Cute Video

I thought this was pretty funny! If you are a fan of the old school video games you'll love it :)

Thanksgiving Break

We had a great Thanksgiving break. We decided to go down to Vegas to visit my Dad and brother. It was great! The coolest thing we did was go to the Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay on the strip. I had never seen a shark before, and it was so cool. Here are few pictures from the Shark Reef.

On the way home from Vegas, I started having a lot of pain in my left side and it went all the way across my stomach. By the time we stopped in Kaysville to see my mom, I thought I was going to die - literally. So I had to go to the emergency room at Davis Hospital. They were running tests all night, and finally found out that I have hydronephrosis - which means that my kidneys are abnormally swollen and have fluid built up around them. They also found out that I have kidney stones in both of my kidneys. It was a miserable night - but things are getting better, and I'm not in so much pain anymore. Here is a picture of me right before they started doing all of their tests.

Pregnancy Update

I know that some of you have requested a pregnancy update, so here it is!!! I'm 29 weeks along today, and I feel like things have started to get better. Instead of dropping weight like crazy, I'm finally starting to put a little on. I think I'm only down about 33 lbs now, and that's coming back up from 38 lbs lost. The barf count is slowing down too (which I'm thrilled about!!). I've thrown up a total of 105 times now, and hoping that I'm completely done. But, everytime I say that I end up throwing up the next day :( I've been having some problems with my kidney on the right side. I've been having a lot of cramping, and the doctors finally found out the I've got a bunch of fluid building up around my right kidney. It's been causing me a lot of pain, but I have some pain meds to deal with it and it seems to be getting better. Other than that its just been the usual aches and pains that come with pregnancy - achy back, crampy legs, being tired all of the time, etc. Our little baby is moving a ton though!!! She's so cute. However, I think she is finding her way to my ribs - she's kicked them a few times and it's hurt a lot, but I'm more worried about when she starts using my ribs as a foot rest!

Here's a picture of me today - 29 weeks along.

And here is Kirk at 29 weeks. No explanation needed. Sympathy accepted. Oh how I love him!!!

Fall Concert 2008

Here's some pictures of a Band Concert that my Junior High and High School kids recently did. They played great! I just wish that we had bigger numbers. We'll get there though!

Late Halloween Photo

Here's a picture of us being Cavemen on Halloween. Our costumes were a hit!!

Happy voting tomorrow!!!

I thought this was an interesting video.

More Prego Pics

Here is my belly right at 20 weeks along!

Overdue Update

Time for an overdue update. Hopefully this will fill you in on what's been going on!

Can I just say - I love my job! I have always been a band geek, and it's the coolest thing in the world that I get to be in band all day long! And I'm really lucky that I get to deal with such a wide variety of ages. I get to teach 5th-12th grade everyday. Now, it is kind of a hassle to drive to three different schools everyday, but it's worth it. All of the bands are getting better and better, and I get so much support from the community - it's like they think I walk on water! Hopefully I can keep fooling them :) I'm just really lucky that I get to go to my dream job everyday. I'm having a blast!

Okay, now onto some baby updates. I have still been really sick!! I've now thrown up 95 times, and I've lost 38 lbs. This last week was really rough for me. On Tuesday, I started to have really severe pain on the right side of my stomach again, and I was worried it was that blasted ovary! I called the doctor from the school and they told me to come in right away. It turned out to be nothing, and they weren't concerned. But they did happen to do an ultrasound, and we were able to find out the of the baby early!! Drumrole please.................... we are having a little 'girl!! I'm putting a picture in, but nobody seems to understand it. It's upside-down because I think it's easier to see that way. But, just know that the arrow at the bottom is pointing directly to her "girl parts." And the other picture is just a cute one of her profile. I love it.

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I took this quiz online and found out that I'm a Bella! I never really thought of us as similar, but who knows. It was fun!!

Prego pics

I'm really starting to notice a change in the size of my belly recently, so I decided to take some belly shots. This is me right at 16 weeks along. It's pretty exciting, because I'm starting to really feel the baby move! It's not a ton, but last night the baby was going crazy! It made me smile. One of the pictures I have my hand underneath my belly, but you can't see my hand so the dress just looks funny. That's why.

Surgery

On Monday we had a huge scare. About 11:30 in the morning I started to feel some cramps on the right side of my stomach. I always get little cramps, so I wasn't too worried, but the pain started getting worse and worse. I called my doctor and they told me to come in. We went in about 3:30 that afternoon, and the pain was so bad!! The doctor came in and started pushing on my stomach, and trying to figure out what was wrong. That made the pain even worse. So, he told the nurses to draw my and then get an ultrasound to see if they could figure out what was happening. I know it's weird, but ever since I've had a blog I have to take a picture of everything. So, this is a picture of me crying from pain after they took my .


Then, they got an ultra sound of the baby, and the baby was doing just fine. It's now starting to look like a baby, and not some swamp-thing :) Here's the picture of the ultrasound.

After the ultrasound, I don't think that I've ever been in so much pain in my life! I was basically hysterical, and my body was covered in sweat. I started throwing up because the pain was so bad. They knew that they needed to get me into surgery right away. Well, when they cut into my stomach, they realized that my ovary on the right side had completely twisted and the supply was cut off and it was dying. They were able to fix it and now everything should be okay. I'm putting a really small picture that they took while they were inside my stomach. If you want to see it, you can click on it and make it bigger.


