4 Day Weekend and Week 28!

Lots of good, and a little bad in the past week; bad news first.  My Grandpa Jim passed away this past weekend.  He had been battling Parkinson's like symptoms, and overall degeneration of his mental and physical faculties for some time.  I am happy that he is no longer suffering, but sad that I wasn't able to get back to MN to say goodbye and be with family.  I'll miss you Grandpa Jim!

Despite the loss of a loved one, we still have an incredible amount of things to be thankful for!  We ran a Turkey Day 5k for the third year in a row, and celebrated Thanksgiving with our good friends.  Zane, Brendan, Alden and I ran, and Lexi and Alyssa "trotted" together.  We had great weather for the run, and also for the hot tubbin' afterwards!

I also took advantage of the warmer than average temps and got out for some good late season mountain biking!  Zane and I got a great ride in on Friday morning, and then got another solid group ride in on Sunday with Dan, Jesse, and Zane.  The trails could be under 5 feet of snow any day now, so it was great to get out a few last times.

Thanksgiving also brought the arrival of week 28!

 



I had my 28 week appointment this week along with the lovely gestational diabetes test.  It wasn't as bad as I expected but still not fun.  I also found out I've only gained 15 pounds so far which I'm very happy about!  Right on track although I may have indulged a little with all that fabulous Thanksgiving food.  I also get to start going in every 2 weeks for appointments...it will be nice to hear his heartbeat more often but work makes it tough.  Gotta do what ya gotta do! 

Other highlights of the awesome long weekend include hiking with Cali, a nice dinner and the new Bond movie and putting up the X-mas tree and lights on the house. 

Decided to get rid of the table this year.  Tree is a little smaller when it's not shoved in the corner :)

Looking forward to our 3D ultrasound on Wednesday and our 2 year anniversary trip to San Francisco this weekend!

Till next week!
Love,
Andy and Lexi

Weeks 26, 27 and much more!

Week 26 brings us to double digits, my SLC baby shower and our first massive snow storm!

Less than 100 days to go!

My wonderful friends here in SLC were so nice and threw me a baby shower!  So fun!  Had some friends, co-workers and neighbors brave the storm for a brunch get together.  Mayhem was once again spoiled beyond belief.  We're so lucky to have such great people in our lives. 





Cassie came from Ft. Collins, CO for the shower!

November snow storm.  I think we ended up with almost 2 feet!



Week 27 was also really busy!  I finally kicked my cold and felt like a normal human again which was awesome.  Andy was down in St. George all week for work so I had plenty of time to organize and craft.  I was off on Monday for Veteran's Day and I spent it in the baby room unpacking boxes, cutting those annoying plastic connector things off clothes, doing inventory and baby laundry so I didn't lost my mind.  I know we still have 3 months left but the room was in disarray and I really needed to get an idea of what we had and what we need.  So I feel much better about life now :)  You get a little glimpse of the organization in the week 27 photo. 

So excited to be starting the 3rd trimester!

I also made some burp cloths while Andy was down in St. George.  They are made with a cloth diaper and cute flannel.  Hope they work!

I hosted the girls for book club on Friday which was really fun as usual.  We all work full time and work in a scientific field so the only requirement is that we read books that have been made into movies, since we are all busy, and drink wine.  Lots of pharmacists, Dr's, PA's, optometrists, etc.  Most everyone is a transplant to Utah, we're all around 30 and everyone is just starting to have kids, so it's a great group and we really enjoy getting together every 6-8 weeks.

 

Saturday we went to our all day baby class...I felt it was something we should do.  It was 9-5.  LONG day.  It was ok, but I think if I could go back in time I would skip it.  It just made me feel anxious, nervous and panicky.  I think if we weren't already pregnant we would seriously be reconsidering having children! :)

 

We got rain this weekend which washed away all our snow from last week which is nice.  Rain in the valley equals snow in the mountains so Andy went out and skied for the first time.  He also plays hockey on Sunday's so along with Sunday football we have a big sports day. 

 

Really looking forward to the short week and Thanksgiving holiday!  I have my 28 week appointment tomorrow thanks to the Thursday holiday so I'm excited to hear Baby May's heartbeat and see where I am for weight!  Mayhem must have shifted a little lower and got some more room b/c I haven't had heartburn all week!  Still feeling and sleeping great.  I feel completely like myself and I'm pretty used to the constant tummy movement that I sometimes forget I'm preggers until I have to put on those dreaded maternity jeans or bend over to put socks on :)  The new feeling of the week is the alien flip flops.  He's still kicking but now I can feel and see him rolling around which is a weird sensation. 

 

Hope everyone is well!

Till next week!

Love,

Lexi and Andy

 





Week 25

I'm a little behind...we're almost to 26 weeks and I'm just now getting around to posting for 25.  Sorry!

It's been a busy couple weeks for both Andy and I.  Andy's been working a lot of late nights and it's been a crazy busy full moon kind of week for both of us.  And we have a lovely cold making it's way through the house so don't mind the pictures this week :)

I found this cute iron on at Hobby Lobby and made myself a shirt.  Turned out really cute but Andy says I need to fill it out a little bit more.  I feel big already so I'll try and take my time filling it out.

Speaking of kicking...the little guy has been busy lately!  So crazy that I can see my stomach moving.
Definitely starting to get big fast!  I'd been wearing my normal pants and extending them with a little hair elastic trick I learned.  That still works and it's so much more comfortable than maternity jeans but it just looks a little funny now that I'm bigger and the zipper is struggling.  So now I own 2 pairs of leggings, skinny jeans that are more like leggings and 2 pairs of boots.  New territory for this girl.  Did I mention that I hate maternity jeans?

Still feeling good pregnancy wise and looking forward to getting over this cold for this weekend!  My amazing friends are throwing me a baby shower here in SLC this weekend. 
Looking forward to the end of the 2nd trimester!

Till next week!
Love,
Andy and Lexi