Shopping!!

I have some really bad shopping urges going on along with determination to find the best deals. I've been looking around online all night for all things baby. Here's some fun things I found...and bought

Found this playard/bassinet with changing area for $80!! The pack n plays seem perfect to put beside the bed. I was looking at co-sleepers but they are quite spendy. I looked high and low for a pink/green playard but no such luck. But this will do quite nicely.

I found a bedding set I absolutely love! The 9 pc set comes with almost everything and the circle pattern is just so cute! Only downer, it's a tad pricy.

Then there is this one. A 10 pc set that comes with everything you see. I'm just not too hit on the stripes and the pastel pink but it's $60 cheaper. At least there is a little bit before she'll be sleeping in the crib.

There's so much left to get! It's kind of a bummer my mom and sister can't make it out here twice, once for an earlier shower and again for Ashlyn. Flying back and forth from Hawai'i gets a little too pricey. Hopefully Ashlyn comes close to the Aug 16th due date so the Aug 29th shower works out.

Ashlyn, we're waiting for you!!!!!

Baby update

We had a tiny shopping spree last night. Very tiny...came home with a crib mattress and a stroller/car seat combo. i was looking for one in pink and green since those are the nursery colors but all we could find was pink and brown. It was the cutest thing when picking it out. Enoch insisted on the pink and brown. He said "My girl is going to be spoiled. She can only have the cutest stuff. I'm not putting her in some uni-sex stroller crap". Being a father-to-be has really made an impact on him. Get this....when putting together the stroller and figuring out the car seat and base, he read the ENTIRE manual...everything....and then when he was done putting the stroller together, he REREAD it because "he didn't want to miss anything". I have never, ever seen him read an instruction manual ever.....He refused to look at them with our TV, our entertainment center, dresser, and bookcase....

We had a great doctor visit yesterday!!! We are finally done with "status" ultrasounds because little Ashlyn isn't so little anymore. 4 weeks ago she was only 2lbs 5 oz and in the 6% for growth. Yesterday, we found out she had packed on a whopping 1lb 12 oz! So she's now at 4lbs 2oz and in the 19%. Dr. Meredith said he was "just tickled" with her growth. He asked how I was feeling since she grew so fast. Well besides her playing xylophone with her feet on my ribs and headbutting by bladder and feeling like if I sneeze, she'll pop out of my bellybutton, I'm feeling great. So no more ultrasounds for us. We are now going in every 2 weeks for the next 4 weeks and then it's every week after that...it's gone so so fast. 7 weeks left and she's here!!!!

32 weeks and Shower date

Oh boy...another week has flown by and I'm still getting bigger. And yeah I'm at work again. Her sleeping schedule isn't as nice anymore...She's now really active between 2 and 4 am and sleeping from 9 till noon. WE HAVE 8 WEEKS LEFT!!!!!!

My friends Diana and Sara are putting on my shower. They are the best girls! I didn't think we'd have to do it this way but we'll have to do the shower after Ashlyn is born so my mom and sister can make it. Flying back and forth from Hawaii just isn't very cost effective and coming here in July for a shower and then again in Aug for her birth and blessing is just a bit too much...So Aug 29th is the date of the shower. My due date is Aug 16th so I figure that gives me enough time to recuperate and gives time for Ashlyn to grow a bit and won't a shower be so much more fun with the baby there?!?!

So Aug 29th is the shower, for those of you in Rexburg it's going to be at Porter Park in one of the pavilions. More info and invitations to come!!!

If you want to start emailing me your address, that would be great!!!

manda1085@hotmail.com

Dam Marathon

What a name huh? The Dam Marathon...

On saturday, I helped out Enoch's work with their Gringo's treat booth at the marathon sellilng churros, nachos, and yummy drinks. We were there from 8 until a little after 1. Good timing since it started pouring rain about 10 min after all the awards were handed out and everyone started packing up. There were these Razors behind us and it was just so funny when Scott and Enoch got in it. Ashtyn enjoyed it too. I just had to take a picture.

Wonderful Man

I love my husband more than words can describe. He's my best friend, perfect match, and will be a perfect father. He's been so excited for his daughter to get here. Even though my belly is getting bigger and I'm feeling more frumpy and unpretty than ever, he thinks I'm more beautiful and sexy than ever and he won't let me say otherwise.


Enoch, I love you. I'm so blessed to be able to spend eternity with you and our family we're slowly making. You are my love, my companion, my foundation, my best friend, my fashion director when I take trends to the extremes others just don't get, my personal assistant and secretary, my nanny, my voice of reason, and right now you are my brain since I forget everything and pretty soon you will be my right hand man in raising our first child. I wouldn't want to have a family with anyone else and I wouldn't trust anyone else to help raise our little girl. You are the best thing in my life and I can't wait to see where life takes us as we have more children, get more wrinkles, watch our children grow up and give us grandchildren, get our first gray hairs and our first pair of matching recliners since rocking chairs just won't cut it. And I'll even get you that sweet cane with orange and red flames on it as long as I get one with pink flames on it. I have no idea where we'll be at this same time next year, but nothing in the future scares me as long as I get to hold hands with you.


This is a tribute to my Enoch and all the reasons he makes me smile.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Enoch's encounter

Enoch has been dealing with this for the last hour this morning. He thought there was someone dumping stuff into a wheelbarrow, but turns out it was just a murderous/suicidal bird. If you turn the sound way up you can hear the bird hitting the window

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30 weeks

Ok this is a bad picture taken at work but my belly popped outta no where! She is one active little bugger, wow!....she's growing up and down instead of out...wrecks havoc with my ribs and belly. Is it supposed to be painful when she moves? Cause dang.... Enoch is amused at how my belly just goes crazy...he says it looks like there is an alien in there. This should be an interesting 10 weeks. She's got 4 lbs to gain. All the stresses are sinking in. There isn't much time left! Car seat, stroller, mattress, bedding, changing table, diapers, diapers, diapers, bottles, formula, what else?....hopefully the other stuff I get at my shower!

Enoch and I are going to be parents in less than 10 weeks. Looking back, it's amazing how fast it's gone. It seems like just last week I had all the morning sickness woes, now it's just the foot-in-the-rib woes. You get some strange looks when all the sudden you jolt in line and the grocery store and let out a yelp.

Little Ashlyn we're waiting for you! But don't come yet...we have too much to do and you have to get bigger than 2 1/2 lbs!