Memorial Day Weekend Trip North and Our New House!

This Memorial Day weekend we drove to Coeur d'Alene to see Tyler's parents and also spent a couple days in Spokane with my family. We had a wonderful time, I was so happy to make the trip and get away from some stress of things that have been going on. It was a very nice, relaxing weekend.
First stop: Coeur d'Alene with Tyler's parents.
We got to Cd'A on Friday and when we got there we learned that Tyler's mom Terry decided to plan and throw me a surprise baby shower! And I definitely was surprised! I knew that she had some baby stuff for us but I didn't have any idea that she would throw a shower! In attendance were Tyler and I (obviously), Tyler's sister and her family, Tyler's parents, and Mary who is a dear family friend. It was incredibly sweet of Terry to throw me a shower, I was so happy I almost cried several times. And she totally spoiled our baby girl rotten! She will be the best dressed little girl :) Here are some pictures from the event:

The original pile of presents for Baby Girl from Grandma Noble

The cute centerpiece on the table where we would be enjoying our meal

The table with all the cute, pink decor on it, notice the little pink shoes hanging from the light :)

The dessert! Super cute and tasted wonderful!

We moved the presents into the family room for opening them. 

Me with all the presents

 

Silly glamour shot, Tyler told me to do the "bend and snap" from the movie Legally Blonde ;) lol

The girls ;) Me, Ty's sis Leah and her daughter Daphanee

Baby's little lamb stuffed animal

Cute little outfit for her

 

Mary holding Leah's baby Daemmin, he is 9 months old and oh so cute 

Another Mary and Daemmin

(From left to right) Tyler's mom Terry, Mary holding Daemmin, Charlie (Leah's husband and Daemmin's Daddy, and the legs belong to Tyler's dad Scott ;)

Opening presents

Cute little outfit, I was terrible at holding them up so that you could actually see what they were, but it was an adoreable pink shirt with cute little flowery pants

The pile of clothes is getting bigger!!

Jammies =)

Hair bows galore!

The cutest little snowsuit ever

The (almost) final pile

See, I still hadn't opened the few behind me

Kind of dark, but its Charlie, Leah and Daphanee

I'm holding up one of the two! blankets that Leah crocheted for Baby Girl

Here is the second one

Close up

And now the final pile

Terry hiding behind Daemmin because she doesn't like pictures ;)

The pile, all packed up again. What a spoiled little sweetie we have!!

Saturday we spent the day hanging out with Tyler's parents. Tyler and Scott went on a bike ride and Terry and I went shopping for maternity shorts for me. We also stopped at the fabric store and found a pattern to make a blessing dress for Baby Girl! :) So much fun!
Sunday we went to church in Spokane with my family, had a nice lunch together, hung out, went on a nice walk and then watched the movie Wreck it Ralph as a family. We had a great time!
Monday we had a quick breakfast at a cool restaurant in Spokane called Frank's Diner. It used to be a railroad car but they decomissioned it and turned it into a restaurant. The food is really good there! Shortly after that we drove home and made it back to Boise safe and sound.

Tuesday was eventful as our first full day back in Boise. I had to teach and also had  five appointments to show apartments and we signed the papers for our house! We got the key to it on Wednesday after the funding and recording were completed! We are so excited to move in and make it our home :)

We will have another eventful weekend as some family from Alaska are in town and we are helping my mom to move back to Boise from Twin Falls. Then we will start moving on Monday! Next week I am also staff at the Boise State Chamber Music Camp, so it will be interesting (and tiring) to try and get everything done that we need to in order to complete our move!

Baby Update

Had my appointment with St. Als Maternal Fetal Medicine today and they said that everything looks great with baby girl and that we shouldn't worry about the little spot they found, they said that lots of perfectly normal babies have this and there's no other reasons to think that anything is wrong with our sweet little gal :) We got some super cute pics though that I need to post, she's so cute and oh so photogenic! A little show off already! ;) (P.S. Today marks exactly 20 weeks for baby girl, which means we are halfway there!)

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Foot :) I think its really cool that you can count all five toes!!

Left Arm, you can see the bone in her upper arm and both bones in her lower arm, super cool!

Love this cute little girl!

Updates :)

A few updates for you all :)
We have been keeping pretty busy. Tyler is working and he usually works between 45 and 50 hours a week, keeps him really busy. He likes the work he does though so it's not too bad. I have been working too. I'm still teaching orchestra at two elementary schools in Kuna. I've really liked doing that. Things have been really busy with my teaching because I put on a recital so that my kids would have a chance to perform what they have worked so hard to learn. We had a recital for my private lesson kids last Thursday and then yesterday (Monday) I had a recital for my elementary school kids. All of my kids at both recitals did very well, I'm proud of all the hard work they put forth to accomplish what they did. I have a great group of kids in the elementary school and in my private lesson studio.
Here are a few pictures from what has been going on in our lives recently :)
These are from the recital I had at the school last night for my grade school kids. They all looked so good and played very well! So proud of all their hard work!

George, our barking squirrel friend, was really hot one day (it was 90 degrees in Boise in the middle of May!) and he was being so funny laying on the roots of his favorite tree :)

We made first aid/emergency kits for FHE a couple weeks ago. We made one for Tyler's work truck, Tyler's car, my car and our house so that if we needed emergency supplies we would never be without.  They have things in them like: a poncho, rubbing alcohol and cotton balls, bottles of water, emergency whistle, toilet paper, tissues, glow sticks, hard candies, medical tape, gauze, and more.

We have had really warm weather, had a few stretches of 90 degree days. During some of those days we went on a walk in the park close to our house and found some baby ducks :)

Here's a picture of my pregnant self, this picture was taken at 19 weeks and 3 days.

We found out last Tuesday that our baby is a little girl :) We are so very excited to have a little girl come to our family! Things are going well with this baby, I'm growing (obviously!) and I've gained about 10 lbs so far. We had our big ultrasound where they do all the measurements this past week and they found something on baby girl that might be a problem, but my doctor said that most of the time when they find this particular thing it ends up to be nothing. They are referring me to a high-risk obstetrician to take a closer look at things just in case. We just keep praying that baby girl is healthy and strong and that everything is developing the way that it should. Even if something is wrong, I'm comforted that we live in an age of great medical technology that would make it so that anything that's wrong could be taken care of a lot more effectively.
Here is a picture of our sweet baby girl from that ultrasound last Tuesday :)

And last but not least, we are moving! That's right! On May 29th we close on our first home! We are super excited to be home owners and have more space that we can do what we want with :) Our house is in Nampa, ID. It has three bedrooms and 1.75 baths, is almost 2200 square feet and sits on nearly 2 acres of land. We are really excited to move there! I love the house and the location is great for everything that we need. And we'll now have enough space for baby girl :) We are in a 2 br apartment right now but since Tyler works from home, one of our bedrooms there gets taken up as office space for him and the other bedroom is ours. Baby girl wouldn't have had a bedroom! In this house there is a perfect office space for Tyler's work so that one of the bedrooms wouldn't get taken up as an office, so we'll still have use of all three bedrooms and will also be able to have a good work space for Tyler.
Here's a pic of the outside of our new house!