34 weeks

How far along? 34 weeks. 6 left!!!!!!!!!! (let's be real. . I'm counting down now not up!)

Maternity Clothes? Yes. . though I did discover a few of my own shirts I can still wear that aren't Daniels. But I'm not going to wear them because I will need something to fit back into after baby!

Not so good moment this week? Nope nothing. It's been a good busy week! ON MAT LEAVE!

Miss anything?  My body. Not having to pee every hour or so.

Movement? ha! when isn't there.. right now. :) he's sleeping. give him 10 minutes and it'll be a boxing match or something. Mind you he likes to move around more when Dad is around too.

Gender? boy!

Food cravings? no not really. I'm so sick of food some days. Eating is more a chore then anything. BLAH! I hate thinking of dinner ideas. I could live off of apples though I'm sure. 

Anything make you queasy or sick? when I wait to long to eat. Walking into the bathroom after Daniel has been in there. :) (oops threw him under the bus again!)

Emotions?  is tired an emotion? haha other then that I'm good. And I'm only tired by the end of the day. 

Looking forward too?  going on a walk in the spring weather that is coming with my lil man. and my big man too. And taking pictures of my new baby with my new camera! :) Gotta get some practice in with it.... any volunteers?

Easter Weekend

I already told you all about Friday and the work we got done around the house for baby.

Saturday we woke up nice and early and went into Edmonton to go to the temple. It was wonderful. It had been a while since we had gone. And now this is probably the last time for a while due to baby making his appearance in 6 weeks. It was lovely! I miss living only 30 mins from the temple. 2 1/2 hours isn't really bad either...but it still qualifies a whole day trip into the city.
After the temple we went to Olive Garden. YUM! And didn't have to pay thanks to some gift certificates that we had from an early escapade to Olive Garden.
Then we went and bought a stroller and carseat. That just shows how close this baby is to coming. So weird.  I can't really fully wrap my head around it. Then we figured we'd head home. . . after we stopped at Future shop just to look around.
We've been wanting to get a new camera for a while. . . and we got one. . . now I just need to figure it out and we'll have some sweet pictures. . . plus a baby to put in them. :)
Once we  got home we spent some time playing with our new toys. (mine is the camera.... Daniel gets the stroller and carseat. :P )
the stroller and carseat are fun to figure out. . i'm sure we'll be pro's with them After baby comes and we have to use them all the time.
Oh yeah. driving to Edmonton our car hit a nice number of KM's.

sweet hey?

Sunday we did church in Lloyd and then headed up to St. Paul for dinner with my Aunt and Uncle. Turned into a bigger shi bang with a few more faces. It was fun. Lots of good food. We left later then we planned. . . that's typically what happens. Especially when Daniel and my uncle start talking guns and hunting stories. :P
But we left with still enough daylight on the horizon. We're just driving along, talking and watching the road when all the sudden  we hear this bang bang bang bang bang coming from outside our car. I knew it was a tire. I thought it had blown up. Daniel stopped and I jumped out to look fearing the worst. (when we bought this car 4 months ago we had practically brand new tires on the car) But nothing was wrong. So I went closer to investigate and this is what I found.

Can ya guess what that is?

A stupid evil mean bungee cord. Yes you read that correctly. A BUNGEE CORD! of all the things to run over and ruin your tires, bungee cord was not high on the list. And of all the big oil trucks that drive that road and we're the ones to hit it. (really?)
Luckily there was as shop a hop skip and a jump down the road that Daniel went to to borrow a hack saw. We cut it off. Left what was in the tire in there. and drove home. Now I gotta take it in so that someone can patch my tire.
At least we got a good laugh out of it.

little bit of this. . . little bit of that

Thought it was about time just to do an update on our life!

Spring finally feels like it is here! The snow has started to melt and the sun is out. We even had a window open today for most the afternoon cause it was so warm in the house. Might have been all the work we were getting done around the house.

We got new blinds. Daniel had a fun time putting those up. But the living room looks even more amazing then it did before. It is still my favorite room in the house.

Yeah they look pretty good. The brown curtains aren't really wide enough for the window. But meh. they'll stay up till I find other ones that fit better. LOVE IT!

Our other huge accomplishment this weekend was getting the baby room cleaned up. We had to mud and sand and prime and then paint the room before I deemed it good enough for our lil monkey. Even still I'm waiting to paint a chocolate brown stripe around the room and put some shelves and pictures up, but i'm so proud of it I though I would post some pictures. Makes me feel good getting all this stuff done.

the lovely before picture with the mud spots EVERYWHERE

What it looks like now. :) Love it!

