blowout...in the bread machine

so, i try to read a lot.

to prepare myself for the little baby that will be coming soon.

what type of blank is the best type to buy.

how many clothes does he need.

what's birth/the hospital going to be like.

how to nurse.

what to expect.

etc etc.

and of course with reading blogs and talking to siblings, i've heard about the inevitable blowouts.

not looking forward to those, but whatevs.

but sunday, i felt like i had a blowout in my bread machine.

let's just say 2 T of yeast in a bread machine IS WAY TOO FLIPPING MUCH.

the rolls still turned out tasting way yummy,

but clean up was a beast.

if you've ever used a bread machine, there's like a little bucket inside you can take in and out with a handle that holds your bread.

way easy to clean.

but there's extra space (at least in my machine) surrounding the bucket.

and the dough WENT ALL OVER into every nook and cranny.

and you can't just clean it up because it's all STICKY!

during my 25 minutes of cleaning it all, I was thinking "it would have been less work to just make the dough by hand!"

(it actually may not have that's just what i was thinking at the moment).

moral of the story.

bread machines rock.

too much yeast in bread machines does not rock.

i'm lame and didn't take a picture,

would have been great for memories but oh well :)

cornhusker football

so 2 weekends ago casey and i headed out to a nebraska football game!

firstly, it was a totally different experience than from BYU football.

details first.

pictures second.

casey has season tickets.

the first 2 games he sold his ticket because either we were gone in AZ or i had just gotten back from AZ.

so this was his first too!

tailgating around here seems to be a much bigger deal than the game itself.

EVERYONE tailgates.

pretty much the whole city is rented out for different tailgates, it's insane.

EVERYONE is in red.

it's an absolute sea of red.

we went with another couple in our ward and were constantly losing them because they just blended into the sea of red.

we wore our wheres waldo shirts because i didn't have a red shirt that fit and i convinced casey to match me.

there's an itty bitty student section, and then a GINORMO everyone else section.

nebraska football is truly the main event of the whole state.

30 minutes before the game started the stadium was PACKED,

i was amazed.
we sat with a large section of dental students.

everyone stood for such a long time,

even the non student/expensive seat section.

i however withstood the peer pressure to stand for very long due to the super hot sun (the whole time) and being large with child.
the student section did stand the whole game (even after it was super boring after the first quarter).

on all nebraska kick offs, everyone takes off their shoe and puts it in the air...strange but cool.

their mascot is really weird.

i felt like a poser/wannabe trying to join all their chants, i just couldn't get into it as well as i didn't know it at all.

we left at half time (sadly) because they were beating the other team so bad, the sun was too dang hot, and casey had an elder's quorum video game night activity to attend.

overall, i'm glad i got to go.

it was way fun and an eye opening experience to football.

go huskers.
(the picture of us together below was like 15 minutes before the game started, do you see how PACKED it is?!)

i have much more fun watching the games at home and feel better about cheering them on in my own living room than with real fans in a stadium.

cougar football on the other hand...even if they're losing i'm still pumped for all the plays :)
go cougars.

because i want to put up a blog post today but have no energy to go through lots of pictures,

you get just one,

from nearly a month ago.
but i sure do love this pic

plans for the day:
go have lunch at casey's school.
laundry.
stretch for 30 min
continue to make my house a house or order
go to casey's football game tonight

happy wednesday.

bump at 30 weeks

30 down, 10 TO GO!

that sounds absolutely insane, INSANE i tell you!

as i was getting ready to write this post thinkings how far along i'll be friday, i got so many butterflies.

30 is the beginning of the last stretch.

i can't believe it's getting to the end.

i have SO much to do though.

i feel like my house is still in shambles.

there's so many more house projects to get done.

baby projects to get done.

baby things to buy.

decisions to make with the birth etc.

and time to emotionally get ready (sure i've had 30 weeks to do all that but i'm a procrastinator you see... i've also only lived here for a little over a month and been out of town for 2 weeks of it...)

pregnancy really has been great.

my back is usually always sore.

my acne has not gone away.

i'm excited to be able to sleep on my stomach again.

getting out of the car is a little bit harder than usual now.

clothes still fit comfortably enough.

other than that, i feel very normal and i know i'm very fortunate to say thus.

this morning i finally realized the baby was having hiccups, HICCUPS!

bah!

hiccups have never seemed so cute in my life before, loved it, and casey was around to feel it which was presh too.

doctors appts have been going great.

i get to see that little boy on the ultrasound screen every time and it's just so cute.

that's my baby right there!

this last appt, my doctor was trying to get his arm to move a little so we could see his face, and you could see on the ultra sound her hand push on my belly and push his arm, it was really fun to see (he didn't move and we didn't get any good pictures, every time except that one he's been a star on screen:)

so here i was last week.

both some where in the 29 1/2 week range.
i thought i looked ginormo in the BYU shirt pic, so i had casey take some other ones a few days later but now i'm like, "eh, i'm pregnant and that WAS what i looked like that day, whatevs..."

i know i'm getting bigger but it's less noticeable to me now, it kinda just is this big ol' belly that well...just is, ha.

