Bekah's baby

Bekah and Chris's new baby Benjamin Grimm Rasmussen

Halloween

Guin was a witch! She's not holding her broom right now.

Christmas

My Christmas list updated

1.https://www.downeastbasics.com/ (they're having some sales right now)

2.Scrapbooking Stuff

Yay!

So my best friend from my childhood bought me the most perfect crib set ever. I've been searching for a boy one and i just could not find one that i liked very much. I'm so happy i got what i wanted. THank you Kayla!!!!!!!!!

:)

http://despair.com/viewall.html

Go here. It'll do you good.

Ultrasound pics

He's hiding his face behind his hands

Ha Ha i'm growing a penis

It's wierd because these ultrasound pics aren't as clear as Guin's but i went to the same place. Maybe they used an older machine on me this time.

Baby Video

Video of the baby

It's a boy!

I'll post the ultrasound pictures later when i get home. They gave us a whole freaking disk of them and the disk included pictures, clips of the baby moving, and the heartbeat. I went to the same place when pregnant with Guin and i got five pics and that's it. They've really updated.

my christmas list

Christmas List for Fontanna

1.Scrapbooking stuff

That's all i can think of i'll add on as i find more.

Updated Christmas List For Guin

http://www.target.com/Dinosaur-Friends-Toothbrush-Holder/dp/B0012XVK3K/sr=1-16/qid=1224657135/ref=sr_1_16/602-3458350-5539836?ie=UTF8&index=target&rh=k%3Adinosaur&page=1 This link is to some kinda cute dino things. Not these exact things they're kinda overpriced they are just ideas.

Guin's Christmas List

1.Fake Food Set
2.Fun Books
3.Movies
4.Bath Stuff(Bath paint, Color tabs, toys)
5.Color Wonder

Right now she is in to Dinos, Animals, drawing, baby dolls, reading, playdoh, stamps(like ink stamps not a postage stamps). She's just getting more creative and in to pretending so there you have it! Her bedroom theme is tinkerbell and fairies so there's that too. Her bathroom is pink and black.

Job

So i'll have to think about my christmas list antje. So Zach got a new job that's more at a career level. It's with a place called Community Connections. He's something like a Recruiting and Activities Manager or something. Anyway it'll be a day job to.

To satisfy Antje

Guin's Christmas List

1.Fake Food Set

2.Fun Books

3.Movies

4.Bath Stuff(Bath paint, Color tabs, toys)

5.Color Wonder

Right now she is in to Dinos, Animals, drawing, baby dolls, reading, playdoh, stamps(like ink stamps not a postage stamps). She's just getting more creative and in to pretending so there you have it! Her bedroom theme is tinkerbell and fairies so there's that too. Her bathroom is pink and black.

Tagged

Crazy 8 Tag
8 TV shows I love to watch:
1.Dexter
2.House M.D.
3.Lost
4.So You Think You Can Dance?
5.Scrubs
8.24
i had to skip numbers, i don't watch much T.V.

8 things that happened yesterday:
1.I did laundry
2.I got caught up on Dexter
3.Did Dishes
4.Played with Guin
5.Danced a jig
6.Zach's first day at work
7.Felt the baby kicking every time i sat down
8.Gave Guin a bath

8 Favorite Places to eat 1-
1.My mom's house(best italian food ever)
2.My house
3.Olive garden
4.Booster Juice
5.Beijing Restaurant in Emmett
6.Tai Food(love curry)
7.Shiloh's Mother and Father-in-Law's(mmm philipeano food)
8.Movie Theatre Popcorn?

8 Things I'm looking forward too-
1.The ultrasound on the 22nd
2.Having the baby
3.Snuggling Guin to sleep tonight
4.Actually having money
5. My Halloween party
6.Halloween
7. Christmas
8.Breastfeeding(wierd maybe but i loved doing it with Guin and i've been reading about it so it's on my mind)

8 Things on my wish list1-
1.healthy baby
2.Having a clean house by thursday
3.Getting a car someday
4.Living in a real house someday
5.For guin and the babe to grow up happy and normally
6.To get a good night's sleep
7.To adopt a child
8.To never work away from home again.

