The Plan

Scott finally has a job helping build a house in Island Park for a guy in our ward. It will be a good job and he starts next week. Then, in April Scott and I and baby are going to go back east and sell APX security systems. I am really excited to get out of Rexburg for the summer and experience a new place, plus the apartments are really nice and have a pool and a workout room! The problem is that APX starts April 13th, the day before my due date. So, here is the plan. First, we are hoping that baby comes a week early, and at the rate I am having contractions(I'll talk about those later) we think that might just happen. If, he does come early we are going to fly together back east and one of our friends is going to drive our trailor back when they leave. If baby decides to come on time or a little late, the same plan will happen, we will leave a week after he is born. I am a little scared to go somewhere I have never been with a new baby and not really knowing what I am doing, but I will be okay. I am also a little sad because I will miss the birth of both my sisters' babies and I really wanted to see the three little boys together. By time Lincoln sees his cousins he will be almost five months old!

As for contractions, I have been having them about once a week for short periods of time. Last night were the worst I have had. My stomach was really tight and crampy and the first set were really strong and painful. They lasted for an entire hour, but I wasn't too worried because each new contraction was a lot shorter and not so strong.

28 Weeks! (6 1/2 months or 7 months?, you decide)

Alright, so there has been quite the debate with how long someone is actually pregnant. Honestly it is all really confusing, but after asking my doctor and looking online, I think I have figured it out. Some people say that you are pregnant 10 months, makes sense cause you are pregnant 40 weeks. However, there are not exactly 4 weeks in a month and that is why pregnancy is so confusing. Others say you are exactly pregnant nine months and so every month on the 14th, it should be a new month for me. This would be perfectly true if there was no February month. So, the doctor says you start from the day pregnancy starts, July 7th for me. So, every month on the seventh it starts another month. I will actually be pregnant nine months and one week. If February had not fallen in my pregnancy I would be pregnant exactly nine months. Wow! Really confusing and if someone has better advice feel free to share. So, after giving you all the statistics please tell me what I am. Am I 6 1/2months or 7 months pregnant? Personally I would rather be 6 1/2 cause that means I have 2 1/2 months left rather than three. Oh, and you might notice that I wear the same clothes a lot, and yes I do. I don't have pregnant clothes yet and the one pair of pregnant pants I have fall off. I can still button up my pants and the style of clothing lets my belly have plenty of room, so I see no point in buying pregnancy clothes.

Blogspot comments

I was looking at my blog when I noticed that there were little things at the bottom that say comments. I got really excited when I realized people actually can leave me comments, haha! So I just spent time reading all the lovely comments people left me and it was really fun. You might notice comments on your blogspot, now that I have figured out the comment thing. Wow, this is a really pointless post but I am really happy-yes, very pathetic.

life

Scott just recently got called as the Young Men's Basketball coach and boy was he really excited! He already is in the Young Men's presidency and can't seem to get enough of hanging out with the boys. Scott is pretty good at basketball and is determined to have a winning team, so of course they practice like three times a week and have a game a week. At first, the boys seemed quite the pathetic bunch ranging in a variety of shapes, sizes, ages, and skills but after a few practices they have really improved and I honestly am quite impressed. I go to all the practices and cheer them on. I played for an hour on Friday and I don't think I will do that again. My pubic bone feels like it is splitting in half and now I waddle when I walk (very amusing to Scott). If Scott isn't playing basketball with the boys he is building snow jumps with them in the neighborhood and then getting pulled 25mph behind a fourwheeler and jumping 30-35 feet on his snowboard. I am usually the one pulling them and after three hours I can barely turn the dang thing!
It is really sad that we have finally found the ward that we fit in with and now our house is up for sale. We both have the best callings anyone could ask for (Young Women's secretary and Young Men's secretary) and have more friends than we have had since we met. Almost every other week a family invites us over for dinner and we can never get away from church on Sunday because everyone wants to talk. Our ward is perfect, everyone is friends. During the summer Scott went dirtbiking at least three times a week and it was always with someone in the ward. Just today I lent out my snowboard to a girl and her dad asked if Scott would come along and teach her how to snowboard in exchange for a ticket to targhee. I really don't want to leave this ward and kind of hope our house doesn't sell. Scott has made a huge impact in Young Mens, when once no one would show up to mutual now almost everyone goes. I just feel like we are suppose to be here and somehow everything will work out. Scott still doesn't have a job and I have sadly gone back to work at Taco Bell, but somehow a miracle happens every month and we are able to pay all our bills. I truly feel blessed to live where I live and to have so many people who care about us. Scott's family has been awesome and offered to help us out as much as they can, of course I am stubborn and refuse to let anyone help us until we don't have a penny left to our name. I was always told that when struggles with money come it can really hurt your marriage and affect who you are. For some reason it has done quite the opposite and only made our marriage stronger. For the past two months Scott and I have read our scriptures together every night without fail and pray together. We rely completly on eachother and God. As frustrating as it is to not have a job I am actually very thankful for this trial. Often we forget how blessed we are and it is in those hard times that we are humbled and suddenly remember why we are here. I don't want to work at Taco Bell and believe me I have cried my share of tears; yet, I know that despite the pain of Taco Bell's concrete floors, the nasty smell, and long hours it will all be over soon and I'll have more respect for those hard-working mothers who give up so much of their time and energy to feed their family.

Setting up Baby's room

My parents gave us a crib and baby changer for graduation, but long story short the pieces were broken and we were forced to order them online from a different store. They finally arrived and I wanted to put them up right away, so of course we did. The crib was easy to set up but the changer was kind of really hard. Scott sat in the corner and said that he would read me the instructions and I would set it up. Doesn't really sound fair does it? After twenty minutes of him calling me "slave" and laughing at my pathetic attempt to put it together he decided to help and we quickly finished setting it up-I am taking all the credit! I absolutely love it! The changer is huge compared to most changers I have seen and there is plenty of storage space, plus it is beautiful. My mom is going to sew me the bedding and I am already working on a name plaque and a shelf. My bedroom theme is baby blue and brown with accents of light green.

27 weeks pregnant!

I am done with my second trimester! So far being pregnant has been easy and actually kind of fun. I love feeling Lincoln kick and watching my stomach move all over the place whenever he is awake and doing his daily exercises. Scott and I have been spending the last few weeks laying down and watching my belly move because Lincoln has become quite hyperactive lately, haha. Someone asked me if being pregnant was hard and my initial response was to say it was the easiest thing I have ever done, but then I started thinking about it. Being pregnant is the most stressful thing in my life and is probably a small tap into what having children actually feels like. Every time he stops moving I freak out and start poking my belly in an attempt to get him to move. I have consistent nightmares of loosing him and am terrified of him not making it. I just want him out so I can hold him in my arms and know that he is going to be okay.

26 weeks pregnant

Wow!! I popped out over Christmas break! I am really excited because I finally feel pregnant instead of fat. Only three months left and time is flying by!