Baby Shower!

My friends from college threw me a baby shower last Saturday which was lots of fun. I feel like I have a little jump start on the baby stuff now since all I have really purchased so far is my adorable baby bedding!We played a few games, here is where I had to guess all the baby items in the bag. (I did pretty good!)
And here I am with all the good stuff! I got lots of clothes, toys, a book and stuffed animal, a blanket with matching sheet, a cart insert for baby to sit, and my Boppy pillow! I am so grateful for my cute friends!

I've got quite a collection of clothes already!

In other Cannon news, we have been trying to organize and get rid of a lot of things in order to re-paint, and re-carpet the nursery. It has been a long ordeal trying to haul things to DI and and the trash can. And between me working a lot, and Chris getting sick so much (he needs a better immune system before the baby comes!) it has been difficult. But hopefully we will paint in the next couple of weeks so we can get that carpet!

And here I am 25 weeks and feeling bigger every day!

Why I Hate Driving

I was driving home after a LONG night shift, therefore I was already a little irritated. And you know when you are already irritated every tiny little minute thing that could possibly bug you does! Well that is what happened. So as I was driving, I was noticing how terrible drivers really are. C'mon people. Nobody is perfect, but let us at least try to make the world a little bit better.

So here is what was totally irritating me:

People who don't signal. I understand if you are in the middle of nowhere and you don't signal to move lanes because NOBODY would see you, therefore rendering it useless. But please don't just all of the sudden drift into my lane giving me no preparation so I then have to slam on my breaks to avoid rear ending you since it would be "my fault" costing me lots of money and my insurance premiums would increase. So next time... just let me know that you are coming over!

Running through an orange light. This means between a yellow and a red. Guess what... they put up a yellow light on purpose. When I was in San Fransisco, the second the light turns red, the opposing light turns green. SO if you ran it, you would likely get into an accident. But here in Utah, there is a delay between when the light turns red, and the opposing light turns green therefore training us all to run orange or even red lights. I too have been guilty of doing this on occasion. I blame the system. Whoever decided that making this delay would be safer, just created bad habits from us all!

Road block. I need to merge over so I don't miss my exit. However, Mr. Semi and Mr. Van are both going 45 mph and the car behind said Van is not letting me in (Even though I am signalling!) because he too is irritated at the road block created by Mr. Semi and Mr. Van. Just let me get over so I don't miss my exit!

Construction. I know they are improving the roads, but it is such a long process, and it seems as if the project is never complete. I think it is coming on 3 years that I-80 has been a mess! And it constantly changes so I never know what to expect. Is 13th east exit open or is it 7th east?

Thanks for the vent session :)

Happy Driving People!

I Feel Like I'm Getting Huge!

I know that this is my first pregnancy.

I know I am not massive.

And I know that I will only get bigger, and I have no idea what "huge" really is.

But just to give you an idea:

17 1/2 weeks:

20 weeks:Today: 24 weeks (and 3 days)
I have just ballooned in the past 6-7 weeks.

At my 20 week ultrasound (I was 20 wks 2 days), baby was measuring anywhere from 21 wks 1 day to 21 weeks 5 days.

I went to the doctor today, and my fundal height is measuring 27 weeks!!

But at least he is healthy, active, and everything seems to be great. That is all that really matters.

Even if he does come out 8+ pounds and looking like a 2 month old!

Thought of the Day: Jolly Ranchers

So, lately I have been a BIG FAN of candy. It is probably the only thing I really have "craved". And it's not so much the chocolate kind... it's the sweet tarts, laffy taffy, gobstoppers, and jolly ranchers.

Jolly Ranchers tend to be the "free" candy available at my work (meaning they are in all the offices that have candy dishes). So I always steal a few and stick them in my pocket and suck on them during my shift. A nice little sugar rush. And they must have a massive stock of them hiding some where, because some of them have that weird, not so fresh, softer outside that eventually gets hard as you suck on it. I haven't died yet so they probably aren't toxic... just a little old.

Well the other day as I was picking through the candy dish for a watermelon, I realized there were a lot of 2 flavors.... GRAPE and BLUE RASPBERRY. That lead me think of how sad I was when they discontinued the all time best flavor in the world... THE LEMON JOLLY RANCHER.

I know what you are thinking... ew. It was usually lemon's left at the bottom of the candy dish. (Probably why the flavor was discontinued) But that was like my dream come true! I was the one that took all the lemons, because nobody wanted them. Why couldn't they have discontinued grape? It was always sort of the arm pit of the Jolly Ranchers to me. Plus who is a fan of having your mouth turn all purple.

Which led me to think of the OTHER flavor... BLUE RASPBERRY. What exactly is a blue raspberry anyway? Are there such things as blue raspberries? I understand that they probably didn't want to make it red in case some idiot got confused with cherry and watermelon, but why BLUE!! It stains your mouth, tongue, and teeth blue...which isn't exactly attractive when you are taking care of somebody's baby. So I can understand why they are avoided.

Anyway, I miss the Lemon Jolly Rancher. So tart, yet so sweet, and lemony refreshing. If only they other ones came close...

The Only Reason...

Probably the only reason I will go see New Moon:
Nothing wrong with a little underage eye candy right?

Go Team Jacob!

Spoiled Already.

So... my little baby boy is already spoiled.

He is the first Grandchild on my side, and the 2nd on Chris's side. My sister-in-law already spoils our nephew a ton. So she got a jump start with our little guy! When we found out we were having a boy we went to Chris's mom's house to tell her and there was a present already there...

These will be great for those middle of the night diaper changes. No unbuttoning and re-snapping required! (I am terrible with snaps for some reason... and buttons... forget about it!)

There was also this adorable Air Jordan onesie, hat, and booties set. So she sort of kicked off the baby stuff since I hadn't bought a thing yet!

The day after we found out I decided to go to the fabric store and get some flannel to make baby blankets. We have lots of adorable flannel blankets that people have donated at my work. I thought... I could do that. I have minimal sewing skills, but figured I could sew a straight line with my sewing machine. (I bought one a few years ago when I was motivated to sew my own scrubs, but got so frustrated and figured buying them was cheaper anyway.) So I went to the fabric store and found two adorable fabrics. One being:

This adorable golf print was my first gander at the sewing project. I read online how to make simple blankets and followed the instructions. It said to wash the material in the washing machine and then sew the blanket. So that is what I did.

Little did I know that I should have used a delicate cycle. My adorable golf print had lint balls all over it and the edges were all frayed. I was so depressed, but was still able to salvage it enough to make a blanket. It's the thought that counts right?

So the second time around I didn't wash the material first. So I hope it survives it's first washing... But here it is along with the ADORABLE onesie and booties that my little sister got for her first nephew!!

She said, "You got to indoctrinate them early". Ha ha ha ha :) Hope he ends up being a Utah fan! Go Utes!

He is going to be one spoiled little boy!

It's a....

So Chris and I finally got to have our 20 week ultrasound. It was so neat to see the detailed pictures they could get from an ultrasound. Not only did we get to find out the sex, we got to see his entire body anatomy.

I was relieved to find out that there are 4 chambers to the heart, 3 vessels in the umbilical cord, tummy's intact (no gastroschisis), no clubbing of feet, lip is intact, spine is intact, fingers and toes there, and he just looks like an overall healthy little boy! He is already measuring a week ahead, but maybe he is just tall since both his father and I have tall genes. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the ultrasound:

(Sorry son, to display this for everyone to see, but there is not doubt about it!)

(Hi little guy!)

(His feet that I have felt many times. Maybe he's gonna be a soccer player...)

(Waving to the camera!)