A healthy baby....

....GIRL!

I am still in shock. Can't believe it! While we would have been thrilled with either a boy or girl we really thought it'd be awesome to have one of each - then whatever happens happens but there'd just be less stress...

Before we picked up Rob we got some Jamba Juice - give baby a nice sugary kick hoping to make sure he/she would be wide awake in there! I'm glad we had Robby come to this ultrasound - he was so excited!

I can't remember all the details right now.... the ultrasound tech checked everything else first it seemed and baby looked great in every area! We have referred to the baby as a boy the whole time pretty much and even during the ultrasound I was saying, "look Robby, there's his foot!" Then I didn't even realize she was checking the baby's bottom when she announced, "Well there's lady parts!" I basically sat up and shouted, "WHAT?!?!?" I was so caught off guard and didn't realize she was just perfectly sure we were looking at a girl... she even said, "Um... is that ok?" (like oh no this woman doesn't want a girl) and I told her I didn't even dare get my hopes up for a girl so was she SURE it was a girl?? She was very confident. The picture we got isn't great but that's ok. I mean, with Robby it was so clear instantly that it was a boy that this is just harder to believe. Like she said, "there isn't as much to show with girl parts..." but she did a few other things and then checked between her legs one more time and said she was so sure it was a girl she'd "take our stuff back for us" if it wasn't.

Here's our "girl" proof picture - you can see the three white lines that mean girl...

 HER foot... not "his" like I'd said earlier... sorry little girl!

Cute little profile...

 Her "halloween" mask as the tech put it! Kind of scary angle but still just neat cause it's my baby...

While I will definitely be double checking between baby's legs the second she is born to confirm this information I'm going to go ahead and be excited about this!

As much as of course I've always wanted a baby girl I think a big part of it for me is wanting Rob to have a daughter - he is so cute with all our little girl nieces and I just think that'll be really special for him.

Luckily Robby was instantly excited about this and doesn't seem disappointed he's not getting a brother. His face was so cute when she said it was a girl... we are all going to have to get used to saying SHE now. Which is great. :)

Robby my awesome photographer.... Rob had to go to a work meeting tonight and I forget to take a picture earlier with him!

Me at our Cornbelly's outing yesterday...

 

We are just SO VERY HAPPY! It already was such a miracle to get pregnant.... now to be having a girl.... I just can't even believe it. I feel so lucky!!!!! We are so grateful.

Breaking Dawn

So my friends and I are renting out a theater for an early release showing of Breaking Dawn and we always make the cutest t-shirts to wear and they really are my favorite shirts ever (so cute and comfy) - also, I love that the designs are always subtle hints to Twilight not like, "I love vampires." :) So Liv and her husband Scott have come up with another awesome design for this year's shirt and if anyone's interested in ordering one let me or Liv know! Isle Esme is the island Edward and Bella go on their honeymoon!


We need all shirt orders by November 1st!!!! Either leave me a comment or go check out Liv's blog and order one from her! 
Shirts are $14 each or $16 for the plus sizes. (see sizing chart below) If you don't live in Utah County Liv can ship it to you for $2 or $3. 

and this is what the image is up close:

The shirts run small - I've always gotten XL.

Also, we have a few seats left in our theater for our early showing - it's Thursday November 17th at 7:15 at University Mall. Check my facebook post for the seating chart to see what seats we have available.

For fun check out our past years shirts:
New Moon

Eclipse

Soccer

We signed up to do a little homeschool soccer program which was just every Friday for the month of September and Robby got to be on a team with Annie and absolutely loved it. Well, the first week he was super nervous and didn't want to be on the field unless he was holding Annie's hand tightly - yes, even while they were running. It was kind of cute... He was so scared and had anxiety all week about going again to soccer - he'd wake up in the morning and the first thing he'd ask me in fear was what day it was and was it soccer... it was so weird cause I knew he'd have a blast once he warmed up to it. Sure enough the next week was a million times better!

His group was the 4-7 year olds and there were a lot of kids and since it's pretty much just parents volunteering and running it there weren't a lot of coaches so it started out as just 2 big teams! The kids would spend the first few minutes doing "drills" or practice kicking the ball and learning a few things about the game and then would play a game. It was so cute! The kids would just follow the ball around in one big pack... I got a little video but can't get it to upload all the way so if I figure that out I'll add it.

Robby also got some sock-shingaurd things and he thought that was pretty awesome. He was brave on his last week and even got to try being goalie!

