Utah versus BYU...a sad day for us :(

Alex and I hosted a "Beat BYU" party. Cameron made these shirts for a food drive and so of course we wore them all day!

Cute nieces

I made a bunch of red food (with red food coloring so of course they turned out pink) and had everyone bring something red to eat...

We had red cups, plates, table cloth, cookies, chip dip, fruit dip, apples, meatballs, swedish fish, pepperoni pizza, licorice, salsa and apple cider.

So sad that we lost - and it was a knife to the heart in overtime - BUMMER!!!

Thanksgiving 2009

We drove to Idaho to visit my mom's family on Wednesday and stayed until Thursday night. It had been a while since we were all up there. It was really nice to see everyone again!
The kids played Air Soft guns out on the farm with Papa - good idea...give a gun to a bunch of kids under 10 :) good thing they don't really hurt that much. But Snow took a shot to the lip - notice the swelling...

Lyla playing outside

Mom, Shannon and Julie getting Thanksgiving ready.

Shawn and Snow ready to ambush.

My Grandma was nice enough to let Suka come. She never lets dogs in her house so we REALLY appreciate it!!! He had a BLAST! Played outside all day on the farm and inside with all the cousins.

We had Thanksgiving again on Sunday with Alex's family. It was some of the BEST food we have ever had! Thanks to Paula and Cynthia for cooking it all.

25-26 Weeks

Not much to report this week other than the picture really does make my boobs look huge - oh wait, they are that huge. Such a bummer...

She is moving a ton. I often wonder what she is doing inside there because it is like she is having a small seizure or something - kick kick kick kick. I do like this part of pregnancy better than the first though. People notice your pregnant, you can feel the baby move, etc. The only downfall lately has been the heartburn. I get it at totally random times. Not associated to food. Sometimes worse if I bend over. Wow, it can get super intense.

I am nearing the end of the second trimester next week! Crazy how time has flown by. I just don't look forward to getting so tired again but I think it has already begun. The second trimester really is the best :)

23-24 weeks

23 weeks and Alex finally gets to feel her from the outside! I have decided that the coolest part of being pregnant is feeling a baby move inside of you. It is so bizarre to think there is a little one in my stomach wiggling around. CRAZY.

Halloween
We went to the Real Salt Lake soccer game on Halloween - and they won - in the playoffs! There were some loud drums playing the whole time and I could feel the baby moving and see her from the outside. Maybe she will be a dancer, or a hippie, either way she really liked the loud beating of the drums :)

New trail by our house. They have been paving it over the past month. It goes from behind our house past the lake straight to the coffee shop and restaurants. Alex and I take the dog down to the lake almost daily and then can go eat at the restaurants outside with him. Huge perk of living where we do. It will be fun to take the baby with us too since the trail is all paved!
Oh, notice the big stick Suka found - he was so proud.

And some funny pics of the dog - this is my iPhone screen saver - love it!

Krissa and Tom had their little boy last week - Ellis Thomas Wright. It is fun to see a new baby - I always thought they were so tiny. Not anymore since I have to think of that being inside me and then coming out - are their heads really that BIG??? OUCH!

Oh - forgot to mention - for the first time patients started asking me if I was pregnant - 4 in one day last week and then almost daily since. It is nice to FINALLY reach that point where people no longer think "either she is fat or pregnant but I am not sure enough to ask"

21-22 Weeks

22 weeks and brain cells are popping rapidly - so I have noticed that it is harder to remember things I need to do, words I am trying to say, names of things etc. I think my brain cells are dying quickly. The other day I wrote a check. The amount was $2214 so I wrote "Twenty-two thousand fourteen" and thought it seemed weird but couldn't figure it out. Fortunately Alex and my dad found it on my desk before I deposited it - whew!

We had our ultrasound on 10/12. Everything looked great! She is measuring right on and developing perfectly. It was fun to see her move and FINALLY link it to what I am feeling. I have been able to better tell if it is her or gas. She is super wiggly! I only felt her move from the outside once - on 10/13 - so it might be a while before Alex gets to feel.






Clothing crisis at 21 weeks - all of a sudden I couldn't do the pants with rubber band thing. I was having a bit of a melt down and Alex was so nice and took me shopping. I bought my first pair of maternity pants and they really aren't that bad :) I also got some good stretchy waisted regular pants. Tried on some regular shirts yesterday to see if I could still wear them - they look like cropped t-shirts - sad. My boobs and belly make everything super short. I had to laugh at myself in the mirror - I looked kind of like a freak!

We finished the crib last weekend!!! Well, Alex finished it. He did most of the work and it looks great- took 5 coats but worked. Note to self - red to white is not very easy. We chipped it a little putting it together and the red shines right through - oh well. Alex suggested white out - might be our new best friend. He was so excited that he had us put all the bedding in the crib. I have to say, it looks pretty cute!



And a few random pictures from my house - the fall leaves changed over night - but wow, what a view!

19-20 weeks

HALF WAY and the belly has ARRIVED!!! I am afraid for when it gets bigger. I already feel like I can't sit hunched over because it squishes my guts into my lungs. The end of the day is for sure worse than the beginning. In the morning I can still hide it under my clothes. Plus a woman never loses the habit of sucking in :) But by 8 PM I am done with all of that and it shows. So here is a photo of the end of the day!!! (Didn't know I looked so scary in the evening. Ignore my face please :-0

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I think I feel her move but I am not sure. It is either gas or her - but I am pretty gassy too :) Sometimes I feel a little nudge that might be her. I guess I will know for sure when it gets stronger. I am hoping that next Monday during my ultrasound I will see her move and feel it and then know. I am excited to have another ultrasound and see how she has grown!

