im ready, he's not!!!

i'm putting this picture on here against my better judgement, i think i look huge!!


i went to the doctor last week and he told me i was 50% effaced and not dilated at all, i was fine with that because i still had 3 weeks to go. i went to him again yesterday and i am 50% effaced and not dilated, i wasn't to happy when i left the doctors office, and all night it kept wearing on me, i have been happy to be pregnant this whole time but this last week has really worn on me, by the time i get home from work i hurt pretty bad so i was hoping the doctor would have better news for me this week but when he told me i haven't progressed i was a little mad, but today i've accepted that my baby is probably just as stubborn as the rest of us Stubbs and he is going to come when he is ready!! i did ask the doctor if he would start me on the 5th if i haven't come by then but he said that he won't start me because if i'm not ready then inducing doesn't usually work and you end up having to have c-section, so i have to go a week over before he will start me!! i'm hoping and praying i don't go over that far!!


so the past few weeks i've been trying to get everything set up for when the baby gets here! i have set up his little room and put everything in it's place, i re-arranged things a few times until i've gotten it exactly the way i want. we will keep him in our room for a few weeks before we actually use the crib. i honestly just can't wait until he comes!

my grandpa made me this rocking chair!! i love it so much, i just need to get a little cushion for the seat but other then that its super comfortable, i can't wait to rock my baby in it!! but for now its my reading chair!!



this is the crib quilt my mom made me, its super soft and cute, there are different animals, a goldfish, duck, giraffe, whale, elephant, pig, sheep, dog, cat, hippo, bear, zebra, rabbit, frog, dinosaur, and a turtle they are all made out of the minke fabric and they are super soft! she spent a lot of time on it and i love it, and i'm sure our baby will too!!



these are just a couple of the animals!!

7 1/2 more weeks...but whos counting?!

i dont have any pictures of my prego belly, well my mom does but i really don't want to go get them to upload on here so you will have to do without!! lately i've been getting the pregnancy comments and i don't really appreciate them!! i honestly don't think i look that huge, maybe i am just lying to myself and i really do look like i am having triplets!! but as long as my doctor keeps telling me i am measuring perfect for how far along i am, then that's who i will listen to.

i've always found it amusing when pregnant woman waddle!! now i know why they do it!! i never really thought i would ache to bad, but standing on my feet for a few hours everyday kills me, luckily my hours have been cut back and its super slow so i don't have to stand or walk around too much, though i don't feel very productive at work, but i will make up for it when i go back!!

i am super excited for this baby to get here, everyone keeps telling me that i will wish it back inside after he is here, but i really don't think that i will, i honestly can't wait for him to come, i can't wait for all of the experiences that are heading our way, i don't get much sleep right now and i know its the lord preparing me for when he actually gets here, i hate my sleep being disturbed so i know that these past few weeks of not being able to get much sleep and always being super tired is the lords way of showing me that my sleep really isn't that important, though i know i will gladly lose sleep over the baby when he gets here.

my mom took me shopping a few days ago and we got a few things that i will need including a stroller and car seat and i cant wait to use it, all of our stuff is just sitting there waiting for him to come. everytime i get something new for him i can't wait to show tyson, though he never shows any enthusiasm for the cute outfits, shoes and accessories, he tells me i can't get mad because he is just more excited for the baby to come, he doesn't really care about the things we have to have for him, it doesn't really bother me because i know tyson is going to be the best dad in the entire world. if anyone has any advice on how NOT to get poop on your hands tyson will be very happy, he says he will die if he ever gets human poop on his hands!! and i wont be surprised if i show up one day and he has a gas mask on with gloves changing the baby's diaper!!

well i am hoping the next few weeks go by super fast and i hope that this baby decides to come early i am so ready to be a mom!!

it's a baby....

we went to the doctor today to have our ultrasound and find out what that baby is! i've been worried that something might not be 100% right with the baby, not that i have any reason to worry about that but i just have. the guy that did the ultrasound first started out searching every part of the baby to make sure every thing looked healthy and whole, we got to look at the brain, spine, kidney's, heart, and stomach, and i was reassured that everything looked and measured to be completely normal! he also made sure everything looked good with me making sure i didn't have any cysts or placenta previa which i don't! it was amazing to be able to see the four chambers in the heart and to see that working correctly, it was also cool to see the ateries that are connected to the umbilical cord and through out the body! according to the measurements of the baby i am due september 5th at 7 AM!! haha not that that will ever turn out to be correct but i thought it was funny that he put a time with the date! though tyson thinks it would really be nice if i did go on september 5th because we could miss church, and all of our families could miss church and have a good excuse!! haha i thought that was funny when he said that!! anywhoo thats kinda what's been going on in our life!!






