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So so many changes in the last few weeks! I've obviously gotten bigger and I think things are headed south and when I say south I mean that it feels like she is dropping. I have been feeling a lot of downward pressure so I am assuming that's whats going on.  (Things may also be going south in the respect that everything will be getting more and more uncomfortable from here on out)  

I can feel those lower pelvic/abdominal muscles are starting to stretch out and I have to be careful to not stand up too fast because they can't uncontract fast enough.

Whenever I stand I have to go to the bathroom, apparently my bladder is running out of space down there.  

She is still kicking away and sometimes I can see it through my belly, or I can feel her head pushed up against my abdominal wall, very cool!

I accidentally sleep on my back a lot and I've heard that's a bad thing for either me or the baby? Or both of us?

Only been working out a couple days a week and I could just kick myself! I feel so much better when I do.  The colder temps make it more difficult to get up early in the morning and the fact that none of my workout clothes fit isn't motivating either.  I WILL turn that all around this week.   

I tried to paint my toenails the other day and THAT was interesting, couldn't quite reach.

Been doing some shopping for the little one! Not pictured is a buch of cute outfits my MIL sent me home with on our last visit.  Baby jeggings have got to be the cutest things ever invented!

    

Had a great experience at my last appointment.  I took my glucose test for gestational diabetes the day before the appointment, and the doctor walks in to our room to inform us that I BIG FAT FAILED IT! So off I went to the hospital to do the 3hour follow-up test, which I luckily passed (Dr said only 1 of 4 will fail the second attempt).  But still, what a downer it was.  For that whole day I felt like a failure at life and motherhood and school and work and wifery, all because of one stupid little test.  Just goes to show that I need to get better at handling little blips in the road because I've heard that motherhood can present those to you quite frequently. 

 On a happier note I ordered some crib bedding(the turquoise polka sheets below) ! Let the decorating begin (in 5-7 business days)! And I have my eye out for a rocker like the one below for the nursery.

 Devin has been busy busy in the garage refinishing some of the furniture that my parents were so nice to give us!  The nightstand is the one I had in my room growing up that Devin painted turquoise and distressed, LOVE how it turned out.  The changing table is the same one that my own messy bum was changed on when I was a babe! My mom is having a comeapart over the baskets on the shelves and how impractical they are, but the baskets are here to stay! Some Halloween decor...

We went to Moab for a long weekend at the cabin for the deer hunt...here is Otto helping me pack..

While in Moab we got to spend some time in my MIL's store, Forget Me Knot Flowers, all decked out for Halloween! If you can imagine it is even cuter inside...

We got to watch her in action and this was one of her creations!

 

As luck would have it Aunty Courtney was visiting Moab the same time we were there so we grabbed breakfast and talked for a bit before she drove back toTelluride.  (We retook this picture due to the sun in my eyes and I accidentally erased the retaken picture so this is the only one I have)We also got to see Devin's old friend Steven who has been back east playing baseball for the Twins!

I got to help out with some cookie frosting, and the text conversation shows that husband of mine knows me all too well...

  

For the week before the hunt Devin had been growing out his beard and it was the longest I had ever seen it! Unfortunately I do not have a better picture of it, and I also don't have a picture of everyone in their orange. But I do have a picture of the cookies, and that is WAY more important...

Covered in grout from finishing his sister's bathroom for her birthday present.  Hopefully our little girl takes some lessons from her pops and grows up to be handywoman!

Devin's Post

The last few weeks I have been having those mini anxiety attacks that all future parents get that are caused by the underlying question "How are we going to handle what is coming our way?" To be honest the only thought that calms me down when I am having those thoughts is knowing that I have Devin on my team.

He is the most dependable, solid, grounded person I know, and I know that he has and will get us through anything that comes our way.   He doesn't cut corners and everything he does, he does the right way in fact I have no doubt he could raise this baby on his own if he had to.  He doesn't let me get away with complaining and being down on myself, but instead encourages me to be tough and strong. Everything will work out because Devin will make it work out.

Not only am I so lucky to have the chance to be a mom, but I get to be a mom with a strong and good man on my side. 

25 and lots of mud...

25 weeks! I've defintley seen/felt a big change in size this last week, outward and onward! She is also moving much more regularly these days, and it's the coolest feeling ever!  Sometimes it keeps me up at night because I wake up feeling it and I want to just lay there and feel her move.  I am noticing some shortness of breath, especially when I am walking and talking at the same time or walking up stairs, or even during eating, it takes me a minute to catch my breath.  My hands and feet are a little swollen by the end of the day, so I pretty much never wear my ring anymore.  It's such a crazy thing to experience the funny little changes in your body that you have no control over.  I feel great and can't complain.   

Last weekend we traveled to Beatty, NV(2 hours up through the mountains of Vegas) for Devin and his friends to run the Tough Mudder! These boys have been talking about and training for this race for months and the race did not disappoint the participants or the wives of the participants.  Basically it's a 12 mile race that has 24 obstacles, crazy obstacles, throughout the course.  We weren't able to watch every obstacle because the course is so spread out over the mountains.  Fortunately we were able towatch the majority of them...

 

Team Ryno: Devin, Shane, Trevor, and Matt

Shane and Trevor decided that some facial hair would be appropriate for the Mudder...

At the very beginning all the participants had to hop(or be hoisted) over this wall.

This picture says a thousand words...As spectators we were VERY unprepared for the race.  We didn't realize this until we got there but in order to spectate you had to run to all of the obstacles which were up hills and rocks and some times there was no telling when Teamn Ryno was going to come to a particular obstacle so it made for some interesting down time.  We had to wait at one obstacle for what seemed like HOURS, in the sun, with no shade, no breeze, no food, little water, and 1 year old(who I should mention was a trooper through the whole experience and was perfectly content to sit in the rocks and play in the sand).  Since we had no shade, a diaper was the only thing in Karly's diaper bag that she could configure into a hat for Harper! Priceless...

They were all smiles here but the smiles didn't last long...they had to run up to the top of that hill behind them  three times!

Crawling through some tubes into a mud bath..

Crawling out of the tubes covered in scrapes

Traveling across a pond on ziplines

Shane jumping into the Artic Enema which is a huge ice bath that they jumped in and had to swim underneath a wall in the middle of the tank...

Shane and Devin exiting the Enema as quickly as possible...

Matt and Devin making their way across The Gecko...

....unfortunately Trevor did not make it across....

Approaching Everest which was a huge, slick halfpipe that they had to climb up...

Matt running up Everest...

 

At the end of the race fueling up on bananas and the best $4 PowerAde I've ever tasted!
They finished the race in 3 hours...

It was such a fun weekend and it was even more fun becasue we were able to experience it all with our closest friends.  After seeing how much fun they had us girls decided that we would join the men next April for the Mudder in Vegas, sans baby belly!