Reassuring

Today I had a sense of relief at the doctors office when I heard Baby's heartbeat again. Yes, there is still a baby growing in there. Silly me I guess, but sometimes it's hard to believe that there really is someone in there.

Fall and Other Random Stuff

I think this is my favorite time of year. It's not too hot and there's just a little bit of a chill. Sweater season! And I put up my fall decorations. Pretty much we only have fall decorations. And Christmas, but any other holiday or season; nope.

Just finished reading "These is My Words". It was fairly good. It was interesting and written from a different point of view. It made me glad we don't have to stake a claim, farm the land and fight indians.


How early is too early to start putting together a room for the baby? I don't want to do it too early since I will have to give up my sewing table for the crib. But I'm itching to start getting lots of things. (What could I do to convince Chase that I need my sewing machine ALOT more than he needs his computer? :P) I think I've decided on this crib.


We also found Chase a "daddy rocking chair" (aka cushy recliner) for a really good deal and moved the glider upstairs for me.

The betting is on as to whether Baby is a girl or boy. I'm leaning towards boy and Chase says he's 95% sure it's a girl. So we'll see...

Grocery Shopping

I got to go grocery shopping last night. Grocery shopping is one of my favorite things to do. I don't really know why except that I love having a full fridge and cupboards and actually having ALL the ingredients a recipe calls for.

We always went grocery shopping with mom when we were growing up. Bowman's is the best place ever. You ALWAYS see someone you know, usually multiple people. And the bakery gives out free cookies. You know the sugar cookie ones with the color swirls in them. Sometimes we would get one with sprinkles.

Mom would always let us pick out one treat too. My favorites were Sixlets, M&M's and animal crackers. After going home while mom put the groceries away I would sit on the floor behind the chair and divide my spoils by color, or shape and size. I always ate the brown M$M's first since they were the ugliest, then the ones that were facing up with the M on the top.

We called Bowman's the 'small store' and Smith's the 'big store'. When we went to the big store we always got to see the lobsters in the tank by the deli. They were pretty cool.

One of the baggers was my buddy, Mark, and he would put quarters in the horse for us to ride. To this day I think Mark still works there, but I don't get to ride the horse anymore. :)

It was a big deal when Bowman's moved to a newer, bigger building the next block over. Complete with a drive-through pharmacy and everything. Even the pharmacist knows our family really well.

When we got older we would bet to see who could get to the closest amount of what the final bill would be. Mom always won. She was usually only a few dollars off.

During high school, Bowman's was kind of a hang-out spot. If you went there on a weekend night you were bound to run into somebody doing something. During lunch on the weekdays, students would go there and sit in the isles to eat lunch.

Alot of times for family night we would walk down to Bowman's and get something ice cream related (of course) for a treat and stop and eat it on the church field on the walk back home.

I've been guided through the isles of Bowman's blindfolded on my 18th birthday while my friends kidnapped me to buy dry ice. Yes, we are just THAT exciting.

So I guess you could say that I have alot of good memories associated with grocery shopping. It still makes me happy to go, even if I can't go to Bowman's. I still like Lee's okay; it's a whole lot better than Smith's! (Smith's doesn't have the lobsters anymore. :()

Summer's End

It's official, summer is almost over now that we bought school supplies for Chase.

It's been a really nice summer, nothing too crazy and busy. We enjoyed being at home a lot and just having nothing that we NEEDED to do. The last few weeks have been especially slow and relaxed since I've been dead tired and sick. (Thank goodness for anti-nausea medication!)

It's kind of weird seeing all the school supplies and clothes on sale and knowing that I don't need any of them!

Today marks three months at this new job. Yay, training is over!

I'm excited for winter this year. Mostly because I won't have to trek across campus in a blizzard anymore (sorry for those of you who do!) and it will be sweater season soon! I am quite glad that I will be pregnant mostly through the winter and not the heat of summer.

So even though we haven't started baby shopping hardly at all. We're getting a little curious as to what we're really going to need with a baby and all. Any suggestions on what you can NOT live without when having a baby?

A Baby Sized Bit of News

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Softball

I grew up playing on city leagues for a long time. When I started this new job, I found out they had a softball team too! It's been a ton of fun being able to play again. And we actually did pretty well! Here's some of the highlights from some of our games from our professional sports photographer, Chase.




And thanks to our awesome friends and family who made up our team's entire cheering section. :)

Salt Lake with Lacey and Chandler

The day after Chase's birthday we were able to go to a motivational talk that Chase's cousin, Lacey, was giving at the U.


She and her husband just got married a few months ago so it was fun to hang out with them around Salt Lake for the day and get to know him a little better. Since they're from Arizona we don't get to see them a lot so it was fun to see them!