So we have finally hit the 6 month mark, or 24 weeks! For a while it seemed like it would never get here. Only 16 more weeks, or 109 more days, not that I am counting or anything, right. Our little girl is a very active girl. She is always on the move, kicking and punching my stomach, but I don't mind at all, it is very calming me to know she is doing well. But she has decided that when she is not moving she likes to have her feet and hands in my ribs on the right side. This is something that is very painful. She use to move when I would move on her to get out of my ribs, but now she has decided that she doesn't want to move and she just kicks me and stays were she is. So only likes to me in my ribs when I am sitting it seems. Well lucky for me I am sitting at my job for 9 hours a day, 5 days a week! I try standing throughout the day, but I get light-headed if I stand too long, so it's pretty much a lose-lose situation.
Well Mike and I have decided to have my last day at work be Halloween, the 31st of October. So that means I only have 70 more working days!! That day we always have a huge party at work, watch movies while we aren't helping students, and just chill, so I thought how better to celebrate your last day, right?! Plus not that I don't like my job, but I would love to have today be my last day, but that won't happen, I guess we need something called insurance to have a baby. I am sure the 70 days will fly by, hopefully! In another week or so it will start picking up in our office since Fall semester is starting in about a month. Then we will be busy from mid August until about the end of September. Then it will kind of calm down for a couple of weeks. Then probably about the time I will be quitting it will pick up again with everyone getting their Spring semester schedules together.
Well this weekend was a busy one for Mike and I. Saturday morning we went to the temple with our neighbor, Jamie, which was wonderful since the temple has been closed for 2 weeks for cleaning. Then it was time for the normal routine for Saturday, cleaning and laundry. Once that was all done, we decided to paint our kitchen and do touch ups from our other painting jobs. Well we got one coat on the kitchen and Mike fixed a couple of tough spots, like the peak in our living room with our 20 foot walls. After that Mike decided he was done painting for the day. So we went next door and watched a movie with Jamie. Mike had to work Sunday morning, but did get to go to sacrament meeting and one of his classes. After church, it was time for our Sunday afternoon nap. Then we just bummed around, until it was time for dinner. We had a get-together at Jamies, with Ariana, Jonathan, Addison, and Tasha. After dinner we decided instead of watching movies, we would play games, since I can't seem to stay awake during movies. So we played a fun game called "Fact or Crap" and then played "Taboo" It was so much fun and with the last game it came down to the wire, but Ariana, Jonathan, and Tasha ended up winning by 1 point. We called it a night after that since we all we pretty tired. Monday morning Mike and I were going to get up at 6 to get a jump start on all the painting we wanted to get done, but Mike woke up with a Migrane, so we slept until about 7:30. We painted a primer coat of white in the baby's room and got that room all taped up. While that was drying we painted a second coat in the kitchen. Then Ariana and the gang came over to help out. Once they were there the baby's room went pretty fast. We sponged the top half bright yellow and the bottom half solid bright blue. It looks so cute and defiantly looks like a kid's room. Once we have the curious George border up, it will finish the room up. All of the white furniture looks great in the room also. Lish, my sister-in-law, was kind enough to give us her glider, so that is getting painted white to match everything else. The last thing we need to finish the nursery is a futon. Then the nursery should be set. Ariana brought over a bunch of Addison's baby clothes for our little Madison to use. There was a lot, that's for sure. I think she had a tub full of 0-3 month of, 2 tubs full of 3-6 and 1 box for 6-9. So I think that our little girl will not have to go naked, at least not until after 9 months. After all the painting, we all went to our homes to clean up and then met back up at Lish's house for a bug Pioneer Day BBQ. There were a lot of people and food there, so it was wonderful. When we went to play games, all the kids got a little loud and whinny, so we only stayed for one game. We were all tried though, so it was a good ending to a great day. To bad that meant, that we all had to get up and go to work this morning. I promise, one of these days I will put pictures on here, so you have some idea what I am talking about!

Well I guess it is time for another update for everyone on the exciting lives of the Ashton's. It is good to be home since our trip to Colorado. We love traveling, but after awhile, it is nice to be at home for awhile to get back into the groove of things. Since being back home not much as happened. I don't think either of us wanted to go to work on Wednesday morning, but so is life right?? This week is my first full week of work and I have a feeling it is going to be a long one. But the good news is I have Monday off for Pioneer Day, so that will at least make next week go by faster and then we have our next doctors appointment on the 31st, the following Monday. It seems like July is dragging on, but then again it is half way over, so maybe it's just because there isn't anymore big trips to look forward to anymore. Just so everyone knows, little Madison should be here in 116 days, if she comes on her due date. But I am definately ok with her deciding to come a little early as long as she is healthily. Mike and I have been going back and forth lately about the name of our little angel, but I think we have decided we are going to stick with Madison, unless she comes out something different. I know that if she is names Madison it will cause some confusing with Addison, but if Madison is her name, then there is no arguing there, right??
