My Birthday! and a 28 week old Baby/Fetus.... :)

Wednesday was my 21st Birthday! And Ryley was very sweet.. he skipped classes.. I skipped Philosophy, and we made this amazing oreo/whipped cream/ice cream/chocolate pudding cake together. :) We also ordered Dominos and watched "The Kid" because Ryley had never seen it. It was a very good birthday. I also entered my 3rd Trimester on Wednesday... what a good birthday present. :) Now I am just about 28 weeks, and starting to show it. The video is of the cake Aydan made me when we were down for the fourth. And the bowl of grape tomatoes is from our garden! Yeah! Also exciting news.. the most exciting of all... Ryley has his first interview for medical school! July 31st he is flying out to Fort Worth, Texas to interview for a very good school there. I'm so proud of my sweet husband! He also keeps telling me to turn up the temperature or something so he can play with his little boy sooner... :). I'm not so sure that would work......

Updates...

These last few weeks have been crazy! On June 22nd I had my 24 week checkup, and everything is growing like it is supposed to be. :) I'm officially 26 weeks today... yeah! Logan is kicking more than ever now. I hope that I'm not torturing the little guy every time I poke him to get him to move around....it's just so much fun watching Ry's face when he gets kicked. I mentioned to Ryley that we really only have 14 more weekends alone together before baby time... that freaked him out a little bit. :) Anyways, my next appointment is July 22. Last week Jessi came down and stayed in Provo with us. It was a lot of fun getting to know her a little better, and hopefully we convinced her that BYU is the best place to be! During her time here we went canoeing and discovered the amazing practice of Cherry Picking! 12 pounds of cherries for 7.50... what a great deal. We spent the fourth of July in Ely, which was also a lot of fun. :) Like always, there was tons of food and Ryley was one happy man. My family got a puppy named Chip, and it was quite entertaining watching Cammi and Aydan play with/torture him. Now we are home and in the middle of midterms for summer semester. And our landlords don't seem to believe in air conditioning, so our house is about 80 degrees. Oh well. Someday I will have windows and control of the thermostat... and a bathtub. Hope all is well with everyone, and I'm sure Ryley will make me post another picture of my front end soon. :)

24 weeks

It's been a while since I last posted a picture of my growing front end, and Ryley decided that it was about time I posted another one. I am just about 24 weeks, and my next appointment is on Tuesday. To make me feel better about the picture, Ry let me take one of his sympathy stomach. :) I love my goofball of a husband.

Adventures...

June has been a very exciting month so far... applications, presentations, finals, and home improvement projects created a desperate need for a few fun breaks. When Ashlee came down, we went canoeing on Utah lake and up Provo River. After finals finished this week, we decided we wanted to get out of the house and go camping... but ALL of the campsites were filled. Luckily, my crazy adventurous husband found this cute little spot up from the side of the road while he was hiking with his boyscouts. So, we hauled all our stuff up a VERY steep hillside, and set up camp. It was so much fun! We had kabobs, chili dogs, and smores! It only rained on us a little, and wasn't windy at all. For baby news, Logan is now an expert kicker, and you can watch it from the outside! While this slightly freaked Ryley out the first time he saw it, we are slowly becoming accustomed to all the major progress our little man is going through. My next appointment is on Tuesday, and I'll post a 24 week picture here pretty soon. Hope all is well and we love you all!

New Room!

Yeah! We finally painted our nasty bedroom.... and it only took about one day (which made Ryley VERY happy). :) The first picture is of the room the first time we saw it... the rest are of our paint job. I stole grandma's idea and drew the blue lines down the cracks to add more color. Our baby will go on the left hand side of our bed against the wall....

Catching up....

For Memorial Day my family came up and we all went to Mt. Pleasant. It was a lot of fun to see everyone again, and we even got to go swimming! Pictures are below....

It's a........ :)

The long awaited day of the ultrasound has finally arrived! I was almost positive that there wouldn't be a baby in there, or that it would only have one arm or one leg due to my use of chemicals in the research lab... but our baby is just fine! Perfect heart, perfect head, perfect tummy, perfect bladder, perfect little face.... Speaking of faces, it was very fun watching Ryley's face as the image of the baby came up on the screen... I don't think he really believed there was a little baby in there either! Our baby held perfectly still for all of its pictures, but kept its arms and legs stubbornly crossed. We were worried we wouldn't be able to find out what it was, but right at the end, it flipped over and revealed to us that we were going to be the proud parents of a little.... BOY! We are still in a bit of shock over the fact that there is actually a human in there, but haven't had adequate time to recover due to tests, papers, and internships.. I'm sure it will hit us later tonight....So, congratulations.. you will either have a grandson or a nephew! :)

Here is the picture of when he finally turned and revealed to us that he was a he! The scanning made the picture a little blurry, but if you look at the little diamond shape in the middle, it is right on the edge of his little thing. :) This is my favorite picture. It is looking directly down at the baby, who is in a sitting position. On the far right is the top of the baby's head... then you can see his little arms stretched out in front of him with his hands crossed on top of eachother in his lap. If you look farther to the left, you can see the outline of his little left foot. :) This is a picture of the little guy's legs. He had them crossed almost the whole time. If you look at the big black thing in the middle, right in the middle you can see the little butt cheek with a leg and a foot coming off of it, all outlined in white.

This is a picture of the baby's little face. Turn it counter clockwise.. it looks slightly alien-like, but still cute. If you look under the face you can see the baby's two little lungs.