I'm not sure what all of the pictures mean, but the one on the bottom right is of my ovary. You can see that it's black and gray - almost completely gone. But, thank goodness they were able to save it, and I'm doing okay now. I feel really tender where they cut into my stomach, and it really hurts to stand up and sit down. I should be much better in the next couple of days. Here is a really bad picture of me, still feeling really groggy, after the surgery was over.

Everything is okay with the baby too. We are so blessed that everything ended up turning out alright. Hopefully pregnancy will be smoother sailing after this.

61

61 is the new number. "New number for what?" you might ask. Well, 61, as of yesterday, is the number of times I have thrown up in about a month and a half!!!! Pregnancy is the pits!! And here is another number for you - 27. That is how many lbs I've lost!!! I'm not as bothered by that number of course :) But, it has made me really worried about how my baby is doing. The baby is doing great!!! The heartbeat is strong, and all is as it should be! My baby is a trooper :)

We had a scare last week. I couldn't stop myself from throwing up, and I knew that something was not right. Luckily, we had a doctors appt on Monday, and they seemed worried about how much weight I'd lost and how dehydrated I was. So, they made me stay there for an extra 2 hours so they could hook me up to an IV and pump some meds and fluids into me. It made me start to feel better, and the week following seemed to go pretty well - I only threw up a few times.

A horrible picture of me hooked up to the IV

My hand with the IV - and my really cute watch ;)

They had to basically put my hand in a cast afterward!!

We are just so glad that the baby is doing okay. I'm 14 weeks along today, so I'm hoping that I will stop being sick anytime now. Well, hopefully before I have to start teaching again in 2 weeks!!

Crazy Husband

My husband was shaving his head, and thought that it would be hilarious to leave a Mohawk!! And not only did he just take a few pictures, he actually left it for three whole days!! We only went out in public once together, and I was dying the whole time. He thought it would be great to wear a BYU-Idaho t-shirt while he had this crazy hair!!

Sometime I don't even know what to do with him!! :)

Tanner

We were so lucky to have our nephew Tanner come and visit us!! He lives in Pennsylvania, and flew out here to spend some time with his favorite Uncle Kirk!! We had such a blast having him here, and were exhausted by the time he left :) I'm just going to put a bunch of pictures of what they've been doing to whole time he's been here.

Here are a bunch of pictures of Tanner and Kirk at Lagoon - they did the skycoaster and the catapult!

They went golfing, and I decided to just ride along with them. I felt like a crazy lady on that golf cart!!!


They bounced back to Lagoon later in the week. Here are a few pictures from that

Here is Tanner with his 2nd favorite uncle Brett :)Tanner feeling sick and tired after too many rides!

We had so much fun with Tanner here!! It was a party for a whole week! We hope that he comes to visit us every summer!

Melaleuca Picnic

Today is one of our favorite days of the year, because it was the Melaleuca Picnic!! (side note - Melaleuca is a company that both Kirk and I work part time for.) We love it because there are fun games, a bunch of free food, and they do a huge prize drawing at the end. (another side note - we didn't win anything this year!! we were bummed.)

I had to get a picture of this - they have about 50 actual pigs that they cook and lay out on a table like this, and just scoop some of their parts on to your plate. Meat really grosses me out right now, so it was hard for me to even take this picture!

Kirk and I in line for a three-legged race. We totally rocked! Okay, well we didn't win or anything, but they did give us free movie tickets just for doing it!

We went to the picnic with our good friends the Jensen's. This is Kirk and McKay with a huge piece of the pig from the first picture hanging out of his mouth. Yuck.

Kirk, getting ready to kick some butt in a gunny-sack race! Okay, he didn't win this time either - but it was hilarious just to watch him!! And luckily, I got a video of the whole thing. I'm sure that he is going to love that this is on our blog :)

I love that he tried to put on his hat over that huge wig! We had a great time at the Picnic today!

Memory Tag

So, I may have stolen this from my friend Sami's blog, but I thought that it was such a great idea. And it was really fun to read the memories that people were leaving in the comments. So, think hard and leave a memory!!

1. Add a comment of a memory you have of the 2 of us together...it can be a recent memory or a memory of way back

2.Add these instructions to your own blog and wait for the memories to roll in!

Miss Utah

We had a great weekend! It was the Miss Utah pageant, and my sister had to give up her crown. A lot of our family was there, and it was awesome to spend some time with them.

A blurry picture of Kirk with our cute nephew Cameron. Kirk can always get him to smile and laugh. It was great.

This is my brother Mitch. I had to get a picture of him in this outfit - It was my parade marching uniform in High School and I'm so glad that he's in Marching Band!! Way to go Vibraphone!!

Kirk at the Gateway mall wearing some way hot sunglasses :)

It doesn't look like anyone can pull off these sunglasses - even you, Brad

Kirk and I just outside Capital Theater before the pageant started.
Our camera started to freak out - so the rest of the pictures are a little blurry.

Kirk with my brothers Brad and T.J.

Me and my Dad - He drove up from Las Vegas

Me and my brother Brad - I kind of look like I'm on :)

This is a video of me and my brother's and Jill singing during the pageant :) We grew up singing barbershop with eachother, and it was nice to perform together again! We only got about half the song because our camera is retarded!!