Jack's new toy

A couple days ago I bought a Jumperoo off of KSL. And this little boy absolutely loves it! It's definitely his favorite toy. His burp cloth comes in at a close second.

This is one of the few times I got him to look up at me. He usually won't respond to me when he's in this thing.

That part he's staring at lights up and plays music. He just sits there holding on to it and staring and concentrating so hard. So cute!

Jacks new born pics

We got Jack's new born pictures taken when he was 5 days old I think. Here are some of my favorites.

  

He's already changed so much! They don't stay tiny for long.

My blog was broken for a while

For some reason I wasn't able to post any new posts for a long time, and then I clicked this button that said something like, click here to see the new blog interface. I clicked it and everything changed and then I was able to post on my blog again! So now I have alot of updating to do :)

My pictures dissapeared

I think i accidently deleted all of them :( and I can't get them back.

Jack is here!

And we are just so in love with him! He was born on April 15th at 2am. He weighed 8lbs and 9oz and was 20.5 inches long. And as you can see in the pictures he has tons of hair!

We've had him home for a couple of days now and I'll I want to do is stare at him. I can't believe how much I miss him when he's not right next to me. Earlier I had to go upstairs and do some work, he was down stairs with Clint, the whole time I thought about him and couldn't wait to come down and see him. Its so crazy how much I can love someone I just met.

He's been such a good little baby so far. The first night we brought him home was a little rough. He woke up about every hour. I couldn't figure out why so I just nursed him every time. And he would stop crying as long as I was holding him but wouldn't sleep when I put him down. So I did something I swore I would never do, I put him in bed with me. But I was able to get a good couple hours of sleep. But the next day I realized what the problem was. He wasn't swaddled with the right blanket. A long time ago I went to a baby expo and got this swaddling blanket and it is seriously a miracle blanket. I don't even know why it works so well, if its just the fabric or the size or what but whenever I try to swaddle him in a different blanket he won't sleep for long. Its the weirdest thing. Click HERE for the website. I seriously love this blanket, because ever since I started using it he sleeps, and its wonderful.

Am I done being pregnant yet?

Well I haven't been very good about posting pregnancy pictures on here, so here are a few.

28 Weeks

36 Weeks

And finally 40 Weeks!

I was going to try and not wear the same shirt in my pregnancy pictures, but at this point I only have a couple that fit me. And see those yoga pants I'm wearing in my 40 week picture? I've been wearing those every day for about 2 weeks, and not just when I get home from work. I wear those to work. And I don't even care. I will continue to wear them until I have this baby. My jeans still fit me, its just that these are so much more comfortable.

So today is my due date, I was really hoping to go this week sometime. Hopefully it will happen this weekend. If I don't go on my own then they will induce me next Thursday. I think I've been pretty lucky with this pregnancy. During my first trimester I didn't really start feeling the symptoms until about 8 weeks. and they went away at about 12. I just remember being REALLY tired, nauseous and had a lot of food aversions. I think the first trimester has definitely been the worst, just because no matter how much you sleep your just so dang tired! 2nd trimester was fantastic! this is really the only time I consistently was able to work out. i have to get up at about 5:30 am to work out before I go to work, so the times in my first and third trimester where I had the choice between working out and sleep, sleep always won. The only thing in my 2nd trimester that was bad was I think when my uterus was stretching, I had the worst cramps ever! Luckily it only lasted about a day, but they definitely kept me up all night. Third trimester hasn't really been bad until the last couple weeks, buts it good knowing its almost over. There have been a couple days where my whole body will hurt and I just feel terrible, but then the next day I'll feel completely fine. So I can't complain too much because I have had more good days then bad. Oh and insomnia! I don't know if this is a normal pregnancy symptom or what, but I was not expecting to get insomnia, it started in my 2nd trimester and its still happening. I will usually wake up at about 3 or 4 and then stay awake for about 2 hours and then finally go back to sleep. This is actually when I stopped going to the gym, I wasn't willing to wake up at 3am and stay awake for 2 hours and then go to the gym. Its weird because I'm not even uncomfortable at night, its actually when I'm the most comfortable.

