Thanksgiving weekend!

We had a fantastic Thanksgiving! A family in our ward invited us over to their home. We had an awesome time eating and talking! Oh I love Thanksgiving food, delish! Blake and I had to make our legendary sweet potatoes and swirled chocolate cheesecake.

We watched another Schnauzer this past week named Boone. Apollo and him and too much fun. This makes me want to have another dog!

Blake and I woke up at 4am on Black Friday to get a Christmas tree at Home Depot. We were like 15th in line and we weren't able to get one because they only had like 10 of them! Then, we waited in line at JoAnn's for an hour before they opened up and their doorbuster Christmas tree was pretty pathetic. HAha. So we ended up going to Khol's and buying our first Christmas tree! I love how my front room looks. I wish I could have my Christmas decorations up all year!

On Saturday, Blake and I went to IKEA in Centennial, Colorado for the first time. Wow, it was quit the experience. We were looking for a nice dresser for the nursery and we found one. Later that afternoon we went to Harkins Theater and saw Breaking Dawn. It was good. My back started hurting so bad when the movie started, so for the first half of the movie I laid down. Oh the fun of pregnancy.

I am 37 weeks and three days along! Yesterday I went stir crazy! I just came down with a cold a this week... luckily I can rest. Blake and I are getting so excited for this little nino!

Freeze

Ok, so any out there Warren Miller fans?

When I was dating Blake he told me I had to go and see the Warren Miller film for the year. I had never heard of it until then.

Car-a-zy but I have been to the past five Warren Miller films! Let me just say that they freakin rock your socks. It's all about watching professional sweetness of skiing and snowboarding doing their thing and traveling all around the world. Last Saturday, Blake and I went with our friends Joe and Jacque to this year's Warren Miller's "Like There's No Tomorrow" in Fort Collins. Watching the film for the new winter season gets me so pumped up! I want to go and shred a mountain right now if I could.

They draw for free prizes... but we didn't win anything... :( Blake almost grabbed some free swag but someone else got it.

I know I have a little chancho bakin inside of me but that won't be the case in five more weeks! But then I have to wait another six weeks before I can go snowboarding... oh it will be worth it.

I seriously love the snow. When it snows, I love how the landscape totally changes. I love how the lights at night reflect off the white and how peaceful it feels. I don't think I could ever live back in the desert. I love the seasons.

The cooler weather feels so good to me... especially being pregnant. I keep the house at 63 degrees during the day. Blake comes home and freezes but I love it (and I tell him we are saving money)! Lol

Update of Awesomeness

Wow, I haven't written in a couple of months. So, obviously we moved! We love our new home and the town that we live in. Our new ward is fantastic. I got called to work with the 8-9 year old girls for Activity Days on Tuesdays, and I am the Relief Society Meeting Coordinator (Aka Enrichment leader). We have an activity the first Thursday of every month. I have loved both callings so far. They have kept me really busy!

In September, we went to Arizona for my baby shower and for my Grandmother Sarager's Birthday. Blake's parents also came to visit us in Colorado. We went to Pike's Peak in Colorado Springs. In October, we went to Idaho for another baby shower and fun with the family. I love that three of my siblings are all going to BYU-Idaho... oh I love that place.

My brother Spencer got his mission call to... Nagoya, Japan! I am so excited for him!

Halloween! Zombie couple. Blake and I won best couple costume. I would have to say that this has been my best costume ever. I am pretty sure some of the kids in our ward were scared of us because they wouldn't take our candy.

We bought both our lovely outfits at Goodwill. We used a drill to put tears in our clothes.

We have had two huge storms this past month, like a foot of snow in 24 hours for each storm. Lots of broken tree branches. A week ago, I pruned our bushes and plants in the backyard for a few hours. I just had so much energy. 

This past month, I have been feeling the best I have felt during this whole pregnancy. So many women I talk to hardly get sick at all... luckies!

Can you believe that I am 35 weeks along?! This last picture I am 33 weeks (I think).Crazy business! Blake and I are super excited. My emotions go from excitement to anxiety in minutes. We had a couple of baby classes this last week. I will blog about them.

I am an official Coloradoan now! I have a Colorado Driver's License.

I am going to try to blog more often, so stay tuned!

Closing/Moving this week!

This week we are moving! Here are a couple of pictures of the house we are going to live in.

This is part of the backyard...

the kitchen...

and the living room with a fire place.

This is where we are currently living now.

