9 weeks..

I came home today after working late, to find my husband cooking dinner and doing laundry. I appreciate everything Ryan has done for me, he is the best. the hamburger was great going down but not so great coming back up a few hours later lol

I'm a hot mess and so is our house. I go day by day whether I can eat or not, if I do my hair and makeup or not and if I can stay all day at work or not.

But I'm not going to complain as long as the babies are doing good. I have Ryan who is such a help and a good cleaning lady to keep my house sane :)

We have hopefully our last ultrasound with Dr Shapiro tomorrow and then I am really hoping I am able to stop taking some of the medicines and work on getting released from him. We will see!

Raspberries..

We are 8 weeks today, and the babies are the size of raspberries, we went to my OB Dr. Martin for our first appointment today. I'm not released from Dr. Shapiro yet but because we were having twins and didn't want a gap at all we called up and Dr Martin wanted to see us. I love him! I have been going to him for 10+ years and he is so happy for us! He measured both babies and said everything looks great!

I thought once I was done with the Fertility Center that I would be a normal pregnant woman going once a month...ummm nope. Dr. Martin said since I am having twins, we had to do IVF and they are my first I am automatically high risk and we need to go to a high risk Dr. also. He said the longest I will go between doctors appointments is 2-3 weeks. One good thing is I will get a ultrasound every month at the high risk Dr. so we will get to see the babies a lot!! Our first appointment with them will be wen I 12 weeks maybe we will get a gender sneak peak :)

I also talked to Dr. Martin today about a vaginal birth. I really want one if I can. He gave me some rules to even consider. 1. I have to have a epidural in case they have to do a emergency c-section (no complaints here!) 2. I have to deliver in the OR not in my room in case of a c-section 3. I have to deliver at Summerlin because of the NiCu and because they have a doctor on call 24-7 who would be able to help him monitor the 2nd baby while I'm in labor. He did say with my stature if any baby is breech deal is off and I go to automatic c-section. Only time will tell that, but I'm hoping for vaginal.

Also, I am sooo sick. The babies are killing me. I threw up so hard I threw out a muscle in my back so sharp shooting pains coarsing down my back while I throw up. So horrible. I finally was able to get zofran after my last ultrasound where they saw the heartbeats. It's helping but not taking it all away. I'm also wearing the sea bands (thanks Kristen!). Lets hope when I am off all my meds and out of 1st trimester the sickness is over!

Overall we are just so happy and so blessed. We are almost to the safe zone, and everytime I get to see the babies and see them growing it becomes more real. Since I will only be able to go to 36-37 weeks we only really have 6- 6-1/2 months!

Time is going to fly by and then the real craziness will begin, but I don't care because I will finally be a mommy. :)

Photo Bomb..

I feel like all I have posted about is the babies.. and while that is a big chunk of our life right now we have done other things I haven't given any attention to.

 

So this post is a photo bomb of the last month or two NON baby related!

 

Labor Day Weekend - Parowan 2012

 

Ryan and I were able to go up to Parowan with my parents over Labor Day weekend this year.   Josh had to work and Matt decided to stay back with Josh, so we left the dogs with the boys and headed up to St. George.  

 

We were able to go out to dinner with my parents at Outback (PS the Outback in St. George. best.outback.ever ask for the rasberry butter with your bread ahhhmazing) before Ryan and I headed off to go to Aladdin at Tuachan.  I didn't bring a camera so sorry no pictures, but it was good.  No Abu the monkey which made me sad but monkey's don't talk to I guess I get it.

 

Saturday morning we packed up and headed to Parowan,  the boy's went for a ride (dang pregnancy wouldn't let me),  my cousin's fished in the pond down the street,  and we went to the annual pancake breakfast and parade.   I love this weekend.  I love Parowan.  My parents actually have a lot right around the corner from my aunt.  My dad is making rumblings of starting to do something to it so we might be able to go up more :)

 

Here's a few pics from the weekend

 

 

Other happenings:

 

My parents bought Ryan and I tickets to Wicked at the Smith Center here in Vegas for our anniversary.   We went with them on September 13th.   The Smith Center was beautiful and the play was AWESOME.  I loved it.  I didn't love getting sick the last hour and puking in my front yard when I got home but I loved the play.   My parents are such amazing thoughtful people and I am glad we were able to experience this with them.

 

My pictures are NOT good.  We had the picture nazi behind us who would not let us take pictures inside the theater.  Meanwhile 5 rows down people were taking picture after picture and she didn't say anything.  How rude :)

 

 

 

Random pictures:

 

Zoey drooling and panting like crazy on a drive to Petco in a COOL AIRCONDITIONED car.  She is a nut

 

 

A picture of my friend Nycole on a tour we took where we had to wear hard hats.

 

 

A Pzookie from Josh's birthday dinner with the family at BJ's.  I love the Pzookies there!

 

And okay one thing baby.  I bought them their first matching jammies!  (it's gender neutral people so no matter what sex they can wear)

I also got a new church calling,  I was called to be the Beehive Advisor.  I am VERY excited about this calling.  So excited that I stayed up to make them cookies (which I made fit into the lesson) so they will like me,  even though cooking anything makes me sick right now.   I was NOT good in Young Womens,  I was not nice to my Beehive Advisor.  In my defense she was not cool and really mean and snotty,  but I was a brat.  I am hoping to bring some of my own situations into the class to help them not make the same mistakes I made.   I am not going to say I would do it differently because then I wouldn't be who I am and be married to the amazing man I am married to. But I do hope to help the girls not struggle like I did.



And I think it was worth it.  The lesson went great,  I even cried and they said my cookies were delicious :)