More pictures

Here are some more pictures of Aiden. I can't believe how much he has changed just over the past few weeks.

Aiden Darrell Butler

Aiden Darrell Butler was born Friday April 17, 2009. He was 8 lbs 4 oz and 20.5 inches long. Although this little boy has only been here for less then a week we can not imagine life without him. It has been an adjustment and I am sure it will continue to be however we could never ask for a greater blessing. We love him more then we could have ever imagined.

The Lost Sea

Last weekend Paul & I met up with Holly and Cameron in Tennessee. We had a lot of fun but the best part was just being able to hang out with them and the kids. We love those kids and as usual really hated to say goodbye. I wish it was more often but I am glad we get the opportunity to see them as much as we do. While we were there we went through this cave called the Lost Sea. You basically take a tour through the cave and then take a boat ride in the lake inside the cave. We all had a good time although the walk back up was a little rough for someone who is 7 months pregnant but it was definitely worth it.

Holly & Cameron thought they would give Paul some parental training.

You can't really see much of the cave in these pictures. What you can see is that the humidity really did a number on my hair!

Baby Blanket

For Christmas this year I decided I wanted a sewing machine. I am not really sure why. I have not sewn anything since Home Ec in Jr High but I have two talented sisters that have taken it on and I guess I decided since I am going to be a mom soon I better get start getting domesticated. When I got it, I took it out of the box and threaded the machine but after that there was not a whole lot I could do but just kind of look at it. A few weeks later I decided to try making the baby a blanket. I did a rag quilt which was actually pretty easy and it ended up hiding a bunch of my flaws. I do have to say I was pretty proud at my first sewing project. We will see if there is more to come.

Baby Belly

I was kind of trying to avoid this picture but I have had a few people bugging me to see a picture of me pregnant and since most of my family does not get to see me pregnant I decided just to go ahead and throw it up here. So mom, this is for you.

Goodbye Ice Cream

So since I got pregnant my relationship with food has not been so good. The first 4 months of my pregnancy I couldn't eat anything. My appetite progressively got better but now all I want to eat is sweets which is probably not the best thing to be eating especially when I am pregnant but it was nice to want to eat something. Anyway, I became best friends with ice cream. I probably could have eaten for every meal. But I had my first doctors appointment since my kidney stones this past week and we were discussing that little incident. He told me I should probably lay off the dairy a little. Paul decided to open his mouth and tell the doctor about my ice cream addiction and of course the doctor advised not to be eating ice cream. I could not handle that. I even told him I would eat my cereal with a fork. And to compound all of that I got a call a couple days later informing me I failed my one hour glucose test so today I had to go in for the three hour test. If that did not go well I really might have to say goodbye to ice cream for the rest of my pregnancy! I am crossing my fingers that I passed this one but I guess we will have to see once I get my results. But the good news is that the baby is healthy and doing well which is most important.

Snow Day!!

So this is not going to be very exciting for those of you in Idaho & Utah because you are all probably sick of the snow by now but today we had a real snow day. We probably got about 4 inches which may not seem like a lot but around here it pretty much shuts everything down at least enough that Paul & I could not make it to work. I was mostly worried about being out there with the other drivers after hearing about how many accidents there were this morning on the news. It is a good thing we had plenty of bread and milk because that is usually the first thing to fly off the shelves at the stores when there is snow in the forecast.We did not get to see any snow here last year and probably won't see anymore for awhile so we just have to enjoy it while it lasts which will probably only be until tomorrow.