Baby Bentley

Geez 9 months is a long time! Bentley finally came on March 23. She weighed in at 7 lbs 10 oz and was 19 inches long. It was a long night, especially for Dan. We got to the hospital at 5:30 on Tuesday night and she didn't come until 4:16 the next morning. Dan spent most of the time with headphones and his hood on because it was all a little too much for him. He finally calmed down and was very helpful the last 2 hours of the pushing. We sure love her and are so glad she finally came. We'll post some real pictures soon but hospital ones will have to do for now!

The big 3-7

37 weeks. 3 to go. woot woot.

just bigger, not better

A couple new belly photos. Seriously regretting thinking this was a good idea. I looked back to my beginning pictures today, the ones where my stomach was tan and flat. Good times. Quite the contrast to now. Also, I would like to say that although most of these pictures are of me looking grungy, I do still get ready and dressed like a normal person sometimes. I just always seem to remember to take pictures at gross times like right after the gym or right after waking up. I apologize.

This one is about 30 weeks

32.5 weeks

Christmas Twenty-Ten

Another good Christmas. Neither of us are big gift people at Christmas time so Dan and I just usually fill each others stockings. A lot of couples go all out for each other which is cool I guess, especially if you are both making money but whereas I am not contributing financially at all to our little family right now, it seems pointless to spend lots of money on each other. It would be like, "Merry Christmas Dan! I bought this with your credit card so you'll be getting the bill next month. Hope you love it!" Pretty lame, so we keep it small. We went up to Logan for most of Christmas this year and had a really good time. Here are a few of the pictures we were able to take.

Jan and baby Kara. Love this little girl. She really makes us excited to have our own. So soon!

Dan's dad searches through and hands out all the presents. There is getting to be so many people that it looks like he needed a little help this year.

Lily showing us her purse full of presents.

We were able to go to dinner with my family in bountiful and then come home and open presents with my parents.

Mom and her annual mini-calender. If she's not home you can always know where she is by checking out her calender. She writes EVERYTHING on this thing.

Dad opening his new wallet. Super exciting gift right?

My Mom and Dad got us some new dishes which I love and I am exciting to just have one matching set! Thanks.

We got lots of awesome and helpful things from both of our families. THANK YOU so much!

26 weeks

Definitely not the most flattering picture, but this is me at 26 weeks. 14 left to go.

Ok so I graduated. I'm pretty awesome. However, it is very strange not really having anything to do. We have about 15 weeks until this baby gets here so until then, I'm pretty available. My blogging frequency may increase. But then again maybe not. I definitely have lots of things I could do but it's really wierd not having anything I HAVE to do. I plan to fill my time scrapbooking, learning to cook better, organize all the many closets in my house, and getting baby girl's room ready. I have currently not started any of these projects. Hopefully I'll get them all done and maybe even become a master chef. Who knows? It sure feels good to be done with school forever though.

bigger is better right?

These pictures are 2 1/2 weeks apart. Kill myself right? And I can't even use thanksgiving as an excuse because these are both before I ate a single piece of turkey. Imagine what I look like right now after eating two thanksgiving dinners in two days. Sick. This baby better be dang cute and really awesome. Oh and don't know if I said this, but it's a girl. Yay for baby girls!

20 weeks

22.5 weeks