Tulip Festival

The weather was so amazing this weekend. I just loved every minute of it. I sweet talked Brian, Andy, AmyLyn, and my parents and convinced them to take me to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point. I was really excited to see the Tulips but I did have alternative motives of trying to walk myself into labor. Obviously, I'm not yet a mommy, but the flowers were sure beautiful!

Not all the tulips were in full bloom, but here is a picture of something that is:


39 Weeks and 6 days! I look like I am going to pop!
Here is my sweet Bri Bri. He was loving the weather he didn't even mind that we were there to look at flowers. What a good sport.
AmyLyn gave me this idea for a picture. I think it is such a neat shot. I took it at the gazebo in the gardens.
Here is my honey and me after our long walk through the gardens. You can see there is a smile on my face so all that walking didn't really kick start things like I had hoped. Oh well, less than a week at this point!

As we were leaving we were looking down over the bridge at the waterfall and look what we saw:
It was so weird to see this huge guy. I thought he was fake for a minute. Just snoozing away on the rocks.
Here are my pedicured toesies that were all ready for the delivery room. I may have to go get them redone because they are growing out already. Oh well just an excuse to get another pedicure. Oh how I will miss the pregnancy excuse to be pampered.
Well I am absolutely positive that by this time next week I will be a mommy. Looking forward to posting pictures of the most beautiful little girl you will ever see!

Hopefully the last bit of whining

So I had to laugh. I have pretty much blog stalked everyone that I know that was having babies around the same time as me. Guess who is the only one who hasn't delivered yet?!? I should definitely get a prize for this. I can't wait to meet her. Anyway, I am starting to perk up a little bit. I saw the doctor yesterday and I still have not made any progress. He scheduled my induction for the 25th. There are some really awesome things about this day. First of all it is on a Sunday and my doctor was nice enough to do it so I would only be a week over. I was expecting to have to wait until the 26th. It is an odd number but it ends with a 5 so I am ok with it. I know, I know...Psycho! I have this thing with odd numbers though and I really wanted her to be born on an even number. Fortunately, I am ok with odds as long as they end in a 5. Really probably too much of a glimpse of my nutty side. Moving on. 25 was my jersey number in high school. I was #25 for pretty much every sport I played. So really, I have absolutely nothing to complain about. The only thing that makes me sad is that I really didn't want to have to be induced. Don't get me wrong I want her out, but I was really hoping it would happen on its own. I guess I am getting ahead of myself. I mean it still could happen any day, but it is easier to know that I will for sure have a baby in a little over a week. I guess I could wait and let it happen naturally, but lets be honest, I am not the most patient person in the world and I just don't think my body can handle much more. My last day of work is supposed to be tomorrow, but I guess I will be working another week (my poor coworkers that have to put up with me). So for those of you that have been induced, how is it? Should I be worried? I would like to hear some advice if you have any.

Now guess who is impatient?

Yup you guessed it. ME! I am doing my best to stay positive and have the attitude of "she'll come when she is ready", but as each doctor's visit comes and goes, I am struggling. Today I went to the doctor not expecting much of a change from last week. I feel exactly the same as last week-like nothing is happening. Well the doctor confirmed that indeed nothing is really happening. I am dialated to a two now which is progress but he could barely feel the baby's head because she is so high. I swear she is confused where the exit is. I keep telling her she is going the wrong way because every day she feels like she is getting higher and higher! I wanted him to strip my membranes, but he told me that he wanted to wait another week to see if she drops a little. Another week? I will be like 3 days away from my due date! Urgh. After all the pleasantries I dive into the induction conversation. When can we get this little girl out?!? Apparently Intermountain Healthcare has a policy that doesn't allow inductions for first time moms until they are a week over due. Umm I think I know what I will be investigating at work tomorrow. I cannot believe that they would make someone suffer for a week past their due date. Besides my last day is supposed to be the 16th and I really don't want to sit around for a week while I don't go into labor. This little girl is definitely her daddy's daughter. She is strong willed and she is going to make sure that she is born when it is her idea. I just hope she is not too stubborn, I'm dying here. Any suggestions on how to get her to drop? If I could at least get her out of my ribs I would be a lot more comfortable to do this for a couple more weeks.

