I'M PREGNANT???!!

So I had 3 dreams last night about our sweet baby girl. In all 3 dreams she had dark hair. These dreams have somewhat made me step back and think about the big change that will be taking place here in about 2.5 months. In one of the dreams, I dreamt that I had just come home from the hospital and now it was time to start taking care of her on my own. I had so many questions about when to feed her, what type of schedule should she be on, etc. I woke up very overwhelmed wondering if I'm really ready for this big change. Thankfully I have the best husband to help me. Then, on Monday night I dreamt that she was born at 29 weeks. But the odd thing about this dream was, I didn't deliver her, she climbed out. And, the most scary part of all... she did not like me at all, she only wanted Chase.
The pregnancy has actually been going really well the past few months. I've started to have some pain in my low back, but that was to be expected due to my back injury on my mission. As long as I eat 24/7 I fine. I am always hungry! Last night we made an ice cream run @ 10 pm. I told Chase that doesn't count as one of his craving runs because I went with him... we'll see about that he says.
On another note, we've found a house. We actually close on Chase's birthday... August 26th. The house is in Riverdale. It's a split entry. It needs some work, but not too much that we're getting ripped off. It will be a good starter house for us. Chase has already been packing. We won't move in until the 20th of September because we want to paint and clean the carpets and that will give us plenty of time. We are really excited to get into a place of our own and make it ours. After we close I'll take some pictures of the house and add to the blog for all to see.

Riding the train a.k.a Front Runner

A couple weeks ago we decided to ride the train down to Salt Lake and eat at the gateway with Cathy and Garrett. When we arrived at the station, the ticket machine was broke. Mr. Shaw, the security guard told us to get on and buy a ticket in Salt Lake. So we boarded. It was a nice smooth, quiet ride. Not very many people inside... it was fun.


Once we arrived in Salt Lake we had no idea how far away the station was from the Gateway. It was quite a ways. So we put on our hiking boots and walked over to the Gateway and finally came to an agreement on a restaurant. We ate at Tucan's. It's a Brazilian restaurant and they come around with a whole bunch of meat to choose from. They also have grilled pineapple... that's my favorite.
After we ate and walked around for a little while, we were ready to head for home. The train was a lot more crowded than before. After we had been riding for a while we started to smell something really awful. Well come to find out, some kid had puked all over the floor. It was so gross!! We got up and moved down to the 2nd level. Luckily we were almost to our stop. Oh and we never ended up buying a ticket so we ended up riding for free. I still feel guilty about that, so we probably won't do it again.

Lori's Birthday at the cabin

Lori's birthday is on July 25th so we usually do a cookout up at the cabin. The 25th was on a Friday this year so some of us decided to stay over night... Braden and Colby's families, and us. We went up pretty early which allowed time for us to relax... if you consider running from all the hornet's relaxing. The hornet's were so bad for some reason this year. It doesn't help when that's the only thing on the planet that you're afraid of.

This is Chase relaxing in the shade, away from all the hornet's.

Getting ready for the big cucumber race!

On your mark, get set, GO!

The kids decided they wanted to go tubing before we went home. It just happened to be the perfect day for it.
Time for a shower!!

Camping in the Uintah's

Every Year Mindy and Rich go camping in the Uintah's over the 4th of July. We decided we wanted to go this year. We left on Saturday morning. One we found them and set up our tent, we were ready to relax. We went on a little hike up to a ravine which made us realize why we live in Utah... it was really pretty!

Back at camp we played Bocci with Mindy and Rich. For dinner we had dutch oven ribs and chicken. After dinner we went fishing but were unsuccessful. We went for a drive to look for deer. Then headed back to camp for a fire and treats. I had a dream a few nights prior about a bear, so I was really scared to sleep in our tent. Thankfully Rich brought his gun which he so kindly let us sleep with. Chase wouldn't let me keep a granola bar in our tent for me to eat in the middle of the night... he wouldn't even let me eat a berry flavored tums... "Don't you know what bears eat?!! Berries!!" But the morning came fast so I guess we made it through the night alive.

Sunday morning after breakfast we went for another drive up above our camp to some meadows full of wild flowers. It was beautiful!!

Back at camp on Sunday morning we played more games and ate lots of food. After dinner we played Phase 10 and decided we are sissy's and couldn't handle sleeping another night in the tent so we headed for home. It was a very fun camping trip.

***The picture at the top of this entry is a picture we took on the way home. It's a picture of the sunset on Rockport Reservoir... I don't know how to move it to the bottom.