Jam packed "Mommy's Day" weekend!

Katelyn didn't like saying Mothers Day, so the according to her the official title of the holiday was "Mommy's Day". ;)

Wow! What a weekend! I practically needed a wheelchair by the end of it to get me around, but I persevered! Friday started out with Nate's commencement at the U of U. He officially graduated in December, but they had all the Fall graduates walk in the sping commencement ceremony. I only made it to the convocation, which is where he basically just got to walk and get his degree. That's okay with me! The seats in the Huntsman center were not designed for pregnant women! Not to mention, I had a man of rather "large stature" sitting next to me, so it was like sitting in an airplane seat. Uber comfy, right? Haha.





I'm super proud of my cute husband and all of his accomplishments. Now if we could just get the economy to cooperate, so he could get a new job!

(BTW 33 weeks, 3 days here for those of you wanting belly shots!)



After all the graduation festivities on campus, we had a graduation party for Nate at Pat's BBQ as per the request of the celebrated graduate. If any of you in Utah have never been to Pats BBQ, GO! It's the best you'll find in the state, seriously!

Saturday, even though I wanted to do a whole lot of nothing, kids don't let you do that so much! Katelyn was just DYING to get outside and play, and I can't break my little girl's heart, so we went for a spin on the trike. She had been begging all week to ride her bike outside and the weather was finally cooperating enough. She's a little cruiser!



Sunday was obviously "Mommy's Day". I was given the gift of sleep and was awoken to Katelyn and Nate bringing me breakfast in bed. Although, the first thing I hear when they come in is "Happy Mommy's Day Mommy! I bought you Stewie!" Katelyn had seen a Family Guy DVD at the store with Stewie on the cover and since she knows that I love Family Guy, she insisted they get it as my present. Is it sad that my 4-year-old knows this? Haha...

We went to church at my dad's ward, because ours is the latest block, so we could go and have a marshmallow war at the park! Haven't done one of those in a while, so it was fun! I'm sure it is very fun for you all to imagine the 8-month pregnant lady trying to sprint around the park shooting with a marshmallow gun! Nate had never participated in a marshmallow war and frankly thought we were all crazy in the first place for having them! Needless to say, he got into it rather quickly and had fun! We'll infuse a little bit of redneck into that boy if it kills me ;)


Preparing for the assault


Grandpa instructing Katelyn on how to USE the ammo and not EAT the ammo


Keegan


The hubbs reloading


Ready to take a shot at Mommy


GOOOOOOOOOOO!

Busy, busy as it was, it was a great and wonderful weekend!

Itsy bitsy, teeny weenie

No, not a yellow polka dot bikini. Yeah, as if I could even DREAM of a swimsuit body at the moment...

Actually, I've come to the realization that I have forgotten a TON about tiny little newborn babies. For example, how TINY they actually are! The last couple of days I've been in full out nesting mode and pulling out all the baby stuff that has been packed away. Clothes? Itty bitty! Last night I was working on the carseat carrier and adjusting it back to newborn size. My jaw just about hit the floor thinking "Wow! That baby is going to fit in those tiny little straps?!?!"

As much as I look at Katelyn and think there's no way she's getting as big as she probably appears, she is! I've definitely lost touch with Babyland, but I suppose that happens when you've got 4 years in between the two kids. I'll probably do and think the same things that I did with Katelyn. When I brought Katelyn home from the hospital, all 5-pounds 9-ounces of her, I always felt like I was going to break her because she was so little! I'm sure I'll be the same way again since it's been a while since I've been entrusted with the 24/7 care of a newborn.

Crazy, crazy...I'll be bringing home a new itty bitty one in just a few weeks! Here's to hoping that remembering all that newborn stuff is just like riding a bike... ;)

Comic relief of the house...

Katelyn does and says some of the funniest things. I really should be better about writing these things down so I can remember them!

For one, a few weeks ago we went to dinner with my side of the family to Lonestar for some good and juicy steak! Katelyn, being the cheese that she is, decided on macaroni and cheese and made sure the waiter knew that is what she wanted. Well, a couple weeks later, we had a late night doing things around town and we needed somewhere to grab a bite to eat. Katelyn, yet again, wanted to go somewhere with mac and cheese, so we decided to just swing by Dee's since they have it on their kids menu. While we're sitting there waiting for our food to come out, Katelyn turns to me and says "Mommy, I want to go to 'Lonestar' to get macaroni and cheese!" First of all it was funny that she even remembered the name of the restaurant that we went to a couple weeks ago. Second of all, for whatever reason, she put 'Lonestar' in air quote. Kid you not! I can't ever recall using air quotes around Katelyn, so I have NO IDEA where she picked it up from, not to mention why she thought it was an appropriate time to use them! AWESOME...



Also a couple of weeks ago, we went to a friend's reception. The reception hall had a big dance floor just BEGGING Katelyn to go out and dance on it. She kept saying that she just HAD to go and dance on the floor, especially with the piano music playing just off the floor. After a couple spins, she ends up dragging Nate onto the floor to dance with her. She then starts to fling herself backwards, to which I ask her "What on earth are you doing?" She's like "Duh, Mommy! I'm DIPPING myself!" HAHAHA! I'm sure she's picked up the dipping with dancing from all her favorite princess movies and what not, and being the little princess that she is, has to do it too! I fortunately was able to snap a shot of her fantastic dance moves!



Seriously, the kid just cracks me up...