Well its been fun having Tasha with us for the past week. She has been staying with Ana because Jonathan has been in Canada getting ready to fly the new planes home that USU just recently bought. Plus our air conditioning as not been working and the room were Tasha would be staying is upstairs were it is very HOT! So we just recently had someone come out and look at it. I guess we have a broken/leaky valve that let all of the freon out. So we had to have more freon put in, 6 pounds I think. Then we are going to have someone come out in August or September to fix the valve before it gets winter. I guess that is when it leaks, so as long as we get it fixed before then we wont have any problems. All I can say is it has been very nice to have air conditioning. I must be a cold blooded person because even at 6 months pregnant I am still cold 90% of the time. So Mike has it set to were he feels comfortable and I just wear a sweatshirt. The upstairs is finally cooled down though so when Tasha does come and stay with us it should be nice for her. Speaking of Tasha, she is really being a trooper. She has decided that she is going to be committed and loose weight while she is here is Utah. My neighbor, Jamie, has started training her. Last night was their first night and I think it went good. Then just worked-out outside since the gym was already closed. They ran up a huge hill a couple of time along with walking it a bit. Then they did some abs and weight training. Tasha said that she isn't sore yet though, only her arms. I think the plan is to work-out daily except for Sundays and those days she will just take a nice walk for like 45 minutes or so just so she doesn't cramp up or anything. Along with getting her in shape we are planning on give her a makeover, with new cloths and maybe even a new hair style and color. Dad, how would you feel about black hair with caramel and red highlites??
Oh baby's room is coming along slowly. Mike thinks we are right on schedule, but I guess I am just excited and I would like to be able to do everything right now. But time and money wont really allow that. So for now, it is one project at a time. Saturday Ana and Tasha came and helped me paint a dresser white. We decided to do white furniture so everything matches. Plus I think white will look the best against the colors we have decided to decorate with. All I have left to paint as far as furniture goes is the glider, oh and a futon when we get one. The next big project will be to paint the walls. We have finally agreed on what we are doing. We will have a curious george wallpaper border that will go about 1/3 of the way up the way I think. Below the border we will paint a bold, bright blue and then on top of the border we are going to sponge bold, bright yellow. We are looking at getting a bright red rug to go in the middle of the room. Then we will decorate with red and green as accents. I think I will probably make the bumper pads and skirt for the crib, the glider cover, the futon cover, and curtains out of some cute bright green fabric. I will take some pictures of what we have so far, just so you can at least see the furniture we have in there. But once again I need to have Ana come and show me how to post pictures to the website. Maybe that will be this weekend, or sometime this week. Ok, well I will end this now and will be updating you all soon!

Ok, well from the looks of it, I will be the first to comment on our trip to Colorado trip. We all got home I think last night between 6 and 8 pm. This is because we all left at different times. My dad, Melia, and Garth headed out at around 7am so they would be home at a good time. Plus my dad is an early riser, so why not start on the drive home early. Thayne, Sarah, and Audrey headed out about 8am. Then Ana, Jonathan, Mike, Tasha, Addison, and I stayed to clean the cabins and get checked out. I think we were checked out about 8:45 am even though we had until 11 am. On the drive out it took us a little longer because we stopped every 2 hours. This was because I had to go to the bathroom all the time and Addison didn't like being in her car seat for long periods of time. On the trip home though we only stopped twice to get gas and eat.
