Just Dive Right In: 2010

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

First Ultrasound

Yesterday was the first ultrasound of baby Mysse. Louie and my mom went with me. I wasn’t expecting to see much, and had warned Louie of that. They had told me that they would have to do an internal ultrasound because the kid is too small to see through the “stomach” way. When we got called back, the ultrasound lady was short, old, and frumpy, but she loved her job and had been doing it for 40 years. She says in the Cd’A area that she has 20,000 babies running around. Crazy. Anyways…there was no prep, the ultrasound was right away. The lady did the “stomach” method first and immediately you could see the little guy. It was amazing and shocked all of us how clearly you could see “it”. The baby waved to us, kicked it’s feet, arched it’s back, was very active. We could see the heart beating and thank god there was only one! We were all shocked and how much you can see, and how much it looks like a baby at 11 weeks 2 days. You can’t tell much at this ultrasound except the age of the baby, which is why I did the ultrasound in the first place. Like I said, I am 11 weeks, 3 days pregnant. The kid measured 47mm, with a heartbeat of 167. We heard the heartbeat for maybe 5 seconds is all. I have a due date of around Feb. 19th…so a week earlier than Brent and Danielle. I had originally thought I was a week later. To sum it up, it was a very cool and amazing experience to watch the screen and see the little baby moving around so much. It definitely made it seem a lot more real and I am 100 times more excited now.

I have another appt in 4 weeks, just a routine checkup. Should know the sex of the baby at the end of Sept.

Friday, July 30, 2010

Ironman ‘10

Kayaking for Radiant lake (see previous post) motivated me to kayak for Ironman, this time recruiting Louie to assist. Lets just say this was a different experience. Instead of a sprint Triathlon, in which was kayaking part maybe lasted 45 minutes, this was 2400 athletes, swimming 2.4 miles. We were asked to be on the water by 5am. EARLY! The race didn’t start until 7:30am, so we were a little annoyed we had to sit for so long in the kayaks.

5 am was not exciting for us as I feel into the water when I tried to get into my kayak. Louie thought that was hilarious though. It was cool to see the moon and water the sunrise though.

This is the crowd watching the start of the race. If you haven’t watched the start of 2400 athletes enter the water all at one time, it is pretty amazing. This time we got to see it from the water.

These are the elites athletes, which get 50,000 if they win. Luckily they get a different start time.

The elites swimming their second lap, while the “normal” athletes start lining up on the beach. The paddleboarder is along side the first female swimmer so we can keep track.

The mob, 2400 racers. It was a madhouse.

And they are off. I lucky never had a swimmer hold on to my kayak for a rest. Louie had to help several swimmers though. I heard that there were somewhere between 25-30 people that had to get pulled out of the water all together. It was pretty intense. If only we didn’t have to sit in our kayaks for so long, I would consider volunteering again. It was just a long time to be on the water and wait. A good experience though.

Radiant Lake Triathlon

This summer has been a volunteering summer. I was recruited to kayak for the 1st annual Radiant Lake Sprint Tri in early summer. I can’t really remember when. Haha. Anyways, I somewhat dreaded going as it was early on Sunday morning, but once I got there it was really fun, and I got a really nice shirt for volunteering!

I was stationed at the first turn, by this fountain. As you can see the wind was blowing and you can say that I got soaked in my kayak. Thankfully, everyone made it past the 1/2 mile swim and no swimmer needed help . Two of my “Elkins” family was in the race and it was fun cheering them on!

Friday, April 16, 2010

A Day at the Park

Can you say 75 degrees in April? Oh yeah! Matt, Cassie and the girls came to visit Mom and I in Cd’A this afternoon. We had a picnic in the park and got lots of playing time! And of course a photo shoot. How can I resist?

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Craft room

So we have finally finished the craft room. Now it is just set up time and finding a place for everything.

Here is louies project. We have this storage and we decided to buy chalkboard paint and paint the doors with it and frame the doors to look like pictures. It is sweet! Louie made one of the doors too because only one door exisited.

On one wall I put up a bunch of butterfly decals. I saw on extreme home makeover a master bedroom had butterflies for wall paper. I loved it and ended up finding these decals at tj maxx for cheap! I almost think it looks too busy but Louie said it's fine.

I got my craft organizer from michaels. I have been eyeing it for months! I found a 50% off coupon and used my 30 dollar gift card from Christmas so it only cost me 12 dollars. (originally 80). I was so excited to fill it last night with my paints and buttons! Thanks to the jars I got from louies parents in Montana! Now I just need more ribbon!