7 months!!

I can't believe I've been pregnant for 7 months! Yikes!
I really can't wait for this to be over with.
Anyway, we have been working on setting up Olivia's room and getting all the little baby supplies.
I'll post pictures soon.

1 year ago...

August 14, 2009

I married the most amazing boy.
I can't believe it's already been a year...
Looking back, I can honestly say it's been the best year of my life.
We have have created so many unforgettable memories and I can't wait to continue to create more.
Life is a fairytale and I am so glad it always will be...forever.


***I went to the doctor today and baby Olivia is doing fine! I am still dilated to a 2 which is good. (Well good because I haven't dilated more!) So I will just be continuing the medication and modified bed rest. Thank you for all of your prayers! We are looking forward to meeting our little girl, but we want her to be healthy and stay inside me for a little while longer:)

Another pregnancy complication....

Well before I share the events of the past few days, here are tummy pictures of me at around 30ish weeks (a little over 6 1/2 months)!!

(front view)

So I am getting the impression that either baby Olivia is extremely excited to get here or I am extremely excited for her to get here...either way this excitement has probably come a bit to early...So for the past few weeks I have been having what I thought were the braxton hicks contractions which is totally normal at my stage. However I started having stronger more frequent ones. I didn't know if this was normal or not so I called my cousin who just had a baby. She told me to call in just to make sure because I shouldn't be having so many of them. Well last Monday, I reluctantly called in not wanting to be overly paranoid. I explained everything to the nurse and she didn't seem worried and told me just to tell my doctor that following Monday at my next appointment. So...Monday I go to my doctors appointment. Michael wasn't with me sadly. Anyway, I met with my doctor and explained to him what I had been feeling and he of course thought it would be good if he checked everything just to make sure. I was already measuring a little small which he said wasn't too big of a concern. But as he checked me he discovered that I was already dilated to 2 cm and was 70% effaced. Which obviously at nearly 30 weeks is not a good thing at all. This explains why I was measuring small...the baby was already starting to drop. He told me that he would like to keep that little baby in there for at least another 4 weeks. I was sent over to the hospital (St. Marks) to get a steroid shot that would help her lungs develop quicker and he also wanted to me to be monitored just so he could see what my contractions were doing. So I went over all by myself...when I called Michael and told him he thought I was messing around with him haha. But anyway, I got the shot which was actually a bit painful and then had the wonderful opportunity of laying in the hospital bed for about 1 1/2 hours. Right when they thought I would be able to go home, I had a bigger one that caused Olivia's heart rate to drop a bit so instead of going home I got to sit there for another 20 minutes to make sure she was okay. They finally let me go home, however I was told I had to come back the next day to get one more steroid shot and be monitored again. My doctor also has me taking pill called Nifedipine every 4-6 hours which is supposed to help my contractions slow down. This pill isn't exactly the greatest pill, it pretty much makes my face look like a cherry and my head feel like it's going to explode. But oh well! So yesterday, Michael and I headed back up to the hospital. Yes, he came with me this time which made me feel so much better. We both felt bad he wasn't there that first time. Anyway, I got that second shot and it wasn't as bad as the first time! And then I was monitored for only about a half hour. I only had one bigger contraction that whole time so they let me go home! I think the pills are working! Although, I haven't been put on complete bed rest (thank goodness), I pretty much have to stay sitting or laying down as much as possible. No vacuuming, cleaning, carrying things ect. Poor Michael. So the good news is that there is still a chance I could carry her full term. I guess we will just have to see. As much as we want to see our precious little girl we want her to be healthy and hope that we can keep her in there as long as possible.

Happy 21 to me!!

This picture doesn't really have anything to do with my 21st birthday, but I still thought it was cute so I thought I'd share. We were able to attend Michael's cousin's wedding at the Provo Temple on July 31, 2010. It was beautiful!

My Birthday: August 3, 2010
So...I thought that by turning 21 I would feel really old,
but all I've really felt is really really blessed.
I really don't think I could ask for a better life.
I have the BEST family in the whole world,
A future that holds so many new and exciting opportunities.
AND
the most amazing husband. I don't think I could have dreamed up a better man.

While Michael was at work...(yes I skipped out, I couldn't resist the opportunity to sleep in) I was able to walk around the Thanksgiving Point gardens with my grandma. While we were walking her flip flop broke haha so she pretty much wobbled the whole way back! I'm glad I got to spend some time with her laughing and talking. I really do have an amazing grandma.

Michael baked me a cake. I think it was his first one in case you already didn't notice:) But it tasted wonderful and I was still quite impressed with the look of it because my first cake was pretty much a pile of cake and frosting mixed together.

Me with my cake!

