my day for venting

Wow, I don't think I've posted this soon after another post...I have been lacking.  I suppose today I just feel like "complaining".  I'll post how our weekend in Nevada went this last weekend once I get pictures, but for now, you can choose to hear me sulk in my misery.  I have been soaking my legs in freezing cold water ever since we got back Sunday night and oh boy, I really don't like the cold even more!  I think I got sick from this weekend and from my sunburn because I have felt like I've gotten the chills, even in 110 degree weather, and I've been nauseous like I was in my first trimester.  Luckily, the soaking has been helping, but I will have an extremely tacky sun tan as a strip down the front of my legs. I also think I was very dehydrated as I almost passed out twice in Nevada - once in the mall while shopping for cute boy clothes, and the second - while on the plane flying out of Vegas.  Um, I think I need to drink more water. Yeah.  I knew I haven't been anyway while being pregnant, so I guess being out in that heat for 4+ hours was the last straw pulled. 

Yesterday, for the first time, I saw what it meant when they say pregnant women get swollen feet.  I don't think this heat is helping me any.  They aren't that bad, but I can see the difference as they are looking more like cankles :S Ugh.  So, in all reality, I guess I don't have that much to complain about...it definitely could get worse.  This pregnancy has treated me very well so far.  I realize that when carrying a boy, it's all out in front - at least for now - so I don't look all that fat...yet. I'll get a picture up here soon because I'm at 20 weeks...HALF WAY baby!!!

Oh, and the last thing...I'm bummed about missing this...

The social event of the year...Cassia County Fair and Rodeo!  I know I haven't even been for a few years, but it's still a part of my roots.  It's always so nice to run into old friends and make new ones, eat the best maple bars, be out in the sun watching the parade, go to the concerts, and just make new memories! Clay has never experienced it, so hopefully one day he will (maybe next year :), but no one knows how great it really is unless you're part of the B-Town Mafia!!!

It's a . . .

The ultrasound we had on Friday pretty much was 

as self-explanatory as this is :D

I was praying that the baby would cooperate so we wouldn't have to wait longer to find out the gender, and within the first five minutes, we got a look at the bum and sure enough, there "it" was!  Clay was betting the whole time that it was a boy, and I suppose I was just being stubborn and went against him and voted for a girl.  Looks like I really lost this bet.  I'm definitely fine with the outcome.  Either way would have been great for our families.  On the Fenton side, Clay's siblings are all boys, his mom was the only girl, there's only one girl (I believe) in his dad's family, etc. etc. etc.  In my family, there's two girls out of eight kids, but two boys and four girls for grandchildren.  So, I wanted a girl for the Fenton's sake, and a boy for the Byington's, so either way, it's a win-win.  What am I saying? 

I don't care...I'm just SO happy we're having a baby!

weeklong 4th of july

My sister and her lovely family came up to visit for the 4th of July weekend! I was so super excited to have family come up here because it had been 6 months since we've had visitors. Janelle, Tom, and Shay flew in Wednesday night and after that, the schedule was jam packed full of F-U-N!

Thursday we headed out for Northwest Trek, which is like a miniature Yellowstone Park and a Zoo.  We took a bus/tram, whatever you call it, around the park, and some of the animals were right on the roadside!  Shay definitely had a blast seeing all the animals.

Friday, our friend was so kind to watch Shay while we all went to watch Eclipse!!!  It was simply amazing :)  Janelle got her and me Team Jacob shirts so it made the whole thing that much better to go watch. ha ha ha  We went for lunch at BJ's after that, came home and crashed, then took them out for some seafood here in the great northwest at Duke's.

Saturday, the sky cleared up so we headed for the beach!  We drove the couple hours to Ocean Shores to play on the beach and the skies were perfect!  It was a little chilly, but the water was surprisingly warm, at least just for wading in it.  Later on, we rented scooters and drove along the beach which was a blast!  I think the guys had way too much fun with those things.  We went to dinner that night at the Spaghetti Factory which was so much fun once again.  

Sunday, we went to church, came home, then headed for Seattle/Burien.  Tom's Aunt and Uncle live there and let us come party for the 4th with them on the waterfront at their gorgeous home!  Well, needless to say, we were the only ones there that didn't drink, and Aunt Andrea was so kind as to have a cooler of water and pop for us.  People started showing up and someone brought jello in these little plastic cups in the colors and formed a flag out of it!  I had to get one of those, they looked so cute!  Well, Andrea warned us that they were alcoholic. :( Bummer.  BUT, there were other ones with mini marshmallows in them that weren't.  Tom didn't get the memo when she told us that, so Clay and I got some and started eating them.  Tom just had this disgusted look on his face, like "what are you guys doing? um, you know there's alcohol in that!"  We just played along saying that the marshmallows counter acted the alcohol or something so it was all good.  Ha, we sure got him. Anyway, it was fun to just lounge around.  Janelle and I were getting cold though so we went inside for a little bit before the fireworks.  I, however, ended up falling asleep through the whole show, which Janelle did too, so I missed the whole 4th of July fireworks show :(  I guess that's what you get when you're pregnant.

