Update, holidays, vent.

I am this close ( ) to being done with the first trimester, I can feel it. Each day the placenta takes over, I feel that much more energized, and I am loving it.

Baby Powell looks like this...

Wee one is getting big! The wee one is now the size of a lime, working on a plum.

The nausea is slowing tapering off, which I can not be more grateful for. My baby bump is the same size it was when it first came a week or two ago, thank goodness for that. I am not as tired as I was week 8-10. So pretty much I am leaving first base and moving to second. way excited.

In other news- My car should be fixed Thursday, I will be glad to get it back. I really dislike driving a rental car.

This weekend is the dinner party! I am pretty excited about it. We are having 4 sets of our married friends over, and I can't wait because I know they will like each other. The theme is a sports theme, for the boys, so everyone will come wearing their favorite sports team apparel. Haven't quite nailed done the menu, but that will only take 5 minutes. I only work until noon that day, so I can spend the afternoon getting ready. Be assured the dinner will get its very own post equipped with pictures to boot.

I am also very excited for the holidays! Jason and I knew this time last year that it was possible there would be 3 of us this year. So each holiday we would say this could be the last Halloween just the 2 of us, last thanksgiving just the 2 of us etc. But this year it really is true! St pattys day will be our last holiday just the two of us. Halloween I will be, like 16 weeks I think? So I won't be showing that much, so no pumpkin stomach costumes for me! Jason and I already have our costumes picked out. :) The holidays this year will actually be different than other years. If you will remember from 2 years ago I vowed never to be busy on Christmas again. Last year was a lot better, and this year will only get better. My extended family decided, finally, that its too much work, hastle and loudness to get the whole family together on holidays, so we are breaking off!! Each family is now doing their own thing, so this year its my mom and me doing Thanksgiving at her house, and I am excited. 2 years ago I decided, that going to visit the Grandmas on Christmas was just waaay too much travel, and not enough rest and enjoyment. So I said that Christmas Eve would be Grandmas night. Well my Grandma on my mom's side is still having everyone over on Christmas to exchange gifts, so sadly we will not be able to attend since we will be spending the second half of the day with Jason's family. (geeze this is a long paragraph) So this year, the holidays will be a lot more quiet, relaxed, and pleasant.

Which I just remembered I wanted to vent about something.

***WARNING: The following comments may be considered rude, and offensive. So don't read if you are a prude. :D ***

Trunk-or-Treats piss me off. Yep I said it. Utah(although I know its done other places) has become a big Trunk-0r-Treating state thanks to the church activities committee and I think its annoying. Reasons:

1. Trunk-or-Treats in utah are usually hosted by your local mormon ward. (* it should be noted that I AM LDS) Although non-members are always invited, they usually never come for obvious reason and thats rude. Its rude that everyone leaves their homes, turns off their porch lights to go pow wow for an hour in the church parking lot leaving the non member kids no where to get candy. And before you comment saying,"Well in my ward they are always invited, and in my ward a lot of them come etc" I don't care, even if most of them come, some of them don't. And given that Halloween is anything but a religious holiday, church, in my opinion should stay out of it.

2. It feeds paranoia. Not only for parents, but for kids. The kids will ask why are they going to a parking lot, and not door to door, and as mommy tries to explain away her lame paranoia, she will pass it along to her child.

3. Believe it or not Utah, there are actually people here that don't have kids yet! And they don't want to drive their car to the local church and just sit their with their trunks open. They like having the kids run up and ring their doorbell, and making them say trick or treat.

4. The biggest reason that I personally think Trunk or Treats have because popular in Utah is because Utah is L-A-Z-Y. Yep I said it. you could do 100 seasons of biggest loser just in Utah and still not make a dent in our climbing obesity rate. If you are so paranoid about some car pulling up and snatching your kid on Halloween, then get your butt off the couch and go with them!

