Coulam Fam Visit

My friend, Melissa (Kirkham) Coulam, and her family have moved to Katy, just outside Houston. It is about two and a half hours from where we live. I went to visit there for a couple of days and then Mel and her family came to San Antonio to vacation with us for a few days. It was fun to have our first house guests and it forced me to finally clean out the spare bedroom. I didn't take many pictures during their visit, but Mel's daughter, Emily, played photographer for me. It was fun to see things from her perspective. We had a good time being tourists with them and it was fun to see Charly-dog playing with the kids.






Self portrait of our photographer...Little Em

Independence Day

I love the 4th of July and it was hard to be away from home. Independence Day is my favorite holiday, second only to Christmas. I missed seeing the hot air balloons and doing breakfast and games with my family, but we had a great day. Jon and I are on the Activities Committee in our ward. We had a ward pancake breakfast with games and activities. This really is a great ward and we had a really good time.

Our friends, the Ashmores, invited us over that night for a BBQ and we all went to Schertz (neighboring town) for a pretty good free fireworks show. It was a lot of fun.

"Baby Mama" Goes Camping

I was asked to be the Level Leader for the Level 4 girls at our Stake Girls' Camp this year. I loved it. It was so much fun. It is a tradition in this stake to give leaders and youth camp leaders a camp name. The girls named me "Baby Mama." It was like Norm on Cheers every time I walked into a room. It was a lot of fun to work with YW again. I had a really amazing group of girls. They kept me laughing the entire week.

We had cabins and cots, so it wasn't difficult to do pregnant. I actually felt better there than I had in months. I love Girls Camp and was really excited to be part of it. Baby also loved it. She moved around and kicked more that week than she ever had before.

Our Muse has Found Us in San Anton

Our good friend, Steve Muse, came to visit us. He was here in San Antonio for a couple of days for work. It was really good to see him and made us realize how much we miss everyone in Utah.

We love you Steve-O!

Happy Mother's Day to me! :)

We're having a baby! This is my ultrasound from 10 weeks. I am about 15 weeks along now. The baby is due November 7th. Baby Parks is about the size of a clenched fist and is learning to wiggle his/her fingers and toes. It still blows my mind to think about things like that! I will post updates when we know if it is a boy or a girl.

I was pretty sick for the last couple of months, but it is starting to get a lot better. The hardest thing to deal with was my super sense of smell. I really thought Jon was trying to kill me with his jalapeno-flavored Cheezits. I could also tell when someone in the next county was cooking fish. I felt like the bear in Dr. Seuss' The Big Brag!

I am taking tips and suggestions of things you were glad you did/wish you had done during pregnancy/delivery. Also, any good books to read besides What to Expect When You're Expecting?