Family Baby Shower

Last Saturday my sister gave me a baby shower at my Grandma Barker's house. We had a great turn out.




























This is me at 34 weeks! Getting close and feeling huge!

30 week profile picture

Here's what I look like now a days. I'm now 30.5 weeks along.

Watching Justin and Alesa's kids for a week

I didn't take as many pictures as I wanted to of our week with these 4 kids, but story time was my favorite. I did get two pictures of different times McCord read them stories before bed. The kids loved that McCord would do different voices. I loved it because he randomly decided to make the mailman british and the grocer irish while reading a Curious George book. Very funny!

These are priceless pictures to me. I love them.


(Reading a Daredevil comic book)
L to R: Savannah, McCord, Hailey. Back: Dallin


(Reading Curious George)
L to R: Dallin, Savannah, McCord, and Hailey.

Baby bump pictures

24 wks little photo shoot:







(6 months pregnant.) Yes, it's true. This is me now.
Measurements for future personal reference at 24 wks: 127 lbs. 33' waist.

(almost 5 months pregnant) This is one of my favorites because I was so happy this week. We had just found out that we were having a girl. It was such a fun week. You can tell on my face.

(almost 4 months pregnant)

Halloween 2011 (almost 2.5 months pregnant)


After 4 positive tests, we figured it was true. Pictures of me that day. I just got back from running, so I don't look glamorous, but at least you can see a sort of body shot before I started growing. (little over 4 weeks pregnant)

Gender ultrasound results....(drum roll)

We are so so excited!

Announcing Our First Baby!

Ultrasound picture around 8 weeks. We are so so excited to announce our little miracle! We are very happy that the baby is healthy, happy, and very active. Baby is due on CINCO DE MAYO! We feel so blessed and are ready for the challenges that come with children.
Ultrasound picture at 12 weeks.

Since I have been sick sick sick the last 3 months. I wanted to throw out some thank you's to the people that have helped me so much in these troubled times:

Thanks to:

My mom. For the many meals that she prepared for us, and for doing half my canning this year. Thanks for listening to my daily complaining and always being there. For the many solutions to all my worries and problems.

My mother in law, Kandi. She has been so supportive. She checks in on me to make sure I'm surviving feeling sick. She always listens to the updates, even if I've told them to her before. It's also been hard for her not to spill the beans, so thanks for being so patient.

To all my sisters (especially Angie, Courtni, and Mauri) for all the tricks on how to deal with being sick, for making me laugh when I'm blue or frustrated that I can't eat. And for keeping me hopeful that days will be brighter soon.

My cousin Melissa, who has been so so helpful with every change that my body is going through and telling me the tricks of the trade on how to deal with them.

Finally to my wonderful husband! He is just amazing! He has carried me to bed from the bathroom floor countless times. Who has driven me to work everyday, so I don't have to get sick on the bus. Who has done dishes, laundry, cleaning, and cooking for the last 3 months. He has held me when my dreams wake me up crying in the middle of the night. He has gone to the store in search for that perfect food item that would hopefully stay down. Thank you so much, McCord. Words can not describe how much I've appreciated you.

The Ultimate Coach

Excited to post that McCord has volunteered to help coach the Sky View Ultimate Frisbee team this year. He helped out with coaching last year for a few tournaments and LOVED it. He's a great coach and enjoys the students and the sport so much. Attached are some pictures from the end of year tournament last year. So proud of you, Mac. You are awesome! Also, to give a shout out to my little brother, Nate. He's a great player on the field.

October = Halloween = Costumes!

We love dressing up! It is so much fun for us. This year we decided to dress up like Black Widow (SHIELD agent) and Nick Fury (Captain of SHIELD). Both will be featured in the upcoming Marvel Avengers movie. In this post, you'll find some comic pictures included with the various pictures that were taken to imitate the comics and movies. Hope you enjoy. Happy Halloween this month!

(Nick Fury. Played once by David Hasselhoff in Nick Fury Movie) (Black Widow. Played by Scarlett Johansen in Iron Man 2 movie)

San Diego Comic Con 2011

Lisa's Promotion / McCord's New Job

McCord got a new job yesterday! He'll be working part time for Batteries Plus, close to our apartment. He starts on Friday, tomorrow. They are under new management and hired McCord on the spot, straight in the interview. He will get to work with our friend Sam, too. We are so happy. It will be nice to have a little extra income so we can accomplish some of our financial goals.
YES IT'S TRUE! I got the promotion! I'll be moving to a transfer evaluator position in the Transfer Admissions office at the U of U. I'll start my new position on June 13th. Yes, I will be making more money, which is nice. I'm mostly excited to work with all the transfer students more closely.

Psych!

The job that we were so excited about, we think is a hoax. Many people have been doing work and receiving checks from these people and the checks are fraudulant. So, McCord is no longer working for them, even though no contract was signed. Just iffy all around. He quit after 4 days.

Computer died. Our computer finally died, so I won't be able to post for a while. We ARE excited for the summer and hope that we do well in all the classes that we are both taking.

Until next time,
Lisa

McCord got a job!

I know that I don't post much. Not terribly too much has happened. We are excited to say that MCCORD GOT A JOB! After 3 months of hard work, he finally got one. He'll be working part time for a real estate lawyer here in the valley as he goes to school part time this summer. We are just super thrilled.

