Still Pregnant...

When I went to my doctor appointment on Tuesday he did an ultrasound because he was worried about the size of the baby. The ultrasound gave us an estimated weight of 8 lbs 14 oz., which is pretty chubby! Of course ultrasound weights can be off by a pound in either direction, but my doctor said he was probably between 8.5 and 9 pounds. My doctor decided he wanted to induce on Friday (yesterday) before Reece got too big. I was game for that plan!

We got to the hospital yesterday at 10:30 ish. Since I was only dilated to a 2, he used a prosta-glandin gel to help me dilate. That was at 11:20 am. That made me super duper crampy and gave me a few contractions. I walked around the hospital for a long time, hoping to move things along. I even went up to the recovery floor where the nursery is, such cute babies!

After they give you that gel they wait a long time to put you on pitocin because they don't want to attack you with sudden intense contractions. They want to mimic what a natural labor would be like. At 5:20pm the nurse got me all hooked up to pitocin. I started getting some really good, regular contractions. They started to get pretty uncomfortable and even painful. I was excited cause I thought we were getting ready for a baby to come!

My doctor came to check my progression at about 7:15 pm. I was sure I was dilated to at least a 4. Apparently so was my doctor because he got everything all ready to break my water and get things going! Well it turns out I hadn't changed at all... I was maybe at a 2.5.

That was really disappointing. So he offered to break my water anyway. But since I was hardly dilated at all, it was going to be incredibly painful just to break my water, not to mention how long and intense my labor would be. Once your water is broken, you HAVE to have your baby or else there could be an infection. This means if my body still didn't go into labor, I would have to get a c-section. And even if I did go into labor, it would have lasted all night and would have been much more intense than a natural labor. So the doctor suggested that we go home and check back next week to see if things have progressed on their own.

It was starting to sound like my experience when I had Liam, which was not good! Austin and I both felt that we were trying to force something that just wasn't supposed to happen. And I have been saying throughout my entire pregnancy that I wanted a more natural experience.

So we decided to go home. Honestly, by this point I was so excited to go home and sleep in my own bed. Hospital beds are horrible!

So we left the hospital at about 8:15 pm and headed home.

I was really sad and disappointed at first, but by the time we went to sleep last night I was feeling very peaceful. I knew it just wasn't supposed to happen yesterday and that's ok!

Of course when I woke up I was sad because I could have been cuddling my baby! But I am back to feeling okay with the whole situation.

I am not even due until Thursday, so I just need to be patient.

I am also kinda glad we went home because our nurse was super annoying! From the time we got to the hospital until 7 pm we had the best nurse ever! She had this take charge attitude and was just so nice. But when her shift ended, the dumbest nurse took over. I seriously could have punched her in the face. She was not confident at all, and I could tell she was a real suck up. She had to follow all the rules to exactness. She was really soft spoken so I didn't even know what she was saying half the time. How am I supposed to have confidence in you if you don't have it in yourself? Seriously, I felt like I couldn't trust her to do the competent thing.

Anyway, we only had to deal with her for about an hour. When we were checking out she offered over and over again to get us a cart for all our stuff...uh, we only have one tiny suitcase. I'm pretty sure Austin can handle it. And she tried to force me into a wheelchair! I was completely normal and not in labor, why would I wanna sit in a dumb wheelchair? ugh..and then she followed us all the way to the main entry of the hospital because its 'policy.' Oh man. I know these are dumb things to complain about, but when you are uncomfortable everything gets 100x more irritating!

So maybe it is a good thing we went home so that I wouldn't have to go through a grueling labor with her! Does anyone know if you can call your hospital ahead of time and ask to NOT have a certain nurse? Cause it kinda sets the mood for your entire labor....

I have an appointment with my doctor on Monday at 11, so we will see if anything happens over the weekend. Maybe things will be progressed enough that we can try again next weekend. I am starting to feel like this baby is never gonna come! So cross your fingers that we have good news on Monday!

oh the woes of a pregnant lady....

I am up in the middle of the night, not feeling so great. I can't sleep...

I was thinking about being pregnant earlier today and here is what I have decided:

1. I am super grateful that I can get pregnant so easily. Or at all. I got pregnant less than two weeks after I stopped taking birth control. (TMI?) I read so many blogs written by women who struggle with infertility and how sad it is! I am glad Heavenly Father knew I couldn't handle that type of problem.

