Belly Update & T-bone is back!

This is my belly at 21 Weeks.  Mike has decided that my new nickname is Fatso which he terms an endearing compliment.  Sounds questionable to me. :)

Also, T-Bone returned home from his mission in South Korea and we are so proud of him!  Watch out ladies, Tanner is back and cuter than ever!  This picture is of the baptism he had the week before he came home.  To quote Tanner, "Who says Miracles have ceased!"

It's a .... GIRL!!!!

She is healthy, happy, and weighing in large at 12 oz, the weight of a can of soda.  All body functions are working correctly, but she was hiding her face so we could not get a good shot of what she looks like.  We could not be happier (I get to buy pretty dresses, bow, and pink things), now we just need a name! 

You never know when someone is paying attention...

Every day, the owner of the company I work for posts a blog, usually centered around personal leadership or something similar.  I pulled up his blog today and the beginning quote was, 

"So many of us make a great fuss of matters of small consequence.  We are so easily offended.  Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way."

-Gordon B. Hinckley

In our company culture, we are encouraged to put a quote at the bottom of our signature on email.  I change mine about quarterly and this is the quote that I currently have on the bottom of my emails.  I usually have something subtly religious or a quote by one of the Church leaders.  Who knew that he would take the time to read my quote on my emails.... just goes to show you that you never know when someone might be paying attention to who you are/what you portray.  

 Being a seminary teacher, I just have to remind us all of Matt 5:14-16   Ye are the light of the world!

Here is his blog if you want to see it for yourself.

Florida Football & 16 Week Bump

It is that time of year again, when Football takes over life in Gainesville, FL.  I have never been in a town where college football is such a religion, a city where if you don't wear orange or blue on the day BEFORE the football game, you are deemed unworthy to live here.  A city where everyone starts tailgating at 8 am and the huge RVs come and park all around campus the night before and party all night (none of which are students).  A city where you have to get to the game at least 3 hours before to even find a remotely close parking spot.  A city where every main road is lined with tailgaters (and I come from a college town where there were not any tailgaters).  A City where 50,000 people come to the city for game-day weekends and the hotels require you to stay at least 3 nights and charge crazy rates.   All of this, and my Husband would not change any of it for the world..... until the last game against Miami.

We sit in the Pharmacy block for the games so we are surrounded by Mike's fellow students.  We got to the game quite early and were enjoying the whole scene.  Well, the game was at 8:oo so everyone had been tailgating and drinking since early that morning.  By the time all the students got to the game, most of them had had WAY too much to drink and were quite drunk and sweaty.  It was not the most delightful of surroundings, but it was the Miami game and Mike would never miss a game if he could.  

To make a long story short, there was about 5 min left in the 2nd quarter and the guy right behind me, who should not have been there, decided to throw up right behind me.  Luckily, I was able to jump out of the way but Mike got some on him.  The smell was horrible and I was quite proud of myself that I did not throw up back on him being pregnant and very queazy with smells.  Needless to say, we left early and missed the whole second half of the game.  The bummer part was that we could have easily sold our tickets for $150 a piece as regular tickets were going for $400 right before the game.  And yes, scalping tickets is legal here.  

So here is a picture of us watching the last of the second quarter under the stadium.  I have never been more grateful for the Word of Wisdom and how much wisdom there really is in it.  Seeing all these drunk students and how horrible they looked just emphasized our resolve to live by the words of modern prophets.  

Here is what it feels like to be in a stadium of 90,000 at the beginning of a game.  Just multiply the sound times 90!  (side note, if you pause on second 11, you can see Mike's happy face)

On a totally separate note, here is a picture that we took last week of my belly at 16 weeks.  The baby is healthy and happy as of our Dr. visit last week.  Our next apt. where we find out what we are having is on October 16th, so we are totally looking forward to that!  

We're Prego!!!!

After a year of trying, we're Pregnant!  We are so excited to be able to bring a little spirit into this world and cannot wait for the day s/he arrives!  I am just over 12 weeks and am due March 3rd.  The baby is super healthy and last week, when we had our second ultrasound, we saw s/he moving all around, doing somersaults and all the arms and legs.  It was quite amazing considering 4 weeks prior all we saw was a little bean.  

This picture is not the best but the baby's head is at the bottom left and one arm is sticking out by it's head, waiving hi to us.  We will be able to find out what we are having in just over a month so we will keep you updated.  We just could not be happier!