Random Fun Pregnancy Photos

1st time I noticed that I couldnt see my feet when i looked down


1st time someone told me I had the pregnancy glow


headed to one of our doctor appointments


Ava coming with us to a doctor appointment


Olivers first piece of mail


Some cravings I have






Madi giving Oliver a hug


Family pic



At Aunt Kathy's graduation


Elizabeth and Cooper with Oliver and I


Swollen Feet



After Laura's shower


GA sits on Oliver

week 30 pics

Week 30 pics were taken with a tear or two...haha

On Sunday i asked Daniel to take my week 30 pics later that night... He was about to start playing a video game and i was watching Kourtney and Khloe so i told him to wait... He went back to the living room and watched football.. i pranced out there ready for my pics and he ANGLED the camera up to take them... he stayed seated... OMG!! ok i thought it was pretty common knowledge that you do not angle a camera up to take a picture of me ESPECIALLY at 30 weeks pregnant!!! Well apparently a gentle friendly reminder of my number one cardinal rule was needed and instead i stormed off with some smart comment and caused a huge ordeal...

ahhhh hormones... so then this became so much bigger than the pictures.. i was upset that he wasnt excited to see how big i have gotten, that i do so much for this pregnancy and he couldnt stand up, he suddendly in my mind became unapproachable... haha... these things are so random.. i would be totally weirded out and offended if he was snapping photos of my growing body for comparison, he has done nothing but housework in order to make me rest, and he is probably too approachable which probably attributes to many of mindless conversation he endures for me... but at this moment in time all of that didnt exist.. :)

my poor husband... i have two thoughts on this... 1. He must already really love Oliver because he hasnt killed me and 2.We will never get a divorce... if he hasnt left me by now i think were golden!!

So enjoy our week 30 photos!!

you can kind of tell i had been crying

i know you can see some chub in this pic but i wasnt about to ask for a retake

My Hair

So i am terrible with hair and makeup.. this is the one thing that makes me not so super girly and i hate it... i want to know how to do all the latest tricks, i want to spend time on it but i dont and i dont know why... im scared to say it but it just might be that im lazy! :( ohh that was rough to say!

Well lucky for me i have access to a professional.. who for the record if your asking.. is actually good at this stuff.. haha.. that was an inside joke sorry! Well i cannot believe that this professional was seen in public with me the last couple of months... you see when i got pregnant i thought this would be a great time to stop dying my hair from the box (the $2.97 box mind you... im cringing again buy admitting that) and let it grow out and get back to my natural color.. see i wasnt dying my hair to be a different hair color i just couldnt match my roots anymore! well that worked for as long as i could handle it and just when all the box dye i thought faded... summer came and bleached my hair.... so since summer i have been trying to let the sun fade out of my hair and i ended up with BRASS... my head was quite similar to a beautiful brass door knob.. cute on door.. horrible on my head...

now i was cheap (haha.. as opposed to before when i was slurging on the $2.97 hair dye!!!.. haha) ... with the countdown at the top of this blog my main priority in life i have been cutting back and saving any way i can... except for one area and this is how i know im selfless enough for motherhood.. i still found money for most of the things daniel wanted to do.. yes i told him no here and there but i usually found money to let him do what he wanted, no matter what i had planned with our extra cash we have for the week.. i know... this sounds insane... well i finally had had enough with my hair and knew i was ready to spend some money on me..

these are awful pics of my hair cause i just went in the restroom and took some snapshots of my head (very quickly before someone came in with questions, haha)... so here is my new hair.. i have to admit.. getting ready this morning for work made me feel so much better...

so thank you danielle.. you know how much i appreciate it since all i have talked about the past month was ways to make me feel better looking as large and as swollen (well not since the dehydration) as i have been... i will say that we had quite the girls day too... Errands, Lunch and hair.. it was exactly what i needed!! :)

i warned you that they were not very good pictures!

Blogs i want to write

I love lists so i am making a list of blogs i want to write so i can get around to them

3d ultrasound (check)
my husband compliment (short but memorable)
a peek inside my life (copying jenn)
Oliver's room still in progress
30 week pics (check)
my thoughts and lessons on girlfriends
my new hair (TUESDAY!!!!) (check)
my prego belly pics

3D Ultrasound

i love his big cheeks


mommy is not happy about this one!

this one is precious!! i can see his hand, fingers and
thumb and i can also see his face with his big ole mouth wide open

this one i can see at least 3 of his chins!

Intentionally

I am titling this blog intentionally because i feel it really sums up a life lesson me and Daniel learned this week... I intentionally have been meaning to blog all week about all this different topics that were coming to my mind.. the random picture of my house, the progress on Oliver's room, my thoughts on my current friendships (yes i was about to get pretty deep) and i had a few more ideas stremaing through my mind... Well those were my intentions and as any parent knows your child may have different plans for your "intentions"... so my now my blog is about THURSDAY!!!!!