23 Weeks!

I have been feeling a ton better recently. I am so so so glad.

I have been able to feel the baby move and kick! Last week, Blake and I were watching my brother Fielding and his wife Carissa's music video they made. The song was "Radar" from Britney Spears, and while we were watching the video, I felt the first "solid" kicks from the baby... I guess our baby boy is a Britney Spears lover in the womb... love it!

*Haha I love Apollo's face.

It's a ....

.....

BOY!!!

Blake and I are so excited! Blake thought it was going to be a girl because both his brothers only have (a) girl(s). I am so excited that it's going to be a boy because I want a little Blake (Blake was the cutest baby!)

It was very apparent on the ultrasound that it is healthy, little boy weighing about 14 ounces. I still can't believe that a little human is growing inside of me.

I am not going to lie. This pregnancy has been the HARDEST, physically, emotionally demanding thing I have ever experienced in my life (and that's saying a lot). I am still not feeling good but my nausea is so much better than the first four months. Like even today, I have been nauseated since 2:30 and I threw up tonight. My stomach hurts on and off everyday.

I seriously don't think I can do this again in the future. I wanted to have as many kids as I could physically and emotionally handle. I am only HALF-WAY through this pregnancy and it's still kicking my butt. When I talk to other mothers, they say you forget about the first part of your nauseated pregnancy. I just don't think I will ever forget how sick I feel. This pregnancy is so MISERABLE... I HATE feeling this way.

Growing up I have had lots of energy to live life. I have always enjoyed being active, working out, and eating lots of food. I still can't go to the grocery store, make food, or be hardly active because of how sick I feel. Just recently (like a month), I have been able to go on walks with Blake in the evenings. I still don't have an appetite and I have to force myself to eat (I gag multiple times everyday when I think, see, or smell certain foods).

I am sorry that I am vomiting all this information, but I just have an emotional need to do so. I mean I really am grateful to be pregnant, don't get me wrong. I knew I would get sick, but it's so much easier said than done. Everyday for the past 5 months, I wake up and stay home. If I feel good then I try to do my little projects around the house. There's no family around, and I do have friends in the ward but it's not the same. It's hard to be sick and be home by myself. Luckily, I have such a loving, supportive husband who is so kind and willing to help me out. My favorite part of the day is when he comes home and we are together.

I know everyone says that this will be worth it but 9 months of sickness really sucks.

I wish this time could go by faster. It's hard to not be able to feel like myself. I have to live one day at a time and look for the positive.

On a side note: Apollo hangs out with me all day. Apollo doesn't like to cuddle me during the day when Blake is gone. But after Blake gets home, Apollo has to sit like on top of me. Apollo gets really jealous when Blake and I sit on the couch together... that always brings a smile to my face no matter what. :)

Fee-Fi-Foe-Fum

Drum Roll Please...

This is baby bump at

19 weeks!

Baby Bump at

17 weeks!

My niece Emma(6) colored me this beautiful fairy picture!

My oldest niece, Maddy (10), colored this awesome picture! When they gave these pictures to me it melted my heart! They are now proudly displayed on the refrigerator.

These last 3 pictures are from a couple of weeks ago when we went to the Drum Corps International Competition at Invesco Field at Mile High.

During Seattle Cascade's performance, it started to rain and thunder.

We had to wait an hour inside the stadium for the weather to clear up. I started getting super nauseated so we had to leave early... I was so sad!

Next week I find out the sex of our baby!

We might be changing addresses here in a month...

we may have bought our first little home!

Part 3: Vacation in Rexburg, ID

Blake and I purchased a bunch of fireworks in Wyoming before we got to Montana. Wyoming is the best place to buy fireworks because a) they sell them year round and b) they sell fireworks that are illegal in most states like Artillery Shells and Roman Candles (which are Blake and mine's favorite fireworks).

On the 4th of July we shot off most of our sweet fireworks in Montana!

We left some of the Ladybug fireworks to do in Rexburg. When we got back to Rexburg we had a Weimer pizza get-to-gether at the Weimer grandparent's house. (Kim and Jody's family, Dusty and Christy's family and Shane) Blake and I usually play with the kids every time we have a family gathering. We took the kids into one of the potato cellars and played tag.

Afterwards we went back to Lorraine and Daris' house and my sister Christine came over. We shot off the rest of the Lady Bugs and danced the night away!

Christine, my crazy sister... I think that means we are related.

