I'm at 39 weeks!!!! It's been a while since I last posted, that's typical though!! So baby Brost is due on Saturday the 16th of July, we have 6 more days...or so I think! Who really knows when he will come! I am 80% effaced and 2 cm dilated, he has dropped and working his way out! I feel pretty great, no complications I suffer with a little swelling here and there but other than that I dont have a lot to complain about! I really enjoy being pregnant, I think it is such a wonderful miracle and am so grateful that I have been able to experience this change. I love feeling him move even when it feels like he is going to jump right out of my skin! I love to watch my belly shift from one side to the other, and feel little body parts poke me and stick out as far as they can, it really is an incredible blessing to do something so selfless and and selfish at the same time. I do have to admit I went through some emotional struggles watching my body change and step on the scale and see numbers that should never accompany me but I know that I am healthy and its okay to see those numbers at this time. It's also been hard not running I really want to run!! Kyle and I have gone for a few drives out in the country and as our car makes its way up a large hill I cannot help but think how gratifying it would feel to run up that same hill! Speaking of running I signed up for the Kansas City Marathon in October so after baby arrives I will only have a few short weeks to try and get ready for it! I may be crazy but I've read about others doing it and I feel confident that I can too, plus my little sister is running it for the first time and I told her I would run it with her and I really want to, I've never ran a marathon with someone and have always really wanted too. I can say that I am nervous for the task at hand after baby comes but I am also really excited to see how strong I can be (not that childbirth wont test that enough)! On that note I am planning on doing a natural child birth - one with no meds! I am really excited once again to see how strong I can be, I am really excited to push this little guy out of me and finally hold him, finally be able to sit down and breath or get out of bed without assistance!

Kyle and I have done a lot since the last time I posted and heres just a quick catch up...I stopped working about a week ago so that I can be a mom! I am really excited to use some of this new time to be able to use my massage therapy skills more. I had 2 amazing baby showers one in Liberty and one here in Lawrence-thank you Micah, Kindra, Mommie, Tyre, Lisa, and Kylee they were both so much fun!!! I also ran the Kansas City Temple 5k April 30th so that put me at about 29 weeks- I ran it in 36 minutes I think, which I think is a decent time for being pregnant! I also ran the whole way I didnt walk once, now however thats all I do-well its more of a waddle! Dalin, my little bro came home from his mission June 24th and it was so much fun to see him step off the plane and enter the real world again. I got my crib in the mail and am still painting it green, this has taken a little longer than I expected but it is looking good. Kyle and I volunteered to be chaperon's for our church's youth conference in June. It was awesome! They held it in Nauvoo, Ill which is also where Kyle and I met, got engaged, and married so it has a lot of meaning to us. The youth had a lot of fun, we played games, went to the temple, walked around Nauvoo, felt the spirit many times, and went on a 3 mile handcart trek!! I loved the temple and the trek!!! The trek was so muddy, messy, and hard but so much fun!!

Well I am tired of typing so I'll probably be back in another 4 months!!! See ya! Hopefully by then my little peanut will be out!!

So I'm 19 weeks along and i can finally feel the baby move! It is an incredible feeling. At first i wasn't sure what it was, maybe gas or something but now that I feel it several times a day everyday, it must be my little one! He/she does move a lot and I'm amazed every time! It's really neat to think that I do have a baby growing inside of me. It's also very scary some days, I'm constantly thinking about what I ate and if it was the healthiest option, and if it wasn't I really feel guilty. Some days I feel like I'm only pleasing myself and not also the growing body inside of me. I've just recently been able to start taking a multi vitamin again! For the last couple of weeks I've just been supplementing my diet with a protein shake that was comparable to a vitamin, now though I can take both!! I also bought my first pair of maternity pants about two weeks ago and I love them!! I would wear them everyday if I could (even when I'm not pregnant)! I feel so much more comfortable now, now I don't feel fat and unattractive in all my clothes! All the women who have used the faithful rubber band, know how awful it can be! I hated going to a restraunt in my pre preggo jeans and having to quickly and ever so slyly unbutton my pants, once mastered its a great talent but not one that I wanted to keep doing! I also just ordered some dresses from motherhood and I can't wait for their arrival!

