30 Weeks

It's all downhill from here....yay!!!! I definitely remember life with newborn and honestly I would take that over being pregnant right now. I am so so ready for this baby girl to come and grace us with her presence! I want to be able to play with Lincoln like I used to. Getting down on the ground to his level and playing cars or chasing him are getting so hard! I feel bad and we end up watching too many movies but we go through flash cards like crazy and read lots of books. Luckily Chris can still wrestle with him and chase him and help get rid of all that energy. Last week I had my glucose test and now I am waiting the results...I just pray I pass so I don't have to go get poked 4 more times. I also had to have another test done to check the amount of bile salts in my blood. I asked the doctor if itchy hands and feet are normal (cuz last pregnancy I really didn't experience anything too bad). I wake up about 2-3 times a night because of the intense ache and itch and nothing helps to ease it except ice packs. Hopefully all is well and I just have to take a Benadryl and keep icing them. All these pregnancy symptoms and things are rough...how in the world do women do this more than twice!?!?!? 

The Pond

I made Chris come with me to scout out some places to take family pictures this fall and we found a pond just two minutes from our house! Cool! Turns out you can fish there too...Chris really wants to take Lincoln and start teaching how to fish. Anyway...we decided to go back and feed the ducks, play at the playground, and just run around so Lincoln can get all his energy out before dinner. The duck were a hit! After we ran out of bread Lincoln tried to feed the ducks grass and even decided to try some for himself...weirdo. It was a great little family outing and there was almost nobody there. It was nice to just let Lincoln run and not have to worry about a busy road. I think we will be going back to the pond and park often!!

24 Weeks

24 down...16 to go...I can do this!!!!

Just Lincoln...

Lincoln is finally starting to sit down and do something for more than a nano-sec. He LOVES to color, especially with markers. I will hide them and somehow he always finds them so they now live downstairs where he has absolutely no way of getting them. But I love watching him concentrate and pull faces that I'm sure are not intentional. 

 These next couple of pictures were later in the same afternoon....he just woke up from a nap. 

 But then I got him a camera and all was well. We took turns taking pictures of each other and just being silly. He take his photography very seriously :)

This boy definitely makes me work at being a mom every.single.day! But I sure love him!!!

The first part of the summer...

The first part of our summer was crazy, but fun. We had three family reunions and a lot of traveling. We drove about 2,000 miles within 4 weeks...yuck! I'm just glad the rest of the summer is going to be chill and no major traveling is involved. I loved seeing family and catching up and it was good to get away. But now it's time for our own little family time and fun. But here are a few pictures...

 saw a moose up in the mountains

getting comfy for a long drive

 last family picture for 2 years...have a good mission Bryler!

 Our festive little family...ready for the 4th of July and all the festivities

  Waiting for the fireworks in Idaho Falls

Performing our synchronized swimming routine... 

It's been a good summer so far. Now I am ready to start prepping more for baby girl to come! 

Oh, what do you do in the summer time?

This is a daily occurrence around here...it also might happen more than once a day. Lincoln loves to be outside and especially loves when the sprinkler is out and he can play in his little pool.

Seflies

Chris and Lincoln are getting to be expert in the realm of selfies...I think they both just love making faces at themselves...