12 weeks

This is the last week in my first trimester. I cant believe that this is 3rd of the way finished. I have no been keeping up with this as much as I wanted to but oh well. I will get to this when I get to it. We have had some new developments in the last week or so. My BIL's Gf is about 5-6 weeks pregnant. I think it will be interesting and fun to share this experience with someone. She is a few weeks behind me and a few years younger so in a way she feels like my little sister.

Wednesday we have a sonogram that is supposed to analyse the risks of our baby having down syndrome. I am not to worried about that BUT, the doctor did mention that at this sono we might be able to find out the gender. I am so excited to find this out. I really really hope that we are able to find out now as opposed to next month. I will be dissappointed if we cant find out till next month but oh well.

No weight gain, no strecth marks, my belly is starting to harden up which is really exciting :) I am on nausea medication now because i cant keep food down without it. This baby definatly does not like mexican food....which sucks because that is one of the only types of food that I like.
I will post more pictures after the sono on wednesday.

6 weeks!

Sono. Shawn and I went to the doctor for our first sonogram! We got to see and tiny itty bitty embryo that will be the baby! We also saw the heartbeat. There is a little bitty arrow that point to the heartbeat. It looks like nothing in the picture above but seeing it on the sono was just amazing! I have another sonogram at 9 weeks. Im so excited that we have a little bean!

7 weeks - Interesting week

I am so lame at actually keeping up with this weekly but ya. This week has been a little nuts. I was off from work from wednesday on because I got sick. Apparently I caught some sort of flu bug. I went to the doctor and they said that they think I have the flu, and put me on tamiflu because they were worried that if I did have the flu or the dreaded H1N1 I could end up in the hospital before the test results even came back to let me know if I had the flu. He also said that I could have some crazy long word that basically amounts to a bladder infection that has moved to my kidneys that could be causing me fever. The doctor also said it could be both so he gave me tamiflu for the flu and amoxicilin for the infection. It was really scary because I dont have a normal family doctor so I didnt really know this doctor and did not feel very confident in him. I called my OBGYN for a second opinion and he said that it was ok for me to take the medicine and to stay out of the general public....in case I was contagious. I have been getting these little spouts of nauseousness...which really suck, but no m/s sickness yet.


How far along: 7 weeks and 3 days

Total weight gain: I have actually lost weight...but my weight is shifting. I can feel certain parts of my tummy tighten...its weird!

How much does baby weigh:Not sure yet, but the bump says baby it the size of a blueberry.

Maternity clothes: not yet...but very very soon. My pants dont fit right....like at all!

Stretch marks: Nope not yet

Sleep: Getting better. DH and I are finally figuring out a way for us both to stay comfortable. Of course I am still waking up multiple times during the night to use the restroom.

Best moment of the week: Umm this week hasnt been to great with pregnancy stuff. I have been really nervouse this week. I woke up the morning to find I had some bleeding while I was sleepin. The doctor said that the kind I was having was normal, but I am still a little nervous

Movement: No baby movement yet...the only movement is my food...trying to stay down!

Food cravings: Ramen soup...could be from the flu.

Belly button in or out: Inny

What I miss: Drinks with my sister.

What I am looking foreard to: Oct14th sono. I am looking forward to hearing the doctor say thet despite fears of the flu and swine flu and kidney infections and bleeding, that all is well and baby is good. I really hope to hear the heartbeat too.

Milestone: Seeing heartbeat last week.

"Baby is the about the size of a blueberry. Average embryo: .51 in. Baby's brain-- both hemisoheres!-- is growing fast, generating about 100 new cells every minute. Arms and legs are emerging as joints start to form, and a permanent set of kidneys (baby's third!) is now in place. " -- the bump.com

update

Ok I am trying my best to remember to update this thing so I can go back and remember what was going on throught this journey...but I have not started out very well.



I am now 4 weeks and 5 days pregnant. I went to the doctor yesterday morning and had another hormone leverl screening. The nurse called in the afternoon and said everything looked "Bueno". She knows I am still very nervous, so she booked a placement appt for us.



