16 weeks :)

ONLY 5 DAYS UNTIL WE FIND OUT BOY OR GIRL!!!
I am seriously so excited! That is easily the best thing about this week of pregnancy.
Our appointment is Monday at 3 PM and I already can't do anything but think and talk about it! I am soooo anxious.
Other news about pregnancy... I have only gained 1 pound the past 3 weeks but I'm still within the weight gain limit so I'm hoping it is nothing to be worried about.
Eric and I have also made it our goal to get into better shape! We have been pretty good about going on walks since I found out I was pregnant but n ot enough to help me stay fit so after talking to our doctor and getting the okay we have started adding stretches of jogging into our 3 mile walks! My goal is to be able to run or at least half run half walk the 4th of July 5K with my big old belly.
We have also decided to take a break from drinking soda and try to increase how much water we drink!
I really want to try and be extremely healthy throughout this pregnancy so that I don't gain a bunch of unneeded weight that I struggle to work off after the baby comes.
Since our baby will be born in October I want to try and stay in really really good shape up until he or she is born so that I can take advantage of the last few weeks of great fall weather after and hopefully jump right back into exercising!
In terms of school, this week has been super crazy! Eric and I spent 5 hours doing nothing but assignments yesterday (luckily that got us almost completely finished!) Other than just homework I work the rest of the week as well so hopefully I can squeeze everything in between classes and work so I don't have to stress over the weekend.
Eric and I are moving back to Tooele next Saturday and we haven't even started packing so that is a whole other job to add to the list as well...
This summer could be an interesting one, especially since at the moment I don't have a job! :/
I have been applying everywhere so we are hoping that we will hear some good news soon.
That is pretty much all the exciting stuff going on for now, I will hopefully get the chance to blog next monday or tuesday about the gender of our baby and until then we are just praying that Baby Allred cooperates enough for us to actually find out this appointment... I was super disappointed last appointment so I don't know what I would do if we don't get to find out this appointment!

15 weeks :)

Today marks the start of my 15th week of pregnancy! Nuts!
I haven't really had any sickness or insane cravings that I can think of (I did eat half a jar of pickles by myself in one sitting last night but I think that might just be cause I love pickles haha!)
I am feeling a lot more squishy these days and have started exercising a little bit more...
I am really get sick of feeling chubby icky! Even my legs are starting to feel more chubby!
I feel like I've gained the most weight this week and the ironic thing is that I haven't even gained a single pound! I don't know if I am just imagining it or if my body is truly changing but just not weight-wise.
Anyways, other than that I just have had to start adjusting to being hungry all the time...
At first I would come home and eat a huge lunch because I felt so hungry but no matter how much I ate within 2 hours I'd be hungry again so I have started to realize that I need to eat my 3 normal meals and try to keep them on the small side so that in 2 hours I can have a small snack without eating enough food to sustain 5 grown men! haha!
This week (and the next two weeks) have been/are going to be extremely stressful! Next week is our last week of class and the following week is finals which means that this week is the last week to work on all of our lovely group projects teachers find so convient at the end of the term. Luckily I've only have to work twice this week!
In other news, This weekend should be super fun and exciting! The Allred's are gone to Disneyland for the weekend so we will be spending lots of time with my family which will be good since it is Baylee's prom this weekend! We get to go home first thing friday morning (we are actually going to one of my good friends weddings at the Oquirrh Mountain temple on the way! :)) and the lovely Shayna Watson will be cutting my hair which i am so excited for! I've been growing my hair out and it has grown a ton but it is just in a super awkward length which is another factor in me never feeling cute so I'm hoping that with a little color added and some new bangs I will gain a new opinion about my appearance! :)
and for a last note... in exactly 12 days Eric and I will know if we have a little Kaydynce or Asher! We can't wait!! :)

14 weeks :)

Since I missed last weeks post I decided to do this weeks a day early! Tomorrow I will be 14 weeks... CRAZY!!

I can't believe how fast the time has gone by!

We had a doctors appointment last Thursday and we were a little disappointed with the results...

It was supposed to be the appointment when we got to find out a guess of what we are having, but we had a few complications.

For starters, our classes got out a little late so we were running about 5-10 minutes behind schedule. Our appointment was for 4:45 and at 4:40 we were still 10 minutes away so we called our doctors office to let them know what was going on.

