Photo A Day Challenge, Days 2 & 3

Day 2: Words

Letter from the State of Nevada. . . . .

Telling my Hubby he got the job as a Game Warden : ) PURE EXCITEMENT!!!!!

Day 3: Hands

Don't know who's hands these are. . . but I LOVE this picture : )

Photo A Day Challenge!

I saw this on my friend Whitney's blog and I love the idea, so I am going to try it!  Here go's : )

Day #1 for me. . . My view today

I've been able to spend the last 2 days with my Hubby!!!  It has been great! I love this view btw, he looks so happy and content (he's watching basketball hee hee) We celebrated Valentine's Day today because he will be working on the actual day and we won't be together.  I am so lucky, He is THE GREATEST!  He makes me laugh and he makes me want to better!!!  I love him sooooooo much!!!

Our Valentine's Dinner : )

And our Valentine's Kiss : )

baby, baBY, BABY ON THE BRAIN!!!!!!!!

UGH!!!!!  I know I can't be the only mother-to-be that has had this problem.  ALL I think about is my lil babe!!!!  I would have annoyed the crap out of everyone around me if I had actually spoken everything I had thought about my child. . . this is why I just have little conversations with myself inside my head ( yeah, it sounds kinda weird, but hey I'm saving a lot of people from being really annoyed)
What will "he" look like? ( we don't know what the sex of our baby is, but for some reason calling "it" a "he", or "him" sounds a lot better than "it", and it has just come naturally to say "he" or "him". . . but I still have no "motherly intuition" of what we're having )  What is his name going to be, for sure (I'm still trying to decide between a couple of names) Will he be huge, or just a little guy?  Is he going to be nice to me during delivery??? So many things running through my mind.  All I can do to stop thinking about all of that stuff is to look on the internet for baby nursery ideas, start registering for baby stuff, shopping on line for basically EVERYTHING baby, stalk all of my friends on Facebook who have children and say to myself "see the baby does eventually come out" : )  All in all, it helps, but then . . . . I have to go to bed sometime and my mind goes nuts right before I am going to sleep . . . oh gosh, it just never ends.

Any-who, here are some new pics, enjoy : )

Week 24 Belly : )

I guess my child is the size of an egg-plant now. . .

Love this for a girl. . .

And for a wee lil boy!!!

I love these painting pattern ideas : )

CAN NOT wait to get the nursery ready !!!

Ah... Christmas, you were great! : ) p.s. - can our baby just get here already?!

Well, to say the very least, we had a GREAT Christmas!!!
We got to spend Christmas Eve with our second family, The Redden's.  We hadn't seen them in a long time so it was really good to go up to Wyoming and just catch up with everyone.  Christmas morning we went out to my parent's in Wellsville.  We had a really good time opening presents and having a yummy Christmas breakfast : ) Mom and Dad spoiled us and baby!  They got us a very nice stroller/car seat combo!  And some really cute pajamas for baby : )  It got us really excited, and got me wanting our baby to just get here already!!!  We had a really fun Christmas dinner with my whole extended family.  Everyone had to bring a food item from a different country.  There was a lot of good food and lots of fun.  In my family, between all the little nieces and nephews that I have, there are 9 kids under the age of 8!  I LOVE being around all of them, and this too go me REALLY EXCITED for our little babe :) !  Monday, the day after Christmas we went to breakfast with all of my buddies from high school.  It was really good to see everybody with all of their little babies, and again I left just really wanting our little one to get here faster!!!  Then we went to a movie with the fam, it was a lot of fun!  John decided to go duck hunting after the movie so I was just lazy at home for the rest of the night, it was really nice.
I most of all just loved being with John and being with Family and Friends for Christmas.  It always helps me realize how blessed we are when the holidays come around.  I am so grateful that we always have somewhere to go to celebrate and know that we will always be with people who love and care about us!  I'm also so grateful for the opportunity to celebrate an occasion that changed the world forever, the birth of our Savior!  I know that we should celebrate this occasion everyday, but it just seems a little bit easier at this time of year.  We are so blessed for all of the many things that we have been given and for all of the tender mercies that we experience everyday and we know that it is only through our Heavenly Father and our Brother Jesus Christ that we receive any of these blessings.
I am so excited for the New Year and for all of the many adventures that lie ahead of us.  It is really crazy to think of all of the changes that are happening to us, but more exciting than anything!!!  Wahoo for new beginnings and new adventures : )

The AWESOME new stroller for baby : )

The joys of not knowing what we're getting, we get two different sets of jammies : )

Week 22 Baby Belly : )

Can anyone say. . . TERRIBLE AT BLOGGING?!?!?!?

