T Minus 10 weeks!

T- Minus 10 weeks and counting!!! As of today, I am 30 weeks pregnant, only 10 weeks (hoping for less) to go! Had my 30 week check up this week with the doctor... things look great, he did a quick ultra sound to try to make sure she is still a she (for some reason my old doctor wrote in the file she was a he) however, she is already head down, ready to go and she had her back against my stomach so he couldnt get a good view, lets pray the first ultra sound was correct! Other than that everything was looking good, i was measuring right at 30 weeks, so right on track... my weight gain is well... weight gain :) up 24lbs, balh! but Dr. says i am doing great. I will now go in every 2 weeks until the middle of June then every week (if i make it that far, i didnt make it to my every week appointment with Colton). I just hope that the next 2 months fly by, we can not wait to meet our lil princess, and i can not wait to not be pregnant anymore.
We have finally decided on her name and spelling of it... she will be named Addison Marie Widmer :) we hope that you all love it as much as we do.

Colton had his 4 year check up a couple weeks ago, and as usual, he is off the charts for his weight and height... 50lbs and 44" tall. Doctor said he is doing great, he only needed 1 shot, and boy i thought that was going to be the end of his world! the nurse had told him at the first part of the appointment that he would need it... mistake #1, dont tell a 4 year old about a shot 30 minutes before its going to happen. once the doctor walked in, Colton told him that he was "allergic to shots and he could not get one" The Dr. thought that was pretty funny. By the time the appointment was over and it was time for the shot, colton was hiding behind the chair, freaking out, i am sure the entire medical clinic could hear him crying, poor guy... but mommy told him we would go get a milkshake right after and all was well :) Other than that, he is doing great.... on the days its nice out, i hardly see him in the afternoon he comes home, and goes right out to the back yard to play in the dirt, he is such a boy!!

Last weekend was Easter, we had a very busy Easter Sunday... Started off doing a little thing with the 3 of us at home, Colton, bless his heart slept in until almost 9 on Sunday, comes into our room and asks when the Easter Bunny was every going to come, he said he has been waiting for him ALL NIGHT LONG! so Carson told Colton he thought he heard him during the night, Colton went to check it out... i wish i would have gotten him on video he was SO excited to see that the Easter Bunny had left him a basket and eggs to find. :) After doing our thing, we headed over to Carsons parents for a really good brunch and more Easter fun with the cousins, then we went to my parents house for a Easter dinner.... we had a great day and had some really great food.

This weekend we are heading over to a wedding in Portland, it will be nice to get out of town for a couple of days. I'll post pictures when we get back .

March birthday madness

Happy 4th Birthday to my baby boy!!!! Wow, i wish i could freeze time, my baby is growing up so quickly!!! last week we celebrated Colton's 4th Birthday. Had a nice little family party at our house, did a BBQ, and Cake and Ice cream, he had a blast, even got him a pirate ship pinata to go along with his pirate theme ( the kids loved it since there were only a couple of kidds, and they didnt have to fight over all the candy). On his actual birthday, i took the day off work and we had a mommy and a colton day of fun, the day was totally up to him... we woke up, made cinnamon rolls for breakfast, got ready went to the store so he could pick out a toy bow that he had been asking for, went to lunch w/ junk food nanny and pappa and uncle Thomas at Red Robin, then he wanted to go to the pet store to look at the animals so we did that then headed over to Sun Mountain Fun Center to play in the arcade, after that we went home had dinner and did gifts and more cake and ice cream. Colton is growing up so much, he got weighed today, and he is 49lbs, and 46inches can not belive how big he is. He is really into drawing Carson and I pictures these days too, and his pictures finally look like something other than a bunch of lines. I love his imagination and the way he explains things to me, he is so smart! He loves to help out around the house, and in the yard with carson, he is also doing great with eating (finally!!!) he is eating his vegetables, fruits, meats, everything. I love it when he says "Mom, you are the best cook ever" its so sweet. He is such a sweet caring boy, he melts my heart every day.

On Saturday, we also celebrated Carson's 29th Birthday, only one more year til the Dirty Thirty! and yes, i have to remind him of that too :) I think i need to start planning a big party now. For his birthday, i decided that i wanted to bake him a cake from scratch so i found a really good recipe for a chocolate cake and one for chocolate cream cheese frosting. it was a hit and turned out really good. I really want to take a class on cake decorating, just need to find the time to do it.

