"I'd say 8"

So, yesterday, the 24th James and I went in to see my doctor and get another ultrasound...THE ULTRASOUND. And wouldn't you like to know what we are having?! Well...okay....

Yes..YOU ARE SEEING BLUE!

(yes, you are SEEING blue...but is that really what you are seeing?)

But maybe we should look closer...

Can you read that balloon?

 IT'S A GIRL!!!

Well...as the doctor says..."I'd say 8 out of 10 it's a girl." When He was doing the ultra sound, he turned to me and said, "I'm not seeing a whole lot here.  Is that a good thing or bad thing?" And I quickly said, "it's a bad thing. I wanted to know what we were having so I could trick my parents with the gender we find out today." Dr. Hall looked at James, and James looked at Him and then Dr. Hall turned to me and said, "I'm saying, I think it's a girl. I see 2 lines right here..." WOW! A GIRL! We had thought boy, boy, boy. (well, until lately when I started second guessing myself) Dr. Hall kept saying, "ya, i'm thinking girl." So I turned to him and said, "On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being definite..." And he said "8!" SO, for now we are saying girl!!! James was kind of disappointed because he was expecting it to be 100% and the appointment to be more 'clear.' We will go back in 4 weeks and check again and get a 100%. (unless I can convince him to take me to fetal photo and take a peek earlier)  Since it's an 80% we are looking and talking girl but not buying until next month when we know for sure. And once we do...it's going to be SO MUCH FUN SHOPPING FOR A GIRL!!!

NOW to clarify why all the blue... 
A few weeks ago, I found out that my parents were taking Kelli and Scotty to San Fransisco for 3 days...and to take them to go see Wicked. If anyone knows me, you know how I love music and musicals, and if and when I have time, want to participate in musicals. Well, yes I was extremely jealous! (Oh, did I tell you Jana wasn't invited either?) So, when I found out that they were going to be gone during over the 24th...during THE ULTRASOUND...I told my lovely Mother that I wouldn't tell her over the phone what we find out at the doctor appointment. She wasn't too thrilled about that one! But at the same time I wanted to tell my parents in a cool way what the gender of our baby is because I wasn't able to them I was pregnant in a cool way.  (I was too anxious and couldn't wait...I had to tell them right away...lamely, over the phone) Anyways. Jana and I plotted together and came up with making them think I was having a boy! (hence all the blue) I have a good friend who tricked her parents with blue balloons and had the one that said 'it's a girl.' So I copied that! Then Jana and I made a cake. We used a white cake mix but dyed the mix pink then frosted the outside blue.  When my parents came in my mom saw blue and freaked! She was like "BOY!"
 

 (She is SO excited!!)

And I went along with it just laughing. Then she stopped and said, "GIRL? What, that balloon says girl.  Are you have a girl or boy?" I smiled and just laughed and laughed.  I told her I didn't know.  I went on to tell her what the doctor said and she was like, "that's great, so what are you having?" I said, "wait. I haven't told you yet?!" (still laughing) and she abruptly said "NO!" So we told them (mom, dad, scotty and kelli) to cut the cake and they saw PINK! It's true...GIRL!!!

 (This is the cake and the ultrasound picture we set up)

Jana bought me this SUPER HOT, Juicy Couture outfit for our girly girl!
Love love LOVE IT!

 (I wish you could really see it...and I wish I had a picture of the back so you could see the cute ruffles on the bum)
 

 
Oh, and have you seen my baby belly yet?

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(It grows at night....)

 

YaY for being a mommy soon...

Well September 15th to be exact

Oh and side note: James is going to be the cutest  Daddy to our little girl.  The way he acts towards our little sunbeam girl...precious. I cannot wait!!

{Hi baby}

Hi Baby

I just want to let you know you confuse me.

For the past 14 weeks you've hated chicken...

Chicken soup

baked chicken

the smell of chicken

anything and everything chicken you've hated.

Well yesterday, you decided to make me nauseated all day

and then....

THEN

YOU WANTED CHICKEN

..seriously  - - - -CHICKEN!?

So I drove to Chick-fil-A...

IN SANDY

And got you some chicken.

And you enjoyed it.

You enjoyed every, single bite.

But now...just thinking about it...you want me to throw up.

