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....

12 weeks :)

Sooo tomorrow I will be 12 weeks so I thought I might as well post again!
I can't believe that I'm already 12 weeks! I remember when I very first got pregnant and someone told me that after 12 weeks your chance of miscarriage decreases a ton. We figured it out and were counting down to when I would be 12 weeks and it seemed like the day would never come!
But ANWAYS...
about the adventures of pregnancy...
As for my body... yuck! I have gained about 4-5 pounds depending on the day, which is right where I should be according to the chart my doctor gave me, so that is good. Only i don't feel like I'm right where I should be. All my pants are tight around my waist and no matter what style of shirt I wear I seem to get a cute little pudge gut...
My mom bought me a couple pairs of maternity pants and my sister in law sent us with all of her maternity clothes and I have tried a couple pairs of pants but they just seem to fall off all day...
This means I get to stay in the lovely in between stage for a little bit longer (hopefully only a little bit!)
Food wise, I am amazed at how much I can eat and how frequently I want to eat! My doctor said to make sure I try to eat somewhat healthy and to just make sure I don't feel like I overeat but that it is normal to have a bigger appetite so I'm hoping I'm doing all right!
Like I said, I've been tracking my weight and Eric and I have been walking and the only thing that is getting bigger is my belly so I guess we will see how things play out!
I crave things like crazy (as I have the whole time haha!)
Mashed potatoes and gravy
cans of spaghetti that is the same brand as spaghetti-o's
frozen burritos with LOTS of sour cream
MILK MILK MILK (We have seriously been going through almost 2 gallons a week between Eric and I, whereas 1 gallon would normally last us almost 2 weeks!)
the wheels and cheese microwave dinners
oriental ramen noodles
Eric says it would be easier to list the things that I don't want to eat... maybe I am eating a little too much haha!
Cooking has become sort of hard this past week or so since I now smell better than a drug dog these days...
This is just a good excuse to waste money on fast food! :)
I also finally broke down and bought a package of paper plates to help with the dishes!
Other pregnancy behaviors are I CANNOT get myself out of bed in the morning, I get VERY emotional VERY easily, and mustering up motivation to do anything is pretty much impossible..
Also, I have some awesome pregnancy brain! For example, twice now I have walked into class with nothing but my backpack and left with nothing at all.. It is always embarrassing to have to interrupt the next class to awkwardly get my backpack.. and Eric's favorite of the night, while writing this blog post I couldn't think of something that could smell really good so I asked him "what animal has the best sense of smell? A cat?" He thought this was pretty funny and let me know what a stupid question it was... He also said I should have changed that part in this post to "I can smell better than a drug cat these days" he thinks he is pretty funny!
Sick wise I have actually been pretty good! I still feel pretty crappy all around but it is a crappy feeling that you can still go about your day!
Our next doctors appointment is next Thursday and if everything goes as planned during the ultrasound out doctor should be able to take a guess at the gender so we can't wait for that!
Until next post, here is a belly picture I took yesterday (so like 11 weeks and 5 days?)

Catch up time...

Sorry... I have let myself get a little bit behind! Things have been nuts with all the makeup homework from the cruise and work so on so forth...
ANYWAYS! So tomorrow I will be 11 weeks! CRAZY! I can't believe it! I'm almost done with the 1st trimester, which means... hopefully this contantly feeling like crap phase will come to an end.
I've been feeling pretty icky and it has been a super big pain with having to stay caught up on schoolwork and force myself to go to work! My manager at work has been super good to work with me, which is really good because I've had to call in twice already :/ On my second call in day I called bawling hysterically because I didn't know what to do because I had already called in too many times and I was worried I was going to get into trouble and we had been dealing with some issues with our medicaid application being denied (which we ended up getting fixed.. pheww!) so I was feeling super stressed about money and I get incredibly emotional! Needless to say I was having a panic attack and wasn't thinking rationally.. Everyone at work thinks I'm nuts now so that is cool!
Other than that, it has been an adventure haha! My cravings change by the hour (which kind of takes a toll on the grocery bills haha) and doign dishes makes me super sick and often times so does cooking which means we have been wasting wayy too much money on eating out... I just figure this is a fairly good excuse haha!
But yeah, that is pretty much all for now! I get to go to the doctor on April 5th when I'll be just over 13 weeks and the doctor will hopefully get to take a guess at the sex of the baby so we are pretty stoked for that! Eric's birthday is coming up, along with easter, a million of my friends wedding's, my sister-in-law and her cute family coming home from Guam for a bit, and my favorite, Graduation, so needless to say we should be kept pretty busy for the next month and a half! Hopefully we can survive!
Until next time! :)
Here are some ultra sounds from our last appointment and a belly pic (of nothing but some extra flab haha!) from when I was 9 weeks to tide you over :)