It can't be! She's 4!!!

I can hardly believe it! My sweet little Katelyn turned 4 today! There's got to be something wrong with the world, I can't have a 4 year old! I'm not old enough to have one of those running around the house! She's supposed to be my tiny little baby! Oh goodnes, where does the time go?

We had quite the birthday weekend for Katelyn planned out. My mom, gramma, and sister Sami took Katelyn to the Discovery Gateway children's museum, Build-A-Bear, and out for lunch all day Saturday. Katelyn chose to build a monkey named Jasper and clothed him in a U of U t-shirt and hat. They all thought it would be funny to dress the monkey in BYU attire, just to see how Nate would react haha ;).

We then had Katelyn's birthday party Saturday evening. We were hoping to have it outdoors in our yard, but rain and wind prevented us from doing so, BUMMER! At the last minute we moved the party to Nate's parent's place, so there would be room for everyone. We had a Lilo and Stitch birthday party, per request of the birthday girl. Everyone dressed in their island gear and we had a great BBQ! I'll tell you what, though! It took quite the effort and the hunt around town to find a store that had a Lilo and Stitch birthday cake! Finally we found one at Albertson's and it was the last one they had! It's a good thing we love that kid...

Today was Katelyn's actual birthday, but she had a bit of a hard time understanding the difference between her birthday party and her "birthday". It was quite hilarious. All day we'd say "Today's your birthday!" and she'd say "But I already had my birthday!" Silly girl! She got to watch a couple of the movies she got for her birthday. We ended up going to dinner tonight to celebrate her birthday. We went with my dad, Melissa, Nate, and the kids. We asked Katelyn what she wanted for dinner and she requested macaroni and cheese and Jello. There's only one place in town that has both of those, Chuck-A-Rama (aka Up Chuck haha)! She was happy as a clam to have those things for dinner.

It really was a great weekend and I'm glad Katelyn had such a wonderful and memorable birthday! :D

Here are a few pics from her party...


Katelyn the hula girl with her monkey, Jasper


Gramma, Katelyn, me, and Mom


Aloha, baby!


Opening presents


Katelyn as herself ;)


Time for cake!


Taking a whack at the surfer dude pinata


Candy scramble!

Jazzercise and the 80s are back yet again...

Ohhhhhhhh yeeeeeaaaaahhhh...this one was ALL Katelyn!

A picture is worth a thousand words! HAHA!

Running third base and on my way to home

I figured my husband would appreciate the sports reference haha.

Today I officially enter my third trimester of what Melissa likes to call my "real" pregnancy. This is in reference to the fact that I went through virtually no pregnancy pain or symptoms with Katelyn, which is the absolute truth! Katelyn and now Aiden's pregnancy experiences are like night and day! I totally knew it was coming, though. Being pregnant was such a dream, I LIKED being pregnant. Yeah, how many pregnant women can say that?

Despite the aches, pains, and sheer exhaustion, it is really flying by! With it flying by so quickly, I find myself starting to lose my mind! I'm starting to go through the "I'm not ready!" phase. I feel like I remember nothing from the first time around. I wonder if I'm mentally ready to have another little one here. I also wonder if I'm ready to handle 2 kids that are mine! I wonder how I will make it all work!!!

I know, I'm freaking myself out here. But it comes with the territory, I suppose! At least the "Alien" type dreams of Aiden busting out of my stomach have ceased for now LOL.

More updates to come. I know I've been lacking in the blogging department, but when all your body wants to do is sleep for hours on end, blogging in your sleep isn't exactly an option ;)

Lil Snert is a...

Okay, so I know it's been a week and a half since I had my ultrasound, but things around these neck of the woods have been CRAZY! Especially since I spent half of that time not even NEAR a computer (I know, you all can pass out now). Anyway, for those of you who haven't heard already, we are having a....



A GIRL (as you can see above haha)!!!

The ultrasound was hilarious because when the ultrasound tech announced that our Lil Snert was a girl, Katelyn looked at her quite sure of herself and said "Nuh uh, he's a boy!" She wanted a little brother to rough house with SOOOOOO badly that she just couldn't believe she was having a little sister! Now if you ask her what the baby's name is going to be, she'll tell you it's "Baby Boy", because gosh darnit! A baby boy will exist whether by gender or name! HAHAHAHAHA!!! She's starting to get used to the idea of having a baby sister because we've been telling her ALL the things she, as a big sister, can teach the baby. So Katelyn is now starting to get a little excited about a little sister. Give it a few more weeks and I'm sure she will be just as excited as she was about a brother! ;)

I'm measuring about a week ahead of my dates, but I'm 100% sure about what my dates are, so we are all pretty sure that I'm just having a bigger baby this time around. Oy. Then, of course, Nate tells me after the ultrasound that babies on the larger end of the scale tend to come out on his side of the family. Double oy. I suppose that is something I should have researched BEFORE we got pregnant LOL. Kidding, dear!

We're still working on names. I really hadn't thought much about names before the ultrasound, especially girl names! It's like I had some sort of mental block about names and I just couldn't think of anything AT ALL. We've found a few that are possibilities, but nothing is set in stone at this point. I seem to be leaning towards Scottish names, though, so we'll see what we end up with!

With a girl on the way, Nate will most definitely be outnumbered, poor guy. Let the hostile estrogen take over begin! *Evil laugh* ;)


Say cheese!


Our little cutie.


Gotta love those lil baby feet!