And last night jeff and i were sitting on the couch watching the news and all of a sudden under my hand (which is just resting on my stomach) a kick or punch happens! I quickly grabbed jeffs hand and put it where i felt it and the baby did it again! It moved my hand! I've been feeling little movements prior to that but this was an actual kick or punch! it was pretty incredible! i cant wait for more of that! we're almost 19 weeks so it should be happening more often now! :)
After the baby comes i've decieded not to keep working in urbandale. Too much gas and time away from jeff and the baby. I'll take 2 or 3 months off then while not working look for a job in ames. I'd prefer not to work but that's not really an option at this point as Jeff will be in school (most likely) for another 3-4 years. Jeff doesnt want me working that far away either so it's really nice to have his support.
I cant believe the 4th of July has come and gone! so weird! if i were a student i'd be really sad cuz theres not much summer left! I am sad about it even though i'm not a student... it still seems like we just got out of winter! Anyway the 4th. My mom has this big anual party where family and friends come to her house to enjoy a night of food, drink and haning out. Jeff and i got up early to run and get the fixins for the cupcake design we were going to try out. I think we baked cupcakes for 3 hours that morning. needless to say the house smelled really nice! so we have about 100 cupcakes, half of them the mini ones. We take them to my moms to be frosted. The design is the american flag, so we have red white and blue frosting. That part was tedious, but the end result was pretty cool! wish we got a picture of it! :( No one wanted to eat the cupcakes though because the design was so cool (according to my mom). But the night was great! Family came in from minnesota - totally unexpected! and also from colorado springs! So it was really great to see everyone! Jeff and i ended the night at hilton to watch the fire works as we have for the last 5 or 6 years. We were so exhausted though that we left early to go to bed. Overall a really great night!
Jeff is now 27!!!!! He had a birthday a week ago! it was a busy weekend for us too! I had to give him his present 3 days before his birthday because i was so excited about it! We got a wii!!! Get ready nate and ashley we'll be playing you soon! :) Jeff has been making mii's like crazy, then he will enter them into contests that the wii has. pretty hilarious! I'm a tennis pro and jeff's almost there too. Lately we've been playing super mario smash brothers brawl and jeff is really good at it! (he does play all the time though). I'm glad he likes it! On the saturday before his birthday (the 5th) We got up early to go to dsm with his parents to check out the farmers market downtown. I'd never been and i think jeff has only been once. So we went down there and walked around for an hour or so. Jeff got some home made honey roasted peanut butter and we got some kettle corn, which was fantastic! Then we went to get jeff some new running shoes and another wii remote and nunchuck. We got home and jeff's parents wanted us to come over to their house so we brought the wii with us of course and played all afternoon with his mom and dad and sister and brother -in-law. Went to applebee's for dinner and back to mom and dad's for more wii action! we literally played unitl 9 or 9:30 at night. So fun! On sunday, his actual bday we just did more low key stuff... picked up the house cuz jeff wanted to clean, ran errands, whatever jeff wanted to do we did. :) it was pretty fun!
Well i spose that's all for now... not too much more has happened. Jeff and i really need to get better and taking pictures but i'll throw one in there of my belly for your viewing pleasure! :)
17 wks.
