Maternity Pictures

My beautiful, talented sister Whitney was so kind to take my maternity pictures! She did such a great job and I really was not a good model...I hate getting my picture taken. I pretty much stood there and she did the rest. She definitely does not give herself enough credit! Thanks whittle bit! Love you! These pics were taken when I was 32 weeks.








Pregnancy Update: I now go to my OB every two weeks! YA! I am almost 35 weeks and up to this point I really have been feeling pretty well. Lately, however, I am starting to get really tired and my belly itches like CRAZY all the time! My bed is no longer comfortable, so my permanent bedroom is my living room where my awesome couch resides. Thank goodness I have that puppy or else I really would be seriously sleep deprived. School is going well. I only have 2 weeks left in the semester and then I am FREE for a couple weeks (hopefully I can "squeeze" in the baby's birth during Christmas break and not when next semester starts). I received my assignment where I will be doing my nursing internship: the Intensive Care Unit at UVRMC in Provo. I am excited! Anyway, I will try to post a belly pic for those who are oh so into seeing me get bigger soon!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween REPEAT! I know we are totally breaking the rules, but Jess *insisted* that we were the IPOD characters again. My day started off bright and early at Primary Children's hospital, then we went out with my sis Whitney, her daughter Payton, and our Sister Laura trick or treating. To end the night we went over to the Paulson's house for a halloween party. We had a fun time! BUT the great thing is is that our street had like zero trick or treaters, so we got to eat the left overs! P.S. Happy Birthday to my DAD! We love and miss you! Wish we could have been there for your day!

Halloween is almost here!

Food Poisoning...

...Is what I had Wednesday night. Today (Saturday) I am still feeling the after-effects of vomiting all night (sore chest and back muscles). I think I ate a nasty Wendy's chicken sandwich earlier that day that caused it all. After throwing up for a couple hours Jess *insisted* on taking me to the ER which I would have vehemently declined if I wasn't pregnant, but figured I probably should be a responsible Mom and at least make sure the babe was okay. Little did I know, even if you are a slightly bit pregnant they rush you up to Labor and Delivery, put monitors on, start IV's, etc...Needless to say this really freaked Jess out, but I was kinda like...ok people this is going way too far...I am just throwing up! After being on the monitors for 2 hours (baby's HR was a good 150 the whole time), getting blood samples done, and throwing up a bunch of water, the nurse came in and told me the doctor was "sending me home". I was oh so kindly reminded the REAL reasons I should come into L&D (premature labor, water breaks, etc...) in which I felt really stupid!!! Oh well, I guess better safe than sorry...I am now just wondering how much my bill is going to be...

The joys of life

You know what I have finally realized makes life so much easier? Just going with the flow! I am such an organized person, I usually get quite miffed when my plans are ruined or rearranged. Today was a crazzzzzy day that did not go according to my planner at all:

1. Went to my ob checkup: they lost my glucose test and hematocrit results. The nurse kindly told me "it's not a big deal...we'll just do it again!" Ya, not a big deal...that stuff is sick.
2. Decided to get the H1N1 vaccine last minute. My sil Rachel told me yesterday the health department was giving them out today.....2 HOURS in line, a bunch of crying kids, and one sore shoulder later....
3. Jess's car battery died when he was on his lunch break so my super sweet kia had to come to the rescue with all its power to bail him out.
4. After class this evening I walked all the way down the hill of death to my car that was parked WAYYYY off campus to find out my keys are not in my backpack but in the computer lab WAYYYY on campus.
5. Sore hips, pinched sciatic nerve, and a pregnancy waddle to add to the mix.

BUT life is good. I am home. Got a LOAD of homework to do.

P.S. The silver lining: the nurse called me back and they found my glucose/hct results and they are both normal! Wahoo!

Just a couple things.....

28-week pregnant shot. I am still feeling as good as always. I don't really like looking at these pictures, so I will refrain from commenting.

Jess and our sweet niece Payton. We love her.


Jess had a mustache contest at work where I totally thought he would win!!! BUT...I guess the other guys at his work grow a pretty mean stache, so he didn't win the 100 dollar prize. He looks so creepy. and mexican.

Update on life: Still in school, but on the bright side I am half-way done with the semester!

I don't like getting big

Ok, so to catch up with some of our August/September milestones:

We had our 2nd Anniversary on August 16th. Jess and I splurged on a new sectional because we totally deserved it for being married 2 years and all :-) I hope you like the lack of decorations on the wall...I am officially boy-cotting decorating due to my indecisive attitude. I already got sick of my pillows I made in my last post.



And even though I keep telling my husband that I really don't care for flowers...I secretly do and I was so happy when he got them for me.



Jess turned 29! Happy Birthday to Jess! We went out to Los Hermanos with a bunch of friends and then had a family party for him.





His lovely wife gave him a Braves hat and a cool preppy vest...he thought I was going to be lame and just get him a tie.



This is me at 24 weeks...I look freaking huge!!! It's disgusting actually...gaining "good" weight is a mental mind warp and I don't like it at all. On the good side though, the babe is alive a kicking (literally)and I only have 16 weeks to go (ONLY 16...how much bigger am I seriously going to get?).



We also started school about 3 weeks ago and life is already crazy! I just finished my labor and delivery rotations at the hospital and was really disgusted and not looking forward to getting all liquidy when my turn comes...gross.