Jeremy Michael Simmons

8 lbs 7 oz 23 inches long born about 12:25pm September 12th.

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Third Trimester

Ok it's time to share my feelings on this third trimester. Not sure if waiting until now was such a good idea!!

The downers:
Hi, my belly is huge and no I'm not carrying twins, thanks for asking.
Yes the baby is still in me, haven't had him yet, thanks for asking.
"Mae I need you to put my shoes and socks on my feet, I can't bend over! Thanks doll"
Oh congrats baby you found your way up to mommy's ribs. Oh boy.
Can I order a porta-potty please?! Like seriously, how many times do I really HAVE to go as apposed to just feeling like I have to?
Yoga...you thought this would be on the good list didn't you?! WRONG!
OUCH. Constant pain, hoping these tears will be tears of joy before too long.

The uppers:
Let me think....
....give me a minute...
Oh, my belly does the wave...like nobody's bidness!
Still no stretch marks *knock on wood, NOW*
As far as swelling goes, I think I'm one of the lucky ones. Though I can't wear my own wedding ring it's not obvious to others that I've retained too much water.
"Can I get that for you? Kim, go rest, go home early" Sweet words I hear often. Lots of help.
Thanks mom for folding our laundry.....again! Again, LOTS of help!
Thank you for rubbing my feet, back, bum, and always loving me Mikey! (seriously the most patient loving love of my life. He's been amazing.)

Regardless of how much pain this little Jeremy is causing my body right now I still can't believe how much love I already have for him. Though his kicks are more on the painful side now, I find myself still enjoying them and I know he's growing nice and big in there. (Doctor is already estimating 7.5-8lbs) This journey will soon be over and new exciting whirlwind chapter will begin. Bring it on. We have plenty to learn and we have so many loved ones around us to teach us. Thank you to everyone for your constant love, concern, chats, shoulders to cry on, laughter over the silliness of all this and just for being a part of our lives!
Let's meet this little guy shall we?!

Showered with Love

Over the past few months I've been able to enjoy showers given by family, friends, ward members and coworkers! Our little Jeremy is SO loved! I can't wait to show him how much and to dress him in everything and wrap him all the fun blankets and read him his new books! We are just a few short weeks away from meeting him and we are going CRAZY!!! I'm overwhelmed the generosity of everyone. I love hearing how others are so excited to meet him too, maybe they're just sick of the exhausted ornery look on my face! I only have a pictures from a couple showers but here they are in no particular order!

Family Time

Back in July the Simmons crew got together again for Family Lagoon Day, though this year we were short a few family members and we didn't get matching shirts, we still had a great time! Because I was unable to ride anything we decided to give Lagoon-a-Beach a try this year, everyone really seemed to enjoy it and we think we'll keep doing that for years to come. It was so relaxing for me and my prego belly to just float around the lazy river! Mike was our brave soul and had a blast on the sky coaster. We have video of it but at the moment the SD card is missing so we'll have to upload it later but it made his summer!! Unfortunately we didn't really get any pictures this year, so there you have it, we went, we rode, we exhausted ourselves and got home in one piece!!

Polls!

I've added 3 polls to the side of our blog! Go place your votes. We're getting closer and closer!

Someday soon I will post some updates on what we've been up to lately.

Soon to come:
*Family Lagoon Day
*Baby Showers
*Third Trimester Joys
*1 car family

Monkey See Monkey Do

One reason I am so excited about having a boy is all the fun Monkey things out right now! I think my mom was a bit surprised that I would dig those cute little tree swingin' little guys but I seriously think they're adorable! So one night I got thinking, is it really that weird that I am liking all the cute little monkey things!?
Then it hit me.....please see the picture below, my silly husband has given me my reason, it's no wonder I get so giddy!

2 Totally Awesome Years!

On July 23rd Mikey and I celebrated 2 fun years of marriage together! We were horrible at taking pictures so I made my mom and Mike's mom take a few pictures of us that Sunday. Friday night we celebrated by swimming and eating dinner at Macaroni Grill. Saturday Mike had to work but got off early so we enjoyed some more swimming, lunch at The Pie with Jeph and Venita and we watched Valentines Day which I thought was hysterical! Mike enjoyed it but I certainly enjoyed it MUCH more! On Sunday we had dinner at the Bailey/Simmons where Lynn planned an Anniversary Dinner for me and Mike, Jeph and Venita and John and Jaelyn! We all have our anniversaries within a couple weeks of each other. It was a wonderful meal, thank you Lynn! Monday I took the day off work and Mikey doesn't work Monday's so what did we do?! We went swimming of course, went to the doctors and heard our little guys heart beat and had a picnic at Murray Park! I have to say swimming is the BEST while pregnant, oh my goodness if you are pregnant and you haven't done this, PLEASE DO!
So those were our adventures for our 2 years of wedded awesomeness, it was a nice little stay-cation if you will!

My mom thought it would be fun for Mike to dip me....I think it was more fun for her than either of us but I still think it's a fun picture!





The Anniversary group minus John, so Ethan sat in for his dad, what a good kid!!