Christmas Letter 2009

Merry Christmas

This past year has been great. In May we moved out to Apple Valley where my dad owns some land. It’s a ways out there and takes me 45 minutes to get to work every day but we enjoy it. (Well at least we have so far, with the winter months coming upon us ask me again in a month or so and I might have a different answer :) )
Back in January we were in a car accident that ended up causing Jon a bit of back pain. He’s working doing construction again, which isn’t helping much in the pain department, but he is enjoying it more than being “cooped up” inside all day. We’re still dealing with doctors and hoping that they’ll figure out something soon to ease the pain.
I’m still with SouthWest Federal Credit Union working as a Consumer Loan Processor. I’ve been with the credit union now for almost 4 years and I’m still enjoying it, but it’s not my dream job. We’re both still looking into and wanting to go back to school but of course we keep coming up with reasons why we should put it off a little longer. Our latest excuse fell upon us in July when we found out we were going to be having a baby in April! We’re both super excited for the new adventure and can’t wait to meet the new addition to our family. We can’t seem to agree on any names quite yet. It’s amazing how hard coming up with one can actually be. We had agreed on a few girl names but boy names were another story, we were totally stumped. But as fate would have it, we’re having a boy! So he might be nameless for a while, but we’re both very excited. (Especially since the Lindhardt family is filled with girls. I guess my mom saw it fit to start evening out the numbers a little bit and decided to start sending down some boys :) )
Since it’s still just the two of us, there’s not a whole lot to write about. We hope all is going well with you and wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We love you.

Love,

Jonathan, Kristina and baby boy Evertsen

24 Weeks

I feel like my stomach has just shot out in the past few days. The other day Jon said to me "Wow, you're really starting to look pregnant. You didn't look that big yesterday. I'm so excited!" It was way cute. He's super excited that I'm finally starting to look pregnant. It's finally starting to seem real to him. He's felt him move quite a few times now and every time he gets a huge grin on his face. So adorable! I will admit that actually looking pregnant is really nice. Except for the fact that none of my clothes fit me. I have plenty of maternity shirts, but only 2-3 skirts/pants that I can wear to work. Looks like I need to do some shopping :)

I've felt pretty good, except for the cramps I keep having. I know they're totally normal and my midwife reassured me at my appointment today that me and the baby are doing great. But man do they suck! I thought the 2nd trimester was supposed to be the "fun" time. I'm more sick with the cramps than i was all through my first trimester. I sure do hope that I can get use to them or they go away....and soon!

I'm LOVING my thicker hair. Ok, so I know its not actually thicker, it's just that pregnant women don't lose as much hair each day so its really only a temporary thing. But I'm still loving it. :)

He has been kicking me like crazy. I love being able to feel him move around in there. It's such an amazing feeling.

Still no progress in the name department. :(

24 Weeks

Oh and if you can't tell from the pic, I'm carrying pretty high.

Finally...

I GOT A CAMERA!!!!

My wonderful husband bought me this for my birthday....isn't he just great?!!!!!

Nikon Coolpix S630

My birthday was great. My inlaws made me a birthday dinner (mashed potatoes, green beans, bearnaise sauce and frikadeller - danish meatballs) and rainbow chip cake..my favorite! Then me and Jon went and saw Twilight New Moon. I actually really liked it. It's much better than the first one.

Lovely picture of Jon that I took with my new camera :) waiting for dinne to finish.

Jon and Avaree (She was eating M&M's)

The only pic of me and Jon that we got on my birthday. It's not very good, but I had to put it up anyways.

SNOW!!

We got about an inch of snow up at my house. This is what I woke up to on Tuesday

It's only been two days of snow and I'm already ready for it to melt. I'm so glad we

live in So. Utah. I don't think I could handle living somewhere where it snows all winter!

Birthday flowers from Natalie - Thanks so much love ya

Birthday flowers from Jon... aren't they both so beautiful!

And here's the long awaited pregnancy picture. It's not a very good one, but I figured I'd put up what I had then make Jon take a better one of me later.

22 Weeks

23!

Happy Birthday Kristina!

Since there's no recent pics (since there's still no camera) here's a pic of her on her birthday last year.

Thanksgiving and friends

I'm hoping to get a camera within the next week or so, so hopefully my posts will start to be a little more interesting and I can get some pics of my growing belly on here :)

I'm 21 1/2 weeks and all is going well. Still no name picked yet. We still can't seem to find one that we both really like. There are some options, but none we just absolutely love yet.

Thanksgiving was great. We spent it with my family this year, which was really nice cuz it was just with my immediate family (minus Steph and Adam cuz they go to Vegas with Adams family every year so they can spend Christmas with us). My grandparents went up north, so it was the first time me and my sisters had to make all the food. But I will admit, I didn't end up making too much since my grandma pre-made some rolls for us and that was my main job. But Kimi sure made up for my lack of cooking. She brought so much food! So between everyone we had PLENTY of food for just us 9 people (Dad, Stacie, Kristina, Jon, Kristel, Eric, Evie, Kimi and her b/f Richard). It was nice to just be able to hang out with each other with no arguing or fighting and just eat, play games and enjoy each others company.

I have so much to be thankful for and heres just a small list:
- An AMAZING husband. - He's been so great during this pregnancy. Getting rid of all the weird smells that have made me sick, coming to some of the midwife appointments with me even though they are really rather boring (especially for him), he'll even sit with his hand on my stomach for long periods of time to try to feel him move :) We think he might have felt him move a little bit the other day. He's all around a wonderful amazing guy and I'm so lucky to have him in my life. He is the best man I've ever known, so caring and selfless. I learn so much from him daily!
- A healthy pregnancy and baby boy. - Can't wait to meet him!
- A Wonderful family - We have our fair share of drama and trails, and have been through so much. No matter whats going on, we're always there for each other. They are an amazing backbone in my life.
- A Job - I know I complain about it sometimes. But I'm lucky I even have one.
- The gospel - The gospel is so amazing! Theres so many good things I could say about it, but I'll just leave it simple...I LOVE it and all the many blessings I receive because of it.

Any one that knows me, knows I absolutely LOVE the show 'Friends'. I have the whole series and watch them all the time. Me and Jon are watching season 9 right now and the other day we watched an episode that has my all time favorite quote in it. I laugh so hard every time i hear it. And its not just a little snicker, it's a full on -can't breathe, back/stomach hurt, tears coming out my eyes type laugh. Jon just looks at me like I'm totally silly cuz you see, he thinks its funny but not near as hilarious as I think it is.

So which episode/quote is it?

Its the episode where they all go to Ross and Monica's parent's 35th wedding anniversary. Pheobe brings a date- Parker(Alec Baldwin) who everyone thinks is rather annoying because he's extremely optimistic. Parker tries to make Pheobe eat an oyster (or some sort of seafood) and since she's a vegetarian when he's not looking she throws it on the floor instead of eating it. Ok so that's not the funny part. The funny part comes in when later, Pheobe is sitting at a table and Joey comes up and they start talking about how bring the party is and Joey says something to the extent of....
"I know! And while I was standing in the food line, I slipped on a GIANT BOOGER!"
Pheobe - "Ummm... are you sure it wasn't an oyster?"
Joey "I dunno, I didn't stick around long enough to find out, I just wiped it on Ross's coat and got the hell outta there!"

I know it probably doesn't sound that funny when I tell it and all the details prob aren't quite right, so you'll just have to watch the episode yourself. But oh my! I just had to share it because I think its just so freakin funny!