7 Weeks!

So, I have approximately 7 weeks left until baby boy arrives. And while that doesn't seem like a long time, it sure does to me!!!
Summer is not a fun time to be pregnant! Our electric bill was double this month what it normally is, thanks to my absolute need to keep the AC at 72. I would make it even lower if I wasn't worried about freezing poor Brad and Katie. I am just so dang sweaty ALL THE TIME!
Ok, anyway.
So 7 weeks left.
And I also happen to be in that "nesting" stage. You know when pregnant women suddenly have to have absolutely everything clean and ready to go for when baby arrives?
So i've decided, in order to distract myself, I will thoroughly and completely deep-clean one room a week until baby is here! There are about 7 main areas in the apartment and 7 weeks left, so it works perfect! There is the living room (i'm lumping the dining room in with this one), kitchen, master bedroom, master bathroom, Katie's room, the guest bedroom, and the guest bathroom.

Today, I did the guest bathroom!
I know it doesn't seem like a guest bathroom would need much deep-cleaning, but our cat and her three kittens have been occupying that bathroom for the last month. It is also Katie's bathroom, meaning scumy bath toys and a ring around the tub. Yuck!
I did everything from the baseboards, wiping down the walls and door, taking a toothbrush to all the cracks and crevices, washing the shower curtain and liner and even scrubbing the plunger!

Here's the rest of the schedule:

(I'm going to list these by the week in my pregnancy)
Week 33- Guest Bathroom -DONE

Week 34- Master Bathroom

Week 35- Kitchen

Week 36- Katie's Bedroom (this includes getting baby things ready!)

Week 37- Living Room/Dining Room

Week 38- Guest Bedroom (definitely needs to be done by this time. My mom will be coming to stay)

Week 39- Master Bedroom

Week 40- BABY! hopefully. . .

As you can see I saved the easiest rooms for the end as I know it's going to get more and more difficult to do too much at a time. Week 40 will just be last minute things, making sure everything is vaccumed, laundry and dishes are done, the freezer is stocked with meals ready to go for after baby's arrival, putting the car seat in the car and setting up the bassinet and all that other fun stuff.

I can't believe it is getting so close to the end! Even though it feels like I still have forever to go, I also feel like much of my pregnancy went by so fast! I guess being distracted by Katie helped. When I was pregnant with her, I spent most of my pregnancy laying in bed watching Netflix. :)
Not that I don't wish I could be doing that this time around because chasing a toddler is TOUGH.
Oh boy. A toddler and a newborn. What have I gotten myself into?
I'm so excited for this new little guy though. Like, REALLY excited. Can you believe I will be a mother of two? Am I really that grown-up?
Sorry. I'm starting to ramble. I think I need to take a nap. That's all for now!

OH! Let me add a few Katie pictures so you don't think that reading this post was a complete waste of time. :D

 Oh, that little stool. She loves it! Speaking of, does anyone know how to get chocolate pudding off of a footstool? Hehe.

 Getting all pretty.

She loves to try and let the kittens play with her toys. It's hilarious! She doesn't understand why they don't think balls and horses and bath toys are as awesome as she thinks they are.

Feeding geese in Idaho Falls, though she refused to call them geese and would only call them ducks.

