21 Weeks baby BUMP

December 2nd 2010

Its a........ Girl most likely!

We found out last Friday that our baby is going to be a girl with 80% certainty. So now the problem is the name, Phil and I each have AWESOME names but neither of us will budge on our names so we'll see if we can decide by Christmas on a name and let you know what our baby's name is going to be.

In other news today is my last 'teaching' day of student teaching. Its kinda sad but good at the same time, I am SOOOOO ready for a break and also some time to focus some more on job searching and house cleaning and tidying. (Phil too will be happy so he won't have to do as much housework as he's been doing, he's such a great guy taking care of his prego student teaching wife!) Tomorrow for student teaching I'm going to be observing other teachers and how they manage their classrooms, that has been the hardest thing for me to do so I figured the more ideas I have the better I'll know what I can do for MY class.

I'll get the ultra-sound pictures on here as soon as I have more time to get them up! Wish me luck! :)

1st 3D Ultrasound

17 weeks and 2 days.... can I be done getting fat?

I am slowly busting out of my clothes and have to remind myself that the weight I'm gaining is good weight and that if I wasn't gaining weight I should be even more worried. Its just I'm not used to looking at weight as a good thing... a girl trait I believe that I hate but that's ok, Mom and I bought me some "fat pants" and when the time comes I will be one sexy fat prego lady! ;)  (thanks mom for going shopping with me!)

In other news I am nearing the end of student teaching and will soon be turning in the biggest waste of time to get my grade: the TWS or Teacher Work Sample. Since I am a double major it has been double hard trying to find things to put into both my Art and PE samples. And I should be working on it now but it is such a boring thing to do and when all the teachers you talk to say they never come up with lesson plans or anything in the TWS that I have to turn in it makes it EXTRA hard to work on it! Oh well, I guess I should get back to it, but I did feel the need to have at least one blog for this month.

13 weeks Prego

October 6th 2010

The bike ride

Early in October Phil was talking about this massive bike ride to go on.

Pretty yellow leaves on top. At this point I was not near as tired but it was later that I became a wimp and when slower than everyone else.

My Birthday

This year I got one of the BEST birthday presents EVER, ok so 2 really good presents: My cousin and her hubby came down to visit, (Jacee and Ryan) and Phil, through Emilee bought me a pregnancy pillow:

So yeah that has been nice to sleep with but yeah on Saturday Me, Phil, Ryan, Jacee and Emilee went and took our boat out to Quail and played on the tube. It was fun but I got nervous being prego and all and stopped early-ish for me. It was fun though and Phil tried to work on the boat to get it working without stopping, He got close to fixing it but still has some tweaking to do. 

Also on this day or the night before I guess Emilee moved in to our house! :) It will be so fun to have her so much closer! I just hope that Mom doesn't talk her into staying up with her, I want her MORE!! :D

Powell, Family and Announcements.

Yeah we went to Powell even though I am Prego and no know had known yet, but we had a blast! We were only there for a day but that was still long enough to have some photos :)

Emily and I with Katelyn going extra super slow, it was still fun though, just not the way I am used to riding the tube!

Me and Mike with Casen and Tiana, we thought we were so tough compared to the little kids!

Phil playing with Tiana and Casen.

Phil and Mike having a bumpy ride from Jeff.

 We also were able to announce that we were Pregnant to my family and Phil's Family. My mom found out earlier than planned just to make sure she came down for Emilee's Birthday that weekend.

But she had told everyone (my Dad and sister and Grandpa) So it didn't matter when she got here I just whipped out the Ultrasound Photo:

As for Phil's Family some of them knew we were kind of trying but didn't know for sure if we were pregnant. So at Family Dinner at Lori's Mom Dad and Emilee came too on Phil's orders and we told them right before dinner was served. Everyone was really excited and it was really nice to finally tell people! :) For proof I had the ultrasound photo in my back pocket :)

Some pictures :)

Well today I was able to finally see that there is a being inside me! It was crazy! I have not done my measuring yet for this week but I have a feeling that I will be bigger by a little in my belly, I feel so much fatter now!