I honestly enjoy being pregnant it is such a marvelous journey that I'm so grateful to be a part of, i just i'm doing it alright. Kyle and I got into a tiff the other night and I thought to myself as I was mad that my baby could hear everything and I'm sure was effected by my increased stress. I felt so guilty for introducing such a negative feeling to something so small and pure, and I never want to do it again. I am constantly humbled by this blessing and can't wait to find out what the gender is next Friday!!

Here is a picture of my dream nursery! I plan to do the same colors!

You know the saying "all good things must come to an end"? Well at this time in my life something great did come to an end...I threw up on Monday twice and then again yesterday and then again TODAY!! Darn it! i told kyle on Monday that I was so upset I threw up Texas Roadhouse Ribs and I thought it was over and spoken like a true man he said "well be glad you had those couple of days"! He's right I am glad I was throw up free for a few days it WAS a miracle, but another miracle is inside me so I'll keep it even if it means throwing up!! As I was typing this Kyle told me to include how studly he his so this is me adding that...My husband is a stud!!

Well it's been a while as usual! We actually have done a few things since the last post so lets talk about it!! On Nov 11, 2010 we found out we were going to be parents!!! Yep thats what I said! I'm going to have a baby! I'm 14 weeks along and the experience thus far hasn't been what i though it would be. I was 4 weeks along when I found out, and about 2 weeks after that I started feeling nauseous ALL the time.....See in my head I always pictured myself as a very active and health women and for that reason I wouldn't get sick (for some reason that made since to me then) What a ridiculous thought that was! For the last 8 weeks I have felt miserable, also not what I thought I would feel like ( I thought that b/c I was pregnant I would literally feel like I was "glowing" which is the word used in every movie to describe a pregnant women! I always thought that, that word sounded like it had to feel great!!) Also a ridiculous thought! So the first trimester was spent eating applesauce, and saltine crackers (which I now will never willingly eat again), and throwing up all the time (thank you jan for the barf bucket for my van it has been used way too many times!)!

I had my first Dr's visit before Christmas and they said expect to be sick until about 12 weeks. However it never got any better the nausea just turned into vomiting and at my 12 week appt they said it may get better between 12-15 weeks, lets just say my confidence in my choice of a good Dr was beginning to sway! However like I mentioned I'm at 14 weeks and my confidence is restored I am feeling better!!! I got my energy back and my appetite!! I went 5 whole days without throwing up!!!! It's a miracle!! And as I learn about the development of my baby every week I am starting to feel like I am "glowing" It really feels amazing!! I am so humbled at this calling I have been given (and every women!) to carry a child! I really am amazed at how happy I feel!!!

Heres our little girl she is so funny!!

I actually can't remember all the recipes I was supposed to post but here id the best and I mean best granola bar recipe ever! I got this recipe from a gal at church and we sold them for the YW bake sale we had for camp, they got great reviews!

PEANUT BUTTER GRANOLA BARS

1/3 cup honey
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup peanut butter
2 1/2 cup Rice Crispies cereal
2 1/2 cup Oatmeal (quick or regular will do..I like regular oats myself)
handfuls of chocolate chips

1. Mix the cereal and oatmeal in LARGE bowl
2. Melt honey, butter, and brown sugar in a pot on the stove and bring to a boil. Boil for 1 minute.
3. Take off heat and add peanut butter, stir until all lumps are gone.
4. Immediately add to dry ingredients and stir and stir until well mixed. (A lot of stirring is required here)
5. Add chocolate chips (however much you want...I add just a couple of handfuls, about 1/4 cup...but I have noticed that if you have too many chocolate chips then the chocolate flavor dominates)
6. Quickly press hard into a small rectangular pan. (the pan size is smaller than a casserole but a little bit bigger than a square 8x8)
PLEASE NOTE: Press really hard-smash it in VERY well. If you don't smash it in right after you add the chocolate chips then the granola won't stick together-you'll just have granola crumbs...And also do steps 3 through 6 pretty quick...don't wait for the mixture to cool off. Other than all of that enjoy them they are delicious!!!

