22 months old

Scrape on the chin, food on the face = Typical Asher

Could someone please tell me where the last month went? I can't believe this kid turns 2 in just two months!!!
And that he'll have a little sister by then!

34 weeks

Still pluggin along. Baby still breech. Going to the chiro on Wednesday. 

Expect to see a head down baby at my midwife appointment on Friday.
Peace.

photos at The Mormon Women Project

You may recall I mentioned awhile ago the fantastic Mormon Women Project. It is a digital library of interviews with fascinating Mormon women. I was so impressed with the project that I volunteered to photograph interview subjects that are in the area. A few weeks ago I interviewed Catherine Arveseth and her interview was posted yesterday. She has 5 kids 5 and under--including two sets of twins! It was fun to meet her and take some beautiful photos. Check out her interview! (I took the photos of Catherine by herself.)

asher and auntie lauren

Hanging out on our last morning in Vegas. Thanks so much for hosting us, Laurlie!

at the bellagio

In my opinion the Bellagio is the prettiest hotel casino in Vegas. Plus they have the most beautiful flowers and of course the water show, which is why we went.

The awesome glass sculpture ceiling

And now all the flowers!

go raw cafe

Lauren took us to this fun little cafe in Vegas that serves only raw food. It was SO SO good. Really fun interesting menu. And definitely stuff that would be really hard to replicate at home. I meant to take pictures of each dish as we got it but we were so excited to eat it that I forgot until we'd already dug in. We got three things and shared them.

A mexican platter. There was a wrap, some kind of cracker topped with avocado, etc., enchiladas, and a few other things that I can't remember. All good.

A burger with a salad. The burger was made with beets and a bunch of other stuff. It was our favorite thing. As a true burger lover, I was actually surprised by how good it was.

And veggie sushi... also very, very yummy.

playing in vegas

We didn't do much touristy stuff while in Vegas other than go down to the Bellagio to see the flowers and the water show. I'll have those photos another day. It was really nice to just hang out with my sister and enjoy the warmer weather. We also got to go see Jared's aunt and family and his grandparents. Unfortunately I failed to take any photos of that excursion. Silly me.

But here are some of us with my sis...

Asher loved swimming although you can't tell very much by his face in some of these.

Cute man in a little towel

Asher arranged this whole little setup himself. He likes to get comfy to read.

Playing at the park

Mothers Day 2010

We were in Vegas for Mothers Day at my sister Lauren's. It was a very relaxing day. Lauren made us delicious vegan banana french toast for breakfast. I should have taken a picture. Yum! Then for dinner she made asparagus wrapped in filo dough, roasted sweet potatoes, and blacked spicy tofu. It was good eats.

I made Jared snap a picture of me and my Ash man after church. Is his smile the cutest or what?

These pictures make me laugh. They were taken back to back, but he has such opposite expressions on his face.

And this is just classic funny Asher pretending to sleep on the floor.

33 weeks

With all the radio hoopla, I didn't get this posted earlier this week. I can't believe how close to the end we are getting now. Legally this baby is allowed to make her appearance in just over 3 weeks. (Meaning at 37 weeks my midwife is legally allowed to attend our homebirth.) I highly doubt she'll arrive that soon though. I'm mostly just concerned with getting her head down. The stubborn girl is still breech. We are upping the turning techniques this weekend and calling a chiropractor on Monday. Why do my children insist on drama? I just want a nice boring pregnancy.

my radio debut

First some background on how this happened:

Some of you may not know that I actually have a degree in Broadcast Journalism. I worked for a TV news station for a year as a producer before getting married. One of my friends from college, Alex Kirry, is a host on the Nightside Project here in Salt Lake on KSL. He had seen my posts about the breastfeeding project on facebook, so when they decided to tackle this subject on the show, he asked me if I'd like to come on and give my two cents. I was a little nervous about being the representative of breastfeeding mothers. I'm not a researcher or a lactation consultant. I don't even frequent La Leche League meetings (although I think they are great). I am just a breastfeeding mom who feels passionately about this. And I happened to start a blog on the subject. Which I guess puts me in the role of "advocate" now.

It ended up being really fun. Alex and Ethan are super nice guys. They had to play devil's advocate a bit to keep the discussion lively, so I think they come across as a bit anti-breastfeeding sometimes. I assure you they are not. They are both dads who support breastfeeding. It was fun to hang out with them and chat about this. During the show people can text in comments or call. I was actually surprised by how positive most of them are. Of course some were crazy and ridiculous too.

We had less than an hour to devote to the topic so there is much we couldn't really get into, but I hope I expressed myself clearly enough. And maybe even helped someone out there feel more comfortable with the idea of public breastfeeding.

You can listen to the entire hour here.  The first few minutes are ads and the local news so skip ahead a bit. Sorry if I talk too fast sometimes and use to many "likes". It's been too long since I was in "broadcast" mode.