Logan's room

I have been on Christmas Break the past 2 weeks and it has been SO nice to be at home!!! I have done a lot of relaxing and hanging with the hubby. But I also have been working on Logan's room!!! So far it has been completely cleaned out. Before a couple days ago it was our junk/storage room. Well I will let the pictures tell the story..... p.s. Blogger HATES me and never does my pictures correctly and if I keep fighting with it I will end up throwing the laptop across the room so the pictures are in opposite order and the captions are on weird to. SORRY!! I don't have the patients to keep on trying to fix it!

Here is what the room looks like now! Thats all his stuff!!!

Here is what the room looked like before. It was a nightmare!!!!!!


Now all there is left to do is...
-Shampoo the Carpet, wich will happen tomorrow morning
-Get all the baby furniture from my grandmas house which includes a bassinet, a changing table/dresser, a book shelf, and a rocking chair. All those will get here on saturday with my dad's help.
-Set up the crib, also happening on Saturday!
-Then hold off on buying anything til after my showers. Which will be hard. I want to get everything ready right now! But I will try to wait patiently :-)

Things are starting to come together!!! My goal was to get the room reasdy during my Christmas break and it actually is happening! Oh happy day!!!!!

Things are beginning to change

Logan is arriving much faster than I was realizing, and it is leaving me in a very melancholy sort of mood. Now of course having Logan finally here will be the greatest thing to ever happen to me! I will finally be a mommy! And I will watch Tom turn into an amazing daddy. I cannot wait for that day to arrive! Only 8 1/2 weeks to go-ish!!!!!!! I have always wanted to be a mom and I cannot wait!!!

Now on the other hand I am starting to completely panic and stress out and see how everything in my life is about to change. Now don't get me wrong, I am so excited for all of this like I said before, BUT I am not one to deal with change very well and tonight I have realized how much and how fast everything is changing! (Now if that wasn't a run on sentence I don't know what is!)

Here are a couple of the biggest changes that are coming my way that I do not feel at all prepare3d to deal with.......

-Since I will be going on maternity leave sometime in February Tom needed to get a second job so we could survive. Well we were very blessed to have a jobh just fall into Tom's lap. I got him a job with the Salt lake School District to be a group leader at Wasatch Elementary. We were so excited! he got the job before he even went in for the interview. So that all sounds great right?? Well it is! BUT I am having a hard time with it because Tom is starting this second job on MONDAY. I cannot even believe it!!!!!!! He got the job a few weeks ago and it seemed like it wouldn't happen for a long time! But nope, it starts on Monday. So starting Monday since he couldn't get Discover Card to switch him to a morning shift his schedule will be as follows...

6:00am-12:30pm Discover Card

2:00pm-6:00pm Wasatch Elementary

6:30pm-8:00pm Discover Card

Come home, eat dinner, go to bed, then get up and do it all over again. And work Every Saturday.

I have been so spoiled since Tom and I got married that our work schedules have worked out so great and I see him lots! Hm being at work ALL day long and me being very pregnant and hormonal, and then having a newborn and still hormonal it is going to be a very long 6 months. I am already missing him and it hasn't even started yet! I am going to be a mess!!!

Along with hi scrazy work schedule and me missing him like crazy I also feel very guilty over the whole thing to! I am so happy that I get to take a full 3 months off with baby Logan, but I am having a way hard time knowing that tom is going to be working crazy long days so that I can do it! I have not gone without a job since I was 15 years old. So not working for 3 months AND making Tom work 2 jobs just isn't working well with my brain or emotions!!!

-Tom and I only have a few more weeks to just be us. Only a few more weeks to be able to leave the house and do whatever we want whenever we want. To be able to stay out late and play with friends, and go on spur of the moment vscations. When I really think about it I am having a very hard time with this. Yes I am probably the most selfish person in the world!! Now once again I know it will all be worth it but now before it has happened I am almost in mourning of our childless life being left behind.

Now more on a I am so excited that baby is almost here that I can hardly even stand it note...... Here is a change I am excited about... The nursery is finally coming together!!!!! I worked hard all day yesterday to clean out the babies room! (It was our junk room up until yesterday.) Then tomorrow my dad will be bringing over the carpet shampooer so i can shampoo the carpet in Logans room. Then saturday is the day we will go pick up all the baby furniture fron my grandma's house and we will put together the crib! I am SO SO SO excited!!!! Things are finally coming together! I have all the baby furniture I will need, and all I had to buy was the crib! We have a bassinet that has been used on my Aunt, mom, all 6 of us grandkids and now Logan. It's gorgeous!! We have a changing table/dresser, a bookshelf, and a toychest that my dad made for my sister Lauren that I get to repaint however I would like. And a rocking chair. I am so excited, and feel so so blessed to have so much for our precious little boy already!!!

