Mommy/Son Date Night!

Last week the Central States Fair was going on, and the bank that I work for had two premier seating passes for anyone to use! I snatched those babies up for 3 nights of fair fun. Adam and I went to the Supercross and Demolition Derby on 2 separate nights before he left on TDY for San Antonio. The final night I had tickets for was the Blake Shelton concert (I LOVE country). The premier ticket seating was pretty nice/close, and Blake put on a great concert.

I used one ticket and decided that my son would use the other one since Adam was out of town. We both enjoyed a delicious funnel cake with powdered sugar.

The fair was all good fun until I went home after the concert only to have food poisoning for 4 hours that night. I guess that funnel cake wasn't so good after all....eew.

Anyway, here is my "official" 24 week bump picture. Enjoy!

Glacier National Park

No matter where we live, we always try to tour the surrounding areas and visit the national parks. A few weeks ago, Adam and I decided to go camping at Glacier National Park (most likely our last time camping alone for at least the next 18 years!). Glacier NP is in far northwest Montana, about 13 hours away from us. Being the pregnant lady that I am, I brought a roll of TP for the car ride, knowing that driving through MT is like driving through the middle of nowhere for hours....because you are driving through the middle of nowhere for hours. Needless to say, there were a few times I had to create my own little stall between the car doors...lol.

We stayed at the Air Force Base in Great Falls, MT Friday on the way up to the park so we wouldn't be driving so much in one day. We made it to the park Saturday morning, and as we were approaching the main entrance, a black bear ran across the road! It was pretty cool. I was glad it wasn't a grizzly...those guys freak me out! We set up our little campsite, which I reserved online by finding the closest available site to the bathroom (as seen in the background :) ). The weather was pretty rainy off and on, but that didn't stop us!

After we set up camp, we went searching for firewood. Adam, the Eagle Scout that he is, found us some wild raspberries that were pretty delicious. (The baby thought they were pretty good too ; ) ).

That evening, we enjoyed some yummy foil dinners on the campfire along with roasted marshmallows. We slept pretty well that night on our air mattress. I brought about 10 blankets that we piled on top to keep us warm. I still ended up wearing 3 shirts, a sweatshirt/hoodie, two pairs of socks, and two pairs of pants to bed. I learned after our camping trip to Yellowstone a few years ago that it gets COLD at night - even in August! Heidi snuggled up in between us, and we all slept pretty well.


The next day we toured the park along the most popular road, called the "Going-to-the-Sun Road." I think Adam said the road took us up 3,000 feet. We were both kind of glad that we were so high up in the clouds that we couldn't really see just how high we were.

There were a lot of spots along the road to pull over and see various sights.

The picture of the gulch below was one of my favorite spots along the road. I thought it was so gorgeous! We also decided to capture an illustration of Heidi's rebellious behavior.

The picture of the glacier below is the one that is best seen from the road. The others can be reached by hiking up to them - unfortunately, we didn't have the time or the energy. Adam was making fun of me because I pictured a glacier in my head as looking more like an iceberg floating in the water. I thought we were going to get to touch one and slide down it or something...drrr.

Here is a picture of Lake McDonald. You can see how clear and beautiful the water was. In the picture at the very beginning of this post, you can see how blue the water was too. Adam read that the sediments from the glaciers give the water its blue-ish tint.

This picture was taken along the drive, and I love how it shows just how clear the water was there. Even the rocks in the lakes were red, yellow, and blue colored. Every time I saw the water I just wanted to roll around in it and slurp it up. (Of course, we all know that I think everything looks delicious these days).

Here is a picture of St. Mary Lake near the end of the road:

We headed home after driving the main road. We both couldn't believe how gorgeous everything was there. Our trip was short and full of driving, but it was all worth it!

It's a...

BOY!!!

Adam and I are the soon-to-be proud parents of a finger-sucking, adorable baby boy!!! We are so happy and excited!

Here we are at the OBGYN waiting for my Dr. to come in and perform the ultrasound:

I was excited...



Adam was a little nervous...

(he said he couldn't handle a girl because the boys would be all over her... lol). Here are some ultrasound pictures. He was sucking on his fingers for a good part of the exam (not Adam, the baby...) It was SO cute! I have even more pictures, but I'll just post a few.


