Momentous Event

I can't hardly believe it, but the ticker is under 100.  99 days to go until my due date.  Now I know that doesn't mean exactly of course,  I could have the baby early, or perhaps late.  Who knows when this little guy will want to join us, but hey, its all good.  And I am excited that I am into the 2 digit numbers.  The last 5 months have gone by fast actually.  Here's hoping for an enjoyable last trimester. : )

My First Shower

On the 4th of October, my work was throwing a shower for Kelly (a girl I work with) who is due on Halloween, so they decided to make it a combined shower for both her and I.  It was a lot of fun!  And you can't beat getting an early shower.  It took place at work, which was kind of weird to go into work on Saturday, but not too weird that I couldn't handle going and eating and getting presents, of course.  It was potluck as well.  Kelly is having a girl and I am having a boy, so they decorated in both colors.  It was very cute, very well received and great food.  Thanks, everyone!  A few fun photos: 

Here are the three stages of pregnancy.  Kelly (in the brown) is due on Halloween, I am due in January and Tory (in the blue) is barely pregnant, she is 8 weeks along.  So we thought that would be fun to get a photo of.  Kelly and I were having the combined shower.  It was pretty fun.  We played a trivia game in which you had to guess which question was Kelly, which was Angie or which was both.  You would be surprised by how much Kelly and I have in common.  Just to name a few:

We both have the middle name Marie, we were both married in November 1999, both of us dressed up as Sally from Nightmare before Christmas for Halloween, and we both dressed as Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty for Halloween (different years on both and before we knew each other), we both had our weddings at the Ivy Gardens, and the weird part was one day apart from each other.  Weirder, huh?  

Here Vicki decided I needed to eat some cake, but I didn't want any cake.  I was already full on all the good food.  Funeral Potatoes, Chips and Dip, Fruit Pizza, Cookies, yum, yum, yum!  But that didn't stop Vicki.  I had wedding reception flash backs.

Here are some of the guests:

Rachael

Liz

Melissa and Baby Zoey

Chelby and Baby Connor

Vicki

It was a great time and I was very grateful for all the stuff I got.  I got tons of cuter clothes, binky's, bottles, bathing stuff, diapers, and even Xander's first piggy bank.  All way cute!  Thank you again everyone!  You make the work place a great place!

A Few Firsts

This week I was blessed with a few first outfits and books.  Wednesday my mother-in-law gave us our first little outfit.  Isn't it cute!  I really like it and we were very grateful for the clothes. She said that every time they have found out the sex of the baby from one of their children they gave them an outfit.  My father-in-law Les picked out the top, which happened to match the only pants in the right size, perfectly.  I love it!

Then Thursday evening I came home and found a package that had been sent from my little sister Melissa.  Just packed full of cute clothes and books.  The best part was that I was on the phone with Melissa when I found the package.  Totally by accident.   So I got to open it with her on the phone.  Which was really cool!  She swears they were all in the discount bin and she didn't spend much.  I am very grateful though and absolutely love the clothes.  Especially the little green polo shirt.  WAY CUTER!!  

The other fun part of getting the presents was the notes that were attached.  Both were written to the baby and I loved it!  So I had to post what the notes said.  The one from Jane and Les read:

For: Zander David Maxfield  (misspelled his name, but that's okay, she will learn it)

From: Grandma and Grandpa Maxfield  We can't wait to hold you!  Love you!

Melissa's read:

Baby Maxfield,

Hi, its your aunt Melissa!  I already love you so much and I can't wait to meet you.  I wanted to give you these things so you have fun things when you come.  But don't worry, tell your mom, I didn't spend too much.  Say Hello to 99 cent bins at The Children's Place!  Whoo Hoo!  I couldn't resist!  But I did hold back a little. 

Melissa  

I guess I better get used to the misspelling of Xander, and possibly the mispronunciation as well.  It will happen.  But that's okay.  We love the name!  Thank you both so much for the new outfits.  We both loved them and are so very grateful.

