Big Blue Belly

First of all, forget the ridiculous look on my face - please! Whatever she said to me, I must have thought it was pretty funny. But here is my big blue BSU belly. Why the lovely blue shirt you ask? We had a "blue and orange" day in honor of the Boise State University football team playing in the Poinsettia Bowl that day. Too bad they lost by one stinkin point! The other girl in the picture is also pregnant, but obviously not that pregnant. She barely has any belly!

You know your baby-belly is getting big when....

....the greeter at Wal-mart asks you if you're having a Christmas baby? Uh, nope, sorry buddy....more like a Valentines baby! But thanks for asking :)

Our Christmas Card to You!

Please consider this your Christmas card. I'm sorry to say that I have not sent one Christmas card out this year, which is so strange for me. I love Christmas cards - and thanks to all those that have sent them to us - and I haven't missed out on sending them for many years. But this year - I just don't have it in me. SORRY!! We don't even have a Christmas tree this year....how sad is that? I was a little bummed about it at first, but the more I think about it, I think it was a good decision - I don't think I'll really feel like taking it down with only about 5 weeks left in my pregnancy. I put up all my other decorations though, so i'm not a total Scrooge :)

So from Jim and I -

You are all in our thoughts and prayers and

WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We hope that the new year will find you all healthy and happy, and that our Heavenly Father will bless you with all that you stand in need of. We are so grateful for the gospel in our lives - we would be lost without it. We are especially grateful this year for the long awaited blessing of a child in our lives. We thank you for all your well wishes and prayers on our behalf. We are especially mindful of and thankful for our special friends and family at this time of year. We love you all!

P.S. Hope Santa finds you all :)

What will she look like?

Yesterday in church, Jim and I were looking at babies and wondering if our baby would be cute or not. Of course, we will think shes cute, but will other people? Really? And don't tell me that you didn't have this conversation with your spouse before your kids were born. I know you did. So, I dug up the youngest pictures of us that I could find. My verdict - she ought to be pretty dang cute! Two things I do know she's bound to have......big eyebrows, and long eyelashes. We've both been cursed with big bushy eyebrows, and blessed with long eyelashes.
I do hope she gets her daddy's blue eyes, my hands, his ankles (he, he - mine are big even when I'm not pregnant), my hair, his strength, and sorry honey......but my disposition :)

But, whatever she is, or whatever she gets, she'll be wonderful and we'll love her to bits!

A Little Winter Pregnancy Humor for you :)

Oh My Goodness!

Hello People -
May I direct your attention to my baby counter over on the right hand side of the page....Do you see that it is less than 60 days?? That's less than two months!
That means that in less than two months we will have a baby - OH MY GOODNESS, I'm totally freiked out! But very excited! Scared out of my head! But thrilled to death! WOW!

Thinking about going Private!

Hi Everyone-

I'm thinking that before baby girl gets here, we will go private on our blog. I don't want all those crazy people out there lookin at her :) So.....leave a comment with your e-mail address, or you can e-mail it to me @ solosabal@yahoo.com. Thanks!

McCall

This last weekend we took our annual trip to McCall, Idaho. This year we took two couples with us, both friends from our ward and families that Jim home teaches. We had a great time, and it was so fun to get out of town. We always stay at our "time share", but this year to make it even better, we got the Presidential Suite. It was so nice - granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, hard wood floors, flat screen tv's in every bedroom, and our own private hot top on the deck. However, we started out with one little glitch. Something had happened with the dishwasher and it had overheated and started melting parts of the dishwasher. The place smelled so bad! and to make it worse, they didn't have a spare so we had to wash by hand all weekend. Luckily we ate most meals out, so there weren't too many dishes.

In spite of the dishes, it was a fun weekend. We played games, shopped, watched a movie, did some sight-seeing, and ATE TONS OF GREAT FOOD! What more could you ask for?

Us!

The Koyle's




The Birds

Dinner at The Lodge

Payette Lake

Our own private hot tub!

Comments

Hi Everyone-

I changed my comments settings so that "anonymous" people can't comment, but I'm not sure if I did it right. So....please let me know if you have issues commenting on my blog. Thanks!

Birthing Class/Diabetic for a Day

Wow, so I'm really behind again. We actually took our birthing class a few weeks ago and I've been meaning to post about it, but you know.....
Jim wasn't too excited about doing it - didn't want to spend his whole Saturday at the hospital listening to some nurse talking about child birth. But....he knew it was important to me, so he endured. He made it through by "taking naps" during the videos in order to avoid looking at other ladies hoo-hah's.
It was quite informative and helped me make my decision to have the baby at a birthing center, rather than the hospital. The biggest difference between the two is that at the birthing center, you don't have the option for drugs. If you decide you want them once you have checked in, then you have to pack up and head across the street to the hospital. Also, you have your own "master suite" there and they are beautiful. You get your own jacuzzi tub (to labor in, not deliver in...unless you want to,) a personal nurse, your doctor, a kitchen, etc. It's almost like being at home. So, as long as the rest of the pregnancy goes well, I'll be doing it at the birthing center!

As for being "Diabetic for a Day." I had my one hour glucose test two Thursdays ago, but then got the call on Monday that I was three points above what I was supposed to be, so they had set me up for the three hour glucose test the next morning at 8:00. At this point I was freiking out thinking I was going to be diabetic for the rest of my pregnancy, and would have to change my eating habits, and maybe take insulin, etc...It was not a good evening for me, to say the least. I had to fast - which is not fun when you are NOT pregnant, but even more fun when you ARE pregnant! If any of you have had the test, you know it involves a lot of blood being sucked out of your body. In three and half hours, I got stuck five different times. Good think I don't mind needles!
Luckily - my test results came back good, and I am happy to say that I was only diabetic for a day - or so I thought!