4th of July and summer happenings

On June 23rd, I had my first baby shower from the Bath family. It was at Marrianne's home and turned out great. There was homemade cakes, cupcakes, suckers, and salads! I got lots of goodies for our little girl that I can't wait to use.

 I think this picture was around 30 weeks. I still just feel fat not pregnant although it is getting more difficult to tie my shoes, shave my legs, walk long distances without my feet swelling until they are unrecognizable. She has been moving more and more every day and as of week 32 I was able to feel her hiccup. Her favorite spot is to wedge her little feet into my right ribs...ouch!

We also attended the West Jordan Demolition Derby.

 On the fourth of July, I unfortunatly had to work in the morning but later that night we did our annual tradition of riding the fire truck in the Sandy City Parade with my dad. This year we couldn't all fit into the model A and the city officials wouldn't let us throw candy so we rode in the fire truck instead! I have never ridden in the front seat of the truck until this day...and I have to say it was fun! The crowd was loving the fire trucks because recently we were hit with at least 9 fires in Utah (with Herriman going up in flames again) and people were so greatful for the firemen. I am proud to have a Hero as my dad! He is such a talented and amazing man!

In project news, since this spring we have been working on improving our yard. Our backyard has beautiful trees lining the yard, but in between the trees was little grey gravel that was ugly so Jeff and I decided to take out the rock and replace it with compost. Little did I know how big of a project this turned out to be! After at least 5 loads of rock to the dump and 6 loads of compost it looks much better! I was hoping to plant some pretty bushes and flowers this year, but as I have gotten more pregnant and had less energy, I decided this will be for next year. We did however, get some apricot trees and raspberrys planted.

 Project number 2: New deck
     Jeff rebuilt our porch deck since it was rotting and the bottom stair had a huge hole in it. He had to rebuild it from the ground up since it was so bad. It looks great now!

 Project number 3: Rocks in the front yard
    Here you can kinda see the "before" pic of the flower beds in the front of the house. They are filled with a mix of bark and lava rock and look awful! So we decided to cover it up with some prettier rock to make it look more complete.

 "After" picture with the rocks. Next I have to plant another bush in the empty spot.

We have been working so hard to complete all these big projects before the baby comes so we can enjoy spending time with her and catching up on sleep.