Update on Things

Well, things are just moving along here. So much that i forget to keep my blog updated lol This pregnancy is going by SO fast and i don't wanna look back and see that i didn't write anything about it. As most of you already know, we are having another girl :) We are so excited! We wanted another girl for and now its all falling into place :) Our girls can be close friends. Me and my sister, Alicia, were 2 years apart and when we were younger, we did EVERYTHING together. Max and his brother, Niels, are 2 years apart and they had the same bond. So we are happy our girls will have that :) And we have TONS of girl clothes (some that Lydia never even wore cause she grew out of it before i even got to it lol). We are also SO happy its a girl cause we couldn't decide, to save our lives, on a boy name. Before we were even married, we had our first 2 girls names picked out. Lydia was my choice cause I've loved that name for so long. Max picked this girls name cause he's always loved it. Her name will be Gabriella Jane Rieck (but we will call her Brie). The middle name Jane is after 2 people that i care about A LOT, my friend Janet Peterson and my cousin Kimber (whose middle name is Janelle).
So far, this pregnancy has been pretty tough :/ I got sick at 4 weeks and i JUST started to feel better about a weeks or so ago. Every once and awhile, i get nauseous but at least its not like it was a few weeks ago. I've also been having a lot of what i thought was braxton hicks contractions. When i went into the Dr's last week, i told her that i have been having some very intense braxton hicks. She said thats no problem if its only twice a day. i told her its twice every half hour! She looked a Little freaked out so she checked me. She said that i wasn't dilated at all (thank goodness!) but my cervix had thinned a bit. She said that the contractions were the real deal. i just need to take it easy from here on out. With Lydia, i started having real contractions about 2 months before she came. So they said it could just get to be earlier with every pregnancy :( But we aren't 2 worried. Just being cautious now lol
Lydia keeps me pretty busy lately. which is good so I'm not counting the minutes until this pregnancy is over haha Shes just getting so big so fast. When we moved into our new house, we just put the crib in the baby's nursery and got Lydia a toddler bed. It was hard the first couple nights but now shes a pro. Its to the point where shes saying 'bye bye' to us before we are even done saying goodnight to her lol She just thinks shes so big in her big girl bed :) She's a little chatter box and is always on the go. Now that its cooler her, we take walks and go play at the park. She loooves it. She gets really upset when the walks are over now lol
Sorry for the huge post lol just had a lot to get off my chest hehe I'll try to update more often :) and i will upload some ultrasound pics as soon as i can. Still getting last minute things sorted in our house :)

Officially in Debt...but lovin' it!

Our gorgeous new house! We signed papers for it on Friday and we will be moving in THIS week! Its been a long time coming and its actually just in time that we got it too! My brother comes home from his mission in November and we are actually in his room right now at my parents house lol and with this baby coming in February...the time couldn't be better :)
A few months ago, i posted a pic of a different house that we were trying to get and i was set on getting it. Everytime we it would get close to closing on the house, something else would come up and we would haveta wait even longer. We thought that we might as well go look at other houses, just to see. We found this one first. Max fell in love right away. We put an offer on it that afternoon. The next morning, our realtor called and said that our offer was accepted! We knew then that it was meant to be :) we pulled out of the other house offer and went full force with this one. We are so happy and excited to start this chapter of our lives. And i can really start nesting like crazy when we find out the gender on this baby next month :)

I'll post more pics once we are all settled :)

"Rella" Obsessed

Lydia and i have been watching a lot of Disney movies lately. I loooove that she's finally watching more than Yo Gabba Gabba haha Lydia's favorite right now is Cinderella (one that i LOVED growing up). So of coarse, she thinks she's Cinderella :) She tries to sing the songs all high pitch like her and everything hehe Well, when it came down to seeing who I was in the movie...theres no mom except for the evil step-mother. So, im one of the girl mice haha
After watching Cinderella tons and TONS of times, i turned on Aladdin. She was jazmine. Wheres the mommy? Then the next movie The Little Mermaid, No mom. It just seemed to happen with every movie we turned on (pocahontas, beauty and the beast, pinoccio, and so on). THEN, we turned on one that had a mom, Sleeping Beauty :) BUT she was in it for a few minutes cause she didnt even get to raise her baby girl :( Then came Tangled, SAME THING the mom got gyped lol Who's mommy supposed to be? lol The last straw was finding Nemo cause i just wasnt thinking haha

