Baby complications...

Tonight was one of the scariest nights of my life. All day everything went great. I woke up, went to work...nothing different from normal. Well around 5:00 today I went to the bathroom and noticed that I was bleeding. Not just a little but a LOT! I just started bawling and tried calling Allen. He was on his way home from work. Poor guy walked in and I was sitting on the couch just a mess! We hugged and he was so sweet. Then we called our doctor and asked him what we should do. He said that since I am in my second trimester and with how my pregnancy has been going so far that he had some concerns. He told me I needed to get to the ER right away and get checked out and have an ultrasound. I went and got in the shower and then we went over to my sister-in-laws house so that my brother-in-law and Allen could give me a blessing. The blessing was so sweet and it really calmed me a lot! We went to the ER and we were seen right away...it was great to not wait! They did a pelvic examination and said everything seemed to look okay but that I needed to get an ultrasound. YAY for my first ultrasound...but I wasn't very excited for it because I didn't know if my baby was still alive or not. They wheeled me away into the ultrasound room and right away we saw the heart flickering in the picture. Tears of joy ran down my face because I hadn't miscarried. We watched our baby and she measured everything. She said with how the baby is growing it looks like the baby might be about a week early. So we may be having a March baby instead of April. I am 15 weeks tomorrow and we weren't going to be able to find out the sex of the baby until 20 weeks...so 5 weeks away. I asked the doctor if they could tell if it was a boy or a girl, and she looked....

I know you are all wanting to know what we are having.....soooooo......

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!!!!!!!!!! A BOY !!!!!!!!!!

Oh we are so excited! Allen and I were both hoping for a boy so we are just so dang happy! The doctor said that I am still at high risk for miscarriage because of how my placenta lays over my cervix and there is a tare in my placenta. So I am now on bed rest until directed otherwise. This is really sad seeing that I just started my new job a few days ago and now I cant work. I sure hope they are going to be okay with anything. If you all could just keep Allen and I in your prayers that would be great. I am going to stay off my feet for awhile and pray and hope that everything goes well...

What's for dinner tonight?

Go find out! I posted two recipes today on my recipe blog. I posted our dinner from tonight and another one that's a great recipe for this season! Enjoy!

***For those who don't know about my recipe blog, there is a link to it in the right hand column under the list "My Blogs"

Ladies Night Out

So last night I didn't get to go out for Ladies Night Out because I had to work at Roberts. Let me tell you, that store gets CRAZY on Ladies Night Out. For those who don't know what Ladies Night Out is let me explain. Twice a year we have what is called General Conference, where the members of the church get to hear from the general authorities in our church and listen to their counsel. Well on General Conference weekend there is a Priesthood session that all the men in the church get to go to...and while the guys are gone all the girls go out and do something fun. Well, hopefully I explained that well enough. Anyways, you can imagine how packed a craft store is with how much mormon ladies like their crafts! :) Everyone is there buying stuff and they get to participate and take classes for free. These classes included stuff like making cards, trick-or-treat bags, etc. They served hot popcorn with melted chocolate and caramel drizzled on top...oh it was delicious! They also did a cake walk every fifteen minutes from 5-9. Instead of winning cakes and cupcakes, they won fun prizes. It was a huge event and so much fun...but VERY VERY VERY crazy. Luckily I didn't have to work the cash registers that night. I got to teach a class on card making and teach them how to make this ADORABLE I love you card. So I got to sit there and do crafts and eat popcorn while getting paid! It was quite the evening. Well after we closed we had to put all the go backs back (all the items that people decided they didn't want once they got to the register). We had carts and carts of stuff. There was also another new girl there with me and we didn't know where lots of the stuff went. Everything was bought out in the scrapbooking section so all the pegs were EMPTY! So trying to match up exactly where an item went on a specific peg was VERY difficult to find out. We finally left at 10:40 at night, and we hadn't even finished all the go backs! I was very excited to go home and relax! :)

Conference was great this morning. I sure love Thomas S. Monson! Isn't he just so great. I do have to admit though that it is still weird to not see cute Gordon B. Hinckley with his cane and his smiles! I sure miss him! I avoided trying to eat breakfast today because I didn't feel like throwing up today. Eventually I got hungry so I made some toast, and that worked out well for me. I am going to attempt to eat Fried Chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy tonight. Wish me luck!

Also, I posted a new recipe so check it out. Stay tuned this week for some more recipes!