Expanding my mind

So, I've been feeling pretty down for a few years now.
Why?
Because I didn't finish school. In fact, if you didn't know, I flunked out of school. Pretty pathetic, right?
I think i've finally gotten to a point where I can take full responsibility for how completely lazy and unmotivated I was in school. My low GPA that put me on Academic Suspension was entirely my own fault. I had stopped going to classes and stopped caring and it is one of the biggest regrets of my life.
As someone who had always been a good student (top 5% of my HS class, thank you very much), I have been so disappointed in myself.
Not to be a braggy-braggerton or anything, but I was accepted into all 3 BYU's. All three!!!! That's not that easy! And yet I blew it.
Ok. Enough self-pity.
Anyway, i've decided that I REALLY need to rectify this problem. I literally feel like i'm getting dumber and dumber all the time and going back to school is the only answer! I had intended on starting at Salt Lake Community College in May, and had my enrollment done and everything, but that was before I knew I was going to be in my third trimester of pregnancy. Yeah, not happening.
On top of that, car payments, baby/pregnancy bills, and hoping to buy a house in the next year? Where are we going to get the money for school?! Not to mention the fact that Brad thinks my want for a degree is pretty unnecessary :(
Ok, I'll get to the point.
Free courses! BYU has an independent study program, where you can pretty much take as many courses as you like, whenever you want, which is just perfect for me! But at around $120 a credit, it's not so affordable right now. AND most places won't give you a student loan or financial aid for courses like this. My plan is to save enough money to take just one course at a time, until I can save up for the next course. (Taking online surveys, selling my stuff, leftover money from the monthly grocery budget, etc. . .)
Until then, they offer some courses for free. They don't give you any college credit, but I think they may help fill the academic hole in my heart right now.
I just feel like i'm at such a stand-still and I have this deep NEED to keep learning.
My degree may take quite a while to finish going this route, but at least it's something.

Call me lame, but i've just signed up for my first two free courses:
Basic Arithmetic: Part 1 (there are 4 parts. I know math, but I think it'll be good to sharpen my skills)
Study Skills (I OBVIOUSLY need this course anyway!)

If anyone wants to take a free course with me, let me know! How fun would it be to go over stuff together? Here's the site to see what they offer.
http://is.byu.edu/site/courses/free.cfm

Wish me luck!

Katie Turned Two!

I'm 4 days late, but I still want to post about how Katie turned TWO YEARS OLD!
It feels so strange to have a two year old. She's not a baby anymore. She is a toddler. And I am an adult. And it's all so weird! I feel like time went by SO quickly and yet, at the same time, I feel like she's always been a part of my life.
Here are some recent pictures of my big girl, as well as some little facts about her. :)

She is obsessed with TV. I know, this is awful. You don't know how many times i've considered stashing the TV away in some closet and only bringing it out for special occasions. The problem is, I LOVE hearing her interact with her favorite shows. Haha! She tries to sing along to theme songs, she answers when Dora or Team Umizoomi ask her questions, and honestly, I feel like she's learned a lot because of it. I think the biggest problem is that she knows how to turn the TV on all by herself and gets upset when I tell her no.

We love to just hang out and go places, one if which is the Children's Discovery Museum. Our membership ends at the end of this month, so i've been trying to go more often. We went after my last pre-natal appointment and will go back, probably for the last time, on Monday.

I'm not sure why she does this, but when we ask her to say cheese for a picture, she scrunches her eyes closed. Lol!

Katie LOVES horses (well, all animals really) and loves to say "heeeeeeeeey" when we ask her what a horse says. Maybe someday she get the "n" sound in neigh?

Katie and swimming have a love/hate relationship. I think she got WAY too spoiled while swimming at the pool in Palm Springs because the water was always nice and warm. The water in our apartment pool is always really cold and she hates it. :(

However, we can usually get her to swim for a little while before she starts saying "cold" over and over again and starts quivering her lips.

I wish the water in the pool was warmer. Then maybe Katie would let us go swimming more often. The water feels HEAVENLY on my ever-growing-already-huge belly (although, in these pictures, the water is disguising my girth rather well).

 I think she was a little angry at us for making her endure the cold water. Hahaha!

Little Katie has had some bowel movement issues (poor girl!) for the past few months. It started right around the time I stopped nursing, which probably didn't coincide well with her new-found food pickiness. A couple of weeks ago, it got so bad that she hadn't had a real good poo in a week and a half. Prune juice, nothing but fruits, veggies and water, metamucil, an enema and a suppository weren't working. She ended up getting a fever one night that was around 103 and it didn't go away for a couple of days. We made an appt with the doctor for the following morning and of course, she let it all loose that night and woke up with her fever gone. Figures. Anyway, she was pretty miserable and spent most of her time cuddled up on the couch with a sad look on her face.

 She fights bedtime every night and sometimes, we just let her go until she passes out.

