a story so far of A big life change :)

after my race last October i took a month off from running because of some really bad pain's the week after that time of the month, i had been having after i had started running just about everyday. it was the kind of pains that made me end up at the Dr. getting blood tests and a ultrasound (to look for and abscess) before my race. well 800 dollars or so later there was nothing found, Dr. Gatherum said if the pain persisted then i needed to go in for an exploratory surgery. not really wanting to do that i just pushed through the pain till my race was over. i took a month off and BAM no pain, what the heck. all i had been doing was trying to be healthy and my body just didn't like it.

i was freaking myself out for sure. Justin and i started talking about wanting to grow are family and after not finding anything bad from all the tests we had to try :) i downloaded a girly app, some help from a good friend and the month after my race we found out that everything works just fine, in other words WE'RE PREGNANT !!!!!

I'm in the middle of my 8th week now and thought i would start keeping a journal-ing of everything so i wouldn't forget to write about it later. everyone says that you will be more like your sisters than your mom was, for me that sucked. Kasey was sick a lot but i  guess my mom was never sick. so far i feel like i have a lump in my throat all the time but i haven't been sick (knock on wood) i was reading on my app that there can be triggers that make you feel sick and a big one for me is hair. i almost can't stand to have the dog's by me and if i see a fuzzy or small hair on food i feel sick and have to trash it. also i have been having a hard time with the Christmas tree and wreath on the front door, i think it's the smell of the pine (no thank you). thank goodness Christmas was yesterday and the tree is going outside tomorrow :) also i feel like my house is so gross two day's ago i went through all of our food and threw a bunch out and wiped everything down. (the problem is my house is clean trust me i clean every lightly 2 or 3 times and 1 deep clean a week, my visiting teachers didn't even know we had two dog's. so i hope this is not just me this happens to)
and other than being exhausted all the time i don't feel any different and i don't think it will really hit me until we hear a heartbeat or see it on the screen. our first appointment is January 8th and I'll be 10 weeks. the only thing that sucks about keeping our first a secret is that i know nothing about being pregnant and i can't really ask people HA

01/08/14
Today was our first appointment! it's so crazy that to think by Justin's birthday I'll be out of my first trimester.
so Monday and Tuesday i was all over anything i could find about first appointments and ten weeks. to be honest everything i found about what we were going in to do was a lot of things we didn't do. i knew there was a chance i was going to need to pee in a cup so thankfully i drank something as we walked out the door, so i thought i was good. we got there and i did some paper work and saw Mrs. Liz and her hubby, she said she was a week late and going to get induced tomorrow, she also look confused. :)  then we saw a girl that used to work at kfc with her baby and baby daddy. it was kinda crazy that i thought going at 8:45 would lessen our chances of being seen by people we know lol. when the nurse brought us back and i did my weight she was saying usually they would have me pee but because we were looking at the baby today i needed a full bladder. WHAT!!! nothing or the office said nothing of this ultrasound, i was freaking out. did i even drink enough to do any good ? we went over paper work and talked about the blood tests i would get and then they turned off the lights. i was so glad that i had drank just enough, and that i had Justin come with me. i almost told him it would just be maybe a  heartbeat and a bunch of boring stuff, no need to come with. but when they popped our baby up on the screen his face light up, it was very sweet. we also found out we are not having twins, take that Dave! ha the Dr. said i was measuring right on for Aug 4th at 10 weeks and 3 days.  i do have to add that once Justin really took a min to think of our due date (in church) he looked up celebrity birthdays to see who was born that day, the really funny thing is it's Jeff Gordon's birthday. lol i so can't believe that i just so happens that it's freaking Justin's all time favorite nascar driver birthday on our due date.

1/26/14
as soon as i hit 12 weeks to the day i started to get my energy back, in fact three days later i pulled out the leaf rake and raked the dead grass ( 90% of the snow in our yard was melted and there was still leafs all over from fall) the next day i felt the effects of "working out" in my abs since i ran my race. speaking of races i read a blog post from a sister that was in one of our married student wards maybe two or three years ago today about her birth story from her first born. funny that her dr had asked if giving birth was the hardest thing she had ever done and her reply kills me, she told him after running half marathons giving birth was nothing, so that right there eases my mind immediately about that. i know it's different for everyone, right now other then me there are two other girls that are prego at kfc and one with twins at the orthodontist office. also Justin turns 30 tomorrow!!!!

2/5/14
we've hit week fourteen!!! we got to hear the heartbeat today, it was a really short appointment. it was kinda funny though Justin left for work and said if he only had one morning job then he would come to the appointment but he would have to see when he gets to work. so we both took off, i got to the Dr and they started having me fill out paperwork for after the baby's born, and then they brought me back and took my weight and i had to pee in a cup and when i went back to my room Justin was sitting in there and scared the crap out of me. the Dr was able to find the heartbeat right off and everything sounded great. we have our paper for our ultrasound it Say's it's for 18 weeks which will be the same week as my next appointment but the Dr said we could go the week before but just to let him know.we really want a boy and Justin's got it in his head that we're going to go in and it's going to be laying flat on it's back with a winner pointing right out there to see.


3/8/14
so I'm a little behind lol ... Feb 28 we got our "big ultra sound" it was very interesting nothing like how people or even YouTube makes it seem. i do admit we were the last  appointment on a Friday but that was the only thing that could work so that Justin could make it after work. we have been hoping for a boy pretty much the whole time we have been married good ol 6 1/2 years. when it came time for us to find out what we were having she asked what we were hoping for and i said a boy she looked back at her monitor and said well you should have wish for a girl because that's what your having. also Justin couldn't hear the whole time so he had no clue what was going on other then when she typed girl on the screen. lets just say that was a rough night, we knew no matter what as long at it was healthy everything would be fine. it's now been just over a week and we have five good size wash loads of girl clothes from Kasey. also bows, blankets, toys, tub and bibs. she is the best sister ever :) we also got a swing, diapers and a few onesies from my parents and the guy they got the swing  from should be bringing us a rocker/ napper this coming weekend. now just to find a crib and some decorations for the room :) also i started feeling her move Wednesday afternoon and a little here and there since then. getting excited two more weeks till half way

4/30/14
26 weeks- so far other than the shorten breath and the pinched nerve in my hip life's been pretty good. i am still felling self conscious about my growing belly. she's been getting some good kicks in and wiggling all over. at our appointment today the Dr was trying to get a heart rate and she did such a good kick that he had to start nocounting over lol. now we're looking forward to our blood tests in two weeks. we get to have our diabetes test, our awesome Rh factor shot and to check to see if I'm anemic. we also picked out a car seat and when we finally had the money for it the company ran out but i just found out that they would be getting more in stock latter this spring. now that taxes are paid and I've been picking up shifts when they come back out we should be able to get it :)  then we will have the crib left. we are getting so excited we can't wait for our Lil girl to come :

                                27 weeks