it is August! this is hopefully the month our son will be born, but he could be late and make his appearance in September. short post but Tuesday i went to the doctor and he was amazed at how active Peter was, this was very amusing and a little scary for me because as i was doing the test( just monitoring him for half hour) i was thinking wow he is being very quiet and not moving at all, so if that is active according to the doctor then what is it when he is really moving like he does basically from one pm until two in the morning? i dont know but we could have a very energetic little boy on our hands. i just hope he likes to sleep as much as his mother does and is as sweet and peaceful of a person as his father. 

Thanks Bryanna for the fun day taking pictures. I want to make sure I always remember how fun it has been to be pregnant. 

Island Park

This weekend we went to a camp out with Joe's advanced neuroscience class. he really likes this teacher and for good reason, the man is a freaking genius, and he is very chilled out personality just like Joe. so anyways we drove in vans up to island park Idaho. this is the place they put on the post cards of Idaho because it is beautiful, green, with lakes, rivers, springs, mountains, etc. the school owns a huge cabin up there back in the woods and so we really didn't camp but it was still fun. the class was presenting all day long at a mock seminar type thingy, i tried to listen nicely, Joe's was very well done, but then i went and took a nap through the next 4 since each was like half hour long. then we got free time so we hiked and took pictures, cooked over the fire made smores, ya know all the campy stuff. then this morning we went to a natural spring where fresh clear and cool water just comes up from underground into big ponds and then flows into the rivers and streams. all in all it was very very fun. and sharing a room with our friends Waldo and Hailey made it even better. Joe and waldo take a lot of classes together and Hailey is also having a baby boy but not till October. they are always fun, and we all tease the guys about their bromance. 

 Idaho does have green areas, island park was so pretty

 i look tired, but doesnt Joe have cute dimples, i hope Peter has em too

 proof that i do drink liquids other than pepsi, my sweet new water bottle, old one grew mold, gross

 our cool room, the outside of the cabin looked like life size Lincoln logs, thats Joe and Waldo

 thats the spring, it was soo hot i wanted to jump in and take a swim

 joe got some good pictures of this muskrat otter thingy, apparently they eat grass, or chew on it whatever 

 some old guy named johnny lived up here year roundand this was his water wheel generator. so cute

 inside the cabin, this johnny guy was like 5 feet tall

 my dream kitchen.....if i had lived like 100 years ago

Joe's teacher and his son climbed down to see how the water wheel worked. 

sometimes i forget there is a baby in there

how are you feeling? a question i hear about every day. universal answer... GREAT!! i have to admit being pregnant has not been hard for me really at all. the tiredness is something i had to get used to but not its my normal and i can deal with it. little aches and pains, but overall wonderful and... dare i say it easy. even my doctor has said peter and i are A+ students of being pregnant. never have problems or nasty troubles like others do. so obviously i am feeling very blessed to have it so relaxed and easy compared to others. i know pregnancy can be terrible for some and i just count myself lucky to not have those issues. so a week into month eight and i have no heartburn, no major troubles sleeping, never really had the gas or anything like that. i can eat anything and always could, just raw hamburger smell kinda grossed me out but once i got it cooked i could eat it, i even go out to Thai food with Joe on our date nights. no major exhaustion like i said its just my new normal. not too emotional, a little angry easier but not too bad and i tend to be an angry person anyways ha . 

       

           so how is little Peter doing? he is great, loves to move at night but i have learned to sleep through it no problemo. he measures just as he should. today at the doctor the doctor was a little concerned when he felt like he was breach position, but then realized our son just has a bony bottom and his head is indeed down where it should be. ha ha i laughed because i have a bony butt too and suppose if nothing else on him looks like me at least for a while he may have my butt. so again A+ report card for us and only 8 weeks till our due date! 

 below is a picture of me angry just for reference 

so i am getting a lot of people saying how small i am and they cant believe i am eight months pregnant in July. no way, do you eat? are you sure everything is ok? have you gotten bigger at all? etc. and the laughing, and the stories of how HUGE they got. thats wonderful people make fun of me for being small, well if i walked up to a pregnant lady and said holy cow you are big. how fat are you now? are you sure something isn't wrong?, are you having triplets?, etc it would be offensive would it not?  and i have not and will not ever do that. so ha just to prove to myself that i have grown quite a bit here is a picture of me on my wedding day just before we went into the temple. and yes i am thin and happy to be so. never ever had a problem with weight in my life and apparently not in pregnancy either. and then there is one of me as of today June 26 almost at the eight month july 1 mark. so yes i have grown and yes my baby is healthy. sorry im not fat ill try harder. 

wedding day august 29, 2009 age 20 probably about 105 lbs

june 26, 2012, three years almost after wedding, age 23, about 130 lbs

(i made this sign for baby boy knight. the sides are empty to leave room for footprints). 

