Quick picks

Not going to lie, it's been a long four days so we are just going to post the pictures we have so far of our beautiful baby boy Connor Strong Hertig.

Halloween!!!

I absolutely love the fall!!! And I also love halloween, mainly because I really only have halloween decorations for our house so far.. hehe. Danny and I went to a pumpkin patch and got to pick our pumpkins--which were an amazing deal by the way-- we got 2 large pumpkins, 1 medium pumpkin and 1 small pumpkin for $14!! I'm sure others got better deals, but oh well. This was Danny's first time carving (Crazy I know!!) but he did awesome! As in family tradition we also made sure to make sure to take a picture with our pumpkin while making the face we carved into it. I was also excited because Danny and I got to go to our ward halloween party which was so fun! We got to tote around a couple of our friends kids while she was busy with the party and it was a blast. Games, trunk or treating, and lots of chili. mmmm. And I was Juno by the way, I don't think a lot of people in our ward got it, so they probably thought I was just some wierdo dressing pregnant girl, but oh well. Overall it's been a good start to fall and I am dying to go to an apple orchard one of these days, even though I know it's already late in the season. And with only 9 days left until connor is due, we will see if that happens. Connors first outside experience might just be an outing to an orchard.

Tribute

Well here I am sitting on the couch doing absolutely nothing, and feeling completely lazy. And that is one feeling I really hate, I hate feeling lazy. So I decided to write a tribute to my husband. I've been thinking and reflecting about how lucky I am to have him a lot lately. And I know this won't come out the way I really want it to, I know I can't truly express how blessed I am to have him as my husband, but I thought I might try. So here it goes....My husband is one of the strongest people I have ever met. He has gone through so much in his life and still has such a strong testimony of the gospel. He doesn't ever use his rough life experiences as an excuse to do or think things that would go against what he knows to be true. Danny is also the most caring person I have ever met. I know that he might seem like a big tough guy to most (which he is), but he is also the biggest teddy bear on the inside.

He would drop everything in a second to help someone in need. While I have been pregnant he has been the most understanding person ever. He never makes me feel bad for being lazy and not getting things done, he is just completely supportive and so loving. He makes me feel truly beautiful every day, even when my hair is sticking out every which way and my eyes are smudged with old mascara. And he even loves me after gaining 26 pounds and becoming twice as big as I used to be. I love the fact that he is a marine and is defending our country, I can't express how proud it makes me to be married to him and how much more I've come to respect those who are in the services. Plus he does look really good in the uniform. He is also extremely hard working. I know I will never have to worry about being taken care of because he is so strong willed and is amazing at everything he does. I also love danny because he is truly a family man, he is going to be the best dad ever and I can't wait to see him with little baby Connor. I can't wait to watch him coach our kids football teams and be there on the sidelines cheering my family on.

Danny is also one on the funniest people I know. He can always make me laugh and it's so hard to be mad at him because he is such a silly billy. I think that's one of the reasons why everyone loves him.

I am truly amazed at how he can get along with anyone. I also appreciate how he is almost completely opposite of me when it comes to being a worry wart. I don't think Danny has ever worried about a thing in his whole life, he is so carefree and has so much faith in everything. I am also so grateful for my husband because he completely honors his priesthood. He is always able to give me a blessing in times of need and can completely put me at ease. I guess this wouldn't be complete without me saying that my husband is also very handsome. He is so good looking with his sexy bald head and amazing smile. I know I still haven't said everything that I wanted to about my husband but I'll stop boring everyone and making everyone barf with all of this lovey dovey talk. I just can't tell you how lucky I am to have him in my life and I am so excited to grow old with him and someday be 80 years old sitting on a park bench holding hands. I love you babe for forever.

You know you're a housewife when....

You know you're a housewife when one of the best days ever is the day you receive these beauties!!! Danny and I finally went to home depot and got ourselves a brand spankin new washer and dryer. I'm so excited because I have been going to the laundromat for the past year and a couple of months and I absolutely hated it, so this new purchase is truly a blessing to me. Danny and I have been up to a lot lately, we went on a trip to Utah which was a blast. We got to see a lot of family and we had a baby shower. Danny left me all by myself for two weeks while he went to "satans buttcrack" in California for marine corp. training....yeah it was definitely a long two weeks for the both of us. I really don't know if I'd be able to handle a deployment, but I did get to watch a lot of TV shows that Danny doesn't like such as toddlers and tiaras and the secret life of the american teenager (yeah that one is actually really dumb, but I still watch it for some reason.) Danny just started school today, it's pretty exciting and we hope the next two years go by pretty fast- after getting your car keyed, having someone try to spit on your car as you drive by, and dealing with immature adults, Michigan isn't our favorite place, but we are still trying to be positive. On a good note, Connor is still growing and is healthy. I'm definitely feeling huge these days and getting more and more uncomfortable each day. Connor continues to stretch out my ribs which definitely doesn't feel good, and he did have the hiccups for the first time the other day which I thought was really funnny. But here's a picture of my huge belly at 31 weeks, I really can't conceive of myself getting any bigger than this but I still have two more months, so we'll see what happens.

