Weeks 34-38

34 Weeks

36 Weeks

37 Weeks

38 Weeks

My Dr says she has dropped and I think it shows in these pictures!

Weeks 30-33

Less than 2 months left to go!!!  This past week I had a baby shower that the wonderful women in my ward threw for me.  I got a lot of cute stuff and a lot of essentials like soaps and diapers as well!  We almost have everything we THINK we need for her :).  The main thing we need to start looking for now is a car seat. 

Week 30

Week 31

Week 32

Week 33

Our Little Lady's Pack N Play

Love the Print!

Cute Baby Shower Favors

Ward Baby Shower

Weeks 24-29

It's been an exciting month!  Dan and I were able to go to Utah and visit family.  Dan went out for a few days and I went out for about two weeks.  I think my pregnancy belly grew significantly while I was in Utah!  Our little lady continues to kick and punch and I can feel her up by my ribs sometimes.

24 Weeks

25 Weeks

26 Weeks

27 Weeks with Daniel

29 Weeks

Weeks 21-23

Our little girl is getting bigger and stronger every day!  I can feel her kicking/hitting me multiple times a day now.  She still isn't strong enough for Dan to feel her though...hopefully soon!

21 Weeks

22 Weeks

23 Weeks

Southern States Road Trip

Dan and I decided to go on one last adventure with just the two of us before our little baby girl joins us in November.  Over the 4th of July weekend, we took a road trip through 6 of the southern states: Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.

Texas:
Dan got off work at noon on Wednesday and after we ate lunch we headed north east through the state.  We mostly followed US 59 up to Texarkana which was 293 miles, but we also took some smaller country roads as well.  It was really pretty with a lot of forests and 'country life' living.  We saw a few men who looked like they could be on Duck Dynasty, with camouflage hats and big, white curly beards.  We stopped for dinner at Texarkana.  I had never really thought about where the name of this town came from until we stepped into the Applebee's and noticed that half of it was full of Texas memorabilia and the other half Arkansas; the city straddles the border hence half Texas and half Arkansas.

Arkansas:

After dinner, we headed 121 miles to Benton, Arkansas to stay the night.  As soon as we crossed over into Arkansas gas became much cheaper and there were a lot more weeds along the highway.  We also saw a lot less huge pickup trucks.
On the 4th of July we left Benton and headed for Memphis, Tennessee.  We drove through Little Rock, Arkansas and it didn't seem to be much.  Another difference between Arkansas and East Texas was that we saw more crops, mostly corn. There were also some hills here and there. Later on down the road on two separate occasions, we saw a BYU fan car and a Uof U fan car both from Arkansas...

Tennessee:
We drove 159 miles from the middle of Arkansas to Memphis, Tennessee. The two states are divided by the Mississippi river and it was pretty to see Memphis sitting on the river front. We were too early to check into our hotel in Memphis, so we continued on another 13 miles north east to Bartlett, Tennessee where the Temple is.  The temple was really tiny and looked like it had been built on the existing stake center's parking lot.  Even though it was tiny, it was still very pretty.

I thought that I had booked our hotel to be in downtown Memphis next to the Baseball Park, however when I checked my email, I realized that I had booked it about 10 miles south of downtown next to Elvis' Graceland.  We were still too early to check in to our hotel so we went and checked out the Mississippi River.  It was very pretty and they had a walkway where we could walk along the river for a little ways.  We then decided to go check out the area next to Graceland.  Graceland itself is pretty expensive, like $30 just to see the mansion, so we decided just to drive by it and watch the people touring it.  We then went to a strip mall that was solely Elvis Souvenir shops.  It was pretty fun to see all the crazy things you could by there and all the pictures and items they had of him.
Finally we got to check into our hotel!  And finally I got to take a nap!  After our brief rest we headed back into downtown Memphis to attended the Cardinals' AAA team, The Memphis Redbirds vs. the Brewer's AAA team, The Nashville Sounds.  We had pretty good seats, we were 4 rows up from the Redbirds dugout.  It rained on and off throughout the game, and we spent some of the game up in the concession area to stay dry, once enough people had abandoned our section, we went back and sat down and opened our umbrella.  After the game we got to watch fireworks that were lit from the field.

