HOLY COW

So "morning" sickness has hit today...and it hit hard. I've been having it for about two weeks now, just nausea and heartburn. But today Jaren took me out to Carino's Italian restaurant for their $5.99 unlimited soup, salad, and bread special. I ate two salads and two bowls of awesome potato soup. As we left the restaurant I thought I was going to pass out, puke, and die all at the same time. It was crazy. The drive home was torture too - stop and go, stop and go!

Jaren offered to carry me inside, but I was really fine, just part of being pregnant. I've been laying down for almost two hours now and am finally feeling like I could get up and get a drink. It's funny to me :) I knew that it might get worse and it did! At least some people say that bad morning sickness means less chance of miscarriage!

So today I am 7 weeks and 2 days along. I am so anxious to get into the doctor and our insurance officially starts November 1st!! So I will be going in that week, when I will be about 10 weeks along. Our little baby june bug is the size of a blueberry!! Our babies brain is growing and our little june bug's arms and legs are starting to bud out! Lots of changes with my body!

I'm still excited (even while laying here sick)! I can't wait for morning sickness to die down in the 2nd trimester, which is around November 25th for me. Then I can workout and not feel like I need a throw-up bowl next to me! Also, I'm going to be doing water aerobics too! I've been having a desire to go swimming, but our pool is outside (found out yesterday we have a sister pool that is indoors!!)

So anyway, everyone have a great day!

The most wonderful time of the year...for our family!!

Now that Jaren and I have told everyone in our immediate familes, I figured I would write a blog about our big news!! We went to the doctor to see why I just kept getting sick and finally got an explanation! We are expecting a baby around June 1, 2010!! That is with us just going by what we are guessing. We haven't been in to see a doctor yet - our insurance doesn't kick in for a few weeks. So luckily it gives me more time to pick a good doctor/midwife, but I'm also impatient and want to see the heartbeat and our baby blob!! (baby blob because that's what all early ultrasounds look like lol).

So we found out on October 1 at the doctor - we were checking my thyroid and instead found out this wonderful fact! I was about 5 weeks 2 days then. So here are my "belly bump" pictures so far - or as I call them, my "bloated bump".

Here they are:


5 weeks, 4 days pregnant!


6 weeks pregnant - the most bloated so far!


Today - Me at 7 weeks pregnant - I can finally fit into jeans again!!! I'm hardly bloated at all today - YAY!!

Now I don't mind getting bigger, mainly because I've been exercising to try to get better, and then after finding out, more exercise to stay in shape. So I don't mind getting bigger with a baby belly, but I hate bloating!!! Plus this week my Morning sickness, which for me is mostly at night 11 pm to about 9 am, and it's gotten much worse this week :(

We are very excited about being parents and I'm excited that it will work with school and everything!

On Sunday we told my dad in the morning, before we went to church with him. We brought a jar of prego sauce and told him we had a present for him, which I then held in front of my belly. He was very excited for us! It was also very sad, because my mom is not here to physically share in our joy, but I know that she handpicked our baby for us!! My one fear with being pregnant is that my mom is not here to help me through it...

Sunday on the way home, I called everyone and let everyone know, except my oldest brother who wasn't available, we told him last night!

Last night Jaren and I went over to his parents and made spaghetti for them and did the prego thing too. Then we called around and told everyone else too! It was a ton of fun. I was so tired by the end of the night.

There's so much to write, and oh surprise, I'm already tired!!

So this is my we're Prego post!!

Communication!

I was woken up today around 10:50. Yes that's late, but not for a Saturday, and especially not when I was up all night so sick! I got to sleep around 4:30-5ish, so I was hoping to sleep. Jaren was going to sing with the choir at the football game today (I'm too sick), and he told me 4:00 today, so I was expecting to wake up around noon. Well he forgot to tell me that he had to be there at 11:30 to practice. Then we went all the way over there, I drop him off and leave to go get gas. Then I get a call from him - it's cancelled because of the snow!! UGH. So I drive back and then Blake calls Jaren, who wasn't scheduled for work until 4:30ish, and asks him to come in to work at 12:30! Jaren said ok. I'm not really mad, even though from reading what I just wrote, I do sound upset. I'm actually just lonely!!

Our tv quit working the other day, so now I have to watch movies on the laptop, which is really not cool because it's too close to me! Then this morning Jaren was using our space heater and broke it! Then we have all these gross bugs in our house because we are on the garden level, and since it snowed we have lots of "friends" coming in to visit. Luckily the cats take care of most of them!

