The Rest of Our Trip to Utah

I am finally getting around to documenting our trip to Utah.  It has been a really long time since we got back from Utah but I wanted to get a few more pictures from out trip on here.  I'm pretty sure they are out of order but oh well.  We visited the new city creek center for lunch, just wish that we could have stayed a little longer.  

Playing in the fountain... 

Fun with the "City Creek"

Cute kids

At the Disney Store

Lunchtime

Uncle Ben bought a TON of fireworks for the 24th and we had a great time watching them from Grandpa and Grandma's front yard.

 Abbie got sunburned in Park City isn't that sad...

We got to meet the latest Christiansen cousin while both our families were in Utah

Maren's son "baby Max"

We went to the Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Museum with Grandma and Josh and Zack

(Lexie had her own fun this week by going to girls camp with my parents ward.)

We made a trip to the zoo right before we left Utah to see the new rocky shores exhibit and that was a lot of fun for the kids.  

 on the train

We had a wonderful vacation and wished we got to stay longer.  Can't wait to go back next year.  

  

Baby Bump-26 weeks

26 weeks! Now you can really tell that I am preggo!  I took this picture last week, before all of the drama that we had, then promptly forgot to post it.  So here it is a few days late.

Update

There is so much more to tell about our vacation, but life has been super crazy since we got home and I haven't found the time to get it written out, it is coming but not today.  Here is a glimpse of what we have been up to since we got back.  I had a doctor's appointment the morning after we got back.  The next day we had a primary activity.   We spent last week getting to the bottom of the laundry pile and getting things put away from vacation.  We also were getting things ready for the kids to go back to school next week, luckily for me we got most of our school supplies and clothes when we were in Utah so it has been just a matter of organizing them and filling in the gaps.  I also had to meet my home health nurse and get my first shot from her.  To be able to take the medication I needed with me to Utah, my insurance had me switch to home health visits to get my shots.  That way they could give me medicine to take with me to have my mom give me while we were there.
Thursday I had a scary evening.  I started having contractions in the afternoon and tried laying down and drinking water to make them go away.  No such luck.  I called my doctor's office and they had me come in to be monitored.  I ended up needing medicine to get the contractions to stop, but luckily it worked and our little man didn't make an early appearance.  I ended up being at he hospital for about 3 1/2 hours.   For now, I am not on bed rest or anything like that, but I just have to be careful of what I am doing.  I can't believe that this has started already, it is going to make the last 3 months of this pregnancy so long.  It was a really long day.  This makes me have to evaluate everything I want to do, it really sucks.  And I think about it every day.  I have had more contraction every day since Thursday but have been able to get them to stop by just resting and drinking a river full of water.  I have another appointment on Thursday and we will see what my doctors decide then.  For now we are just thankful that our little man is still safely inside me.

Utah Trip--a teaser

We arrived in Utah clear back on the 22 of July.  We have been having tons of fun and getting to see lots of family.  Here is a little sneak peak at what we have been up too while we have been here....
We went to Park City and rode the sky lift up to the top of the mountain and walked around a bit, the kids also rode the alpine slide...

We went to Vernal and visited the grandparents.....

playing in Grandma Jean's backyard

wearing Grandpa Lyle's hat

riding horses up Deep Creek

and I taught Ashton taught me how to drive the 4-wheeler.  

and I even got this preggo body up on a horse...

Then Wednesday August 1st, we had the honor of honoring one of the best men that has ever lived.  Jake's Grandpa, Lars Jenkins, passed away the Thursday before and it was truly a miracle that all of Jake's siblings were able to be there for the funeral.  We can from Minnesota, North Carolina, Texas and Jake's one brother came back from military orders from Hawaii just in time for the funeral. 

More on this wonderful man later.

This is just a little bit of the things that we have been doing, I will do a more detailed post once we get home, but I had a few minutes today and wanted to prove that we haven't fallen off the face of the earth.  

North Shore Trip-- Day 2

 Here is the rest of our trip, a little later than I promised but here it is none the less.  Monday morning we had breakfast at the hotel, then we headed off to the Split Rock Light House.  We took the guided tour and got to hear a little of the history of the lighthouse, Jake and I thought it was interesting but the kids were bored on the tour.

The had "actors" that told some of the story of the lighthouse, they had to crank the clockworks that keep the light spinning by hand and the guys showed our kids hour it was done.  150 turns would last for about 2 hours.  

There were no roads to the shore where the light house is when it was built so they had to bring all of their supplies up from the shore.  We braved the 179 steps down to the shore and couldn't imagine having to haul supplies back up that steep cliff.  

Here are the boys about halfway down.

The view from the beach.

While down at the beach we had to take some time to play on the shore......

and in the water....

We had lunch at a cute little cafe on the shore with a beautiful view.  

Unfortunately we hit some really bad road construction on our way home and spent most of the afternoon sitting in the car on the highway....  but we did stop in Two Harbors and walk out on the sea wall for a little diversion.  

We had a great time and will definitely be going back again sometime soon.  

Boys Are Awesome!

Today we had our 20 week ultrasound.  Everything with the baby looks great, and as usual for me baby is bigger than average for HIS age.  Yes that is right we are having a baby boy!  Ashton couldn't be happier.  

This is his super excited face because he gets a baby brother and we are leaving for Utah in 9 days!

Here are a couple of the ultrasound pictures, I will save you having to look at 14 fuzzy black and white ultrasound pictures and only show you my two favorites.  

Then after the appointment we were running a few errands and the kids talked me into looking in the baby section and this is what we ended up with.   This kid is spoiled already.  But seriously I got rid of all of my baby clothes, crib, car seat and all other baby stuff when we moved thinking that we were done have babies.  (well except for one small tote of sentimental baby clothes from all three kids) so this baby is going to be in need of clothes and everything else.  But I am sure we will manage to have plenty of stuff before he makes his appearance in November.

Now for a name.... oh man I have no idea and I know from past experiences it is going to take the next 20 weeks to figure it out.