I truly am blessed to be married to such an amazing man and to have such an awesome family! (Toms and mine.) I love knowing that I am always surrounded by people who are willing to help. Since I am in a total panic that Logan is going to get here and I will have NO clue what I am doing!! I am so so so excited for the changes about to come our way! Some make me a bit sad, and put me in complete panic mode whenever I think about them, but it is all going to be so worth it when I see this precious little mans face that I'm already so entirely in love with!!! :-)

Slight name change

Ok. So Logan is still going to be Logan, we are just changing his middle name. He will be known to the world as Logan John Fisher, after my dad. My dad does not know this yet however so it will be a nice surprise the first time I hand his first grandson over to him and introduce him as Logan John. I CAN'T WAIT!!!

As a side note though, Tom and I have learned our lesson to NEVER AGAIN tell people our childs name before he or she is born!!! I am done with all the opinions and comments. From here on out you can meet them and learn their name when they are born. I mean what are you going to do? Tell me you hate my childs name when you are holding them and looking at their adorable face? NO! You will love them. HAHA :-)

Our Thanksgiving!

I LOVE THANKSGIVING!!!
It has always always always been one of my favorite holidays! And this Thanksgiving definitely lived up to all the rest!!! Here was our day...

It all started with a Fisher family tradition of going to a movie all together. We saw Tangled! So So cute!!! It was fun going with the whole fam and seeing how much all the adorable neices and nephews loved it. I'm not sure who was acting like the bigger kid during the movie, Tom and I or all the little ones. Tom and I are absolutely obsessed with Disney movies and this one did not disappoint!!! I think Logan even enjoyed the movie. He sure was moving a lot the ENTIRE movie!! He likes a good disney movie just like his parentals. :-)

After the movie I took care of my Thanksgiving dinner contribution and made a craisin salad. MMM MMM MMM!!!! (I am only trusted with cold dishes at this point. I have however graduated from veggie trays to salad. Christmas I get Cheeseball duty. I haven't decided if that is a promotion or demotion.) When I was about done with the salad I got super duper tired so I layed down and cute Tom (without me knowing it) finished the salad!! What a keeper!!!!! LOVE THAT MAN OF MINE!!!!!

Then it was off to my Aunt's house for Thanksgiving dinner! MMMMMMM!!!!!!! For Thanksgiving this year there were only 10 of us. My cousin is on his mission in Germany, and my sister and brother in law live in Arizona. So it was just a small group and it was awesome!!!!! My dad smoked the turkey which if you have never tried you are missing out on life!!! Dinner was amazing!!! And I must say I was SUPER excited to have Thanksgiving dinner while being 6 months pregnant! The stretchy waist band was an amazing edition to my evening!!! hahaha! And i'm pretty sure that I ate more than I ever had before and I didn't feel bad about it! ya pregnant thanksgiving is good thanksgiving!!! haha :-) It was so crazy to think that next Thanksgiving I will have a 9 month old!!!! How fun, I'm so excited!! After dinner we played games, and talked and of course had pie!!!! My uncle always makes PECAN PIE especially for me!!!! I am pretty much obsessed with it!!!!! I don't even have to ask anymore it just is there for me every year. SO SO SO YUMMY!! Then of course all the grandkids had to gather around grandma while she read us "Thanksgiving at the Tappletons." It's a great book and iti just isn't Thanksgiving without it! Then after Grandma read to us she handed out the chocolate advent calendars to all the grandkids. I LOVE MY YEARLY CHOCOLATE ADVENT CALENDAR!!!!!!! I was sady informed by grandma though that this would be my very last year to receive a calendar. That next year Logan will get one and not me. I for sure will be cherishing my last calendar this month of December. This is the end of an era!!!! Sniff Sniff ;-( But lets be honest grandma can give whatever she wants to Logan that doesnt mean he gets it! haha!!!!

