Love

Today a package came in the mail from one of my college friends, Loriann Hillyard. I haven't seen her in years but sometimes you don't need to see someone to remain close. I may have cried when I opened it. I blame these hormones but I was so excited and a little overwhelmed. Baby stuff is dang cute. I love that Elijah has so many people to love him and to help celebrate his birth. Thank you Loriann for making my day! I am truly blessed to have you as my friend. I was just feeling a little upset that most of my bestest friends live far away but this made me realize distance doesn't matter.

Happy October!

October is almost over......can you believe it? I can't. I think it flew by. Well at least now that it is over I think it flew by. This past Monday night we had James and Kara over for dinner and then we went to their place for Family Home Evening. We carved pumpkins and it was so much fun! I don't remember ever really carving a pumpkin before (I've always been a spectator) but this year I helped. I kept telling Elle it was a competition and that team Adamson was going to win. She of course said we weren't going to. Then she got really smart and said she was on the team that wins. Here are a few pictures Kara and Elle
Jack being oh so helpful

Elle "helping" James

Brent showing off his mad carving skills.

He finaly decided to let me help. He was nervous I was going to mess it up.

James and Kara did Snow White

We did Jasmine

All the pumkins together

Team Eaton beside their Snow White....it looks so good!

Team Adamson and Elle with our Jasmine!

Elle drew this one and I cut it out for her. She is such a little cutie!

After the pumpkin carving we found it completely appropiate to go inside and have some delicious pumpkin cheesecake icecream. Yum!

marriage vs pregnancy

I'm not sure any of this will make sense to anyone. But I will try my best to explain what I'm thinking here. As you all know we got pregnant pretty quickly after we got married. We got married in November and found out we were preggo in April. We had decided in Feb/March we would stop preventing pregnancy but figured it would take a little while to get pregnant. I was thinking it would be August/September when it happened. But as fate would have it, we got pregnant basically the same day we decided to no longer prevent it. We were/are so excited to have this little guy coming to join our family.
But now I'm not sure if some of my behaviors are because we've been married a bit longer or if it is just the pregnancy. Things like cooking and cleaning. When we were first married I would cook dinner every night and I even enjoyed it. But now, cooking happens less and it takes a lot of energy. I'm not sure if I can blame the pregnancy or if it would have happen even if there was no baby in utero. I am usually a very physically affectionate person. Now, not so much. I don't really like being touched. Brent is still very affectionate but I'm not sure if it has worn off from me or if this is temporarily. Sometimes even back rubs make me cringe......I figure I'm relating any physical touch to being pregnant now.
So the marriage and pregnancy lines blur together to me. Marriage is still super fun to me. I love being married to Brent. He is an incredible man who I know loves me so much. He doesn't just love me in word but in action. He is a good man who I know will be a great father. Last night while we were laying in bed he was cuddled up to me (which by the way I use to want him to cuddle me but he claimed he couldn't sleep, now that I like my space he loves to cuddle......go figure) and he hand was on my stomach and Elijah was going crazy! I love when he gets to feel the baby. Elijah has become a very active little guy! His favorite place to hang out is on my lungs. I swear he presses on them so I can't breath some times. He also likes to use my bladder as a punching bag. Especially at night.
2 more months and I'll have my baby here. I'm almost done decorating his nursery. I can't completely finish until he gets here because one wall is going to be a canvas picture of him. Oh baby, lets hope the next few months fly by. And I do know it is hard when they get here too. But at least when he gets here daddy can help take care of him and I won't feel sick any more.

A quick update

Life has been pretty good lately. I can't complain too much. I had a doctor's appointment today and everything looks good. I am measuring a week early and we are pretty sure he's a big baby. I gained 7 pounds in one month. Sadly I thought I had gained no more than 2. I had been working out and last night dinner made me sick so I figured I would have lost a little from that. Maybe I did, it could have been 10 pounds. I was stressing over my weight but not this month, not this time. I'm trying to care less.
Brent went to Florida for a contact lens conference. I spent those days in Jackson. It's always nice to be at mom and dad's. But I was glad to get back home and for Brent to get back as well.
I love birthdays. They are my favorite holiday. I saw a birthday wreath online and knew I needed to have one for all our kids future birthdays. So here it is. Brent and I are also planning a date to paint a piece so we can make a special birthday plate for our kiddos to use in the future.

I think it turned out pretty cute. Here is an up close picture. It's made from balloons and pipe cleaner.
Then I decided I need a fall door wreath so I made this one. It is simple but I like it. That A was a booger to make. But I think overall it's pretty cute.

I need to go ahead and make my Christmas wreath since it's close and also since I won't have time in December to make it. I'm hoping in December I'll be taking care of a sweet baby. I'm also excited that Brent's sister Julie is coming to visit us in December. She comes in on the 15th! And Elijah will for sure be here by then.....I know because the dr said we could make that happen. And Lindsay and Candice will be home for Christmas too so they will meet the little guy too. It's crazy how close it's getting!