What we've been up to!

The last month and the start of this month has kind of been a blur. We've been keeping busy and loving the hot weather!

I'll start off with a pregnancy update, I am 24 weeks a.k.a 6 months!!! Even though I've only got 16 weeks left I can honestly say I don't know how much more I can handle. My first two pregnancies went by like a breeze. Other than the normal discomforts of a growing belly, I really felt the same as I did when I wasn't pregnant. This time around my body just doesn't want to cooperate. I was sick for the first 18 weeks, then once that went away my body decided that the heartburn should kick in. That was getting so bad that I was actually throwing up and losing weight. I tried tums, zantac...you name it I tried it. Finally they put me on nexium to kill the daily acid cells in my stomach. I got a horrible cold, one of the worst I've ever had which brought my immune system down. I got an abcess in the gum tissue in my mouth from a piece of food getting caught or poked in (like a chip or popcorn). So as you can guess I had to take penicillin to take care of the infection which killed the bad bacteria...and GOOD bacteria. So I had to take meds for that. NOW because of the pressure of the baby and the way a bladder changes during pregnancy and holding it all night long I have a UTI...seriously I need this to be over. I hate taking medication, and it just gives me all sorts of anxiety while pregnant. I've got a delicate perfect being growing in me and I don't want to damage them in any way. BUT I do understand that I NEED to take medication when there is something wrong so that it does not hurt the baby.

Some other updates, last month we decided to take on 2 miniature studs (Roy and Sweet) and 4 minature mares (Buttons, Angel, Sadie, and Ellie). I've always LOVED miniature horses and since Evans mom has a ton of them it was a lot easier to get into them. The woman we got these horses from has a disease that affects her kidneys so in order to live longer she had to get rid of any extra stresses in her life. Her horses are very high quality and have been shown. Roy himself is a 3 time national champion, while Sweets sire was a 7 time national champion! Sweet is only 2 so he hasn't had an opportunity to be shown yet. Our minis are very loving and gentle and our girls have even been able to ride them. We plan to breed and sell our minis and I'm so excited!

At the end of June we went to Lovells day and we had a lot of fun! The girls loved the parade and catching candy. I think Kimi didn't quite know how to respond because we are always getting after her about running toward or in streets and here we are sitting on a curb yelling at them to hurry and get the candy...in the street. We wanted to go to the rodeo and fireworks but the heat really has been taking it out of us.

We've been spending a ton of time at the frog pool and the girls and I love it. Its free, its cool on a hot day, its passes the time...oh and did I mention, its FREE! Well I just had to repeat it because not much is anymore. I'm finding it hard to get around to do much with two kids while pregnant. I hope it gets a little easier after baby gets here.

Finally the 4th of July! I love when Evan has 3 days off in a row. We had so much fun and relaxation and I loved every minute of it. Saturday we bummed around and cleaned a little and of course went to the frog pool, Sunday we went to church and snuggled around home and cleaned a little more, and on Monday we went to the parade in Cody with Josh and Angie and then that night to Josh's Aunt's house for fireworks.

I will post pictures when I get them uploaded. I need more motivation and even taking the time to write all this is hard. So give me a break :) I hope everyone's summer has been going as good as ours!