My Due Date

Right now, I am due May 13. However, the Gappmayer family has this weird thing about sharing dates. Babies are always born on someone else's birthday or anniversary no matter their due date. Three out of the last four babies have done this and it has happened previously. Here are some examples:
Jan. 26: Chris' brother's birthday; His sister Erin just had her baby three days ago Congratulations Erin! (due Feb. 1)
Jan 29: Chris' parent's anniversary; A niece was born five(?) years ago
Mar 12: Chris' birthday; Another niece (from the same family as above) was born last year (due Mar. 16 I believe?)
April 18: Chris' sister-in-law and nephew share this birthday
Oct. 16: Chris' sister's birthday; A niece was born last year (due in November)

So my due dates are now the dates in May that are already used by someone else in the Gappmayer family:
May 6: Chris' Mom's birthday
May 14: His brother's anniversary
May 24: His brother-in-law's birthday
May 27: Another brother-in-law's birthday (it better NOT come this late!!!)

Unfortunately, my midwife does think it will come late as most first babies do and because my mom was late with her's. I knew my mom had been late with all of the kids except for me (I was one day early) but I didn't know the specifics until a few weeks ago when I asked. Apparently my poor mom was two weeks late with three kids and three weeks late with the last one. She was induced three times.
I do not plan on being pregnant for 43 weeks, but my midwife said she really didn't want to induce until 41 weeks unless there are problems. And then only if the baby was under stress. We'll see what happens.

Here are some pregnant pictures:
This is 17 weeks. This is 23 weeks. I am now 25 weeks and was finally asked by a complete stranger (at the dog park in Vegas on Saturday) when I was due. I had no idea it took so long for your body to actually look pregnant.

A New Addition

Cute huh? His name is Thatch (though my vote was for Jack Sparrow - he's quite the character). He's 11 weeks old today and is a border collie/ Australian shepherd mix. Chris says he forgot how much work puppies are....

In other news, we went to North Carolina for the week of New Years and had an absolutely great time staying with my brother and his family. My parents and sister and her family live there too so it's great to visit everyone with one trip. His kids are so cute! Here they are holding wolf hybrid puppies - I love the look on Bryce's face! My car hit 175,000 miles on our way to the Vegas bowl (where BYU won!). This is me going 75 while I hit 175,000. :) Chris was holding the wheel - I think. Chris' car has 135,000 so we think we might have to be investing in a newer car sometime sooner rather than later. We really like not having a car payment though.

The picture below was just funny.

This is the dogs' set up while we're training Thatch. I'll post pictures of me pregnant and the dogs playing with the next post.