More Fun Times in June!

The clock is ticking quickly so I am hurrying to catch up again because who knows how often I will post once Nixon is here!  These are just a few of my favorite moments lately.  Enjoy!

Berkley asleep in her crib...so precious!  I seriously adore this little princess!

Playing at the splash pad in North Salt Lake!  Berkley wasn't a huge fan of playing in the water but she LOVED running around the water and watching her very pregnant mommy chase her!  Little stinker!

A water activity requiring much less chasing (YAY!)...playing in the pool in the back yard with Zander while mommy and Sarah visit and enjoy frozen treats!  It was much more relaxing (despite the heat) than chasing Berkley around the splash pad!

Berkley was pretty worn out after playing in her pool!  I love that she still holds her ear when she's tired!  When she holds both ears, you KNOW she's exhausted!

Holding hands!  Berkley has been super clingy lately (I think she can sense that things are changing) and she INSISTED on holding my hand while we watched TV one day!  It was so precious!  I love that she loves me!

Eating cereal in her pool...silly girl!  She refused to sit anywhere else to eat that day!

I found her like this one morning.  I'm still not sure how she got that arm out...

Yummy graham crackers and beautiful eyes!

Giving daddy his Father's Day presents!  We got him 2 T-shirts, a movie (the new Sherlock Holmes), and an outfit for Nixon that says "Handsome Like Daddy" on it!  SO TRUE!  I have no doubt that our little man will be super handsome like his daddy!

She loves to climb onto the ottoman and watch TV!  I love how cute she is!

Very sleepy girl all snuggled up in mommy's baby blanket!  I love that she can use and love it now too!

Daddy and Berkley on our walk around the neighborhood!  She loves this guy just a little bit...okay, a LOT!

Today she climbed up on  the ottoman and laid down like this and I about died!  She's seriously so cute!  I love how much she has grown and learned lately!

This is me at 38 weeks and 3 days pregnant!  I am wearing pre-pregnancy clothes (pants buttoned all the way even) AND my rings!  With Berkley I couldn't wear pre-pregnancy clothes early on (I started wearing maternity clothes when I was only 9 weeks pregnant!) and I couldn't get my rings on or off at 30 weeks along so this is SUPER exciting for me!  I love that I don't have to feel quite as frumpy as I did with Berkley!

36, 37, and 38 weeks along!  Time is flying!

At our appointment with my midwife yesterday we found out that I am 3 cm dilated and 90% effaced (I was 2 and 80% last week) and Nixon's face was so far down that we couldn't even see it.  He is measuring at approximately 7 lb 2 oz (Berkley's birth weight) and we're super excited to meet him and hold him and have his sweet spirit in our home!  We scheduled my induction for next Thursday (the 28th) at 3 PM.  The way my midwife said it was, "I'll see you next Thursday unless you go into labor before then."  I think that he's planning on Nixon coming before then! 

I can't believe that the time is already nearly here!  We have everything ready to go to the hospital and we are ecstatic to be meeting our little man in less than a week!  I wish that I could enjoy some of the things about being pregnant forever but I am honestly excited to get my body back so I can get in good shape and I can't wait to have my pelvis stop cracking every morning! 

For the most part this pregnancy has been as easy as can be though.  I know that I am very blessed to be able to be pregnant and have children and I am SO thankful to my Heavenly Father for the beautiful opportunity He has given me to be a mom on Earth.  I will update when the little man is here!

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!