{11 and 12 Weeks}

Overall, this week has been pretty good. My nausea is subsiding. I am still having heart burn and I am constantly tired. Some days I will wake up at 6:45am and by 8:30 I am exhausted. During work, on my lunch brake I would go and sleep in the back room with our sleeping kids for a half hour. When I wake up, I feel even more tired and ready for a 2nd nap.

What the little thing is up to...
It is just over 1 1/2 inches long and about the size of a fig, and is now almost fully formed. Its already busy kicking and stretching, and it's tiny movements are so effortless they look like water ballet.


I am now at 12 weeks and it has been a hard week. Monday morning I wake up and I had barely any energy. At 7:30am I was on the coach taking a nap. I woke up at 8:30am to take my hubby to work and I was still feeling like a snail. I came home and crashed on the coach. I thought to my self, "If I feel better around lunch time I will go to work." But as the day went by I was exhausted by just lying there. I ended up taking another nap and relaxing on the couch. I really believe that my sweet little baby was telling me to slow down, you over did it during the weekend and you need to take care of me. I have learned my lesson and I will take it slow.

On Tuesday I went to work, but around 10:30am I started to notice that my stomach was cramping and it felt really tight. I got scared so I called my OB/GYN and they made an apt. for 2:10pm. When I started to tell Pat and Dana (ladies I work with) about what was going on I started to cry and the thought ran though my head that it was the start of me losing the baby. My mom came with me to the doctor and the doctor mentioned that my urine test came back negative for a urine tract infection. She then said that all I was feeling was my uterus growing for my growing baby. It is a common feeling and she said that if bleeding was to happen and constant cramping, than that is when I should call and go in. I got to hear the babies heart beat again and that definitely reassured me that everything was fine with me and my baby. This time the heart beat was at 160 beats per minute.
After the apt. mom and I went and got Sub Zero Ice Cream.

The rest of the week I have taken it slow and I have been constantly tired. But that comes from carrying another person in me.

Hows the baby growing...
The most dramatic development this week: reflexes. Your baby's fingers will soon begin to open and close, his toes will curl, his eye muscles will clench, and his mouth will make sucking movements. In fact, if you prod your abdomen, your baby will squirm in response, although you won't be able to feel it. The eyes have moved from the sides to the front of his head, and his ears are right where they should be. It is the size of a lime and it weighs half an ounce.

{Heart Beat}

On April 14th I was able to hear my baby's heart beat. As I was lying there waiting for the doctor to find it, a thought ran though my mind that there was no heart beat and the baby was dead. Oh how that scared me. A few seconds later he found that little thing. As I was listening I started to get teary eyed. I can't believe that little thing inside of me is mine. The doctor said that the heart beat was at 179 beats per minute and it is going strong. It was such a precious moment in time. The only thing that wasn't perfect was Dave wasn't there. He didn't want to take time away from work for a routine doctors visit, but from now on he said he will be joining me.

Canada Trip

We arrived in Canada around 11am. Amy and her Fiance Brady picked us up and we headed to Ben and Linda's house to have Easter dinner. It was a wonderful time with eating delicious food, visiting family, watching the kids find Easter eggs and playing games. By 6pm both Dave and I were exhausted. We were up before 4am to make a 6am flight with a 2 hour lay over at Denver, Co.













Tuesday morning we went to Calgary Zoo with Dave's sister Heather and her two kids Landon and Maddie. We told the kids that the Tiger was David because he was pacing like crazy and that's what Dave does when he is either thinking or talking on the phone. There are certain smells that really get me and one of them is defiantly the inside of an elephant home. It was hot, smells like bum, and everything else nasty put together. I started to gag real bad to the point that I thought I was going to loose my breakfast. I got out of their real fast for some fresh air.




Wednesday morning Blanche (my mother-in-law) took me and Dave to the Maternity store to get me some new clothes. I got to see what I would look like at 8-9 months pregnant with their strap-on belly. Dave kept telling me that I looked cute prego and he want to get the fake belly so I could wear it until I showed. Silly boy. I am so grateful for my mother-in-law for buying all the shirts, jean ca-pries, pants, and skirt. I just can't thank her enough it means so much to me.
In the afternoon we headed off to Fish Creek Park to get out of the house and take a nature walk with the kiddos and Salem.





