34 Weeks and Counting!!!

Wow. Despite the discomforts, I love being pregnant. I love feeling my baby girl move. I love rubbing my belly, and i even love other people rubbing my belly! So far everything is going well. I am still having low blood pressure but we've slowly but surely figured out how to adust to them so it doesnt bother me near as much as it did before and I am able to drive again. Still cant even slightly recline though so I am missing that! We started and have finished our childbirth prep class, it was a lot of fun and great bonding time with Blake, though after seeing the forceps he threatened to choke our Dr with them if she tries to use it on our little one (: I feel like she is getting so close now! Only 6 weeks left! Shes almost here!

30 weeks

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34 Weeks

PS_ No one mentioned anything about how you will grow out of your maternity clothes! sheesh have i really gotten that big?

How To Freak Out a Pregnant Woman

Step 1: Schedule her for a regular 24 week appointment. Step 2: Call her into the office and ask her if she has any concerns. Step 3: When she says shes been having shortness of breath, widen your eyes and say, "I wish you had told me sooner, how long has this been going on?" Step 4: Proceed to take her vitals. Allow her to lie on her back and check babys heart rate. When she sits back up and says she feels extremely ill, add to her anxiety by telling her that her pulse is rapid and climbing. Step 5: When she is about to vomit everywhere, frantically look for the emesis basin, resorting to a urine basin. Step 6: While shes vomiting her guts out, have 3 different people come running in the room, and tell them she has no blood pressure. Step 7: Tell her shes going to Labor and Delivery. Step 9: Tell her shes having contractions. Ta da! Well folks thats how to freak out a pregant woman, and that just happens to be exactly how my 24 week appointment went. (So glad Blake was with me). Fortunatly my contractions fizzled out and it turns out i just bottomed out on my blood pressure (which has always been low) when I layed on my back to get measured. I stayed in triage for a few hours and then was sent home. at least im all registered now! lol. Now theres a really good way to help the pregnant woman recover from a freak out like this: Step 1: Give her a gift card for maternity clothes. (: Thanks Blakie.

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Its a Girl!!!

21 Weeks Its a Girl! The excitement cannot be contained! When the ultrasound tech told us for sure I got so emotional that my mascara ran into my eye and I could hardly watch the rest of the ultrasound :) And to my excitement at week 17 she announced herself by doing some gymnastics that I could no longer mistake for gas! She gets the hiccups all the time which I secretly love, a thumbsucker like I was, and she loves to snuggle right on top of my bladder. This pregnancy finally feels like its real! And I already love her so much! So much that Ive forgotten my 4 1/2 months of misery. Its been so fun to see Blakes excitement. after 2 years of stifling excitement weve busted out and already bought a few things and tackled some furniture projects.

And I almost forgot, Blake had an ingenious and completely hilarious way to announce the gender to our parents, (or as my mom said "its sexual orientation" lol). We filled two Sobe bottles with jello and let it harden. Our parents had to dig through the jello to find the paper at the bottom that they thought had the answer! When they finally reached the bottom (by using knives and banging it on the sink for 30 min) it was an invitation to our house. Upon arrival we had an ice cream cake and balloons saying Its a Girl! With all the ruckus we caused youd have thought we had already had her home with us :)

For now though, I enjoy everyday that I have her all to myself.

13 1/2 Weeks!!!

It may not seem so in this picture (due to a frusterating camera phone) but Blake and I are so happy and so excited. Our baby gave us a high 5 at our ultrasound and despite me not being very healthy for the 1st trimester everything is progressing normally. Food is my mortal enemy. Can hardly eat it, hardly anything tastes good, thank heaven for Zofran. Allow me to vent for a moment, I never thought the day would come when food would be my nemesis and I couldnt enjoy my favorite things because they tasted horrible and everything else tasted less horrible. ok im done. its worth it a million times over. There is happiness here trust me. (:

We did have to say goodbye to Dr. Faulk and Dr. Slater, our fertility specialists which was sad but they did their job well. As for the baby bump which i thought for sure id have by now... well theres nothing there except a whole lot of bloat. I get a kick out of people thinking im finally showing when its really just my lunch that they are rubbing, lol. Im determined to enjoy every minute because i know baby will be here before we know it.(:

FINALLY!!!

After a long two years of waiting (but luckily only one shot at fertility treatment) we are so excited to know that we are finally starting our family! We breezed through Halloween and Thanksgiving without a second thought because we are so happy and so excited! Still kind of in the shock phase... so many ultrasounds with nothing, so is there really something in there? But we went in for our 7 week ultrasound and that little heartbeat could not have been a more beautiful sight to us.

we feel so blessed, we went through one round of IUI, which is NOT FUN, and first time was the charm! I was scared to death about twins because i actually had 2 eggs ready but Heavenly Father was nice and just gave us one (:

We are 8 weeks along, I am at a loss to gender! I guess ive been distracted with the intense bouts of nausea and vomiting and heartburn... I freaked out when I saw i lost 10 pounds and my doctor laughed saying dont worry, it will come back!

Thanks to our friends and family for their constant prayers for this little miracle to occur, we truly felt the love and support.

Pictures to come, our 7 week pic was just a blob, and i kept confusing the head with the yolk sac, haha. (: Life is good.

Family Pictures

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I cant get enough of summer (:

I never liked summer until I met Blake, but ever since he introduced me to diving into acrtic temperature waters, fishing, cliff diving, and one-man tent camping, I cant get enough of it. That pretty much sums up our summer, its been great! Our latest excursion was to the beautiful and evidently Boise-popular Oregan coast. It was a pretty good birthday present if I do say so myself!

Yes that is the ocean, and yes we are crazy! We swam everday we were there, and thanks to Brian and Clarisa the ice cold water didnt put me into hypothermia (:

We had a huge swell the last day, the waves were so big that only blake and my dad could get up to them!

--- and for anyone wondering about the "oven"---

ya its still empty. ):

However, I am excited to say the oven is much smaller, say about 10 lbs smaller! Blake and I have been exercising and eating well to get healthy before we get pregnant. I lost 10 lbs (thank goodness because I now fit back into my summer clothes) and Blake has lost a whopping 20! The update is I have an appointment in September to go see a fertility specialist and Im getting really excited! Wish me luck!