Baby Update

Friday, March 2nd is the big day! I am 5th on the list of being induced. I am sooo excited to not be pregnant anymore and so excited to meet Tristan! ( I am sure the nervousness will hit tonight though) Ryan made this cool video of the pregnancy photos we've taken.

Also, Ryan worked really hard on this wainscotting for the nursery! We've almost finished decorating but its not perfect yet, as soon as it is I will post the finished pics.

The Third Trimester & Baby Coming Soon!

At my dr appt last week I had developed pre-clampsia. Luckily I was almost to 37 weeks (considered full term). I've taken two 24 hr urine tests (annoying) and went to the hospital saturday and sunday for them to monitor baby and check my blood pressure. My blood pressure was better but I still had really high number for protein in my urine. Anyways, they put me on bed rest (also annoying b/c of all the things I feel like we still need to do to prepare) until my dr appt tomorrow morning at which time we will schedule to be induced or do a C-section before the end of the week. Crazy!! I wrote a blog a while ago when I first begun the third trimester but never posted it b/c I kept waiting to post a cute preggie pic of me but never got one. As this could quite possibly be my last day pregnant for a while if not forever (hopefully not) i thought I would write down my pregnancy thoughts.

I admit I came into this pregnancy thing a little naive and had a few assumptions of what it was going to be like in the beginning.

1) I thought I would be one of the girls who didn't even look like they were pregnant until 5 months along: False- I started looking pregnant by like 10 weeks. A stranger at the airport made a comment about my being pregnant when I was only 12 weeks, I thought I had been hiding it pretty well but at that point I decided to no longer try.

2) I would still be able to wear heels. False- The few times I have worn heels I have regretted it and do so now only under extreme circumstances like to church. I realize I was under the impression this was possible because the motherhood maternity clothing magazines models are wearing heels in every single pic and should be sued for false advertising,! Now my feet are so swollen constantly that the only shoes I can wear are some moccassins that I bought a full size bigger than my regular size at the beginning of my pregnancy in anticipation of these last few months and by far the smartest pregnancy purchase I made.

3) Only my belly would get big- False-Every single part of my body has changed and I had to get used to the idea that I was no longer really in control of my body anymore. Something else was in charge- the baby. It took me a little while but once I got used to the idea that my body wasn't going to by my body for a while it got lot easier to adjust to the ride.

4) Morning sickness would be kind of fun and would be only in the morning- FALSE- The first week after I found out I was pregnant I wasn't sick,so of course I worried that something was wrong b/c I wasnt. My husband said I should be grateful for this blessing but still I felt like I wouldn't be experiencing pregnancy to its fullest without the traditional morning sickness routine. At first I was a little queasy for about a week, still not satisfied. Then it hit, after about one throw up it wasn't so cute anymore and as full fledged sickness and daily vomiting set in I began to wonder why anyone ever got pregnant more than once. Afternoons were a little bit more manageable but it seemed like I woke up and went to bed sick every day long after the long awaited for first trimester was over and then started back up again during the third trimester although not nearly as bad as in the beginning.

5) I would be scared to death of the labor and delivery. False- Im really not scared, but it is the unknown so a little daunting wondering what to expect. Now that it may not even be an option I am actually a little sad of missing out on the experience.

6) I would love every single minute of being pregnant- Clarification- I love and am extremely grateful that I am pregnant and for this baby that I already love but the physical part of being pregnant is a lot, lot harder than I imagined it would be, I feel like I have experienced every symptom in the book and they are not pretty or fun. I think that 80% hmm maybe 95% of pregnancy is uncomfortable, but that the other 5-20% where you get to hear the heartbeat, see ultra sounds, feel the baby move (which is awesome) talk about the baby, shop for the baby, have strangers ask you questions and congratulate you about the baby are so fun and I wouldn't trade the experience for anything.

Christmas & New Year's

I will just start out by saying I have stolen most of these pics of other people's blogs and facebook so hopefully they don't mind.

December flew by. We went to see the Utah Symphony Christmas concert at Thanksgiving Point.

Went to a couple of friend's Christmas Parties. Saw Hugo in 3D for Ryan's work Christmas party. Celebrated Christmas with Ryan's family before flying to Seattle for Christmas with my family.

We underestimated how busy the airport would be this time of the year and barely made our flight. We call it our Christmas miracle. We had been told that if we didn't make this flight at 7 am the next one was at noon, and there were only 2 seats available, and since my sister was with us we envisioned a nightmare day at the airport getting split up and missing all our plans we had for that day in Seattle. We were going thru the longest security line I have ever seen, heard the final boarding call for our flight while in line, ran, (well I as Ryan says did a panic waddle in my pregnant state running was not an option,in my socks holding my boots) actually barely made it on the plane 5 min after it was suppossed to take off. Even our luggage made it there when we had been told it might not b/c of the late checkin. Christmas in Seattle consisted of going on a chocalate factory tour, playing mafia, eating out and generally enjoying being almost all together. Also, my family had a really fun shower for me and Ryan where we got to hang out with all our awesome cousins and get some really cute baby stuff including a crib!!