2. I have not puked this entire pregnancy. I didn't with Liam either. I feel sick in the beginning, but not too bad.

3. The baby is super healthy and kicks me a lot. Which is a nice reminder that everything is ok in there.

4. I feel pretty normal. I'm just a little tired.

5. The only thing I can 'complain' about: how boring and slow pregnancy is. I just want to meet this baby! I keep imagining if he is going to look like Liam, act like Liam, have blue eyes like Liam, etc.

6. What are we gonna name him? I really don't want to bring a nameless baby home from the hospital.

7. When I am pregnant I become super OCD and maybe a little bit of a hypochondriac. Any other pregnant lady that way? "Something is wrong with my baby cause my ankle hurts..." etc.

8. I'm so grateful that this baby is a boy. Of course I kind of wanted a girl, just because their clothes are so cute. But it will be so good to have our two little boys. I know Liam will get along better with a boy. Plus I can torture them by dressing them as twins.

9. I am really going to miss my sleep. Liam usually sleeps 10 hours a night without making a peep. I guess I should enjoy that for the next 4 months.

10. Are Liam and the baby ever going to nap at the same time? Will I be a crazy tired lady by the time Austin gets home from work?

I think that is all for now. How random this is, but I am tired. I am feeling a little better so I'm gonna try to go sleep. See ya!

Buying a house is not fun...

I have had some people asking me whats going on with the house we are buying. Lets just say it has been a total nightmare.

We made the offer on the house back in July. Its a short sale, so we knew it would be a long process. (Why do they call it a 'short' sale?)

Our offer got approved by the bank the end of August. But the bank we were getting our loan from wouldn't close on the sale until a couple things were fixed with the house. The old owner of the house was on the verge of foreclosure, so obviously he didn't care about fixing those things. We had to put some siding up on a little area of the house because they hadn't finished an addition. Apparently appraisers don't like exposed wood. After that we still couldn't close because we had to patch the holes inside the house. And then we still couldn't close because we had to paint the exposed beams on the addition. Thankfully we didn't really have to spend any money.

So finally we closed the last week of September. It was a Tuesday and we were supposed to get the keys on Friday. Wednesday morning the Realtor called me to tell me there was a problem. The owner had taken out a second mortgage and the bank had never approved the sale. So pretty much the process started all over.

Last week we found out the second mortgage wanted to get $3,000 from the sale. If everything had gone correctly, this would simply have been in our mortgage.

So they went to the old owner and he could only pay about $800 or so. The sellers Realtor is the one who screwed this all up, so she paid $300. (How generous...not)

So they came to us, asking us to pay $1800. Isn't that the dumbest thing ever!!

We suggested they just try adding it to our mortgage, even though it was a little late. The bank agreed that was fine, so we were on again! Woo hoo!

Later that day I find out that wont work because we got our loan from a rural development fund aka the government. And their department had run out of money for the year. But our mortgage lady said she would try anyway.

But then we found out that the RD fund got more money, yay!

So that is where we are right now, waiting to see if the RD fund will add the money on to our loan. Hopefully we will know before the weekend.

Basically everything that could have gone wrong, has.

The one good thing is that we got an interest rate of only 3.75%

But that expires on November 15, so lets hope this gets all straightened out before that day!!

Well, that was a long explanation. But that is why we are still not in our house, even though we started this process 3 months ago. Thankfully Austin's grandparents are nice enough to let us live with them. They have actually been gone more often then they have been here since they travel to stay with all their children.

Anyway, hopefully the process will be over in the next week or so! Wish us luck!

I think summer is over...

I am actually kinda glad that the weather is finally cooling off. Liam and I were cozy all day in a warm house while it was raining. I pulled up the blinds on all the windows so I could see the rain fall. I was tempted to make some hot chocolate and cuddle in a blanket.

So all summer we have been living with Austin's grandparents. We started the process of buying a house in July. We made an offer on July 22. The offer wasn't accepted until the end of August because it was a short sale. Since the owner was on the verge of foreclosure, he obviously walked away and didn't care about the house. In order to get the money loaned to us for the mortgage we had to fix a few things. Finally we had a closing date at the end of September. Three days later we were supposed to get the keys. I get a call after the day after we close that there was an issue. Turns out the previous owner had gotten a second mortgage that never approved for the sale. So now we are basically back to square one, waiting for the second mortgage to approve the sale. I am feeling a little pessimistic. I should have been in my own house for a week and a half now. Such a frustrating experience, but hopefully we will be in the house in the next month or so.