General Conference

Wow, conference was really great this morning. I was so excited to hear about the new temples to be built. When they said there was going to be another one in Argentina, Allen screamed for joy...it was so cute. He said that they are really in need of another temple there and I am so excited. Also, how cool is it that they are going to build a new temple in ROME! Wow...that is the coolest news. I am so excited for these new temples. Oh this is so great!

I really enjoyed Dallin H. Oaks talk this morning. I think that his talk really needed to be heard. For those who didn't get to listen to it, it was about the sacrament. He talked about the reverence that should be held in the chapel and everything. Oh it was so great. I LOVED how he mentioned that we should all arrive early and sit in our seats quietly while listening to the music. It is not a time for socializing and preparing. We need to sit there reverently and prepare for the sacrament. I thought about how noisy it is ALWAYS in sacrament before it starts and how everyone walks around talking. I sure hope people listened to his talk and follow his direction. I know that if we listen to the music and prepare for the sacrament that we will get so much more out of the talks and church.

So you know how most people make a big breakfast the mornings of conference and you sit there in you PJs and eat breakfast in front of the TV...well we did that today, like always. My family has always done that and it is my favorite. Well normally we make a huge breakfast with eggs, hashbrowns, bacon, sausage, toast....EVERYTHING! There is a little bit of everything. Well with being pregnant I cant keep down hasbrowns and eggs so we had to alter the normal "conference breakfast". So I decided we would make waffles with homemade syrup, bacon, and sausage. Not huge, but stuff I can keep down. Well, I didn't keep it down. Oh I was so sad. I couldn't even enjoy my conference breakfast! I ate almost all of it and I only had a few bites left when all of a sudden I spit out my bite that was in my mouth and stood up quickly. Allen knew what was up...I was about to throw it up. I tried to drink some water and try to keep it down but I knew I wasn't going to be able to. So I ran to the bathroom and you get the picture. I was so sad! Allen came into the bathroom and stood there with me and made sure I was okay. It was so cute. I was just so glad that he came and checked on me and showed me that he loves me. I love my husband so much!

I have to work tonight at Roberts for ladies night out. I am prepared for it to be one CRAZY night tonight. I will let you know how it goes...

What a great day!

So today I got hired at my FAVORITE store ever...Roberts Arts & Crafts. Oh I am so excited. It is just a few blocks away from my house which is a plus, and I think it will be fun to work somewhere fun. I will be able to help out at some of the classes they teach and I will be able to learn so many new crafty things....TOTALLY me! I think this job will be great for me, seeing I wont have anymore time for me once this baby comes. I start tomorrow morning and I am pretty dang excited. And best part is...I get a 30% discount off anything in the store...INCLUDING cricut stuff. Wow, this is great!

For my new job I cant wear skirts, and seeing thats all I own, I had to go get some new pants. I cant wear blue jeans there so I have to wear like black pants and khakis, etc. So I thought it was pointless to go buy regular pants seeing that my belly will probably start growing more in the next few weeks. I had to get maternity pants...

I went to JCPenney's cuz I hear that's a great place to get maternity clothes. They were having a sale like always. I got a pair of khakis for $21 and they were normally $40. These pants I got are so stinkin' cute and so comfortable. Oh I love them so much. I hear there is really uncomfortable maternity pants but if you get the right ones, that they can feel really nice. Let me tell you, I wore my khakis to the Pizza Factory tonight at work, and boy do I love them. They are the most comfortable pants EVER! I LOVE MY MATERNITY PANTS! I know how dumb that sounds but they feel GREAT! I also got a pair of capris. They are black and they are really dressy...and also so comfortable. But get this....the capris were normally $35 and they were on clearance for.....drum roll please....$3.48 CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT! I was SOOOOOO stinkin' excited and Allen was proud of my purchase.

So now here I am having to wear maternity pants with such a small pregnant belly. Most girls wait forever to get them, but now I am ahead of the game. Now all I need is my baby to grow so these pants can fulfill their purpose. Oh how fun...

Oh how fun!

So I really enjoy scrapbooking, but I have never really tried digitally scrapbooking...until today! Wow, is it fun. I made a few pages and I think they've turned out pretty dang cute. What do you think?

14 weeks and in the second trimester! WOOHOO

Welcome to your second trimester! This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb.

In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His body's growing faster than his head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his body. (His legs still have some lengthening to do.) He's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.



YAY FOR MY BABY! This last week my stomach hardened up. It now is so hard, it's crazy. It sure is very uncomfortable...