5. Not only does it supports parents being fat, it encourages our youth to be fat! Good freaking heck who decided this was a good thing? Heaven knows with all the candy the kids are going to get, they NEED to do some running around. Halloween is about running around the neighborhood with your friends, or parents if they are little, and having so much fun, getting so tired, that when they get home they are so tired they fall asleep in their costume.

I will not take part in Trunk or Treats, and if my ward/stake decides to do one on Halloween, I will be writing a letter to my stake president explaining reasons why this is ridiculous.

Car accident

Today was a bad day.

I was stopped at a stop light, and the person behind me hit me, going 35-40 miles an hour.

It hurt, like H*ll.

My head just whipped forward into the steering wheel and I blacked out for a couple seconds, when I came to I was bawling, my neck hurt really bad, and I started cramping.

I called 911, told them I was in an accident and that I was pregnant. Apparently that gets attention because within 5 minutes there was 2 cops, a fire truck and an ambulance. (not sure what the fire truck was for.)

After I called 911 I called Jason, crying, told him I was in an accident, and he said he would be right there.

Well they decided to rush me to the hospital, so the EMT called Jason and told him to meet us there.

I was there for 4 hours, and man did I get hungry!

They did an XRay on my neck(baby was protected), an ultra sound for the baby, baby is fine, but they did see some bleeding in my uterus, so they did a pelvic exam and everything was normal. Sigh.

The ultra sound did show that the baby was measuring bigger than 10 weeks, 10 weeks and 4 days. :D So they moved the due date to April 4th. :D

My car we think is totaled, we won't know for sure until the estimate, but until then enterprise is sending a rental.

My neck hurts, my head hurts, my lower back where my bulging disc is kind of hurts, but other than that, I am fine.

I will post the ultra sound pic when I feel better.

Pregnancy Update

I haven't blogged about the last couple weeks, because they were all the same.

I was sooo tired.

sooo nauseous.

and sooo wanting the first trimester to be over.

Almost there!

Its nearing the end of week 10, and almost into week 11. The baby looks like this....

Its starting to look more and more like a human everyday! haha. Anytime I show Jason a picture of the babys development he says it looks like an alien. Which it sort of did for the first little while, but now it has its toes, fingers, eyes and everything!

Today, I feel more energized than I have this whole pregnancy, so I am taking advantage of it, blogging, working out, cleaning, cooking, scrapbooking, all the things I have wanted to do this whole time but didn't have the energy to do it.

I think I have a baby bump, but its not a bump, my stomach is just more round. I would post pictures if I actually thought it was cute lol.

Food- Food has been a traumatic part of this pregnancy. I always thought when you are pregnant, you love food and can't get enough of it, but boy was I wrong! I love food as much as I did, but I can't stomach it. I don't have cravings, I just have foods that at the moment sound edible, and then the foods that make me want to hurl. My recent foods that I can stomach are: Mashed potatoes and gravy, Turkey and Avocado sandwiches, veggies, fruits, and roast. I have to eat every 2 hours, or I get nauseous, if I wait 2 hours and 10 mins to eat, whatever I eat makes me sick. Make sense? So I sit there, sick, but I know I HAVE to eat something, so I have to continue to eat, and continue to have it make me sick. Its been tough. (Disclaimer: Not complaining, just documenting)

Want to know what has been the best part?

This guy.

I couldn't ask for a better husband or father. He has been, and will be amazing. Jason has been a wonderful support through this pregnancy, understanding, and helpful. The other day in primary we were teaching the kids about food that grows, and one of the kids mentioned broccoli, I looked at Jason with a sad face saying that sounds so good, but it was fast Sunday. :( The next day he made broccoli for dinner. The best part about it, is Jason is not an enabler. Before we got pregnant, I told him to be strict with my eating, because I didn't want to gain excess weight, so no junk food, midnight "Cravings" etc, and he has been so good at doing that. I really think women use pregnancy as an excuse to not be healthy, and to explain away gaining weight, and I refuse to submit to that mindset. Jason is wonderful at knowing the difference between what I need, or what I think I want. He brings me all the water, milk, saltines, and string cheese I could ask for. He gives me back scratches every night, is patient when I need him to drive "Soft", knows when food is not agreeing with and tries to find something that will, and helps me make sure my baths are not too hot. :)

My first trimester is almost over, and although I am glad to have experienced it, I will not miss it. Heres hoping the second trimester is a lot better. :)

I may have forgotten

2 posts in one day, wowzers.