****I ALWAYS have doubled the recipe and used a jelly roll pan or cookie sheet at my pan and it works very well, make sure it's greased!****
You also can freeze these just fine!

Ok so I wanted to be better at posting a month ago so maybe I'll try it again! October is a very busy month in our house every weekend we had something going on, and I still get a little exhausted remembering it and thinking about next October! What happened in October you say? Well I'll tell you, the first weekend is always General Conference weekend but this year I had someone ask me if I would be interested in having my own booth at a car show giving massages to people so of course I said yes!! However the night before Conference my husband started talking to me and opened my eyes to the discussion I had before me, I could either miss Our PROPHET speak and go do something I wanted to do, or i could stay home to LISTEN and WATCH our prophet and his apostles tell me the things my HEAVENLY FATHER wanted to me to hear that specific day. So what did I do?? I stayed home and boy am I glad I did! I heard so many beautiful testimonies and words of encouragement and I knew I needed to change my life so that I would never be tempted to not hear my Heavenly Fathers words again. It was such a wonderful weekend! It was also Evan's (he's my little brother) 18th birthday and my mother inlaw's birthday. So it was a great weekend to start the month!

The next weekend the 10th was My 3rd WEDDING ANNIVERSARY!!!! I was married 3 years ago to a great, great man. He has filled my life with so many different emotions (good and bad, for those of you who are married you know what I mean) and experiences that I never knew were possible. I love him and I am so glad I married him! So for our 3rd anniversary we decided we wanted to go see CATs the musical thats coming to KC on Nov 6th! We also had the youth of our church over for a fireside and one of the girls brought brownies that she made and she told me she wanted to write HAPPY 3RD ANNIVERSARY on it but she didn't have any white frosting, isn't that cute? I thought it was!

Now after a restful week we come upon the next weekend the 15th-17th!........It is officially KC MARATHON weekend! Was i ready? No way! On Thursday Tyre and I picked up our Race packets and headed to bed early for a youth temple trip her ward was having! They were headed up to Nauvoo, Ill where I was married so I couldn't pass it up! I drove the 4.5 hours there and almost wrecked but we made it the end we made it there safely and in time to see my Aunt before she headed back to California. My sister Micah and her girls walked around Historic Nauvoo while the youth did baptisms and when they were through we got to do an endownment session, it was AWESOME!!! At that point I had, had 3 jam packed weekends full of the spirit! I couldn't have been a more blessed person. The session was beautiful but we didn't get out of there until 5 or so which means we didn't get home until 10ish I was so mad because I knew that the following morning I was supposed to be running 26.2 MILES!!! I was very nervous. But when the morning came I was full of energy and very excited! The RUN went amazing I finished in 4:26! Which is faster then I expected, Tyre ran the half marathon in 1:56 and finished 3rd in her division and got a trophy! It was a great weekend, the best part was that after the race the next day I wasnt sore at all!! How crazy is that??

The weekend of the 23rd and 24th was cannery weekend! Kyle, myself and some members of our ward went to the cannery and had a blast I came home with 75lbs of oats 50lbs of beans and 25lbs of wheat!! It wasnt all for me though! I picked up some stuff for others that weren't ablw to make it, good thing too because I don;t know where I would have put it all or what I would have done with it all! The 25th was also Kyle's 28th birthday, my hubby is getting to be an old man! We didn't do much because we both had to work but I did bake him yellow cupcakes with chocolate frosting! His FAV!

The weekend of the 30th and 31st was obviously Halloween weekend, so we got to clean the church building and spend the day together, finally a day to ourselves!! We ran errands and spent all the money we could! Kyle has been putting together his own gym in our garage so we mainly got a bunch of stuff for that but it was fun just to be around and with him, He's so great!
Halloween was cool but we only had one trick or treater, so I don't think I will buy candy again for Halloween it just ends up on my hips!

Now it is finally November and I have promised to post some awesome recipes for my sisters so here I go!