Cook Fest 3000

So since we have been married I have never been much of a cook. My way of getting dinner for Dave is stopping at a fast food place on my way home from work, or telling him to throw in a frozen pizza. Well, Saturday I was a cooking fiend. I have never cooked so much in my life. Dave about fell over dead when he got home Saturday evening and saw what I had done. He has never seen me cook much so the fact I made as much as I did really freaked him out. "Are you nesting?" He said. I think that nesting happens at the end of your pregnancy, but who knows? I made Lasagna, Chicken Enchaladas, cooked up 5 pounds of hamburger, which I made into Sloppy Joes, Taco meat and plain meat (to use with Hamburger helper dishes), the remainder went into the Lasagna. Friday I had made in the crock pot, Beef Stew and earlier in the week I had made Spaghetti and Tuna casserole. All of which I put into smaller portion tupperware containers or freezer baggies and froze in the freezer. That way we can just pull them out and take them for lunch. The taco meat we can re-heat and put on shells I bought. And the Sloppy Joes can be re-heated and put onto buns I bought. All easy to do. My freezer is just full of my home made TV dinners. It worked great! I can't even believe how well. It was a lot of work, but only for that one day. Hopefully the food will last us awhile, and will be easy to have for dinners, lunches, etc. Sunday I just kept looking in the freezer to see the beauty of all my hard work. I still can't believe I did it. I have to say I don't enjoy cooking but I like to see the result of all the work. And all have been pretty tasty so far.

"Addition"

Per the request of Trish, here is a photo of the freezer in all its glory.

Horses...WHAT!?!

So we woke up this morning to find horses in our backyard.  Yes, Horses!  And we don't own horses!  Craziness!  The horses broke through the fence and got into the fenced in area in our backyard.  Fortunately, it was the fenced in area, or they would have been eating my grass.  It was kind of weird that they ended up there.  FOUR horses in my yard.  We don't know the owners at all, so we couldn't call them.  But they figured it out pretty quickly and came and got them this morning.  However, they had to totally destroy our fence to get them out.  How they fit through that little hole, I'll never know.  But they wouldn't go back they way they came.  They had to cut the support beam to get them out.  We weren't happy about it, but we didn't want the horses there, so what can you do?  They said they would fix it, so we will see.  Just a strange thing to see when you get up in the morning.

Mirrim, the Beloved

So, I have this friend.  I know her from Amtgard, and her Amtgard name is Mirrim.  But her real name is Jenny.  I haven't known her for very long, but had to put a post in here giving her the props she so deserves.  She is an amazing person, mother, wife and friend.  I can't say enough good about this person.  She hardly knows me and has already given me so much.  She has given me kindness, love, gifts, friendship, and much needed advice.  

I have to give a little back story to complete the post I wanted to do here.  In Amtgard, Dave 

and I are in a company.  This company is called the Iron Wulves.  Dave is the captain, and I am a member.  Everyone knows the Iron Wulves who are all great individuals.  I can't say enough about my company mates.  Well, I am not so great at sewing tunics for women.  It turns out that every time I try, I can't, so I have worn a man tunic from the beginning.  Which wasn't a problem until I became pregnant.  Or until I became pregnant enough to show a bit, and therefore became uncomfortable in my regular tunics.  I had one Saturday where I literally "freaked out" and wasn't going to go because I had "nothing" to wear.  I found some cute things to wear to Dragon Blade Wars (all borrowed), but had yet to come up with a solution as to a tunic to wear to the regular park day.  Well, this wonderful friend of mine Mirrim, made me a maternity tunic.  Not only did she make a tunic, but she "made" a tunic.  It is beautifully made.  It has french seams, and lots of other terms I don't know.  It is very well done, and cute to boot.  Not only did she take all the time to make me one, she drove from Eagle Mountain all the way to Liberty park to bring it to me by herself with her three kids.  I was so overwhelmed, I didn't know how to express myself.  I am hoping she reads this and understands just how much it meant to me.  I attached a photo. 

It was so amazing!!  She is so amazing.  I see in her how I would love to be.  A wonderful mother of three beautiful and amazingly well behaved kids, a great cook, a seamstress, who keeps a well kept home, an avid member of her church and has always made Dave and I feel so incredibly welcome.  She also made me banana bread when I was having a craving for it, and lent me all the maternity clothes I wear (which are so dang cute, thank you, thank you).   I just had to post and give my Beloved and Blessed friend Mirrim a well deserved public tribute.  Thank you so much! You'll never know how much I have truly appreciated your friendship.

Its a Boy!

So we went in on Friday and we are definitely having a boy! We are both so very excited. We can't wait to finally meet him. It was a neat experience getting to see him up on the screen moving around like crazy. Everything was good and as far as she could tell we have a healthy baby. The picture above is a view as if he was sitting on the monitor. So its a butt shot with his two legs and umm... I attached another one of a side view.