Conference Weekend and April fun

We were lucky to have the whole Rowley family in town for conference this year. Ryan even came down from Idaho. We got to play some bump (basketball) and sing together around the piano for a while, which was pretty fun.  Although I think I pulled a muscle in bump and it took a few days to recover...

 Landon and I have become avid rugby fans this year as we go to watch David play all the time. I'll be honest with you, rugby is one of those sports where the rules have always baffled me.  But after this season I am finally understanding it.  David plays the lock position for BYU.

This weekend there were lots of Rowley cousins and aunts and uncles in town for graduation and moving kids home for the summer. We had a get together at Aunt Mindy's house.  Makenna thought it would be good to take a sideview pic of the belly, ha.

And here's our good preggers pic with Landon in it with me, we finally had someone else around to take it :) I'm almost 37 weeks. 

Makenna said we had to do the traditional heart on the belly pose. You can see how much I love it...

Baby Shower!!

So a couple weeks ago, Whitney and Makenna were kind enough to throw me a baby shower! It was fun to see lots of friends and family, and get excited about our coming boy!  Here is something the Rowley girls made for me. So creative!

Here are about half of the girls that came (we didn't get the picture before some had already left) 

 And some of me opening our cute gifts. Thanks to everyone! We appreciate the cute clothes and useful baby items--they really helped on the budget!  And I got some good advice here and there from the experienced moms :)

She's Crafty!

The post title comes from a song that my sister's friends made about her in college. It just came to mind, haha. While Landon has been studying like crazy for finals, I decided to get crafty and make some things to get ready for the baby.  People tell me it's that "nesting" thing kicking in.  I just finished a carseat cover. I still have to buy cute buttons to decorate the straps, but other than that, it's done. 

 I also decided to try making a nursing cover, because they looked easy enough, ha. 

Lately we have been trying to find things to decorate the baby's room (Landon doesn't like when I call it a nursery. He thinks it sounds British, ha. Or reminds him of Peter Pan).  Since we're on a budget, I'm trying to do things that make it color coordinated without buying too much.  I decorated these frames to match the bedding set with the Modge Podge I had on hand and a couple pieces of scrapbook paper.

We left our camera at Levi's house, so I will have to catch up on things with Easter and Conference later when I have the pictures, but I was excited to have finished my projects, so I wanted to post them.

March Fun

I'm a little behind... but this was our breakfast on St. Patrick's Day.  We had green waffles.  

And I finally made triple fudge pound cake for Landon to try yesterday.  I just love that stuff.  We had it with some strawberries for fun.

We took these pictures just for fun to mess with the new camera. But they make me smile. 

Landon says this one makes him look tall :)

I have been doing some thinking and trying to get ready for the baby.  It's a little overwhelming. Mainly because I am what I would call a sprinter in life.  I live my life the way I do conditioning :) I would much rather run sprints than distance because I can see the end, which helps me keep my perspective and push hard.  I really have no skills or discipline at pacing myself.  In long distance, the end is so far that I lose sight of how I wanted to run the race, and I just do what I have to to get by.  I think that's what scares me. Having a baby is not something where there's an end in sight. Your responsibility as a mother is forever after you have the baby. I want to be a good mother.  So I'm trying to think of little goals and things I want to do along the way and make a list now.  I have a feeling that once I'm in the middle of it, I will forget that perspective, and just do the bare minimum to get by. If anyone has any suggestions for cool things that you did with/for your baby in the first year, or how to set good goals with them, I'm always up for suggestions. 

Meet at Temple Square

Photo by Tami

Landon and I lucked out to see my sister Tami and her family a week or two ago. It was the kids' first time at temple square, so we got to walk around with them and act like we knew what we were talking about :)  It was a lot of fun to see them, even though it was only for a little while.

The kids were impressed by all of the detail on the doors--and how tall they are!

Fountains were also a favorite, so we stopped by all of those that we could find.

It's highly possible that our little baby will have hair as curly as this little guy :)

Also by Tami. You can pretty much just assume that all of the artistic shots are from her. 

This one just makes me smile. The worker there told him that this was probably close to the actual size of Goliath!

touching the temple

Landon wanted a shot of having the whole world in his hands...

And carrying the world on his back

shots with our new camera from the viewpoints in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building

It's a beautiful place with lots of history!  It was really fun to talk about it with the kiddos.  And they were glad to be out of the car in the middle of their long days of driving from Seattle to St. George!

31 Weeks!

Here I am at 31 weeks. Hopefully next time I can get someone to take a picture with Landon in it with me so we can put it in the baby book. Pregnancy is going great. I failed my first glucose test, but when I went in for the 3 hour test, I was fine, so no gestational diabetes for me. The baby likes to stick his feet in my ribs and roll his elbows in funny positions though. Luckily I really haven't had that much trouble sleeping still.  Landon, on the other hand, says I have taken to snoring in my pregnancy, so he probably struggles with it more than I do, ha.  We are trying to figure out all of the items we need to get for the little guy, and I am amazed at how much gear a little baby needs!  But we are excited for him to come. It's going by so fast and so slow all at the same time!

Do you remember those days in elementary school when it was cool to play marbles at recess? Landon and I were reminiscing the other day. He talked about how he used to be so good, but then the teachers made a rule against playing because they had been playing for keeps and he kept taking home the other kids' marbles.

I remember that my favorite part was just trading for the prettiest ones. Michael would always want to play, and I would generally lose, so I would much rather have just traded than end up with nothing.  The cat-eye ones were cool and all, but the steelies were harder to come by, and the gem-colored ones were my favorite.  At least we didn't have many steelies. Landon, on the other hand, doesn't find them that special because they could get them from old ball bearings on the farm equipment any time.

This all came up because we found some ball bearings in our desk. So we played some marbles. I was surprised--either I have much more control of my fingers now than when I was little, or I just had no idea how good I was at the time :) Landon was impressed that his wife was such a marble professional. Until I beat him. Then he wasn't so happy. We had to have a rematch of course, and he won the second game. So we left it at that.  Good times.