Heading to our hotel after the game took about an hour because of all the 4th of July fireworks and parties traffic.  The fireworks were lit from the Mississippi River and we could see them reflected in the buildings around us.  There was a truck in front of us in traffic that decided they were going to enjoy the fireworks.  The passenger rolled down his window, sat out of it while leaning on the roof of the truck and to top it off, also set his beer on top of the truck and sat and watched the fireworks.  It was pretty funny.


Mississippi:
Friday morning we got up and headed to Jackson, Mississippi via I-55 for 209 miles.  Mississippi was really green and had some rolling hills.    From Jackson we headed South East towards Hattiesburg, Mississippi on US-49 for 90 miles.  It is a lot more interesting to travel on non-interstate roads.  You get to see how the people on the back roads live and also see a bunch of fruit stands.  Mississippi had a lot more crosses everywhere than Arkansas and Tennessee, but still not as much as we saw going through Kansas last year!  From Hattiesburg, Mississippi we drove 100 miles to Tillmans Cove, Alabama which is about 15 minutes south west of Mobile, Alabama.

Alabama:
It rained the whole time we were in Alabama.  Friday night we ventured over to the gulf and drove on some roads that were right on the edge of the water.  We then went to bed early to get ready for our last leg of our trip.  We woke up early Saturday morning and headed out of Alabama, again with it down pouring rain.

Mississippi Again:
We drove 134 miles from Alabama to New Orleans, Louisiana, the majority of which was through Mississippi.  We encountered very heavy rains!  Everyone on the highway slows way down and turns on their hazard lights so the cars behind them can see them.

Louisiana: 


It was really cool to drive across the gulf a couple of times!  The road to New Orleans stretches for miles across a section of the gulf.  We didn't want to worry about parking and traffic in New Orleans, so we just drove by downtown.  It was kind of dirty and worn down looking, probably from all the weathering it goes through with each storm.  We drove along St. Charles Ave and saw some beautiful mansions, and the houses around the area were also really cute!  We then got out and walked around in Audubon Park.  From New Orleans, we headed back home!

Texas Again:
After a straight drive of 368 miles we made it back home.  The sun seemed to become much hotter and the roads much busier as soon as we drove over the Texas border.  Also, we were bombarded with state flags again, the only other state that really had their state flag hanging around was Mississippi...
Well, that was our trip!  We are really glad we got to go on it and spend some time on vacation out of the state together!

Total Mileage: 1487  A Special Thanks to 'Kathy' our GPS for getting us around the South!

Halfway There!

This weeks marks our 20th week of pregnancy!  We will be finding out the gender on Tuesday!  I sent out an email to all of our family members asking them to guess the gender.  The guesses are tied! 

18 Weeks

19 Weeks

20 Weeks Halfway There!

We're Having a Baby!

I had a very special Mother's Day this year, I got to announce to my family and basically to everyone else that Dan and I are having a baby!  I feel so blessed to live in a time with the technology that we have!  We were able to be on video chat with everyone to announce our good news.  I then called and texted other family members.

Our due date is 11/11/2013.  Everything looked good at my last Dr.'s visit, which was for 16 weeks.  We hoped to find out the gender on June 25th.

15 Weeks Pregnant

16 Weeks Pregnant.  1st time wearing maternity pants!

17 Weeks Pregnant.

It Is NEVER All DONE!

Mama Worthy and Friend

As all of you know, I am big, Big, BIG into Family History!!!  This weekend I attended my Stake Relief Society Conference.  One of the classes I attended was about how to use Google Search to get better results to find information for family history.  This got the wheels in my head turning!

As soon as I got home I relayed all the information I had learned about it to my family members.  Oddly enough, my Grandma was actually working on a Google Search information handout for her family history class.  She shared the handout with me and I was able to learn even more.

Today I decided to put into practice what I had learned, I was especially excited to see if any of my ancestors' pictures that I have would pop up as being recognized in Google Image Search.  I was sad to find that the pictures were not turning up any other pictures of the individuals.  I thought about what I could do about that.

