It's always fun with grandpa!

Craig has the funnest time with grandpa! When we were all watching a show Craig and grandpa disappeared. this is what they were working on...

A Tea Party!

Craig very carefully filled the cups until they were all bursting at the seams!

(and of course then he added a little more!)

Walk carefully grandpa! 

(this was a very slow paced methodical walk from the sink back to the party)

There is no doubt about it, grandpa is tons of fun. 

Week 38

38 weeks and still pregnant :) She gave us a little startle there for a while, but the contractions have slowed down quite a bit. I still have several a day but they're not nearly so regular. But on the upside, when I do have a contraction it's quite a bit harder than it was before.

I feel like we're still making progress though. If I can get a lot of the preparation and hard part out of the way little by little with little to no pain before I go into labor, that's just fine with me. Although this little false alarm has got me feeling more anxious and ready to just have her right now, there are still very distinct advantages to waiting till after K.C.'s graduation. So Although it would be nice to have her now, I'm still content to wait.

Last I went to the midwife (almost a week ago) everything was looking good. She still seems quite healthy and growing. My ribs have been KILLING me, I must have bruised them or something because all along the right side is just inflamed with pain. it makes it hard to breath, or cough (which I still do semi-regularly) or lay on my side.

I have been going to a health clinic that has been helping me to feel quite a bit better and stay in good condition for the birth. I've even had some relief from my hip pain.

Oh and the sciatic pain has all but disappeared. So nice.

I guess we just have to wait and see now what this little one has in mind, it will be fun to find out what that is!

Still Keeping Busy!

Still trying to keep busy and get ready as we wait for this little girl.

So here's a few of the latest projects.

I found an old junky shelf at DI that was kind of broken and had a VERY ugly finish. K.C. sanded it down for me (I know, like he needs one more thing to do! - He's so sweet!) And then I painted it on Monday. I love how it turned out!

Here's what it looks like with some stuff in it.

I've also made several little hair bows. Small ones that I can glue to her head while I wait for her lovely locks to get long enough to hold ones with clips.

 

And a bigger one... because I couldn't resist

 
K.C. also built shelves for the new office and I got most of my craft stuff organized. A very fun part of this project was the ribbon shelf that he made me... genius! You really need to see it to understand how perfect it is. (pictures to come)

The room switch is mostly done, there are still random piles strewn about but there is a fair amount of order and cleanliness intermixed with it, so I'm not feeling too stressed about it. (pictures to come)


Oh and with the help of Wanda I got this decorated so cute! Love it!

We even picked out her first outfit and put it with the pile of supplies that we had to get ready for the birth

 (supplies)

 

(You'll notice that this is a hat and bow that I made! Not just made but came up with all on my own!)

(first outfit)

Oh and here's something else I did awhile ago just for the fun of it.

Well that's all I have pictures of!

Magna Cum Laude

I'm so proud of K.C.! He is graduating with honors! This is so amazing to me. For most of his college experience he has received nothing but A's.

(Don't even get me started on the professor that gives him tests on things that even the professor doesn't know how to solve and then gives him stupid grades because he couldn't teach what he was testing! the last few semesters he has received one or two grades that were not an A but they were all from the same professor! It makes me irritated that this one sour apple had to ruin a perfect record! But I'm not talking about that!)

It has been amazing to me to have K.C. be in school, working full time, and being a full time daddy and husband. He has been so amazing through the last 4.5 years and has always performed to the highest standards. And as he likes to point out, he doesn't stress about school and everything else on his plate because I do that for him.

He could very easily get consumed with life and forget to stop and play with his son, or forget to stop and make his wife feel special, but he doesn't. He has always kept his family at the front of his focus and taken such good care of us. I'm not going to lie, I am not going to miss school when it's over and I'm certainly not going to miss the 2am and 3am bedtimes as we (because I can't go to bed without him) try to accomplish everything. But all in all, he has handled it like a champ and I'm so proud of what he has achieved.

There are only 2 days left of class and then a few finals next week and then... graduation! You can do it K.C. the finish line is in site! I'm so excited for the next stage of our life as we leave school behind for now and move into a new way of life! You're amazing and I love you so very much. Thank you for being the most wonderful husband in the world.

And as they say in Latin "You're Totally Awesome!"

(Basically this means that of the hundreds of students that will graduate from Dixie this year, my sweet K.C. is in the top 35!)

That's my K.C.

Week 37

37 Weeks. 

I'm pretty proud of myself though. These pants are dress pants that K.C. got me as a wedding present that I wore the day we got married. And I could still put them on! (Alright no they didn't button but still I feel like it's quite the accomplishment.

(and I made the bow in my hair :) it was a fun spur of the moment project.

Quality time with dad.

K.C. put Craig down for his nap the other day while I ran some errands. When I came home, this is where I found him:

Then later the same day Craig pulled K.C. out of the office begging for him to read a story...

Isn't that the cutest thing ever?

I can't even say how much these two boys make me happy! K.C. is such a wonderful daddy. I'm always amazed at how much he has to do and how much he still stops and puts it on hold to spend time with his little boy. Craig is one lucky kid!

The Guessing Game

Friday morning K.C. was getting ready to go to SD2 (a training session for the leaders of Akela's Council) in Payson. He was going to be gone for 2 days.

Unexpectedly as he was getting ready to go I started having contractions. Great timing! I'm 37.5 weeks pregnant and all of a sudden out of the blue it decided I needed one more thing to worry about while K.C. was gone. The other fun part was that I had to prepare a sharing time lesson and a Talk for sacrament meeting on Sunday. Joy.

