names

So, we had another ultrasound on Tuesday and found out that we are still expecting a baby boy! We were actually disappointed with this appointment. The doctor was running over an hour late so somehow this translated into a two minute ultrasound. He didn't really point anything out to us and I'm pretty sure he didn't check all the organs he is supposed to. We were lucky to have my friend do the early ultrasound 6 weeks ago. Oh well, we are having healthy baby boy as far as we know!

On another note...we are discussing names and we have some ideas but we are asking for some thoughts and opinions.

First off..our baby boy's "womb name" is Barnebus...this is what Max is constantly calling him. I'm hoping this name won't stick but it is fun to have a name before we have a final decision.

Here are some real ideas.

Choice #1 Isaac Gorden Baertlein

Choice #2 Charles (Charlie) Gorden Baertlein

That's all we got so far. The name (and spelling) Gorden has been passed down for many generations in Max's family and we want to keep that going...(it's max's middle name if you didn't know)

I've always liked the name Isaac for no apparent reason

My youngest brother, Danny, has two middle names one of which is Charles. Ever since he was named this I planned on calling him Charlie but it never stuck. He has always been my Danny monkey. I have still always loved the name.

So, if you were choosing our child's name which would it be? Isaac or Charlie? Just curious. i want to hear your vote, if you can't leave a comment send me a text.

In other news, baby boy is kicking more each day. Max started feeling it recently which made him ever so joyful! Which in turn made me excited to see how much he loves our little boy already!

Life is good!

Here comes the belly picture...

I finally decided to post a belly picture, I wanted to wait until it was obvious that there was a baby there and not just chub so here is our son in all his glory. He has been growing like crazy over the last couple of days.
This was the best picture I could get because Max is working right now.

22.5 weeks or 5 months

We get to have an ultrasound done by our doctor on Tuesday to confirm that I am indeed having a boy and to check all the organs and what-not. I'm so excited to see him wiggling around in there again.

In other news, Year round school is out for 2.5 weeks so that means I get a break for the next 2.5 weeks. It will be heavenly. I go back to start a new school year at the end of July and only teach 3 more weeks before graduation. So this means that I will be a college graduate in 5.5 weeks. It still seems so unreal to me. I'm as happy as a clam...Oh yeah, I also found out that I passed my huge capstone project (see a couple posts below) with a flying colors score of 96%. Needless to say life is good and I'm incredibly happy! Over the next couple of weeks I get to look forward to a romantic trip with my husband ( either a hotel or camping) and the last Harry Potter movie coming out along with a lot of restful vacation time that I will fill with enjoyable projects!

Father's Day, a family visit, and a birthday.

Over the last week or so we've had a lot of fun events and they were even made better because Max had nearly a week off from his internship...I guess it was only 3-4 days but I'll take what I can get. It was great having him around. Last weekend my grandma and aunties came into town for my Great Aunt Marilyn's funeral. we were able to host them and eat good food and play games. They spoiled us with some great home-cooking which was being neglected with our busy schedules so it was much appreciated. While my family was here we were able to all celebrate Father's day for Max. I made an amazing breakfast of homemade blueberry waffles, eggs, sausage, and bananas. He then got to open his present. He had mentioned that he wanted to have a matching outfit with his son so I got the closest outfit I could to something Max already owned. Baby boy will not be able to wear it until next summer but we are excited. Max got so giddy when he opened it and couldn't stop smiling. Max had to leave for to work at noon so he left and I went to church with my Grandma and Aunties. After church my Aunts made a delicious pot roast. After we ate, we delivered some to Max and to my aunt Deanna. We came back and played games into the night. I then had to go to bed to get up for teaching the next morning.

It was fun hosting some family in our house! They were excellent guests!

Several days later our friend, Nelson, celebrated his 29th birthday, his wife is in Texas doing a ten week internship so we knew we needed to make this a birthday to remember! Max prepared a little surprise party/BBQ

It was a success

Of course, Max likes to get crazy and make people take awkward pictures...so after giving Nelson his own bow and arrow set...he made him put on the famous Avatar wig.

And there you have it...Max is the best party thrower in all the land...

Weight lifted

As teachers our capstone project seems relatively simple, create a unit with 5+ lessons and teach it. Oh my, that was the most tedious project ever. Not simple at all. The lesson part was fun but the 80 page report was not. It wasn't necessarily hard just a lot of work that seemed to take the fun out of teaching. But today, June 13th 2011, I turned in this blasted report and life is good. I was nearly in tears from excitement as I handed my reports to the secretary, a whole 24.5 hours early. This is a picture of two copies of the report, two teachers will be grading it so I had to turn in two copies!

