Showering of Babies

I had my baby shower last Saturday, which was so much fun! I am so grateful to my good friends and old roommates who made it possible!

It was funny though, before I left, Justin told our nephew, James, that I was going to a baby shower, where they shower babies. James did not want to come to that. They went to Chuckie Cheese's instead. :-)

These are just a few pictures from the shower...why is it that sitting down makes me look so huge! I feel huge! Man! But, I am also 33 weeks pregnant. And it is now July. oh yeah. bring it.

Anyway, here are the pictures.

I got some great presents from all my friends! I was so impressed that they didn't all give me cute little outfits; I mean, I got some really practical things that we needed!
and the measuring of the belly...
I had a hard time finding the center of my belly...
The big string is how much off my friend (Katie) was. Good belly shot, eh?
Yay for friends and happy times!

Seven months and a big belly

Ok... so after weeks of anticipation... may I present to you... (echo sounds from a large auditorium)...

The New and Improved Amber!!!

Seriously though... this is this month's picture. She is 20 something weeks... I lost count. [Notice: I am 31 weeks. :-)] I have never figured out how to keep time in weeks instead of months... but she is about 7 months along. I think her belly button doubles as a turkey timer. As soon as it pops out, the baby is done... I'll keep you posted.


Oh, and just for fun, here is a picture of Amber making a "pushing" face...

Ok... that's all for now...

Big Girl, you are Beautiful!

Okay, so somehow I have managed to let another month slip away without posting on here. I blame it on school! Which, by the way, end on MONDAY. I will have my last class as an Undergrad over by noon on Monday, June 15th (which happens to be my birthday).

Anyway, I am in the middle of writing an 8 page paper, "preliminary version" as my teacher calls it, for which I have about an hour left to write. I'm 4 pages into it after 1 hour of writing, so I figured I could take a ten minute break.

The most recent game I have been playing is the "Big" game (Blog title is from a Mika song...love it!). I have been getting mostly very blunt comments about how big I am. Granted, it's mostly all belly/baby, because I've been very active through my water aerobics class. Well, I'll let you be the judge of that when I get around to posting a new picture. I'll do it this weekend!

Anyway, here is my current collection:

1)My Bishop keeps telling Justin that I am having twins and that we need to go get another ultra sound. No, Bishop, we've had two ultra sounds. It's just one baby.

2) Friend I ran into in the BYU Bookstore: "When are you due? Oh...is it just a big baby then?"

3) Girl in one of my classes: "When are you due? August? Are you SURE?"

The next three were at work:
4) "Amber, when are you due? Where is the baby going to go?"
5) "How much longer do you have? 2 months! But you're already so big!!"
6) "Girl, you look like you are about to pop! Is this baby going to explode?"

That's all so far. It's a growing list, though. I just tell people, well, I'm just short. He has no where else to go except out. Plus, I'm carring pretty high. It makes me laugh so much, though, because people lose all tact and discretion when asking a pregnant lady why she is so BIG!

Look forward to pictures!

Work-Force

I saw this in the Daily Universe today. It's a little sad how much I can identify with this these days.

More updates

I realized there are many more updates to give.

First, Justin has been called as the second counselor in the Bishopric of our old BYU Singles Ward. It was a very big surprise and extremely daunting, but we've prayed through it and after attending that ward for 3 weeks, it really starting to feel like home. We thought there would be a lot of the same people who were there when we were in the ward, but enough have moved out, that it's not too weird at all. It's very comfortable and welcoming. We're excited about it, even though it does take us out of our family ward in which our records are. Keeping up friends is a hard thing to do when you don't ever see them.

Second, we did celebrate Mother's day! Justin told me he wasn't going to get me anything because I'm "not a mother yet." I didn't mind...we don't have a lot of money! But that sneaky boy went out Saturday night to get a bike pump and came back with flowers! Funny thing about them, he doesn't like them and cringes everytime he looks at them. They are yellow alstroemerias, which are still quite pretty and brighten up our apartment, but he's declared he will never buy me cheap flowers again. :-) He also made me breakfast on Sunday and gave me a wonderful book that I've been reading at work: I'm not sure of the exact title, but it's about finding contentment during motherhood. It really hits home for me because I often am critical of my own efforts and schedules and compare myself to other people. A goal and hope of mine as a mother-to-be is to enjoy every moment. I know that's not completely possible, but I really want to cherish the moments. This book is helping me prepare to do that. AND he gave me some really cool earings!

He bought them at Christmas and decided to not give them to me, but he had to wait long enough until I forgot about them. And I completely had! These aren't the exact colors, but you get the idea of what they look like. They are so beautiful! I love them. I wore them on Sunday and got so many compliments! :-) he did a good job. He makes me feel very loved and appreciated. He's a wonderful husband and my best friend!! :-D

Um, other than all that, we went to visit a prison on Saturday because our brother-in-law works at the prison. It was an interesting tour. Just to see the different halls and the smalle cells and they even had this exhibit of how the "gang members" create their own make shifts tatoo guns and needles. SO crazy! Prison is not some place i want to go. We also saw a demo by the SWAT team...basically their dog "played" with another SWAT member. I don't wanna be chased by that dog.
Here are some updated pics of me...they are from a couple week ago when we had Spencer down for dinner. But they're more updated than the ones we've currently got posted! I'm now 26 weeks...and man I don't know how my belly is going to keep growing! My favorite part is when my little baby boy moves around and sqirms and lets me know he's there and well. Justin and I have only played this game once, but when we poke my belly and hold it there, baby gets upset that his space is being invaded and pushes back. We love it! We tried shining a flashlight in on him to see if he'd respond to that (mybabycenter.com said he might by now)...but he didn't. We'll try that again later. :-) It's crazy to me how much I love him alread when I haven't even really seen him! I'm so excited (nervous!) for August!