Belly, yard and park pictures!!

I don't remember the last time I took a belly picture so sorry I look so HUGE in this picture! This was after a long afternoon today (Sunday) where my heart was bugging me pretty bad so I did a lot of laying down....Hence, why I look so tired!!

I am 32 weeks today and had an appointment with the NP this last Thursday and from the last ultrasound they want to monitor the baby closer. This baby is only in the 18% which is hard to believe because I am measuring right on! But I had 3 ultrasounds with Chloe and she was fine just my smallest at birth so far and now she is my biggest kid!! Well, she is catching Cooper for sure! We have another ultrasound in 2 weeks and then another appointment this time with my doctor! He is currently in Europe on vacation with his family which I think is great and I see him as soon as he gets back! Then we get down to the every 2 week appointments...Time is just flying by!

So instead of a sprinkler system in our yard (which is one thing I miss) we get our yard flooded every 2 weeks! Lucky for ME come October it is only once a month! But this water company comes around and at some time during the day every other Tuesday they turn some pipe on and flood our yard to look like this! Not only is it annoying the day it happens but the next day also is hard because it is still so muddy...We aren't paying for it so I really can't complain!

(sorry for the screen lines)

The parks here are covered which I LOVE! I can be in the shade and so can the kids...It is still at least 90 in shade most days so out in the sun it definitely is pushing 100!! Everyone keeps saying it is cooler this year than most years...I am THANKFUL for that let me tell you...I take the kids at least 3 days a week to a different park because it is free, fun for them and they get some energy out! They still don't like that all the parks have sand but that is probably the best for kids in the heat! Everyone also keeps telling us the first summer here is hard and after that we will love it! I think we will because we are still going for walks every night around 7pm with Cooper and Chloe on their bikes and Reese in the stroller...Carrie walking and Ryan running because Cooper is getting too fast! We keep threatening to take his training wheels off but he wont let us yet!

(one of the parks has a train ride and carousel so we gave it a try and it was fun but kind of expensive for only a 8 minute ride if you ask me!)

Reese's favorite place to play at one of the parks...They have the poles that let out mist if you press the button and then makes puddles and fun mud playing for the kids!!

Chloe LOVES the slides and is ALWAYS making new friends!

Cooper always running and trying something new! He usually makes new friends but for some reason people don't watch their kids here and they are kind of rude (even to adults)! So he chooses not to play with them but he has met some nice friends at church I just need to set up play dates!!

The kids also start swimming lessons next Monday! I think the first day will be hard but after that they will love it! We missed getting Cooper into soccer and Chloe into tumbling but we are on the waitlist and can sign up for the next round! It starts right before we have this baby so I am little hesitant but they would only miss maybe one day! Swimming lessons are cheap and since we don't have a pool it is their pool time....NOW I am regretting not getting a pool :( All the moms keep telling me I will want to be in a pool every day while being pregnant! I didn't realize that most pools are gated here and usually have a lock or an alarm...Now I wish we could move after a few months but then it wont be as hot! I just can't take all the kids to the pool and not have that fear of losing one! We can go on Saturdays with Ryan and our whole family is $7 :)

Since coming here we have had a lot of crazy things happen to us, mostly bad, but we also have been blessed to have a great ward to move into and are meeting new people all the time!

Cooper is registered for Kindergarten and is really excited for it! Chloe is growing in so many ways it is so fun! She is REALLY excited for "mommy's baby" to come out so she can help take care of "the baby". Ryan just noticed Reese is getting 7 teeth finally! (I only saw 3 but he found more tonight after her bath!) She only has 7 so after a few weeks she is going to look so much older I think! And she is trying to potty train which I really don't want too but it might be time or more months of diapers! Our unborn child is doing good as far I can tell by the movements and the growth of my stomach size :)

Ryan and I are grateful for all that we have and know that if we didn't have trials then we wouldn't be blessed....By experiencing these trials which may seem huge now we know something great lies ahead for us and these trials will seem so small :)

Pictures of Baby #4

Here are some of the 100 pictures we got from the ultrasound but I really didn't think posting brain size, blood flow and other measurements would be beneficial cause I know i just like looking at the cool ones! So here is the foot!! The next ones are pretty self-explanatory and 4D which are really cool!

I wish I would have had this for all my babies in Idaho...

At first I thought the cord was wrapped around the neck but it is just floating around that area!

I thought this picture was so cute of the little frown!!

(sorry for the measurement on there)

So we have just about 8 1/2 weeks left and if we don't have this little one by July 25th we will be induced on the 26th! I did pass my 3 hour gestational diabetes test so I do NOT have it, just my iron is a little low but I tend to not like meat when I am pregnant except for steak like once a month! So I am on extra iron and the usual prenatal which I have been good about taking since I take it with the kids when they take their vitamins in the morning!!

I really can't believe how fast this pregnancy has gone and we are excited to see this bundle of kicks and pushes!! I have NO motherly intuition on what it is...I think it could be either a boy or girl! For the boy we are naming him Ryker Benjamin ...Ryker we found online and Benjamin is from Ryan's family history...If it's a girl her name will be Capri Isabella...Those names are just pulled from what we like, actually Ryan picked Capri and I have always loved Isabella...We also like Jasmine for a middle name so that might change but we will see when this baby comes out!

One thing everyone tells me with the doctor I have chosen is he likes for women after the head and shoulders come out to reach down and pull the rest of the baby out while pushing and place the baby on them...I like this idea but that is where Ryan has always helped...So I think we will still continue our tradition of Ryan helping deliver but I will be FOCUSED on what's between the legs!! We will probably post on facebook first then the blog!!

Last 2 months in a nutshell...