Connor Strong Hertig is on his way!!

Yes ladies and gentleman we are having a BOY!!!!! I don't think a couple could have been more excited to hear the words "you're having a boy" We both shouted "Yeah" so loud we frightened the sonogram technician. Danny even did a little jig when she left the room...and it was really funny. We also decided on a name, as you can see- Connor Strong Hertig. Maximus will just have to wait until we have another baby- I know what a shame. So here is a picture of us after we found out it was a boy This is us buying his first outfits. I'm holding his coming home outfit- it has little baby dinasours and matching dinasour sock feet and a beanie. Danny was very excited to find a cute outfit that said "daddy loves me" and of course a football sleeper. We seriously can't express how excited and grateful we are to have this baby and thank you everyone for all of your support, it means so much to us. Well, we'll chat at ya later!

One more thing....

I forgot to mention that Danny has informed me that "he's glad he has his wife back." Apparently birth control and early pregnancy changed me into a little bit of a monster, but now I'm back to my normal self. And I'm not going to lie, I do feel like myself again and it is a lot more fun. I'm just glad he stuck with me for a few rough months and I feel bad that he could have thought that I really changed forever. What a silly billy.

Update.....

So danny and I have been very busy these past few weeks, not that I'm great about blogging anyways, but I apologize for the tardiness of this post. First and foremost is that we do have another exciting announcement......Danny (my amazingly attractive and extremely awesome and hilarous husband) passed his sniper indoc!!!!!!! So soon he'll look like this Yeah, it's pretty awesome, and I'm so proud of him. I think it's pretty cool that my husband could one day be the guy on top of the whitehouse.....o.k., maybe that's a little far fetched, but you never know. I'm still so amazed at how lucky I am to get such an amazing husband. Oh, and another good thing that comes out of him being in a sniper unit is that he gets to go to sniper school which just happens to be for two months at camp pendleton. This means that me and our soon to be baby will get to live at home in sunny San Diego while he unforntunately has to live in the bushes. We will definitely miss him but atleast I won't be by myself, I get to be with my family!!!

Another thing we've been up to is just having some fun in Michigan. I got to go to a Tigers vs. the Redsox game which I think a few of our friends may be a little jealous of. It was really fun but unfortunately I forgot the camera, and the tigers got slaughtered. We also have been BBQing it up quite a bit, I really love summer food like watermelon and corn on the cob so we tend to have it quite often. We also went to the toledo zoo with these two silly billiesJackson and Rueben were our house guests for a couple of days and it was a blast. We were lucky enough to get to go to the zoo for memorial day with my Aunt Jill and her kids (thanks again Aunt Jill for the free tickets) and I have to admit it definitely isn't the San Diego Zoo, but it was still fun. I really enjoyed looking at the bugs, for some reason they really fascinate me even though I'm scared to death of them.

We also finally got to mow the lawn. Unfortunately our lawn mower broke so we had to wait for a new one to get shipped to us and we couldn't mow our lawn for a few weeks. I don't think I have ever seen grass so long, it was pretty amazing. Danny made me take a picture with it to show how long it actually was.I also accomplished another craft project. I made my first CapriSun purse. Well, it was actually made out of Kool-Aid Jammers, but I was really impressed with myself and it actually turned out. My next project is to make a vest out of purple Kool-Aid Jammers for our friend Ginormo....yeah, we'll see how that one works out. lol.

And lastly for baby Hertig news....not much really. The baby is healthy and we got to hear it's heartbeat. If you want to know what it sounds like ask Danny because he can do a really good impression. We finally get to find out what it is in two weeks and we are so excited. We are still hoping for a boy, although, our close friends who are just two weeks behind us and thought that they were having a girl are actually having a boy. So we think that since we want a boy so bad and all the old wives tales tell us that we're having a boy, and even Danny's facebook quiz revealed that we are having a boy, we are most likely having a girl. But no matter what we are happy and just want a healthy baby. However, if it is a girl we will reveal her name ....... it will be Chloe Randall Hertig. Ta dah! My dad has always wanted someone named after him so we hope this will do. We are still contemplating boys names so we will have to get back at ya for that one. Well I think I'm done writing my short novel so I'll let you kiddos go.

Our First Tigers Game!