8 People I tag-
1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.Everyone

Life

So i can feel the baby kicking now on the inside and the outside. We find out what it is on the twenty second of october at two pm. I'm pretty excited because then i can start on the nursery and all that. Zach got a job at Target and another one at some Top Flight Janitorial. It'll be nice to have an income to budget out but they're night jobs so we'll have opposite schedules. Guin is just getting over being sick but other than that she's been great. She loves the leaves outside right now and we'll be painting a pumpkin on thursday for our little halloween party. I figured painting would be better because that way she can be more involved. I'm planning on re-painting the house some nuetral colors along with the baby room. The purple is just a little to much. Besides that nothing much else is going on with us. My sister Bekah is having a baby in about three weeks and my sister jessie just found out recently that she's pregnant. That's all so i'll write later.

Smarty Pants

So my little smarty head did this about a month ago. see how they're all organized into colors. Yay Guin!

19 weeks

Christmas

For some reason i am really excited for christmas. I just want to have it!!! i want to come up with homemade gifts i can give everyone except for the person i drew. Projects are always fun. Etsy is a good sight to look at for good ideas. Anyway at least Halloween is one step closer to December.

Happy Birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEKAH!

Portraits

These are Guin's 10 month old portraits and Lilli's four month. Obviously it was christmas. Anyway i have a ton of all of them so if anybody wants one just let me know.

Mullet

This was so wonderful i had to re-post it. This guy is my new best friend.

Peeing

Guin sat on her potty today and went pee pee! It was a full morning wake up time bladder too. It's funny because her pee shoots forward like a boys so i kinda regret losing that little boy gaurd they put on toddler potties.

Tenzin

This is Tenzin Michael Bess

14 weeks

14 Weeks

11 Weeks

Baby

My sister had Tenzin Michael Bess on August 31st at 9:20 am. He was 7 lbs 7oz and was 19 1/2 inches. He's really cute and small. He's got really white skin but really pitch black hair. She had him at a birthing center in nampa so she had him all natural, no meds. I forgot my camera(fail) so i don't have pictures yet.

Yay!

Guin actually wanted me to put a barrette in her hair. Her cute curles look so much cuter when she has one in so i had to get pictures because she rarely lets me put one in.

So food.

I went to allrecipes.com and i made crepes and this Chicken, Mango, Avacado salad. The crepe recipe turned out really good but the salad was just to strong for me. But i'm kind of into blander foods right now since my prego hates me when i eat really flavorful things. The crepe recipe didn't have any ideas for what to put inside them so i just used strawberries, whipped cream, vanilla yogurt, and powdered sugar. It was yummy in my tummy.

Guin's Bum

Oh it's so pinchable!

Recipes

So a friend of mine showed me this web site and it looks pretty good. I'm bored of the same old stuff i always make so i'm going to try some of these recipes and see how it goes from there. Anyway i'll let you know if they are any good.!

http://allrecipes.com/features/holidays/summergrilling/home.aspx

Regina Spektor

There is a song at the very end of my playlist called The Call by Regina Spektor. It is really pretty. It plays at the end of The Chronicles of Narnia Prince Caspian. It's ama-za-zay-zing. Listen to it.

At around 11 weeks

I just ate so i look a little bigger than usual.

New Job

Oh yah i forgot to tell everyone that Zach got a new job. His company is called Center Point and he'll be doing PSR for them. i think PSR means Psycho Social Rehabilitation. Anyway he'll start the job around the eighteenth and he'll be making fourteen dollars an hours. After ninety days they'll bounce him up to fifteen bucks an hour. It's in Nampa and so we'll probably move there soon.

Pictures

These are our family portraits. One is cut off a little but it was a ten by ten and i couldn't scan the whole thing.

Birthday

So for my birthday Zach got me a digital camera and a scanner/printer/copier. It's was pretty sweet.

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to my beautiful wife. I love you so much and I hope that your day is good. You are such a great mother and now your not even a teenager anymore. I miss you and wish that I could give you a birthday kiss but I will just wait until Thursday. Love You!