The vacation went well and was very relaxing for everyone I think. We all got to the cabin about 5 or so and got checked in and unpacked. Dad, Melia, and Garth got a late start since Garth had to work late. Then to had salt to a sore it poured rain and they closed the interstate in Denver, so they had to go through downtown. So needless to say they didn't get into town until about midnight or so. Sunday we all got up early and drove into town, about a 30 minute drive, to go to church. We got a lot of looks since we took up a whole row at church and made up like a fourth of their ward. We had a lot of people tell us Colorado Springs was a great place to live and we should think about moving. It was a great place to go for vacation, but I am happy with living in Logan. Sunday was spent just hanging out and planning the activities for the next day. Monday we all got up early and drive into town to walk through a park called the "Garden of the Gods" I think it was good exercise we all needed and it was fun. We took a lot of fun pictures that I will have to get posted, as soon as I learn how. After the walk, we all went and had ice cream and then headed back to our cabins. The rest of the day we played games and watched movies. Of course the whole weekend the boys: Jonathan, Garth, Thayne, and Mike played in the fire whether we were cooking something or not. It did rain a lot of the time, but it was ok because it was mostly in the evenings when we were in side and it usually cleared up in time for us to go have a roasting party around the bond fire. The bad thing about the rain is we found out our cabin leaked. We had it leak around the front door, in a corner in the bedroom and around the windows up in the loft. We just had to put towels in those areas to soak up the rain so Addison wouldn't fall again in the water. One exciting thing that happened was we had a little visitor at our cabin, a fox! Tasha had thrown a sucker off the porch earlier that day and I guess that is what the fox was wanting. Jonathan took a picture of it actually eating the suck right next to our cabin. Thayne said it would have come into the cabin if he hadn't shut the door. Tasha thinks it would have been really cool if it would have come into the cabin, we all think she wouldn't think that after it got in there and started attacking people. Well to sum it all up it was a great get-a-way and we have already started planning our next vacation next year. We are planning on taking one at the end of May so Garth will be able to be there before he goes on his mission in June.
Life here is Logan while we were gone seemed to go on like normal. We still are dealing with a very mentally unstable neighbor that just wont listen to anyone. She only moved in a couple of months ago and Mike and I went and introduced our selves and she had already met the other neighbor, Jamie. Well I guess she really just doesn't like any of us and really dislikes Jamie's dog. So a couple of weeks ago she decided to put a pile of dog poop on Jamie's front door to send a message about her dog. The whole issue is that she thinks Jamie's dog goes in her yard and she is a afraid Jamie's dog will hurt her dog or something. But the think is that her dog is always chained up so it can go into Jamie's yard. Or it "Runs" out of the house and ends up in our yard, in Jamie's house, or another neighbors house. So when we confronted her about this she got very angry at us and said she didn't do it, but Jamie better not let her dog step into her yard again or else. Well I guess while we were in Colorado Jamie was over in our yard playing with her dog, which is fine with us. Well the neighbor I guess thought she would try and teach her another lesson, so she called the animal control on her saying her dog was running loose in the neighbor and couldn't be controlled. Jamie talked to them and explained the situation and they understood. So I don't know what will happen from here. We have been advised not to confront the neighbor anymore and if she makes anymore threats to call the police. Oh the drama, right?? That is just another reason why we will not ever be getting a dog.

Well we were going to try and wait and tell people what we were having until we were at Colorado, but we were too excited, so our little bundle of joy is going to be a little girl!! We are very excited and of course I cried when I found out what it was. I know I would have cried either way; being pregnant tends to do that to you. She is a health little girl though, growing perfectly. They measured every part of her I think. It was neat to see all of her different parts though. After all the measuring they said she weighs 1 pound exactly and is around 8-10 inches. We definitely have a modest little girl though. She refused to uncross her legs for the doctor. After a lot of pushing on my stomach they finally got her to uncross them for about a minute, just long enough to see she was a girl then she crossed them right back. They said they are 100% positive that she is a little girl. And the most exciting news besides finding out that she is a girl is that my new due date is November 11th instead of the 16th. Even though it is only 5 days, I am way excited. I am just excited because then it gives me a bigger time period between the day she is due and the day when all of the family comes out to celebrate Thanksgiving. The name we are planning on calling our little girl is Madison; that is unless she comes out and is not a Madison. I think we surprised a lot of people with our news because everyone thought for sure we were going to have a little boy. The most excited about us having a little girl I think is our niece, Aubrey. She really wanted a girl and when we called to tell them you could hear her in the background yelling and jumping around. Once I figure out how to post pictures on this I will up load a couple of the pictures of her.
