White Water Rafting

Last month I blogged about going river rafting with some friends down the south fork of the American River in Sacramento. We finally got the pictures in the mail so I thought I'd post them. It was a blast! Notice the apple in Steve's hand that he seemed to hold onto the whole time.

Weekly Update

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Creating a Nursery & Other Baby Stuff

Since I am now starting to show a little bit and I don't get to see most of you as much as I would like I decided to post my first "baby bump" picture. It is not huge, but it's there. 17 weeks.

Below are pictures of the crib we got off of craigslist from a lady in San Ramon, the glider and ottoman also a craigslist find from Oakland, and the changing table/hutch from the Green Valley community garage sale. I love buying stuff used b/c it is a lot nicer then the junk I could afford new. I mean just those 3 items would be around $1,640 new before tax. Yeah right. I think we got it all for $430.

Early in my pregnancy I found my dream stroller on craigslist in San Fransisco and had to have it. It was more then I wanted to pay for a used stroller, but I didn't care. Isn't it cute? In the picture it is set up as a bassinet, but it can be a regular stroller too. I thought it wouldn't be very hard to find the matching peg perego car seat, but boy, was I wrong. They stopped making them in 2007. I found one on ebay after months of searching, but they were going for around $250, for a USED car seat. Please. Luckily, I have a great husband who found one in Fresno and got the lady to mail it to us. Thanks Steve! I love it.
I also have random baby clothes (that I have been collecting since high school), some toys, and other little things. Nothing exciting enough to take a picture of. Now that I have the big items I am going to cool it for a while. Just a few more days of freedom before summer school starts. It is nice to relax!

Unemployment has never felt so sweet

I've been out of school for about a week now and it has been great! I have one more week off, then I am going to teach a 2nd-4th grade special ed summer school class for two weeks. It will be nice to make a little extra money and not have to teach all summer. I told Steve I'd wait until the summer to start on the nursery and I did just that. I want to get most of the big stuff done before school starts again in August. So far I've cleared everything out of the office. Now there is a changing table, crib, and glider in there. Don't you just love Craigslist and garage sales? It is really starting to look like a nursery. Now I am just sitting and waiting to find out what we're having before I start painting and sewing, etc. We find out July 1st if it is a boy or girl. Can't wait. Maybe later this week I'll post some pictures of our nursery findings.
I am 17 weeks along now. I am feeling better, but definitely not back to my old self. (Not sure if I ever will be). Warning, gross story... Last week I went to the gym and then ran some errands. I was getting hungry, which is the worst thing for a pregnant lady. It causes nausea faster then anything else. I didn't want to stop and get something to eat, so I tried to fight it. What happened might you ask? I threw up while I was driving. It was horrible. The poor Avalon will never be the same. Luckily, I didn't cause an accident or anything!
We've been enjoying good summer weather. On Thursday we went up the lake (45 min from our house) with friends to ski. Yesterday We took out our boat with friends for a few hours out on the Delta (10 min from our house). Steve's parents get home from their mission in a few weeks and they are coming to get it, so we have to get in all the boat time we can!
Sorry no pictures on this post. I'll do better next time!!

The Host

So, I finished it. It was good, I guess I just thought it would be better. It is worth reading, just borrow it instead of buying it!

Annie & Cody's Wedding

Just to warn you, this is going to be a long one! The past two weeks have just gone by in a whirl wind! So much Friday morning Steve and I flew up to Utah for my sister Annie and Cody’s wedding. They both really wanted to get married in the Logan Temple, so Logan it was! My sister Becky works at a day care and ended up bring the flu with her, so everyone except two family members ended up getting very sick, including the bride! Since the whole family was in town they decided to have the baby blessing for Brian and Amanda’s new daughter Kate the morning of the wedding, which put a crunch on wedding preparations. I was in charge of bringing Annie’s dress to the temple and making sure she got their. First, she showed up in jeans (only dresses in the temple), but luckily the little temple workers didn’t mind. Annie felt pretty silly though. My mom finally got there and her and I went into the bride’s dressing room to wait for Annie. Mom then noticed that I had grabbed the wrong wedding dress out of the closet! To my defense I had never seen Annie’s dress and who puts two wedding dresses in the same closet…Luckily my aunt lived close by and one of my sister’s ran to get the correct dress. Poor Annie, that just put her over the edge. She could not contain her emotions. She was SO SICK as well. She was in the bathroom every 5 minutes. Good news was they did end up getting married.

Later that evening there was a reception in Liberty Idaho (1 ½ hours northeast of Logan). We showed up and neither the bride or groom were looking too well. Turns out Cody had a kidney stone! They stayed for about 15 minutes of their reception then left for the hospital. Over the next 3 days Cody went back to the emergency room 3 times. They missed there cutely decorated hotel room for their first night and ended up staying at his parent’s house. They did catch their flight to L.A., but by then Cody had the flu too and threw-up the whole way there. The were suppose to go on a cruise out of Long Beach, but missed that too b/c he was too sick. I am happy to announce that the stone eventually passed and they are both feeling fine after a honeymoon of crashing at the in-laws houses =).

This weekend Steve and I drove down to L.A. for the California reception. There were no disasters this time. The reception was beautiful and everyone had fun. Steve and I were glad to help out. Saturday we got to spend some time with Laurel my college roomie and BF and her boyfriend. We love Ryan, he is a keeper =). Now we are back home, getting ready for a new week. This is my last week of school, whoo-hoo! I can’t believe this school year is already over. I am getting a week break and then summer school starts. I am in week 15 now and feeling so much better. I’ve started wearing maternity clothes. I can’t wait to find out what we are having!! I hope you enjoy some of the pictures. I forgot my camera and had my sisters and cousin email me pics. I wish I had a good one of just the bride and groom, but no one sent me one. If I get better ones I'll post them.