November 2018

I can almost say "I'm having a baby next month!" Crazy! It has seriously flown by. Jon always says time is dragging on and i told him i was pregnant, like, "2 years ago!" haha i must just be more patient than him.
This pregnancy has still been a breeze, I still can't believe it and I feel so blessed. I still haven't had any sickness, my body, like my hips and back, don't hurt, and I really don't even have to rush to the bathroom to pee as often as I thought, I usually drink a ton of water anyway, so I feel like I'm used to going potty frequently...fun fact for you all. haha The baby doesn't jump on my bladder either so it's rare that it's TOO urgent haha
The only things that have been hard..which, i feel like i can't even say they're hard, because they really arent, so I guess the things that haven't been OVERLY ENJOYABLE... haha would be:
- that my feel hurt quite a bit (which is totally normal and understandable, 1. i'm pregnant, 2. I walk A LOT helping Jon on the ranch..3. I have very high arches naturally, and the 35-40 lbs i've gained adds a lot of pressure on my arches causing them to hurt basically all the time but again, pretty normal with pregnancy.
- I am pretty emotional.. haha which honestly i'm probably not even that bad compared to most people, but i'm not used to having this much hormones, I most likely had hormonal imbalance (could've been one of the issues in getting pregnant) so i cry and get overwhelmed a lot easier than normal... so that's kind of annoying but Jon thinks it's funny, he also is enjoying my extra sensitivity because I am more compassionate towards him.. poor guy, i must've been really neglectful prior to having "feelings" haha
- I get worn out really easily (also totally normal!) but sometimes if i work too much i get a sore muscle in my stomach and that is very uncomfortable, buttt again, i can't really complain about any of these.
I still sleep great, eat great, and feel great, so basically i'm the most blessed person ever haha kidding, but it really does feel like that sometimes. I say MANY gratitude prayers. I think Heavenly Father just knows i'm a lightweight so he didn't want to throw too much at me on this first one 😂😂😂
(as I'm writing this) I'm 31 weeks pregnant. But people always tell me that's hard to believe.. *crossing my fingers for a small baby**

In other news living in a house again has been great. And we finally bought a bed, after sleeping on the trailer mattress for the last 6 months, it's nice to not be basically on the floor while i'm pregnant haha

Finally got our stuff put together too to make it more like home.
Before-


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(I'd take more but as i'm typing this part, there is baby shower gifts everywhere so it's kind of a mess! I'll talk about that next post!)
Anyway, Thanksgiving was great, we were able to visit both sides of our family which is a blessing that they live so close. And 2 dinners is always a plus! I was bad at taking pictures and this is the only one i have, BUT it's important because it is the DELICIOUS cranberry mocktail my sister Melissa made for Thanksgiving and aside from my mom's candied yams, it was probably the best part haha



 Anyway, like i said, it's nice to be in a house and It's nice to be warm all the time. Although I have some pretty great warm clothes for when I have to help with cows. Like the other morning I was on calf blow-drying duty. (No, we arent opening a pet salon as my family joked, this poor baby had pneumonia and it's mom was being a turd and not taking care of it) SO we brought it into the shop and I warmed her up and took care of her for a couple hours, then we eventually got her sucking on her mom and now she's doing great!

The temperature is slowly dropping but honestly the weather has been great! It has only snowed a couple times and was pretty light and didn't stick too much. I will take that!! At the beginning of November we moved a group of cows back to the ranch, every time we move cows down a certain road by our house the polygamists, mostly just the young girls come out to watch, they seem very fascinated and always want to help. They're so cute and friendly.

To give you an update, between Jon and Seth we own about 250 Cows and bulls, not counting their calves, but all together they are running about 650, (leased herds) I'm not sure how all that works, but regardless, that's a lot of cows for 4 people, Me, Jon, Seth and Hailey to take care of! Even though its mostly just the boys haha So needless to say we stay pretty busy. It is great though. I enjoy it.
Eventually we will get out of the leased herds and just run our own. That should make things easier haha

Well that's basically it for November!

Quotes from Jon-
"OH EM GEE, i would LOVE to play halo with you!"

bye!