36 weeks!

So I am officially one month away from my due date. It is really hard to believe that so much time has passed and the big day is so close. I am trying to train myself to not think of my due date as the end...because we all know that really isn't likely. Things are starting to feel very real in my pregnancy journey. Here are a few new side effects of being invaded:

1. Weather that I use to absolutely love 85+ now makes me feel a bit like a blow fish.
2. Waddling....due to aching hips...enough said.
3. Rolling over in bed...interesting, comical, and almost a two man job
4. My roundness... it is hysterical!
5. Several things too gross to mention on a blog that boys read....

Aside from all of that, things really are going well. I have felt myself slowing down (literally) and I know that I need to embrace that, but me being me is fighting it every step of the way.

Here is an update on Sweet Pea:

Growing like a weed at almost 6 lbs (or so the websites say) and about 18 inches long, and is one week away from being considered full term. Moving like crazy, last night Ty read baby a book and then played a little DMB and it was pretty funny to watch baby move around with the music and talking. I am so curious to see what baby looks like...really hoping for Ty's lips and ears...I don't have much of either and my ears are really crooked. We are also needing to narrow in on a few names. It is such a big decision that the baby will have to live with FOREVER.

That's all for now. Just spent the last 8 straight hours in budget meetings... Budgets + Molly = Death. Numbers are not my thing!

Heaven and Raspberries

Here are a few (more) pics from the weekend at Loon Lake, and our first official batch of raspberries, ever, from Birch Street. I (Ty) am rather excited about this, as my father was the one that got me started on planting raspberries. Not quite enough to do anything with, but good little desserts for the summer time...

"The Lake", as it has been called in my family for as long as I can remember, is my heaven on Earth. We have been going there as long as I have been alive, and I can't imagine life without it. I am pretty sure that I will retire there, even if the Wife doesn't know it yet! It literally has everything I could ever want: fishing (Uncle Sticky hauled in a nice rainbow trout right off the dock this weekend that we ate for lunch), boating and wakeboarding, crystal-clear water (it is heated by geysers on the lake bed that push the water close to 80 degrees by summer's end), Mom's food, and Four Corners. Those of you who know Four Corners know exactly what I'm talking about.

I can't wait for our new little Baby to meet this place, and to begin memories of his or her own. Can't wait! I love you, Mom and Dad-- thanks for letting us hang this weekend!

Baby Brad!

It is pretty fun to be an auntie!! Last night I heading straight from work to Natalie & Jon's house to hang out with my new little nephew. He is so cute...and he doesn't look so big anymore, although he only lost about 6 ounces (most c-section babies loose more than that in the first few days or so they say). Natalie reports that he is a pretty calm baby, and a really good eater. Hope you enjoy the pics.

Serenity

Over the weekend Ty and I made a quick trip to his parent's place on the lake. It is just about the most peaceful place to spend time & relax. We were able to celebrate his brother's birthday with dinner and a night of board games...what a way to ring in the big 25! It was the perfect weekend and so good to spend time with Mil & Ed (ty's parents), Brock, and Ty's aunt & uncle.

I'm an AUNTIE!!!

Welcome Bradley Eric Thompson!!!

9 pounds 7 ounces 21 inches long

Natalie went in this morning for a c-section after her appointment yesterday confirming that baby was over 8 lbs and not moving down. After baby was born this morning the doctor told us that there was no way she could have had him naturally and that the umbilical cord was loosely wrapped around his neck 3 times. Pretty scary! But Bradley is a really really healthy baby and hasn't hardly cried. My sister is doing well, but recovering from the surgery has been hard this morning because she is so groggy. Here are the first few pics, I will try to post more later this weekend. He is quite the tank! The first one is of Jonathan & Bradley, and the second is my grandma Judy.

Loves!

The Proud Auntie

My kids

So many of you probably wonder what it is that I do...good question. It is really hard to put into a job description, but basically I run a youth program for Native American youth in grades K-12. Here are a few pictures of the youth I work with at two of our events.

July

Is anyone else wondering how it is already July 1st! I am in approximately (now getting used to the idea of no exact due date, thank you little sister) 6 weeks I will be a mom. There are several things that have come together in our nursery over the last few weeks making me feel much more comfortable with the approaching timeline. I had a mild freak out moment a few weekends ago when for the first time I realize that our baby could be premature and we really weren't ready. I have mellowed out since then, but it does feel good to know that if it happened we would have the basics.

We are all still anxiously awaiting the arrival of baby B (Natalie & Jonathan's baby). She went to the doctor last Friday and he said that the baby wasn't moving down in her pelvis (at all) so there is a chance that she will need to have a c-section later this week. Baby B is already over 8 lbs and Natalie is so narrow that the combo is making it difficult for her to have the baby. I think that she is okay with the idea of a c-section and at this point just really ready for the baby to arrive.

I don't have anything really exciting to report on this week. Last weekend I worked at an event called "Paddle on the Willamette" where our youth and families paddled three canoes from Salem to Portland. It was really a great event, and it was definitely 100 degrees outside. It is pretty crazy how hot 100 is when you are +20 lbs. I didn't even know a person could sweat from the places I was sweating! Oh I know one exciting thing...the Olympic Trials! I don't know how many of you know this about me but I am obsessed with the Olympics. It is so fun to watch them and it is genuinely my only real show of patriotism. How ridiculous is it by the way that they only show a few things and often times it is from 11 pm-1 am. We can have every morally worthless T.V. show air when people are awake, but for the Olympic Trials we choose infomercial hours. Dumb.

Off the soap box...and getting back to work. I will post more tonight and some pics from the weekend.