Hawaii Trip!!!

Baby Nelson is starting to get bigger more quickly lately! Not only that, but he seems to like being extremely active. I only started feeling him move about two weeks ago, but now he is not shy at all about making himself known! Kevin's been able to feel him move quite a few times now too, and that is pretty neat. He seems to like Kevin's voice (as well as drums... seems like any good beats get him moving around). A group of native dancers did a performance at Magrath Elementary last week, and he moved around almost the entire time the drums were going - at least ten minutes straight. Either the vibrations irritate him, or else he's going to be a little drummer. I guess we'll see.

Kevin and I were sitting at home trying to decide what to do over the Easter break--- so I started looking up flight prices online. We found a good deal to Hawaii, and Kevin found out that one of his best friends, who is going to school at BYU Hawaii, was moving back to Utah the week after Easter break. We decided to book it! So three days later, we were on a flight to Oahu! The week was amazing! The weather was great, and the island was beautiful! It was the first larger vacation we have ever been on together, as it never worked out for us to go there for our honeymoon (Waterton was slightly less exciting). Better late than never though!

We purposely cut off the belly portion of my swimming suit :) Sorry!

Waikiki beach at sunset.

This is in the Tongan chief hut display at the Polynesian Cultural Center.

Uh-oh. There's the belly shot.
This is a large model of the boats that the islanders used to travel way back when... now students from BYU Hawaii use it to travel from island to island once every year.

This is from the Polynesian Center's Boat Show (Maybe Tonga??) doing the Hakka (spelling?)

Here is the fish that Kevin caught when he went reef fishing with Mike.

"Silver-man" - a street performer along Waikiki Beach

A statue of Lehi blessing Nephi at the Hawaii Temple.

"Under Construction" - The Hawaii Temple.

Us enjoying a sunset on our last night in Hawaii!

Kevin's friend Mike, and his wife, Erika, on the beach.

Baby Nelson

At 20 weeks of pregnancy, we finally had our ultrasound! It was such a neat experience. I was so glad that Kevin could come with me to see our baby for the first time! He was a feisty little guy for the ultrasound though! He flipped and rolled and moved all over, and I couldn't feel a thing (although I am feeling lots of little pokes and flips less than one week after!) Everything is definitely seeming more real now. They didn't let us know what the baby's sex was at the ultrasound appointment, but our ultrasound technician told us she knew almost instantly after placing the ultrasound machine on my belly, and from what we could see on the ultrasound pictures, it definitely looked like a boy to us too. I did get this confirmed by my doctor, Dr. Steed, on Wednesday though. It's much more fun now that we can start imagining what our little boy is going to be like. He may look remotely like an alien (see the picture where it shows his head face-on), but we think he is a pretty cute little guy. If anyone has any inspirational ideas on what boy names would be cute, let us know, because we aren't agreeing on many so far.

We are just getting ready to head to HAWAII this weekend for the Easter break! Finally! We have been saving up to go on some kind of a nice vacation for a long time, and things never seem to work out for us to go. It looks like I will also finally be able to meet Kevin's good friend, Mike, who is just finishing his schooling at BYU Hawaii this year. Him and his wife are going to show us around the island and take us to the Polynesian Cultural Center while we are there. It has been interesting finding summer clothes that will fit me while we are there! I seem to have exploded over night, and have noticed that, since Wednesday, people are starting to look at my stomach before they look at my face. I guess I will have to get used to that.