2nd Great Grandparents

About 4 years ago my Grandma, Juanita Worthy Peeler, died and left me her family history legacy.  Included in this was loads of pictures!  I have done nothing with these pictures since I received them.  Today that all changed.  With the help of my P A F file and Picasa, I uploaded about 40 pictures today to findagrave.com. The memorials for these individuals had already been created and many of them had obituaries and pictures of headstones attached, most of them however, had no picture of the person.  I went through and attached the picture of the person that I had to their memorial.  What a joy!  I'm hoping my kin in South Carolina start searching for their ancestors and find my pictures and can have the knowledge of what their ancestors looked like!

After adding the pictures to findagrave.com, I then jumped over to familysearch.org/tree and added the findagrave.com memorials as sources to the corresponding people.  Now if someone is looking at them in familysearch.org/tree, they can click on the findagrave.com source, see the person's headstone and their picture!

One thing I learned at the Family History class is that it is never all done!  The internet changes every day, new images are being indexed every day.  I challenge everyone to look through their family history materials and see if there is something that can be added to the internet to shine more light on that individual's life.  If not to the internet, than at least to other family members so they can know of that ancestor as well.



I am so grateful for the spirit of Elijah in my life!

My Top 10 of 2012

If I had to give this year a theme it would be Waiting...This has been the year of waiting.  We have had some tests and trials this year, but I would like to end the year thinking about the positive things that happened this year.  Here are my top 10 things that we did this past year of 2012:

10. ANDREA & TAYLOR'S WEDDING

In May, Dan's cousin Andrea got married to Taylor Martin.  Taylor is from the same part of South Carolina as my mom, so naturally I did some digging, turns out we are 3rd cousins and have the same 2nd Great Grandparents: James Madison Peeler & Christina Martin.  Also had this wedding I was able to help set up and keep things organized.  There was also an AWESOME photo booth there.  Dan & I enjoyed celebrating Taylor and Andrea's marriage and wish them well in the years to come!

9. MOM'S 50TH BIRTHDAY PARTY

In April, my mom celebrated her 50th Birthday in style!  We had a Mad-hatter's tea party.  All of the extended Wiese family members were there and mom invited my in-laws as well.  Dan dressed as one of the construction workers and I dressed as the Cheshire Cat.

8. JOE'S MISSION CALL/ TEMPLE/FAREWELL

After spending a year with Joseph in Logan as he experienced his Freshman year at USU, we were able to be there when he opened his mission call to the Chile Santiago North Mission.  We also attended the temple with him when he went through.  In July, we flew back to Utah for a a day to be at his Mission Farewell. 

7. TEACHING COMPUTERS

I was able to teach computers at Providence Elementary for the 2011-2012 school year.  I loved my job so much!  I cannot believe how fast the school year flew by!  

6. GARRETT FAMILY PHOTOS

On Memorial Day we took family photos with Dan's family.  It was fun to do a photo shoot with everyone around the USU campus.  A lot of great pictures were taken!

5. TAKING JAKE, HANNAH, AND JOSIE HORSEBACK RIDING

During my trip back to Utah in the fall I took Jake, Hannah, and Josie horse back riding.  I have to admit that I enjoyed being back in the saddle again.  There was about a foot of freshly fallen snow and it was fun to watch Jake and Hannah ride horses at my house.  We even made Josie sit on a horse for a bit.

4. DAN GETTING A JOB

After 8 months of looking for a job, Dan finally received one at Hewlett-Packard in Houston, Texas.  It is so nice to be out of college and onto big new things.  The ward here has been great and we have seen many sights.  We are starting to feel the 1500 mile distance between us and home, but hopefully we can make some trips in the new year.

3. BECOMING AN AUNT

Josie Lynn is the cutest baby I have ever seen!  I am so excited to be an aunt and we continue to be so happy for Jake and Hannah!  Also, having a niece gives us an excuse to buy toys and baby clothes :D.

2. THANKSGIVING TRIP TO SAN ANTONIO

Over Thanksgiving break Dan and I went to San Antonio, Texas.  It was so nice to take a vacation with just the two of us.  We went to the riverwalk, the Alamo, some caves, and Dan won a half marathon race.

1. PICKING UP ERIN FROM HER MISSION

I am SO glad that Erin is home from her mission now!!!  An email once a week was not enough for me to hear from her!  I am so grateful that I was able to go out with my family and pick her up from her mission and spend two weeks with family.  She's back now and I will not allow her to be away from a cellphone or computer for that long ever again!

Here's looking forward to a great 2013!!!