Where do I begin! We made it to Arizona if anyone was wondering if we fell off the face of the earth! All of April was packing and I thought I was doing a great job until I wasn't done the day we got our rental truck! It is so hard to pack up an entire house and then still live there for a week! Every day I was donating stuff or packing boxes or would sleep so I didn't get sick! We have been so blessed to not have anyone sick this entire time! I don't have a pediatrician for the kids yet so I don't have someone to take them too!

We are so grateful for all the help we received especially loading our truck and people taking our stuff that we needed to get rid of! And people watching our kids and bringing us meals...There are so many details when you aren't moving to another town and can run back and forth!

We left on April 27th at 7am and Ryan's dad drove our Penske truck so he got a head start on us that morning and it took us until Idaho Falls to catch him! From there we drove to Orem, Utah where we didn't arrive until 9pm. We arrived in Salt Lake City at 8pm and traffic was ugly! We were fortunate enough to stay with friends that night and due to sleeping off and on that day Reese didn't sleep that well but we stayed up and watched a movie!

Wednesday morning we left at 7am and hit the road around 8 after finally finding some diesel for the moving truck! The kids did great this whole time! We had bought DVD players for the kids and movies that they got each day to make it exciting! We had drinks and snacks so we didn't have to stop that much which made it easy! The worst part about this day was the sand storm we drove through! It lasted for miles and we heard rumors that the winds were up to 100 mph but I am not sure about that! I do know they had snowplows out to plow the sand off the road so we could see the lines in some parts...I passed one and it was a little scary! Ryan was driving the moving truck and I had all the kids and of course Chloe tells me she has to pee during this time and there is NO WHERE to go! So I try and do it on the side of the van but I think the sand hurt her butt cause it was hurting my legs while out with her!! So after the third time of pulling over she finally went poor girl!

We arrived in Scottsdale about 7:30pm and had about 6 guys waiting here to help us unload our truck! They had pizza and drinks and were ready to move stuff as it was kind of last minute when we were going to be here but they are from our ward down here and are just so nice! We have met so many nice people here and are loving that the weather is not 100 degrees every day yet! I think Mother Nature is giving me a break!

We were fortunate enough to have Ryan's dad stay with us until Saturday when he actually flew on a plane to Boise! We weren't sure how long it had been since he had been an airplane and he was really nervous but he had a great experience and Ryan's sister, Alycia, said he had made some new friends on the plane ride! Which doesn't surprise me at all he is REALLY friendly wherever he goes :) The kids really loved having Grandpa here that whole time and didn't understand at the time that he lives in Idaho and we were now in Arizona! That took about a week for them to understand and for me to explain that all that time in the car makes us far from cousins and all the grandparents!

We are still unpacking a little...mostly our room but we are fortunate enough to have a lot of outside storage here which makes it nice not to cram the closets full of boxes and rubbermaids! We sold a lot of our furniture so it was fun going to IKEA and getting new stuff for this house even though it's a rental! We live in a great neighborhood with very friendly people and all day long we see people walking their dogs and biking and my kids are always saying HI and petting the dogs! At first people used to ask about the elderly woman who lived here (for 40 years) and we told them she moved closer to her daughter but I thought that was so touching that even the ones that didn't know her name were asking how she was doing!!

We have been here for almost 4 weeks and have had our good days and our bad days...Cooper says he still hates it here but almost every day we go to a park and tomorrow we are registering him for kindergarten, swimming lessons and soccer. Chloe loves it here and EVERY morning she wakes up and says, "Mom, the sun is out!" I think it is so cute and she will also be in swimming lessons and a tumbling class! Reese is stuck with me and LOVES to chase the bunnies and birds here in our yard!

Ryan's new hobby is picking oranges from the tree in our backyard and making fresh squeezed orange juice...It really is tasty! We have a lemon tree, orange trees, and grapefruit trees...Every day we have to go out and pick them up off the ground or the birds and animals get them and then the fruit flies surround them and YUCK! The backyard is sort of grass...They call it grass but there are a lot of weeds in it! This home was built on a citrus orchard 40 years ago and so our water for the yard comes every 2 weeks and it is a big flood! So for almost 2 days the kids can't play in the backyard...In the winter time it is only once a month thank heavens!

I finally picked an obgyn who we actually go to church with but I have just heard so much good about him and he actually reminds me of my doctor back in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho! And he will deliver at either hospital we want! Around here you have like 5 hospitals within 20 minutes and not all doctors go to all the hospitals so you really pick your hospital first then your doctor so we decided on two and this doctor is the only one in his practice that will deliver at one of them! I am thankful this is my 4th and not my 1st after so many changes! I am 31 weeks now and last week I had an ultrasound at a separate place, The Fetal and Womens Center, and it was amazing! I got like 10 pictures printed, a CD with all the pictures and a video of what the girl did! Usually you just get pictures but these are amazing! I stayed strong and did not find out what the sex of the baby is and the girl was really good about it! Our baby is healthy and about 3.5 pounds right now...The ultrasound was to check my low lying placenta which is no longer low lying so good news all around!!

Ryan has switched positions at his new work and just started last week...It wasn't a promotion just an across the board switch with different responsibilities! He gets to come home for lunch every day which the kids LOVE to eat with daddy!! We are still praying for a promotion but know that our Father in Heaven is watching out for us and has a plan we may not understand right now but we feel so blessed!

I am sorry for no pictures on this post but I will have another post with all the pictures especially the baby ones they are amazing!! I have been trying to convince Ryan to buy me a new camera but no such luck yet! And we have been busy with figuring out where things are and going to new parks all the time which makes it fun! The parks here are covered and sandy and my kids are still getting used to all of that!! Arizona is definitely not Idaho but some parts of it remind me of my home town, Connell...the desert parts and hot the heat we get all summer although here will be hotter for longer which I am not looking forward too but the rest of the year will be amazing everyone says! Pictures to come....