29 weeks today!

Only a few short weeks left to go. And I have this feeling that time is going to go by so quickly. With all the Holidays coming up and just being that busy time of season, I'm looking forward to time flying by.
We have our first doctors appointment since St. Louis on Friday. We're both really excited for that, mostly because it's been a really long time and it will be nice to hear that everything is going great.
As for some not so great news, we're going to have to spend all of holidays in Rexburg. Chris was fairly, okay, he was really upset about it. We found out yesterday that Sam's Club has company wide Black out for all of November and December, and in order for him to get any time off the General Manager has to sign off on it. Their regular GM quit last week, so they have this temp. coming up from Logan about once a week until they find someone to be their new GM. When Chris talked to the temp. guy he just flat out told him no, no explanation on either side, nothing. Chris was mostly upset about that.
Its not ideal to spend our holidays in Rexburg, but we'll make the best of it. We'll have our own Thanksgiving dinner and spend it together and do whatever we can to make it fun. :)

27 weeks, 4 days!

Time is flying and I'm sure going in the winter holidays, life is just going to get even more crazier and everything is going to go even more faster than it already is. We're really excited for January and for Baby Brenden to become a larger part of our lives, but at the same time, we think, "Ahhhh, we have no idea what we're doing!" We're in the 3rd trimester, I'm definitely in the nesting stage, Chris has been going to school and working non-stop. It has been a crazy couple of months, and the next few months are going to be even crazier. But overall we're really excited. For the holidays, for family, for friends, and for baby.

We have met a lot of new friends the past couple of weeks being in Rexburg. It has been so much fun. We met a couple in our ward that have connections to St. Louis, and they are so wonderful. They're so sweet, helpful, and absolutely hilarious. We also met a couple where Chris knew the husband from home and from his mission, we had a game night with them last night and hopefully we can get them over for dinner this week when Chris has a day off from work. I really look forward to getting to know them better, especially the wife, Shayanna, she seems so great! I like her already. :)

As far as medical and doctors go, we haven't seen a doctor since St. Louis, but hopefully soon. We're turning in the last bit of paperwork in tomorrow to get approved for Medicaid so all the baby expenses will be paid for. We have to turn in this form for Plasma. Chris has been donating plasma for awhile, so we kind of have to estimate how much he's made and let them know and sign a document because according to the state of Idaho, since Chris donates and earns money from it, he is considered self-employed. Ridiculous, I know, but that's life and how the system works, I'm sure everything will work out, and hopefully soon.

For now, we need to got o bed, Chris has an early morning of classes and work for tomorrow.

Baby Brenden James

Here are some of our Ultrasound pictures from the last time we went to the doctor in St. Louis. Its been awhile!

This is the ultrasound we had when we found out we were having a boy! So exciting, :D

This is a picture of the baby's face, personally I think he looks like Chris.

This was just a picture they did for measurements, and apparently Brenden measures a bit below average, but that's ok.

Boy picture!