...and I couldn't be happier! We're so excited to be having a baby BOY!!!
And this is HIS cute little 15 weeks foot!
Reed sent me a text after we found out to tell me how relieved he is to know he won't be stuck in a house full of girls! We are so excited!!!
Volleyball season officially started this month! I love volleyball season-I don't like the lonely weekends when Reed travels, but I love home games! It's so fun to get to see Reed play (especially because he does it so well!) and I love all the friends that we've made through the team. Home games are definitely the highlight of my weekends!
This weekend the team started conference play against Hawaii. Reed didn't play as much as we had hoped, but he played awesome when he was in. Reed's serving in particular has improved so much from last year! BYU won in 4 on Thursday night and in 3 on Friday night. We love when the team wins in 3 games because then it's still early enough that the good restaurants are still open!
Last weekend BYU played Cal Baptist Thursday night and Lewis Saturday night. BYU easily won the first 2 games against Cal Baptist and we were sure we had this one in the bag. But we didn't. We actually ended up losing in 5 games. It was pretty disappointing. But they came back on Saturday and beat Lewis in 4.
This upcoming weekend the team travels to play at UC Santa Barbara and really should leave with 2 wins. So hopefully they will!
So one of the perks of working at a docter's office when I'm pregnant is that I've become good friends with our ultrasound tech (and I get to see my dr most days of the week!). So she'll look at my baby whenever she has an opening in her schedule! That's right, I'm only 11 weeks along and I've had 2 ultrasounds so far! So here's my first ultrasound at 7 weeks (about a week after we found out):
It was so cool to get to see the little peanut and to be able to see it's little heart beat! And here's from my ultrasound today:
Sorry it's a little hard to see, but that's the head and the top of the belly-it's the cutest baby I've ever seen! It's so exciting that it actually looks like a baby now! Our little friend wasn't moving much, but it did kinda "jump" once or twice for us. Too bad we still have 29 more weeks to go...sigh.
So here's my best effort to get caught up without being too boring or too long.
Reed and I went to California to spend Christmas with my family. It was fun to be there with the fam and to be away from all the snow! But apparently we missed it a little and went to Mt Baldy...
We got our new PJs from Grandma Johansson on Christmas Eve
Christmas morning we surprised my family when they opened the 2009 family calendar and saw Baby Chilton's due date on August 4th! Then we got some good, quality Wii time-thanks Chiltons!
Mom loved boxing Ryne!
We were so glad we were able to see the fam and that Grandma and Grandpa Tibbitts were also able to spend Christmas with us. Thanks mom and dad for a great Christmas break!
And here's my new favorite picture...
Friday, December 5
BYU started off the tournament Friday morning in a scrimmage against UC Irvine. Reed didn't start, so they lost the first game. They were down the 2nd game, so they put Reed in, but it was too late and they dropped that game too. But then they won the 3rd and 4th games. The 5th game was close, but UCI took it and gave BYU the loss. Reed played well and came away with 2 aces and multiple blocks.
Friday night BYU played Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. They were kind of like playing a high school team. So BYU swept them in 3 games. They even started the second game up 13-1! Reed tallied up another 3 aces!
Saturday, December 6
The morning started off with a scrimmage against Utah Valley University. The boys of UVU were talking up a lot of trash and we were hoping for a good game, but they were like playing a Jr college team! BYU swept them in 3 and Reed had another 3 aces!
Saturday night BYU had it's second chance against UCI. It looked like the Cougs were going to take the first game, but a few silly mistakes at the end gave it to the Anteaters. But the Cougars took the next 3 games to win the match! Reed had another 2 aces-he had a good serving weekend! With that win, our boys in blue won the tournament! Way to go Cougs!
We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We've had a great long weekend. We started off Wednesday night by going to the Body World museum in Salt Lake. It was so cool! We got to see most of the human organs (both healthy and unhealthy), muscles, and blood vessels. Some of the bodies were doing gymnastics, some were shooting arrows, and one was even hurdling! It was really cool. We thought it was really nicely done and are really glad we went.
Thanksgiving Day we went up to Park City with some of Reed's extended family. It was good to see them and Grandma and Grandpa Chilton. Dinner was delicious! and we're so excited that it's now officially Christmas season! On Friday we got our Christmas tree (of course a REAL one!) and decked our house with lights and our other holiday decorations. We didn't do much shopping, but we did do some. It might not sound like a super exciting weekend, but we've really enjoyed it and are even more excited now for Christmas break!
So we just got back from our wonderful trip to Hawaii. The men's volleyball team played in a tournament at the University of Hawaii, so I came along with them. We had so much fun! The tournament consisted of 3 schools-BYU, U of H, and USC-and each school had 2 teams. Both of our teams won 2 and lost once, so it was good. It was so fun to get to see Reed play again-and he did so well! But seriously, no one REALLY cared that much about volleyball...
We saw hundreds fish of every shade of every color, an eel, and even a big sea turtle! He was pretty cool!
We went to The Sandy Beach where we saw some really big waves.
Those crazy boys thought twice about going in...
...but in the end, they just couldn't resist!
Reed and I later went exploring over on the rocks-it was beautiful!
We later learned that the waves at The Sandy Beach weren't that big or impressive when we pulled up to North Shore-the waves there are incredible!
Reed and Kevin really enjoyed playing "Crack the Egg" and getting hammered by the waves breaking on the shore-it was pretty funny to watch!
On our way back, we stopped by to see the Laie, Hawaii LDS Temple-it was beautiful! The grounds around the temple were amazing.
We had such a great trip. We are so thankful for the opportunity we had to go and that it was a fun and safe trip. Aloha!