I'm still feeling really sick. I keep eating because I really need to be eating more calories per day, but everything is gross to me. Jaren said that he didn't think I was eating enough, so I decided to count up how many calories I was getting and on average, I'd say about 800 - 1,000 calories a day. It's not too bad, but it helps explain why my energy level was almost non-existant.

So I know I'm just rambling on right now, but I'm bored. I bought a new Veggie Tales movie at ARC the other day! We watched it yesterday while making dinner and it was cute. It's called 'Lord of the Beans'.

Excited!

Something's in the air and it's exciting! :)



Sunday is going to be an AWESOME day!! We're going to see my dad for the first time in almost a month! Not quite a month, but it feels like FOREVER!! I'm also loving the little snow flurries that we have been getting :) they are sweet!

One day at a time...

On July 31st, 2009 at 12:15am, my dear, sweet mother Roxane passed away. After a struggle with cancer, diagnosed in March, her body could not take it anymore. My mom was my best friend, so I've been feeling very lost and confused and scared lately. I miss her dearly and wish she was here with us still. I know she is around, not in pain, but I'm only human and still miss her.

In other not as important news, Jaren got a new job that he started this last Tuesday, so he was only out of work for a weekend. We were blessed greatly that he got a job so quickly and at higher pay! He will be a manager Boston Market.

There's not too much to say lately, since I can't organize my own thoughts. We started school last weekend and it's been ok.

Now on to my own health. More of the intense pains...ugh. Also, I've been craving milk like crazy and craving a ton of other things too, and even not knowing what I want a ton of the the time! I've had people joke with me that I'm pregnant or something, but my sister can't have kids, and I might not be able to have kids either. So I have to wait until we get our new insurance to go to the doctor. I will have to do a Laparoscopy surgery to find out for sure.

So for now that's it I guess.

Some updates in our life

This is me at Halloween when I was in 3rd or 4th grade..just thought it was fun


So it sure has been a while...

Since the Bolder Boulder, a lot has happened. My mom's cancer has gotten worse - that's the biggest event. As of yesterday, she was in 10 days. She got better for a day and then got an infection from the emergency colon surgery that they had to do on her. They took out the main tumor, which was blocking things and not letting anything work. But now she can't have chemo for 4 -6 weeks. Also, she'll be starting on new chemo, more harsh than the one she was on, which was pretty bad. Right now she's in the hospital until they can get her pain under control. Until we find out what else to do, prayers help!

That seems to have overshadowed our lives for a while now - my mom's chemo, and now hospital stuff. I've been traveling down to Denver (Aurora) almost every week to clean the house, teach her voice student, and just be here in case I'm needed. It's summer and I'm glad to have the flexible schedule to be able to do this! I know once school starts I'll worry more than I do right now!

Jaren is looking for a new job, one that pays more than the $7.75 he makes now. For where we are living, we just can't afford that low of pay. They promised a raise in December, but surprise surprise the company put a freeze on stuff like that in January. How convenient. Lol. So along with pushing him to find a job, helping my parents, and work, I'm also auditioning for American Idol this Tuesday. Jaren and I went to get our registration stuff today and I'm pretty excited. It's always been a goal/dream of mine to at least audition. If I make it cool, if not then at least I tried, which is the hardest part in my mind!

So much is happening that I've been putting my health on the back burner. For a little over 3 1/2 months I've been having a constant stabbing/radiating pain in my lower left abdominal area. The doctor thought it was my ovary, but after checking it out, she said they were fine. She went through multiple ideas, and tests, nothing. Next came the colonoscopy. It went smoothly and came out normal. This is when I blew up. My mom went with me, before she took a turn for the worse. She said that the nurse came in and said I was completely fine. Apparently I blew up and was crying because she kept telling me that I was fine and nothing should be hurting me.

Abdominal pain is not fun, and it especially sucks because no one can tell me what it is that's hurting me so very much. I try not to talk about it too much because I know that other people are in worse conditions than me, but my sister advised me the other day to not keep holding things in, so I thought I could post about it here. She also made the horrible "joke" that it could be cancer. It's not. I've tried change in diet, exercise, good thoughts, Tai Chi, Yoga, Pilates, anything that will help relieve the pain. Nothing helps except sleep. but of course the fact that I'm writing this at 3 in the morning only shows how much I have not been able to sleep. I try to sleep and I never can. It's so frustrating.

So I'm just going along with life, trying not to complain much, trying to help my family more than anything else. It should be enough for now.