Busy Waiting

We have been busy during our last month of pregnancy with Baby Shower, getting our baby room remodeled, starting garden stuff up again, and many more things.


Pictures of all my loot! People were really kind and I got a lot or really nice stuff!!
I really appreciate it!

Holly's beautiful diaper cake! and my teddy bear decor!

Clif holding the quilt my mom made for Cort

Ashlyn enjoying food at the baby shower

The old garden spot needed some cleaning before tilling

we are doubling the size of our garden and Clif is chopping at the bit to start planting.

Clif tilling the new garden spot.

36 weeks prego above

One more pregnant tummy picture before the end, few days from 40 week mark! So Attractive :(

Baby's Room, Clif's been busy and we are getting closer and closer to it being done.

Another Angle. Just hoping we get it ready before the baby arrives!

As a final note: Still no baby, Clif calls me several times a day asking if my water broke, he is so excited and I love seeing it! It is frustrating just waiting though. My doc appointment two and a half weeks ago resulted in me being 75 percent effaced. My appointment earlier this week, they didn't check me so I have no idea where I am at. As far as I know I have not felt hardly anything that could be contractions, maybe a tiny bit yesterday but nothing to really report. My doc doesn't like going past 40 weeks so by next wednesday, my next appointment, we may have to consider some kind of inducing if Cort is still being stubborn. I guess I can't blame him much for being shy to come into the world, I have always been shy and he probably just gets it from me. I am excited, anxious, nervous, scared, and pretty much just obsessed with thinking about it. I almost crave the idea of feeling contractions just so that I would feel like something might actually happen soon. It's just hard to believe it is coming so soon when I haven't gotten any signs of it coming. Patience and Distractions are my friends right now, I am better at the second then the first though. Work keeps me busy somewhat and then I try spending time with Clif and other family members to distract me the rest of the time. Hopefully next week I will have more to report but I guess we will just have to wait and see!

February was a rough month for me. I had a cold for the first three weeks, my first sickness during my entire pregnancy. My grandpa died which was sad but it was nice to see family and go on a little trip. My baby shower got rescheduled for a week later, but it did end up being really fun. Holly and my mom (and Mel came and helped a lot) did an awesome job on the whole affair: decor, food, drink, etc... I got a lot of nice things too, and it is fun to now see all the baby stuff around my house. And the last part of the month I ended up with some freaky version of the stomach flu that lasted over a week!!! I even went to the ER during that time to make sure I wasn't dehydrating myself and Cort but everything seemed to be fine when they checked me. Better safe than sorry I guess. The physician thought it was food poisoning but I KNOW it wasn't, I have bad luck with doctors I think. I had a doctors visit yesterday for the first time in two months. The only person in the office that really knows who we are I think is the lady that has to keep rescheduling our appointments :). I was prepared for a more embarrassing exam but both the nurse and the doctor think that I am only 34 weeks pregnant. HOW ON EARTH DID THEY GET THAT CONCLUSION. I am due April 1/March 30 so correct me if I am wrong, but that would make me 36 WEEKS PREGNANT. Anyway, since I am only "34 Weeks" he did just a tiny check up. Everything was ok, Cort is head down, and my size and weight seem fine along with everything else. I have another exam next thursday which is supposed to be the more thorough one but who knows, it might get canceled and rescheduled knowing my luck and then the doc is gone out of town the next week. After that I could "calve out" as my husband says anytime but the doc won't be expecting it!! Maybe next pregnancy I really will consider a midwife like Clif keeps trying to tell me to do. My doc isn't a bad doc, almost everyone around here likes him. He is just BUSY all the time! So due to all this going on during the last month, my house is a wreck due to me spending all my time in the bathroom during stomach flu and then now my husband and I are finally working on getting the nursery ready which means that my old computer/craft/piano room is now empty but the tons of stuff that was in that room is now scattered throughout my house along with all the baby stuff since we can't put it away yet. We even have a stroller, carseat, swing (thanks to my siblings in Utah, thanks guys), crib, and changing table now which all create a confusing maze out of our living and dining room. Someday I will be organized again, and that will be nice. I am always happier when things around me are clean. But for now, I just have to be patient while we finish things up!

Flowers

Snow and Brownings Means Playtime!

Saturday was tubing day for the Browning Family. Elwin, Julie, Allen, Holly, Ashlyn, Amie, Afton, Tashia, Caleb, Clif and I headed up the mountain for some snow fun, we found a fun spot to stop, go tubing, build a fire, and even do a little snowmobiling.

Ashlyn and Amie didn't hesitate at all to try out the new tubing grounds
Caleb and Afton were far behind!

Even if we had to let them down on a tub with a rope so we could get them back up the hill without going down ourselves.

The rope came in handy getting Amie and Ashlyn up the last steep part too. Affie never got tired, she wanted to go over and over and over. She wore Clif, Holly, Allen and I out pretty good.

Caleb had to try it without a tub and was so proud of himself.

After a couple turns Ashlyn and Amie got in the habit of plopping down on their tub at the bottom of the hill and not coming back up the hill. Several retrieval methods were used to rescue them. Clif tried the snowmobil but couldn't convince Amie to hop aboard.

Snowboard was the next rescue method

What a buff and talented dude! A tube, snowboard, and five year old!

Affie had a hard time eating her licorice with her gloves on. She dropped it at one point and didn't realize why it wasnt' in her hand for a few seconds. Young Adventurers! Caleb wanted to start it up and drive it but Affie wanted to just sit on it. She won't go near the snowmobils while they are on and being noisy.

