I'M SO EXCITED!!

I just got this in the mail...
and I can't wait to get home to set it up! I know I know, we won't be using it for a while, but since we won't be getting his crib for another month or so I need to have something up to make me feel like it's the nursery and not just another room in the house :)

28 Weeks

Here I am at 28 weeks pregnant.

This isn't a very good picture of me, but it'll do.

I'm getting more and more excited for him to arrive, especially since it means that he'll be out of me :) I haven't been a huge fan of being pregnant. I use to love to feel him kick and move around, but now since he does it so often and it can kinda hurt, I'm not so much a fan anymore. It is very comforting to know that he's active and ok in there though.

I'm starting to have some trouble sleeping (which I know is only going to get worse). I've been sleeping with a pillow for the past few weeks and there have been a few times when I've woken up and I can't seem to find it. It's not on the floor...not by my feet...where else could it be you might ask...Oh no worries, Jon has stolen it from me! haha. One night he even tried to be sneaky about it. He put his arm around me (and the pillow since I was facing him), then his leg up on the pillow next to mine, then all of a sudden he pushes me away and snatches the pillow! Mind you he's sleeping the whole time and he doesn't remember doing any of this. haha. We both got a pretty good kick out of it when I told him about it in the morning. I've learned I can only keep the pillow on my left side so he can't "secretly" try to steal it from me.

We've started taking Bradley classes. Our first one was yesterday and we both really liked it. I'm excited for all the things we're gonna learn, but I'm really excited for the envolvement that Jon's going to have during labor because of these classes. Can't wait!

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday to my amazing husband! I love you so so much! I know you're going to be such an amazing dad. Thanks for all the many things you do for me.

I LOVE YOU!!!

This picture isn't the best one of us, I had to take atleast one of him on his special day. I'll try to take more tonight and post them soon.

Christmas 2009

Christmas this year was wonderful. Since our families live so close together we get to spend the holidays with both of them, which is great. Christmas Eve we started out over at my dads, had the traditional Danish Christmas Eve dinner, danced around the Christmas tree and opened presents. (And yes I did say 'dance around the Christmas Tree'. It's one of the Danish traditions and it's not so much dancing as it is walking around it holding hands and singing danish/english Christmas songs).While everyone else stayed and played games, we headed over to Jon's parents. We opened a few presents and had a great Christ centered presentation by JaRene. We spent the night there (since driving home would have been a complete waste of time), woke up around 8 and opened more presents. Later that day we went to see Sherlock Holmes, which we both really enjoyed. I have a few pictures, but not a ton...I was slacking just a bit.

New Years wasn't too eventful. You'd think that since it was our last year of being just the two of us we would have gone all out, but that just didn't happen. We did have fun though. We went to dinner with my family at my dad's favorite place, Golden Corral. Then we went over to Zeffie's house and played some games till about 11 or so when everyone got really tired and decided to call it a night. So we again slept in town and were in bed by 11:45. Waited the 15 minutes till midnight, had our new years kiss, listened to the fireworks for a minute, then went to bed. Haha, man we're pretty lame. :)

Pregnancy is going pretty good. I'm now 26 weeks. I had some pretty bad cramps again last week. I've been told by a few people they are Braxton Hicks, but I dunno. My midwife checked me to make sure I wasn't dialating or anything and thank heavens I wasn't. But she wanted to be sure since the cramping was really strong and lasting for about 12 hours or so, which apparently isn't normal. But since there wasn't any problems, it looks like they might just be something that I randomly have during the remainder of my pregnancy. :( Lucky Me!

Other than that, things are going really good. He's moving/kicking a ton which is so much fun. It's really weird to randomly be sitting there and then all of a sudden actually see my whole stomach move... So much fun

Me and Jon

Aja with her Christmas present

Dancing around the Christmas Tree

Grandma and Grandpa Whitaker

Our Danish Tree

JaRene and Berkley opening presents

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!

And the verdict is....

I'm not the best at reading ultrasounds, but here are a few of my favorites

This one shows his lower half. His right shin and foot and left foot and in between... yup you guessed it, we're having a boy! Jon's so excited (I am too of course, but he really really wanted a boy)

His side profile

Another side view. He was trying to hide his face the whole time.

How cute is this one of his face! I'm so excited!!!

We haven't picked out any names yet. Girl names we had a few options we both liked, but of course we couldn't agree on any boy names. I decided I wanted to do a nursery theme that kind of had something to do with Jon, since its the first boy and all. And anyone that knows Jon, knows he absolutely LOVES driving tractors. So I decided on a JOHN DEERE theme! how cute is that going to be. So if you see anything John Deere related let me know :)

I'm 19 weeks and finally starting to show a little bit. I promise I'll post a picture soon. I can't wait till I get out of the "is she pregnant or just fat?" stage. haha

Well keep your eyes posted for cute little boy stuff for me :)