15 Weeks

15 Weeks

This week, Baby is the size of a: navel orange

Total weight gain/loss: down 10 lbs 

Sleep: it’s still not happenin for me. When I finally do fall asleep,

 I have the craziest dreams in the world.

Best moment this week: seeing the baby move from one 

side of my belly to the other. Weird!  

Movement: I’m almost sure I felt the baby move this week. 

Am I the only one who’s had a hard time being able to tell if

 that’s really what it is?!

Symptoms: nausea! Sick is the new normal :)  

Food cravings: none…

Food aversions: water! I wish I could drink water so bad but 

it’s a hopeless battle.

Gender: don’t know yet, hoping to find out at our 

appointment on Monday.

Labor Signs: none

Belly Button in or out? in

What I miss: my skinny jeans!

What I am looking forward to: finding out what we’re having 

and feeling the baby move more.

Feeling toward Pregnancy: each week I feel like I get to 

know the baby more and more. This week I could really see

 the baby on one side of my stomach or the other. I don’t

 know why, but it makes me laugh when I wake up and my

 little bulge is completely on one side!  

14 Weeks

I forgot to post this the other day, so here is my little thing for 14 weeks, and I will put up the one for 15 weeks in a couple days!

14 Weeks

This week, Baby is the size of a: lemon

Total weight gain/loss: down 8 lbs 

Sleep: what’s sleep?

Best moment this week: dreams of my sweet baby

Movement: still unsure if what I’m feeling is the baby moving.

Symptoms: still just super nauseous. I don’t think it’s going to

 go away!  

Food cravings: none…

Food aversions: pizza, water 

Gender: don’t know yet, hoping to find out at our 

appointment next Monday.

Labor Signs: none

Belly Button in or out? in

What I miss: food, definitely.

What I am looking forward to: finding out what we’re having!

Feeling toward Pregnancy: this week I am starting to really 

be able to see and feel the baby in my belly. It is surreal 

and sometimes when I look at my belly I feel like I am looking 

at someone else!

 

Fire Season

On Saturday evening we could see a lot of smoke from our front yard so we rode toward Fountain Green and saw that the mountain was on fire. It was pretty close to Kenzie's work, so we wanted to go check it out and make sure the boys were safe. We sat and watched as it quickly spread over the mountain. By the time it got dark Saturday, the fire had spread over 3,000 acres. We rode up Skyline to get a better view of the flames and it was unbelievable. It hasn't stopped growing, and today they are saying it has burned 39,000 acres. Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes and about 30 homes and cabins have been burned in the fire. 

Right now, we are PRAYING that our property and trailer haven't been burned yet. Everyone in Hideaway Valley has been evacuated, and the highway is closed so we don't know if the fire has reached our land yet or not. But we know it is close. We will be devastated if our land burns up, and our first trailer! :(

On the bright side, at least our house is safe. A lot of people in our area haven't been so lucky! 

My Birthday!

Friday I turned the big 22. I was planning on taking the day off work, but I woke up and decided to go. The boys were on their campout so it was really quiet and easy around here. Kenz and I got off work about the same time and I had been feeling really sick all day so he wanted to go to Walmart and get a new movie and some food and spend the night at home together. I was totally game because I didn't feel like going too far from home. We went to Walmart and he was taking FOREVER at the store. He was totally lollygagging and I was getting so impatient, saying "I NEED to go home and get comfortable!" When we finally got home, my house was full of sweet people who came by to surprise me for my birthday. We had a little barbecue and some birthday cake and sat outside and visited. I felt so much love and I really appreciated everyone taking the time to visit me on my birthday. My mom took some cute pictures of my special day! 

You're probably all wondering if we found out what our baby is, and the answer is no. We found out that the place in Provo closed or moved so the closest place to do it is in Sandy. I was NOT feeling well enough to travel up to Salt Lake and it would be a little silly to spend all that money when we can find out at the doctor soon for free. So when we DO find out what we're having, trust me, I will let you know! 

Pregnancy Post

I was thinking I should really start doing a weekly post about my pregnancy. I am making a cute little journal, but it would be nice to do blog posts too. I have been doing this weekly survey for the last couple of weeks, so I will try and remember to post it from now on. I will be 14 weeks on Friday so I this one is almost outdated, but this is as of last Friday.

13 Weeks

This week, Baby is the size of a: peach

Total weight gain/loss: down 2 lbs 

Sleep: kenzie got me a body pillow for my birthday this week, and it is helping me get more comfortable at night. I still never sleep through the night, but it is better than it was.

Best moment this week: having Kenzie send me pictures throughout the day of cute baby stuff he finds online. He is getting excited!

Movement: there have been three times last week where I think I may have felt that fluttering feeling, but I can’t tell if it’s baby or just gas!

Symptoms: still getting more sick in the evenings. Around 3 or 4 o clock I feel the nausea come on and it sticks around until bedtime.  

