30 weeks!

WOOT WOOT! Now the real coundown begins!!! I have been feeling sooooo much better! I love this stage of pregnancy! I can actually say this has been the first time I have felt this way so far. Even though I'm getting bigger, I'm having more problems breathing, I have heartburn and acid reflux, it's harder for me to sleep, and it feels like it's 180 degrees outside.....it seems like none of those things even come close to how miserable I was before and I'll take any of those symptoms any day over Nausea!!! Life is good! It's so fun to just be sitting there and feel your little baby move inside of you. I always press around on my tummy trying to figure out which parts are which. Colin's convinced I have already poked her eye out or given her brain damage. I asked my dr. about it and she said not to worry, so im not worrying:) I wonder all of the time what she's going to look like, what type of personality she'll have, what fun things we'll teach her. It's just so unreal. But sooo exciting, and even more exciting now that I have been doing so good and things are starting to come together. Ok, maybe not a lot has come together yet but I'm sure we'll get there. And Im so excited to start "real family" things, although according to Colin, you're not a "real" family until you have 2. Funny guy. Speaking of two, my sister Amanda had a perfect beby boy a week and a half ago. It's their second. They are a "Real" family :) congrats!!!!! We're so excited for Jake Jr. to be here. He's gonna have a blast with all these new girls that will be around him from now until FOREVER!!! Oh, and we have a name! I always wondered if I should wait to tell people, but I've never waited yet, so I guess I'll just tell. Her (which we have been calling her by this for a long time now) is Mayli Kate. I love it! Colin wanted to do Mayli may....but mayli may moses is just a little much don't ya think? Well we're soooo excited for our cute little Mayli to get here. I hope the last 10 weeks go by fast......will it???

The other day....

someone called Colin the wrong name again.....this time it was Colleen! What!? Just thought you might like to know : )

The many names of Colin...

Well, my awesome husband GRADUATED!!!!!! We are all soooo excited for him .... (it's about time)!!! He has worked so hard for this day to come, and put a lot of time and effort into his schooling so he definitely deserves this little time to relax, before he goes back to it! He cracks me up.....let me tell you a little story. For those of you who know colin, yo uwill appreciate this. And maybe those of you who don't know him will appreciate it too. He's just a funny guy. A little background......When we were married, the sealer pronounced us usband and wife as COLON and ginny. So I'm not really married to Colin, I guess Im married to COLON. We have kind of a joke since then that's like , "take care of your COLON, and your COLON will take care of you". Anyways, on graduation day, he was walking up to receive his diploma....he handed the man his paper and the guy pronounced his name CALIN! I don't know about you, but to me Colin is not a very difficult name to pronounce. It just seems self explanitory. After Colin had sat down and the graduation proceeded I noticed that there were probably 5 more Colin's but the announcer NEVER mis-pronounced any of their names. I couln't figure it out. Whatever. Well after the ceremony was done and we were walking back to the car I asked Colin if he had noticed that the guy pronounced his name wrong. He said "ya, I even wrote it down on the paper phonetically so he wouldn't miss pronounce it!" DUH.....my wonderful husband wrote on the paper CALLIN. Like CALL-IN No wonder the guy misread it.....he doesnt have times for phonetics! haha. So Needless to say, if he would have written it correctly, the guy would have said it correctly. My husband.



On another note, I'm feeling really good! I love it.......it's so great! I think it's about time, right? I'm 26 1/2 weeks so not too much longer......just the hottest hugest months of the summer ahead of me......no biggie :) And so I thought I would post another belly shot, since this is only my 2nd! I always SWORE when I got pregnant that I would take a whole lot of pictures...let me tell you it has not happened. I've taken a total of 3 belly pics. It kind of makes me sad cuz I wanted to make a flip book at the end with my belly getting progressively bigger. I think that would be cool. But oh well. And notice how my face is in NONE of them? I don't really love my profile, especially because I think my face has filled out a little bit......my sister says it's water retention and will go away after....I'm really hoping so:)
Two weekends ago we went to see STOMP at gammage! It was sooooo good! I would totally recommend it! Then last night we went to see Brian Regan at Dodge theater. He is HILARIOUS! I'm so glad that I feel so good that I'm able to do those things again with my husband....after all, it's not like we have a lot of time left just the two of us. I think that's about all I have to say, you'd think after not blogging for over a month I could come up with some more interesting stuff....but no. Except, my brother in law got a smart car, and I got to drive it. It was pretty cool. That's all!!!

21 weeks....

