School, School, and more school

Well David and I BOTH have officially started a new semester. UVU starts a week earlier than BYU but we end about the same time. We are both very excited. I personally am glad to be back even if that does mean tests, and quizzes and late night study sessions to make up for my procrastination. Although, this semester I am going to force myself to do lots better especially since I can't procrastinate with a baby due the week of finals. I still need to go talk to my professors about that. Hopefully the baby will cooperate with whatever I have to do with finals. David and I are both going to have very full schedules and much to my dismay it turns out David will still be leaving me periodically throughout the week to continue with the same kind of things he has been doing all summer, but this will only be a night a week if that.
Welcome back fall semester and season I am excited that you are here.

Pregnancy Update

Today I am exactly 24 weeks. Being pregnant is amazing.

Here are some things that I have been experiencing lately.

I can feel the baby move ALL the time

He kicks so hard David can now feel him

I get hot ALL the time and with that comes dizziness and feeling super uncomfortable

My belly is getting bigger and I love it.

I have a little bit more energy (or maybe my body is just getting use to being tired)

I still get tired pretty quick

I don't really have a lot of cravings BUT I have discovered I do have one BROWNIES, but the funny thing is once I make them and I have my one I am good for a while which leaves David to eat the rest!:D

I get really uncomfortable in the morning especially after breakfast, I don't know how to describe it, but after a little while it goes away and I am good.

I love being pregnant, it is such an amazing experience I still can't believe I have a baby growing inside me and I can feel him move. I love this! I thought I would show a little bit of how my body has been changing over the past couple of weeks

Today, at 24 weeks.


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New Purchases for the baby...

Okay so what is new with us you ask? Well let me tell you!

This past couple of weeks we have made a few more purchases. Of course, we got this awesome chair off of KSL. We have been looking for one of these chairs for a long time and they are kind of expensive everywhere else but David found this one on KSL and so we went to look and it was perfect for us. It does have a few scratches on it, but overall it is in good condition.

We have also been looking for a crib and changing table. We have been looking everywhere, but this one we found on Walmart.com it was the best deal we could find anywhere. The crib turns into a toddler bed and then a full bed. We were blessed to find this one.

We were so excited when our order came in, David went and got it and we put it together that night.The beautiful changing table

The crib and changing table put all together! YAY!! Now we just need a mattress!

We are so excited!! We can't wait until we can bring our baby boy home!

Nasty....

Okay, so I do clean my house, this is just an exception. I was cleaning out my closet to become better organized and as I was cleaning I found this....
I didn't find the spider who make this lovely piece of work (thank heavens) but I did get it all cleaned up. But this was a nice eye opener that I need to clean a little better and I will!

Marsh Lake

Our last camping trip for the summer, we got to go to Marsh Lake. I love Marsh, it is my favorite camping spot. It was definitely colder than fish lake but I loved it. We missed having the rest of the family up there. I can't wait until next year until we can go again and hopefully the rest of the family can come too.

My beautiful Marsh Lake

Little Bradley is so friendly, you have to watch him carefully. This time he wandered over to strike up conversation with the neighbors.

Bradley and Bryant

Little Lilly playing in the rocks

Our best part of camping (not really, but it did give us a good laugh)

We had been sleeping in my parents trailer but they went home Friday and we wanted to stay one more night, so David brought a tent that he thought was a 3 man tent but it turns out it was a 1 and not really meant for people over 5 foot.

Our legs were cramped all night long but it made for a good adventure!

Grandma, Bradley, and Keri coming back from the river

Byron and Lilly coming back from the river

David cutting our wood....what a good man!

We hiked around the lake and saw many fun animals

While we were hiking we found a geo cashe too

this fish had HUGE eyes

We thought it might be blind so David was throwing rocks at it to see if it would swim away

David helping Bryant down a hill (he is going to be such a great daddy)

David is such a good sport standing for my pictures

Lilly just chillin by the lake

Bryant helped Grandpa catch some fish

We had such a fun time at Marsh lake even with a small tent. Also Debbie introduced David and I to a new game....FARKLE.....SO fun!! Thanks Deb I think we might have to go buy it now!

Something I love about living in Utah....

THE SUNSETS!!!What a blessing in life to get to see something like this!

(and the colors were more vibrant than what my camera could capture but it is still beautiful)

Birthday Party Fun

Every year Grandma Smedley throws a birthday party for everyone! This year she decided to throw a swim part. As luck would have it though the party just happened to fall on a cold and rainy day. When we first arrived it was cold and not raining but as soon as David got in, it started raining. I wanted to swim so bad but I didn't have a swimsuit that fit and I didn't want to buy one for this one occasion, but it looked like so much fun. It rained for a while and every once in a while lightening would go off and (almost) everyone would get out and wait for the lightening to stop. After a while the rain stopped and it warmed up....a little....not much though. But it seemed that everyone had fun. After we had used up the pool time we headed to Grandmas house and has Hawaiian haystacks, they were delicious and grandmas blessed everyone with a present. We had some choices. For the girls: a lotion and chocolate, a table runner, or a can of dried apples. For the boys: a tie, or a tie rack. I of course got lotion and chocolate and David got a tie. Thanks Grandma Smedley for the fun birthday party.

Tiff and her beautiful baby girl!

David's FANTASTIC toe touch

All the grown ups trying to see how long they can hold their breaths

Scott Smedley won I was amazed at how long he held his breath!

Craig and Jordan...there crack-up's

Kelly trying to teach Alec how to blow bubbles and hold his breath underwater

Brunson jumping in

Brunson pleased as can be!

Doesn't this picture fit David so well!! He is so excited for our baby boy!! He is going to be a great daddy!

Blake jumpin off the diving board doing a flip and kicking the ball as he is flipping!

Very impressive!

Chase jumping off the diving board

Brunson about to get in the pool

Stephanie and he beautiful children

Waiting for the lighting to stop so they could get back in