We stayed the night there and woke up Monday morning and got ready to go in to Seattle.  Tom and Janelle wanted the ferry adventure, so we parked in West Seattle and took the water taxi over into downtown.  We spent quite some time in Pike's Place, ate some delicious cherries, had lunch at Ivar's, took the bus to the Space Needle, and let Shay ride some of the carnival rides.  So we were trying to get back on the bus so we would make it early enough for the water taxi ride, but caught the bus on the wrong side of the street and started going north again.  We finally realized what we were doing, got off, and had to wait another 15ish minutes to catch the southbound bus, and we caught the same bus with this jerk of a driver that we had earlier.  We missed the water taxi by like 10 minutes, so we just lounged around for 40 minutes while Janelle and Tom went to take more of the Seattle life in.  We got back to Andrea's, ate dinner, and Janelle said bye to Tom as he was flying home that morning and she was staying a couple extra days.  

Tuesday through Thursday was just so nice to be able to relax and chill with my sister!  It seems like the only times we have had together were only for a day or so.  We were able to take Shay to the Tacoma Zoo, do a couple of crafts, and head out to the South Center Mall in Tukwila before she flew out.  It was so nice to spend some extra time with her!  I owe it all to Clay (and Tom for letting me keep her) for letting us be lazy while he slaved away keeping the house clean and doing the dishes.  LOVE YOU BABE!!!

It was such an awesome time spending it with the Lungrens!  Can't wait to see you back up here when baby Fenton arrives :D  Thanks for coming!

hoppin' on the bandwagon

Sometimes I feel like such a horrible wife because of my lack of preparation, especially this Father's Day.  As a little girl, I used to hide notes under my parents' pillows or my siblings for their birthdays or some other special occasion.  I loved celebrating those times and holidays.  Now, it seems like I'm such a slacker when it comes to getting ready for a holiday or even sending off birthday cards.  So, obviously I blew it for Clay on Father's Day (at least at the beginning).  I did get to make him a card at least ;)  We also made candy leis for a Relief Society activity to hand out at church so Clay got one of those.  Well, I suppose the part of the day that made him excited was to change his Facebook status (ha ha ha) and say that he was "officially going to be a daddy!".  So yes, that day has come!

I'm finally about through with my first trimester and I think I've been lucky, most of the time.  I was subbing as much as I could because I knew something would happen and I would have zero energy so it hit mid-May and I was as good as a rug on the floor.  I was nauseous 24/7 and felt like it would be better to just throw up, but it would get worse when I didn't eat anything, and obviously nothing sounded good to me so I was always feeling sick.  That's about how this last month has been, but slowly I'm getting my energy back and can eat a little bit more.  It's funny because when we went to Idaho we went out to dinner with our friends and one of them announced that they were pregnant, so I waited a couple minutes and said that I had news too.  They instantly guessed that I was pregnant too so I said "yes"!  And then I told them the truth.  Well, I guess I really hadn't lied because I was pregnant at that time! Also, my MIL asked me on Mother's Day if I was really a "mother" yet and I told her no (which was SO hard to lie to her), but in reality I was :)  Anyway, it's been so hard to keep this secret so if any of you have asked me if I was prego and I lied, oops, sorry!  So here's our latest ultrasound, well, only one so far.  I'm only mid 12 weeks so I still have plenty a ways to go.  It was so fun though to see that little being that's inside me! I'll admit I teared up at the beginning :) but the little thing was such a squirmer and kicking everywhere - it was so cute!!!

So this has been our recent adventure, seeing how I haven't posted in quite some time, but for a wonderful reason :) ha ha Oh, and about the bandwagon, I sure am hoppin' on with a bunch of you so let's party together!

the hook-ups

I don't even know where to begin! I thought we lost our camera so obviously the lack of posts.  Anyway, yes, found it in another purse that I just threw around. Go figure. So Clay has gotten the hook ups from work with getting tickets to sporting events.  The first one he was told it was a soccer game and I freaked out! He told me where it was, and I knew that's not where the Sounders played (and, not in Seattle). Turns out it was a minor league indoor football team.  It was still cool to go nonetheless, and at least we enjoyed our seats in a suite :)

An enjoyable evening with great company :)

Next, one of Clay's co-workers had tickets he didn't want for a Mariner's game (he has season tickets so it didn't matter giving them up I suppose).  He gave them to another couple first since Clay wasn't around, but they couldn't go so we got them! First off, I know I would be beaten up for saying I don't like baseball, but I think it's one of the most boring sports to watch on TV, except for maybe the world series.  Watching in person, is much, much better.

Our seats were just awesome! 9 rows up from just right off 3rd base!

Ichiro (Ee-chee-Roe) was fun to watch, probably since he was the only one I knew on the team. Yeah, I don't follow baseball as you can tell.

