LESS THAN A MONTH!

Hello...so I got on the computer today and realized I haven't posted anything for awhile...that is sad.  So really the only thing going on in life right now is that the baby is due in less than a month!  Joe and I are so excited!  The baby's crib is made and all of his clothes are folded and put away.  We are so happy that we are going to have our little son in our arms so soon!  We went to a childbirth class on Saturday, and to the Dr. on Saturday!  The class was super helpful it taught us both some things we wanted to learn, and put a lot of our uneasiness at rest.  We also got to go on a tour of the maternity part of the hospital and I feel very blessed that my baby gets to be born in such a nice place.  The Dr. says everything is going great, and we will now start seeing him once a week!
    The rest of life is good.  It's crazy to think that Joe will be going back to school in three weeks, and then comes the baby!  Right now we are really just enjoying the seven week break and it is wonderful because we get to spend a lot of time together during the day before Joe goes to work.  I have read a lot of books in the evenings that he is at work, and it feels great to be reading books again!  I don't get a lot of time for that when I am in school and I am definitely glad to get that time back!
    My family is coming to visit this week and I am sooooo excited!  They haven't been to Rexburg the entire time that I have lived in Rexburg, so I am super stoked that they are coming now!  We get to play with them for a few days and I am super stoked to show them all of the greatness of Rexburg!  I am also glad that we are moved into the new house so that there is more space for them all to be comfy here at my house!
    We used some of our bed, bath, and beyond cards from wedding presents to buy curtains for the windows, and the house looks great!  I love what curtains can do to a room!  Hopefully soon I will take some pictures and post them!
    We will taking some pregnancy pictures soon, thanks to my wonderful friend Kim, and I will post them along with pictures of the house, since I have had some requests!  Love you all!

Yellowstone

We went to Yellowstone with Grandma and Grandpa Parks for Grandpa Park's 86th birthday!  It was super fun and we enjoyed it a lot!  It was my first time going to Yellowstone, and it was so beautiful!!!!  Excuse the yucky picture of me standing next to Old Faithful...it was super cool to watch, and hopefully the video we got of it will load.  We didn't think we would get to see it, but it was supposed to go off within 15 minutes, so we got to stay and watch, and it was amazing!  And for Grandpa's birthday Grandma bought us all ice cream in the Old Faithful lodge and it was delicious!  And we had a picnic lunch!  Yum!   It was really fun to go with Joe's Grandpa, he told us a lot of the history of the places where we drove by since he grew up here.  It was neat to hear about the things he has done in his childhood and throughout his life.  He truly is an amazing man.
    I am now 34 weeks along which is really exciting!  Joe and I can't believe that there is only 6 weeks left and our little guy is going to be here!  We are so excited!
   We are going this week to Emily's house in Boise. and we are really happy to get to spend some time with her.  We haven't seen her since Christmas, and we miss her!  We are going to Boise because Joe's truck needs an emissions test, and we can only get it done in Boise because that is where it is registered, and it is the only place where we can get the emission test done.  Not gonna lie though, I'm not excited to make the hot trip in the truck...but it will be fun!
  After we go to Emily's house, we will go to my house to see my family and pick up stuff for the baby!
   Our new apartment it pretty much all moved into.  We only have one more box in our room to unpack, and then find a new home for a few things and we are done!  Wahoo!  As soon as I get decorations on the walls, and the house looks pretty I will post some pictures.  We got some new curtains with our gift cards to Bed, Bath, and Beyond, and I am so excited to get them hung up and see how they look!
   Joe got a raise at work, and I am so proud of him.  Joe is the first one to ever ask for a raise at the branch he is working in, and the boss told him that he thought Joe was definitely worth what Joe was asking for!  Hooray!  And because Joe went and asked, some of the other supervisors got a raise too!  Joe works so hard to support our family and I couldn't ask for a better husband and provider.
  I think that's about all that is new in our lives...6 more weeks and we are gonna be PARENTS!  HOORAY!

This is me at the first waterfall we saw!

GEYSER!

Me and Grandma Parks!

All of us together!

This is the lower falls of the Yellowstone River.  We didn't see the big one, because by the time we got here we were all tired and ready to go home!

One of the video's is the geyser bubbling, and one is Old Faithful.  Grandma said it didn't get that big when she saw it, so we felt pretty lucky!