13-17 weeks preggers & Asher is 15-16 months old

I have been deciding if I should blog this pregnancy and I have just decided I will because it documents the pregnancy really well!

The baby bump popped out earlier this time around!!

I reached my previous baby weight and then quickly gained about 5 lbs the first few weeks this pregnancy.

My current weight is about 153 I get up to 157 some days and down to 152 on others but I feel like I am a lot more in control this time around.

I am able to workout longer I feel overall healthier.

In the last few months of my pregnancy with Asher I ate ice cream at least 3 times a week, I ate a lot of frosting, and any candy in sight.

If you know me I don't have much of a sweet tooth, it is usually easy for me to turn down sweets.

So we will see if I can do it!

I've really been trying to work out more this time around, but I had major set backs with being sick constantly the whole first trimester.

I never threw up but sometimes I had wondered if I would have felt better if my body had just let me throw up.

I felt nauseous a large part of my day and I tried to drink a V8 and the thought of drinking it revolted me. Jared was eating some leftover meatballs and I had to run out of the kitchen before I smelt it.

I still can't be around meatballs without feeling extremely sick.

Now at 17 weeks I can't eat too much of anything unhealthy corn dogs, soda, ice cream, candy.

So at least this baby wants me to be healthy!

This is me at 13 weeks preggers.

I am 17 weeks in the photo below.
Yay for baby bump!

Now for Asher he is a busy busy little boy..

He's a little boy! =(

Why is he growing so fast!!

He has been conversing with people a lot, I just wish we knew what he was saying!

You may notice in a lot of the pictures they are blurry, this is because Asher usually doesn't stay still for more then a couple seconds at a time.

He is always running.

If I didn't force him to eat he probably wouldn't, he would much rather be running around.

He can climb up and down the stairs, but the other day he missed a step at the bottom and fell and has been more cautious since then.

He has started to feed himself, and would actually prefer to even though he hasn't got the whole spoon in mouth thing down.

He says a lot of words like dog, uh-o, mama, dada/daddy, yay, go, and so on. he talks so much I'm sure I've missed more then half of the words he has said.
Asher is a pretty awesome dancer, he can't help but dance when he hears a good beat.

He makes Jared and I so happy.

Asher loves his big boy car seat.

Arrow and the Black Canary.

Asher and I watched Frozen and he loved the first few songs and then he was done, oh and he loved the main screen with the snow flakes.

I was getting tired of millions of toys all around our apartment all the time and no where to put them so I created a little nook for Asher and he loved it!

Thanks for visiting my blog!
Have a good one! =)

Remembering Who We Are

"You have forgotten who you are and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become."

Disney has such profound one liners that get you really thinking.
I think a lot of people, in Utah specifically, forget who they are.
They have forgotten God.

In the picture above, Christ cannot force himself into your life. YOU have to invite him in.

If you take a long hard look inside yourself you will remember and you will want to let him in.

I have experienced this in my past I shut out Christ.
I thought I would be better on my own.
It is only when I fully let him back in that I realized how much I missed him.
How my soul had been aching to feel that pure love again.
He is the one who made me whole again after being broken.
He has so much love for me, and he never left, he waited for me to open that door and welcome him in.
He saw how he could help me and all I had to do was give him the okay.

I remember in Sunday school when I was about 10 that my teacher held up a long string and then tied a knot in it.
The knot was towards the beginning of the string; it represented our life on earth, and she said something along the lines of, "Do you want to mess up the rest of your eternity for your decisions in this life?" 

We are human and we ALL make mistakes.
Everyone has that one sin that they can't easily shake, and when we fail time and time again it is easy to lose hope, but you can't lose hope because through the atonement of Christ ANYTHING is possible.

One of the many reasons we are here in this life is to find peace within ourselves.
We can overcome it all with the help of a Perfect being.

I am so grateful for Christ; I know that he would have made that sacrifice for just me.
It is mind boggling, but I know he loves me and loves each person on this earth and would do the same for each one of them individually.
He wants us to succeed and to find happiness.
It is easy to sin, it is easy to forget to read your scriptures, or to pray.
I am GUILTY of each.
I sometimes find myself dreading church but I owe it to Christ to give it my best and that is all he asks of any of us.



The Lord is my Shepherd.

Asher over the past few months!

So Asher is almost a year old! CRAZY!
I can't believe it, where did the time go?

He has the biggest personality! He is his daddy's son so of course he has a big personality. 

His teenage years may be trouble... He is already flirting with every girl who will talk to him.. Which is a lot of girls... He cocks his head to the side and smiles at them, then he babbles.

I am so glad Asher is the way he is, I wouldn't change one thing about him.

He may be a stinker sometimes but he is mine and he is perfect!!

So over the past few months Asher has learned to WALK!!

And he is learning a few different words he says mama dada baba, yay, & dowie (aka doggie) he might say a few other words but I haven't noticed them.

He waves bye bye, I absolutely love it!

He can sit quietly in church looking at a book, or he will scream either way works right? haha.

He LOVES Mickey Mouse Clubhouse's hot dog dance.

(I will post a video later of him dancing)

Asher is Very curious he has blocks that I got him for Christmas and I put them away every night but he gets them out the next morning and places them in about ten different places, either on shelves,  behind the TV, or under the couch.

Asher doesn't wake up too early, he is up at about seven and I can't complain it's a good time to wake up, unless you stay up all night...

So when I stay up late I wake up at seven with Asher, get his bottle, turn on the TV, & give him a blanket. He is good for a couple hours while I sleep.

He loves to play by himself but he also loves playing with mommy and daddy.

He thinks it is THE coolest thing to hide under a blanket with us.

We did it for about 40 minutes the other day and he laughed and laughed.

Asher started taking little steps here and there a few weeks ago and I would only see it out of the corner of my eye, but I finally caught him walking and it was so cute!!

Now he is walking all over the place and is very cautious about falling.

Asher loves his daddy SO much! Jared left for some training in Wisconsin and Asher was so crabby!

Needless to say I am glad Jared is home for a little while.

Asher has upgraded to toddler foods and is slowly warming up to them.

He loves my food more then anything else though.

I've tasted his food and it's actually pretty good, but he probably just wants my food because it's 'my' food.

He loves little puffs and Veggie Straws.

He absolutely loves bananas and chewing on apples.

He has two teeth and a third coming in, and he loves to bite.

Just like his mommy at that age.

I knew it would come back to bite me.... haha.

What more can I say?

He is more then I could have ever hoped for, he fills up all the holes in my heart and I feel like it could burst with how much love I have.

Here are some pictures!

Enjoy!

He can go from full on melt down to...

oh hey mom. in a matter of seconds.

Daddy graduated with his Bachelors of Science.(I think that's what it is called.)

Asher and two of his cousins.

Jared was promoted to Sgt. mhm! haha

Asher's first cupcake!

Asher is the sweetest, busiest, funniest, cutest, best bud a mom and dad could ever ask for!

I will try and be more consistent with my posts!

Thanks for reading all.

Have a good one!