As I said, still waiting on a few more finishing touches but it's basically ready for baby! (we're hoping to get a rocker or glider for where the kitchen chair is right now.) And now that I am on Mat leave I have the time to get more stuff done. Use the energy in the day :)

Next exciting news. I am on Mat leave! It seems so long ago that I told people at work I was pregnant. And now suddenly I am on mat leave and have 6 weeks (give or take) until my baby boy comes into my world to turn it upside down for a while. But here it is. I'm sad to be done work, I really loved it and interacting with all the people I work with throughout the day. But I am glad to be able to relax at home and not be so tired at 4:00 in the afternoon. (actually that may not change.) It just makes baby seem all the more real. Kinda crazy.
Daniel was talking with his Dad the other day and so Daniel was filling him in on life for us and baby and such. He told his Dad that yeah we're excited and over the moon happy for this kid. and that it's not the labor and way this child will be brought into the world that is intimidating us. But rather the fact of actually bringing such a fragile child home. Being responsible for a baby. His dad just kinda chuckled and agreed with us. But told us that You'll figure it out.
You know what? I will. I'll figure it all out. Yeah i'm going to have frazzling days and reach the end of my rope but I have some pretty amazing friends up here more then willing to help me out. (even if my kid will be corrupt from them. . . after all i've done to their kids) I have my wonderful mother who will come up and help me out. But most importantly I have Daniel. My wonderful, handsome, crazy husband who was brave enough to "talk" me in to this and that we can do it. It's part of the journey of life we have started. And I am so glad for the man I have beside me to help me through it. He is going to be a wonderful Daddy and be able to teach his son more then I ever could. 

This child is going to be so loved!

Picture of me at 34 weeks to follow. :)

32 weeks

Found this on a friend's blog. figure it filled in every detail i needed pretty well.

How far along? 32 weeks!

Maternity Clothes? All the time. except for my yoga pants... and the occasional time I wear Daniel's clothes cause we know those aren't Maternity. :)
Not so good moment this week? ummm.... don't feel like sharing though Daniel would love it because then I wouldn't only be throwing him under the bus but myself as well. So... another time.
Miss anything? Bending over... sleeping on my tummy...my bodyMovement? He's a gymnast this week so far that's for sure.  Gender? A boy. So they told us. :)Food Cravings? ummm.. not really... fruit stillAnything make you queasy or sick? Nope not reallyEmotions? Pretty good I'd sayLooking forward too? Having this baby!! I can't wait to see him!

Now for the picture!

The Stove

Here is that post about the stove.
You might recall I posted once about a year ago about our luck with technology.
(Techonology) Well anyway... So we have moved since then and bought a house.
The stove was pretty archaic. But we figured we would make it last until we got a sweet deal on a new one. Shortly after Christmas Dan's Dad had called us and told us that he found one. The only thing that was wrong with it was some scratches near the dials. So we jumped on that.
His Dad brought it to his house... and had to fix some things on it after the good old southern alberta wind and a faulty bungee cord got to it. But his Dad is amazing and it still looks brand new. (what a talented family I have)
We knew we wouldn't be able to pick it up until our Montana get a way but that was fine with us. Until a week and a half before we left.

It was Sunday. I had just made a wonderful dinner for us and Daniel's cousin Erin and her family. About the time I was getting the vegetables and gravy going I noticed that the stove wasn't heating. I thought weird but whatever and just cooked the veggies in the microwave and kiboshed the whole gravy.
After his cousins left I told Daniel our stove was dead. Being the man he is he had to check it over and fiddle with everything. He unplugged it and plugged it back it. Checked the fuse box. Everything was good, except for the stove not working. Oh well we could make a week and a half without one. And we did. Mind you that's when I felt like baking but I managed.
After Montana we picked up the stove and brought our new toy home.
Got home and got it plugged in.. but couldn't get any heat out of it.
fiddled with it some more. Still nothing. So we called my parents who have the same stove to see if there was something special when you first hook it up. (no there isn't). So Greg, my wonderful dad, had us check the fuse box. And flip the fuse. Guess what. That did the trick. :)
Apparently I blew a 1/2 fuse with the stove.

T-A-L-E-N-T-E-D!

But all is good now! It works wonderful.

So in total.... we have killed two stoves. We're pretty talented I'd say. (Our other Stove adventure!)

The kitchen just keeps looking better and better!

Montana Weekend!

Oh what a weekend! I almost don't want to write about it. That would just be admitting that that wonderful weekend is actually over. But it was super fun... so...

We left Wednesday and headed down to Magrath/Raymond.

Thursday we got some stuff done and headed out for Montana by 2:00. made it to the cabin by 4:30 ish. Took us some time to figure how to turn up that heat. But we got it done and then just ate dinner and relaxed. Watched a movie or two. It was lovely.