But it occurred to me, I don't think I properly introduced the newest member of the Powell family.

Meet Cuddy.

We got Cuddy a while ago, like 3 months ago. So I am pretty bad with the updating. We got herwhen she was like 3 months old, from the humane society.

It was a rough start at first between Cuddy and Reesie, but about a month later, they are best of friends.

Reesie is super protective of Cuddy, and circles us anytime we are clipping Cuddy's nails.

If your were wondering about the name, Cuddy is named after our favorite TV show House, where one of the characters is Dr. Cuddy.

Jason looooves our kittens, as do I, but Jason really loves them and its so cute.

They really are part of the family.

I love my husband

I love my husband.

I love everything about him, even the quirky things.

I have noticed that a lot of couples, especially younger couples like us, spend a lot of time away from their spouse, when they don't have to. The husband hangs out with the guys a lot, and the wife has frequent girls night, or goes shopping with friends etc.

I love my friends, and I love my hobbies, but I love my husband more, and would rather spend a quiet night in with him, or going on a date, than a girls night every week.

Jason and I love our time together, and try every way possible to spend as much time a day as possible together.

Jason and I often joke that we have turned into old folks, since we don't go out every night anymore, or do things we used to do pre-marriage, but the truth is we wouldn't have it any other way. We have fun, every time we are together, from waking up in the morning, to going to bed laughing at night.

I feel sad for couples who spend their time together arguing, or worrying about worldly or trivial things. I wish they could experience the joys of marriage the way it was meant.

We are learning though, to do things as a couple with other couples, and that has been fun. Remember from here where I wanted to plan a dinner party, well that has been planned and put into motion. I am so excited about it and that everyone can come. Be sure to expect it to have its own post. :)

more traditions.

If you remember from here, I have a list of traditions I want to have in my own family.

I need to document some more. :)

St Pattys day.

Honestly I don't know why we celebrate this holiday in America, other then the overwhelming need America has for a good reason to get drunk.

But, none the less, I love a good chance to celebrate. :)

So in my house, with my kids, St Pattys day will be a holiday we use to celebrate different nationalities, of course mainly Irish.

I worked in a daycare in high school, and we did something there with the kids that I always wanted to do with my own kids because it was so dang cute and the kids absolutely loved it.

We took the kids outside to the park, and the teachers that stayed behind would create a leprechaun attack. How? simple, they just knocked over the chairs, threw papers everywhere, got the blankets all over the place etc. But then they painted little green leprechaun footprints everywhere, with washable paint obviously, on the tables, windows, fridge etc. and left little piles of chocolate gold coins everywhere for the kids. When the kids got back in and saw the chaos we gave them shocked faces and explained that leprechauns had come in while we were gone, and left gold coins everywhere on accident. They absolutely loved it. They were so excited for the whole day and couldn't wait to tell their parents. I plan on doing this every st pattys day with my kids.

Here are the footprints. :)

You make them with your hands, obviously.

(By the way, these foot/hand prints were totally made by me. in my kitchen. see thats my ugly blue counter tops.)

Green things. Obviously you have to wear green, but I think its fun to make green foods, and make the whole day green.

for dessert after dinner, making a cake with green frosting and then making a rainbow on it made with m&m's.

Easter!

Clearly, decorating eggs is a tradition that you are crazy if you don't do. Jason and I even did it this year.

See?

Of course they will be hidden somewhere in our house.

a new easter outfit will be needed for each kid obviously.

One thing my mom did that I thought was fun and I didn't realize she did this until I grew up, was we got gifts on easter, but they were almost always gifts that we had to use together. Like games or something that required us to play together and have fun. So it was nice, we didnt just get our gifts and run off to our rooms to play by ourselves, we played with each other for hours.