Showers in the Forecast

We are so spoiled! I was lucky enough to have two baby showers for our little girl. I am so grateful to have such great friends and family. I feel so loved. The first shower I had was a few weeks ago and was put together by my friend Lyndsey. She put so much time and effort into it and it turned out so great. We received lots of goodies too.
Hopefully these diapers will last us a few days.
So many fun things! Like I said, we are spoiled.
The gals I work with gave us this awesome high chair. I LOVE it! Thanks everyone for coming and your sweet gifts. It meant so much to me!

The second shower was put together by my mom and sister in law, AmyLyn. I can't believe the work these two did! Good grief! I definitely owe AmyLyn big time for when she decides to jump on the band wagon and have a baby.

This is the cute Diaper Cake they made for me. It is so darling, I don't want to take it apart.

These cute things are made from tissue paper. I know, what a cute idea! Thank you Martha Stewart.

This is the Clothes Line of Goodies. I am so excited for all the cute outfits.
What baby shower wouldn't be complete without the chocolate and diaper game? Yummy...
I wasn't nearly as good this shower as I was at the last one taking a picture of all the gifts after they were unwrapped. So here is the picture of them wrapped and I will tell you what we got.

We were given lots of clothes which I desperately needed. I have been on a buying freeze and I was hoping to get some more cute outfits. We also got two swings for our little angel which will be so nice! We loved the Bumbo, bathtub, receiving blankets and burp clothes, adorable tutu, hair accessories, stuffed animals, baby wipes (YAY), gift card, and baby booties. I can honestly say that I do not have to buy another thing before she is born. It is the best feeling in the world. Thank you Thank you Thank you everyone who has helped prepare us for this little girl. We aare so excited and hopefully she will be here soon!

Not too much longer

And I will finally be able to tie my shoes.
And shave my legs.
And paint my toenails.
And pick up a dropped object without almost throwing up.
And not cross my fingers every time I sneeze.
And sleep flat on my back.
And go running and move any speed that is faster than a waddle.
And FINALLY meet the little one responsible for everything I have been through the past nine months.

Oh little one, get here quick and get here safe. Mommy and Daddy are ready to hold you.

We Love Spring!

Someone is happy it's getting warmer!

Someone is a little anxious in there

Last night Brian and I were a little bit reality slapped at how close I am to having this little girl. I started out my day like normal, got ready, went to work etc. Nothing too out of the ordinary. Well around 8 that morning I started getting some serious pain in my back. I didn't think too much of it, except it was getting worse and worse as the day went on. I found myself completely snapping at my coworkers. I couldn't focus on what they needed when all I could think about was this stupid pain in my back. Well I finally decided that I couldn't take it any more around 3:30 and headed home. I decided on my way home that I needed to stop at the doctor's just to make sure everything was ok. Well of course my doctor wasn't in that day, and so I didn't think anyone would tell me anything. One of the other doctor's nurses talked to me and decided that I needed to be seen. They hooked me up to a fetal stress monitor and discovered the reason for my pain.
Yup I was contracting...
Every two minutes...
Great...
I called Brian and told him that he better come and meet me because I needed to go to the hospital to have them stop the contractions. We checked into Labor and Delivery and spent the next 5 hours waiting for my contractions to stop. I was STARVING. I hadn't eaten since lunch and they wouldn't let me eat in case something happened. Well needless to say, we didn't have our little girl. But not without a good fight from her. It took a couple of doses of the terbutiline (however you spell it), to stop the contractions. Luckily, I am only dilated to a one so I don't think she is going to be coming anytime really soon..I hope! Here are some pictures of her from an ultrasound. You can't tell by the pictures, but she is such a little cutie! Brian thinks she looks like a koala bear and a carp...not very nice Daddy!
This is the 3d picture that they got. It was very hard to get a picture of her because she doesn't hold still long enough to capture anything. You can't really tell from the picture, but she is sucking her thumb.
This is the ONLY profile picture of her that we have. It is not great, but you can see those beautiful lips that she inherited from her daddy. I think she got Mommy's nose.Here you can see her eye is open. It was so crazy to watch her look around. I guess I just always thought their eyes were closed all the time. You can kind of see the pouty bottom lip. She is going to win over a lot of people with that look. It was amazing to see her in the Ultra Sound now compared to the last one we had 16 weeks ago. She actually looks like a baby and not an alien. I can't wait to meet her, but hopefully she doesn't try to come out again too soon. We still have our childbirth class to go to!