Food cravings: none…

Food aversions: pizza, water

Gender: don’t know yet, hoping to find out on Friday!

Labor Signs: none

Belly Button in or out? in

What I miss: working out! I know I need to start exercising more, but by the time I get home from work I am so pooped, I just want to relax.

What I am looking forward to: hopefully getting some relief from this nausea. Getting some energy back.

Feeling toward Pregnancy: I am feeling nervous about the idea of being responsible to care for another human being! I am starting to read up on life as a mother and trying to get prepared. I am starting to feel emotionally connected to baby, which Is helping me get EXCITED! 

I need to take a picture of my belly bump, but until then this is the only picture I really have where I look pregnant at all. 

Pregnancy is not my cup of tea so far. If there were a way to get a baby without doing the 9 months of hell, I would so do it! But I am getting used to it, and I KNOW that this will be more than worth the discomfort. I am pretty much begging Kenzie to take me to find out what we're having on Friday. The place said you can find out at 14 weeks, and most people I talk to are supportive and say they, too, wanted to know as soon as they could. Technology has come so far, and I think it's stupid not to take advantage of it. I am not planning to go crazy shopping and paint the room yet. I am just curious to know what we're having and I feel like it will help me bond with the baby to know what it is. Kenzie is anti-finding out so we will see what happens. I will let you know!!

Father's Day Weekend (And Mom's Birthday!)

We had a great Fathers Day Weekend this year. Holidays are so busy for us. We are grateful to have so many wonderful people in our lives to celebrate, but it is also sad to have to have such short visits on these days. I have been so lazy about taking pictures lately, and every time I go to blog I regret it.

On Friday night we had a few friends over and we sat on our back patio and played cards into all hours of the night. It was a lot of fun and really relaxing. These kinds of nights are my favorite because I get to see people I love, but I don't have to go out. It is still pretty exhausting to me to go anywhere too far from home. Which brings me to Saturday!

We decided kind of last minute to go to seven peaks with some of our friends on Saturday morning. We got up and met Matt and Kasia and Carter and his cute little family at the water park. The weather was perfect, and we had a lot of fun even though we couldn't go on any of the big slides cuz Kasia and I are both preggers. It is funny to hang out with them because Kasia and I kind of take turns being nauseous or tired. Our poor husbands can hardly keep up :)

On Saturday night we went to the Bees game with my dad for Fathers Day. We had so much fun sitting out on the grass visiting. I was really happy that Zack and his cute girlfriend Meg came. They had fireworks after the game and they were doing some promotion about Christmas in June, so during the whole firework show they played Christmas music. It was so pretty, and I couldn't help wishing it really was Christmas time and I was getting my baby. After the game, we had a late night dinner/breakfast at Village Inn before crashing in Salt Lake. 

Sunday we woke up, headed home, and started making the rounds to visit our families. We started by going over to Ephraim to see my mom and Ken. It just so happens that Sunday was also my mom's birthday! So they had a barbecue to celebrate all that was going on, and we got to visit with them for a while.

After that, we came back to Moroni and went over to Mike and Amy's. They were cleaning their corrals, so we just gave Mike his present then sat outside and visited with them for a while. When we finally got home, it was about 6:30, and we were just settling in to watch the NBA Playoff game when we found out Grandma Camille was doing eclaire cake at 7:00! So we walked up there and visited with the Nunley family for a while before finally coming home and settling in. 

By the time we got all settled in on Sunday night, I was wore out! And before we knew it, Monday morning was here :( We had such a fun and busy weekend, and I know life's only going to get busier for us soon! 

Journal

I had such a nice weekend, I wanted to take just a minute and share. I just finished reading the book written by Stephanie Nielson from Nie Nie Dialogue. If you haven't heard of her, check it out. She is amazing and she has inspired me to blog more and to even write more about my family and my life. I know I will really appreciate being able to look back and remember how life was before kids. So I am going to strive to blog more, even if it's just about our day to day activities or things that seem uninteresting. I feel like I think of my blog as a way to let others stay caught up on our lives, but I am going to try and start using it for myself and my future family as a journal as well. So for a few random things:

Friday night I had to go up to Target and get some things for work. It is already my parent seminar at work again this week, so I had to get some last minute things. Kenzie went with me and we made a date night out of it. We stopped in Fairview on the way and got to hold Baby Axton. He is SO cute. It seems a little surreal that Taylon and Ash are parents now! It was really cute to watch Kenzie hold Axton.. Makes me excited to have our own. After I got my shoppin down, we watched Snow White and the Huntsman and ate at our favorite place.. Iggy's.

Saturday Kenz had to work an extra shift for someone, but I wasn't too upset because I went over to Nephi for Kelsi's bridal shower. It was lots of fun, and it was so nice to catch up with some of my friends. We don't see each other often anymore.. Life is so busy and at this age, everyone is at a different place. But, after years of being friends, I love how we can always just pick up where we left off. It is strange to be talking to them about the married life and having kids.. We shouldn't be this old yet! I am really happy for Kels and I was really glad I could be there on Saturday. 

