Baby Shower #1

While in CA for thanksgiving I had my first baby shower! It was organized by my mother-in-law Connie and she did a great job with yummy food and a few cute games. We guessed how many jelly beans were in the bottles, filled out a baby trivia paper and guessed the size of my belly using string. I got lots of adorable clothes and Petra arranged for a new crib from Ed's cousin who was moving and didn't want to take it. I can't wait to put it up when Mike and Ty come up to visit in December and bring it with them!

This was taken after dinner at Aunt Carolyn's house in the backyard.

Here is everyone who came(except my mom who was taking the pic). It's so nice having both sides of family so close to each other!

Had to sneak in a picture of me and my mom who flew out just to see me and come to the shower. (and for thanksgiving dinner of course)

An adorable diaper cake that Connie made. It's hard to tell, but there are little baby booties that are very cute along with the stuffed animals around the outside. We took it apart before we went home and I couldn't believe I will really have a baby that will fit into those tiny diapers in only 2.5 months!

My eyes are closed but I love this picture because it shows Grandma Roskelley and Aunt Kathy cracking up over who knows what right before the picture. I love being around my family, they are crazy and loud and I love every minute of it.

Here are some of the cousins who came.

Grandma, Aunt Evelyn, and family friend Shelley Toolson

Thanksgiving

This year thanksgiving was in CA. We got in on Thursday and since we weren't eating with the Green's until Friday we stopped by the Roskelley side at aunt Carolyn's and snuck in some turkey and family love. My mom was also in town for the baby shower so we went to visit her.

The next day we went up to Chico to Aunt Evelyn's house for the official thanksgiving dinner. We had fun eating more delicious turkey dinner and visiting with the family.

The "kids" table

The "grown-up" table

Uncle Monty cutting up the turkey and the dogs just waiting for a piece to fall. I especially loved giving attention to the beagle who was 8 months old and reminded me of Louie.

7 months

Gettin bigger....I really need to get outside and take some cute pics instead of against the wall in my house, but it gets dark so early i never remember before its too late. Oh well. I'm starting to feel big, and i'm out of the "is she just gaining weight?" stage and into the for sure prego stage!

Lion King

We went to Lion King on Saturday. We had bought the tickets this summer and have looked forward to it for months and it finally came. We absolutely loved it!! Great actors, great costumes and amazing music

We are still students and poor so we sat in the cheapest seats, the back row, but it was a small enough theater that it wasn't bad at all and we still could see just fine

Here's the gang we went with

Us inside, the screen to the right is the advertisement outside for the show.

Outside the theater with Rafiki who had an amazing voice and sang Circle of Life. It was so good.

Halloween

So it's practically Thanksgiving, but I still wanted to put up our Halloween pics. We went to Greg and Julie Massey's for a party and had yummy food and great fun! Everyone had great costumes and were very creative, check them out

We were white trash. It was perfect because I could hang out my prego belly, and I'm holding a cigarette with my coffee. You can't see the bottom, but I have slippers on and josh has Birkenstock sandals on with one green Christmas sock and one blue byu sock.

The Barney's pulled off yet another cheap last minute costume, the superheros. She is about 8 months prego here so has a B squared on hers.

The Days were people from the Night at the Museum, the security guard, Pocahontas and the little monkey

Harris', the old peeps, love the big butt

Swanson's were H1N1, eek!

The whole group. The Massey's live in a house instead of an apt so we actually got to see some trick or treaters this year, can't wait until we have our own house some day and get to see all the cute kids!

6 Months

Here is the belly at 6 months. And I look a little scary because the couch has been my best friend for almost 3 weeks of being sick with a cold. I'm starting to get a little better, meaning sleeping more than a few hours a night and lasting more than 10 minutes at a time without coughing. Pregnancy-wise though the baby is doing great and it's almost time to start buying prego pants! Uh-oh....