Ok on to a different subject, Bear Lake. Mike and I went up Friday night and spent the weekend with his family in a condo there. It was a nice vacation. On Saturday we spent the whole day on the beach. I think we were out there for a totally of 8-9 hours. They rented a jet ski and everyone took turns on it except the two pregnant ladies, myself and my sister-in-law, Angie. She is due about the same time Ana is, in February, so they are just starting on the long 9 month path. Then later in the day everyone went out for a boat ride, but I knew I would throw up, so I just stayed behind and kept watch on the camp site. Really I ended up taking a nap, but oh well. I put SPF 30 on twice, but I guess I totally forgot about my feet because they were fried. Come Saturday evening when we were all back chilling in the condo, my feet swelled up to 2 or 3 times there normal size. I took it really easier on Sunday making sure to ice them often. They are still pretty swollen, but at least they aren't burnt anymore. Monday I woke up not being able to walk at all in the morning without my feet turning purple from lack of blood, so I didn't go into work that day. The 4th of July started pretty early for our neighbor Jamie and myself. We had a ward breakfast and were asked to come and help. So we showed up at 7 am and cut up watermelon. We had bought everything the day before; 15 bags of ice and 8 30 pound watermelon and a kiddy pool. They set up the pool and put ice and water in them and then kept the watermelon and drinks in it to keep everything cool. The breakfast went from 8:30-10:30, but we left at 9:30. Then we packed up the car and headed up to Idaho Falls for the 4th. Jamie came with Mike and I. When we got there it took a while to figure out what the plans were, but once we got that figured out it was a fun day. We all went to see the movie Superman Returns...Very long!! Then the boys went golfing( surprise, surprise) and Jamie and I went shopping. We bought Mike some new shorts and shoes which he needed greatly. Then we came back and had a BBQ and then went and watched fireworks. There was about 85,000 people there watching them so we parked about 20 minutes away and walked. It was quit a walk, but I think we all needed to exercise. After the show we power-walked back to the car and finally were on the road about 11:30 pm. I think we ended up getting home right and unpacked about 2 am. All I can say is 6 am came really early and I was dragging myself through the day, but I perked up a lot when we got to the doctor. Well as numerous people have already stated, we are having a little Wright family reunion this weekend in Colorado, so that will be fun to see everyone again and this will probably be the last time until Thanksgiving when everyone comes out here. Tasha will be riding back to Utah with us and spending sometime here though with us and Ana and Jonathan so that will be fun. Ok, well I think I will end this exciting novel. We will probably update everyone once we get back from Colorado.

Well not a lot has happened since the last update I gave everyone, but today does mark an important day! Today is our half way mark! I am finally 20 weeks. That means only 20 more weeks of being pregnant and 20 more weeks of work!! Don't get me wrong I love my job and the people I work with, but I am very excited to just be at home. Mike is still job hunting. He was hoping to get a job from Hyclone, where Ariana works because it is such a great company but one of the jobs was filled and the other one we found out he is unable to get. Since that job is in the same office as Ana, they didn't think it would be a good idea having family so closely related working in the same office. Ana said she would keep her eye open for other openings in other departments there and just around Logan. Although somedays we are discouraged about not having a new job yet, we know that something will work out in the end, we just have to keep our hopes up. Mike is doing well at his job right now. The biggest push is making sure he gets enough sales every month. We just barley made it last month because the Herald Journal counts the last of the month on the 26th. So last night he went out to get a head start on next month's sales. He took a crew of young boys that go sale the paper from 5 - 10 last night. Needless to say I was a sleep when he got home last night, but he did get half of his sales for the month in one night, so that helps take a lot of stress off him so he will be able to enjoy our vacations coming up.
Although things are slow right now, the next couple of weeks will be busier and a lot of fun. Mike's brother, Marc and his family fly into Salt Lake tonight. We haven't seen the whole family since Christmas so it will be fun to see them. They will be staying with us tonight and then head up to Bear Lake for the weekend. Since Mike and I have to work tomorrow we wont be going up to Bear Lake until Saturday. Then we will have to come back Saturday night since I have to teach a lesson in church on Sunday. Then we will go back up for the afternoon and evening. Then I think the plan is to head up to Idaho Falls for the 4th of July. I think we are going to have Ana, Jonathan, and Addison come along with our neighbor Jamie. Pretty much everyone we would hang out with in Logan, we will just all go to Idaho Falls to watch the wonderful fireworks. Then we have our trip with my family to Colorado the next weekend. I love having little trips throughout the summer. For me it helps me not focus on how slow this pregnancy is going sometimes. But I know that I will have this child before me know it. OH yeah and the fun appointment were we find out what we are having is less than a week away, next Wednesday!! I hope everyone has a fun and safe 4th of July.

Almost Half Way There...