OH WAIT, i almost forgot to mention the most important part the baby's gender...its a BOY!!! and tyson and i could not be more happy. i think tyson is super excited because now he is going to have a little buddy he can teach to shoot guns, go camping and hunting with and do whatever it is boys like to do!! im also happy because i think i might be a better mom to boys then girls because i don't think i can handle to drama/emotional sides of girls, unless i get girls like me then they will be absolutely perfect!!! that sounds really vain, good thing im not being serious!! i'm really excited to see what the next year has in store for our growing family and i am super excited for this little boy to get here!!
p.s i wanted to put pictures up of the ultrasound but my scanner is not working so you have to make due with out until i can get it to work!

update!!

i'm not very good at keeping up to date on this thing. the past few months a lot of things have changed in our lives. we moved in with my parents, its been an easier transition then i thought it would be, at least for me, im not really sure if its beem easy on tyson or my parents, but we are grateful that we have such great families that help us out in so many ways.

tyson started school at UVU and he really enjoys it and he has done amazing on all of his tests and homework. he is taking math english criminal justice and an automobile class. he really enjoys that criminal justice class, his teacher is a retired FBI agent so he has some really cool stories and tyson really enjoys it and is thinking he might want to go into that field!! im personally a little jealous because i've always wanted to be an FBI agent or work in special victims or something, but maybe this way i can kinda live it through my hubby while i get to be a mom which is something i'm really looking forward to!!

i'm still working at mr mac and i do enjoy it for the most part!! i'm also trying to keep up on my dad's job as well, though i have been slacking the last few months but i'm getting better at working since we've moved in with my parents.

we had a calling the first week we moved into the ward, we are primary teachers, i know big surprise, we are teaching the 6 and 7 year olds and we only have 4 kids that come and they are super hyper, we have had to start a "good star/bad star" chart so that if they earn enough good stars we have a class party, we just started it last week and it worked really well!!

for those of you who don't already know tyson and i are expecting a baby, im due on the 5th of september and as of today i'm 9 weeks. i've been sick and really tired, but my doctor just told me about some medicine that helps morning sickness and it has a mild sleep aid in it, so i take it at night and its suppose to help, i guess i'll have to see if it will! tyson and i are really excited, though i think tyson is more excited then me, don't get me wrong i am excited its just hard to enjoy being pregnant when your sick all the time!!! hopefully when i can actually start feeling the baby move it will really sink in that i am actually pregnant, until then the sickness is the constant reminder that i've got this baby inside me!!

we are excited for what this next year is going to bring for our little family and i can't wait until september!!

halloween!!!

this year we were our miis (from the wii)

so i know it's been awhile since halloween but i don't ever take pictures with my own camera so i had to get these pictures from my mom, and i am putting last halloween pictures up too, because i failed to do that last year. so for halloween my mom's side of the family always throws a party and this year my mom had it at her house and we have this mystery dinner i'll try and explain it the best i can but it is super fun, i look forward to it every year!! so everyone gets a menu and it is a three course meal, but instead of the actual name of the food/drink/utensil there is a mystery name for it, so you have to figure out exactly what each of them mean, and you don't know what food has been cooked either so you are totally clueless as to what everything means, and sometimes you don't think it would be very hard but believe me it gets pretty confusing, for example here are some of the items we had on our menu:
guts of an oinker (ham), cooked underground parts(potatoes), blended remains, swamp garva (sprite/kool-aid), catapillar crawls (greenbeans) greasy yeast(roll w/butter), moon glow (water w/orange slice), tenedor (i think this was the fork), blob of brown(brownie), creepy crawlers on a log(celery with pb and choc chips), ghostly cool down, and cuchara(the spoon i think). so you have to write down your first second and third course meal, and then one course at a time you get your food, so some people would get ham potatoes and a roll but nothing to eat it with, then others would get their fork and spoon and a drink but nothing else, while others did really well and they had ham potatoes and a fork. its pretty entertaining!!

these are last years pictures, we were a pregnant nun and a preist!!

the joys of working at mr mac

some of my favorite reasons why i love to work at mr mac (only a certain amount of people might be able to relate)

