April 26
Kailee has been extra clingy the past few weeks and mostly just wants her momma. I can't always take the time to just sit with her like this and sometimes it's frustrating to always have her wanting to be touching and climbing on me. But when I pause and just sit with her, my world is perfect. My pregnancy pains are dulled. My stresses don't seem to matter as much. My heart just melts and everything is perfect! I don't generally share pictures I feel I look horrible in, but regardless of looks, I felt like the luckiest woman in the world when I woke up with this angel snuggled up against me. She doesn't care how fat and frumpy I look or feel. She doesn't care if I don't think I'm good enough. All she cares about is that she has her momma. She loves me. She thinks I'm good enough. And that is truly all that matters.
April 29th
Exactly one month till our due date! We will hit 36 weeks on Tuesday. Can't wait for sweet Lilly to be here! I'm currently insanely grateful for swimming pools and how well the water lifts all of this extra weight off of me. It's the only time I'm not hurting. Thanks for taking this awesome picture Levi Edwards!
May 9th
37 weeks! Thanks to the exercises the chiropractor recommended, I'm in a lot less pain than I have been my entire pregnancy and am feeling pretty good! The entire house is finally ready for miss Lilly to join us (nesting is a very real thing, my friends) and we're getting more and more anxious and excited!
Right after school was out on the 25th, Nathan, Hyrum and I headed to Erika's house to hang out until baby Lilly made her debut. Erika and I both had terribly dry feet and hers were so swollen that a pedicure was a must! They gave her cute little disposable flip flops to wear thinking she had "forgotten" her shoes.
May 29th
39 weeks and 2 days along and still no sign of Lilly
😠in fact, she has now flipped and is in the wrong position! Little punk. Fingers crossed she decides to flip back and make her way into our family soon. We are so excited to meet her!
On the boys last day of school, I picked them up and we headed to Erika's house. We were going to stay there until Lilly was born, which we were expecting would be in the next couple of days. We ended up being there a full week....waiting. Bret, Nathan, Hyrum and Kailee went downtown for some adventures. When they got back, I quickly typed as they told us what they did and saw.
"We stopped at Fizz for mixed drinks and then went to the Salt Lake temple and were walking around and found a revolving door. We were so excited to go through the revolving door a few times. We went to the top of the Joseph Smith Memorial building to see the temple from clear up high.
We looked for a train to go on because it would be free and fun. Somebody jumped up on a planter and had a button up shirt and yelled "Lucifer in the house". He was tumbling around, took his shirt off, almost got run over. An Irish man commented, "if he gets run over, he'll probably die and really meet lucifer.
Nathan did pull ups on the train. Once off the train we went to the Jazz stadium and we were posers in front of the Jazz note. It started to get hot so we went to the fountain and got wet. We went on a few escalators 'cause I love escalators. We wanted to get drinks but the wallet was in the car so we took a train to get back and actually took the wrong train.
We went to Macey's where the car was parked. We went to The Junction to eat and got pizza and Bret got a hamburger with an egg in it.
On the way back we saw some lady missionaries who had a lemonade stand and a sign that said, "free lemonade and a message about living water".
Bret: "We were almost home and these two raggedy people were walking down the street and Nathan says, "there are so many homos here". Those are "hobos", not homos!"
After they got home, Erika and I went out for our own adventures.
We went to the salon where they massaged our feet, put them in paraffin wax and grated our scaly dry skin off. It was so relaxing and felt great! They painted our toes with cute lilies on them for our little Lilly.
Then we went to Zupas for lunch and had berry salads and turkey bacon avocado sandwiches....so yummy! We stopped at Walmart to get milk and ended up sitting in the van with the AC on just talking. It doesn't take much to rejuvenate us worn out moms.
When we got home, we realized that we didn't have a house key. Bret had it. One of us had to climb through the back window to unlock the front door. The nine-month pregnant momma wasn't going through any window, so I got too.
Still no Lilly!
I had to make a quick trip back to Rexburg for an appointment with Miles. I first took a picture of Nathan's eye hoping that Miles could direct us what to take since the dermatologists suggestions didn't work.
A few weeks later, Nathan's eye looked so much better!! It wasn't a stye at all, it was an infected wart cluster and the herbs Miles suggested cleared it all up.
On my way back, I brought some porch chairs and a bench for Erika's yard, as well as the weed eater so that we could clear the area under their big shade tree.
Still waiting!
Kate and Mike invited us to their house for a barbeque. On the way there, Erika and I stopped to pick up a Batman car for Kailee that we found on Facebook Marketplace. It was also a surprise for Bret, who didn't know we were getting it.
They both loved it!!
After a morning on her feet, Erika zonked in a chair for a while.
Her swollen feet needed the break. Growing a baby is exhausting!
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