16 Weeks

I will be 16 weeks on Wednesday. All continues to go well. I still haven't had any morning sickness as long as I eat about every half hour. I am quickly losing my mind (as everyone at work will tell you), and I can finally manage to function fairly well on less than 10 hours of sleep a night! Haha. I am enjoying the second trimester as all the books I have been reading say I should. It sure is going by quickly though. I am always shocked at how early on in pregnancy symptoms develop. For some reason I always imagined that having to use the bathroom every 5 minutes, being tired, having cravings, mood swings, etc. all happened when you had a big belly to go along with it. I sure was wrong and am learning quickly! Lately my cravings have been for salad. But not just any salad, like salad bar salad with ranch and sunflower seeds and beets and stuff like that. I try to make myself a salad at home but it just isn't as good!
I have chosen to go with a Midwife for my delivery. They have a group of CNM's that practice at IMC (a big local hospital) so I get all the convenience and peace of mind of delivering in a state of the art hospital with physicians and a NICU but the comfort and open mindedness of a midwife. I really like the fact that the midwife will be able to stay with me throughout my entire labor since I most likely won't have any family here to help me through this new adventure. So far we have only been able to listen to the heart beat which is right where it should be. It is always a very nerve wracking minute while they search for the heart beat and then once they find it it is so relieving and exciting to hear it. I really could listen to it all day. Sometime next month I will get my ultrasound and we can see how everything looks and find out the sex.
I finally decided it was time to start the belly pics! I haven't been able to button my jeans for a few weeks now. I have just been tieing them with a hair band and this week I finally decided it was time for me to get a bellaband. So far it looks better than the hair tie but we will have to see how well it stays in place as I wear it more. So here is me at 4 months. The pictures aren't that great because I had to take them myself. *Grumble, grumble* I still don't think I look pregnant at all and I get super bugged when people tell me I have a belly already when I have my work scrubs on. Seriously, there is now way you can tell I am pregnant with scrubs on so I just feel like they are calling me fat.

And in other news...
Here are some pics of Matt and Nick having a good time. These boys are so silly. Matt is super excited to have another baby. Every once in a while he will tell me "Hurry up and have that kid already, I really want him to be here so I can hold him and play with him" to which I reply "I guess you should have thought of that earlier".
Nick understands that there is a baby in my tummy because he told his mother that, but he doesn't talk about it much to us.

Random Update (Part 2) and a WIDGET!

Yay, I finally got a baby widget. Of course I was dieing to get one asap but I just couldn't bring myself to do it before now because the babies looked too weird and freaked me out. Now that I am 13 weeks the baby looks pretty normal so I can handle it.
I have been very blessed and have not been sick at all which I am so grateful for. Working in people's mouths and throwing up doesn't seem like it would go well together. I am a little nauseous here and there and tired ALL the time but I have always been a good sleeper so that hasn't been a problem for me :). I also don't like chocolate anymore which is super weird because it used to be about 50% of my daily diet. So, I have been eating fairly healthy (minus the weird corn dog craving) which has been a nice change for me.
Like I said, I am 13 weeks today so my estimated due date is July 27th. Last summer I was a water park with Nick and there was a hugely pregnant mom there with her toddler and I thought how miserable it would be to be that pregnant when it's so hot. Well that's what I get for thinking that.
Right now I am beginning the "fat looking" stage. I have heard all my friends talk about this point and think that's where I am now. I don't have a baby belly at all but I always feel bloated and my clothes are getting pretty tight which I can't stand, I have never been the skin tight jeans girl, and when I put on a shirt and check out my profile it looks like I just got done at an all you can eat buffet!  The weirdest part is that I feel so bloated but I have only gained like 2 pounds. I used to weigh ten pounds more than this in high school, why does this feel so big?
I have waited a long time to finally decide to have children and yet it all seems to be happening so fast. Sometimes I get overwhelmed and think I should have waited a few more years. But we felt like it was time so I know everything will work out (like who my baby is going to stay with when I go back to work?!?) and I just have to keep telling myself to have faith.
I REALLY want a girl and have the perfect name all picked out and everything. Matt wants a boy and I have to admit that I kind of feel like that's what it's going to be. I feel so bad for wanting one sex so much more than the other and am trying to get myself pumped up so I won't be disappointed if it is a boy. If it is a boy Matt has a name all picked out,  I didn't like it at first because it's not as unique as I would like it to be but maybe it will grow on me.
Anyways, we had a really nice Thanksgiving and Christmas at home this year which I am so grateful for. Honestly I have been an absolute lazy bum the past few months and hope that this exhaustion eases up soon. Matt and I decided not to do Christmas for each other this year and do Sub For Santa instead. We still did a good Christmas for Nick (nothing too special, just a bunch of toys). It was a really hard year. I don't know what it was but I have never felt so out of the Christmas Spirit. I usually LOVE Christmas time and even with all the service we did it still just didn't feel like Christmas. So next year we decided that no matter what finances were like we were going do something thoughtful for each other for Christmas and hopefully I won't spend the entire holiday season hibernating!