She is so curious about the world around her and I love it. She can count to ten and loves to count the stairs as we go up and down, or to count the products on the shelves at the grocery store, or just to count anything in general.
She knows all the basic colors (red, blue, white, black, green, pink, purple, brown, orange) but generally refuses to say "yellow." We're not sure why she doesn't seem to like that color. Haha! I think orange is her favorite because she LOVES to point out things that are orange, although she pronounces it "on-ee."
She can identity about 1/3 of the alphabet, but letters just aren't as fun as counting things and finding different colors!
We've been working on shapes for a little bit, and she knows circle, square, and "trungle" as she likes to call a triangle.
She also loves pointing out different animals and making all the corresponding sounds. Her favorites are horses, as I said before, and frogs. She will say "i'm fog!" and get on her hands and knees, pretend to bounce and say "ribbit. ribbit." It's quite adorable.
Opposites are her latest thing, working on hot/cold, big/little, heavy/light (although she gets confused on that one because the word 'light' is usually referred to when we turn the lights on and off), yum/yuck, clean/dirty, loud/quiet etc. . .

Here she is earlier in the day on her birthday, opening a present from "gramma" and "pa" (grandma and grandpa) Evenson.

The day before her birthday, which was on Monday by the way, we welcomed some new kitties to our little family! Our cat Ash had three little kittens and Katie is just smitten with them! They are currently housed in our guest/Katie's bathroom and Katie tries to sneak in whenever she can. She is always trying to share her bath toys with them.

 I'll try and get some better pictures of the kittens later.

 Cheese!

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find my camera charger and my camera died after only taking one single picture at her birthday party! Sad day! Jenna took some pictures and video for me though, so when I get them, i'll share them with you all. Thanks Jenna!

Other things about Katie. . .

She can throw a pretty good tantrum. Someday I will make cookies for all the neighbors and apologize for her insanely loud cries and screams.
Besides that, she's still the happy girl she's always been! I still remember her smiling at everyone when she was only days old. That girl just enjoys life to it's fullest and is such a great example at finding the happiness in any situation.
Oh! She says the word "gross" and it's just about the cutest thing ever! She enunciates it so well that it's just hilarious. She generally says it in reference to her dirty diapers.
Speaking of which, potty training has been placed on the back burner for now. After her constipation issues, she is just not ready. My dream of never having two kids in diapers seems to be fading from view as my due dates draws ever closer.
Katie's favorite things:
Bubbles
Pacifiers (although I should mention we cut them up on her birthday. Poor girl still cries about how they are "broke")
Trains and Cars
Rocks
Stuffed Bears
Learning
Mommom (that's me)
Daddy
Tools
Crackers
Candy (which she incessantly begs for ALL DAY LONG. Don't you wish toddlers could understand cavities?)

I'm not sure what else to say about this little girl. We just love her so much! She is changing every day and it is SO FUN watching her learn new things and figure stuff out. With the birth of our kittens, I think she understands a little better that Ash's belly was big and then the baby kitties came out, and mommom's belly is also big and soon a baby will come out of it as well. I can't wait to see her interact with her baby brother, giving him kisses and hugs and trying to teach him new things. The next few months are going to bring so much more excitement as our family becomes four.
Hopefully she won't be too jealous. :)

Odasso Family Travels. :D

So we've been home a week and i'm just now blogging. Are you surprised? Haha! I've been such a slacker at blogging. Oh well. Anyway, here's a rundown of our vacation, complete with pictures! (Though I don't have pictures of every awesome thing, sadly)

On Thursday night, the 10th, we headed down to Ephraim, UT, where we stayed the night at Willow Creek Inn. We enjoyed free breakfast in the morning at the hotel before heading down to Manti for Brad's little sister's wedding! Alyce and Nathan were getting sealed in the Manti temple, and we were so blessed to be able to attend. The sealing and sealer himself were AWESOME and great reminders about the importance of marriage, families, and our purpose here on Earth. I'd like to think it wasn't just pregnancy hormones that had me crying a little bit. :) Alyce looked beautiful and we are so happy for her and Nathan. I didn't take any pictures at the sealing, but she has plenty of great ones on Facebook.

