The New House

I turned 38 weeks pregnant our first official day in "the new house." Sofi was thrilled to finally sleep in her new yellow room, and we were thrilled for her to finally sleep there too. We had quite a bit of help from our new neighbors, and it was fun to be welcomed by so many new people. We are excited to live here.

Our first morning eating breakfast. We were freezing but refused to turn on the heat.

Helping Daddy hook up the dryer (it took him forever!)

A trip to Target wouldn't be complete without her Elsa dress - we were shopping for a Belle dress.

Tuesday was our day we decided to officially turn in our apartment keys to the new managers (Wahoo!). Sofi was so upset to be back at the apartments, that she refused to get out of the car and instead sat in her carseat for 32 minutes while Greg and I did the walk thru. She is as thrilled as we are to be out of that place. In her mind, "Home" means the apartments, so we always have to say "the new house" when we are talking about, well, our new house. She's hilarious!

Playing on her awesome new swingset! While Greg weeds.

"I love adventure in the great wild somewhere!"
We love to go walking by the giant houses behind our neighborhood, and Sof loves walking on this wall.

She let me do her hair for 3 straight days in a row, and she requested piggies "like Belle" each time. This is the result.

Helping Greggy mow our lawn for the first time!

Pregnant running! I'll let you decide who was faster.

She sleeps real good.

It's a good thing Greg is a lot more disciplined than I was at 38 weeks pregnant, because boxes seemed to magically disappear whenever he was home, whereas I was content to walk around them whenever I needed to get somewhere. Moving 38 weeks pregnant was no joke, especially to discover I would end up having the baby 1 day after turning 39 weeks ... :). We moved just in time.

Soaking It All in

While we are super excited to move to our new house in Kaysville, we took the week we were moving to enjoy the few little things we had come to love around our life at Pages Place Townhomes. After all, we had spent the last 3 years there, so while we didn't enjoy being apartment dwellers, there were some things in the area that weren't too bad.

Greg loves his "Sofi snuggles."

Sof's piggies! These are post nap and not looking too hott, but they're still pretty cute.

We would often go on walks to let Sofi push her baby in her stroller, and somehow in her cute little imagination she created a "house" out of these bushes. She would take us in her house over and over again.

Can you spy Sofi?

Giving her daddy the tour of her house.

There is an amazing fairy garden in our ward that this lady has created behind her condo. Sof loves to walk over to "See the fairies." Seriously, this lady has spent $100's of dollars on fairy accessories and it's really pretty cool.

This whole space is the fairy garden.

She wanted me to take a picture of her laying in the grass.

Sofi has become quite the picky eater, so this is her after requesting a smoothie for breakfast. She always has the cold chills and wanted to watch a movie, so this was the solution. It allowed me to get quite a few things packed.

We thought we had lucked out this summer with there not being many mosquitoes, but boy were we wrong. They have come out in full force the last couple of weeks since the temperatures have dropped, and poor Sof is suffering. She swells like crazy when she gets bit, and one mean bug got her on the face. The following pictures are the results.

Morning #1

Posing in her Elsa dress, with puppy purse in the elevator to my 37 week Dr appointment.

After, we met Greggy at work where he surprised us with a ride on this little beauty. I have since requested one for Christmas.

Morning #2. This is Sofi's eye that morning. Sadly, there wasn't anything the Dr could do for us other than to tell us to watch for infection. Poor Sof! It bothered us as parents more than it did her.

Sofi has become quite the girly girl and loves to brush and braid my hair. I have come to love it!

Sofi requested to go to the West Bountiful Park one day. She realized it was too hot to be in the sun and was content to lay under a tree with me. Who cares if I looked like a beached whale? We lay there and enjoyed the morning before having to go home to eat lunch.

 

She found these sunglasses and wore them around all morning.

Jumping off rocks

Back at the West Bountiful Park. She loves this park and is a pro at going down the zip line. Isn't she cute standing there next to the big kids?
Leaving this park is going to be a big adjustment for everyone. We were here almost daily..

Running up and down the hill with Greg while I sit perched on the top. I learned from experience bad things happen with my bladder if I try to run down this hill. #PreggoProblems

We have enjoyed our lives in Bountiful, but know all good things must come to an end. We are progressing in life and have sold our souls to become home owners. Horray!!

Peach Days 2017, Baby Shower, and Luau

Even though I was 37 weeks pregnant, we weren't going to miss our little tradition of going to Peach Days up in Brigham City. Sof was so excited to ride the Carousel ("go up and down all by 'self") and Greg couldn't wait for the peach shakes at Peach City. It's fun to have something to look forward to each September.

Neither one of us had any cash, and Greg couldn't bring himself to pay $3 for the ATM fee's, so I dragged my pregnant body up the block in search of a credit union - which we found. Sof got a sucker, we got $10, and Greg saved $3 on fees. Seems like everyone but me wins.

She was in heaven!

Then she saw these bad boys ...

Waiting for 30+ minutes at Peach City. It was worth it i just for the shakes.

Sof's pic of Greg. Not too bad.

Then our selfie. Not quite sure what either one of us are looking at.

After eating lunch, we raced home so Sof could take a much needed nap, and I could run off to a baby shower some friends had planned. There are 4 girls having babies within 1 month of each other in our ward, so we had a multi-mom shower, and it actually turned out better than I expected. Despite the drama the apartments we've been managing may have caused, we sure have made some great friends here.

Everyone but me looking. Go figure.

My awesome friends! Just as a side-note, I'm the only one pregnant in this pic (it confused my mom).

When we first moved to Bountiful, the Tongan ward in our Stake put on an awesome Luau. They didn't do one last year, so you better believe we weren't going to miss it when they announced they were doing it again this year. Sof was so excited to meet Moana and Greg was excited for the unlimited amounts of food the Tongan people serve. It didn't end up being as good as the first year, but it was still pretty good.

I didn't get a picture of it, but Sof wandered over to the dancers while Greg and I ate our dinner (because she refuses to eat food lately) and she was shaking her cute little hips to the music. I also didn't get a picture of her meeting Moana, but that sure made her night!

She was enjoying the dancers, I promise.

Watching the entertainers dance. She was patiently waiting for it to be "her turn." 

One Last Hurrah

Sof and I just took our last trip to Cedar before we add little sister to our family. She can officially keep herself occupied in the backseat for 3.5 hours as long as she is watching a movie or playing on my phone. I can't decide whether to be saddened by the fact that she's obsessed with technology or happy that it will come in handy once a newborn arrives.

We stopped in Minersville to visit my sister and her kids before they left for Disneyland - lucky dogs!

Smashing ants

Jumping on the fancy new tramp, since Greg broke the old one.

Crazy tramp hair

They have finally landscaped the temple and is is beautiful!! Sof insisted we determined to go on a Ranger ride every day.

She also insisted she sleep on Grandma's 'big girl' bed. 

And she slept great! 

This picture kills me. Whenever Greg looks down, his eyes disappear behind his massive eyebrows and makes him look like a muppet. It gets me every time.

Sof lately has been obsessed with Monsters University and was so excited to wear the same hat as Mike 'Wikowski'

On our last night there, my little sister Katy treated us all to ice cream at the place she works. I thought it would be okay to keep Sof up a little later. Little did I know she wouldn't fall asleep until 10:30 pm ...

We had fun, and were energized by being around family. Now it's back to packing and trying to get everything ready for the big move here in 2-3 weeks. Oh and the baby. It's a tossup to see what will make the debut first, the house or the baby ... Oh did I forget to mention WE BOUGHT A HOUSE?!?!