Baby Shower for Nixon!

The morning of the baby shower was very busy!  Berkley was the only one who got to eat breakfast...lucky girl!

There was a good turn-out and I enjoyed seeing my friends and family!  Berkley thought that the party was for her and didn't like that mommy was opening all of the presents so she got to help a little bit!  

My friend, Kathleen, made this adorable blanket and a cute little beanie and jacket for Nixon!  I wish I had that much talent!

Aaron's sister and her daughter (Joli and Brooke) brought this adorable diaper bike all the way from Ogden!  Unfortunately it didn't like the ride very much but it was still super cute!

The diaper cake from Ryan and Ashley (our besties!) and the yummy food!

How cute is this?!  Ashley saw it on Pinterest and was brave enough to attempt it and talented enough to make it turn out AWESOME!  She's so great!

Opening more presents!

We got lots and lots of super cute clothes!  I loved it!

My mom made this adorable blanket for Nixon!  The funny thing is that we picked out the fabric back in November before we knew if we were having a boy or a girl and way before we bought the bedding for his room.  I forgot what colors the blanket was and we ended up with matching bedding anyways!

We got a few cute stuffed animals!

Berkley didn't waste any time in claiming this little friend as her own!

Cute little dinosaur burp cloths!

I love this dinosaur blanket!

A cute dinosaur car seat cover too!  Thanks, Mom!  The cover is perfect on the car seat and it's all ready for the big day now!

Berkley was heart-broken when I took this present from her to open it so she got to help!  AGAIN!!!  :)  She's such a cute little bug!

Still opening presents!  Wow!  I got to open a lot!

More cute clothes!

Berkley playing with my cousin's daughter, Riley!  She LOVES to back up to sit down on people!

I DEFINITELY got showered with gifts!  

The cute Ryan and Ashley who planned the whole shabang!  Thanks guys!  You rock!

Bubbles, Independent Toddler, and Other Fun Stuff!

So since I could have my baby any time now (Yup!  I'm full-term today!) I decided that I need to stay up to date on my blogging as much as possible so here are the first 10 days of June!

This cute little princess loves bubbles!

She does a pretty good job at blowing them too!

Bowls make pretty good hats!  Silly girl!

Berkley is ALL about being independent!  If she can't by herself then she doesn't want to do it at all!  I absolutely hate how difficult this can make my day.  Thankfully she can feed herself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without making a mess so I let her eat a lot of these sandwiches!  Sometimes I can't get her to eat at all unless she gets to feed herself so I make sandwiches to avoid the fight altogether!  It's worth it for sure!

My mom has been attending the Institute of Healing Arts for the past year and graduated last Monday!  Good job, Mom!

Feeding herself again!  I usually give her a bowl of dry cereal (her favorite is Lucky Charms!) and let her sit on the couch and watch her learning shows.  She LOVES it!

Having fun at playgroup!  She loves to sit and play in the wood chips with the other little kiddos!

First family swim day of the year!  I really LOVE that we have a pool right in our neighborhood!  It was the perfect temperature too!

Hiding behind a blanket and playing Peek-A-Boo!  She loves to play!

Wearing her Uncle Paxton's shoes!  She loves to take shoes out of the basket and play with them!

She got herself stuck under the stool!  It was hilarious!  She's such a funny girl!

I love that she sits on pillows like this!  She loves to pull them off the couches and do this!

May, May, May! What a fast and wonderful month!

May was a great month!  Busy and fast (wasn't it?!), but great!  We enjoyed many things: Mother's Day, our 6th anniversary, playing with Berkley, and much more!

This little girl is just so dang beautiful!  I can't get enough of her!

I love this cute little patriotic outfit on her and her pose is to die for!

This beautiful, new diaper bag was my Mother's Day present from my sweet husband!  I absolutely love it!!!  I don't have a picture of my anniversary gift from him but he got me a red, black, and white bag too!  Isn't he so sweet?!



Berkley loves lots of things (as I will show you below) but one of her FAVORITE things is PB&J!  I love that she loves PB&J sandwiches because they are easy to make and she doesn't make a mess when she eats them!  That's why she's sitting on the couch.  Can you tell she's a little obsessed with watching TV?  She even stares at it when it's off just waiting for something to come on the screen!



We love to reward Berkley for her good behavior and she was AMAZING for 2 days in a row so we went out for ice cream!  YUM!!!

Other things that Berkley loves: being outside (we went to her Uncle Paxton's end of the year dance festival at Grovecrest Elementary), unzipping her PJ's, suckers (she doesn't make a mess either!), stuffed animals (she loves to pick one from her crib to bring with her when we get her out in the morning), sitting on pillows on the floor, sleeping in (I love it too!  She actually slept until 9:40 the day I took the picture!), playing the piano (she even pushes her toys over so she can reach the keys...thank goodness that it's a Clavinova!), playing with her magnetic doodle pad and sitting under her high chair, playing at the park (she even sat down to go down the slide by herself!), eating (I love to watch her eat pasta!  SO CUTE!!!), and spending time with mommy and daddy (nothing beats home-popped popcorn and family movie night!)

We left Berkley overnight for the first time ever to celebrate our anniversary.  It was very sad for us and we missed her like crazy.  I even bawled my eyes out within a minute of leaving the house.  We felt that it was better to see how she would do before we went to the hospital to have Nixon.  Otherwise, she would have spent the night with us!  The yummy fudge brownie sundae I had at Dee's helped me to feel a lot better!  Holy yumminess!

