My favorite part of the day

I've climbed Denali in Alaska at age 17. I've scaled rock faces in Zion and Yosemite. I've walked the concrete jungle of New York City. I've slept months on snow, rock and hard ground. I've spent nights looking for lost people in the wilderness. I've ridden my bike 80 miles with no training. I've skied powder days from bell to bell. I've crashed my dirt bike so hard I broke a rib.

But I haven't been pregnant before and in some ways it's harder than all that. Each day is different than the last. Each day the "routine" that I'd like to happen isn't possible. Some days I wake up and feel great and a half hour later feel like I've climbed a mountain. Some days I wake up so tired I can't fathom a day awake. I bump my belly on everything and can't fit through spaces that I have always been able to squeeze through. My pants don't ever fit right anymore and my shirts are quickly becoming "too small". When I eat too much, I feel bad. If I don't eat enough, and right now, I am super grumpy. I'm anxious about the unknown ahead of me and amazed by the life growing inside of me.

And because of all of that, my absolute favorite part of my day is laying down in my bed at night. To take all the gravity off of my feet feels more glorious than I can explain. When I lay down first thing at night, there is no such thing as an uncomfortable position (though that changes as the night goes on). Immediately, I can't keep my eyes open. I don't have to hold up my belly anymore, I don't have to stand or sit or stand up from sitting. I'm warm and finally comfortable. So, I hope this continues as my favorite part of the day becomes more of an effort to get to. And I can't wait until my favorite part of the day today...

Skis and a Baby

I don't want this blog to become the dedication to the baby, but I had to include a quick picture of an ultrasound picture we got of our little one. We are just so excited (duh) and wanted to share this picture even though most people totally don't care. Before I got pregnant, no, before I got this picture a couple of days ago, I really haven't cared much about other people's ultrasound pictures. They seemed weird to me, hard to tell what was going on and frankly, my response was "duh, it's a baby, like you didn't know there was one in there". But honestly, it's a phenomenal thing to know your pregnant but still not be able to cognitively understand that there is a baby in there. But then all the sudden you see this picture of a human that is growing inside of you - INSANE! How does that even happen? Anyway, here is a picture of the little Fogg:


Secondly, I was leaving for work the other day and thought that our "display" of skis was quite funny and needed to take a picture of it with my new camera. Now that I have this sleak new camera, I can take it whereever I go and have all these cool pictures of random stuff that I will post for your enjoyment. Sadly, this first one is of my own garage, but you gotta start somewhere right? Anyway, we seriously own this many skis - sad... Can you guess how many are mine and how many are Fogg's?

Christmas Time Catch Up

Sorry for my long delay in writing to you all! Lots has happened over the past month, let me catch you up.

First, we had a great Christmas with the whole family, Fogg and I, mom and dad, Gordon and his girlfriend, Leigha, and Nik (Wedekind). First, we all convened at Snowbasin on Christmas Eve for some fun festivities. We all climbed on the gondola for the torchlight parade (sans Leigha who doesn't really ski). We got to ski down and participate in the torchlight parade again which was a ton of fun. Here is a picture:

Then we headed inside for dinner but this year, it was so busy we didn't get to have the relaxing dinner that we did last year. Back to the Fogg house for hanging out the rest of the night. Then Christmas morning, we had a BIG breakfast then braved what we could of the weather and went to Snowbasin. It was pretty bad weather, really windy and snowy, really cold. They never openned any other lift than the gondola and by 2:30 the gondola was closed too from the weather. We then retreated to mom and dad's cabin with the addition of the Scrip's. We hung out at the cabin, hot tubbing, and getting dinner ready. Then we had a great dinner and started openning presents. Here is a picture of London showing off his gift:
And here is a picture of my growing belly. This is at 19 weeks, I'm currently at 20 weeks and if you can believe it, it looks even bigger now.

Here is a picture of Gordon and Leigha up at Snowbasin:

Unfortunately, the following morning, we received a phone call that my dad's only brother, Ray, passed away over the night. He was only 65 and one of my closer uncle's. It is a very sad thing, went very unexpectedly. We spent that day and Saturday figuring out travel arrangements as the funeral arrangements were being decided. Mom and Dad, and Gordon and I all headed out on Sunday to start the long drive to Wichita to attend the funeral. On Monday night we got there and went to the viewing. Tuesday was the funeral. It was hard but at the same time, it was nice to see the extended family and catch up. My cousin Dacia, is pregnant and due only 3 days after me, so that was fun to catch up on. Other family had more kids and it was good to see my cousins and aunts and uncles.

We got back home on Wednesday night and spent yesterday just trying to catch up on life. We'll spend the next few days recovering both mentally and physically. It was a fun and sad Christmas at the same time but we really learned to value the time we have with each other and were really glad to spend time with the people we love most.

Now on to 2009 where we get to welcome a new member to the family and hopefully many other fun things!