The placement appt is a sonogram that they do to make sure the baby is where it is supposed to me. Ya ya whatever. What it means to me is that on Septemeber 28th at 8:30 I will get to see our baby! Im so excited. Shawn is excited, but I dont think he will realy be as excited as I am until we see the heartbeat and our little seasame seed starts looking like a human baby instead of a tadpole.

Whatever it is pretty dang exciting.

How far along: 4 weeks and 5 days

Total weight gain: Im not sure yet.. I acutally think I have gained some..I will have to check

How much does baby weigh: I dont know yet. First appt Sept 28th

Maternity clothes: Not yet

Stretch marks:nope

Sleep: I am having crazy dreams with people I know in them, and am finding it hard to stay sleeping with the frequent trips the the bathroom in the middle of the night

Best moment this week: Finding out we are going to have a baby!

Movement: Implantation Cramps for sure that make me look like i have eaten a baby elephant!

Food cravings: Celery... well that was at least until I ate it this morning and now I dont think I will eat it again for awhile... my mouth is doing thing ucky thing where I think I might be sick

Belly button in or out: Of course still a inny

What I miss: Caffeine. I have a really really bad addiction to it and cant go cold turkey.

What I'm looking forward to: Seeing baby on the 28th!

Milestone: BFP on September 11th!

BFP

omg i could not even believe the thing when I read it. Im going to try and get in with the doctor today.. just wanted to post something here to get this excitment out!

updates updates updates

I havent blogged in a long time. Just been busy. In the last month Shawn has finally graduated his art school! It was realy exciting for me because we will be able to see each other at night.

I have started taking dance classes again. I am in a Hip Hop class on mondays and a cardio hip hop class on tuesdays. It has been great. I havent been able to go every week, but at least it is something. I am not loosing any weight, but I have lost inches, so I know at least it is somewhat working.

Still no baby news! But this month I started taking Femerra. I had a sonogram on friday and Lori said that the medicine was working, I actually have stuff going on, which is a big relief from my last like 60 day cycle! I go back on monday to see if the follicle is developing. It was at a "13" and needs to be at a "20" before it will release and then I ovulate and can get pregnant. I am learning alot about my body, and alot about being patient. I hate it. Well I like the learning part but hate the being patient part so it is a test for me.

Let me think...anything else new. I am still working for the body shop, nothing really new there. I like my hours im working 11-6 still. I also started working for a party company. I have parties in which people can buy wickless candles. I love it, I just wish I had a few more parties! Its all good though becuase I am making a about 200 a month from it, which is a good hobby to have.

Katie and her friend are coming next week for a week and a half! Man pray for me. Two teenagers at mi casa Lord Help me. My mom and her husband are going on a trip to see his family. She has never meet his family and they have never gone on a trip just them. So Katie and a friend will be staying with me. In two weeks, we will be going to the beach! YAY! My mom, her husband, sister, aunt, cousin and I will be going thursday- monday to the beach! I am so excited because the beach trip we took at the beginning of the summer was fun, but kinda lame. The people that came with me dont really like the beach! It was ridiculous we did leave here till late and ended up only spending like 2 hours total at the beach. Seriously... 400 dollars for 2 hours at the beach does not end up being very great for me.

Kristen is on her way here from Denton (yes she stayed there) and we are going to hang out all afternoon! yay for besties. I think we are going to go see "the ugly truth" possibly or maybe go to target and smell laundry detergent (yes this is a inside joke). The point being that no matter what we do we will have a good time.
I am off to get ready for the day, chores...cleaning up dog hair from my way to full house of dogs, laundry and dishes before bestie gets here!

blog blog blog

I am not doing a very good time at keeping up with this business but so here is the newness. We went to the doctor for our follow up. I had the hsg done a few weeks ago and it hurt, but not as much as I thought it was going to. They had to the the test twice....which sucked! I had to go to the doctor the next day because I was really sore. But everything looked alot better. DH and I went to the doctor yesterday morning and I had another sonogram done to check on the cyst. GOOD NEWS:::: no more cyst and everything looks good for babymaking!

Tomorrow I meet with a woman from over the top quilting here in austin. I am really looking forward to this because I think she is going to be the one who makes my quilt. I am wanting to have it made from the dresses that were worn in my wedding. My wedding dress, flower girl dress, and a few of my bridesmaids dresses. I am also wanting there to be stips of the signature of my wedding guests. I cant wait to start on this project!!!!

