Becky and Jared's Blog

Yesterday marked the first day of my third trimester. That means I am 2/3 done with my pregnancy! OR in other words, I am 27 weeks along or 6 and 3/4 months or 190 days. I have 90 days left or 13 weeks or 3 and 1/4 months left.

Taken Feb 9

For other pregnancy updates: I am really showing now and am much bigger than the last picture I posted. In fact people have started asking when my baby is due. (June 1st) I am feeling really good. I am getting some aches and pains but nothing severe and they usually go away if I exercise in the morning. I even like my big belly because it is firm and fun to touch since sometimes it kicks and you can kind of feel the baby. I am also slightly fascinated watching my belly button slowly change from an innie to an outie.  No it isn’t an outie yet but it is only a matter of time. Other baby news: We bought our crib! Our crib had a sale where they included the mattress for free so we bought it!

Other Updates

My mom is in town for a couple of weeks! If  you remember Jared and I are living in my Grandpa’s house and my Mom is up to help go through my Grandpa’s things and get the house ready to sell. She is also up for my niece’s baptism. Hurray for Hailey! It has been fun having my Mom near by. On Monday we picked out my baby quilt material (She is going to make me a baby quilt). I am so excited for it. It will be really cute. We also picked up so ribbon and spent a little bit of time making bows. If anyone knows how to make really cute bows please let me know!

Happy Birthday Mom, yesterday was my Mom’s 29th Birthday. (I don’t know how long she has been 29). My mom is a wonderful mother. She is always doing something and always putting others first. She works hard, but will take time out of her busy day to listen to all my little problems. Love ya Mom, Happy Birthday!

We are moving. We just found out that we will be moving for sure before the baby comes, at the latest we will be moving the first part of May. Where are moving? I don’t know. If anyone knows of good 2 bedroom apartments in Provo/Orem area that will be opening up by the beginning of the May or sooner please let us know ASAP!!

Well, until next time…

It has been 4 years 4 months and 1 3 days since Jared and I have started dating, 2 years 9 months, and 2 days since we have been married. Jared is my best friend and the I am so happy that I get to spend the rest of eternity with him. Love you Jared.Happy Valentine’s Day!

When we were babysitting (see last post) we forgot to turn on our automatic fish feeder. We had had our fish for a while so we thought they were pretty resilient and it might be okay. We were wrong. Anyway we used this opportunity to get more fish. We had tropical fish before. When we were at the pet store looking at our fish options we saw this Koi fish. Just a reminder, Koi are the ones in the nice ponds and grow very large. The large ones can cost hundreds of dollars. This one was small and cheap. We don’t have a very big tank but we have plans to get a large one later in life. (I was thinking closer to 3 years). We didn’t get any fish that day but we started to think about getting a Koi. Then we went to Walmart on other errands and looked at the fish. Low and behold they had Koi and were totally stocked up with fish (they didn’t have anything when we looked a few weeks earlier). So, the debate began should we get tropical fish again or go with a Koi and what they are friendly with. Koi play well with what Jared likes to call Japanese ornamental fish or the goldfish family. Well we spent some time deciding and went with the Japanese ornamental fish.  So we got one Koi, one Calico Fantail, a Shubunkin, a Black Moor, and one goldfish. We really like them. They are very active and bright so they are fun to watch.

Here is our Koi

Here is our Calico Fantail, Koi, and Shubunkin

Here are our other fish: Shubunkin, Goldfish, Black Moor, and Calico fantail

The last two weekends were spent babysitting my brothers FOUR kids while he and his wife were in Hawaii. We have Nathan age 10, Hailey, almost 8, Brooke around 5, and Ryan a very active 2. I was a little nervous about this. I am the youngest and had very little babysitting experience, Jared on the other hand is a pro. Overall it went really well. The kids were relatively well behaved. The biggest problem was the two year old. He is very active but the real issue was that he is a boy and doesn’t like girls. He is also very attached to his big brother, Nathan. So much so that he wouldn’t leave his room in the morning unless Nathan was the one who got the door, even though I told him that Nathan was asleep. I was very impressed with how Nathan handled this. He was such a good big brother. He played with him, put clothes on him, and even read him stories at night. I don’t know if we did much fun things. Jared showed Nathan some computer games, I watched movies with the other kids. On Saturday we took the kids geocaching. They didn’t last that long though because there  was snow on the ground and soon their feet were wet. Overall, I think it went rather well. If we babysit again we need to think of more things to do though to make it more exciting.

One person asked us if this experience made us decrease the amount of kids we are planning on having. The answer is no. For one reason these kids are actually pretty well behaved and since they very in ages the older children get to help the younger ones and it’s not too bad. The second reason would be they would be our kids. I can’t help thinking how much different parenting will be from babysitting. For one, I will be the mother and they will want to come to me. I know there are daddy’s boys/girls, but they still go to their mom every once in a while. The second reason it is way different is they will be my kids I will know their little quirks and be ready for them. The third reason is we will be in charge of disciplining. It is always weird to jump into someone’s life. For example we don’t know how harsh they are about certain things. Maybe something that is a big deal to us is a small deal to them. So that is why it doesn’t phase us to babysit or maybe we are just being naive.

Anyway, Hurray for babysitting!’

Ryan had so much fun with this balloon. So much for expensive toys

Ryan loves to run straight at the couch and dive on it. He doesn’t get hurt and loved doing it again and again.

Brooke

Here we are geocaching. You can see why the kids didn’t last long.