25 weeks pregnant

Ask and you shall receive. Many of you are wanting to see what my belly looks like now that I am further along. So even though I am not completely comfortable in my own body right now, I am posting pictures of me. I am now in my 25th week and we are starting to stress about finding a doctor to deliver and see me when we move. I will be 34 weeks by then so I'm not sure how that situation will work.

Anyways, here they are....

Gabbie had to be part of the picture as well...

When I am pregnant, it is a rare day that I actually get myself all ready. I like the no maintenance approach, hence no make-up or doing anything to my hair.

Gabbie likes to push my belly button in over and over. If you notice, her hand is up my shirt trying to do the same thing here too.

Only 16 more weeks (counting this one) until Noah joins us.

Weekend of Firsts!

This last weekend Gabbie got to experience a ton of new things. Her cousins from Idaho were down for their Spring Break and we spent Thursday night and Friday with them. On Thursday, we went bowling at the alley in the basement of the Wilk on BYU campus. There were two lanes so Gabbie, her cousins Annie, Connor, Parker, and I played on the one with the bumpers. Gabs was so excited to be able to play like the big kids. We used the little bowling 'thing' (no idea what it is called) (Kyle is sitting over my head telling me its a ramp so for his sake, bowling ramp thing) then I would sit the ball down on it for her and she would push it off. At first she didn't quite know how to do it so I helped her push. Then as she had more turns she would do it herself. Sometimes she would push with her whole hand and other times she would push with only her pointer finger of both hands.

Here are her cousins Annie and Abbie and her Uncle Jake helping her on one of her turns...

Oh my goodness...What just happened?

Here I am helping her get the hang of things...

As soon as she pushed the ball off the ramp, she would step back a few steps and clap her hands together. As she was clapping, she would turn her head to make sure someone was paying attention and telling her she did a good job.

Gabs with Uncle Jake...Can you tell by ther face that she was a little overwhelmed with all the noise and things going on around her?

On Friday, Grandma Christensen took all the girls out for a day of pampering. We went to MATC where Kyle's sister Marta is a cosmetology student. Abbie and Annie got a make-up and hair makeover while the mommies got pedicures. Aunt Marta tried to paint Gabbie's fingernails but she was not having it. We tried over and over to get her to do it but the only person she would let touch her with nail polish was me. So as Grandma Christensen held her, I painted her fingernails (not very well I might add) bright pink to match Grandma's toes.

Aunt Meshelle, Me, and Gabbie

All three of the Mommies...

Another new thing from the weekend was a kite. Gabbie absolutely loves Elmo. She gets so excited every time Elmo's World comes on when we are watching Sesame Street. Even though it drives me nuts, I think Elmo is super annoying, she watches it almost every day. When Kyle was out on a boy's outing with his brother and dad, he picked up a kite for Gabbie at Walmart. It was Elmo and she totally freaked out. We were trying to take a nap when he showed it to her and she stayed awake for 30 minutes after because she just wanted Elmo. Although there was not enough wind, ask Kyle who told him that exact thing, we ventured outside to play.

Putting the kite away after the attempt to fly it was a bust...

Gabbie had to come over and touch Elmo.

What a fun weekend we had. Hope everyone got to some things with their loved ones that were memorable.

Playing at the Dinosaur Museum

We took another trip to the Dinosaur Museum on one of those really cold nights when we had nothing planned and just wanted to get out. Gabbie really liked going this time because she was able to get out and walk around. She loved trying to touch all the exhibits but luckily most of them were out of her reach. Instead, she just contented herself with holding on to the signs and looking at the pictures of the animals the bones represent.

I think this was a Sabre tooth Tiger. When we walked into this room and she saw it, she started freaking out and saying 'oooooh'. If you enlarge the picture, you can see her pointing out the animal in the picture.

walking through the dinosaur bones with Daddy...

There was a dinosaur statue on the floor that we were trying to get Gabs to sit on and take a picture. She wanted nothing to do with it though. I even got down on the floor to try and entice her to come over but that didn't work.

Here she is running away from it...

'Um, Dad I don't think so..."

This time we stopped in the sand room and let Gabs play at the erosion table. She didn't really know what to make of it.

I think Kyle had more fun than her. He was adding on to this dinosaur island another kid made at some point. Then he would make the dinosaurs climb up the mountain and go towards Gabbie.

Maybe next time she will be more interested in this. She did like sticking her little hands in the water though. She's just not too sure about sand, maybe that has something to do with her eating it last summer when we were camping at Bear Lake with the Christensens or at Smith Mountain Lake with the Campbells.

Before we let her out of the stroller to walk she kept looking at us like she was super bored.

I love how Kyle is always trying to teach our daughter something. He is forever talking to her and she just sits there staring at him and listening to him. They have such a wonderful relationship. He is an amazing father.

We love our Thanksgiving Point membership. The Gardens open on Saturday and we will be there all the time. It's a good place to walk around and ponder on the beauty of the Earth that Heavenly Father created for us. It really makes me appreciate the opportunity I have to live here in Utah at this time.

Post For Aydan!

So this post has been a long time coming. I have not really been motivated to create any new blogs in awhile so today I finally sat down and made myself do one. This post is special for my sisters son Aydan. He loves monster trucks. In fact, the first time Kyle ever met him was at Christmas time 3 years ago and he was playing with his miniature monster truck. He was driving it off the table and his mom, my sister Jackie, asked him to stop because he would break the floor and he responded: "No ie not." Nothing was going to tear him away from his truck. That is one of our fondest memories of him.

Aydan, here are some of the monster trucks that were in the show we went to. We were actually at the show on the same night you and your family went to one in Virginia. That's pretty cool, huh?

Here is your Cousin Gabbie, Uncle Kyle, and Uncle Kyle's Mom.

Cousin Gabbie and Aunt Christy waiting for the show to start...Gabbie has her earplugs in ready for the show.

Here is Cousin Gabbie with her Uncle Jake, your Uncle Kyle's brother.

Uncle Kyle, Aunt Christy, Cousin Gabbie playing with the camera.

Now to the part of the post that you are probably most intersted in. Uncle Kyle's Cousin drives one of the monster trucks. This is his truck called Maximum Destruction. He won one of the events that night so it was really fun to see that.

Another of the trucks doing a sweet trick over the big hill.

This is Kyle's cousin jumping over the cars. He actually one this event, where he jumped the highest/farthest or something like that (I didn't really know much of what was going on. I'm sure you could have explained it to me though).

And finally trying to put those earplugs back in Gabbie's ears because they would not stay. She really liked it but the noise scared her a little bit. How about you? Were you scared?

Aydan we sure miss you. Watching all the monster trucks really reminded us of you and made us miss you. We can't wait to see you again. Be a good boy and help your mom as she is getting ready for a new baby in the family.