So Thanksgiving was awesome this year as always! I love the Holidays!!!!!!! :-)

My little mover

Holy cow! Logan has been moving like CRAZY lately!!! I cannot believe how strong he already is! I started feeling this little man way early, I believe it was around 10 weeks or so when I first really felt him. Which is cray early! Especially since all doctors and ultrasound techs have said that I shouldnt even be feeling him now because my placenta is forward facing. Well I have news for you doc!!! I feel him ALL THE TIME!!!! Which leaves me to think about how much I would be feeling him if my placenta wasn't in the way! Maybe it's good I have a little bit more cushion between us because he is SO super strong! I finally felt him for myself from the outside for the first time a few nights ago, and it was such a special experience! I felt his sweet little foot right in the palm of my hand! It was amazing! And I will treasure that moment between me and my son forever!

This has been such an exciting time for Tom and I. Tom now can feel his son kicking, which puts a big smile on his face!! I love watching Tom when we are talking about Logan, or he is feeling him kick, or we are seeing him on an ultrasound, or listening to his heartbeat. Tom is just so excited to be a daddy and I am SO excited to watch him turn into a daddy!

This child is definitely a mover, and I am loving every moment of it!!! I am falling more and more in love with my little man every day! :)

No longer in YW's

Since pretty much the moment I got married and moved into our ward I have been in the YW program as the 2nd counselor. I totally fell in love with the girls! And really really enjoyed NOT having to go to Relief Society. (Opening exercises was more than enough for me!) Being in YW's gave me a purpose, and I feel like I grew a lot spiritually by being with them. This Sunday I was released from my calling. Which is actually hurting me a lot more than I thought it would! There were some odd circumstances surrounding why they released all of us so abruptly. Lots of drama that should NEVER go on in a ward, or really anywhere else in the world for that matter! It makes me sad to see how people treat others, and judge others. Did nobody listen to the amazing talk given by Pres. Monson this past Womens conference???

So back to Relief Society I go. Well I shouldn't say back I should say now I have to go to Relief Society. I basically have never had to go. So this will be new to me! I just really do not feel like I fit in with Relief Society women. I have never felt comfortable there!!!! Never Ever!!! Not that anyone has ever been mean to me or that I do not like the women, I just feel to young and awkward to be there. I still feel like I myself belong in YW's, I don't believe I am Relief Society material. We shall see how this turns out. I am VERY torn up about being released, and when they decide to put in a new presidency I would definitely like to be put back in. It's the only place in a ward I feel comfortable. But til then it's off to Relief Society I go!....... Oh Boy!

My SON the Hedgehog

Yup! He is ALL Boy!

Yes you read right. 'My SON!' We found out yesterday that we are having a little boy!!!!! Both Tom and I are so so excited! We couldn't be happier with the news! To see the look on Tom's face when he found out he was having a boy was absolutely priceless and I wouldn't trade that moment for anything in the whole world! Since the ultrasound Tom has had an extra little twinkle in his eye. He is so so excited! :-)

Now as for my hedgehog son...... As soon as we started the ultrasound we realized that he was NOT going to make this easy on us! He was rolled up into a ball! His ankles were crossed and his feet were resting on his head! There's not exactly a lot to see in this situation besides a ball of baby! And all our ultrasound tech could say is how impressed she was with his acrobatic abilities. Well I wasn't quite as impressed!! I wanted to know what we were having!!! So we poked and shook him trying to unroll the ball, but he was not giving in. (He is definitely my child! It was 9:00 in the morning, i don't move when I'm comfy at 9:00 in the morning either! It doesn't matter how hard somebody tries to wake me!) Luckily with all the shaking of my belly that was now really tender from such a long ultrasound the ball of hedgehog baby rotated just enough that we were looking at his little bottom instead of his head. And it was VERY apparent that HE was a HE!!!!! We were very excited! That's definitely all he was giving away though! The poor tech couldn't get ANY of the measurements that she neededin 3 weeks to , and she cou;dn't see any of the parts that she needed to look at. She had me go to the restroom to hopefully move him around a little bit. So I went, while i was in there I jumped up and down, I shook my belly, I lectured him, I turned in cirles, anything I could think of to make him move from where he was. When we started the ultrasound again he was still in a ball!!! Only differnece now was taht he was standing on his head. (Oh boy child what am I going to do with you!) So we decided that I would just come back in 3 weeks to have another ultrasound. so hello ultrasound number 5!!! Holy cow! I don't think that any healthy pregnancys have EVER had this many ultrasounds! Ya I am definitely being spoiled! So i guess maybe he was rolled up to do mommy a favor so I could see him one more time before he is born.