So I came home and celebrated by wiping the dust off Sharootie (our kitchenaid's name) and baking some cookies.
Max is working so he doesn't get to enjoy them with me but baby boy seems to like them, he is in a kicking frenzy!

Student teaching is half way over, let me rephrase, the hardest half is over. The part where I had a tedious report. I now switch to fifth graders (coming from first graders) which I'm thrilled about but slightly nervous.

Anyway, that was my last and biggest college project, 8 more weeks until graduation (only 6 weeks of teaching left)
I am happy!

It's a baby!!

First of all, we have an amazing friend that is an ultra sound tech and she gave us an early ultra sound on the hospital's brand new equipment and gave us a picture CD of about 20 images of our baby for FREE!!! All because she's amaing and wanted some practice. We are so blessed. Thank you Ashlyn! we will have another ultrasound from our doctor in a couple of weeks.

So here are the results...we are having a perfect little boy!!!

I was always confused by ultrasound pictures in the past but those look like obvious boy parts to me!
His head was wedged really low so we couldn't get a good profile but we got to see him flailing and kicking.

This is a thumb sucking pictures, it's still hard to see the face but it's there!!

We love our little boy so much already!! Now we just have to wait 5 more months!!!

two years!

So, this post is a little late but...We got to celebrate two years of marriage on May 2nd and the weekend before that. It's passed by quick...on the other hand I feel like we've always been married. Max got the whole weekend off including Monday May 2nd. ( I still had to teach that Monday but we had the evening together.) Max got home from a long shift at 7 am on Saturday morning and crawled right into bed with me so we could sleep a couple more hours. when we eventually decided to get up I found a lovely flower just for me. We have an agreement that the flower thing doesn't need to happen very often but it is fun once in awhile. We ate a late breakfast, got ready for the day and headed out for a day of shopping. Our goal was to pick out an outfit for eachother. The goal was to then where the outfit on a date later. I was planning on taking pictures of all the clothes but we never brought our camera into any of the stores so we are pictureless. But we did find the perfect jeans for Max and we are very excited about that. And it's probably a good thing we didn't take pictures because I would have had a lot of his booty. hehe! We had a nice little lunch date and then continued shopping.

When the clothes were purchased we ate a little dinner then headed out to see a movie in our new outfits. Yeah, I know going to a movie is a dumb place to show off new clothes but we were excited.

Sunday was spent doing more homework than we would've liked. (This was the two year anniversary of Max's broken nose.)

On Monday (the official anniversary) I had to teach all day. After school I felt incredibly nauseous and had the worst headache of my life...those crazy first graders. When I arrived home Max was cooking dinner so he told me to just rest and he would take care of everything. It was great., besides me needing to do homework in my resting time. I started to feel a little better by the time dinner was ready.

He made salads and quesadillas! They were delicious...except for the one he burned. (He really is a good cook, this was just his first attempt) I felt bad that I wasn't feeling well enough to eat very much. I enjoyed it more the next day.


He then took me on a little surprise date to random free museums on BYU campus. We keep talking about going to them before we leave but just haven't made the time. We first went to the wildlife museum where they have tons of taxidermied (sp?) animals and we watched a reptile show and some some lizards and snakes and other gross things. Nothing says happy anniversary like playing with weird reptiles.

Then we went to the Museum of art on on campus and found a big pile of books. Art sure can be weird these days. But impressive.

Then we needed to go home and to bed because of early shifts in the morning but first...

Max made some incredible desserts. He bought supplies for Strawberry shortcakes and chocolate lava cakes because he couldn't decide so we decided to do the lava cakes and save the strawberry SC for another day. We weren't dissappointed

It was a weekend filled with random events shared with the most wonderful person in the world. Any time we get to spend time together is cherished and filled with love and laughter.

Happy Birthday

Today is the due date for our first little baby. Life would have been much different if that baby was able to come to our family. I know Heavenly Father has a plan for our small family and the baby we are carrying now is the one that is meant to live with us in this life. We will never forget the two babies that we have lost, they were both merely the size of a sesame seed but we learned so many life lessons from them. I don't even think they had a chance for their heart to start beating so who knows if they were classified as "living" all I know is that they were my children.

Some blessings we have noticed from our experience include:

~we know we are incredibly fertile
~This current baby will be born to a college graduate
~Our experiences help us be more compassionate (I hope)
~We have a strong love and appreciation for this current baby that may have been weaker without our past experiences.
~We received even more love and support from close friends and family rooting for us.
~We will be back near family when this baby is born.

There are many blessings that come when being complient to the Lord's timing sometimes it takes some rough times to appreciate how good life can get!