Yesterday was on 3rd doctors appointment and everything went well. We didn't have our appointment with our regular doctor because she just recently had a baby herself a couple of weeks ago, so we went to a new one just for this visit. She works in the same office, just one floor up. First thing we found out is that I found out I gained 3 pounds in the past 4 weeks, which isn't bad at all when they are saying I am suppose to gain about a pound a week now. So far during pregnancy I have gained about 10 pounds. I am sure since I am maintaining my weight so well now that I will balloon out in the last month or something, but who knows. The doctors appointment wasn't too involved; the doctor gave some guide lines to follow about staying hydrated and wearing my seat belt below my belly. Then we got to listen to the baby's heart beat. I am always relieved when I hear the heart beat to know all is well. I guess I should know everything is fine since I feel the baby moving every 5 minutes it seems like. I guess there is an old saying that if the heart rate is fast then its more likely a girl and if it's slower than its more likely a boy. Well according to the heart rates and if the doctor had to guess, we will be having a boy. But Mike and I are still not guessing which we are having, we will just wait until the 5th of July to find out for sure. We asked if they had anything sooner, but their next appointment wasn't until the 12th of July so we decided to stick with the 5th. Mike was really hoping that someone could do one yesterday, but oh well.
I am still working up at the University full-time. The hours I work starting this week until summer is over will be 7:45 to 3:45. I use to take an hour lunch and then work until 4:45, but I figure I might as well eat lunch at my desk and get off an hour earlier so I have some energy to make dinner at night. Plus who doesn't like getting off early. Before I would go home for lunch, and then I never wanted to go back to work, so this will probably be better. Plus then I only have to walk up and down the hill once a day instead of twice. Mike is still with the Herald Journal, but is faithfully looking for a new job. The Herald Journal has been good for us, but I know he is very much ready for a change and an increase in pay so there will be less stress when I stay home with the baby.
Mike and I have been looking into different ways to decorate the nursery. We know we want to do the Curious George theme, but it is a matter of finding the right items and the money to get everything. We finally found some cheap wallpaper borders of curious George, thanks to Wagon, online so I think we are going to hang that up. Now its just a matter of picking out the color of paint for the walls, the fabric for the curtains, rocking chair cover, and the crib bedding. We are going to try to do a neutral color, so we wont have to change everything if the next baby is a different sex than this one is. We going to decorate with bright primary colors: red, blue, yellow, and green. So if anyone has any ideas for decorating, let us know. I think we are planning on painting and stuff while Natasha, my sister, is here for a couple of weeks in July. It will be nice to have the help, plus I think she is excited to help.

Hi all, we are going to try this blog trend. I think it will be easier to up keep, plus then all of our past post will be saved which will be nice. I guess this will act as our community journal. Well not a lot has happened since the last time I updated our website. We are currently in our 18th week, but 19 weeks will be on Thursday.
Father's day weekend was nice. Mike and I went down to Idaho Falls Friday evening to spent the weekend with Mike's parents. Friday night we went and got ice cream with them at Cold Stone. I guess that is the happening place for Idaho Falls because I think we waited in line for 30 minutes. Then I made the mistake of ordering a fruit smoothie instead of ice cream. The employee turned to me and said, umm I don't think we make those. I said well its on your menu. Come to find out it was the guys first day and it was the first fruit smoothie every made in that store, so they had to find the instructions for it. But it tasted good, just took a long time to get. Mike decided to stay up until midnight watching old BYU football games with his dad, so on Saturday he was dragging. We got up and went on a walk with his parents for about half an hour. Then Wagon (my father-in-law's nickname) took us out to breakfast; he is very good to us. Then we ran errands with his parents to Target and other stores in hopes to find the right stroller and car seat, but no luck. Then we went furniture shopping for Mike's parents and we actually helped them pick out a couch that they later brought home that day for their front room. After stopping at home for a quick bite to eat, Mike and Wagon went golfing and Peggy(my mother-in-law) and I went shopping to look for Curious George fabric for the nursery. I think we went to 20 stores in the 2 hours we were gone and didn't find anything. Oh well, that's the way life goes. The rest of the time spent there was just chill time. On Sunday I called my dad, brother, and brother-in-law for father's day. My dad had an excited father's day; he got to sit in a hotel room because we was out of town for work. He still has one more week to go. Then he will be home until our Colorado trip on the 8th. Mike and I were planning on leaving around 7 or 8 so we didnt get home too late, but it ended up being about 9 when we left so we didn't get home until 11:30 or so. We were both tired, so I think we ended up sleeping until like 9 in the morning Monday. I took the day off of work yesterday to catch up on sleep and to just take a chill day. Mike and I unpacked everything and then went shopping for new swimming suits since none of mine fit, at least not the way you would need them to to go in public. I found a cute one that is a tankini on the top that almost covers my belly and then the bottom has a skirt attached to it, so it covers a lot. Mike's brother Marc will be coming to Utah on the 29th of June and we all will be heading to Bear Lake for the weekend, so I needed a new swimming suit, since all I can do is play in the water and lay out. I don't think jet skiing would work out for me and the baby. It will be a nice relaxing weekend though.