Earth Day 5K run

Last Saturday was the Earth Day 3K/5K walk/run. I am proud to say I ran the 5K in 35 minutes! Not my fastest mile time but I still did good. We signed in at 8 and the run didn't start until 9 so Rayden was stuck in his stroller for an hour before we even started running. He started crying before I even got to the first check point thing and I was so mad. I thought I was going to have to turn around and not be able to finish. I tried giving him his sippy cup and crunchies but he didn't want that. My keys made him happy and then soon after he fell asleep. I was so happy to finish and be able to say I ran a 5K. This Saturday I am going to run another 5K!

Family Car

This last weekend we traded in our 2007 Scion TC for a 2004 Subaru Forester 2.5X. I have been wanting a bigger family car for a long time and now I finally have one! The scion was a nice car and got really good gas mileage but we were tired of having to crawl to the back seat to put Rayden in his carseat. Another bad thing about the scion is it had the biggest blindspots ever. There was no point in looking over your shoulder to see if there was a car because you wouldn't be able to see anyway. Now That I have the forester I feel like I can see everything! The interior isn't the best looking but it will do the job. Another plus is now I don't have to take off the stroller wheels to fit it in the car :)

Weight weight go away

So as you could probably tell I gained twice as much weight as I should've when I was pregnant. At the beginning of my pregnancy I wasn't gaining and then I was on the right track and out of nowhere I would gain 10 lbs a week! I ended up gaining 64 lbs and weighing over 220 lbs at the end of my pregnancy!
After the first week of having Rayden I lost about 35 lbs and then I was stuck for the longest time not losing any weight. I was at 185 forever and now that I started running about 3 miles most mornings beginning in March I have lost 10 lbs and am down to 175.
I'm so happy to finally be moving and losing weight. I still have 15 more lbs to go to be back to my pre-pregnancy weight and fit into all my clothes I still can't wear. I'm shooting to lose more and get down lower than that though.

This is when Rayden was a week old.


This is a couple months before getting pregnant.

Foot Fetish

So Rayden is weird and loves feet. I always find him at the shoe rack buy the door tring to eat all the shoes. (Really Gross) He is like a puppy. Yesterday during Relief Society he was crawling around touching all the ladies shoes and feet...I always feel like everyone is thinking why isn't that lady taking her kid out to the foyer because he is always being crazy. On the way home from running this morning I looked back at Rayden in his car seat and saw him holding his foot up to his mouth so he could eat his toe. I tried to get a picture of his foot in his mouth but it didn't work out. He always pulls his sock off and it is so weird because he only ever takes his left sock off. I have one silly baby!

I believe it's jogging or yogging, it might be a soft j.

I made some friends on base who go running in the morning so I bought a jogging stroller a couple weeks ago. We usually run around 3 miles. At first my mile time was like 13 or so minutes and today we went 3.08 miles and our fasest mile was 10.5 minutes. I'm always way in the back and today I thought I was going to die! When I told them that I wanted to join them they said I had to run the 5K with them on April 9th. I thought they were out of there minds but now that I have been running with them I'm not so scared anymore. A 5K is 3 miles and that is what we have been running. I should take a picture of Rayden all bundled up in his stroller.

Long time, no see!

Ok so it has obviously been way too long since I have posted anything. There is nothing of Thomas Rayden!

Rayden is huge and has started walking. When we sit down and try to get him to walk to us back and forth he won't do it but he will take a few steps when he wants to.


He has 6 teeth and 2 more coming in.


I love this face he makes! He looks like he wants kisses but that is not what it is. His kisses are open mouth and wet! He started making this face when he was whining but now he just does it to be silly.


Rayden loves bathtime. When Ryan or myself wants to take a bath or a shower we put Rayden in his walker in the bathroom with us. We have to get creative sometimes so Rayden won't cry the whole time. I usually just give him some crunchies to munch on. In this picture Ryan was taking a bath and so we gave Rayden some of the bubbles to play with to keep him happy.

Haircut

So I'm not the best at taking pictures of myself obviously haha. I got my haircut the other day and I feel a lot better now. My hair was long and my bangs were past my chin. My last haircut was at Christmas time so a haircut was much needed. When I asked Ryan how I should cut my hair...if I should cut it short into an a line again or just get it trimmed, he said that he liked it longer. I cut it short anyway :) and he ended up really liking it.

Safety Bracelets

Everytime we go to the NEX (the Navy Exchange store on base) Ryan wants to buy parachute cord and I always say no. A couple weeks ago Ryan found a pattern online to make safety bracelets out of the parachute cord. They are called safety bracelets because each bracelet is made out one long piece of the cord (except the mixed color one)... usually 8-16 feet long. You are supposed to wear them like when you go hiking or something so if you get into trouble you can undo your bracelet have a good amount of cord to help you get out of your bad situation or whatever. Ryan thought that they were pretty sweet so we made some and he is happy now.

