Baby Bean Update (Final One?)

36 Weeks!!! Baby Boy is almost here and we are so excited! Both to see the little guy and to be able to move around and sleep again. ;) Haha Our little guy is a little above the average in size and weight right now, his head is down, he is super active and looks very healthy. I am also doing well and am actually already dilated to 2 centimeters! The doctor says this is no promise of an early birth. I could walk around at 2 centimeters for a couple week, or I could progress quickly. We'll just have to wait and see. :) I am hoping he doesn't come too early, as I would like to have my Mum here when he comes, but again, we'll just have to wait and see. Below is my 36 week picture for ya'all.

While we haven't decided 100% on a name, we are leaning towards Lincoln West Bean. However, we may hear another name on our way to the hospital and decide to name him that instead. :) We are SO excited for this little guy to join out family and hope to visit all of you soon so that he can meet all of the amazing people in our lives. We sure have been (and are) blessed by all of our family and friends!

I hope you all have a very happy New Year!!!

Oodles of Fun!

Hmmmm where to begin? How about with the best Christmas gift ever. . .  a new car door!

CAR DOOR
For over a month now our driver side door has been broken (remember the previous post of us trying to glue it back together?) and we have had to climb over the passenger seat to get to the drivers side. Now normally I wouldn't mind this so much, but with an ever incressing belly, it has been getting more and more difficult and painful to climb over those seats. Those days are now gone! Thanks to my amazing husband,and his amazing dad, we were able to find a new car door and Jeff took off the old one and put on the new. A feat that he is very proud of. :)

Our new car door!

 

However, this new door came with a price as well, that of my big toe nail. :( On my way to pick Divinia up from school, Jeff called me and asked if I could come to the junk yard and help him put on the door. So Divinia and I headed over, not taking the time to go home and put on some proper shoes. Well as I was helping Jeff lift the car door up and into place, due to some miscommunication, we dropped the door on my foot. I cannot remember the last time something hurt so bad! Jeff says he is amazed at how well I handled it, but I think I acted very poorly and it was everything I could do not to cry like a baby. Seeing Divinia freaking out and knowing that if I did too would make things worse, helped me keep my cool a bit.

 

 I know I am going to loose my toe nail, but I am happy to say that I don't think my toe it broken. I can't tell for certain yet, as I am unable to put pressure on it, but I'm pretty sure it's just badly bruised. :) The cut was deep though and is still gushing out stuff two days later. I am lucky that it hit my toenail, thus helping to soften the blow and prevent it getting cut even deeper.

My toe earlier today.

 

I can honestly say that loosing my first toe nail was well worth getting a new door! I feel as if Christmas came early! :D

 

BABY SHOWER

On a happier note, our Chem. E. friends through me a baby shower! It was a mixed gender shower (original I know) because all of the Chem. E. students love to get together and the guys wanted to join in on the shower as well. I was so touched that they wanted to do this for Jeff and I! They are such a fun and inviting group of people! Jeff and I really love getting together with them. :) There are only 4 married Chem. E students in Jeff's year and I am the only one pregnant or even close to having a child, so the girls were just thrilled at the chance to buy baby items. :) The guys I think were more there for the food and company. Haha

We got a tone of REALLY cute and fun things! (They really spoiled us) We were really excited to get some Longhorn socks and shirt for our little guy. Gotta represent!

 

Yes I know these aren't the greatest pictures, but I wanted you to see his adorable longhorn clothes. :)

 

 After we played some baby shower games, at some food and opened presents, the guys didn't waste much time in pulling out the super Mario Wii games. Haha

 

 CHRISTMAM FUN

Jeff and I have also been to some fun Christmas parties and received some pretty interesting white elephant gifts. Our favorites however are. . . 

 





The Longhorn snuggie! We couldn't believe no one tried to take this from us! Guess everyone here has plenty of Longhorn items; just how in Utah county you can find an abundance of BYU items in many homes. :) We were more than happy to keep this one!

 



This is our other favorite W.E. gift. We gave two friends in the ward we love photography and one of our friends photo shopped the others' faces into this photo. Needless to say no one stole this from me, although we all got a good laugh passing it around! Definitely the funniest W.E. gift I have ever received!