1. listening to dave haden (the witty australian store manager) tell his outlandish lies, for example: (let me just give you a little back ground history, mr mac was out of missionary sweaters/sweater vests for about 6 months and we kept telling the missionary moms that they would be in, "in about two weeks") #1 favorite lie: mom comes in a little upset because we still haven't received our shipment of sweaters and we keep telling her "two weeks", she asks to talk to our manager, enters dave, quote (in australian accent), "ohh the boat has been docked in san francisco for about two weeks and the captain wont pay the port fee so they can't unload the ship, i have sent two of our men down there to pay the fee and get those sweaters here!!" i don't know if these people actually believe him but they seem to walk away happy, all the while all the employees try not to laugh. #2 favorite lie: (still dealing with sweaters, jennie told me about this one i didn't actually witness it but it's sure funny) mom calls on phone wanting to know when the sweaters are going to be in, jennie asks dave, dave says "tell her that the boat got caught in hurricane katrina and that we lost the shipment of sweaters" i'm pretty sure jennie thinks this is a ridiculous idea but she tells the lady on the phone what dave says, needless to say that is one lie the customer didn't believe!! #3 favorite lie: this happened about 2 days ago, a mom and her daughter bought several of the same tie for the daughter's wedding, we only had 3 or 4 in stock, dave tells tyler that we can get more of the ties in from our sales rep it wont be a problem, well tyler proceeds to tell this to the poor girl getting married, she needed like 10 extra ties. we went to the warehouse on wednesday (dave's day off mind you) and find out that we cant get anymore of these ties in tyler was pretty ticked off. well thursday rolls around and the mom and daughter are back for their ties, jennie calls tyler (who was like seven hours late to work that day) tyler tells jennie to talk to dave, (enters dave with a total different tie, a tie we actually sell to the chef table waiters) quote " ok heres the deal they (they-being the tie makers) sent me your ties but they came in red instead of burgundy, they are a totally different color, not even close to what you want, the dye they make the ties with must have been completely mixed up, BUT they sent me this gorgeous tie instead, now i know its a different tie but it is just gorgeous, it has the black and burgundy to it with a little white, i think it will look just perfect, plus this is an all silk tie we sell for a lot more money but i will give it to you for the same price, and i have enough in stock and i've put them in the back so no one will sell them." i'm sitting there trying really hard not to laugh as i am watching the brides hopes shatter, she was so in love with this certain tie and was able to find boys ties to match and now she is going to have to change her mind, she wasn't to happy, poor girl.

2. you wouldn't think that men would create drama, but let me tell you, working with about 13 of them all day is worse then a squad of high school cheerleaders on their periods. i guess it all has to do with the money.

3. roses are red violets are blue....listening as dave tries to tells us all why the sky is so...blue. dave likes making poems up

4.convincing dave that madison and i have to go to the mtc because there is just too much stuff for one of us to handle.

5. rick giving all of his missionaries his fatherly advice, watching their faces because they really wanna leave but are just trying to be polite.

6. when joan brings us chocolate from mrs cavanaughs (i think thats how its spelled)

7. the pure joy of shattering some poor teenagers hopes and dreams of completing the mac challenge.

8. the hours we sit listening to callin talk about politics, sports, watches, golf, food, everett, byu football, politics, sports, watches, golf, food, why max hall is the shiz, food, golf, obama, byu, what he is going to buy in twenty years for his 25th anniversary for his wife, did i mention food, golf, politics, watches and byu football?

9.desk girl conversations

10. cartwheel contests, playing frisbee with suit sizers, scaring employees, baseball with umbrellas, trying to guess the date on pennies and keeping it if you get it right...oh the fun we have when we are trying to pass time when its slow!!

oh the joys of working at mr mac!!!

4 generations!!!

we took this picture at my grandmas hansens funeral today, four generations of the stubbs men! my amazing grandpa eldon john, my dad jerry john, my brother trever john and my nephew lincoln john! my grandpa is the best grandpa in the whole wide world, i love to brag about him because he is such an awesome man! he lost his left arm in his early twenties and he as acomplished so much in his life since then. in california he was known as the fastest brick mason around, he could lay brick faster then any two armed man could, one time when he was laying brick with my brother, trever thought he would have a contest with grandpa, they each had a wheel barrow and shovel, they were to fill the wheel barrow up with sand and then haul it over to where they were building the mail box, trever didn't think it was going to be to hard to win, my grandpa filled his wheel barrow up and deposited the sand before for trever could even fill his up half way! my grandpa is an amazing man i could brag about him all day long.

this picture is of the newest great grand babies from oldest to youngest, lincoln is the biggest one out of all of them and they are all only a few weeks apart, the one laying down is only a week old and she is the cutest little thing in the world, i can't believe how tiny she is!

this is a picture of all of the grandkids and great grandkids that were at the funeral not a very good picture but yeah!! my grandma had 38 grandkids and 20 great grand kids, i think my grandpa has 40 grandkids and 20 great grand kids!! pretty much this is the coolest family in the world!!

my grandma's funeral was amazing, my aunts all gave great tributes to her, recalling/thanking her for all the things that she taught them and all the things that she gave them, and my dad gave a great talk, i didn't think i would cry cause i don't like to cry but all bets are off when you see your dad cry. im so very thankful for my grandmas example to me, she was such an amazing woman and she always stood up for what she believed in no matter what, she was such a strong woman and i love her so much, im really going to miss her, i am kicking myself for not going to visit her more often the past few years! im so thankful for family sometimes you take them for granted until its to late to really tell them how you feel, i wish i would have been able to tell my grandma how much she meant to me!