A BEE-autiful shower!

Well, it is offical! I have been spoiled aboslutely rotten by everyone I know. My Boise friends threw me a shower, my ward friends did as well and now Nate's sweet aunt and cousins here in Idaho Falls threw me an amazing FAMILY shower this past weekend.

I had family come over from Boise, up from Salt Lake, and down from Montana.

SIMPLY. SPOILED. ROTTEN.

My family is incredible as are my close friends who came as well. It is no small feat to just hop in the car and drive 3-4 hours to come to a baby shower. I am blessed to have people in my life who make those kinds of sacrifices and I am so thankful and grateful for each and every one of them.

I am offically READY for baby to make her entrance into this world.

P.S. My friend Sharla who was due the SAME day as me had her baby yesterday. I am so excited for her but I am seething with jealousy at the same time. ☺ Hurry up baby.....

A nursery for our princess

It has been an insanely busy weekend. I had my last and final FAMILY baby shower! We've had tons of family here and it has been crazy.I know I know, 3 showers is a bit MUCH but hey, this is IT. My last shower forever. It was so wonderful and we are now offically ready for baby to join us. I just wish she would hurry up!

My sweet, thoughtful and very talented mom in law has been working so hard on the baby's bedding and she gave me the bumper and the quilt at the shower. She did an incredible job. Everything is absolutely perfect. Now her room is FINALLY and COMPLETELY done! I have been waiting to put the pictures up on the blog until all of it was all together. A HUGE thank you goes out to Leelee for making ME and this baby feel so loved.

So here it is:

 Isn't it beautiful? I just adore it.

 Here is a little peek into the closet. This girl is SPOILED already!

All we need now is a little girl! I'm at a 1 and 75% effaced so we're making slow progress! Yahoo!

Yet another wrap up!

I've been a bit of a crappy blogger lately. Seems like all of my posts are just wrap ups of weeks at a time. Oh well, its summertime and we are just plain busy. Well, busy AND lazy at the same time I guess.

This past week Dallin earned his BEAR in the scouting program! So proud of him and his hard work!

We celebrated our wonderful DAD on for Father's Day. We took him up to the Rexburg Air Show and had a great time. The weather was just perfect and we met up with Uncle Yamo!

 Then we drove up to Ashton and tried out Big Juds. All these years of living in Boise and we never gave it a go over there. It was pretty good. Then we went up to Mesa Falls since we've never been there with Nate. We've been many times with other people but never with him. It is so incredibly beautiful up there.

 We gave Nate lots of surprises on Father's Day and made him some kabobs. YUM!

Monday Parker played the baseball game of his life. He hit 2 home runs and had 2 hits to 3rd base. All of his teammates were chanting "Par-ker Par-ker" and picked up up when he made it back home after his 2nd homer. He won the MVP award for the game as well. He is so much younger than the other kids on his team yet he is so naturally talented. It is FUN to watch him even though baseball is honestly not my favorite. It is really growing on me now. ☺

 My friend who has twins on Landon's team took some pictures of him last game. She is the one who did our family photos last fall and she will take baby pictures when sister gets here. She is so amazing. I love these pictures of Landon!

We're getting so excited for baby to get here. I catch my husband sitting in her room sometimes just rocking in the rocking chair. 18 days to go.....I'm hoping its sooner! I'm getting SICK of being pregnant and I can't wait to see, hold and smooch this little girl!

Baby drama

 Yesterday was nerve racking. I went to my 37 week appointment and we had a bit of a scare. My belly is only measuring at 35 weeks and I actually LOST weight last week. I told the Dr. that I was very concerned this baby is small. I've gained half the amount of weight that I usually gain when pregnant. The Dr. was concerned as well and he ordered an ultrasound and told me to come back to the office in one hour. He said if baby was in the less than 10th percentile that she would need to come out TODAY. Whoa. I was NOT ready for that news.

