Brinley Ruth Carr

Here are some pictures of our beautiful little baby girl. We named her Brinley Ruth Carr. She is so sweet. I'll write back later with details about the delivery and things like that, but I just wanted to get some pictures on so everyone can see her!!

1 more month!!!

Exactly 1 month from today is my offical due date. Now, I know it is very rare for babies to come on their exact due date, but it still gives me a day to aim for. Normal activites that used to be easy are really starting to become awkward such as: walking, sleeping, getting in and out of cars, walking up and down stairs, and the list could go on. I guess I could say anything that requires movement is difficult, but I'm so grateful not to be sick that I will take being uncomfortable any day.

All in all I would say, so far, my pregnancy has been very typical. Nothing out of the ordinary. My doctor tells me I'm a "textbook." Hopefully that continues during the next 4 weeks. For some reason it still doesn't seem real that I'm going to have a baby. Greg and I will often just look and each other and say "I can't believe we are going to be parents."

I often think of an episode on a TV show that I saw like 10 years ago. It was on a show called Mad about You, and they had just had their first baby and had come home from the hospital, walked into their apartment and just stood at the door with their baby in arms. They walked around the apratment at first and showed the baby around, but after about 1 minute of that they had nothing left to do, they just sat there, looking at the baby, just the two of them, in complete awkward silence. After a minute Paul was like "so....we have a baby" Jamie said "yes we do" another pause and then all the sudden both just started freaking out!! They were like what in the world do we do now. It finally had sunk in that they have a little baby to take care of and not a clue what they are doing. I've always remembered that because I'm sure Greg and I will feel the same way for awhile. Anyway, I need to go! Just wanted to share some thoughts!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!

A little update

Well its been a little while since I've posted some pictures of what we've been up to. The past month has been so much fun for us.

First, we decorated our little apartment for Christmas. This was mine and Greg's first Christmas away from family. Thanks to all of our amazing friends and ward members here in Valley Forge it was a wonderful Christmas and New Years. We went to many parties and ate and ate and ate!!

This was by far Greg's favorite Christmas gift. For those of you wondering we are still having a girl.

Next, our friends Scott and Heather came to visit us. I love visitors!!! We had so much fun with them. We went to all the major places around here. It was so fun to watch them see so many new things for the first time.

On January 8th I turned the big 23! I'm getting so old! I had a fabulous birthday! Greg took me out to dinner and gave me a gift certificate to get a much needed pedicure! I'm so excited to use it.

My Mom sent a package with an adorable rag quilt that she made for the baby!

I also got this beautiful new comforter for our bedroom.

Another big exciting event that happened this month is that I've reached my third and final trimester. My tummy grows larger each day! Here are some pictures at about 31 weeks. Only 2 more months!!

Well that's about it for now! I'm working on the nursery right now so I'll post pictures when it's all finished!!

Tagged

I have been tagged by my good friend Lis. I'm suppose to list 6 interesting things about myself or habits I may have. I will do a mixture of both:

1. I'm very rarely tempted to eat junk food when it's in my own house, however when I'm at other people's houses and they offer me junk food I could eat it forever. It is the weirdest thing. Growing up my Mom always had tons of treats at our house, but I hardly ever ate it. On Halloween I would put all my candy in a big bowl, eat one or two pieces that night, put it under my bed and forget about it. I would have Halloween candy for 8 months out of the year. Normally I would just use it for bribery for my brother to do stuff for me.

2. I swear I'm psychic. I've thought this forever about myself. This one time I randomly started thinking of this young women leader I had years and years ago. I just wondered what she was up to and if she had any kids. I kid you not the next week I saw her and her husband with their 2 kids at the training table. I hadn't seen her or thought of her in years. Similar things happen like this all the time to me. I will predict who is on the phone, what # I'm going to roll on a dice and all sorts of random things. It's so crazy!

3. I'm way to sentimental. I keep everything! I have in a box at my house almost every letter that has ever been written to me. I just know already that I will be one of those Mom's who keep every piece of art work their children ever do and all their reports from school and so on. I'm going to need many boxes!

4. I love playing really good practical jokes on people. My friend Heather and I when we were growing up would do them to our friend Kajsa. We would get her so good!! I think we felt so satisfied doing it to her because she was so smart and it was fun to see how far we could take it. One time when we were like 15, we came up with this great story and told her that I was moving to Washington. At first she didn't believe us but after about 2 minutes of convincing she just started hysterically crying and screaming at me " you can't move, you can't move" she was so emotional and dramatic that it made me start crying and Heather too. We were all crying so hard that it took me about 5 minutes before I could talk to be able to say that we were just joking! Honestly if you ever want to know how someone really feels about you, just tell them you're moving! Anyway I have pulled many of these in my lifetime! So fun

5. I will never bite my nails!! I use to be a nail biter before I got braces, but after I got them off I just can never bite them again!

