Ryan's Dirty Thirty Party

We surprised Ryan with a Dirty Thirty birthday party and met him with silly string and confetti at the door!

Thanks, Annie for making the cake and Megan for bringing it up!


Skyler made delicious dutch oven dinner.

Lots of friends and family came!

Turns our Ryan had a hard day...and coming home to a bunch of friends and family made him feel a lot better. Thanks everyone for coming!

7 Months and Counting...more belly pics

These are some of my favorites...I guess we can call them "Belly Rebekah" instead of "Baby Rebekah"! hahaha

7 Months and Counting...

Rebekah is growing bigger and bigger each day now...I am grateful that Lynette wanted to take pictures of my belly. I love feeling Rebekah move and can't help but wonder now what she looks like. There is nothing like having a baby grow inside of me. I am so grateful for this great blessing and thank Heavenly Father for it always. I know that not everyone gets this experience and it breaks my heart. I am grateful for that though because it has helped me to spend this pregnancy focusing on the wonderful experience instead of complaining about the hard parts. I think the hardest part now is the pain in my back and side and know that I will have to return to work.

We FINALLY made it to NAUVOO!!

Ryan and I had never been to Nauvoo before and we both really wanted to go. Mama and Daddy decided that they were going to go so they could see Louise and her kids so we asked if we could tag along. What a great time! We hauled ourselves there with the pop-up trailer on the back of the Montero. It took a long time to finally get there and then it rained most of the time. But we had a great time. We saw a few free shows and went to the Nauvoo temple to do baptisms for the dead and an endowment session. While we were there, we saw a few old friends and even met Sister Hughes that used to be in the General Relief Society Presidency.

Carthage Jail

At the Nauvoo Temple

Adam-Ondi-Ahman

Disgusting!!

We saw this car in the Wal-Mart parking lot in Iowa...it is FULL of garbage! I could only imagine how the stench must be in that car. EW! It makes me want to clean out!

Our Baby's First Photo...with Ryan's Help

We were very excited to see our baby in the first ultrasound. We waited and waited and waited...it seemed to take forever to get to our appointment and then...they wanted to reschedule because the doctor was out! UGH! Well, considering how things were baby-wise in our family, I was totally freaking out. I just wanted to know if the baby was real and growing. I told the receptionist about my sister, Lisa's, recent experiences and they said they would take us back and just take a look and listen. Funny how the nurse/doctor can tell that that is a baby and all it looks like to us is a tiny moving blob! Ryan took the ultrasound picture, scanned it, then added his interpretation of what the nurse told us about what was what on the baby...hope you like it!

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