Salt Lake City and St. Louis!

This last week our little Freeman family went out to St. Louis to see family and have some fun. We left Rexburg last Tuesday and spent the day in Salt Lake City before our flight Wednesday morning. We were able to stay with some friends enjoy some food, yummy smoothies, and go to the new City Creek mall down by the temple. I bought some shoes. Good Day! We woke up early Wednesday morning so that we could make it to the airport by 8 in the morning! We figured since we woke Brenden up at 6am that he would sleep a lot since he normally doesn't wake up until about 9:30. Brenden didn't sleep at all on the plane. Bummer! I love to sleep on the plane. We had this 4 hour layover in Denver and he didn't even sleep there. He just wanted to play. We get on the plane to St. Louis, and no sleeping. He just loves to people watch and he was so great. He just played and read books the whole time. We got to baggage claim in St. Louis and he is asleep. There was no waking this kid up. I stood him up to walk, still asleep. We got him home to gran and gran-dads, gave him a bath and put him to bed. I'm sure he was just so tired. Most of Thursday Chris spent doing homework, so Brenden and I just played in between naps. Had some good food. We finally got Brenden to eat some turkey. Before this trip, Brenden was pretty much a vegetarian. We kept Brenden up a little late so he could see his gran-dad for a few minutes after he got in from his flight. Brenden slept so well that night. He didn't even think about waking up until 10 the next morning. He is such a great little boy. Friday and Saturday was spent doing projects around the house so it would be ready to go on the market next week. I took care of Brenden and played and read some interesting articles while he napped. Friday night we went to a stake production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream coat. I've only ever seen the movie, and its my favorite Sunday movie, so it was a real treat. We had all piled into cars to go and drove about 20 minutes to get there. Just as soon as we got out of the car I realized that we had forgotten the diaper bag at home. Brenden has been having bathroom troubles all week and I thought sitting through a play for a few hours would probably not be the best with out a diaper bag. It was okay though, I left and drove back to get it and it gave me time to call my little brother and wish him a happy 15th Birthday. I can't believe he's 15 already and taken driver's ed. classes. Wow, how time truly flies. I got back just in time for the play to start. Great timing! It was such an amazing play, they did such a wonderful job. I didn't know what to expect and I was really impressed. It was such a great night. Saturday night, we went to Chris' little brother, Josh's piano recital. All of these kids did so well! Its unbelievable the talent these young ones share. It kind of makes me regret not learning how to play the piano at a young age. It makes me think, should I make all of my children learn to play at least the piano if not more instruments. I guess that's something we can cover in our family home evening lesson this week. After the piano recital we went out for frozen custard. We have frozen custard here in Rexburg, but its not the same as going home with family and sharing some creamy custard. Skipping the last day of our trip, well really because it was the most fun. Chris spent most of Monday and Tuesday doing homework. Yeah, I know he's kind of boring. Ha ha. Well Wednesday we woke up and got everything packed up for our flight back to Salt Lake that evening and headed out for some real fun. We went to the butterfly house, which was awesome. Brenden loved being so close to all of the butterflies and they were so pretty. Some things there were also kind of disgusting as well. They had some nasty beetles and cockroaches. Yuck! After the butterfly house, we decided to take Brenden to the St. Louis Zoo. Sadly he was asleep for everything other than the elephants. They had some baby elephants. Brenden just kept saying baby baby baby. He is such a cute little boy. On the way back to Salt Lake on the place we discovered that Brenden was teething, he had been teething all week and we just didn't know. Which is why his diapers had been so disgusting. He wasn't sleeping on these planes either and so we decided to give him some baby Advil and some teething medication thinking maybe that would help. I had totally run out of ideas. He wasn't cranky or anything just bouncing all over the place.I was putting the teething medication on his gums and noticed he was getting one of his molars in. His very first one! He has been incredibly happy this week for a molar coming in. I am just so proud of him for being so happy all of the time. Our flight didn't get into Salt Lake until 11 that night and we still had to go to Bountiful to pick up our car and then drive back to Salt Lake for the night. We finally made it at midnight and laid Brenden down for sleep. He was awake by 7am the next morning. Jet lagged, maybe? We woke up realizing that there was no water because a water main had broken on the corner that morning! Argh! A shower would have been nice, but oh well. We went out to breakfast with our uncle and then he took Brenden out shopping. Brenden got royally spoiled. Different outfits, and toys! Our next kid won't need any toys at all! Maybe a few that a little more girly, since that's what we're having, but Brenden has been so spoiled being the first grand-kid that our other children wont need any. So just so everyone knows, baby showers in the next few months, clothes only! We had to hurry up with our shopping trip and head back to Rexburg so Chris could go to work. We stopped for lunch in Pocatello. I got Chris to work, and about 10 minutes early! I got home and unloaded the car and started some cleaning. Our neighbors were nice enough to watch Brenden for hours on end! I love having neighbors like that. And today, I figured I would catch up on some blogging while Chris worked on some homework, but now its time to get up and get moving for the afternoon!

20 Weeks!

Half way there already? With Brenden to make it to this point, really took forever!! I can't believe that in 20 short weeks, we'll have another baby in the house. Its still so unreal to me. Maybe having my hands full with Brenden all of the time makes the time go by so much faster.

I'm so grateful for the the wonderful weather that we've had lately. Being outside and playing and taking walks has really lifted my spirits. Most of my days are spent with Brenden and myself, and it gets quite boring. I wish I could figure out some fun activities for Brenden and I to do during the day. Something a little bit more enriching than playing with toys all afternoon. If any mamas out there have any ideas, please let me know, I'm going a little crazy. I'm just thankful that we can play outside a little bit every day.

As far as pregnancies go, I have to say, this is the best one! No nausea, no morning sickness, I don't have those tired spells like I did with Brenden. I don't have any food aversions, or cravings really. The tiredness only sets in if I try and clean the house. Bummer. I'm not too tired, but I'm lacking all of the energy that I really want. I want to run marathons, I want to hike all day long, I want play with Brenden all day long and be able to lift him up high, and pick him up when he wants it, I want to be able to take some serious Pilates classes, I want to do some crazy dancing all day long!

This energy needs to come back to me so I can have my life back. I know it will, I'm just a little impatient.

19 weeks, 1 day

18 weeks, 1 day