I'm just saying to make up your mind...

I get confused throughout the day.

And I rather be done being sick.

So when you are ready to enjoy food again.

Let me know...it'll make me happy.

Thanks so much.

Love me

A baby story

This all started 6 years ago...

Some of you may know that I have been struggling with my health since I was 16.  I was in and out of hospitals, going to doctor to doctor, and surgery after surgery and test after test because of these sharp abdominal pains.  Years later,  I was diagnosed with an 'auto-immune disease' but they didn't know what it was exactly.  I was taking 12 prescriptions a day to help calm these flairs I would...ya, it didn't work.

It just so happened that my G.I. doctor was wrong with her diagnoses.  It was January of 2009 when I went into the ER due to some crazy bleeding.  With some other tests done, and another surgery...I was diagnosed with endometriosis.  I was so happy to finally have a true diagnoses, and know how to deal with it.

I started on birth control, but that didn't seem to help any.  I went through a series of lupron shots.  This was the worst 6 months ever! James can even testify!!  My body was pretty much going through menopause to calm down the endometriosis.  I was moody, depressed, and not my typical self.  But all in all, it seemed to help out my terrible symptoms and I have been able to live with my endometriosis.

Well, before James and I got married I called up my Gyno doctor to let him know how I was doing and if there was anything special that needed to be done before I got off my parents insurance. :) We talked for a bit and then He asked me when we thought we would start our little family.  I quickly said that we'd probably start trying after a year and half, so we'll have a baby just after 2 years of marriage.  He seriously stopped me before I finished that sentence and said, 'You'll want to be pregnant before your one year mark of being married.' He went on to tell me that because of my endometriosis I have a harder time getting pregnant and that I might not be able to have kids.  He also said that the older my body gets, the hard it will be for me to have kids.  But that on the bright side, my endometriosis symptoms would disappear while I was pregnant and while I was breastfeeding.

That was something hard to grasp for me and James.  We were only a few weeks before we got married, and we now knew we might not be able to have kids. Luckily, we were very very blessed.

We found out we were pregnant the first week in January.  Although I knew I was pregnant the week before because my body felt sooo good! I didn't have the usual body aches and cramping.

I kept taking those all a dollar tests and they were always negative.  I KNEW I WAS PREGNANT but the stupid test was NEGATIVE. I finally went to target and bought the expensive EPT test and took it and it was...

 

POSITIVE!

I was on the phone with Jana while I read the results because I didn't know what to expect and James was at school and of course, left his phone on his dresser! I told Jana, there is a faint vertical line that makes the cross. I remember her saying...'YOU ARE SO PREGNANT!'

 

Me on the phone with Jana...

SO EXCITED!!

I then jumped in the car and headed to good old Ross.  I bought 2 newborn outfits...

A baby boy outfit

and...

 

A baby girl outfit

and...

wrapped it up for James to open when he got home from class.

When he got home, he saw the package and asked what it was.  I told him it was something that finally arrived for him that I got him for our 6th month anniversary.  He untied the bow and opened the box and found the baby outfits.  All he could say was, 'what's this?' and 'are you serious?', 'no way?!' (i'm sure he meant that in a good way) :)

 

oh so excited!!

and oh so shocked!!!

You see, we had gone to the Temple in December and received a good feeling that we should try to start our family...and it only took us a month...instead of 4 like we were expecting.  (you can see why we..especially James was shocked)

We are seriously so excited and feel SO blessed.  We thank out Heavenly Father every night for the blessing we have to be able to have a family.  

We had our first ultrasound at 8 weeks and we were able to see the heartbeat.  Okay, I couldn't ...I felt like this during the doctor's appointment...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgPwHlFZ3u8&feature=related 

Last week I went in at 12 weeks and had another ultrasound. I love that my doctors does an ultrasound every time I go see him! It was so fun seeing our baby! My doctor was, 'you should be able to see the baby move this time...or A LOT.' Cuz right when He said that, our baby was seriously doing crunches i my belly! It's feet were moving along with it's hands! I fell completely in love at that very moment!

I am excited for March 24th at 10:30 because we will find out if it is a boy or girl! We are sooo excited!!! I'm ready to say Him or Her or He or She!! YAY!!