Summer

It's been a while since I have posted anything about our niece Summer! She is doing great! Her surgery went very well and she is recovering quickly! She loves to smile and play with Daddy. She loves to holler and sing when Mommy is on the phone with Aunt Melanie and her favorite thing to do is be cute. And she is darn good at it! Here she is showing you all that she is just fine!

Thumbs up!

Change of plans...

Get your votes in quick on the boy or girl poll! I thought the midwives wouldn't want to do the ultrasound until my next appointment, the first week of January. However, this morning she told me to make a special appointment for the 20 week ultrasound and gender check for the week before Christmas! The appointment is at noon on the 15th of December! Hooray! We are so excited! Of course, we'll keep you posted!

Black Friday...

Hello! It has been quite a while since we have updated! Life has gotten busy with the end of the semester and with applying to 4 different PhD programs for Mitchell. It has been a wonderful week off for Thanksgiving though. We have enjoyed sleeping in, spending time together and with family. We have cooked too much food, eaten too much and wasted too much time but it has been a wonderful contrast to the busyness of the last several weeks.

Last night after a wonderful feast at Grandma and Grandpa Harris' house we drove past several stores in a strip mall on our way home. We scoffed as we noticed that there were shopping die-hards camping in tents in the parking lot outside of Best Buy and other stores. We swore up and down that we would NOT be going out in the frenzy of Black Friday. Heh, heh. Well, we did end up shopping today, though at 5:30pm most of the frenzy had died down. We happened to go out to get ice cream and drove past Office Max and remembered that we have been needing to get a more comfortable chair for our computer desk. For the last year and a half we have used a kitchen chair and it gets really uncomfortable after a while. Mitchell usually goes back up on campus to write code or get homework done because our chair is so uncomfortable. It seems like a waste to have gotten such a good computer if he can't use it. We walked out of the store with a great chair! It was a great price too! Hooray for Black Friday and hooray for new found comfort!

This is the chair before...ugh.

...and after...ahhh.

Speaking of comfort...I am feeling so good lately! No more of the "morning" (more like all day) sickness! And I decided to make the switch over to maternity pants and I have once again found the meaning of comfort! Sometimes I wonder why people wait to get into the maternity pants!?! Amazing! Many people have requested a baby bump picture. I will finally post one now that the tummy looks kind of round and not just chubby. Sometimes I laugh when I look down and see a round belly where my flat tummy used to be. I will say I have definitely felt life in there although it is hard to differentiate between normal gastric movements and baby movements. I suspect that soon I will feel a strong kick and know for sure that Timmy is making himself known. :)

Plans for later tonight: set up and decorate the Christmas tree! Read the children's Christmas books that we have acquired over the last year and a half! Oh...and there will probably be some hot chocolate involved too!

I'm Winning

Go all you people who voted Boy. We're up 4 to 2! Keep it coming. I, Mitchell Harris, haven't posted at all lately because I've been busy with my graduate application. That's the story. The truth is that now that I'm supposed to be doing them right now, I'm avoiding the work by posting here.

Two presents and a gift!

Wow! I cannot believe that October is over and we are coming up on November so quickly! I guess it's true that time flies when you are having fun and when you are busy, we are definitely doing both! This semester has been a busy one, we are both taking a heavy load of work along with other activities and responsibilities. We still make time for the fun though! We have enjoyed attending all of the BYU home football games this year and we cheer our hearts out!
Every year Grandma Harris hosts a big Halloween bash. It is a really big deal and all of the family comes! This years party was a big hit! There were so many creative costumes! There were pumpkin farmers and pumpkins, a prom queen, Cruella Deville, Andy Warhol, a cowboy, a couple of skeletons, an 80's workout girl, Harry Potter....I can't remember them all! Grandma always plans fun games and activities and, of course, a delicious meal! What a great tradition! Mitchell and I went as presents and had a lot of fun! We even brought party favors and noise makers for the kiddos. They loved it! Thanks Grandma for your patience and hard work!
Yesterday Mitchell and I went to our 12 week prenatal appointment. We were expecting to hear the heart beat but the midwife couldn't find it very easily so we were thrilled to get to see another ultrasound! It is magical to see the little being that is growing inside of me! This ultrasound was a lot more clear than the one at 7 1/2 weeks. We could see the head, ribs, heart beat, hands and feet! I know every mother thinks that whatever her child does is the cutest thing ever, I am apparently no exception. While we were poking around in "Little Timmy's" (as Mitchell affectionately calls him) environment, he pulled his legs in and then jumped! I keep thinking about how cute it was for me to see him move around! It will be amazing when I can actually feel the movement! For the record, we don't yet know if it is a boy or girl. I am hoping for a girl and Mitchell is hoping for a boy but it is just easier to refer to "it" as a "him." Don't worry, when we find out we'll let you all know!

Baby's Heartbeat!!

One of my friends loaned me her fetal doppler this weekend! Mitchell and I got to hear the baby's heartbeat at home! It is a wonderful sound! I was able to capture a short recording of it and I thought I would share it! I seriously can't stop listening to it! Thank you Kim!

What would you do?...

What would you do if you harvested your garden one Saturday morning and this is what you got? That would be a LOT of sandwiches and salads for just 2 people!

We decided to make delicious salsa!! Mitchell and I worked on slicing, dicing and mincing all of the fresh veggies together and this is what it looked like. We borrowed a canner and ended up canning 5 quarts of salsa! We kept another 2 quarts fresh in the refrigerator too! It is sure yummy!