I am up for extra ideas and fun traditions so if you have any that you have enjoyed with your family, tell me about it!

(P.S. I wrote this post back in April, but apparently never posted it, I just came across it today so now it is posted. buwahahaha)

first days are always...fun.

So I thought I should update you on my current job situation.

I have said good-bye(hopefully forever) to the clerical/administrative job world, and said hello to the Personal Training world.

I no longer work for the State of Utah as a legal secretary, but instead I now work at 24 Hour Fitness as a Personal Trainer.

Polar opposites? I know. When I was in high school, til I was 21, I wanted to work in law, be a parallegal and spend my days at a desk with office inside jokes and dessert Friday's. It wasn't until I had what I wanted, that I realized that was not what I wanted at all. I now spend my time moving around, exercising, talking to people, helping people, motivating people, and doing what I truely love.

Fitness.

Today was techinically my first day, although I have been doing stuff with them and getting ready for a few weeks now.

It should be fun, and if nothing else, it will be excellent job experience in this field.

24 Hour Fitness is a sponsor of the Biggest Loser so I feel special about that for some reason lol.

So, wish me luck!

P.S. Can I just say how much I looove this cold weather. Yay for having all my windows open!

surprises

I have the best friends.

and I have no idea where they came from!!

lol. There are people from my high school, who in high school I had nothing to do with, or even didn't like, that are now awesome friends of mine and are really just the best.

I have a friend, that I worked with years ago, that was so different from me then, and still different from me now, but has become such a wonderful friend and role model.

I had a surreal realization last night.

This pregnancy, has been interesting, and at times tough. Its nothing I would trade for anything, but its also changes I have never experienced and am not used to.

I promised myself I wouldnt complain about anything, but I also need to talk to others who have gone through it, to help me understand it.

Yesterday I was talking with a friend of mine who I haven't spoken to in years really, and was explaining the hard things about being pregnant and she said the most chilling thing, that I didn't even realize the gravity of it until I was laying in bed last night.

She said,

"Everytime it gets rough, just remember you're assisting Heavenly Father in a miracle!"

At first I didn't really think anything of that comment, because I have noticed a lot of people of typical things they say to try and make others feel better. But this comment, hit me differently than others, and it felt real.

I have been trying to understand what is going on inside my body, what my little one is doing, reading and researching to know exactly why things are happening and how, when it dawned on me, what is going on inside me, is nothing less than a miracle, and its something I may never understand. I actually started crying last night (which is no recent surprise) when I put it into perspective, that I am assisting Heavenly Father in one of his many miracles. I am working closely with Heavenly Father to create and develop this precious child, to do many mighty things. When I have my symptoms and things from being pregnant, I know, that Heavenly Father is currently working a miracle inside me, and that, is so wonderful to be able to feel. I can FEEL his miracle!

It was after all just last night all this happened, but it immediately changed my outlook on what is going on. I no longer(at least as of today) think of this pregnancy as something that is happening to me, but something that is happening with me.

I was grateful to get pregnant. I am now so much more grateful and humbled to be able to carry such a precious tool to my Heavenly Father. I am humbled that he trusts me to do this.

I am so emotional lol, but am so happy this morning.

And thank you, to my special friends who help me with tender moments like this. :)

tired of it yet?

The pregnancy talk that is. If you are, just scroll half way down for the "normal" stuff.

I swear, I will try to find none-pregnancy things to talk about, soon.

But for now I need assurance.

assurance that a lot of women have nausiousness like this.

I am not complaining, because I love being pregnant, for what it means, I just don't understand it.

I don't really understand the changes my body is going through. So I don't know how to handle it. I am sure I have not been handling it the right way, but time will tell I guess.

Now, back to my question.

Well first let me explain how my nausiousness is.

its not in the morning.

its mid-eating to post-eating.