After the sealing, Brad, Katie and I continued on down to Cedar City, UT, where we unloaded at the KOA. A KOA is basically a campground (mostly RVs) but this one had these cute little cabins and a buy one night, get one free sale going on. You know how I am about finding great deals. :D
Katie enjoyed playing on the bunkbed. (No worries, we didn't let her sleep up there)

 Brad loved the free WiFi, even if it was a tad slow.

It was such a nice place to stay. The cabin had heating and air, a bunkbed as well as a queen size bed, a little desk and chairs, and a few shelves. The porch had an adorable swing and then we had a picnic table and firepit. Plus, the bathrooms at this particular KOA are AMAZING! Nicer than the bathrooms in our apartment. Haha!

We didn't do much for the rest of Friday. We took Katie to the little playground at the campground, walked around for a bit, checked out the KOA store, and then roasted hot dogs and smores over a fire for dinner.

Saturday, we lazed around for a bit before heading 45 minutes down the road to La Verkin, UT. Alyce and Nathan had 2 receptions, one in Orem on Friday and one in La Verkin on Saturday. We skipped out on the Orem reception because it made more sense for us to keep driving south, rather than back and forth. Since the La Verkin reception wasn't until 6, we just hung out for most of Saturday. We met up with Alyce, Nathan, Brad's dad, his wife Rachel, and Brad's sister Adrienne and her husband James for lunch at this little bistro-type place in Hurricane, UT. It was supposed to be this yummy Mexican place called Durangos, but had apparently closed and been replaced by this cafe. We ate there anyway and the sandwich I ordered was pricey, but ended up tasting SO GOOD. MMMMMM! Anyway, after that we chilled at Nathan's parent's house until the reception.

 Thanks for letting us be a part of your special day, you two!

Saturday night, we headed back to the KOA for the night. Sunday morning we checked out and headed to the local ward for church. It was Mother's Day and a really nice meeting. They had a variety of gifts and sweets to hand out to all the women at the end and we got to choose what we wanted (there were plants, books, and sweets). I picked out a bag of three chocolate covered pretzels and Katie got into the bag and pulled one out before I could even blink. I let her have at it to keep her busy while we started the drive down to Las Vegas. Things got a little messy, but cleaning up messes is just part of being a mommy! And they are only little and willing to be covered in chocolate for so long.

In Vegas, we stayed at the Fiesta Henderson. It was in Henderson, about 15 minutes from the strip, but actually not too bad. The room was only $20, so I expected the place to be a dump, but it was actually really nice. Brad's dad, sister, and their spouses were in Vegas as well, so we hung out with them for a few hours before they left for the airport. After that, we stopped at Cabela's to see the fish and just wander around, and then we had Johnny Rocket's for dinner.
And then I attempted some belly pictures. Haha!

Bright and early Monday morning, we headed off for California! We generally take some backroads from Vegas to Palm Springs, but took the interstate this time in order to meet up with some friends in Rancho Cucamonga. I got to see my bf Daryn for the first time in SO long! (Ok, it's only been since September, but still.) Daryn and her husband Mat actually live up in Northern California, but were down visiting some family and friends, so we were able to see them for a couple of hours. It was awesome.
We spent the rest of Monday checking into our hotel and hitting up the pool.:)
Tuesday, we ventured off to The Living Desert. Katie enjoyed the petting zoo most of all.

She also loved looking at the snakes and saying "nakes! sssssssssss!"

After a couple of hours, Brad couldn't stand the heat anymore (it was only 90 degrees. Haha!) so we headed back to the timeshare for more swimming.
Katie LOOOOOVES the pool and we went swimming almost everyday we were there. We spent most of the time in the shallow 1 and 2 foot areas of the pool where Katie enjoyed walking around by herself. Unfortunately, she also loved dunking herself underwater a little too much. A little scary the first few times for Brad and I, but we got over it. The girl just loved to stick her head in the water! We tried to teach her to keep her mouth closed, but she couldn't resist opening her mouth into a huge smile every time she went under.