So long story short I tried to keep myself busy. Some of the things that were done on Friday and Saturday included: had my sisters over, the neighbor girls came to play, got a manicure and pedicure, built a crib, had a sleepover and movie night, went to yard sales, picked up paint to paint a shelf for baby sister, had Shannon and Julia over, went to the park, had lots of help getting my house less chaotic and I'm sure there are other things that I'm just not remembering.

It was a fun busy 2 days (even though I was lonely for my K.C.). The whole time the contractions were not very strong but about 15 minutes apart. I was just a little worried but figured it was just taunting me.

When K.C. finally got back into cell service Saturday night and I told him what was going on he started for home at 90 miles an hour.  (literally).

He got pulled over, (of course he did, it's K.C. every one likes to pull him over, whether there's a good reason or not.)

But when the officer heard why he was hurrying he said "Well Mr. Hunt if it was my wife I'd be doing the same thing. So I'm going to cut you a break this time but you might want to slow down because I don't know what the next guy is gonna do." I was amazed that he was so blessed to get that officer. It made me happy that there are still people that are real people and can care about others and have compassion for their situations. It was cool.

Anyways K.C. got home Saturday night around 9:15. I was stressed and still trying to prepare a talk for sacrament meeting (honestly I'd been working on it all week, listening to the talk it was based off of and pondering and studying I was just trying to put all of it together in a sensible way). Thankfully when I had called to tell Jessica (the primary president) that there was a possibility of me not making it to church to do sharing time she had told me she would do it for me. I wasn't expecting that but it was such a blessing and took such a big weight off of my mind. THANK YOU JESSICA! Remind me to be as awesome as you are someday.

What worried me the most is that the midwife had said the most common cause of transport to the hospital during a home birth was maternal exhaustion. So I was supposed to get as much sleep as possible as soon as I started to think that something was happening. So the thoughts of staying up late trying to get this talk finished and then having to get up early and get ready for church, get to church and have to give some kind of sensible talk worried me a lot. I was already tired and that just sounded like I would be asking for trouble. Especially if I went into labor in the middle of the night and ended up not even giving the talk anyways and was exhausted from staying up so late and started the whole thing on the wrong foot.

K.C. made me go to bed and told me not to worry about the talk. It was really hard for me to do but I was so grateful that me made me do it. I ended up being up most of the night because I was so uncomfortable. We even tried watching a show and that didn't distract me very much.

Today I expected the contractions to stop all together and then I'd just feel terrible because I had not given my talk for no reason! But they've kept going 10 - 15 minutes apart, they still aren't very painful, just enough of a distraction to keep me thinking that I might go into labor any time. But also just far enough apart and just painless enough to make me think it will stop any second and keeping waiting and wondering.

So that is the story of the weekend. Who knows what will happen, but at this point we're just watching and waiting.

Project Room Switch

We decided that we needed to get everything organized and ready for when baby sister comes. But because I'm pregnant and not supposed to do much lifting and moving and I didn't want to have K.C. have to push and pull things a million times trying to make everything fit, we came up with the perfect solution.

We drew out craigs room and then made a piece of paper for each piece of furniture that needed to go in the room. It turns out it was a good thing that we did this because there really was no good way to fit it all into Craigs room.

Well the office is bigger and would probably work, but the problem was could we fit the office into Craig's room? So we drew another picture, and all of the office furniture. It looked like it would work but it would be pretty tight no matter what. But it looked like it would definitely be a better option to have the kids in the office...(kids? that just sounds weird!)

So here's the arrangement for the new kids room!

I'm excited but it's a HUGE project! My family came over and helped us get a lot of the heavy stuff moved so that K.C. didn't have to do it all, that was wonderful. Now we have stuff strewn from one end of our house to the other in one glorious mess.

{ Lovely isn't it? }

My goal is to put things neat and organized into their new homes and not just stash stuff. I love organizing and I love it when everything has a place, but I'm running out of ideas. How in the world do I get it all put away in such a way that it's nice and easy to get at and use? I hate it when I have stuff that I forget about because it's buried or is stuffed somewhere that is too bothersome to get to so I never go through the trouble of pulling it out.

So if you have any really awesome organizational tips, I'd love to hear about them... Hopefully we end up with order and cleanliness someday soon! It is a little overwhelming to see it all! But I guess you have to start somewhere! So here we go, day 2. We'll see how much progress we make.

Week 35

So technically this is 35 1/2 weeks...

I'm finally getting caught up on all the pictures that I've been slacking to post. I still have week 36 to post, but I can't because I haven't taken them yet :)

We went repelling on a couples date. It was so much fun! 

(Even though I just got to sit and watch the whole time, I got to visit with and get to know some awesome people.)

So this is me at the bottom of the cliff.

And here's K.C. at the top ;)

I'll post all of the updates on pregnancy and baby with my 36 week update.

Keeping busy with crafts

So once again the crafting bug has hit me. Here are a few of my latest creations.

From this:

To this:

(Diaper Changing Pad)

It is so soft! I love it.

Thank you cards.

Yes I actually made them. It was fun to use my Cricut but I realized that I'm not as creative as I'd like to be. Either that or my creativity is limited because I don't have a ton to work with.

Baby hair bows out of the scraps from the changing pad ;)

and a Car Seat Cover!

I didn't have the motivation to pull out the car seat to take the picture so you'll just have to imagine.

A hair bow that I made up! I didn't think it was going to work but I like how it turned out!

(the only problem is I gave it away, But I guess that just means i get to make more!)

And burp cloths! I need to make more of these!

The only problem with doing a bunch of crafts is that I start wanting to do more and more and more! I suppose that's not entirely a bad thing but it sure would be more handy if I had all the stuff that I dream up on hand! :) in a perfect world right?