We have been starting to think about daycare. I visited one by our house today and it was TERRIBLE! I guess if it was the last resort, then maybe. But I swear it was full of teenage girls with tatoos, piercings and butt cracks hanging out. I don't want them comforting my baby when she cries. I am going to visit a few more daycares but I think I will start to look on KSL for other ideas. If anyone who reads this has any ideas or is looking for a side job let me know!

Cold sores aren't for pregnant people, right? Nope. It has been almost 3 years since I got one and last week I got two huge ones - whatever that is about. So now the only meds I have taken are two Tylenol and some Valtrex. Not bad for five months.

On another note, we took Suka in for a weird growth on his leg and it came back as a dermal hemangiosarcoma. Basically it is a really aggressive cancer if it spreads other places. Fortunately it was only in the skin and we removed it and the margins were clear. But he is at a higher risk of developing the bad kind in his organs. I guess we will just hope for the best for now. There really isn't any treatment for the organ kind. I had a really hard time with it at first but am feeling better now. Plus, he could be just fine and never have any problems again - fingers crossed.

Last note - we traded our escalade (which we never liked anyway - it didn't have big enough rims and I was missing my gold tooth;-) for a sweat mercedes SUV. We love it! Now instead of feeling like a gangster, I feel like a rich stay-at-home wife of a doctor - hee hee. But anyway, we do actually really like it - it is super nice and super safe.

17-18 weeks

17 weeks: Ok I'll admit when I look at the picture from last week, it really isn't that big of a belly. But when I look down it seems huge to me. So weird. It is getting harder. I can't push anything back in and when I suck in it no longer looks any different :)
Yay for finally sleeping better! The first trimester was a doozy. I think I woke up every hour tossing and turning because my hips, shoulders, hands all hurt. Now just my hands go numb. But I have had pretty bad neuropathy the entire pregnancy. I had some issues before I got pregnant but it is way worse. My carpal tunnel is pretty intense. In the OR my hands go numb a few minutes after I put my gloves on. Bummer. Of course my right middle finger stays numb all day long too. Hope nothing is permanent. They keep telling me it will all get much better after I deliver but that is quite a ways away!!!

18 weeks: So the belly is officially a belly now. In the morning it is not too bad but by the evening I can rest my drink on it. I know what everyone says, it is still small but I can see it! I can still wear my normal clothes, not all of them but a lot of them.

I was thinking yesterday during surgery how I had been so tired in the first trimester that I would occasionally fall asleep during OR cases with Karen. Not a deep sleep but the kind from school where your head dips down slightly and then you jerk back up. I haven't had a big jerk of the head otherwise I think Karen might be a little pissed. It got better until yesterday it happened again! Didn't help that I worked from 8-6:30 Monday and then 7 to 7 yesterday. Still, can you imagine falling asleep while at work, sitting right across from your boss!!!

Today we took a peek at her today just to confirm she was still a girl - yep, no man junk. Whew, since we bought our stroller and bedding last week. She was stinkin cute, wiggling around. I can't feel her yet but hope soon I will. Her foot was 2.75 CM long!!

The car seat...

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The stroller...these were Alex's big pick. He researched all different kinds and came up with these - Quinny brand on clearance!

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Suka wanted to be a part of the pictures tonight. He has to have surgery on his leg tomorrow for a weird growth. They don't know what it is - bummer for him :(

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Our bedding so far...love it!!!

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The first present - from Amy and Jenny (the cute nurse at my dad's office). Thanks guys! She will be a doll next fall for the Ute games!

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Random house pics

Our garden did pretty well - I had to document that we actually grew some flowers this year!!!




I love my doggy :)

16 weeks: It's a GIRL?!?

Wait what? I would have bet everything that I was having a boy. There are five nieces on my side and one niece on Alex's - no boys. Odds I figured were with boy. Plus I just felt like that was it. But I couldn't be happier. I always wanted a baby girl since I was such a princess but just figured I would only have boys. Now I get to be a little girl all over again - play with dollies, ponies, dress up, get out my old toys - and now I get to dress my very own little doll :) We found out Wednesday. Alex kept asking "Is that a penis?" "No that's the cord...foot...hand...etc" It was pretty funny. Here's the list of observers for the ultrasound: Amy (was the tech), Dad, Mom, Cam, Shawn, Snow, Lyla, Paula, and Nick. Alex is way excited. He will be the cutest dad to his little daughter. We are totally psyched. And now we get to start buying stuff - uh oh. Our first purchase - a carseat (pink) and stroller (pink and orange) - Alex's pick.

This is really the first week that I can't suck in. I can still wear bigger pants (not maternity) but I definitely have a pooch. I am hoping it is looking more like I am pregnant, although I tell people and they act surprised that I am pregnant. No I am not usually sticking my gut out on a regular basis thanks! I guess we women are always more critical of our bodies. I feel big already! Anyway, we are still excited and it is becoming more real to me that we will have a baby next year!!!


Ultrasounds:
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10 weeks

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10 weeks - first heart beat heard on doppler

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11 weeks + 2 days

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15 weeks

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16 weeks - it's a GIRL! She is about 4 1/2 inches long from head to butt, not including the legs :)

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