Do you guys know that moms arent really needed? you can still have a happy ending without them lol I'm not mad cause i looove disney movies :) Just something i thought was interesting. Besides there still are the VERY few like Dumbo, The rescuers down under, Mulan, Peter Pan, and Toy Story that DO have moms lol

Rieck, Party Of FOUR?

We are SO stinkin' excited to say that there will be a new little Rieck joining the family in February!

I'm only 9 weeks along but we wanted to let people know sooner this time cause miscarriages happen a lot with the second pregnancy in my family. We wanted people to know so they can send us well wishes and pray that everything goes well. AND if i did have a miscarriage now, people would kinda understand what I'm going through. I wouldn't want to have to tell people "well, we WERE pregnant but now...".
I went to the drs last week and they did an ultrasound and said that everything looked great :) Healthy baby and strong heartbeat! I have pics from that ultrasound but i need to scan them in. so i'll do that soon :)

The Fathers in my life...

I would not be the person i am without certain guys in my life.

My Grandpa Fackrell He's an amazing guy. He raised 11 kids with my Grandma. We would always go to his room for 'Papa Candy' :) His patriarchal blessing said that he would baptize MANY. He was confused cause on his mission he baptized hardly any (if none) BUT, he obviously baptized his kids and countless grandkids :) He is pretty much amazing...



Grandpa Bremer- He truly knew how to spoil us lol When i was younger, i stayed with him for a week or so in Utah and we had so much fun. He's always teaching us little tricks and always has the nicest things to say :)



My Dad My friends were always afraid of him haha But once they got to know him, they realized he's just a big goof lol My guy friends in high school would come over and play video games with him lol
He cares about his family SO much and Lydia looooves her 'Gam-Pa' hehe Max and i took Lydia out to dinner the other night and she saw the back of a bald guy's head and just started yelling 'Gam-Pa!' She was getting so upset that her grandpa wasnt paying attention to her haha



My Father-in-law He is just simply great :) He made me feel welcome into the family right away. The way he is with Lydia is just 2 funny. He will be the first one playing with her on the floor and goofing around with her :) He will even chase her around the house until you can tell he's just exhausted. She adores him :)



And of coarse, there's my husband, Max :) When we were dating, i saw how good he was with his nieces and nephews and he was SO great with mine. When i was pregnant, i had no doubt that he would be a great dad. But, i had no idea how GREAT. From the moment they cleaned her off at the hospital, he held her, talked to her, calmed her down, and just soothed her to the point where she wouldnt eat for me without him CONSTANTLY talked to her. And ever since then, she was head over heels for her daddy :) (i didnt stand a chance lol)



He has totally exceeded my expectations with the daddy role. She loves her daddy more than anyone else in the world. The proof is in the way she looks at him :)



Happy Father's Day!

3 Years!

It seems like much longer than 3 years lol

Max and i just got back yesterday from staying over the weekend at the resort that we stayed at for our Honeymoon :) It was so nice and super relaxing. Just what we needed. It went by 2 fast! haha We actually turned into THOSE parents...the ones that talk about their kid a lot when they are on vacation haha We would even be walking around a store and say, "Lydia would Looove that" haha And it seemed like, when we were driving home, we couldnt get there fast enough to see her lol Max was driving and when we would hit a light or someone would drive slow in front of us, he would say, "Come on! I just wanna see my girl! haha I love how much he loves our little girl :)

I WANT THIS!

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There are hundreds maybe even thousands of people entering. Just get ur name in there and cross ur fingers! Ah-maze-za-zing!