40 weeks! Yea! We made it all the way to the end! So proud of the little guy for hanging out until his due date. Now, we just need to get him here. Any tips on naturally inducing labor? Ha ha...
I bought a watermelon the other day, and Ted had to take a comparison picture of my pregnant belly compared to his watermelon baby. Oh boy...never a dull moment at our house. At this point, I am totally willing to give up the job of pregnancy to the husband. He can have it!
Dutch oven BBQ chicken and peach cobbler...we love to make this when we go camping. We had Brennan (my new step brother) come over and eat dinner with us as we camped out at Heise Hot Springs in Ririe. He actually manages Heise, so we got to see him all around the campground. The first time we met Brennan was when we went ziplining for Ted and Karleen's birthday last year. So much fun!!! If you have time, go to Heise Hot Springs and reserve a zipline spot. It is awesome!
Here we are, camping at Heise. I believe this was the first or second weekend of June...not sure. I was 38 weeks preggo though...I must confess, the kind of camping we've been doing has been pretty darn easy. We pull our trailer up to a campground that has water, electric, and sewage. Inside the camp trailer is like a regular house, complete with heat and air conditioning. It is almost too easy. And, I find we relax a lot more when we're camping than when we're home. At home there is always something to be cleaned or done, but when camping, all you need is a fire, a few meals, and you're good.
Enjoying the fire.
We unhooked our camp trailer from the pickup and backed the truck up to the fire pit. The tailgate made an awesome table for our dutch oven prep.
Another picture of the trailer and pickup. I forgot that I'd rolled up my pants at home...oops. Camping at Heise was a lot of fun. It was great weather, and we got to use the air conditioning a little when it was super hot during the day. Even though the park was busy, it was still quiet and very well maintained.
The weekend after Heise, we decided to switch directions and head south instead of north. We went to Aberdeen's Sportsman's Park. It is just north of Aberdeen, and has a boat dock that goes into the American Falls Resevour. It is a well maintained Bingham County Park. We spent a night here, and it was kind of rushed, because the next morning Ted had foot zoning appointments, so we had to leave early. But, it was totally worth getting away.
Got ourselves a little campfire. We tried to make this campfire more of an indian campfire than a white man fire. White man fires are big, burn fast, and put out a lot of heat. Indian fires are smaller, last longer, and don't use as much wood.
This last weekend (June 22nd-23rd), we decided to pack up late one night and spend the night over on our Pingree farm. Ted didn't want to get up and drive to move wheel lines in the morning, so we camped at the top of the wheel line hill.
It was funny, Morgan was out checking water and she saw us, but didn't recognize who we were. So she drove up from the road (about 1/4 mile), to find out who the heck we were and what we were doing camping on the farm. About half-way to us, she realized it was Ted and me. Ha ha...it would be strange finding someone just camping out in your field. But, when you own that field, not so strange. It was a great night, other than the wind that decided to blow 100 mph at 2:30 in the morning. It was windy the rest of the morning, and made sleeping nearly impossible. At least we had our jacks down, because it would've really rocked the trailer the whole night. As it was, it just rattled the windows some. Needless to say, we slept in the next morning until around 9 am (tried to sleep). Well, I did. Ted still had to move wheel lines, so he was up at his usual hour, 6 am.
Ted putting down the jacks. These saved us when the wind decided to try to blow us away in the middle of the night.
Camping by the wheel lines in Pingree. This was the most "roughing it" experience we've had with our trailer so far. There was no electric, sewage, or water hookups here. We had to fill the trailer with water, rely on our RV batteries for electric, and use the propane for keeping the fridge cool. Everything worked great...except the water heater wouldn't light. But, we found a way to do it manually. And, we ran out of water. It was quite fun washing dishes in the morning with a few drips and the water pump lugging to get the last bit out of the tank. Ted manuevered the trailer so that the water tank would lean toward the pump so we could get all the water out. It was funny. Next time we will pay closer attention and actually fill the water tank the whole way, or at least better than we did this time.