Its like, I can think of a meal, and how delicious that meal is, start eating it, and then half way through, each bite makes me more and more sick until I have to stop eating. Then for a couple days after, the thought of that meal brings on nausia.

Is that normal?

And if it is, any secrets to keeping it under control?

The weirdest thing so far, I can't feel the baby yet obviously, but I can totally feel my enlarged uterus! lol. If I push on my lower stomach its hard and like right up against my skin. Thats weird.

Non-pregnancy topics:

My kitties are lovely. They have adjusted nicely to each other, it only took about a month! They do have this weird fascination with bees, so everytime they get to go outside, they hunt bees. I quite like the set up we have with them. I always felt bad at the idea of having just indoor cats, like it was depriving them of fresh air, but I didnt want neighborhood wondering cats either. Our yard is completely fenced in, with vinyl, and we have a "dog door" which we now call the cat door. We open the cat door and let them out for a couple hours a day, and they just play in the backyard and have no interest so far in trying to escape. I think it works for everyone.

Our laptop died the other night. Its in the "Shop" being fixed, so until then I can't upload any pictures. We are borrowing one of my parents laptops so at least I can blog. :)

I am going to plan that dinner party! yay! Although I am not sure how to plan it, other than to prepare a meal lol. I can't decide if I want a theme dinner, or games or what. Whatever I decide, it will be fun because of the company that is coming. I just have to pick a date that works for everybody, because their attendance is key. :)

On a random side note, I am totally about to make chocolate cake for breakfast. :D

Week 7

Week 7, crossed off.

(on Thursday, I tend to do this post a day early, it all evens out.)

Lets see. Week 7 brought weird new symptoms. The first is burping. I burp like crazy, all the time, at least a couple times an hour. Its weird because there is no substance to it.

The cramps have gotten more frequent and worse. This morning at like 2 am, I woke up to intense cramps and had to get in the bath. the Dr said its perfectly normal as my uterus stretches and grows. He also said the uterus stretches and grows usually when the baby is awake because its already moving around, so I know that when I am cramping, my baby is awake. :) I wish she would sleep when I do though.

The nausea has set in, and its weird. I am not throwing up, but just the sight or smell of some foods send me over the edge and I need to lay down, and it varies from day to day which food it is.

Week 7 also brought another ultra sound!!! My Dr is super excited for me and wants to ease my mind about everything, so he lets me do ultra sounds a lot. :D can't complain.

So here is our little one! On the screen while it was moving, it totally looked like a gummy bear. We saw the heart beat, and I think it will be cool to hear it, but its emotional just to SEE the heart beating. It was a total surprise to see the baby. The radiologist told me we were just going to see two sacs, and a flicker of a heart beat. So when the baby popped up it was so cool! Like it came out to say hello. I will never get tired of ultra sounds, and I will take advantage of any chance I get to have one. It was so surreal to see the ultra sound today, to see the difference 1 1/2 weeks made, how much the baby has grown and developed.

I had my first "official" pregnancy appointment, where he told me all the dos and donts, and gave me a bag of goodies. I like my Dr, I don't love him, but so far I like him. I have an appointment in a week or two with a midwife also, because my insurance covers it so why not? The midwife helps you through labor and life, and not just the medical part of it like the Dr does. I think it will be nice.

I gained 2 lbs. Eeeks. I am not supposed to be gaining weight yet, so I am going to have to get it in gear. Don't worry, I am going to follow my heart rate restrictions the Dr gave me, but I shouldn't be gaining weight until like month 3-4 and I am about to finish month 2.

So far, I love being pregnant. Its not the most comfortable at times, and sometimes its down right painful, but when you think about what is going on inside your body, its amazing, and all worth it.

The more the weeks tend to be the same, I will probably stop doing a weekly post, unless there is something different to post about.

Week 6

Week 6 came and went!

It went by so fast, because we spent the whole week camping.