Pismo Beach

Ryan had a 3 1/2 day weekend for Memorial Day so yesterday we went to Pismo Beach. Ryan and his buddy rented wet suits and boogie boards. last summer me and Ryan went together and rented boogie boards...it was a lot of fun but I for some reason couldn't catch the wave haha.



This trip to Pismo I pretty much just sat on the beach and soaked in the sun. We bought Marcie some sand toys...and thank goodness we did because she ended up not liking the ocean so much.







I went down to the edge of the water at one point and the coolest thing ever in life happened. So me and Cherie were standing in the little waves and all these things kept hitting our ankles. We were like what the heck is that...so we looked down and there were baby turtles all around us going out to sea in the waves! It was so crazy. I don't know how they made it to the water with all those people on the beach and birds in the air or how we were the only two people to even notice them. I had my camera in hand but by the time I thought about it and was going to take a video they were farther out and deeper in the water :(







I just happened to put sunscreen like everywhere except my fat, swollen and dirty feet haha. Ryan got mad at me once he noticed. But his back got just as burnt as my feet. Everywhere else was fine except silly random spots that got missed.

Baptism

A few weeks back the Sister Missionaries asked if they could teach a young man at our house and of course we said yes. He only had a two lessons at our house but he became friends with Ryan. He is in the NAVY as well and lives in the barracks because he is single. While he was being taught he quit drinking and smoking and all that good stuff. His baptism was last Saturday and he asked Ryan to baptize him. When we got to the stake center they couldn't find any more jumpsuits to fit Ryan...so he ended up with these huge scrub pants. It was pretty funny.

Tribal Dance

Last Friday Ryan performed a tribal dance with a group of guys he works with at the hopsital. Ryan was volunteered by someone else to participate so he wasn't very excited about it...but I believe he enjoyed doing it in the end. Their performance was part of the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month ceremony. They were supposed to wear lava lavas but obviously ended up with a lot less on. Luckily Ryan had some basketball shorts on underneath unlike some of the guys there...they just had their undies! They painted six packs on themselves and some other war paint. Ryan is the whitest one and he is on the very right when they line up at the beginning. :) And the part where everyone is laughing they are shaking their bums.

Snail

On my way home from walking to get the mail I found this silly snail on the sidewalk. I picked him up and decided to take him home to my sidewalk :) so I could show Cherie and Marcie and Ryan when he got home from work.



This is what happened to the poor snail when Marcie woke up from her nap and went outside...I don't think she ever even saw him. Haha It was funny but sad.

Marcine's Birthday

Yesterday was Marcie's 2nd birthday. I took her to play at the park behind our house in the morning while Cherie and Ryan were at work. Cherie brought a pizza home with her from work for the party.



Marcie got a lot of toys. She got a toy that helps her with her alphabet as well as a laptop that helps with numbers and letters. The laptop is good because she always gets jealous of Cherie's. She got a bubble blower, a really cool pool where she sits in the mouth of a crab and it sprays her, a swimsuit, and some other stuff.



We didn't wrap any of the presents but she had a good time playing with them and she loved getting to talk to everyone on the phone wishing her happy birthday.

Las Vegas

Ryan wants a Subaru STI really bad but we obviously can't afford one nor do I really care to have one. So Ryan decided instead he could just get an STI engine to build in the garage for a project. He looked and looked on the internet for engine but couldn't ever find exactly what he wanted or for a good enough price. Then he ran across a listing on craigslist for an STI engine block for $400. He called the guy and he said Ryan could have it for $300 since we would travel to pick it up. So last Saturday me and Ryan drove 6 hours to Las Vegas, picked up the engine block with the crank, ate at Reb Robin (Ryan's idea so I wouldn't be mad about the whole thing haha) and then drove 6 hours back home. The guy Ryan bought it from used to own a shop which is no longer running so he is just trying to get rid of all his supplies he had left. So happy early birthday to Ryan. (It was his idea that it could be his present)



He has started cleaning the engine block as you can tell in the picture. After he cleans it really well he has to get a few parts to help put it together. Ryan and his brother want to build an STI together and race it...whatever :)

Date Night

This last Saturday me and Ryan finally celebrated our anniversary. We went to Outback steakhouse for dinner. I had the outback special 6 oz steak and Ryan got a BBQ chicken dinner with a side of shrimp and of course we got a blooming onion. After dinner we went to a bakery. I got I yummy piece of cheesecake and ryan got a lemon bar. After eating we went to the movies and watched Date Night which was pretty funny. It was nice to finally get to go out to a nice dinner together and go on an actual date. We never get to go on dates really because we never have money.

This has nothing to do with date night but last week I was released from being a Webelos den leader :)

Broken Crib

Before we left for Washington we got a free crib and changing table from some people on base who were moving. We were excited to not have to buy them anymore and the ones we got were in perfect condition and they matched eachother!



