Baby shower pics, and a couple misc pictures :)

Me and Millie right after she Graduated!!

Big thanks once again to my family for making my baby shower so special and amazing!! Love you all so much and thank you for all your wonderful gifts, they are much appreciated!

Getting Ready!

Yummy food!

Cutest cake my mother-in-law had made for me

Beautiful quilt made by Robyn May..Love it!

REALLY neat picture my aunt Victoria got for the babys room

Daddy's favorite Football team :)

Opening presents!

Lots of Friends came! Love you guys!!

The amazing quilt my Aut Diane made Chate!!!

My husband LOVES bananas!

The events of Weeks and days Past

I have not been neglecting my blog on purpose, I have very good reasons as to my absence. I was able to spend some time with family down in Ava! To start off the trip I had the amazing opportunity to attend the Cultural Celebration in Kansas City for the Kansas City Temple festivities. My siblings got to perform in that event and they did an amazing job singing and dancing. We had a special guest there as well...President Thomas S. Monson! He is just the most amazing and spiritual man, yet so very funny, he even showed us his talent of wiggling his ears :). I also went and saw the Liberty Jail with my parents and Kaysha and Bryden. Unfortunately Chance couldnt come yet, as he had a final in school to take that next week, but he came down later :). The next day was Sunday, we were able to watch the Temple dedication via satelite, it was very neat as well. The next couple of days were spent with my family, and slowly one by one, family from Utah showed up for the big events that were going to transpire over the weekend. It is always fun to have Utah family come down, since we don't get to see them that often. On friday came the first big event to kick off the weekend...my little sister Camille graduated from High School. I cannot believe how fast time goes, I have now been graduated for 4 years! I am so proud of Camille, she is such a light and example to everyone, she is so beautiful inside and out. She will be going to BYU in the fall. We will miss her so much, but I know that she will love college and will succeed in life with whatever she decides to do. Love you Camille! Oh I forgot to mention that she was Valedictorian of her class, shes a smarty just like me ;).

All my siblings + Bryden :)



Next up...My mom's graduation! Saturday morning she graduated from Drury University with a Degree in Sociology and General Studies. My mom showed great determination and strength by going back to school and finishing up her degree! Love you mom, congrats again!

Yup shes very beautiful



That night was my baby shower, sorry I dont have any pictures yet, but I will put them up once I get them. It was such a fun night full of friends, family, and games, oh, and I have one spoiled baby already for sure! Thanks to all my family who helped out to make it so special for me. The next day was Sunday, and we had Brydens baby blessing, Camille got her Young Women's Recognition award, and to top it off, it was Mothers Day! We had a yummy BBQ after church also. Yes, we are a family who tries to fit as many things into one weekend as we can!

4 Generations: Grandpa Gledhill, Grandma Kjar (aka mom) Kaysha, and Bryden

4 Generations: Grandma Kjar, Grandpa Kjar (aka Dad), Kaysha and Bryden

Grandparents and Hobbs Family

Me Kaysha and Bryden

Ok so this is a long post, but I wanted to add some Misc pictures from that week/weekend:

I believe that I have the cutest nephew ever :)

He loves kisses from me :)

I was debating on whether or not to put this on here, but the reason that I did is, my feet swelled up to the size of South Africa, and I had to constantly prop up my feet, they were huge! Luckily they are back to almost normal now.

Byden and mommy

Some of the clan, from left to right: Little Mckay, Brad, My dad, Camille, Me, Chance and uncle Eric takin pics

My mom and her dad and siblings, minus Amy

My uncle Stevens cute family, minus Kelton

Rockbridge, Yes I am soking my huge cankles in the cool water, oh and my dad got me soaking wet shortly after this picture was taken by throwing in a huge rock, but little does he know I was super hot aka pregnant, so I didnt mind :)

Well I have finally come to an end of this very long post! It was a very fun 12 days, and so much fun! Now I just have to prepare for little Chates arrival, it is getting so close!

35 weeks along

14 Mounds of grass on the lawn

This is what happens when your lawn has not been mowed for 2 weeks in Missouri....Needless to say we raked up 14 large piles of grass, and then raked those said piles into 4 very large piles of grass. The sad part is, we only raked the very worst parts of the lawn...