Bee Sting

As I drug myself out the door to church today with a terrible cough, sore throat, and sinus congestion I got in my car and felt a pinch on my arm. I looked down and on the inside of my upper arm was a bee, stinging me. I have never been stung before, it didn't swell up too bad or anything, I was just glad I was not allergic, that would have been even more fun......pregnant, with a cold, in the hospital for a bee sting. Whew! Maybe it was because I decided to go to church today :)

Fall Has Begun!

It quickly went from 80s to 30s here in Spokane in about a weeks time. We decided to go pick out our own pumpkins and apples to embrace the season.

It was freezing and windy, but we had a good time with the Swansons and Harris'.

Josh pickin apples. We made apple crisp, it was yummy.

After we went to the apple farm we went to another one to get pumpkins and got to see the punkin chunkin which shoots pumpkins out really far into the field.

It has been about 20 years since I picked my own pumpkin from a patch! I wanted the classic cute picture of us in the patch, and all I got was my hair sticking up from the wind and a silly grin from Josh, oh well. If you squint a little you can see my original vision for the picture op.

Josh's 28th Birthday

Another year has passed in the life of Joshua Green. On October 8th we celebrated his birthday by getting together at a pizza parlor called Shakey's. Pizza is his favorite and he loved it. Friends met us there and celebrated with us and then came over to our house afterward.

His request instead of cake this year was a fruit pizza, so here he is blowing out the candles.

Here is a better picture of the amazing pizza decorating skills of Heather and I

Josh is showing off his new shoes that his sweet wife bought him

It's Official....

I have started feeling the baby. It started on my break on Tuesday and today she has been celebrating her daddy's birthday because she has been kicking nonstop all day! It's so cute to feel the little bumps here and there and makes it feel more real that there really is a baby in there :)

Conference Weekend

We had a great conference weekend! We watched it today, sunday, at the Massey's house with Julie (her hubby was out of town) and the law school bunch. We came in pj's and ate breakfast, watched morning session, then had lunch and watched the afternoon session.

During the middle of the two sessions we went out to their shop in the backyard and I saw the jeep of my dreams. Doors off, huge tires, black, lights on top.....I sat in it, hoping some day I will get to ride in it and also to own one in the future. I just pictured myself riding in it feeling the wind in my hair and going over big rocks and through mud puddles. So fun.

Also on friday I didn't have to work since they cut my hours, so I went to lunch with heather and jenn at Olive Garden. I got the normal fettuccine and it was so delicious. It was nice to get a glimpse of what it was like to have days off during the week. I think being a stay at home mom will be quite nice! We had fun gabbing away and then did a little shopping afterward. Girl time is needed every once in awhile and we had a great time.

Good news!!! I haven't posted about this for awhile but I have had NO migraines for MONTHS. This is amazing as I used to have them weekly. Pregnancy has been a wonder after the first few months of nausea. I have a fair amount of energy and haven't been sick. I am so happy and am not keeping my hopes up, but maybe after I have the baby it will continue, I'm crossing my fingers. :)

Baby Girl!

So we went to the ultrasound on friday and everything looked great! The baby is healthy and everything is normal. When she went to check the sex of the baby it wouldn't open the legs though, but the tech looked from the bottom and said she was 90 percent sure it was a GIRL. Josh and I were both very surprised and are still doubting it a little, we both were thinking it was going to be a boy. Next time we go in I am going to see if I can sneak in the ultrasound room again to get a better look and hopefully baby will be a little more cooperative next time!

She is very flexible, that is her leg stretching up over her body and you can see the little toes almost to the top of her head.

This is the bottom of the feet, I just thought it looked cute

A little blurry, but this is me at 5 months.
I have only gained about 6 pounds so far, not too bad.

Of course after we found out it was a girl I had to go buy the "first outfit" The jacket also has a little hood lined with pink and the hat is just so little and cute.
I can't wait to see it on her for real :)

5 More Days...

Only 5 more days (friday) until we find out if it's a boy or girl, we are SO excited!! :) Most people say its going to be a boy, any guesses?

