BABY BOY!

We had an ultrasound a couple weeks ago and we found out we are having a BOY! We are both extremely excited and I am trying to enjoy every minute of my pregnancy.


This is a picture of his little feet! The nurse was obsessed with his legs and feet because we were getting such great views of them. We never got a good look at his face though. After shaking my belly he finally changed position, but then his face was toward my spine.



This is of his legs and belly. This picture is one of my favorites because his little legs are so cute! There is a little baby with legs and everything growing inside me!


This is another cute picture. He has his arm tucked up and his head ducked down hiding his face. I think his arms and legs are my favorite to look at. I I'm not sure why, but they are just so cute! Probably because they are so small. At this point he is only about six inches from head to rump.

Some people have requested that I put pregnancy pics up, so here is one straight on. You may also notice that I died my hair brown! It is dark brown but it is not permanent so it will fade to light brown or perhaps even my regular color of blond. I love it.

I am almost 20 weeks (5 months) along. It kinda looks like I am pushing my belly out but I'm not, I was just trying to get my arm out of the way. I feel much bigger than I look. I can't imagine what it will be like later!

I thought I would put this in here so Austin doesn't feel so left out :). We went to Montana this past weekend and Austin decided to ride a tractor. He looks grumpy in the pic but he actually enjoyed himself. Maybe he just takes his tractor riding seriously. :)

New Car and Baby pics

So, this first picture is an old ultrasound photo that we have of the baby. Since it's the only one that we have, I'm going to post it anyway. This is 9 weeks along. Mindy is currently 15 weeks along though. The due date is Sept 7th. The rest of the pictures are a result of the baby coming. We decided we wanted to get a car with four doors and an automatic transmission to make life a little easier.


We bought a 2010 Corolla S and we love it!!

Camping!

Well, here's an update finally. Lately, we've just been going to school and working. Pretty boring so that's why we haven't been updating the blog much. We went Mesa Falls this past weekend on a camping trip with David, Jessica, Spencer, and Robin. We had a great time and got some great pictures.

We took a hike down to these falls. It was such a perfect day!

The happy couple!

Spencer and Robin Liljenquist, some of our good friends.

David and Jessica, Family and friends.

Prison Tattoos

I bet the title spikes at least some sort of interest...or worry.... Anyway, when I was on my mission I talked to this kid that had just gotten out of prison. He told me when he was in there he made a tattoo gun out of common household items and made money in prison. Well, I decided to make a tattoo gun too, but I'm not giving any person a tattoo. Instead I am tattooing my hard hat. I work at the hard hat steakhouse now and we have to wear hard hats, some kind of theme or something. lol Anyway we are supposed to personalize them to our personality and stuff. So I decided to tattoo mine.


Materials
-5 v output cell phone charger
-Motor(can be found in old vcr, cd player, printer or Radio Shack)
-Button
-Guitar String(used as needle)
-Bent spoon
-Mechanical Pencil
-Of course every good project must have a little Duct Tape



Since I'm not that great of an artist, I cut the designs into some duct tape and color inside the lines. So, here is what it looks like so far. It looks like I just did pointelism or dadaism(I think that's what it's called).

Halloween and Dorodangos

We had a halloween party with our ward the other day. So, as usual, we went to the DI to find our costumes. I found a karate shirt, that was too small, for my ninja outfit and wore sweat pants. Mindy found a scrubs top and some black pants. I think the costumes actually worked out pretty well. Anyway, here are some pics.






Now for the Dorodangos(aka: shining mud balls). We thought these were pretty cool. We saw a mythbusters where they made these balls out of mud, so we thought we would try it. They are a big hit in Japan apparently. Here's what they can look like if done with experience. Can you believe these are only made of mud?!


Here is what ours looked like. Mindy's is the first one and mine is the second one. If you want to try it out you could try this website: http://www.kyokyo-u.ac.jp/youkyou/4/english4.htm? Could be fun for the kids...I guess we're kids too.

Body Work

So, On the way back from Colorado we decided to do some custom body work to our car...We slid off the road and hit a pole. The roads were completely clear until we crossed over into WY, then they got really bad. There were several people sliding off, including a semi. Anyway here's some pics of the damage. Oh yeah, I almost missed the pole too. The sign had two poles and I was able to kind of steer the car in between the two poles. I was so close. Lol. The weird thing was that I hit the pole on the right of my car but the left pole broke.

Mindy's Sewing Projects

So... I bought a sewing machine and have now been making stuff. Here they are...



This is my most recent project was a purse... black and gray.











Next is my skirt. I really wanted one like this so I just made one how I wanted it.






When we first moved to our apartment we had a greenish couch so we bought tan curtains and tan pillows. Then we got rid of our green love seat an got a tan couch. It has always bugged me how tan everything is now. So I made pillow covers for the tan pillows.



My next project is to make thicker and longer red curtains to go behind the tan ones.