This is a cool 3D ultrasound of our little one! So cute :)

This is what I like to call, the sea turtle baby :)

Closer look haha!

anddd last but not least, the 9 week baby belly :)

Baby A and Cruisin' time :)

So I haven't had the chance to get a picture yet thanks to the fact that I jinxed myself by saying that I didn't feel sick. I am at this new awful stage where I am hungry ALL THE TIME and that makes me feel sick, so I eat something that sounds good and that makes me feel sick, so I lay down to try and feel better and that makes me feel sick!

I know I shouldn't complain because I haven't been forced to spend my days hunched over the toilet but I have definitely lost the motivation to do much the past week or so. It is the kind of sickness that is just there enough to make you feel miserable and want to lay around all day.

This has also posed a problem since I have to take the Praxis text this weekend to get into the education program at Weber and I haven't studied for it at all yet :/ Since I paid $140 to take the test I really want to get a great score first time...

I also have a lovely interior design portfolio due when our spring break is over that I am only half way finished with, a midterm for my education class, and test for my human development class I need to finish. It is our spring break this week so Eric and I are going home Thursday morning until Sunday night so I know that doing homework after wednesday will pretty much be a joke.. I also work everyday until then.

So basically I really need some motivation to get all of my crap done and stop being distracted by things such as facebook, pinterest, blogging, and t.v. Having a break from this feeling crappy would also be welcomed with open arms!

We haven't seen Eric's family for almost a month now so Eric has been pretty homesick and we miss our little neices and nephews a ton so that pretty much makes the motivation between the two of us zero... Probably explains why our apartment is a disaster! Oh well I guess haha!

On thursday we are going to drive to Ogden first thing for our second doctors appointment so that is pretty exciting! I am going to be 9 weeks on wednesday so we are hoping to get a pretty good picture of our little gummy bear :) We also want to look around at some apartment options and get an idea for prices in the Ogden area...

In other news I thought I would add a quick summary of our cruise! :)

We had such a good time and it was so nice to get a break from school! We got on the boat on Sunday at 4:00 and spent the rest of the night and all of the next day exploring the boat and eatings LOTS and LOTS food and ice cream. We also had our formal night on Monday :)

Tuesday was our first stop in Cabo and it didn't start quite as planned. We had scheduled a snorkling excursion for the day that was supposed to leave at 10:00 AM and since our boat docked at 9:00 AM we thought it worked out perfect! We would be off the boat by 9:30 and could go get everything ready... What we didn't realize was that Mexico time was an hour ahead of the boat time, which meant that we really didn't get off the boat until 10:30 and that our excursion had left us.

After some bargaining we worked it out and switched our plans around a little bit. We ended up going to Lover's Beach and it was so amazing! Eric and I borrowed some snorkling gear from my cousins and swam around the beach with the cute fishies and just goofed around! I ended up making a huge mistake that made the next few days miserable... I decided to lay out with no sunscreen on my legs... I ended up falling asleep on my stomach and the backs of my legs were FRIED!!! It hurt so bad! Not to mention I got Heat Exhaustion from not drinking enough water which would end up ruining our next day.. We then went and shopped and ate at a super yummy resturant and got back on the boat for the night.

Wednesday was our second day in Cabo and we ended up doing our snorkling excursion that day.. at least everyone else did. For the excursion we got on a little boat and they took us on a 40 minute ride to a cute little cove and everyone got to get out and snorkle. Only thanks to my lovely sunburn on the way there I got really sick and felt like I had a fever. I was freezing and shaking and couldn't keep my body temperature regulated. We decided since the water was cold and I was having temperature issues that it would be best for me to stay out of the water. Eric was able to snorkle though and he had such a great time! He said there were so many cool fish and that his favorite fish was a scorpion fish!