Week 6 brought with it, 6 pregnancy tests. lol. I really for some reason just couldn't help myself. I had a ton of the dollar store pregnancy tests, which by the way work fabulously, and so I just keep taking them because its so fun to see a positive test. You go months and months reading negative test after negative test, it is just nice and fun to see a bunch of positive ones. Haven't had one false negative with them so, so far they are 100% accurate! lol. Its a fairly inexpensive guilty pleasure. :)

Week 6 also included our first ultra sound! The Dr wanted to do an ultra sound so early to make sure the embryo implanted in the uterus probably, and it is! It is the dark circle right in the middle of the picture. Couldn't hear the heart beat, but man it was just cool to see it.

The black circle is just the sac, you can't see the baby yet, but it looks a little like this...

Since we were camping for all of Week 6 there wasn't any shopping done, or anything normal. There was a lot of reading, reflecting, name choosing, planning etc. All the things you can only do, with nothing lol.

Symptoms of week 6 are pretty much the same as the symptoms of week 5. Shocking, I know.The lovely ladies keep getting bigger, if you know what I mean. ;) Thats not all that fun, its impossible to find a comfortable position on my stomach, so I am learning to like sleeping on my side. :D The amount of peeing is insane!!! I mean, I used to use the bathroom like 3 times a day. Now, its like every hour I have to pee.

Pregnancy talk- This may be just for those of your who are or have been pregnant, cause I didn't understand til they explained it to me. My HCG levels have doubled consistently, and as of my last check up were 2240. My Progesterone levels however, were low. So the Dr is starting me on progesterone shots, I have to get one a week until 10 weeks, or until my levels stay high on their own.

New tradition? I think sooooo

so I in my 6th week of pregnancy, and I think I have unearthed a new tradition in our family.

If you scroll to the very bottom of my blog, you will see a pregnancy ticker that compares the fetus to fruit, in size.

Well, Jason and I are going to celebrate each week with each fruit!!

So this week our baby is the size of an apple seed, so we will be enjoying delicious red apples this week.

(because I hate green apples)

Don't leave me.

So I have this idea of how friendships are, how they evolve and even how they dissipate.

but lately some friendships aren't happening the way I want, and I am gonna tell you all about it. :) Tell me if my views on friendship are warped.

So I have this friend, who I have known for a couple years. She and I were in a close group of friends in the ward. We all used to hang out like every weekend. Inside jokes, laugh, pick up guys, cry together, take a million pictures together etc.

Then most of us got married.

I understand that marriage changes friendships, and for the most part we all adapted. Except this one friend just like fell off the face of the earth. She is one of those people where you have to make the attempt to be her friend, and even then its a 70% chance she won't reciprocate for whatever reason. We have all learned this, and most of us have moved on from it. Except for me. I feel like its just not ok how things have unfolded with her, and I want it to be different. I don't know how to make it different. The thing about her, is that all she has wanted in life is a husband and a baby, to validate her existence. I am sad, and scared for her that once her baby comes(She is due in sept) she will realize that she needs friends and will feel very alone. So, I want to keep the lines of communication between her and I open, but I am 89% sure it won't matter.

Now, the rest of my friends. :) Whom I love dearly. Rock. When you are single, your friends are your life and omg what would you do without them right? Well I have learned that once you get married, your husband is your life, and your friends are important. It is fun to talk to each other about our similar experiences and frustrations, and to see that you are not alone. I worry though, that we are not close enough. I mean really, when you are single you talk to your friends ALL the time about everything. and when you get married obviously things change and all you have time for is a once a month dinner, maybe. I get that, but I still want to be close friends that we can tell anything to. I don't want it to be like the movie Now and Then where we meet up 10 years later and update each other on our lives.

The other type of friends I now have and adore are the ones I inherited through marriage. Jason is a shy person, and as such doesn't have a million bajillions friends I have to try and remember their names, he has a few good friends that have incredibly awesome wives. Jason laughs because I talk to their wives more than he talks to his friend. And when we get together, its always the wives that plan it. :) I really adore these friends, and consider them friends, not just my husbands friends wives.

