Tiny Update

Breast feeding sounds hard, but definitely worth it. 

I want this diaper bag super, duper bad. 

It's so original looking. 

I'm really excited to go out to dinner tonight. The whole Linx office is going to P.F. Chang's, because they won a contest during the week. I've never been to P.F. Chang's, but it sounds amazing. 

Sometimes I get really excited to meet our little girl and finally get to see what she looks like.

Other times I get really nervous/anxious and worry that I won't be able to do this. 

I assume this is completely normal. 

We have just about 10 more weeks till she gets here. Holy crap. 

Banana Bread

I just made banana bread for the first time in a really long time. Hopefully it turned out good. I have yet to try it. We're gonna have spaghetti tonight. I'm excited to make it... then eat it. I love spaghetti. I think I should have been born an Italian. 

Tomorrow morning we're going on a tour of the hospital that we are going to be having our baby in. I'm kind of excited for it. I'm not sure Devin shares my excitement, but that's ok. He is going with me anyways, cause he is a good husband like that.  

I'm huge and I'm not even 30 weeks pregnant yet. I'm going to need a forklift to get in and out of our apartment before every thing is said and done.

Baby is very strong these days. Sometimes she'll kick/punch so hard and suddenly that it will actually startle me. Or she'll just continuously kick and punch me for a good while. That's a lot of fun. (Insert sarcasm) 

I'm so excited to have a baby with my wonderful husband. I know it'll be a HUGE adjustment, but I know we can do it. Plus Devin is going to be the cutest daddy EVAR. 

Just tried some of the banana bread... it's not bad. Hopefully hubby agrees. 

I don't know if anybody reads this blog. If you do, I'm sorry that I just kind of ramble and don't say anything of real importance. Oh well... you're the one that chose to read it. :P

Washington So Far

                                                                                                                                                                                                               Well... have been in Washington for almost one whole week now. It seems like a pretty great place so far.

The ward here is pretty much amazing. I've never lived in a ward where they are so welcoming. I'm really excited for us to get to know everyone better.
Today is Devin's first day out selling. Hopefully we will do good and be able to get some sales. I think by the end of the summer is going to be very tired, cause he is going to be working long hours every day except Sundays. It'll be good for him though.
The weather here is definitely different than the weather in S. Utah. There is almost always clouds in the sky and right now it can still be kinda cold and windy. They say it'll get very hot though, so we still have that to look forward to.
The apartment we are in is VERY small, but it still works. Also... we are on the third floor. Awesome, right? I can't wait till I'm 36 weeks pregnant and having to go up three flights of stairs everyday. NOT.

Here is the bump at 27 weeks. I feel huge and I still have a long ways to go.   

We went to Winco for the first time last week and it was amaaaazing. We spent like over an hour in just one part of the store. We are soo going back once we get some money. 

That's all I've got for now. I'll try to get better about keeping this thing updated while we're up here.              

La de da

(Please, please, please ignore my face on the first one.)

It's been really hard for me to really tell if I'm growing at all so I decided to put these together. Obviously I am, whether I can tell or not. It's just a little bit, but you can still tell. It's very exciting. 

Devin and I are moving to WA THIS MONTH. Yep, believe it or not, it's THIS MONTH. Can you say holy crap?! It's coming really fast. We are super excited, but I'm still a little nervous just because of the whole being pregnant thing. I'm sure it'll work out though, cause if it doesn't I'm going to be a very unhappy pregnant lady and that won't be pretty. Trust me. 

We get to see our baby again on Tuesday. I really like the fact that we've gotten to see her every month. It's cool to get to watch her grow. Have I mentioned how active she is? She is crazy! I don't know what she's gonna do when she is so big and there is hardly any room left to move in her little home. She'll probably kick me in the ribs. That'll be fun. 

I can't wait till we get to WA and I get to wear my new swimsuit. (There is a pool where we're going to be living!) It's ridiculously cute. 

See..

Of course I don't look quite this good in it, but It's pretty close. haha

Devin is sooo excited to get out there and start selling. I'm really happy that he is looking so forward to it instead of dreading it or something. 

All in all I think this summer is going to pretty awesome AND one of the biggest adventures of our life.... so far.

Cloth Diapers

Yes, I think I'm going to do it. Just after reading all of the stuff I've read like: 

    It can take 200-500 YEARS for a disposable diaper to decompose in a landfill and there are 50 MILLION of those diapers dumped every day. (What are we doing to our planet?!)
    Babies who use cloth diapers potty train sooner/easier, as long as you change them quickly. They potty train up to 24 months early. It's only in the US and other places that use disposables that kids don't potty train as late as 36-48 months. The US used to be like other countries and potty train sooner, but once disposables were introduced people began to push it back. (Are we really that lazy? Why?)
    It DOES cost less to use cloth too. You can buy good quality cloth diapers and use them on more than just one child, PLUS if you keep them in good enough shape you can resell them when you no longer need them. (Can you do that with disposables?)
    Also, I've talked to other moms and from their experience they recommend starting cloth diapers with your first child so that you can be in the habit of it before all the other kids come along. (Makes sense to me.)
   Plus as far as I've heard, the main reason women use disposables is because it's easy. Easy? Really? That's it? You have no other good reasons? Well that definitely doesn't make me want to use disposables. I need a little better reason than that.

  There are a bunch of other reasons why I choose cloth over disposables, but I don't feel like listing them all. So there is just a few of the reasons. As far as I'm concerned cloth diapers ARE worth it. 

People, don't be rude about my choice, ESPECIALLY if you have NO personal experience with cloth diapers. It's my choice to make, not yours. 

(sorry for the rant there. I just had to get it out. some people are just so thick headed.)

(p.s. cloth is the best choice in my opinion, but I don't have anything against people who use disposables. it's your choice. i will still probably use disposables on occasion, they just aren't going to be my main way of diapering.)

Anyways... if any of you out there have any ideas, advice, or anything else you would like to share about cloth diapers please let me know. I don't know everything so I'm very open to hearing other people. 

 

4 Years ago

Devin and I went on our very first official date. It was kind of a big deal to Devin at the time, cause he had been trying to get me to be with him instead of this other guy I was hanging out with. 

I think I made a good choice. 

It's probably kind of a silly "anniversary" to celebrate, but we always like to remember it anyways. He was so cute. I remember a lot of that date very well. Little did I know that I would end up waiting two years to marry that cute boy. 

Best choice EVER. 

20 Weeks

So I'm officially in my 20th week of pregnancy, but I still just barely look pregnant at all. I'm hoping after this week I'll start showing more. *fingers crossed*

Next week we get to see our baby again. I'm excited. I bet she is a lot bigger looking, cause I feel her moving on a daily basis now. For me the movements don't feel like butterflies though. It feels like gas. (haha) I guess it just depends on the person. 

Thats supposed to be the size of the baby right now... a small cantaloupe. 

I hope that we're able to find a good baby doctor in WA. I'm really sad to be leaving my doctor here. 

I'm pretty sure that I'm going to do a natural birth too. No epidural. Our bodies were made to give birth. 

Of course this idea might change. But I'm going to try really hard to go without one.

We are going to be getting our taxes back soon. It's going to help us out a ton.