This picture is kind of blurry, but I had to take an after shot with Adam holding the ultrasound picture of the baby's wee wee. HA!

Congrats to the 64% of you that voted 'boy' on my little poll! You were right!

Weekend Getaway

Last weekend Adam and I decided to take a trip down to Colorado Springs and Denver to visit with friends and see a Cubs game. Our friends Matt and Becca just got stationed in Colorado Springs, so we were able to bring their dog down to be with them, since they left him in Rapid City while they house hunted. Saturday we drove the 7 hours down to Colorado Springs, toured the town, ate at PF Chang's :), then headed up to Denver for the Cubs vs. Colorado Rockies game.

It was kind of freaky at first because we were sitting waaaay in the back of the stadium (about 6 rows from the very top). The cubbies won though, so it was worth it!

Sunday we ate some French toast w/ fried apples and whipped cream at Cracker Barrel. I forgot how delicious the food is there. Adam said his favorite parts of the trip were the Cubs game and French toast. My mouth is watering just thinking about it...although I must say that these days my mouth waters when I think about pretty much any food...or object that reminds me of food. Adam said he wanted to go to the Apple store, and I was thinking, "Ooo a store full of different kinds of apples..that sounds SO good." I didn't realize he was talking about the Apple computer store. Boring! Also, on the road we saw huge mounds of dirt covered with white plastic and black tires to hold the plastic down. I immediately thought of chocolate donuts in a field of powdered sugar. Hmm...I think I need a snack!

Here are some pictures of us at Cracker Barrel with Matt and Becca. Becca is due to have a boy in October, so we're pretty close together!

Before we headed back to Rapid City Sunday afternoon, we stopped by the Air Force Academy, where Adam went to school and wrestled during his first two years of college before he transferred to BYU. It was a very beautiful campus set up against the mountains. It was fun to be given the VIP tour by Adam.

We ended up arriving back home around 10p.m. Sunday night. It was a quick trip full of driving, but all-in-all a very enjoyable weekend!

Summer Happenin's

Here is a quick summary of some of the things we've been up to this summer. I've been such a slacker when it comes to keeping up with my blog that I feel like I need to get it all in here, or it will never be seen! Back in June, my BFF Sara came to visit from West Virginia for a week. It was so awesome to hang out with my best buddy just like the old days! Some of our activities included canoeing with Heidi at Pactola Reservoir, hiking to the face of the Crazy Horse Memorial at the annual Volksmarch, hiking to the top of Harney Peak, touring Custer State Park, hanging out in Deadwood, and cheering Adam on during his first marathon!



I was so proud of my hubby for finishing a full marathon! He ran with his training/running partner Carl, and they met up with their squadron commander near the end of the race. I have pictures of Adam and Carl collapsed on the pavement afterwards, which was pretty humorous to me and Sara...We were pretty tired too though - trying to keep up in a car with two guys while they run 26.2 miles is exhausting! ; )

This last picture is of Heidi in her self-made fort under our bed. She enjoys ripping up the fabric from underneath the boxspring and climbing inside. It took me forever to find her one day because she was sleeping in there and wouldn't come when I called her. I thought it was so funny, I just had to take a picture (or 5)! I love that dog! haha.

I'm Halfway There!

I figure since I haven't posted since MAY, I should probably give some kind of update on how we're doing! My pregnancy has been going really well. I found out I have a negative blood type (I know...I'm 24, and I just found that out), which means I get to have the peanut butter shot in my hiney here pretty soon...so that's exciting. I am now 20 weeks along, so I'm super excited to be halfway through! We'll find out if the baby is a boy or a girl on August 10th (this Monday!!!). Hmm...speaking of, I'll make a little poll to the right of this post, and you let me know what you think we're having! I'm pretty convinced that it's a girl, although I keep referring to the baby as a "he" without thinking. I've also been feeling the baby kicking and moving around every day, which is really cool and reassuring. Adam has felt the baby kick twice, but both times were pretty subtle. The following are my bump pictures at 15 weeks (green shirt), 18 weeks (red shirt), and 20 weeks (pink shirt).
Be sure to vote!!!