June in photos

Tomorrow is baby day! I had a long night of what turned out to be false labor and so when I went to my doctor's appointment today and I was dilated to almost 3, I decided to keep our original induction date of June 27th. I still can't believe that I had contractions that were two minutes apart and quite painful for nearly 3 hours, and then it all stopped after I dozed off for an hour! Good thing I didn't go to the hospital and get sent home, at least.
So my last thing to do before going to the hospital at 5:30 in the morning is to catch up on photos we took in June. It's been a fun month, despite getting big and awkward!
We started off the month with swimming lessons. This is the first year that I've been able to sit out and just watch comfortably. Last year was horrible because Ezra was clingy and cried a lot even though he loved the water. This year they both went happily every day and both did really well! We even had great weather.

We also did a tour of the local fire station... again. We do this pretty often it seems, but the boys never get sick of it. This was the most fun yet. Nolan got to try on the fireman's gear! Ezra refused to be in the group photo and instead sulked on the sidelines. Silly boy.

Justin has a new calling this month: Young Men's President. It's going to be a busy one but he'll do a great job. While he went on his first camp out for 3 nights, my Dad came up to stay with me. We all went looking at property in Park City and let the kids play at the splash pad. It was a fun outing with cousins and Grandpa.

Last weekend we headed up the nearby canyon to do some mountain biking (just Dad and Nolan did that) and to roast marshmallows. The boys had a lot of fun. Too bad our marshmallows were a little stale. It was a beautiful evening.

Yesterday I took the boys into Salt Lake so that they could browse ToysRUs. Nolan has been begging for quite some time to go. We ate at In-N-Out (that made it worth it for me), checked out toys, stopped in at Kohl's, and then went to PetSmart. The children were genuinely sad that we didn't come home with a pet.

 We also got a new grill! Justin has actually been excited to use it. Usually I do all the grilling but I think it might be a bit of a new hobby for him. I got a picture of him out there in his apron, but it's still on my phone... I'll have to post it later. It's been a great month and now we're ready to focus on welcoming baby sister and spending lots of time together as a family.

The Birthday Boy

I can't believe that our Ezra has turned four years old! We just love this little guy so much. To celebrate his big day, we went to Jungle Jim's with our cousins Ryan, Kendyll, and Travis. They had a great time! It was fun to watch Ezra's smile light up and feel like a big boy on the rides. 

That evening, we opened presents and had a blue cake (his request since he LOVES blue) and ice cream. Ezra was pretty excited about the remote control monster truck from Grandma K. and the little fishing pole set for the tub. It doesn't take much to make him happy. He also got a cool set of blocks, called CitiBlocks, and some I Spy books. His present from Grandma and Grandpa Ligtermoet is still to come, but he's going to love it! He's been wanting a blue blanket and he'll be so excited to finally have one. And he gets to choose a toy because Grandpa Corey and Kathy got him a gift card from amazon. He's already mentioned that he wants Legos. 

The next morning after his birthday, Ez crawled in bed to snuggle with me and he said, "I just can't believe I'm still four!" He's one happy little birthday boy! 

Baby on the way

I've had a request from my cousin, Aubrey, that I do a baby post. I guess she's right... it's nearly time for this baby girl to come! So I'm due July 4th. I haven't talked to my doctor about inducing. I'd like to see if I can have this baby on my own (wouldn't it be good to experience that?), since I've been induced with the other two, but I don't want to be miserable and have to wait days after my due date. So maybe he'll start me on July 3rd, which is my nephew, Bryson's birthday. But less than 3 weeks hopefully! Yikes! When I was checked at 37 weeks, the PA said I was nearly 1 cm (which means she's just being nice) but that the baby's head is right there and ready. I've never been one to progress past 1 or 2 cm until they give me pitocin. I'm feeling pretty good still. I get winded doing what should be simple things, and I have to take breaks more often, but I can't complain. Nights were getting bad, but then I started taking Zyrtec for my allergies and now nights are wonderful! Here's the belly pic at 37 weeks. I'm not really a fan of doing belly pics... I typically do one in the last month and that's it.

I've been quite busy getting everything cleaned and in order. Justin has helped me clean out the garage and my Dad came to town and built some shelves for our basement storage so that we can actually walk around in there. He also helped me do lots of touch-up paint work and I painted the stairwell that had been damaged from back when we finished the basement. Now I'm moving on to cleaning blinds and will soon get to wiping the baseboards. Here is the work I've done in the boys' room. They're glad that people can tell which bed is theirs because of their school pictures. The only toys in there are their Legos, which I recently combined and organized into colors. Hopefully I don't regret that because it would be a huge project to split them into sets again!

And baby's room is where the boys used to sleep, so I was left with a bright green wall. With all the other painting and organizing in the rest of the house, I wasn't feeling like changing this wall. Instead, we found some darling bird material that has green in it, and other fun colors like PINK! So we're sticking with the green wall. My mom made the cute bed skirt, cushion, and curtains. Maybe I'll try to find a bright pink rug to put in front of the dresser/changing table.

I will be buying something cute for the walls as soon as we name her. Something like these (I think the bottom one is the cutest):

So speaking of names, we just can't decide. We've never been ones to start calling our baby something before we actually hold and see what she looks like. Ezra has been calling her several different names through the weeks. He has called her Sally, Sinna, then just plain Sin (yeah, we definitely don't like that one!), Lucy, and most recently likes Rosie. Well he doesn't get to decide, thank goodness! Here is a list of all the names we've been considering. Some are stronger candidates than others, but I'll just put them all up the poll (upper right column) because it's fun to see what other people like. Vote on your favorites! Next time I post about the baby, hopefully she'll be here!