Everyone meet Rory

Rory is a great friend who we've known for almost 3 years. He's going into the Armed Forces in September. Rather than commute from Ogden to SLC for his job, he'll be staying with us. He'll be staying with us until September.

This will be nice for us because he is helping us out with our rent a little bit. It also helped our decision on if we should move or not at the end of May. We will renew our lease until at least September. This means we will be staying in Salt Lake until then. McCord will probably continue to travel back and forth between SLC and LA for jobs if needed, but we're going to stay put for the summer.

YAY! We are so happy to have Rory here. It's a win win situation for all involved.

List of events in the last 4 months

Our lives have been so busy in the lst 4-6 months, I haven't had time to post much. So I decided to make a list of everything that's happened to us in the last 4 months:

- Participated in a Clomid study for the University of Utah Hospital
- I applied for 4 promotions at the University of Utah. Didn't get 3, but am currently waiting to hear back about the last one.
- Went to Jazz vs. Suns. (I won tickets!)
- McCord went skiing at the Canyons
- We still have Chuck night every monday night at our house. Chuck at 7pm and Castle at 9pm.
- We were invited to the season premiere of Red (with Bruce Willis)
- We saw Tangled 3 times in the theatres. Twice in 3D
- Taken around 6 trips to LA and back.
- Visited the set of Castle
- Given talks in church
- Paid for 3 soldier's groceries
- Replaced a US flag at a homeless shelter
- Education at SLCC
- Topped 155,000 on our car
- Been to Vegas twice
- Saw the Aggies beat the Boise State Broncos and get into the NCAA.
- Both of us got new phones. McCord's new phone broke last week, though.
- Have had many and many HeroClix parties at our house.
- Got two frogs (Kyle and Kate)
- I got glasses 3 days ago.
- I officially got diagnosed with asthma.

All and all, a great last couple of months. We've been very blessed. Love you all.

Hope everyone is healthy and doing well

Summer at SLCC

This is not the biggest of news, but we are both going to take a class at SLCC this summer. We will both transfer up the classes we take to USU and hopefully graduate with an associates degree in August. We are both looking forward to this opportunity.

McCord the actor

Yes, it's true. McCord, for fun, auditioned for some acting parts while in LA this last trip. Everyone loved him. Today he will be on a court tv show. For fun, I thought I'd post his professional "headshot" that every actor needs to have accompanying their resume:

McCord is 27

Time flies when you are having fun. I'm SO lucky to have a wonderful man like McCord in my life.

Tuition paid for

Thanks for all the prayers that have been said for us concerning McCord's financial aid. It's been a HUGE long process and we've been on pins and needles for 2 months. His tuition has been entirely paid for with a grants! We are so grateful and so blessed. We are indeed so happy.

End of summer and what we've done in Aug-Sept

This post is long, but it will cover all the weeks that I've missed posting something.

I'm very proud. I've always wanted to get into canning fruit and vegtables, just like my mom and grandma's have. I've always known how, because I have an awesome mom who taught me and still helps me from day to day. I'm proud to announce that I now have 12 quarts of peaches, 6 pints of peach jam, 6 pints of peach-orang marmalade, and 20 pints of salsa. I'll be doing 12-20 quarts of tomato juice in the next 2 days.

I'm always amazed at how fast my summers go by. We had a great summer and McCord got a ton of great film/commercial jobs and he worked really hard. We are now focusing of school and working and saving money. Our lease for our apartment ends next May and we are considering building some equity and getting a small townhouse in Salt Lake, but we'll see.

McCord did some more shooting for Cloak and Dagger and he could end the shooting for this project as it is here. He may decide to shoot one last fight scene. That is all pending. It's great news that pretty much all the shooting is done.

Our biggest news is that we are going to LA this weekend for a "pitch summit". Movie companies from all over are coming to hear pitches of movie and television scripts and ideas. Huge companiese like Lionsgate, Summit, Warner Brothers, Disney and Marvel Studios. McCord and I have been working and working hard to get everything ready to go. Hopefully I'll have some pictures to post from LA next week. We have no camera, but we'll be staying with a friend and I might get some pictures. We ask all to say prayers for us that perhaps, if it be right, that one of the small or large companies will want to buy McCord's ideas/scripts. It would give a ton of money and we'd be able to buy a house, and get us out of debt.

McCord has been working for the Republican party going door to door passing out fliers for voting early and voting at home to registered republican voters. He's been able to bring in a little extra money and he's supporting the party. He's been pretty happy with this temporary job.

He's been working 20 hours a week + 20 credits at SLCC + getting scripts and pitch packets ready for the LA pitch summit. It's just been so much. McCord had too much on his plate and we ended up dropping his math class, so our plans have been pushed back one semester. It was just a little too much for us to handle. So, as always, nothing ever turns out as you planned. We'll still be doing school throughout the rest of this year, but it's better than wasting money in tuition on classes that are just going to be unsuccessful in.

We are doing great! Loving Salt Lake, jobs, the education, our ward, etc. We've got great friends and we love our little apartment. Wish us luck in LA!

5 years ago...our first date

A blind date, 5 years ago, was when we met each other for the first time. We went seing dancing and karaoke and went out for icecrem at Charly's icecream parlor in Logan. It was a great night full of fun and getting to know each other. No kiss followed, sorry for all you who were hoping for the DSA (Door Step Action) story. We've come so far and experienced so much together. As we look back on the last 5 years, we are happy.