One day I would like to have a dinner party, and invite 6 of our "couple" friends to meet each other, because really I think they would all hit it off. But really, my biggest fear is probably planning something like that, putting time, effort and heart into, and then no one showing up. :( So it might just stay an idea. :(

So friends, I just have one thing to say to you.

Don't leave me. :)

Week 5

End of Week 5. (in 1 day anyway)

(yes I will be documenting each week, deal. )

Week 5 brought tender breasts, water retaining, lots of peeing, funky "cravings", total exhaustion, and lots of happiness.

Its weird to me to think that I have 2 hearts beating inside me.

a body within a body.

and I love it.

I love that I carry around this little fetus with me everywhere I go. I pathetically have started touching my stomach when thinking about the baby. Jason does, too. :)

Really the biggest different or symptom has been the exhaustion. the Dr. says I will be really tired the first little while as my metabolism adjusts to the changes, but man alive I am tired!! I came home the other day, laid on the couch and said to myself," don't fall asleep because you have to fix dinner before Jason gets home from work." The very next thing I know Jason is sitting next to me on the couch changing the channel. I had no recollection of falling asleep, or dreaming.

On the flip side, the other big symptom has been NOT being able to fall asleep. ?. I know. I am tired all day, which I love being tired because I love getting the sleep that comes with it, but at 10 pm when its time for bed, I can not fall asleep. lol I sit there and just laugh at how tired I am, but when my head hits the pillow, nothing. My Dr told me I could take Tylenol PM for that, which has been my miracle drug.

The cravings are funny. I am not convinced yet, that pregnant women CRAVE things. I think pregnant women are naturally hungry, but start thinking of weird things to eat, and then just get it stuck in their head. This week I wanted Fried Bananas. Just once, and once I had them, I was good. But boy did my mouth water until I got them. Another favorite was Hamburger

helper. :D

Another thing week 5 brought was reading! I have been reading this book, by suggestion and love it. I can't put into words while doing it justice what this book is about but I shall try. Its about learning to go through pregnancy naturally, how to be IN your pregnancy and not a victim of it, how to be in tune with your baby and body, and how to enjoy and control labor. I will admit, its a little extreme on the hippy al naturale side, but I love it none the less. It has your express your feelings through art, however terrible your art skills are. I was surprised when I did my first drawing, what I was feeling and what I drew that I was worried about.

Week 5 also included getting our car seat and stroller set! Obviously not knowing what the gender will be, we got a unisex set, but I wanted it to still be super cute. My hubby spotted this one on a SWEEEEEET deal, so we snatched it. I think its pretty unisex, its got red dots, pink dots, green dots blue dots and yellow dots. We wanted unisex anyway so that we can use it with the next baby.

It is still sooo weird to me that I am pregnant. I keep waiting for my period to come, and it never does. That is one thing I am sure I will not miss. :)

Yes, Week 5 has brought a lot, but most of all the end of Week 5, has brought Week 6. :)

This weekend was busy!

I really feel like I didn't get any rest, at all.

Friday Jason and I went to Babies'R'Us, for fun.

Saturday, my little sister Hollie went through the temple for the first time. So early Saturday I went to my parents house to pack her bag, and get everything ready for here. Then we went to the Hitlon Garden Inn in Sandy to check in(more on why in a minute), met up with our family for dinner around 5. Then rushed to the Timpanogis Temple to get there by 730 for the 8 session. Then back to the hotel.

We stayed at a hotel out there because at 9 am the next morning we had to be in West Jordan because my dad is now the Commander of his unit in the Army, so we went to the change of command ceremony. Then we came home, Jason and I, and took a long Sunday nap, then back to my family's house for dinner.

sigh. Busy.

It was a really neat experience though for my little sister to go through. I was excited because when I got into the endowment room, no one had sat by her on the front row yet, so I got to sit by her for the session.

And of course, I love going to the temple cause I get to take my wee one with me. It was fun to sit next to my husband in the celestial room, and know that our wee one was there, literally, with us. Nothing is cooler than that, yet. ;)