Lake Powell-Pregnancy update!

Well a couple weeks ago we took a trip to Lake Powell with my family! Yes, I know super daring and kinda dumb/silly of me considering I was 36 weeks pregnant and could have gone into labor there.. Ya that would have been interesting! But here I am back and safe and now 38 weeks pregnant and still no baby..Haha can you tell I am defiantly ready to meet our little man?! I can't wait to hold him and cuddle him and let's be honest I just want to stop feeling pain!! haha. Anyway back to our trip! Well the doctor cleared me a couple days before to go so we decided lets do it and we will just play it by ear and see what happens and if that means we need to go home early we will. My parents made a plan to park the houseboat pretty close to the marina just in case anything did happen we could get back quickly and get help or get home! Also the short drive would save gas so that we could keep the generator on the whole time to give me and my huge belly lots of AC!! Well we got there and the AC was broken :( I was not too happy about it but luckily September is not the hottest time to be there so I think I did pretty good. I only had one big melt down on a really hot day and it was because i didn't keep hydrated as much as I should have and didn't get in the water as often to cool down. Before we went Bren went and bought us these awesome floaties so that I could relax in the water all day since I wasn't able to do much/any boat riding. That floaty was a life saver! It was so much fun and felt so nice to just relax in the water! My parents, Trev, Kenzie, Corinne and Bren did a lot of wake-boarding waterskiing and surfing and had a lot of fun! We took a few close adventure rides on the boat so that I could come and enjoy the lake a bit with them. All together the trip was so fun and It was so nice to get away and not have to stress about work for a week. It was also nice to come home and be out of the heat and stop stressing about going into labor in Page, Arizona! Haha. Thanks again mom and dad for such a fun trip!!! We love you guys!

As for a quick pregnancy update: I am 38 weeks now and as of last week I was dilated to a 2 and 85% effaced! I have been having a lot of back and leg pain and lately cramps and small contractions! Unfortunately they are not big enough or constant enough to go in and have our little guy but i hope it's progressing! I go into the doctor in a couple days to get checked again and either hopefully the baby comes before the doctors appointment or very very shortly after! I am defiantly tired of being pregnant! haha. Don't get me wrong.. I love feeling him move around and feeling a special bond with him but I am so ready to just meet him, cuddle, kiss, and just be with him! I also can't wait to see Brendon be a daddy! He is gonna do such a great job! He has been really anxious this week especially since the doc told us most likely the baby would be hear early! He has been egging me on to do anything and everything to get this little guy to grace us with his presence! We can't wait! I will try to be patient a little longer though!! Now here are some pics from our trip! I only have one of me on the float cause that's all you need to see!! hahaha

Me Bren and Rinne floating


Dad and Harley in the boat


My dad is such a great skier! So fun to watch!


Rinne Wake-boarding


Bren and Harley hanging out


Mom, Dad, Harley


This is our beautiful view every morning! It was always this glassy!


Trev and Kenzie


Bren Wake-boarding


Picture from top of sandune everyone climbed while I floated below!!

Trip to Oregon!

A couple weeks ago Brendon and I took a last minute trip to Oregon to visit his family! It was one of the last times I could fly being pregnant and I have never been there in the summer so it worked out perfect.

We flew into Portland and ate a the yummiest seafood restaurant ever! I wish we lived by it my mouth waters just thinking about it! That night Bren and I slept over at his brother Ryan's house because Ryan was going to have a busy work week so he wasn't going to be able to come to Bend with us for the rest of the trip and we wanted to be able to spend some time with him! We surprised the kids that morning when they woke up for church and found us sleeping! It is so fun to be around those wild things! They are so cute and we wish we could see them more!

Next we drove out to Salem to Brendon's parents house and had a yummy lunch and then got ready to leave for Bend! Bend was so much fun and so beautiful! We spent the rest of the trip there swimming, eating, relaxing, doing crafts with the kids, practicing how to change a diaper and swaddle a baby with our new nephew Brady, and just a lot of playing with the kids! Sydney is such a girly girl and a little princess and Tyler is totally opposite he is such a boy! They are both so funny! Tyler gave Brendon the nickname "Monster Bren" he was "T-Rex Ty" and papa was "Pirate Papa" it was so funny.

To finish off our awesome trip Gayle and Doug surprised us with a trip up the mountain and let Brendon drive Doug's new Porche!! He was in heaven! It was such a beautiful drive and such a pretty view of the lake when we got to the restaurant! We didn't want to leave!

We just wanted to say thank you a million again to Gayle and Doug for the fun trip! They are so sweet and generous and we always have so much fun it is so hard to leave every time!! We can't wait til this Christmas when we get to bring our little guy out there for the first time!!

Pregnancy updates: I am now just about 35 weeks pregnant with just 5 weeks to go! Maybe sooner... But hopefully not too soon! We are so excited to meet our little guy but I am also nervous and need a little bit more time to prepare for him! I just had an awesome family shower and it helped me feel so much more prepared for him and I still have 3 more showers to go! I feel so spoiled! I am getting pretty uncomfortable and I have had a lot of sleepless nights! Brendon has been such a great support to help me get as comfortable as possible and cheers me up when I get to emotional!!! Thanks Bren! I owe you big time!!

Now here are a bunch of pics from our trip!!!

Bear Lake!

This summer has been filled with a lot of work and we finally were able to take a vacation to Bear Lake with my family! It was so much fun!! Our good friends have a cabin there so we went and stayed there during Rasberry Days.