This is the cute watch I got for my birthday! I absolutely love it! You can actually take off the watch and switch it over to other bands. I ordered one more band but it hasn't come yet.
Michael was also kind enough to buy me New Moon. I can't really get over how generous he is. (We all know he just used my birthday as an excuse to buy it since he has wanted it for so long:))
He also bought me chocolate covered cinnamon bears and then gave me 21 dollars which will be spent on Olivia of course!
And last but not least...a camera! But I haven't picked it out yet. I can't decide what kind to get.

I have no picture but we went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner. It was my first time. No I didn't ride the saddle because I made Michael promise me that he would not tell anyone it was my birthday. In fact I was so serious about this not being shared, I was practically in tears begging him not to.

This was our drink in celebration of me becoming of age to legally drink. Of course sparkling cider is about as close as i'll get!

To finish off a perfect birthday, we laid a blanket in the back yard and played board games.
And then we cuddled. Which is probably my most favorite thing to do with him!

****Just a little extra story I thought would be important to remember. Again, it has nothing to do with my birthday. But it still made my day to know that even though I find my self saying dumb things more than once a day, even my boy has his moments!

We were driving home from work and it was obvious that it was about to rain. Well as we were driving down the freeway we started to hear little things hit our car. Well my boy, bless his heart went on to say, "why are we getting hit with so many rocks?" haha...and I of course replied..."love, it's hailing."

Hello third trimester!

I guess I don't know how excited I am to be at this stage physically. But I can't believe I am already here! In hopefully a short 10-12 weeks our little girl will be here, and this I am so excited about I can hardly handle it!

An Amazing July so far...

As you will see below, we have had an eventful few weeks...the Mickelson Farm, swimming, and my family's cabin in Montana! This is a long post but since it is my journal I can't help but include every detail!

An exciting find of mine was this bag of Razzles. Unless you have seen the movie 13 going 30 this probably means nothing. I just had to buy them...I guess I just thought I would be cool if I ate the same candy as they did. Well the sad part of this is that Razzles aren't that good. Oh well, at least I can say I have had them! That just goes to show that movies really do make everything look better.

Here we are at the Mickelson Reunion. It was so fun to see everybody and see all the cute farm animals! Apparently that cow licks people haha. Luckily it didn't lick me. And the lambs (or sheep) whatever they are have such puffy little coats. You kind of just want to squish them!

My boy and I have the luxury of living right next to a private pool. Let's just say we try to take advantage of it. Although I haven't been a huge fan of getting in the water, I enjoy working on my tan. Since for the most part it is just my boy and I hanging out he is left to swim by himself. I wish I could get a picture of this, but he won't let me. We'll just say that if you were to walk by the pool you would see me lying on a chair in the sun and then Michael just playing around in the pool all by himself. It's actually quite cute. The last time we went I realized it might be nice if he had a friend to swim with so I actually joined him.
One day, the twins and Harrison came over to swim while Michael was golfing. Because it was SO hot I couldn't resist getting in.

Ever since I was a little girl I have always wanted to go to Bear World. Each summer as we would drive past it on our way to the cabin I would beg my parents to stop. They wouldn't and would just say that it is just like the zoo and not worth the money. Obviously they had NO idea. Well now that I am 20 and have established my own family {Michael} I have a bit more freedoms. So when I explained this little story to my boy he said, " well I'll take you there!" So we stopped and let me just say it was a well spent 33 dollars. It was a drive through park so we couldn't get out of the car for obvious reasons. As we began our drive there were bison, an albino elk thing, deer, moose, regular colored elk, and turkeys running around everywhere. Even in the road sometimes. And then we got to this special gate and as we drove inside we started to see bears! They were everywhere! Some would just walk right in the middle of the road and next to car like we weren't even there. I absolutely loved this! Now the best part was after we drove through the entire park we got to go a little petting zoo. Right outside the petting zoo were 2 cages that had baby bears in them. Can I just say that baby bears are really the cutest little things ever?! Well besides elephants and baby Olivia. But they would just roll around wrestling together. I was so tempted just to jump in and grab one of them. One of the bears was a showoff and decided to climb one of the logs and then slide down it like it was a pole! It was adorable. I think I could have sat there watching those bears all day. But we moved on to the part of the zoo where we actually got to pet some of the animals. I am not a fan of touching them but it was still fun to see them all running around together. I thought the little Bambi deer was quite cute. And of course Michael loved the big moose. (He didn't get to pet him though). I am pretty sure I enjoyed Bear World just as much as a 5 year old would and I am so lucky to have my boy make all my dreams come true!

On Wednesday July 14th we arrived at the cabin! We spent 3 1/2 days there and it was wonderful!
Some of the fun things we did were:
-catch 40 bats by hand (Michael)
-jetski
-ATV rides
-walks
-tubing (Michael)
-ping pong (I did beat Michael 2 out of the 15 or so games we played!)
-Eat really good food (thanks to Uncle Tom)
-roasted smores
-went hunting, shot a squirrel (poor thing), and then roasted it (Michael and boys)
-went to breakfast in West Yellowstone
-watched movies with homemade icecream
-drank hot chocolate
-were attacked by swarms of mosquitos (Not me so much because my blood is bitter)
-relaxed and talked

It went by way too fast. I can't wait for next year!