The receptionist went to talk to the doctor and when she came back she told us that she marked us down as 5 minutes late and that we would be fine as long as we weren't more than 10 minutes late because Dr. Davis had a C-section scheduled for that night.

We ended up making it into the office and checked in at 4:47 and then we ended up waiting in the waiting room for 15 minutes! I assumed that was a good thing and that us being late wasn't a big deal...

Well we got into our room and the doctor came in and was seriously with us for under 5 minutes! It was so disappointing. He walked in and made a comment about us being late and that he was glad we called to let them know and that we would have to make this appointment a little bit quicker than normal. (He failed to say anything about why we had to wait in the waiting room for 15 minutes!)

He then grabbed the ultrasound and hurried his way through the appointment. The picture he printed for us doesn't even look like a baby but during the ultrasound on our DVD we could see very clearly where the baby was!

Cute little baby Allred was being the biggest wiggle worm and the doctor spent less than 2 minutes with the ultrasound and told us that the baby wouldn't quit moving and that he didn't have time to wait to find out if we have a little Kaydynce or Asher on their way...

When we walked outside I burst into tears! It was so awful! I had been looking forward to finding out but I had also been preparing myself for him telling us that we weren't far enough along to get a good guess.... what I wasn't expecting was for our doctor to not have time for us and then for making it seem like it was our fault for showing up 3 minutes late to our appointment. We didn't leave the appointment with any exciting news or evidence of our baby! We barely heard the heartbeat in clips here and there and he was so fast with the ultrasound we barely got to see our baby!

He took the time so he knew the baby was safe but he didn't give us the chance to see for ourselves...

After we put our dvd in and watched it a couple of times I was able to get a picture off of the dvd that was pretty good and that made me feel a little bit better but we were still very disappointed in our experiance all together.. Hopefully our next appointment goes better and we are supposed to get to find out what we are having for sure!

Other notes from our weekend (much happier notes haha!)...

Eric's birthday was on sunday and he got all sorts of fun stuff! After our doctors appointment on thursday we went out to eat at Olive Garden and then we went to Nike Outlet store and he picked out a nice new pair of shoes! He also got a super nice sketching kit and 2 outfits from my mom, a $50 check from each of my grandparents, a pull up bar and the perfect pushup from his sister Britt, and then as a joint birthday present for the both of us his parents bought us an Xbox Kinect! Needless to say, we came back to Ephraim very spoiled!

In addition to Eric's birthday, Sunday was also Easter of course! We had such a great time being able to spend 4 whole days with our families and just get a break from work, school, and other responsibility!

And my last note for this post... I wanted to talk about weight gain during pregnancy!

I've never been one that likes to wear my shirts very tight due to insecurities about my tummy so I always assumed that when I got pregnant, pretty much my entire closet would still fit me. I assumed that just my belly would get bigger and everything else would be the same and so that all of my clothes would still fit me!

I can't tell you how wrong I was! I'm only 14 weeks and have just a tiny belly that mainly looks chubby and I've only gained 4-5 pounds (depending on the day I weigh myself!) and my clothes are already starting to get uncomfortably tight! Anything around my waist is pretty much uncomfortable. My legs and arms have stayed the same size so my pants fit fine everywhere but the waist and my shirts fit fine until they get to that awkward middle section! This wouldn't be that big of a problem if I could just slap on some maternity pants and call it good... but you see, maternity pants just fall off and the shirts look too big on me. That leaves me with 4 options.. 1- wear too big maternity clothes, 2- wear too tight normal clothes, or 3- go buy me new normal clothes in bigger sizes... well since the first 2 are super annoying and the 3rd one is pretty much not an option with all of our other bills and fun stuff that leaves me with my last and chosen method: 4- wear a mix of big and small clothes and mainly stick to sweat pants and comfy, scroungy clothes...

I also didn't expect to feel so fat! I don't feel cute and pregnant at all... instead I feel super chubby and overweight! I don't know if this thought is a huge misconception as well, but I can't wait for my belly to get bigger and more firm so that I actually feel cute and pregnant, not just fat in all of my clothes!

well anyways, sorry this post was so long (as always!) and here is the picture we were able to get off of our DVD....