 I came home, got the boys to a friends house, tried to not cry, and packed a bag for the hospital. I met Nate back at the office and we had the ultrasound done. Sure enough though, everything is fine and baby is growing right on track. She was moving tons, and measuring around the 50th percentile. No worries. We'll go back in another week to see how things are going. What a relief! This baby is giving me such drama already and she isn't even BORN yet!

It's crazy how thinking you are going to have a baby NOW makes you realize all of the things you still need to get done. After the appointment the boys and I went to Costco. We spent a bunch of money and now I am feeling better about some of those things. We're a lot closer to being ready now. Haha.

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Today the boys and the neighbor boys had a lemonade stand. They made over $10! They screamed and yelled pretty much and every car that drove by!  It kept them busy for at least 3 hours today....that would have to be my favorite part. ☺ Bless the good people of the world who stop for lemonade stands. It makes  little boys VERY happy.

The haps.

This summer is definitely feeling a whole lot different then what we are used to. I'm used to getting a wonderful summer sun fix down at Lake Powell. Temperatures in the 70's with tons of wind just doesn't really feel all that summerish I gotta say! We're staying close to home but we are staying busy. 

We did some ice blocking with the Activity Day girls last week. Always a good time. Too bad we had more boys come along with us then we did girls! Haha.  

When we're not at the baseball fields at games we have lots of baseball swinging and catch going on in the backyard. Dallin has been busy with soccer camp which wraps up tomorrow. I'm so glad that boy is interested in at least one sport!

 We've been reading lots and are all signed up for the summer reading program. I'm grateful for boys who love to read. ☺

Nate has been working hard for months on putting together a Crit Series here in Idaho Falls. There have been countless meetings, hours reaching out to sponsors, and his first race was this week. He had a great turnout and the new trailer looks awesome! I'm proud of him and the hard work he has put into this project.

I've finally started feeling 9 months pregnant the last couple of days. Everything hurts, I waddle all over the place, and I'm starting to just feel uncomfortable. We're getting close though so I guess that is a good thing. 37 weeks on Friday. Oh man, giving birth freaking hurts. Not looking forward to that again.

And finally.....and random, yes,...........Landon is a water bottle hoarder.

Island Park

Our old neighbors from the Boise days invited us up to their cabin in Island Park this weekend. Nate was out of town (yet again) at another bike race but the boys and I decided to go ahead and go. I've never been to Island Park, just driven through on our way to Yellowstone.

We had such a great time and Island Park is absolutely BEAUTIFUL! The cabin is in a place called Bill's Island and there are some MONSTROUS cabins on this island. The Loveland's cabin was one of the original cabins in the area. Lakeside views to die for!

We fished:

Caught crawdads and minnows:

We hung out in the cabin for awhile because a storm blew in and it started to SNOW everywhere. June in Idaho....ugggh!

After the storm we packed up and headed over to Big Springs. It is a really cool place where the river starts. It basically comes up out of the ground and begins in this particular place. The water is always 52 degrees and it is absolutely beautiful. Usually there are large (protected)  fish in the crystal clear water. We only saw a bunch of seagulls and a muskrat though. Not one fish in sight but hey, it was still really neat!

Thanks for a great time Loveland family!

O yes, and on a completely unrelated side note....I've been a crafting FANATIC this weekend. I'm pretty sure I've reached my quota on crafts for the year! I've been working on lots of things for baby's room but today I made something that I have been in desperate need of.

You see, yesterday morning I was trying to take a bath when I heard a knock at the door. They boys were downstairs playing and didn't know anyone was here. 30 minutes later and 30 minutes of CONSTANT banging (not knocking) at the door, the boys finally heard and came upstairs to answer it. It was the neighbor kid who literally didn't leave until the boys finally came upstairs.

I was FURIOUS. 30 minutes of banging is just too much. I love that all of the neighborhood boys come to our house, I really do. I'm glad they like to be here and usually have no problem with boys hanging out for hours on end. We just needed a way to give the kids a hint when it ISN'T a good time for us.
So today I made this little beauty:

Let's hope that the problem is solved. Aka.....go away, and come back later. We will NOT be answering the door!