We had dinner by the pool one night. Nachos for me and Katie, hot wings for Brad. We also fed a little scavenger bird right next to us who enjoyed the nachos as well.

Wednesday, we drove out to Cabazon to see the dinosaurs. I hadn't been since they built this huge robotic dino exhibit and outdoor museum thing, so that was kind of cool to check out.

Katie and Brad inside the T-Rex. Sadly, the long neck (I don't remember it's real name. Lol!) was closed so we couldn't go inside. :(

Thursday we spent some time with my sister Katrina! We mostly just hung out at her house with her fiance, Myke. We also went to check out their wedding venue and play with the million ducks that were following us around. Thursday night, we had dinner at the Cheesecake Factory, and then walked around The River in Rancho Mirage for a bit.

Friday we went up the tram! I've been up about 5 times before, but never had the chance to actually walk around or hike or anything. 4 of those times was for winter formal and the first time was 5th grade, which I don't really remember very well.

It was right around Katie's naptime though, so we mostly just wandered a bit and didn't do any hiking.

I don't care if you don't want to see us kissing. This is MY blog afterall. :D

Friday night we stayed in a slightly scary, kinda gross apartment in Desert Hot Springs. Lol! My friend Jeni's mom had a rental apartment that she let us stay in for free. The carpet was brand new that day, but didn't say much for the rest of the place. (dead cockroach on the floor in the kitchen?) but hey, it was free. And kind of an adventure. Almost made me feel like the Boy Meets World episode after Cory and Topanga get married and move into that awful, nasty apartment. :D

Saturday was the big day! One of my best friends, Nicole, got married to her best friend Nathan! I am so grateful I was able to be there to witness their happy day.

I have to include the story about this moon. Friday, we were driving out to my sister's place in La Quinta. We were on the freeway when I said to Brad, "Hey look! The moon!" we were getting off the exit though and he didn't see what I was talking about. A few minutes later, we were stopped at a stop light when a truck stopped right in front of and next to us. It was hauling the moon I saw on the freeway and told Brad that was what I was talking about. We looked at it for a while, wondering what it was for and what it was made of and where in the world it was going. Anyway, we're at the wedding reception, and what do you know? The moon was there!! Part of the decorations! What a coincidence, right?!

Anyway, we had to leave the reception early, so I only have this quick, not so flattering snapshot of me with the bride and groom, but don't they look so happy?

The wedding and reception were from 4:30-9:45, but we left around. . . 7 I think it was? We had to drive through the night to make it back up to Utah. Anyway, overall it was a great trip! Not quite what I was hoping (my original plans included Sea World and a trip to the beach), but still so nice to be back in my home area for a while. I forget sometimes how much I miss that heat and the feel of the sun. Man, i'm a desert rat through and through.

Vacation, all I ever wanted. . .

We are FINALLY getting outta here this week! YAY! Traveling is probably one of my favorite things in the world and when i'm stuck in the same place for too long, I start to go stir crazy! Sure, i've been up to Idaho a couple of times in the last few months, but that doesn't really count. ;)

