel of New York City. With the help of a very nice subway driver who obviously sinced we were lost and stuck his head out of the subway to ask where we wanted to go, we made our way to the heart of the city and then got lost trying to find our hotel, we finally found it and then went and waited in line for tickets to a Broadway play, we saw Phantom of the Opera that night.
The next day we met up with Paul's sister and Bro in law and they showed us all around NY, they took us to a place with friets (Belgian frys), which I still crave by the way, (they put a gravy on homemade fry's with cheese that melts on them, yum!) That is where we learned that nearly nowhere in NY city takes debit or cedit cards! That was a little embarassing. We went to central park, the manhattan temple, Ground zero, a delicious hamburger place, the brooklyn bridge, Grimaldi's (the yummiest brickoven pizza!) we then went to get frozen yogurt and then we left NY at like 1 in the morning to drive to Boston.

(us in Central Park)

(us at the Manhattan Temple)

(us on the Brooklyn bridge)

Renovations!

So, as many of you know we have been moving into our house for the past three weeks now and we have painted our whole house, ripped up old linoleum, replaced door handles, cleaned out cabinets, and are about to re tile 1/3 of the house. It has been alot of work! I'm excited to see it all come together! So, along with those renovations it only seemed fair that we would have another drastic renovation, here is the picture of what we want to do.

In case you are still wondering what I mean by this, or are thinking what a stupid post! I will tell you that this will be a major life renovation and those feet definitely won't be twelve inches right off the bat (at least for my sake I hope not)! What I'm trying to say is that we are going to be parents in February!!! February 11th to be exact! This picture is how we broke the news to our parents. I saw a picture like this a while ago and always thought it was clever because it took me a few minutes to figure out. So if you are the one who posted that picture and I stole your clever idea, consider it a compliment! :) We are super excited and can't wait to find out what we are having! which should happen around the middle of September. So we will keep you posted!

Puppy Surprise

On Sunday me and Paul went to his parents house with his Brother Adam for dinner. After dinner Adam went home and to his surprise someone had tied a little Chihuahua looking dog to his front door with a bag of puppy chow. He went around to all of the neighbors to see if they knew where it came from but no one had seen it before. The leash was from a Veterinarian office in Las Vegas, so who knows! It is the sweetest dog, Adam brought it over and it crawled on my lap and fell asleep. Seriously so cute! Here's a picture.



Today Adam came over again and Paul introduced it to the Kitty, I guess they got along well... ha ha I love how you can tell how the kitty wants to make a break for it in this picture. Who knows maybe they will be a future Milo and Otis... :)