Also tomorrow I have my first scentsy party! I am very excited about it!!!!!!

Second opinion

I just needed to get this out somewhere. I am a little freaked out and my DH doesnt really understand things about my body sometimes. So i went to the dr today because I am CD60+ and the doctor I was seeing had prescribed me provera and clomid over the phone. I just did not feel comfortable with this not being explained to me. I was trying to do the whole wait a year thing because I have heard that is what you are supposed to do. Well I went to my sisters dr (who is really helpful) today and they found two cysts. He said that it could be endrometriosis (sp?) or hemmoratic. He did a complete work up of my blood today (which i had asked two months ago from my normal doctor, who just did a thyroid test) and booked a appointment for a follow up sonogram in 4 weeks. If the cyst has not gone away by itself then he is actually going to go in and remove it because it is like the size of a silver dollar! He wants me to (i my period starts naturally within four weeks) go and get tested to see if my filopion tubes are open...he said it is painful (DOES ANYONE KNOW ABOUT THIS? I am freaked out and kind of really pissed at my normal doctor for not doing a follow up sono after my body regected the iud a year ago. If they had them may have found this by now and I could have already been pregnant! Thanks for reading. :)

Phantom symptoms again

I am on CD50. I can't go thru the night without having to wake up to go the bathroom (very annoying by the way). The smell of things is starting to make me want to hurl. Actually now that I think about it I just have that feeling all the time. I am so freaking tired! Hmm.... I hate phantom symtoms. I really hope that these are the real deal, but am nervous to get my hopes up. I am just hoping it is not Swine Flu! That would totally suck! I realized this morning that this is really kind of turning into a NGPR blog, but really there is nothing GP about me right now unfortunatly! I am hoping though.....

Monday Monday

Mondays always seem to bring craziness where I work. It is the day of the week that we have oh about a gazilion people dropping their vehicles off for us to repair. This lovely monday morning, we happen to be under a tornado and a sever thunderstom watch. Our computer systems are down this morning and it is a little nuts. A few years ago we decided to go paperless. Don't get me wrong I think it is a great thing except for on days like today. Nobody seems to know how to drive when it rains, and so they call us needing their car towed in. Ya, yay for mondays..... :)

New Business!

I have just signed up with Scentsy! I am now a consultant who is going to be selling their awesome products! Please Check out my website!
http://www.scentsy.com/yecal262
They are a super cool products! They are wickles candles that are safe to the touch and I smell wonderful! I love them! I loved them so much that I bought 4 and signed up to start selling them myself! Yay!

a sad break up.

I dont know how to title this one. M&M broke up today. It is really sad for me because they are both of my best friends. I really thought that they could work. I guess know one knows what goes on in your heard except yourself. I wish both of them the best. I hope that they both meet people that are wonderful like they both are. I hope that both do not hurt for long. My heart hurts for them. How hard is it to tell someone that you know loves you that you dont love them? At the same time, how hard is it to wake up to the man you love and think you will spend the rest of your life with telling you that he really doesnt love you? I cant imagine what they are going thru and I am just really sad tonight. I mean I thought one of my best friends was going to be my sister and that we were all going to be one big happy family! And our husbands would be best of friends because they are inseperable and we would just have a good ol time. Such is life. :(

Dr appt

oh ya! I totally forgot to mention my dr appointment the other day. I went in for a preconceptual exam last week. I got a few blood tests done to check my throid and all of that, but no results yet. I am supposed to go back soon after ovulation to get another test done....also maybe a pregnancy test! That would be cool. Ok consider yourself updated.

I love saturday

I have been spending the day with DH and it is great. We went to lowes and got some flowering shurbs for the backyard. Hopefully we will be able to hang out back there soon. We also got some more flowers for the front yard....as if I did not have enough already. We went to target and I got some cool lanterns to hang outside (also for backyard BBQ's the summer). I am not currently planted on the couch listening to what sounds like a war going on in my house....in all actuality it is just DH playing call of duty (I really hate this game). We might go to alamodrafthouse tonight....or we might just make some steak on the grill and watch a movie at home. All in all it has been a pretty good day. Tomorrow we are goin to San Antonio to my little sisters 17th birthday party......get this....at Peter Piper Pizza.....I so thought she was cooler then that. Hee hee jk. Happy Saturday!

