TODAY IS THE DAY

Today is the day I am supposed to go off my medicine that controls my contractions. I tried to go off of it last night but due to a really busy day I could already feel my contractions increasing after being off of them for only an hour. Since my doctor is out of town this weekend I thought I should play it safe and take one just to make sure i didn't have the baby while he is gone. Trying to plan your labor is not easy. I really want to have this baby before February but I am still hoping to get two more homework assignments turned in before I have her too. I would also like to make it closer to the end of this week because Saturday I will be considered term. However I don't want to have her Saturday because that is Jaysa's birthday and I don't want them to have to share the same birthdays. My plan is that if I start going into labor before my homework is done I will take one of my miriacle pills and if I haven't gone into labor by next Sunday I will go out for a little run, which is what brought Jaysa into this world. Hopefully my plan will work and the newest edition to our family will be here in the next week.

SO WORTH THE MONEY

My Mom and Calvin came down Friday and Saturday because we celebrated Jaysa's birthday Saturday afternoon. Her birthday is not actually until the 29th but I was afraid we would have the baby before then and we wouldn't have time to celebrate it. I am so happy we did it this way because now I can just concentrate on getting whatever I need to get done in order to have this little girl. Now whenever Calvin comes I always feel so bad because he claims the bed in my guest bedroom. I have tried putting an air mattress on the floor in Jaysa's room and the living room but he just wanders around my house all night moving from the couch the to air mattress. I even caught him trying to sleep sitting up in a chair once. For this reason its just easier for him to be in the guest bed and let the rest of my family including my parents sleep on the couch or on the floor. A few weeks ago we bought this kid bed for Jaysa at a Garage Sale for 10 dollars and even though she hates it it is so worth the money because Calvin actually slept in it all night Friday night. The mattress in the bed isn't even a twin mattress! Its a crib mattress! I wish I would have gotten a picture of him in it cause he looks so big in it. The reason he was able to sleep in it all night was because Calvin sleeps sitting Indian style and then he lays his body on top of his legs and lays his head on a pillow. I also think that the little plastic frame made him feel that he was really in a normal bed. He really only took up half the bed! I know this sounds like such a dumb thing to be so excited about but for me it means that I don't have to get up 10 times in the middle of the night to put him back to bed on a dumb air mattress. Now he has a bed!!!

GETTING READY FOR THE CELEBRATION

Jaysa helped me make brownies, her cake and soup for everyone at her party.

She had so much fun stirring the cake and brownie batter and pouring the cans into the soup.

Can you tell what her favorite part was?.....

Of Course! Licking the spoon and the bowl!

Ha Ha I kept telling her to show me her happy face and she kept giving me the cheesiest smile

This is the best smile I got... so cheesy but I love it still

HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY JAYSA!

After seeing how much she loved blowing C.J.'s birthday candles out we couldn't resist putting more than two on her cake.

I never got a great picture of her with her cake. :(

I got a great video though. Listen really close to the way she blows the candles out. Instead of blowing by pursing her lips together she tries to blow by making the "F" sound. So funny and cute!

EATING CAKE

I have learned from the past two years in a row that I am a horrible cake decorator! I think next year we will buy a cake so that it looks beautiful and not like a kindergardener made it.

It was yummy though!

Look how wide she opens her mouth for this bite!

K I am the biggest idiot. I always try to turn the camera like this and take a video only to find out the camera doesn't work like that and I just ruined the video. I still thought this one was cute

OPENING PRESENTS

Jaysa got lots of fun presents from friends. This one is from Grandma.

Can I tell you how much I love these girls! These our our neighbor's Brandon and Sherrie's girl's. They are the biggest help! They helped Jaysa open her presents so I didn't have to bend down and try to do it myself. I was so grateful to have them there.

When we go to nursery at my parents ward in Vegas they have this little bubble blowing machine that Jaysa LOVES. She never wants to leave when they have it going. We were at walmart looking in the party section and I found the exact one they use so we bought it for her. I think her and the new baby will have lots of fun with it.

Jaysa had the hardest time opening this present. She kept saying "pull hard."