and since casey is always my model for me to get my lighting right, i thought i'd include his this time :)

thus far my belly button isn't totally out yet but it's definitely not in, it's like flat with a little ridge on one side.
clothing wise, i still have quite a few non-matenity shirts i can wear.
i had already collected a few maternity shirts over the past few years when i saw crazy good sales.
i have quite a few dresses and skirts i still fit into nicely.
i borrowed a few shirts from my SILs while in AZ that i can now choose from.
and the jeans you see above, are my biggest maternity purchase thus far from H&M in AZ, very happy with them :)

missing husband.

so dropping casey off at the airport 2 weeks for him to go back to nebraska while i stayed was oober not fun.

it felt like the summer we were apart when we were engaged.

you see, we were engaged at the end of march and married at the end of november.

for 4 of those 8 months, casey was working in pennsylvania and i in utah at aspen grove.

those were 4 very long months to be apart.

at the end of june, casey flew back to utah for a family reunion and we were reunited for about 4 days.

best 4 days of my summer.

but returning casey to the airport that summer was the worst day ever.

tears.

tons of tears.

we both agreed that was the hardest tears we've ever shed.

sure, we knew we'd see each other again but we didn't want to leave each other.

this time i was yet again dropping casey off at the airport.

and yet again, it was tears.

i didn't want to  be apart from him for TWO weeks!

it was like he was dying!

i dropped him off looking like this
(he brought back an ottoman we checked in that large box:)

we facetimed and texted tons of course.

i had made casey a list called "kimber, i'm hungry" with lots of ideas for EASY dinner/lunch fixes.

after 3 days he sent me a picture of this:

he said this "this is what happens when wife is away"

i'm glad to be back with him (and feed him)

for my first morning back we made red and blue pancakes in honor of the BYU and nebraska games playing that day.

funny that i drew a Y and N...it looks like yes and no.

a shower

my super sweet SIL, megan, and my mom put together a slightly last minute shower for me.

it was seriously so fun to get to see a bunch of friends.

and they were all of course so surprised to see me with a pregnant belly.

it just felt so special having so many people who i really care about and love in my life here to celebrate with me and my baby.

sadly, there were pretty much no pictures taken with friends :(

here's some of the pictures that my cousin, danielle, took for me.

a few notes:
balloons make a party a party, am i right?
annalee helped me open the sweet gifts.
my aunt handmade a beautiful blanket and sent it all the way.
mini cupcakes are bomb.
a friend made a bahama bucks onesie and bib for me, how awesome?
fruit pizza is just the best.

 

i truly loved seeing all my friends.
that was the best part.
it was so crazy fun to open up all these cute little baby clothes that i got to keep!
mostly i've just looked at the cute stuff but not gotten to take it home so this was so exciting!

thank you to all those who came, you were so sweet!!!!!!

entertaining the chillins.

to pass a little of time with the children...

we played in the rain one morning
(rain in AZ=special occasion)

we went bowling after dinner.

went to the santan splash pad with megan, tristan, and evolett.
they're time was spent lying on the water spouts, squatting over the water spouts, or keeping their feet over the water spouts.

whenever my SIL, whitney, came over the girls always begged her to color with them.
phoebe always wanted to help you make food, real cute.
she'd see you doing something in the kitchen and say "can i help you?"

and the cookie monster fest continues...

annalee had her first dance class while i was there.
we took some pictures and phoebe, of course, wanted to be in the pictures too.
so we took some of just phoebe, some together, and some of just annalee.
she then followed with an emotional break down when annalee left for dance class and she couldn't...
so we watched dance class videos on youtube for 20 minutes :)

and the family all came over for dinner.
there's  a good handful of people missing, but it was still so fun.

 

other fun activities:
making hopscotch numbers and taping them to the ground in the kitchen to play.
painting in ziploc bags.
painting nails.
going to the park.
running through the sprinklers.
ice skating in the kitchen (aka cleaning the floor).

don't believe i'm always fun.
with being pregnant, waking up much earlier than usual, and constantly on the go with these girls,
i most definitely needed my down time.
one time phoebe and i played house, i was the baby laying on the couch, she the mommy.
she kept telling me to cry, so while i layed on the couch, with my eyes closed, i fake baby cried and then would ask for something "feed me, i want a blanket, put me to sleep, i need a pacifier, etc) it was a great 20 minute break :)

i was amazed how many times a cup spilt full of liquid, ha.
they always felt bad for doing it.
on the last day i was there and another cup was spilt (which nearly killed my iphone) i was about to get frustrated and then thought "oh man, this is truly funny how often it happens"

BYU

watching the BYU game tonight, i saw this video on a friend's facebook wall.

i really miss BYU.

WE REALLY miss BYU.

those 4 years were some of the greatest for us.

i'm jealous of friend's pictures/stories while they're at the Y right now.

we loved our time their together.

when i start thinking about it too much, i literally start to cry because of all my good memoreis.

moral of the story: if you're still going to the Y or in the area/atmosphere of the school, soak it in.