Holy Hail Batman! ==and my bday

We had a birthday party for me last night. We also had a hail storm! It was crazy. We had like golf ball sized hail at our house! I am hoping this is Gods birthday present to me. I still own three years worth of payments on my 01 beetle that has over a hundred thousand miles on it. Hopefully it will total.
My birthday was great. My best friend was in town, and while it is sad that he is gone now and I wont get to see him for awhile, it made my day that he was here. Shawn made fajitas, matthew made margaritas, my step mom, dad and brother, JD, travis, nikki and jordon, all came over for dinner and that made me feel really special. Shawn, Matthew, Doug and I went bowling after, which was really fun. It was fun to hang out with some of my bestfriends on my birthday.
At the bowling alley, we saw like 5 windshields busted out because of the hail, It was freaking crazy. My old boss wants me to work for him on the weekends because they are going to be so busy there!

Papa passed away this week

Papa passed away thursday morning. He was found in a chair at the nursing home slumped over with no pulse. He was rushed to the emergency room and they got a pulse on him. He passed away shortly after all of his kids and my little sister got to go in and say goodbye to him. He was a great grandfather and will be greatly missed. There will be a visitation on sunday and the funeral will be monday at 1. I am comforted by the fact that I know he is not in pain anymore and that he passed in his sleep. He was a good man.

The Day

THE DAY
They came this morning,
to tell me you had past.
To tell me that,at 6’ a.m this morning,
your pain was gone at last.

My Mother drove me to your house.
Opening the door to your house was different then before.
Your sister ran down the stairs,
her pain apparent in her face
I gave her a hug to try and comfort her in this painful time and place.

Then I saw everyone there.
Your Grandparents, your Family,
And your friends.
My mom said, “I am sorry hunny”
and “He was so young”
but I did not want to hear that then.
It makes everything so final,as if your death can be postponed.
I tried to go see you.
I could not.
I am sorry for that, and I miss you a lot.

Your mom came downstairs,
and went to her room.
You would be proud.
She is being so strong,
so strong for who?

They brought you downstairs and out of the house,
and out of the house is where you are
and where you will forever be.
-Lacey

Last weekend of january 09

This weekend has been fabulous. No drama. Shawn and I had a wonderful day spent together saturday. My parents came over and helped us in the font yard which just make's me smile when I walk up. The rest of the day was just us. We went to dinner at Chuy's ad neverything was just wonderful. The salsa was great. The strawberry margarita was great. The enchiladas were great. Shawn and I just really enjoyed being together and I think it was a much needed good evening. We went to and say the new Underworld movie after and had a great time! Ok so I am saying great to much.
Today we went to lunch with matthew and mallory. Then Mallory and I have a girls day. We went and scooped out a place for her reception site, which I think might be a really good spot for them. We went to the domain after that and had fun shopping. I got a new pair of sneakers from aldo for 20 bucks! They were on sale from 60! I was so happy becuase my other ones were falling about. We then went and got a few chick flicks and a pizza. We ate the whole thing!!! hee hee oh well, we had a good time.
Shawn is at his brothers super bowl party, so I thought now was a good time to update this. My classes are going good as of now. My life is feeling balanced. I am in no way bored with anything because I am still very busy. I just fill very fulfilled. I love that I am helping my sister. I love spending time with her and my nephew. Maybe this is just me being in a great mood or something but I just feel balanced and content with where I am right now. I hope my mood stays this way!

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New hair style and color

Well I have left my job for a while to help my sister until she has her baby. I thought now was a great time to play with my hair because I am not in the co. world. So here are some pictures. I freaking love it!

Craziness!