It's a tradition to have a least one smore or mashmellow while camping. So, a fire is mandatory. We found some really dry old barn wood behind our house and used it as firewood. It burned so fast and hot! We had the fire in the middle of some wet grass, but it was so hot, it dried out the grass and was beginning to spread. We had to get some rocks (thank goodness we live in Rockford where there is an endless supply), and put them around the fire. We made our own little lava rock/cinder block firepit. We're going to keep camping out and using the firepit for the rest of the summer. It'll be our close camping spot for when we can't go far.
The sunset from the wheel lines.
After we went camping on our farm this last weekend, we decided to take a road trip up to our old stomping grounds from last summer. We took out the mustang and headed north to Island Park and West Yellowstone. We stopped by some of our favorite places and reminisced. The Hungry Bear Grocery Store, The Island Park Laundry Mat, The Green Leaf Ice Cream Shop (the above picture was taken there), The Park West Mall where Ted had his store last summer, the cabin we stayed in by Henry's Lake (Aspen Ridge), and of course, the I-Max Theater my cousin's own. It was a blast! Other than the swelling in my feet (which hasn't went away yet), I did great! After we went to Yellowstone, we drove back to Idaho Falls and went to a Drive-In Movie with Ted's brother Zach, his girlfriend, Jenn, and a couple of their friends. The weather was perfect! We watched Brave and left at the beginning of The Avengers. We'd already seen The Avengers, and were too tired to stay up until 3 am and watch it a second time, especially because we didn't get much sleep the night before from the wind, and drove all day. But, Brave was pretty good. The plot was scattered, and the girl was rough on her mom, but it had a good point: Be Brave.
Here are the hay tractors and semi truck lined up after 1st crop. We are done with our 1st crop of hay. I think my family is super happy. No rain, and they got it done quite quickly, which is nice.
Ted and I got to help fix this linear tire. The gear box shaft broke, so we had to replace it. It was way muddy, as you can see. Adam sunk all the way up to his hip when he stepped in the tire track. Ha ha... lots of mud.
The trusty Dodge. It has been with us since before we got married. We love our little pickup. It is very reliable and does such a good job getting us to where we need to go. :)
Yes, this is me, driving a tractor at 40 weeks pregnant. Ted wanted to document this, because he is so proud of me for driving a tractor on my due date. It was pretty bumpy, and our little guy was kicking me for giving him a jostle, but he still hasn't come out to greet us yet. Maybe I need to take another drive.
We decided to do some fireworks early, just in case our baby comes around the 4th of July and we don't get to enjoy the fireworks.
I used to be really scared of sparklers because my parents instilled in me how I needed to be extra careful around fireworks as a child. Ted told me he had the opposite experience. He said his parents used to light bottle rockets and shoot them at the kids. Wow...we've grown up completely opposite of each other. Good luck to us finding a balance in raising our kids.
Having some fun with the fireworks.
As you can see, we've been having lots of fun! We spent the night at Destination's Inn in Idaho Falls on Monday. We stayed in the Paris Suite. It was beautiful. I took two baths, and it felt so good to have the baby be weightless in the water. It was crazy, when I got out of the bath, all the weight felt a ton worse though. It was worth a few minutes of weightlessness though. We also watched two movies, and slept in. We got the room for free, because Ted traded three foot zones for the room. It was great! Totally worth it!
My Dad's birthday was on Tuesday, and we were all kinda hoping our little guy would be here either on, or right around my Dad's birthday. No such luck. Maybe he will come into the world with a bang on my Grandpa Hancock's birthday (July 4th). We will see.
The doctor said he would let us go up to a week or week and a half past the due date. As of their records, my due date is July 3rd, because he measured a little small at 20 weeks, so they say they will definitely induce me by July 9th. Plus, the doctor is going out of town for the rest of July after the 9th, so we better have this baby by then. But, as of my records, that would be 2 weeks past my due date, which means, this baby might not come until 42 weeks! I sure hope he decides to come on his own. I'm already miserable enough with the super hot temperatures and no air conditioning, being 40 pounds over my normal weight, taking on water like there's no tomorrow, and hurting every time I move. Can't wait to get this weight off, and baby here. As I said at the beginning, if anyone has tips to naturally induce, I will take them...except for Castor Oil. I'll pass on that one. :)
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