my fun trip to utah!!

the "La Caille" resturant....MY FAVORITE!!!

Grandma's baking is so wonderful!

can you find jon???

I don't Understand

Hello,

Even though my last post had ZERO comments I'm going to discuss something I feel very strongly about. I don't want to offend anybody but I can't help but voice my opinion. I cannot for the life of me understand WHY people want their mothers, grandmothers, sisters, mothers-in-law, or aunts in the delivery room while they are having a baby. Why? "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills."

From others I've heard the reason to have extra people in the delivery room is to share the moment with them. That doens't make sense to me because the moment should be shared with your husband. Not your mommy or Nana. It's YOUR family unit. I haven't delivered a baby yet, but since it's coming up in a few months I've been thinking about what a special experience it will be with my husband. I feel like having more people in the room will only distract from the spiritual atmosphere I want to have after the baby comes.

Another reason I've seen how having more people in the delivery room can cause problems is because the father of the baby gets completely pushed aside and ignored. They make the experience to be about the mother leaving the father out of the loop. It's supposed to be a shared experience for the parents. I have seen a case where the father was the last one to hold his own child, even a brothers' girlfriend that was in the delivery room had held the baby before the dad (the girlfriend is no longer in the picture by the way). There is something seriously wrong with that sitution. That doesn't seem fair at all.

The last reason I will mention is that I don't need other people to watch me go through that violent process. There are some gross things that happen, which I will not go into detail about, that other people don't need to see. I will not say anything more.

Anyway, those are some of my reasons. I hope I didn't offend anyone but I'm just stating my opinion.

Amy

NYC's own superheroes - NYPOST.com

NYC's own superheroes - NYPOST.com

I came across this article yesterday. I thought it was funny.

Amy

The Pepperbox Four

chain gang

sunshine

montana man

the returnee

love don't come easy

run, run, run

mercy, mercy

under my thumb

24 Weeks Pregnant

Sorry Jon didn't mean to cut in but I was planning on posting this. These are 3D pictures of our child. Some of you know that we are NOT finding out what the gender is but here are some face pictures they took today at my doctors appointment. I had what's called a targeted ultra sound. A technitian looked and made sure the baby had all of its toes. The baby weighs 1lb 4 oz. We're very excited. We still haven't come close to agreeing on names. I guess we'll have to just use the ones I like.

This is an accurate picture of my pregnant belly as of today.

My Mission President

I just wanted to brag and let everyone know that my mission president was called to the second quorum of the seventy and is now a general authority. His name is Per G. Malm and hes swedish. Its nice to personally know a general authority...

Jon