Now he wants me to sign him up for soccer again right now but we will probably wait for spring and I don't know how he'll do if he doesn't have his trusty cousin Annie with him but we'll see! This was definitely a good introduction to soccer for him and a taste of being on a team.

Lately...

Robby is just so funny and so cute - we continue to be in love with him and are probably spoiling with our attention but what can you do? He'll have to share the spotlight soon. 

I'm so glad he'll give hugs and kisses and loves to snuggle with us. With dad it's usually "knock down hugs" or "tickle bombs." 

Last night in Women's Conference President Uchtdorf talked about good sacrifices - an example was helping a child who has woken up with a bad dream get back to sleep. This happens at least once a week and while of course I'd rather not be woken up in the middle of the night I'm grateful for the sweet moments this can be as he climbs in bed and snuggles with me for a few minutes and then I carry him back and tuck him in again to his own bed. I kind of can't get enough of him when he's asleep. Every night before I go to sleep I stop in his room and hug and kiss his little squishy cheeks a bunch of times and he just kind of rolls over and smacks his mouth... why are little kids such angels when asleep?

I know I'm lucky because I feel like Robby is a little angel most of the time! It's worth mentioning his most deviant moment in years was last week where he and a friend ran away from me in our neighborhood and I could NOT find them for several minutes - when I did find him and tell him it was time to go home and he'd have room time (time out) he went in his room and TINKED on his bed! On PURPOSE! I was so mad! I made him take the sheets off himself and put them in the washer. But that was so out of character... 

He and Rob were wrestling and Rob made some weird face and said, "I'm gonna get you!" and Robby says, "You look FREAKY when you do that." And he told Rob, "I'm gonna CREAM you!" Rob was like, huh? And Robby smiles and shakes his head, "I'm not gonna cream you...." ha ha... cream you? What? 

He thought these weird faces were hilarious! Or, as he would say, "freaky"

 

He's my little buddy!

I ordered a diaper bag (they had a great labor day sale) for when baby comes and it came in the mail the other day - Robby was so excited and kept saying, "I just want the baby to come now!" He got out a pack of wipes and wanted me to put it in the bag. When we came home from being out we opened the door and he saw the bag on the floor in the living room and exclaimed, "Oooo the BABY bag!!!" So cute!

Anyways I've been such a lazy picture taker and blogger this... year.. I felt the need to just kind of brain dump about what's been going on!

A big change for me - I got released from being Primary President! It was definitely bittersweet. I'd been in there 2 years but it was nowhere on my radar - I thought I'd be in there forever. I loved being in primary with all the kids and loved working with my presidency and the other teachers and primary workers. It definitely felt like a workout every week - I'd come home sweaty and exhausted! Especially since Rob has a busy Sunday calling too. So today was my first day not being in Primary and it was strange! I thought Robby would have a hard time going to Primary without mom but he did great today! 

I had a horrible dream last night that I had lost the baby - I was very relieved to wake up and know everything was ok! Everything seems to be going well with baby - I have another check up this week. It's always so neat to hear the heartbeat so I'm looking forward to that!

Sooo....

 

Before.... beautiful cape on and everything...

 After!

And apparently I stink at taking pictures on my phone of myself while driving... she curled my hair and made it look all cute! I'll add some other pictures later cause I don't know if you can really even tell what my hair looks like - we just did a little trim and I love the color she did! 

Thanks Stacy! You are great! If any of you need a hairstylist in Orem/Provo (she's right on the border) let me know I'll give you her number!

What to do? What to do?

So I have a hair apt coming up this week with my wonderful cousin Stacy and I really don't know what I want to do with my hair... I feel like as soon as I cut it in my head it was like, ok, now I have to grow it out again... but I really did like it when it was first cut short like this:

 Short hair I feel like is "cute" on me but doesn't necessarily make me feel beautiful... if that makes any sense... and I feel like I don't want short hair when I have the baby, I'd rather it be longer... but why? And I'm sure my cheeks/face is going to get chubbier throughout the pregnancy so maybe short hair would just accentuate that?

Long hair feels more like me... 

It got really long...

I feel like I just don't love the inbetween length and don't know what to do... definitely need to touch up my roots.... I shouldn't worry because I'm sure whatever Stacy will do will be great and fun but if you have any great ideas let me know! :)

Time flies....

...when you're having fun!