Zach

Nursery

So for the baby's room I'm thinking of doing a jungle theme. Not like leopard print or anything but just some cute jungle theme. Here are a couple room ideas i like. If you see any similar let me know! The jungle theme is more for if it's a boy. i might have different plans if it's a girl.

http://www.babysupermall.com/main/products/lai/lai13006v.html

http://www.babysupermall.com/main/products/kli/kli5900beds.html

Finally

So i finally went a day without feeling sick all day. i feel a little sick but nothing compared to how it's been. Anyway i hope it continues to be like this but you never know. I just hate feeling so icky!

Yay!

Zach got his diploma in the mail today.

Married

My twin sister got married. I was sad that i wasn't there but she was pretty sneaky about it so oh well. I don't know kelley very well(actually i don't know him at all) but i hope he's good to her and stuff. Anyway congrats Antje and i hope everything turns out well.

Blah

I don't really have much of an update but i figured i'd write anyway. Well my birthday is in fourteen days and it's kinda wierd because i won't be a teenager anymore. i'm going to be 20. It kinda freaks me out a little. Probably since i've been a teenager for so long and now i feel like i'm getting old lol. My morning sickness is getting better but i'm getting impatient with being in the first trimester. I want to show more and i want to wear maternity clothes and to get the show on the road. But i have to wait anyway. Guin is getting smarter and smarter and Lilli is at about the same level even though she is six months younger. Guin can memorize whole songs and when she hums them i can recognize what song she's humming. Maybe she'll be in choir. She seems to be really good with music so we'll see. The job search still sucks and the part time job Zach has just cut his hours down to fifteen hours a week. i am so pissed with that company and i just want him to quit. They've been screwing us over so much!

It Begins

The morning sickness has begun except it's not in the morning. It's on and off all day. I am lucky though since i just feel sick and i don't actually throw up. I haven't had any cravings yet which is nice for Zach. I don't now how much he liked the three in the morning curly fry runs to jack in the box. I guess i did crave curly fries once but once isn't bad. I was looking at a picture of Ava today and i wondered if this baby will look like an armstrong like Ava does or if it'll look like a Rasmussen. Guin jumps between a Rasmussen and a Legg a lot. When she was a baby she looked so much like a Legg it was crazy but now she's looking more and more like a Rasmussen. A lot of people say "Oh she looks just like her dad!" when me and zach take her on walks and stuff. I think it's funny but i like it. I hope it'll make her feel less out of place compared to our other kids since she does look like Zach in a lot of ways. her hair color and hair line and the way her eyebrows are resemble Zach's eyebrows. So yah.

We are going to Jerome saturday and i am so excited to hold Cayden. I love holding little new ones so it'll be great. I don't know how great letting Zach hold him will be since that means less time i get to hold him. Anyway i'm done.

Long Time Short Time

2008

2006

It seems like Guin has grown up so fast. Probably because she has! It was only around two and a half years ago that she was a little seven pound nub wriggling around in my arms and now she's running around telling people what to do. In another way it seems like so long ago that she first started to crawl and all that. It seems like it's been longer than two and a half years. It's exciting to see her grow and get smarter and smarter but sometimes i wish she could stay little.

Hard Week

So i have to say that it has been a hard a week. i pretty much have no patience left. Guin has been so frusterating this week and i don't know why. i think it's because she's not feeling well but man! Anyway we've decided on Iliana Blaze Armstrong for the girl name so yay!

Different

This pregnancy is going way different than my pregnany with Guin. With Guin i pretty much fit into my normal jeans for the whole thing. I only bought one pare of maternity jeans. I didn't show with her until i was five months along. With this pregnany i started out in size one to two jeans and now i'm already up in size five. Size three still fits ok but it's a little to tight. I'm already showing too. You can tell that i'm prego if you know. If you don't know i probably just look like i've been eating a little to many twinkies.

Happy 4th of July!

Baby names

So as of now if our baby is a boy it's name will be Exander Neils Armstrong.

If it's a girl we are choosing between Iluna Blaze Armstrong and Iliana Blaze Armstrong.

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Ava!

The Fam

I just realized that in my "the fam" post i forgot to post a picture of my little brother william. so here he is!

New Nephew

This is my brand new nephew Cayden! Charity and Chris' baby.