It was just a great experience and one of my "Things to do in Seattle" items to be crossed off my list!

idaho pictures

Our stop in Boise for lunch at Five Guys! Potatoes were from Shoshone that day! Yeah, our neck of the wood, even though it sure wasn't Burley :)

 Dinner at the Mayan, night before the wedding!

 Leland was so cute at the reception!  He was dancing with Caeli's niece, Ashton, practically the whole time and just grabbing her onto the dance floor!

So it may not look all that trashed, but I loved it - it being a last minute idea! The inside was FILLED with balloons from floor to ceiling!

Cake cutting time!

 

Awesome rainbow we saw on the way down to Utah to pick up Quinn!

 

She finally got to see Quinn after having to wait another extra week (which could have been months) for him to come home from the mission.

 

Just disregard the sign...last minute and ugly ;) but it was so great to see Quinn again!

 

Our girls afternoon pedicure at the salon :)  So great being with them!

 

This is what Clay was working on all of his vacation time. It will look even better when there's grass, an old wagon wheel behind the fountain, and flower planted!!!

Trip to Potato State

Alright, so here I am at school...well, actually work, and the students are just fine, working on their photography editing - and I am bored.  I suppose it's days like these that make it awesome to get paid for doing nothing, and being able to stay updated with all my couponing adventures and blog posts :) Anyway, enough of my babbling.  I am back in the real world, back to work.  Our trip to Idaho was excellent and full of surprises!  I definitely was in the car way too much though.  Hopefully I won't go into too much detail, and since I am at work, I don't have any pictures with me, so that will come soon.  

Thursday we drove all day to Rexburg, made a stop in Boise to have lunch with my sis and her family at Five Guys! We stopped in Idaho Falls at the airport to pick up Clay's brother from Vegas while the rest of the fam met up there at the airport too.  SO...Quinn was supposed to be flying in that night also from his mission in England. But I'm sure you all heard about Iceland's volcano, which did affect their flight as all airports were shut down for who knew how long.  Bummer.  Reason: Clay's older brother, Tyler, set their wedding for the weekend because we'd all be home (including Quinn) to attend the wedding, so Quinn missed the wedding.  We drove to Utah the next day, went to dinner with Caeli's family at The Mayan (I don't if any of you out there are sick of that place, but I sure am - you can only enjoy for so long), and checked into the hotel.  

Saturday morning, we all met at the Draper Temple for the wedding! It was an absolute perfect day - which I did indeed get a little sunburned.  Yeah, obviously there's no sun here in Washington to do that to me :)  And can I just say that the houses up there are ginormous mansions?!!! It's ridiculous because I'm sure that they probably don't have half the kids to make up all the bedrooms and need a maid to help clean and yadda yadda yadda.  No wonder why people are in debt!  Had the luncheon afterwards and then the reception early afternoon.  Oh man, did we ever get their car good!  You'll just have to wait to see the pictures :)  Then we headed back to Rexburg that night.  That Sunday was when Quinn was supposed to speak in Sacrament, but obviously it wasn't happening.  Brandon, Barb and Leland had to go back to Vegas that night so sadly, they didn't even get the chance to see Quinn back home.  

The next week went by so fast!  Clay kept himself occupied working in the backyard putting together a fountain and flower beds for his mom.  I was able to meet up with friends of mine that were still living there or going to school! It was so great to see them all again, but it felt weird to be back in Rexburg.  Tuesday, was the funeral of Clay's uncle, his mom's brother.  We found out he passed away the day we drove to Idaho.  He had been battling Parkinson's for the last 30 years.  I had visited him a few times with the family so I somewhat knew him, but it seemed like throughout the funeral, it just reminded me of my grandpa and boy, was I ever a bawl baby.  It was great though being able to celebrate his life and to hear what he was like and get to know him a little more.

Finally, we heard that Quinn had a flight for Wednesday and the skies were starting to clear up of the ashes from the volcano, so we planned to pick him up from Salt Lake that night.  Oh, it was so crazy seeing him walk out of the terminal! I made a sign and had a few balloons - felt like a dork at first because there was only 3 of us picking him up, but there was this other family that went all out with a huge vinyl sign and like 15 balloons! Yes, definitely a missionary homecoming. We stopped for food on the way home and didn't get back into town until 3:00 a.m.  Quinn had already missed 2 days of school, so he had 1 hour of sleep before he woke up, got released and headed off to school! It was great having him back home though! I headed to Burley to meet up with Janelle (and my mom) and have a girls afternoon.  My dad and bro met up with us at Shon Hing's for lunch.  Then Janelle, mom and I went to go have a pedicure and go shopping! It was a fun little afternoon. I got to see my nieces and then headed back to Rexburg.  Saturday was the Rexburg reception, so at least Quinn got to see a "part of the wedding".  So, that about concludes our adventures in Idaho.  It always seems like we never have enough time to do what we want or visit everyone and vacations always end up being non-stop running around!  I'll get the pictures up soon and to those of you I was able to visit, it was so great! And those of you I didn't, next time for sure!