When I got home, we ordered pizza and watched the Celtics game with Jord. My team lost :( But it was a nice, relaxing night. Just what I like these days! Sunday I woke up and made crepes for breakfast, then we put a roast in the crock pot for dinner that night. It feels so good to bake and cook again. Before I got pregnant, I was baking every weekend, and trying a lot of new things. I have had NO energy or desire the last few weeks to do any of my hobbies, and I have missed baking on the weekends. That night we had my mom and Ken over for dinner then sat out back and let our puppies play in the yard for a while. It was just really relaxing and nice. 

I have been feeling a lot better than I was before, but the sickness definitely isn't gone, and I still throw up a lot. It seems to be worse at night lately. I am keeping things down a lot better, and I have a much better attitude about it all lately. But it still sucks when it hits you and you instantly have to throw up. On Thursday night we pulled into the parking lot for softball and there were a bunch of people by my car so I didn't want to throw up out the car. So I threw up all over my floor mat then had to go to the car wash and deep clean my car. Kenzie wasn't very happy about that one and didn't get why I wouldn't just open the door and throw up outside. Sometimes you just can't think fast enough. I am thankful that my sickness has started easing up, but it would be nice if it would just stop completely. Pregnancy has been an emotional roller coaster for me. On one hand, I feel so sick and honestly just hate it. Sometimes I wish I could just go back to the way I was before all this. But on the other hand, I am so thankful to have a healthy baby growing inside me. And there are times where I truly cannot wait to have a baby. 

Overall, life is good for us. This is definitely making us grow up fast, and while I know I will miss these times I am definitely looking forward to the future.... particularly Christmas time!!!

Welcoming the Second Trimester!

We had another cool experience at the doctor yesterday. Dr. Bailey was listening to the baby's heartbeat, and it was a bit lower than it was last week. When he started listening it was beating at about 150 bpm. Well I started talking and telling him it was much higher on Thursday and all the sudden he could hear the baby move and it's heart rate speed up to like 170 again! It was so funny, and Dr. Bailey said the baby must've got excited when it heard my voice. It is so reassuring to know the baby is doing well. When you know what it's like to lose a baby, you really appreciate these little things. I have been feeling so much better this week, and I am hoping that the morning sickness will end soon. I am still feeling nauseous most of the day, but I am able to keep food and drink down and I feel about a million times better than I have been. I am also feeling my energy come back. So for all you ladies who told me to just get to 12 weeks, I think you were right! 12 weeks might just be the magic number. Now that I'm not SO sick, I am noticing other changes happening with my body. The other day I woke up on my back, and the baby was completely on one side of my belly. I woke Kenzie up cuz you could see a huge bulge on the left side of my stomach and the ride side was completely flat. Weird!! I feel like I am starting to show a little bit, but it might still just be bloating and my uterus growing. The baby is about the size of a lime, so it couldn't be sticking out too far, but I am definitely feeling my stomach changing and getting HARD. I am excited to continue to notice these changes in my body, and I am feeling like pregnancy is going to start getting fun now instead of just miserable! Only one week left of this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad first trimester :)

Ultrasound

We had an appointment with Dr. Bailey yesterday, and it could not come soon enough. I have been so miserable and have been losing weight very fast. We found out that I have hyperemesis gravidarum, which is a fancy word for severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. This last week has been torture, and I have found myself throwing up about every half hour. Nothing would stay down and in the last couple weeks since I have been to the doctor, I have lost 12 pounds. I was getting really worried about the baby because it doesn't make sense that it could possibly be growing and developing, when I can't get it any nutrients. Well I was wrong! We were able to do an ultrasound and everything is great with the little one. Baby is growing like a weed! I had to spend the evening in the ER again, which I hate. But I got a ton of fluids and medicine, and I am actually feeling a bit better today. I have to go back on Monday because Dr. Bailey wants to keep an eye on my weight loss issues, but overall, it was a great appointment. Kenzie was loving the ultrasound. He asked the girl if it was her that was making the baby move and she told him no, the baby was moving on it's own! She held still for a minute and all the sudden the baby started wiggling like crazy! It was so funny, and made it so real for us. The baby's heart is beating at 186 bpm... so fast! They say the faster it is, the more likely that it's a girl so we will see about that. The baby is measuring 3 days smaller than it should be, but considering everything, that isn't bad. My original due date was December 21st, but with it measuring 3 days smaller, that would make me due on Christmas Eve!! I'm hoping that I will have the baby a bit early!

Seeing the baby doing so well was just what we needed. It makes all the sickness worth it and makes it feel a lot more real. I have been worried and have not enjoyed pregnancy at all so far, but I feel like now I can really start bonding with the baby and getting excited about being pregnant. We are just so thankful that our baby is healthy and moving around so much! And I am SO glad I am about done with the first trimester and hopefully will stop throwing up soon. Only 6 more months til we have a baby.....