August Rush

The month of August is drawing to a close without much action on our blog. But don't think that's because we've just been sitting around. Oh no. We've been busy. The thought of separate posts for each "event" is too overwhelming for me right now, so here is a hodgepodge of what we've been doing lately.

Becoming an Uncle and Aunt

This didn't actually happen in August, but we haven't updated since she was born. That's right, on July 29th Carly gave birth to our first niece, Sadie. We've spent many hours this month stalking their blog, waiting for the latest updates on our little niece. I'm not sure when we will get to officially meet her, but we can't wait. She is adorable and takes the best pictures (and when I say "takes" I mean, her parents do a great job of capturing her candid moments). I only hope our son is half as entertaining and Anthony and I will be half as good parents. Congratulations, Nielsons!!

Growing

The month of August brought several milestones for me, some more fun than others. I now feel our little guy moving. All.the.time. A mover and a shaker for sure. For the most part this is very exciting. I wish he didn't press on my bladder so much, but it's not really his fault. There isn't much room in there. A less fun milestone is that my back is really starting to hurt at the end of the day. But we're all happy his growth is right on schedule.

In the first picture I am 23 weeks along and in the second I am 25 weeks.

Camping

I spent a few days early this month with our ward young women at Girl's Camp. I had a great time! Teenage girls are so fun. It was a great week--the weather was beautiful, I didn't get any headaches, and the girls from our ward have such good attitudes. My main regret is that our camera stopped working so I have no pictures. I am working to get some pictures from girls in the ward, so we'll see. Hopefully I'll get some up here at some point, but that is a big reason why I was so slow to blog this month. It feels weird to blog without pictures.

Celebrating...

three years of marital bliss. That's right, we've made it three years. We didn't do much to celebrate the day of, because our anniversary fell in the middle of the week, but here is a picture of us that night. If we look a little tired it's because we are, we helped some friends move that night, but I still wanted to take a picture to commemorate the occasion.

Sister Time

Jill and Emily came to town in mid-August so we made a weekend trip to KC. It was fun to be with all my sisters before they all start another year of school. Next time I see them I will have a baby. Crazy. It was a packed weekend. My mom organized a "family baby shower" where we got lots of clothes and a few other "essentials" for our boy toy. You know, like nursing pads and nose suckers. :o) My dad made some of his delicious apple crisp which I am still craving. We also got some family pictures taken.

Road trip '09: St. Louis

All summer we've been talking about taking some kind of trip. Being the recessionistas that we are, we decided that a weekend trip to "The 'Lou" would be the best vay-cay we could afford right now. We had a great time. We went to a Cardinals game, where Albert Pujols won the game with a walk-off homerun in the bottom of the ninth. We went to the temple. We visited the arch. Anthony was excited because the designer of the arch, Eero Saarinen, is Finnish. He was less excited about the height, and didn't like looking out the windows. We had a lot of fun.



And now, I guess you could say, we are ready to take on the rest of 2009.