Hurry up and wait!

That's what I've been doing these days.  Just waiting.  Waiting for anything.  A contraction. A pain.  A broken water.  A sign.  A voice.  But nothing so far.  Well, I have had a few contractions here and there, but nothing serious or painful.  A couple weeks ago I was checked and dilated to .5cm.  (not five, but half).  Is that even possible?  Half a cm?  Really?  I think the doctor just wanted to give me a little hope.  Well, now more than 2 weeks later I'm dilated to.................wait for it.......1cm!!!!!!!!  What?  That's it?  I know.  Tell me about it. At that rate I'm going to be 18 months pregnant before he comes. When you're this close to go time, the hours seem like days and the days seem like weeks. 
Last Saturday night I was getting ready for bed and wouldn't you know it, my ankles were gone.  They were swollen up and gone.  It was a little disturbing because I had had no swelling before.  The next day they were still pretty swollen, but my nurse friend told me to drink lots of water and I had my blood pressure checked and was fine.  The swelling went away and has not come back.
Comfort and sleeping in a lying position are things of the past.  My short term memory is pretty much non-existent.  Breathing easy is no more.  But all in all I can't complain.  It has been a really easy pregnancy with no complications.  Hopefully labor and delivery with be the same.  I am still working and will do so until he decides to come.
As far as a name for this here baby.......no-name.  Some people think that we are just keeping it secret, but we really haven't decided on a name.  We have a small list that we are working with but are open to new ideas and suggestions.  Here are a few from our list.  Tell us what you think.
Renner (I think this is Trent's favorite)
Benson
Heston (this one has been growing on me)
Hadd (family name, it was my grandpa's nick name all his life)
Grayson (also a family name and the former name of Blanding. BUT, I have a cousin that just had her first baby a few days ago, a world away, in South Africa, haven't talked to her in months, and we found out that she named her little boy Greyson.  For real?  What are the chances?)
Waylon
Elway (I try not to think of Noelle's dog)
Anyways, hopefully when we see him, we will just know.  But we are still open to suggestions.
We are anxiously awaiting his arrival.  We are excited to meet him.  We are nervous to have him.  And we sure do love him!

Shipping 2011

It was good to finally get out to Colorado.  It was the first time Trent and I have been out there this year.  Fist time to see the new "cabin."  It was good to behold this sight again too.  Never gets old.  It's so pretty, it looks like a painting to me.  Love the Lone Cone.  And cowboys!

After much convincing and coercing, Trent got on a horse!   All the cowboys were on their way back to the corral so I kicked Payton off his horse and put Trent on.  He rode for all of 15 minutes and half a mile (if that).  I went to the cabin and the horsemen rode on to the corral.  A few minutes later Trent shows up at the house and claims, "I almost died!"  He said it was the last time he was ever going to ride.  He said his horse "went down."  So I pictured a big rodeo with Trent being thrown in the air and  landing hard on the ground, or him being drug around from the stirrup or something.  But I guess his near death experience was his horse took a little stumble and went down on his front legs for a short second.  It was pretty dramatic for Trent.  He says his riding days are over.  I say, not!

The kids had a serious game of baseball.  The kids and Tyler that is.  I think it boosted his ego to play with the kids. (not that he needs an ego boost).  He was in on every play.

One of many meal times.  I didn't get a shot of the "cabin" from the outside, but here is a shot of the kitchen on the inside.  It is a "cabin" not just a cabin.  Some say it's too nice to be called a cabin.  Some say it's not made of logs, therefore is not a cabin.  It is nice and it is big.  We had about 75 people there for dinner each night and about 40 (give or take a few) sleeping there each night.  Awesome!

Two beauties!  Chezney, 2 weeks old.  Taylor almost 14 years old.

Addison the little cheese ball.

I was a lot of help, being 36+ weeks pregnant and all. I never got on a horse but I did ride around on the four wheeler a lot.  This is Trent and I taking a break out in the field, rounding up cows.  I was always the driver, cause my belly didn't fit behind Trent.  : ) 

Michele and Lloyd doing business.

Shipping Day!  Working hard!

We had the annual performance by the dancing queens.  This was their final act in their glow-in-the-dark costumes.  It was a big hit for everyone.  The girls loved it and the audience loved it.

Dancing queens.  Young and sweet.....

And of course, the boys got involved too.  They entertained us during intermission with some wrestling matches.

LOVE COLORADO!  LOVE SHIPPING!

Mish Mash

Heather got married!!!  I know it was several months ago (April 29th, same day as the royal wedding) but I realized that it never made it on the blog, and if anything is blog-worthy, this is!!!!!  Yeah for Heather and Kent!

Erin-Nicole-Heather-Lisa-Tamia-Cindy

 

 Heather is now happily married and is already anxiously awaiting a baby girl.  She is 11 weeks behind me.  It's been fun to talk baby/pregnancy talk with her over the weeks.  It's all still pretty surreal at this point. 

Annual Girls' Trip!!! (9/10/11)  We had a hard time aligning our schedules this year, but a few of us managed to make a day trip to Moab for pedicures, dinner and a movie.

Cindy and I and our big bellies waiting for the movie "The Help" to start.  Cindy-35 weeks. Me-32 weeks. (Cindy has since had her boy! Tohaanii Jared Born 10/8/11, 7lbs, 19.5ins.)

Trent and his motorcycle posse went on yet another trip.  (9/22-25/11)  Besides the regulars, there were several others that joined them on this trip.

They made a big loop down to Santa Fe, New Mexico.  They made several stops for sight seeing.

Baby Progress

18 Weeks 3 Days

22 Weeks

27 Weeks 3 Days

32 Weeks

36 Weeks

We finally got the crib put together.......

And we couldn't have done it without Aspyn's help.  We also got some painting done, some cleaning done and some house repairs done.  It feels good to cross some things off "the list."

My AWESOME sisters-in-law threw a baby shower for me.  Love them!  I got loaded up with lots of baby loot.  So exciting....I feel a lot more prepared now that we have the crib put together, we have a car seat, stroller, lots of clothes and a small stock pile of diapers and wipes (that Trent thinks is going to last forever, I think he's going to be surprised at how fast they disappear). I've started organizing all the loot, I hung some clothes in the baby's closet and it gave me a small anxiety attack.  Aaaahhhh!  The closer it gets, the more real and scary it becomes.  I'm 37 weeks tomorrow.  I had a doctors appointment today and I'm dilated to 1/2 cm.  Ha ha.  Not much, but it is a start, right?  : )  We are excited and I'm anxious to finally have him with us.  We can't wait to meet him and see what he looks like.  (I also can't wait to see what name we'll come up with, he's still a no-name at this point).  We can't wait for this baby to rock our world.  : )