New Site

I just wanted to let everyone know who is reading my blog that my Mom created a web baby shower website for us. It is located at www.webbabyshower.com/mowen

Make sure to visit it and sign in on the guest book page and also make your Birthday bets. I am going to print these out and add them to the baby's book when he/she is born.

I also have some updated pictures on there as well.

32 Weeks

Here is a picture of us in front of our new house.

32 Weeks

For the past five days, I have been able to spend time with my mom getting the nursery ready. We painted, built the dresser and glider, and got the nusery all ready for baby. I never realized how time consuming painting was but it was nice to have so much help. We did lots of shopping and eating, my two favorites! She even made time to help with yardwork and got some flowers planted. I tried to help with the yard work but ended up cutting the electrical cord with the hedge trimmers, after that I pretty much just stuck to gathering up cut down branches and leaves. Oh the joys of pregnancy brain (or at least that is what I am blamming it on).

We also went up to check out Octoberfest at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort and walked around and looked at some of the stalls where people have various things for sale. I found some cute fleece jackets but since we don't know what the sex of the baby is, I wasn't able to buy any. Looking at all of the cute baby clothes makes me wish I was 40 weeks right now.

31 Weeks

I am now 31 weeks along and feeling bigger and bigger. Well, I guess the scale helps me realize that too. The baby has been incredibly active the last few weeks. It is fun now to see the little body parts poking up from my skin when it moves around. Shane always says that he can't even imagine what that must feel like. It sure is something. What is a little bit more unpleasant are all of the hiccups, but I still love to feel them. They say on all of the website that the baby should weight about 3-3.5 pounds and be about 16-17 inches long. I guess that is why I can feel the baby kicking into my rib cage.

The other update is that we are finally moved into our new house. It is so nice to have somewhere to come home to that actually feels like home. I think that as we make it more and more our own that feeling will grow, especially when we bring our little baby home! Shane and Forrest did most of the moving while I helped with the packing. About three weeks ago I started contracting a lot and was put on some medication to help my contractions slow down. I have also had to cut back at work, so now I am working two 12 hours shifts instead of three which I think has helped a lot too. I never realized how tired I would be. After a 12 hour shift I go home, lay down, and am completely exhausted. I can only hope that it won't get too much worse in the next 8 weeks.

I don't have any pictures right now to post but I will try to get some posted by this weekend.

27 Weeks

Another month goes by and boy do I feel bigger. Shane and I just got back from a great vacation in Wyoming. His cousin and his cousin's wife, Barry and Katie, had come out from Pennsylvania to vacation with us. We first went to Jackson, WY, and spent two nights. One day we took our boat out and floated down the Snake River. We saw buffalo, a bunch of different types of birds, and even some cute little otters. After Jackson we then went to our favorite camping spot on the Grey's River. We fished, camped, ate, and fished more. It was great! I caught the second biggest fish over the four days. Luckily the airmattress was not too bad, it was the mummy sleeping bag that fit a little bit too tight. At night time after the fire went out we could here coyotes. After a while, I just put in my ear plugs so they didn't keep me up. We also went to Yellowstone for a day, that is where the picture of Shane and I is from and also my bare naked belly shot. I will get some more pictures in maybe another week or so.

23 Weeks

Well, this is me now at 23 weeks. Luckily I don't really have any complaints. I have been feeling pretty good, besides just being uncomfortable due to my big belly. I can't even imagine what I will look like in a few more months! Actually, that is kind of scary to think of. It is funny now to be able to feel this little baby moving around so much. In the last week I can actually feel and also see the movements on my belly. I have tried to get Shane to feel but the baby never seems to move very much when his hand is there. I'm sure that will change as the baby grows bigger and bigger and has less and less room to float around in there.

Shane and I are in the final stages of buying a house and in a couple weeks we are going on a camping vacation with Shane's cousin and his wife. I just hope that the air mattress doesn't leak. I can't wait to have nothing to do but relax. I will be sure to post some pictures after vacation.

Video of 20 Week Ultrasound

Click below to see video of our 20 week ultrasound.