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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!!

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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.