It has been WAY TOO LONG!

30 WEEKS
We reached 30 weeks this last Monday and so our final countdown begins. Just 10 weeks to go until this little guy joins our family and we are so excited!
Oh and it made it even more real this week. My older sister Tera that lives around the corner finally had her little boy this last week. I need to post pictures. Cody James Palmer 6 lbs. 7 oz. 18" long - lots of dark hair and such a cutie. And Forest was so dang cute with him and it made us both excited for the arrival of our own little boy.

MY FOREST LEE TURNS 36
Forest turned 36 this year so for his birthday I got him one of the Willow Tree Carvings
"NEW DAD" and since we were in Mesa I wasn't able to make him a cake so we got mini eclairs so he could at least blow out candles. (In case you guys didn't notice, he gets cuter and cuter with age)

29 WEEKS
Here we are at 29 weeks! I can't wait!

Our 1 Year Anniversary
This day was exactly one year from our first official date! Crazy how fast one year can dramatically change your entire life. It has been an amazing year.

28 WEEKS

Totally Random
So this is just kind of funny. This is the bathtub in one of the bathrooms & every now and then Forest gets a migraine and wants to take a bath. Well in this bathtub only the hot water works and it is scorching, so we turn it on and I usually get a bowl of cold water from the sink and pour it into the bathtub to balance out the temp. So this takes FOREVER! so Forest got the idea to hook up an extra faucet he had to the water supply line that hooks up to the toilet to speed up the process. It was really hilarious so we decided we needed to document it.

Wicked
Forest's Brother Gary was awesome enough to get us Wicked Tickets, not just Wicked tickets but 2nd row in the middle Wicked tickets. It was a blast!

CYCLONE LAKE
Every year since like 1947 or close to it my mom's family has an annual family reunion in the White Mountains that I look forward to every year and was especially excited this year because I was able to include Forest and let him in on this family tradition that we plan on passing on to our own kids for years to come.

Oh Summer Days!

Isn't he the cutest?

That would be my 24 week pregnant tummy trying not to be so pasty

Forest wiping out

Forest catching some good air

me wakeboarding

Enjoying San Carlos Lake- the water was glass all day long

Me & my cousin Haley

Our friend Jeff & Haley - Yes there are 2 of them riding a wakeboard at the same time- it was so awesome

Me & Forest Lee

Me getting ready to go

Starting off the morning

If case any of you weren't aware- I am an AZ girl! I love the sensation of the heat in the summers here on my skin. Lucky for me- I married Forest who has a boat which happens to be 1 of my favorite things to do is hit the lake in the summer. So this last weekend me, Forest, my cousin Haley and our friends Jeff, Joel and Dustin headed to San Carlos Lake. I love this lake because even though it doesn't have any facilities, it is basically empty all day. So we enjoyed a full day of smooth glass like water. I am trying to get it in as much as I can before my belly exceeds the wakeboarding "limit" It has been great!

4th of July

Me & Forest, Wyatt & Rhett

For our 1st 4th of July spent together we decided to stick around Thatcher. We had my Aunt Sharman's girls and a couple of their friends in town so we decided to take out the boat to San Carlos Lake for the day. I really wanted to get in 1 last wakeboarding trip before my belly gets too big - and even though I went out on the water and it was such a blast- I paid for it the next day being so dang sore I barely managed to roll out of bed. But none the less worth it. That night we laid low and went to a BBQ at my sister Tera's because I wanted to see the kids for the holiday then headed out to Forest's parents to watch fireworks.- The view from their porch doesn't get better.

Our Recent Ventures

Lillie - my 9 year old niece visiting for the summer from Texas

Kenedy & Rhett - Tera's 8 & 3 year old
The 3 year old everyone likes to refer to as my "child" that needed to come to earth but I took to long so he got sent to the next closest thing- Seriously, he should be mine

Wyatt - My sister Tera's 6 year old

Well in case some of you were not aware, a big majority of our time is spent on the road between here and Mesa, at least once a week - so to give my very pregnant sister Tera a break from her 3 other kiddos- me and Forest were their ride so here are some of the pictures from our road trip that is preparing us for our own kiddos, they crack me up - Nieces and Nephews are the best ever!

The Bean in my Belly

Above is I think at like 17 weeks

The pictures above are of the "bean in my belly"

These are of me at 20 weeks

Lately we have seemed to be extra busy. Well maybe not so busy but going somewhere non stop. But I have had a lot of requests for pictures of my belly so here they are. I finally feel like I am starting to look pregnant, not like I just got married and have started to let myself go. I was actually excited when someone asked me when I was due and they weren't afraid that maybe I was just getting a belly and not actually pregnant. Right now we are at 22 1/2 weeks and counting but I cannot wait for this little guy to join us.