Well, I'm so excited to for so many things! I'm excited to be a mommy! I'm excited that I'll be home all the time. My work is going to let me work part time from home (yay!) I'm so excited to be able to go grocery shopping in the middle of the week in the middle of the day! although I'm sure it will be more difficult with a baby. I currently go grocery shopping at 6 or 7 on Saturday morning. I find that it cuts my grocery time in half if I go before everyone else wakes up. I can't wait to have a really good workout again, even when I was working out while pregnant it wasn't the same. And I got a sweet jogging stroller. And I'm excited for the option to work out during the day if I ever want to. I kind of got used to waking up at 530 am every morning, and actually like it. I know a lot of people at the gym at that time and I like a lot of the classes so I still might go early. But it will be nice to have the option to go later in the morning. I can start taking Jack to the gym's child care with me at 6 weeks. I'm also excited for swimming lessons! for Jack! I found out you can do mommy and me swimming lessons when he turns 6 months old. I'm just so excited to be a stay at home mom! And its weird to think that any one of these days could be my last day that I don't have a kid.

Oh and for tomorrow I scheduled a conference call at work in the morning and a hair appointment in the afternoon. I kind of feel like making plans like this may ensure that I will go into labor. Well, we will see!

Stenciling!

OK, well, I meant to post this a while ago. I started my stenciling project. This was a really silly thing to do in my third trimester of pregnancy. I got really frustrated and almost painted over it. you can't tell in the picture but there are quite a few mistakes. The stencil even took off the original pain in some places. I emailed our builders to find out what brand and color our paint is so i could get some to touch up the mistakes. But I never heard back. It probably would have been better if I painted first and then stenciled over it, just so I could have some touch up paint. Well I'm waiting until I have this baby and I'm a little less hormonal then I'll decide if I want to paint over it or keep it. A lot of mistakes you can't really tell unless you look really close. But since I'm the one that did it I see all the mistakes. So if it bugs me enough I just might have to paint over it. But then maybe I'll try and stencil again. Perfect practice makes prefect!

Look at how crafy I've been

So lately I've been a little obsessed with crafting blogs. If you notice I've added a "crafting blog" list. So I've been looking at tons of things that I want to do and I've gotten a lot of supplies to get started. And I just barley finished my first project.


This Lima Bean wreath! I found the tutorial at my favorite blog so far... allthingsthrify.com. At first I didn't really like it once I was finished. It wasn't "perfect" like I was hoping it would be. I almost redid it, But I decided since it was my first project that I shouldn't expect it to be perfect. You can go strait to the tutorial by clicking HERE.

My next project I'm really excited about, but also nervous. Since it can turn out really good or really bad. I want to try this stencil wall painting by making my own stencil. I chose a small wall in my bathroom just in case it doesn't turn out then I can just paint over it. Hopefully I'll have something to show you by tomorrow.

1/2 off Live the Life program

Remember how I lost all this weight? 56lbs, 10" around my waist and 10'' around my hips! The program I used (live the life) is now half off until Feb 21st.

(I'm 10 weeks pregnant in the after pic, so I'm a little bloated)

So, if your trying to lose weight this year, you should definitly get it, because its a super good deal. Some of my favorite things about the program is, first they teach you how to prep your meals. The first time I looked at the program I thought there was no way I would have time to make all that food, but when you make it all before hand its really easy. Another thing I loved about it is, it tells you exactly what to eat and how much, and its all normal food. Another thing is whenever I had questions or any problems at all I could email them and I always got a response within 24 hours. Usually within a couple hours, sometimes it was within a couple minutes. Anyway, I love this program so I thought I would let you all know about this great deal!

Click HERE to try free for 7 days. Click HERE to order and use the promo code "LOVE2LIVE" to get it half off. If you order it I want to know how it goes for you!