Baby Shower

Carly threw me a baby shower and it was so much fun. My mom and all my sisters came from Seattle and Portland. It was a full house! The shower was book themed (we have inherited almost everything we needed, so Carly came up with the awesome idea to build our library). Carly made all the decorations and got cupcakes from Sweet Wife Baking in Baker City. If was an open-house style so people came and went whenever they had time. It was really fun to have everyone here to celebrate with us, but especially my Mom and sisters, Glenda, Carly, and Grandma Aldrich there. I am so blessed with such wonderful women and examples in my life. Anyway, I'm terrible with words, so on to the beautiful pictures taken by Carly (I am also terrible with pictures, just for the record).

Sweet Wife Baking made these adorable hungry hungry caterpillar cupcakes. 

The treat table. Carly made all the decor!

"Thank You" cookies for the way out

Grandma Aldrich (Glenda's Mom), Glenda, and Dylan for the little bit he was at the party :)
This is the 3rd grandkid for Dylan's parents, the first boy!

Harston Clan! Lisa, Kimberly, Mom, Me, Natalie, Jenny

This is the 14th grandkid for my parents!
The 9th boy (although still no Harston boys!)

Stella

The crib quilt Glenda made for the baby! I knew she was working on this
and have been drooling over it for a while. It looks so fantastic in the nursery.
I can't wait to wrap up the baby in this!

I love mine and Jenny's faces in this. 

We received so many books to add to our children's library.
I am so glad Carly had this idea. I have some of the best
kids books now. This book is from the Chadwick's and
so beautifully illustrated.

Little Maverick

Dylan took the picture and apparently doesn't understand focus....hah
Carly is such an awesome sister. 

Okay, Dylan got the focus right in this one.....

Bump Update!

Well almost into week 37 of this pregnancy and we are so excited! We had a doctor's appointment a few days ago. We had an ultrasound to check fluid levels and everything looks great. Dr. Whittaker (who we absolutely love) took some measurements and everything was measuring right on track......except his head. His head measured at 38 weeks! 1.5 weeks ahead of everything else. Dr. Whittaker pointed to Dylan and said "This is YOUR fault!" We all had a good laugh about that. She gave us some estimations. If I go to term then she estimates this little guy will be 8-8.5 pounds! She said it's hard to tell though because his head size is throwing off her guesstimating charts. We are just so excited for this boy to get here! The young women in our ward have a poll going to guess how much he weighs. He has been moving a lot still, not as much as before but there isn't as much room in there anymore. I'm still going to the gym 2x a week with Dylan. I thought I was done....but still feeling great so I've kept going, just taking it easier. Dylan told me it would be the most embarrassing thing for him if my water broke in the gym (I'm pretty sure it would be more embarrassing for me!), so is always cautioning me, but still very supportive.

I was looking through some pictures and found some bump pictures I wanted to share! It's crazy to see the progression.

Also, I know we've had a long time to get use to the fact, but it's just kind of hitting me that in a few weeks Dylan and I will have a child and we will be responsible for his wellbeing and upbringing and he will be with us all the time. I have tons of experience and exposure to children of all ages, but obviously never one of my own before! While I am still super excited and not worried at all, I'm starting to get butterflies in my stomach.

right around 6-8 weeks

I think like 18 weeks

27 weeks

30 Weeks! 

I think this is around 32 weeks

34 weeks. Dylan snapped this one in the doctor's office.
I knew I was getting big but seeing this I realized I'm huge.
I've accepted it and learned to love it, but am so grateful
it's not my permanent size.....

Atticus loves to cuddle with my belly. He is so gentle with it!

36.5 weeks!

 It's only been a few days since that last one, yet I swear this belly has doubled in size! It is so bizarre yet so wonderful to be pregnant. We feel so blessed to have this precious baby as part of our lives already and can't wait to hold him in our arms!

Young Womens: New Beginnings

In February we celebrated New Beginnings, where we welcomed the girls that will be turning 12 this year and introduced them to the Young Women's program. We have 3 girls coming in, and 1 girl that just turned 12 last year but is investigating the church, so we included her as well! (Unfortunately she couldn't make it!) Our theme for the night was "Diamonds in the Rough." Each girl got a personal progress book, a journal, the theme, True to the Faith, For Strength of Youth (full size and pocket size), The Family: A Proclamation to the World,  a necklace, and a book for their parents. To fit with the theme I blinged up some of their books and added their initial to make it a little more personal! We sort of combined Young Women in Excellence too, because we didn't have that program last year! So we recognized one of the girls who earned her medallion. It was such a great night. I was so proud of the girls and the growth I've seen in them. They were so welcoming to the new girls too! I'm the 2nd counselor in Young Women so I'm over the beehives and it was really fun to see who will be joining our class this year. The Young Women's President gave a great little talk explaining the values. Our Bishop spoke about where we go to look for diamonds (not around the world, but in our own homes), the Stake Young Women's president talked a little bit about our theme for this year (Moroni 10:32) and why Personal Progress is so important, and I talked about how we are all diamonds in the rough and our journey to become more Christ-like. The night ended with chocolate layered truffles and lots of visiting :) Lisa made some vinyl for us to put on tiles that night but it didn't come in time! It worked out though because we ran out of time that night, so we made the vinyl tiles at another activity :)