We did some boating in the mornings and the boys and Corinne had some great water to wakeboard and ski! I of course am not able to do any of that so I just curled up in the boat and relaxed! During the afternoons we had some rainy weather so we just played games and ate a lot of yummy food. Brendon dominated in 5 Crowns and Speed Uno and loved every minute of it :)

Since Rasberry Days was going on the town had a lot of activities going on. We went and looked at the booths had fresh rasberry shakes and also went to a rodeo. After the rodeo they put on a firework show and lets just say it was the worst show ever! Haha in lasted like five minutes and the finale had all of the little small fireworks nothing big at all it was kinda random but still fun!

As for me I hit my 30 week mark while we were there and I just can't believe I have 10 weeks left! It seems like I was just barely 10 weeks pregnant! I am getting pretty uncomfortable and I am definatly ready to be done with the pregnant part but I am also super nervous to have our little guy here too! It's going to be so fun but such a change and a learning experience for both me and Brendon. Bren has been super great and so patient with me and all of my aches and pains! He is very protective and always is checking on me to see how I am feeling and what he can do for me. I am so greatful for him he will be such a great daddy!

Anyway sorry this is so long I am not great about keeping up on this blogging thing so it's always overload! Here are a couple pictures from our trip!!

Brendon driving the boat:


Okay I am only putting this up because you can't see my face and so you can see how big my tummy is getting!


Nick Korbin and Vince Tubing


Rinne and Katie


My parents Kayaking

Great Grandma Rainey

I just wanted to do a littl post in memory of my sweet Great Grandma Jeanne Rainey. She passed away this past sunday after a long fulfilled life of 92 years!

We have been living in her house since February when she went to live in an assisted living home and we have been so blessed to be here. It's such a great house with so many fun memories.

A couple weeks ago I went over to her assisted living home on my day off and gave her a facial and it was such a fun experience to visit with her and make her feel good in her last days. I am glad that I went and did it even though I had a busy schedule! Even with her old age she had such a good memory and told me all about the different births she had with her kids while she was hearing about our little guy on the way. She was such a sweet woman and will truly be missed by her big family! It is so reassuring to know that her husband my great grandpa Woody was there to meet her to start their eternity together!

Baby Boy!

Well it's official, I am already a slacker with our blog! I will try to be better at the updates but life is busy!

A couple weeks ago now we went to our official ultra sound and found out it is defiantly a boy! No question about it! It was so fun to see him again in the ultra sound. This time he was fast asleep though and it took the tech a long time to get him to separate his legs and show us what we wanted to see! Already stubborn and a sleepy boy like his daddy!

Shortly after that I was able to finally feel him move! I was having a super long and tiring day at work and since I have been pregnant I have been really good about not drinking caffeine which Diet Coke was my favorite so it wasn't easy at first. Anyway the doctor told us recently it was okay in moderation so on my long day Brendon surprised me with one and it woke our little man up quickly!! It is such a neat experience to feel him squirm and roll around in my tummy.

We went to Lake Powell this last week with my family for a couple days and the boat rides defiantly woke him up and got him moving. So far it's been only me that can feel him. Nothing strong enough yet for Brendon to feel and I can't wait until he can experience the feeling with me.

As for the rest of life for us we are still just keeping busy! Our short trip to Lake Powell was so great to just get away from life and relax even though the weather didn't quite agree with us this time around! It was just us, my parents, Nick, Corinne, Harley and my Grandma/pa Crump. Sherm was a blast to be around and always kept us laughing at his little jokes. I wish we didn't have to come home but now it's back to real life tomorrow! My job is pretty tiring but we are so blessed to have it!!

Well to wrap it up today here are some pictures of our little "Chauncy" (This is the nickname we have given him until we decide on a name!) They are kind of hard to tell and a little blurry but so cute!

Here it goes!!!

Here it is! My first blog post! You will have to bear with me because honestly I am not very good at this type of stuff!! We decided we wanted to start a blog because our lives just got exciting!! We are having a baby!!!!

I am a little over 18 weeks right now so almost halfway there and that makes me even more excited! And scared... haha. At 15 weeks we went in for a regular doctor appointment and found out they needed to get an ultrasound to check some stuff out so while they were at it of course I got super emotional because seeing your baby for the first time is just about the best thing ever! Anyway I asked the technician to tell us what we were having and even though it was kind of early she told us "Well it looks like your baby has a third leg.... haha" In other words: we are having a boy! We are so excited. We go back again next week for our 20 week ultrasound and we will do a double check to make sure it wasn't a mistake because it was so early but lets be honest how can you mess up saying it's a boy?!

Well besides our baby news we have been pretty busy! Since we got married we have been living in Provo, Utah while Brendon went to school at UVU majoring in Construction Management. While he was going to school he was also Interning for Okland Construction in SLC on the City Creek project. I have been working for American Laser Centers starting in Orem for almost two years now! When Bren graduated in December we decided it was about time to get out of Provo and we got the opportunity to move to SLC to live in and take care of my great grandmas house now that she is living in an assisted living home.

I was able to transfer to the SLC clinic and was made the assistant manager there which I love, and Brendon unfortunately got laid off at Okland due to some of the projects ending. He has been looking for something new and in the mean time has been such an awesome help around our house! He remodeled the bathroom and did an amazing job and he does such a great job at taking care of me and making sure I am comfortable at work and when I get home! I am so grateful for him and all he does!! Well I am sorry this first post had to be so long but now that we are up to date we should be good!!