Well I'm so mad at myself....the other day after my appointment at the hospital I had my first car accident ever!...with the crib! I pulled in the garage and was stopping and hit the crib at like 2 mph and broke the leg like crazy. I cried because I was so upset. Ryan said he will be able to fix it but I don't know I guess we will see.

We do have a bassinet we are going to use at first anyways but I hope Ryan will be able to fix the crib still.

Appointment with Midwife

This last Thursday I had an appointment at the hospital. It ended up being with the midwife I don't like instead of the doctor I usually go to. I arrived 15 minutes early and the midwife saw me 30 minutes late! But that's just how it goes sometimes. When the midwife first came in the room she asked me how everything was going and I said good. Then she sat down, opened my file, gasped, and then started looking at me up and down with a disgusted face.

...Ok I will give you a little background first...So when I first found out I was pregnant I took a prenatal class and there was a nutritionist there who told me I could gain 30-35 lbs instead of the 25-30. I have gained 38 lbs. so far but that's not too far off track...but I still have 10 weeks...

Ok so back to the midwife...so she was looking at me rudely and I knew exactly what she was thinking and the next thing she said was "someone got in the Easter candy". I was so mad. I know I have gained more weight than needed but gee wiz.

After my appointment with the Midwife I had to go to the lab to take the glucose tolerance test. I had to drink a fruit punch drink that was made of like pure sugar. The guy warned me about the drink saying that some people throw up and stuff but it wasn't as bad as he was making it sound...it wasn't good though either. So after I had the drink I had to wait an hour so they could take my blood. Of course when it came time to taking my blood they couldn't find my veins and dug around in both my arms for 10 minutes. And then after getting my blood drawn I had to give them a urine sample.

I was sad because Ryan had a patient at the dental clinic during the time of our appointment so he wasn't able to make it. By the time I was done at the hospital though (2+ hours) Ryan was already there standing watch at the information desk for duty so I was able to talk to him for a few minutes before I went home.

The next day I had to go back to the hospital to get a rhogam shot since I am Rh negative. When I was getting my shot another nurse came in saying the midwife needed to talk to me before I left the hospital. It made me nervous because the only reason she would need to talk to me would be to tell me bad news about the glucose tolerance test..which would mean that I am diabetic. They only talk to you if they have bad news about the tests not if everything is fine. But when she came to talk to me she said that my sugar levels were fine but I am anemic. Which is not news to me so I was relieved.

4D Baby Videos

The baby's heart beating


Baby practicing breathing


Baby sucking on a finger


Baby sticking his tongue out


Baby yawning

4D Baby

The baby yawning


The baby's feet


His face

The Monday we got back from Washington me and Ryan went back to St. Agnes Hospital in Fresno to get 4D pictures and videos of our baby. St. Agnes is where they told us we were having a boy and they do the 4D pictures and videos for free. It was cool to see the baby again and see his features better but of course he had both arms/hands up by his face the whole time. He his the biggest punk ever! :) Well from the pictures our baby has big chubby cheeks and a huge round Kofoed nose. I don't think though that you can tell what the baby is really going to look like yet though. Babies change so much in the first weeks they are born and I've never seen a baby without a round little nose so I guess we will see how he looks when he comes. The videos are really short and sometimes the pictures are hard to tell what exactly you are looking at. I emailed the pictures and videos to our families and the feedback I got from my family was that they are creepy and interesting...

The videos weren't working when I tried to put them on this post so I will try to post them later.

Trip to Washington

On April first we drove 17 hours to Moses lake. Ryan's Grandpa Sear passed away so we went home to be there for his memorial. I've never had my ankles swell before that trip. The night...well morning we got to Moses I realized as I was laying down in bed that my ankles had swelled. I thought that when my ankles would swell it would be evenly fat all the way around but I was wrong. My ankles had swollen doughnut rings around them! It was weird.



It was nice to be home. I got to eat at The Tree Cafe with my parents :) and Ryan went to a Muse concert in Seattle with his brother the first day we were there. We ate Chico's twice when we were home...once with the Jones' and once with the Kofoeds. We stayed at my parent's house so they filled up an Easter basket for us to share. :) Ryan's neices and nephews had an Easter egg hunt and Jonathan and Becca's house. After the egg hunt we all headed over to Grandma Sear's for Grandpa's memorial.



The memorial was really nice. It was held at Grandma Sear's and just immediate family was there. Madisyn sang a song, Krystalynn told her favorite jokes that her and Grandpa shared together, Danita read some emails from family, Grandpa's life story was told and everyone took turns telling their favorite memories and things about Grandpa.



We were able to stay in Moses for about a week. It was really nice to visit with everyone and see all the family. We visited Grandpa Jones. I believe he is 95 years old now. He still gets up everyday and does work in and outside the house but he doesn't think he is going to last much longer. He still looks pretty good though. I think he is a cute old man. :)