The Last Few Months..

Ok, so I know I am terrible at updating our blog. We haven't posted anything since August 13th and SO much has happened. Levi started school the end of August and so he has been busy with working full time and going to school Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. He is getting closer to being done so that is always nice.

Here are the fun things we have been doing the last few months:

Race at Powder Mountain:
The end of August there was a race held at Powder Mountain. Jeremy McGrath and one of his buddies put it on. Levi decided to go and race it. We got off work on Friday and headed up to Powder Mountain, I am sure glad we decided to stay the night because there were SO many people. We got a great parking spot and got signed in. Practice started early morning on Saturday and Levi did great. They had qualifiers where Levi took 10th and then the main event Levi took 13th or 14th. (This was so good because Levi raced against Jeremy McGrath who is a pro supercross racer) He did so good and I am so proud to be his wife. He is a great rider and I know if he practiced a little more he would be even better. I will post some pictures later..

20 week Dr. Appointment:
We had our 20 week appointment on September 17th. Ryder looks great and healthy and is definately growing.

Spillman's Users Conference (September 20-24):
Every year my work puts on a conference for our users. My job at Spillman consists of helping and keeping up on new/updated registrations for our attendees and to help with any travel they may need. This is a very busy time for us and stressful as well. This year the conference was September 20th-24th. I stayed up in Salt Lake for the week which made it nice not having to commute everyday. We worked long hours and i'm sure glad it's over with for another year.

West Fork (October 2-4):
Levi's parents own a place up in Montana called West Fork Cabins. ( wfork.com ) It has cabins and rv spaces. Since it was UEA weekend for the school kids Levi's siblings decided to head up their for the long weekend. Since Levi had school on Thursday we didn't head up until Friday morning. It was so nice to be able to relax and not worry about anything. Levi went flyfishing during the day and I just read, took naps and hung out with his family. We had a great time.. thanks to Mark and Sue for letting us all stay in the cabins.. Here is a picture of Levi fishing on the Madison River.

Truck:
Levi and I have decided with the baby coming we needed to limit our debt so we could live more comfortably even with Ryder here. With the economy the way it is we decided it would be best if we put both our vehicles up for sale and get vehicles that we could pay off quickly. Levi and I were both determined that my car would sell before his truck. Well, we were both wrong. On Friday Levi sold his truck.. :) We are both really excited and feel like we are doing the right thing for our family. Levi's dad has a truck that he keeps at the West Fork when it's open. Well, they shut West Fork down for the winter the week of Thanksgiving and so they offered to let us drive the West Fork truck until they need it and that way we aren't rushing into getting a truck. This means, Levi and I will be carpooling to work on bad weather days. The only downside to carpooling is that means we leave 30 minutes before I usually do. It will be good because with Levi so busy we don't get to spend a whole lot of time together..


Park City (October 17-18):
I had a free night stay up in Park City and since Levi is the party pooper he is I decided to turn it into a girls weekend. :) I headed to my moms house on Saturday morning and we took off for our fun weekend of shopping about 10:30. We decided to hit up some stores nearby until we could meet up with my grandma. We picked up my grandma about noon and headed up to Sugar House area for our next stop before Park City. We hit up a few stores and then went to lunch. We got up to the Outlet stores about 3 and shopped until about 8. We then went to dinner and headed to the hotel about 9ish. We had a fun night of giggles. We got up Sunday and went shopping some more and then got back home about 8. It was a great weekend and we found lots of good sales and bought lots of fun stuff. I hope this starts a tradition of a Park City girls weekend at least once a year. I'll post pictures later..


Smore Maker:
My grandparents bought us a smore maker for Christmas last year. We have been so excited to use it but kept forgetting to look for the fuel it needed. We were at Walmart last week and Levi remember to grab some.. he was so excited to try it out that Tuesday night after we made breakfast for dinner we had to have smores. It worked great and was fun to use.

We have also been working on Ryder's room. It looks great and I am getting so excited that it's almost done. I will post pictures as soon as it's finished.. Levi and I are doing great! Just staying busy and trying to keep up with life. I am feeling great and just slowly watching my belly grow. I can now officially feel Ryder move all the time and I feel exhausted alot of the time too. I can't believe he will be here in a few months. I'm so grateful for the wonderful families that Levi and I have. I don't know what we would do without them.

Many of you have been asking me to post a belly picture. I'm almost 25 weeks in the picture.