Phil and I were both very excited to find out that it wasn't twins even though we were thinking it was possible since I have a lot of twins on my side of the family. Not this time around though! YAY! That was a big relief since that would be twice the diapers, twice the crying and twice the feeding! Thank goodness it is only one! We were even able to see the baby's heart beating! SO COOL! I loved it! I can't wait until I can find out what it is. If it is a girl we are in trouble, we both have names we want for boys not so much. Maybe if it is a boy then it would be that much easier on us to decide on a name. Well I'll keep you posted!

7 weeks

Student teaching has been taking more out of me than I thought possible! I love it don't get me wrong its just that after that I work at night to help pay for my school that I still have to pay this semester and that really sucks because I am almost always kinda sick to my stomach and hardly ever want to eat. I always seem to be constipated and I'm eating fruits and trying to be extra healthy even though today I bought school lunch for $3 and got burrito bites and chicken from the snack line and a $.75 Sprite. Not the best lunch ever, I think next time I do that I will just get the regular lunch for $3.50. Oh well! Anyway my measurements haven't changed but I have gained some weight, about 3 lbs. I'm not really excited about the weight gaining but that's ok I'll live I know its for a good reason its just I want my body to go back to normal after I'm pregnant! I just am praying for Mom's skinny gene, I just don't want to get as sick as she did which is so far so good! :) I have yet to really throw up and I'm getting passed the 1st trimester quicker and quicker so hopefully the 2nd trimester will be a nice break from the nausea and constipation. :) Tomorrow is Endurance day for PE! I can't wait to teach them the proper running form! :)

Also in other news our kitties are finally ready to be given away and I cannot WAIT to get rid of them! They have stunk up my house LONG enough and today we actually kicked them out of the house so we can clean so Sosete will come back inside, Mila has been driving us nuts lately (I also blame the pregnancy but.... she was pretty nice to me when she was pregnant with kittens!) Oh well! Hope to get rid of at least 3 to Phil's family and the rest to who-ever wants them! :)

6 Weeks and 5 Days

Well last night was one of the worst emotional nights so far! I was told in an email that day that my Mentor Teacher wanted me to come in the next day, Thursday the 19th. I was not planning on coming until the 23rd so I was kinda scared and nervous and unsure of how I would handle being pregnant and teaching PE. I chose to do PE first because I haven't heard from Art teacher yet and also because I would be able to do most of the activities in earlier stages of pregnancy. I was so worried about all of those things and life-guarding in the evenings during student teaching freaked me out too. I just wasn't that fun to be around. Luckily Phil came home and made me feel much better about it all and even gave me a blessing today. I love that he can give me blessings to help me feel reassured that Heavenly Father cares about me! What a sweety!

Oh and I went today and it was simple and easy nothing too much to do but call role and explain rules. Not bad! I think I can I think I can!

5 weeks and 2 days

I know that time supposedly goes by quickly when you are pregnant but that is so not the case today! It seems like it will be forever! I hate having to go pee all the time!!! I'm always Hungry and I always need to pee, it is so annoying! I guess I will live I just wish I had got my body more into the shape I wanted it before I got pregnant. Phil had me pose for belly showing photos even though I'm not showing at all and man, I look nasty from the side. I wish I did have a prego belly to show off but it just isn't there yet! Oh well, I'll let him have his fun but don't expect any of those photos on here or anywhere, I only posed to make Phil happy. We also took measurements today and since there isn't much to compare them to they will remain a secret until I start to show more. :P

5 weeks prego photo

August 9th 2010

What the Greens did all summer:

Going on trips: We went to Romania as you saw by all the photos and also went to London England, the other trips we've made has included camping with Brett Thomas:

where we climbed through Mammoth Caves and also Phil and Brett played a round of golf.