6. I'm still a child at heart when it comes to Christmas. I still wake up at 4 in the morning to open presents. This past Christmas I woke up at 3:45 in the morning and just couldn't stand it any longer. I woke Greg up and said "Greg, Santa came to our house." I made him get up and we opened gifts then went back to bed.

Happy Halloween (in about 2 years)

Greg and I went Christmas shopping a few weeks ago at the mall. While we were there I was waiting for Greg to come out of a store so I decided to go into the Disney store and look around. I never buy anything because everything is so expensive, but when I walked in the lady told me that all Halloween costumes were on sale for $4.99! The only thing that's usually $4.99 at the Disney store are their pencils! Anyway I went over to look and fell in LOVE with this Nemo costume. Granted it's for an 18 month old, but that's how old our baby will be in 2 Halloweens from now, so I got it and decided to save it for her.

When we got home we were so excited about it that we went upstairs to our neighbors who have an 18 month old baby and tried it on her. I hope that our baby looks as cute in it as little Macey does!!!

Flying

I've discovered that the older I get the more scared I become. Things that use to not scare me as much when I was younger are starting to terrify me now. For example, when I was 13, and 18 I hiked Angels Landing in Zions, which for those of you who have never done this hike it is very very high!!!! There is a part of the hike where you have to hold on to chains and there are drop dead cliffs to the right and left of you. Anyway I honestly don't remember feeling scared while doing this hike during those 2 times. However, about a year and a half ago I did it again and I thought I was going to have a panic attack because I was so scared!! I vowed never to do it again nor to ever let any of my children do it!!!

The same thing goes for flying. It use to not bother me but now it does. Whenever the plane hits turbulence I always jump and grab hold of things or people. Well usually I know the person I'm sitting by, but this time I had to fly all by myself and I panic and grabbed the guys seat who was it front of me and probably scared him to death.

So anyway on with the story. I get to the SLC airport plenty early and had checked in my bags and was heading up to the security gate. I said goodbye to Greg and as you know from the last post I had been crying and upset all day. I had no make up on and really hadn't even done my hair. To make me feel worse, when I handed my licence over to the security guy so he could verify who I was, he held it forever!! He kept looking at the picture and then looking at me and then looking at the picture and then looking at me. Finally he gives it back to me and says in a condescending way "I guess that's you in the picture, you've kind of changed." So mean!!!

I had a flight that went from SLC to Atlanta and then from Atlanta to Philly. My layover was only 55 min so I knew I would have to hurry, but figured since I was flying delta both times, the gates would be pretty close to each other. Well I was wrong! Our flight leaving SLC was about a half hour late so we landed in Atlanta about 9 and my flight left at 9:30. So I get off the plane and see that my ticket says we are leaving from gate A4. Well we had come in unexpectedly to B6. I didn't know this but the Atlanta airport is massive!!! There are 39 gates per letter, so I knew I had to hurry as fast as I could! I was walking as fast as my little legs would carry my pregnant tummy and two carry on bags. I was zig zaging all the way through the airport and by the time I got to A4 it was 9:20! It took me 20 minutes, that is how big this airport is!! Well I get to the gate and there is hardly anyone there so I'm thinking that they are already on the plane. I went up to the desk and handed the lady my boarding pass and she grabs it and marks it A29 and hands it back to me. She said "I'm sorry but they changed the gate." I was so mad!!! I had 10 minutes to get to the gate, and I was about a 10 minute walk away. I was also starving because I had not eaten anything since 12:00, but the little snacks they give you on the plane. So I continued walking/running as fast I could and made it to gate A29 right at 9:30, only to find out that my flight had been delayed and they hadn't even started boarding. We didn't end up leaving until about 10:15. By the time we got to Philly there were two other flights of passengers waiting at baggage claim to pick up there luggage. For some dumb reason they only had 1 pick up working. It was jammed packed with people waiting. I asked one lady how long she had been waiting for her bags and she said an hour and a half!!! I was so mad. Luckily I only ended up waiting for mine for about 45 minutes, but at 1:15 in the morning it seemed like forever!!

NO more flying for me for awhile.