Friday, Brad's youngest sister is getting married down in Manti (eeep!), and then we are staying the night at a KOA in Cedar City. I was hoping to actually pitch a tent at the campground, but Brad said no. :( Instead, we are staying in a cabin on the campgrounds. KOA's across the nation were having a buy one night get one free sale for this weekend, so I took it! We'll spend Saturday exploring Cedar City and maybe trying to meet up with Brad's dad before the wedding reception in La Verkin that evening. Then it's back up to the KOA to sleep. We'll find a church to attend on Sunday morning and then it's down to Vegas! If we're not too tired, we'll take Katie to see some of the free attractions on the strip before settling down in our hotel for the night. Then, it's up REALLY early Monday morning to drive down to Southern California! One of my best friends, Daryn, and her husband Mat, will be in the area and i'd LOVE to see them before they head back up to NorCal Monday afternoon. We'll check into Palm Canyons Resort in Palm Springs in the afternoon, where we'll be staying until Friday morning. Then, for the week, it's all the valley stuff. Living Desert, Whitewater, visiting my sister, seeing the Dinosaurs out at Cabazon, street fair on Thursday, etc. . . We'll also head to the beach on one of the days, not sure which. If any of you have any recommendations as to which beach, let me know! One that is toddler friendly, with not too many rocks, and within 2 hours of Palm Springs. Thanks! Saturday is Nicole's wedding!!!!! CRAZY! We still need to find a place to sleep on Friday night before we head out to Bermuda Dunes for the wedding on Saturday. After all is said and done, we'll be driving through the night to make it back up here before church on Sunday. I was hoping to not head back until Sunday afternoon, but apparently Brad is badly needed to sing in the church choir that Sunday. :)

Anyway, i'm sure none of you were really that interested in our travel plans. I'm just super excited. Can you tell?!
Oh, and nobody better think about robbing us while we're gone! We have some amazing friends who will be feeding our kitties for us, so you thieves are out of luck. :D

Last but not least, i'm looking for input. Best foods to bring on a road trip? Ways to keep a 2 year old entertained in the car? Great tourist stops along the way? Can we stay with you on Friday night? Haha.

I'll leave you with some pictures as a reward for reading this boring post.

That's my little cheese!

 Baby kisses!

 First they're sour. . .

Then they're sweet. . . (name that commercial!)

Just a quick update on life

Kim:
I'm now 22 weeks pregnant! I seriously can't believe how fast this is going by! Our little boy swims around in there like crazy, although he's been like that all along. I still can't believe I felt him moving at only 13 weeks! At my last ultrasound, the technician said that I could have felt him moving so early because the placenta is more near my side and back, so there is less "stuff" in the way of feeling the movements. He said that with Katie, the placenta was probably more towards the front of my belly, which is why I didn't feel her for so long. Pretty interesting! He also mentioned that this little guy looks just like Katie. I have to agree. I have Odasso babies, for sure.
My energy levels have been ALL OVER THE PLACE! One day I have tons of energy and am super motivated, and then the next day I feel like it's hard to get out of bed. This is really making it frustrating to plan anything.
My belly is getting HUGE! I'm almost entirely in maternity clothes now and realizing that I really need to buy some more. Last time I bought maternity clothes, it was winter in Rexburg and most of my things are just way too warm to wear in the summer. (Funny story, I was asked to play one of the Ten Virgins from the bible story in a little play my church is putting on. Hope they don't mind my pregnant belly! Hahaha!!!)
I'm starting to have more of an appetite, which is a blessing and a curse. It's great to be able to eat more than half a sandwich at a time, but annoying when I'm eating up all the food in the apartment. I almost ate an entire Chipotle burrito last night, so that should tell you something.
I've been waking up in the middle of the night with awful leg cramps. What an annoying pregnancy symptom! As if I don't already barely get any sleep.
I've been trying to craft more lately and it's been pretty fun! I'll have to post pictures later.

Brad:
Brad's contract was extended at his work, so we're definitely here for a while longer. He wasn't brought on full-time, sadly, but there is still hope! He's been a bit overloaded at work since one guy moved, so that's been rough. I can tell he's been extra stressed. Actually, last week Katie was having trouble sleeping, and was in our bed for most of the night. She was tossing and turning so much that I was laying awake in bed for about two hours until I looked at the clock, saw that it was 3:30 in the morning, and Brad still hadn't come to bed! I went out to the living room and saw him doing work on his laptop! I had to force him to come to bed. Poor guy. Hopefully they relieve some of his work load, or at least bring him on full-time for a pay raise!
Other than work, he's just been doing the usual, playing computer games. Oh boy. He did get a new rifle for his birthday, however, and went to the shooting range once! I have a lot of plans for this summer, so i'll be getting this man out of the house more often.
Speaking of, can I just mention that I love when Brad takes Katie out to the playground to play? Of course it's a nice little Katie-free break for me, but I like to peek off our balcony and watch them playing together. So cute! I really don't think any daddy could love his daughter more. :)