We hope that these are not the last of our adventures for the summer but will update you on any further trips.

Gardening: go to Kaylee's gardening blog to see what she's been growing at: kayleesgreengarden.blogspot.com 

Summer School: Kaylee took a couple of summer classes since she had to take May-mester Block passed that with flying colors, and took Senior Portfolio from Jeff Hanson and has this AWESOME web-page because of it check it out for yourself: www.kayleegreen.com  She also took a Personal Finance class for knowledge sakes and learned quite a bit.

Teaching swimming lessons: Kaylee just finished up her last session of group lessons and is very grateful. This last group was fun but was taking it out of her! She got a few scratches from kids who were scared and it even broke the skin on one of the scratches! She now will finish up the year with some private lessons and water aerobics, she may continue if she has people interested during school year.

Working: Phil has been working hard to keep his store up and running even through the hard economic times and has done pretty good. His co-workers didn't like him when he was gone for 2 weeks but luckily forgave him shortly after returning.

Attending family events: We also attended the annual Green Cabin 4th of July trip right after returning from our long trip. Then shortly after that we went to Clara's Birthday party 

and also hosted Phil's parents Homecoming Party. After that we made a couple trips up North to my family events such as a Tippets get-together and Parsons get-together. We also got to light some pretty cool, not so legal fireworks that dad had, along with a family bike ride finding GEO-cashes together. That was fun! (wish I'd taken my camera!)

Attending the Temple: We went to the temple in London but didn't get to do a session so it was nice to go to Ogden with Shantae and Jason Etherington when we were up for the 24th of July weekend. We had an awesome time and I love going to the temple and feeling of the spirit. It was so strong this time and I know that there is not any other faith I could believe in except the LDS church. Phil and I hope to attend the temple more often now that we have been reminded of how awesome the temple is and hope to try Initiatories or Sealing for a change.

GEO-Cashing: We had planned on going Geo-cashing in Romania but we were too busy and had forgot our geo-coin to leave it Romania to see if it would come back to us so we still have yet to activate it but we wanna see if it can make it to Romania and back! Also this is our nightly ritual if we have nothing better to do, ride our bikes around cedar city to try and find Geo-cashes. We love it! One time we even took Lara, she wasn't too big of a fan but here are some photos of our cashes with her:

We made Phil go into Cole Creek because we told him that was where the cash was ha ha ha he is so gullible! Then we hid from him because he was being a punk, it was pretty fun! :) 

We'll let you know of any other news and hope you had as great of a summer as we did!

Exciting News.... :)

It is kinda funny what can happen while your husband is away. This kinda thing was not such a good thing for him to be away for though! As you know I teach swim lessons during the summer and I usually don't have to go as often as I did today! I was just blaming it on the Coke I had before lessons that day until the next day I was told by a friend at work that having to go to the bathroom a lot could mean that I was pregnant! I had NO IDEA!! I was so excited that once I finally got a chance I went home and took the test. Mine were expired but one said I was pregnant and the other said I wasn't so I had to go buy some more at Family Dollar, the cheapest place for pregnancy tests FYI, oh and they are right where you check out, I was looking by the ovulation trackers and was shocked I couldn't find them! lol! So yeah I bought 2 more and found out that I was definitely Pregnant! I had to send Phil pictures of the tests so he could see the proof!

The next day Phil was home from visiting the North branches so we went to Milt's to celebrate! It was so yummy! We were both so excited before Phil was home he kept texting me 'baby!' We were very happy to finally find out I was pregnant! :) I wish the time would pass by sooner so we could tell people! We are hoping to wait until Sept 7th when my first ultrasound is scheduled... we'll see if that works! :)

Last day of TRIP: London, England

here was our last day of our trip it was pretty fun! We got to go see the play Wicked! :) it was great! :)

Romania! What a Wonderful Country! :)

I know I know I've been a bad bad blogger, but I just needed time to reflect on the trip so I could show more of the meaningful pictures on here rather than all the touristy photos! So here is the rest of our trip... :)