Random Update (Part 1)

For journaling purposes I have A LOT to catch up on from Disneyland until now. The whole time we were at Disneyland I had to pee like every two seconds and those of you who know me know that I usually go pee like once or twice a day. I didn't think anything of it until Sunday afternoon when we were driving home from California. We stopped in Vegas for some In 'N' Out and when we got past Cedar City it started storming really bad. We didn't want to stop until we got to Beaver but I couldn't help it, I had to pee so dang bad. So for the first time I peed in a cup. Yuck. By the time we got to Beaver it was storming so bad that they actually closed the interstate and they made everyone get off the road. The friends we were traveling with and we were able to get a hotel before they filled up and people had to start sleeping in churches. Well we both had to be at work Monday morning so we were just going to let the boys get out of the car for a few hours, get some food, and maybe get a little sleep. Then we were going to wake up at like 3am and head home so we could make it to work. Well right as we were trying to go to bed (two adults and one little boy per bed) the front desk of the Days Inn in Parowan calls down to our room and tells me we have too many people in our room. So I go down there and tell them look we are just going to be here for a few hours then we are leaving to get home, we are just waiting until the Interstate re-opens. So then she tells me we can only have 5 people in our room by fire code. I told here nobody was sleeping on the floor and all we had extra was a two year old little boy. She then proceeded to say that that was okay...as long as I paid and $60 bucks we could all stay. $60 bucks? That's how much we paid for the room and we have to double it for an extra two year old boy?!? Well Matt and the other husband travelling with us went down there and started arguing with this dumb girl who then proceeded to call the cops on us and tried to get us kicked out without a refund. After pulling the "you really want me to wake up two little sleeping boys and drag them out into this very dangerous storm onto roads that are still closed" with the cop standing right there she let us stay. Oh but she made sure I paid my extra $60 bucks! They had to have had cameras in their room otherwise there is no way they could have known we had an extra person in our room. So if you ever have to go down there make sure you don't stay at the Days Inn in Parowan.
Anyways, when I got back to the room I was so worked up that I couldn't sleep so I just stayed up and that's when I realized "I am pregnant". So I didn't sleep at all that night, went to work the next day, at the end of a day picked up a test at the store, took it, and it was POSITIVE! I was so excited I couldn't even wait to think of something cute to do for Matt so I just showed him the test when I got home. Then I promptly fell asleep from sheer exhaustion.

Christmas Surprise!

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Nick's 4th Birthday

Nick chose to have a "How to Train Your Dragon" party for his birthday this year.

We got viking hats and had the kids decorate shields. It was really simple but the kids seemed to really like it, and it was easier for the younger guests.

Matt made the yummiest chocolate cake with homemade icing! Everybody loved it.

The boys are excited to open presents.

That Toy Story Tent was a HUGE hit with all the boys. They had a great time playing with all the fun new toys.

Thank you everyone who came to celebrate with us. And thank you for all of the awesome presents, Nick was definitely spoiled and is loving all of them!