20 Week Pregnancy Update

I am half-way through this pregnancy and feeling great. Since my sisters live so far away they asked for some pregnancy pictures. Since I am not a glamorous pregnant lady I am only posting one, and it isn't great. I took a couple of others by myself (those that get my blog emails had the unfortunate opportunity to see them), but I can't bring myself to post them. I can't believe how fast my belly has grown this time around. The baby and I are measuring a week ahead of schedule. It looks like we have a big baby boy on our hands.

20 weeks

Thanksgiving Weekend 2010

Michael came home early on Wednesday so we could start the weekend off early. After an easy dinner of delivery pizza, we helped make the Thanksgiving pies. Miriam had such a blast rolling out the crust with Grandpa. All she could talk about that night was pie. She even said she was grateful for pie in her prayer.

Thanksgiving day was nice and relaxing. We enjoyed the time spent with family and all the food we were able to eat! We watched a little bit of football and took a few pictures outside. (Although I didn't ever get a family one taken.) Here are a few pictures of the day.

Playing a game on the IPad

Miriam was so excited to help set the table (as usual).

Centerpiece (courtesy of Elizabeth and Rebecca)

Ready for the feast

Friday morning was a bit of a shock for me. Michael got up and braved the Black Friday crowd, alone. He hates shopping, but was up by about 3:15 am and ready to be at Best Buy before 4:00 am. We were able to get a new desktop computer at a great price thanks to Michael's sacrifice. He didn't get home until after nine o'clock... hmmm, I wonder what else he was doing while he was out and about? We spent the rest of Friday and Saturday shopping and hanging out. We got a few things for the baby. I am done Christmas shopping and from the sound of it Michael is too.

Sunday afternoon we got the keys to our new apartment. We are now free to move in when we please. Although we will wait until Saturday to move everything in, I plan on going over a couple of times this week to clean and get things ready. It was a wonderful relaxing weekend spent together. Miriam was so excited every morning to find out that her Dad was home (instead of at work or on the airplane... she asks every day). We are definitely looking forward to more family time over Christmas break. I hope you are too.

A Big Surprise (for you)

Miriam got new pajamas for this spring. What do you think?

We are so excited to be adding to our family in April. I am already 20 weeks (half-way there) along. We wanted to hold off telling our family and friends until we knew the gender of the baby. Now that we know, do you want to know too?

Miriam's Latest

Miriam is about a month away from turning two. It is so hard to believe. She is such an adorable little girl. She is almost 36 inches (3 feet) tall. She weighs 26 pounds. She is definitely all girl. Whenever she sees bugs the first thing she says is gross. Miriam cannot stand getting dirty and has to have a napkin at every meal. It has been fun to see the contrast between her and Nathan (who is all boy). Here is a video of her making biscuits with Grandma Bishop. She liked to stir, but when it came to touching the dough...

Miriam is going through a weird phase with food. Her taste changes from day to day. I try not to be too worried about it as long as she is eating things like hummus. Here she is chowing down straight from the container.


We have really enjoyed some wonderful fall weather. We have been able to go to the park quite a bit. We also can walk to the library. Miriam really loves to watch movies and being close to a library is great. As you know we used to get Signing Time videos, however lately she has changed over to liking different shows. Her two favorite are Dora the Explorer and Go Diego, Go! I am sad to see signing time lose out to Go Diego, Go! but she is still very interested in learning new signs. We continue to find books about sign language. Here are a few pictures of Miriam enjoying the nice weather.



These last few pictures are just because Miriam looked so cute today and I couldn't help taking a bunch of pictures. She is getting the hang of smiling at the camera. It might have had something to do with the candy I bribed her with though.

November is here and going fast

Has it really been 2 weeks since I last posted? I find it hard to believe that November is already halfway gone. I guess we have been keeping busy. It has been a month since I have really updated about what is going on with us. Here is what we have been up to.

We found a place to live! We get to move in on December 1st. It is a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom condo. It is a little further away than we hoped to be at first, but we decided that space was more important for us. We are excited to get settled into our own place and I am sure Michael's parents are ready for a break from us. We will post pictures when we are settled.

Michael is still enjoying work. He has been traveling a couple of weeks each month to different clients. He leaves on a Sunday night and luckily they let them come home on Fridays (even if it is a two week job). I am grateful we don't have to spend weekends without him. I try to look at the positive side of things and focus on the fact that I get to have the car the weeks he is gone.

Miriam is an absolute joy. She has grown up so much in the past couple of months. I will post more about her later. She has enjoyed having her cousin Nathan here to visit these past few weeks. However, she has been so sick for a lot of the time (see this post). She has had two colds and an ear infection this past month. She is just getting over that last of her sickness. She was so sad the week she had to miss nursery because she was sick. I sure hope we have seen the last of it for a while.

We are excited for the upcoming holiday season. We look forward to focusing on all we are grateful for and celebrating our Savior.

Trick-or-Treating

Okay, I promise this is my last post about Halloween. I just wanted to end with a couple of pictures of us getting ready to go trick-or-treating. We only hit about twenty houses, but I think it was plenty for two little kids. We have enough candy to last a while. I really enjoyed celebrating Halloween this year with Michael and Miriam.