Magic House

I don't have much of an excuse why I haven't blogged in a few weeks, except that I am now 30 weeks pregnant and exhausted. Bridget keeps me busy so when she naps, I nap! It hit me that I am down to my last 10 weeks so I have decided that I will try harder to kick my butt into gear and get more done. Besides the normal stuff of laundry and cleaning the house, I mean that I am going to start making freezer meals for after family leaves, DEEP clean/organzie the basement, maybe make a baby blanket, etc. Anyways...it has been crazy HOT here in St. Louis, so we have been trying to stay indoors when at all possible! A couple weeks ago Josh went to scout camp, so in order to have busy days we tried some new things. We went to this place called the Magic House, which is a huge childrens museum with all different kinds of things to do! We have never been there before because it's $9.50 a person, ages 1 and up! So I felt like Bridget was old enough to enjoy it and get our moneys worth. They had a sand table that she really enjoyed

A water center

She doesn't look happy here, but she was having a blast I promise!

Hard to get a non-blurry picture while coming down the slide, on the cell phone

This is just a small, small portion of what we did. They also had a tumbling area with all kinds of padding, and lots of pretend play things like a restaurant, grocery store, library, auto center, and vet clinic. The vet clinic I think was her favorite. She would take the stuffed animals out of their kennels and love on them. It was all fun until I told her she had to put them back, and she couldn't take them home! Sad day for her! I definately want to take her back, but we will keep an eye out for free days and deals next time!

While we were in Iowa, my sister kindly volunteered to watch Bridget so Josh and I could go on a date. We decided to go to Joe's Crab Shack. Josh had been wanting to try it and he LOVES seafood, so it was perfect. He got this huge bucket of crab, lobster and shrimp. He was in heaven!

I don't like shell fish, so I got the Mahi Mahi with Mango Pico de Gallo, it was delish. After that we walked around the mall, and managed to find room in our stomachs for some Coldstone ice cream!

27 weeks

I realized it had been a while since I last took a belly pic, and wanted an updated one. I have gotten much bigger, but am still in the comfortable stage of pregnancy. I can tell I don't have much time left though, because I am starting to get REALLY full when I eat, and I feel like I have barely eaten anything! It's really annoying because I will want to eat dessert after dinner, but I will be so full that I can't! And you know I must be really full if I can't even stomach a dessert! While we were in Iowa I practically felt sick the entire time because I was eating SO much! That was when I knew I had to start eating much smaller portions and not as often once we got home! Oh and not all of the baby girls kicks are cute and fun. About half the time now she will do one that just hurts! If pregnancy was 30 weeks that would be perfect!

Otherwise I can't complain too much, things have been going pretty smoothly. Now that my posion ivy is better, life is much more enjoyable. Oh by the way, I went on Trek 24 weeks pregnant and did totally fine hiking, until I got posion ivy!! So annoying! But they put me on steroids and that helped a ton, so I'm good now. Next week I have my 28 week appointment and glucose test. Everyone pray that I don't have gestational diabetes or else I will be one grumpy pregnant woman!

4th of July

For the holiday week we decided to drive up to Iowa to visit my sister and her family. Josh just had to work a half day on Tuesday so we left at noon, and got in around 6. A little bit later my sister and I went to the grocery store to get a few things and when we came back, all the kids were outside and Josh told me Bridget had already been jumping on the trampoline and that she touched a frog!!! Let the summer vacation begin, right?! The next day on the 4th, we went to their towns parade. This was Bridget's first parade and she really enjoyed it! The funniest part was that when people would throw candy at us, Bridget would just throw it back, all the while I am trying to collect it! My sister and I with all the kiddos

Trying to get a picture of Bridget...next to impossible

After the parade we came home and set up the baby pool and slip n' slide! The high that day was over 100!

She LOVES the water!

All of the kids except Mary Anne, she fell asleep on the way home from the parade!

That night we went to the park to watch Fireworks! Bridget fell asleep on the way, and the park is like 2 minutes away! She was that tired! Josh and I debated just going home, but we decided to wake her up. She had never seen fireworks before, so we really wanted to go. She ended up loving them and watching pretty intently. It was a great 4th of July spent with family and having fun!