Lauren doing her Barracuda dance.

Yeah you go girls! (and boy)

Lauren came up to us with a picture and was like "Look this is me!" It was really cute.

Celeste, Emma, Christine (20)

Here are some LadyBugs for your enjoyment. Blake almost got hit by a crazy one in Montana but luckily he has fast reflexes. :)

Montana Vacation Part 2

Blake and I took Emma and went four-wheeling. The mountains are so beautiful here! I wish we could have had more time to go four-wheeling!

We also went and swam at Fairmont Hot Springs. There was a large pool outside that was as warm as a bath tube and a large pool inside. The girls, Blake, and Daris went down the Dragon Slide.

Maddy and I had a ton of fun riding in the car together and taking pictures.

Lauren's under bite is cute. Her family calls her the "Barracuda."

Blake, Lorraine, and Daris making us some awesome grub!

One of the mornings we went to a Sapphire Mine. We got large buckets and then we put the dirt in the sifters.

We had to shake and bounce the sifters in the water so the Sapphires go down to the bottom in the middle.

It was a perfect day and we didn't get eaten alive by mosquitoes luckily!

Shaking the sifters in the water was my favorite part, then flipping it over to find the hidden gems.

Everyone was able to find at least 10 gems a person.

Blake was cute. He would secretly find a gem and then put it back in the pile and tell Emma to look in that pile to find that gem.

The day before we went to the Sapphire Mine we went Crystal Mining. Crystal Mining was another whole experience! When we got out of the car thick swarms of mosquitoes came and attacked us. We all sprayed every inch of our skin with mosquito repellent. Those mosquitoes were RELENTLESS though! (This is why I have no pictures of us Crystal Mining). I ended up going back to the car and tried to take a nap. But everyone eventually gave up after an hour because of the mosquitoes. In this mining, you had to dig in previous wholes to find the crystals.

After mining for crystals, we drove to a Ghost Town right down the rode. (I ended up taking my much needed nap while everyone walked through the Ghost Town... man pregnancy makes me so tired!)

Here are some videos of the Ghost Town:

Montana Part 1

LEWIS AND CLARK CAVERN

Day One:

Lewis and Clark Cavern! In the afternoon we went to the Lewis and Clark Cavern

(about 1 hr from Butte, Montana)

(All the pics are from last to beginning)

This is us finally leaving the long tour of the cave.

These are cool features of the cave.

The cave had some pretty steep parts to it. The CCC back in the 30s created the stone steps and blasted parts of the cave. If you notice, lots of the stalagmites and stalactites have been broken apart. The first tour guide of the cave, Morrison, allowed his guests to take a piece of the cave with them as a memento or souvenir. Obviously, that is not allowed today, but there is a lot of damage to cave formations from the early tours of the cave.

I love this picture of Daris.

Emma and Celeste

Little Lauren (3 yrs. old) wanted to walk everything by herself... and she did.

Celeste (24), Maddy (10), Emma (6), and Lauren (3)

Nice cross-eyes Maddy!

There were lots of bats in the beginning of the cave.

We also had some annoying people in our tour group that made our tour even more interesting.

This is Blake's brother Shawn, and his wife Candice with their 3 beautiful girls.

There was this Asian couple that made the group wait at every stopping point because they were taking a gazillion pictures. Before we left the cave, the couple started walking back from where we had come from. The guide lady had to go back and get them. LOL

Lauren is pointing to a fossilized turtle shell. Cool!

Before we got into the cave, we had to hike up the mountain. It was a surprisingly hot day in Montana, and we all sweated like beasts. I fortunately took a nap before this hike (it's hard being pregnant!)

Lauren took the shuttle up the mountain.

Aren't they so cute?

Before we left for the tour there was a sign that read:

This is a 2 Mile, 2 Hour Tour.

We were all surprised we all didn't have to sign some liability form (after we did the tour); it was pretty strenuous and people could get hurt and get stuck in the cave (if you weren't small enough).

Hey but it's Montana we are talking about here... this state is pretty dang chill.

We stayed in Fairmont Chalet Cabins. Apollo came with us too. He was very entertaining for the kids to chase around. Lauren followed him around and called him "Pillow Pet."

Blake and Maddy got their game on.

The weather was hot and beautiful the whole time!

Shawn and Grandpa Stewart

Blake reading a book (he's going to be an awesome dad).

We slept 10 people in the cabin.

Lorraine always prepares the best food and we had yummy meals.