Four for August

What has been going on!?! I feel like I have barely said a word on here this month and it's true. Instead of waiting and posting everything in order I have made and executive decision to interrupt our trip to Cali to give you what has happened since we got back to T-town (I just made that up). In the last 16 days since we have been back we have figured out student loans, majors, schedules, insurance, placement tests, campus locales and books.

David and I both started school last Monday! Which officially makes me a Toledo Rocket! Yay go rockets!! And then by last Tuesday the 23rd, I had changed my classes (again). I changed my major on tuesday the 16th which was kind of a bummer because that meant all the cool classes were gone. The plus side was I was able to get into a program that will let me CLEP test out of three of lower level classes. I cannot even begin to describe how happy that makes me! Basically it means if I pass I'll get 30 credits which is equivalent to a year of school. Translation? I'll get credit for going to beauty school, or at least that what it makes me feel like. Not only that but a lot of the lower level sciences that are included in the CLEP test review the things I learned in beauty school. AWESOME!

In the last 16 days since we have been home I have also had 3 doctors appointments. Two with the baby doctor and one with a regular one. As many of you may know I had a cough for about a week when I left the great state of Idaho... well when I got here I still had it. On the 18th I had an appointment and let my doctor know in detail what was going on. This was because I had been coughing for over two weeks and had not really been getting any better; I was a little worried I might have had Bronchitis or walking pneumonia. Either way I had never had it, so I didn't know what to look for. To add to the coughing, the day or so before I had begun to feel a great deal of sharp pain in my upper right lung and directly behind it in my back.

 I told them how long, how much and all that good stuff, including the fact that I was indeed taking ibuprofen. To which they said "oh don't take that, take Tylenol." When I told them tylenol didn't help they didn't really say anything else, just repeated no ibuprofen. I don't really recall my previous doctors putting any such ban on ibuprofen, other than to take it sparingly. Also from what I have read online as long as you don't take it in your 3rd trimester you should be fine. ANYWAYS two days later I woke up in soooooooo much pain I couldn't even bring myself to cry because my chest and back hurt so bad. Not only that but I woke up at like 4:45 am, which is a little early. So I took some more ibuprofen. Long story short I got a run around but finally got into the dr. again and was FINALLY prescribed SOMETHING to help me out! Although they did again get mad at me for taking ibuprofen.

My drugs. I don't know if I have ever had three different prescription medicines that I needed to take all at once, so I figured it deserved a picture. I had a Z-pack, Codeine, and the Advair inhaler. I still find it a little crazy that ibuprofen was a "no-no" but I'm allowed to take Codeine... which is an Opiate. Whatever!

This is a really cool stopper deal-y that the pharmacist gave me. Who I might add was really nice and worked with us on one of my prescription's price. Did I mention that when I finally got to the pharmacy counter I found out my insurance was over? Yup it's true. I'll leave it at that but I will say that I was freaking out and now we have it all under control. Where was I? Oh yeah, so this super cool little stopper deal makes it so you can use the medicine syringe to get the medicine out without dipping the syringe in the bottle and getting it all sticky. 

Not only that but it looks legit! Haha, I'm not going to lie when I say I feel all cool filling it up with my medicine. Well until I remember that I am the one who has to take it :(

All I can say for my disobedience is this, "I wouldn't have taken it if they had helped me out the first time." Also I feel that because I really needed, and I mean NEEDED all caps, an anti-inflamitory that my behavior was totally reasonable. It's just annoying that they didn't listen to me when I told them, in detail, what was going on the first time. The experience has me a little concerned about how well they will listen to me in the future. Also it sounds like they are anti-membrane striping to start labor (don't mind if you go over your due date), and will wait until your body has the baby itself kind of people. We may not get along. So that was fun.

What else? I can now say I have gotten lost on campus, parked WAY tooooo far away and walked miles to get to my next class. That was a "fun" day let me tell ya. I have also totally BS-ed an assignment because we helped one of my best-est friends move away from us! Also in my defense I didn't have one of the books I needed. I literally got it in the mail yesterday. I was gone all summer and the Young Women's president was gone for several weeks as well. So last week I had an extra long planning meeting. I felt bad because I was sick and had to leave early, but I searched up/thought up some pretty cool ideas for our Young Women in excellence night. That made me pretty happy.

Other than that not much has happened around here, HAH! Sarcasm, gotta love it. Until next time, if there ever is one :) TTFN!!

Trip to Cali- Day Uno, Dos

This is our trip to Cali to go see Shrek. Some of you out there might think that after literally driving across the country to see Colin and then driving to Idaho we might have had our fair share of car trips for... ever. To you I say NO WAY! Haha jk, with all this driving I have found that I am NO road warrior but I will do it if it means I get to go see people and places I want to see without breaking the bank. Also since we drove with Davids family in two cars I never had to take the wheel myself, what a relief! Thank you to those of you who did drive because I don't know if I could have. I don't have any pictures from our first day, mainly because not much happened, but we did stay in Sin City and we got there LATE. This is basically what it looked like when we rolled into town at 11pm something.

Only we weren't in a plane so the buildings were above us

Our first stop the next day was Baker California. Where we saw some pretty crazy stuff. 

Two aliens in this car, but I don't think you can see them.

Here is a better look. If you look really close they had two "baby" aliens in the back seat.... yuck haha I'm not an alien fan.

Lauren

Me, what a face.

Bunny ears

trying to see if maybe we could get into the space ship, it didn't work. Did I mention why we stopped there in the first place? To get some of this....

I thought it was funny and we almost got some but it was plenty spendy. For miles and miles there were HUGE billboards that said "Alien Jerky" that is how we knew when to stop.