Oh gosh, I just really suck at this... in my defense, I have been busy with other things... being pregnant (that involves a lot of "resting" and "growing baby" time), crafting (and yes, this is a priority) and lately, not because I want to SCHOOL WORK : /  I am in my last two weeks of my Medical Assisting program at BATC and that means, stress time!!!  But, I've actually done very well at keeping up on my work and am not TOO stressed.... yet, ask me how I feel next week when I have to take two final tests and do one big final pass off of all of the skills that I have learned in the past 15 months..... GAH!!!!!!   But it will all be worth it in the end, I will be done and will have learned so many great skills that will help me find a job that will help support our little family : )
The most exciting news as of lately..... my amazing husband is an official college graduate.... AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! I am soooo excited, happy, and PROUD of him!!!  I know, first hand how dang hard he as worked to get to this point so I know how happy and excited he is too!!!  Other good/crazy news, he has an interview with the state of Nevada in January!  It is for a Game Warden job.  The interview is in Vegas, but if he gets it, they could place us basically anywhere in Nevada.  Nevada wasn't our first choice of places that we would want to move for a job, but when John looked around at all oft he state websites in the Western United States, it was basically the only place hiring for the specific job that John wanted to apply for, so he took a stab at it and filled out the application, and a few weeks later got an email letting him know that he was going to be interviewed!!!  So..... we could be having a baby in Vegas..... wooo hoooo!!!!  LOL!!!  So, we get to go to Vegas for our Birthday's now : ) I love how things just seem to work out ; )
Okay, now for a baby update.  All is going well!!!  Baby is growing right on schedule and so is Mommy.  We had a 3D ultrasound yesterday and it was way cool to see our little babe!!!  We are so excited to be parents and to have such a blessing come into our lives.  Sometimes I don't feel like I deserve such a blessing, but I am so grateful that Heavenly Father is giving us such a great opportunity to learn and grow in such a big way   : )  I'm feeling Baby kick and move around A LOT!!!  I haven't been sick or anything, just really tired, which kinda sucks, cause I like to go, go, go and it is getting harder to do that without wanting to die every night when I get home.  I haven't had any weird or random cravings...if you know me, you know I LOVE FOOD, in any form, and I have always been a big eater, so having to eat a little more to give Baby nutrients has not been tough for me, not at all : ) oh yeah.... a staple in our house these days, CREAMIES!!!  If they aren't in the house..... WATCH OUT!!!  Good thing we live across the street from the grocery store, and good thing John doesn't like ice cream, so I don't have to share hahahaha!!!!!  Okay, I've blabbed enough!!! Here are some pics : )

Top pic, 18 weeks.  Bottom pic, 20 weeks : )

These are kind of hard to see.... the first two are profiles of Baby, kind of hiding his/her face.  The second one is of the back of the baby, and you can kind see his/her little bum, so cute!  And the last one is the back of Baby's head and his/her arms.

Baby Anderson, On his/her way :) Yay!!!

Well. . . We're going to be parents!!!!  We are so excited and can't wait for our baby to get here.  We know that he/she is going to change our lives forever, and only for the good!!!!!!

We've known since I was only 3 weeks along, so it has been very hard keeping it a secret.  We wanted to wait until our first ultra sound just to make sure everything was on the up and up.  My parents were shocked and said that I hid it well. . . phew, I thought I was doing terrible lol!  Our little bean is about 4 cm from head to bum (that was about two weeks ago, so it's probably a little bigger by now).  I am now almost 13 weeks along and so glad to be out of the morning sickness stage.  Although I have to say, I think I got lucky, I never threw up and I've heard of some women not being able to keep ANYTHING down.  

To say the least, John is SO EXCITED!!!!  He has wanted to be a daddy since the day I met him.  I am so excited to see him with our little one, I know he is going to be the sweetest, funnest, cutest daddy ever!!!

We aren't finding out what the sex is, so don't ask haha!  We feel like this is one of the hugest surprises that Heavenly Father has for us and personally, I hate when people ruin surprises, so . . . we don't wanna upset Heavenly Father, and spoil all of His fun hee hee ; )  We just like to keep everyone in suspense.

Here goes nothin I guess. . . I don't know that I'll ever feel 100% "ready" to be a mom (until the day our little bean comes that is) . . . but I know that we feel so blessed to be entrusted with a lovely spirit of our Heavenly Father.  We will raise him/her in His way and in His manner.  We know that all is done in the will of our Father and will take everything in stride!!!!!

Yay for so many blessings in our lives, this is by far the greatest : )

Uh. . . Randomness

Well. . . I'm terrible at blogging. . . but here are a few random pictures of some of the stuff that has been going on lately.

This was John's first day going out on his internship with the Utah Department of Fish and Game.  He was SOOOOO excited, and that is putting it mildly.  He had to be ready for the guy to pick him up at noon, so the night before he had told me that he was going to get up at about 9 or 10.  He woke up at 7 and was ready at 8 then was pacing around the house until noon.  It was the funniest thing, it reminded me of a little boy on his first day of school.  John got so antsy, that he cleaned the whole house.  It was great hahahaha!!!

I love a man in uniform ;)

This is what I woke up to at 5 am on the opening day of the bow hunt.  .  . quite the sight!!!  John didn't get an elk this year like he wanted, but he did get a nice two point that is going to feed us for a long time.  I am so proud of my man!!!

The loverly two point.

Is it so pathetic that I am so proud of myself for making stew for my hubby hahahahaha.  (And yes, that is deer meat in that stew)

Dumplings make everything better.  After eating a few bites and telling me it was really good. . . John told me it was "kinda peppery" baahahahahaha, I honestly don't remember putting a lot of pepper in the stew, but John decided we would call it "Pepper Stew" : )

I told John I wouldn't put this picture on facebook. . . so here it is on the blog, I couldn't resist.  I dropped him off at school one day and this is what he wore.  Oh how I love him!!!  I remember when we first were dating, I was always so curious to see what he would be wearing every time he picked me up for a date or something.  He definitely has a style of his own, and I LOVE IT!!!!

Other news in our lives, I got a job at a daycare working part time.  It is a lot of fun.  And I'm pretty sure it is the reason I have had an awful cough/cold and the flu all in the past 3 weeks.  Those little children are disease brewers!!!  But they are so much fun to work with and take care of.  I've been spending a lot of time with my family/by myself because John is always gone for his internship on the weekends.  It makes me appreciate the time that we are together so much more and I'm really loving spending time with the familia.  That is all for now. . . I will try to get better at this : )