We went to the Trail of Lights! While it was fun to go see, Jeff and I didn't think it was as good as The Festival of Lights or Temple Square. They were playing pop music (not Christmas) and while the tress had lights on them, all the cardboard figures didn't have anything Christmas about them. They were fun images of many TV and Movie characters, but nothing with a Christmas theme or even a Santa hat on their head. However, it was still fun to go and see with some of our friends. :)

 

 

We are just having oodles of fun here in Texas this year! Christmas is such a fun time of the year and we are truly blessed to have made some great friends to spend it with. It doesn't feel the same without our families and no snow, but we are still making some fun memories. :) Hopefully we won't have too many Christmas's away from our families. We love and miss all of you very much and hope you are having a FABULOUS holiday season! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

 



Baby Boy Update and Christmas Fun

Baby Boy Update!

I know I have fallen behind in my Baby Boy updates, and I hope you'll forgive me. Life has been a little crazy lately and I kept putting it off. So here is my 33 week update. :)

Baby Boy is very healthy and super active! I don't get much sleep because he likes to dance around and practice guitar playing on my ribs while I am trying to sleep. :P I just love feeling him all the time though! It is such a reassurance to my worrisome mind! (Even if it is uncomfortable) I am also healthy and my measurements, size and everything else, is on track for his due date, January 24th. Jeff and I are just getting more and more excited to have the little guy hear! We still haven;t completely settled on a name, but are leaning towards Lincoln West Bean. (West after my Grandpa Swensen) However, some other names we like are James, Calvin, Carter and Henry. So we will see. :)

Christmas Fun!

So Jeff has never shown any interest or care about decorations, holiday or everyday ones, (other than he likes to tease me and say he likes the opposite of the one I like :) ) but this Christmas was different.
Since we will be celebrating Christmas without our family this year, we decided to buy our first Christmas tree! Last year we just got a little one for the table since we would be spending Christmas with my family in St. George, but this year we wanted a normal sized one. Now I grew up with white lights on our Christmas tree, Jeff grew up with colored lights. However, since he has never cared about decorations before, I didn't think he would care if we got a tree with white lights. I was wrong. Upon finding out that I wanted a tree with white lights, Jeff was very upset and adamant that we HAD to have colored lights. "It is not Christmas without colored lights." "White lights are so plain and unexciting." And so on. :) Well I have never been in love with colored lights, but decided that since this mattered SO much to Jeff, we would get a tree with colored lights. And believe it or not, but it is really growing on me! I can honestly say that I find a Christmas tree with colored lights very inviting and Christmasy. :)
So Jeff, Divinia and I went to Walmart and got our little 40 dollar tree. Divinia was VERY excited as she and her mom have never had a Christmas tree. Divinia insisted on helping Jeff carry the tree to the care and then help him set it up in the house.

 We were home for maybe... 5 seconds before Divinia was handing me the scissors and begging me to open the box.

 

 Divinia wanted to carry all the pieces and put them on. However, she did accept some help from Jeff when she realized she wasn't quite tall enough. :)

 

 Yeah for Christmas trees!

 

 Divinia even helped me straighten out the branches. (My least favorite part)

 

She loves her tree!

 



I promised Divinia I wouldn't decorate the tree over the weekend, but would wait until the next week to buy ornaments and decorate. So the next week Jeff, Divinia and I went and got some silver ornaments and some craft supplies to make our own more colorful ones. :)

Divinia and I putting the hooks on the ornaments.

She is a goof ball. :)

 



Making Ornaments with glitter glue.

 



Since we are poor college students with a baby on the way and Divinia REALLY wanted a star on top of the tree, Jeff made a giant yellow one. :) 

 



Jeff's big yellow star!

Crafts, cookies and ornaments! I love Christmas time!

The final product! :D

 

I just LOVE Christmas and am so excited to be spending it with my best friend! I cannot wait for Jeff and I to make our own Christmas traditions and carry on a few of our families'. Since we will have so much free time this season, (Jeff has his school break and Divinia is going to spend the break with her father) we are wanting to do a lot of volunteer work. For while we both love the legend of Santa Claus, getting presents, eating delicious holiday food and going to themed parties, we really want to keep in our mind and hearts what this season is really celebrating; the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. There is no greater celebration! I am so grateful to be a member of the LDS church and to have this time every year to focus on and remember the birth of my savior. Jeff and I have been blessed with so much and I hope to give back and show my love and gratitude to our Savior!

 

Hope you are all having a wonderful December and enjoying this holiday season!