All Things Baby! 32/33 weeks

32 Weeks!

 We've made it to 32 weeks! Well actually today I'm 33 weeks but this picture was taken last week. Pregnancy is still going pretty good. Although I will say this is probably my very very least fav of the 3.  I'm OK baby wise. While I am getting into the suuuuper tired phase of 3rd trimester I'm not too uncomfortable yet, can still breathe, still sleeping sort of ok, but it's these dang varicose vein things that I'm not too happy with. uggg! I was diagnosed with varicose veins pretty much everywhere from the waist down.

 (possible TMI. it depends on your TMI tolerance. You've been warned!)I have them pretty bad on my legs, mostly my right (pretty picture huh?) but the worst part is I have one in my right round ligament (the ligaments that hold up the baby belly) which makes it SOOOO hard to walk because it makes for a giant painful lump right where my leg meets my body. At first by the look of it my doc thought I might have a hernia. yay! But then she said it didn't feel like one and with my legs it seemed like the best diagnosis. I also have general vulvar varicose veins (umm...that means everywhere "down there") Honestly, maybe it's because I'm hyped up on pain meds during recovery, but it hurts worse than getting over HAVING a baby. every day. for the last month and a half (and for the next month and a half) and I have a pretty darn high pain tolerance too! Poor C doesn't understand. He just wants me to play with him and run around like I used to but all I can really do is sit. Running is not even close to an option. So cross your fingers for me that they release me form my nursery calling sometime soon (yes I have talked to them, like over a month ago) I totally get that they are  busy and have a million callings to worry about because our primary is HUGE, but this combined with my giant tiredness=I don't really want to go to church to babysit anymore. Plus I'm pretty useless there anyway since I can't move. Ok end of my complaining. I know there are way worse things that you can have during pregnancy. But this is the worst I personally have had. And it makes me really ready to be DONE. Plus I'm getting excited to meet his little dude!

But in other happier baby news, I had a follow up ultrasound from our crazy 20 week ultrasound. "What crazy ultrasound?" you ask. If you missed it you can catch up here. Everything looked GREAT. His cyst in his brain has disappeared, his kidney is still slightly enlarged. (It's down to 1cm (I think that's the measurement unit....) and they like it to be down to .8 or something by now so they'll just do an ultrasound on him a few days after he's born to see what's going on. And his umbilical cord is not hindering blood flow or growth. He was measuring about 10 days behind but with my last 2 pregnancies I was ALWAYS like 2 weeks behind. because we are small. and I don't make giant amazon babies. so nobody is worried and he's still in the 20%ile.

And last but not least we bought a MINIVAN! It's a 2005 ford Freestar if that means anything to you and we found it on KSL. Conner was really worried that we were getting a "Mini"van because we aren't mini people (little does he know! haha!) but then he saw how big it is and got WAY excited. The kids played in it for like 45 min when we brought it home. I haven't driven it a ton since it's not even registered to us and insured yet it's so new but I'm sure I'll love it. I hear that once you go van you won't go back with kids. Glad I'm not too cool to drive one of these because if something can make my life easier I'm all over it!

and that's all!

Life after Taxes

Since April 15th life as we know it has been back to normal. No more crazy working hours for daddy, no more (well slightly less) crazy mamma
so without further ado, here are a million pictures of what we have been up to for the past few weeks!

Conner got a swing set for his birthday and the Thursday after the 15th, so the 17, we finally  set it up! Conner had lots of fun helping daddy! We thought he would help for maybe 30 mi  and get bored but he stuck it out for the whole 4 hours (probably adding at least an hour and a half of helpfulness!)



if you look closely Rusty kept a nasty mustache from his non-shaving last week of craziness. yuck. good thing that didn't last long!

Easter

One of the major things on my Honey do list was paint my bedroom!  As manyof you know I HATE white walls. Hate em hate em hate em. And as you know my whole house was white when we moved In. I have never really decorated my bedroom because I was waiting to  paint. I just never knew that it would take almost 3 years to do it! I was actually planning on making painting a tax season project to keep me company those long lonely nights after kiddos went to bed, but then I found out I was pregnant and , well, that was no longer such a great idea. So I waited and waited and about 2 weeks ago we got it done! Well almost. We did the main bedroom and the bathroom but we have a little office thing connected that we're hoping to get done sometime soon. I haven't had time to put it all back together yet so I'll post after pics soon! or someday at least. can't really promise soon...

Our yearly zoo expedition. We went on Friday May 2.

 

 

 

Then the next day after the zoo I threw a baby shower for my good friend in my ward. She was so kind to wait until about 16 hours after the shower to have her baby! (3 weeks early I might add. I'm not a last minute shower thrower)

I can't take credit for this cuteness. Her mom did it. but I had to share!

this one is for my mom. Sophie got 2 Easter dresses because I couldn't decide so here is her in her other one. And this is Conner being Johnny Cache.

And that has been our busy month! Lots of fun things (well busy if not all fun :) )

28's all around

This last week was the week of 28's! On Friday April 11 my baby turned 28 weeks old in my big old belly. We're getting closer!!

 28 weeks preggo=the glucose test, the orange (or red if you are my sister living in Vegas) drink thing...which I haven't heard back from yet. let's hope I passed! I had to do the 3 hour with Sophie and that was no good. Lots of people cry about it when they have to take it, and yeah I don't love it, but it's not THAT bad. But I am glad it's done with :) Everything else is going pretty good. I've developed lovely comfy varicose veins...pretty much everywhere you can get varicose veins this time around which is really nice. Makes it kind of hard (well harder than a normal pregnancy ;) ) to walk/stand and pick anything heavier than Sophie up. But good news! It should all go away after I deliver! only 2 1/2 more months of no walking!! That should be pretty easy right? at least maxi dresses are in  so nobody has to ever see my legs! Also at 28 weeks this lil babe has zero prospects for a name. Suggestions are welcome! Because we've got nothin! Well, nothin that doesn't get vetoed by daddy that Is...

Then the next day I myself the Mom turned 28 years old!

On Friday, the day before, Rusty's mom and sis came down and we went to lunch (mmmm cafe rio) and got me a pair of lamps for my bedroom, since, ya know, for the last almost 8 years we have only had one  and it was the one I had growing up. Thanks for coming down girls! It was SO nice! Then on the big day (the next day) since not only do I have a tax season b-day, it just happens to be 3 days before THE deadline so there is no chance I can ever have a husband on it (except next year it's on a Sunday! so maybe then!) My largely pregnant self may or may not have cried at the thought of spending it all alone so my lovely nice wonderful daddy drove up to Layton from Orem and picked me and the kiddos up (so that we didn't have to drive separately home when Rusty met up with us in Orem) and we party hardied at my parents and spent the weekend. It was fantastic!! Thanks mom and daddy for giving me my birthday!



That's a lot of candles on that cake!

and apparently 28 candles makes a LOT of smoke.