Lessons learned:

(1) Unless you want to spend 2 hours plus of unnecessary lawn work, you had better mow your lawn more frequently.

(2) We now know that we could bale hay from our lawn...seriously.

(3) And three, as you are putting the large piles of grass into trash bags, make sure that you are standing up hill from the wind or else you will get a large confetti like grass combobulation right in the face, enough said...

Piles before being consolidated into one large pile

One of the VERY large piles of grass

The other two large piles

In the name of Love and.. Mashed Potatoes?

For Sunday dinner last night I made dijon and itallian bread crumb chicken, mashed potatoes with chicken gravy, and green beens. I called to Chance that dinner was done, and let me tell you he comes a running like a water buffalo comes running to a river in the sahara dessert when I tell him dinner is done. He sat down, and after prayer I got up to get the rest of the chicken out of the oven, when I came back this is what I found on his plate...

He said it was to show his appreciation to me for all that I do, and how yummy of food I cook. I found this to be quite funny really, he isnt too artsy, but I guess when it comes to food art, he found his niche :). So this is a heart of mashed potatoes for me...later he said it was a jacuzzi of love, and he was going to eat it. Such an imagination this husband of mine :).

Kansas City Temple Open House

Not very often, if at all, does one have the opportunity to attend an LDS temple open house. But...Chance and I are that lucky! We live quite close to Kansas City, and were able to attend the open house along with his parents and grandparents! We left early Saturday morning to meet up with Chances family for a yummy lunch at Longhorn Steakhouse. After lunch we headed over to the temple. We first watched a really great little movie about the Mormon temples, it helped those who have never gone to the temple before to better understand the importance of temples, and some of the things that take place inside. After the video we had hosts take us on a tour through the temple. We saw the baptismal room, session rooms, the Celestial room, and sealing room. The temple is such a beautiful and holy place, I absolutely love going to the temple, and taking in its beauty and spirit. Temples are so important to me because I know that without them I would not be able to have an eternal family, and live with them for eternity, and for me that is a big deal. I could not imagine life without my husband and children, and family. I want to be with them forever, and I know that by making sacred covenants with the Lord in the temple, and by keeping the commandments, I can have an eternal family. It is also so neat to be able to do this special work in the temple for those whom have passed on, this gives them the choice to decide whether to accept the gospel in their life and partake of these great blessings as well. For those of you who may live around the Kansas City area, this would be such a great opportunity to learn more about the Mormon temples, and to have the chance to see inside of the temple before it is dedicated. The open house goes until next Saturday, so don't miss out on this amazing experience! If you would like to learn more about the Mormon temples follow this link:
 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint Temples

Chance and I at the Kansas City Temple, Excuse my chubbiness, I am 31 weeks pregnant

Let Them Eat Cake!!

On Saturday one of my friends had their baby shower, and I along with 4 other girls were the hostess'. I was in charge of making a "vintage" cake to go along with the vintage theme for the baby shower. So I hopped right onto the wonderfully spectacular website... yup you probably guessed it...Pinterest and started searching. I came across a really cute rose decorated cake, and it looked very "vintagy" to me, and it looked easy enough to make also. My Friday was devoted to cake making, now if you do not like sugar this cake is NOT for you! It has so much frosting, frosting filling, then you frost the outside, then you put the frosting flowers on top of that frosting, holy moly, can we say sugar high? Needless to say, I went through 3 bags of powdered sugar by the time I was done, and yes I am not exaggerating about that, TONS of sugar on this baby! I made homemade white chocolate cake, and it was divine, or I hoped it was, because apparently while being "with child" you cannot eat ANY raw dough, batter, etc..., which is lame because that is my favorite part. So The cake looked pretty darn good to my standards, I was ready for this shower! Everyone said that they loved the cake and thought it looked so pretty, which made me feel pretty great especially when it took around 3 hours to complete, my hard work paid off! And to top it all off....It did indeed taste great! Now don't get any ideas, I am not a professional cake maker/decorator, but I do love challenging myself, and it is a self esteem boost when things go according to plan...yay me! Let me know what you think :)

Me and my Boys :)

My sister Camille is a fabulous photgrapher and did my maternity pictures for me over spring break. Thanks Camille I love them :) I was 28 1/2 weeks Pregnant :)