My husband is the best!!!

So as part of my reward for the upcoming birthing of his first son I got a present. . . the Canon Rebel DSLR camera! We have a Canon Powershot which takes BEAUTIFUL pictures. However, this camera takes AMAZING pictures. The camera has more settings than I can possibly every figure out. Part of the reason we bought it was because I felt like we needed to have a really good camera to document Sammy's childhood. It has a super awesome continuous shot function which I have already found comes in really handy for taking pictures of the kids. Here is a picture of all 15 Hanson grandkids. Despite the attempts of my mother-in-law to get the 2 new babies in the picture, Margaret and I declined having our bumps in the picture. We have the Hanson family reunion this week so I'm sure we will be posting lots of fabulous pictures.

Extra baby

No, we are not having an extra baby, we just have an extra big baby.  I was really hoping that the benefit to the high blood pressure would be a nice normal slightly small baby.  No such luck.  He's measuring a week and a half big.  Blerg.  The good news is everything else looks GREAT!  The plan at our house was to try to keep me off bed rest until July 1st.  Well, that was yesterday and out appointment went great.  Dr. Y was super happy with the turn around.  I've started trying to convince him that this baby still needs to come early, say middle of August.  Yeah, he isn't going for it.  Yet again, the benefit of high blood pressure is alluding me. 

A Bit Ridiculous

I've decided that there are lots of things about being pregnant that are a bit ridiculous including crazy things I make my husband do.  By ridiculous I don't necessarily mean bad, I just mean a little bit silly when you really think about it.  You all know how much I love lists so here is the "Ridiculous Pregnancy list".

1. Baby bags- Why are these things so expensive and why do I need the  SUPER cute Kate Spade baby bag Ben just bought me?  I have no idea. But at least I'll be frazzled with a cute bag when Sammy gets here. (In my defense it was on HUGE sale and I've been begging for a Kate Spade for YEARS.)
2. Childbirth Classes- I'm sure that these classes will prove helpful in some way and maybe I will learn more later BUT do I really need someone to tell me to eat fresh fruits and vegetables?   That's what babycenter.com and common sense are for.
3. Crazy people in Childbirth Classes- Ben and I saw more visiblely tattooed pregnant women that we have ever seen in our lives.  Keep in mind, this is coming from a coming from a tattooed pregnant women, I'm fine with tattoos!  Some of these people were Klassy with a capital K!  I think my favorite part was either when a girl exclaimed "What?! The "caca" is in there with the baby?"  or when she burst out laughing when the instructor said "buttocks".
4. Costco size bottles of Tums- Only in pregnancy could this be your favorite treat. 
5. Bottle controversy-  I keep reading about how certain bottles are bad and you should only give your babies glass ones because plastic is evil.  If you are ever bored, try to tell my husband about this.  You will get a GIANT eye roll and a "People are stupid.  You know that I'm a polymer scientist right?"

 

 

Where the heck is Matt (for you Utah folk)

I came across this video on one of the blogs I like to read and I felt like sharing it with the 2 people that read this besides Tracey and me. I can only hope I get to go to half of these places some day.


Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

Sammy pics

Here are pictures of our little Sammy. (Not to be confused with Sammy Earl, even though Ben thinks it is funny to interchange them to suit his comedic purposes) Ben thinks the pictures are creepy but cute. Everything was great. He was right on track for his size, about 2lbs and 15 oz. The hardest part was getting him to move his little hands out of his face. Ben is trying to download part of the video. Don't feel like you have to watch it, we're first time parents and therefore obsessed.