Baby Shower # 1

Today was my family baby shower. I had a wonderful time mingling with those I haven't seen in a while. I got a ton of stuff and am grateful for all the love and support I have gotten. I don't know where I would be without my awesome family. And I want to especially thank Cortnie and Annie for throwing me a great party!

Thanks Everyone ~ From both mother and baby!

37 Weeks

I am now considered FULL TERM!!! Doctors appointment on Monday...nothing new I am sure. It is just a big waiting game. Seriously what people say about the last month dragging is SOOOOOOOO true.

A lady that use to be my YW leader offered to be a doula for me. Which is someone to help me through labor so I can try and get through it without medication. People may thing I am crazy, but the more research I do on epidurals the more I don't like them. I am not against them, and if I decided it is the best thing in the moment then, I will not be opposed to getting one. I just know that a woman's body is made to give birth, and I want to do whats best and most safe for me and my baby.

P.S. Baby Bingham, I am so excited to meet you little one. I love you so much already. I thought I knew what love was when I met my wonderful Kade...I find out more and more each day that there is always a deeper kind.

A Picture Of All 3 Of Us

Grandpa Pincock

Today we buried grandpa Pincock. It was a miserably cold day! The funeral service was great, there was a lot of touching music, good words, and tears shared. I learned a lot about a man that I called grandpa. He led a good life of 76 years, and we will all miss him.

The last couple of years have been hard, mostly on his body. He was slowly broke down, and it was a hard thing to watch. Kade and I recently became one of his many caregivers. It was a good thing for both of us. Kade got to help take care of him, and even though they hardly knew each other, Kade showed him a great deal of love. It was so helpful getting to help grandpa in the end because service always brings you closer to people. I became close to him and his wife by being able to help them. Grandpa truly had an angle of a wife here with him on earth and one waiting for him in heaven.

When I heard the news of his passing on Friday I couldn't help but think of the wonderful reunion in heaven he was having with my grandma and his other family members. It is hard to be sad when you know how wonderful the next life will be. Love you lots Grandpa, I was blessed to have you in my life!

These are some pictures my sister Anne Marie took.

36 weeks

I went to the Doctor again today. Good news, there is no new news! :D And I didn't even gain any weight this week, wahoo!
I had Kade take some pictures so you can see how I am growing. Not much has changed there either...I just keep getting bigger. I keep hoping he will come a little early, but it's all in God's hands. It is strange to thing that any day, my whole world could change!!! This thought makes me very happy :D

False Labor

So this morning around 3 I was up with labor :( It wasn't the Braxton Hicks contractions I have felt before. NOOO, it was all over, no sleep, no fun false labor. I kept thinking, this can't be the real thing. They would last for over 2 minutes and I only had maybe a minute between before it started over. So for hours I laid in bed, or was up walking around. At about 6 I fell asleep, and slept till church. When I got up to get ready, I was so soar. I felt like I had been doing sit-ups all night. Well I guess I wont see my bambino today. Maybe another day.

(No not a pic of me, I don't look that good)

I am hoping this event does NOT repeat itself.

Happy Halloween :S the story of how the bug got squished

So today we went up to my in-laws. My brother-in-law was having a birthday bash, and mom and dad Bingham made dinner. It was a yummy stuffed pumpkin (something I never knew existed till I married Kade). We ate at mom and dad’s and then headed up to Shila and Tony's house for cake with the rest of his family. We had a fun evening. After we decided we would go and visit one of Kade's friends that live up there.

It was one of those REALLY dark nights. It had been raining, so the moon and stars were behind a sheet of clouds, and you could see the reflection of puddles on the ground. Kade saw a kitten in the road and dodged it...we were laughing about how he had really good reflexes. Not a minute later we both saw breath in the air, by then it was to late, we had come across a herd of cows on the road. Kade did an amazing job, he dodged about 4 cows and slowed down enough that when we finally hit one, and we were going slow enough that it didn't hurt either of us. We were traveling north and had knocked the cow into the other lane. We got out of the car to look at the damage. My poor beetle was smashed pretty good, and the cow was lying in the other lane moaning. We got back into the car and moved it to the side of the road with our flashers on.

We saw headlights! Coming the other way! The car was driving so fast. We tried to honk our horn to warn her to slow down, or something. The horn wasn't working due to the accident, so Kade stepped outta the car to wave her down. She was going so fast it didn't make a difference what we did. She hit the cow that we hit and jumped the car about 5 feet in the air. Her car did 180 when it landed; she hit 2 more cows and busted their legs before she smashed into a fence post. We thought she was going to be in really bad shape.

Kade and I ran down to see if she was okay. Luckily for everyone no one got injured except for the cattle. We finally got a neighbor to come out and park his truck on the road so that no one else would hit any cows. We were there for about 3 hours trying to figure out if it was open or closed range, what farmer owned the cows, and if the pregnant lady was really okay! LOL, They finally found the farmer and the police told us it was closed range. So 3 cows and 2 totaled cars latter...we finally got to make our way home in Kade's parent's van.

The police told us that if the roads hadn't been wet that the other car's tires would have grabbed better and her car would have flipped over. We also know that if we hadn't hit the cow first the young lady would have hit a herd of 40 cows going really fast, and that could have been deadly. We had just turned on the road and had not gotten up to speed on the highway, so we were able to really slow down. We are also really grateful because our airbags didn't go off. With that accident it would have done more harm than good.

All is good other than we have one less vehicle to drive: D that was our Happy Halloween.

HERE ARE SOME PICTURES!

Doctor, Doctor, Tell Me The News

Went in again today, it will now be a once a week occurrence. This is a pain but at the same time it means I'm getting CLOSE!!! YEAH. Once again there is nothing new. I go to the doctor they check me and say okay see you in a week. It is great news because that means my little one is healthy, as far as they can tell. The only thing that they did do different today was checked me, and a group B strep culture (GBS). So that was my fun baby adventure for the day. :D