Katie:
Man, this girl's vocabulary is just taking off! It's so great to see and hear her communicating more, not to mention a relief for us frustrated parents. She's especially good at voicing her opinion about what cartoon/movie she wants to watch. Oh, and saying "Help!" which is actually really embarrassing. She will scream "help!" over everything, even when we are picking her up to leave the playground. Wouldn't you feel pretty embarrassed to be picking up your child at the park, only to have her screaming "help! help!" very loudly? Yeah, we avoid eye contact with other people when this happens. Haha!
I stopped nursing her about 6 weeks ago and it was pretty rough on both of us. She still asks for "wuk" occasionally, pulling at my shirt, and it's so hard to say no. especially when there is still milk in there. This pregnancy just really made it difficult on me physically to keep going. Sorry little girl! Hopefully she won't be too jealous when the new baby comes and gets to breastfeed.
Some other things about Katie recently:
-She's very picky about food. Argh! And I tried so hard to give her great variety!
-She is still one of the most active kids you will see.
-She acts as if bananas are lollipops or chocolate or something, she gets so excited about them.
-Sleeping has gotten better. She has more of a steady schedule now, so that's been nice.
-Outside is her favorite place to be, besides mommy's arms of course.
-My cuddle bug is now 22 months old!
-Her imagination continues to grow more everyday. She has now started incorporating different voices for her toys when she is playing.
-She can count to 6, kind of. She says 1, 2, 3, 5, 6. We don't know what happened to 4.
-She knows quite a few colors. White and black are her favorite to say, although she's pretty good blue, orange, and purple.

Baby Boy:
We're almost set on a name for this little dude, but I don't know. I have a name that I absolutely love, but Brad doesn't like it. We had agreed on a name that we both liked, but now that a little time has passed, i'm not sure I like it very much. Little boys are SO hard to name! I'm still open to suggestions if anyone has anything great!
I've accumulated quite a good stash of baby boy things already. I'm just so excited! I've got outfits for the first couple of months, 6 new blankets (because most all of the ones we have were pink), and a few miscellaneous things- a bottle, some shoes and a few new cloth diapers. If anyone is interested in getting things for this little dude, a cloth diaper or two would be fab. Almost my entire stash is pink or purple or flowery! I've also started a baby registry on Amazon.com if you want to look. It's mostly there so I can check off things I've bought and remember things I still need to get.


Ok, so maybe that wasn't a "quick update" on life, but there ya go!

Baby BOY Odasso!

So, I figured I should get on here and blog a little somethin' somethin' about the fact that we are having a baby BOY!!!!!
How exciting is that?!?!
I know most people say to wait until weeks 18-20 to get an ultrasound to find out the sex of the baby, but I just couldn't wait! My impatience got the best of me and we made an appt for last Thursday at this Ultrasound place in the mall (only in Utah, right? Lol!).
We saw his little boy parts and I might have cried just a little bit. It was such an overwhelming feeling. Not only because this had been the first time we'd seen the baby on an ultrasound, or the first time we also heard the baby's heartbeat, but also finding out that we are expecting a little boy.
I honestly would have been overjoyed for a boy OR a girl, but I know that Brad, and everybody else in both our families, were both rooting for a boy, so it was almost as if a burden of boy baby-making had been lifted off my shoulders!
I've already started registering for baby boy things, and I still have 5 1/2 months left to go! Lol.

The joy still gets to me sometimes. I find myself just smiling and thinking about this future little bundle of ours. I know Katie doesn't understand yet, but i'm filled with even more joy when I think of what a great big sister she is going to be. She is just so sweet and loving and LOVES little babies!
I've already got a name picked out, but I think Brad needs some convincing. When I was pregnant with Katie, I had told him that if I could pick out the girl names, he can pick out the boy names, so it's kind of up to him. However, many of his suggestions have been ones that I absolutely hate, so we'll see. We've got quite a long time to think about it anyway. :)