Daddy-Daughter Time

This weekend was our Stake Conference, so Josh went to the Priesthood Leadership meeting at 4:00 and I went to the Adult session at 7:00. He got home at 6:30, just in time for us to quickly trade places for watching Bridget! As I was leaving Bridget was looking out the window, waving goodbye to me and smiling. Well Josh said as soon as I was out of sight, she started to cry. So he made the hasty decision to go on a bike ride, and as soon as he mentioned that, she started excitedly running around the house! He stopped at a little shack that sells Hawaiian Snow and these are the pictures he got:

Half way done!

I am sad to say that this is the first belly picture we have taken of this pregnancy! While each day seems to go slow when I think I am only half way done, the weeks just keep on passing by one after another! I am hoping the last half of this pregnancy goes as quickly as the first half did! I have been feeling great and everything is well! In the morning I am thinking about all the things I want to do when Bridget goes down for nap(like catch up on scrapbooking), but by the time that comes all I want to do is take a nap myself! {I will be 22 weeks on Tuesday}

Bridget wanted to be held of course, so Josh got her to laugh and we made a cute picutre out of it!

{20 week ultrasound}

I am so excited for this baby to come, to add to our family and watch Bridget be a big sister! I wish October would hurry up and get here! Oh, and did I mention how much I am dreading this summer?!

Memorial Day Weekend

For Memorial Day weekend this year we didn't go anywhere or do anything exciting. We just stayed at home and did a fun thing each day. Friday we started yardwork at 7 a.m. before it got hot, that day the high was 97 degrees! We enjoyed running errands together and doing projects around the house all before nap time. After nap time Bridget wanted to play outside, so we introduced her to playing in the sprinkler! She didn't know what to do, so Josh and I ran through a couple times to show her and then she loved it!

Saturday morning we loaded the bikes up in the truck and drove about 40 minutes to a park that Josh found online just looking for a new bike trail. This is the one picture I took in the parking lot:

The bike trail was not at all what we were expecting. Starting out it was steep downhill and rocky! My hands were hurting so bad from gripping my brakes so hard! Then it was okay for a little bit before it turned into riding through grass, and then sand!! We had to get off and walk our bikes because it was impossible. Then we came up to a river, so we walked down and thought Bridget would enjoy that. Josh had read that there were nice, sandy beaches great for cooling off. Turns out it was muddy and Bridget did not like the feeling on her feet! So we quickly washed her feet off, put her shoes on and got back on our bikes! The rest of the bike ride was fine, except going back was ALL UPHILL!! Even Josh got off his bike, not just the out of shape, pregnant lady! While at the momement it felt like the bikeride from Hell, we were able to laugh and find humor thanks to Bridget. She was perfectly content sitting in her seat, eating Cheez-its while Josh and I huffed & puffed up this hill. She noticed our heavy breathing and began imitating us! It was so funny, Josh said "Yeah Bridget, I bet you are really tired sitting there!". Before we knew it we were back at the truck and it was all over with! Next time I think we will stick with the flat, paved trails! That night we BBQ'd hamburgers. I put Bridgets little patty in a heel of bread and she ate almost the whole thing! I've been learning that the more I make her meal look like ours, she will be more likely to eat it!

Sunday, after Bridget woke up from her nap we took her to a little splash park that Josh discovered just that afternoon while he was driving some kids home from church. They were telling him that they go there all the time because it's free! It's just this gated area at a park, and water shoots up from all different holes and the kids just run though it and play! Bridget really like it, and had fun playing with the other kids.

Monday we had our ward BBQ at a park. Bridget got to play and run around with all her friends for two hours, and then fell asleep as soon as we got in the car! Josh stayed longer to play in the kickball game. Later that afternoon we went swimming over at a friends house and had pizza for dinner! I didn't take any pictures, but Bridget LOVED swimming in a big pool! Josh and I would throw her back and forth. Josh also got her kicking and blowing bubbles in the water. Then when she was tired of being held, we took her over to the stairs and she played on those with her friend for about a half an hour! I wish I had brough my camera, they were so cute! It was a really busy weekend, but we had so much fun and we all got some good tan lines! Can't wait for more summer fun!