Baby CPR

One thing that I was a little anxious about was being alone with our baby and not knowing what to do if she choked or lost consiousness, so of course one of the things on my list was to learn CPR and choking techniques for babies. I was so thankful that a friend of ours who is a firefighter was able to come and teach us the class in our home. It is so important to be updated on the new information that comes out on life saving techniques, as they change periodically. Compressions and techniques are much different for a baby or infant than for a grown adult, which makes knowing what to do even more important. I know feel a lot more prepared should an emergency ever come up.

Mom and Dad were able to make it out and update their skills a bit. It had been 14 years since the last time they had taken a CPR class and a lot of things had changed!
Josh doing part of the technique for helping an infant who is choking.
Me doing compressions on an unconsious baby. The new routine is 30 to 2...thirty compressions to every two breaths.
Such a serious Daddy! I think this is the only serious face Josh had during the whole experience!

Our Little Pumpkin is Ripe

Since Addey is due in early October, Josh had the cute idea of painting my belly like a pumpkin. On Friday we got all the supplies for the event and had ourself a belly carving (painting) party. Here are a few pictures of the final product. I don't know about anyone else, but I think we picked the cutest pumkin in the pumpkin patch!

Young Women's Surprise Baby Shower

Young Women's Surprise Baby Shower!!!!!

Normally on Wednesdays you can find me at mutual with the YW leaders and girls. Last Wednesday mutual was cancelled (or so I was told) and this Wednesday it wasn't at the normal Stake Building, Sis. Robinson decided to have it at her house. I asked what we were doing and Sis. Robinson said something about rotating the girls through different stations. That was good enough for me. Well, Wednesday rolled around and I had been kind of grumpy all day because I haven't been able to sleep lately, I'm as big as a full size semi-truck and Josh has been working days all week, so I have barely been able to see him. I was half tempted to go to YW's in basketball shorts and a comfy shirt, but decided I had to look at least halfway presentable. I get in my car, make the short drive to Brenda's house, ring the doorbell and to my astonishment see all of the leaders and my girls sitting in a huge circle and yelling "SURPRISE!" I then immediately felt like the worst person in the world for having a miserable day when they all put so much time and effort into making this night special for me.




Come to find out that they did have mutual last week where they were busy planning my shower and making my homemade quilt which you will see a picture of below. They were also busy writing words of advice on cards for me to scrapbook. The shower was absolutely beautiful. I keep telling Brenda that she needs to go into party planning because she does everything to a "T". She had so many fun games like having the girls guess how many poopies (tootsie rolls were in a diaper), name that flavor of baby food (we had 10 taste trials on a plate), draw Cortney's baby with your eyes closed, "How well do you know Cortney?" with 15 questions about me, Baby Bingo, and we even did the string game to see how enormously large my belly has gotten! The girls won prizes for the games and we all had a fantastic time.



Brenda made the cutest little favors like Baby Ruth's swaddled in blankets and yummy chocolates wrapped up in diapers. She also made cupcakes that looked like baby faces, an amazing Pamper's baby cake, delicious punch, and more yummy food! I don't think I could have wished for a better surprise. I was completely caught off guard and had such a wonderful time! The girls also all worked together to make Addelynn a homemade quilt which I know she will adore throughout her life. I love our Young Women's Family!


Tootsie Roll Poopies! Name that Baby Food Chocolates in Diapers


The awesome table full of yummy food for my belly!









Left Picture: My amazing Quilt the girls made


Right Picture: Brenda measuring my enormous baby bump! Holy cow have I gained some weight!

My Amazing Diaper Cake

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Ward Baby Shower

Raina and Reann...Thank you so much for throwing an amazing shower!

Who ate the cupcake?!? We had yummy, yummy food to eat...which is always a plus when you're pregnant!
Raina made adorable little favors out of York Peppermint Patties for all of the guests!
Some of the Girls: Traci, Kayci, me, Naomi, and Amber. I sure hope I spelled everyone's name right!
Homemade blankies are the best!
The Young Women's President gave me the most amazing basket with all of her "favorites". I am sure they will soon be my favorites too!

My ward threw me a wondeful baby shower last Saturday; thank you Raina and Reann! Since most of my close friends and family aren't LDS they offered to throw me a separate shower. :) It was a come and go and we all had a wonderful time enjoying one another's company and catching up. I loved all the wonderful gifts...people in my ward are so talented and creative!

Showered with Love

FRIENDS AND FAMILY ICECREAM SOCIAL BABY SHOWER
Aerial view of present opening. Too fun!




High School and Elementary school friends: Lorain, Marisa, Carrie, Me, Jamie, Becky, and Amanda. I can't thank Lorain, Amanda, and Care enough for putting on the shower for me!
Me and the Grandma's to Be! Mom, me, and Sue.
My Tabby and I. :)
Tabby and I on cleanup duty. What are we going to do with all of these goodies?!?




It was so fun to see all the pregnant bellies at my shower. In order: Shanel just had a baby girl on Wednesday, I'm due with a baby girl in 3 weeks, Ashley is having her baby boy in early November, Christi a baby girl in late November, Stacey a baby boy in early December, and Steph a baby girl in late December. WooEeee! Lots of little blessings on the way!

My buddies and comrades from college, Bethany and Sarah.



My good friend Steph and I. Her husband works with Josh at the PD. She is my sanity in this crazy police world we both live in! She is also having a little princess this year and I know that her and Addey will be the best of friends!


Me, my sister Katrina, and Grandma Campbell.




I have finally gotten around to sharing my baby shower pics with everyone. I ended up having three amazing showers, all unique and special in their own way! I will probably do three separate posts for them because I want to share some pictures.