We went to Maryland for 3 weeks to spend time with Pincocks and Parsons. I've wanted to blog about this since we got back a few weeks ago but the thought of uploading all the pictures has kept me from getting it done! Not to mention I've been really busy catching up on some pool time, doing my work from home job for Vivint, researching midwives, reading birth books, and for the last 8 days having a miserable cold.

So in Picasa I was able to make a few little collages to make posting pictures easier!

PINCOCK TIME

Playing at the church, visiting the temple, Lebanese Taverna and the fountains in Silver Spring, the Zoo, swimming at Sarah's pool, visiting Grandma, day trip to the beach...

PARSONS TIME

Deep Creek, creamery, swimming, tubing, Kids Day, family pictures, whipped cream fight, naps on the boat, movies in the theater...

NEW YORK CITY

Visiting Will & Amanda who were excellent tour guides but we didn't get enough pictures WITH them, riding boats in Central Park, walking all over New York City, getting to see my childhood best friend Kristen, eating lots of good food, happy to be with friends...

Whew! Ok, there's our 3 week trip! 

I can't believe August is almost over! The summer is slipping away! Why is it so short? I had planned to go to the pool pretty much every day til summer was over but being sick put a cramp in my plans and we were just at home last week. This week I have 3 interviews with midwives set up that I'm really excited about! 

Hope everyone's summers are going well!!

Celebrate!

We are happy! We are excited!!!!

It was fun to take a home test and see the 2 lines appear instantly! Getting the blood test results over the phone was huge but it was neat to see the proof on a home test as well!

Stuff I meant to blog about but never did...

I cut my hair.

I went to my cousin Stacy for a haircut and since Gwen had recently chopped her hair off for Locks of Love I felt inspired to do the same. I figured my hair might not ever be this long again so I wouldn't ever have 10 inches to cut off and still leave it as long as it would be which is the shortest you'll probably ever see my hair.

I like it. I might even consider keeping it a little short for a while before going straight back to growing it out as long as possible like I usually do.

 

I had really long hair. And this picture is from a Ward Rollerskating party that was great! Have I mentioned Rob and I first met at a rollerskating rink when we were 12? So fun.

Will & Amanda came out for Amanda's graduation. It was so great to see them. We miss them and are excited to visit them in New York in a few weeks! We love you guys!

 Sunday naps in the closet....

We had a great Easter. The Easter bunny came to see Robby.... I put a little trail of candy from his room leading out to this basket.

 He was pretty excited! Then we dyed eggs with cousins and did a hunt at A&B's.

We had Gwen's baptism in March...

Then Robby the kid's in April...

Pincock  side

Pincock fam

Parsons side (yes we are in both)

That reminds me - Robby said to me the other day, "I heard that when you were a kid you were a Pincock, mom!" I said "yes I was before I married daddy I was a Pincock." He said, "Oh, were Andrew and Becca and Annie and Tyler and them there?" Ha ha. I told him, "Nooo... just Andrew. But did you know that when Becca was little she was a Parsons?" *blank face* One day he'll get it.

We got swept up in JIMMER MANIA! How could you not? Although if you asked Robby he'd waver between Jimmer and Jackson Emery as his favorite...

We played "Golf Ball" at Trafalga... we could finish a round in like 10 minutes sometimes because Robby would just run ahead so fast and do all the holes himself... he'd whack at the ball over and over again until it got in the hole and then he'd be ecstactic! We sure got our money's worth out of those Pass of All Passes. We did Go Karts too at Trafalga and went to the one in Lehi also.

Saw some of my awesome Russia friends... (now we're all the way back to February, was it really that long ago??? Crazy!) Emily came into town and we got together at Nancy's place. Made me miss our good times in Voronezh! And speaking Russian. :(

Emily's Edward, Nancy's girls Miram & Rachel, Robby

Emily, Me, Nancy (Robby was our photographer)

 Bringing Valentine's doughnuts to dad at work...

Snuggling on the couch...

  

And an important one! The birth of 2 new little nieces and a special trip to MD in April to see them. Sarah's #5 Quincy and Vanessa's first little one Ruby who was born on Robby's bday! How fun! It felt like a fast trip but it was filled with baby love :)

Quincy and Ruby

Getting to see Grandma Hazel

Ness, Me holding Ruby (in the quilt Taba made!)

Taba, Sarah w/Quincy, me, Rach, Mom, Dad - see how I'm the shortest one in the fam?

And that's all.... for now....