Lil baby Addy is growing good in my belly... i have a doctor appointment on wed. and i am already 25 weeks, this pregnancy has gone by so much faster than it did when i was pregnant with Colton. I just hope that the next 3 months go just as fast. We set up her crib over the weekend and have most of the baby stuff in the room, we also did a really neat wall art type thing for her room, as soon as we get it up, i'll post pictures. but i was feeling crafty and it was my first do it yourself project. (well, OK, my idea, but my sweet husband actually did it all for me so i didnt have to breath the nasty paint and glue fumes) I can not wait to get her room all put together.

half way update

I am now over the "half way" mark of this pregnancy. i will be 24 weeks this friday, and i feel as if i am 34 weeks :) I am finally feeling pretty good and have most of my energy back, so I am very thankful for that. I found out last week that my OB is no longer with the practice i was going to, so I now have a new doctor, I meet him at the end of the month. Its kind of a bummer to have to change doctors this far into the pregnancy but what can you do?! We have decided on a name for our lil princess, it will be Addyson Marie Widmer, (Addy for short) Colton says her name is going to be Wally, so any time we talk about her he refers to her as Wally. He is going to be such a great big brother, and is really excited for Addyson to get here; he loves to put his hands on my stomach and feel her moving and kicking. Its so neat that we are able to share this experience with him and that he can actually understand what is going on... well, most of whats going on, he did ask me the other day how the baby will get out of my belly and wanted to know if she comes out my belly button. (we will just go with answering yes to that for now) :)
One week from tomorrow will be my baby's 4th birthday, where did the time go? i can not wrap my brain around the fact that he will be 4 years old, 4 seems so old. it seems like just yesterday we brought him home from the hospital and he was so tiny. This year we are just going to celebrate his birthday with our family and a few close family friends at our house doing a BBQ. He didn't really want a birthday party he said and since i felt horrible for that and i still wanted to make his birthday special, we are still doing a pirate theme even if its only Colton, Bella and his friend Michaela. :) I know that he will have a blast with all of us.
I will post more after his birthday next week.

Think PINK!!!

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gosh, i am really slacking on updating my blog, so sorry!!!

well, i am now 18 weeks, almost 19, and that means almost HALF WAY done with this pregnancy. it makes me excited, yet sad at the same time since this will be our last baby. I am still getting sick in the mornings, and i have only gained 2lbs so far! ( i am sure i will start to pack on the pounds anytime). due to the stress that my work is giving me i have been having bad contractions already and the doctor wants me to relax, de-stress and get as much rest as i can... boy is that easier said than done, especially with Colton running around. Anyways, i just have to learn to just sit and relax i guess.
Anyways, at my last appointment i sweet talked our wonderful Dr. Amend into doing an ultra sound to see if we could find out the sex before my scheduled one a the end of the month, i honestly didn't think he would but when they said "OK" i got so excited then i felt bad since Carson was not at the app. with me, so i had him not tell me what he saw and to put write it on the u/s picture and put it in an envelope so carson and I could open it together... let me tell you, that was the longest 2 hour wait for Carson to get home from work that day, i was going nuts! he Finally got home and we opened it and it is a.............................GIRL!!!!!! yey! we are so excited to have a little girl, cant wait to buy little dresses and put bows in her hair. :) we are not 100% sure on a name, but as now it is Addison Marie, or Addison Lynn.
Other than that things are going fine, Colton is getting really excited about his birthday next month, cant believe my baby will be 4 pretty soon. this year we are just going to have a small party with just a few friends and we will have it at home this year.

I will update more after my ultrasound that is scheduled on the 22nd.... hopefully the doctor was not wrong and she is not really a "he" i have that fear lol.

Hope you are all doing well!

Big News!

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Happy Birthday to ME!!!

So sorry i have been MIA the past month or so, we have not really had the internet so its been hard to update my blog.

Christmas was so much fun this year with Colton, by far the best age yet. All the anticipation for the big guy in red to come and then seeing his face light up Christmas morning was the best sight ever. Colton wanted a Pillow Pet very bad this year, when you would ask him what he wanted thats all he would say, so to see his face when he opened up the pillow pet gift from Santa and to hear the excitement in his voice just for that small gift was so precious. We did our thing at home with the 3 of us, then headed out to Matt and Tannas for a good breakfast and Christmas #2, after that we went over to my parents house for Christmas #3, by the end of the day we were all worn out!

New Years this year was very low key, i made a yummy steak and shrimp dinner then we went to bed pretty early. Carson and the dog got up around 3am to go chucker hunting and they had a 4 hour drive for that, it was fine that we didnt do anything since its probably best to stay off the roads with all the crazies on New Years Eve. :)

Happy 27th birthday to me!!! We celebrated my birthday with my family and went out to eat, it was pretty low key. Friday night, Tanna planned a girls night/birthday bash at a local bar/restaurant with a few of our good friends. I had a great night with the girls and had some good food and she also got some great cupcakes for me too! Thanks Tanna for being a great sista i really appreciate everything you did, i had a great time!!!