My first shower was given by friends and was for my close friends and family. It was an "Icecream Social" shower where we played games, ate yummy sundaes (which by the way I am still enjoying leftovers from), and just hung out and had a really good time. Thank you to everyone who came!

Birthday

So yesterday was my 25th Birthday and it was a really good one (well, as good as it can be as you get older, lol). I wanted to post a few highlights and then do something fun.

Highlight #1: Josh gets home around 3am and sometimes I wake up because he'll turn our bathroom light on to do his nightly routine. Well, he came home around that time and did his routine and then left our bedroom. I was half unconscious so didn't pay too much attention. I then heard him about an hour and a half later finally getting into bed. My mind got to wondering what he could have been doing for an hour and a half in the wee hours of the morning, but again I was too tired to think about it. My thoughts would have to wait.

I woke up in the morning and told Josh like I always do that I was going downstairs to eat breakfast. He then presented me with the cutest card I think I have ever seen. Okay, back to the early morning rustling he was doing. He came home from work and decided to craft me a birthday card. He took a file folder (to make it nice and thick), cut it to the size of a normal card. He then searched the internet for cute poems from husbands to wives, but told me he couldn't find one that was good enough so decided to write his own. After he typed up his poem he went downstairs to my craft area, cut out the poem with decorative scissors, antique stamped the poem, antique stamped the card, found flowers and brads and attached them to the front of the card, found bubble stickers and spelled out my name and placed it on the card, and glued the poem in place. Oh, something cute too...I didn't have a "t" bubble letter for my name so Josh turned a different bubble letter into a "t"...what a champ! When I saw the card I was so happy and then I opened it up and read the long well-thought out poem (it was like 4 or five stanzas) that was made especially for me. I don't think he could have given me anything more special that day! He has really been holding out on his crafting abilities!

Highlight #2- I got the sweetest texts from most of my friends wishing me a Happy Birthday!

Highlight #3- My visiting teachers brought me the coolest birthday card, an adorable plant, and yummy chocolate! Yes...they know how it is...they're both pregnant!!!

Highlight #4- Josh had to work so my friends took me out to BJ's for my Birthday. I am confident to say that I have some of the greatest friends. I had a wonderful time and came home with new and exciting Birthday gifts!

Okay, so now for the fun part. I thought it would be neat since I'm now 25 to list 25 things that I've experienced or accomplished in this life so far. It's always nice to look back and reminisce on the past. Here are my 25 in no particular order:

1- received my first degree black belt (wish I would have continued in the ranks)
2- graduated college with a 4.0 gpa (yay!)
3- taught two wonderful years in 5th grade (hopefully more to come!)
4- found my place in this world spiritually
5- married my best friend and high school sweetheart
6- bought our first house
7-became pregnant with our first child
8- bought our second house
9- bought our first brand new car
10-took a trip with my honey to Maui
11-supported my husband through his two year mission is Russia
12-went to Disney World and all it's theme parks!
13-broke my arm doing a front flip on the trampoline (both bones in 3 places)
14-ran varsity cross country and track
15-learned how to drive a stick shift (hey that's an accomplishment for me!)
16-learned through 4 miscarriages that life doesn't always turn out as we hope or plan it to
17-Josh and I added two to our family: our dogs Sydney and Brutus
18-learned that you can't change others....you can only change yourself
19-realized that growing up left handed left me unable to play softball and with a constant smeared hand!
20-lost loved ones, but learned how to find peace in my understanding of the plan of salvation
21-realized that I tend to interrupt people, not to be rude, but because my mind races a million frames a minute, yet it's still extremely annoying!
22-learned how to be crafty and thrifty!
23-learned that I love to decorate, with the exception of painting
24-am thankful for my parents who have always supported me throughout my life regardless of if they agree with my decisions or not. I have also realized their sacrifices as well.
25-realized that despite my trials and shortcomings, that I have a loving family and group of friends who support me and lift me back up. Who could ask for more?!?

Woo! That was harder than I thought! I think my next list will be what I want to accomplish in the next 25 years (got the idea from Bethany and her "Bucket List" blog)

I love a good deal!

So Craigslist has literally become my at home shopping experience. What does a girl do when she has no money to go buy baby stuff at full price....shop Craigslist. I have come across some amazing bargains and the stuff I have bought is like brand new. When I can save money just from perusing through ads on Craigslist...I feel a sense of accomplishment, lol.

On another note, I subbed on Friday for an 8th grade Social Studies class at the middle school and boy will I not do that again at least until the baby is born. I forget how crazy, rude, and hormonal 14 year olds can be! I am looking forward to the pay for subbing, but I sure hope I get some more jobs with the little kiddos instead.

Tomorrow is my Birthday and I will be twenty-five. I sure can't believe that I'm getting up there in age. I went out to dinner with my family tonight, which was alot of fun. I got the sweetest card from my parents with money to buy a new camera, which I'm really excited about! Just in time for our little one to arrive! It is amazing to think that I am the same age as my mom was when she had me. She turned fifty this year and I twenty-five and when I'm fifty my little Addey will be turning twenty-five! I am amazed at how as the years pass by, I become more and more aware of how blessed I am. Even through my trials over my twenty-five years of life, I always come back to the fact that I have more blessings to count than mishaps and misfortunes. I think more people would be happier if they focused on the blessings and positives in their lives' rather than the negatives. The later part is definitely easier to do at times, but that is when we start to lose hope, I think,

I am going out to dinner with my girlfriends tomorrow (Josh has to work) at BJ's. It should be really fun and yummy! I can't wait to sink my teeth into the chocolate chip pizookie! My doctor said the best way to avoid stretch marks is to watch how much weight I gain...but how can someone possible pass up a monster cookie loaded with tons of yummy ice cream!?! I sure can't!