IT'S COMING TOGETHER!!

Well I am not totally done yet but the nursery is definitely coming. I love love love the pictures I got from etsy and the floating book shelf from Hope Depot, thanks to Royall for the idea of stacking one above the other. I ordered my Owl bookends, and blocks with her name on it the other day and can't wait to get them in, plus a couple missing books from my disney book collection. All I need now our curtains, a quilt and an idea for my one big blank wall. Any suggestions give please.

KICKIN AND DANCIN!!!

Macie was being pretty quit all day and not kicking a whole lot, but on the way home from work the song "Tonight's gonna be a good night" came on by the Black Eyed Peas. I turned the sound up a little and started bobbin my head a bit to the beat when all of a sudden she started going crazy. Just a kickin and a dancin. I think she might be trying to tell me she wants to be a dancer when she grows up. I guess I know what to do in the future is she is being quit and worrying me that something is wrong.

BANANA BREAD BITES!!!

Today Mark and I did some shopping at wal-mart when we found these cute tin's for mini cakes. We have had very little success with our Banana Bread in the past it never quit cooks all the way threw, so we thought maybe going with smaller tins would help. This tin was perfect because it was little but you could do 12 mini cakes all at once, or for us 12 mini banana bread bites. So we made some up when we got home and they are delicious. I think they would be perfect for Visiting Teaching gifts in the future.

MELISSA AND DOUG

Last weekend I bought some fun puzzles for Macie to play with, I thought they were adorable and when I got home I looked through the website which was a big no no. If I had money to just throw around I probably could have spend over $1000.00 on the toys they make. So if anyone was thinking of getting a baby gift for Macie (not that I expect anything from anyone) but if you were I would love anything from this website, especially some of these ones I posted.

H2O+Cat= PAIN

JOKES
I am please to announce that I am scratch free!!!
Today Cobalt jumped upon my lap and was trying to be all cute, But all I could smell was nastiness.
So I decided that it was time after 6 years to have a bath.
I did not know how she would react, and to my surprise she handled it quite well. She did do some weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, which noise caused molly to come check in on us, but I was very impressed with our cat..

The picture of the hand is some random picture on the internet, but the one below is kind of funny and now she smells so much better.

SECOND TRIMESTER!!!

As I am nearing the end of my second trimester just wanted to make some quick notes and reminders of all the things I loved and disliked about the second trimester.

Loves/Likes:

-Feeling Baby kick everyday
-Mark Feeling the baby kick
-Being able to exercise.
-Finding out we are having a girl
-Starting to buy stuff (I got all of my Etsy purchases in finally and can't wait to put them up)
-Feeling great about 95% of the time, I get a little icky her and there but can't complain so far this pregnancy has been pretty easy, a little stressful but pretty easy.
- Watching my belly grow.
-Being able to eat what I want no more aversions to fruit and vegetables.
- Having my first real craving today of pizza pretzels (did not get to have it but will probably go buy one tomorrow to satisfy that craving)
-Deciding on a name for baby (Macie Ryan Hunsperger)
-Loving people telling me how cute I look, even though I don't feel very cute and I think I look huge, I truly love it and get a huge smile on my face when someone says oh Kalinda look at how cute you are.
- Being at the stage of viability if I went in to early labor, she would be tiny but has a 90% chance of making it.
- knowing that in 3 months and 4 days I am done work for a whole entire year
- My complexion
-My hair

dislike:
-watching my legs, face and but grow
-still being scared of something going wrong
-wishing I got those huge cravings that pregnant women talk about where they have to have a certain thing right then and there, just want to know what that feels like.
-back pain, has not been to bad but every now and then it acts up on me.
-deciding how much money do I really need to spent on baby, what is to much and what is not enough.

BRANCH CAMP OUT!!!!

This weekend we had our 3rd annual branch camp out. It was a very small turn out but an absolute blast. We headed out Friday evening to Dilberry Lake and arrived around 7:30 getting our tent and supplies set up then mixed and mingled with friends. Around 9:30 we had a fireside that Mark prepared and did a fabulous job talking on how we need to soar like Eagles instead of perch like Parrots. Then Brother Jensen got a fabulous game of Big Booty going and was the event of the evening with Micah Jensen coming in as the victor. After visiting and some smores eating we headed off to bed. Mark and I got to try out our brand new sleeping bags we got for our future camping trips with our kids, and I must say they were worth every penny. So warm and pretty cozy. Mark was sweet enough to let his prego wife sleep on the cot well he slept on this tiny air mattress. I think I got the best sleep I have ever gotten when camping. We woke up Saturday morning and had a joint pancake breakfast with everybody there, with sausages and eggs. So yummy. It was so nice out Saturday morning that we decided to head down to the lake at 10:00 and stayed until lunch time. Mark missed out on the morning beach activities as he brought the Quad and headed to Ribstone to tear it up. He got back at lunch time for some delicious sandwiches, veggies and cherries. The afternoon was planned for a baseball game but it was so gloriously hot everybody voted on going to the beach again and playing ultimate frisbee in the water. When we got there it ended up turning into the funnest game of pig in the middle frisbee ever. I played for a good 20 minutes but once people started jumping on others and dunking them to try and get the frisbee I knew it was time for me to opt out and let everybody have there fun. They probably played for another good hour and had a blast. We had to be out of our campsites by 2:00 so after the game we headed back to camp and left for our short 1 1/2 hour ride home. Mark and I decided to make a pit stop in Chauvin for some junk food and to get pictures of the world's largest softball. We got home around 4:00 and by 5:00 our heads hit the pillows and had a three hour nap. This was probably one of my funnest weekends of my summer and so glad we went, we got to know some new couples in our branch better and had a blast every minute.

MARK'S FIRST TIME!!!!

So last night we were lying in bed and Macie was kicking me like crazy so I thought maybe just maybe Mark would finally be able to feel her kick for the first time, so I grabbed his hand put it on my belly and all of a sudden she kicked and I asked Mark if he felt that, he said yes I did was that it. Yes it was, then she kicked again and he felt it again. It kind of freaks Mark out a bit that there is a human being in my stomach, I am guessing most men feel this way, as for us women it is just so natural. I love feeling her kick me all day long it brings me such peace and comfort and feels cool and weird all at the same time.

100 Years!!!

This past weekend was Kitscoty's centennial days celebration. There was so much going on it was crazy. Mark worked which kind of sucked because Saturday was full of everything. Pancake breakfast, parade, car show, petting zoo, 3 on 3 basketball tournament, firefighter challenge. We did get out that night though when Mark got home from work and went to a dinner and a show that some members of the town put on (we did leave early as it was really lame). Then Mark and Matt Harker headed to the golf course for some glow golf while me, Passey's, and Holland's stayed behind to do some hot tubing. The night ended with a fireworks show that I must say for a small town of 900 people was pretty darn impressive. I must say I am starting to fall in love with this small town we live in. So many wonderful things about living in a small town, and it is not to far from Lloydminster. There is no question there is a reason we were sent to live here, I do hate being so far away from our families but the blessings have been non stop and know we have grown in every part of our life from living here. I see us staying here for many many years and being more then okay with it.