Good excuse

So, for once I actually have a good excuse as to why I haven't blogged in almost a month. You ready? Here it is: our laptop is broken. See, our regular computer is upstairs in Cami's room and our laptop is usually downstairs by the couch and that's where I usually blog from. But, since it's broken, and the only time I find to blog is when Cami is napping, I can't do it because I'll wake her up. You see my problem here? But I figured that I should get back to it, since it has been so long, so brace yourself for a few pictures and a bunch of mindless rambling.

So, first things first. My sister mentioned on her blog what we're having (we got our 20 week ultrasound) so I figure it's time for us to make an official announcement:

It's a boy!!

We're super excited. I really wanted a boy and even had a dream the night before the ultrasound that it was a girl and I was SO upset in my dream, which of course made me feel really bad when I woke up. But it's a boy!! We got quite a good look at his 'out-door plumbing' unit (that's what the ultrasound tech called it. Made me laugh pretty hard), but for his sake, I won't post that. What I will post are some of the other pictures we got. He wasn't very cooperative and we never got a good profile picture, or a cute one of his feet or anything.

This first one is the best profile picture we could get. He had his arms up by his head the whole time and we even saw him sucking on his fingers. Too cute!


This second one is a profile with his mouth open. I've always thought that pictures like this make it look like you've got an alien growing inside you, but at least they're always cute when they come out.
So, there's our little man. I'm very, very excited for him to come. I think it'll be a blast to have one of each.

Random question: for those of you who have kids, what was their heart rate? Cami was always really high, about 170, and this little guy is down around 145. They say that's pretty normal, girls are high, boys are low. Did any of you notice that same sort of pattern?

I've been meaning to get a picture of my non-existent baby bump, but just haven't yet. I'll have to post comparison pictures of my pregnancy with Cami to this one, I really have almost no stomach, even halfway along. No, I'm not complaining to be so tiny, but for those of you who have been pregnant, you know that stage you go through where you've got a little bit of a bump but not much and people look at you and wonder "Ok, so is she pregnant or is she just fat?" And you make a point of telling everyone that you're pregnant, just so they'll stop wondering. Yeah, I've been there for the past three months! I'm okay with being tiny, but I guess what it just comes down to, psychologically at least, is that basically, I still just look fat. :(

Anyways, moving on. So, October, let's talk about that and we'll work backwards from there (to September and then maybe I'll be caught up after that). Beginning of October: My birthday!! I am now a quarter of a century old. Wow. For my birthday I got pajamas, new couches (there's a whole story that comes along with that, but we'll save that for September), an hour long relaxing massage, and earrings. I never got a picture of that cake, it was store bought, but it was a great day. Sterling took me out to dinner and then to a movie. Can't remember now what we watched, but we had fun.

Also, in October, Sterling's mom and his Aunt Ruth organized a barbeque up American Fork canyon. It's a tradition to do one every October. Last year I was there with a really bad kidney infection. Not fun. This year was better. We ended up taking a lot of family pictures, Preston, Sterling's brother, was our photographer. He's got a talent. I was prepared for it, so we weren't color coordinated at all, but here's some of the outtakes.

It was so pretty up there with all the fall colors and the river running right by everything. I was just gorgeous and the light was perfect for taking pictures. If only we'd had matching outfits.

Here's two of Cami and her cousin Beca, Preston and Alisha's little girl. She's three months younger than Cami and is the spitting image of her father. It's pretty funny actually.

Cami's 'deer in the headlights' look. It's pretty much her standard look when confronted with a camera.
For the rest of October we've just continued with our job hunt. We went out to Fountain Green, it has a population of about 900 people and you would walk from one end of the town to the other in about 20 minutes. It was small and sad and Sterling and I decided that we didn't want the job there, so the search continues. We have some promising things opening up in January, so we might just have to wait on something permanent until then. We'll see though.

Finally, Halloween. Um, we didn't do anything, and I mean anything for Halloween. We didn't even carve pumpkins this year. I know what you're thinking 'what a bunch of party-poopers. Yes, that would be us. We had some creative ideas for costumes for our little ward Halloween party, but nothing that could be pulled together quickly. I had big plans, but time flew by and suddenly the ward party was upon us! Sterling wanted to go as a duck hunter, with him in his waders and camo, me as a black lab hunting dog, and Cami as a duck. I thought it would be super cute, but we had very little time, and money with which to throw it together in time for the party.

Halloween evening, we escaped Orem and went up to Sterling's mom's place in Midvale. We never get trick-or-treaters anyways (not in the three years we've lived here), so we partied up there instead. She got a total of two. That's right, just two. We ended up watching some 'scary' movies on tv, namely Final Destination. Yeah, I didn't sleep that night. No it's not really super scary, but it did enough of a number on me that I've filled my thriller quota for the month.

So, that about sums up October, more to come later (hopefully sooner rather than later, but we'll see how it works out.)