Baby Shower

New Year's Eve party at Ryan's sister's house

Thanksgiving!

is one of my favorite holidays. Its all about one big wonderful meal and being thankful for what you have. This year my little sis. Penny stayed with us for the weekend from the far land of Provo. She was an Angel and upon arrival and my joking that I would pay her to clean my oven that I had dropped a pizza in a few days earlier she got right to work and cleaned and scrubbed it till it looked brand new while me and Ryan finished and cleaned up our painting job from the day before. I still love opening the oven and having it sparkling clean. The morning of, Ryan made us delicous beinget dounguts we got from our trip to New Orleans so that our stomachs would be stretched for the main event. We met Ryan's family at his aunt's house and had a wonderful meal, and Ryan and Penny participated in the Walleyball game. Afterward we relaxed at Ryan's mom's house and watched a movie.

Black Friday we didn't have any incliniation to wake up at 5 am again, but we did brave the shopping around noon and got a few good things.

Saturday, sister Annaliese and family were in town and we had a fun day, eating at Costa Vida, going to the Bean Museum, Byu bookstore, Penny's apartment and Baby's R' Us.

New York- 11/11/11- 5 Year Anniversary

For our awesome 5 year anniversary date we went to New York. It was fun, but I probably wouldn't advise anyone who was pregnant to go. If i was to do it all over again I probably would have picked a more relaxing vacation to go on, just because of all the walking involved and my body isn't used to walking around with all this extra weight:)

We did all of the touristy things. Went to times square, rockefeller center, metropolitan museum of art, central park, top of the empire state building, statue of liberty, rode the subway and saw a parade and the Wall Street protestetors.

Our hotel.
The morning of our anniversary 11/11/11 we walked outside of our hotel to a full blown New york parade, in honor of our anniversary or Veterans Day, (one or the other)


Met




This bridge at Central Park look familiar? Its in the Cloverfield movie at the very end, probably other movies too.


Who knew there was a freakin castle in Central park, would have loved to explore this if it hadnt been getting dark

random brake dancers in the subway
From the top of the empire state building, it is crazy that you are looking down on all the sky scrapers from this buildilng

Halloween Stuff

October flew by, we had a lot of fun celebrating all things scary...

We went to Cornbellies, a haunted corn maze.

We saw the Odyssey Dance Theatre's Thriller performance. Even if you are not huge into dance it is really a very entertaining show, and the dancing is absolutley amazing.

We carved a pumkin in baby Tristan's honor, whose initials are going to be....

We watched a lot of scary movies.

We went to our neighbor's Halloween Party. ( We are the typical red neck shot gun wedding, I am trying to sell it by rubbing my belly )

A Boy!

While we were going thru the in-vitro process I was at the store or somewhere I can't quite remember but I saw a bottle on it or something that said Tristan on it (which was already the boy name we had picked out) and I kinda felt like it was a sign (in a non-sacreligious sort of way) that helped me think this might work, along with the fact that if this worked the baby due date is 2 days before my dad's birthday. The same weekend we found out we were pregnant we also bought some energy bars that we took hiking with us and my bar's expiration date was two days after my due date. Silly things I know, but as anxiety filled as I was, they kinda helped.

Anyways, I was pretty convinced that we were going to have a boy. But, I had always pictured us with a girl first. Probably because I am the oldest in my family, Ryan's sister is the oldest in her family and his sister and my sister and my brother all had girls first and Ryan was convinced it was going to be a girl. So, I began to think we were having a girl. The day of our ultra sound finally arrived. As the technician measured every body part, baby was uncooperatively crossing his or her legs and was very relaxed not wanting to move. Nearing the end of the appointment I grew dissapointed thinking we might have to wait several more weeks to find out. She had me get up walk around turned me over to one side and then the other and then Ryan said, Ahh, I think that looked like a boy, and sure enough it was. The technician girl said yes I am about 100% positive this baby is a boy! Since we had both names picked out it was so cool to be like ok, now we know its Tristan in there. I admit I felt like I might be a little out of my element with a boy. I am not all that interested in sports and cars and all that "boy" stuff. But I am so excited for him to come so that I can learn!! After the ultra sound appointment I immediatly went to Baby's R Us and bought the cutest newborn onesies for him.

As requested here is a preggie pic of me and my belly.

Also, this morning (Wed, Nov 2nd, I always write my blogs a week before I get around to transferring the pics off the camera) I finally felt little Tristan moving around like crazy, such a cool feeling, Ryan could even feel him move just a little bit once.