Farmer Seth

Check it out, Seth and I are farmers...yes that is right we farm. Our crops this year will be 5 tomato plants, 4 pepper plants, 1 cucumber, and some herbs. Actually we have been terrible farmers...so bad in fact that Seth's cute mom came up and had to give our garden a face lift...something about the dirt and fertilizer and apparently weeds are not a crop. Yeah we were way off. Since the face lift things have actually been doing a ton better. Maybe, just maybe will will get to make some salsa with our harvest.

Breathe and Relax

Since I got 'knocked up' I have been hesitant to write too much about the pregnancy...I hesitate because I am sure I would offend a mother out there somewhere...no necessarily my mother, but a mother none the less. No matter how excited I am, or thrilled to be having a kick ass kid I can't help being sarcastic and blasphemous. You know some people were just born to be a cynic and to point out irony...I know it's a 'bad' trait to have...but hey it's me and it's how I roll...pregnancy not excluded. If I wrote all that I was really feeling people would think I was the most ungrateful thing out there...well little would they know it's just all truth most women hide from other women to make them want to have children. It's a cycle. Like if anyone would have told me that in reality you are pregnant for closer than 10 months than 9...I would have liked to have put that in my plan, or your body is put together by silly putty and at any moment a joint you heavily rely on could go out at any time, I would have better prepared myself, and lets not even talk about the food issue...my gosh, I can't wait to have a healthy relationship with food again...it's all about feeding...they say you don't eat for two, but that is such a joke...if I try to just eat for one I get sick because I have not had enough to eat. That was mainly my biggest problem for the first 5 months...but we need to tell each other these things. I was ill prepared to handle much of this. When I train for an athletic event I know what I am getting myself into...I know what I will be doing or should be doing on any given day, I know how to eat, how to recover, how to race, but with pregnancy I have nothing...all the books kind of suck. You know nothing really helps you because you don't really have all that much control over how your pregnancy is taking shape. Sure I would love to get my cardio in everyday but good hell I feel like trash and it's a blessing if I can get to work. Now in my 3rd trimester things are a whole heck of a lot better for me and that's great and all but I am afraid my body is just trying to make me forget all the cruddy things it had to put me through to get to this point. I usually use the same tactic if I am babysitting...you just have to be really nice for the last 15 minutes of babysitting then the kids totally forget you wouldn't let them watch the Finding Nemo for the 5th time in a row...mean sitter. As of now I am in my 'birthing' stage where I could have this kid anytime with in the next month because it goes to 42 weeks. Yeah I am not excited if I went at 42 weeks...my gosh I would be so ready to go. But I am doing the whole HypnoBirthing technique for labor and delivery. I am excited but I feel that there's a whole lot happening during labor that a lot of moms are not sharing with me. All they tell you to do is relax and breathe...and if you do that you won't feel any pain. Okay cool...so breathe and relax...check. I can do that. Is that all I need to do? Yeah. Just that...and don't have any medical interfence. Oh okay well that sounds easy enough. So I know how to breathe and I can relax with the best of them...so I think I should be set. With that advice I'm not sure why any woman gets an epidural. See where I am going with this. Yeah breathe and relax...with that kind of mind altering advice we could put anasthesiologist out of business in all the women centers of the world. Yeah I feel that they may be missing a step. Hmmm. All and all though everything is going well...it just makes me laugh.

You know...stuff

Couple things going on in my life right now, they are;

Not a whole lot.

I made a cherry pie from scratch. My friend gave me a really good and easy pie crust recipe...so once I had the crust made it was a breeze. Check out the picture before I baked it. I know it looks like a pie! Shocking!!!


Today Seth and I went to pick apricots in Brigham City about 25 miles from where we live. There is an orchard that needed to be harvested, so Seth and I were able to go a pick as many apricots as we possible could. We didn't even make a dent on the orchard. I am going to try and make fruit leather with the fruit. I will let you know how it goes.
Also, here's a pic of me and Kiowa...this picture is me at 38 weeks. I know I could be having this kid any day now. I hope early...but I expect the kid to come late. I am trying to get everything in order for the little tyke...I'm not exactly sure what I am suppose to be doing...but I figure that nesting urge will kick in soon...I hope.
Other than that not a whole lot is happening in my world...it's pretty slow. I am not working anymore...it was becoming too difficult on my hands...I am just waiting...it kind of sucks! It's too hot for me to go outside...if I do I swell up like a balloon. Good times.

California

This last week I was in California for our annual bike training camp....yes if you are a devotee to this blog then you know this trip would not be the best for me. Watching people ride their bikes all through the most gorgeous areas of the country is like putting a diabetic in a candy shop. It was a cruel form of punishment...for what sin...I'm not sure. I did not take a lot of pictures there...I regret it. Because the first day I got there I went to a apricot orchard to pick apricots for apricot jam...it was soooo hot that I think I doubled in size. Then I had a baby shower which was great, it was awesome to see some people I haven't seen for a while. I also got some super cute baby clothes.

Then on Monday Seth's family came out for the training camp. It was pretty awesome...it was way cool that my sister and Dad rode all the rides too. I don't have a lot of pix but here are a few I do have.

This picture is part of the San Francisco Bay.The roads in California are amazing.Seth and Kellen standing with the family's mascot.The BoysK-dogCharlotte my younger sister rode out of her mind the entire week.Motor pacing