We went to the doctor on May 31st to see how Nixon is doing and he's doing GREAT!  He weighs about 5 lb 7 oz and he's head down...ready for the big day!  My cervix isn't dilated yet (fine by me!) but it is softening and I'm 50% effaced so my body is definitely getting ready!  The only problems I've had with this pregnancy have been recent.  In the past month I have had 2 UTI's and a yeast infection...MISERABLE!!!  Other than that this pregnancy has been about as easy as it could possibly be and I'm still loving it!  Nixon is pretty wiggly so we're kind of worried about the likely sleep deprivation but it will all be worth it to have him in our family and we are super excited for the big day!  As long as things continue to go well we only have 3 weeks and 6 days left to go!  CRAZY!  That's only 27 days!  Time to finish the last minute preparations!

The above picture is me at 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, and 35 weeks along.  I'm definitely growing but I've still only gained less than 17 pounds as of today (35 weeks and 4 days along)!  With 5.5 pounds of that being our little man and a lot of it being my blood, placenta, amniotic fluid, and lots of other stuff we figure that I'm losing my body weight so hopefully I will have an easier time getting into shape after he's born!  It took me 4 months to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight after Berkley but I had lost 22 pounds in the first 3 weeks after I had her so if that's the case then I plan on being back to my pre-pregnancy weight by 1 month postpartum!  I'm crossing my fingers!

Just for fun to see how much I've grown here are some pictures of me at 5, 15, 25, and 35 weeks pregnant!  Yup!  There's definitely a baby in there!

A very sweet girl in my new ward took some awesome pictures for us yesterday!  She's on her way out of town today but she was kind enough to edit some of the pictures for me so I could have a sneak peek and we LOVE them!  She did great!  Here they are!

Berkley snuggling with Nixon and mommy!

Feeling for Nixon's big kicks!

I'm so in love with my cute little princess and my sweet little prince on the way!  They are SO loved!  Aaron is the best daddy to Berkley and I can't wait to see him with our little man! 

I will post more of these great pictures when I get them!  You should check out our photographer, Sarah Miller, on Facebook!

https://www.facebook.com/#!/sarahmillerphotos

Thanks for reading!



April is over already?! Wow!

April went so fast!  It's hard to believe that we're already 1/3 of the way through the year!  I have mixed feelings about time passing so quickly because the faster time goes, the sooner we will get to really meet our baby Nixon but at the same time, the less time we have left to prepare for Nixon and the less time I have left to be pregnant.  Honestly, I love being pregnant so that will be hard for me.  Oh well!  I guess that there's no such thing as slowing down time so I will just have to keep taking each moment as it comes and appreciate the time that I do have!

Two of Berkley's favorite things: her TOMS and waiting at the window for daddy to come home!  I love this picture!



Four cute prego girls!  Me (Nixon due July 2nd - 29 weeks 4 days along), Alexa (Bennett due July 21st), Josie (Trevyn due September 15th), and Cass (??? due November 24th)!  Cass is the only one who doesn't know if she's having a boy or a girl yet but she's hoping for another girl.  The rest of us are having boys!  It's so fun that we're all pregnant together!

We got to get together on April 20th to celebrate Taylor (Cass' hubby) graduating!  It was fun to reunite!

Berkley hanging out with her daddy!  She can't get enough of him!  She threw the biggest tantrum when he left for work today...it was cute but sad!

We finally have bedding for Nixon!  I bought it on the day that I was 30 weeks along (cutting it pretty close in my opinion!) and Berkley LOVES sitting on it!  She sat like this for most of the night.  She really cracks me up!

We got to go to the park for playgroup because the weather was nice and Berkley loved it!  She hated the wood chips at first but once she decided they were okay, she couldn't get enough of them!

Wearing my hat...backwards!  She kept putting it over her face and running around "blind" and running into things and making us laugh!  She loves being our entertainment!

Berkley and Swoop...inseparable!  She LOVES Swoop!  She gives him kisses on the beak, holds him, snuggles him, pets him, you name it!  She's in love!  :)

One of Berkley's new things that I love...she lays on her tummy with her feet "frogged" behind her and watches TV.  It's so CUTE!  I love her adorable grown-up girl personality!

Berkley loves to play "mommy" with her baby doll!  She holds her and "gives loves", and burps her!  She's going to be a great big sister!

Berkley got to ride on top of the lawn mower at Home Depot when we met up with Nate and Josie so they could buy their 3rd lawn mower for the season!  Hopefully this one is the winner!

Our zoo pass expired yesterday so we went to the zoo one last time...for now...I'm sure I will have to renew so I can hike up that big hill on the backside while pushing Berkley in the stroller in an attempt to get Nixon here sooner!  We had a blast!

Goodbye, April and Hello, May!  I hope that the rest of the year continues to be awesome!

P.S. Berkley said grandpa for the first time today when I was talking to my dad on the phone...so adorable!  She kind of says it like "bam-pa" and it's the cutest thing! 

P.P.S. I love this little girl SO much (obviously...I can't talk about her enough!) and I love my little man, Nixon, and can't wait to hold him in my arms and give him lots of hugs and kisses!  Aaron is the best dad I ever could ask for to be the father of my children and I just feel so blessed!  My heart aches for those who experience trials with finding their spouse or having children and I take their hardships as a reminder of how blessed I am not to have those trials.  I couldn't feel more grateful for my life and the wonderful people I share it with!  I wish all of you the best in your lives as well and, if these are your trials, I wish and pray that you will be comforted and know that I love and care about you and that you are in my thoughts and prayers!