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we have been having a great time during the holidays! thanksgiving was so great! we were able to spend time with my extended family at my uncle dave and aunt marg's. we had a fabulous meal! nick and i were trying to not eat too much because we were going to be eating again in a couple hours.. but we couldn't help ourselves! the food was too good! thanks for a wonderful meal guys! then we went and spent time with nick's family and had great food there too! nick's grandma was in town from hawaii and his parents and younger sister came in from california. it's always so nice to see them! they also made a fabulous meal! thanks! we also had family pictures taken while nick's family was in town. unfortunately i was 36 weeks pregnant...
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ok so according to the baby ticker we have less than 2 weeks left to meet our little one. i hope it's right... the doctor said last week that i have a 4 1/2 out of 5 chance of being late! what pregnant woman wants to hear that? so i have been trying the curb walking and hoping that works but if any of you have any ideas how to make sure this baby doesn't come too late, let me know. i am willing to try almost anything (except for drinking that oil stuff...). let me know your secrets!
nick's sister lynsey and her husband chris introduced us to our new little neice on september 26! she weighed 6lbs. 12oz. and is so beautiful! i have forgotten how little newborns really are since we have been around malina (our other little neice who is one year old now! time really flies!) all the time. she is growing so fast and its been so fun to see what nick and i will have in about 10 more weeks! we love our new little addition to the corotan extended family!
so it hit me today that this was our last summer as a young married couple with no baby. i am so excited to have a little one but we can't be as spontaneous as we have been. i am glad we were able to enjoy ourselves, even though the anticipation is killing us. our baby is growing so fast and he is getting strong. there are times when i am sitting and it looks like he's trying to punch through my belly! i love it when he is active, but i am grateful he is not super active. :) we can't wait to have this sweet boy in our arms! only 13 more weeks of being prego!
well lets see to update you on our lives...
we have been staying busy with work and school and also enjoying our evenings together. we were able to go to a jack johnson concert because our friend dave had a couple tickets he wasn't using and was nice enough to think of us. we had so much fun! it was in an outdoor amphitheater in salt lake. you bring your own blankets and enjoy the show.
this wasn't jack but it was the band that played before. the set up
was fun though. we liked the screens so we could see
nick and i also went to the utah state fair with nick's brother dan and his friend linda. i mainly wanted to go because i wanted to try the deep fried peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (sounds like a heart attack on a stick, i know..) but ended up with funnel cake instead. i love funnel cake anyways so i wasn't too sad. there was lots of entertainment and displays. we saw lots of art and photography. even a sculpture made out of butter. it kind of made me sick. :) they had some tigers there. they were beautiful. but we couldn't see them really well to get a good picture, hence the picture of dan on nick's shoulders so he could see. i should have had him take the picture dang it!
kind of weird that we are making the same face...
last week i heard about this moonlight ride in sundance. it is a 45 minute roundtrip ride on the ski lift when the moon is out. i surprised nick and took him up there with some hot chocolate, treats, a blanket and an ipod. we had a lot of fun just talking and enjoying the ride! i think we went on the last day and i was bummed. i wanted to take some friends and family with us. maybe next year...
well thats all for today but i will post some belly pics soon. and hopefully figure out a way to put some ultrasound pics on here too...
then comes.....
that's right! if you haven't heard already nick and i are expecting a little one to join our family on dec. 21! i am almost 19 weeks pregnant and we are about to find out if it's a boy or girl! i waited for a long time to post anything because we are surprising nick's brother dan and my sister becky who are both on missions and are getting home next week. i didn't want them to find out on the blog before we could tell them ourselves.
we told nick's family over memorial day weekend while we were camping. we put our niece malina in a onesie that we custom made. it said on the front "i can't wait to meet...." and on the back it said "the baby in auntie's belly on dec. 20". i held her facing frontwards until someone noticed and then i flipped her over and handed her to nick. everyone was so excited! (i will post a pic of the onesie soon). this will be the third grandchild for grandma and grandpa corotan in a little over a year!
we told my family by having my mom wrap up a box and gave it to the family to open. nick and i were on the phone but she didn't tell anyone who it was. so they had no idea what was going on! watch this video of them being surprised...