After opening each present Jaysa just had to play with her new gift for a minute. Here is her and her friend Emma playing with the unicorn ponies we got her.

This is a video of Jaysa opening her Dora tent grandma got her. We opened it up yesterday and she LOVES playing in it.

SKINNING A BOB CAT

Our neighbor Brandon caught this bob cat the other day. (the little girls that helped out so much at the party are his daughters) He goes out and sets traps to catch animals like coyotes, bobcats or a foxes. He invited us over to watch his friend skin it for him. It sounds really gross but its was actually really interesting to watch the process and see the end result.

Brandon with the bob cat. This thing was HUGE!

Here is C.j. with it. He told me not to put any pictures of it skinned on the blog cause it actually looked really freaky, especially its head. Brandon's friend that skinned the cat said that a fur like that would sell for upwards of 700 dollars at the fur auctions he goes to! Holy Cow! Of course Brandon is keeping this one cause it was his first bobcat but I told C.J. he needed to start trapping and learn how to skin these suckers.

JUST A FEW SIDE NOTES

Look at how curly Jaysa's hair is! I never thought I would have a daughter with naturally curly hair. C.J. used to have REALLY curly hair in high school (he had an afro!) but his hair didn't actually get curly till he hit puberty. I knew that might happen to Jaysa later but I never thought she would have this many curls so young. I have had to learn how to do her hair and what to put in it to keep it moisturized but I have really enjoyed her beautiful curls. I am still not sure what to do with it when it gets long though!

I HAVE TO GIVE MYSELF CREDIT

I know that most men suffer a little bit when their wife is pregnant but I really have to give myself credit because I am not a horrible pregnant woman. I don't get cranky, I don't ask C.J. to go out and get me whatever I am craving and I don't ask him to do me a bunch of favors (unless I am on bed rest). C.J. says I get more emotional but I have only cried 3 or 4 times this entire pregnancy. I will admit that I did have one major breakdown and crying spell because of school but I honestly think that I would have cried if I wasn't pregnant because I was so stressed out. The other times I have cried were because I was watching something like biggest loser or a sad movie which I normally would have teared up about but being pregnant just makes the difference between tearing up and crying. I think the only other thing C.J. might complain about is how much I have complained this last week or two but let me tell all those husbands out there. If you had a baby in your belly squishing all of your organs and causing you to have heart burn every time you roll over in bed, or kicking and sitting on your bladder making you have to pee every 15 mins and squishing your lungs so you couldn't catch your breath and making it hard to do the simple things like putting you pants on or making it impossible to tie your shoes or pick something off the floor and making you gain weight so you looked fat and ugly. YOU WOULD COMPLAIN TOO! No incident has lead me to write this post I have just been feeling so uncomfortable lately and thought that all the husbands out there with pregnant wives should cut their wives some slack cause it is not easy to be pregnant at any stage but especially the last little while because you just cant get comfortable no matter what you do.

PAISLEY LYN

If you have noticed I keep referring to the baby as our little girl or the baby or our little one. This is because I am having second thoughts about the name we picked out, Paisley Lyn Ferguson. C.J. also isn't crazy about the middle name. I don't know what my problem is but every name we have even some what liked I haven't been able to picture us naming our baby that. I thought maybe its because I don't know what this baby looks like yet so maybe I am waiting to see her... I don't know. We had Jaysa's name picked out before she was born and I loved it. I remember thinking after we brought her home that I loved her name so much. I am afraid that with this baby I will get home and not really love her name. There are a lot of names I do like but I don't want them to be too similar to other girls that are in or close to C.J.'s family or my family like Jaylie, Breklyn, Brynlee, Rylee, and Hailey. I love names that end in lee and lyn because they sound so girly but as you can see all the names that I am trying to avoid end in lee and lyn so this has made it hard. I love the name Brylee or Bralie but its too close to Brynlee C.J. and I both love the name Berkley but its too close to Brecklyn and Brynlee. Taylee is too close to Jaylie and Hailey , Jakelyn is too close to Brecklyn, and Kylee is to close to Rylee. Paisley doesn't sound like any of the other names but for some reason I am hesitant. I think we are just going to wait to see this little girl to officially give her a name.