Later that evening we checked into our hotel rooms and hit the town. We got to see Harry Potter #7 part two. Most of our group was lucky enough to have seen the premier but David and I hadn't so we were excited. Not only that but we got to see it at the O so famous Chinese theatre.

Us

Grandma, Mike and Lauren

having our own duel

Whoa!

Kissing the snake and tickling Beallatrix 

part of our group

D3 joined in on the fun

And so did David's Mom! Haha love that lady :)

As you can see we may have had a little too much fun. There were people watching us pose in front of this poster by the time we finally left haha.

Harry Potter square

Oh yeah and the reason why we came in the first place. To see Shrek. We didn't see Shrek that night though that is the next day.

Jessica Grandma and Brian with Shrek.

We are going to use these pictures in Brian's reception slide show

Model those clothes!

More to come.

Get Your Priorities Straight!

July was soooo busy. Not just like kind of busy I mean almost 100%, everyday busy. We had a neighborhood 4th of July party on the 2nd. The cousins came and stayed all weekend. Loved it my nickname for Warden get togethers like that is Warden-paloozah. David worked at the fireworks all that weekend. On the 5th we had a slip-n-slide and we all went to the BIG fireworks down by the river.


The next week David and I were still running around like chickens with our heads cut off because the Idaho Falls Temple was closed and we couldn't actually schedule anything until it was open again. The weekend right before our wedding we were getting ready for girls camp and not our actually sealing. Monday the 11th I realized that we hadn't rented David's vest and tux handkerchief yet so his Mom managed to pick that up for us while we were gone. Thank you Deidre!!

Then there was girls camp, we got sealed, we were treated to a hotel room and we got to party all night! The next day I cut my hair a little and got some highlights, I know what I said before about going natural, it isn't happening. Thursday was the day we got to clean up and pack and Friday we all left for California! We got back wednesday basically Thursday the next week rested up just a little. Some other stuff happened can't really remember specifics and then the next weekend was my baby shower. So in all that I managed the VERY last day of July to get out that one post about our sealing day. I had no clue it would take soooooo long! But I'm with you I really need to get my priorities straight and blog more. Here are some of the random pictures from this month that relate to nothing in particular but are worth looking at.

David being nice to Odin

Yay, Odin!

David making Odin help with the laundry

Odin hiding in the laundry so he doesn't have to help

Everybody Loves David

After David and I got sealed all the friends and family on both sides that could come to celebrate with us did. Chuckarama is a good place to eat with lots of people, especially little guys. It was lots of fun and I had to post a couple of the pictures of David with his little cousins. These little girls are so cute and they just flock to David! I love it!

Picking everybody up at once

We love you David!

Ahh so cute

They were ready for round two of David picking them all up at once.

I Lied

Remember in June when I made that big old post and said that it was everything that happened in June? Well I lied. Or, if you rather, I withheld information. I wanted to put this up right after we got sealed but blogging about our sealing took MUCH longer than I had hoped.

It's true, I'm not just getting chubby. Come January 2012, David and I will be proud owners of our very own brand new baby! And we are NOT planning on finding out what it is!! 

 I imagined this whole experience much differently while I was pregnant with Colin and after. Not that this time around hasn't been fabulous, because it has. I was just really scared to tell people and I figured I would be the opposite. Last time was just so awful that all I could relate to is what I had already experienced, and this was before I was divorced or even separated. This was all being planned for about 3- 5 months later than January. That's right I said plan and I still feel like God is laughing at me a little. So when we first found out I was freaking out about school, wearing my wedding dress again and just about every thing else under the sun, it wasn't pretty. David was trying to make me feel better by hiding his excitement, haha I love that man.

 What is weird to me is I can't seem to connect myself to what is going on, I can't wrap my mind around it. I believe that the number one reason is that last time was so awful so I must have some kind of subconscious self defense mechanism keeping me from getting into it yet. Also it's difficult I think for anyone to really feel like it's actually happening to them the first time they have a baby... or second first time? something like that? I'm sure once I start looking pregnant and not just thick in the midsection or when we can actually start feeling the baby move that will help. I feel like I might have felt some movement here or there but it's never consistent enough for me to be sure. I didn't feel Colin until 20 weeks so I could still have a month to go. I must also add that the wonderful reactions and family support have definitely helped me feel a little bit better everyday.

As of right now I am 15 weeks and 3 days. Yes I am talking in the 1st picture and I'm sorry I look so tired I waited until bedtime before I remembered I wanted to take these pictures.

Another thing I am excited about is my weight! I know that sounds ironic after complaining about my midsection but it is true. I have gained 4 lbs and with Colin I didn't gain any until 20 weeks. BUT this time around I was 7 pounds lighter than I was when I started with Colin.  Which means I still don't weigh as much as I did when I started with Colin AND I am already about 40% of the way through. I still fit in all my clothes but I am starting to feel really self conscious in them. Because of the situation I was in with Colin towards the very end I felt like I gained more weight than I should have so this time around I have been extra cautious from the start. It's going well I'm pretty excited!

As far as the pregnancy itself goes we have known since mid May. We found out about a week before we left Ohio AND we were sneaky enough to not tell our parents until we had our ultrasound at 10 weeks. With Colin I was sick for almost 2 months and I threw up just about daily. This time I used Unisom and vitamin B10; I only threw up twice. One of the times being the only day I tried to see if I could live without it. It worked great! Although I really didn't like feeling tired all the time it was totally worth it. I was glad that within a month my sickness had gone away and I didn't need to take it anymore. Now for the most part I feel fine but I find myself almost instantly getting fatigued or needing a nap when 5 min before I was fine. I don't remember any fatigue with Colin once morning sickness was over. That's really all I have to say for now :)