I got up Friday morning around 6:30 (LAME!) but I wasn't feeling the greatest so I got up and fell asleep on a couch till about 8:30. Then Daniel woke up. If any of you know my husband you know that he doesn't get up that early on his own... ever. But he curled up on the couch and fell asleep again while I got to read. Around 10:30 we went to Hukilau cafe (as Daniel calls it.. it's really Echo Lake Cafe. You can see how he'd mix it up... :P ) and had us some brunch. Went back to the cabin and I got to nap. (remember.. not feeling the greatest. and i'm pregnant. why am I explaining myself?) Daniel played pool and watched GI Joe. (it's a tradition of his.) We did manage to make it into Kalispell and spend money. haha found a carpet for baby's room and flooring for upstairs. Not part of the plan but it happened anyway. It was pretty darn cheap so we loaded up our car.. it looked like it was going to blast off to the moon.
We also met up with Brad and Lindsey at Famous Dave's and ate an entire chicken! They came down to spend the weekend with us. So after eating and running around some more we went back to the cabin. Laughed and talked and watched a movie. Well... Lindsey and I slept. Then Brad and Dan had some manly bonding time playing pool and tickling their wives while they tried to sleep. what pests.

Saturday we all slept in... kinda. I was up at 7:30. Lindsey shortly after and Brad shortly after. Around nine we decided it was breakfast time so I had to wake up Daniel. The four of us can make a pretty mean breakfast. Then it was time to do some more shopping especially since I had a shopping buddy! haha though I didn't get that much. haha I'm more interested in baby stuff vs my own stuff. We went out to Columbia Falls to go to the Nite Owl. It was pretty delicious. totally done eating meat for a while though. haha
got home and played Wizard. We all kinda sucked. Though I am improving. haha I wasn't the one losing.. I believe that would be Daniel. :) Then we played ping pong. Any body need entertainment? They just need to watch Lindsey and I play. haha It was kinda sad. lots and lots of laughter though which is all that matters! We were thinking I might go into early labor with all the laughter. But no. Baby is still kicking away inside me. :)

Sunday... we forgot about the time change and so we all missed church. oops! We're all heathens now I guess. We had to clean up the cabin and start packing stuff. It was bittersweet. I always hate leaving. It is so nice and relaxing. But we had to get back to life.
So we drove our rocketship of a car home. Even the border patrol felt bad for our poor car. No worries all the flooring got unloaded at my parents. (we had to bring home a stove {another story}) They'll bring it up when they come to see baby! So we spent Sunday between parentals. Daniel got to help his dad reoragnize their bedroom. Monday we spent between families. And managed to actually leave at 2:00. (that's a first) We drove pretty slow home. Didn't really want to come back to the yucky cold and snow.
(OH Montana.... +8 and no snow. WONDERFUL!)

It's good to be home though. Only two more weeks of work then it's Mat leave for me. It's kinda all coming up really fast now. Which is fine by me!

Now reality includes getting ready for Baby! :)

Sunset

Just showing how low the water is in the winter. and we were checking out the castle.

Breakfast at hakilau!

studying the menu

building a butter tower

Lindsey and Brad. They do love each other despite the distance between them at the moment. :P

Waiting for Nite Owl to open

yup. we love each other too.

butter towers... at nite owl

This is relaxing. haha

How you can pay at the Nite Owl. Next time we're bringing a chicken

Early morning relaxing.

brad playing with his new tools

The boys being daredevils on the ice

yup. he's all mine. And this is just proof how cute my kid is going to be. 

Final Countdown

As soon as March hits I feel like everything is around the corner.

January is just an obnoxiously long month. Nothing really happens in it except for the fact it's the start of a new year. 

February is a wonderful short month that flies by!

Then March hits and you begin to realize how close Spring is. And with Spring comes many new changes. 

The snow goes away. 

The days get longer. 

The sun gets closer.

 The days get warmer. 

With this Spring though, there are a lot of new changes coming in The Fyfe Life.

Hockey is ending. :)

Farmers are getting ready to start planting, which means Daniel's work is going to get kinda busy.

My Mat leave is only 15 working days away.

Baby comes into this wonderful world.

Honestly I don't know what I feel.
I'm so excited to hold my own little bundle of joy and see the child that Daniel and I created.
I'm excited for this new phase of life. 

Then there is worry too.
Will I actually know what to do when I bring baby home?
Labor... psh. Not really that worried about it. 

I just wonder what it will be like bringing that tiny (hopefully) infant home and taking care of him.
Yeah I know there are going to be sleepless nights and stressful.
But, I have a wonderful Husband who will be around to help me.
I have my wonderful Mother coming up to help.
I have many wonderful Friends that I know are going to be willing to help.
And I have my Heavenly Father who trusts me with one of His children. With him, I can do this.

With that being said. . . the countdown is on.
We have 10 weeks. 

Bring It On!