Thursday was our day in Puerta Vallarta and luckily my sunburn was feeling much better! We did a zipline excursion that was sooo much fun and then went around shopping for the rest of the day! Puerta Vallarta was crazy because not very many people spoke good english and everything was in peso's which made me feel super out of place. It was so neat to get to see the difference in cultures!

Friday and Saturday were days just on the ship and let's just say they weren't nearly as enjoyable as our first ship day! The current was a lot more rough going back which made the ship very rocky. My lovely morning sickness and super sensitive nose helped to ruin the last two days as well. I ended up not being able to eat very much without getting sick so I spent most nights napping in our room while Eric went to dinner with my family in the nice resturant (The smell made me SUPER sick!) and then he would come get me after to go get something from the buffet (I had lots of salad, grilled ham and cheese sandwiches, and rice with soy sauce haha!) then we tried easy going activities like watching comedians and the different theatre shows they had.

I think Eric would have stayed on the boat for a month but I was pretty happy to get to solid land after the last two days! Altogether though, our cruise was truly amazing and I loved being able to go with all of my family!

Then comes a baby in a baby carriage...

On February 1st, 2012 I woke up to the most amazing surprise...

We found out that we were going to be welcoming a new little one into our family. We were so excited but decided we wanted to tell our family in person so we held off sharing our exciting news with everyone but our good friend who is also expecting, Amanda and Eric's sister who lives in Guam, Britt! Almost a week after we found out we told our families the exciting news! We told everyone by showing them these pictures...

Chad and Melanie didn't understand what the pictures were saying at all and had to have Emily explain it to them. My mom took one look and said "I knew you were pregnant!" My dad looked at it for a longggg time and then said "Really??" and everyone else just congratulated us immeidately! It was so fun telling everyone and it made it really hard to keep our secret for 2 more weeks when we had our first doctors appointment and decided to tell everyone on facebook.

Our first doctors appointment was awesome! We are seeing Dr. Wesley Davis at the Circle of Life Women's Center in Ogden and we get an ultrasound everytime. We saw the heartbeat super faint our first appointment and can't wait for our next appointment in a week and a half.

I will be 8 weeks in 2 days and so far so good. I have been a little sick but nothing to complain about. I am super sensitive to smells and have cravings like CRAZY!! I have also been a little (Eric says A LOT) moody too haha! One second I am happy and the next I am spitting fire. We should get to find out what we are having in a little over a month and we can't wait! My dad wants us to have a boy sooo bad and my sister wants us to have a girl really bad so it is a constant battle between my family over what we will be having. Eric and I just want a chubby healthy baby haha! Boy or girl. We are soo excited for everything and have been blessed with so much love and support from everyone we know.

Thanks to some advice from my wonderful Grandma Cheryl, I have decided to try and be better at blogging during my pregnancy so that I have sort of a journal of the 9 months. I will try to do some belly pics every couple of weeks and share ultrasounds, symptoms, and funny stories.

We just got back from a cruise thanks to my other wonderful Grandma so we are kind of busy this week but I am hoping to get my first belly picture (I am not really showing yet, but I wish I was.. I just look like I ate a huge meal all the time haha!) taken sometime this week and get another post in about the cruise and all that fun stuff! so until then here is our first ultrasound of our sweet little blueberry! :)

Crafts, Crafts, Crafts! :)