Our friends from work invited us to go to our first Tigers game and we had a blast! Danny and I started the evening by going out to dinner at a restaurant called hockeytown- it was dedicated to the detroit red wings. The food was pretty good and the atmosphere was fun. We then headed across the street to comerica park and got our tickets for the big game. It was 80's night so there was about ten delorian cars parked outside along with ghostbusters, storm troopers and the teenage mutant ninja turtles. I'm not going to lie, I was just excited to get into the park because I was craving a pretzel and diet coke--which I did end up getting and sadly turned out to be disappointed because the pretzel was stale--boo! We then met up with our friends from work and had fun watching the game. We definitely contributed to concessions profits with not only my pretzel and soda, but a super rope, two hot dogs and an ice cream sandwhich. The tigers ended up losing it in the sixth or seventh inning but we still had a good time, and we got free t-shirts. This is a picture of the game, we were out in left field which was pretty good seats for only 16 bucks. This is Danny and I, and yes, I was representing my hometown -- Go Padres!! And behind us are some underage drinkers. lol.

This is the whole group including Jimmy, Ginormo, Lantzy, Libby and Wags.

Ginormo is probably one of the funniest kids ever and is very entertaining.

We asked an usher to take a picture of us with the tigers stuff in the background and well....as you can tell he wasn't the best photographer, but oh well. The stadium was really cool, a lot of tigers with baseballs in thier mouths. The actual Tiger stadium isn't used anymore for the tigers games. There was even a carousel in comerica park though which was pretty cool.

And that ends our adventure. We were actually really excited because there wasn't even any traffic on the way home, which is a lot different from the hour traffic you sit in coming home from the padres game.

Good ol' Life

Well I thought that I would just let everyone know what is going on with us at the moment. I am almost done with school and am counting down the days like I'm still in High School. We are so happy that Chelsea is pregnant, but we are still in shock. She is feeling better but still not 100%-- we are wondering if that will ever be accomplished. We played our first 18 holes of golf last week and I played like the rookie that I am, Chelsea even beat me on the back nine(I know Bud pathetic) We can't wait to go out to Utah--that is the one thing that keeps us going at work, we both can't stand Carrabba's even though I have managed to become the mini selling King. I had a third of the mini sales last week, needless to say my boss was happy. The Marine Corp is doing good I am preparing for the sniper en-doc that will take place in June so I hope to pass with flying colors. I have even managed to lose some of the married weight that I so healthily put on after I married Chelsea and yes its her fault. Other than that same old crap different day.

Yeahh!!!!

Well I went to my first appointment with my doctor today and had a sonagram. And the results are in.......we have a healthy baby that is right where it's supposed to be! I am so excited because I think we all know how much of a worry wart I am and I couldn't wait to see the doctor to make sure everything was going o.k. This sonagram thing is pretty crazy, I actually saw the baby move while it was on the screen!!! It's alive! I still can't believe I have a little alien baby growing inside me. I haven't gained any weight, only lost weight due to the fact that all of my muscle has turned into fat from laying on the couch all day before work- so that's awesome. Hopefully I'll feel good enought to go to the gym soon so I can atleast tone some problem areas. And I want all of you Utah folk to know how lucky you are to have Zupas, Costa Vida, Fro-Yo and Rumbi's....I would seriously KILL for a pork smothered burrito right now. In-n-out has also been calling my name lately. grrrrr. There is no good food in MI and it is so depressing. I just can't wait until the end of July when I can finally satisfy all of my food cravings on our trip to utah. Only 3 more months!!!! Back to the baby..... We will be finding out the sex of baby Hertig at the beginning of July. We really want a boy, but most of all we want a healthy baby. Welp kiddos I'm going to order a pizza so I'm going to go. I'll chat at ya later (I stole that one from my mom)

Well here is a fun Photo and I guess we will let you all know that Chelsea has a due date, Nov 9th so we are both really happy and can't wait. So far Chelsea is doing great, she has been sick as expected and well she can't wait for that to stop. We can't wait as most of you probably suspect and thanks to everyone for all your support.

New Car

So we all know that Danny killed handa the Honda in an accident a couple of months ago. So we are proud to announce that we have finally welcomed a new addition to our family. This is Danny's new love, a Nissan Altima that he has wanted for quite some time.

Trying to get crafty

So I got a sewing machine for christmas from my awesome hubby and I've gotten into this whole new craft kick. So basically I look for any excuse I can get to try to express my creative ability....which isn't that much right now, but I hope to improve with experience and further training. I made this first quilt for a little girl in our ward, she is so stinkin cute and she is definitely one of my favorites

Next was a quilt for one of Danny's marine corp. friends who recently had a baby boy. It was working out o.k. until I realized that the patch became off center when I sewed the quilt together... but oh well. I learned from it and now I'll do better next time.

And lastly, Danny and I got invited to a fun superbowl party so I decided to make a football cake! We got the pan for our wedding and I was excited to finally use it.
Next is another baby quilt for one of our manager's who has a baby on the way. And then it's off to finishing off putting things together around the house, which is coming along pretty well if I say so myself - thank you Better Home and Gardens.