Names

Boy names-Zander, Exander, Blaze, Xachery, Tenzing, Ash, Neils

Girl names-Azelia, Sippora, Zechora, Liana, Blaise, Iliana, Iluna

These are some names that me and zach are looking at. Go ahead and mix and match with them and show me what you come up with in a comment. Yes, they are different but as you can already tell i have interesting taste in names. Like my daughter is named Guinavieve Aquinnah. :) i love it. Oh and you can add your own names in. I just want some ideas.

This is so satifying

Ravenous Monster Attacks Nearby Grocery Store!

So for the past couple of days i have been hungry all day and i have been eating all day for the past couple days. I ate a whole cantaloupe in one sitting. Ok so i shared one of the halves with Guin but still. Then about an hour after that i was starving again. But right now, after a nice big serving of my mommy's lasagna, i finally feel full and fat. It's a good feeling and i've missed it. I guess this little tiny babe inside of me a fat little piggy. Once it comes out it'll attack the nearest store or restaurant and eat all their food. Anyway i think i need to get some recipes from my mom. :)

New Baby

I have not written on here in awhile. We just found out recently that Fontanna is pregnant and I am so happy that I am going to be a dad for the second time. I am also really happy to see Fontanna happy especially after the miscarriage and knowing how hard it was on her. She is such a good mom that this baby is going to be very lucky. I know it will be hard on Guin but I think she will end up enjoying being the big sister. I love Fontanna, Guin and this new baby so much. I am so excited but nervous at the same time. I worry so much about being a good dad and a good husband (not sure whether or not I am succeeding at either) well I guess we are still alive so maybe that is a success. That is all I have but I know that even when my wife begins to grow heavy with child, she will still be by far the best looking and most gorgeous woman in the world to me. I know that was cheesy but I don't care because it is truely how I feel. I love my two girls and my new boy/girl.

Bursting Forth!

Charity's is in the hospital having her baby right now. Yay!

Nursery

So Zach and i have a calling in nursery. We are in charge of the quiet kids class. I'm really shy so i've been having a hard time interacting with the kids. Today i decided i was just going to jump in there and treat them like i do Guin. It went so much better and i think i'll really love this calling.

Getting Prego

So last night i took a prego test (from the dollar store lol) and again, it was negative. :( So i set the test down on the top of the toilet and left the room to go put my cup in the kitchen. Then i went back into the bathroom to throw the test away. As i was about to throw it in the garbage i caught a glimpse of a really really light positive. I put the test down again and ran out of the bathroom and texted my sister Shiloh that i had gotten a really light positive. I wanted to keep it a secret so i could surprise Zach. When i went back in the positive wasn't so light anymore. I took another test this morning to confirm and yes, i am a prego. I'm just as scared as i am excited. The miscarriage was hard and i definitely don't want to have another one. Part of me doesn't want to pick out names or anything yet until I'm in my second trimester. But i am going to try to stay positive and what happens will happen. :)

My Fam and a boyfriend

My dad Thomas

My mom Jeanie

Antje's boyfriend Kelley

This is Benjamin Grim Rasmussen(Chris and Bekah's baby)



This is my brother Chris and My sister in law Rebekah


This is my sister Antje, my sis Jessie, and my sis Shiloh



This is Shiloh's husband Michael

This is Jessie's husband Nathan

This is my niece Lilliah and of course my daughter Guinavieve

Shiloh and Michael are prego but i don't have a picture of him. His name is Tenzen Michael Bess

Fontanna

More dreams

So i have really weird dreams all the time and i always remember them. Just so everyone knows i am deathly afraid of tornadoes. I dream about them a lot. Sometimes i can actually feel myself raising up into the air. That's when tornado dreams really freak me out. Anyway is there a cure for stressful scary dreams? Sometimes i have dreams about zombies and i have to smash their heads with my bare hands. Sometimes i have to find ways to protect Guin from impossible situations. Sometimes our car crashes into water and i have to save three people. I'm talking crazy gory stuff. Nothing normal really happens in them. The most relaxing dream I've had lately is falling in love with Andy Dick. Weird yes. Is their any one else who feels my pain?