Day 6: Thursday, June 24th 2010 Bucharest, Romania

We arrived very early in the morning to Bucharest and since we had had practically no sleep on the tiny plane we wandered around Buch until Phil finally got a hold of the Matea Family to let us rest at their house for a couple hours, after we woke Uilian the son, took us around Bucharest. Here are the photos after our nap:

This was in Cigmigiu park on a paddle boat near the fountain. This is where Romania was dedicated as a country, not specifically where this photo shows but in this park. It was cool to see how nice of a park they had for being a 3rd world country, I had no idea how rough Romanians had it until I visited!

This is Phil and Iulian Matei He played our tour guide, not that Phil didn't know his way around but it was very nice of him. It was his family that let us stay with them while we were in Bucharest. They were such nice people, his mother, Vaselica, cooked us the MOST AWESOME Sarmale ever!!! Phil has cooked it for me in the states before but hers.... OH MAN SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SOOOOOOO GOOD! :D

This was my first 'inghetata' or ice cream in Romania, and the only reason I got it was because I had to use the restroom and you have to buy something at McDonald's to use their restroom. They have a code for their bathroom that shows up on the receipt, it was interesting!

This was my first encounter with Phil's favorite Romanian food of all time, the Saroma. I wasn't a huge fan at first but I did crave it afterwords! After this Marian, the dad to Iulian, took us to visit more people, I was very tired but did get some more ice cream out of it! :) They spoke lots of Romanian and I spoke so little at this point, every now and then I would hear words I understood but not very often!

Day 7: Friday, June 25th 2010 Constanta, RO

We took a train today to Constanta to meet Florin, who spoke EXCELLENT English. I was so excited to talk to a Romanian finally who could actually understand me. I asked him lots of questions and got many answers. He got us an awesome little apartment to stay in for the 2 nights we were in Constanta. I was sad that I didn't get photos of him I just wasn't in a photo mood that day I guess! :(

This is the FANTASTIC Italian Pizza Place! The pizza was AMAZING! They don't have tomato sauce so they use this sweet ketchup that is so super yummy! I wish we had brought some of that home! They also gave me fresh apple juice, it was really really yummy and even when it was mixed with some of Phil's Sprite it was pretty good too. (Sprite needs a new flavor that has apple in it! ;)

this is the train we rode in to get to Constanta

This is a photo of us in the Gondola, or air taxi in Mameya It was a lot like a ski lift only it was in a room. We would have loved to go swimming at the cool water park there but it was raining and the next day we had plans.

Day 8: Saturday, June 26th 2010 Constanta, RO

This is the Photo taken at the 20 year anniversary of Missionaries serving in RO! This is Carol VanWagner doing a caricature of Phil. They had a little Open House to celebrate in their LDS Villa.

This is the Mosque in Constanta, I think this is a pretty cool picture of it so I'm sharing! :)

Phil, Carol, and Dave with the view of the Black Sea and the "Jacks" that ease the tide as it comes in. I loved this city!

And this is the RO temple... j/k it is a CASINO! crazy huh!? For a Casino I thought it was really cool and I think this photo should be a postcard! lol!

This is at dinner where we had a Turkish meal with, Phil, Tibi (Phil baptized him while on his mission), Mariana and her husband, the Branch President. We were also seated with Dave and Carol and I took this photo.

Day 9: Sunday, June 27th 2010 Constanta, Tolcea, & Galati, RO

We were able to attend church while there in Constanta, it was very awesome and I KNOW that I am part of the true church because I felt the spirit so strongly there. I even cried to one of the investigators when she was asking what I thought of Romania, I was trying to say that I felt bad for all the things I take for granted that they don't even realize they are missing. Carol helped me to explain this as my tears were not making sense to this Romanian woman. I think that Carol explained it best, "God said now there is a weak one (herself and I) send her to America and this one (the Romanian girl) is tough send her to Romania."