Back Door

Clif installed our new back door last week. The sliding glass door we had was falling apart pretty bad and was a struggle to even get open. We took it out, put in a door and window. We are still adjusting to the differences but enjoying it also. Oh, yeah and Clif had a little helper working on it with him. Holly came over to visit and brought affie and she had fun handing things to clif and watching him.

Sorry the pictures are so dark!

Luck.... not in the plans!!

I noticed I needed an update on here and discovered that pretty much everything that I had to report on falls under that same category: bad luck. First of all Clif has been trying to get his hazmat endorsement for his CDL license for four and a half months but the government lost his file and nearly cost us his job. We did finally get an approval letter which was a wonderful thing, for about a day! All we had to do now was go the MVD in Showlow and get them to print out a new license for him. We went there the next day and discovered that the one and only person that could help us was not in till the next day. That was frustrating but we also had a doctors appointment for me also so we figured the trip wasn't a complete waste. We headed over there with our fingers crossed since the previous doctors appointment had been canceled due to too much snow on the roads. We got there and guess what? Yep, the appointment was canceled, the doc was in surgery. Bummer, this was a frustrating day for us. So.... we drove all the way back to showlow the next day bright and early so Clif could get the license printed. He stood in line in the cold with six other guys for an hour before finding out that the one person that could help them was not coming to work for the entire week. Holy Cow!! Things were not going our way. The end of the week Clif and I and Holly and Allen and my mom and dad got to go to the Temple for a session which was nice since I hadn't been for awhile. I was really looking forward to it since we had planned to go the previous week but couldn't due to too much snow on the roads. I made it through the session and then had a pregnancy hormone attack and wanted to cry the whole way home (for no reason at all of course, darn hormones). The next day, Saturday, Clif was gone snowmobiling a lot but promised me some "Clif and Bonnie" time that evening so I was feeling special. That is until my gal bladder decided that it needed some "Bonnie Time". I was in pain laying down for almost two hours. By seven I finally felt a little better so we went out to eat but I couldnt eat much since it had messed up my stomach. We did get to cuddle and watch a movie together so it wasn't a complete sad evening. Monday morning arrived and Clif called the MVD office to see if it was worth driving over there. The phone message said that the CDL office was closed for another week. :( Well, Clif's job needed the license so we drove three hours to Flagstaff yesterday just to print a new license, but we did get it!!!! Clif woke up that morning with a cold though so he is not feeling well now. I just have a bad case of itcing lately :) weird! Well this could be the happy ending but not quite. So my doctors appointment was scheduled or should I say rescheduled for the second time for today. We got there, happy that is was in Eagar this time in stead of Show Low and you would never guess what they told us!!! The doctor in in surgery and isn't going to make it. I am rescheduled for next week... in show low :(! I am starting to think I won't see the doc until I am actually in delivery, if then. I guess when there is only two baby doctors in the entire white mountains area this is expected. It's just a good thing that I don't have any complications with pregnancy so far. Too bad this doesn't mean it won't be less expensive. Well, That would be the end, not necessarily happy but still better than when I started. I am hoping for a good February and March. I am slowly getting more and more uncomfortable with the pregnancy which isn't fun but at least I have felt descently good for quite awhile till now. And I have a wonderful husband that takes amazing and great care of me! Oh and by the way, we think we are for sure on the baby name now (unless clif or I have second thoughts again). We are sticking with our original choice of William Cort Browning, we will call him Cort!

Big Belly ???

Well, I finally had Clif help me take a picture of me when I started to show. This was taken about three weeks ago so I have gotten a little bigger but this is the only picture I have for now!

Delayed Pictures

There are several pictures that I have been promising to put up on here for a couple months now and so now I am trying to make up for that. I am still missing a few of the halloween ones but this is as good as I do right now.

This is the quilt that my mother in law Julie Browning and my grandmother Joann Adair made for Clif and I. It is really neat, I like it a lot!!

I was working hard yesterday and came home for lunch to find Clif washing my pile of built of dishes that I have been neglecting and also on the table was this plant. Clif doesn't like buying flowers since they just die so I told him that he could always just buy me a live plant so he apparently took my advice. It is a kind of cactus and the flowers are really pretty, he also got me a card to go with the flowers but I will keep that part to myself :)! He is sweet and it really cheered me up since I have been super stressed lately!

This is our Christmas tree this year with the penguin decorations that I made for Clif last year for christmas. It turned out pretty cute and fewer penguins have fallen off so far than i expected. From a distance it almost appears as if we toilet papered our tree but they are supposed to be skiing slopes so make sure your imagination is working :)!

This was the sunset the evening we finally found our tree up around Green's Peak. It kinda looked to me almost like the orange clouds were flames behind the hills. It was really pretty even if my pictures don't do it justice.

And finally some pics from my halloween party almost two month ago. I decorated the doors in my house so that my nieces and nephews in town could come over and go trick or treating inside where it was warm. The adults seemed to have just as much fun as the kids so I guess it was a success!

Tashia was behind the mummy door.

Allen was behind the ghost door.

My mom was behind the pumpkin door.

Bryce was behind the spider door.

Daryl was behind the witch door. I like he was wanting to hang out in my pantry more that he was really wanting to be a witch :) hehe!

Clif was behind the monster door dressed in his traditional gorilla costume which doesn't always go over so well with some of the smallest kids but no one got eaten by the monster!

I have more pics of the food and people and stuff but they are on Clif's camera and he keeps it with him all day so I haven't gotten them yet.

The night before the party ashlyn amie and affie slept over at my house and then in the morning they helped me with a few things for the party. Their cupcake decorating was messy but fun. and next time if I use black frosting affie is wearing a bib, she got it everywhere!