Life Update

I figured I would put up a recent picture of us up. Last weekend we went "camping" for the night. We actually just went to the camp sight eat dinner and make smores with some of my family. It was a lot of fun!

We have been keeping our selves very busy. We are going to be moving into a little bigger place on November 1st! The house is in the same town so we will stay close to our family and friends. Clark is excited to have a yard and two car garage.

I am in school this term. I decided to take 14 credits. A little crazy but I can do it (atleast I tell myself that.) Being pregnant makes things a little more difficult. It is amazing how hard it is to carry a backpack on your back when you have a baby in your tummy :) Clark thinks its pretty funny to see me try to walk up and dow the stairs. The term doesn't end until December 12th so hopefully I don't have him too early. It has been interesting trying to get my brain to work while pregnant. It just never seems to want to :)

Clark is still doing pretty well. He is able to get up and out a lot more during the day. We recently had an appointment with his Doctor in portland. He thought Clark was doing well but he may have to have another small procedure. It is an out patient surgery but its still one more. Clark and I are still talking to him and the Doctors at the Mayo Clinic to make sure that it is the best thing to do. On a better note he is extremly excited for his baby boy to get here. I love seeing him smile when he feels the baby move (witch dosen't happen often the baby will never move for him.) It is so neat to see the bond he already has with him. I can't wait to see his face the first time he holds his baby boy.

Well thats all I can think of for now. I will try to update soon!

Getting Bigger!

I have grown a lot in the last month. It is fun to look back at the previous weeks and see how much the baby is growing, not to mention how fast. Clark really likes to also. Every week he takes a picture so we can put it in the scrapbook. In these pictures I am 29 weeks. We will take a new one today for the 30 week picture! It is getting close to the end, we are soo excited to meet him.

Growing Belly

My belly at 21 weeks!

Obviously 23 1/2 weeks. Its not the best picture.

The last one, my belly at 25 weeks. It has gotten a lot bigger in just a month. I love it. Our baby boy is now about a pound and a half. He kicks a lot but every time Clark trys to feel it he stops. I hope he will be able to feel him soon. We can't wait for him to get here.

Clark's 21st Birthday

I don't know how to flip this picture sorry. I made Clark his favorite, a Banana Cream pie, all for himself. He was pretty happy about that.

Morgan Called Clark at 12am so he could be the first person to say Happy Birthday. What an awesome brother! That night he brought Clark his birthday present. He had the real one in his pocket and handed Clark an Amp soda. Clark was happy with that and said thank you. Then morgan said do you want your real present and pulled out an I pod! Clark was soo excited about that. We have both wanted one for a long time now but he never expeted to get it. Thank you so much Morgan! I think you got the biggest smile from him I have seen in awhile.

Clark just loves that I make him hold up his gifts and smile. I am always telling him that he will appreciate it one day. Even if he dosen't I think its fun!

The next day we did a Family birthday party for him! When I asked him what he wanted to do for his birthday he said he just wanted to have a get together with the family so thats what we did. Mom and Dad got him money! He wants to get a hand gun now that he is old enough so he was excited to get cash so he can save for a gun.

Some of the family. Starting from the front: My Dad, Brother in law Corey, Sister Tiffany, Clark's brother Morgan and his friend ( I forgot her name )

My mom and Little brother Kade.

Clark with another banana pie (he couldn't share his.) I even put in 21 candles! Notice my mom with her camera. Now you know were I got it from :)

HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY HONEY... it has been quite a year. I am so proud of everything we have made it through. I can't tell you how greatful I am to still have you with me. Thank you for being so strong. I am excited for all the years we have together in the future.

Kate's Visit

Kate is a little fish. She would have swam forever if we would have let her. She was an awesome swimmer, she did lots of jumps off the latter.

By the end of the day she got really good on the scooter. She didn't want to stop playing. After riding it she said "I am going to ask for one of these for Christmas!" I'm glad she had so much fun. It was a blast to have her for a day. We don't get to see our nieces or nephew much so when we do we really enjoy it. They sure do grow fast. Kate said she wanted our baby to be a girl because they are cuter and you can put them in dresses. This was before we knew it was a boy. After we found out she said, "well I guess boys are ok to but they aren't as cute. Atleast now Thomas (our only nephew) will have a boy to play with." As long as she is ok with it I guess :)

Our niece Kate came for a visit about a month ago to see Grandma. Clark's mom does a fun visit with all of her grand children when they are 7. They get to come to Grandma's house fr a whole week! Kate had a blast. She got to sew, scarpbook and all kinds of fun things. One of the days she was here we got to take her over to my moms to go swiming. My youngest sister was over and was able to play with Kate. We had a blast. Uncle Clarky even got in the pool to swim with her! In the picture above Kate was riding my little sisters motorized scooter. Lainey (my youngest sister) look her on rides at first but it didn't take long for her to do it on her own. She has always been fearless. Clark remebers surfing on the edge of a rocking chair when she was just a baby.

ITS A BOY!!

He has big feet. You can see all five toes! It is amazing how good ultrasounds are now.

This was the first shot we got of our little boy. He didn't want us mistaking him for a girl. The whole ultrasound he was trying to flash us his backside. He wouldn't show us his face at all but he ws proud to let us know we had a boy on the way. Before the ultrasound tech even said "its a boy" you could tell. I looked over at Clark and saw a big smile on his face. He was just a little excited. We can't wait to meet him!

Just an Update

The past couple weeks have been great!

Clark is starting to feel better. He is getting stronger and stronger. It is so great to see him getting back to normal. It will take awhile for him to recover completly but it is nice to have him so happy. One great blessing through all of our trials is how much we both learned to apreciate the small things. Life can be taken away in a second so enjoy every moment you have. It has truley been a blessing to our marrige and lives to live this way. I believe that every trial has something you learn from and grow stronger because of.

I have been feeling better. It is so nice to be in the second trimester. I have just started feeling the baby move. It is such an amazing feeling. I can't wait until Clark can feel it too. We find out the sex of the baby on July 23rd! It is only about a week and a half away! We are so excited. It will be nice to start thinking about colors and things for the nursery. I'm sure my mother in law will help with that. She is really good at decorating. That is a good thing because it isn't one of my gifts. Somedays it feels like I am going to be pregnant forever but others I look back and think it is going by so fast. We have really tried to enjoy every stage of the pregnancy. This baby is such a miracle. With my fertility problems and all of Clarks surgerys the doctors really felt it wouldn't be easy for us so we are so thankful.

We have been keeping ourselves busy with life. I have been working on finishing up phlebotomy. I have a job at the hospital I work at doing phlebotomy as soon as I finish all my pokes! This will allow me to make my own schedual witch will be perfect once the baby comes. I am finally taking a term off of school. It is so nice to have a break. I will be back in the fall to finish my associates and aply for the nursing program! I have really enjoyed it. Clark is excited to get back to work at Charter. He will hopefully be going back in the middle of august. We have been taking the missionary discusions with a couple of our close friends. It has been really nice for us to continue to build our faith in the gospel. The missionarys that we have right now are great, they have really made it fun.

Well that is all the updates for now. I hope everyone has a great week.