HERE IT IS! UNLESS THIS BABY COMES OUT WITH GIRL PARTS HIS NAME WILL BE PETER JOSEPH ABRAHAM KNIGHT. HERE IS WHY

1. FIRST NAME IS SIMPLY A NAME WE LIKE, BUT HAPPENS TO BE IN MY FAMILY HISTORY I BELIEVE ON MY PAPPY'S SIDE A LITTLE WAYS BACK. PETER WAS A RIGHTEOUS APOSTLE OF THE LORD AND WE CAN ONLY HOPE OUR SON WILL FOLLOW AND HAVE FAITH THAT EMULATES THAT OF THE BIBLICAL PETER.


2. JOSEPH BECAUSE WE WILL HAVE OUR SONS EACH HAVE TWO MIDDLE NAMES AND THE FIRST WILL BE A FAMILY NAME, AND SON NUMBER ONE SEEMS FITTING TO NAME AFTER HIS FATHER, SO JOSEPH.


3. ABRAHAM IS ALSO A BIBLICAL NAME BECAUSE WE WANT OUR KIDS TO HAVE SOMEONE TO LOOK UP TO IN THEIR NAME. WE WANT THEM TO HAVE ATTRIBUTES TO LIKEN THEMSELVES TO AND ASPIRE TO BE LIKE. ABRAHAM DISPLAYED GREAT FAITH AND OBEDIENCE. 


4. KNIGHT, OBVIOUSLY NOT LIKE I COULD CHOOSE ANOTHER NAME FOR HIS LAST NAME. HOWEVER KNOWING MY FATHER IN LAW AND HIS FAMILY, AND HEARING ABOUT THE MAN HIS FATHER, JOE'S GRANDFATHER WAS, I AM PROUD TO HAVE THIS BE MY SONS LAST NAME. I DID NOT GET TO KNOW GRANDPA KNIGHT, SINCE HE PASSED AWAY MANY YEARS AGO, BUT FROM WHAT I HEAR HE WAS A WONDERFUL MAN AND LOVED HIS FAMILY WITH HIS WHOLE HEART. 

WE CHOSE TO HAVE TWO MIDDLE NAMES BECAUSE IN MY FAMILY EACH OF THE BOYS HAVE TWO MIDDLE NAMES, AND JUST SO HAPPENS JOE HAS TWO MIDDLE NAMES AS WELL SO WE PLAN ON CONTINUING THE TRADITION. 

I am so grateful that the long dresses are in style this summer because they are the most comfortable thing for me to wear right now. and stores actually have a nice variety of them and i can wear them to school. so here is a baby bump picture. Dont even say i am so small because 
1. i know i am small  
2. i tried for years to have this baby so saying how un pregnant i look is disheartening. ha ha but yes i know for 7 months i am not that big at all. 

What have the knights been up to? Being pregnant it can seem like time is either crawling by or at other times flying quickly. So in the shifting time craziness that has been the past five months here are a few things we have been doing. 

Joe- getting closer to finishing school, classes are getting more complex and exciting, like neuro biology, which means surgery and brain dissection and experiments on rats. It is very exciting and demanding all at the same time. Along with school is two callings with the young men in our ward, as presidency secretary and also priest advisor. After this semester is over it is back to work at the landscaping company for long 14 hour days, muddy boots, and sore muscles. 

Emma- graduation from BYU-IDAHO is just less than two months away. The 20th of july I will be done with my degree, finally. While this is very exciting it is also hard since this means two science classes, and one being chemistry which takes a lot of time and prayer to do well in. working as well means im in a constant state of exhaustion, but it is worth it to get to graduation. I was also asked to be a speaker at the graduation ceremony for my department since as they told me I am in the top of my class. We settled on me reading a scripture to open the ceremony since the long standing just three weeks before baby comes might be a little much, so I am excited about the end of this semester. After im done it will be baby mode 100%. 

Baby Peter- our little boy is growing every day bigger and bigger. Each doctor’s appointment the doctor tells us both momma and baby are A+ students, doing exactly what they should be at this stage. He has a strong loud heart beat and loves to move around. We are thinking either a runner or cyclist since his feet are always kicking. We are at the 7 month mark and will meet at the end of august. So far I think we have a lot of the essentials set for him. Car seat, stroller, play pen, lots of clothes especially the soft fleece sacks. Both grammas have sent us lots of clothes and blankets and books. We are all excited to be a family forever and spend a lifetime getting to know each other. 

We thought we should test some of his things before he is born. 

NOW YA KNOW

So this is a test. i know i dont blog much and i also know i am horrible at keeping in touch with people. what can i say i just enjoy my select few folks and unfortunately for the rest of the world those folks are my family. i realized today while reading i think its because i always assume everyone hates me or strongly dislikes me so i feel like i am doing them a favor by leaving them alone. whatever it doesnt matter because like i said this is a test, to see how many people 1. know about my blog and 2. actually read it. i dont suspect it is many and thats ok, really i am just curious. so if you are reading this you will soon know our big family news, Joseph and Emma knight are having a baby! i am due the end of august and thrilled beyond explanation. so there ya go world privileged information. and my personal witness that prayers are answered, we tried and prayed for a baby for 2 years and in the end it was a fertility drug that did the trick. so even though we are waiting to officially announce it if ya ever read my blog you now know.