Are we there yet?

My due date is in 17 days! And my emotions about that change about every other minute. One minute I feel like I am in to much pain to do this for one more day and I talk to my baby Logan trying to coax him to make an early appearance. Then the next minute I am just SO excited to meet my baby that can't wait and want to hold him in my arms right this very minute. The next minute I am in tears that I am not ready for him to be here yet. There is way to much to do, and I'm too tired to do it all and Tom is ALWAYS working so nothing is getting accomplished! Then the next minute I am completely selfish and feel like I am losing my alone time with my amazing husband, and am losing the freedom I have always had to go and do what I want when I want. And it goes on and on and on.

So how am I spending my last short weeks of this pregnancy? Well today Tom was laying his head on my belly while Logan kicked him in the head repeatedly! So we are spending lots of time just enjoying feeling him move around inside of me.

I am spending my time putting together a fun Valentines day for my sweet husband. It's our last Valentines day without a little one running around.

I am finishing up work! I only have 4 more days of work left. It's crazy! I haven't been "without a job" since I turned 15. This will definitely be a big change for me.

I am spending as much time as I can resting and relaxing. I have been pretty sick lately and am in So much pain so some days resting on the couch is all my body will allow!

I am writing lists of things I still need to do, and things we still need to buy, and people we need to call/text when Logan arrives.

And I am spending lots of time talking with Tom about our hopes and dreams for our little boy, and discussing how we want to raise him.

I am also counting my blessings lots these days! I am so lucky to be about to have a child! I feel so lucky to have Tom be the father of my child. he will be such an amazing daddy. I know I have said that many times before but I cannot help but say it over and over again! I am one lucky person!

Logan is on his way!!!! And I couldn't be happier! :-)

Hiccups

Hiccups have never been something that I have enjoyed. I have always been one of those people that once the hiccups begin they NEVER go away. I have always cursed hiccups!

Fast forward to a very huge and pregnant Heather..... I adore hiccups now!!! No coming out of me of course! No no they still can BITE the big one! No I love baby hiccups in my tummy!! Out of all the adorable sweet moves this little man makes his hiccups have definitely stolen my heart!! There is just something about knowing exactly what he is doing in there that is just so incredible to me! When he is headbutting me, or kicking me I can never quite figure out what is going on in there and how he is positioned to do such a thing to his mommy. But once the hiccups begin I know that my little angel has been practicing his breathing and now has hiccups. I know it sounds silly but I am SO in love with these little hiccups I feel several times a day!

So hiccups, I apologize for all the mean names I have called you over the years. You truly have turned into one of this mommies biggest delights! :-)

A look back at 2010

Wow! What a year 2010 was! Definitely one to remember. There were ups and downs, tears of joy and tears of saddness. Looking back though I wouldn't change a single thing, because it brought me to where I am right now, and I really like where I am right now! :-)

So let's look back at some of the highlights of 2010.....

~I celebrated my 1st anniversary with my sweetheart!!! We escaped up to Park City for the Weekend and had a blast!! I am one lucky girl to have such an incredible husband!!!

~We discovered we were going to struggle having a baby so went through fertility tests and treatments with the Reproductive Care Center. That definitely was a hard time.

~I was there for the birth of my adorable nephew Sammy! An unforgettable experience for sure! He is so much fun! love that little chunk!!

~I went on a trip to Vegas with Tom and my sister in law Steph. It was lots of fun! We stayed with Tom's aunt and uncle that I had never met before which was fun. You gotta love good Vegas trip!

~Tom and I were Pirates in Peter Pan!! So Fun!!! I loved to be able to spend so much time with Tom and do something that I absolutely love! Pirates, performing, and Tom. definitely not a bad combo. :-)

~I'm Pregnant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After much saddness and stress we got pregnant!!!!!!!!! This definitely was THE highlight of 2010! Everything in this pregnancy has gone picture perfect and I am so so grateful!!!! And looking back I am so glad that Tom and I went through the trials we did to get pregnant for so many reasons! The biggest reason would be the fact that I now understand what other people are going through and can be a good listening ear. it has gotten me so much closer to a few people that I don't think I would ever really be friends with before. We are now only 2 months away from meeting our precious little man!!!

~My sister Tiffanie got married this summer. I never thought I would see the day! She has really turned her life around and I am proud of her. They came to utah to get married, but they live in Arizona for now. It's fun to have a new brother in law. My side of the family is slowly but surely growing!

~My brother in law left on his mission to South Africa. He seems to be doing very very well! It's fun to hear about life in south Africa.

~My newest neice was born this year to. Cute little Cadence is lots of fun to be around!

~My sister in law Steph got married this year as well. We have another new brother in law. Lots and lots of fun! They got married right before Christmas.


This was definitely a big year for us! Our family grew by 4 people!!!! How crazy!!! 2010 was an awesome year, one I will always treasure! And 2011 is going to be even better!!! I get to meet my little man very soon which I couldn't be happier about!! And I get to celebrate my 2nd anniversary with the love of my life!!! Welcome 2011, I[m ready for you!!!!!!!

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!!!!!!! :-)