** I'm pretty positive that this pregnancy has been hard for me. It seems I've gotten every symptom in the book, but I guess Heavenly Father thinks I just need a little bit of spice in my life. The month of march went pretty well, but recently my sickness has been picking back up again! :( It's definitely not as bad as it was before.....but it's just a little bit frustrating and discouraging. I'm 21 weeks so it seems like it should be gone by now. Oh well. I don't want it to sound like I'm having a horrible time being pregnant, but it's been a lot harder for me than I have ever imagined it being. I love feeling my little baby move inside me. It's so cute! It's fun to think about having a little girl and all the fun outfits I'll be able to put her in. I'm a little jealous of the women who don't get sick at all, and love being pregnant....i totally WISH I was one of them. I guess I just feel like i'm a complainer or something. Did any of you ever experience anything that maybe you never really realized was part being pregnant? I don't want to feel like I'm the only one! I'm honestly so grateful that Heavenly Father would entrust Colin and I with one of his little spirits.....just getting her here's been the hard part! I feel like a whiner so I'm going to stop....here's a pic of me at 21 weeks!!!

our ultrasound!

So yesterday was a very exciting day for us! We Got up early, I drank my water....(then threw it up) so I drank some more and we headed off to our appointment! I was sooo excited that the day was finally here!!! When we got there, and settled into the room I was really nervous! I don't know why..... I just wanted to make sure my baby was healthy. I think I kind of worried about the a lot because of how sick I got! Well It was the neatest experience in the ENTIRE world!!! The baby was sooo cute and moving all over the place! She checked all of the measurements and said that everything looked healthy and good! I was so Relieved! At the very end she asked us if we wanted to know what we were having and of course we said YES! So she looked around for a while, and was pretty quiet for about two minutes while she was looking, so in my head I was thinking, great she cant find anything and we won't be able to find out today. But then she turned to us and said, looks like youre going to have Little.........



GIRL!!!! we are sooo excited! Im excitecd for bow, and pink, and girl things!!! YAY!

I'm BAAACK!!

Well I don't have any pictures for this post but I thought and update is better than nothing. I've been doing really really good these past couple of weeks! I went back to work last monday and have done better than expectedly well! I got a good blessing before so I think that helped a lot! I'm so glad that this sickness is going away! I can't even believe how out of commission I was. Thank you to all of you for your prayers and thoughts and notes and cheez-its :) I don't think I will crave them again for a VERY long time! I am starting to FINALLY be real excited about this little baby! It was hard for me to get excited about it before because well you see, I just didn't have the energy to even think about it let alone be excited for it. We get to find out what we're having on WEDNESDAY! I cant even wait! I can't believe it's already here! I have started to feel it move a little bit this week. It's totally the coolest feeling in the world. Although it's pretty sparatic  right now, I'm sure it will start getting more and more frequent! I can't wait! 

The Scoop

Hey it's me. Not me, me. But ME, me. You know- the sister of Ginny. I am here on her little ole blog to do a little ole guest-post. And It's gonna be pretty informative. Because I like to provide people with a little info now and then. Plus you may be wondering what is happening to our favorite pregnant girl. (not that you're not also our favorite pregnant girl, Calli, but I have never guest-posted on your blog. But I can, if you want.)

Ok- this is about Ginny. She is sick. And she has been in the hospital. All last week. But now she is not. She has been diagnosed with Hyperemesis Gravidarum. And it's pretty serious. She is feeling a bit better this week. And she is staying at our house so we can take care of her whilst her lover boy is working and schooling. So we can make sure she eats and sleeps. It has been fun for us. My children are loving having their Aunt Ginny here. We should have thought of it sooner.

If her condition doesn't improve it is possible that she may have to be put on an IV and have an in-home nurse come and check on her periodically. We hope it doesn't come to that.

She is on short-term disability from work, so she doesn't have to worry about the employment thing right now. What a blessing. And she got up the guts to call her boss and tell her she won't be back in the near future. Props, Gin.

I am managing her people, scheduling visits and such. And it makes me feel important. But Colin is in charge of packing her diaper bag. And he does a good job. And it makes me believe that if Ginny had never gotten pregnant, how would he have ever learned to pack diaper bags, clean up vomits, and care for little sick ones? And now I think he can be a great daddy. It was meant to be.

But don't try to call Ginny. I have learned that she doesn't answer phones- she will wait for you to leave a message and then she probably won't call you back. But she totally listens to the message. You should text her.

And she likes Cheez-its and Uncrustables and apple juice. And whatever I cook for her. Because I am a good cook. Totally.

One thing that you will find so important is that she is sleeping so well. And this is why: she is slumbering in my son's bed. And she loves it- for her it is like a glorious reunion every single night. Because she loaned us that bed when she and Colin made their recent move. So, we babysit the bed for her. And I think the bed is glad to have her back. (But it still loves my son, too. Because he plays cars and Star Wars on the bed, something I don't believe Ginny has ever done.)

So for review:

Ginny--- alive

at her sister's house

text her

pray for her

send Cheez-it gift certificates

PS- I think it would be appropriate if you left a little comment-love. I'm pretty sure she checks to see what sympathy you all have to offer. (like you did last time- she says "thanks"---in her raspiest sick-y voice possible)