We're Home!

Yesterday was a trying day for my ragged pregnancy nerves.
On top of me being the absolute worst at saying goodbye to my family and dread it on a daily basis while I'm on vacation, Aiden has a terrible diaper rash the night before and was fussy all night. He ended up sleeping on the bed with Thomas (I was on the couch because it was much easier on my achey joints) but only after fidgeting and writhing for an hour or so with me and then, of course, woke up too early because he is still on his Florida sleeping schedule.
We were able to get everything packed up in a timely manner, but about a half an hour before we were to leave to go to the airport, Aiden fell somehow and bit completely through his lower lip. He was a trooper though. He only cried for a few minutes and then it stopped bleeding and was well on his way. I, on the other hand, could smell the blood and for the first time in my life, had to run to the bathroom because blood was making me sick.
We debated whether or not we were going to go home that day because when we called the airlines to see what would happen if it started bleeding again, they said we wouldn't be allowed on the plane. Even if it looked particularly swollen, they wouldn't allow us on and would have to get a later flight that would cost us $318.
In the end, we decided to take our chances because it was looking okay and if it got worse and started to bleed in Houston, we'd just rent a car and drive home because it would be cheaper and we'd probably get home before we could get another flight to Savannah and drive home from there.
We met up with my dad at the airport where he gave him a blessing and we were on our way.
Aiden did fine on the flights. He slept most of the first one, except for about 20-30 minutes where he just screamed and screamed. We figure he must have bumped his lip and it was just hurting him really badly, but finally I was able to get him back to sleep. From Houston to Savannah, he played most of the time then out of no where decided it was time to sleep and after a couple of minutes drinking from his sippy cup, he was out.
We decided to drive home that night because after a day like that, we just really wanted to sleep in our own bed. We arrived home safely at about 2:15 am thanks to C.S. Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia. (We found a box set of all seven books combined in a paperback book AND all seven books, unabridged, on CD for $20.00 - STEAL!!)
We haven't had to give Aiden any pain killers so far today and his lip isn't inhibiting any eating or drinking, which is a complete miracle to me. Our prayers were certainly answered. It seems to be healing up nicely and you would have never thought that just yesterday there was a big hole in his lip that was oozing the most incredible amounts of blood.

Memorial Day Decorations

Today we woke up bright and early and headed down to my parents house to cut flowers from the garden and make the arrangements for the gravestones.
I absolutely missed doing this and it was such a relaxing tradition. We made four arrangements: one for each of my mom's brothers headstones, one for her parents headstone and one for her grandparents headstone. After going through and cutting all the flowers and making the arrangements, we headed up to the cemetary.
We went all over and placed mums on most of her relatives graves while my dad assumed his normal position of telling whoever would listen how this person was related to this person and how that tied into our family and how they got here and that so and so was actually so and so's second wife when most thought she was the first. It was absolutely fantastic.
We had a couple mishaps. Jacob hit his head somehow and started bleeding but considering it stopped fairly soon, it wasn't too bad. Just enough to hurt. And we forgot the water buckets and crosses for my Grandpa Greenhalgh and Uncle Ned which signified that they served in the military.
Then it was back to my parents house for a BBQ in the sprinkling rain. It was nice to have all of our family together, even John came up for the weekend because he had it off. Aiden just ran around and kind of mooched off of anyone who was willing to give him food while I was able to just sit and relax and soak it all in.
That afternoon, Thomas volunteered to take Aiden up to Dennie's house while I stayed at my mom's so I could work on the quilt Tracy, my mom and I are making for Aiden. Apparently Aiden missed me a lot because he kept going from room to room, poking his head in and asking, "Momma?"

It is good to be loved.

Trumbolt Park

Today, we made our customary trek up the mountain to Trumbolt Park. Aiden was wary of the stream at first, but quickly became fascinated with it. He had fun walking around the park and climbing on fell logs and large boulders from the top of the mountain that had fallen down.
Here are some pictures:

Flight

Today we arrived in Utah. We left yesterday for Savannah with hopes that we'd be able to spend the afternoon there and check out Historic downtown, but of course, it had an 80% chance of rain and boy, did it rain. It was also unusually cold. We arrived to our hotel at just about 4:00 PM after following the directions to the airport and after not seeing our hotel in the bunch there, we asked for directions and someone told us there were two airports in Savannah and we were looking at the wrong one. Apparently, there aren't two international airports. Just one international and one military and our hotel was on the other side of the airport than where we were looking.
So we finally got to our hotel, then just relaxed, got some food to go and hung out and watched Star Trek while Aiden took a bath, which, inevitably, he pooped in.
He went to bed almost immediately and so did we.
Woke up early to make our flight and here we are in Utah!
The first flight was long and drawn out because Aiden was so tired but wouldn't sleep until the last five minutes. Then he slept most of the way from Houston to Salt Lake City.
My mom picked us up and we then met my dad at the Genealogy Library at BYU and talked with him about Thomas' ancestors until it was time to meet Brenna for lunch at Olive Garden. I absolutely forgot how much I love that place. I've only been once since I moved to Florida and it was a nice treat.
Afterwards, we just went down to my parents house and hung out because Thomas and I were absolutely exhausted from the day's ventures.

It's a girl!!

Thomas and I found out today what this baby will be: a little girl! We had a pretty good hunch that's what it was going to be, so we weren't too surprised and Thomas was just trying to calm Aiden down and stay awake. My poor husband got home from work this morning at 6:45 to sleep for about two and a half hours just to wake up and drive to Lake City with me for the ultrasound.
Everything, from what I could tell, looked fine. She was measuring within a couple days of her expected due date, so as of right now, she doesn't seem to be an abnormally large Faller baby. Her heart beat was 139 and she absolutely does not move around as much as Aiden did. She just kind of twitched her legs and hands around a little bit but wasn't the acrobat that Aiden was.
I will post the ultrasound pictures as soon as I can get them scanned.