Daddy Time

Coop and Justin went on the annual June Safari with the guys in Justin's fam. This is what they did on my due date. I'm sure Coop loved every minute of it. Before he got on the horse he asked, "Horses buck us off?" We went to the rodeo the week before. He was a little worried but once he found out they were nice horses he was in for a ride!

Top of the 'D'

Justin and his bro derick entered the men's doubles tennis tourny for Strawberry Days and won first place in the 'D' Division! Me, Cooper, and Derick's fiance Sheryl were there to cheer them on when they got their trophies! Maybe next year Wimbledon...

This is how our garden grows

Ok so he looks a little drugged but I couldn't get a good picture! This is our first baby carrot we found! I went to thin them out again and-Surprise, surprise we had a carrot! He was so excited and he even ate it.

Jump On IT!

What do the kids do in a building full of trampolines?

Ride the elephant

Aren't they cute?

That's Coop's cheese-it was the longest elephant ride ever!

The 3 little monkeys

(Spencer, Jaden, Cooper)

and go down the slide!

The only way Cooper dared go down the slide without holding Jaden's hand

I should go back and jump around just to see if we can get this baby here!

HolY mOLy!

So, take a look on the right hand side of your screen. See the little baby swimming around and then look at the number underneath. 12!! Less than 2 weeks until the due date. Once again-HOLY MOLY! I am so ready to be done. As my good friend Becky said, "Ready to not be pregnant but not quite ready for a baby". Yeah something like that! There's still a bunch we need to do but if I started having contractions today I think I could get it all done before she actually got here. =) I mean I'll probably have like 10 hrs right?

I am a little nervous about the whole having 2 kids thing and other stuff like making sure everything else is ok but I am so ready to just have her in my arms. I know there's a couple people out there that feel the same way, some of which will probably have their babies before me (dang you) so good luck to ya! and I know how you feel!

p.s. Whoever made that little widget with that much room for the baby to 'swim' with 12 days left has definitely never been prego

Rain, Rain go away! Come again another day!

3 little pregos...

My sweet Aunt Louise threw me a shower (I will have to take pics of some of the stuff I got-seriously girl stuff is so cute) but these are some of my best friends from high school. We are all prego at the same time and 2 of us are due a week apart and 2 of the 3 are having girls! How awesome is that? We had to document it. Now if Jackie would just find out what she's having...

Kristin: due Oct, Jackie: July 5th, Me: June 27th

p.s. for those of you who have been mad I didn't have many belly shots-Here ya go!

The Love of Justin's Life

Nope, not me

Her...

My Mom got us tickets to Taylor Swift for our anniversary/birthdays. Justin was just mad we didn't have backstage passes. =) She did such an awesome concert though! For real one of the best I have ever been to. They used water to make it rain at the end, she changed where she sang in the audience, and had some great dancers. I think she genuinely loves performing which makes it so much better. Thanks Mom! We had a blast

Girls Night

Justin's Cousin Chelsea and I planned a girls night since the boys all go camping the last week in June, but since I'm due then we did it a little early. We packed up and headed down to good old st. George for a night. It was such a needed break!! Hard to leave Coop but I'm pretty sure he didn't even miss me. We hung out by the pool, shopped, went out to dinner, and fell asleep at like 10pm. I know-we are such partyers. It was so fun though and we didn't even crash on the way back =)

Our little Monkeys

Auntie Mandi invited me to a playdate with some of her friends and their kids. Coop loved it! This is definitely one of my favorite places.

~Mother's Day~

I even got a special 'massage' from Cooper after church. He's a multi-tasker

I wish I could have gotten a picture of his face when he was giving me my present! It was priceless-he was so excited for me to open it. He had no idea what it was and it was probably pretty boring to him but it was the best present ever! A massage at The Grand America Spa. Oh yeah. I can't decide if I want to use it now or after little Ava comes. How do massages work when you're prego? Scary. It was the best Mother's Day ever.

Golden Anniversary

So, my awesome Grandma and Grandpa Brown had their 50th wedding anniversary in February and this is their present that I made. Holy Moly it was a lot of work but totally worth it! My Grandma makes quilts so I knew she would appreciate it. 773 pieces later it was finally done! My only regret is that I wasn't able to hand quilt it but my sister in laws Mom did such an awesome job with her machine quilter.
Happy Anniversary and I love you guys!

Another Moab Easter =)

Another great year in Moab! We love our annual Jeep Safari trip it's always so much fun and now Coop is actually easier camping because he's so occupied and everything is new and cool. The Jeeps are also a hit with him, as long as they don't get too close or he starts to get nervous and say, "Mama, get me?"

Every year they do a big Easter egg hunt in a park down there so this year we went and checked it out. Coop thought it was cool and loved the Easter bunny. We couldn't find him after to get a picture though.

We also did a little Easter egg hunt for him and he didn't get off his bike for the whole thing. Good present Grandma! He even learned to ride with both feet on the pedals while we were there

That's how he puts his hat on by himself. Snicker, snicker

Love him! Chillin' by the campfire

He got some ideas from the Jeepers

Coop and uncle Devin. He was always saying, "Demin come on!" or "Demin this way!" Good thing Dev is such a good sport!

The Gang

Back: Cooper, me, Justin, Kristin, Vance, Derick, Jeff, Kyle, Matt, Devin, Andrew, Sarah

Front: Petra, Poli

April Showers bring...

Baby carrots! (hopefully)

I thought it might be fun to plant a thing or two to teach coop how it works and he loved it. He did really good only putting 1 0r 2 seeds in each hole until the end and then he dumped a whole handful so we'll see what happens! Maybe this will get him to eat his veggies

That's Coop's cheese

Watering our little seeds

We planted some pear tomatoes to and they are actually growing. Yeah! We'll see if the baby carrots can withstand being snowed on a few times. Where is summer?

28 weeks and counting!

I had my 28wk follow up with our new doctor a little while ago and things went great! Except for the scale but I guess that's a whole other story-ugh. First off Ava is doing well, her heart beat was normal and she's growing great which is always comforting. I love to hear the heart beat. And I really like the new doctor to. When I brought up going all nat-ur-al he was like,"yeah whatever you want to do, we do that all the time." That's much better than, "Maybe you should just tell your husband to get another job to pay for the epidural" or "anybody can have a baby without an epidural-you just lock them in a room" like the other doctor. So, I'm so glad that I switched! I'm down to 2 wk appointments which makes it start going so fast. Crazy! Now only 10 more weeks to go.