sd shower

last week my sweet mother-in-law, jan, threw me a baby shower. it was great, everyone ate the yummy food(ie..chicken salad, homemade rolls, fresh fruit, and sorbet!) and chit chatted the entire time-my kind of shower.

my friend jaime, the martha stewart of sd, made the cutest invites to the shower and did amazing center pieces for the tables. then she really out did herself with a dang cute blanket and wall hanging for me and baby-she is great! (isn't her son parker so cute??)

cali gals-so fun!

enjoying the company and food. yea for pink and green, i have an addiction.

sweet grandma jensen:)

pearl gets a nose job

about a year and half ago, chris and i were driving in utah, in the winter(imagine crazy icy roads) and decided to take a shortcut for a quick errand, forgetting the steep hill in that short cut. this is what happened to our sweet pearl: (thank you carterville rd!)

ever since then we have wanted to fix her up, but bumpers are expensive, luckily we have a good friend who has the hook up on auto body stuff-not only did tommy get us a slamming deal but he helped chris install it too. he is great, yea for tommy!

the boys hard at work.

she looks good doesn't she?? we have also gotten a new windshield since we moved to sd, another hit that the utah winters/rocks took to our pearl. so nice to have a non-ghetto looking car, pearl is beautiful again!

welcome to my world

every morning i wake up with mammoth hands. for some reason in the night my circulation is extremely bad and my hands get so big that i can barely bend my fingers. i am really careful with how i sleep on my arms because of this, but nothing helps. they also get painful when i go on my walks, and while i am getting out some complaints here is another-none of my shoes fit! my feet don't look especially swollen or anything, i still have ankles and all, but they are swollen enough that all i can wear is flip flops. luckily it is summer, but i hate it on sundays, i am a pumps or wedges girl and i miss them! yesterday i squeezed on a pair of wedges, but by the end of sitting in church for 3 hours i could not get them on, so i walked bare foot to the car. awesome.

i don't have a great camera, but i tried to show the puffiness. my real wedding ring almost fits on my pinkie and the fake one i bought at walmart(who likes to walk around pregnant with no wedding ring on-i don't!) which is 2 sizes bigger then my normal one, is halfway down my ring finger. i can't wear it in the mornings. yea for pregnancy....27 more days.

hook up '08

chris is a hunter and a gatherer by nature, the boy loves to catch things as previously told in older posts. this weekend, he went on an overnight deep sea fishing trip with his company. he loved it. he caught 2 fish, probably about 60lbs. total, but lost 4 fish due to lines breaking, hooks coming out, etc... the big news is that he won 2nd place in the biggest fish contest and $150(which is better then 1st place in my book because 1st place won a new reel-i'll take the cash thanks!) we seared and bbq some of the tuna last night, it was yummy. i am go glad that he had fun, he works so hard all the time that he totally deserved the break!

so cute! here are his big fish, a yellow tail and a blue something or other, I can't remember.

I am so glad that they gut and fillet the fish for you, what a headache that would be- not to mention stinky and messy!

6 weeks left

so yesterday i was offically 34 weeks-yipee! here are the requested pics of my belly, it sticks out more and more these days. still feeling pretty good, except i am back to the exhausted stage and my hands and feet swell alot-awesome. mostly i am tired of being uncomfortable all the time, the extra weight is just annoying and don't worry i just had someone ask me yesterday IF i was pregnant, no i am just gaining weight all in the front, weird huh??? i thought i looked the part pretty good now, but maybe not!

the belly.

use to not be able to tell that much from the front, no longer is that the case.