As all of you college students know, finals are fast approaching. This means that if any of you are like me at all you have been a nervous wreck/emotional rollercoaster/grouchy/ball of stress all at the same time. I feel like my whole life has been classes, homework, work, sleep, repeat. I haven't even had hardly any "Eric time" which makes things even worse. I have been stressed about keeping my scholarship thanks to my dang Chemistry class/lack of motivation, applying for USU, getting all of our Christmas gifts bought, making our money stretch just a little bit further, and trying to get a work schedule that actually gives me the chance to see my family over the holidays. With all of this stress I have had a similar thought several times. "Why?" Why is the Lord doing this to me and now of all times. I have felt constantly overwhelmed, like none of my hard work pays off, and that even though we are doing everything we should and keeping the commandments we are still not receiving the blessings that others so easily receive.
A couple days ago I decided that my bad attitude was doing nothing but dragging me down so I turned to Pinterest for some inspiration (haha.) I found several quotes that just seemed to fit my life perfectly. The first was "Sometimes the Savior prefers to prepare us to fight through the storm, rather than calm the storm for us." This made me realize that if everything in my life was easy I would never learn anything. Another thought was "Having faith in God means having faith in his timing as well." Even though I may feel like it is the time for me to receive certain blessings God may feel differently and I need to remember to seek God's will not my own. My last thought was just to be grateful for what I have. The past few weeks I have been dwelling on the things that I don't have. I don't get the weekends off to go home and see my family rather than I get to work the weekend to make a little extra money. Or I don't get to spend enough time with Eric rather than every night I get to crawl into bed next to my husband and spend way more time with him than military wives get to spend their husbands. I have decided that I need to start working on changing my perspective. I can sit around and complain all I want but nothing is going to change unless I make it change. I need to stop complaining and start being someone others enjoy being around. I need to trust in the Lord with all my heart and with every decision he makes. I am so blessed and even if it took this crazy month to make me realize it I am so grateful.

and now for a little less serious topic..

So lately Eric and I have been into crafting! I have been trying to gain a good variety of holiday decorations so Wood Connection has recieved about half of our income haa... So this post I thought I would post a few pictures from the holidays! :)

This is really a craft but we had so much fun carving pumpkins I thought I'd post a pic anyways! :)
Eric made his own design (the alien) and I cut mine out of a book (I know I know, creative!)

This one was a lot of fun! We made this turkey to hang on our door :)

Pinterest has taken over my life the past couple weeks... but thanks to this I have super cute christmas decorations like the cute ornaments hanging from our curtain rod! :)

Another pinterest craft... this one was hard and kind of expensive and at first I didn't like it very much but the longer I have it hanging up the more I like it.

Wood Connection... we seriously can go in that store without spending at least $40! We made this adorable Santa decoration with all sorts of things haha!

This is probably my favorite! We actually planned on hanging this on the door until I found the ornament wreath. The thing that is so fun about this one is that for every holiday/season they have a cute set to hang on the welcome board so we can just keep it up all year round! :)

and of course... our beautiful christmas tree :) Eric picked this tree and cut it down himself!

So needless to say our house is very "Christmas-y." I can't wait to get a bigger place so we can even more decorations haha!

Happy Halloween :)

I was feeling a little bored this morning so I decided to "Spook-ify" our blog! :)
Eric's family LOVES halloween so we are getting pretty excited. In fact, I requested work off and we are going to miss classes the day of halloween so we can go home and go trick or treating with all of our adorable neices and nephews!
SO... exciting news? Let's face it, Eric and I are living in Ephraim... that pretty much eliminates any exciting news haha. We have had some fun things happen in the past couple of weeks, however. I have had to work on the weekends for 4 weeks in a row so we haven't been able to go and see our family, but they have definitely helped make life more bearable. On conference weekend Chad and Melanie drove down and came to see our apartment and then we went out to lunch! I loved that because hardly anyone has been over to see our apartment! Last weekend we met Eric's family at Thanksgiving Point for Grandma Allred's 75th birthday. It was so much fun! We got to see all the pehrson kids and just relax. Yesterday we went to Provo and met up with Chad, Melanie, and Emily and went out to eat at Ruby River for Mel's birthday!
This week is a pretty crazy one for us! Today is my wonderful mom's birthday, tomorrow is our nephew Aidan's birthday, and Thursday is Melanies birthday! Luckily we get to go home this weekend to celebrate with everyone.
Other than that not too much has happened! Eric and I are looking into what we want for Christmas and we have drawn names for gift exchanges already so we are just trying to get a head start on the shopping!

We get super bored here so if any of you have the urge to come to Ephraim give us a call! :)

On and ending note, I thought I'd share this adorable picture of our new neice who is getting so big! We love her chubby cheeks, and isn't that witch hat the cutest thing?! Like I said, we have the most adorable neices and nephews! :)