6 months!

If only babies came this way....
ANYWAY....Only 3 more months until our baby girl will be here!!

I think the nesting has already started...I can't really handle how much there is to do!
I am so excited I can hardly wait.

The Bachelorette:

I LOVE the bachelorette.
Yes, I am one of those people that counts down the days and hours until Mondays at 7:00 pm.
I love the drama and the funny, crazy things the guys do. I mean who takes off running and literally hops over bushes with a broken foot from a girl you were supposed to like? And what the heck was up with the rose tattoo with a diamond symbolizing each of the guys on there? I just can't really handle it!
So we are down to 4 guys now...Chris, Roberto, Frank, and Kirk. I will admit that she has done a way better job than the previous Bachelor Jake.
Chris: I think he is a nice guy..probably just not for Ali. I mean sometimes he just seems a little too goofy in a non cute way.
Kirk: I still can't figure him out. I think him and Ali are pretty much just make-out buddies. Plus the whole dead animal room that his dad has pretty much says enough.
Frank: He was definitely a favorite until we found out that he would break Ali's heart. Frank's funny (kind of weird) personality just reminded me SO much of my own love's personality except for the part where he hurts Ali of course:)

Roberto: He's my favorite for Ali. He just seems perfect for her in every way. Actually he seems almost too perfect. I hope she picks him. Although I wonder if she will because it would make the show too predictable.
Oh well..at least I already found my sweetheart. And yes my sweetheart is into the bachelorette as well. He watches the entire 2 hours of with me and then listens to me analyze it that entire week. He even pipes in and shares his thoughts. I'll have to admit that we have had some pretty deep conversations regarding these boys and Ali:)

Our early anniversary and a few other things...

Since we have been so excited for Eclipse to come out we decided to go see the 3:00 am showing on opening night since the midnight was already sold out. I don't think I would recommend this especially if your pregnant. I also made the mistake of drinking a little bit of caffeine which kept baby Olivia pretty much bouncing off the walls for the rest of the day. I think it was a bit of a warning of what kind of child we are about to have:) Just like her dad! Anyway, we both loved it...Michael more than me:) We actually ended up seeing it again that weekend with my parents!

5 1/2 months pregnant!
It seems like time is going by SO slow yet I can't believe that I only have 3 1/2 months left! I can't say that I have enjoyed being pregnant..in fact I have hated it. I just have to keep thinking of our precious little girl who I'm sure will make up for it! Since I have been feeling a little bit better..as long as I get plenty of sleep and food, I have experienced a couple other interesting symptoms. One being that I have to pee all the time...I am embarrassed to admit that I have had a couple accidents thanks to random sneezes. I usually wouldn't share this but since this is kind of like my journal, I better. Second, I get quite strong pains in my upper legs. Sometimes so painful it almost makes me collapse. Apparently it happens when she sits on that particular nerve.

So, my boy and I decided that for our anniversary we would pick a hotel in either SLC or Park City and spend a relaxing night in the hotel. Well our real anniversary isn't until August 14th but I wanted to do it early so that I wasn't so uncomfortably big and hot. So we picked the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake. When we pulled in we were a little shocked to be greeted by two men asking us if we wanted them to park our car and carry our luggage in. The hotels we are used to staying in don't usually have people outside anxiously waiting to help you haha. Well we ended up parking our car and carrying in our luggage ourselves since it was 5 dollars cheaper. Our room was beautiful, especially the bathroom!

My boy surprised me with this beautiful bouquet of daisies!

Since neither of us have ever tried in room dining, one of the first things we did was order a little snack. I couldn't really handle how nice the tray looked with the real rose and water glasses that we didn't even order! We did it again a little later that night for dessert! It was so fun to have someone bring you your food and then just be able to eat it in bed!

When we walked into our room there were 6 cute little chocolate dipped strawberries!

One of the things we were most excited about (especially Michael) was the food. We probably read through the menu at least 20 times.

Later that evening, we walked around getting a bit lost trying to find the indoor pool. When we finally found it we were told that it would cost $10 a day to swim in it haha. Well that didn't really stop us. Luckily we were the only ones in the indoor pool so we had a blast! I wasn't a fan of the pool because it was a little too cold but I loved sticking my feet in the hot tub!

It was a much needed relaxing, romantic little getaway for us! I can't believe it has almost been a year since we were married. Crazy!

The past few weeks we have been able to go to the driving range a few times so that Michael can hit a bucket of balls. I usually just sit behind him and watch him and all the others hit their balls. He has been improving quite a bit so we are excited to see how he does during an actual game this week!

Last but definitely not least...we bought our baby girl a crib! This is what it looks like. I LOVE it! I have had so much fun picking out stuff for her, although I can't say that Michael feels quite the same:) I just can hardly wait for her to get here!