Demo Derby Year 2

We went to the fair again this year and saw the demo derby, they are so much fun! We had several friends go and had a blast picking out which car was "ours" and rooting it on as they got demolished. Rhett's car won...but mine was only 5th place!

Here we are right before the race. Brooklyn (baby in red) loved it and clapped and laughed the entire time. She just turned one on my birthday!

There's "pink thunder", the car i was cheering for. Josh's is the orange one in the back, he was out in the very beginning.

I love it when the cars smoke. Not these two, but two other cars caught on fire, it was cool.

We walked around the fair before the derby and saw some of the animals there. There were cows, sheep, goats and horses. We also got food of course and some delicious huckleberry ice cream.

Colorado/Oklahoma/Arkansas

Josh went to his best friends wedding this last weekend at the Oklahoma City temple. He then traveled to the hometown of the groom, Josh Ammons, in Arkansas for the reception and was one of the groomsmen. Josh's new wife Sally is from Mexico so they had lots of mexican food and music at the reception which was on the Ammons' farm.

Josh and Sally's first dance

Josh and some of the men that were part of the wedding.

Since I was going to be alone for 5 days, my mom was going to come out to WA but I figured if she was going to buy a plane ticket anyway I would rather come to her in CO. So I did. We shopped for baby stuff, went to the movies, a baseball game and enjoyed our time off work together. It's always fun and nice to go home for a few days and relax. This is us at the Rockies game! They played the diamondbacks and won.

3rd Anniversary

August 17th we celebrated our anniversary. The day before was Sunday and Josh's brother left that morning. We went to church and while Josh was teaching second hour I snuck out and packed our bags for a little getaway.

I told him we were going to the park for a picnic but actually kept driving, for about 3 hours, and surprised him with a stay at a B&B in a cute little town called Wenatchee, WA.

Ivy Wild Inn B&B

That night we went to this cute Italian restaurant when we got in around 8pm. We were starving and they had great bread!

The next day we went to some gardens a few minutes away that were very pretty and peaceful. It was a great way to relax and enjoy time together before the start of Josh's 2nd year of school.

Josh is in the picture on the left sitting on a bench. This was my favorite pool of water there. There was about 5 all together.

After the gardens we drove about 20 minutes to Leavenworth, WA which is a Bavarian little town and has cute little shops and everything is decorated like Germany.

After walking around Leavenworth we headed back to Spokane and ate dinner at a five star hotel downtown called the Davenport Hotel. They have a small restaurant inside called the Safari Room. It tasted really good and was a great way to end our anniversary.

Happy Anniversary Joshua! Here's to another great year to add onto the last 3! This will be our last anniversary without children, I was a little sad thinking about that. We have had so much fun just the two of us, but are looking forward to being a family of three before we know it. I love having a special day we can think about the years before us, our wedding day, and and the years ahead of us.

Brothers Come to Visit

A few weeks ago Derek and Ty came to visit from CA for a few days. It was so much fun to have company in the house and enjoy being around their craziness.

We went to the golfing range the second night they came. Derek's a lefty and had to use clubs from the clubhouse for a whole 50 cents. They were really nice clubs...

This is the poor sap who got hit by Tyler's ball on "accident" He was actually pretty far away and we had a good laugh along with the people next to us after hearing the clink of the ball hitting the cage.

The Spokane museum had movie costumes this month that were used in popular movies. Here are a few we saw:

This is actually Robin's outfit from the TV series of Batman in 1966. I thought it was funny because the main part is just one of those green t-shirts you can buy at Wal-mart for like $5.

I'm sure most people already know, but here is the original darth vader costume.

Ghostbusters Gear. Favorite movie line: "Listen...do you smell something?"

Me compared to the actual size of darth vader.

Josh with his oh-so-serious Darth Vader face on.

We also played nine holes of golf at the nearby 3-par course. Aren't they so cool?