My Little Phelpers

BOY! And we couldn’t be more excited!

We went to the doctor on Friday, Dec. 18 and had an ultrasound. We wanted to know the gender of the baby (so I can start buying exciting things), and he was ready to share with his parents.  It was wonderful and crazy to be able to watch him move at the same time as feeling him move.

Bryan is all ready to teach him all about basketball, cars and all those kinds of manly things; he’s going to be such a great dad. So now I’ll be outnumbered: Bryan, Baby Boy Phelps and Teddy (if Teddy really counts).

The doctor told us he is measuring exactly to the day (20 weeks and 4 days on Friday), so he’s just perfect.

We got pictures and a DVD (and as Bryan described it to his mom, and a mug and t-shirt with the baby on it. It was just like going to an amusement park).  It really was just a WONDERFUL day.

ps. you can buy this cute little bear here.

Also: Happy Christmas to EVERYONE (finally, three days before Christmas, I found a Christmas theme that I like.  Hope you enjoy!)

I have been serving in the Young Women in my ward for about a year and a half now and have been working on completing my personal progress as a leader.  I have been working on it a bit here and there, but have set a goal to be done with it very soon and need your help with one of my value experiences.

I am currently working on Individual Worth Value Experience #7:

7. Heavenly Father has given you special gifts. Read 1 Corinthians 12:4–12; 1 Corinthians 13; Moroni 7:12–13; Moroni 10:8–18; and D&C 46:11–26.

Ask a family member, a Young Women leader, and a friend to write down positive qualities the Lord has given you. List your gifts in your journal, and write how you can continue to develop these gifts and use them to serve your family and others.

If you have a few moments and can think of something off the top of your head, can you please be my friend (that the goal mentions) and list one of the positive qualities that you think the Lord has given me?

If you have the time, I would really appreciate it.

As I have been working on these experiences, I have forgotten what a wonderful blessing the personal progress program is and how much these simple value experiences can strengthen my testimony.  If you have the chance, if you work with the Young Woman or for any reason, these goals are a wonderful way to add a little bit extra to your personal scripture study or just to help continue to grow spiritually.

You can get a book at the distribution center, or find it online here from www.lds.org.

Thanks for any help you can give!

I have been long absent from the world of my blog for some time now. It’s time to end the silence with a post about the most important information that is currently going on in my life (it also actually explains the lack of blogging lately).

I am preggo!

my belly, from my angle

That’s right, ladies and gentleman: through the power of prayer, miracle of modern science and so many other wonderful blessings from the Lord, Bryan and I are going to have our first baby and we couldn’t be more excited.

I am due on May 3, so I’m just about half-way through now.  We get to find out what “flava” the baby is next Friday (on my mom’s birthday, I told her I was going to give her a super awesome birthday present. Since it is going to be her first grandbaby, she’s pretty excited too).

So from the beginning: We found out at the end of Aug., and just shortly after that, all-day sickness hit me (morning sickness is a giant lie). Thus, my lack of blogging. When I would get home from work, the only thing I wanted to do was lay on the couch. The absolute last thing I wanted to do was get on the computer. Luckily for me though, Bryan’s younger brother Kevin is currently living with us and during the months that I didn’t want to do anything but die and keep my dinner down, Kevin had made a deal with us that instead of paying rent, he would clean our house.  So our house didn’t look like a complete disaster. That was nice.

I was blessed enough to not be terribly sick while I was with my family in Florida celebrating my parents’ 30th anniversary. I must say though, Disney World isn’t as fun when you avoid all the rides that say, “expectant mothers should not ride.” It was still a great trip. While there, we bought the baby it’s first outfit. Finding a gender neutral baby outfit at Disney World was a little bit of a challenge, but Mel’s husband Tyler found the perfect little onesie — it’s Tigger.  We did buy a cute little girl’s outfit for my sister-in-law, Lindsay who is also pregnant (she’s due in Feb., having a little girl. Our little baby is going to have a cousin close in age to play with).

I’m feeling great now. I have started to feel the baby move and that might be the weirdest, but most wonderful thing ever. I feel like I’m getting bigger and bigger every day.  I’m sure it’s not as big as I think (which is why you get a picture of my belly from my angle, because that’s how I see it. That’s way more interesting that how other people may see it.  ha ha). I do have to admit that I’m getting a little bit tired of my nose being stuffy since Sept., but it’s all going to be worth it.

So that’s what’s been going on with me. In the beginning, I couldn’t figure out how to balance life and be pregnant at the same time, but I’m getting the hang of it and things couldn’t be better. I have so much to be thankful for. For me, the road to get here was a little longer than expected, but I am thankful that I went through all the experiences that I did and my testimony has grown so much through these last three years. It has been a wonderful experience.

(As a side note: If you can guess the movie my quote came from, you can have 10 whole points… I actually watched it today.)