Thursday Dave and I headed for a walk with Salem to Dave dad's work to get the keys to his vehicle so we could go to a couple of places. Afterwords we headed to Second Cup to drink some delicious white chocolate hot chocolate and eat muffins. Dave wanted a picture of me in front of the Canadian police car.
















Friday around 2pm we headed to the stake center where Amy's wedding was going to be held. All of the family was there to help set up the round tables, put up decorations, set up the sound system, and had the flower girls practice walking down the isle.
That evening Richard and GinaMarie's family came in and I watched her make Amy's wedding cake. Ben and Linda came and picked us up around 9pm to head to Cardston to stay at a Hotel so we wouldn't have to drive 1 & 1/2 hours around 7am the next morning. We arrived in Cardston around 11pm. The next morning we got up at 7am to get ready and at the Temple by 9:30. It was such a beautiful ceremony. It was also a very cold, and windy day. We were all freezing while taking pictures. After pictures we headed back to Calgary to get ready for the reception. Both Dave and I were starving, so we borrowed a car and headed to subway for me and Dairy Queen for Dave. The ring ceremony started at 5:30pm and then the reception started around 6pm. They had a wonderful ham and potato dinner and Blanche made her wonderful mustard sauce. They showed a wonderful video and had a short program where Richard, Amy's brother, was the MC, and was hilarious. We sent off Amy and Brady and then started to settle down. We helped take down the decorations, tables, cleaned up the floors, and packed the cars. Then after midnight, we finally got to Ben's house to then fall asleep around 1 am.
At 5am we got up to pack our bags and get dropped off at the airport. Our flight took off at 8am with a 3 hour layover at San Diego, CA. Afterwords landed in SLC around 3pm. Britnie picked us up and then proceeded to pick up Jason from his friends house (Jason had Guard duty) and headed home. It was an extremely long trip but it was nice to see family that we don't see that often.

{NEWS}

I want every one to know that I am 10 weeks PREGNANT. I took a home pregnancy test on March 3rd and it was positive. Dave was on the phone with his father and I told him to put him on hold, and I told him that he was going to be a father. His eyes widened and he gave me a little chuckle. After he got off the phone He says to me, "Why didn't you wait for me?" I told him I couldn't wait any longer and I showed him the pregnancy stick that showed positive. We decided to take another one so he could experience it with me and also I couldn't believe the first one so I took another one at the end of that week and once again it was positive. I was still in shock, so I went to the doctors to have my blood drawn to have a positive confirmation and also it was for insurance to get on Medicaid. It came back POSITIVE. My heart skipped a beat and I was in shock, I was truly Pregnant!

Whats going inside....
Though he's barely the size of a kumquat (some sort of fruit)— a little over an inch or so long, crown to bottom — and weighs less than a quarter of an ounce, your baby has now completed the most critical portion of his development. He's swallowing fluid and kicking up a storm. Vital organs — including his kidneys, intestines, brain, and liver. If you could take a peek inside your womb, you'd spot minute details, like tiny nails forming on fingers and toes (no more webbing) and peach-fuzz hair beginning to grow on tender skin.

The baby's limbs can bend now. His hands are flexed at the wrist and meet over his heart, and his feet may be long enough to meet in front of his body. The outline of his spine is clearly visible through translucent skin, and spinal nerves are beginning to stretch out from his spinal cord. Your baby's forehead temporarily bulges with his developing brain and sits very high on his head, which measures half the length of his body.

The fist 10 weeks:
always hungry
1-7th weeks I had energy
Didn't start throwing up until week 9.(of course when we were in Canada)
Had a little nausea, just when I didn't have food in my stomach.
I haven't had any weird cravings yet.
I don't crave sweets. If placed in front of me I will eat it.
Both Dave and I are so happy to have this little embryo with us. We look forward for the day we can hold this sweet little thing.

On Monday April 12th, David started an internship job at VMT Technolocies. We are both very excited and we hope that it will lead to a full time paying job in the next couple of months. If so, we will be moving closer to his work down in south Provo.