But I am still feeling pretty happy lately, with our second baby on the way. I am almost 18 weeks along. On November third I have an appointment to find out the gender!! That is seriously the best day of pregnancy. I started feeling better about a week or so ago. Unfortunately I started getting braxton hicks yesterday. I was kinda concerned to be getting them so early, but I did some research and apparently you can get them earlier with a second pregnancy.

Back in August, Austin and I went to Mccall for our anniversary. It was nice to have a few days just to ourselves. although we definitely missed baby Liam. We stayed in this nice hotel right on Payette Lake. We ate lots of yummy food and went kayaking on a really pretty river.

It was nice to sleep in and do whatever we wanted. Of course there was only the two of us so we don't have so many good pictures....

Employed

We have been living with Austin's grandparents, right next door to his parents. We have been here since we graduated in April. It has been very nice, especially for Liam. He loves his Grandma!

It has been hard for me to give up some of my independence. I'm used to living in my own apartment, taking care of my own house. But it has also been fun to be with family, especially with the wedding plans going on for Hyrum and Emma.

Austin and I have been very stressed as it had been over a month since we graduated and there were still no prospects for a job. We really wanted to stay in the Boise area so that we could stay relatively close to family, both mine and Austin's.

I was about to give up hope that we would be able to stay. This week Austin decided to email a man who owns a small landscaping company. He had been talking to him in May but it just didn't seem right at the time. He decided to check if he was still hiring and he was!

Austin went and talked to him on Wednesday and he offered him a job on the spot.

He starts on Monday and he is going to be the crew leader. This means that the owner can leave the job site to deal with and find more clients. Austin will be left in charge of the job site to make sure productivity remains high.

The owner is LDS also and went to BYU-I, so he has practically the exact same education as Austin.

Hopefully this means in a couple weeks we can start looking for our own apartment. Houses are actually extremely cheap here, so we will probably look for a house within the next year or so. We will just find a super cheap apartment and start saving!

We are very excited that we get to stay in the Boise area and don't have to make a major move!

Attention all Provo Mama's....

We found (well Austin found) a super cool indoor pool. It has some baby pools, a normal sized pool to play around in, a lazy river, a water slide, a playground thingy in the water and a lap pool! It costs $5 for adults and under 4 is free. We were pretty excited because we didn't want Liam to be scared of the water, so we knew we needed to get him to a swimming pool pronto!

The pool is called the Legacy Center and it's in Lehi. All of the pool floors are super soft and squishy, which I loved.

Anyway, it is a really nice place. They require the babies to wear a swim diaper and a plastic covering. Liam looked pretty silly before we put on his swim suit (please try to ignore my makeup-less face):

There were some people standing right by us, so of course he had to look at them instead of the camera.

This is what we were worried about, him being scared of the water. This was the right when he got in.

But he eventually became more comfortable and he totally LOVED it. I think he is going to be a little water baby after all. He really likes to splash you, he thinks it is so funny.

Austin started putting his mouth under the water and blowing bubbles, just to see if Liam would copy him. There was a couple times where he tried to and he didn't even care when his face went under. That was a relief. There is nothing more dangerous than a child who doesn't know how to swim and is uneasy when in water. So hopefully if we keep going he will learn to swim well.

I can't wait....

...to stay home all day with this little boy. All summer we are just gonna play.

Isn't this face the funniest. Liam: "Mom, I am much more sophisticated than you, but I suppose I will allow you to take my picture. But hurry."

This picture turned out a little blurry, but his face is so cute. He was running to grab the camera, didn't work out to well for him.

Sometimes as a mom you just need some time to make dinner. So you let your baby destroy the fridge. There were bottles of lemon juice and BBQ sauce in my living room.

Also, I know no one cares, but I cleaned my "laundry room (closet)." We haven't been able to see the dryer since we moved in. But now look at it! I even dusted the top.

Anyway, student teaching is so tiring sometimes. I feel like it is so monotonous, doing the same thing day after day after day after....

Mommyhood is much more varied. Which was surprising to me. Can't wait till summer.....