SuRgErY, JoB, & bAbY uPdAtE!!

Brandon is recovering quite well from his surgery. The first couple days he was pretty miserable and couldn't do a whole lot. Within a couple days, he had the swing back into his step and was pretty much back to himself. He still can't lift more than 2 or 3 pounds! I have been lifting EVERYTHING. I love seeing the look on people's faces when I carry everything and Brandon has NOTHING! :) lol!! Like at the grocery store! We were carrying groceries in up 3 flights of stairs and our neighbor lady grabbed some of the bags from me and then saw Brandon and tried to hand them to him... I quickly told her he can't lift because of his surgery!! Who's stupid idea was it to live on the 3RD floor? I will be SO ready for him to lift again or at least to have a house!!

Jobs are going very well and have a couple of leads/prospects that look really good. Most likely we will be in the Ogden/Layton area. The jobs don't start till July 1st, which work well for recovering from lifting for Brandon, but not so good with needing a few days off after having baby!

My fat belly is doing good. I am feeling good still, just H-U-G-E and H-O-T!! We had stake conference yesterday and the power went out, so no air conditioning. I thought I was going to DIE! The girl next to me handed me one of her kids' book to fan myself! :)
We had an appointment 2 weeks ago... she measured at 5.2 pounds! ALREADY?? Are you serious? She is still somewhat in the breech position, but kind of on an oblique angle with her head under my left arm and feet down towards the right leg. Everything looks good. He said that he wasn't worried about her not being head down yet and that he thinks with the angle she is on... she is on her way. He said that they usually weigh a little more with head up and once turned, it should be a more accurate weight.

At Riley's graduation and old man came up to me and said " I think that you might want to try a different diet... that one is just not working for you!!" Haha!! I thought it was pretty funny!

I can't believe how close all of this really is!! We have been taking a childbirth preparation class and I am beginning to wonder if that was a good or bad thing! I think it has almost made me even more scared, but hey I know how to breathe through those contractions and I will DEFINATELY be getting an epidural!! Oh well, I keep reminding myself that there are millions of people a day that do it and I should be fine! :) I know the more scared I go into it, the worse it will be!

Everyone keeps telling us how much our lives are going to change and be so different. I know that it will be so different, but like Brandon and I have talked about... It isn't that we don't love it being just the two of us, but this is what we are supposed to be doing and have looked forward to for so long.. it is the next step in our lives and we are so thrilled to have the change in our lives as different as it might be!!

Work is good, I guess.. They have been in the process of making some HUGE changes to our department. I absolutely LOVE the team I have been on and we all work so well together. I really was blessed to be put on that team. Through all the changes.. I got moved to a different team. Of 15 people 3 of us got moved. It is so stupid. They took us off that team to put us on different teams doing the exact same thing and put 3 other ones in. I am pretty upset about it and cried the rest of the day when I found out! I must have a target on my name that says "pick me, pick me". This happened last time changes were made too. It all worked out okay, so I hope that this one will too. They might not like me too well when I tell them I am off for 12 weeks paid and possibly not coming back!