So all week i have been feeling sick with some type of stomach bug... i have been trying to dirnk plenty of fluids because i know that with a stomach bug is it easy to get dehydrated and i was trying to avoid that... By the time Thursday came around i knew something was wrong or getting worse... i had every symptom of dehydration that i found on wedmd so i called the doctor for advice... they recommended some ideas, clear liquids, no pedialite, start kick counts, and call tomorrow if i still have symptoms... so i went on about my day...

a little side note about my day... i looked really nice.. i had a cute fall outfit on and actual shoes cause my feet werent like bricks (i wonder if they weren's swollen cause i was dehydrated?? hmm)

well i was at work and walking down a hallway and i totally slipped!!! i mean i slipped to the ground... i was pretty graceful about the whole situation and i landed in a full on split and hopped immediately back up to avoid any more embrassement... i felt fine.. my knee was throbbing and like i said i was embarassed but i was ok... i called the doctor when i returned to my office just to seek advice and see if anything could be wrong... i got the same diagnosis... pay attention to my body and perform kick counts.. i had this urky feeling in the back of my mind that something felt different but i couldnt pinpoint what...

so i go through the rest of my day... counting Oliver's every move and poking him to get him to move more frequently.. I go home and order pizza and a dessert for me and daniel to have a relaxing evening together... (and everyone would be so proud, i was actually relaxing!!). We put on the tv and are eating dinner and i had been having a side cramp for about an hour or two that was very mild and i thought it was just another ache and pain of pregnancy.. well then the pain was getting more and more intense and i had to grab my side, then it was coming and going and i couldnt even concentrate on the tv or eating... i decided to get up and call Daniels mom (a nurse) just to see what she thought... no sooner did i give her all the details of my situation did the pain cause me to not event be able to concentrate on her response.. i gave the phone to daniel and got dressed.. we were going to the ER.

We are trying to rush out the door... scrambling to get the last few bites of dinner down, get a drink, jacket, etc... And my precious sweet scared to death husband is a nervous wreck... he put his jacket on with a piece of pizza in his hand and got food all over his sleeve, he put his drink in the car and missed the cup holder and spilt it everywhere... haha... it was the most precious thing i had ever seen.. so.. we are on our way to the hospital and daniel drives so fast and so quiet.. i can tell all these thoughts must have been running through his head of whats happening.. i was in too much pain to realize what might actually be going on.. then my poor mom calls.. i have no idea what she said on the phone to me... i just know that it was very important that i mask my voice and tell her we are just going to go by the er and get checked out after all the days events...
we get to the er and walk inside where they immediately get every ER person to assist me.. it was either because we had insurance or because they were dealing with a pregnant lady... they ask us all kinds of questions and then rush us over to labor and delievery.. we get checked in there and get put in an examination room...

the nurse has me put on a gown and runs a bunch of tests... she hooks me up to the machine where they put the belt around you to see contractions and to see the babys heartbeat... it shows that i actually am having contractions and my blood pressure and Oliver's heartbeat is through the roof... she calls our doctor on call and steps out of the room and then i begin to start throwing up... i am trying so hard to get daniel to step away but he is so amazing and stays there right with me... i KNOW that was so hard for him.. he does not do well with this stuff... the pain right now is unbeliveable and its spreading to my back... the nurse comes back in and tells us that they are going to keep us overnight!!! it has never dawned on me when we left the house that we wouldnt be back home...apparently the whole day, dehydration plus the shock of the fall caused me to start having contractions... they wanted to give me some medicine to stop the contractions, treat the pain and give me some iv fluids... this is when daniel stepped outside to call our parents..

the nurse got my iv all set up... (which has left me with a huge bruise down my arm).. then they brought us to our room in the antepartum section of hospital... the room was actually really nice..they had a pretty nice pull out bed for daniel... once we were in the room the nurse set up those belts to monitor Oliver all night long... and admistered me some medicine through IV's... i was starting to feel alot less pressure and even though i was still having contractions i could no longer feel them... so we relaxed and watched tv and finally fell asleep.. the nurse came in probably about every half hour throughout the night to adjust the heart monitor because Oliver was moving like CRAZY.... i will quote the nurse "he is out of control"... that statement got me thinking that that was proabably not the last time someone will tell me that about him!!! hmmm.
the next morning the doctor came to see me and checked everything out.. i was having alot of pressure in my back which he said was probably due to the fall but he checked and made sure i wasnt dialting.. everything looked good... and i will have a follow up appointment on tuesday when i have my 30 week appointment.

so were home.. Oliver is safe and snug for hopefully another 10 weeks... it was a huge wake up call and another amazing bonding experience between Daniel and I... We do know now how important it is to really get on our to do list and get everything ready for his arrival...

i know i blabbled on and gave every detail but i always do!! :)

Of course we had to take a picture!!

Belly Pics