BIG NEWS......... baby #2 is baking in the oven!!! Colton will be a big brother July 2011, we are so excited !!! Just like with Colton, i have been pretty sick, and i am really hoping that since i am in the 2nd trimester it will go away any day now. We are really hoping for a girl, but i have this gut feeling its a boy.... we will find out here in the next few weeks i hope. :)

Belly pictures to come soon :)

Thanksgiving Fun!

Well, I am a little late on posting a blog about how our turkey day went, but better late than never i guess!
This year, Carson and I hosted Thanksgiving with both his side of the family and my side, I think we had about 16 people here in our house. We had so much food, i think i still have left overs in the fridge. It was my FIRST time cooking a turkey, and what an experience it was! Since we had so many people we had a 22lb turkey, well Carson didnt realize that it would take a good probably 4 days to defrost that bird and when we got it he put it in the deep-freze out in the garage ,and it wasnt until 2 days before Thanksgiving i asked where it was and he told me where he put it. So, the day before thanksgiving I had it in the sink full of cold water to try to defrost that big ol' frozen bird. Well, the morning of Thanksgiving, i grab my rubber gloves and get ready to get the oh so nasty "stuff" out of the inside of it, only to realize its still FROZEN! i decided to run warm water into it, finally, i got everything out and got it prepared and into the oven. Well, the directions on the turkey said it would take about 4-4.5 hours to cook, so i figured it would be off by a bit and planned for 5, well, about 5.5 hours into it, we thought it was done the little red thing to tell if its done popped up and we took it out, got the other food warmed back up in the oven for a few while the bird "rested" my dad and carson went to cut into the bird, only to find out it was still RAW in the middle.... so back into the oven it went, and about another 1 1/2 later it was finally done, and it turned out really good i thought too! Funny how you prepare for a day or so before thanksgiving, cook ALL day long, and eat up all the food in about 20 minutes. :)
We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

Time sure flies when you are having fun! we have been so busy this past month with work, soccer lessons, birthday parties, and family time i have hardly had the time to sit down and upload new pictures and blog.
Quick updates on us... Colton is still in soccer, the first few classes were not so good, we actually moved him into the parent-tot class so i am doing soccer too :) his cousin Bella is in the class as well. He can now sing his ABC's if i can ever figure out how to get the video off our video camera i would post it, but its the cutest thing to hear him. He is loving his new cat Burk, that poor cat puts up with so much from Colton. Burk has adapted very well to our house and to Sako who we thought would just want to eat him but really wants to play with him. Carson is doing well, working to get his CDL license he hopes to test next month. Me, i am still working away and trying to get ready for the holidays. This year we are having Thanksgiving at our house with both sides of our families over, it should be a great time.
Today, we went with Tanna, Matt, and the kids to the High Desert Museum. they had this really neat butterfly exhibit where you walk into this mesh cage type thing and there are tons and tons of live butterflies fluttering around, we actually had a few that landed on us while we were inside, Colton thought that was so neat.

Gosh, where did October go? It's hard to believe that it is already November, next week Carson and I will be celebrating our 4th wedding anniversary, it falls on a Thursday so I am not sure what we will be doing, hopefully going out to enjoy a nice dinner together. This past weekend was Halloween, Colton was a ninja this year. He had SO much fun trick or treating, each house he would run as fast as he could, ring the bell, say "trick or treat", get his goods, run back to us and show us how much candy he had in his bucket. he could not believe how much yummy stuff he scored this year.
Last week Colton started soccer lessons. He is always running around the yard playing soccer, and told me he wants to be a soccer player when he grows up so we thought it would be great to put him in lessons. Well, lets just say the first half went OK, but when they took a break and he was able to come see us, he started to cry and would not go back out to play for the life of him. i hope this week goes better.
Today, Carson called and he said that someone had dumped 5 kittens at his work on Monday, he head them meowing today and went to see what was going on, he saw all 5, when he went to go near them all of the ran away but 1 little gray one who just cowered in a little ball against the wall. Next thing i knew, he was asking me if i wanted a cat. so, he brought him home for us today. We guess he is about 6 weeks old, he is skin and bone, so sad. he hisses at you and is so scared of us, but we bought him food, and have tried to make him as comfortable as we can. we are going to give it a day or two to see if he comes around. I am not sure if i can handle a cat that is horrified of us, and not to mention Sako... he just has no idea what to think of the new house guest. But Colton was excited to have him he named him Burke. I'll update in a few days and let you all know how it is going with Mr. Burke.