My life is still a roller coaster these days. As you know my sister was in the hospital for preterm labor scares. She is now basically on bed rest. She put on ad on craisglist for the exact hours that I work. SO now tomorrow is my last day at my job at the montessori. I will be working for her now which i am really excited about. I wont have to be worried if something happens because I will already be there.
I have also mentioned that my grandpa is in the hospital. I have gone to SA twice in the last wee to see him at the hospital. He is good one day and horrible the next. It really is a roller coaster. He had kidney disease and now heart issues and he is 86. Its jsut sad to see someone you have so many memories with in such a helpless state like he is.
Classes are in full swing! They are going to be heck to get through but I think I can do it. I have a 4 hour literature class tuesday nights, a 4 hour math class saturday mornings, and spanish three times a week! How do you like that for going back to school. I am just trying to keep everything together and not go crazy with all the things that I feel I need to be apart of.
This could be our month as to I am late again. I took a test saturday, but it said no. AF still hasnt shown though, so im waiting a week and testing again. It will happen when it happens. I have other things to focus on right now.

papa in the hospital

I went to see my grandpa yesturday because he is in the ICU. My mom called to tell me today exaclty what happened. He did in fact have a heart attack, and he has pnemonia. When I left the hospital, she was saying that she thinks they will release him by the weekend because his heart rate is back to normal. His heart rate is back to being crazy again and he is still in the ICU. I am scared for my family and sad for him. He is scared and lonely in this new place, and I am going to miss my papa if he doesnt make it out of this. I know that he is 86 and has lived a good life, but still it is really sad because he is such a loveable old man and my papa. :(

I cant explain...

I can'e explain what I am feeling right now. I just got home from a long 24hrs. My oldest sister had been taken to the hospital for bleeding. She is 22-23 weeks pregnant and this is the second time she has had to go to the ER this month. I spent the night with her last night and luckily everything seems to have calmed down. They released her this morning. I was totally excited to see her be able to go home. It isnt going to be an easy pregnancy for her, but I know she is strong enought to handle anything that is thrown at her.
The other thing is that some aquantinces of ours did not share the same outcome that we had last night. They were in labor and delivery last night at six months pregnant. The baby did not make it.
I am just sad for them, becuase we were going through all of thse emotions. I just cant explain it. I cant even imagine what they are going though and my heart aches for them tonight.

As a woman who is trying to concieve a child it is very scary to see all of the things that can go wrong. I know that this is part of it, and part of the miracle of actually getting to bring your child home. Im just sad for them

Poncho and sara, my heart goes out to you, I am so sorry for your loss. You will be in my prayers.

I cant explain

likey?

I love my new blog layout- I have pictures that my sister did on here for our engagement. (bellaamadisphotograhy.com) and pictures from out wedding (depaulaphotography.com). The colors are the ones we had at our wedding. It just makes me smile to see them! Thanks nykki!

Spring 09 at Good ol ACC

GRR-- Is all I cant think to start this one. I wait on the counselor at ACC to email me back letting me know if I need to register for Intermediate Algebra again.. Well I finally got tired of waiting after like two weeks! She finally emails me back and says that I do have to enroll in the class. I check online and the only freaking class available is a Saturday class! GRR so my scheduled pretty much sucks this sememster. I am taking a English class (ya!) and spanish. I have spanish mon wed and fri 10:45 to 12:10, American Lit II tuesday nights from 6:45 to 9:45 and of course the dreaded algebra saturday mornings till one. There goes my life for the nest semester.
A's here I come. I really need them to get my GPA back up from when I first started and was a slacker!

Fabric I bought today for niece (scheduled to arrive in may) I am going to make another quilt using these fabrics! Im so excited about this one!!!

I am so excited about starting to work with the other girls that quilt for the GP board. I have never really had a reason to start actual piecing, but I have to say it is fun! It is like putting a puzzle together with fabric. I love it. My block is a little bigger then what the specifications are, but I am hoping to figure that our soon. If not I hope the person assembeling it can....Oh well. Here is what I have come up with so far. :)

Good Vacation

We had a great week together. We did not go on a vacation, like I had originally wanted, but we did get some much needed home imrovements done. Here are some of my Favorite pictures of the past week. :

After Renovation Pictures

Arent the new floors wonderful! I feel like my house is becoming mine ya know? It feels really good to have taken on such a project and to feel like we did a good job!

and after pics...

well for some reason my blog wont let me post pictures.....I will work on that and try to post them asap! grrr

Renovations

I haven't updated in over a week, but I do have lots of pictures to share! This is the first one. We opted to do some home renovations instead of a trip together over our break. Here are the

before pictures :