You Better Believe It!

The Jenks' "Boys Only Club" is about to be crashed. We are having a sweet little girl join our family in August! I had another ultrasound today (standard procedure at the clinic I go to. An ultrasound at every routine checkup. Lucky me, I get to see her every month!) and asked if he couldn't just double check for me. He chuckled but gladly did and she is still a girl!!!

I had a pretty good appointment. Baby girl looks great. The top picture is proof of her "girl parts". The middle picture is a 3D profile. Her arm is going across her face so it makes it harder to see. The bottom one is her cute little profile. Awww, I'm in love!

I did however, receive some not so good news. My blood pressure is high (again). Bummer. I thought when I was pregnant with Dexter, that it was partly due to me working and the stresses that come with that, but I guess not. This is just how my body handles being pregnant. Yuck! I get to go in weekly now so he can monitor it. Hopefully though, this is as bad as it gets and I don't have to do anything more than that.

Haircut: Daddy's Choice

I know that I don't post on this blog much, so, you know this must be important. See, Dexter (and I) got haircuts yesterday and for a change I got to pick Dexter's new look. Ali always chooses what I consider to be a boring regular haircut. You know the one, short on the sides blended to the top. (Think missionary cut) While this is a great haircut, I decided to push my choice a little more toward the edge. I weighed my many options:

MULLET

MOHAWK

SPIKES

BUZZ CUT

REVERSEHAWK

In the end, these all seemed a little TOO extreme. So I went with a cut that I think will be making a comeback soon . Why will it be back? Well, it was popular when I was a kid, I figure now that all of the kids from my generation are having kids it will make a little surge in popularity. That's right you guessed it, maybe, no? Ok. My son is rocking the Bowl Cut! It is awesome! I think he looks adorable. It was my first time giving a screaming wriggling kid a bowl cut so it is a little lopsided (kind of hard to judge from the back as the kid only has one ear) but adorable still, here are the pictures.

Idaho Trip

I just realized that I hadn't posted anything about our Idaho trip! I am totally blaming it on pregnancy brain! I have had it more often this pregnancy than I did with Dexter. I even called Brett for his birthday a day early. AND I still didn't even believe him that I was a day early, 'til I found a calendar. OOPS! At least it was early instead of late!

On to the trip...

We made a trip to Idaho in February for Devon and Kayla's wedding. The sealing was beautiful, and the bride and groom were glowing. To start us off, we almost didn't make it to the wedding. Our flight was delayed due to a mechanical something-or-other making us miss our connecting flight. The gal checking us in tried to get us to stay a night in Denver (on them) and catch the first flight out. That would have worked, but the flight was booked. Bummer. The next flight into Boise didn't even leave until after the sealing. Ummm, no. So after I explained to her why we were flying and that we needed to be 2 hours away from the airport by 3pm, she delayed our connecting flight. After a mad dash off of the airplane with them calling our names on the loud speaker, we made our connecting flight. I think they only waited a grand total of 10 extra minutes. Why we had to get snide comments as we were boarding, who knows--who cares. The important thing was that we made it!

We flew out Friday evening, wedding Saturday afternoon, Sunday afternoon Ashton flew home :( It was so hard to say good bye. It was a good thing Dex was down for a nap, because I bawled when he left.

But Dex and I survived and we had fun with cousins, uncles, grandparents, great-grandparents, dogs...

My mom took a few days off of work and took us shopping :) We had fun. We also had a fun day with Crystal and the kids. The day started off with a train hunt, that Dexter loved, lunch at McD's, and then a play date at Hop-2-It. Dexter loved the ball pit, but he especially loved the ball bouncy house. It had different types of balls on top of the 4 corner pillars and Dex kept asking for me to get them down. I couldn't tell him enough times that they were stuck and not coming down. He also loved going down the big slide. Let me just say, it is not easy to climb up the big slide while other kids are going down (making the whole thing shake) one handed, carrying a 20 month old, and trying not to fall on your pregnant belly. Crystal, what were we thinking! We were quite the site, but it was so worth all the giggles that Dex gave.

We also got to spend some time with the Jenks. We went swimming, which just turned into a game of fetch with the uncles in the pool and my scared Dexter on the cement, not even near the edge. Out to ice cream, playing with toys and Briggs, helping to decorate for a dance, out to lunch, watching the uncles, Briggs, and grandpa get ready for the Klondike, and just hanging out.

Uncle Brett treated us to breakfast one morning at IHOP where Dexter got a balloon monkey. He loved it, but he kept biting it and popped it while in the car. He spent the rest of the day saying "balloon, no-no mouth, all gone". The little smarty. :) We also got to hang out at Curt and Crystal's apartment and play with Lydia, Brody, and Chloe. Dexter loved Brody's bowling set. He would probably set it up and knock the pins down all day long.

We were also there for my Dad's birthday. My mom treated the whole gang to pizza and bowling. Dexter liked real bowling, but didn't like the concept of taking turns. He threw fits, wouldn't eat dinner, and was a real delight. Thank goodness for the arcade section. It was the only thing that distracted him. Beside Dex's fits, I had a nice time with my family.

We had a dinner with Devon and Kayla, Dallas, DeeAnn, and boys, and Great Grandpa and Grandma Hansen. We also drove out to Rupert and saw Grandma B. and George. I was fortunate enough to also see my good friend Morgan and his beautiful bride, Erin at their reception in Rupert. They were married a week before Devon and Kayla.

DeeAnn drove us up to the airport, and I must say, Dex was really good while we were waiting to board. I was worried because I would be by myself, but he listened to me really well. I was definitely being watched over and blessed, I have no doubt. I didn't even get lost getting to our boarding gate in Denver that was clear on the other side of the terminal.

Dexter and I had a fun time with all of our family. Thanks to those who helped us out with tickets, I hope you enjoyed having us there, too.

Friends

A week or so ago, I watched Kevin and Karen's boys and Dexter couldn't have been more excited. He loves to play with ALEX! He likes to play with Ethan too, but Alex is "the man" to this little boy. So we had a fun day. After some play time and an attempt at lunch, I thought it would be fun to build a fort with the boys. What else do you do in a fort but get to watch WALL-E? All the boys had fun. Dexter was just ecstatic about the whole thing. He was also a big help at making sure everyone had a blanket and pillow so that they could watch the movie properly.